The Guru-Disciple Relationship — Part 2

By DivyaPosted on August 19, 2016March 22, 2017Cat IPI, PsychologyLeave a comment

The definition of a Guru A few years back I came across an article by Joel D. Mlecko titled, “The Guru in Hindu tradition.” The article traces the significance of the Guru-disciple relationship from the Vedic era up to the present times. Though the article gives us only a cursory glimpse of the topic it… Read More »

Living in the NOW

By AditiPosted on August 16, 2016March 22, 2017Cat IPI, PsychologyLeave a comment

How often have you engaged in a self-talk or been in a situation where you are pulled between how you feel and what your mind tells you? My guess would be ‘a lot of times’. While growing up we are subjected to so much conditioning as to how a particular thing should “be” and how… Read More »

A reflection on life

By Guest BlogPosted on August 13, 2016August 13, 2016Cat Miscellaneous musings, UncategorizedLeave a comment

Highway - ek selfie aar paar — A Marathi film by Umesh Kulkarni A Reflection on Life by Sakshi Tandon Highway is a film about the journey undertaken by various travellers in separate vehicles on the Mumbai-Pune highway. Each one is in a hurry to reach their destination. This outer journey however turns out to be… Read More »

Gazing at fear

By Lucas BockPosted on August 9, 2016August 9, 2016Cat Miscellaneous musings, Society3 Comments

A hairline crack in the idyll Würzburg, Munich, Reutlingen, Ansbach – some dead, some injured, many scared. Four outbreaks of violence within six days, partly rampage, partly religiously motivated terror, in places not far from where I live. No more do these things only happen to other people, in far off places, where you might… Read More »

Storing and hoarding

By Navni GujralPosted on August 2, 2016March 22, 2017Cat Poetry, Psychology2 Comments

Some words glued to pages lying still in self-arrest pleaded silently to me: We must be brought to life at once to caress the clever storm growing stronger in it's weakness! "What stops you then?", I asked, as I shoved them in square pockets. Just this! Storing and hoarding and jumbling us around; our smell rots… Read More »

Beyond physicalism: a short note on why we need Sri Aurobindo’s vision

By MatthijsPosted on July 30, 2016Cat Psychology2 Comments

The physicalism that is widely assumed to be an essential element of the scientific method and way of thinking, even by those who consider themselves post-positivist, is actually neither a necessary condition, nor a finding of science. It is no more than an assumption that simplified physics and chemistry to a level where they could… Read More »

Know Thyself

By JyotiPosted on July 26, 2016March 22, 2017Cat Miscellaneous musings, PsychologyLeave a comment

The biggest and the most refreshing departure from western psychology to Indian psychology, for me, was the shift from trying to understand the other, to ‘know thyself’. This is a process, a journey, an adventure, which entails a dive inside, from our surface knowing of oneself into all the deep, hidden, unbeknown layers of oneself… Read More »

The Guru Disciple Relationship — Part 1

By DivyaPosted on July 22, 2016March 22, 2017Cat IPI, Psychology3 Comments

One of the earliest memories I have of the term “Guru” is that of dancing as a ten year old to the following Sanskrit shloka, “Gurur brahmaa gurur vishnuh gurur devo maheshvarah gurur saakshaat parabrahma tasmai shree gurave namah.” Of course I memorized the lines given that we practiced the dance sequence at least for a… Read More »

Why are families breaking?

By Divyanshi ChughPosted on July 20, 2016July 20, 2016Cat Psychology, Psychotherapy and counseling6 Comments

From a very long time, we have been lamenting that families are breaking, often blaming the "outside forces" for it. But let's just step back and see what is happening, without evaluating it as right, wrong, happy or sad. It is indeed true that the nature of communication has changed, loneliness has increased, traditional families… Read More »

Connecting with the world

By AditiPosted on July 15, 2016April 22, 2018Cat IPI, Psychology8 Comments

The essence of life lies in discovering the truth within and finding your inner anchor, but the journey doesn’t end there. It is often said that ‘man is a social animal’, which indicates the importance of social interaction in our life. The idea is not to disconnect with the world but be in the midst… Read More »