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| Practical Spirituality – Part III | |
| Self Realization From previous posts in this series, we have seen that the ultimate goal of our life is to attain eternal happiness. Pragmatically, in a smaller scale, the purpose of our day-to-day activities also is nothing else but to be happy by fulfilling our desires. At the same time, as we have discussed, happiness is not something to be “ga...
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| 17:29 | 6/Jun/2007 |
| Practical Spirituality – Part II | |
| Nature of Happiness When do you say that you are happy? Generally there are two scenarios in which one feels happy. A pleasurable incident or object will make you feel happy. Secondly an incident or object which will remove pain can also make you happy. Take any number of examples from your day-to-day life. They all can be classified into these tw...
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| 13:05 | 29/May/2007 |
| Practical Spirituality – Part I | |
| The Goal The relevance of spirituality in practical life has always been a point of debate. There is a lot of confusion regarding this subject mainly due to a multitude of interpretations and lack of clarity. Even though most of us believe spirituality is inseparable from our day-to-day life, there are many who think it is concerned only about the...
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| 14:40 | 25/Apr/2007 |
| The cosmic dance | |
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| The Vedantic philosophy holds the view that "All this is verily the absolute alone" indicating the ultimate 'oneness' of all that exist. The Upanishadic statements "Sarvam khalvidam Brahmam" and "Isovasyam idam sarvam" (All this is permeated by the Godhood) are just two of many such instances where this idea is explicitly expressed. How can "all th...
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| 16:42 | 27/Mar/2007 |
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| The man is no more present now, though the no-man is ever present.U. G. Krishnamurti passed away in Vallecrossia, Italy on 22nd March. He was 89. Whenever you feel high of your spiritual progress, when you begin to think you know it all, when you believe you are almost there, just read a couple of pages from UG. All these great feelings will be sma...
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| 17:34 | 6/Mar/2007 |
| Real & Non-real | |
| (Friend Subodh is interested to have discussions on certain Vedantic concepts. The following is some musings on one of the subjects he put forth - "Brahma Satyam Jagan Mithya.)"Brahma Satyam Jagan Mithya" is one the most famous and often quoted aphorisms of Adi Shankaracharya, the exponent of Advaita (nondual) philosophy. It appears in the introduc...
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| 14:42 | 24/Feb/2007 |
| The Pumpkin Monks | |
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| There was this whole bunch of Pumpkins in the garden of the Master.One day all the Pumpkins started fighting among themselves. So great was the quarrel that nearly the stage was reached where blood would flow, Pumpkin blood!Hearing all the commotion the Master came out, saw the situation and said "You must stop fighting and love each other"."How is...
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| 16:18 | 20/Feb/2007 |
| God - The enigma | |
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| From the earliest known history of human kind till today, the concept of God has been one of the most intriguing mystery for the intelligent mind. It is such an interesting concept, thousands of theories had been cooked up - both for and against. But instead of clearing the mess each one of them opens up more and more questions in endless successio...
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| 16:52 | 14/Feb/2007 |
| Being and Knowing | |
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| This is an introspective analysis to examine the substantiality of the proclamation that Being is Knowing. The term “being” denotes both pure existence per se as well as existence as an entity. In both cases existence is validated by the associated consciousness. The famous axiomatic statement “I think; Therefore I am” points to this fact that a c...
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| 17:33 | 6/Feb/2007 |
| Wisdom in cessation | |
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| Then said Mahamati to the Blessed One: Pray tell us, Blessed One, what is meant by the cessation of the mind-system? The Blessed One replied: The five sense-functions and their discriminating and thinking function have their risings and complete ending from moment to moment. They are born with discrimination as cause, with form and appearance and o...
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| Guruprasad S | 19:15 | 25/Nov/2007 |
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| A Doctor and his innocent patient |
| This happened many years ago in our small town. There was only one doctor, a general practitioner for the town and several small villages around. The clinic was very small with a small laboratory and a few staff. The doctor's job was pretty tough but he was always cheerful and enjoying his job. Many times the villagers would come with vegitables ...
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| saurabh upad... | 01:31 | 11/Nov/2007 |
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| BEST FRIEND |
| Will you walk with me?My friend could you always be?Will you take my hand ?When times are tough,can you take command? Will you laugh with me, And share in my glee?Will you be at my side at every turn,Teaching me the things I need to learn? Summer, Winter, Spring, and Fall,Will you be with me to share it all?As we walk together year after...
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| chaitali rai | 12:24 | 29/Nov/2007 |
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| Around the corner I have a friend,In this great city that has no end,Yet the days go by and weeks rush on,And before I know it, a year is gone.And I never see my old friends face,For life is a swift and terrible race,He knows I like him just as well,As in the days when I rang his bell.And he rang mine but we were younger then,And now we are busy, t...
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| Vikas Vij | 02:38 | 24/Nov/2007 |
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| Har shaakh pey ulloo baithha hai... |
| About four years ago, the then Defence Minister of India, George Fernandes, who was on an official visit to Washington, was "strip-searched" by the U.S. security at the airport. In response, the usually thunderous Fernandes behaved like a scared puppy, and stomached his humiliation quietly without telling a soul. A year later, Strobe Talbott, the f...
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| hakotiankar ... | 12:03 | 9/Dec/2007 |
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| Birth Of The Initial Memory Or Comic Mem... |
| Birth Of The Initial Memory Or Comic MemoryWhere did the memory come from, for the first birth that took place? How did the impulse start in the very beginning? This is a question asked by all seekers and is of interest to most. This leads to introspection and contemplation. Let us start from the physical level of existence and build an argument sp...
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| Sathya | 08:31 | 9/Jun/2007 |
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| Rediffiland Party |
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| Rediff made record profits and for which they were thankful of the iland bloggers. The CEO (another Ajit) arranged a party and his office sent forth the invitations. A380 was loaned from Vijay Mallya and the prize was a week’s holiday to Port Blair. Over 100 prominent bloggers were assembled at Mumbai and put up in Bandra’s Taj Lands End, that give...
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| Kumar Rahul | 13:37 | 13/Dec/2007 |
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| Propaganda of Retail |
| BusinessPropaganda of Retail A government ‘study’ has come up, proving that organised big retail is harming the unorganised small retail shops’ business. [Link] This survey (and they call it a study) was started on the directive of UPA chairperson. The survey involved around 1000 small retailers in four Indian cities, including 800 who were within ...
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| Prachi Sameer | 21:57 | 6/Dec/2007 |
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| Text Oriented Singing! |
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| These days my mind remains full of ‘Me & Music’… and honestly – I wish it remains that way! Thus… whenever I utter something these days… its about me or my music… :O) Take it or leave it my friends… Loves, Pra~! :O)Text-Oriented Singing! It is a general notion that Urdu Poetry essentially is an ex-pression of Broken Hearts, Despair, Tears, Pessimis...
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| Udayan Roy | 09:45 | 24/Aug/2007 |
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| Loose to gain |
| It's better to loose your EGO to the one you LOVE, than to loose the one you LOVE because of EGO . -------- John Keats.
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| friendly ghost | 10:19 | 10/Dec/2007 |
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| Stop Credit Cards & Consumer Loans |
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| Stop Credit Cards & Consumer LoansToday, we have an affluent economy, with only a small fraction of our economies' output devoted to basic needs. Environmentalists say that we are reaching the limits of growth due to ecological constraints. Here in our cities, we have not only reached the limits of human needs but overshot them many times over. Wha...
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| shailesh S | 17:12 | 8/Jun/2007 |
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| Ever You Wonder ………(Some stray thoughts…... |
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| Why are they called stairs inside but steps outside?Why, any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner? If love is blind, how can we believe in love at first sight? Why 'abbreviated' is such a long word?How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered? Why, when you change...
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| Chitra Venka... | 14:49 | 9/Aug/2007 |
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| Dreams |
| Each one of us has been endowed with the innate capacity to dream. We begin dreaming very early in life as kids. All of us recollect those times in ourchildhood, can’t we, when we dreamed of wanting to excel in our studies or ofhaving that special toy and when it did materialize, what was it that we felt? A feeling of joy, ecstasy? A dream come t...
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| TheGeetha Fa... | 09:29 | 26/Oct/2007 |
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| The field and the knower of field in ken... |
| This is priliminary info about kenopanishad from wiki..About KenopanishadKenopanishad derives its name from the first word Kena , meaning ‘by whom’. It belongs to the Talavakara Brahmana of Sama Veda and is therefore also referred to as Talavakara Upanishad. It has four sections, the first two in verse and the other two in prose. Adi Shankara who h...
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| Rajeev S | 14:46 | 1/Aug/2007 |
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| Spiritual Freelancing |
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| Call it spiritual discord or spiritual detachment. This is what is creeping into the minds of youth these days. We see a growing spiritual crisis in the world today. There is devotion to indulgence of pleasure in the objects of sensual desire, which is inferior, low, vulgar, ignoble, and leads to no good; and there is devotion to self torment, whic...
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| Sethuraj Nair | 21:58 | 22/May/2007 |
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| Mind Mapping - The Best Way To Represent... |
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| The Least Talked-About (Series)-4Friends, let's now talk about Mind Mapping. Mind Mapping, to me, is perhaps the most simple but effective way to capture, represent and share ideas. Although being used by millions across the glob today, Mind Mapping is yet to be adequately acknowledged by established corporate, academic and knowledge-management ‘st...
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