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Is the social mirror making a fool out of us?

July 6, 2012 – 12:08 PM | No Comment | 651 views
Is the social mirror making a fool out of us?

This article originally appeared in The Spiritual Scientist here. It is food of thought for residents of contemporary society, who frequently trip over and fall over to degradation in name of peer pressure.
Just as we …

Is science another of those fanatical religions?

July 5, 2012 – 8:42 AM | No Comment | 909 views
Is science another of those fanatical religions?

BY AIF Staff
This article original appeared in the Op-Ed page in The Hindu
“Intellectual integrity made it quite impossible for me to accept the myths and dogmas of even very great scientists, more particularly of the …

Meditation as means of Upliftment

February 12, 2012 – 3:18 PM | No Comment | 1,381 views
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 …

Redefining Progress

September 23, 2011 – 12:18 PM | No Comment | 474 views
Redefining Progress

Let’s make things people better
By Chaitanya Charan Das

“To hear the India’s space mission – the crowning glory of India’s scientific accomplishments – being called a waste of time is intolerable to me,” Amit poured out, …

Religion, Science and the Human Ego

November 20, 2010 – 5:59 PM | No Comment | 668 views
Religion, Science and the Human Ego

By Ramnath Subramanian
In 2007 I attended a talk at Cornell University by Dr. Steve Weinberg, the 1979 Nobel Laureate in physics for his work on electromagnetic and weak forces, on the topic of “Science and …