Imagine Arjuna’s horripilation when he realized the true identity of his cousin Krsna with whom he played and jested just like any of us would with our cousins. What must be going on in his mind when Krsna showed him his universal form and a terrified Arjuna beheld the same with newfound reverence for his…

And whosoever, leaving the body, goes forth remembering Me alone, at the time of his death, he attains My being; there is no doubt about this. – Geeta Cp 8, Verse 5 Extremely few of us attain God-realization before death. Some of us go through our ‘prarabdha’ and attain God when the body falls off,…

Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional. -Unknown Most of us deal with pain inefficiently and incoherently, thereby increasing our suffering. It must be understood that the root of pain is karma. Just as good karma, when bears fruit provides us with happy circumstances, bad karma, when fructifies, delivers pain. Apart from enlightened souls who have…

The world is bound by actions other than those performed ‘for the sake of sacrifice’; do thou, therefore, O son of Kunti, perform action for that sake (for YAJNA) alone, free from all attachments. -Geeta – Ch 3, Verse 9 Yajna here means “any self-sacrificing work, undertaken in a spirit of self-dedication, for the blessing…

Actually, I should rather say spirituality is fun. Not many folks would agree, and not many would choose to believe. So why do I go about claiming it’s fun? Firstly because it’s my own personal experience, and secondly, because, like science or math, spirituality is also scientific and logical and would appeal to rational and…