Wounded Healer

1.      Mummy : Shirt pehen lo nayi waali inspection ke liye .. Papa: Nayi shirt me tan ke baithna padta hai ! 2.     Playing Cards-1 Papa: Main nau haath bolta hun .. hokum ,,, Arey humare saath thagi hui hai .. sirf char hokum aaye Mumma : Batana nahi hota ! Next time : Papa: Kaat hukum hai. Then looking at partner’s cards for long : acchha 4+3=7. Acche patte nahi mile. Mummy ( disgusted) : Accche PATI nahi mile. 3.     Playing cards-2      Mummy: Dhang se khelo na !           Papa: Haan FUNNY dhang se khel raha hoon. 4.       Playing cards-3           Papa( to me and Didi): Ab tum dono chale jaaoge , fir mujhe   saare atyachaar jhelne padenge ( which means playing cards  everyday)        5.Playing cards-4 Papa: Acchha tu...

In my quest for our purpose in life, or call it my  pursuit of happiness, I picked up a version of Gita my father recommended, as there are so many versions and one must draw one’s own. This is mine. “You are the author of your action , but not the author of the result of your action.” Makes sense, and would help in accepting failures as much as successes. Talks about karma yoga”, that is different from gyaan yog in that it is for the common people, those who have never read the scriptures. In fact even for the learned and the mahapurush, karma yog always came before gyaan yog. Karma yog talks about being absorbed by your work, doing every action with a consciousness and singleness of mind with the end goal always being nirvaan.  It is infact the preparation to enter into gyaan yog. If you cannot learn to live in the material world and live successfully, then you have no hope to attain gyaan yog cz ur mind will never be at peace. The Gita dismisses the conc...

Why do we feel we are superior to animals? Why do our religious scriptures tell us that in our past lives we were probably animals that would have had committed lesser sins and hence born human in this life ? And that only as  humans can we tread the path towards freeing our souls… Or is this something we made up to make ourselves feel better? Men are tormented with the greed of the perfect life .. a little more money .. a little more respect ..a little more acceptance…  a little more happiness .. but how much is enough ? and at what cost? The same time we’r obsessed with the concept of self knowledge .. finding peace amidst this turmoil .. and being pulled in different directions because our mind has lost its discretion and we’r greedy for experiences… We wander around in search for the recipe of happiness .. trying our hand at spirituality.. like it’s a cookbook … fed by the ideas of learned men  before us .. and we strive to feel that uplifting ...

Gibranisms For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.” And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” 'For Reason , ruling alone, is a force confining ; and Passion,   unattended,is a flame that burns to its own destruction.' About marriage  “Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping. For only the hand of Life can ...

Returning from my 3 years in Pondicherry .. 3 years of  medical training with its own ups and downs .. Yet it brought me to Pondicherry and Auroville.. places I’ve grown to love .. so lets talk only about the city today. Pondicherry’s touted as a tourist city but I did not get that impression when I first touched down .. we took a whole round of Pondicherry n back to JIPMER in 40 minutes and I was like “Wow !!IIs that it ?” It was kind of ticklish because I was just coming from Mumbai – the giantess And it was hot !! On enquiring , my uncle told me “ Pondicherry has 3 climates- hot, hotter and hottest .. In the coming 3 years Id learn how right he was I was curious about the Aurobindo ashram .. and due to the kindness of my Uncle I was able to explore the Ashram.. the concept of an “Ashram” with fanatics doing rituals behind closed walls dissolved as I was slowly introduced to their ideology,their method of self sustainance, their school and college ,their library, their ...