In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.

From the point of view of the Jnani, there is no illusion of the manifest uni-verse at all, and therefore there is no question of the duality of male/female relationship. The Jnani is aware that what appears to the ignorant as three separate things - the male/female individual, the world and the creator - are in reality the manifestations, appearances in consciousness, of the unicity that is the Absolute.

Life is one organic whole. When you touch life at any point, physical, verbal, psychological or psychic, when you touch life at one point, you have touched the whole of it. It is going to affect the whole your life.

By changing the outer, the inner re-mains unchanged, untransformed. The outer cannot change the inner, but the outer can help, or it can hinder. The outer can create a situation in which the inner can explode more easily.

Where is the need of changing any-thing? The mind is changing any-how all the time. Look at your mind dispassionately; this is enough to calm it. When it is quiet, you can go beyond it. Do not keep it busy all the time. Stop it, and just be.

Meditation has long being accepted as a way to peace, happiness and a fulfilling life. Medical practitioners through research now endorse the health benefits of meditation. Doctors around the world have started prescribing meditation for treating and managing stress related deceases.

Deepak Chopra is one of America's best known healers and alternative medicine advocates. Main tenets of his philosophy include mind-body medicine, Ayurvedic healing, meditation, Quantum Healing, understanding the connection between diet and health , and recognizing one's dosha.

Lord Vinayaka is an Akhanda Brahmachari. He has no consort. There is a story of deep significance behind this vow of celibacy. It is said that once when He was a small child, Ganesha in a mood of playfulness beat a cat and injured it rather severely. He did not know what this ultimately implied.

Some individuals can be carried away by miracles but in the Hindu tradition, miracles have no real meaning. Hindus are not miracle-mongers because everybody had miracles.

Death is not the end. Death can never be the end. Death is the road. Life is the traveler. The soul is the guide. When the traveler is tired and exhausted, the guide instructs the traveler to take either a short or a long rest, and then the traveler's journey begins again.