The Indian Messenger Online

Tagore bridged both worlds. He would become a mystic who made no distinction between scientific  wonder and spiritual awe. Saints were like scientists who journeyed into the unknown and came back to report, through their mystical experiences that God is real. Referring to a mystical inner journey, he once silo “you cannot cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water” or by measuring the waves in an ocean with a scientific instrument, he might have added, in Read More …

Life in the presence of God is, rich and gracious. In thought of God sorrow and sighing flee away. Those who love God find it their supreme joy continually to offer him delighted thanks-giving. When we erase the traditional picture of heaven our speaking, these truths are often left unsaid. Until we are ready with new ways of saying them the perennial truth of heaven is overlooked. We may say that heaven is a state of mind and satisfy the Read More …

Raja Rammohun Roy, known as the first modern man of India, was firmly convinced that despite the evils inherent in imperialism, the British rule in India was destined to play a historic role. He saw how the country had fallen apart and got divided into numerous kingdoms and principalities mutually antagonistic following the decline of the Mughal Empire that was supposed to have begun with the death of Aurangzeb in 1707. A central rule under a constitutional system of governance Read More …