Our search for meaning is as old as existence. For centuries, seekers, teachers, poets, rulers, artists and common folks have pondered at the vicissitudes of existence and the meaning of it all. What they have found echoes across the separations of time, geography and culture. We explore some of these ideas – what is real happiness, what causes pain, who can we rely on, is there a resolution to the conflict between the quest for material success and spiritual search?
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Financial Planning: Kubera’s encounter with Ganesha
Have you also been wondering if you can retire early, work flexible hours to do what you love or slow down to give time to your health? Perhaps you’re thinking about spending more time with family but feeling uncertain about how to manage your bills. The quest for balance between financial security and living a…
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Living Wisdom, Not Erudition, Matters
In the pursuit of spiritual wisdom, it’s easy for seekers to become entangled in intellectual disputes between factions that were once the guardians of sacred traditions. Unfortunately, these conflicts often strip away the essence of the teachings, leaving behind dry intellectualism and a struggle for dominance. This begs the question: Who is right? And how…
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Pain as medicine
Spiritual traditions have affirmed time and again the inevitability of ‘dukkha’ in life – that there are definitive causes that give rise to ‘dukkha’, that peace is possible, and that there is a path that leads to peace. In fact, in his first composition – the ‘Jap’, reverentially called the Jap Ji Sahib by the…
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Accolades of the world
In an age where self-promotion reigns supreme, we don’t seem to tire of awards, honors, and endorsements. Yet, many of these accolades celebrate achievements of questionable merit, exchanged between individuals more interested in bolstering their own image than in recognizing genuine accomplishment. Aesop’s fable of the weasels and the mice. Aesop’s fable of the weasels…
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The sparrow that eats half a grain
Do we appreciate the gifts we receive every day? The fact that we are alive and have one more day is a gift. In the busyness of making plans and anticipating the future, we often forget to appreciate the present. On one such morning, after days of running a series of workshops in the peak…
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