Spirituality by Sandeep Dahiya

Shiva's Naga

Indian mythology is full of beautiful fables and interesting tales. Now they have very mystical meanings if we analyze >>>>

2023-12-18

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 >>>>

2023-12-19

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 >>>>

2023-12-19

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 >>>>

2023-12-20

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 >>>>

2023-12-20

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 >>>>

2023-12-14

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 >>>>

2023-12-15

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 >>>>

2023-12-16

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 >>>>

2023-12-19

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 >>>>

2023-12-19

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 >>>>

2023-12-13

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 >>>>

2023-12-20

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 >>>>

2023-12-16

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 >>>>

2023-12-17

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 >>>>

2023-12-16

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 >>>>

2023-12-17

The law of reciprocation

It was dreadful in the trenches during World War First. Millions of soldiers waited in anticipation of death or killin >>>>

2023-12-19

Defeating death with a joke

The legendary Indian soldier, Field Marshal Sam Makekshaw, fought as a junior officer in the British Indian Army durin >>>>

2023-12-19

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. >>>>

2023-12-19

Journeyman, set up your Lag >>

In the infinite womb of the cosmos, the interplay of matter and energy churns out newer an >>>>

2023-12-19

Fight like a little seed

Energy’s manifestation as matter is bound by the laws defining our survival instinct >>>>

2023-12-19

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 >>>>

2023-12-19

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 >>>>

2023-12-19

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 >>>>

2023-12-19

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 >>>>

2023-12-19

Kiss the storms

Storms are storms. Just storms! Nothing else. They do not have much to offer both to nature and humans. They swi >>>>

2023-12-19

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 >>>>

2023-12-19

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 >>>>

2023-12-19

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 >>>>

2023-12-19

Human Touch

Being a bookish guy, I’m not much into physical activities. But walking on pilgrimages seems to add a different >>>>

2024-01-05

The Workshop Within

How will you even touch someone softly if you haven’t felt the gentility of your own fingers on your skin? >>>>

2024-06-01

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 >>>>

2024-01-08

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 >>>>

2024-12-08

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 >>>>

2024-01-10

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 >>>>

2024-01-12

Nurturing a soulmate

I know we have an overestimated view of our own validity and suitability to be an idealistic soulmate, provided we com >>>>

2024-01-15

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 >>>>

2024-01-15

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 >>>>

2024-01-15

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 >>>>

2024-01-15

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 >>>>

2024-01-17

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 >>>>

2024-01-19

Spin your webs well

This is your very own beautiful reality dear earthling...a lovely reality created by you through your own experiences >>>>

2024-01-19

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 >>>>

2024-01-19

The essence of being human

Why be unduly bothered about the typical bugs of the mind like anger, hate, jealousy and others? Follow the trail of a >>>>

2024-11-06

Spin well! Smile...cheers.. >>

This is your very own beautiful reality dear earthling...a lovely reality created by you through your own experiences >>>>

2024-11-06

A page in the book of an ol >>

I know I'm from the old school. But here is a message for the new-age people grappling with the issues of relationship >>>>

2024-11-06

A rainbow of energies

Recently mild earthquake tremors were felt in the Delhi NCR. It was afternoon and I was ly >>>>

2024-06-11