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It's Difficult To Remain Calm & Unruffled, Whatever Happens!

2014-01-07T21:41:00.000+05:30

Ask any adult, and they will tell you how difficult it is to remain unperturbed when there is a storm raging in your world. Forget storm; just a small change in circumstance can set off a tempest! How does this happen? To get an insight into the workings of this aspect of the mind, read this article:

http://questfornirvana.com/meditation-spirituality/153-achieving-mastery-over-emotions

Apasmara, Acrasia, and the Dance of Shiva

2013-12-05T18:15:00.001+05:30

Is there a deeper connection between the Cosmic Dance of Shiva - the Destroyer - and our Mind?

This article investigates... http://questfornirvana.com/managing-life/152-apasmara-acrasia-and-the-dance-of-shiva

Transformation Of Volleyball Player Into Accomplished Mountaineer! It's Determination To Overcome Adversity

2013-05-23T08:44:00.000+05:30

Here is a story of a 35-26 year old girl, a national level volleyball player who was set to take up a job with a public sector organization... when fate intervened to apply the brakes. The girl got involved in a chain-snatching incident with three hooligans, and fell on the railway tracks in the running train she was traveling in. Read how she successfully beat the adversity that destiny threw at her, and how she carved out a new destiny for herself... as a successful mountaineer who scaled Mount Everest!

http://questfornirvana.com/inspiration-from-tales/150-how-adversity-motivates-you-to-scale-the-highest-mountain-peak

Arunima Sinha, courtesy Times of India publications

Forum on quest for Nirvana

2012-10-12T22:41:00.000+05:30

it is a pleasure to inform that a forum has been launched on the quest for Nirvana site, which has begun to attract fellow seekers of that state of existence we have labeled the "Nirvana". The forum enables us to learn from each other and share our experiences with different techniques of meditation. The forum provides a community setting in which to understand spirituality in the diverse dimensions known to humankind.

Operating the forum requires prior registration on the site. After logging in, explore the different features available to you to connect with other Nirvana seekers.

So go ahead - you have been connecting with people from all over the world. Now connect with your own soul for a change.

"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 that, the more you practice meditation, the more structurally and perhaps physiologically different your brain becomes from the others. Does this property of neural plasticity point to the development of a new Measure of Man? A new measure perhaps, called the "Meditation Index"? This would be something similar to the conventional IQ or EQ. After reaching this stage, we will be able to assess our evolution on the path of spirituality...

Read on, in the latest article of quest for Nirvana...

http://questfornirvana.com/meditation-spirituality/146-meditation-index-mi--a-new-measure-after-iq-and-ei

Think. Ponder. Meditate.

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 today, it felt as if quest for Nirvana were a stranger, and not the familiar entity one had invested so much cathexis in for such a long time. Going through the content of the blog's pages, it was a revelation to see the cobwebs that had grown all over the site, in the form of broken links of images and videos. To the casual visitor, it must have been clearly evident that the site was neglected. To the regular visitor, the site's condition and lack of fresh content must have presented a sad picture.

The purpose of this post is to formally announce the relocation of quest for Nirvana from its address at Blogger.com to a new site: http://questfornirvana.com. Beginning now, all fresh content shall be posted on the new site.

While affecting the transfer, care has been taken to repair any broken links, so that when you visit any article at the new site, you should see images that are intact and videos which work.A number of articles too have been removed altogether or pruned, in order to keep the site relevant as a whole.

A salient feature of the new site is that the content is no longer publicly accessible. Readers interested in reading the articles hosted on qfN are required to subscribe by registering with the new site. (There is no subscription cost, for now.)

Another salient feature of the new site is the new style of navigation of the articles. The long, single-page, monolithic structure of the articles at Blogger.com has now been replaced with a multi-page look and feel.

Yet another feature worth mentioning is the context-specific association of the articles with additional relevant reading material, by way of links to books hosted on Amazon.com. The idea is to embed the mind of the reader in multiple streams of thought on the same topic at hand which it is engaged in at the present moment, thus creating a multi-dimensional experience.

In time to come, the site’s present location at Blogger.com will be demolished completely, and qfN will have just this one address on the internet. The reader may therefore consider updating their bookmarks and tags accordingly.

Here is the new site address one more time: http://questfornirvana.com.

See you at the new site!

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, on both the left and the right, when he thinks nobody is looking at him. The harder the better. One more time. Yet one other time. There. Serves you right. You have not been able to make it this time too. You failed to scale your own bar of standards. The throbbing pain on both the sides of the mandible sends shoots of pain in the head, triggering another round of ringing in the ears. Perhaps the onset of tinnitus. You will be alright soon, the pain will numb and ebb away after some time. You will feel better after this bout of self-punishment.

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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 relate to the state of mind of the author of the work, "Ecclesiastes".

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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 that I am become a man,
I have put away childish things.

[First Epistle to the Corinthians, 13:9 to 13:11]

Some people who have suffered cerebral insults or have an organic imbalance in the brain report that, between 2:00 am and 4:00 am on a given day, they often "see" a "sentient being" in their vicinity. This being is invariably on their left side - and very seldom on any other side. And they intuit that this being, though having human features, is not really human. In fact, the being reminds them of a deceased family member or some ghostly apparition they faintly remember having read about or heard about. Whatever this being is, it is scary, fearsome, sometimes accompanied with a very odd smell that they have never encountered before, and causes very odd sensations in the body, including vibrations and the raising of the hair on the skin. Overall, it is a very negative affect that is produced.

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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 been touched universally by its protagonist - a mute girl who is also deaf succeeds in producing music that captivates an audience. This advertisement was shot for Procter & Gamble's Pantene hair shampoo and released in the Thailand market in September 2008; but it has soon come to symbolize the handling and overcoming of adversity. Click on the PLAY button below to watch and enjoy the clip.

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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 Minutes", in 1993, titled "Tango Finlandia", and I quote:

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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 acknowledge?

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 with a disinterested yawn began nudging them to move in random circle-like orbits around a ball of gas. One of these rocks came to be inhabited by people who have not an iota of knowledge of whence they came, and who do not leave any forwarding address when they exit. And yet, they came to consider themselves as the owner of the rock and all that surrounds it.

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 to pry off the hubcap. The rest of the process was relatively smoother. After removing the final lug nut, the mechanic pulled the punctured wheel from its position with a heave. The truck stoically balanced itself on the jack.

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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 owner offers the man a steady job on the spot. And just as the man and his muse begin deaming of happily-ever-after, nemesis catches up with them in the form of cops from the juvenile division, carrying a warrant to arrest the girl on charges of vagrancy. Faced with what looks like a crisis situation, the two flee the cafe. See how circumstances alter life in the blink of an eye?

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