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God’s Fault


“One cannot realize God if one has even the least trace of desire. A thread cannot pass through the eye … More

Birth, Creation, Desires, God, Karma, Liberation, Life, Maya, Sorrow, Suffering, World

“Is it perfume from a dress / That makes me so digress?”


No, Eliot, it is not the perfumeFrom a dress or otherwiseThat makes me digress. I digressBecause the mind itself is … More

Advaita, Eliot, God, Indian Philosophy, Mind, Nonduality, Philosophy of Life, Poem, Poetry, Silence, Spiritual Quest, Spiritual Sadhana, Spirituality, Surrender, Truth, TS Eliot, Upanishads, World

What We Pay Attention to Becomes Reality for Us: An Idealist Position


If we pay attention to our mind, or what amounts to the same thing pay attention to the thoughts and … More

Attention, Consciousness, Deep sleep, Emotions, Idealism, Meditation, Memories, Mind, Reality, Relationships, Suffering, Thoughts, World

The Distance


Love is what makes the world go aroundSo it is said; I do not differYet I differ in a wayI … More

Advaita, Hinduism, Nonduality, Philosophy, Poem, Poem on God, Poetry, Religion, Spirituality, Who am I?, World

Is the World Real?


A friend wrote to me: “Trying to understand Reality,By renouncing the world,Is like trying to understand the ocean,By ignoring the … More

Brahman, Clay and pot, Consciousness, Criteria for reality, Criteria for truth, Dream analogy, God, Hinduism, Indian Philosophy, Jagat mithya, Meditation, Mithya, Name-and-form analogy, Philosophy, Ramana Maharshi, Reality, Religion, Sankaracharya, Self, Spirituality, Unchanging, Unreality of the World, What is "real"?, World

This World, Yes, This World


This world where we keep wantingOthers to love usHow little we love others.This world where we keep wantingTo be happy … More

Poem, Poetry, World

Yeh Duniya Yeh Mehfil Mere Kaam Ki Nahi


Happiness and love we keep seeking While we ourselves are that which we seek Look at God’s Maya or is … More

Happiness, Ignorance, Illusion, Love, Maya, Name and Fame, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, World

Unfinished Karobaar


“This seemingly unfinished karobaar might yet bring me back to this world again.”

Craving, Desire, Love, Quotable quotes, Quotations, Quotes, Rebirth, Samsara, Trishna, World

Maya


As I like to define, Maya is the false understanding that happiness lies outside, and what is on the outside … More

Avidya, Bondage, Happiness, Hinduism, Illusion, life philosophy, Maya, Religion, Samsara, World

On Watching “Bhay: The Gaurav Tiwari Mystery”


I stop watching it midwayIn Episode 1, Season 1Yes, there may be ghosts Of whatever kindAren’t they just another kind … More

Bhay, Cosmos, Eris & Eros, Gaurav Tiwari Mystery, Ghosts, God, leela, Nama-rupa, Names and forms, Poem, Poetry, World

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