Saturday, August 16, 2008
How is Self-Analysis Essential for Success in Life?
If you are asked to define what success is, you will fall into great difficulty. Because success, to different people, have different connotations altogether. To the ambitious, no success is good enough, whereas to a man of unhurried temperament, withdrawn and non-energetic, satisfied as he is in...
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Friday, August 15, 2008
Are you Really Aware Whether you are Coming or Going?
One Sufi mystic, Byazid, used to talk to his disciples about awareness, and they would ask “But what is awareness? You go on talking about it”. One day he took them to a river. On this side was a small hill and on the other side was a small hut. He said, “We are going to put up a long wooden bridge...
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Thursday, August 14, 2008
The Role of the Mind in Psychophysical Nurturing
Three reason why you often find me bringing you the teachings of the Upanishads: Universality and timelessness as its first essence; meditating on their words as if coming from another age, another climate, brings light; and, always to my heart's delight, they are inarguably great words in...
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Could there have been a God without the Devil?
Without the opposites existence is impossible – day and night, life and death, summer and winter. Life is so vast it can contain contradictions, and yet life in itself is not contradictory. There is a harmony in contradictions; the contradictions are complementary. The opposites only appear to be...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
The Mahabharata coming to Being as a Life-giving Source to Man
Since, the last two days we were on the subject of the teachings of the Mahabharata, I thought it fitting to give a brief account as regards the history of this epic. It was Veda Vyasa, the rishi of the rishis, son of the great sage Parasara, who gave to the world the divine and the most voluminous...
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Monday, August 11, 2008
So, to continue on special demand from Sinome, callista, mariaki, and sam
(The subject of the question-answer session between Yaksha, departed soul and a keeper of treasure, and Yudhisthira, one who is equipoised on the battlefield, is unendingly vast; many questions are deeply philosophical - on ethics and Dharma (Religion), human speculation, psychology, etc, - and are...
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Sunday, August 10, 2008
Eternal Questions that have Exercised Mankind
In the Mahabharata, the greatest epic on the earth, once Prince Yudhishthira ( one equipoised even in the battlefield ), the eldest of the five Pandava brothers, goes to quench his thirst in a pond that is the territory of a Yaksha ( the keeper of treasures as also a departed soul, thus invisible )....
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Saturday, August 9, 2008
Beware: One Too Many Gurus are on the Prowl
In the late seventies the US religious scene was staid, with religious worship limited to the church-going. Then, the evangelist Billy Graham appeared on TV and his passionate preaching so riveted America that churches found themselves sidelined. In India too, we have seen such an explosion of...
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Friday, August 8, 2008
Differentiation Creates Strife; Concurrence Creates Harmony
All violent attempts at reform always end by retarding reform. If you say “ You are bad ”, it is differentiation, but when you say, “ You are good, but be better ”, it is homogeneity. Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick, a former U.S Ambassador to the United Nations during Ronald Regan’s time, has written a...
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Thursday, August 7, 2008
Salvation and Self-Realization (Answers to Troosha and mousehop's queries)
Thank you mousehop, your query, “the message of the annihilation of consciousness, desire, even suffering is the same as annihilation of existence. So what's the point?” gives me the subject of my post today. Thanks also to Troosha for her “I’ve often questioned the notion of salvation. If a still...
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