A quantum physics experiment showing what our ancients knew very well.

Every pain that you undergo is for the higher growth. A seed has to undergo pain to sprout and to become bigger.

- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Hinduism is only a post-European concept. Europeans have given that name. We do not call ourselves by that name. ‘Hindu’ comes from the word ‘Sindhu’. When Greeks and Persians came to India some years before Christ – Alexander and Jerious, and other Persian kings and Greek invaders came – they crossed the Sindhu, and they wanted to know who these people staying in this country are. They did not know their name. They said that river is called Sindhu, and all those people who are on the other side are Sindhus.

In Persian, ‘s’ is pronounced as ‘h’, so ‘Sindh’ becomes ‘Hind’, so they pronounce it as ‘Hindu’; and in Greek it has become ‘Ind’. The word ‘India’ has come from the word ‘Sindhu’ only. ‘Sindh’ becomes ‘Hind’, ‘Hind’ becomes ‘Ind’. So the words ‘Hindu’ and ‘India’ have both been created by these historical conditions, historical circumstances.

Really, this is Bharatvarsh. We call it Bharatvarsh. Even now they say ‘Bharat’. It is not India. ‘India’ is a historical exigency. Similarly, the word ‘Hinduism’ – there is no such thing as that. It is Sanatana Dharma – eternal religion. It is eternal religion because it accepts every level of religious thought. It does not reject any level, but it does not consider any level as final. That is the whole point.

~ Swami Krishnananda

सांवरा रे, म्हारी प्रीत निभाजो जी

थे छो म्हारो गुण रो सागर

अवगुण म्हार बिसराजो जी

सांवरा रे, म्हारी प्रीत निभाजो जी…

Meditation is a way to overcome misery.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is humanitarian leader, spiritual teacher and ambassador of peace. His vision of a stress-free, violence-free society has united millions of people the world over through service projects and the courses of The Art of Living. Visit http://www.artofliving.org for more information.

मत जा, मत जा, मत जा जोगी

पांव परूंगी मैं तेरे, जोगी मत जा, मत जा, मत जा

प्रेम भक्ति को * न्यारो, हमको गल बता जा, मत जा, मत जा

अगर चंदन की चिता रचाई, अपने हाथ जला जा,

जोगी मत जा, मत जा, मत जा

* भई भस्म की ढेरी, अपने अंग लगा जा,

जोगी मत जा, मत जा, मत जा

मीरा के प्रभु गिरधर नागर, ज्योति में ज्योत मिला जा,

जोगी मत जा, मत जा, मत जा