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  • सत्य, एक ही होता है। सबका अपना-अपना सत्य नहीं होता। सत्य निर्विवाद है। मनुष्य, होने के नाते हममें यह क्षमता है कि हम सत्य को देख सकते हैं। संभवतः प्रारम्भ में हम पूरे सत्य को ना देख सकें, वह अवस्था…

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  • (Based on a series of WhatsApp posts over the last few days) Modernity is embedded in the systems we are compelled to live in. Systems we cannot do anything about. That is a fact. More importantly, at the level of…

    Read more: Notes on Stepping-Out

  • (The following are two excerpts from chapter 16 – ‘Mending the inborn nature’ and chapter 18 – ‘Supreme happiness’, from ‘The Complete Works of Zuangzi’, translated by Burton Watson. This is the third and final blog post of collected excerpts…

    Read more: Inaction Is Happiness

  • (The following is an excerpt from chapter 13 titled ‘The Way of Heaven’ from ‘The Complete Works of Zuangzi’, translated by Burton Watson. The book is a 2400 year old prose-poem by the Chinese sage Zhuangzi aka Chuang Tzu. I…

    Read more: The Perfect Man

  • (Recently, on the SIDH WhatsApp group someone shared the translation of a 2400 year old prose-poem by Zhuangzi aka Chuang Tzu. I tracked down the original and thought it would be nice to share it here as a blog post.…

    Read more: The Empty Boat

  • शब्द एक ध्वनि है। लिखें तो एक आकृति है। अस्तित्व में अनेक ध्वनियाँ हैं। कोई भी आवाज़ एक ध्वनि ही तो है। इसी प्रकार बहुत सी आकृतियाँ होती हैं। पर कुछ एक ही ध्वनियों का कोई खास अर्थ होता है।…

    Read more: Anubhav Se Judna

  • अपने अंदर देखना। कितनी बार सुना है, पढ़ा है इस तरह की बातें। हमारे देश में तो आधुनिक गुरुओं से लेकर पता नहीं अतीत में कितने ही महापुरुषों ने ऐसी बातें की हैं। पर अंदर देखना क्या सिर्फ ‘निरपेक्ष’ संवेदनाओं,…

    Read more: Apne andar dekhna

  • When I was growing up in a government colony, we had a grassy ‘ground’ between the rows of two-storey flats. This meant that in the fifty or so homes surrounding the ground there were enough children to play all sorts…

    Read more: Intermediation

  • India beat South Africa by seven runs in Barbados to win the 2024 Men’s T20 World Cup. I thought it was fitting to have this week’s blog post showcase the confidence that this unbeaten team showed throughout the tournament. The…

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  • Maurice Frydman, who edited and compiled Nisargadatta Maharaj’s Marathi satsang recordings into ‘I Am That’, was also a devotee of Ramana Maharshi. Some of his dialogues with the Maharshi are available in a slim book called ‘Maharshi’s Gospel’. The following…

    Read more: Ramana Maharshi on Mind

  • Maurice Frydman, who edited and compiled Nisargadatta Maharaj’s Marathi satsang recordings into ‘I Am That’, was also a devotee of Ramana Maharshi. Some of his dialogues with the Maharshi are available in a slim book called ‘Maharshi’s Gospel’. I found…

    Read more: Ramana Maharshi On Silence

  • I was recently on a superfast night train from Bangalore to my hometown in Kerala. I got up just before dawn and stood looking out of the door watching the land slowly wake up from sleep. The train was travelling…

    Read more: Rushing through life

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