Posts from the philosophy category.
The moon defines what makes me happy.I find myself standing in the middle of the road,While everyone passes by around me.I wander, wondering where I want to go—The path whose destination is unknown,Or the one my mind fears to follow.Is it the route that will bring my moon closer to me,Or drift it farther away than it is now?Is it the route that will deepen my fears,Or help me find comfort within t...
Those sounds. The sounds of horns blaring as if in a competition. The sound of public bus braking inch by inch stuck in the traffic. The sound of fan in the room. The sound of people talking in the garden below. The sound of kids crying or shouting among them. The sound of keyboard being typed in the next room. The sound of mosquito roaming around near me. The subtle sound of the bamboo windchim...
He seems to be comfortable spending the whole day sleeping. Not much of talks, no wishes to travel much or meet people. But is there a norm to follow for people who has retired? What do society expects of people who don’t have the need to work? Is it really required that they need to contribute or do meaningful activities to the society? Isn’t that subjective? He may be depressed and wanting someo...
Books that can and do alter your modes of thinking and the state of your mental well being. For the better.Fire on the Ganges speaks to the life of the Doms - the low caste untouchables of Varanasi who are the keepers of the holy flame. If you want think we live in a post caste world, please consider checking in with reality and read this. And this one transports you to quantum land. Its not an ea...
Some books arrive like conversations. Others arrive like mirrors.You begin reading casually, thinking you already understand the territory — familiar gods, familiar philosophies, familiar spiritual vocabulary — and then somewhere between a story from the Puranas and a meditation on the self, the book quietly turns toward you and asks a question you were not prepared to answer.That was my journey t...
There’s a particular kind of silence that settles over a reader when a book doesn’t merely present an argument, but quietly questions the foundation on which decades of accepted thinking have been built. I felt that silence while reading Mysteries of Vedas: Five Keys for Decoding by Kaushal Kishore. Not because the book is aggressive or sensational, but because it carries the confidence of someone...
There’s a strange habit most of us carry without noticing. We meet someone for five minutes and quietly write an entire story about them in our heads. A tone of voice becomes arrogance. Silence becomes attitude. Confidence becomes ego. And sometimes, kindness itself feels suspicious. Reading Looking Again reminded me how frighteningly fast we all become judges in lives we barely understand.I began...
There’s a quiet moment that comes before you begin anything new — not dramatic, not cinematic — just a small pause where you ask yourself, “Will this actually change something in me?” I found myself in that exact space before opening The Yoga Odyssey: An Ordinary Man’s Quest to Uncover the Divine Mystery by Vino Mody. Not expecting transformation. Just hoping for clarity.What unfolded wasn’t a gra...
There are some books you don’t read for answers — you read them because they dare to ask questions most people quietly avoid.Questions that sit somewhere between science… and belief.That’s the space I found myself in while reading Universe Inside Our Brain — Quantum Astrology by Dr Soundar Divakar.Not as a physicist. Not as a neuroscientist.But as a curious mind trying to understand — what if the ...
