From “God Fearing” to “ God loving”

This is so beautiful, I almost felt like crying after watching this. Sometimes, our embedded rituals and customs associated with a particular religion makes God almost unreachable and unattainable. In contrary, whole purpose of Vishnu(Hindu God) coming to earth as King “Ram” was to demonstrate that Gods are human too, they can love like humans,

My little blue kite – Hindi poem, wrote it for a friend on friendship day!

My little blue Kite Wo pagli thi .. wo bawri thi Wo bijali thi wo cham cham cham chamka karti thi Apne ghungharale baal lekar wo campus mai awaara patang ki tarah ghuma karti thi Wo udna chaahti thi .. aasman chuna chaahti thi Apni architectural t scale se kya kya banana chahti thi pad

Aham Brahmasami

Behold Him, With a rolled palmyra leaf stuck into His earlobe, The rider on the bull, The wearer of the pure white moon on His locks, Smeared with hot ashes from the cremation ground, The stealer of my heart . . . the Supreme Shivaya (Source: pg 12, Shiva: Stories and Teachings from the Shiva

Smashing the glass ceiling through lockdown

“Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful – but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil Nietzsche, a German philosopher and cultural

My take on Gita –Duty without Dilemma.

What is Gita? The Bhagavad Gita or the Gita as it is popularly known is part of the Hindu epic Mahabharata and is one of the most revered texts for Hindus. Hinduism does not have a  Holy Book  per se, however, the Gita has come to be recognized as a Holy Book upon which one swears

Mom’s Advice

I feel independent bcoz you told me Maa that I don’t need Prince Charming to change my life, all I need to do is work hard and be self reliant. I feel confident bcoz you told me that I am the smartest and cutest girl in the block and you never compared me to anyone.

Social Media Adult Bullies

First, they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to make you feel that you are crazy/weak/inferior and them superior. And even then when you remain unfazed, they finally leave you, They here are “Bullies”, found in every phase of life, nowadays infesting social media.. Poem inspired from Nicholas

Shiva the Formless

On this holy month of Hindus dedicated to Shiva, here is my piece on Shiva-God/ energy, I have always been instilled, intrigued and fascinated by. The ultimate Guru, Protector, the Supreme Shiva………… “One day a sculptor was given a rock and asked to carve an image of God. He tried to imagine a form that

Is Ego a bad thing?

There are so many quotes I hear about Ego daily and one such discussion about Ego instilled me to write this post. The concept of ego of being troublesome or being egotistical or being selfish or dominant or morally incorrect in total is inherited from Freud’s philosophy. In eastern culture, Ego means Self- Self consciousness.

Note to Son from Mom (Maa Beta in Hindi)

Maa Beta To love you feels like loving myself again..To hold you feels like hugging myself again…To play with you feels like living my life again…To care for you feels like quenching thirst of my soul again…And, I would like to do these things again and again for you, with you and to you, my