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Passage

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January 12, 2010
Passage

She lived a life which was luxurious compared to normal standards. She wanted to have everything in life. No morals posed a barrier for her. She was very influential… her very pious husband, cunning daughters, useless sons, all fell in line when she wanted them to… except her eldest son. She had a faint...
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Journey of Life

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December 1, 2009
Journey of Life

The Beginning Jyoti and Jeevan were ready to explore their new world. Jyoti the ever calm, ever obedient, unfazed. Jeevan full of life, curious, adventurous and volatile but well meaning. Prakriti’s offspring were well brought up and hardly went wrong. The moment had come for their great journey – a learning experience as their...
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Ancient Wisdom, Modern relevance – Perfection of Yoga

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November 30, 2009
Ancient Wisdom, Modern relevance – Perfection of Yoga

  Ancient Wisdom, Modern relevance – Perfection of Yoga In my last article, I had addressed the details on who can be a Guru and how to identify a bonafide spiritual master. In the article before that, we saw Lord Krishna addressing Arjuna’s despondent pleas. Instead of going through a chapter-wise discussion as I...
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Life in a nutshell

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May 9, 2009
Life in a nutshell

Born Cries Smiles Grows Study Love Job Marriage Children Marriage Grand children Child-again Smiles Dies ———————- Cries Life goes on..   And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. - Abraham Lincoln
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Managing Stress

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April 15, 2009

Managing Stress Swami Sukhabodhananda One youngster comes to me very depressed and asks this question "Why is God creating so many difficulties for us? How to handle stress?" I tell this youngster to reflect on this beautiful story: A man goes to a shop, picks up a beautiful cup and says "my god this...
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Yaksha Prasana – Q & A between Yaksha and Yudhishtra

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April 14, 2009

Yaksha Prashna is an episode from Mahabharata . It is the dialogue between Yaksha and Yudhishtra . The pandava brothers one by one goes to fetch water from a pond . Out of Ego and maya , Ignoring the voice of a Yaksha  ,warning them not to drink the water, each one of the...
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Tale of foolishness – the legend of the ritual cat

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March 14, 2009

Long Long ago there lived a Saint  who lived in utter simplicity in his mountain monastery with a few disciples. One night, a young monk felt a new sensation in his meditation on his knee. Something warm, pulsating, loving… and… furry? He looked down and saw a cat scratching his knee. The tail flicked...
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A conversation with my aunt

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January 25, 2009

I was having a conversation with my aunt 3 weeks back when I visited my native. She is spritual. She has followed various path of hindu philosophies and finally she found her way in the teachings of  Vethathiri  Maharishi and Jaggi Vasudev , the founder of Isha foundation  So I asked her about God and...
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Lessons on Life

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December 28, 2008

Lessons on Life There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn not to judge things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest, in turn, to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away. The first son went in the winter,...
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Mountain Story

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December 18, 2008

Mountain Story “A son and his father were walking on the mountains. Suddenly, his son falls, hurts himself and screams: “AAAhhhhhhhhhhh!!!” To his surprise, he hears the voice repeating, somewhere in the mountain: “AAAhhhhhhhhhhh!!!” Curious, he yells: “Who are you?” He receives the answer: “Who are you?” And then he screams to the mountain:...
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