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Bhagavad Gita

Arjuna says: "O Krishna, How can i fight on this battlefield, how can I raise my bow and aim an arrow                                         to shoot my grandfather Bhisma and my respected teacher dronacharya.."  What generally happens in the growth of man. Man...

Mirror

There is a space in the empty mirror The space in the mirror has to be filled to see your image. The space is the seat of invitation for the body to reflect but the body cannot take away the space. The room is nothing but space, you bring furniture to occupy the space...

Narcissists

There is a pinch of Narcissist in us I have seen narcissists prefer to sit opposite to the mirror in anybody's home. They speak and they look at the mirror.  They go through the whole episode of conversation by looking in the mirror often, as if someone has a camera...

Knowing14

The world is one  We all are one and we live in each others You take an individual anywhere in the world, he will be struggling. He looks normal from outside but when he is near, he is full of problems.  Why? When we started living with others, we hurt each other...

Like

I like you  What that means, I like you but I like you not so much. We have our society inside the society. We always like people but not love them. We love people who are blood related. We fall in love actually we never really love them that's one of the reasons...

God is not available

God sees things that happen inside of human civilization as normal.Hence there is no immediate punishment for wrong doing. The concept of money, wealth, character, moral..etc are applicable to humans who live inside the concept of society and not to the understanding...

Cry

You never cry for current event Whenever we face some problem and can't act like an animal, for example when we are not able to kill someone who hurt us then we cry. The cry was not coming from the present moment actually it came from the knowledge of impotence to...

Zen Koans3

One day as Manjusri stood outside the gate,  the Buddha called to him, "Manjusri, Manjusri, why do you not enter?"  Manjusri replied, "I do not see myself outside. Why enter? The gate belongs to mind. If you move above mind there is always Gateless Gate. you always...

Tree

Tree is valuable because anything not created by man is valuable. When I started learning the meaning of quotes, the one that stayed in my heart was about Tree. It say "Like a tree we each should  find a place to grow and branch out." Yes, how true it is. I have read...

Compromise

We always want someone to compromise. Someone to share less in business/ Someone to share less freedom i.e. wife/ Someone to take the blame i.e. scapegoat.. We want other parties to agree to our term to show our power or superiority, the result is, in turn we create a...

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Office Meeting

Office Meeting

Office Meeting has its own way of understanding. We all attended a meeting, at least once in our office,  Assume a new policy is introduced, everyone in the meeting would have experienced it, as if we all understood the idea behind it.  But actually we are not, that's...

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There are always two opposite aspects in everything.   Have you watched the tree?  It is so hard but still it allows us to make furniture out of it.  You can sit  and put on your entire weight confidently and you are never going to get crushed.  How come the same tree...

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Temporary

Temporary

Your word temporary does not refer to the present situation. Actually it belongs to the future    Anything you say temporarily will become temporary only when you change it. The change will have to come in future to prove the past one to be called temporary otherwise...

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Wisdom

Wisdom

You may be here You may not be here You cannot be in (both places) here and there.   Sometimes you may be proved wrong e.g. when two protons emitted from the same sources, travelling in different directions but still can interact and alter the happening irrespective...

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Meiyazhagan

Meiyazhagan

The visible tree belongs to the present environment, but the root belongs to the birth. Here the story swings around this concept. We never forget day to day events but suppress them under our conscious mind. Just a clue or smell is enough to bring to our attention.  ...

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BLACK

BLACK

Once upon a time there was no time!!   There was a true incident. A woman experienced his brother arriving from an army leave. Later she received a phone call that her brother died on the battlefield. When she rushed to his brother's room, there was no sign of his...

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