What is meditation?
Our desires and emotions - happiness, anger, sadness, greed, etc. all come to us as thoughts only. Life comes to us in the form of thoughts. As we need to shut down the computer system for…
Happy Women’s day
At a very early age, my parents made it very clear that I have no other choice than to study hard and become a highly qualified professional. The later life would become easy, I was told…
It’s complicated or not
I fell in love with this beautiful girl in my class, Rekha. Every romantic movie and song seems to be telling the story of my heart. My best friend also liked her. After admiring her secretly…
Outburst
I worked as a government official before the India-Pakistan partition. In my office, colleagues called me BinaI babu. The staff were Hindus and Muslims working under English officials. Irrespective of what was happening around me, British…
A lot like love
Every time we experience something different in a new relationship; never felt this before. After a while, somehow, we lose interest. The feeling simply evaporates and we are back to confusion. How suddenly the feeling has…
Young mind and money
“It is so cool these days that young people in their twenties live independently, and get highly paid at MNC. They enjoy holidays with their friends, parties, shopping, etc.” My teenage daughter told me one day.…
Understanding the Religion
Fold your hands and bow down, visit holy places, repeat the prayers or shloka,what does it mean? Never mind! Fasting but eating many other things. As young children, we just followed it. As we grew up…
Sita Ram
Let us assume for a while Ram and Sita as normal human beings and not God. The first conflict in Ram's life was politics in the family for property and wealth. He decided to let it…
Friends
My best friend was the most important person when I was in college. I used to share all my problems with her and it helped me in many ways. Firstly, talking helped me to hear myself.…
Laddoo
It is said that "The root cause of all miseries is our desires". For many years I kept pondering on it. Are desires so bad? Imagine there are no desires left, nothing to achieve, nowhere to…