2008 is gone. And here comes one more year. New year wishes everywhere, messages for the new year, resolutions, celebrations everywhere. 2008 was as good as any other year, but it also had its woes. Terrorism rising its head, natural calamities, conflicts,… and it doesn’t feel good to see so much of hatred and hopelessness [...]
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Wisdom from the Yoga Vasishtha: Self-effort
In this world, whatever is gained is gained by only by self-effort; where failure is encountered, it is seen that there has been slackness in the effort. This is obvious, but what is called fate is fictitious, and is not seen. … Self-effort is of two categories: that of past births and that of this [...]
Music, or noise, it’s all a matter of choice!
Photo courtesy: Shiv Shankar We all experience this. You listen to a piece of music or a song for the first time and think that it is the best music you’ve ever heard. You want to listen to it again and you make use of every opportunity to hear it again. You don’t mind spending [...]
Admiration Vs Possessiveness
When you see the beauty somewhere, when you fall in love with something, the next impulse that comes in you is to possess it, have it; and, when you have it, it looses all its significance. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar When you see a sunset, in that moment of beauty there is a spontaneous, [...]
