Book Review – The Lincoln Highway
The Lincoln Highway is another fantastic book written by Amor Towles. Do read it. A story that will stay with you !
Anger
Osho on Control Vs Transformation
Sharing Osho’s discourse about anger. He speaks about control Vs transformation and how it is so easy to control, but difficult to transform.
Leadership Lessons from The Bhagavad Gita #40 – Transforming
Chapter 2 Verses 64 and 65 रागद्वेषवियुक्तैस्तु विषयानिन्द्रियैश्चरन् | आत्मवश्यैर्विधेयात्मा प्रसादमधिगच्छति || 64|| rāga-dveṣha-viyuktais tu viṣhayān indriyaiśh charan ātma-vaśhyair-vidheyātmā prasādam adhigachchhati rāga—attachment; dveṣha—aversion; viyuktaiḥ—free; tu—but; viṣhayān—objects of the senses; indriyaiḥ—by the senses; charan—while using; ātma-vaśhyaiḥ—controlling one’s mind; vidheya-ātmā—one who controls the mind; prasādam—the Grace of God; adhigachchhati—attains Translation – But one who controls the mind, … Read more
Leadership Lessons from The Bhagavad Gita #39 – Anger
Chapter 2 Verse 63 क्रोधाद्भवति सम्मोह: सम्मोहात्स्मृतिविभ्रम: | स्मृतिभ्रंशाद् बुद्धिनाशो बुद्धिनाशात्प्रणश्यति || 63|| krodhād bhavati sammohaḥ sammohāt smṛiti-vibhramaḥ smṛiti-bhranśhād buddhi-nāśho buddhi-nāśhāt praṇaśhyati krodhāt—from anger; bhavati—comes; sammohaḥ—clouding of judgement; sammohāt—from clouding of judgement; smṛiti—memory; vibhramaḥ—bewilderment; smṛiti-bhranśhāt—from bewilderment of memory; buddhi-nāśhaḥ—destruction of intellect; buddhi-nāśhāt—from destruction of intellect; praṇaśhyati—one is ruined Translation : Anger leads to clouding of … Read more
Leadership Lessons from the Bhagavad Gita 5 – Poise
Chapter 2 Verse 15 The word “Poise” means balance, equilibrium, grace or control. In today’s world, these words are only used during a dance performance, never for interpersonal interactions. The 15th verse from chapter 2 according to me speaks about poise in everyday life. Being graceful, in control and poised is actually liberating. यं हि … Read more
“மெர்சல்” Mersal, “மிரட்டல்” Mirattal, “முட்டாள்” Muttaal
For the past ten days, TamilNadu has been in the news, for what is happening or not happening to “Mersal”, the movie. Mersal means anger, fear.. basically disillusionment. So Mersal was being displayed by all the parties involved – Joseph Vijay the actor, his dad, the director Atlee, all other actors especially the ones who … Read more
Changing the scene
Last week, one of the mornings I got into an argument with Krishnan over something trivial. He dropped some stuff while giving the trash to the garbage collector and I started giving him a lecture on how exactly to hand over the trash without dropping it :):). It was just one of those days when … Read more