Divine wisdom in cultures and religions
By personifying them, cultures and religions render these attributes more accessible, comprehensible and relatable.
By personifying them, cultures and religions render these attributes more accessible, comprehensible and relatable.
Observing that the social fabric of the country becomes stronger when people of different religions live together in harmony, President…
Overwhelmed and overawed by unexplained natural phenomena thunderstorms, rains, earthquakes, droughts and diseases, early humans conjured the supernatural events being conducted by supernatural powers whom they started worshipping as gods. With imagination, they constructed images of various gods controlling various natural phenomena and departments of nature. Thus was born the concept of multiplicity of gods. It is a strange coincidence that all ancient civilizations Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Mayan, Chinese, Indian, Greek and Roman worshipped multiple gods and goddesses
Calls for wider consultation with all religions for its implementation
Religion for centuries has served as a pivot for social cohesion, social order, discipline,and compliance with the law. Religious conservatives have always warned that decline of faith will lead to a collapse of this cohesion and public morality
In India, the number of the differently-abled is large, their problems complex, available resources scarce, social stigma widespread and people's attitudes towards the PWD damaging. Attitudinal barriers ingrained as India's historical response to the differently-abled must be changed through education programmes.
Swami Vivekananda's letters to Mary Hale were full of hard facts of life, and their insightful implications are stirring and stimulating. On 17 September 1896, he analysed human nature to her and indicated the category to which she belonged. He ultimately arrived at a point to show also where he himself stood. He wrote: ‘You, Mary, are like a mettlesome Arab ~ grand, splendid. You will make a splendid queen ~ physically, mentally. You will shine alongside of a dashing, bold, adventurous, heroic husband, but, my dear sister, you will make one of the worst of wives‘.
Religious experience has been a profound phenomenon in human history in terms of holding beliefs, adopting a religious language, and…
President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday stressed the need to understand different religions and their different traditions, as they all…
While Guru Nanak is widely recognized as one of the greatest spiritual leaders and social reformers of all times, there…
