Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • 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…

  • The Status Quo

    During the various cycles, I realized there are huge pockets, like the one that I am going through now where I am reluctant to move forward. Sometimes things are working and sometimes they are not, yet there is a sense of comfort being where I am.  This sense of status of quo is okay as…

  • Over achieving and over reaching.

    Over achieving and over reaching All this while I had my daughters as an excuse  for my falling short of my own expectations. Now that both have left home, I sense the imbalance me. There is this great urge to be best in something. But the story I have been telling myself is that I…

  • Bennekudru – Mulamahastree – Ammana gardi

    . The Justice deliverer of the Mogaveeras. The legends say that Parashurama, the sixth incarnation of Vishnu reclaimed the land from Sagara the Sea God to carve out Parashurama Kshetra.  He got the Brahmins of Aichatra to reside here. He gave them a boon of abundance and got them married to the local fisherwomen. Thus…

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