Category: Thoroughly Mundane
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Summer Holidays
Originally posted on Cantadora – The keeper of stories.: Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. Summer memories that bring a smile on my face. there are so many, the high light of it all was unfailingly the 11th of April year after year in those magical years as…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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about change
About Watson, in the words of Holmes himself, “I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities. It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light.…
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Publication: First issue of the Journal of Religion in Japan (JRJ)
Publication: First issue of the Journal of Religion in Japan (JRJ).
