1. SPHOTA - A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW

The term sphota is etymologically derived from the root ‘sphut’, which means 'to burst', or become suddenly rent asunder (with a sound) [i].

The word sphota is expla...   read more

Vyaas Houston (1991), in one of his writings, mentions his discovery of the world's oldest living language: Sanskrit, the language of ancient India and Vedic civilization. He states thus:

"It was perfectly clea...   read more

(Published in: Contemporary Buddhism, Volume 8, Issue 1 May 2007)

ABSTRACT

Rudyard Kipling, the famous English author of The Jungle Book, born in India, wrote one day these words: 'Oh, East is East and W...   read more

(commissioned, but not published-by Illustrated Magazine in 1952)

The question whether there is a God is one which is decided on very different grounds by different communities and different individuals. The im...   read more

1. Introduction

The origins of the Vaisesika philosophy, involving the atomism and atomic theory etc., are found in rudimentary form in the Vedas. Some people also believe that the Vaisesika is directly related...   read more

(The following article is from Free Inquiry magazine, Volume 18, Number 3.)

Much of what people do is done in the name of God. Irishmen blow each other up in his name. Arabs blow themselves up in his name. Imam...   read more

The name of India, so far as is known, first appears in Greek literature in the 5th century B.C. in the works of Hekataios and Herodotos. The word is derived from the Indus river (Sanskrit sindhu means "river"), and i...   read more

The 1996 Humanist of the Year asked this question in a speech accepting the honor from the American Humanist Association.
It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus...   read more

In this talk, I would like to speculate a little, on the development of life in the universe, and in particular, the development of intelligent life. I shall take this to include the human race, even though much of it...   read more

Some of the important physicists of the world have concluded that there is a great similarity between ancient Hindu and modern cosmologies. Fritjof Capra, a noted physicist, writes, “This idea of a periodically expa...   read more