When the most important person in my life left, I hated my job and my family life was slightly influenced by these events, it seemed everything was trembling and close to a total collapse. Finally, it did collapse. When things are in this state, that’s usually a sign we should change something in our lives—and we probably need some help […]
Meditation musings 04 : Clarity
Self Improvement is masturbation, Now self destruction… – Tyler Durden (Fight club 1999) We try meditation for clarity. Yet to meditate, we need clarity. It seems like a paradox at first until you think back to the neo-noir cult classic Fight club. Most of us meditate to be more productive, happier, more focused, more everything. […]
Meditation musings 03: Hard-boiled Nationalism
Ever wonder how an entire population of a billion people that are brilliant enough to fix every complicated machine and operate on the most crucial surgeries around the world could be so seething and raging at every new fad in the media that comes along. I mean this is something too hard to miss. This year […]
Meditation musings 01: The truth shall set you free
It’s hard to describe what I feel right about now. It’s like being invulnerable and yet super sensitive at the same time. Perhaps a side-effect of meditation. An amazing skill that it is, with hundreds of different ways to go at it. A useful tool to have in any situation. Yes, any situation. Even with […]
Aditya hridaya: What I learned in a month of regular mantra meditation
The Aditya hridaya stotra is a poem/hymn to the Sun in the final confrontation chapter of the epic Ramayana written millennia ago by (according to the legend) a marauder turned sage Valmiki. The sequence itself is a reminder that even the weariest and discouraged moments of our lives can be supercharged with a little help […]