There is a full discourse of the aarti meaning by Deepak bhai. Amazing serendipity for me!
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 chess daily. Often more than…
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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 should know some English in order to get admission…
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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…
A note on my 3 month stay in Tiruvannamalai town right by the Ramana ashram. The different sadhakas I met, being close to the Ramana ashram and the ever present – Arunachalam mountain watching over us 🙂
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[et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text"]Often on my travels I meet really interesting people. I find it very valuable to get an insight into their lives. Ranaji, a pioneer based in a lesser known village called Jibhi, in Himachal Pradesh is one such person. I spent a month in this mountain village and was eating almost…
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[et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text"]This article has long been pending. One of the reasons it has been pending so long is because it is pretty vast and I am not sure where to start. But I want to attempt this.
In fact that is the purpose of this blog.
This blog lets me delve deeper into thoughts which…
Here are some interesting insights I have got from the grandmom at my AirBnb in Chennai. She has been associated with the Brahmakumari path for over 36 years now. It was very interesting for me to know of her sadhana as I am also usually into all sadhana stuff. So here,
Remembrance of God while cooking…
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[et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text"]I always felt that his was a very intriguing story. Most Indians would be aware of it but just to summarize it,
Buddha was on his usual walking journey and he came to a village. The villagers forbade him to walk through the nearby jungle because there was a dangerous bandit there.…
From solo traveling to spirituality to entrepreneurship, I keep choosing to do stuff that is statistically uncommon. So when I am sitting with a bunch of people, I am usually different. Earlier I had some hesitations - is it okay if I did this? What would people think? But, over the years, I find it…