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Read more: The Future of the Body – Part 3
(The Future of the Body is a remarkable book that has an encyclopedic cross-cultural study of the extraordinary potentials that human beings embody. Of the 12 capacities that the book identifies and details out, the following are the notes I…
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The Future of the Body – Part 2
Read more: The Future of the Body – Part 2(In last week’s post we looked at the overview of a remarkable book, The Future of the Body, that has an encyclopedic cross-cultural study of the extraordinary potentials that human beings embody. This week and the next I will share…
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The Future of the Body
Read more: The Future of the Body‘The Future of the Body: Explorations Into the Further Evolution of Human Nature’ is the title of an 800 page scholarly book (the bibliography is 85 pages long) by Michael Murphy. When I read it many years ago I was…
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On Thinking for Yourself
Read more: On Thinking for YourselfThe following are excerpts from an essay written by Arthur Schopenhauer in 1851 and translated into English by L.P. Koch. The full essay is available here. Excerpt 1:Reading, you see, forces thoughts on your mind that are as foreign and…
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The lost tools of learning
Read more: The lost tools of learning(I recently came across an interesting paper on British education written in 1947 by Dorothy Sayers. I thought that the paper had many insights that are relevant to our current Indian education system. Take a look at the excerpt below…
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Adhyatma aur prakriti prem
Read more: Adhyatma aur prakriti premI was again listening to a video of Guruji Ravindra Sharma and a sentence he said struck me this time. He said that someone who is not adhyatmik can have no prem for prakriti. (Around 43:00 of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-pMQeKe8GI). In this…
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My Shadow
Read more: My ShadowI got forwarded a WhatsApp video which showed an American girl talking in a very artificial manner and an American man making fun of her accent and telling her that she was not sounding posh when she put on her…
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Purnapramati retreat near Mangalore
Read more: Purnapramati retreat near Mangalore(Note: Pawanji conducted a retreat for the teachers of Purnapramati school of Bangalore between 3rd to 11th February, 2024 at Purnaprajna Prakruthi Paathshaale near Mangalore. The Paathshaale is set in a lush forested area near Kudremukh national park. Around 50…
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On the Bhagavad Gita
Read more: On the Bhagavad Gita“The Gita can only be understood, like any other great work of the kind, by studying it in its entirety and as a developing argument. But the modern interpreters, starting from the great writer Bankim Chandra Chatterji who first gave…
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Visit to an organic farm
Read more: Visit to an organic farm(A few days ago, I went to the yearly function of a large organic farm near Bangalore. The morning pre-lunch session had many interesting talks about diet, lifestyle, sustainability etc. and it was all very intense and contemplative. At the…
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Ghar Wapsi
Read more: Ghar Wapsi(The following is extracted from a long note Pawanji wrote on the SIDH WhatsApp group) Since 2014, a sharp divide has emerged in the Bharatiya samaj. No, I am not talking of the Hindu-Muslim, or the caste, or the rich-poor…
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Who Am I?
Read more: Who Am I?Sri Ramana Maharshi, in 1902, wrote out the answers to some questions asked by a disciple seeking spiritual guidance. These questions and answers, collected together as ‘Nan Yaar?’ or ”Who Am I?’, give a short introduction to self-enquiry as a…
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