Why do we often make the wrong decisions? I came across an incredible insight from contemplating on a few messages in the Gita recently - it talks about the two powerful approaches we all have for connecting/ making decisions. The first is using discriminatory intelligence (buddhi in sanskrit) where we use our reasoning power to…
Death and the lessons it teaches us..
The week saw a dear colleague suffer a loss - a sibling passed away suddenly. Disbelief, grief, anger - all the reactions that death triggers were on display. As always, when you meet Death, you have to pause. This is true every single time. And this post arises out of that pause. For Death makes…
A life passes away too soon…
Musing on a recent tragedy - and what we can - and cannot do.
Life’s cycles
It's a Hindu death anniversary today - so shortly after a very popular festival. We sit to honour our grandmother - and other ancestors - with some fire worship. There's quite some involved rituals involved - offering various prayers, a homa (fire yagna) and a ritualistic banquet to round things off. A set of priests…
Eulogy time..
A good collegue, a friend passed away this morning. A gentle man devoured by a ravaging cancer. Over time, the disease took away his appetite, his mobility, his stamina. It could of course do little about his smile, which continued to shine through - amidst grimacing pain. It's this smile, and his gentle habit that…
A meditation on Life’s tragedies
A few tragedies - the passing away of an infant, a few theives gunned down and the death of a superstar - get me meditating on death, why we feel as we do about it and lessons we can learn from such tragedies.
Love – or war…
A look at two lives that passed beyond the veil in the recent past - sathya sai baba and bin laden - and a meditation on their lives and deaths...