Abraham Kovoor (Selections from the Writings of Abraham Kovoor) “What really are manthras? They are a certain co-ordination of words, sounds and phrases which, when chanted a required number of times, harmonize to produce an ethereal vibration. This vibration causes ripples in the Pancha Maha Bhutha (five elements). As all living beings are composed of…
Abraham Kovoor In an article on Sai Baba Dr. T. Nallainathan, President of the Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba Manram, wrote in the Tamil daily Thinakaran (4.11.1966) thus:- “A yogi is capable of leaving his physical body in one place and appearing in a distant place in his spiritual body. It was like this that…
Abraham Kovoor Kerala, the land of my birth, is very similar to Lanka in its topography, climate, fauna flora and even the cultural and ethnic qualities of its peoples. The phonetics of the Malayalam language is more similar to the spoken Tamil of Jaffna than that of South India; yet, the morphology of the Malayalam…
Abraham Kovoor Every lay-member of the Roman Catholic Church, who is encouraged by the Church to go on pilgrimage to Lourdes, should read the book “Eleven Lourdes Miracles” by Dr. DJ. West, M.B. CH. B., D.P.M. (Duckworth). Dr. West critically examines the eleven cases that have been proclaimed miraculous by Canonical Commissions dating between 1937…
Abraham Kovoor Recently we happened to read in an Indian journal an article by Sri K.P. Kesava Menon written on his 83rd birthday. Sri Menon was a former High Commissioner of India in Ceylon, a writer, a patriot and one of India’s foremost journalists. Even in his old age, whatever he writes is read avidly…
Abraham Kovoor On September 17th 1963, the ‘DAILY SKETCH’ (London) carried an article by one Leslie Mallory, headed ‘NEW SCIENCE BACKS THE MIND-READER’, dealing mainly with the claims of the Russian Professor Leonid Vasiliev, who regularly put men and women to sleep by telepathy and awakened them at set intervals”. But the professor, we are…
Abraham Kovoor Perception is the process by which an organism becomes aware of its environment. Normally perceptions are of five types – all of a stimulus-response pattern. The five sensory stimuli in man and other highly evolved animals are the senses of touch, smell, sight, taste and hearing. In some animals like the homing pigeons,…
This interview with Premanand (17 February 1930 – 4 October 2009) was published in Bangalore Skeptic (an ezine now defunct) in its July 2008 issue. In memory of this great skeptic and human being, we reproduce the interview here as it is not available online elsewhere. I met Premanand in May 2008 at Podannur and…