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Love or Attachment
“What is unconditional love?” someone asked me the other day. “How do I love someone unconditionally?” In this post and the next, I’ll write a bit about love and how I see it. Although I’ve written on this subject in … Read more →
A Random Act of Kindness
Nikolai Berdyaev was a Russian thinker and existentialist. He once said, “The question of my bread is a material question but the question of my neighbor’s bread is a spiritual question.” This is kindness in a nutshell. Compassion may just … Read more →
The Two Realizations
To survive, thrive, and live gracefully in this world, we need a bit of both worldly and spiritual wisdom. Just having worldly wisdom may help you acquire material wealth and fame, but it doesn’t mean you’ll have peace and bliss. … Read more →
How To Forget Someone
It takes time, so to forget someone you love you first need to understand what forgetting someone means.
Faith in God
There are many who have faith in God, just as there are those who don’t. Some believe because they have not done any thinking, and many others because they have done too much thinking. The same goes for non-believers too. … Read more →
The Value of Nothing
Let me start with a Taoist story. Two men, a woodcutter and his apprentice, were passing through a jungle. They came across a huge banyan tree. Like some heavenly object, it stood majestically. Its trunk was wide, its boughs covered … Read more →
Why do Women Dress Up?
Someone, an up-and-coming and bright author I have known for a while, wrote to me the other day. She asked an interesting question: why do women dress up? She wanted to know if there is a scriptural viewpoint on this. … Read more →
Surrendering to a Guru
Spiritual and religious texts expounding Eastern thought are full of master-disciple stories of surrender and obedience. Many people who visit the ashram and many who write to me are inquisitive about the role of a guru on one’s path, they … Read more →
Saying Yes to Life
I hope you know that more than the external factors, it is you, yourself, who stops you from living, living the life of your dreams. A lot of people are afraid of saying ‘Yes’ to life. And why are they … Read more →
Unconditional Love
The other day, someone I met for the first time asked me an interesting question. Referring to one of my posts on love, she said, “You wrote in your article that unconditional love is very rare. Isn’t a mother’s love for … Read more →
Housekeeping
Today’s post is about general announcements. It contains some important information that may be of use to you over the next six months, especially if you are a regular reader of this blog. 1. Solitude From the first week of … Read more →
Indecisiveness
Do you suffer from indecisiveness? The way I see it, it is a kind of mental shortcoming, a weakness. Those who are afraid of making choices often keep delaying their decisions. In decision-making, there is a false belief that the … Read more →
The Question Paper of Life
Many people who come to me are in genuine search of a spiritual path, some form of destination. They tell me they have everything yet something is missing in their lives, they cannot pinpoint what it is, they feel somewhat … Read more →
The Meaning of Surrender
Most theistic religions encourage the devotee to surrender, they lay great emphasis on surrendering to the Divine Will. Some paths even require complete surrender unto the guru, the spiritual master. So, what does surrender really mean, does faith play a … Read more →
Do Not Quit
Buddha spoke: “On the path of self-realization, there are only two mistakes a seeker can make. One: Not treading the path at all and two: not going all the way.” Quite frequently, I get queries from enthusiastic readers about meditation, … Read more →
