In between these brackets of different activities we forget that we have some blank spaces too. These blank spaces are the places where we can think about what we are up to.
Category Archives: Focus
It was a much looked forward to vacation. You see we had barely escaped the clutches of thoughts of a staycation. I mean I just couldn’t get it how folks were so desperate to leave home that they were willing to just go somewhere (in many cases, their own city) and stay some nights in […]
Once I was traveling on the train in the first-class air-conditioned compartment. It was a long journey in the night. After having my dinner, I went to sleep. The next morning, I woke up early and I saw on the upper birth above me a beautiful middle-aged Sadhavi. She had placed one big mirror in front […]
Insomnia is also out of our fears. The mind keeps chattering and you toss in the bed to catch sleep. So far a good sleep body and mind both need good rest and therefore we should learn how to make both rest properly for the night.
Many more migratory birds will be flying all over Siberia to reach India in time to roost.
This is the true realisation, which sages of Upanishad call it Vidya. And there is another word they use is Avidya–being identified with something that is not the real self.
So here was I staring at myself on the Zoom screen. Much against my desire, it seems to be inevitable to scrutinize oneself (not to mention one’s background) in order to determine the appropriateness of what is being seen by the other. I am told it is a sign of vanity to keep viewing yourself […]
The more you drop your mind and start living and enjoying and delighting in things, the more things will happen to you. You are creating a passage. You are inviting God.
By Bhavana Bindra It was around the same time last year… it had occurred to me that I wanted to share my Janmashtmi decorations (simple as they were) with someone beyond the little family that exuded similar enthusiasm as me in actually executing them for the pleasure of the mischievous, smiling God as we all […]
In anger exactly this happens and we see ourselves loosing control. We ponder later why this happened, we uttered what we did not want, we acted what we did not plan.