Love and Trust
We all seek love and acceptance. Inspite of all the ugliness, weaknesses, unworthiness, undeservedness, someone accepts me as I am. What else? All our hard work...
Good pain, bad pain
Sri Gurubhyo Namah! If you are practicing yoga or gym after a long time, first few days or weeks the body aches. This is good pain. Muscles telling – I too exis...
Day 3 of 3, the Shakti Pitha Yatra
Day 3 It has been about a week since this day. Apologies for the delay. Here goes the writeup. Previous posts – Link to Day 1 Link to Day 2 — The Day 3 was ag...
Day 2 of 3, Shakti Pitha Yatra
Me: How to know what's the divine will? Mentor: Everything is divine will. Now you have come here. You have put in faith, surrender maybe. That's following divi...
Day 1 of 3, the Shakti Pitha Yatra
I'm on a 3 day Shakti Pitha Yatra starting today (18 April). Shakti (or Shakta) Pithas are significant shrines or places of worship in Shaktism. Shaktism is a p...
On acceptance
It’s common to hear this advice on acceptance. Something untoward happens and you are asked to accept it. As you can’t change the past, it’s wise just to accept...
Day 7 of 12 – Kashi Prayagraj Mahakumbh Yatra – Concluding Post
I'd set up an alarm for 5 am but I woke up by 4. Woke up refreshed, but the body wasn't feeling so great. Because of the cold I suppose. I felt I need to go bac...
Day 6 of 12 – Kashi Prayag Mahakumbh Yatra
I've attended 3 longer duration Satsangs (retreats) of Sri M. The last day in all of them have been emotional for me. Today was the last day and an emotional on...
Day 5 of 12 – Kashi Prayag Mahakumbh Yatra
At our retreat today was a Moun day (a day of observing silence), from 6am to 6pm, the day being Mouni Amavasya. It is also considered the holiest bath day in t...
Day 4 of 12 – Kashi Prayagraj – Mahakumbh Yatra
We (me and Shivam) started early from our room to our Guru's Akhada. At 6am Mantra chanting was scheduled. We reached around 6:05. The vibrations from the Mantr...
Day 3 of 12 – Kashi Prayagraj – Mahakumbh Yatra
As we didn't get the Darshan the previous night, we decided to get in the queue by 230AM. This means I had to wake up by 130, freshen up and ready to leave by 2...
Day 2 of 12 – Kashi Prayagraj – Mahakumbh Yatra
1030PM – while walking away from Kashi Vishwanath temple towards our stay. This lady on the wheelchair is probably in her late 80's. Did not seem like she could...
Day 1 of 12, Kashi-Prayagraj – Mahakumbh
My Guru’s foundation runs a Shibhir near the Triveni Sangam for the Mahakumbh in Prayagraj. I’ve signed up for the batch that runs during the special snan of Mo...
The path to a sane mind
Happiness doesn't feel as much, as until there has been some suffering. For the last several hundred years, abundance is abundant! - abundance of food – we forg...
Jammu & Kashmir Trip
We (me, my partner & our 5yo) recently visited J&K for vacation. In this blog post, I will detail the following how it all went my view on the security situatio...
About
The site describes bobdiya as "the naughty explorer who did not follow the rules yet desires to be compassionate." The creator emphasizes beliefs in inner stren...
How I came out of my Thyroid problem?
Disclaimer: The following article is a description of an individual experience and should not be considered as medical advice. The author is not a medical profe...
Vipassana: My experience – Part 2
This post is the second part of the two parts that I have written on Vipassana. Part 1: an introduction to the Vipassana in a Q&A format. Part 2 is about my per...
Vipassana: 10 days of silence – Part 1
Recently (Nov 1 – 12th, 2022), I attended a 10 day residential silence Vipassana Meditation retreat. This post is the first part of the two parts that I will wr...
Experiment 2: Fasting for 34 hours
It was a Sunday. The right opportunity had come. My wife was out of town. My daughter was with her granny. Limited personal & professional obligations. The day...
Update 1 for Experiment 1: 60 mins for 60 days
Note: For context, read the post Experiment 1: 60 minutes for 60 days if you haven't already. Here is how my meditation practice been so far: [Image showing med...
How to build confidence?
Confidence is the ability to see a possibility without necessarily having navigated the exact path of that possibility. For example – a Zoo manager in Chennai m...
Experiment 1: 60 minutes for 60 days
It has been 22 days since I published my 22 experiments for 2022 post. My first experiment for the year will be to do a 60 day meditation routine. While I've do...
22 experiments in 2022
I had a good time writing blog posts. This was several years ago. Unadulterated expression has a high of its own. Creating, editing and publishing felt like a d...
Vinay
I was scrolling through my Whatsapp statuses. One of them said RIP Vinay. I called the friend to check. He didn't know the details but confirmed the untimely de...
Gowrisha, Yoga and me
This was about 10 years ago. I received a broadcast in my inbox for a meditation session at the office. It was from Gowrisha. He was my boss’s boss. I was intim...