Usually, home temples and shrines are passed down from ancestral lines. We will either inherit something from our parents or in-laws. Now, however, with nuclear families and because we are not staying in our ancestral family homes – we are often in a situation where we need to create a home shrine from scratch. And we…
Some thoughts after maintaining an akhand diya in the house for over 2 months during the COVID-19 lockdown 🙂
The “Akhand Diya” sounds like a thing of lore and something that great yogis can sustain after much sadhana. At least, it did to me. But when I went about trying to set one up at home… it was quite manageable! Try it out yourself, here’s how…..
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…
This post started out on Guru Poornima as an offering to my guru but it got much longer than I planned. And I kept writing for many days. As it happens I am publishing it today on 3rd Sept, Sadhguru's birthday :)
The Guru Pooja was for me an eye opener. I always had…
Diwali festivities helped me retain Emotional Balance
I remember when I was younger, a lot of the older flats of my relatives used to have a different, unusual toilet - the squat toilet. I was staying in a newly built block and so we had the modern English toilet. The squat toilet was something odd and inconvenient.
It was only after I…
