by Priyanka Dalal | Ashram Talks, Life, Practical Benefits, Spiritual Practices
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 sleep, I happened to wake up by...
by Priyanka Dalal | Indic Culture, Life
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 ideas –...
by Priyanka Dalal | Ashram Talks, Indic Culture, Practical Benefits
I had written a post on my travel blog about the various places associated with Sarguru SriBrahma, a fiery yogi that happened in South India a 100 years or so back. Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev has a deep connection with this yogi, thus it is of keen interest for a lot of...
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 | 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, Practical Benefits, Sant Sangati
In Amdavad (Ahmedabad), I stay at the Dada Bhagwan Foundation ashram. A neighbourhood uncle, loves playing chess. And while I don’t play the game often, I do have a penchant for it. So the uncle looks out for me to play the game whenever I am there. He plays...
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