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…
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…
My Quote on Silence
“You will learn more by being silent for an hour than by reading all the books in the world.”—D. Samarender…
The Mistakes
Ah, the mistakes I’ve committedTo ask for forgivenessWould itself seemLike another mistakePerhaps it suffices to knowThey were mistakes.
The Longing
Love ain’t enough No, it ain’t enough Neither is reason Nor words of any kind Nor memories fresh Nothing calms…
“Greed” for Knowledge
There seems to be such a thing as “greed” (some may prefer to call it “hunger”) for knowledge. One seeks…
Ramana Maharshi on Sex
My Quote
“The inability to love is the root of all evil.”—D. Samarender Reddy
Ramakrishna Paramahansa on Compassion and Attachment
“Remember that daya (compassion), and maya (attachment), are two different things. Attachment means the feeling of ‘my-ness’ toward one’s relatives.…
Should You Renounce and Go to the Himalayas to Get Enlightened?
Q: The yogis say that one must renounce this world and go off into secluded jungles if one wishes to…
Know Thyself 