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. […]
Category Archives: Focus
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Oct
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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Oct
Oct
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 […]
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Oct
Music it was to my ears… or so I thought… until it was obvious that this wasn’t from the great ghazal maestro’s collection but a jarring Indipop number! The issue wasn’t the genre… the issue was the romance that I anticipated as the rendition began, having been slowly, agonizingly smothered. Well, lyrics was never a […]
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Sep
In fact I couldn’t understand (and maybe still don’t) what was so depressing for everyone… yes it did take some effort to get used to not being able to leave your floor (thankfully we had the whole floor to ourselves with a lovely balcony and also a terrace garden!) People were wondering how they would […]
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The other day at dinner, an Iyengar friend of mine asked me if I have tasted the award winning German beer, Ayinger. I had not. So that was an opening for him to tell me condescendingly , “Listen, buddy, the Iyengar you drink, the Iyer you go”. I could not resist responding with the repartee, […]
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Use mindfulness to your advantage. If you’re in a work meeting and someone insults your idea. Asserting yourself makes you feel better, even if you’re in an unhappy situation.
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While working through our life, doing our daily routine, tending to mundane; we tend to forget the basic requirement of a happy and fulfilled life.