This is not an article like the others on this blog. Firstly this is mainly about my spiritual journey and my other experiences. My other articles are mostly based on concepts derived from my reading of books. Secondly this article will never be completed. It will remain a work in progress. I will be updating […]
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Invaluable Career Advice from Warren Buffett
I am reading The Art of the Good Life by Rolf Dobelli. There is a chapter titled The Circle of Competence which is particularly good. This article is based on that chapter. Here are some relevant quotes taken from that chapter: Warren Buffett: Know your circle of competence and stick within it. The size of […]
On the Arnab Arrest Saga
I’ll start by asking you to read this article. The link is below. https://thewire.in/media/arnab-goswami-arrest-defence-television-journalism I liked the article. The author is idealistic and believes in principled journalism. She makes no bones about the fact that she dislikes Arnab’s brand of journalism and her description of her response to Arnab’s arrest is amusing. The author has […]
More on the Bhagavad Gita
I had some difficulties accepting the advice of the Bhagavad Gita but perhaps they were just misunderstandings. The misunderstandings were as under: The misunderstanding was that I thought that the Gita was asking me to not have any desires when I did any act. I should be completely desireless and egoless in all my actions […]
Justification for the Bhagavad Gita
I would like to start by telling you a story. I was feeling a bit depressed with life yesterday afternoon. My life was a mess, my mind a shambles and my spiritual practice was going nowhere. Familiar territory. You probably have felt the same way about yourself at times. I was particularly depressed about my […]
On Fear
All fear is derived from the fear of death. In connection with this the French philosopher Montaigne said “The thing I most fear is fear. . . Those who have been well drubbed in some battle, and who are still wounded and bloody, you can perfectly well bring them back to the charge the next […]
On the SSR case
On the Sushant Singh Rajput case I have a couple of points to make. The first point is that the criminal justice system is broken in India. I have myself been the victim of a serious crime and in the end I compromised the case for a fraction of the total amount that was stolen […]
Sadhguru on Happiness
I have had some responses to my last article about being happy. A cousin of mine is a follower of Jaggi Vasudeva (aka Sadhguru) and she messaged me as under. (The link to the article in question is here – https://insightsandexperiences.com/what-to-do-when-you-are-not-happy/ ) Here are my cousin’s messages Cousin: Liked how you summarized so much philosophy/spirituality […]
What to do when you are not Happy
I have read a number of books on spirituality including Osho, Aldous Huxley and books published by the Ramakrishna Math. Here are some of the common teachings. All is a manifestation of the Divine. Two noteworthy Buddhist teachings are This very body the Buddha and This very mind the Buddha. These are either Mahayana or […]
On Religious Faith
This article is on faith – in particular religious faith. I spoke to a friend a couple of days back regarding this topic. He is a mature and well educated person and has seen the world. He said that in his opinion more people have died because of God than because of Satan. He felt […]