This blog is our space to write about our thoughts, views and notes about our travels. Osho owned 90 Rolls Royces while being a Sanyasi ….. The so-felt contradiction is very fascinating and hence the name !
Today I was listening to discourse No. 6 from the series titled Discipline of Transcendence. These discourses are on the 42 Sutras of Buddha. Link to the transcript – http://oshosearch.net/Convert/Articles_Osho/The_Discipline_of_Transcendence_Volume_1/Osho-The-Discipline-of-Transcendence-Volume-1-00000006.html “… The devil is like darkness. It is and yet it is not. Darkness is the absence of light, the devil is the absence of … Read more
For me, Osho is the Master of Masters because he laughs, tells jokes and doesn’t let you take things seriously. Enlightenment is laughter.
Happy Ganesh Chaturthi. May Ganesha, the global God, drive out the Corona Virus and make the world safer !
Looking forward to the Bhoomi Pujan at Ayodhya tomorrow… Jai Shri Ram. So thrilled to be able to see history unfolding in front of our eyes.
#LockdownTales As we all watch the re-runs of Ramayana and Mahabharata, I was reminded of the late CM of combined Andhra Pradesh and yesteryear actor Shri. N.T. Rama Rao. He acted in several movies based on these two epics and was always featured as either Sri Rama or Sri Krishna depending on which epic the … Read more
Hanuman, Jambavan and potential 🙂 This is one of the most popular blog posts of mine. I was reminded about this yesterday as I saw the episode of Ramayana on TV about precisely this exchange between Hanuman and Jambavan. There are so many life lessons that I pick up everyday in nearly every episode. Am truly … Read more
In Feb this year we visited Tirunelveli to celebrate Amma’s 75th birthday and we did it as a surprise for her. The house where the entire Tiruvadi Iyengar family was born and raised is on Sannathi Street and this is the house that my great grandmother Onnama (her name was Padmasini, but she was fondly … Read more
A couple of days back, while channel surfing just to pick the headlines, I saw this interview with the self-proclaimed God-woman Radhe Maa on the India Today channel. She was bizarre, spoke nonsense and I couldn’t bring myself to watch the interview beyond a few minutes… I am still wondering how Sahil Joshi, the interviewer … Read more
I was first born when the Earth was green, The trees were tall, And I wandered around the forest, As soon as I could walk… Gathering some fruit and hunting other animals, Then a big bear bit my head off, Ate me up and that was that. Then I was born again when the … Read more
I was rummaging through some old stuff yesterday and came upon this essay that I had written in 1985 on God … its fascinating to meet your 16 year old self at 48. I seem to have very clear ideas on what God is and is not. Interestingly this was written when I had not … Read more