Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Amjad Ali Khan- The soul mate..
I have one very touching recording of raga Kamod by Ustaad Amjad Ali Khan, one of the famous musicians of India. At the beginning, Amjad Ali Khan gives a small preface in his magical voice, completely absorbed in music. At the beginning, he says that each and every Raga has a soul. I have heard almost…
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Osho in a nude bar!
Yesterday, while reading a book by Osho himself, I came to know a very wonderful incidence in his life. Osho, when he was in Mumbai was travelling with his friend in a car. As they were going, the friend of Osho, just in fun stopped the car in front of a nude bar and asked…
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Ghalib: Why so difficult?
In this world, things never come the way we want. We never get the things bundled the way want them. This somehow decreases the availability of the things and restricts it to only selected masses. When I read Ghalib, I realize that this law holds true for poetry also. Ghalib’s poetry is one of the…
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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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