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  • Rich River Flows

    Rich River Flows

    Money in itself is neutral, it reflects our emotions.

  • Titiksa

    Viveka chudamani 24 Religious leaders tend to talk a lot about and glorify meek surrender and silent suffering. Particularly the poems of Bhakti glorify oppression and sees inquiry as arrogance and rebelling. It is this very thought is discussed in the verse 24 of vivekachudamani where Adi-Shankaracharya calls it Titiksa. This is often translated as…

  • Viveka Chudamani ~17

    Viveka Chudamani ~17

    Vivekono viraktasya samadiguna salinah Mumksoreva hi brahmaijnasayogyatamah VC-17   The verse essentially deals with who is qualified for the quest of the supreme. The ability to discriminate, detachment qualities of calmness and also a burning desire for liberation. The first quality being viveka often we equate viveka to knowledge and confuse information with knowledge. But…

  • sh…the skeleton in my closet

    The prompt of this weeks indiSpire is to write a poem in 2 mnts. Here is what came up to me, Hidden within the heights of equality Lies the essence of equanimity Like the roaring ocean I am Taking in and throwing out  Sham I am now, I am not, I am duality, I am…