Being A Learner!

Many times there are people in your life who you are surrounded by, not just by choice but by the nature of situations. As a child there were instances where you were with a person with higher Shakthi and no matter what you do, it is all the way difficult to turn things around, as and when you grow up you start recognizing such situations but nevertheless couldn't do anything about it. In many ways, you either lacked the courage or discretion, foremost Shakthi to come out of the situation. Many times you wonder why is it that you are in such a place, the answer seems to become clearer, either you recognize the patterns of your previous generations, develop enough Shakthi to break them or you fall back into the same trap. Yet when you recognize the trap, you are pushing hard to breakthrough there are people who you meet, under the compulsions of being family members or childhood friends or acquaintances, they come like vampires drain you and leave. You sit down every day in Sadhana,...

It's almost an year last Mahashivratri I had taken up the 42 day shivanga Sadhana. In addition to the daily practice the additional changes I had to bring about in my lifestyle was not very easy. What was one of the most challenging part was that of bhiksha, I will save this for some other day. So we were supposed to culminate our sadhana at Dhyanlinga, Isha Yoga Center Coimbatore a day before Mahashivratri. I was there did all the processes, sat in the evening kirtan and we started to walk towards velliangiri around 10 30 pm in the night. Reached the base around 11 45 pm and what was lying ahead the next 16 hrs I could not comprehend, 13 kms round trip! The first 2hrs I was climbing up with full enthusiasm, chanting all the way, the climbed look really tough especially because I was bare foot. As time passed by it became tougher and tougher, I had been to yamnotri, Kedarnath the air is much thinner and colder. But the sheer steepness and rough paths made this trek all the mor...

Most of the times when you ask a question to someone, you have got to listen, understand what they have to say. Rather many times we have the notion of having an answer in our head which we want to hear from the other person. We are not really seeking an answer, rather trying to concretizing our silly conclusions. Whether it is in spirituality, daily life, relationships. When you ask a genuine question, have the audacity to listen to the answer and gracefully accept it. Fighting it because you expected something else is quite naive and stupid. It is the way it is.  But unfortunately, it's not so with most of the people, not that they are not sincere but they seem to live in a childish fantasy about how things, others have to be. I guess it's okay if it's about petty things we are obsessed with, things we do in our daily life, whether the tea is good for health or not? If it involves some one else, it's not entirely in your hands, isn't it?  Especially in Sp...

Red Alert! Danger ZONE Ahead. You are entering into a land of mines, if you are compassionate types you are about to step on one, so kindly back off, abstain from moral lecturing, throwing free advice. So I am a vegetarian, being born in a family that is primarily So, straight to the point, Bali is not good, it's cruel, you are taking a life of an animal, and hence the ritual of offering Bali to a devata in a temple, has to stoped. The sad part is that the  Tripura HC has passed a judgment to ban the practice. I was invited for lunch at my friend's place, and they had offered goats as Bali and were serving the meat as prasad to their guests. Of course, the Liberal comment had to be thrown, they have made a contract with God that if you offer the meat, he/she will be pleased. I just have one question, eating non-veg is alright, but eating it as prasad is wrong? What about Halal, is it not a ritualistic practice, but there's no problem in that, but we have a problem...