This is an experimental dish, so I wanted to share my vegan Phad Thai noodles recipe, should anyone else want to try it out or improve upon my experiment :) I ate Phad Thai noodles in Thailand a few times, and always wanted to learn...
My experience of the deep spiritual process of Nirahara Samyama during Navaratri 2020....
This song plays in my head on repeat mode sometimes. Sometimes my thoughts wander around and end up on this song. It is not really the song itself, but rather the spirit it captures, that I love: We can be heroes. At the end of the...
I go through phases in life: phases where I am running and phases where I wish I were running. There is no in-between. About 8 months ago, I developed a condition which caused me immense shortness of breath and weakness. The pollution worsened it, probably. The...
First things first, I'm not sure if I will exit social media, or when I will, but it is definitely on my list, and has been on my mind of late, and there are some pressing reasons for it. This post is about that. Some time...
One of the biggest blessings of my life was being born into a vegetarian family. Being a vegetarian by birth is a luxury few can lay claims on. I see so many ppl struggle with vegetarian cooking & moving away from meat. I don't judge...
Someone who is not doing what you are doing can never grasp the problems and challenges you face in what you are doing, and how rotten it feels when you are not able to do what you set out to do as well as you...
I'm one of those people who love cherishing the romanticized idea that passion for something and loving what you do is what decides how well you do it, and how successful you are in it. I'm not wrong. But I have to admit, that I am...
My story of how my spiritual life started with Ganesha when I was too little to even know Him....
My way of dealing with such people is: move or you will be moved. ...
Anyone who knows me knows that I have always been a tea aficionado. Tea and I go way back....
I have always wondered what it takes to have patience...
The idea of easy and tough is different for different people. For one, running may be tough, and for another, not running. Being a runner for a long time, suddenly being told to not go running is something I wasn't prepared for. Except that I...
"Knowing the future suffering, ends the future suffering."...
Freedom has little to do with outer actions. It has to do with your inner space...
Many people want to be heroes. But few are ready to do what it takes....
"Imposter Syndrome" is just the psychiatrist jargon for feeling like you are not as good as others think you are....
To anyone who really knows me, they will know that I take health breaks every few days. It is not any grand secret. It is a part of my life, and something I have learnt to live with, and manage. But what many don't know is...
This must be one of the quotes I have pondered over for the longest time, and very often. It says a lot, and yet, many people misunderstand it all the time. 99% of the times when people say they will "try," what they really mean is...
I have always known that love is a more powerful force than anger. ...
Writing a book is quite unlike writing anything else. QUITE.It is like letting your brain & every other sense organ get fried in the content that you are writing.It means you go to sleep thinking about it, and wake up with it. It means food,...
All problems in life start with conflicts - conflicts in conversations, conflicts in execution, conflicts in thinking, conflicts in what you want....
In my recent travels, I met a little kitten. Rather, she found me. Or maybe, I was drawn to her. You get the idea. She looked almost like a miniature version of my Cookie. She warmed up to me immediately. Started rubbing on my feet,...
There are storms which overtake your existence. Which change everything you are doing, where you are going, where you want to go. Which uproot the very foundation of your existence. In the middle of such storms is silence. Not the silence of death or pain or...
There are days when you are high. There are days when you wry. And then there are days when you are like, ""Why, oh why?" Okay, enough of poetry. It is not my forte. But I think I have reached that point, where I don't even see...
What made Neo The One? Right before jumping, Morpheus gives a hint: “You have to let it all go Neo…fear, doubt, disbelief. Free…your…mind.” ...
This was my last Song of the Day to my mailing list. I am starting backwards...
An eternal revelation, a mystery, a conscious fire, a happening, an immeasurable energy, an ocean of mysticism, a congregation of enlightened beings, a place beyond space and time – and, a completion of lifetimes. Kailash, the abode of Shiva. The place where the entire cosmos...
In the year 2008, I was depressed. “Depressed” is too small a word actually. I am depressed every now and then even now, that’s not such a big deal though. It’s like having a cough or cold, it disappears in 2-3 days. In 2008, I...
Mountains have a unique quality - they allow you to forget yourself. ...
There are times in life, rare times like this one, where I undergo a complete dismantling. I look, sound, appear “normal.” But I am actually delirious. ...
I thought dreams are what drive us forward. But I feel like I’m living something like my own version of Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut. ...
I completed two levels of Nirahara Samyama. Now the real challenge begins. I have already come this far before. I already knew I can come this far. The next level is the one yet to master. ...
Today, I decided to solve a problem for myself, for once and for all. I wanted to identify what are the things that "put me off," why they do so, and resolve them in one way or the other....
Being misunderstood has a lot to do with these opinions generally flying around. People wanting to box you into one category or another; one stereotype or another. ...
This was just an overwhelming love for Krishna which I wanted to express with my paints. ...
"Samyama" is a Sanskrit word that is sandhi of "sam" and "yama." It literally translates to bringing balance to and being in tune with all of nature. ...
Not everyone who writes is a “writer.” To be a writer is to be many things at the same time. ...
You don't need to looooowe Mondays. But you don't need to hate it too. You can love both weekends and weekdays. ...
A seasoned warrior tries to avoid battles many times. That is not his weakness. It’s his compassion. ...
Feelings were a big problem. Thoughts you can discard. Feelings tend to persist. ...
They love attention. They hate being ignored. ...
The act of creation, by definition, is creating life, it’s giving life to something. And whenever there is creation, there has to be destruction ...
To make art you need inspiration. When you make art, you share that inspiration with scores of people. Yet, what happens if you run out of fuel? ...
It’s the same with the world we see outside, and the world that is inside – inside our minds....
I did not know where it would take me, but I knew that I was “into it,” and that mattered. ...
Any place can be seen in multiple ways. We are usually so preoccupied and saddled with our perceptions & thoughts that we don’t see things the way they are. ...
One of the most subjective and subtle parts of photography, your style of photography is something many photographers neither understand, nor choose or create consciously. ...
In some ways, my life had just begun. I another way, it was already looking bleak and hopeless because I didn't know what life was for. ...
The cause of Chris Cornell's death was hanging. What was the cause of hanging? Depression doesn't kill people. Pills do. ...
Fluoride is a poison. Anything told to you differently, is a lie, sugar-coated in more poison. ...
Why Eid is the Biggest Massacre Unstopped by Animal Rights Organizations ...
