Category: The search for the self

when was the last time a lion asked of another so what's he doing these days ? doing what lions do I guess being a lion so what r u doing these days, shekhar ? doing what human beings do I guess being human and destroying the planet by flying to new york and taking [...]

i sat in the speeding train and watched the platform go by and fleetingly saw myself watching the train flash by waving to myself

embrace your weakness with humility and flow like water not like stone or a rock that stands in the false firmness of it's resolve and ego

"nobody loves me and, least of all myself" are we so unloved by ourselves, that we do not consider ourselves worthy of others love ? So unloved by ourselves that we deflect and are suspicious of any hand that extends love ? And then hate, which is only a construct of a great feeling of [...]

"There are only two types of people in the world: those who try to stuff their inner emptiness, and those very rare precious beings who try to see the inner emptiness. Those who try to stuff it remain empty, frustrated. They go on collecting garbage, their whole life is futile and fruitless. Only the other [...]

I am Hindu, and very proud to be one .. but I have often wrestled with that question. What does it mean to be a Hindu? I have spoken to some of the best minds, the most spiritual minds.  I have journeyed to many places in my quest. and I have to come to believe [...]

eye spy asked : if you prefer to live emotionally........do you get conned by an individual who knows your pulse and plays the cards right and presses the right buttons ..... ? To live on an emotional plane is not the same as to live on an obsessive plane. One is about freedom and understanding, [...]

There will never be a scientific unified theory of everything. Simply because the mind consistently looks to define while the universe exists on infinite layers of existence. Which are both true and not true at the same mpment. How can something be true and not true at the same time ? But then we have [...]

It’s 7pm on a beautiful autumn evening on the banks of the Ganges river in the holy town of Hardwar in North India. The melodious bells, the priests, the fire, the chants, and the devotion of the people give the ceremony a feel of divinity, as if it were something dictated by God for human [...]

So as usual my 7 (almost 8, but try telling her that) year old daughter came up with this simple answer to complex questions.