In the course of human evolution, human beings have slowly learnt to control nature with the help of science. Man has subjugated the ocean by making a ship and a submarine. He has dominated space by making an airplane. He can create fire and extinguish it at will. He can defend himself against rain. The [...]

If we analyze definite concepts, we shall find an inspiring common factor. Equally the tribal god as well as the god as manager of natural element, there is less limitation than an ordinary human being. The tribal man cannot conquer hostile tribes, but the tribal God can. Man has no influence over nature. Thus God [...]

I feel it’s loyal to shift our discussion for some time to certain primitive concepts of God. Our prehistoric aboriginal ancestors worshipped God. Their God was usually a tribal God, a God which protected their tribe and helped the tribesmen to conquer the other tribes, who too had their God. This tribal God was very [...]

When it is said that according to scriptures, man, in his necessary nature, is divine, it causes confusion in numerous minds. Because by divine we usually mean God, and there are various views about God. Not only that, there are a huge number of people, secularists, materialists, communists, even Buddhists, who do not consider God. [...]

Normally, we consider ourselves as physical body or a body-mind compound. It is tremendously difficult to mull over oneself as a conscious soul free from body and mind, and liberated from the five coverings or three bodies. All the scriptures are meant to teach this concept of eternal, pure, heavenly, eternal soul as man’s genuine [...]

On realization of the Self you will find that the reflection and the surface on which it takes place do not in fact exist, but that both of them are one and the same Chit. There is the world, which requires place for its existence and light to make it discernible. Both rise at the [...]