Category: Ballads

  • the duality of Lakshmi.

    The duality of Alakshmi fascinated me. For if the Amritha or the nectar of immortality emerged when the Ocean of milk was churned so did the pollutant Halahala or the cosmic poison. The Vaishnava legends claim that Alakshmi the twin of Lakshmi is the embodiment of Halahala. She is the goddess of misfortune and strife.…

  • The armchair traveller

    Plinky wants me to make a list of all countries I visited! Well thats tough Countries I visited through the course of life travel, Our skill that we use sends us to different markets. These markets make the towns we traverse, and towns travelled create countries. Only when we get old and can no longer…

  • Do I Believe in fate?– a Plinky Prompt.

    Do I believe in fate? The dictionary says fate is • Something unavoidable that befalls a person. • The universal principle or ultimate agency by which the order of thins is presumably prescribed. The decreed cause of events. • Which is inevitably predetermined? • A prophetic declaration of what must be. Death, destruction or ruins.…

  • me time

    Marishi the pop guru, has his moments too. This one of the days when the discussion was on about a professor, who was Marishi’s disciple. Now this gentleman, would never be found fawning over Marishi all the time, he had fixed two weeks in a year when he would visit the ashram and otherwise he…

  • storyteller

    unleashing the power of the words is what I would like to do Blue Storyteller If I were involved in a movie what would I like to do? Act or direct? A director who the person who directs, it would involve choosing to control over a group of people, being responsible for interpretive aspects of…

  • Sri Lakshmi the goddess of material abundance

    wealth is abundance. Quickie darshan Wealth to me is abudance. Wealth is something that will give me choices. I will not be limited by resources. It could be abundance in any form. The hindu mythology personifies this abundance as Goddess Lakshmi. The most popular image of Goddess Lakshmi is of abudance of material wealth. The…