January 2010
114 posts
“Awakening cannot take place as long as the idea persists that one is a seeker.”
– Ramesh Balsekar
December 2009
65 posts
“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving”
– Lao Tzu
Rest in peace, Ramesh Balsekar. We’d planned to hear you speak at your satsangh tomorrow morning, but when I tried to book a driver just now to take us to your apartment we learned you’d left your body behind on Sunday September 27, 2009. Advaita lives on in your inspired words.
“The question of what will happen to me when I die is indeed as misconceived as...”
– Ramesh Balsekar
“Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every...”
– Swami Vivekananda
Love is to inhale pain and exhale light. Inhale war, exhale peace; our hearts expurgate suffering and radiate love.
Yogis are the garbage collectors of Humanity, expunging suffering and transmitting love as they walk the path of Dharma.
“We should not turn the mind from one thing to another, except for relaxation,...”
– Blaise Pascal
“The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep!”
– Jalalud’din Rumi
It is not easy. But it is beautiful to have the...
Published in the London Times, Tuesday July 23, 2002 in the pullout features section accompanying an article on cochlear implants commissioned by my cousin Justine, then a features editor at the Times.
She didn’t edit much, which pleases me. I just found it again on my old blogspot. The picture Asti took in St. Kevin’s Arcade ran with the story. Enjoy.
‘It is not easy. But it...
“An aimless life is always a troubled life. Every individual should have an aim....”
– Sri Aurobindo
“Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.”
– Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi
Love hoarded always turns stagnant and rancid like an oxbow. Like water, Love must always flow.
Empty your heart of Love. Give it all away to everyone. Nature abhors a vacuum, and Love will spring to fill your heart until it eternally brims with Love radiating out from within.
“Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art—
Not in lone splendour hung...”
– John Keats. This is one of my favourite poems.
Am I getting worse? Thoughts on self-doubt →
I needed to read this. Maybe my writing isn’t as shite as I think it is …
“According to the Shastras [ancient books of wisdom] the two main enemies of...”
– Shri Parthasarathi Rajagopalachari
“Tune us, that we may hear Thy Voice.
Volumes of Thy savior voice plunge...”
– Paramahansa Yogananda