7 Components of a Healthy Relationship
Relationships are the most important aspect of our life. Simply put, for most people, if relationships are good, life feels good. It also one of the trickie
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Staying Conscious While Under Attack
How can I maintain high self-esteem in light of frequent negative external feedback? I try to maintain a positive attitude, but I’m so easily brought down by those around me. Their words and actions often trigger me to
5 Things That Make A New Age Woman
This is the new millennium and hence the title “New Age woman”. It has been a king journey in the way women have evolved, just like everything else around them has changed. It doesn’t mean that women in the ancient times were less liberal or less courageous or less self-respecting than the new age
Rakshabandhan – The Bond of Brother-Sister
Do you remember the small fights with your siblings on funny reasons and then patch ups? Childhood is considered as best part of life. Life seemed to be so simple with having small issues of chocolate and toy fights. When I think about my Indian tradition I feel very proud of being born in this
Guru Purnima Mantra
The full-moon day (purnima) in July is the auspicious (Poornima) day when Guru Poornima is celebrated by worshipping our Guru, the spiritual master. A qualified spiritual master is essential to learn self-realization. Bhagavadgita (Ch.4.34) asks one to learn the truth through a Guru or spiritual master, inquire from him submissively and render service unto him.
Let’s Play Holi
Cloths drenched in mud, water and colour and faces smeared with indistinguishable colours dancing around in a frenzy of fun and frolic completes the quintessential Holi portrait. Only on this auspicious day, you will find people of different age, status, and gender coming together to celebrate and enjoy putting aside their inhibitions. Children running around
A Message for Valentine’s Day
February is the month when the nature begins to stir and revive its glory and beauty after the dark night of winter. Everything begins to seem fresh and new just like it happens when you are in love. The world seems rosy and everyone seems pleasant and happy just because you are happy. February’s theme
Perfect Love Affair
“There’s a picture in my memory of the days when we first met, when solo became duet. It’s a perfect love affair” ~Anita Baker Looking in the same direction… Huge crowds thronged the grounds. Preparations were on to host the Youth Festival. He elbowed people aside as he moved through the crowd .She had just
Be a Ray of Hope this Diwali
Diwali: Can each one of us be a ray of hope in celebration of the festival of lights? Through The Eyes Of A Child Diwali celebrations hold special significance not just for the people of India but for people all across the world. While growing up, I looked forward to the occasion. My grandmother
My Fair Lady
I opened the door to find a scrawny looking woman standing beside my mother. The skin of her face was mottled and clung to her bones. Sickly curls of hair danced about her weather-beaten face. She had a face that confuses you. Scarred but striking all the same. The only redeeming feature was her hawk-like
A Woman of Substance
Loudest was the silence, That shattered her spirit, Harshest was her fate, Only loneliness her heart merit! Arohi rode high on the successes of life! Her colleagues called her a human dynamo, a potent combination of beauty and brains! She could juggle with ease between the complex figures on a pie chart and be packing
Colours of Life
Did you ever think a world without colours? Blue sky, green trees, flowers, butterflies…….? Can you imagine life without colours? Colourless wardrobe? Colourless furniture…..? Colourless food, vegetables, even a pen, pencil, or a cover of a notebook? Can’t imagine…. Colours are so much integral part of our mundane experience that we relate our emotions with different colours.
First Love
It’s February and love is in the air. One day is hug day, another kiss day, chocolate day… and so on till the 14th February “Valentine’s Day”. Everybody especially teenagers and youth is excited and seem to express their love to their loved ones. I also do the same, but I always buy the first
Book Review-Women Who Love Too Much
Robin Norwood’s book: Women Who Love Too Much, was originally published in 1985, but another edition came out in 2008, which was equally popular, testifying its continued relevance and usefulness in helping women recover from damaging relationship patterns. The sub title: “When You Keep Wishing and Hoping He’ll Change”, further defines its readership as being
June 2011 Special
This month’s Kaleidoscope is a water crystal and is dedicated to the immensely useful and powerful element of life – Water. Water is the food of life, and essential for life, for all things arose from the sea. It quenches the thirst of the earth made barren by fire and air. Water is serenity. It
Buddha Poornima – The Day of Enlightenment
A group of young girls sang along playing the sitar as they crossed the forest where a young monk sat under a tree, his body reduced to a skeleton by starvation and severe yogic practices. In my opinion this was the moment of enlightenment for the young monk who later
One Good Deed may create a Miracle!
ONE GOOD DEED can touch a thousand hearts. I know it and you know it as well! There have been several such moments where we have realised that may be one Good deed has helped someone out of a disaster. This is the reason I am sharing a true life incident that has touched my heart
Meri Dadi
मेरी दादी जैसे सीप में मोती वैसे दादी और पोती मैं उनकी नन्ही परी और प्यारी रसभरी| Jaise seep mein moti, vaise dadi aur poti. Mein unki nanhi pari, aur pyaari rasbhari. फल लाती, दूध लाती, गेंद लाती, झूला झुलाती| गो़द में सुलाती, लोरी भी सुनाती, मेरे पापा-मम्मी से मुझे बचाती, मुझे खूब हँसती हँसाती
Understanding and Managing Stress
Stress has been called “the invisible disease”. It is a disease that may affect any individual or even an organization. We cannot afford to ignore it. Hence it is important for us to recognize, understand and finally combat this dreadful disease which is attacking and killing more and more people day after day. What is
Significance of Navratra
Navratra is a Sanskrit word formed by the union of two words ‘Nav’ – meaning nine and ‘ratra’ – meaning night. Here number 9 is of great importance. It is magical to see that when we enumerate the table of number nine, 9 gets repeated again and again…viz. 9, 18(1+8=9), 27(2+7=9), 36(3+6=9), 45(4+5=9), 54(5+4=9), 63(6+3=9),
The Question of Life
The question of Life – I think the way to approach it is dispassionately and know you will never have the real answers. Every religious tradition has an answer that addresses this question, some in agreeable and some in disagreeable ways. The Navajo Indians are the only Native Americans who do not have a rain
Life is a Growth School
Life is a wonderful gift from god which we have to cherish at every moment. Life is like a growth school and life experiences are so designed by a compassionate and intelligent universe to help us evolve. Anything which happens happens for a reason and hence we need to develop an awareness and receptivity to this
Holi – Festival of Colours
Holi is a social festival. It is a festival of colours. People of all ages celebrate it with full fervour. Holi enjoys the status of even a national festival as this is the only festival which is celebrated by one and all irrespective of caste and religion. Holi is celebrated in two parts- 1. Holika
Phaag
फागुन की ऋतू आई सखी रे, जियरा लुभाए सखी रे, महक उठी फूलों की फुलवारी, कुहुक उठी कोयल मतवारी| Phagun ki ritu aaye sakhi ri, Jiyara lubhaye sakhi ri, Mahak uthi phoolon ki phulwari, Kuhuk uthi koel matwari. हरे हरे खेत लहर लहर लेहेराएँ, गेहूं की बाली शर्माए, सरसों पीली सरस बरसाए, देख देख किसान
Mahashivratri – Quest for Balance
Lord Shiva is the representation of the energy from which everything was born and to which everything in the universe will disintegrate into. The universe is made of 3 gunas (गुण) – satva, rajas and tamas – which are Divine Love (creation), Divine Wisdom (preservation) and Divine Power (destruction) represented by Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva.
Change Your Vision
There was a millionaire who was bothered by severe eye pain. He consulted so many physicians and was getting his treatment done. He did not stop consulting galaxy of medical experts; he consumed heavy loads of drugs and underwent hundreds of injections. But the ache persisted with great vigor than before. At last a monk