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Life is full of challenges, but how we respond to them defines our journey. In this episode, Swami Sukhabodhananda ji shares profound wisdom on navigating hardships with clarity, resilience, and inner peace. Learn how Dharma can be a guiding force in overcoming difficulties and leading a life of purpose.Swami Sukhabodanandaji is highly esteemed in India as a Spiritual Master. He's known for his profound insights, motivational talks, and deep understanding of Vedanta. Often called the Corporate Guru, his teachings focus on fostering personal transformation through clarity and comprehension, rather than mere adherence to beliefs. Many corporations seek his guidance, and notable figures like Sudha Murthy and various celebrities and politicians turn to him for wisdom. Every day, he oversees Annadhana, providing meals for over 5000 people. His ashram is based in Bangalore.Swamiji's Online Courses:Spiritual Warriors Boot Camp Online CourseIndia Link
Why do we feel nervous in social situations? What holds us back from expressing ourselves freely? In this insightful episode of Swami Sukhabodhananda Ji's podcast, "What Makes You Socially Anxious_ Explained," uncover the hidden causes of social anxiety and how to overcome them with wisdom and clarity. Tune in to discover practical steps to build confidence, ease your mind, and transform your interactions.
In this enlightening episode, Swami Sukhabodhananda shares powerful insights on how to incorporate meditation and spirituality into a busy lifestyle. Whether you're juggling a demanding career or personal commitments, Swamiji offers practical techniques to help you find inner peace, stay grounded, and nourish your spiritual well-being amidst the chaos. Tune in to discover simple yet transformative practices that can elevate your daily routine and bring balance to your hectic life. Listen now to learn how to meditate and embrace spirituality, no matter how busy you are! ------------------------------------------------------ Swami Sukhabodanandaji is highly esteemed in India as a Spiritual Master. He's known for his profound insights, motivational talks, and deep understanding of Vedanta. Often called the Corporate Guru, his teachings focus on fostering personal transformation through clarity and comprehension, rather than mere adherence to beliefs. Many corporations seek his guidance, and notable figures like Sudha Murthy and various celebrities and politicians turn to him for wisdom. Every day, he oversees Annadhana, providing meals for over 5000 people. His ashram is based in Bangalore. Swamiji's Online Courses: Spiritual Warriors Boot Camp Online Course India Link
In this enlightening video, Swami Sukhabodhananda ji explores the profound concept of why being good is not enough in today's complex world. He delves into the deeper dimensions of goodness, wisdom, and how to harmonize both to lead a truly fulfilling life. ------------------------------------------------------ Swami Sukhabodanandaji is highly esteemed in India as a Spiritual Master. He's known for his profound insights, motivational talks, and deep understanding of Vedanta. Often called the Corporate Guru, his teachings focus on fostering personal transformation through clarity and comprehension, rather than mere adherence to beliefs. Many corporations seek his guidance, and notable figures like Sudha Murthy and various celebrities and politicians turn to him for wisdom. Every day, he oversees Annadhana, providing meals for over 5000 people. His ashram is based in Bangalore. Swamiji's Online Courses: Spiritual Warriors Boot Camp Online Course India Link
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Handling Issues: The Ultimate Guide to Handle Your Issues is your go-to resource for mastering life's challenges. In this video, we dive deep into practical strategies and effective methods to tackle various problems that come your way. Whether it's personal, professional, or emotional issues, we've got you covered. Learn to handle your issues with confidence and ease, transforming obstacles into opportunities. Our expert tips and step-by-step guidance will empower you to take control and navigate through any situation smoothly. Don't let problems hold you back; watch now and start handling your issues like a pro! Join Guru Poornima Utsav today.
In this video swamiji explains how to train your brain to be calm #sukhoham #swamisukhabodhananda Swami Sukhabodanandaji is highly esteemed in India as a Spiritual Master. He's known for his profound insights, motivational talks, and deep understanding of Vedanta. Often called the Corporate Guru, his teachings focus on fostering personal transformation through clarity and comprehension, rather than mere adherence to beliefs. Many corporations seek his guidance, and notable figures like Sudha Murthy and various celebrities and politicians turn to him for wisdom. Every day, he oversees Annadhana, providing meals for over 5000 people. His ashram is based in Bangalore. Swamiji's Online Courses: Spiritual Warriors Boot Camp Online Course India Link
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This week on Schooled thru Spirit Host DeEtte Ranae welcomes David A. Schwerin, Ph.D. David is the author of three books and dozens of articles published worldwide. His latest book, co-authored with Diana Muenz Chen, Know Your Soul: Bring Joy to Your Life, was published in late 2019. David has studied with 2 international mystery schools for over 40 years and has received specific guidance from his Higher Self and Soul for the more than 25 years. This guidance has enabled David to introduce various ideas to China where he has received numerous honors for his work including being named a visiting professor at several universities, the Hebei Counselor Association, and honorary Director [of the Corporate Responsibility Research Center of] at Suzhou University of Social Science and Technology. David has given scores of presentations and media interviews to audiences in the U.S., China and India. David has appeared on numerous Podcasts and radio shows and was a regular contributor to the Times of India's Speaking Tree blog—one of the largest spiritual blogs in the world with over one million subscribers. Join them LIVE on Schooled Thru Spirit as they discuss her journey on our website www.wltkdb.com or on your favorite social media platform under WLTKDB at 9:00 am cst.
BIO: Priya Kumar is an internationally acclaimed motivational speaker, bestselling author, and now screenwriter. She has written 15 inspirational books that have won 42 international awards. STORY: Priya ignored the need to learn basic accounting and instead left her money matters in the hands of her accountant. The accountant took advantage of her ignorance and swindled all her money. LEARNING: Learn basic accounts and finance. Analyze your profit and loss statement and balance sheet every month. “Learn accounts so that you're always aware of where your money is going.”Priya Kumar Guest profilehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/priyakumar-motivationalspeaker/ (Priya Kumar) is an internationally acclaimed motivational speaker, bestselling author, and screenwriter. She has written 15 inspirational books that have won 42 international awards. She has worked with over 2000 multi-national corporates across 47 countries and has touched over 3 million people through her workshops and books. Priya has written over 700 columns for national and international publications. The media have extensively featured her work in India and abroad, and she has been invited as a celebrity guest on several business, entertainment & reality shows. Priya was awarded the Times of India, Speaking Tree, and Good Karma Award as India's most Inspirational Author. Known as The Biography Specialist, Priya is currently penning the official biography of Mr. Pullela Gopichand, the Olympics Badminton Coach. Priya wrote the biography of Late Shri O.P. Munjal, the founder of the Hero Group, and Subhashish Chakraborty, the founder of DTDC, which made it to the most famous biography of 2015 on Amazon. Worst investment everPriya didn't know anything about finance or accounting, so she hired an accountant to manage her money. She didn't know that he was stealing her money through forgery and deceit to the point that Priya had no money in the bank. The theft went on for a year and a half. Circumstances aligned, and it came to Priya's notice through her bank that she had issued some checks, which she hadn't. She reported the whole thing to the police, and the accountant was caught. However, there was no way to bring the money back. It's been six years, and the case is still in court. Priya is yet to get any money back. Lessons learnedWhen you delegate your accounts to somebody, put systems around it. Learn finances and accounting so that you're always aware of where your money is going. Andrew's takeawaysMake sure you get your profit and loss statement and your balance sheet every month. Reconcile your accounts at the end of every month. You don't need to become a financial or accounting specialist. Just learn the basics. Actionable adviceIf you want to be wealthy and protected, invest in learning finance basics. No.1 goal for the next 12 monthsPriya's goal for the next 12 months is to be centered and solid and do whatever it takes for her to find herself. Parting words “Be responsible. Whatever happens, it is your doing and your creation.”Priya Kumar [spp-transcript] Connect with Priya Kumarhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/priyakumar-motivationalspeaker/ (LinkedIn) https://www.facebook.com/authorpriyakumar/ (Facebook) https://twitter.com/kumarpriya (Twitter) https://www.instagram.com/priyakumar7272/ (Instagram) https://www.youtube.com/user/priyakumar1973 (YouTube) https://www.priya-kumar.com/ (Website) https://amzn.to/3aCMWPi (Books) Andrew's bookshttps://amzn.to/3qrfHjX (How to Start Building Your Wealth Investing in the Stock Market) https://amzn.to/2PDApAo (My Worst Investment Ever) https://amzn.to/3v6ip1Y (9 Valuation Mistakes and How to Avoid Them) https://amzn.to/3emBO8M (Transform Your Business with Dr.Deming's 14 Points) Andrew's online programshttps://valuationmasterclass.com/ (Valuation Master Class)...
Swamiji has talked about the positives and negatives in life. We know that there is darkness shining inside of each moment, but it's a part of this existence we all share. The difficulties we face are actually making us stronger and purifying us. his video explores the power of will and its connection with our subconscious mind. We explore how our thoughts and feelings can lead to a powerful manifestation of what we want.
Faith In God, The Self, And In The World Around By: C L Gulati Jan 10, 2022, 17:08 IST Whenever we require something in life, we acquaint ourselves with its known attributes and characteristics for an objective test to affirm our faith in its genuineness. Once the attributes are testified, it becomes all the more reason to pin faith on it and accept it to serve our purpose. Faith does not work apart from intellect but gives soul to the intellect; it gives a power that the mind can never measure. Faith and intellect are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to identify the truth. Faith stands for affirmation of truth, followed by acceptance of the truth affirmed. Without the first, faith is blind, and without the second, it is meaningless.All the evolved persons agree that God is one and that man's first duty is to realise Him. If a man loses faith in God, he loses faith in himself. It spells a crisis of character. The attributes and characteristics of God given in all the acknowledged scriptures are the same. Seeing God face to face by the grace of a satguru, man clinches his faith and gives assent to this divine testimony. While the beauty is said to be skin deep, the enlightened faith enters the bones and prompts the man, "Love the Lord, your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandant,” (St Matthew 22:37-38). In times of difficulty, the devotee with such an abiding faith never says, ‘Hey God, I have a big problem.' Instead he says, ‘Hey problem, I have a big God.'Satguru plays a pivotal role in a man's life. The singular objective factor identifying a satguru, true master, is the instantaneous, direct introduction of man with the all-pervading God. This enlightenment marks the seed of faith in the satguru. Thereafter, the devotee completely surrenders to the master. Nirankari Satguru Mata Sudiksha ji says, "If a person has a strong urge for God-realisation, he will find a true master to bless him with God-knowledge."Faith of the devotee in the true master is important, but it is equally essential for the devotee to earn the true master's faith in him. While ordaining knowledge of the all-pervading God is the distinctive mark of a true master, accepting and implementing his ‘word', in letter and spirit, is the hallmark of the devotee. It is said that those who joyfully leave everything in God's hand, eventually see God's hand in everything. Worry ends where faith begins. The joy we derive from faith is often our strength. When our faith deepens, we become true disciples. Like a steady generator, faith gives power when all else fails. Faith once shaken cannot be restored and for the victim it is an irretrievable loss. On the other hand, practising, in letter and spirit, the guru's ‘word' means gaining the world. Earning the faith of the satguru, the Gursikh, in turn, is blessed with the triple faith that we all need today: faith in God, faith in the Self, and faith in the world around us. This omnibus faith broadens our horizons, like the vastness of God, and provides a road map for a smooth life. The writer is president, Sant Nirankari Mandal.
Is there a God or not? If there is, give some evidence for its existence. " Admittedly this question dilated upon here, there and everywhere, is not only a difficult question, but strange also because this is asking about something in which millions of people rest their belief and normally, inability is expressed to prove or disapprove scientifically the existence of God. Watching the ways of the world, everyone deplores the animosities that have plagued the society at large merely on the basis of differences in religious labels.The question shares genuine concern of all human beings. The apostles labored hard, the martyrs died in torments, the scholars and scientists proclaimed the beauties of higher life, sociologists untiringly inculcated the sense of duties of good citizen, the philosophers pioneered sublime thoughts and all agreed that God is one and that man's first duty is to know Him as one. Witnessing shocking crash of human values both vertically and horizontally, seeking evidence of God is not the question but answer to the multiple hydra-headed problems defying peace, purity and prosperity throughout the world. One of the greatest modern psychologists, Sir Jung has described in his book, "Modern Man in search of soul" that among all his patients, there had not been even one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. Great thinker, Augustine of Hippo writes, "Restless are our souls until they rest in Thee, My God. " Life is incomplete without God. If a man loses faith in God, he loses faith in himself. It spells crisis in character resulting in chaos and violence all around.Her Holiness Satguru Mata Sudiksha Ji – Spiritual Head of the Sant Nirankari Mission says that oblivious of their spiritual identity, the people have raised suffocating walls inter-se. They do not go beyond their faith to mix up with each other freely. As a result, there is no mutual love. In the absence of love, there is no reciprocal respect. Lack of respect breeds distrust which ultimately culminates in hatred and violence, causing global turmoil and shocking crash in human values. To reverse the gear from hatred and violence to love and peace, it requires mutual trust between man and man. Trust presupposes mutual respect borne out of love. Natural love is possible when man treats and tolerates the other man like a brother. Coming to this point, universal brotherhood and emotional oneness of mankind is the utmost need of the day and that is possible to achieve spontaneously and simultaneously through the realization of Fatherhood of God. God is oneAs God is one and omnipresent, He is cosmic and common to all. All the prophets have total agreement on this – God of one prophet is also the God of all other prophets. Being one, God cannot be divided or sub-divided. Only such a God is to be worshipped. As per the Old Testament, man is made in the image of God, superior to all species having inherent power to know God. The prophets rejected the deadwood of religious rites and put forth the concept of true worshipper. As a social being man needs wisdom which is more valuable than material wealth, making one humble and lovable. The eternal continuity of True Master (Prophets) with their revelation of one Formless God, the process of humanisation and rearrangement of human relations on the basis of love and humility characterise the mainstream of spirituality in the world. In this background, all the prophets and the acknowledged scriptures are part and parcel of the mainstream of spirituality. The centre of God is everywhere and circumference nowhere. The whole of the universe is stationed in the Omnipresent and the Omnipotent God. (Atharva Veda 19:53:3). TRUE MASTER (Prophet) SATGURUAs the Divine Truth is eternal, so is the True Master (Satguru) to bless the seekers with Divine Knowledge. "Prophet is said to be the oldest and the newest on the earth, like the day and night which have followed each other
Ghalib's Poetry Reveal His Spiritual Radicalism By: Sumit Paul Dec 27, 2021, 11:01 IST One of Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib's couplet that showcases his 'spiritual radicalism' goes like this: ‘Na tha kuchh toh Khuda tha, kuchh na hota toh Khuda hota/Duboya mujh ko hone ne, na hota main toh kya hota' -- When nothing existed, Khuda did exist, I'd have been Khuda, had I not existed/ My very existence sabotaged that possibility, my non-existence would have made me Khuda. To the uninitiated, Ghalib was an agnostic, if not an outright atheist. But if you delve deeper, his poetry gives an impression of his profoundly spiritual bent of mind. Ghalib was intrigued by human existence in the vast expanse of the kainaat, universe. Metaphorically speaking, the couplet defines Advait, non-dualism, of the Eastern consciousness, when the Creator and Creation are not separate entities but one. This couplet of Ghalib serves as a template for modern existential philosophy and solipsism. Like Allama Iqbal, Ghalib also claimed to think in Persian. Poets with a Persian backdrop have invariably been influenced by the mystical poetry and ideas of the Sufis. At the same time, it's a known fact that Persian mysticism borrowed heavily from the Upanishads and Vedanta. Ghalib underlined that 'merging philosophy' of Eastern consciousness when he wrote, 'Ishrat-e-qatrah hai dariya mein fana ho jaana/Dard ka had se guzarna hai dava ho jaana' -- the glory of a drop is to merge itself in the vastness of the river/ When pain exceeds itself, it becomes its own remedy. But towards the end of his life, the poet said, 'Khud ko bekhudi se bhi aage le gaya hoon/Khud hi khud mein nihaan ho gaya hoon' -- I've gone beyond the state of self-immersion/I'm lost in myself. This he wrote in a letter to his coeval poet Ibrahim Zauq, who was Emperor Bahadurshah Zafar's teacher. According to Ralph Russell, author of 'The Oxford India Ghalib: Life, letters and ghazals,' Ghalib represented true spiritualty that is humaneness and deals with humanity. That's why he could say: 'Bas ke dushvaar hai har kaam ka aasaan hona/Aadmi ko bhi mayassar nahin insaan hona' -- It's just difficult for everything to be so easy/Even a human is unable to evolve into a ‘humane being'. What Aldous Huxley thought of spirituality as 'humans practising humanity with humaneness' in the 20th century, Ghalib said the same a century before him.A nominal Muslim, Ghalib's faith had the conviction of spiritual courage and uprightness of a believer: ‘Bandagi mein bhi woh aazaad-o-khudbeen hain ke hum/Ulte phir aayein dar-e-Ka'aba agar waa na hua' -- Even in worship, I'm so free and emancipated that I'll come back if the doors of Ka'aba don't open for me. Lastly, Altaaf Hussain Haali Panipati, Ghalib's shaagird, student, wrote in his biography of Ghalib that the poet had completely repudiated the idea of tasawwuf, Islamic mysticism, as dimaghi futoor, an idiosyncrasy of the mind. In one of his Persian couplets, the poet dared ask Jalaluddin Rumi and Hafiz Shirazi, two stalwarts of Persian mysticism, 'Your brand of spirituality is delusional/Step out of your ivory towers and experience God, if at all God does exist.'December 27 is Ghalib's birth anniversary.
By Narayani Ganesh The essence of being human is illustrated beautifully through an Ubuntu proverb in Zulu culture, and this was often recalled by Nobel peace prize awardee and archbishop, Desmond Tutu: “I am a person through other people. My humanity is tied to yours.” He would explain it as follows: “One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu – the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can't exist as a human being in isolation. It speaks about our interconnectedness … We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole world. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity.” That is, the butterfly effect is as true among peoples of the world as it is true in the intricate web of nature, wherein all beings, animate and inanimate, are closely interconnected.Scholar-researchers Jacob Mugumbate, University of Wollongong, and Andrew Nyanguru, University of Zimbabwe, sum up Ubuntu philosophy as ‘I am because of who we all are.' Such an attitude would likely lead us to the essence of the summum bonum philosophy that denotes the “fundamental principle on which some system of ethics is based, that is, the aim of actions, which, if consistently pursued, will lead to the best possible life.”Mugumbate and Nyanguru published a paper on the place of Ubuntu philosophy in the study and practice of social work in terms of its impact on ethical and social issues that require deeper understanding coming from a wider, humanistic perspective. Something that is desperately needed, in a world being riven by meaningless divisions and conflicts.When we dehumanise others, we end up dehumanising ourselves, said Tutu, who felt that to heal both spirit and body, one had to learn to look at the positive aspects of any person, group or situation rather than focus only on the negative aspects. Both Tutu and Nelson Mandela stressed on the significance of magnanimity, reconciliation and forgiveness rather than on revenge and retribution. This was the spirit in which the famous Truth and Reconciliation proceedings took place in South Africa to help both victims and perpetrators of the Apartheid to overcome all the unpleasantness and tragedies, inspire forgiveness and herald a new era of hope, faith and love that would lead to peaceful and dignified co-existence.Ubuntu provides one with a strong sense of community “to override divisions and heal the scarred collective psyche”, pointed out Tutu. What we are as individuals is the sum of all that went before us; of all that we experience now and of all that could possibly happen in the future. A beautiful Ubuntu practice Tutu often related, involves community members sitting around a person who has committed wrong, and speak of all the good that person has done, focussing on all his positive qualities, for a few days in a row, in a sort of purification, a revelatory ritual. The belief is that all of us are good, but we do sometimes make mistakes, which is really a cry for help. The ritual is intended to help the person reconnect with this true nature – in the belief that “unity and affirmation have more power to change behaviour than shame and punishment.” ganeshnarayani@yahoo.com)
Saguna Brahmn, Qualified Consciousness, is the cause of the creation of the universe. In other words, the universe has originated from Brahmn. But if Brahmn or Bhagwan created the universe, a very pertinent question arises about the availability of the material or stuff from which the universe was made. Saguna Brahmn also needs some material to create the universe just as the potter needs clay to make his pots. A potter obtains his clay from the earth. So then has Brahmn also obtained the material from someone else? The material and its owner from whom Saguna Brahmn borrowed it must have existed even before the Brahmn came into being, and that this owner is bigger than Saguna Brahmn has to be admitted. It has already been accepted that Brahmn is non-causal. Nothing existed before it. And so the material from which the universe is made could not have existed before Brahmn.What could be the material out of which Saguna Brahmn made this universe if nothing existed before or beyond it? The universe, which is so visibly existent, could not have been created out of nothing. The only material available to Saguna Brahmn for creation was its own Self. Hence, it has to be accepted that this creation is only Saguna Brahmn metamorphosed into all that we find in the universe. The entire universe is formed from Saguna Brahmn. It is only this which is manifested as this creation. To say that Brahmn is present in a book means that the book is a separate entity and Brahmn occupies that entity. This gives the impression of two separate entities – Brahmn and the book which appears to be outside Saguna Brahmn. This is completely incorrect as it has already been established that everything is made of Brahmn; It has assumed the shape of everything. Hence the correct thing to say would be that the book is Brahmn or that It has assumed the shape of a book also. This shows that the book and Brahmn are not two separate entities and that the book did not exist before Brahmn. This alone is the correct expression, for Brahmn is infinite and eternal and nothing can exist beyond or before It. The book could not have existed before Brahmn. In fact nothing could have existed before Brahmn. Every speck of dust is only Brahmn. Brahmn is the cause of the entire creation and it is the collective name for Prakriti and Purush. Which of the two then forms the creation? Prakriti is a unique force – a principle, the only function of which is to qualify Purush. Purush cannot perform the tremendous task of giving Prakriti the form of creation. Prakriti does not assume the shape of the creation and it is only Purush who could take these forms. Hence, the stuff of which the entire creation is made is Purush. Prakriti qualifies Purush to give Him different forms and Purush has to follow the designs of Prakriti. For example, a potter shapes a lump of clay according to his designs. The lump of clay is comparable to Purush and the potter who provides the force, to Prakriti. Similarly, Prakriti gives all these shapes to Purush according to Her wish to create this universe.
A Genuine Hug Could Make All The Difference By: Narayani Ganesh Dec 14, 2021, 17:41 IST For those who are grieving – either over the loss of a loved one, loss of, or on hearing news of a tragic copter crash that killed all on board – nothing one says can alleviate the pain and suffering they are going through. In fact sometimes words could have just the opposite effect, of aggravating the state they are in. But there is something in a hug that makes the aggrieved feel less pained, less stressed and less lost. Scientists say that hugging triggers the release of oxytocin in the body, which is why it is also referred to as the ‘cuddle hormone'. Oxytocin tends to reduce stress and increases happy feelings.This is perhaps why Mata Amritanandamayi began hugging those who came and poured out their problems to her. One warm hug from her and poof! Everything seemed to get better, and the visitor went away feeling that there was someone who really cared and who could feel their pain and empathise with them. This wordless therapy has worked for millions who have met this hugging mother or Hug Ma as she is popularly known. Scientists who explored ‘how to hug,' say there are two kinds of hugs performed by strangers. What makes one hug better than another? In the first, “crisscross” style, each hugger puts one arm over their partner's shoulder and the other arm under their partner's arm. In the second, called “neck-waist” style, the researcher put both arms under the participants'. In total, each of the 45 female participants in the study received six hugs, each hug lasting for anything between 1.5 seconds to ten seconds.Anna Düren, psychologist at Goldsmiths, University of London, and the study's first author, says the Covid-19 pandemic began before she and her colleagues could collect mixed gender data in follow-up studies. Nevertheless, part one of the study done in a controlled environment concluded that hugs of a shorter duration were less effective than those of a longer duration, even if the hug was from a stranger. The experiment's second phase took place in the real world. Researchers recruited 100 pairs of students observed socializing on campus to hug in public. The team gathered data on gender, height, and how emotionally close the pairs rated themselves. Without prompting the students on how to hug, it was found the crisscross style was more common, accounting for 66 out of 100 hugs. Düren says the male-male preference for crisscross hugs was especially interesting because previous work has indicated people feel more egalitarian about this style of hugging. The crisscross, she says, might convey closeness without adding romantic subtext.Hugs don't just confer emotional closeness; they've been shown to improve our mental and physical health. Hug Ma has been hugging visitors for decades now, as a sort of spiritual therapy, and this has never failed to make the hugged feel better. It gives one a sense of being accepted, understood, and empathized with, resulting in a magical effect; hence the moniker in Hindi, ‘jaadu ki jhappi', magical hug, that leaves one feeling loved, cared for and wanted. Hugging speaks volumes without having to use words, and is comforting, calming, therapeutic and soothing. So long as the intention is pure and the feelings are altruistic, even hugs from strangers, at a time when you are down and out, can work wonders. ganeshnarayani@yahoo.com
In an interview a few months ago, when asked why he chose to write fiction in an age when there was so much misinformation being propagated both in mainstream as well as social media, Salman Rushdie replied, in effect, that the art form called literature, at its best, creates not falsity but a reality that is truer than many ‘facts' which dominate present-day discourse, fissured as it is by ideological antagonisms of all kinds. Apart from the virus of fake news that has infected public life, could there be a philosophical underpinning to fiction's impudent claim to be ‘realer' than ‘reality'? The British Empiricists of the 17th and 18th centuries, such as John Locke and David Hume, laid the foundations of modern scientific enquiry by saying that any hypothesis about the nature of reality had to be based on experiment. However, in the same breath, they also said that our experience of reality was founded on our senses, on our individual sense perception. So, the colour blue, say, that I experience might be very different from that which you experience, and both may be quite different from what is ‘really' blue, what is blue in reality. As the contemporary science writer Gary Zukor puts it: “Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our percepts. What we perceive is what we look for. What we look for depends on what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. What we take to be true is our reality.” Round and round the mulberry bush. If we are enmeshed in this circularity of thought do we need even more windmills of the mind as represented by quixotic fiction? Certainly not, proclaimed Plato, the most draconian of censors who wanted to banish all art, starting with poetry and poets, from his ideal Republic. In Plato's view human life was a pilgrimage from being trapped in the world of false sense perception into the clear light of transcendent knowledge. To illustrate this, he used the metaphor of a cave in which we are all held as prisoners, chained and facing a wall. Behind us is a fire which casts our shadows on the wall. We perceive this game of shadows to be reality. If we realise the illusory nature of sense perception we can emerge from the cave and bask in the sun of the immutable Idea of the Good. Poets and artists, by luring us with imitations of the Real distract us from this quest, which is why they should be expelled from society. In her book The Fire and the Sun, the novelist and philosopher, Iris Murdoch, examines Plato's critique of art and presents an eloquent defence of aesthetic creativity. The creation and appreciation of art, far from being a form of escapism, creates a bond of empathy between the writer and the reader, the painter and the viewer. “Art,” she concludes,” is a great hall of reflection where we can all meet and where everything under the sun can be examined and considered.” Which could include the ambiguous irony of Plato using the artistic metaphor of the Fire and the Cave to justify his repudiation of art, which in its limitless freedom of spirit can encompass its own negation.
When Prized Possessions Gain Immortality By: Sudhamahi Regunathan Jan 06, 2022, 16:04 IST One of the side effects of the pandemic has been that every one, at some time or other, has ‘cleaned' their house. Looking at all the stuff they have collected they have asked almost innocently, ‘How did we manage to collect so much?' Suitcases and cupboards full of clothes and other things that one had not even seen for the past few years but could still not be thrown away. “Our desire to possess says a lot about us,” says psychologist Bruce Hood. “We own so many things that often the garage is full of stuff while the car is standing in the driveway.” Author of ‘Possessed', a book about possession and the madness to do so, Hood says in an interview, “There is a little demon inside us that is compelling us to go for more and more things. Our need to have more than we actually require is born out of a desire to control.” It is true that when a child goes to the park with a ball of his own, he becomes the leader to those who have not brought their playing balls. So this desire for the power of control is born rather young. And then we have memories attached to that ball…the first one my daughter played with or the one with which I won a game and so on. We never throw it away. Does our self-esteem come from these past glories that we need to preserve them all? Does our sense of identity suck in these material objects too? In the ‘Valmiki Ramayan', Ram and Sita were preparing to go to the forest on their fourteen-year exile and the first thing that Ram told Sita was, “Now that you have decided to come with me, give away all your belongings.” She began distributing all her jewellery instantly. Ram instructed Lakshman to collect all his possessions. They made a pretty pile with so much glitter and dazzle. Ram then began distributing them, carefully and with affection. Ram and Sita gave away not only their jewellery but also the livestock in their care, even their furniture. They looked for the right person for their things. To the young disciples of sages, Ram said enough should be given so that they could pay their guru's fees and would still be able to get married and manage a life thereafter. He gave to those who would be looking after his mother in his absence. He gave to young women who did not have adequate support and so on. A man called Trijata was very poor and could not feed his family. He came to meet Ram. His wife had suggested he go ask Ram for she had heard he was distributing his wealth. Ram zested with him by giving him a stick and saying that he would get as many cattle as would fall within the area where his stick fell. Trijata did cover quite a distance, but Ram gave him even more than what fell within that mark. There have always been many a Trijata around us, would we honour and give a longer life to our precious belongings, if we gave them away with joy in our hearts.
By Osho You don't know the usefulness of the useless. In fact, the useful is only useful so far. It has a certain utility, but the useless has no limitation to it. What is the use of a rose flower? No use, but life would be very empty without rose flowers. What is the use of laughter? It is not a commodity; it does not feed people. If you are hungry, it will not help. If you are ill, it will not help, it is not medicine. If you are fighting with somebody it will not help, it is not an atom bomb. Of what use is laughter? That's why the people who look at life with the eyes of a utilitarian don't laugh. They don't love because what use is love? To them it is wastage, a wastage of energy, time, life. To them it is stupid because it is useless. They earn money rather than falling in love, because money is useful. Love has no utility, but love has grandeur and splendour. Without love what is life?Of what utility is meditation? Sometimes people come to me, and they ask, “What will we get out of meditation?” They are thinking of getting some profit, they want some result. And I say to them, “You are not going to get anything out of it.” Meditation is not a means to some end; it is an end unto itself – that's why it has no utility. What utility is there in poetry? That's why in the countries where people become too money-minded, poetry starts disappearing. Have you watched it happening in America? Politicians, rich people, businessmen – they live long; poets die very soon.It was not so in ancient Greece. In ancient Greece, poets, philosophers, mystics lived very long. In India in the past, yogis and meditators lived very long, but now that is not the case any more. Politicians and actors in India live long. We measure people by their utility, we reduce people into commodities. I'm not saying don't do anything useful. I'm saying do useful things but remember that the real and the greatest experience of life and ecstasy come out of doing something useless. It comes through poetry, it comes through painting, it comes through love, it comes through meditation. The greatest joy floods you only when you are capable of doing something useless, useless in worldly eyes. Because it can't be reduced into a commodity, that's why they call it useless.Now if you invent something, a gadget, you can patent it and you can earn money out of it. But if you write a beautiful poem, you can't earn any money out of it; it is just wastage. People ask, “What are you doing? Why are you wasting your life?” But writing poetry, if you really have been into it, is a great joy in itself. Nothing else is needed, you are already rewarded. No other extrinsic reward is going to make any difference to you. The reward is inward, intrinsic; it arises out of the activity. Writing poetry, painting, or playing on the flute – they are not utilities.(Abridged from The Wisdom Of The Sands, courtesy: Osho International Foundation, www.osho.com)
Jesus Says Through Struggle Centring Happens By: Osho Dec 22, 2021, 13:13 IST Jesus says: Men possibly think that I have come to throw peace upon the world, and they do not know that I have come to throw divisions upon the earth – fire, sword, war. Whenever a man like Jesus comes, the world is immediately divided between those who are for him and those who are against him. You cannot find a single person who is indifferent to Jesus. Whenever a Jesus-type is there, immediately the world is divided. A few are for him and a few are against him, but nobody is indifferent. It is impossible to be indifferent to Jesus. If you hear the word, if you look at the Jesus, immediately you are divided: either you become a lover or you become a hater; either you fall in line or you go against; either you follow him or you start working against him. Why does this happen? Because a man like Jesus is such a great phenomenon and he is not of this world. He brings to this world something from the beyond. Those who are afraid of the beyond immediately become enemies; that is their way of protecting themselves. For those who have a desire, a seed hidden somewhere, who have been searching and searching and longing for the beyond, this man becomes charismatic, this man becomes a magnetic force: they fall in his love. They have been waiting for this man for many lives.The world is immediately divided: either you are for Christ, or you are against him. There is no other alternative; you cannot be indifferent. You cannot say, “I'm not bothered.” That is impossible, because a person who can remain in the middle will become a Jesus himself. A person who can stand in the middle, in neither love nor hate, will go beyond the mind himself. He creates great turmoil, not only in individuals but in society too, on the earth; everything comes to be in a conflict, a great war starts. Since Jesus there has never been peace in the world. Jesus created a religion. He brought something into the world which created such a division, such a conflict in all minds, that he became the focus of all history; that is why we say, “before Christ,” “after Christ.” He became the focal point. With Jesus, history starts. His attitude, his approach toward the human mind, is very different from that of a Buddha or a Lao Tzu. The goal is one, the ultimate flowering is going to be one, but Jesus' approach is absolutely different. He is saying that through conflict growth is achieved; through struggle centring happens; through war peace flowers. But don't take him literally, whatsoever he is saying is a parable… Jesus was not talking of the swords of this world; he brought a sword of a different world. What is this sword? It is a symbol. You have to be cut into two, because in you two things meet: this world – the earth – and heaven; they meet in you. One part of you belongs to the mud, to the dirt; one part of you belongs to the divine. You are a meeting point, and Jesus brought a sword to cut you asunder, so the earth falls to the earth and the divine enters the divine. Abridged from The Mustard Seed, courtesy Osho International Foundation, www.osho.com
By Ullhas Pagey Isaac Newton was not only an eminent mathematician and physicist but also an erudite philosopher, a deeply spiritual person and a theologian known for Biblical literalism. To most of us, Newton is known for his laws of motion, and there appears to be a striking similarity between these laws and some tenets of Indic philosophy. Newton's first law, also known as the law of inertia, states that if a thing is at rest, it will continue to be at rest and if it is in motion, it will continue to be so unless an external force is applied. Inertia is common among people with predominantly tamasic tendencies. They can be lazy and indolent, and many times need an external stimulus to get moving. Similarly, those with a hyperactive nature might find it difficult to be at peace with themselves. So, to bring change in their temperament requires external interventions such as regular physical exercise and meditation.The second law is that if the same force is exerted on two objects with different mass, they will gain different speed. The heavier one would require more force to move than the lighter one. Likewise, lazy people would need more prodding and pushing as compared to agile ones. The third law, also known as the law of action and reaction, states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Interestingly, this resonates well with the law of karma, which means that whatever action we perform, either good or bad, has a bearing on our destiny. Whatever goes around ultimately comes around. Good karmas result in noble values, whereas bad karmas result in vicious values. After all, a person is a product of his past karmas. The saying goes: As you sow, so shall you reap. Newton's contribution is not restricted to the laws of motion alone. He is credited with the discovery of ‘calculus' – a branch of mathematics that is anchored around the concept of independent and dependent variables, that is synonymous with the relationship of ‘cause and effect', often mentioned in our scriptures. It states that the working of the entire universe is governed by this basic law. Through the discovery of calculus, Newton seems to have given a quantitative and tangible shape to what seems to be rather a lofty concept of cause and effect relationship.Spirituality identifies three constructs of human personality: body, mind and intellect. Most of us are focussed either on our body or get trapped in the web of emotions and make the least use of the intellect, which every one of us is bestowed with. Newton, however, was an exception. While sitting in the garden one day, he saw an apple fall from a tree, and this led him to formulate the law of gravity. What fired Newton's imagination to explore this phenomenon in detail? It was the spirit of inquiry, a function of intellect. When Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity, he is said to have replied, “By thinking about it all the time. He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God, but he who really thinks has to believe in God.” Today is Isaac Newton's birth anniversary.
By Sant Rajinder Singh:As we reflect on how we can better our lives in the new year, here is a blueprint to help us lead the kind of life God wishes for us. Our lives should be centred on love – love for God and love for our fellow beings. When we open our hearts to them and take time to be with those we love, think more about others, and try to show them how we feel. When we radiate warmth and love to all around us, when we are more patient, more tolerant, more compassionate to others. When we give, give and give to all around us to bring joy and happiness to their lives and to alleviate their burdens. It all begins as we connect with God's love through the process of meditation. When we take our attention away from the outer world and focus it within, we are filled with joy and bliss. We are inspired to live a life of service to others and to embrace all we meet as members of the same family of God.Our soul has an existence that is unconstrained by the limitations and boundaries we place on our body, mind and intellect. When we live at the level of our soul, we can transcend the walls of separation and embrace one and all. We develop the godly virtues of truthfulness, non-violence, selfless service, compassion and humility, and we lead the life that God wishes for us. Blog Blueprint for a life God wishes for us January 2, 2022 Divya Bharat Edit Page blog, India blog, Speaking Tree blog, Spirituality blog, TOI Edit Page blog By Sant Rajinder Singh As we reflect on how we can better our lives in the new year, here is a blueprint to help us lead the kind of life God wishes for us. Our lives should be centred on love – love for God and love for our fellow beings. When we open our hearts to them and take time to be with those we love, think more about others, and try to show them how we feel. When we radiate warmth and love to all around us, when we are more patient, more tolerant, more compassionate to others. When we give, give and give to all around us to bring joy and happiness to their lives and to alleviate their burdens. It all begins as we connect with God's love through the process of meditation. When we take our attention away from the outer world and focus it within, we are filled with joy and bliss. We are inspired to live a life of service to others and to embrace all we meet as members of the same family of God.Our soul has an existence that is unconstrained by the limitations and boundaries we place on our body, mind and intellect. When we live at the level of our soul, we can transcend the walls of separation and embrace one and all. We develop the godly virtues of truthfulness, non-violence, selfless service, compassion and humility, and we lead the life that God wishes for us.When we experience the Light of God within us through meditation, we also see the same Light in all people and all life forms. We realise that each person is valuable, being made by God, and carrying God within them. This makes us recognise all life as one human family. True spiritual development comes when we realise that we are all one. With that realisation, we no longer feel superior to others. We reach a state in which we recognise that all are important.With this elevated vision, we then develop love and respect for all life. We care about others and do not want to see anyone in pain. We become loving, selfless human beings committed to helping others. If each person awakened to the oneness of all life, there would be peace and happiness on the planet. The commodity that is most valued in the realms beyond this world, to which we all will go, is spiritual love. The soul is measured not by our financial records, but by the amount of love we have radiated to others. Did we love God? Did we love our fellow beings? Did we love all creation? Love is translated into thoughts, words and deeds that are expressed in kindness to others. It is expressed in how much we care about others. It is demonstrated by how much we give.
By Inder Raj Ahluwalia. His entire life a saga of selfless sacrifice, nobleness of thoughts and actions, and supreme belief in justice and dharma, Guru Gobind Singh was a guru and apostle. In his life span of merely forty-odd years, the Guru left behind a priceless legacy of beliefs and principles that have shaped Sikh thinking and behaviour and are of great relevance today. Guru Gobind Singh's life was one big struggle. His father, Guru Tegh Bahadur, was martyred in Delhi to save Kashmiri pandits, and he had the mortification of seeing all four of his sons killed, the elder two in battle, and the younger two bricked alive. Almost his entire life was spent fighting off the intrigues of the hill chiefs of north India and the ruling sultans. He lived on the edge yet continued undaunted in his quest for dharma.With martial considerations in mind, and to promote the cause of dharma, the Guru created the Khalsa, pure, on Baisakhi day in 1699. This was a new order of followers, a spiritual and social entity rather than a politically dynamic force. Calling the Khalsa pure and his very own, he thus gave a form to the concept of the ‘warrior saint', which he had championed all his life. The Khalsa were ordained to believe in one God, shun rituals and superstitions, seek respect for women, and consider everyone equal. The Guru's overall message was that one should look upon all persons as deserving of kind treatment, having a license to lead a peaceful and dignified existence. These virtues propagated by the Guru are precisely the beliefs the world needs today. Despite his turbulent life, the Guru was a great patron of the arts. At Paonta Sahib, he meditated, composed poetry and wrote much of the ‘Dasam Granth'. At Anandpur Sahib, he created the Khalsa. The Guru has inspired millions to look beyond their own, limited vision. As human beings, we tend to ‘take'. The Guru taught us to ‘give' rather than ‘take'. Because that is precisely what he always did. His presence keeps us going. Whenever one feels lonely, one only has to think of how he might have felt losing his entire family, and all loneliness tends to disappear. When tense or depressed, just think of all the problems he faced. Yearning for homely comforts, you just have to recall how he managed in his harsh surroundings, and suddenly your home starts to appear more comfortable. Guru Gobind Singh left us with a great gift – the ‘Guru Granth Sahib' – which he designated our ‘eternal Guru'. This ensures blessings for humanity at any Gurdwara in the world.He wasn't just a Guru for the Sikhs but also a saviour of other communities, instilling in them a sense of pride and dignity. His new order was a mission to ‘do right'. He did it right till the end and paid for his beliefs and ideals with his life, and that of his family. Four of the five Sikh ‘Takhts', thrones, commemorate Guru Gobind Singh, for if ever anyone deserved a throne, it is him. January 9 is Guru Gobind Singh Jayanti.
Recently I chanced upon a quote, attributed to the German philosopher Martin Heidegger, which intrigued me: “Every man is born as many men, and dies as a single man.”A disciple of the phenomenologist Edmund Husserl who sought to interpret the in-built ‘intentionality' of human consciousness which makes us invest meaning in the world – an artist will see a mountain as a painting, a tourist as a selfie opportunity, an entrepreneur as a location for a profitable ski resort – Heidegger broke from his mentor to pursue his goal to reconstruct Western philosophy by replacing the abstract foundation laid by Descartes (I think, therefore I am) with the bedrock of ontology, the investigation of Being, what does it mean for something to exist as opposed to not-exist. In his seminal work Sein and Zeit, Being and Time, Heidegger took human being-in-the-world, which he called dasein, as his starting point to arrive at an understanding of Being. While he had a profound influence on later existential thinkers like Sartre, Heidegger remains one of the most controversial figures in the realm of philosophy. Even as his advocates cite him as the greatest philosopher of the 20th-century, his critics decry him as a fraud, a con man carried away with his own polysyllabic pomposity which makes his abstruse prose impenetrable to even the most devoted of readers. Heidegger distinguished between what he called ‘authentic' and ‘inauthentic' existence, between life illuminated with the laser-light intensity of Being and life spent in the busy-ness of social conformity and the give-and-take of everyday transactions. “Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers”, as Wordsworth put it. So, short of renouncing everything and becoming a hermit in the Himalaya, how does one escape inauthencity and experience Being? How does one, as Heidegger wrote, experience “that wonder of all wonders – that things exist”. Viewing human existence as a journey bounded by the horizon of Time, an odyssey of even-unfolding possibility culminating in the ultimate possibility of death, Heidegger defined ‘authenticity' as a perpetual awareness of personal extinction. To constantly be brooding on my demise sounds a proposition which is not just glum but calculated to drive me into terminal depression. Not so, asserts Heidegger, in language more suitable to mysticism than to philosophy. Far from being a sure-fire formula for the pits of pessimism Heidegger claims that the steadfast contemplation of death liberates the individual from the distraction of daily triviality to ascend to a higher plane of consciousness and experience what Nietzsche called “dancing on the edge of the abyss”. The seeming paradox Heidegger poses – that Being can be realised fully only through the inevitability of non-Being – is as difficult to assimilate as his obscure, jargon-laden language, which distinguishes between several stages, or levels, of Existence, including one in his later work in which the word is used with a line running through it. Heidegger is certainly a hard nut to crack. But the kernel of his thinking might be found in the aphoristic quote that all men are born as many, but each man dies as one. Life begins with an undifferentiated Everyman, who through traversing the manifold pathways of possibilities open to consciousness creates a singular and unique destiny with the termination of that existence, which sums up and gives meaning to the journey in between. Some call this existentialism. Others might call it dharma.
Divine Grace Is The Highest Gift Of Them All By: Kamlesh Patel Dec 23, 2021, 15:08 IST It's the season of gifts and giving all over the world, from Deepavali, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, New Year, to Pongal and Sankranti, and it continues until spring. Actually, the timing of the gift really depends on the call of the giving heart or the hour of need of the receiver. The best gift is one which has the intention of purity behind it. That would show the state of joy or peace of the receiver, which matters most. A cup of cool water to a thirsty man in a desert is more precious than gifts of jewels or millions of dollars to a wealthy man. Now, how do we evaluate a gift? The capacity of the giver is more relevant than the material value of the gift. Saints like Shri Ram Chandra of Shahjahanpur, Babuji, admired a few rupees donated by a needy woman more than millions from billionaires. What gives life to the gift? It can only be love! The intention and attitude associated with the thought and the gesture are equally valuable., there is the story of Shabari, the tribal woman who gave half-eaten fruits to Ram and Lakshman, the sons of King Dashrath. This old woman would bite into each fruit to ensure that it was sweet and safe before offering it to them. Her loving hospitality worked as a balm to relieve some of their pain of separation from Sita. In the Mahabharat, when Krishn chose to stay with Vidur, instead of Duryodhan, Krishn happily ate the banana peels offered by Vidur's wife. She did this because she was so lost in love and adoration for Krishn. When Vidur pointed out her absent-mindedness, Krishn said, “The superb taste of these banana peels is not present in the banana.” O'Henry's ‘The Gift of the Magi' is also very inspiring. The wife, Della, sells her beautiful hair to buy a gold strap for her husband Jim's wristwatch. Jim sells his watch to buy a beautiful comb for Della's luxuriant hair. Neither of them could use the gift received from the other, but it filled their hearts to the brim with gratitude. Isn't forgiving the best gift? Miraculously, it turns out to be a double gift, it works for the giver and receiver. It has the potential to usher in a new heaven on earth by saving the world from hatred. Babuji Maharaj, the founder of the Heartfulness movement, adds that besides forgiving, if we also express our gratitude for the lessons learnt, perhaps that is the greatest in gift giving. However, only the one who has received divine grace can do it easily. The Divine's grace is the highest gift. It can happen in the presence of a divinised personality and not because one is deserving, meritorious or has earned it. While planting a sapling today is a splendid gift to future generations and there are other noble ways to give, like contributing to your favourite charities or performing acts of service, we need to continue aspiring for the highest, too! That's my wish for you. May that grace from the Divine descend on you in your act of giving and gifting. The writer, also known as Daaji, is the Heartfulness Guide.
By Neil Vimalkumar In the biblical narrative, we read about the wise men from Persia who brought gifts to baby Jesus. They brought Him gold, frankincense and myrrh. These gifts hold a lot of significance and meaning. Gold represents royalty. This is evident because these wise men came looking for a king and they went searching in a palace. In fact, their query in Herod's palace was: “Where is he who is born king of the Jews?” While this unsettled King Herod, the biblical account of Jesus' kingship is subversive. This ‘king' was born in a borrowed manger. The kingship ascribed to Jesus is not political power. Just before Jesus' crucifixion, the Roman governor, Pontius Pilate, asked: “Don't you realise that I have the power to release or crucify you?” Jesus replied: “You would have no power over me at all unless it were given to you from above.” Jesus' kingdom is spiritual, and not geographical or political. A quote attributed to the French emperor and General Napoleon Bonaparte is insightful: “Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne and I founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon sheer force. Jesus Christ alone founded his Empire upon love; and at this hour, millions of men will die for him.” This is rare royalty.The second gift placed in obeisance before the baby was frankincense. The resin-like material is fragrant and is obtained from Boswellia trees grown and traded in the Arabian Peninsula for about 5,000 years. This gift reminds one of the practice of the high priest, who went before the altar of God to burn incense. The role of the high priest was to plead on behalf of the people. Jesus comes across as one not only to represent God to humankind but also to represent humanity before a holy god. The Bible underscores this role of the Messiah that was born: “For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathise with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are, yet he did not sin.” Truly, a pleading priest. The third gift that was offered to the baby was myrrh, which is also a sap like substance taken from certain trees, has medicinal value and is also used in embalming. Myrrh, symbolises death. Jesus was introduced at the start of his public ministry as “a lamb who would take away the sin of the world”. From Abraham to the Passover in Egypt, these Jews had sacrificed a blemish-less lamb for forgiveness. The blood of a lamb was only a shadow of the ultimate sacrifice that God Himself would offer. Gandhiji once observed: “Jesus, a man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.” As the adage goes: “What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.” This Christmas season, no matter who you are, by His grace, you could be a gift to someone else. Let's make sure the gift goes on. The writer is a trainer with Life Focus Society.
Celebrating the Light that Overcomes Darkness By: Janina Gomes Dec 20, 2021, 10:19 IST In the account of creation, in the Book of Genesis, in the Old Testament of the Bible, we read that God created light and dispelled the darkness and the chaos there was on earth. Then he created the lights in the sky, the sun, the moon and the stars. Light is a metaphor for goodness and righteousness. Darkness signifies evil and sin. Light represents life. Without light everything would die on this earth. Jesus is the light of the world. His birth, which is now celebrated as Christmas every year, is not the whole story. Our celebration can only be complete when we embrace what the baby went on to do, what he did in his life, why he did it and what it means to us. Jesus' birth was in humble circumstances, in a manger. In his early boyhood, he was a refugee. He had a three-year public ministry when he performed great miracles, healed many and nurtured his disciples. This culminated in his self sacrifice, when he moved from adulation by the crowds, to betrayal, torture and execution, a path he willingly accepted. Three days after his death and burial, he rose again. This was a triumph of light over darkness and death that holds out for us the promise of eternal life. This is the message we also hear in the Gospel of John in the New Testament which says, “God is light, in him there is no darkness at all”. Similarly, in the Gospel of Matthew, there is again a reference to the light, when describing the transfiguration of Jesus on Mount Tabor, before three of his disciples: “There he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun and his clothes became as white as the light”. When the light fails in our homes, even a candle can light up the darkness and we are able to move around in the dark. A Christian journal tells us that God's light gives us spiritual insights and understanding that enables us to see far enough to take steps forward. Faith in Jesus, in the same way, may not help us to see miles before us, but it helps to light up our path, enough to continue forward, even if it means taking one step at a time. Light is also associated with truth. The light of Jesus exposes whatever exists, both good and bad. We cannot hide our transgressions. He knows and sees all. As Rev Michael Van Sloun says, the symbolism of light is a rich symbol. It can represent sacredness, blessedness, purity, innocence, goodness, perfection, glory, wonder, intelligence, enlightenment, wisdom, divinity, joy, truth and the presence of God. God does not leave our side in every season of darkness that we might experience in our lives. We know that someday morning will come. Night never lasts forever. In the meantime, as we continue our journey on this earth we have ‘Immanuel” or ‘God who is with us'. And as an American pastor famously says that means we can return to the dark again and again, rejoicing and praising God for the light we have and the one who loves us enough to remain with us all through our lives.
One fine day, ants started flying in the sky. They swarmed across space and bit any human who came along the way, harder than mosquitoes. They attacked all sweets, there was nothing beyond their reach. The bees started crawling. They could sting your feet without your knowing it. You would not scream with an ouch only if you happened to be watching the giraffe. The giraffe had taken to hopping on its head while its four legs faced the sky. “You will get a headache,” screamed the fox by way of caution. But with foxes one never knew whether it was out of concern, or just a cunning trick to make the giraffe stop. But the fox walked the talk and ran behind the giraffe with a balm and an ice pack. But in just a minute, it was difficult to tell who was running behind whom.The tigress could not care. She was painting her nails. Red, she thought, was a good colour or else a bright orange. The crow liked pink for he felt that made him noticeable as the leader of the band. Of course, he was not singing. Everyone knew he did not have a great voice, but he was playing the piano and what music he made! The only one who did not hear that music was the donkey, for he was listening to a podcast on rebirth. The cat was delivering the podcast. Nine lives they say, the donkey mused. The earthworm was watching all that was happening with wonder. Not wanting to be left out she wiggled the earth off her and decided to glide into a salon. A little makeover and given her figure, she would be able to wear one of those figure-hugging dresses she had seen in the showroom window the other day. The beautician was happy for though she loved her job as the beautician she was still not humble enough to clean the feet of lowly animals. So the lioness was happy the earthworm did not require a pedicure or a manicure.The elephant was looking for a backpack. She had decided to scale Mount Everest. So what if she weighed a few extra pounds, she wanted to use her strength and make headlines. The horse was of no help for he was drunk. Totally. The cuckoo was sad. She wanted to join the army and they were not hiring any longer. She had spent many hours practicing her salute and building muscles. She went to the hyena who was engaged in worship. He was also a clairvoyant. “Will i ever be able to carry a rifle on my shoulders and march on?” asked the cuckoo. The hyena looked into the crystal ball. The crystal ball was not clear. Smoky, hazy…high pollution…hazardous to look in, it said.At that moment, an early morning walker turned the turtle who had been lying helplessly on her back. Once again on her belly, the turtle exclaimed out of relief, “Ah! Things have come back to normal again.” Sometimes it is our own vision that must be adjusted. Get your perspective right, the world will be right too.
The holy season of Advent has begun. Advent is the time to open our hearts to welcome Jesus Christ in simplicity and humility. It's a preparatory period of four Sundays, leading up to the Nativity at Christmas. It is marked by a spirit of expectation, waiting, preparation, and longing. The word ‘Advent' is derived from the Latin word ‘adventus', which means ‘coming'. It is the solemn preparation for the arrival of Jesus with prayers, fasting, spiritual exercises, good works, and holiness of life. This sacred period is observed as a time of preparation for the celebration of the birth of Christ at Christmas, December 25.This long waiting period of four Sundays and weeks, helps the faithful to reflect upon the Word of God, sacred mystery, devotion, and ceremony. It is waiting in expectation of Jesus, the Son of God, who comes as a human being to love, forgive, and share with humanity his divinity. He is the image of God's love to humankind. The tradition of preparing an Advent Wreath is significant during this season. It consists of evergreen branches with five candles. The advent wreath with candles connotes Jesus as the Light of the world. The wreath made of evergreens with candles placed on it means continuous life, and its circular form depicts everlasting life. Fruits like nuts, cones, and seedpods that are used to decorate the wreath imply the nourishing and cherishing fruitfulness of Christian life. The symbolic candles on the wreath signify virtues of faith. The first candle denotes hope, the second candle represents love, the third candle indicates joy, the fourth candle signifies peace and the fifth candle symbolises Jesus Christ, called the Christ candle. During the Advent season, one candle is lit on every Sunday. Prayers are recited and songs are sung. The fifth candle is lit on Christmas to remind us of the light Jesus brings to the world. Another wonderful practice is to sing carols in churches. The choir groups also visit the faithful and sing carols to them. Santa Claus brings gifts and Christmas presents to people. It gives them the joy of the season and the message that Jesus is coming soon. Their hearts jubilate and make merry because the long waiting is going to end on Christmas. This is also a time to get ready with external decorations of homes, making a crib, and cooking cakes and desserts. More importantly, the internal decoration of one's own heart is significant. In this regard, spiritual practices help Christians come closer to each other. It is a good deed to do charity and help someone in need. The Advent season gives an opportunity to mend one's old self into new self and change wrong actions into right ones. The hallmark of the celebrations of Advent is transforming oneself into a better person. It is journeying into the deeper realms of intrinsic and extrinsic areas within. This opens a way to Self-realisation and greater spiritual benefits. The joy of Advent is doubled when we receive Jesus as the Light of the world in our lives.
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By Anjali Kalia The recently concluded COP26 conference held in Glasgow has highlighted the urgency to address the problem of climate change and rapidly rising global temperatures. The planet is crying for help. Scientists have proposed that we work towards being carbon neutral to balance our carbon emissions; that is absorb the same amount of carbon that we emit, by planting more trees and adopting eco-friendly, sustainable practices – being mindful of our carbon footprint. Besides population explosion and decades of abject misuse of natural resources, in the last few years we have witnessed an array of natural disasters, from forest fires, volcanic eruptions, storms and earthquakes, to rising sea levels. What we observe externally is also happening to us internally. The fire of rage, anger, resentment, denial and indolence is pervading through our being and playing havoc with our mental and physical wellbeing. Doctors and healers are consulted to no avail. They may provide some respite and we feel a little better, only to indulge in the same things that made us unwell in the first place. Much like what is being done to the planet. A lot of talk but no drastic measures on the ground. But now it is time to look within. Spiritual mentor Meena Om, founder of Pranam, often talks about the need to complete one's karma cycle to travel light. Recently, while talking to this writer, she spoke about meeting with open arms a person who had a falling out with one of her disciples. Why meet this person who she knew had behaved badly in the past? She replied nonchalantly, “That's because I had to close the karma cycle with her.” Life is also about being karma neutral, not only carbon neutral. We cannot address larger changes around us by remaining heavily laden with karma. Only when we are neutral, net zero, close our karmic cycles promptly, can we be free to evolve. Growth happens through actions performed to reduce karmas; evolve by being free from them. Meena ji frequently states that only karm, action, can cut karmas, karmic nets. Just go on performing every action without judging, criticising, or berating it. It has been lovingly placed in front of us by Nature to help us mitigate our karmic cobwebs. By questioning the same we add more confusion to it, starting another cycle of action and reaction. Net zero is a state of being sthitapragya, equanimous, and this happens only when we have cut our karmic bondage. The reverse is also true. Stay unaffected and release the self from the chains of karma. When we all start being more mindful of the ‘thought, word and deed' garbage that we collectively spew all over the universe, Nature too will start regaining her equilibrium. It is not possible to save the planet by external cosmetic actions alone. A holistic approach is required that involves all aspects of humanity. For healthy, spontaneous and effortless living, we need to drop our karmic load as early as possible. Karma attached to parents, gurus and the motherland can only be pacified by seva, true service; love and reverence towards every matter and being, and Creation. May we all act collectively to heal ourselves and our heavenly planet.
Be a light to oneself,this light is the law:J Krishnamurti:THE SPEAKING TREE:TOIBe A Light To Oneself; This Light Is The Law By: J Krishnamurti Nov 19, 2021, 19:03 IST A new consciousness and a totally new morality are necessary to bring about a radical change in the present culture and social structure. This is obvious, yet the left and the right and the revolutionary seem to disregard it. Any dogma, any formula, any ideology, is part of the old consciousness; they are the fabrications of thought whose activity is fragmentation the left, the right, the centre. This activity will inevitably lead to bloodshed of the right or of the left or to totalitarianism. This is what is going on around us. One sees the necessity of social, economic and moral change but the response is from the old consciousness thought being the principle actor. The mess, the confusion and the misery that human beings have got into within the area of the old consciousness, and without changing that profoundly, every human activity, political, economic and religious, will only bring us to the destruction of each other and the earth. This is so obvious to the sane. One has to be a light to oneself; this light is the law. There is no other law. All the other laws are made by thought and so fragmentary and contradictory. To be a light to oneself is not to follow the light of another, however reasonable, logic, historical, and however convincing. You cannot be a light to yourself if you are in the dark shadows of authority, of dogma, of conclusion. Morality is not put Morality is not put together by thought; it is not the outcome of environmental pressure, it is not of yesterday, of tradition. Morality is the child of love and love is not desire and pleasure. Sexual or sensory enjoyment is not love. High in the mountains there were hardly any birds, there were some crows, there were deer and an occasional bear. The huge redwoods, the silent ones, were everywhere, dwarfing all the other trees. It was a magnificent country and utterly peaceful, for no hunting was allowed. Sitting under one of those massive redwoods, one was aware of the history of man and the beauty of earth…. Going slowly along the narrow path, round the bend was a bear with four cubs. They rushed off to climb up trees and the mother faced one without a movement, without a sound. About fifty feet separated us; she was enormous, brown, and prepared. One immediately turned one's back on her and left. Each understood that there was no fear and no intention to hurt, but all the same one was glad to be among the protecting trees... Freedom is to be a light to oneself; then it is not an abstraction. Actual freedom is freedom from dependency, attachment, from the craving for experience. Freedom from the very structure of thought is to be a light to oneself. In this light all action takes place and thus it is never contradictory. Contradiction exists only when that law, light, is separate from action, when the actor is separate from action… The ideal, the principle, is the barren movement of thought and cannot co-exist with this light; one denies the other. This light, this law, is separate from you; where the observer is, this light, this love, is not. The structure of the observer is put together by thought, which is never new, never free. There is no "how", no system, no practice. There is only the seeing which is the doing. You have to see, not through the eyes of another. This light, this law, is neither yours nor that of another. There is only light. This is love. Abridged from Krishnamurti's Journal, Brockwood Park, 11th Entry, September 24, 1973, courtesy: KFI
There is an internet group called The Fussy Librarian whose members can get to read and keep a weekly selection of ebooks for free. The list on offer, which changes every week, generally consists of thrillers, mysteries and romantic novels, all by relatively little-known authors, and you can select as many as you like for no charge at all. We are constantly reminded that there is no such thing as a free lunch. So, how come there is such a thing as a free read? The answer is that the writers who participate in the scheme want to attract as many free readers as possible, in the hope that at least some of them will in future become cash-paying customers of their works, paving the way for the authors' ascent to ‘bestsellerdom'. In marketing argot, this is what is called a ‘loss leader'. The seller of any product, from a new brand of instant coffee to a range of cosmetics, will put on special sale an item at a loss-making price as a hook to attract future buyers at much higher prices. The Fussy Librarian could be an example of a loss leader sales strategy. However, could there be a non-commercial reason behind the modus operandi of The Fussy Librarian? When he was a young, struggling writer in Buenos Aires, Jorge Luis Borges would haunt working men's bars and cafes in the evening and, surreptitiously, slip in the pockets of their jackets and coats hanging by the doorway copies of the poems he had written, on the chance that the sheets of paper would be discovered, and read, before being thrown away. What impelled the aspiring writer to seek communion with those whose worlds, both outer and inner, were so very different from his? Before Newton explicated the workings of gravity, scientists and philosophers described gravitational phenomena as ‘action at a distance', effect B being linked to cause A with no discernible connection between the two. What was called action at a distance in the physical world has a parallel in the realm of human consciousness. What is this action at a distance, this force of gravity that can connect two or more people and turn them into a gestalt, an entity which is larger than the sum of its individual parts? To someone like Borges, who sowed the seeds of his penned thoughts to reap a random harvest from the minds of men very dissimilar to him in almost every respect, the action at a distance, the gravitational bond, was to be found in the written word used as a bridge to span the separateness that encloses us, islands in the river of life. The writer – be it of a novel, a poem, a postcard, a text message: How r u? C u l8r – by the very act of writing affirms the existence of a reader, the one for whom the writer has written. Writing is an affirmation that an other, the reader, must exist. By such an affirmation the writer's own existence is predicated on the logically prior existence of the reader. Descartes said: I think, therefore I am, a statement which leads only into the blind alley of self-conscious solipsism. The writer's symbiotic credo is: You read, therefore we exist.
  Home Editorials Peace And Prosperity The Jain Muni's Way Peace and Prosperity The Jain Muni's Way By: J K Jain Nov 15, 2021, 09:35 IST Digambar Jain muni Acharya Gyansagar was indeed a gyansagar, an ocean of knowledge, in the real sense. A great saint, social reformer, and epitome of penance, Acharya Maharaj spent a large part of his life studying sacred scriptures, spreading the teachings of Mahavir, and raising his voice against the ills in society. The Jain sage firmly believed that the concept of Anekantavad can resolve all conflicts in the world. Each substance has various attributes contradictory in nature. To have proper understanding one has to look at things in totality, from all angles. Four visually impaired persons will always describe an elephant in four different ways. The person touching its legs would say that the elephant is like a pillar, whereas the one who is feeling its trunk would describe it like a thick rope. The man touching its ears would say it is like a big fan, and the fourth one touching its tail would describe the pachyderm as a thin rope. Everyone is right in his own way. However, the problem starts when we stick to our point of view and refuse to respect others' perspective. Mahavir was among the first world teachers to declare that the same truth can be viewed differently by diverse people. In Jainism, there are 24 Tirthankaras in every kaal, period. Mahavir never said that only Jains should progress in the world; he gave the same respect to plants and trees as he gave to human beings. He promoted the concept of Anekantavad that teaches us to be tolerant, said Acharya ji. Contrary to what people think, Jains are not atheists. Removing misconceptions about the Jain belief system, Gurudev would say that the universe, cosmos, according to Jain cosmology, is Anadi Nidhan. It is not created, protected, or destroyed by any superpower called God. It exists since time immemorial and will continue till infinity. It consists of six dravyas, substances, namely jiva, soul; pudgala, matter; dharma, ether; adharma, anti-ether; akasha, space; and kala, time. The jiva journeys through 84 lacs yonis, species, according to its good or bad karmas, and pudgala, karmic particles, remain attached to the jiva till it wanders; dharma helps the jiva and pudgala move from one place to another; adharma helps them stay, remain stationary; akasha provides space; and kala helps substance in Parinaman, continuous change of form. The jiva is the doer of its karma. God doesn't punish or reward it for its deeds. Why would he punish his own children? The jiva reaps the fruit of its karmas when they fructify. Every soul can attain nirvana, salvation, by freeing itself from the karmic bondage through penance and renunciation. Progressive in his outlook, Gyansagar ji, was a social reformer who spoke against female foeticide and also opposed widespread evils like gambling and bursting crackers during Deepavali. He believed that to get wealthy, worshipping Lakshmi is not as important as doing good karma. “Why worship Lakshmi? Earn your livelihood honestly, do good karma, and wealth will automatically come to you. Don't kill innocent, small creatures and cause pollution by bursting crackers and fireworks. Celebrate Deepavali differently, distribute sweets and provide monetary help to the poor and needy and be the reason of their happiness. Then Lakshmi will be yours forever,” he said. Share Recommended section Gratitude & Happiness Life Has No Purpose Taming The Mind Interfaith Meets And Spirituality Of Science Can't Go Outside? Try Going Inside Popular section Moles on these 12 areas on your body indicate wealth and overseas travel Heart Line on both palm forms a half-moon shape? Here's what it means! Is Lord Hanumana still alive? What does your mole say about you? Know what your birth month says about you Go to www.speakingtree.in
In Oklahoma, a fight is playing out that could finally recognize tribal sovereignty, especially over how to manage the environment. This could set a precedent for the rest of the country, and affect our climate. But the powers that be won't let go easily.In this episode we visit the plains of eastern Oklahoma. Joy Harjo, the United States poet laureate, reads her poem “Speaking Tree” and shares what happens when we lose touch with traditions that center care for the earth. Casey Camp-Horinek, a matriarch and drum keeper of the Ponca Nation of Oklahoma, is an environmental activist fighting to free her community from the clutches of the oil and gas industry. She reminds us that we are all bound in responsibility to each other to care for this earth, and that Indigenous voices should be at the forefront of climate discussions and policy change.Take Action:Joy Harjo is the author of nine books of poetry, including She Had Some Horses, and a memoir, Crazy Brave. In September 2021, she came out with a new memoir titled Poet Warrior. If you want to check out more of Joy Harjo's work go to joyharjo.comSupport Movement Rights at movementrights.org which elevates traditional Indigenous ecological knowledge to align our laws with nature's needs, and fights for more tribal sovereignty.Follow Wonder Media Network:WebsiteInstagramTwitter
Episode 093: This podcast is a sacred transmission for your Autumn Equinox advancement! This is a time of shedding shadow dissolutions handed down to us throughout our lineage - about what feminine/masculine mean and about who we are - and to experience the Sacred Marriage now. Guest Reverend Devi Grace is an ordained Gnostic minister, Essene bishop, Kundalini Yoga instructor, Caring Economy advocate, advanced energy medicine practitioner, Twin Flame Physics mentor, oracle for Gaia, multiple NDE experiencer, a somatic teacher of male/ female soul embodiment, and more. She is the creator of the Divine Union Foundation and Speaking Tree of Life that serves as a bridge building catalyst for cultural, ancestral, personal and mythic transformation - from separation to unity consciousness, from power-over and domination to empowerment and co-creation, from duality to the original spiritual blueprint of The Sacred Marriage. http://www.divineunionfoundation.org/ http://www.speakingtreeoflife.com/ https://divineunionacademy.com/ She is featured as one of the contributing authors in the highly respected Ancestors Within 2 book series due to launch this Fall, and the host of the new Divine Union Transmissions beginning in Autumn, 2021. THEMES: Masculine, Feminine, Divine Blueprint, Soul Union, Sacred Marriage, Autumn Equinox, 11:11, story, Oracle, Kingship, Feminine Heart, Unification See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Speaking about Sri Krishna is like introducing one to one's self,” Amma told the thousands of people gathered in Amritapuri to celebrate Krishna Jayanti. The day had been filled with festivities—Go Puja1 in the morning, a procession of young gopis, gopas, Radhas and Krishnas in the afternoon, uriyadi2 until the sun went down, and then Bala Gopala Puja to the recitation of the Srimad Bhagavatam4 until the midnight hour. Once the midnight hour arrived, Amma began leading everyone is bhajans celebrating the Lord: “Agatanayi Agatanayi Vishnu Devan.” In Amma's satsang, which followed the bhajans, Amma stressed the infinite potential dormant in human beings and the power of their free will. “We can become like Sri Krishna; we can become like Kamsa,” Amma said. “We can become like Rama; we can also become like Ravana.” Amma then spoke about the glory that was Sri Krishna. “Life is not mathematics, science, logic or philosophy,” Amma said. “It is a continuous flow of experience. We can transform our lives into an experience of spreading happiness to one and all. Sri Krishna's life was the perfect example of this. If all our infinite, innate auspicious qualities were to take the form of a human being, the beautiful result would be Lord Krishna. He expressed the infinite power inherent in humankind to its fullness. It is for this reason that he is glorified as the Purnavatar—the complete incarnation of God. Sri Krishna was both ordinary and extraordinary at the same time. He was human and yet not human. He was complete in all ways.” Amma concluded her talk by stressing the importance of innocent love and faith, saying that their birth in the heart of the gopis was in fact a greater miracle than Krishna's lifting of Govardhana Hill. “We need to transcend logic and firmly establish ourselves in innocent love and faith. We need to look at life through such eyes. Then all experiences will become blissful, like amrita [nectar]. That is the message of Lord Krishna's life. … Sri Krishna's words and actions demonstrated the different facets of life, the secrets of para-dharma and apara-dharma4 , and the subtleties of action, inaction and enlightened action. To understand Sri Krishna's message, we need unwavering love, devotion and faith.” Bhagavan Krishn's unparalleled influence on the world has prevailed for thousands of years, pervading every aspect of life, including devotion, literature, the arts and even political strategy. The Bhagwad Gita is the core text of Sanatan Dharma, which Krishn gave to us by teaching Arjun. It is a scripture that transcends all religious boundaries. The Bhagavatam defines Krishn as a purna avatar – a complete incarnation. The word ‘avatar' means ‘to descend'. It signifies the totality of consciousness assuming a human form. Krishn was a purna avatar in that he always abided in the True Self – ever perfect, with no ups and downs or mental disturbances. However, just as a policeman goes undercover dressing as a thief to catch a thief, so did Krishn; he went down to the level of man. When we see how some people live – devoid of dharma, with no sense of charity, just greedily grabbing and accumulating what is not theirs, hurting others, wasting this precious gift of human birth just eating and drinking – we can understand Krishn's avatar as descent; going down to each one's level in order to show them how to live life in a way that would bring peace to themselves and to others. Through his life and teachings, Krishn awoke bhakti, jnana and the true spirit of karma in us. Bhakti is love for the imperishable. From an objective point of view, it is the love towards one's goal. Without it, one cannot move forward on any path. In any area of action, it is love that elevates a person. Whether a book is about science or history, the words in it are comprised of letters; they are its foundation. In the same way, the foundation of any path is bhakti. Bhakti is nothing but constant and continuous remembrance of God.
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Persevere, Something Good Is waiting to happen: Sudhamahi Regunathan The Speaking Tree. Sacred Space Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati
O God !Can You Please Increase My Spendings?: Shyam Banerji:The Speaking Tree. Gopal Da"Ae Khuda,Kharche badhaa". Hidden Words of Baha'u'llah.
Get Transformed,Make The World A Better Place:Ramesh Bijlani:The Speaking Tree:Happy Independence Day 2021 : Freedom :Sri Aurobindo
The Poet Who Is Celebrated As Goddess Andal:Archana Venkatesan:The Speaking Tree
Good Character Is The Best Medal To Work For:MPK Kutty:The Speaking Tree
Meditate To Log On To Your Soul For Answers:Sant Rajinder Singh:The Speaking Tree
Seven Lessons To Be Learnt From Sports :Dharmen Shah: The Speaking Tree:Tokyo Olympic 2021
Finding Words For What's Beyond Words:Jug Suraiya:The Speaking Tree
Mahabharat Lessons For Sportsmen And Fans:Aruna Narlikar:The Speaking Tree
Let Go Of All That Is Causing Negative Emotions:Dada J P Vaswani: The speaking Tree
Open The Door ,The Key Is In Your Pocket:Swami Chinmayananda:The Speaking Tree
Over the last 20 years, Dr. David Schwerin has authored three books, published dozens of articles worldwide and has regularly contributed to the Times of India's Speaking Tree blog.His latest book – Know Your Soul: Bring Joy to Your Life – comes at a much-needed time for us. In this episode, we dive into how he receives guidance from Archangel Michael and his higher self and soul and how you can tap into yours. We also discuss Conscious Capitalism and our individual impacts to society.Check out Dr. Schwerin's website and Speaking Tree blog.Get his latest book co-authored with Diana Muenz Chen Know Your Soul: Bring Joy to Your Life.Check out Dr. Schwerin's other books Conscious Capitalism: Principles for Prosperity and Conscious Globalism: What's Wrong with the World and How to Fix It. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=30119183)
Scientific and metaphysical thoughts on infinity : Narayani Ganesh :The Speaking tree
“ZENPod” Season-3, episode 10, featuring Dr. Janki Santoke, a Vedanta Expert, Author, Management Trainer, Lecturer, Public Speaker. Founder of Vedanta Institute. She has been into full time research and propogation of Vedanta for the last 30 years “Spirituality is about reaching back to your own divine self. It is defined in Vedanta itself. Our journey to re-discover our own self!”.Relation comes from two latin words, Re-legare, which means to join again.”- says Dr. Janki Santoke in his conversation with Venkatesh Mahadevan Janki Santoke, Ph. D. (Philosophy) is a lecturer, author, corporate resource, public speaker. She studied Vedanta at Swami Parthasarathy's Vedanta Academy, which is the three-year full-time residential course. https://janki.santoke.com Her service to society in the field of Vedanta has taken the following forms: • Delivers lectures in weekly classes on Vedanta and Gita • Author of the book How Do You Know What You Know? urging us to Think! Because our lives depend on it! More details on the Facebook page • Public Lectures and Webinars on Practical Vedantic topics • YouTube – The channel, Team Janki Santoke, has over 150 videos & is watched worldwide • Articles in prominent Newspapers like Times of India, Speaking Tree, Dainik Bhaskar • Management Training Programs for companies such as Indian Oil Corporation Ltd, Gillette, Glaxo-Smithkline, Bharat Petroleum, Young Presidents Organization (YPO) among others “ZENPod” is a Podcast series that features trailblazers from different walks of life, with a purpose to build an empowered eco-system where learnings and experiences from these enlightened professionals, will be available within “arms reach of desire” for those who aspire to scale higher and wish to contribute, in their life's pursuit.
This episode we’re off to study the Hindu religion of India where… we’ll find… don’t make a dad joke… don’t make a dad joke – we’ll find out where the term better half REALLY comes! Sorry, low hanging fruit is apparently my kryptonite. And for our fact, we’ll learn about an entire group of intersex people blessing Indian couples for thousands of years. Giving you your biweekly does of cheesy and endearing, here… on the Colored Folklore podcast. 00:57 – Music: https://musicvine.com/track/all-good-folks/mr-mischief (Mr. Mischief), https://www.allgoodfolks.co.uk/ (All Good Folks) (via https://musicvine.com/ (Music Vine)) 01:09 – Logo: https://www.behance.net/arthurmask (Arthur) 01:16 – Episode Art: https://www.behance.net/JacquelineNicolau (Jacqueline) 02:00 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_India (India) 02:55 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindus (Hinduism) & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_themes_in_Hindu_mythology (LGBT Themes in Hinduism) 03:25 – https://elements.envato.com/censor-beep-GD78MN4 (Censor Beep), by SoundJay 05:14 – https://www.amazon.com/Cassells-Encyclopedia-Queer-Symbol-Spirit/dp/0304704237 (Cassell's Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol and Spirit: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Lore) 12:12 – https://elements.envato.com/mystic-india-MFKBRG3 (Mystic India), by JBlanks 12:48 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardhanarishvara (Ardhanarishvara) https://raktimdutta.com/ardhanarishvara/ (Raktim Dutta’s Blog) https://isha.sadhguru.org/us/en/wisdom/article/ardhanarishvara (When Ultimate Man Became Half-Woman) https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/ardhanarisvara (New World Encyclopedia) https://www.speakingtree.in/blog/ardhanarishvara (Speaking Tree) https://www.boloji.com/articles/1606/shiva-becomes-ardhanarishwara-a-tale-from-kalika-purana-retold (Satya Chaitanya’s Article) https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ardhanarishvara (Britannica) https://hindspiration.com/story-ardhanarishvara/5/ (Hindspiration) 20:21 – https://elements.envato.com/for-travel-KJ9UZH3 (India Sunrise), by AndySlatter 20:42 – Take Aways 25:40 – https://rpl.hds.harvard.edu/religion-context/case-studies/gender/third-gender-and-hijras (Hijra) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex_people_in_history#Ancient_Indian_Subcontinent (Intersex People in History) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-48442934 (How Britain Tried to Erase India’s Third Gender) https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2020/02/09/indias-third-gender/ (India’s Third Gender) https://www.indjsp.org/article.asp?issn=0971-9962;year=2018;volume=34;issue=1;spage=79;epage=85;aulast=Mal (The Hijras of India) https://www.jstor.org/stable/488683?seq=1 (Not This, Not That) https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-lgbt-intersex/job-snubs-to-forced-surgery-indias-invisible-intersex-people-idUSKCN1V52M0 (Job Snubs to Forced Surgery) https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/04/29/indian-court-decides-favor-informed-consent-rights-intersex-people (Human Rights Watch) https://myvoice.opindia.com/2020/06/indias-third-gender-a-journey-of-hijra-community-from-mythology-to-harsh-reality/ (From Mythology to Harsh Reality) 33:28 – Colored Folklore contact information https://www.coloredfolklore.com/ (Colored Folklore) Twitter – http://www.twitter.com/coloredfolklore (@ColoredFolklore) Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/pg/Colored-Folklore-574501846576901/ (Colored Folklore Business Page) Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/coloredfolklore/ (@ColoredFolklore) Support this podcast
Sit back, close your eyes and feel your connection to everything around you through this guided meditation led by Julie Potiker. Julie completes the meditation with a reading of the poem, "Speaking Tree", by Joy Harjo U.S. Poet Laureate. (Tu'Bishvat is the New Year for the Trees in Israel) Speaking Tree, by Joy Harjo Some things on this earth are unspeakable:Genealogy of the broken—A shy wind threading leaves after a massacre,Or the smell of coffee and no one there— Some humans say trees are not sentient beings,But they do not understand poetry— Nor can they hear the singing of trees when they are fed byWind, or water music—Or hear their cries of anguish when they are broken and bereft— Now I am a woman longing to be a tree, planted in a moist, dark earthBetween sunrise and sunset— I cannot walk through all realms—I carry a yearning I cannot bear alone in the dark— What shall I do with all this heartache? The deepest-rooted dream of a tree is to walkEven just a little ways, from the place next to the doorway—To the edge of the river of life, and drink— I have heard trees talking, long after the sun has gone down: Imagine what would it be like to dance close togetherIn this land of water and knowledge. . . To drink deep what is undrinkable. Get the latest on mindfulness and meditation by subscribing to Julie Potiker's YouTube channel and Facebook page at Mindful Methods for Life. You can learn about mindfulness at www.MindfulMethodsForLife.com and also in Julie's newly released book, "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't Have To: Mindful Methods For Staying Calm In The Midst Of Chaos", available on Amazon.com. Her podcast is "Balanced Mind with Julie Potiker", available on iTunes, iHeart and other podcast platforms.
Priya Kumar is an Internationally Acclaimed Motivational Speaker with over 24 years of Corporate Training Experience. She has worked with over 2000 Multi-National Corporates across 47 countries and has touched the lives of over 3 million people through her workshops and books. Priya has written 11 inspirational books which have won 35 International Book Awards making her the FIRST Indian Author to have done so. Recently Priya was awarded the Times of India, Speaking Tree, Good Karma Award, as India’s BEST Inspirational Author. Priya is India’s first certified Firewalk Instructor and has conducted over 2000 firewalks across the globe. With over 700 published columns for national and international publications, Priya's work has been extensively featured by the media in India and abroad and she has been invited as a celebrity guest on several business, entertainment and reality shows.Known as The Biography Specialist, Priya has penned the biographies of leading industrialists and legendary businessmen like O.P. Munjal and is now writing the story of Pullela Gopichand,the Chief National Coach for the Indian Badminton team. Turned Filmmaker and Screenwriter, Priya has made a Bollywood debut with her book “I Will Go With You” as her debut web series “The Final Call”, which is streaming on ZEE5.You can connect with Priya Kumar by going toFacebook- https://www.facebook.com/authorpriyakumarTwitter- https://twitter.com/kumarpriyaInstagram- https://www.instagram.com/priyakumar7272YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/user/priyakumar1973Website- https://priya-kumar.com/Please send me your feedback, any topics you would like me to cover, any concerns and questions at showupwithpriyanka@gmail.comYou can follow me atFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Show-Up-With-Priyanka-Podcast-103190054621506Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/priyankakhandalkar/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/priyanka-khandalkar-265bab18/
Traduction d'un article écrit par Maulana Wahiduddin Khan. Parut dans Speaking Tree
We are back in The Speaking Tree this week, discussing book #41: The Familiar! To pay for ruining Brayden's life last episode, we've locked Tessa away in a space ship and sent her off to Mars. Don't worry, she'll be back on Earth next week, but until then, Mikael's going to make some references to Bachelor Frog off-recording and then bring it back up at the end, confusing everyone. Highlights: History of The Five revealed at last, octodad's business job for business, wombat butt trivia
How would you have dealt with the seeing the Ax transmission followed by the invasion of the Yeerks right after? How would you have used morphing to help a kid out who you know is being constantly bullied? Let's say you were visited by a mysterious alien, a Drode perhaps, and this alien wiped your memories of reading Animorphs. Would you start reading the series for the first time, as you are now? Why or why not? This week’s Fanimail: @LegoRats: https://twitter.com/LegoRats/status/1174025801228005376?s=09 R Felix Finch: https://facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=911685279217133&id=417173502001649 Check out our Podcast Page on the Collective Legacy Podcast Network site: www.collectivelegacy.org/fanimorphs You can find our Patreon page at www.patreon.com/dorkbajir Our Twitter: www.twitter.com/dorkbajir Our Tumblr: https://dorkbajirchronicles.tumblr.com/ Our Facebook: www.facebook.com/dorkbajirchronicles/ Our Instagram: www.instagram.com/dorkbajirchronicles/ Thanks for listening!
This week on The Speaking Tree, we dive back into Animorphs #40: The Hidden and try to piece together a better honeypot for our buzzworthy friend, Gafinilan! We answer the following questions: How would you do reconnaissance and approach Gafinilan’s house and how would you communicate with him at first? How would you use morphing to deal with missing a limb? How would you use a honey bee morph in your own life for purely personal reasons? This week’s Fanimail: Myriam RD: https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10162079660825052&id=725440051&ref=notif Check out our Podcast Page on the Collective Legacy Podcast Network site: www.collectivelegacy.org/fanimorphs You can find our Patreon page at www.patreon.com/dorkbajir Our Twitter: www.twitter.com/dorkbajir Our Tumblr: https://dorkbajirchronicles.tumblr.com/ Our Facebook: www.facebook.com/dorkbajirchronicles/ Our Instagram: www.instagram.com/dorkbajirchronicles/ Thanks for listening!
We are once again joined by the esteemed patron Steam Driven, also known as Adam! With his help, we dive back in to Animorphs #39: The HIdden and answer the following questions: How would you have dealt with the buffa-human situation? How would you use morphing to take care of sick animals (a la Wildlife Rehabilitation Clinic)? How would you use an African Cape Buffalo morph in your own life for purely personal reasons? This week’s Fanimail: Gwen Nicole: https://www.facebook.com/gwenalyn/posts/10156635955903250 @moviepollz: https://twitter.com/moviepollz/status/1142989245008818176?s=19 Check out our Podcast Page on the Collective Legacy Podcast Network site: www.collectivelegacy.org/fanimorphs You can find our Patreon page at www.patreon.com/dorkbajir Our Twitter: www.twitter.com/dorkbajir Our Tumblr: https://dorkbajirchronicles.tumblr.com/ Our Facebook: www.facebook.com/dorkbajirchronicles/ Our Instagram: www.instagram.com/dorkbajirchronicles/ Thanks for listening!
This week we tackle the most alien of questions as we delve just a bit deeper into Animorphs #38: The Arrival on this episode of The Speaking Tree! We answer the following questions: If you were Jake, how would you have gotten Ax to infiltrate the assassination team? If you had to introduce an alien to Earth foods, how would you use morphing to show them the best of the best? How would you use a northern harrier morph in your own life for purely personal reasons? This week’s Fanimail: @youreanthony: https://twitter.com/youreananthony/status/1091088900595085312?s=19 @ElgeneRosetta: https://twitter.com/ElgeneRosetta/status/1095459584720887808?s=19 Check out our Podcast Page on the Collective Legacy Podcast Network site: www.collectivelegacy.org/fanimorphs You can find our Patreon page at www.patreon.com/dorkbajir Our Twitter: www.twitter.com/dorkbajir Our Tumblr: https://dorkbajirchronicles.tumblr.com/ Our Facebook: www.facebook.com/dorkbajirchronicles/ Our Instagram: www.instagram.com/dorkbajirchronicles/ Thanks for listening!
Jake’s on vacation and the gang is left to their own devices! This week on The Dork-Bajir Chronicles, we talk about what we would do if we were in the same position as the teenage rogues in Animorphs #37: The Weakness. Questions we answered this week: How would you have dealt with not having Jake around during the Inspector’s visit? How would you use morphing to deal with hanging out with your group of friends but that one “integral” friend isn’t there? How would you use a cheetah morph in your own life for purely personal reasons? This week’s Fanimail: @the_slan: https://twitter.com/the_slan/status/1088967258985189377?s=19 @ElgeneRosetta: https://twitter.com/ElgeneRosetta/status/1140023033983373313 Check out our Podcast Page on the Collective Legacy Podcast Network site: www.collectivelegacy.org/fanimorphs You can find our Patreon page at www.patreon.com/dorkbajir Our Twitter: www.twitter.com/dorkbajir Our Tumblr: https://dorkbajirchronicles.tumblr.com/ Our Facebook: www.facebook.com/dorkbajirchronicles/ Our Instagram: www.instagram.com/dorkbajirchronicles/ Thanks for listening!
We’re talking fishy sea creatures in our Speaking Tree episode about Animorphs #36, the Nartec expedition with creepy human being dolls. This week we answer the following questions: How would you have taken down the Sea Blade? How would you use morphing to get your crush to call you at all hours of the night? How would you use an orca morph in your own life for purely personal reasons? This week’s Fanimail: Allee Etheridge: https://www.facebook.com/dorkbajirchronicles/posts/794666484252347 Sean Sprague: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10217776803319128&set=p.10217776803319128&type=3&theater Check out our Podcast Page on the Collective Legacy Podcast Network site: www.collectivelegacy.org/fanimorphs You can find our Patreon page at www.patreon.com/dorkbajir Our Twitter: www.twitter.com/dorkbajir Our Tumblr: https://dorkbajirchronicles.tumblr.com/ Our Facebook: www.facebook.com/dorkbajirchronicles/ Our Instagram: www.instagram.com/dorkbajirchronicles/ Thanks for listening!
We dive back into Visser once again for this episode of The Speaking Tree! Brayden couldn’t take the heat so he’s away this week as Mikael and Tessa get real about some of the important plot points in this amazing side story. Questions we answered this week: In a world where Memory Dumps are a thing, how would you have hid the fact that you are trying to protect two humans from the invasion? How would you deal with your Host (and yourself) falling in love with another Host (and the Yeerk inside it)? How would you use a Yeerk morph in your own life for purely personal reasons? This week’s Fanimail: @LegoRats: https://twitter.com/LegoRats/status/1042432889089150976?s=19 @moviepollz: https://twitter.com/moviepollz/status/1023858946845462528 Check out our Podcast Page on the Collective Legacy Podcast Network site: www.collectivelegacy.org/fanimorphs You can find our Patreon page at www.patreon.com/dorkbajir Our Twitter: www.twitter.com/dorkbajir Our Tumblr: https://dorkbajirchronicles.tumblr.com/ Our Facebook: www.facebook.com/dorkbajirchronicles/ Our Instagram: www.instagram.com/dorkbajirchronicles/ Thanks for listening!
This week we talk about the infamous side story: Visser! This is the one where we learn the backstory of Visser One (the slug) and how her story intertwines with the Animorphs...in more ways than one. Since the plot in this book is thicc af, we split our discussion episode into two parts. In Part One we’ll go over the summary of the book and in Part Two (next week), we’ll jump into some more in depth discussion of particular aspects we enjoyed/disliked/wanted to dig deeper into. Then, as usual, we’ll have our Speaking Tree for Visser the following week. This week’s Fanimail: @spott3d: https://twitter.com/spott3d/status/1026610951175323648 @chullie: https://twitter.com/chulllie/status/1025836394986360832h Check out our Podcast Page on the Collective Legacy Podcast Network site: www.collectivelegacy.org/fanimorphs You can find our Patreon page at www.patreon.com/dorkbajir Our Twitter: www.twitter.com/dorkbajir Our Tumblr: https://dorkbajirchronicles.tumblr.com/ Our Facebook: www.facebook.com/dorkbajirchronicles/ Our Instagram: www.instagram.com/dorkbajirchronicles/ Thanks for listening!
This week on the Speaking Tree we’re talking about Animorphs #35, the book where Marco almost gets strangled to death on national television and also Hanson was there. Here are our questions for this book: How would you do the banquet successfully? How would you use morphing to deal with your dad/mom dating someone new a few years after their SO (your other parent) died? How would you use a poodle morph in your own life for purely personal reasons? Also, as usual, we hear Brayden’s predictions for Visser, the book we’ll be talking about next week! This week’s Fanimail: https://twitter.com/Telluride128/status/1109651837135794176 https://twitter.com/PotatoToesies/status/1098018870294650881?s=19 Check out our Podcast Page on the Collective Legacy Podcast Network site: www.collectivelegacy.org/fanimorphs You can find our Patreon page at www.patreon.com/dorkbajir Our Twitter: www.twitter.com/dorkbajir Our Tumblr: https://dorkbajirchronicles.tumblr.com/ Our Facebook: www.facebook.com/dorkbajirchronicles/ Our Instagram: www.instagram.com/dorkbajirchronicles/ Thanks for listening!
Welcome back to The Speaking Tree, the show where we take a deeper dive into the Animorphs universe! This week we’ll be talking about Animorphs #34: The Prophecy, the Cassie book where her brain gets inhabited by the ghost of Aldrea! We talk about: How would you have gotten the Yeerk fighter out from under the tree/Yeerk pool? How would you use morphing to erase a doodle you made on a piece of homework? How would you use a wolf morph in your own life for purely personal reasons? This week’s Fanimail: @oldsongsplease: https://twitter.com/oldsongsplease/status/1094763690992254976?s=19 @drbankruptcy: https://twitter.com/DorkBajir/status/1063825394766413824?s=19 Check out our Podcast Page on the Collective Legacy Podcast Network site: www.collectivelegacy.org/fanimorphs You can find our Patreon page at www.patreon.com/dorkbajir Our Twitter: www.twitter.com/dorkbajir Our Tumblr: https://dorkbajirchronicles.tumblr.com/ Our Facebook: www.facebook.com/dorkbajirchronicles/ Our Instagram: www.instagram.com/dorkbajirchronicles/ Thanks for listening!
We’re back with another episode of The Speaking Tree, this time talking about Animorphs #33: The Illusion! Get ready for a deeper dive into the book where Tobias gets tortured and the gang saves him at the last second. Here are some of the things we covered this week: How would you have purposefully gotten caught by the Yeerks? How would you get out of getting caught smoking at school? How would you use an Andalite morph in your own life for purely personal reasons? This week’s Fanimail: @hadjiDP: https://twitter.com/hadjiDP/status/1106917200139448321 Check out our Podcast Page on the Collective Legacy Podcast Network site: www.collectivelegacy.org/fanimorphs You can find our Patreon page at www.patreon.com/dorkbajir Our Twitter: www.twitter.com/dorkbajir Our Tumblr: https://dorkbajirchronicles.tumblr.com/ Our Facebook: www.facebook.com/dorkbajirchronicles/ Our Instagram: www.instagram.com/dorkbajirchronicles/ Thanks for listening!
This week on The Speaking Tree we talk more about Animorphs #32: The Separation! We SPLIT our attention into the following three questions: If you were the rest of the Animorphs, how would you have handled the split (after you understood what had happened) knowing that you needed to use one of the Rachels for the Anti-Morphing Ray mission? If you had a twin that was, like, the opposite version of you, how would you deal with that? How would you use a starfish morph in your own life for purely personal reasons? This week’s Fanimail: @paulmichaeleary: https://twitter.com/paulmichaeleary/status/1050805089005375490?s=19 @typerwulfe: https://twitter.com/tygerwulfe/status/1043010048782266372?s=19 Check out our Podcast Page on the Collective Legacy Podcast Network site: www.collectivelegacy.org/fanimorphs You can find our Patreon page at www.patreon.com/dorkbajir Our Twitter: www.twitter.com/dorkbajir Our Tumblr: https://dorkbajirchronicles.tumblr.com/ Our Facebook: www.facebook.com/dorkbajirchronicles/ Our Instagram: www.instagram.com/dorkbajirchronicles/ Thanks for listening!
We get in to some DEEP Nazi theorizing on this episode of The Speaking Tree where we discuss some questions we had after reading Animorphs #31: The Conspiracy last week! What would be a more effective way to protect Jake's father in this situation? How would you use morphing to help you deal with the death of a loved one? How would you use a peregrine falcon morph in your own life for purely personal reasons? This week’s Fanmail: @Blerd_CGE: https://twitter.com/Blerd_CGE/status/1089381675660967936?s=19 @PrinceOfFresh: https://twitter.com/PrinceOfFresh/status/1087052085131177990?s=19 Check out our Podcast Page on the Collective Legacy Podcast Network site: www.collectivelegacy.org/fanimorphs You can find our Patreon page at www.patreon.com/dorkbajir Our Twitter: www.twitter.com/dorkbajir Our Tumblr: https://dorkbajirchronicles.tumblr.com/ Our Facebook: www.facebook.com/dorkbajirchronicles/ Our Instagram: www.instagram.com/dorkbajirchronicles/ Thanks for listening!
We talk some heavy time travel logic in this episode of The Speaking Tree, a Fanimorphs podcast about the rules and systems within the Animorphs universe! This week we take on a few hypothetical questions relating to Megamorphs #3: Elfangor’s Secret, the book we discussed last week on The Dork-Bajir Chronicles! This week we tackle the following situations: How would you have dealt with closing the time loop after Marco killed V4? How would you have used the Time Matrix AND morphing to improve your life? How would you use a warhorse/chimpanzee/hork-bajir morph in your own life for purely personal reasons? This week’s Fanimail: Freddy: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2282533825091285&set=p.2282533825091285&type=3&permPage=1 @codemonkey85: https://twitter.com/codemonkey85/status/1064238554937733121?s=19 Check out our Podcast Page on the Collective Legacy Podcast Network site: www.collectivelegacy.org/fanimorphs You can find our Patreon page at www.patreon.com/dorkbajir Our Twitter: www.twitter.com/dorkbajir Our Tumblr: https://dorkbajirchronicles.tumblr.com/ Our Facebook: www.facebook.com/dorkbajirchronicles/ Our Instagram: www.instagram.com/dorkbajirchronicles/ Thanks for listening!
Welcome back to The Speaking Tree, the Dork-Bajir podcast that tries to right the wrongs of the Animorphs series while taking a bit of a deeper dive into the world that is the human resistance. Today we’re talking about Animorphs #30: The Reunion as we answer the following questions: What would be a more ideal plan to get Visser One and Visser Three to fight each other, potentially to the death? How would you use morphing to improve your shopping game? How would you use a cockroach morph in your own life for purely personal reasons? This week’s Fanimail: @Blerd_CGE: https://twitter.com/Blerd_CGE/status/1037527346184704001 @drbankruptcy: https://twitter.com/Drbankruptcy/status/1025739747161985026 Check out our Podcast Page on the Collective Legacy Podcast Network site: www.collectivelegacy.org/fanimorphs You can find our Patreon page at www.patreon.com/dorkbajir Our Twitter: www.twitter.com/dorkbajir Our Tumblr: https://dorkbajirchronicles.tumblr.com/ Our Facebook: www.facebook.com/dorkbajirchronicles/ Our Instagram: www.instagram.com/dorkbajirchronicles/
We’re back for more of The Speaking Tree! This time, as we look back on Animorphs #29: The Sickness, the book we talked about last week, we delve a bit deeper into the following questions: How would you extract a single Yeerk from the Yeerk Pool if you had to act completely on your own? How would you use morphing to get what you want out of a junior high school dance? How would you use an eel morph in your own life for purely personal reasons? This week’s Fanimail: @Velawesome: https://twitter.com/Velawesome/status/1061098887258214401 Check out our Podcast Page on the Collective Legacy Podcast Network site: www.collectivelegacy.org/fanimorphs You can find our Patreon page at www.patreon.com/dorkbajir Our Twitter: www.twitter.com/dorkbajir Our Tumblr: https://dorkbajirchronicles.tumblr.com/ Our Facebook: www.facebook.com/dorkbajirchronicles/ Our Instagram: www.instagram.com/dorkbajirchronicles/
Welcome to our very first episode of The Speaking Tree, our off-week episode that dives into some hypothetical questions about the last book we read! In this case, we draw from Animorphs #28: The Decision and came up with the following questions: How do you approach the problem of two facilities that are Yeerk controlled but you don't know why they control them? How do you get unlimited TV and internet to a laptop you keep in the woods? How would you use a bull morph in your own life for purely personal reasons? We are joined by Adam Heap, also known as Steam Driven on Patreon, a loyal patron at the Andalite tier! To join the Animorphs discord server, click this link: https://discord.gg/YWEbQJ4 Check out Adam’s Youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE3J-nSM748QSH9v7PGnvRA Check out his Twitter here: www.twitter.com/thomasheap91 Check out our Podcast Page on the Collective Legacy Podcast Network site: www.collectivelegacy.org/fanimorphs You can find our Patreon page at www.patreon.com/dorkbajir Our Twitter: www.twitter.com/dorkbajir Our Tumblr: https://dorkbajirchronicles.tumblr.com/ Our Facebook: www.facebook.com/dorkbajirchronicles/ Our Instagram: www.instagram.com/dorkbajirchronicles/
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Radical Remembrance: Conversations on Being Human (formerly Ladies Who Lead)
Known for penetrating awareness of the body as a vehicle for awakening and igniting the divine blueprint of creation Samavesha Gayatri Deva (www.speakingtreeoflife.com) is here with us today. With 5 years of studies on Spiritual and Holographic Psychology, works with shamanic elders, yogis and apprenticeships with mystery school adepts she dives deep into our real powers of manifestation and creating from the fullness of wisdom, Spirit, truth, integrity and love for the benefit of all. Through the Speaking Tree of Life Samavesha offers assistance to fully activate people so they can impeccably and powerfully speak into the world. To subscribe to future podcasts or learn more about how we can support you on your leadership journey, head over to www.ladieswholeadpodcast.com
Howdy Buckaroos! This week, Alex has been suit shopping, embarrassing himself, and streaming for your pleasure. Ash didn't write down what he'd been up to in the podnotes, so I'll let him surprise you. We've football game discussion, a shooter stream including Rainbow Six, DOOM and COD, Ash isn't so impressed with an indie darling, and Alex has been forking out on old 360 games again. Elsewhere, we finish off our PS4 Pro chat, and look into the Steam reviews debacle, as well as the Bethesda and Sony mod feud. Golden release time would've been in error, we look back at some wonderful sequels, Alex has a brand new audio quiz, and we take a very fond look back at Master Chief at his very finest. Finally, Funk has a very valuable talking point involving blowing one's load, and PJ chips in with talk of stupid special editions.
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Speaking Tree of Life with Rev. Gayatri Devi The ‘Speaking Tree of Life' (for Gaia) is synonymous with ‘Gayatri'. It represents the two trees that marry spirit and matter. Many people remember this pattern as the fundamental energy that is found within all of nature: the two torus or mirrored torus that reunite as a twin heart to establish a primordial trunk for our original Eden Tree of all LIFE. For more information visit SpeakingTreeOfLife.com
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