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	<description>&#34;The true Vedantic spirit does not start out with a system of preconceived ideas.... each man has been entirely free to search wherever he pleased for the spiritual explanation of the spectacle of the universe.&#34; - Romain Rolland (French Nobel Laureate)</description>
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		<title>The Joy of Spiritual Living</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote this for an E-Symposium conducted by Vedanta Kesari, a spiritual monthly magazine published by Sri Ramakrishna Math, Mylapore, Chennai. It is published in the December 2011 issue of the magazine. The Joy of Spiritual Living When I was a small boy, my mother used to tell me several stories from Hindu mythology.  There [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gokulmuthu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7984307&amp;post=483&amp;subd=gokulmuthu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adhyaasa (superimposition) in Science and Advaita</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all perceive objects and beings with the senses, conceive ideas with the mind and we have an awareness of ourselves. Everything that we know and experience can be broadly brought under three &#8211; matter, mind and consciousness. A goal of science and philosophy is to come up with a model that will explain all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gokulmuthu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7984307&amp;post=477&amp;subd=gokulmuthu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hinduism and Fatalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the common misconceptions about Hinduism is that it advocates fatalism. Fatalism with respect to individuals is a philosophical doctrine that an individual does not have full control over the events that happen in his life. There are two flavors of fatalism &#8211; whether it applies only to the future or to the present [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gokulmuthu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7984307&amp;post=466&amp;subd=gokulmuthu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Swami Chinmayananda &#8211; The Three Principles</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 09:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Three Principles By Swami Chinmayananda To realize our full spiritual Nature is to experience the fullness of life. As long as we have not attained this state of being, our intellect will continue to suggest methods for overcoming feelings of imperfection, which manifest as desires. Desires are nothing but an expression of the ignorance of our real [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gokulmuthu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7984307&amp;post=464&amp;subd=gokulmuthu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Purpose of Life &#8211; Be Happy and Help Others.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If we ask different people of what the purpose of their life is, they will reply different things. If we analyze the answers, they can be generalized as &#8220;Be happy and help others&#8221;. This is what Swami Vivekananda elaborated as the motto of Ramakrishna Mission as &#8220;aatmano mokshaartam jagat hitaaya ca&#8221; &#8211; &#8220;for the freedom [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gokulmuthu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7984307&amp;post=452&amp;subd=gokulmuthu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Attitudes Towards Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Work is something which I am constantly engaged in. Work is the way by which I interact with the world. There are two components to work &#8211; action and result. Action is what flows from me to the world. Result is what flows from the world to me. This strictly follows the law of cause [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gokulmuthu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7984307&amp;post=450&amp;subd=gokulmuthu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pilgrimage</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went on a pilgrimage with Swami Paramasukhananda (Anand Maharaj) of Ramakrishna Math, Ulsoor, along with nine other volunteers of the Math. It was an excellent trip. Here is the list of places visited: Ramakrishna Mission, New Delhi &#8211; This is the place where Swami Ranganathananda gave lectures for several years. His lectures used to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gokulmuthu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7984307&amp;post=444&amp;subd=gokulmuthu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life is like this only</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a family outing from our office. There was an interesting game in the outing. Three pairs of people stood at the sides of the play area holding strings across the play area. The strings were about two feet above the ground. One person from each of the three teams was selected to play [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gokulmuthu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7984307&amp;post=438&amp;subd=gokulmuthu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Mothers Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 06:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Mothers Day. My pranams to all mothers of all ages &#8211; mothers who have born just today and to mothers who are more than a hundred years old. The Indian tradition is to consider all women as mothers. The dignity of a woman increases as she grows older and older. In India, traditionally [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gokulmuthu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7984307&amp;post=428&amp;subd=gokulmuthu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Importance of right perspective</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 04:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The importance of right perspective on life cannot be over emphasized. I am just returning from listening to the heart rending cries of a poor mother who has lost her ten year old daughter in an accident. Death is not the end. We are all jivas who enliven this bundle of flesh and bones for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gokulmuthu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7984307&amp;post=423&amp;subd=gokulmuthu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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