Religion

Is There Something Like Indian-ness?

Article, Culture, Indian History, Nation, Religion / By M. S. Srinivasan / September 21, 2023

As part of the recent seminar on ‘Indian-ness in the 21st Century’, M. S. Srinivasan submitted a thought-provoking article which is featured here.

Sri Aurobindo on Religion as the Law of Life

All Life is Yoga, Article, Guiding Light, Human Evolution, Religion, Religion and Yoga, Society / By Sri Aurobindo / April 21, 2023

This selection from Sri Aurobindo’s book ‘The Human Cycle’ explores why in human history religion has not been a sufficient guide for conducting individual and collective life. He also tells us that this need not be so if we understand the true nature of religion, which is its spiritual core.

The Mother on the Origin and Social Crystallization of Religion

All Life is Yoga, Article, Religion, Religion and Yoga, Society, Spiritual Philosophy / By The Mother / April 21, 2023

The Mother explains that religion may be divine in its ultimate origin; in its actual nature it is not divine but human.

Religion – Helper or an Obstacle to Spiritual Life?

All Life is Yoga, Article, Religion, Religion and Yoga, Spiritual Philosophy / By The Mother / April 21, 2023

The Mother explains that religion can actually be a helper to those with spiritual destiny and sincerity of inner effort to realise the Divine.

Religion, Yoga of Bhakti and the Conception of the Divine

All Life is Yoga, Religion, Sadhana, Spiritual Philosophy, Yoga / By Sri Aurobindo / April 21, 2023

Sri Aurobindo explains the commonalities and differences between popular religion and Yoga of Devotion. Fear of God, he says, has no place in true Bhakti.

On Morality, Religion and Spirituality

All Life is Yoga, Religion, Religion and Yoga, Yoga / By Sri Aurobindo and The Mother / April 21, 2023

We feature here a few selections from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother highlighting the important differences between a moral life, religious life and spiritual life.

Indian View on Religion, Dharma and Life – 1

All Life is Yoga, Culture, Essay, Religion, Religion and Yoga / By Beloo Mehra / April 21, 2023

Indian culture tried to turn the whole of life towards spirituality by a persistent filling of every circumstance of life with the religious sense.

Indian View on Religion, Dharma and Life – 2

All Life is Yoga, Culture, Essay, Religion, Religion and Yoga / By Beloo Mehra / April 21, 2023

A summary of some fundamentals of Sanatana Dharma as explained by Sri Aurobindo is presented here. The necessity for outer forms of religious practices is also briefly described.

Attitude Toward Religion When You Come to Yoga

All Life is Yoga, Article, Human Evolution, Religion, Religion and Yoga, Sadhana, Society, Yoga / By The Mother / April 21, 2023

When one enters yoga, one must leave all the bondage and clingings of the past life. For a yogin, Divine alone is one’s religion, country, family, everything.

Heaven and Hell Created by Religions

All Life is Yoga, Article, Culture, Religion, Religion and Yoga, Spiritual Philosophy, Yoga / By The Mother / April 21, 2023

The Mother explains that heaven and hell were invented by religions to control people and also to make them wise. She adds that the creative power of human thought gives an illusory existence of heaven and hell to people who believe in them but only the psychic world can be a true paradise.

सर्वे सन्तु निरामयाः – May All be Free from Illness – 12

Health and Healing, Religion / By Rajeshwari / May 21, 2022

Our ancestors added various regimens to maintain physical and mental discipline before and during the yatra to ensure the holistic well-being of the yatris.

सर्वे सन्तु निरामयाः – May All be Free from Illness – 11

Article, Culture, Health and Healing, Religion / By Rajeshwari / April 21, 2022

Read how walking or padayatra has been used traditionally and purposefully used in our culture with a deeper psychological or spiritual intent.

सर्वे सन्तु निरामयाः – May All be Free from Illness – 10

Article, Health and Healing, Religion, Sacred Spaces / By Rajeshwari / March 21, 2022

Offering physical service for the Divine can be a means to elevate the individual’s consciousness. We explore here some seva rituals at temples.