Author: Mandar Karanjkar
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A 'Belief Breaker': The need of time…
Jail Cell Once upon a time, a very deadly monster came to a sage and asked him,”Please tell me what is an illusion”.The sage told the poor creature to sit inside a near by cave and asked him to continuously think for two days that he had horns.The monster want inside the cave and closing…
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Give me the Fire…..
The first time, for asking something… You gave everything; without being asked Just like an egg….sufficient with what it needs… You showered though I had no capacity to contain….. You poured though I had no will to contain….. But I flowered….With what ever percolated…… I have heard…more grass,more water…. more water,more grass……. The grass is…
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Cannot Things Just Be?
We have built a great structure of morality a big structure of ethics all around us.The thing which we boast about most often is our morality.Each generation is happy and satisfied that it is handing over a great bunch of moral values to its next generation.But deep down I see a very cunning and non-spiritual…
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The Act-less Act….
The theory of Karma is very similar to Newton’s third law of motion.Third law says that there is equal and opposite reaction to every action.The theory of Karma believes that whatever you do,the very act produces its own fruits.To put it in other words,each and every act you do, it leaves behind an impression.And what…
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10/10/10-make it a memorable day..
Awareness 10/10/10 must be a memorable day because it already has 3 ten pointers in it.I would like it to be most memorable day in my life by attainnig ten pointers on three fronts in my life- 1.A ten pointer on the scale of consciousness- All misery disappears with the consciousness just as darkness vanishes…
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3 Eternal Basic Needs.
The spiritual progress of man basically is based on three factors.The first one is presence of an enlightened master, second one is presence or availability of a commune and the third one is your very inner nature.In Buddhist tradition, these three are respectively termed as Buddha,Sangha and Dharma. There is one similarity between Gautam…
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Replacement is not the answer……..
Human shields greeted as they cross the border into Iraq Change change change……..this what we want.No one is happy with what he is.No one is contented with what he is.What everyone wants is change.Ya I appreciate change if it is in the form of transformation.Replacement is not the way.If we replace today, we will again…
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The Hindu : Arts / Music : My First Break: Pandit Ravi Shankar
The Hindu : Arts / Music : My First Break: Pandit Ravi Shankar.
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Divine Strings……
In india one can find thousands of stringed instruments.All these instruments were collectively called as Veena.One of the very famous stringed instruments of all these Veenas is Sarod.In India Sarod has been played by many famous players which were praised internationally. The most famous and most profound Sarod player from India was Ustad Allauddin Khan.Allauddin…
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Be your own celebrity…….
谷津バラ園 The whole life of man is wasted in being someone else.From his very birth each and every child is given some ideal;that should be like your dad or like your mom or like some famous politician or industrialist.The child is allowed to be anyone except what he is. I think,the whole human misery lies…