Ramakrishna was not a saint as many say, he was a realized soul and a great Guru. No one really understood the way he worked around with people and himself. He was a connoisseur of food, and loved eating. During his satsang he will leave in the middle, get in to the kitchen and have some [...]
To me, the biggest miracle is to play with life without allowing life to play with us. If one can go through life untouched, that’s the greatest miracle anyone can achieve. Miracles don’t happen with everyone as every event that is happening around us influences us in a certain way and most of us will [...]
In the last chapter, I spoke about how smile can set everything straight, but it was not always right. For instance, imagine smiling after a slap in the face, then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day. It is easier said than done. During this phase of my life, I tried to be as [...]
Srinivasa Ramanujan: Ramanujan’s brief life and death are symbolic of conditions in India. Of our millions how few get any education at all; how many live on the verge of starvation. – Jawaharlal Nehru in his Discovery of India Sheer intuitive brilliance coupled to long, hard hours on his slate made up for [...]
Let’s face it, we all in at least a small way are corrupt. The degree of our corruption is directly proportional to the opportunity we have for doing corruption. Yes, there are some souls who despite presented with an opportunity will not do any thing that is against ethics and values. Now we need to understand that [...]
Among Internet marketers and SEO experts, Google’s Panda/farmer update is not a new thing anymore. It is a well-known fact that there have been a lot of new updates and changes within Google’s ranking algorithms via Panda/Farmer update. The main reason for this is the growing number of content farms. Content is bought or copied [...]
1. Who is Anna Hazare? - An ex-army man. Fought 1965 Indo-Pak War 2. What’s so special about him? – He built a village Ralegaon Siddhi in Ahamad Nagar district, Maharashtra 3. So what? – This village is a self-sustained model village. Energy is produced in the village itself from solar power, biofuel and wind mills. In 1975, [...]
CERN (The European Organization for Nuclear Research), is the world’s largest Particle Physics research, on June 18, 2004, an unusual new landmark was unveiled at CERN, a 2m tall statue of the Indian deity Shiva Nataraja- the Lord of Dance. In western culture religion and science are two sets without any intersection. How can a [...]
It is often said in tamil “சக்தி இல்லையேல் சிவம் இல்லை “, which means “There is no Sivam without Shakthi”. People often think that Shiva is so affectionate towards Shakti, the truth though is “Important concepts needs personification to withstand the sands of time”. Sivam (or shiva) is the matter and Shakthi as the name suggests [...]
I used to fear everyone who is elder to me or those who are dominant, I used to see some part of my father in them. I used to look at everything around me in a negative way, I always had the feeling that the whole nature was designed to ruin my life and spoil [...]
A positive title for a change . Even in Chennai and with my parents life seemed good for a while as I was put in a new school (New Prince) and significantly in a school where my mother did not work, so at the end of the day I alone, became responsible for the things [...]
A new school and a new life all over again. My mother changed her school, so I too was forced to change. Prince Matriculation Hr. Sec. School in Nanganallur, one of the most renowned schools around Nanganallur and Madipakkam. From a school with few rooms and less competitive people, all of a sudden I was [...]
The school in which I studied was closed before the year completed, the Principal of that school using his influence pulled in a bigger school to start a new school and to take up all the students. Thus a new school was opened in Nanganallur by the name of Besant L.V.R. This period is very [...]
Recently in an Orkut community I came across a thread raising doubt about Manu Needhi Cholan’s act on whether it is a fiction or truth. The intention of the person who raised this query is not to be critical or sarcastic, so I am putting this efforts to try and answer the question. First of [...]
Like the title says.. the bad things continued and I don’t want to dwell too much about those bad things. We moved to a new location in Chennai (Nanganallur). This move helped me a bit, as my parents will not say ‘no’ if I go to a temple and Nanganallur had quite a few Shiva [...]
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