about reason and coherence and sense they are small dry library shelves to store boring files of memory and rote. how dare they pretend to be the Thing? Read More »
A few passages on Love, Ananda and the new world by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother For there is, concealed behind individual love, obscured by its ignorant human figure, a mystery which the mind cannot seize, the mystery of the body of the Divine, the secret of a mystic form of the Infinite which we… Read More »
By Prema Sankar All of us have our issues or disagreements with certain people or situations, which we address as our “problems”. How much so ever we try to run away from these “problems”, they eventually hit us and hit us hard depending on how far we have tried to run away from them.Earlier I… Read More »
By Prema Sankar This is quite a personal journey and I am intending to write it in as detached and generic manner as possible so that I can myself look back and apply it in other situations in life. I have read so many times about the mind+body+soul connection. Since I began my inner journey,… Read More »
By Zalina Gamat At the end of the two-semester course that I attended in IPI from September 2015 to April 2016, one of the last tasks that we were assigned was to write appreciation notes to each other. We were each handed a small white folder, with sheets bearing the names of each of our… Read More »
Highway - ek selfie aar paar — A Marathi film by Umesh Kulkarni A Reflection on Life by Sakshi Tandon Highway is a film about the journey undertaken by various travellers in separate vehicles on the Mumbai-Pune highway. Each one is in a hurry to reach their destination. This outer journey however turns out to be… Read More »
A hairline crack in the idyll Würzburg, Munich, Reutlingen, Ansbach – some dead, some injured, many scared. Four outbreaks of violence within six days, partly rampage, partly religiously motivated terror, in places not far from where I live. No more do these things only happen to other people, in far off places, where you might… Read More »
The biggest and the most refreshing departure from western psychology to Indian psychology, for me, was the shift from trying to understand the other, to ‘know thyself’. This is a process, a journey, an adventure, which entails a dive inside, from our surface knowing of oneself into all the deep, hidden, unbeknown layers of oneself… Read More »
I came across this very interesting perspective on “spiritual experiences” while reading Christopher Isherwood’s book called, “Ramakrishna and his Disciples.” I have often wondered what makes an experience ‘spiritual.’ What is that special quality that can suddenly change even an ordinary experience into something deep and meaningful? Whether we are all capable of experiencing something… Read More »