It was through my dear friend Paresh Degaonkar that I had the privilege of meeting Divyanshu Ganatra — a remarkable soul, adventurer, and founder of Adventures Beyond Barriers Foundation (ABBF) https://divyanshuganatra.com. Blind since the age of 19, Divyanshu sees more clearly than most of us with sight. Our conversation left a deep imprint on me, […]
THE OTHER DAY WHEN YOU WERE SPEAKING ABOUT COMING CLOSER TO YOU, I WAS AWARE THAT I STILL FEEL A THIN ARMOUR AROUND ME THAT KEEPS ME FROM COMING CLOSER. THIS ARMOR IS INCONGRUOUS WITH MY OPENNESS TO YOU. I DON’T KNOW WHERE IT IS COMING FROM. PLEASE HELP ME TO MELT IT AWAY. Everybody
Swami – A Man of Pure Intent. Some people walk into your life like a breeze—refreshing, effortless, and gone before you realize their profound presence. Swami was one such soul. The founder of IRIS Business Services, a relentless champion of MSMEs, a fearless critic, and above all, a friend in the truest sense of the
ARE ALL DESIRES INSANE? Yes, all desires are insane. Desire as such is insane because desire means living in the future, and the future does not exist at all. What exists is the present. Objects of desire are not significant; desiring is significant. You can desire wealth, you can desire God– desiring remains the same,
MY PARENTS KEEP ON SAYING THEY WANT ME TO LEAD A ’USEFUL’ LIFE AND DO SOMETHING ’USEFUL FOR SOCIETY’. AM I? The society wants you to be reduced to a commodity. To say it politely they say, ”Do something useful.’ They are saying, ”Be useful. Function as a commodity so that people can USE YOU.
Jesus is tremendously beautiful his beauty has a dimension of its own. Buddha is beautiful, but Jesus is totally different from Buddha. In Buddha a different type of silence was incarnated. l once heard about a Chinese emperor who had two great painters in his court, and there was always rivalry. They were always fighting
Once it happened that a man was very ill. The illness was that he continually felt that his eyes were popping out and his ears were ringing – continually. By and by, he became crazy because it went on twenty-four hours a day. He couldn’t sleep, he couldn’t do his work. So he consulted doctors.
A man with three hairs on his otherwise bald head came into a hair saloon and asked to get his hair shampooed and braided. The hairdresser got on with his job but just as he was about to finish combing it, one of the hairs fell out. The hairdresser was very embarrassed but the man
A religion is to be sought. A religion has to be chosen consciously. Nobody should be made a Christian or a Hindu or a Mohammedan or a Jain by birth. Birth has nothing to do with religion. Because of this association with birth, the whole world seems to be religious, and nobody is religious. Everybody
MASTER, PLEASE HELP ME. I cannot do that. I am not your enemy. I am not a do-gooder. I don’t “help,” because the help, the very desire to be helped, is a desire to continue as you are. You want some props, some supports. You want consolation, comfort. No, I am the last person to
