Preface Sages tell uslife itself is a dreamand the life of an individual is“a dream into a dream.”A nighttime dream...
India is a land of diverse cultures, religions and topography. One such unique and fascinatingterrain is the Thar Desert, also...
Mid-December. Pleasantly cold wedding season in northern India. My first cousin was all set to tie the knot with his...
October 8 was Dussehra—the Hindu festival that celebrates the victory of Lord Rama over the demon king Ravana. It is...
A trip to Nagaland in Northeast India was what I’d dreamed about for quite a long time, and it happened last December....
Updated: March 29, 2019 The human body operates in harmony with the energy system of the universe. It’s a latticework...
Everyone, at one point in their life, likely desires to visit waterfalls, which are a wonderful gift of nature, and...
Travelling, as opposed to staying put I just returned from a three-week trip to Barcelona, Spain and two locations in...
Reverse culture shock can be more challenging to deal with than culture shock itself. That shock is amplified depending how different the...
If you had your passport taken away and could only travel within the borders of your home nation for the...
[box style=”rounded”]Author’s Note: It may be partly the age I’ve arrived at, and partly my lifelong interest in literature, but...
This story appears in the book Toward an Interior Sun: Awakening by a Master, and the Difficult Journey toward Discipleship....
Wrapped in a white sari, she sat cross-legged on her paper thin mat waiting to die. The solemn look on...
In the summer of 1974 I worked for a month on a towboat, pushing barges up and down the Mississippi...
Similar to the origins of Chinese medicine, Ayurvedic medicine has both mythological and historical beginnings. According to myth and religion,...
In India the word “bad” doesn’t hold much meaning. For a country of 1.2 billion there’s not much room to...
When I found myself wedged between a filthy tube door and a sweaty man’s armpit for the fifth morning in...
The sound of threshing murmured softly in the background as I stood in front of a striking one-dimensional frieze at Navdanya, an organic...
Nowhere in the world can the drastic negative effects of globalization be seen as in Ladakh, India, where it took...
Ladakh is known as a boring place. And that’s a good thing. With the madness that the rest of India...
In the late 60s, a very small group of determined individuals who came out of a sound educational system in...
The most memorable times of my early childhood were the fun-filled summer holidays spent in my mother’s maternal home in...
Most people picture Buddhist monks quietly meditating or praying by themselves in their monastery, but come festival time that’s hardly...
For a city of only 150,000, Tiruvannamalai sure has a lot of people. It’s not the citizens mind you, but...
