Archive for the category ‘Knowledge’

Aug 21

Why do Parsis worship the Fire?

One thing lead to another, you can click The Holy Fire and read about it… and One day I asked Guruji, why do Parsis worship the Fire?! He replied, Look at the essence of Fire. If you put Gold with some impurities in Fire. What happens? The impurities are burned away and the value of [...]

Aug 20

The Holy Fire

Parsis worship Ahura Mazda (our name of God) through revering and worshiping nature. And our symbol is Fire. Each Fire Temple has a consecrated holy fire that is kept (smoldering) burning night and day. Each fire is lit with a spark of the original Atash Badshah (now housed in Udvada in Gujarat), and so it [...]

Aug 19

Saal Mubarak!!

Today is Parsi New Year. And Srividya from Poona called me yesternight and requested me to post some things about Parsis this week… so here goes… The Parsis were a warrior race originating in ancient Persia a few thousand years ago. They were known for their bravery, their amazing intellectual achievements and their devotion to [...]

Aug 18

A Roller Coaster!

Every time someone confronts us with anger or violence a game starts. A game between that persons anger and our love, between their violence and our peace… And when we are stronger, then the opposite person has no choice but to drop their anger and love us! They have no choice but to let go [...]

Aug 11

Ice Cream and the Present Moment

I needed a photo of delicious ice cream for this post… just couldn’t find it, so i made dinesh pose for it, and we started today morning with dinesh eating gooey, tasty, full of sugar (!) ice cream… after taking the photos there was some left over, so i had a few bites as well!!! [...]

Aug 4

You = Happiness!

Ok, i know i said i wont be posting for some time… but hey, i got a working internet connection in Poona (Bombay is still iffy), so here is some nice stuff for everyone to read Here is (my interpretation of) a little incident that happened in Rashmin’s course: They were talking about how it [...]

Jul 25

QnA – 16

Q: I would like to if it is possible to know the ultimate truth of our creation and creator…Does someone know this or do we all tend to ignore the basic question of life just because we aren’t able to find one..? A: Many know, because they make it a priority of their time on [...]

Jul 19

Guru Poornima 2008

Here is the transcript of Guruji’s talk in the Satsang on Guru Poornima, 18th July 2008 (slightly edited for better readability): How many of you are thinking “Guruji say something?”…Huh? What is there to talk? What is there to talk? Hmm..? We all are happy & celebrating Meditation, singing, celebrating on Guru Poornima day is [...]

Jul 18

QnA – 15

Here is an article i did for some magazine… They edited a lot of stuff… here it is in the original Q: Why should a person who has been living his life happily need to do an art of living course?Answer. The Art of Living series of courses are not only for people who have [...]

Jul 14

Beacons of Light

In school (Don Bosco, Matunga), we had something called a calendar, which was basically a smallish blue coloured book, with the portions for every year, a (duh!) calendar, so we could enter into it like a diary stuff that we wanted to, our marks in various tests and exams AND the Remarks page. Here sadistic [...]

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