Monthly Archives: June 2009

Anger: The infinite power that has to be controlled

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

As I was driving to school today morning, I took the usual route of the highways to get there. However, today, for some reason, it seemed as if everyone on the road was in a bad mood. I was being cut off time and time again and, initially, my natural response was to frown, shake [...]

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The Three Gunas in Music

Saturday, June 13, 2009

In Chapter Fourteen of the Bhagavad-Gita, Krishna talks to Arjuna about the three gunas — Sattva, Rajas and Tamas. These gunas can be most simply described as three types of characteristics a person can adopt into his or her lifestyle. In one of my past posts, Chapter 14: Discrimination of the Three Gunas, I had [...]

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Alexander the Humbled

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Think back to Ancient India as described by the Greek philosophers Megasthenes and Arrian, summarized by Kevin Carmody on his site.
The fact that these interchanges between Greece and India have been recorded and passed down through history is incredible — even more incredible that the Greek writings show deference to the wisdom of a foreign culture! [...]

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