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When I saw Isha had published Sadhguru's views on CAA & NRC, I chuckled. Because a backlash was inevitable. What I didn't expect was that Modi & BJP would promote that video in such a big way. And hence, the backlash to it would also multiple that many times.
One…
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[et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text"]In the ashram a lot of random things get said. Different ashrams have different levels of crap being spoken in a very normalized fashion. From a friend who had apparently been to another hippie place (not sure it can be called an ashram) said that Isha is really good in that…
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A fairly misunderstood word in today's day and age. The misunderstandings are natural because it is a deep reality that is not in our face nor obvious. We need to think and perceive the world with some depth. Moreover, in spiritual contexts the word has been used to mean many different things. And while…
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[et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text"]This year, I spent my Mahashivratri in Silence.
This is not common for me. Every year since 2006, I spend it watching the SJV / Isha program via TV or web-streaming or live at the venue.
Here's how it happened,
I was on my 2 month cycle tour in Thailand.
This was during the Mahashivratri…
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[et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text"]In our indic culture there is galores of stuff written and taught about parents. The most fundamental is respect towards older folks, specifically parents and grandparents. It is almost basic norm for us kids to touch feet of older folks. And some other respect related habits which only after seeing western…
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[et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text"]I had never given much thought to the word 'Taliban'. It has a clear negative and violent association with it as I don't know a thing about Arabic or Persian language. I only know about the group that calls itself so and then indulges in abject violence. However, I do…
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[et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text"]I have been thinking about writing this post for a while, because I have *some* experience of staying long-term in an ashram (only a year, but I had gone without an end-time in mind so I kind of stayed there like a long-term resident). Moreover, I have known many people closely…
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[et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text"]In any situation, it seems the best option is to DO OUR BEST. Whatever it may be.
A situation we like - do our best.
A situation we don't like - do our best.
Over time it does not matter whether we like or we don't like the situation. We just do our best.
This…
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[et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text"]As I write this post, I have been staying in Tiruvannamalai for over 2 and half months. And in these days many people have expressed that they don't understand which path I am following now. I do the kriya practices of Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev of Isha Foundation. And now I am…
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[et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text"]As I draw nearer to the half way point of the 30s, I have had an insight that has been very settling in a deep way.
Over many years now, I have significantly changed as a person. I am now living a life, that is beyond anything I could imagine in my…
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[et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text"]Lately a thread of thought is growing stronger in me. I have been thinking, rather realising, that all my crazy adventures - solo cycling, camping, hiking, getting lost and being rescued and all other adventures which seem so mad cap to me and will to many other women - they are…
Random person, "Keep the wish ready in your mind, so you make it when you enter the temple and see the deity"
Me: http://www.nooo.me/
*takes a deep breath*
Okay.
Twice I have heard this,
Some very smarty pant people have told me,
"Make a wish when you enter the temple"
There are so many fundamental…