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Bhava Spandana – An experience
Imagine a house where we all have trash in our pockets, dirt in our wallets, leftovers in our lunch boxes, but we refuse to clean it. Forget cleaning, we refuse to accept that we have some trash with us that needs throwing away. We do this for a day, two days, a week.. For how long would you be able to hide it? Any rotting trash will make itself known no matter how hard you try to hide it, and the more you refuse to dispose of it, the more stench you and your family will have to live with. This isn’t so complicated to understand, isn’t it? That’s because we already…
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Shambhavi Diaries – June 27th
When breath becomes butter, when the butter seems to melt, and when words seem to be gross. When caring for myself found meaning, and when I found my route home. When the experience is subtle, and the subtle seems sublime, when brevity beckons, and I oblige.
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Shambhavi Initiation – Buzzed Out or Overkill?
It was about three years ago, in the month of April, on a Sunday. It was not one of those fancy, suspense-filled, low-lit, high voltage environments where a few spiritual masters looked at the few students who awaited to be initiated, judging. It wasn’t the types Paulo Coelho or Dan Brown write in their famous books (The Pilgrimage and Inferno, respectively) – the ones that make you feel “special”. It wasn’t one of those hush-hush events of my life, or the highly anticipatory moments when you feel you’re just about to enter into another world, a world you kept looking for and knew deep in your heart, existed. It felt…
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Shambhavi Diaries – A Prelude
What is Shambhavi? For the uninitiated (no pun intended) Shambhavi, or Shambhavi Mahamudra is a practice taught as part of the Inner Engineering program offered by Isha Foundation. Something about the practice calls me to write about my everyday experience of it, more like a personal memoir of how things were once upon a time in my life. To read, or not to read? This category of blog posts would only make sense to you if you are a practitioner of the same. I would strongly recommend that you read no further if you have not been part of the Inner engineering program, for three reasons: It would not be relevant to…