Everyone meets people who don’t like them and whom they don’t like.What should be done to deal with unpleasant people and social situations? According to me the answer lies in three parts: Point three involves exposing yourself to constructive role models and learning from them. This article is about points one and two and it […]
Author Archives: nikhilmg
The Sort of Work I am looking for
I remember a meeting I had with a well regarded member of my community who moves around in high society. He is the sort of person who could easily have found me some work simply by calling in a favor from one of his high society friends. This was a social occasion in which many […]
Sravana, Manana and a Daily Statement
This blog is just an important memo to myself as I go through the day regarding my spiritual practice. It is not meant for the reading public. Sravana See what the text or the author or video is trying to show you. See what he sees. See what the teaching is pointing to. It is […]
Malice and Indian Society
I was of a very malicious and envious temperament when I was young. With the result that I am still suffering to this day. Indian society is scarred by the memory of the rioting and loss of life that took place at the time of partition. There are also politicians who are willing to bend […]
Still More Life Skills
I’ll end this series of 3 blogs by writing about something I have never been good at – interpersonal relations. Links to the previous two blogs are at the end of this article. I remember being desperate for friends when I was young. My very desperation caused me to behave in eccentric ways and I […]
More Life Skills
This is part two in a series of essential life skills. Link to parts 1 and 3 are below: This blog is about knowing yourself and learning thinking skills. I came up with my own method of knowing myself based on my reading. I was prone to a lot of self deception when I was […]
Essential Life Skills
I had initially thought of this blog as being about essential career skills but now I think that these skills are critical to living life as well. So I changed the title. These skills can be divided into 4 aspects: Knowing yourself, Human relations, being detached and thinking skills. I’ll start with some sales talk. […]
Helping POTUS get Defence Sales
Recently I met a cousin of mine who has settled in the USA since the 1980s. We got talking about (what else) Donald Trump and she mentioned that Trump has a transactional approach to his presidency. What does a transactional approach mean? I did a Google search and this is what I got (For the […]
I should have left India
I am writing this blog in a wretched mood right now. It is because I have only now found out that I behaved like a fool not for weeks or months or years but for decades. I have figured out the reason why I was victimized as I keep complaining. The reason was that society […]
A Blog on Nonduality
The Dalai Lama said somewhere that if the teachings on Emptiness do not turn your life upside down then you are not taking them to heart strongly enough. The same can be said for the teachings on Nonduality. Following are the Advaitic and Nondual teachings that can (and should) revolutionise your life. Now all these […]