Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Singing to bring in Harmony

    The past two days we had the Sufi-sutra happening. To experience the Sufi singers from around the world was a wonderful experience. The balance of the mind, emotion, base instinct and rooting it, the explanations rendered was really an eye opener. There was a definite absence of contemporary loud electronic equipment, so the vibrations were…

  • The travel of a breakdown

    The travel of a breakdown

    The Landmark alumni of Goa meets every Saturday at Carasid, the only thing that is flexible about this is the time, sometimes it is at 4pm and sometimes as late as 6pm.  The discussions are lead either by Hemant or Sunil Srivatsva.  Both of them being leaders in the making. This week Sunil shared a…

  • Bakuru temple.

    Yaaru ninna hesaru barithare? Karkala Gummatarayana? Barkuru Tattirayana?”  Sri Vasudeva Acharya the geography teacher at MJC  Manipal would shout at us when we forgot to put in our name and roll number on the answer sheets. The town of Barkur has 300 odd  temples  and a zatra at the temple that is the temple fair…

  • Centering and Communicating

    Last evening my best friend told me something, that my coach Hari Kotian had told me at the forum, “in relationship anger and fight shows up, when the relationship means a lot to you and you want keep the person in your life.” of course my coach did go on to say, we refuse to…

  • Future is noo.

    Three things I  plan to do in the future, but want to do now. Que sara sara… whatever will be will be, the future is not ours to see, que sara sara. This used to be one of favourite humming tunes. It still is. But if I could break out of my comfort zone and…

  • Barkuru –Betaala-Vikramaditya

    Once upon time lived a king Vikramaditya., we have all heard this line and the stories featuring him. The Vetala Panchvimshati and the Simhasana Dwatrimshika. These stories have found their way in various versions of  regional and Sanskrit literature. The vetala panchvimshati tell us the twenty stories  are narrated by Mahakavi Somade Bhatta  these stories…

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