by Priyanka Dalal | Indic Culture, Jainism
I recently started reading the Uttaradhyayan Sutra, which is also considered to be Mahavir Swami’s last discourse. It has a chapter on 4 Essentials or “Chaturangiy”. In this blog, I jotting it out in brief, and then providing the video where I have...
by Priyanka Dalal | Indic Culture, Jainism, Spiritual Practices
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 that, as a way of seeing that these...
by Priyanka Dalal | Ashram Talks, Indic Culture
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 happened to be one of the most delicious...
by Priyanka Dalal | Hinduism, Indic Culture, Rambling
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 …. Esoterically, Rama is the pure...
by Priyanka Dalal | Ayurveda, Indic Culture
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 of our traditional dishes...
by Priyanka Dalal | Ashram Talks, Indic Culture, Spiritual Practices, Spiritual Roots
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 don’t remember much...
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