Being A Learner!

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...