What is Reality? From a Yogic perspective


Photo by: Tim Bogdanov/Unsplash.

In this article, I am going to describe objective Reality, as explained in the way of Yoga. It is definitely a hard challenge to objectify something beyond my own comprehension, but I will try to do my best to explain this topic well-entrenched in the …

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The beginning of a magnificent journey


Let us sit down and relax ourselves: our body, mind and the rest of what comprises us. Let us be a rock for a few minutes, and let time flow through us like the water in a river. Magnificent things will happen when we sit still and simply observe.

Originally …

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Om in a nutshell


Om: the common teaching of all religions and the freer of all humans. Image posted on Meditative Mind.

I copy the following verses from one of the ancient Hindu scriptures:

ॐ (Om).
ॐ असतो मा सद्गमय ( Om, Asato ma Sad Gamaya )
तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय ( Tamaso …

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A journey of a lifetime


I was sleeping in my car parked on the side of a road of a forest far away from my town, in the darkest of nights, all by myself, with nothing to do besides to be my true self.

I knew when the night started that I will always remember …

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The Stranger Within Us


The omnipresent stranger residing within us, seeing us grow and eveolve through time. Image originally published in the Meditative Mind.

There is a stranger within us that we do not know about. We do not know how it came to be, nor do we know of his* destiny. What we …

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A house: a home


Can it be such in this life that I wake up for a few moments from this monotonic dream, from my associated names, and from my body? Can I become nothing, or rather, as they say, everything?

A house needs to permit me a shelter in myself, and drive away …

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On Being a Yogi


Let us pause our daily lives for one second. Let the sand in the hourglass stop its motion for just a moment, and let the entire universe stop along with it. “I” and only “I” am awake at this moment in the infinite Cosmos. At this moment, my identity is …

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LinkedIn Bio: Skyscrapers and Mountains


I used to dream that I would climb the Himalayas one day, but I am climbing the skyscrapers of Silicon Valley instead.

I was born in a rural village in the Himalayan mountains to two school teachers who taught me to yearn for something bigger than myself. As I woke …

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Battle against addiction


I want to Quit Smoking.

I want to quit smoking. It’s a hard battle, but I hope that with some support and some effort, I will be able to quit smoking for good. I will keep you posted here.

Day 1 (Sep 27, 2020): I set my quit deadline …

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You are an amazing person.


You are an amazing person. You came into my life unknowingly and gave me so much. You gave me a good friend. You gave me a reason to smile, and a reason to love. When I took so much from you with the incident, I felt hopeless as if I …

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