Category: Ballads

  • Pondering over twin souls

    Pondering over twin souls

    Twin souls… I heard about twin souls, and split souls for the first time from Dr.Yuvraj Kapadia. I then did what I do when I am challenged, read… Soul is like the collective consciousness, a drop of which descends into the earth school for an experience. It gets endowed with mind and body, the mind…

  • Telling a story that empowers.

    I met my friend Malavika after a long while. For the past 10yrs, I have been hearing the same story, how, her partner took advantage of her at work, her husband was loving yet detached, financial challenges, tension with sibling.  Coming to think of this most of us are dealing with similar issues not that…

  • Star Gazing.

    We were at Kurushetra, at my husband’s guruji’s ashram. Since the weather was unbearably hot, we decided to sleep out. As the body relaxed, and our body tuned its inspiration and expiration to the rhythm of the rustling of the leaves. Gradually the body experienced the sensation of floating in the sky with stars. Next…

  • Akshaya and Akshata

    Akshata Abundance of nourishment was the focus of the Vedic society this was symbolized by grains of rice. Called the akshata. When sanctified through use in a ritual it became “mantra-akshate” that which was empowered to unlock that particular blessing for you. Literally Akshaya means something which does debilitate. So Akshaya Trithya commemorates that potential…

  • Everyone has a story

    Everyone has a story. I love travelling in a train, there are so many interesting people we meet and everyone has a story. It as if, the unique story of each one of us blend to create whole. When we say stories  we think of those that the media tell us, but if we do…

  • Kalluchappara

    the stone structure as you enter the town of Barkuru is the Kalluchappara, it is the sole witness to the stories of justice meted out in the town that houses the legendary.(vetala) and the Mahasthree  The Kalluchappara is stone shade, with a central stone slab for seating. At one corner is the pond around it…