Most of us keep our spirituality hidden, cloaked or under our skin. Deeply powerful spiritual beings or deeply attained spiriutual teachers, will stay away from commenting on the political theatre, the current state of geo-politics or on a good sports match (there are of course many exceptions). From the ultimate perspective, these are pure illusions and probably worthless or “worthful” occurrences. But here is my point – why is say politics kept separate from spirituality – in either your mind or anyone’s mind. It’s not like we can be spiritual beings in a vacuum, can we?
We are spiritual beings in the constant present moment, creating and impacting the world we live in and celebrating our SELF and the universal SELF in all. Therefore we should consciously bring our spirituality into the world in all areas right?…politics, business, marriage, education, manufacturing – EVERYTHING REALLY. How will politics get transformed globally, if we only leave our spirituality to our meditation sessions (and I am a great believer/practitioner in/of meditation, make no mistake). Isn’t it time we let our light shine through in the illusion of the world, as it stands today, so that even the illusion can be transformed?
Category: Spirituality
Embodiments of Wisdom! Who will take the Mantle?
A lot of the great spiritual masters of our time are reaching over 65 plus in age and have matured to provide the world with fabulous teachings and understandings – Ram Dass, Ram Butler, Krishna Das and many others whom I am not mentioning here. On these shoulders we stand. These teachers have been students as well, have gone through the fire of doing their sadhana, applied the teachings they have learnt over a lifetime to their everyday lives, taken the commitment of their relationship to great masters to transform themselves and the world around them, and have become embodiments of wisdom to the world.
As this decade moves ahead, who will come forward to take on this mantel and make sure today’s world, today’s youth see the same grand vision they saw inside. How will this amazing process move on? How will the teachings be passed on over the next decade, so that the world we live in still retain these lights (new lights) whose presence, fire, devotion and understanding have woken up many. How will the universe ensure there are individuals who will chose the path of silence, understanding, knowledge, beauty and wisdom, and channel those to others in the world through a state of non-doership?
Don’t Sprint the Marathon
Raghunathan V has recently released his 2nd book titled “Don’t Sprint The Marathon”.
I read his first book “Games Indians Play” and found it apt for the Indian population and the way we think and function. While I have not read his new book, based on an initial preview I did, it looks good and appropriate for parents with kids.
“Don’t Sprint the Marathon”…obvious as that might appear, as proud and ambitious parents, we often push our children to excel in ways that may help them achieve some early successes – but may sap their stamina to endure the more difficult challenges which life may throw at them. What is more, our obsessive rush to get our children off to a good start overlooks at the fact that in life, as in a marathon, an early lead hardly matters, but being too intent on coming first may leave our children lacking in many of the life skills that a normal childhood would teach them.
V. Raghunathan, best-selling author of Games Indians Play, offers an alternative approach that can be even more rewarding: life he avers, is not a sprint and it does not in the long run matter very much if you missed out on the best school, college or job as starters. As long as you give yourself the time to develop your personality and skills, you will still get where you want, at your own pace and perhaps far more happily. To illustrate, based on first-hand interactions, he gives numerous examples of many achievers, famous and not-so-famous, among them N.R. Narayana Murthy, Dr. Kallam Anji Reddy, Dr. P D K Rao, V. Mani, Ashwini Nachappa, G.M. Rao and Ila Bhat. For those helping their children along for success in life, or rethinking their own approach to it, Don’t Sprint the Marathon will prove an invaluable guide.
You may order in online from any of the well-known bookshops or online stores.
Storytelling and Media: Boon or Bane?
Story telling is addictive for the mind. The mind loves stories. Stories can be told in a number of ways and humankind can remain fascinated forever. Stories are powerful, because we create our reality in our mind through the words we use and hear. Not events per se in their purity, but the way we describe events to ourselves or the way someone else describes events to us, creates our perception of reality. Many stories use words (of course images, sound and video are used as well) and these have an impact on our mind.The problem is most of us mistake the story for the reality. Only an enlightened person (a person in deep intuitive harmony with nature and the universe) can see things for what they are; most will see only a version that they tell/repeat to themselves, which is conditioned by their culture, parents, upbringing or their own experiences. Continue reading “Storytelling and Media: Boon or Bane?”
Dennis Taraporewala 