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  Guru Purnima is a day when we pay obeisance to the lifeline of this great, unbroken civilization of India -the guru-sisya-parampara or mentor-protege lineage.

Celebrated in the month of Ashvin (September/October) according to the Hindu calendar.Dassera is an important festival that is celebrated across the length and breadth of India. Also known as Vijayadashami,

   Diwali or Deepavali is amongst the most celebrated Indian festivals. The word Deepavali originates from two Sanskrit words ‘ Deepa ' which means ‘light' and ‘ Avali ' which means ‘a row'. This is why Deepavali is called ‘the festival of lights'.

Holi, the festival of colors, is celebrated in the month of Phalgun (February-March).

    Also called Phagwah, it is the full moon day in Phalgun that ushers in the spring season in India. It is also a celebration of the harvest season.

   Insulation is one of the most important prerequisites to life. To contact an electrical gadget it is essential to insulate yourself. Otherwise you get electrocuted. The gadget which was meant to make life easier for you becomes the instrument of destruction. So also with heat. Before you touch a hot object you must insulate your fingers from the heat. Thus dishes have heat resistant handles. Audio tapes have to be placed in a wooden box to protect them from magnetic influences.

  The Bhagavad-Gita ? For students and sportspersons? Isn’t there something wrong? Wasn’t it meant for retired people and as a solace for the aged? Who has the time anyway with all the pressures of student life and competition in the sports arena?

  Have you ever wondered why all the technology and scientific development are being used to create human suffering rather than enhance human happiness? Bertrand Russell says this happens because there is a race between human skill and human folly. So far the human race has survived because human skills had not developed enough to pose a threat. Today skills have developed but human folly remains.

  Lift off from a world of struggle and sail into the realm of oneness, love, harmony. Sounds good, but how do you do it? In our experience relationships do have the incredible highs, but then these are followed by the invariable lows. The fulfillment is temporary. And relationships get mired in strife and misunderstanding, stress and bitterness. The days of wine and roses deteriorate into days of whine and neuroses! Is there no way out of it all?

   Vedanta means ultimate knowledge. The culmination of knowledge. A science of living. The complete manual of Self-Management that helps us reaches our full potential. Science tells us that we use at best 10% of our capacity. Vedanta helps cultivate the balance 90% and access the powerhouse of infinite energy lying dormant within us.

  Human exertion is directed towards gaining lasting happiness. Yet few enjoy it. One looks for happiness by acquiring objects of the world, little realizing that happiness is not inherent in those objects. If it were so, would not everyone who came in contact with the same object gain the same degree of happiness? Why then is it, that the object being the same, reactions to it are different?