Yog and Viyog Yog is the experience of oneness. It is living in the lap of the one and only. It is becoming one with it. In this state all desires are...
Form and Transformation It is important to know the relationship between these two. In the absence of this clarity we confuse between the real and its shadow,...
Awakening That I am not just a body is obvious. When a person dies a vital energy leaves the body. It no longer resides in it. What is left is a dead body. It...
Sadhana That we have eventually to leave the world stage is certain. The difference is in the details of our exit. For some of us Yamraj will come personally...
Aham and Ahankaar There is a world of difference between the SELF and the EGO. By treating them as synonymous we create a lot of confusion. Let me share my...
Looking Inwards We are advised to look inwards to be able to live a life of fulfillment, a life full of joy, free from fear and anxieties. I find it to be a...
Relationship and Relatedness In common parlance, we see these two as if they represent the same thing. In reality they are from different realms. Relatedness...
Gift of Form At birth we receive the gift of form. If we understand the nature of this gift and use it well then it becomes a source of much joy to us and to...
The metaphor of Life If we see life as a river then it follows that we have to be in it, flowing with it. We cannot be on the banks. How can we understand the...
Light of Wisdom (Life, as a flow.) Life is really very simple. It is wonderful in its simplicity. We have made it look complicated by tying it down in a maze...
The Edge Most of my life I have lived at the edge of the known and the great unknown. All that I know does not excite me any more. It is no longer useful even...
Evocative Sounds At birth what language do we speak? It is the language of natural sounds, facial expressions and body postures, which is the same throughout...
The sound of a one handed clap This is a Zen Koan. People operating in the social plane would find this to be the statement of a mad monk. It is impossible....
Creating an Island of Peace There is so much happening in our lives and all around us that we often feel overwhelmed. Then we either give up and drop out or...
Growing Up I had a child, Cute and cuddly, The apple of my eye. I loved to pick her up in my lap She would climb in gleefully, Put her little arms round my...
I and U Are but aspects of me. I is Ishwar, the creator. U is universe, the creation. The creator without the creation Is a puff of imagination. The creation...
Self Actualization The self is nothing and every thing. Only a small part of it comes into play in the outside world. Most of it remains dormant as potential....
Santosh The two words Prey and Pray have come to mean the same thing in modern parlance. What an irony? Pain and suffering are part of life. When we refuse to...
Life, a feast In our mind's eye, we often visualise reciprocity, mutuality and other such interactive phenomena in a linear one dimensional way as indicated by...
Being a No Body We look at the world and its creator through a small window. What we see is obviously determined by the nature of the window. As long as we...
A friend forwarded the following story to me. i liked it so much that i like to share it with all of you. Ganoba The Fern and the Bamboo One day I decided to...
Becoming Becoming is a process in which the ego revels. The Being has nothing to become. It is complete and perfect in itself. The ego being an image feels...
Being I am a formless being. I take forms and change them at will. It is just a play for me. I am not enamoured by any particular form. This sounds weird to...
Our shared Humanity Most activities which constitute the living process and which are usually carried out in the company of and along with other people can be...
Gurutatva Tatva means the essence. The essence is the abstract core that represents the PRAN (life force) of a phenomenon. If the juice is taken away from a...
Beyond Names and Forms A thing has a form. A form has a boundary, which determines what is inside and what is outside. Thus anything that is formed is limited...
The True Identity Identity provides answers for the two existential questions Who am I? and What am I supposed to be doing now? Since most of us give too much...
Dear Ganoba, Awareness is the key. Awareness about what is happening within the body and mind. What I am unable to understand is how knowledge about actions...
The Principle of Akarma Every action we initiate, including speech, thought and feelings, has the potential to bind us into knots or to liberate us. The...
The Way Whenever someone performs a noble deed, an act that softens the heart, opens the mind, brings a lump in the throat and moistens the eyes, we say he/she...
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