Category: Thoroughly Mundane

  • The secret of surrender…. seeing the illusion.

    The secret of surrender…. seeing the illusion.

    The secret of surrender…. seeing the illusion. Long ago I read this book I think count your chicken before is hatched by Arindam Choudari, he spoke of dependence—independence—interdependence. I could not really figure it out, all the same I also came across people seeming very competent in control CEO’s but totally under the thumb of…

  • Worthiness – accepting our calling.

    Worthiness – accepting our calling.

    “You are worthless” was what our generation heard, today kids say, he is a waste, or loser whatever but it  essentially means that you do not contribute so you are irrelevant. Yet our worth of being on the planet at this time cannot be judged as we are worthy and essential to being here now.…

  • Saint Salman Khan…

    If I were Arpita I would really feel belittled. Being adopted is fine. Being adopted means being accepted by the family as one of their own. After which where the person came from becomes irrelevant. All through the media mania of her wedding the only thing that kept coming across, how the beggar maid, caught…

  • Feeling threatened by truth.

    Feeling threatened by truth.

    Feeling threatened by truth. Once upon time lived a king who was very generous, and was very fond of astrologers. One day an astrologer came to him and predicted that the King would gain fame and name, that made the king happy, he then told the King that the King would lose his son and…

  • spouse moulding

    The Dipti Naval of Shrimaan Shrimati who learns how to drink to please her spouse, or the Vinod Mehra who looks at his spouse with disdain because she has “old fashioned values” seem so far, these days  both the spouses seem to focus on insisting that the spouse adapt to suit them. I do not…

  • Compulsive apologies,

    Compulsive apologies,

    Remember Uraih Heep from David Copperfield how he and his mother kept apologizing and mother constantly apoligized and affirmed their humbleness and god knows what.  Somewhere this scepticism towards people who declare their humbleness and constantly apologize stayed with me, I concluded that “ati vinayam durtalakshanam”  until I regressed one client to deal with some…