Category: The search for the self

you are the problem and the solution too and everything that lies between is also you and so goes on the endless struggle to give meaning to life

Loved the simplicity with which harb wrote this under the blog 'Can we change our Destiny ?" There is a fascinating discussion going on there that you should visit. "As for the purpose of life, imagine yourself to be a part of a flowing river, rather an indistinguishable part. Pushed by and flowing with the [...]

Aditya, my new assistant asked : Am I in control my destiny ? There is a more fundamental question. Who is the 'I' that is asking that question ? If the question is being asked by stepping outside the illusory 'I' and looking it from a universal point of view, then the 'event' (that is [...]

How many years does one spend being reactive to the constant noise of external stimuli and mistaking that for hard work and activity. And then looking back and wondering why what was achieved was either not enough or not satisfying enough ? The mind becomes a whirlwind of thoughts, ideas, doubts and contrary messages. The [...]

Respected Sir : am parineeta sharma from jodhpur.Now I have to ask a question to you that I have waited about 24 years my success.But still unable to achieve it. What is reason? Pl. tell me what is wrong with my fortune? Parineeta, I am not a jyotish, nor do I have the power to [...]

shivani sent this poem by Bharat Thakur that I took the liberty to share with everyone. when a saint and a wordly man met, each looked at each other, silent and mocking. both laughed at each other. each said the same thing: what have you done to yourself?

🙂 says :"i am surprised that you put mythology above PRAYER and FAITH !" faith, prayer, mythology gods and goddesses are all ways to keep going beyond your sense of the individual self - they enable you to break out of the prison of individuality, the prison of the mind, and allow something much deeper [...]

Where do our fundamental roots lie ? In Culture or in Mythology. Is our culture defined by our Myths, or is it the other way round ? Or is one inseparable from the other ? Can I, for example, live in completely different culture, adapt to that culture, and yet my being is incomplete with [...]

Koizen asked : you have opinions of Astrophysicist, gods, spirituality...why not Ghosts... spirits ? Koizen, I actually do not disbelieve in ghosts or spirits, nor do i subscribe to the fear factor associated with ghosts. I believe we live in the constant 'presence' of consciousness of all beings and thought, including our own consciousness too. [...]

As I look back at my life, I have been accused of being impractical (I am), a dreamer (I am) a wanderer (completely), the famous comment 'you treat life like it was just play' - yes I do. 'Act your age' - I can remember forever. People have said I have an over active imagination [...]