by Priyanka Dalal | Indic Culture, Life, Rambling
This International Yoga Day of 2020, I explored an “Akhand Diya”. I planned to try to establish an unceasing diya for a few weeks to get an idea of it. As it happened, it is still ON 2 months later. These were the days of semi-lockdown. As many others in...
by Priyanka Dalal | Indic Culture, Rambling, Samsara, Sanskrit
Today morning spark, as I was listening to someone talk about Purush – Prakriti, I realised that this premordial soup from which all existence began, came so much earlier. Way before all this male-female drama on the planet specifically in the human society. The...
by Priyanka Dalal | Indic Culture, Rambling
A lot of people say – “we get our birth as per our past life karma”. By itself is a simple enough statement. But there are many implications. One of them being that in a twisted way, privileged people sometimes justify not helping those poorer to...
by Priyanka Dalal | Life, Sanskrit, Spiritual Roots
In my 3 months at Tiruvannamalai, I came across Ramana Maharshi’s Updesa Saram, literally it means the essence (saram) of his teachings (updesha). It became very dear to me very quickly. And I spent quite some time delving into it. Spending time in the amazing...
by Priyanka Dalal | Ashram Talks, Indic Culture, Samsara
Many years back my Grand-dad died. It was one of the closest deaths for me. Other deaths had taken place but either I was too young, or I personally didn’t feel a major connect with the person. So this was one of the closest deaths for me. Naturally, I went with...
by Priyanka Dalal | Ashram Talks, Jainism, Sant Sangati
She said, “Because I didn’t get admission in college” “I have studied only till 10th standard. That was in Gujarat in Gujarati medium. I didn’t know any English. My family then shifted to Mumbai. But the college in Mumbai insisted that I...
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