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Kayotsarga : Role in Samvatsari Pratikraman
This year as I did the Bhaav Pratikraman with Srimad Rajchandra folks, I learnt about the role of Kayotsarga or Kausagga in it. It comes after the stage of acknowledging our mistakes, and even asking Michchami Dukkadam. After...
Sadhguru Sathsang, Emotional Release & Bhakti
As Sadhguru conducts more and more sathsangs for public - the target audience largely are folks that don't do any spiritual practice daily. And he even directly addresses those folks quite often. If someone asks him any Q about...
My First Visit to Anandmayee Maa’s Ashram | Uttarkashi Diaries
A strange incident happened on my Jan 2019 solo cycling trip in Thailand. After cycling my first day, I halted in a hill town. And after asking a few local people I found a small hole-in-the-wall vegan restaurant. This also...
Esoteric Ramayana (from Aghora Book) : Shatrughna & Bharata
In the second book of Aghora (review here), there is much elaboration of the "esoteric meaning" behind the Ramayana. On the face of it, this is a story of Rama the king and his life struggles. However, esoterically .......
षडरस अतिशोभन – 6 Tastes Awesomeness! Ayurveda Learnings
Do take a moment to appreciate the title of this blog post, where I literally Google searched the Sanskrit word for "awesomeness" 😀 अतिशोभन seemed to work in this case. So, here I want to appreciate and exude on how amazing some...
Silence Sadhana: My Moun Days मौनम् साधना
My sadhana history, in this birth, is speckled with Maun days or Silence days. Basically, in my house when I am home alone, or in a room, or rarely at another fellow yogis house I go into silence. And focus on my inner "stuff". I...
The Crux of Sadhguru Jaggi’s Teachings
After years of immersing into Sadhguru JV's discourses, practices and bhakti. Due to some quirks with the organization and my inner needs I found Ramana Maharishi's words. One huge change that I noted was that Ramana Maharshi...
The 3 AM Yoga Medicine
When I was learning kalaripayattu in Kozhikode, for the few days, naturally body hurt with the exertion. "Good pain" I guess the fitness folk call it. Maybe because it is also spiritual or the rigorous exercise led to better...
How to Offer Food to Jain Monks : Quick Rules & Regulations
I recently had a video chat with my uncle who is a quite strict & dedicated Jain householder on the rules and various aspects of offering food to Jain monks aka "Gochari" as it is called. You can watch the video here. He also shared this image that is probably...
Sadhguru’s Death Book Review
For a short summary of Sadhguru's Death Book Review, please scroll to the end "Summary". A few years ago, I reviewed Sadhguru's Adiyogi book. The crux of that review was that often Sadhguru propounds fairly complex thoughts and...
Vaisakh Sud 11, The Day After Mahavir Swami got Enlightened & It’s Importance for Jains
Recently was the Vaisakh Sud 11 tithi - 11th phase of the Moon when it is waxing in the month of Vaisakh or Baisakhi. A big day for current day Jain's because this was the day that Mahavir swami, 24th tirthankar, established the...
The Karma Of Gossiping : An Indian Cultural Lore
What will people say about me? I hear this is a big deal for a lot of people. I don't identify with this too much, but considering that my choices and lifestyle is often uncommon especially in ashram spaces which I frequent -...
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Shouldn’t At least Spiritual People (& Practices) Stop Using Milk, Dairy considering Animal Cruelty?
Was asked this question recently on the platform notorious for too much sanctimony – Twitter! Not surprising. But I really wanted to address this “at least Spiritual people shouldn’t do this” thing. In this blog post I am writing about this in the context of milk usage.
Aghora Book 3, The Law of Karma: A Review & Two Real Life Ayurveda Teachers 🙂
A review of the Aghora Book 3… two interesting real life connections I made afterwards 🙂
Aghori Vimalananda on Jesus Christ (from Aghora Book 3)
Aghori Vimalananda’s melting words around Jesus Christ. Read them a few days before Christmas and what better to write about on Christmas Eve 🙂 The symbolic day of Christ’s Birth.
When Will Isha Yoga Center Open?!
I was staying in Coimbatore during the COVID-19 lockdown. Me and many others kept wondering when Isha Yoga center would open up 🙂
Tackling COVID-19 with home remedies, yoga and medicine
“most likely COVID” is a common phenomena as people deliberately avoid official testing due to many reasons or they don’t have access to COVID-19 testing facilities. Here are the various home remedies, yoga practices and Indian medicines including AYUSH recommendations.
Sadhguru may not have read the CAA Act & That’s Fine
There was a fairly huge controversy when Sadhguru gave his views on CAA, even though – he mentioned – he didn’t read the entire act. Well….
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Top 5 Spiritual Book Recommendations
1) Your Guru's book 🙂 In my case, Mystics Musings, Sadhguru
