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Being just a novice in meditation, it dosen’t make sense to talk about it much, though I’ve ended up writing far too much already on this site! Anyone who comes here on their own can read it, but in person, I rarely ever say anything on the topic. All my closest friends and family, who [...]

With one of my friends, sometimes after we’ve had a good conversation, I feel that my heart feels so light and unburdened. In fact some conversations are so absoulutely fulfilling that I become so happy at the end of it, irrespective of any outcome (or lack of it) of the conversation! How come this happens? [...]

So many times we dedicate significant amount of energy of our life running behind pleasure. I even remember an ex-colleague who felt that the ultimate existence would be to get plugged into a machine that would give him all the pleasure he needed. I said boy, they’ve already made a movie on that called the [...]

Socrates had said that, and that’s probably the only one thing I for sure about myself as well, and least of all I want to have any intellectual knowledge about God. Its always been hard to explain to anyone why I avoid using the word ‘God’ or saying anything even remotely religious or abstract as [...]

This is a pretty good program – thanks to Conan who sent me a link. It reminds us to take breaks during computer usage. It really helps to avoid the almost invisible physical strain that we are inadvertently causing to ourselves. The animated excercises are pretty cool! I tried this software today and at first [...]

Shruthi’s written this fascinating post about how her new born baby daughter only seems to admire her hair more than anything else! I was reminded of her post when a physiotherapist Sonali visited our home, and she was telling me to show flash cards of simple geometric shapes in black and white to my new [...]

Long ago I’d made this photo titled “swatantra jeevi’ in Kannada, which roughly translates to “free individual/spirit” (Just for fun, not really considering myself so absolutely free!! ) Check out this pose of our son (photo taken by my wife)! Hope this picture brings you a lot of smiles! Tweet Share

This is a long pending post which I’ve just kept postponing as I’ve not spent enough time on this site off late, but can’t afford to anymore… Whether you find meditation boring, or you find the very idea absurd and impractical, or whether you are curious, or you’re interested, or you’ve been very keen on [...]

This is a sequel to the post: can a common man afford to waste time in looking inside? We see well to do people who have never explicitly tried practicing any inner silence, though there is no one who would never have inadvertently atleast to some extent, doing very well in general (as a result [...]

Nowadays in modern society, I see my peers and friends and life seems so perpetually hectic all the time. Morning to afternoon to evening, there’s just one thing after the other that has to be got done almost immediately! Even weekends are hectic with all the pending household chores, with maybe a little bit of [...]