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Author: D. Samarender Reddy

Philosopher & Poet. Holds degrees in Medicine (MBBS) and Economics (MA, The Johns Hopkins University). Certified programmer. An avid reader. Worked in various capacities as a medical writer, copywriter, copyeditor, software programmer, newspaper columnist, and content writer. Amazon Author Page - https://www.amazon.in/stores/D.-Samarender-Reddy/author/B0CB7PMW36

Amma


I shudder to thinkHow differentTo meThe world would seemWithout my mother in it.

Mother, Poem, Poem on Mother, Poetry

My Quote


“Those who are less wise can see only how different we all are. Those who are wiser see how exactly … More

Quotable quotes, Quotations, Quote, Quotes, Wisdom

The Power of Thought


Think And The world Is spun Into existence Seemingly From nothing. Give up Thinking To experience Bliss.

Poem, Poetry, Thoughts / Thinking

The Powerful Practice of Accepting Reality


Accept your reality and reduce your suffering. Pain + Resistance = Suffering We often ignore what we don’t want to … More

Acceptance

Truth, And Nothing But The Truth


Whatever be the religion That I am born into Whatever be the caste Society assigns me to Whatever be the … More

Poem, Poetry, Truth

The Four Purusharthas


A friend asked today: “I had a philosophical question for you:- On one hand, there is a school of thought … More

Aims of life, artha, Dharma, kama, Moksha, Purusharthas

Ramana Maharshi on the Waking and the Dream States


(from Living by the Words of Bhagavan, p.232 and 236): Ramana Maharshi once made the following remarks about the waking … More

Avasthatraya viveka, Ramana Maharshi, Waking-dream-deepsleep

The Great Escape


Please stop the earthI want to step off it nowAnd float away, far awayInto the wide blue spaceAnd hide among … More

Karma, Poem, Poetry

We Are All Ostriches


We all knowOnly too wellHow things can go wrongA fetus being stillbornA 25-year-oldDying of a rare cancerA 60-year-oldDiagnosed with Alzheimer’sAn … More

Poem, Poetry, Uncertainty

Who Pulls Our Strings?


Try as hard as you may Figure out you cannot Why things happen The way they do Who’ll carry the … More

Destiny, Free Will, Poem, Poetry, Predetermination

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