I never liked fasting and always ate food to my heart's content.(There are so many types of fasting and the fasting I am referring here is staying for a complete day only on minimum consumption of fruits). Yes, I am a foodie and I love food. I even eat food happily on Shivaratri without any guilt. Hunger was too much of suffering for me and I did not believe in such suffering. So, what made me do fasting? Its Lord Krishna. Since the time I studied Mahabharata, I fell in love with Lord Krishna. He is an amazing personality and studying his pastimes and…
I have been trying to read Bhagavad Gita since 2007. But I could not move beyond first 2 chapters. I tried translation and interpretation by different authors. And then, I tried youtube lectures by different orators. But everytime I attempted, I just could not move beyond 2nd chapter. Some work used to come after 2nd chapter and I would stop reading there thinking I will continue it next day but I could not pick it up. In these 14 years, I would have attempted more than 15 times to read this book but my efforts failed. I am a voracious reader and I read…
Many of us could successfully swim through covid but unfortunately, some of us could not. I have one such association in my life who is negatively impacted by covid. Let's call her Jasmine(Name changed to protect privacy). Jasmine taught me an amazing lesson on Spirituality and I want to share the learning here. Before I share the lesson, let me introduce Jasmine. Jasmine is from an influential and rich business family settled in Delhi. She is also into spirituality. She takes good care of her employees, donates generously, cares for mother nature, and tries her best to live in line with spiritual principles. I…
When it came to higher meditations, my mind always asked me - "why should I spend 1.5 to 2.5 hrs on higher meditations when life is already wonderful with wellness meditation which takes only 30 mins to 45 mins?". This question stopped me from doing higher meditations for many years. I practiced them now and then but was not committed. I learnt higher meditations in 2009 and in these 12 years, I did 100 days of higher meditations only twice when I needed a big miracle. After years of wellness meditation, service and tithing, life has become pretty smooth and my mind resisted the…
Ever since I came to know that diabetes can be reversed with the help of right diet and one can go off the diabetes medications, I wanted my mother to be free of diabetes. I have seen many negative impacts of diabetes on her health and desperately wanted her to be free from this disease. So, my journey of reversing her diabetes started last year September and today, on Sep 24th 2021, her sugar levels are normal without any medication. It took me an year to see this miracle. In this year, I learnt so much, tried numerous things, faced many disappointments and finally,…
We all know the importance and benefits of meditation and we really want to meditate. But some of us struggle with regularity when it comes to meditation. Our knowledge does not translate into practice. We will find time for exercise, internet browsing, travel, books , entertainment, time pass but not for meditation. This happened to me multiple times in my spiritual journey of 12 years and those times frustrated me. For me, meditation is a need. It is not a luxury or an optional pursuit. If I don't meditate a day, I feel my day to be incomplete. So, inability to meditate felt like…
Being an Indian, Mahabharata is not something new to me. Since my childhood, I have seen, read, listened to various versions and stories from Mahabharata. I loved all those movies and stories which revolved around pandavas and kauravas. But these could not satisfy me and I desired for a teacher who can explain this gripping story from the viewpoint of a spiritual seeker. Finally, I found such teacher in Samavedam Shanmukha Sarma garu. He is a brilliant scholar and orator in Telugu. And he is also a Guru for many seekers. By chance, on YouTube, I came across his discourses on complete Mahabharata. It…
I want to share a blessing experience I had. Next to my bedroom window (I have kept it open because of humidity)after our compound wall, there is a big vacant ground with good greenery area. So some street dogs made that area their resting place. They sleep in that area. One month back, during the night time, dogs started barking. I don't know what happened. I felt one dog is in pain and barking. May be they had a fight. Barking continued through out the night. My husband, 2 year old kid and I spent disturbed night. We could not sleep properly due to…
Hi All. Myself Gayathri, age 43. I was an Assistant professor in department of Electrical and Electronics engineering in a private engineering college in Chennai. I took a break in 2018 when my daughter started 10th. Initially everything was fine as I engaged myself in attending online classes. Then I had to concentrate more on my daughter. I had to take her to coaching classes. So I discontinued online classes. When the pandemic and lockdown started slowly, problems started creeping in. I was going in to depression, losing weight, was fighting with my family members, panicking for silly things. No one was there to…
Like millions of people, my husband and I thought we will not get covid as we are taking all the precautions. But one fine day, my husband missed following the covid guidelines and he got covid. Every individual's covid journey is unique. His covid started with intense symptoms of high fever and weakness. It was not mild. This phase is one of the most challenging times we faced and it took us 20 days to travel from covid positive to negative. In this journey, we both learnt certain lessons. Here are those lessons. Value of normal life: When life is going smooth, sometimes we…

