Living Courageously: A Book Review

Author: Lipa Rath Publisher: Healing Heart No. of Pages: 114 Genre: Spiritual/Self-help “Despite my family’s spiritual influence, I wasn’t sure of God until I was in my late-twenties. I thought we Indians are so tradition-bound that people worship God because their parents and ancestors did so. It was just a ritual and a chore. Who…

Learning to Forgive From His Holiness The Dalai Lama: A Book Review

The Dalai Lama says, “The theory of interdependence allows us to develop a wider perspective.. ..In today’s world every nation is heavily interdependent, interconnected. Under these circumstances, destroying your enemy – your neighbor –means destroying yourself in the long run.” Forgiveness doesn’t come easy to most. I count myself amongst the ‘most.’ Not that I…

Collision Of Dimensions: A Book Review

“How does a mind react to a miracle? How does it react when it confronts something enormous, not in terms of size but something that goes beyond the scope of the normal senses? That incessant running of the brain mechanism pauses and looks at what had occurred.” Dimensions, astral realms, spiritual planes, re-incarnations and Karma…

TANTRA: A Book Review

Book Title: Tantra Author: Adi Publication: Apeejay Stya Publishing Pages: 335 Price: 195/- “And the Lakshman Rekha will protect you?” Anu said, giving Amit a sideways glance. “Protect all of us in it. Lakshman used this to try and protect Sita in the Ramayana. This is old tradition, these lines made cannot be crossed, physically,…

Take Your Time by Eknath Easwaran

I know that a book like this can make you feel, ‘oh not one of those books again’ but when you read this book as I did, you realize in the words of Eknath Easwaran that “a slower life is not an ineffective life. It is much more effective, much more artistic, much richer than a life lived as a race against the clock. It gives you time to pause, to think, to reflect, to decide, to weigh the pros and cons. It gives you time for relationships.”

The Laws of the Spirit World by Khorshed Bhavnagri

one cannot but stay mystified page after page as all the queries about birth, death, karma, destiny, divine justice, reincarnation are all answered one by one. Remember the movie ‘Ghost’ where Patrick Swayze is murdered and keeps moving around in his astral form because he has still not come to terms with his death and wants his girlfriend, Demi Moore to know.