Category: The Great Connect
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surrounding yourself with love.
Aunt Vaidehi, is a great knowledge bank. She can also be amusing. Yet she is not really a very popular relative, the reason could be that she is quite judgemental and puts things rather cuttingly. It is kind of a compulsion for her to show the other in bad light. To think at one time…
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We are here to serve
The world is on the brink of great change. Thinkers and seers agree that humanity and the plant Earth are changing at a quickened pace, in a sense it is evolving but for the better or worse I do not know. The evolution could be sever and seemingly chaotic at times, and we as people…
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Good night – creating a night ritual
Before bed ritual— Check next day’s schedule. Keep things required for the schedule. Sit on my bed in dhyanamudra, deep breathe, — I take ten breathes. Thank the day for its kindness—I write down specific events that I am grateful for. Sketch for 5 mnts. Read 3 pages And good night. For a long time,…
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The walled Gods
“Bai, me vikatgetle shaam” is a popular Marathi Bhajan, I always use this to express absurdity, at the end of the day how can one buy God? It has been one of my biggest grouses about Tirupathi, and following its example Dharmasthala,kollur, and now Udupi. — the , system the token for darshana, and now the paid darshana.…
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The World UN- Day
“After the second world war in 1948 they founded the UN, the United Nations so that a crime like the mass-murder of the Jews could never happen again. Now the UN is a flourishing organization a honourable institution, the only thing is that it doesn’t do the thing they founded it for: prevention of mass-murder.”…
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connecting with the earth
The burning of Narakasura is a big event in Goa, the legend has it that the only person who could kill him was his mother Bhumi devi. Goa also has the tradition of worshiping Satteri, a kind of anthill which indicates fertile lands, then we the Dolpods of Goa which begin with a dedication of…