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The Art of Living With Aging Parents

The Art of Living With Aging Parents Kindness, creativity and compromise are key qualities and skills to meet this modern need My parents are old, they live by different standards and life-style choices than I do, and this made for a challenging experience. But true service is about the person or persons being served, not about the person doing the serving. Clearly, service is not about imposing our own beliefs, ideals and standards on anyone else; rather, it is about honor ing those we serve exactly as they are. As adult care-giving children, we need all the skills we can acquire for successfully and lovingly dealing with our aging parents. Positive discipline, the art of raising children based on treating each other with dignity and respect, is invaluable. These same positive discipline guidelines, used to raise our children and grandchildren without violence, are perfectly adaptable to all situations and all age groups. The ethical principles called yamas and niyamas can be ap...

A Vedic feel underlines the new Avengers movie : A review

Anyone familiar with Vedic themes and concepts would certainly travel back in time with Joss Whedon’s ‘The Avengers’  (Avengers Assemble in UK ).  The movie is a potent cauldron of opposing elements and forces that yet again brings back to life the epic battle of good and evil. In Vedic metaphysics, the universe is segregated into many complex systems of lokas (realms), each housing beings and entities that reflect a certain state of consciousness. These different Vedic realms re-constitute the Puranic tri-loka (three worlds) where the Gods preside over the highest dimensions (devaloka), the demons or titans rule the infernal underworld (patala) and the earth (bhuloka) in between where humans strive with varying degrees and gradations of power and consciousness to ascend to greater heights of existence. In the ultimate evolution of worlds, the forces of one loka often collide with and clash against the forces of another leading to a disruption of the cosmic order, until...