How to get out of your own way
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The following is an excerpt from a talk by Alan Watts available on youtube… The whole idea of self-improvement is a hoax. What happens if you KNOW beyond any shadow of doubt that there is nothing you can do to…
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Hanuman’s first meeting with Shri Ram
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Read more: Hanuman’s first meeting with Shri Ramबाल्मीकि रामायण के किष्किन्धाकाण्ड में सुग्रीव के कहने पर हनुमान जी राम और लक्ष्मण के समीप जाकर, एक साधारण तपस्वी का रूप धारण कर अत्यन्त विनीत भाव व मधुर वाणी में वार्तालाप प्रारम्भ करते हैं। वे राम-लक्ष्मण से पहली बार…
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Some More Perspectives on Violence
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Read more: Some More Perspectives on ViolenceLast week, when I was looking for the quote on violence in ‘I Am That, Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj’, I came across some more relevant excerpts. Take a look… Excerpt 1: Q: Admitted that the world in which I…
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A Perspective On Violence
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Read more: A Perspective On ViolenceRecently there was a lot of talk in my college hostel WhatsApp group about the continuing violence across different parts of India. It brought to my mind something I had read in ‘I Am That, Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj’…
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The Empress of India
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Read more: The Empress of India“Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days is known as the Victorian era and was longer than any…
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The Experience of Bharatiyata
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Read more: The Experience of BharatiyataRecently I was at a function where there was a lot of talk about Bharatiyata. It struck me suddenly that everyone had a different understanding of what the word meant. Like the story of the blind men and the elephant.…
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Gurupurnima at Udhbhavaha
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Read more: Gurupurnima at UdhbhavahaUdhbhavaha, the alternate learning space in Bangalore, celebrated Gurupurnima today by giving out the first Dr. K.S. Narayanacharya award for writers promoting Bharatiyata. The event was jointly organized by Udhbhavaha and two publishing houses, Sahitya Prakashana and Subbu Publications. The…
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Convergent and Divergent Problems
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Read more: Convergent and Divergent Problems(Note: The following is a long extract from E.F. Schumacher’s ‘A Guide for the Perplexed’ relevant to this blog’s discussion on education.) Take a design problem—say, how to make a two-wheeled, man-powered means of transportation. Various solutions are offered, which…
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The Myth of Disenchantment
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Read more: The Myth of Disenchantment‘The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences’ is a 2017 book by Jason Ananda Josephson Storm, a professor of religion at Williams college. The book argues that even in the West, the epicentre of…
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Svaraj In Ideas
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Read more: Svaraj In IdeasKrishna Chandra Bhattacharyya (1875–1949), the author of the essay titled ‘Svaraj In Ideas’ written in 1928, is perhaps the best-known academic philosopher of the colonial period. He held the King George V Chair (now the B. N. Seal Chair) in…
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Triprangode Shiva Temple
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Read more: Triprangode Shiva TempleYesterday I went to two very old temples in Kerala. First to the Navamukunda temple at Tirunavaya and then to the Triprangode temple a few kilometers from Thirunavaya. At Triprangode I discovered, to my surprise, that these two old temples…
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Fewer Talks
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Read more: Fewer TalksFEWER TALKS.MORE BREATHE! …said the byline to a large nice-looking hoarding I saw recently. The hoarding was for a real estate company selling apartments. The message that the copywriter wanted to convey, I thought, was that in this apartment complex…
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