Author: Mandar Karanjkar
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Oh my dark night….
I dance with you, my dark night In the dancing, remains only light….. I was running, away from you Again and again trapped by you…. You are such a lover with your frightening silence I was being coward, trapped in my own fence…. Today I gathered the courage to look in your eyes I saw…
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A good definition of Good…..
What is meant by good? How can we define what is good? Are their some conditions that must be satisfied to be good? Many philosophers and intellectuals have wasted their lives to tell what good is. many thinkers have written hundreds of pages about good and bad. What in actuality good is? While reading an essay The…
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Do not forget the Sangha
Gautam Buddha had mainly focused on three aspects- Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha. In simple words, Buddha means the enlightened one that it, the master. Dhamma means the truth or the eternal values which master has and the Sangha means the commune of the master. I remember an interview given by Swami Rajneesh. What I loved…
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Bhimsen Joshi passes away……….
The morning of 24th January 2011 was a deep pain to all the music lovers. The Indian Classical Music lost one of his legends. The notes were orphan, saddened was the sky. The emperor of Indian Classical Music, a legend, the singer who had attained godlihood through his music, passed away. Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, one of…
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The art of learning….
It is often believed that everything can be taught. In all the fields, this holds true. A teacher is needed. To teach students science, maths, physics, yes, a teacher is needed. But as far as spirituality is concerned, no one can teach it to you, you have to learn it. The basic reason behind this…
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Love or Deal?
Some days ago, we had a nice discussion about love and relationship. The most fantastic thing is that, both girls and boys were present in the discussion. The topic was of course about a girl saying yes or no to a guy’s proposal. A girl raised very significant point, that the girl at very first…
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Ancient Indian Planes: Vimana
In today’s times, in metallurgy, we have hardly ten types of crucibles where as in ancient scriptures in India, there are hundreds of crucibles with manufacturing process of each of them given in Sutras. These scriptures have chapters devoted to metal extraction, purification, alloys, furnaces and anything that we can even imagine. A very brilliant…
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Yeh Jo Halka Halka……
Paas Rehta Hai Duur Rehta Hai Koi Dil Mein Zaroor Rehta Hai Jab Say Dekha Hai Un Ki Aankhon Ko Halka Halka Suroor Rehta Hai (Near or away, certainly someone is living in the heart.Since I saw her eyes, what remains is a mild dilute intoxication.) When I heard these words from famous sufi qawalli…
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The Sculptor
There was a very famous king living in the India. He had finest troop of artists with him and was very much in delight by the quality of these artists. He had finest singers, dancers, painters and yes, there was a very nice sculptor also with him. The king was always in wonders with the…
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The old house……
Here I go back, over a dusty road I don’t know where, I don’t know why…. Thousands of trees are going back, and there is my shadow trying to merge with each of them… I come in front of a gigantic house…my own… Very old, absorbed in me, but now, it is detached… This is…