Three benefits of fasting
Fasting is a time-honored practice in most of the world’s great traditions. The Bhagavad-gita too urges us to minimize …
Does devotion result in renunciation?
The bhakti tradition features sterling examples of great saints who became so devoted to Krishna as to completely renounce…
Is our body fast becoming an ego feast?
Suppose we fast strictly on sacred days, abstaining even from water. When we see others eating normally, we may look down…
Fanatics use God’s name to give God a bad name
The news often reports how religious fanatics kill innocent people and justify their barbarity in the name of God. Such …
Let your practices make you a spiritual fruit, not a religious nut
Religious nuts are those people who in the name of religion become fanatical, irrational, disagreeable. In contrast, …
If an ideal inspires more regret than reform, an intermediate ideal is required
Suppose a hospital gym has weights so heavy that they can’t even be budged by those patients who need to exercise. Such weights…