A problem-free life and a problem-free world here on earth are, I now realise, impossible. A problem-free life and a problem-free world do indeed exist”not here, though, but, rather, in the life Hereafter, in what many religions describe as Heaven. By A Staff Writer She remains my favourite author today, when I’m almost fifty, just…
If making God happy by doing His will, is the fundamental purpose of human life, our continued mistreating the earth as a ‘resource’ to be plundered, and not a gift to be nurtured, isn’t, you can be sure, going to make God happy at all! By Roshan Shah Suppose you save up your pocket-money and…
In our obsessive drive to fulfill our ambitions and be ‘successful’, we often, completely turn our backs to God. By Roshan Remember the long hours we would spend when we were young fantasizing about what we wanted to ‘become’ when we were older? We weren’t even in our teens when our parents and their friends…
Exam time is a season for parents/teachers to extend moral and spiritual support to their children and students. By Nigar Ataulla So it’s back to exams for school and college children for the next few months. The exam season seems to be a very “serious” time for youngsters. Often, parents get extremely tense about their…
The course and quality of our lives are powerfully shaped by how we handle our irritations”and our negative emotions. By A Staff Writer It must have happened to you some time or the other. You get up in the morning all very excited. You’re going to start a new life, you tell yourself! You’re going…
If you send out only negative energies, you can hardly hope to earn respect and love from others. By A Staff Writer Just as there are universal laws of physics and chemistry, there are also universal laws of the psyche or soul. One of these laws is the ‘You Get What You Give’ law, the…
Azeem Bolar is unable to see and is partially paralyzed. He lost his eye-sight more than 20 years ago. But as a trained counsellor, he is working wonders by bringing people out of their shells of fear, shame, shock, depression and hopelessness. It has been Azeem’s ‘blind faith’”in God and in his own abilities that…
How many of us regard our work as an expression of our gratitude to God for all that He has given us? By Das K ‘I love it when big groups come visiting’, said Raju Anna the other day. ‘It’s wonderful then, being busy, doing things”washing and cutting vegetables, cooking food, rolling laddus, making chapattis.…
It’s one thing to sing the praises of one’s ‘own’ religion, many of us habitually do that, but it’s quite another for someone from one faith tradition to speak about the goodness that he or she discovers in another faith and its followers, as the German family did that evening. By Das K. It was…
Organised by a Christian institution, the iftar brought people from different faith traditions to sit together”for some, perhaps for the first time ever in their lives”to collectively adore God and to express their communion in the form of a common dua and a shared meal. By Das K. Last week, the centre where I work”a…
