Society and Spirituality: The 3 Paradigms of Interaction with the society in Hinduism

August 8, 2013 By Desh Kapoor

Most religious people, specially those who are part-time Spiritual students, are always confused about how to interact with the world and the society. In absence of any clarity, asceticism has been held as extremely important in Spiritual pursuits. The more hard core the level of one’s asceticism, the more “Spiritual” s/he is supposed to be by default in people’s eyes. In this respect, therefore, it is important to know Buddha’s story of enlightenment here to get a perspective before we... Read more

Yoga has nothing to do with Beliefs, it’s about Transformation!

August 7, 2013 By Desh Kapoor

When San Diego Superior Court Judge John Meyer asked the question “What is Religion?” in context of the trial on Yoga, he stepped into an area that is completely foreign to Americans and most Westerners. The greatest tragedy in mankind has been the concept of Religion. And, its primacy in things to do with Divine. No one has really “seen” God. People have simply experienced the ultimate experience that one can have or imagine as a human being. And, if it... Read more

Religion may be of a Book, but Spirituality has nothing to do with Books

August 6, 2013 By Desh Kapoor

The Existence – the Universe (or the Multi-verse, maybe?), the Solar System, the planets, the species and the human beings on Earth and everything else in between, function in an amazing harmony. Harmony has nothing to do with “Peace”. Just as the Galaxies are eating each other – violent bunch them!; tremendous purging and killing is happening within the bodies and cells of every living creature. In Human body for example, many bacterial cells are fought and killed. There is... Read more

Hinduism in China: Influence that goes back many millennia

August 5, 2013 By Desh Kapoor

Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to USA once said “India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.” In Spiritual and Philosophical terms, that is very true. You can either include the other in yourself by Conquering, or by Embrace. What Hu Shih talks about was the inclusion by Embrace. For a world which is high on Religion, and which believes that philosophy is central to Spiritual pursuits... Read more

The Utter Nonsense of Secularism

July 26, 2013 By Desh Kapoor

Secularism is called the panacea for all the problems that religion has created. Religion, as defined by the Abrahamic dispensations. Religion, that is no more than a belief system predicated on following. Someone’s edicts and utterings. If believing something that you have not experienced is sealed by an emphasis on faith without experience, then to uphold this faith and belief one needs to resort to fanaticism. For, how do you assert the primacy of that, which you have not known. ... Read more

India’s Great Himalayan Tsunami: When Deception takes over Devotion, then the Rape of Nature has its consequences

July 3, 2013 By Desh Kapoor

On June 14th this year, severe rainfall and cloud burst created devastating flash floods. As per official records, over a thousand have lost their lives. Places like Gaurikund and the market town of Ram Bada, the base for trek upto Kedarnath have been completely annihilated. Sonaprayag, and the CHar Dham areas of Gangotri, Yamnotri, Kedarnath and Badrinath have been heavily damaged, apart from Roopkund, Hemkund Sahib and Valley of Flowers. The ecological rape of the mountain ranges by greedy builders... Read more

Jiah Khan’s suicide: Cocooned, Sanitized lives which fret mental blues are a curse

June 13, 2013 By Desh Kapoor

Jiah Khan, a buddying actress in Bollywood, was recently found dead in her apartment in Bollywood. The 25-year old’s body was found hanging in the apartment by her mother. She had started her career in a very talked about movie, Nishabd, opposite Amitabh Bachchan. From such a heady start to a lady in personal ruin, would have been a very tough and terrible journey. In the aftermath of her death, many details are coming out, which suggest that her main... Read more

The month that was, while Drishtikone was in Transition

June 7, 2013 By Desh Kapoor

We have been off air on Drishtikone for the new transition to complete. In this time, a lot has happened – in India and the world. India: IPL Betting controversy: Led by the Indian Pacer Sreesanth, players and bookies have been caught cheating on teams and throwing matches to get pay offs from betting in the IPL games. Not just the players and outsiders like Vindu Dara Singh, who was connecting many dots, but even the owner of a team... Read more

Drishtikone moves to Patheos Platform

June 6, 2013 By Desh Kapoor

Welcome to Drishtikone.com’s new home! It has been sometime since I posted my last blog post on Drishtikone. After 7 and some years of blogging on independent platform here at Drishtikone, we have now moved the blog to Patheos.com – the largest Religious and Politics blog portal. This move is significant because of the following things: Drishtikone will find a new set of audiences being on Patheos.com Patheos doesn’t have many Indians and Hindus blogging on issues relevant and important to them, so it is... Read more

Pakistan Govt paid $1.8 mn to journalists from Secret Government Fund

April 24, 2013 By Desh Kapoor

As much as the Pakistani journalists keep asserting their freedom, and keep accusing Indian Journalists of toeing the Indian Government line, the truth was that Pakistan media people would stand right alongside whatever lie or latest “controversy theory” that the Government would dish out. So there was always a sneaking suspicion that there was a collusion between the Government and Journalists. Now, due to a case in the Supreme Court by two journalists, Government has had to lay bare the... Read more