Friday, February 9, 2007
DON'T ABANDON YOUR WORLDLY DUTIES
What do you do when a pigeon bird-bombs you? Grab a tissue and run to a fountain would be a normal reaction. But the Sage Kaushik from the Mahabharata wasn’t a normal sort of fellow. Years of ascetic practice had conferred extraordinary powers on him. So when a bird relieved itself on the Sage...
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Wednesday, February 7, 2007
FEAR OF CHANGE IS NOT THE ANSWER
As the blurb puts it, the self-help book Who Moved My Cheese? By Dr Spencer Johnson, is a simple parable. It’s the story about four characters that live in a maze and look for cheese to nourish them and make them happy. One day they discover a huge cache of it. Cheese, of course, is a metaphor for...
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Saturday, February 3, 2007
WHERE ARE YOU HEADED THIS TIME?
A traveller started his journey towards the holy city of Varanasi (India). He started from his hometown after making a few preliminary enquiries. Having travelled far and fearing he may have lost his way, the traveller asked a sanyasin who seemed to be returning from Varanasi, “Oh Master, how far...
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Tuesday, January 30, 2007
WHAT IS HUMAN – DID BACTERIA PLAYED GOD
An interesting research finding that rocks the foundation a unique species It's a mystery why the speed and complexity of evolution appear to increase with time. For example, the fossil record indicates that single-celled life first appeared about 3.5 billion years ago, and it then took about 2.5...
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Monday, January 29, 2007
BLESSED IS ONE WHO OWNS HIS MISTAKES
Tears of a repentant sinner are not only precious but rare. Such humility and true remorse are not religious acts but are primarily meant to benefit, purify and ennoble the concerned person. These would thus confer a cornucopia of blessings and benefits. The Bible (Matthew 5: 8) gives an indication...
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007
WE CAN LEARN MORE WHEN WE ARE IN DOUBT
(This is a fitting tribute to the post of Bhaskar on 'Doubt') Karna is cast as Mritunjaya (Death-triumpher) in Shivaji Savant’s award-winning novel. Cast away at birth, the eldest Pandava is rescued by a charioteer. Despite his divine looks and ability, Karna is insulted throughout his life for...
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LET US RECONNECT
'Strength, strength is what the Upanishads speak to me from every page,' declared Swami Vivekananda. Clearly, the source of 'strength' that is taught in the Upanishads is neither the body nor the mind nor the intellect. All of these can be strong but the real strength, the real power, is in the...
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Monday, January 22, 2007
COSMIC PRAYER OF JESUS
I had commented to Xeno-x on his blog on "The Beatitudes" and certain refined meanings of translation from ancient Greek that I will post a version of prayer of Our Lord with the present knowledge of Aramaic by scholars such as George M Lamsa and Neil Douglaz-Koltz. LORD'S PRAYER - ARAMAIC aboon...
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Sunday, January 21, 2007
YOU NEVER DIE, NOT EVEN ONCE!
All our fears are actually fears of death but under various disguises, that’s all. Every single fear is related to the fear of death, but in a convoluted way. Because it is convoluted, we don’t see it as fear of death. So what is death? If I ask you, you will tell me that death is something that...
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Friday, January 19, 2007
THOUGHT & UNIVERSAL LAWS
What could thought possibly have to do with cause and effect? Since thought has no apparent measurable physical structure, it is considered to be spiritual. You can't see it, smell it, touch it, taste it, or even feel it, but we know it exists. It exists only as a vibration. Remembering what we have...
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