Quest for Nirvana

"Meditation Index" - a new Measure of Man?

2012-04-18T21:08:00.000+05:30

Recent research has made the discovery that the corpus callosum - the bundle of neural fibers situated deep inside the brain - is thicker in the brain of long-term meditators than in the average person. More such discoveries point to the possibility...

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The Hiatus Of A Year, Transfer To New Site

2011-12-30T20:41:00.001+05:30

After a hiatus of slightly more than a year, it is a pleasure to pen this post on the blog. Though there have been frequent long gaps in the posts in the five years of the blog's existence, the present hiatus was the longest. Upon opening the blog...

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When One's Own Body Becomes An Object, To Be Abused

2010-12-06T17:32:00.003+05:30

When We Become Our Own Enemy "There is no cry of pain without,at its end,an echo of joy" - Spanish realist poet and philosopher, Ramon de Campoamor A young, adult male - perfectionist to the core - boxes his own jaw hard and sound, several times,...

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Making Sense Of The Senselessness

2010-07-24T14:22:00.002+05:30

Some Basic Philosophical Questions Still Remain Unanswered, Even After All These Years "Utterly senseless; utterly senseless, everything is senseless!" - says Qoheleth, seemingly in despair, in the beginning of the book. It is not difficult to...

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Ownership Of Thought

2010-05-12T19:33:00.001+05:30

For Now We See Through A Glass, Darkly For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part is done away. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child; Now...

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Handling Adversity

2010-03-24T09:50:00.001+05:30

Weeping May Endure For A Night, But Joy Cometh In The Morning That this advertisement clip is now being shown to students in the remotest of colleges nowadays as an icebreaker before beginning a presentation, reveals how a chord somewhere within has...

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You Had Me At Hello

2010-02-19T22:25:00.002+05:30

Different Shades To The Color Of Love I came across an interesting account in an article on cultural anthropology about how the people of Finland handle the emotion of love. The article describes an interview televised in the American program "60...

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The Strength Of The Moment

2010-02-06T16:50:00.001+05:30

Aren't All Moments Created Equal? Ever since we came into being as a result of conception, we have had a string of moments that are significant to us. But how many of those do we really remember, or even...

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The Cyclicity Of Time

2010-01-05T21:27:00.002+05:30

Time Is Linear, It Is We Who Draw Cycles In It In the beginning, so they say, was just emptiness. And there were a few of these rocks, drifting in space. Somebody who had nothing better to do reached out and began idly spinning the rocks. And then...

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The Sixth Chapter Of The Bhagavad Gita

2009-12-20T17:19:00.002+05:30

On Mastering The Mind; And The LoA Across Lifetimes [This article contains Unicode characters to represent Sanskrit alphabet. Systems which do not recognize Unicode may render junk characters on the screen.] It took him considerable time and effort...

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Smile, Though Your Heart Is Aching

2009-11-14T17:57:00.004+05:30

It Is Attitude That Determines A Happy Outcome They were quite a hit as a couple. The cafe owner who had hired them was very pleased at the impact on the patrons of the antics of the waddling comic singer and the graceful dance of his girl. The cafe...

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The Tiers Of Psychic Powers

2009-11-03T18:59:00.004+05:30

Master Them One After Another Are we psychic? For long, we have treated the mind as an "entity" to hold and process our "conscious" and "unconscious" (or "subconscious", as it is nowadays called) emotions and thoughts which come from some unknown...

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Do We Possess Psychic Powers That We Are Not Aware Of?

2009-10-07T09:45:00.003+05:30

- Is It Just A Matter Of Locating Them? - To Rowling goes the credit for bringing into popular English lexicon the word "Muggle". Over time, this word has filled the vacuum of an apt, single-word antonym for someone who does not possess the skill of...

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Symbolism Of The Stork - That Charming Image Of Childhood Days

2009-09-24T16:30:00.010+05:30

- A Quaint Symbolism That Is Fast Becoming Irrelevant - "The real mechanics behind the arrival of babies was revealed for the first time in secondary school when the lanky, curly-haired, hollow-cheeked, poker-faced Biology teacher flipped the pages...

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Pinocchio, Everything's Fine With Your Nose

2009-09-16T10:19:00.004+05:30

- On Giving The Right Set Of Values To The Child - Remember Pinocchio? The little humanoid marionette that is carved out of a talking pine log? Special that he is, Pinocchio is trained on basic values of living from some very special personalities....

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