Article Archive for February 2012
What if your faith is false and there is no God at all?
Contributed By: Piyush Kumar Dwivedi (Software Engineer from Bangalore and regular reader of Arise India Forum)
There was some discussion on god’s presence and I was trying to convince my friends in my Office. Then I was …
An encounter with Mr Abdullah
Contributed by: Vraja Bihari dasa
Background: Mr Abdullah is 27 years old and was born as Niranjan Kakodkar in a Hindu family from Goa and settled in Mumbai. Two years ago he converted to Islam, influenced …
Meet Ambarish Das Grandson of Henry Ford
KOLKATA: Alfred Ford (re-christened Ambarish Das), an American heir to Ford fortune and the great grandson of legendary businessman Henry Ford, visited the Institute of Leadership Entrepreneurship and Development (iLead) Kolkata campus to interact with the …
Duck and Devil
There was a little boy visiting his grandparents on their farm. He was given a slingshot to play with out in the woods. He practiced in the woods, but he could never hit the target.
Getting …
India’s most precious treasure: Spiritual Knowledge
Author: Francois Gautier
What is the Knowledge that is still alive in this wonderful country which we call India and has ceased to exist anyplace else?
It is the Knowledge that only the body dies, but not the …
Searching for the villain can’t help us in finding the hero
Author: Chaitanya Charan Das
The Bhagavad-gita (16.3) states that the unwillingness to find faults in others is a characteristic of the virtuous.
Generally, when things start going wrong in our life, our false ego goes into a …
Hasta la Teesta…Baby
In the famous action movie ‘DieHard’ John Mclane’s wife isn’t sure if he’s dead or alive after another round of battle with the terrorists. Karl, one of the terrorists, then walks into the hostage-holding area …
A Case of Double Standards
By Arise India Forum Staff
We often hear Muslim leaders and Islamist preaching eloquently about equality; but this oft-state eloquence is now-where to be seen in countries with Muslim majority populations. Minority religions are frowned often, …
Time for real change
By: Krishna Dharma
“In this world that is certainly true. Nothing stays the same, not even for a moment. All things are forever moving from one state to another. In the case of political parties and …
Meditation as means of Upliftment
Mind and body are connected through yoga. Meditation is a part of Yoga. The Ashtanga Yoga of Patanjali speaks about eight “limbs” or steps of yoga which are Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana …
