Samyama... expansion of stillness

Samyama is the outward manifestation of stillness within. If you are on the spiritual path, there is one practice I highly recommend incorporating into your daily practice routine… Samyama. The last three limbs of Patanjali’s 8 limbs of  yoga –  Dhayna,  Dharana,  Samadhi – are combined to make the practice of samyama.  It is by far […]

Are you spiritual?

Who is a spiritual person? In all the many debates around spirituality and, sad to admit, artificial creation of spiritual divides and arrogance – spiritual have’s and have not’s – I would want to declare that we are all spiritual beings. We are just at different classroom levels in this education but all of us are […]

Living without expectations

Can you survive living without expectations? Ever since I was a kid, we were taught to ‘do’ without expecting, to perform our duties, without focusing on the outcome, to fulfill our destinies without expectation of a reward. These are words that have stayed with me since then. Words without meaning. Scriptures quoted out of context. Hanging […]

MaYa

The effect of Shani. Shoud we fear it? Or embrace it? The other day I read this line: Shani is the lord of dominance, distress, depression, disease, and disaster. The post below was triggered by that line. I am not much into astrology, but have a mild curiosity on this topic and so read things and enjoy […]

Courage

Courage. Courage means everything. Yet, it means nothing. We fool ourselves into believing that we are brave. But in reality, we are afraid. Afraid to let go. Afraid to take a step into the unknown. Afraid to make a change. Afraid to accept it. Afraid to accept another’s point of view, for fear of losing our own. Afraid of tomorrow… […]

Karma - The Charmer

What does Karma really mean? Here is how I have described Karma to many…  Karma is cause and effects… it is a pattern we are going to go through again and again (abandonment, betrayal, jealousy, rejection, etc.) and will continue for the rest of our life as this is what we are born to see […]


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