Dr P V Vaidyanathan: 16 books

We are all spirit-mind-body complexes. We all possess an inner spirit, a divine energy which runs our lives and keeps us alive, from birth to death. We think, learn and act through our minds and our words and actions, which are carried out by our body, determine the quality of our lives here on earth....

What we do know about death is that a person, who was functioning through his or her body and mind, stops functioning. The body remains for us to see, all the limbs, the eyes, nose , ears, the vital organs—all are there, but something which was driving the body, some energy which sustained life...

Every human being who is born on this earth suffers from pain and hurts. Pain and suffering are a part and parcel of life. Some hurts go deep, some pain is almost impossible to get over, and keeps lingering. Pain or hurt can be physical, mental or emotional. Physical pain, as we all know, is acute...

What is happiness? A feeling that all of us are perpetually searching. We know what it is to be happy, we have known happiness in the past, we are seeing others being happy, but very often, we have no clue to what exactly makes us happy, or how to go about achieving happiness. We feel that if we had...

Compassion is said to be one of the highest spiritual qualities. It goes even beyond kindness, helping, love, forgiveness, sympathy and empathy. We can show sympathy, we can even empathize with many people's suffering and problems, we can even love and forgive them, but a truly evolved person...

One of the best weapons we have against life, one of the best tools in our life-skills kit, is acceptance. Sadly, it is also one of the most difficult of qualities to imbibe and put into use. We understand that acceptance brings a lot of peace, we give others plenty of advice about how they need to...

What is love? This question defies any easy answer. All of us have been in love, have been loved, have shared love, but what exactly this feeling is, is difficult to put into words. Like we can experience sweet or salty without being able to put it into words, except to say that it is something we...

Stress is something all of us are familiar with, something that we deal with practically every day. It is a feeling which is easier to experience than to describe, a tightness in the chest, a burning or pain in the pit of the stomach, a pounding headache, palpitations, sweaty palms, butterflies in...

“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one”, said John Lennon once, and that sort of says it all, about dreams. Dreams are of two kinds---the kinds which we experience when we are asleep and the ones which we see, with our...

Love is easily the most powerful emotion known, not only to man, but also to plants and animals. But what is love? We don’t know it in words, but we do know it as a deep feeling, a feeling of happiness, of contentment, of satisfaction, of pride, of warmth, of joy, of celebration, of hope, of faith,...

Anger is an emotion that all of us are familiar with. Anger is something that all of us have felt. No human can claim that he or she has never felt angry. From a small child to the elderly, irrespective of gender, nationality, socio-economic status, race, creed or caste, anger is present in each and...

The burden of hate, of resentment, of guilt, of anger, of being a victim, is too heavy to bear. The journey of life demands that we travel light. There is only so much that we can carry; any extra burden weighs us down. And most hurts of the past have today become irrelevant; they have no meaning,...

Your fear is a hundred percent dependent on you for its survival, says Steve Maraboli. And it is so true. Fear is different from caution. Caution is common sense, where we take care. Not putting our hands into a fire, or jumping from the terrace of a building is caution and common sense. That is not...

We are born into this world without asking for it. We are fed and nursed from the first day of life, without asking for it. The earth abounds in plant and animal life, in rivers, in rocks, in seas, in mountains, all of which exist without us having to ask for them or pay for them. Our very life here...