Books leave different impressions on people. Certain parts of it may leave a deeper impression on me while for others, it may not be majorly memorable. And vice versa. Moreover, these impressions change over time. All of a sudden when life situations change, we may remember some section and see it in a new light. […]
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When Will Isha Yoga Center Open?!
When I got a small cold in Isha yoga center last year, the in-house doctor suggested I quarantine and wear a mask to avoid infecting others. I was considering wearing the mask, but when I mentioned it to a volunteer friend, she said, “maybe he thinks you might have TB”. Obviously. That is the stigma […]
Tackling COVID-19 with home remedies, yoga and medicine
As the coronavirus cases have increased around the world, I think most of us have quite a few people in our near circles who have contracted it. With a growing sant sangati circle around me in the past few years, I now know at least 3 people who got low to medium COVID symptoms and […]
A Seemingly Random Triad, So Magical: Ayurveda, Agni, Aghora
This International Yoga Day of 2020, I explored an “Akhand Diya“. I planned to try to establish an unceasing diya for a few weeks to get an idea of it. As it happened, it is still ON 2 months later. These were the days of semi-lockdown. As many others in these days, I decided to […]
Purush, Prakriti & Stri?
Today morning spark, as I was listening to someone talk about Purush – Prakriti, I realised that this premordial soup from which all existence began, came so much earlier. Way before all this male-female drama on the planet specifically in the human society. The chronology of this duality dance, First there was an Ishwara or […]
International Yoga Day 2020 Challenge: An Akhand Diya
The International Day of Yoga is pretty significant for me. Every year, I do something to commemorate this day. The earlier years, I took up ambitious challenges like 108 Surya Namaskars and in recent years, I find myself quite caught up around this day so I take up smaller challenges like a cycle ride in […]
Milk Consumption & Related Animal Cruelty: So Many Points To Ponder On
Sadhguru recently answered a devotee on why milk is used despite the torture to the cows. Paraphrasing, he said that if they aren’t kept for the milk, then they will be sent to the slaughter house. As expected, it caused some outrage in vegan groups. I had experimented with being vegan a few years back. […]
What Decides Our Birth? Did “God” Judge Us?
A lot of people say – “we get our birth as per our past life karma”. By itself is a simple enough statement. But there are many implications. One of them being that in a twisted way, privileged people sometimes justify not helping those poorer to them as per this reasoning. “It was their own […]
40 Life Lessons From Playing Chess
In Amdavad (Ahmedabad), I stay at the Dada Bhagwan Foundation ashram. A neighbourhood uncle, loves playing chess. And while I don’t play the game often, I do have a penchant for it. So the uncle looks out for me to play the game whenever I am there. He plays chess daily. Often more than one […]
Why did you choose bhramacharya? I asked a Jain Sadhviji (monk)
She said, “Because I didn’t get admission in college” “I have studied only till 10th standard. That was in Gujarat in Gujarati medium. I didn’t know any English. My family then shifted to Mumbai. But the college in Mumbai insisted that I should know some English in order to get admission in 11th std. But […]