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Have you ever wondered why we offer flowers for worship?It is not just for colour and fragrance. If it were just that,we could offer many other beautiful colours, perfumes and scents. But why flowers? There is a very real and beautiful  reason behind it. You see, a flower is a living thing. It has life … Read more

The Lord of All New Beginnings The first thought I had when I conceived the idea of writing on the evolution of writing was of Lord Ganesha transcribing Vyasa’s powerful storytelling and the speed of his narration of the epic Mahabharata. Ganesha’s condition of non-stop recitation from Vyasa was matched by Vyasa’s insistence that Ganesha … Read more

“The dilemma of choosing between self-effort and surrender to God as destiny crops up often.They are not mutually exclusive and wisdom lies in their coexistence.. Yoga Vasishta is one scripture that extols self-effort most explicitly, and it ascribes all failures to sloth and idleness in efforts.It regards fate or destiny as the result of lack … Read more

“When we perceive the reflected sun in a jar of water , there are three things–the Jar, the Water and the Reflection of the sun. As long as our attention is on the reflection, the real sun is not perceivable. In order to see the sun,we have to lift our eyes high up from the … Read more

Kahlil Gibran says: “There are those who give little of the much they have–and they give it for recognition; and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome. And there are those who have little and give it all. These are the believers in life and the beauty of life and their coffers are never empty. … Read more