The start of the disciple’s journey

By DivyaPosted on December 21, 2016March 22, 2017Cat IPI, Psychology2 Comments

For the longest time I had always imagined that the only reason one goes to a Guru is because one is unable to deal any longer with the blows Life has meted out to you. The blows can be various: a deep existential crisis, a broken relation, a persisting physical pain, an emotional imbalance, the… Read More »

The art of communication – through the lens of Equanimity

By AditiPosted on December 7, 2016March 22, 2017Cat IPI, PsychologyLeave a comment

How much ever I wish and hope telepathy to be the official channel of communication, the role of language and active communication cannot be denied in today’s world. We all live together, grow together and it is human interactions that keep us alive. Exchange of ideas, sharing our happiness and sorrows, the feeling of being… Read More »

Invitation

By DivyaPosted on November 9, 2016March 22, 2017Cat IPI, Poetry, PsychologyLeave a comment

By Sri Aurobindo With wind and the weather beating round me Up to the hill and the moorland I go. Who will come with me? Who will climb with me? Wade through the brook and tramp through the snow? Not in the petty circle of cities Cramped by your doors and your walls I dwell;… Read More »

Equanimity

By AditiPosted on November 2, 2016March 22, 2017Cat IPI, Psychology2 Comments

The word equanimity brings to my mind the image of a vast ocean in which different streams come from all sides and completely merge into it but the ocean remains unaffected and continues to ‘be’. There is a sense of calmness when you look at the ocean, no matter how rough the waves are, we… Read More »

Detaching from a situation while in it

By Guest BlogPosted on October 26, 2016Cat All, IPI, Miscellaneous musings, Psychotherapy and counseling, Uncategorized1 Comment

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 »

Notes of a silent flute

By Navni GujralPosted on October 22, 2016March 22, 2017Cat Poetry, PsychologyLeave a comment

On the darkest night notes of a silent flute play fire-dance in my heart. The player sends his invisible breath to hold me hush within its palm. Following footsteps of its tunes I grow invisible too. One time I'm a bird resting free atop tall walls. Another, a foolish slave drunk on a drop of… Read More »

The Guru-Disciple Relationship — Part-4

By DivyaPosted on October 18, 2016March 22, 2017Cat IPI, PsychologyLeave a comment

That human relationships are complicated would be a huge understatement. They are much more than just complicated, they are often dark, murky, and messed up. Who of us has not experienced the sheer frustration and despair of not having our expectations met? Or the agonizing pain of having a broken heart? Or the complex and… Read More »

Last give and take

By Navni GujralPosted on October 15, 2016March 22, 2017Cat Poetry, Psychology4 Comments

One day a sick pauper undid the knots that tied his tattered coat together. Down fell the murk free came the stench from fresh red wounds that secretly loved their colour. He collected his dirt in a bowl and took it to the sea and spoke with the dancing waves. "This my last give and… Read More »

Midnight stories

By Navni GujralPosted on October 7, 2016March 22, 2017Cat Psychology, Society2 Comments

Late last night my brother reached out to me to chat. Unsure of his way forward professionally, he mumbled that the endless advice from those concerned was only confusing him. “Why are you listening to them then?”, I asked comfortably from the sideline. “The thing is…I don’t really know what I want, and maybe they… Read More »

Indian Psychology as I see it

By AditiPosted on October 4, 2016March 21, 2017Cat IPI, Psychology, Teaching IP4 Comments

Psychology as a discipline is now more than 100 years old in India, still the term ‘Indian Psychology’ is new to us and is interpreted differently by different people; some believe it to be limited to the natives of the country while others take it as something psychologists in India do. In actuality, ‘Indian Psychology’… Read More »