Category: The search for the self

that there is no one definition of anything - that it is only the ego that desires to define that most pain is caused by the need to define something, which, like a whiff of a mist disappears when u try and catch it, that as long as we cannot accept the unknown, the uncertain, [...]

"For every body that walks into this blogs for an answer just leaves with 10 other questions.Will you ever walk in search of yourself on the Himalayas..or you just wrote it because it makes sense ?" Thank you Gaurav for the most searing question. The Universe is an infinite question. To me, to spiritualists, to [...]

Seema said " You have it all hence have the luxury of search for self and soul. Its sad that even discovery to self is a usually a pursuit of the rich and famous because after they have it all they realize that there is still a feeling of emptiness that no amount of money [...]

Deepak R wrote the following piece, and does anyone have answers ? "Shekhar, you started your blog'site' with something so simple and smelling fresh: 'I exist because you imagine I do'. Where did that come from ? One could have pretty much stopped with at that. And it would not matter. However words keep appearing [...]

For those that define Harmony as the natural state of existence, or a state that we should aspire to, I have a question. : Does the Universe not exist in constant battle between contradictory forces of Harmony and Disharmony ? Like the sunspots of the Sun, the Universe too tends to explode out of itself [...]

'P' asked "Shekhar, why do make life so complex. Why don't you just "be". Acceptance is beautiful once you truly understand it...keep living in the moment...." Your statement " Acceptance is truly beautiful if you understand it" is so beautifully stated. It is what I am trying to do. Understand what acceptance means and strive [...]

Does an event create a disharmony, a ripple that provokes us into action so that we become part of the creation of it ? Mistakingly assuming we created the event ? Are we slaves to the event while we think of ourselves as creators of the 'it' ? Nor are we separate from the event. [...]

"The most beautiful and most profound experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting [...]

Do we sense things beyond the world we construct from our 'five senses' ? I am sure we do, and there is enough scientific data to prove that. But does our reliance on our 'five senses' hinder our ability to truly sense things. Are the yogi's right when they say that we should shut out [...]

Beware, dreams are just dreams, benign creatures that give you wonderful feelings of warmth in times when you need to cradle yourself to sleep till they become passions and obsessions, and develop an identity of their own, no longer in your control are you willing to watch your dreams grow into demons that do not [...]