Mandar + Dakshayani

Author: Mandar Karanjkar

  • Khushwant Singh – An infinite creativity

    Some people have a magic surrounding them. They live life beautifully. Their life has a fragrance of its own. Their creative forces are very very active. One of such personalities, is Khushwant Singh. Their are very few people I love. It is not a question of liking, but of loving. Khushwant Singh is very lovely…

  • Pandit Bhimsen Joshi

    It is said that it is very difficult to have something very precious and not to show of it. People who have nothing, even they can not stop themselves from showing of. But yes, there are some persons who have some very rare and precious things, and yet, they do not show of. This rule…

  • Drop Drop by Drop

    Today, I came across a very wonderful saying by Lao Tsu. Among all the mystics I love, I have a very special love for Lao Tsu. The saying, mentioned in the sacred space is as follows- In the pursuit of knowledge, Every day I acquire something…… In pursuit of Tao, Every day something is dropped…………

  • Salt doll and the salty sea….

    Ramkrishna Paramhansa, one of the greatest souls this earth has ever seen, was famous for using easy to understand parables. Very complicated questions were being asked to him. These questions were from illiterate people, professors from different universities, profound thinkers and many different qualities of people. These questions, though difficult to understand, and yet more…

  • Distinction- The reason of Sorrow

    The thing man is constantly running away from which but while doing so going closer and closer to it, is sorrow. If a man was allowed to paint his life for himself, he would never have included the colour of sorrow. Many thinkers have tried their best to find out what is the actual cause…

  • Ghalib: The unbeatable Beauty

    Many poets, I love. I love them for their beauty, for their tenderness.Ghalib is one of those poets. Ghalib was not enlightened. He was not a saint or the one who had seen. But, his vision was very sensitive. He had immensely sensitive. Here, I again a remember a beautiful couplet from Ghalib- People are…

  • Jalaluddin Rumi- The poet who could see

    Today, I remember a very beautiful couplet from famous Sufi mystics, Jalaluddin Rumi. Rumin was a poet who had seen the truth. There are many people who are good poet. Also, there are some people who have seen. But this combination is very rare. Combination of poet and mystic. The couplet of Jalaluddin Rumi says,…

  • Sabarimala controversy and Jaymala

    The very nature of Human beings is that of dominating the others. Males have dominated women for thousands of years. Males somehow have managed to prove themselves a plane higher than the women. From the very old times, rituals are being practiced which are much more humiliating in nature and much harmful to the dignity…

  • The Eternal Connection

    The Thirst of earth is known to sky.. The eternal connection, thats why… The pregnant silence of a bud Is never wasted in mud The thirst to rise Is the only vice.. What is needed is thirst to grow Everything happens, then in just a blow This eternal connection is what I love In the…

  • Spirituality : A boon for the lames….

    Spirituality has been considered as the boon for the whole living beings. To be spiritual is considered as the highest possible achievement. I am in Nagpur enjoying my vacation. Yesterday, late night, at one Xpress Coffee, my all the notions about spirituality were revolutionized. A Man, with long hairs, who is generally addressed as Baba comes…