Deepavali as a festival of lights is connected to the most ancient symbolism of India, the movement from darkness to light as the essence of…
Month: May 2017
Does the Hindu religion score over its Abrahamic counterparts — Is it better?
Often these days in debates on religion and violence, it is not uncommon to hear statements like “all religions are equally bad” (or equally good).…
My Dear Muslims — Part 1 : Let’s Together Reinspect the Idea of a Judging Allah
Every quite often i run into debates with Muslims (usually Indian muslims) on FB or Twitter which are about discussing the nature of God /…
Satan/Shaytan OR God/Allah — who’s the powerful one?
In Christianity, the title Satan (Hebrew: הַשָּׂטָן ha-Satan), “the opposer”, is a title of various entities, both human and divine, who challenge the faith of humans in…
India’s core value systems
India has its ethos rooted in a rather liberal idea of God. At the root of Hinduism is is an idea of a ‘Brahman’ which…
Lyrics of a song from the Jain tradition
There are no celestial beings I know of There is no God either Neither heaven nor hell Neither a preserver, nor an owner of this…
Mansur Al-Hallaj — a Yogi & Mystic
“Like the herbage I have sprung up many a time On the banks of flowing rivers. For a hundred thousand years I have lived and…