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Category: abundance

  • Divine nourishment

    Akshaya Trithiya celebrates abundance. This abundance is personified by DhanyaLakshmi. Food or what is refered to as “Anna” is one of them. The sacred texts say The hymn to Annapurneshwari talks about Anna being pratyeksha maheshwari. The visible divine.  For food is the primary need of every living creature in the plant and animal world.…

  • Abundance.

    Abundance We need in our livs in many areas like Time Space Resource Money Energy Passion. High quality of life has a lot to do with what we discard from our lives than how we manipulate time. Time management is an oxymoron. When we say time management we mean self management. Tough choice is not…

  • Luxury

    Sometimes I wonder if a little luxury could help us over come our artists block. A little pampering what exactly it is would of course vary for each of us.  For me it was my toastmasters. Lack of time, funds, other “more important” priorities tend to pop up. but these are never really authentic blocks.…

  • Money matters

    Relating to money Pablo Picasso said he wanted to live like a poor man with lots of money not a bad idea. I have had a traditional upbringing with standard norms and values. Our relationships with success, money and prosperity are kept under wraps hence are warped. The Atharva Veda is very clear that poverty…

  • 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.…

  • Moneylife

    Actually I never understood the importance of financial literacy, until quite recently. Somehow our education system despite talking of compound interest, simple interests, and make us calculate all, it does not educate in the area of finance, in fact we all tend to treat it like a disease. Working for a salary, and retirement is…