Shiva's Naga
Indian mythology is full of beautiful fables and interesting tales. Now they have very mystical meanings if we analyze >>>>
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The Making of a Sanyasi
There was a knock at the gate. A sadhu with kindly eyes stares at us. He had snow-white beard, a typical well-established mendicant’s facial gro >>>>
A Simple Man of Faith
There is a simple man in our village. He is in his early fifties and a grihastha. He is a small farmer but his wife is a government teacher. His son a >>>>
Ravan's Little Lamp of Righ >>
There is a beautiful episode in Ramayana. Sri Ram looking for Sita Mata finally reached the southern coast of India. There was a vast chasm of the sea >>>>
Givers and Takers
I have seen a few wonderful old women beggars—even though calling them ‘beggars’ would be almost a sin but given my inability to fin >>>>
The Missing Towel
Early mornings in early winters have a mild chill. So here I’m draped in a chador, the best way the farmers and their ilk feel warm. Give them t >>>>
The Sunburnt Rose
I m a sunburnt rose in the little garden of a common man. My smile is singed with scorching May heat. These are the scorched edges born of my battle t >>>>
The Book of Life
Aha the book of life! Every day a new chapter. Each incident, happening or phenomenon a fresh sentence with profound meanings.
The new sun rising o >>>>
Romancing with Peace
Remember the wonderful time you spent on a beach facing a calm, bluish lagoon? Its soft bluish ripples gently tugging at your soul. Silence and peace >>>>
Balance
Uncontrolled emotions will turn us suicidal, depressed and at the most a brooding misfitted poet. Uncontrolled mind will leave us open to the chance w >>>>
Reading the Book of Life
Passing through a poor locality in Delhi is always revealing. To feel gratitude for whatever God has given us, we ought to visit slums and pavements c >>>>
The Lightness of Being
Who doesn't appreciate the genius of Leo Tolstoy? Through his beautiful writing the sagely author continues to inspire millions even after a cent >>>>
The Rainbow in a Bubble
There is hardly any qualitative difference between what goes in the sky above and what happens on the ground below. The sky shifts. It moves, it sings >>>>
A Wooden Touch or Soft Brac >>
I remember a talk I had with an elderly American Buddhist woman at Mcleodganj many years ago. A very ardent follower of Buddhism she had spent decades >>>>
The Full Game of Life
I don't exactly remember the name of that plant. But when we chew its leaves during childhood they tasted very bitter. But the bitter taste was j >>>>
Dancing Parrots and Sulking >>
Have you seen beautiful, colorful birds courting their lady love? They dance, spread their amazing wings and tails in fabulous patterns and let out th >>>>
The law of reciprocation
It was dreadful in the trenches during World War First. Millions of soldiers waited in anticipation of death or killin >>>>
Defeating death with a joke
The legendary Indian soldier, Field Marshal Sam Makekshaw, fought as a junior officer in the British Indian Army durin >>>>
The infinite perceiving its >>
Nothing stands in isolation. Can a drop of water stand alone in the ocean? Can an ocean exist without a drop, i. >>>>
Journeyman, set up your Lag >>
In the infinite womb of the cosmos, the interplay of matter and energy churns out newer an >>>>
Fight like a little seed
Energy’s manifestation as matter is bound by the laws defining our survival instinct >>>>
The over-smart spider
In an automated and mechanized world it’s not about good and bad; it’s primarily about good, better and be >>>>
The beauty of black dots on >>
There is an age-old proverb in the villages. Making a child laugh and playful might not earn you a good name, but if s >>>>
Soulless, Hybrid Beauty
A hybrid rose can have nice colour and exquisite design. But it lacks the basic essence of a flower, fragrance. The be >>>>
The loss of soulful connect >>
You don’t need to have just ears to listen. You can do it far better with your soul. If not this, why would one >>>>
Kiss the storms
Storms are storms. Just storms! Nothing else. They do not have much to offer both to nature and humans. They swi >>>>
Being in the womb of non-be >>
And everything, dear readers of life, turns out to be just moon-lit fog! Just a sea of shadows, non-being, rippl >>>>
Move on but look back somet >>
I think we can avoid abusing the things that keep us alive, that give us this day, that shape our life (in whatever sh >>>>
The bliss of being 'co >>
I don’t want to be too good or too great to be finally get burdened under the weight of my own goodness. C >>>>
Human Touch
Being a bookish guy, I’m not much into physical activities. But walking on pilgrimages seems to add a different >>>>
The Workshop Within
How will you even touch someone softly if you haven’t felt the gentility of your own fingers on your skin? >>>>
A suitable distance and nob >>
The inspirer of lovers and the innocent muse of little children, the moon is always there in its orbit around earth. W >>>>
The lightness and heaviness >>
There is a marvelous lightness in ‘being’ alive. And a heaviness also that is beyond the dimension of the matter. The extra dimension o >>>>
Being with small things in >>
The winter has been pretty harsh. Its passage through the pathside grass tells the tale. As the February sun shines I can see the little patches of >>>>
The Need for Polyandry
There is a lovely concept of yin and yang energies in Taoism. Yin is the female component, the all-embracing emptiness >>>>
Nurturing a soulmate
I know we have an overestimated view of our own validity and suitability to be an idealistic soulmate, provided we com >>>>
Freedom
JK was a free soul. He broke all chains of religious and spiritual institutions. He didn't believe in the guru-disciple equation in the strict sens >>>>
The myth of healing ointmen >>
My cousin sister's son was once critically ill. Just 25, his liver ravaged by alcoholism, lying on the ventilator supp >>>>
Earthquake in a Kundalini b >>
Recently mild earthquake tremors were felt in the Delhi NCR. It was afternoon and I was lying on the bed for some sies >>>>
The pointless point
To look for ultimate truth, or reality, or absolute knowledge, the body would need immense amount of energy. Because the normal levels of ene >>>>
A slightly better being
Why be unduly bothered about the typical bugs of the mind like anger, hate, jealousy and others? Follow the trail of a >>>>
Spin your webs well
This is your very own beautiful reality dear earthling...a lovely reality created by you through your own experiences >>>>
A little lesson from the bo >>
Have you seen a snake beautifully crawling across little spaces, tiny crevices, stony earth and prickly branches and t >>>>