Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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In a Box with no hinges, key or lid a golden treasure is hid.
On world Egg day . #WEggDay #worldeggday
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Just Show UP
Cartons, cartons …more cartons…still more cartons… I’ve had enough and I though the prompt on Indispire is the best thing to take break. You know writing is always cathartic. Somehow the flow of words on paper seems take away the necrosis caused by the various stressors over the past month and half. Here goes,…
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Summing up the qualities of an Adept.
Mandamadhyama rupapi vairagya smadina Prasadena guroh seyam pravrdda suyatephalam IIVC-28II Half hearted and mediocre aspirations in a seeker may also bear fruits as the grace of a Guru increases its merit and by the means of renunciation, calmness and so on. A mediocre person might get elevated by being exposed to a guru. A guru…
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Sayonara My Friend.
As I enter the International centre Goa expecting to be hailed with, “hi, sexy” But no, more yesterday on world friendship day our Lord in heaven called forth one of the few friends I have. I don’t know how to say goodbye to someone who you love, and took for granted. I don’t know a…
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Mumuksutva
Mumuksutva – VivekaChudamani 27 Sri Adi Shankaracharya talks of three essential qualities for self realization. Discriminating capacity to separate real from the unreal. The capacity to detach ourselves from the attachment to the result. Calmness, self control inner peace forbearance. He then talks of another quality Mumuksutva which the acharya calls a s the true…
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Ginger-Molasses Biscuit.
Ginger cookies. I grew up in a semi urban Manipal holidays meant going to “Belmaar” my mother’s ancestral village and home. Where it used to be the time of sugarcane harvest and jaggery making. That was something that we really loved. The first froth would be discarded because it would have husk and other contamination.…
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