Shihan Rohit

Just a day?

A company is made by its employees… In our case it’s largely made by its women:)) I don’t subscribe to the idea of a day to celebrate women. Why just one day? And why not celebrate men as well? Rather, the idea of the day I assume is to highlight the contribution of women to …

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Kids are the same mostly..

Wakes up 7:30 shouting “Mr Sun!” (He has a nightlight that switches from moon to sun in the morning.) Mommy comes in and says good morning. Emerges sleepily to join Mommy and little brother in living room. Dresses self now, though imperfectly. Eventually whole family bundles into minivan and goes to Joanie’s for a hurried …

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On the building of skills…

Was just having a conversation on education and skills.  The current system of education is quite new. For a large part of our existence, we have been working on skills, those that passed down for generations. Each generation added more to the mix thus resulting in an accumulation of skills over time. A 5th generation …

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It’s the Vetala!

When I finished my meditation in the morning, I realized that the pearl necklace was still with me. I am not a man of the world, I have no use for much material possessions. And so I asked my disciple here, to go the market and dispose of it…. एतच् छ्रुत्वा पुराध्यक्षो गत्वा भूपं व्यजिज्ञपत् …

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Let’s be thankful…

Today, I just feel thankful. It was a very productive day, and by the time it was 6, I had completed whatever I had set out to do, and more. But instead of the usual flush of excitement, I felt a calming feeling of thankfulness. Thankfulness. A feeling that we usually get after a crisis …

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The madding crowd…

Far from the madding crowd… from the atmosphere of pretentious interaction of cold handshakes and superficial exchanges… from places that are too boring to frequent  and people who cannot hold a conversation of intelligence… from companies that do too much to appear cool while employees struggle to make ends meet at home… from events that …

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A few questions…

Is there a God? Are there many Gods? Who writes our destinies? Are they even written? Or does life play out in it’s own way and then we die, never to be seen or heard of again? Do we come back? Even if we do, how would we know? What lies beyond the Universe? Science …

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Another purge…

Change is the only constant – so says the cliche and every other LinkedIn profile. But it is true. And one has to keep reinventing oneself every once in a while, mostly with the aim of climbing at least a notch higher… And so here I am, working on reinvention number ‘god knows how much’, …

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Is this the real me?

न पुण्यं न पापं न सौख्यं न दुःखं न मन्त्रो न तीर्थं न वेदा न यज्ञाः । अहं भोजनं नैव भोज्यं न भोक्ता चिदानन्दरूपः शिवोऽहम् शिवोऽहम् ।। About a couple of years back, I had written about the Nirvana Śhatakam. Recently, I stumbled upon another poem, which isn’t anywhere in the same category or depth, but still carries a good message. Here it is… Who am I you may well askI really wish I knewIf I am not myself …

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