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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"]I got many responses to my solo cycling tour from Berlin to Copenhagen in 2015. One of them which was oft repeated was, "I would love to do this once in my life". It was a very weird statement and I couldn't identify with it at all. Because if it is…
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[et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text"]One of the demands of a spiritual life is steadfastness on your path. There are ups and downs. There are doubts and deep experiences of clarity. Through it all the consistent, steadfastness is significant.
निश्चल तत्वं जीवन मुक्ति
Nischala tatvam jeevanmukti
Unshakable Steadfastness leads to liberation (Sadhguru explains this line here)
In…
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[et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text"]While having ice-cream with family,
Aunty: *something finicky about food*
Me: Aunty you are too fussy
Uncle: Aren't you fussy?
Me: No, not really
Uncle: Ok how about we have some bhel...
Me: I can have bhel, of course with no onion and garlic
Uncle: Why? Isn't that fussy too?
Me: No that is discipline... while being fussy is…
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[et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text"]This seems to be a common theme in a lot of my disgruntled conversations with people. Either they have this zeal to help and improve the world, which is fine, BUT they channel it with a complete and utter disregard for spiritual & religious traditions. Because mistakenly they think that social…
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[et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text"]Lately I have a new interest - Podcasts. Podcasts aren't really new to the online space and I am a digital marketeer, but I have just very recently connected with the joy of podcast listening. ;) It was prompted by a vitamin deficiency driven insomnia. At night, I would lie down…
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[et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text"]The great and well known Bhagavad Gita was a discourse between Arjun and Krishna in the moment of Arjun's great confusion on the battlefield, while the lesser known but amazing Ashtavakra Gita is between Ashtavakra and Janaka. And here Janaka is in a different state as a devotee and seeker. He is…
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…
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[et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text"]Random conversation in a yoga center far, far away,
Monk: At the end of the day, you should be happy
Me: *looks unconvinced*
Monk: isn't it?
Me: Really? Is happiness the most important thing?
Monk: I don't know
I also didn't know then. At least I couldn't articulate at the time my problem with making 'Happiness' the…
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[et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text"]This is the first article in a series where I share some simple exercises which help bring clarity to life.
If you have read some of my previous blogs, I am often miffed at the inane conversation that keeps happening around me. Apart from the inanity, I also realized that while people keep using…
Recently a conversation at work, X: "I will find data to support my ideas" Me: "It should be the other way around. Look into data and then ideate"
When you try to justify your ideas with data it is not that hard to find some random data that supports whatever you are saying. It is…