In the midst of all the celebrations lie a hundreds of explanations of why we do what we do. The beliefs of them all substantiating what has come down the generations for us to follow. In many cases we do it with the fear of the ire of the Powers that be in case the […]
The thing with the spiritual process is, once you start tasting something within yourself, that something becomes the center of your life.
Dinner with family or friends, book club, craft projects, recreational sports, movie night – find something to fill in this blank.
Mornings set the mood of the day. We often find ourselves saying ‘I got up on the wrong side of the bed today’. Is there really something like getting up on the wrong side of the bed that has an impact on our mood? Of course not! However, there are a few things that we […]
We all know the great man who said it… but for those who may have tried to live by this adage, you would know the mixed chances of success it has. You will be lucky if the change you wanted to see (And were being) actually turned out that way! So think about this stay-at-home […]
Growing up and for a very long time thereafter, Navratri, or the “nine nights” was a festival of abstinence and good food.. yes co-existence it was.. and continued to be even as I learnt more and more- of the Demons and the Devis. The supreme divine form annihilating all that is not good for us. […]
The other day, a seeker sent me an interesting question: Have you ever reached a meditative state while reading? It is really a significant question, because, in most cases, the spiritual journey starts either by reading spiritual books or by listening to the spiritual discourses of certain realised souls, we call them the gurus or sadgurus. […]
There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty, wrote Joseph Addison. A real meditator is one who adds more beauty to the world by being a creative person. Osho asks all of us: “Help the world to become better. Don’t leave the world just the same as you have found it – make it […]
Nature’s soft nurse… Yes, borrowed from Shakespeare it is.. the great litterateur too extolled the virtues of this very important aspect of a living being’s life. For now, I am going to only focus on the homo sapiens.. much as I would love to be broader on coverage. Volumes written by experts, talks given by […]
So birthday week had begun and the question from birthday boy was on why the celebrations weren’t initiated yet.. well, I have no one but me to blame for this expectation to have taken root. You see, deep into the nationwide lockdown, when none except essential services were to venture out, was my little one’s […]