Business to the Buddha
Every thought from earthly to unearthly
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Why wait?
Last week I wrote on being at a crossroad. Generally, we are all making some or the other decision. I specially like entrepreneurs who need to be constantly analyzing situations their business and survival + growth. Life becomes very interesting, challenging and driven by passion. One has to balance between Guts, Analysis and if possible…
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At a crossroad
Kala Ghoda festival just concluded, in Mumbai. My sister and her four year old daughter – my niece, Chinu – religiously followed the festival. Yesterday was the last day of the festival. I was there for few hours. Instead of events, I spent time wandering around. At about 10:30 or so we were about to…
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Arranged marriages
Yesterday I received a call from unknown number – Hello, is that Pravin? Yes I said. “I’m Ms Gautam [name changed], we connected that time etc”. We talked for about 10 min, that lady (though belonging to the Art of Living community) almost abused many unknown AoL devotees. The lady never told name of her…
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Morality, who is the judge?
There is an after life, actions in past life have decided your current birth (Prarabdha) and future life will be a function of what you do in this life time. Does this philosophy remind you of something? The above is concept of re-birth, of almost all religion founded in India – be it Buddhism, Jainism…
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Eating for the sake of eating?
I was reading blog of Thich Nhat Hanh – a Vietnamese Buddhist Monk. It is an irony that I’m an Indian, however this Vietnamese monk introduced me to the Buddha in true sense. I read his book Old Path White Clouds and I came to know the Buddha I know now. In his blog –…
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Entanglement of a langot (undergarment)
I heard/read a story when I was a kid, I think in some Osho discourse or book. Well, I have been thinking about writing this for a long time, but I didn’t remember the whole story so I called my gateway of last resort (Ramana Rajgopaul uncleji – he blogs here). “Gateway of last resort”…
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Cast(e)ing doubts – Crematoriums in India
This blog is in the series of blogs on – against – the caste system of India. In the new year once again* I wish some day we would value people on their Capabilities and not Caste Action and not Ancestry Character and not on Color of skin Disclaimer – I belong to Lingayat (Veershaiva)…
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Size of the Universe!
Once I was walking to office. I saw two carts in little distance, both had guava. One had fresh guava and other had relatively not so fresh once. I instantly thought what if these stale ones have insects and small creatures. A guava for those insects & small creatures must be the world in itself.…