Business to the Buddha

Every thought from earthly to unearthly

Spirituality & Business

It was winter of 2012, Sujoy was getting married. I traveled to Pune to attend his wedding function. There I met one of my very old College mate – Anurag Tambe. Anurag is smart guy, thoughtful and practical. We discussed many things, including my favorite topic – purpose of what we do? This topic eventually…
Freemium – business model

The Buddha shared his knowledge for free, you know these universities charge so much for the degrees! One argument could be – 1. That time was different. 2. The Buddha asked for bigger fee – leave all material possession, family, even ‘self’. What fee are you talking about? But yes, what the Buddha taught was…
Ganesha to a devotee

I wrote once on Ganesha festival (read here – Death is inevitable) of Maharashtra, similarly there is a Goddess Kali festival in West Bangal. What lesson I learnt from these festivals are death is coming, best use of your life is whatever best you can do NOW! The festival celebrated in its current form bothers…
As you sow, so shall you reap

In Science we have studied – every action has equal and opposite reaction. We never take that seriously for life, that if we hurt someone that may be compensated. Here is an interesting idiom in English language (many other languages as well) – As you sow, so shall you reap. Long before science could establish…
Time is just a reference

[Tweet “Mumbai has taught me the value of time”]Mumbai has taught me the value of time e.g. after 7:55 am, there is 8:00 and then 8:02 am… not necessarily 8:05 am. 8:02 because I used to catch an 8:02 local for office :). [Tweet “Value the time, it never comes back.”] I went to meet…
The Art of Living

I came across this interesting funny video. Thanks to my friend Hemant Rathore. I would not want to speak much on this. Just watch it… On this independence day – wish we get freedom from craving, greed and other so many issues. http://youtu.be/lAsk5NWnCI4 Disclaimer – I have done Art of Living Courses and have been…
Culture lost; lost cultures

There is an old age home in Andheri East area in Mumbai. As a kid and an adolescent I lived in small towns. This old age home seemed awkward to me. I always thought to visit this place but until now I have not. In my childhood I have seen joint families, many people around.…
Religion is poison

Long time back I watched a movie Seven years in Tibet (book link Author – Heinrich Harrer). It was based on true story. In that movie after meeting the Dalai Lama Chinese representative makes a comment – “Religion is a poison” (Watch the video below). http://youtu.be/YMnIoy6zsbY?t=7m25s While watching the movie, I was shocked to hear…
Sickness teaches you

God afflicts one with sickness? I doubt. Here is what I went through and my two cents on sickness/fever/illness. I fell sick last to last week. I was feeling very weak & could not even write a blog, well that apart. I had a very strange idea in that sickness as well. I was observing…
Empowerment means slavery

I am a heavy user of internet and mobile. There have been times when almost always I am on internet. In my office about 8-9 hours I am on my laptop. When I am traveling I am on internet through my mobile or fiddling with my mobile many a times completely unnecessarily. When I am…