Gurupurnima - A festival to pay gratitude to the teaching principle of God
Issue No. 295 · October 16, 2005
Editor: Mr. Pruthviraj Purushottam Hajare

Highlights

Need for Spirituality

Ignorance about the science of Spirituality: an obstacle in man's quest for happiness

    Professor Freeman Dyson, one of the world's pre-eminent physicists, who once said that theologians should be abolished, had won the 2000 Templeton Prize for progress in religion. ...

Common Misconceptions about Spirituality

About the Gurumantra

    A Gurumantra is the Name of the Lord prescribed by a Guru to His disciple. ...

Principles of Spirituality

Path Of Guru's Grace (Gurukrupayoga) - Satseva (service)

Did You Know?

Rate of Spiritual Progress

Clarification of Doubts

Spiritual Practice and the Guru

Question: It is mentioned in your Weekly Issue 9 that a seeker doing spiritual practice under the guidance of a Guru can progress at the rate of 2-3 % per year whereas a disciple (seeker bestowed with the Guru’s grace) can progress at the rate of 5-8% per year. How does one acquire the Guru's grace?

Messages to Seekers

For the week ending October 15, 2005

Children's Corner

Story for children: Do not go in search of a Guru

Spiritual experience of a child seeker

Spiritual Experiences

Car being able to start after a prayer unto the Guru

Experience of the presence of God in little things that we do

Implied Meaning of Quotes from Holy Texts and Saints

The Object of Faith

Science of Spirituality

Causes of unhappiness in a gross (average) individual and a seeker