Once somebody asked His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar – ‘How can we age gracefully?’ Pujya Gurudev answered, (with a mischievous smile and a small subtle gesture toward himself) "Like this! See you are really asking how to look attractive. Your desire to look attractive makes you unattractive! If you want to look attractive, have …
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Lord Shiva – The strange God from time immemorial
Even the puranas, that portray him with human attributes, are silent about his birth. Being Shankara – who has your welfare in his mind, he is close to our heart, yet he remains the most mysterious one riddled with contradictions. He makes the profane sacred so he lives in burial grounds. Is it an attempt …
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The Monk who is yet to get his Ferrari
‘This post is a part of Write Over the Weekend, an initiative for Indian Bloggers by BlogAdda.’ In addition to sharing bits and pieces of information about my life on many of the posts here, I have written specific posts covering my personal life. All these have been categorised under 'memoirs' . May be this is …
Of self discovery and spirituality
May be somewhere at the age of twelve I started to have deep feelings of uselessness of life. The feelings continued off and on. Pressing responsibilities and needs, first of a student life, then of a professional and family life drowned out the inner call. Of course, since childhood I had been interested in yoga …
To bring home the point
While on a sight seeing trip, got tempted to take this picture of a home by the highway. May be it wanted to bring home a point: When you are tanned and tired of your visits, just come back home. Relax. Then you will find the bliss that you have missed all along while wandering …
The Art of Navigating on Indian Roads
The Multi-purpose Indian Road An Indian road, in addition to its main role, may mean many things to many people. It can be a toilet, it can be a barn, or it can be a place to build a place of worship - temporary as well as permanent (be it of any religion). The kind of …
The Notebook of a Blank Life
The post has been included in my book of short story collection. It has been withdrawn to comply with copyright and exclusivity issues
10 Couplets of Kabir to lighten your day
It is not for nothing that Kabir’s sayings are known as ulat vani. Whatever he says it seems contrary to our common knowledge or perception. This was not only true for his spiritual sayings, but also for his couplets giving worldly wisdom. Take this first stanza of my compilation. Our usual tendency is to keep …
A Brief Note on Stephen Hawking
Here is a brief introduction to Stephen Hawking from his official website: "Stephen Hawking is the former Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and author of A Brief History of Time which was an international bestseller. Now the Dennis Stanton Avery and Sally Tsui Wong-Avery Director of Research at the Department of …
