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Why women were confined to houses in the past ?  - Most of the modern thinkers believe that – the ancients were controlling the women and were not giving freedom to women. Consequently they think the past societies are male dominant and women were suppressed and supporting this claim they quote the stanza from the Manu Dharma Sastra “na stree swatantra marhati” which means like “women are not fit for freedom”. These are all the feminist points...
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Will the fruits of our actions come back to us ?  - Definitely!  With no doubt at all ! says Hinduism. This is defined by the ‘law of Karma’ in the Hinduism and it is known by the name “karma Siddhanth”. This is directly related to the third law of Newton – which states that “for every action these is an equal and opposite reaction”. This law of Newton is nothing but, the narrowed down law of the Karma. ‘Karma’ – literally means...
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Why education was not given to all the people in the past?  - It is true that certain specialized knowledge was not given to all the people in the ancient India. But, it is false to infer that education was not given to the masses! They were all educated but, of course they might not be aware of reading and writing. Knowing ‘script’ is just a part of ... 
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Why didn't the ancients make the modern inventions?  - Contrary to the belief of the majority of the people, the ancient Hindus in fact had most of the present day technological inventions. For example, the airplane, submarine, atom bombs etc., things were present in the ancient India too. The book on ‘Vaimanika Sastra’ [aeronautics] was written by... 


What is happiness ? - Happiness is a state of the self. The Hinduism says - when the ego ceases to be or when the ego is deeply absorbed then the individual concerned will feel happy. Contrary to the common thinking, happiness could never come from outside, from the objects of...


Which‘god’ to pray ? - The problem in the spiritual life is this. We have to reach something that is totally a new dimension to this, ‘what we know’. That is why - different religions and mystics will say differently though they….



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