This is my 100th blog. I am grateful to you for your love, encouragement and tolerance in allowing me to spam your WhatsApp inbox every fortnight. When I started writing the blog in June 2017, I had no idea I would see this day. As I have mentioned before, I love listening to and telling […]
I FEEL REALLY CONFUSED ABOUT THIS WHOLE ENLIGHTENMENT BUSINESS. ON THE ONE HAND, YOU SAY, “BE THOROUGHGOING IN YOUR SEARCH FOR ENLIGHTENMENT.” BUT ON THE OTHER HAND, THE VERY DESIRE TO BECOME ENLIGHTENED PREVENTS IT. HOW TO SOLVE THIS DILEMMA? “Life is not a rational thing; it is very irrational, because it is mysterious. The
It was a beautiful morning. The sun was beaming through the clouds spreading its golden rays. Misty fragrance of dancing flowers made the slow flowing breeze more enchanting, dewdrops were still glittering on the lotus leaves …the dawn was slowly yawning and stretching into a lovely morning. People of that town had woken up to
A fable of the Arab mystic Sa`di: A man walking through the forest saw a fox that had lost its legs and wondered how it lived. Then he saw a tiger come with game in its mouth. The tiger had his fill and left the rest for the fox. The next day God fed the
A beautiful message by Arthur Ashe, a legendary Wimbledon player who was dying of AIDS, which he got due to infected blood he received during a Heart Surgery in 1983! During his illness, he received letters from his fans, one of which conveyed; “Why did God has to select you for such a bad disease?”
Why have the awakened people always been against scriptures? This is a great misunderstanding all around the world. The people who have awakened are against the scriptures for a totally different reason than people understand. People think they are against scriptures because scriptures are wrong; they are against scriptures because if you get lost in
I will tell you of one incident in Rabindranath Tagore’s life. His father was a great landlord. Their estate consisted of hundreds of towns and thousands of miles, and there was a beautiful river flowing through their estate. Rabindranath often used to go on his small houseboat and live for months on the beautiful river,
Mulla Nasruddin was in love with a lady. But then the relationship was broken. Mulla went to the lady and started asking her to return all the things that he had gifted to her when they were together. He asked for the bracelet, the earrings, the purse and so on… The lady was in a
IF A MAN IS CROSSING A RIVERAND AN EMPTY BOAT COLLIDES WITH HIS OWN SKIFF,EVEN THOUGH HE BE A BAD-TEMPERED MANHE WILL NOT BECOME VERY ANGRY.BUT IF HE SEES A MAN IN THE BOAT,HE WILL SHOUT TO HIM TO STEER CLEAR.AND IF THE SHOUT IS NOT HEARD HE WILL SHOUTAGAIN AND YET AGAIN, AND BEGIN
“Whatsoever is going on in your mind, don’t interfere, don’t try to stop it. Do not do anything, because whatsoever you do will become a discipline. So do not do anything at all. JUST WATCH. Watching is not a doing. Just as you watch the sunset or the clouds in the sky or the people
