Ancient Indian Civilization

Spiritual counselling- A humble service to the Chaitya Guru Often, parents assist the children in their homework. Sometimes, the school teachers give home projects and grade the students according to the quality of the home project. The expected role of parents is to assist their children in making the project but some parents do the project themselves and allow little contribution of their children. This may make the project of students look beautiful and they may get good grades and recognition in the school but they fail to learn from the project which was the actual objective behind the project. Sometimes even parents crave for the satisfaction of being the parent of the student who got the best project award, how unfortunate such students are who get such parents. Such parents sometimes get so obsessed with their own prestige among the fellow parents, connected to grades of their children in the school that even if the children want to do their own projects...

Consciousness of giving Daan In Bharat varsha giving Daan is considered by one and all a very pious act. There are various types of Daan mentioned in the scriptures like Anna Daan, Dhan Daan, Gyan Daan, Shram Daan etc.  However quite strangely the culture of Daan in Bharat varsha is different from the western concept of giving charity. In general charity is given as an act of upkaar of giver on taker. However, in the parampara of giving Daan, the receiver of Daan is given the utmost respect. Disrespect of any kind to the reciever of Daan is considered very inauspicious and believed to bring lot of misfortune to giver of Daan and there are various examples given in Itihas elaborating how the donor suffered karmic reactions as a result of disrespect to the receiver of Daan. In the Bhikshuk parampara in the land of Bharat, house lady would first touch the feet of the Bhikshuk and then give him the alms . Also, the Bhikshuk would not ask for alms indiscriminately from anyon...

Roots of binary thinking-Aristotle logic of excluded middle      Aristotle law of excluded middle states that for a proposition there are only two outcomes and these two outcomes are mutually exclusive and there is no third outcome between these two outcome. This is referred to as bivalent system. This binary categories can be good/evil, true/false and self/other. This may be useful in simplifying management of  practical situations but if the binary categories are freezed than it excludes the options of any creativity or diversity. This law eliminates the possibilities of things being mutually dependent, interrelated and interpenetrated. The mutual exclusivism of two classes promotes exclusivistic mindset such as Class B has no relation with Class A and vice-versa. This law stands in contrast with the intertwined nature of relationships in dharmic systems. Thus, this law encourages to think in terms of isolatable categories, define...

Ashta laxmi In today's world most of us are running after earning more and more wealth to become rich and are ready to make great sacrifices for accumulating lot of wealth. But hardly, we pause for a second and contemplate about the real value of the wealth we seek to earn.  There are some commonly experienced facts that a rich man child gets easily spoiled because rich man don't get time to give proper time and attention in parenting their children. Rich men health goes so bad that they can hardly eat sumptuous food rather they have to stay alive on soups and boiled foods. Some top-shot people have to work so hard to meet the tough competition that they skip their meals. Someone may be having lot of money but their character may not be good as it can be seen with the corrupt politicians and traitors who amass lot of wealth but loose their integrity and self image. The rich person has to constantly be tormented by the fears for loosing his wealth as well as posi...