A Diwali 2018 Reflection By Anantanand Rambachan More than 2,500 years ago, a priest in Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad (Yajur Veda) prayed: Lead us from untruth to truth-asatō mā sadgamaya Lead us from darkness to light-tamasō mā jyōtirgamaya Lead us from death to immortal life- mr̥tyōrmā amr̥taṁ gamaya Om Peace, Peace, Peace- Om śāntiḥ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ … Continue reading Lead Us From Truth to Untruth
And now may God, the Soul of the Universe, Be pleased with this, my offering of words. And being pleased, may He give me This favor in return: That the crookedness of evil men and women cease, And the love of goodness grow in them. May all beings experience from one another The friendship of … Continue reading Dnyanadev’s Benediction: A Hindu Prayer
W.E.B. DuBois noted in 1903 that, “the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line – the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.” Sarah Azaransky uses this observation as a starting point for her exploration … Continue reading Book review: This Worldwide Struggle: Religion and the International Roots of the Civil Rights Movement, by Sarah Azaransky (NYC: Oxford University Press, 2017)
Anantanand Rambachan A Hindu moral response to refugees must begin theologically with the origin of all in God. The Upanishads, that is the wisdom section of the Vedas, speak of God as “That from which all beings originate, by which they are sustained and to which they return (Taittiriya Upanishad 3.1.1).” The Bhagavadgita (9:17-18) … Continue reading Refugees: A Hindu Moral Response
Love, Struggle, Resist: 