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- Attributes of Philosophy - by Submitted on Feb 12, 2013 from Vinod AnandAttributes of Philosophy (Vinod Anand) All the sciences are in fact philosophical, provided they are taken to the desired height with the help of knowledge that is treated as the basic instrument for this process. Once that height is attained all sciences talk of the world with their ...
Views: 2939 - Stay Calm No Matter What Happens - by Submitted on May 30, 2013 from Vinod AnandStay Calm No Matter What Happens (Vinod Anand) On any given day, our emotional state changes many times, one moment, something good happens to us and we are joyful. The next moment we receive a bad news and we start feeling sad. Then, we get a cheque in the mail unexpectedly and we are happy ...
Views: 2867 - Effective Teaching - by Submitted on Mar 21, 2013 from Vinod AnandEffective Teaching Vinod Anand A few days back I read a news report on the orientation programme organized by the UGC- Academic Staff College, University of Allahabad, where the valedictory address was delivered by Prof. Mishra, former Vice Chancellor of the University. Addressing the ...
Views: 2389(1 vote) - HOW IMPORTANT IS COVERSATION? - by Submitted on May 03, 2013 from Vinod AnandHOW IMPORTANT IS COVERSATION? (Vinod Anand) Is conversation a dying art? Texting is communication. The impersonal virtual space is best to argue and engage. If we don’t like someone’s views, we tune off But talking — or Listening — is simply not an option anymore. Let us look at it ...
Views: 2308(1 vote) - Integrating the Harmony of Mind and Heart - by Submitted on May 05, 2013 from Vinod AnandIntegrating the Harmony of Mind and Heart [Vinod Anand] For most of us the mind and heart are at —“loggerheads, and the conflict between L the two creates confusion. The mind, in its objective handling of the material world, is saturated with experiences of multiplicity and separateness, and ...
Views: 2219 - Gandhi and the path of Ahimsa - by Submitted on Mar 09, 2013 from Vinod AnandGandhi and the path of Ahimsa Vinod Anand The concept of Ahimsa occupies a central position in Gandhi’s thoughts. It would not be correct to say that the inspiration behind the idea of Ahimsa came from Mahatma Gandhi solely, from the spiritual traditional in India, or from any unified ...
Views: 2085 - Human Memory - by Submitted on Sep 10, 2013 from Vinod AnandHuman Memory [Vinod Anand] Is ordinary knowledge confined to the material level, the abstract level, or is it a bit of both? Another question may arise: If ordinary knowledge is partly material and partly abstract, is there an extraordinary, super-conscious knowledge which is totally ...
Views: 2058 - The Life Cycle: Epigenesis of Identity - by Submitted on Feb 08, 2013 from Vinod AnandThe Life Cycle: Epigenesis of Identity (Vinod Anand) Whenever we try to understand growth, it is well to remember the epigenetic principle which is derived from the growth of organisms in utero. Somewhat generalized, this principle states that anything that grows has a ground plan, and that ...
Views: 2005 - Patience Leads to Positive Attitude - by Submitted on Jul 22, 2013 from Vinod AnandPatience Leads to Positive Attitude (Vinod Anand) Rome was not built in a day. Every masterpiece requires efforts to make things perfect. However, in some cases, despite all sincere efforts, the art simply remains art; it does not become a masterpiece. This can lead to frustration, low ...
Views: 1849 - Characteristics of Preschool Thinking - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2015 from Vinod AnandCharacteristics of Preschool Thinking [Vinod Anand] 1. The young child cannot think from any point of view except his own and he does not realize that he is limited in this fashion. His thought is centered on one perspective, his own. An example of centered thinking in an adult makes this ...
Views: 1847 - A Self-Realized Leader Can Work Wonders - by Submitted on Aug 27, 2013 from Vinod AnandA Self-Realized Leader Can Work Wonders [Vinod Anand] We all are leaders in a way as people around constantly emulate us, seek our inspiration, guidance and support and crave for our attention, love and compassion. Therefore, leaders in any sphere face the dual challenge of connecting with ...
Views: 1795 - Attraction of Fragrance - by Submitted on Aug 27, 2013 from Vinod AnandAttraction of Fragrance (Vinod Anand) There are some words we find beautiful in and of themselves; take ‘ephemeral’. It sounds good rolled around your lips, tongue and mouth, and to me it also looks good written. Its meaning, too, is hauntingly lovely—lasting for a markedly brief time. We ...
Views: 1790 - Charity - by Submitted on Apr 29, 2013 from Vinod AnandCharity (Vinod Anand) Charity is one of the greatest virtues of the universal church. Christians following the footsteps of Jesus Christ in performing acts of giving during Lenten. Charity is born of unconditional love which prompts people to give lovingly and generously The Bible says, ‘And ...
Views: 1770 - Life and Death are Interconnected - by Submitted on May 13, 2013 from Vinod AnandLife and Death are Interconnected (Vinod Anand) When you begin to realize the relationship of life and death, the old model of who you are starts to expand. As your old model dies something new happens. You begin to experience directly the living truth of dying and being reborn again in ...
Views: 1723 - ACTIVITY IS VERY IMPORTANT IN LIFE - by Submitted on Jul 04, 2013 from Vinod AnandACTIVITY IS VERY IMPORTANT IN LIFE (Vinod Anand) Action is the insignia of life. The law of life proclaims that none can remain without performing activity. Everyone is made to act according to one’s own inner temperament. If you choose to remain idle, you lead yourself to destruction. ...
Views: 1708 - The Balance between Love and Logic - by Submitted on Jun 03, 2013 from Vinod AnandThe Balance between Love and Logic (Vinod Anand) Can we achieve a balance between love and logic? Logic leads to material gains, while love warms the heart and leads to emotional and spiritual gain. In life, both are required. The eternal battle between mind and heart is something all of ...
Views: 1666 - Absorbing Fresh Knowledge - by Submitted on Aug 10, 2013 from Vinod AnandAbsorbing Fresh Knowledge [Vinod Anand] The capacity to absorb fresh knowledge is called udana. This capacity is at its maximum at infancy, and it diminishes gradually as you grow older. In the passage of life this process of absorption helps you gain information, knowledge and intelligence. ...
Views: 1661 - Ensuring Happiness - by Submitted on Apr 25, 2013 from Vinod AnandEnsuring Happiness (Vinod Anand) The societies sought and ensured happiness through seeking and ensuring safety, security and by developing mutualisms. Living in community cultivating and pursuing highest virtues of civilization, people attempted to live in harmony and happiness. Empowered ...
Views: 1615(1 vote) - Invite Good Things in your Life - by Submitted on May 09, 2013 from Vinod AnandInvite Good Things in your Life [Vinod Anand] All of us complain at one time or another. But, there are some people who complain, regardless. Complaining is a way of life with them; they cannot stop cribbing, wherever they are, whatever they are doing, or whatever is happening to them, they ...
Views: 1606 - Smoke Meditatively - by Submitted on May 31, 2013 from Vinod AnandSmoke Meditatively [Vinod Anand] Many people cannot drop the habit of chain-smoking. They do try hard but they normally fail. Some people say that is a sin to smoke. I would suggest that don’t make a mountain out of a molehill! Now, what are you really doing when you are smoking? Just ...
Views: 1585 - Beyond The Physical World - by Submitted on Jun 05, 2013 from Vinod AnandBeyond The Physical World (Vinod Anand) We are part of manifest creation that has the inherent tendency of movement. The movement is either upward or downward, whether in the spiritual, commercial or emotional worlds. Relationships play a significant role in all of this. Nothing is ever ...
Views: 1574 - Confusion in Life - by Submitted on Sep 05, 2013 from Vinod AnandConfusion in Life [Vinod Anand] In this world, you usually have two types of options. In Sanskrit the word dvividha means, two options. If you play around with this word, it also sounds as duvidha, which means confusion. The more options you have, the more confusion you face. For ...
Views: 1574 - ARE YOU LEADING A BORING LIFE - by Submitted on May 05, 2013 from Vinod AnandARE YOU LEADING A BORING LIFE (Vinod Anand) Do you feel your life is repetitive and boring? I can ‘see’ a lot of hands shooting up at the question. Same old, same old... Beyond a point, we get used to everything — yes, even to the most exciting stuff, and life seems to take on a ...
Views: 1567 - Convert Mistakes into Blessings - by Submitted on Jul 09, 2013 from Vinod AnandConvert Mistakes into Blessings (Vinod Anand) Every single mistake is a blessing in disguise...there are actually untold blessings hidden within every mistake. Children make many mistakes while learning how to ride a bike or write, and we don’t give it a second thought because we know that ...
Views: 1556 - Self-Assessment is Very Important - by Submitted on Jun 20, 2013 from Vinod AnandSelf-Assessment is Very Important (Vinod Anand) We often have to keep reminding our/ selves that we are self-respecting individuals, who will not allow ourselves to be short-changed. Despite professional knavery and skullduggery, if we do an honest day’s work and remain true to ourselves, we ...
Views: 1535 - Collect All Your Worries in a Box - by Submitted on Aug 28, 2013 from Vinod AnandCollect All Your Worries in a Box (Vinod Anand) On a pleasant, cool night, everyone in the apartment block had gone to bed after a nice dinner, and there was absolute silence. Early in the morning, the police came with a search warrant for carrying out a search operation at Apartment ...
Views: 1533 - Birth and Death are Two Illusory Scenes - by Submitted on Apr 25, 2013 from Vinod AnandBirth and Death are Two Illusory Scenes [Vinod Anand] Death is a universal occurrence; yet it is the least understood phenomenon. According to early writings of Wittgenstein, this is because death is not an event in one’s life — we do not live to experience death. He upheld that “at death ...
Views: 1529 - Lead a Wise Life - by Submitted on May 10, 2013 from Vinod AnandLead a Wise Life (Vinod Anand) What really matters in the end, said Gautama Buddha, is, “How well did you love; how fully did you live and how deeply did you let go?” All the three are golden rules of wise living. Here, ‘let go’ means renouncing with hill clarity and determination those ...
Views: 1517 - Happiness in Action - by Submitted on Jul 20, 2013 from Vinod AnandHappiness in Action (Vinod Anand) Stress is a disease of the 21st Century. It axes years from your life. Stress affects work output, causing failure and unhappiness. We need to develop internal protection from the challenges of life. You attribute your stress to an external agency. You ...
Views: 1514(1 vote) - About Poetry - by Submitted on Jun 24, 2013 from Vinod AnandAbout Poetry [Vinod Anand] A poet is the Ultimate Rest unbounded: He spreads his form of love throughout the world. From that Ray which is Truth, streams of new forms are perpetually springing, and He pervades those forms. On the harp of the road what true melodies are being sounded? And ...
Views: 1512 - Change your Thinking and Lose Weight - by Submitted on Jun 23, 2013 from Vinod AnandChange your Thinking and Lose Weight (Vinod Anand) Has your quest for the holy grail of dieting become a substitute for actually making changes required to take the ill health out of your current diet? If so, you may not realize your thoughts are key to your happiness and success. Do you ...
Views: 1511 - DEPRESSION AND FRUSTRATION - by Submitted on Feb 07, 2013 from Vinod AnandDEPRESSION AND FRUSTRATION (Vinod Anand) Depression and frustration come in many forms, sometimes couched in philosophical conundrums that confuse young minds, leading to serious issue. We will have a brief look at these problems. At a point in time in one’s life when one feels all doors are ...
Views: 1506(2 votes) - Earth Day - by Submitted on May 04, 2013 from Vinod AnandEarth Day (Vinod Anand) On 22 April every year, there is the Earth Day. You must know that Life began 3.5 Arab Years back, and the age of earth is 4.54 Arab years.70 % of the Earth is covered with water, and 30% is the plain. How audacious that we can even think we can allot a day for the ...
Views: 1497 - Knowledge through Self - by Submitted on Jul 31, 2013 from Vinod AnandKnowledge through Self (Vinod Anand) Self knowledge is neither gained by explanations and descriptions nor by the instructions of others but by direct experience. Whatever is experienced and known here in this world, all that is the self, consciousness devoid of the duality of the ...
Views: 1490 - Lust: A Form of Love - by Submitted on May 19, 2013 from Vinod AnandLust: A Form of Love (Vinod Anand) Those who try to understand God through the intellect alone, arrive at some cold and dry concept which misses the very essence of divine nature. It is true that God is infinite knowledge, existence, power and bliss, but true understanding comes from ...
Views: 1488 - New Mind in the New World - by Submitted on May 29, 2013 from Vinod AnandNew Mind in the New World (Vinod Anand) The companions, the relationships, the work, the ideas and the beliefs and the dogmas that we hold have produced a monstrous world, a world of conflict, misery and perpetual sorrow. We accept it as normal condition, we put up with it day after day; we ...
Views: 1488(2 votes) - MOVIES AND YOUR CHILD - by Submitted on Jun 16, 2013 from Vinod AnandMOVIES AND YOUR CHILD (Vinod Anand) Movies are one of the major influencers of the youth today. Instead of devising ways to restrict your child’s movie viewing, find ways to help your child get inspired and learn about, different topics through their favorite movies here... parents often ...
Views: 1477 - Live and let Live - by Submitted on Sep 12, 2013 from Vinod AnandLive and let Live [Vinod Anand] Are you taking someone’s life without even being aware of it? You might be doing just that, as the following true-life story illustrates. A father was telling his graduate son what career the young man should pursue. The son listened to what his father had ...
Views: 1470 - Be Spiritual - by Submitted on Aug 30, 2013 from Vinod AnandBe Spiritual (Vinod Anand) You believe someone else is causing you stress. The truth is there is only one person responsible for your state of mind. That person is YOU. So practice ‘attitude control’. Assess the people you interact with. Accept them for what they are. You will be amused ...
Views: 1466 - Body, Mind and Soul - by Submitted on May 27, 2013 from Vinod AnandBody, Mind and Soul (Vinod Anand) We have three aspects of our humanness, a body, a mind and an immortal identity — soul or spirit. The mind forms a link between the soul and the body and the two interact on each other. In the world of existence there is nothing so important as spirit, nothing ...
Views: 1461 - Mind is the Greatest Gift of God - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2013 from Vinod AnandMind is the Greatest Gift of God [Vinod Anand] Mind is the greatest gift we have. All our activities are controlled by the mind. In the Bhagwad Gita, Krishna says that controlling the mind is more difficult than subduing the wind. The mind is the source of all that is good and bad, ...
Views: 1456 - Focus on Silence - by Submitted on Aug 10, 2013 from Vinod AnandFocus on Silence [Vinod Anand] The mind and the physical brain control the human body. The brain and mind are controlled by the desire of the soul. Just close your eyes and see what is going on inside the brain. Give it just two minutes. You will find so many thoughts running inside you ...
Views: 1437 - Direction of Enlightenment - by Submitted on Aug 26, 2013 from Vinod AnandDirection of Enlightenment (Vinod Anand) I was brought up in India, a land that is imbued with a living mythology. Very early on in my childhood, it was my mother who told me that the word “inspiration” literally meant to be in spirit. The spirit, in turn, was the spirit of God, who ...
Views: 1435 - CREATIVENESS - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2013 from Vinod AnandCREATIVENESS (Vinod Anand) One of the greatest problems confronting us at this present time is the question of creativeness, how to bring about the creative release of the individual, and if we can consider the question, not merely verbally, but go into it very deeply, perhaps we shall be ...
Views: 1433 - The Power of Sincere Apology - by Submitted on Jul 24, 2013 from Vinod AnandThe Power of Sincere Apology [Vinod Anand] The word ‘sorry’ is synonymous with apology. It is a common, familiar word but it is t potent and magical in its efficacy. In our day-today life, it is symbolic of a polite apology for a wrong done intentionally or inadvertently and normally ...
Views: 1409 - Live in the Present Moment - by Submitted on Jun 26, 2013 from Vinod AnandLive in the Present Moment [Vinod Anand] The present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not “this moment’. Is this not a fact? Psychological time is a mental disease. Look as its collective manifestations. They occur; for example, in the form of ...
Views: 1406 - The Gift: Economic Perspectives - by Submitted on Jun 18, 2013 from Vinod AnandThe Gift: Economic Perspectives [Vinod Anand] As we know, there are three values (gifts) of economic life: Freedom, Justice and Care. Let us briefly look at the economic perspective of gift: In economics gifts have also received some attention too. It will come as no surprise that ...
Views: 1405 - Deep Sleep is like Meditation - by Submitted on Apr 18, 2013 from Vinod AnandDeep Sleep is like Meditation (Vinod Anand) Sleep remains a mystery despite all the research done so far. Science says it helps to consolidate our memories and remove unnecessary information. That during sleep, when inputs from our five senses are almost zero, the ‘mind-brain’ takes stock ...
Views: 1396 - BALANCING YOUR LIFE - by Submitted on Jun 10, 2013 from Vinod AnandBALANCING YOUR LIFE (Vinod Anand) To live a meaningful life, we need to balance our thoughts, words and actions. However, few are able to do this. Either we think too much or too little; in either case our actions are gravely affected. For those who think too much, action is wanting and ...
Views: 1390 - Plant positive Thoughts - by Submitted on May 22, 2013 from Vinod AnandPlant positive Thoughts (Vinod Anand) How many of us utilize the power of the subconscious mind? Your subconscious mind does not need your advice to say what is to be done to overcome barriers, when there is a blockade in your daily life. It is continuously alert: Whatever your need may ...
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