How short is life as journey from cradle to grave!! Infancy, child hood, teenage, adulthood, old age, all ends in a matter of few years.
The short-lived nature of life has been the over-riding theme of most elegiac poems. Some compare human life to the summer rain; to the flower that blooms in the morning and withers in the evening; to the morning dew-drops which vanishes and never returns.
Death comes to all Death is the great leveller of humanity.
What to do when temptation comes calling? The one good thing about long traffic signals in Indian cities is that it gives enough time for checking mails, updating social media pages, day dreaming, planning for the day, praying and sometimes even quick naps. But at times it could turn out to be the source of strong cravings as well. Waiting at one such 5-minute traffic signal in Bangalore, I looked to my right to realize that I’m just a few inches away from boxes loaded with currency notes.
“God, if you can’t make me thin, then make my friends look fat” – the late humourist and columnist Erma Bombeck once prayed. Even as we laugh at the wittiness of those words, it tacitly points to the often overlooked problem of comparison.
Comparing one’s complexion, physique, skill, salary, car, house and other measurable and immeasurable things to that of others is nothing but a natural tendency and a way of life for almost all.
All religions encourage doing good deeds. It is considered as the way to earn moksha or salvation. But can good deeds guarantee you a place in heaven? Will it save your soul from eternal punishment ?
A religious person may argue, “God will take into account my good deeds. I fast, I pray so many times a day, I give money to the poor and help the needy. Surely, God will weigh up my merits on the last day.
What is life and why we live? These are the fundamental questions that many people ask themselves at least once in their lifetime. Some ask this question early in their life and some ask towards the end of their life after many years of toils, earning money and reaching the top only to find out there is nothing there. And many go frustrated without getting answers to those questions. It’s really sad!
There are many religious books in this world. As a truth seeker, you may have many legitimate questions about the Bible like:
Is Bible truly the Word of God? Isn’t it just another religious book with some do’s and don’ts? What differentiates the Bible from all other literary works and religious books? This article is an honest effort to find answers to such important questions
We have listed a few factors that differentiate bible from other religious and literary works below
Bible has good news for all In the Bible we see a term – ‘gospel’ which means ‘good news’. Yes, Bible has a good news for all. No matter who you are, where you are from, what you’ve been. Bible has a good news for you too. The reason why this is a good news is that there is a bad news associated with it – Sin. Sin is the root-cause of the greatest problem – Death.
Heaven and Hell are two concepts which are taught in majority of the religions, though in different ways. Those who believe in God also believe (generally) that there is a place of perfect peace and joy for the good people to go to or a place of extreme pain and misery for the bad ones to go. At death, the soul departs from the body. The body lay dead and returns to the earth.
Freedom! How sweet and precious is the sound! Everybody wants to be free! However very few are truly free! Why? Some are not truly free due to their misunderstanding of what freedom is! Others due to systemic weakness where they are enslaved by wrong systems. Misunderstanding often leads to abuse of freedom. Systemic weakness amounts to involuntary enslavement.
What is freedom? One needs to know what is freedom, before one could live free!
The history of the world is infused with man’s innate and insatiable desire to oppress, conquer and enslave the weak. But not all is despair; there is a positive side to the story as it also reveals his unquenchable and exceptional capacity to fight back and win freedom. Take any country, civilization, or people group. They all have this story in their epics, in their history or in their legends – a story of oppression and liberation; a story of grave injustice against a people with iron will who would never give up; a story of the reign of adharma challenged by the warriors of dharma; a story of their pain, struggle, war, blood, death.
Christmas is the annual commemoration of the birth of Jesus Christ. The birth of Jesus Christ is of supreme importance in the world history.
The influence of Jesus Christ is so immense that we cannot imagine a world without Him. Many of the countries would not have been as developed as today considering the number of schools and charity missions that various Christian missionaries have started. Many of the places would not have been as civilized as today considering the Barbarians who are now devout Christians.
