कौन सी बात आपके जीवन को भरा-पूरा बनाती है?
अमेरिका के शोध संस्थान प्यू रिसर्च सेंटर ने सर्वेक्षण कराया, जिसमें दुनिया भर के 17 देशों के नागरिकों से एक ही सवाल पूछा गया, अपने जीवन के किस पक्ष को आप अर्थपूर्ण मानते हैं। यानी कौन सी बात आपको संतुष्टि देती है तथा आपके जीवन को सार्थक एवं परिपूर्ण बनाती है। इस सर्वेक्षण में अमेरिका […]
Self Identity and the Spirit of Karma Yoga
Transcription of my speech at the International Conference on Identity Studies, Vienna. The talk was delivered on July 28, 2014. You just heard my name being called – Ranjan Kumar Singh from Takshila Educational Society, India. Yes, it is true that I am Ranjan – Ranjan Kumar Singh; but is that all I am? Does […]
To each His God: A Vedantic Approach to Religion
An extract of the oral presentation at the International Conference for Religious Studies 2013, held at Colombo, Sri Lanka. Namaste! I bow not just to you, but to the YOU in you. Interestingly, the You in you is the same as the I in me. Namaste literarily means ‘I prostrate to him’. So, while I […]
The Bhagavad Gita and the Aditya Hridyam
Perhaps it is no coincidence that both Arjuna and Rama come to the battlefield with confused minds. We know more about Arjuna’s dilemma since the Bhagavad Gita is much more embedded in the Hindu psyche. Rama’s state of mind was no different. He too was nervous to see the large army of Ravana as Arjuna […]
Who am I?
As a young child I used to introduce myself as ‘Ranjan Kumar Singh, son of Sri Shankar Dayal Singh and a resident of Patna’. Then someone asked me about my grandfather and my other introduction became ‘Ranjan Kumar Singh, the grandson of Late Kamta Prasad Singh, who hailed from Aurangabad in Bihar’. As I learnt […]