The Guru Pooja was for me an eye opener. I always had the fascination for Sanskrit as do a lot of people across the world. And I always wanted to be able to say at least a few Sanskrit shlokas. However, whenever I say any scripture or anything I want to be reasonably clear about what […]
Towards Spirituality
Towards Spirituality: Delving into Meaning of Words
This is the first article in a series where I share some simple exercises which help bring clarity to life. If you have read some of my previous blogs, I am often miffed at the inane conversation that keeps happening around me. Apart from the inanity, I also realized that while people keep using certain words and […]
Spirituality is more about Experience, not Reading
Co-Commuter: What do you do apart from work? Me: I blog often during my free time Co-Commuter: Oh, what do you write in your blog? Me: Travel & Spirituality mostly. 🙂 CC: Oh, you blog on spirituality? You read a lot is it? Me: Not really, now a days I do read a little but spirituality […]
The Razor’s Edge: Balance
Recently my family and I went to a 5 star restaurant for desserts. One always expects a lot from 5 stars.They are at the pinnacle of luxury and service, or at least we expect them to be 🙂 Somehow when we think of the best restaurant, we expect the best of everything or at least some things. But usually […]
Experiences with Long Term Value
There are some experiences that have a more fundamental impact on your life while others last in your mind for a while but they don’t majorly really change anything much. Should be noted that you may be thrilled, get mental kick over something but fundamentally it may change nothing. So there is need for deeper […]
What is Spirituality?
The thing that often sets me apart from people is that I like to have some idea about what I am talking. So one more of the big reasons why I usually refrained from talking about Spirituality is because firstly I need to be clear about what is “Spirituality” fundamentally. I would urge you to […]
Towards Truth
I remember the first Isha Yoga program I did. There was one section in it where they spoke about Truth & Fact. I don’t know what they spoke, but I clearly remember the distinction they made between the two. At the time I understood it, but didn’t think much about it. Lately I have been […]
Why I never wanted to say I was Spiritual
2014 for me has been a significant year. This is the year I have come out of the closet, a little. Usually people come out of the closet with socially unaccepted secrets like they are gay or are HIV +ve or some such matter. The reason they were not talking about it before is because […]