Adi Shankaracharya re initiated India around 400 BC (?) into the Vedic lore and way of life. He re instated the then lost art of doing Poojas and Yagyas. He expounded the Advaita philosophy. Though He was the one who gave much emphasis on Pooja, He also, in a series of brilliant verses totally rubbished [...]

Adi Shankaracharya brought back the Vedic Lore to India by masterfully defeating in debate renowned Buddhist scholars of that time. He spread the Vedic way of life along the length and breath of India and established the four matths with the help of His four beloved disciples. The five people sitting right in the middle [...]

With the advent of Buddhism in India, for many, many years, the Vedic lore of performing Poojas and Yagyas was lost. Buddhism said that all these rituals didn’t make any sense, and that all you need to do for Enlightenment was to meditate and drop everything else. For many hundreds of years there was hardly [...]

There is a very mysterious line in one of the ancient texts. Says that God is a Forest. Worship the Forest. Now, why would God be a forest? In a forest everything has it’s place. From the mightiest and most ferocious of the animals to the most innocuous little bugs. Every creature lives in balance [...]

Antoine is a super YES!+ teacher from Montreal… He was the guy who made me fall in love with Settlers of Cataan, one of the bestest board games i have ever played and knows more about the effects of diet choices and lifestyle choices on the environment that anyone else i know, but this post [...]

Most people believe that business and spirituality are at loggerheads with each other. A person doing business cannot afford to be spiritual and a person who is spiritual shouldn’t care about business. This is what the so called experts say… The Ancients knew better!! The Goddess of Wealth Laxmi signifies the epitome of Business. She [...]

Guruji talked about Pooja. Here is what He said almost verbatim… Good and bad things happen in the world. But our consciousness can gain from all these situations. Like, when there is rain or too much of heat (sun), you take an umbrella and protect yourself. Same way, Awareness, Knowledge, Devotion is the umbrella to [...]

Q. Currently I am reading “ The Power of now “ by Eckhard Tolle… Not sure if you have read this book. It’s the same as what Guruji says about the Mind and about the Present Moment. I have never felt the urge more stronger to be on this path and with Guruji and in [...]

A lil tid bit from yesternight’s Satsang … Q. Guruji when i run after you, is it Bhakti (Devotion) or just a lack of self respect? A. A little bit of running is alright. Then you sit down, relax and go deep within… Then I will start running after you! Not only that, the whole [...]

Then one after the other, the gopis tell the Sage the story of how they got to Him. Of what Krishna had told them and how the waters had parted to let them through. They obviously couldn’t tell the River that they had to go and feed a hungry Sage. Could He please help them? [...]