Tag: meditation

  • Family Meditation.—a life long gift.

    Family Meditation.—a life long gift. Families that eat together stay together is something that we have all heard. Here is another one that I read, a family that meditates together grows together. Coming to think of it, many families have the tradition of evening prayers together, or morning prayers together, I don’t mean of the…

  • Star Gazing.

    We were at Kurushetra, at my husband’s guruji’s ashram. Since the weather was unbearably hot, we decided to sleep out. As the body relaxed, and our body tuned its inspiration and expiration to the rhythm of the rustling of the leaves. Gradually the body experienced the sensation of floating in the sky with stars. Next…

  • Prayer and meditation.

    Prayer and Meditation. Many a times I have wondered what is the difference between prayer and meditation. After all both offered a connect with the divine.  I out  started observing myself, the words I used, the way I thought and felt during prayer I realized I used language to express myself, my inner most thoughts…

  • A little time to meditate.

    Meditating more when our plates are full, is definitely worth the time. When I was thirteen my grandmother who was a trainer with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s TM movement, intiated me into transcendental meditation. Then I would meticulous, and importantly carve that  15mnts in the morning, and 15mnts in the evening for meditation.  Every Saturday we…

  • An Inquiry.

    Last evening my husband I attended a workshop on Shambala meditation. The Facilitator Harish Rao said something very interesting. We talk of war and aggression, it’s within us, and has to be dealt gently. Good enough. Further down during a random conversation he mentioned, that speed was also a form of aggression. Interesting. From all…

  • poetry as meditation

    When see poets i feel humbled to me its also a form of meditation. Sculpting that poem could take you on a journey where your conscious mind is momentarily cast adrift. All creativity is form of divinity particularly if they are vehicles of self expression, from splashing of colours on a canvas, to singing high…