Category: diva di’vine
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Kid stuff
“baccha hai” is the excuse for all irresponsible acts in our culture. Yes baccha or kid could be irresponsible, sometimes we learn from there. When we were practising Navavidha bhakti for Ashada Ekadashi at Puttaparthi, there was this little girl, who was all of 6yrs. she was to perform atmanivedhana… this was a concept that…
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Spirituality at workplace.
There is a story about a great follower of Buddha, who was a prime minister, he wore silks, jewellery and rode on an elephant as befitting a Prime minister and not the humble garb of a spiritual seeker. Yet the Buddha considered him a true Bodha-sadhak. There was a murmur within the others, until someone…
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why not now?
Whenever I had a new sari, I would keep it in, and save it to be draped for the first time. there were times when in an emergency I would gift the sari away to someone else and tell myself,”Khane wall eke naam dhane dhane pe likah hai.” Then my world began to crack, I…
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Management Lessons from ‘Mahabharata’
Originally posted on ashokbhatia: Just like ‘Ramayana’, the epic of ‘Mahabharata’ also has many management lessons for the present day business leaders and managers. Greed, jealousy, quest for power, trying to achieve goals irrespective of the fairness of the means deployed – all these contradictions in life are very poignantly brought out. Here are some…
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Lightening the Soul
When I attended the landmark curriculum for living program one thing that I did realize that I would have issues about situations and people. Few days back I was visiting aunt Sundari, an aunt I am quite fond of, she looked out of sorts, the essence being it was her granddaughter’s birthday, and every time…