Recent events surrounding the video scandal involving the guru Paramahamsa Nithyananda invoked anger, frustration, and outright condemnation from various sectors of the population including some of his former and present devotees. Other devotees of his are calling this a conspiracy against their guru. Some are still in a state of shock… What follows is a reply that I gave my friend.[…]

I wish that our species were as big hearted and open-minded as the two lovely and lively friends in this video. Watching it I was compelled to share this with you all. […]

Dear Readers,
Wish You All Happy Holidays
And, A Very Happy New Year 2010.
May The New Year Bring Prosperity And Peace To Every Dimension Of Your Being.
-Desika

The sentence, “Stories we tell ourselves” kept rolling in my thought-space for the past few days. As I contemplated on this, I realized the stories we tell ourselves, and others, to justify the status quo, to justify our behavior, to justify why we are resisting change, why we want to give up on something that we are doing, or to never start something that we always wanted to do. Stories, […]

If you were using Firefox 3.0 or equivalent, you would have noticed, in the last week or so, that whenever you accessed anything on this site you would get a warning that this site might contain malware. Earlier versions of these browsers won’t see it. That really shocked me because I don’t sell any product (except for links to Amazon and ads from Google). When I logged into my account on Google, and ran webmaster tools, I got less than helpful information. And, they asked me to submit my website for review again, […]

Dear Friends,
As you may have noticed, lately, the frequency of my postings has reduced. Owing to the inner direction I received recently, I have decided to take a short break from blogging to work on myself more deeply. I hope that you understand and stay tuned.
Thanks,
Desika

I have been contemplating about the concept of free will for a while. I looked back into my life, into all that happened and all that I accomplished. When I contemplated on things that just happened it felt like I had no control over them. However, when I looked at things that I felt I accomplished—at least felt that way at the time of their accomplishment—initially, I felt I had done them out of my own will—free will. […]

We end up living a life that we constantly think of and dream of. We will realize this fact, if we take a few moments from our busy lives to look back and contemplate on what happened so far and what was our mental state during those times. Though this may come as a shock or make us feel uncomfortable, once we realize that so far we have been limited by our own thoughts and imaginings, […]

In Part-1 of this series, I talked about the confusions and internal conflicts that arise, if the guru-disciple relationship is not seen in proper, higher perspective. In this part, I will discuss my own confusions, and how my teacher Siddhar Thirumoolar clarified my doubts using my wordly relationships as examples. […]

In this two-part series, I will discuss the confusions, questions and doubts that arose in my guru-disciple relationship with Siddhar Thirumoolar and Mahavatar Babaji, and their subsequent resolution, in hopes that it will help you resolve your own confusions and internal conflicts when it comes to your relationship with your teacher. Hopefully, this will trigger a contemplation within you to figure out, if your own relationship to your teacher is based whether on equality, mutual love and respect, or on fear, clinging and sycophantic behavior. None of the latter three leave room for mutual love and respect. […]