Discovering your swara Difficulty level – 1 (easy) Time commitment : As indicated throughout the day We spoke about knowing the breath, through a preliminary exercise, and we practiced Chandra-bhedana prānāyāma as well. We spoke about preparing for death, and today, the last day of the sadhana exercise series, we will speak about preparing for rebirth, by rediscovering how our …
Have you noticed that we tend to remember bad experiences more than good ones? Think of the past few days. Try and recall all the good experiences that you had – can be a good meal, or a great conversation, or a wonderful book that you read…attempt to recall as much as you can about …
So I mostly caught the virus. Which means, cancelled meetings and calls, a bit of work pile and the headache and fever to top it up. Is it just me, or are we witnessing a never-ending cycle of infections? I don’t remember falling sick so often…its like there is always something wrong – a nagging …
So the young one has a blocked nose – again. So he goes sniff sniff (and ‘apple’ or ‘happy’ in the middle of the night) and we go ‘happy’ with him – basically sleeping in bits and pieces. And today, as he wants a bit of pampering, we give him all we can to make …
यदपि स्यादसमये यातो वनमसाविति ।अकालो नास्ति धर्मस्य जीविते चञ्चले सति ॥ yadapi syādasamaye yāto vanamasāviti |akālo nāsti dharmasya jīvite cañcale sati|| Buddhacarita 6.21, by Aśvaghoṣa Though he might be said to have gone at a bad time to the forest, in dharma, in truth, no bad time exists – life being as fickle as it is. The Buddhacarita (Saddharma-pundarika) by Aśvaghoṣa is …
सरस्वति नमस्तुभ्यं वरदे कामरूपिणि ।विद्यारम्भं करिष्यामि सिद्धिर्भवतु मे सदा ॥ sarasvati namastubhyaṃ varade kāmarūpiṇi .vidyārambhaṃ kariṣyāmi siddhirbhavatu me sadā .. Namaskar, O Saraswati, grantor of blessings and embodiment of all wishes. Bless me as I commence my studies, and help me to be successful in the gain of knowledge. This shloka is as relevant for …
And then he will be four. Early childhood is a collection of memories that a child never remembers, and parents never forget. Twenty, thirty, forty, even fifty years on – these memories live on in parent’s minds, as fresh as the day on which they were created. And boy, do these parents bore you by …
कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन |मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भूर्मा ते सङ्गोऽस्त्वकर्मणि || You have a right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions. Never consider yourself to be the cause of the results of your activities, nor be attached to inaction. A profound verse from Srimad Bhagavad Gita, with a meaning …
The past few months have been about AI, but all hell broke loose one Friday when DeepSeek was released (unleashed) to the world. NVIDIA stocks were the prime casualty, losing around 20% in a day, because investors got spooked about the hundreds of millions of dollars that now possibly will not be spent on training …
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