The Source of Creation The source of creation is beyond our understanding and beyond our experience. Some of us who have made it a mission of their life to ...
Swadhyay and Satsang The legendary singer Aasha Bhosale recently celebrated her 70th birthday. When asked what was the secret of her remarkable youthfulness,...
Emptiness-Fullness We have within us a void, a hollowness. It is there within each one of us. It is there within the universe. There is no exception to this ...
Learning from Adversity Recently Peter twisted his ankle. Why it happened is another story. I personally do not see much value in a post mortem analysis. It is...
Valuing the Ordinary On our way to the farm I asked Rita what she is doing to keep herself so youthful and happy. She said, "nothing". Her answer perplexed me....
Healing Years of experience in the helping relationship, whether in a group setting or in a one-to –one situation I have found that in the beginning of the...
The Truth We are born into a family. Without them our sojourn on the planet earth would come to a swift and miserable end. What happens to a large number of...
The Virgin Moment I have no interest in history. I have found that if we give any importance to events that have played out themselves, then they tend to...
The Meaningless world The world by itself is quite meaningless. It is just a collection of objects. Only when consciousness is applied to it that meaning ...
The Twilight Zone As we interact with the world outside us, we come across three zones; the known, the unknown and the twilight zone. This is also true about ...
Simply Life Life is really a very simple phenomenon. It is complex and simple. When we do not accept its complex nature it becomes complicated. Let me first...
The Messengers (Part I) Nature has made available to us a whole army of dedicated messengers to remain on course in life. To understand the significance of...
The Messengers (Part 2) Before I proceed further let me restate some of the fundamental truths. 1. The universe is a self-sustaining and self-regulating...
Messengers (Part 3) Before we go on to decipher the message, let us remember that all of us are members of a self-sustaining and self-regulating system. Each ...
Co-ordination not Control I often watch the Discovery channel. Yesterday they were showing a program of research connected with people suffering from...
Mind Work Recently Nathan forwarded to me a story about choosing. He also mentioned that I offer the same approach in my programs and writings. I felt the need...
Mind Set My mind is free space. It is at once empty and full; empty in as much as it can receive any thing that comes to it, full in the sense that one can...
One World, one smile I wanted to write about one universe. As I began to write I realised that for many, including me, it is a distant concept and not a day to...
Realising One World To realise this truth we need to cleanse our mind of the conditioning we have allowed to settle on it for generations. The first part of ...
Jeev (Individual), Jagat (Universe) and Ishwar (Creator) One day I was going along the Mumbai streets. I had a long day, was tired and wanted to get home...
Going Back One morning Kumud and I were on our usual walk to the park. Half way down the way I experienced a sudden spasm in the right ankle. I could put my...
The whole Truth In our courts of law all witnesses take oath to tell "the truth and nothing but the whole truth". How can any witness do so? Most of us know...
Eye Of The Beholder Shakespeare said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. This statement like any other philosophical concept is only a strategy of ...
Balanced Living Universe is created one. Everything in it is also one whole. This oneness is its holiness. The first and perhaps the only sin we human beings...
The curse of High and Low "I was miserable because I had no shoes, till I met some one who had no legs." This is comparative philosophy or psychology or...
The Mission of Life Dear Ganukaka,Ur letter provides a new insight and a rational for approach of man towards the other species, thanks.You have mentioned each...
Spirituality. It is essentially a simple practice. For some mysterious reason a lot of confusion has been spun around it. As a result a large number of people...
Spiritual Path Today a share this wonderful narrative by friend and co-traveler Nathan. It illustrates beautifully how the practice itself is our guide on the...
Everyday Truths There are some simple truths that are shaping our lives, but we refuse to acknowledge them. We have decided to shape our life on the basis of a...