Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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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…
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'No achievement' is the greatest achievement
Wings of Love, Joy, Peace and Hope for 2007 To be oneself is the greatest achievement that can ever a human being have.Somewhere there lies some basic mistake in our total approach towards life where achieving something is promoted as the goal of life.I wonder why there should be some achievement or some goal in…
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A Voyage to the Moon
Bonsai Moon The tendency of enjoying anything when we get it free is really very dangerous. Just now people were asked if they get free voyage to moon,will they go or not? As it was expected the answer was yes of course.The only reason for the answer being yes was the trip was offered free.…
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A dog on the boat club
A dog on the boat club Being established from the time of British people,our college has a boat-club.None of us knows much about these boats but each and every one agrees that it is the nicest place in our college to be.In india,such place is also loved by a creature named as dog.In India,generally no…
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Philosophy-The most useless thing
To increase his level of consciousness has always been the priority of humans. At the same time to preserve his own ego also comes along. Between these two tendencies of his own, trapped is the man. The whole life of man is captured between these to priorities. The worst part of the situation is that…
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Richard Feynman-A Mystic
Mysticism or spirituality and religion are very different things.Religion is a doctrine and mysticism or spirituality can be a part of each and every doctrine.Let it be arts,science,physics or technology;mysticism will be a ‘approach’of studying the same.A scientist can also be a mystic.Generally,religious people turn to mysticism so we forget the very fact that mysticism is an…
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Feel the Zen,Be the Zen…
When any religion is started or rather to be more precise,when any religion is established by followers of any enlightened master, the very beauty or the very essence disappears. Each and every religion was very wonderful when the master who was behind it was alive. Then the disciples try to organize the religion, make a…
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Morality-have we understood it rightly?
There used to live a very old sage in India famous all over the world for his wisdom.The sage had a big number of followers spanning the whole world and also a very large number of disciples trying to get the pearls of wisdom from him.Each and every word spoken by the mater was a…
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