Plato and the Upanishads – 3

[contextly_sidebar id=”EqVbcEHFtqHfQz1vQR3Y6N3gecKK9Wd4″] In the Introduction and in the previous part, the author had discussed several parallels between Upanishadic teachings and those of Plato. In More...

Plato and the Upanishads – 2

[contextly_sidebar id=”ZfLxuYdUPZtbyTtnAcjpl8GuS0wE7OtJ”] Much has been written about Platonic and upanishadic idealism or monism. I indicated some points in the Introduction above and shall discuss More...

Plato and the Upanishads – 1

Introduction In this essay are examined some similarities and differences between Plato’s Dialogues and the (early) Upanishads. In giving Greek words I follow the usual transliteration except that I use u for More...

Shankara Jayanti Special: Five Lessons from Sadhana Panchakam

Adi Shankaracharya is one of the most outstanding personalities that India has produced in last few thousand years. He was a teacher, scholar, poet, saint, philosopher, yogi, bhakta, tantrika, a jivanmukta, and More...

Freeing Hindu temples from Government control – A Start is made

While the topic of the seminar was Autonomy of Temples and it brought out rich and deep facets of the manner in which temples are managed in India , what the Namma Devasthana event, which was held in Bangalore on More...