Intellect

Every one of us has been endowed with an intellect (buddhi), but only a few use it well. And even those who use it are seldom able to utilize it fully. The tremendous powers of the intellect remain hidden — suppressed, ...

"Aatma" is a technical word in the scriptures, used to indicate the "self' in me. Employed in different contexts, it is associated with different entities of my "self'. It indicates "jeeva" the little-self-in-me which enlivens the "deha,” the physical body. It ...

A good news for Marilyn Monroe fans, you can know more about her intellectual side through the upcoming publication of her hitherto unseen diaries. The diary include the actress' notes, including poetry, musings on renaissance and even a recipe for stuffing ...

Our real identity is something positive. Our external identities are passing and deluding. They come into being with our birth and disappear with our death. To discover our real, unchanging identity, and not adding to our temporary identities, is the ...

The Vedanta Kesari, p. 326-329, September 2007 The Dichotomy Sometimes the issue of our identity becomes even more complicated on account of our hidden desires. We, then, are not what we appear to be. What we are, in private, is different ...