Month: May 2022

On Looking and walking…

On Looking: Eleven walks…came highly recommended. I haven’t read Alexandra Horowitz before, and the reviews on Goodreads were not the most encouraging. Nevertheless, I did start reading… As the title suggests, and I suspect the blurb outlines, this book is about a few walks that Alexandra took around New York City. Alone, with her kid, …

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Savitri and Satyavan…

सन्तो हि सत्येन नयन्ति सूर्यं ।सन्तो भूमिं तपसा धारयन्ति ॥सन्तो गतिर्भूतभव्यस्य राजन् ।सतां मध्येनावसीदन्ति सन्तः ॥ By the Truth the saints lead the sun; by askesis the saints uphold the earth; the past, present and future find their refuge in the saints. Noble persons in the midst of the saints have never any grief. [Savitri …

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Of food and language…

एकः स्वादु न भुञ्जीत एकश् चार्थान् न चिन्तयेत् ।एको न गच्छेद् अध्वानं नैकः सुप्तेषु जागृयात् ॥ ९५ ॥ ekaḥ svādu na bhuñjīta ekaś cārthān na cintayet |eko na gacched adhvānaṃ naikaḥ supteṣu jāgṛyāt || 95 || One should not feast on good food alone. If everyone with him has slept, one should not wake him up alone. …

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Vikshepa Shakti..

Vikshepa shakti. The mind has a tendency to be restless – to constantly keep thinking of hundreds of things at once. Even when you sit still, the mind is never still. It keeps making up stories, analyzing imaginary scenarios, depending into daydreaming….The whole process of yoga is aimed at calming this restless mind. Asanas serve no …

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Go watch it!

Well, I saw a movie after a long time. Ever since the birth of Rohāmrta, we haven’t really got the opportunity to step out to the cinema, but today we did. And so at 2.45 pm, finally stepped into a space that was nearly second home to me a few years back. An IMAX, no …

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Of knowledge and flukes…

घुणाक्षर न्याय (Gunākshara Nyāya) – The maxim of the letters made by the wood worm, Ghuna. This worm bores holes in wood and in books which sometimes assume the shape of a letter; hence it is used to denote the occurrence of something quite accidental, or a chance occurrence. Chakrapani in Deerghamjeeviteeyam Adhyaya refers this Nyaya while explaining the Samyagyukta Bheshaja …

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Do you intend to buy a car?

Have you noticed the changes in how we move around? The next generation is not big on ownership – be it houses or cars. They prefer experiences instead, and so instead of having a burden of EMIs hanging over their heads, they prefer the more lighter “pay-as-you-go” option. In a short span of a little …

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Of elevating your senses…

“As brains get larger and more complex, what goes on inside the brain gets further removed from what is happening in the environment. To see what we mean, consider face recognition. People are tremendously skilled at recognizing faces. This is a really hard information-processing problem. At a coarse level, we all pretty much look the …

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A name is a name, or not?

नाम्यते अभिधीयते अर्थोऽनेन इति नाम – that whose meaning encompasses the characteristics of a person, is a name. Here is something that I came across, that has been explained so well, so thought will share it with you… If you are a Hindu or know Hinduism closely, you will be aware that in the vedic …

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Of coronas and monkeys…

COVID wanes, Monkeypox appears… For those with COVID fatigue (which is most of us), a new headache looms. 80 confirmed cases in 12 countries, and counting. Monkeypox does not tend to spread easily between people and the illness is usually mild. But a headache it is nevertheless. What after this? Another virus? Has the world …

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