Hidden Meaning Of Life

  For a long time I wished to read a classic piece of work. Gratefully, I got my hands on some treasured gems from history, one of those is Gitanjali written by Rabindranath Tagore . The name Gitanjali is translated in English as song offerings. I read the English translation. Songs were filled with deep meaning and unfathomable emotions. The poems or more profoundly referring, songs written by Tagore are eternally fragrant. There were more than 100 songs written with love and grace engulfing multiple meanings for different phases and different stages of life. One cannot attach a single meaning to any of them. Tagore beautifully explored the physical and metaphysical world, with corporeal and incorporeal desires and emotions. There was love, longing, peace, desire, spirituality, and all profound feelings one experiences in a lifetime. The songs are for the lover, for the reluctant, for the secluded, and for anyone who wants to experience the beautiful words put together like a gar...

  We often hear this saying, but tend to forget the significance of these words in our waking life. Food is a vital component of our life, and an essential component for our survival. In our scriptures the importance of food and its vitality is clearly described along with the function it performs.  What we eat has a direct impact on our physical, mental and spiritual well-being. Whether we know this or not but every particle of food we consume affects us in a variety of ways.  So, the understanding of food is equally important as its consumption.  Today, our dietary practices are more associated with taste, appetite, and symbol of wealth. Surely, the food is meant for eating, but not mere eating. Many of us entitle ourselves with the name “foodie” or “food freaks”, but as Sadhguru pointed in his book Food Body , these are the result of ignorance. Sadhguru emphasized on being conscious of what you eat and how you eat.  We are often told to avoid junk food. As th...

Numerous people, numerous perspectives. Everyone has a perspective. It could be about anything or anyone. A perspective of an individual is a subjective asset that is influenced by innate states of mind, such as feelings and emotions. Perspective of an individual has nothing to do with the one about whom (or which) the perspective is. It shapes our view of things but has no effect on the thing itself. For instance, in the image (above), the glass is seen from different perspectives by different individuals, but does it make any difference to the glass? No. The glass is completely fine with its being. It doesn't matter what people think it (glass). For some, a person sees her/himself in the other. An individual is reflected in the other. Simply, we are reflected in the other through our perspective of the other. Thus, a perspective is highly subjective. Perspectives are stored in the mind. Mind is a private space and others cannot watch the movie being played there and can’t peep i...

Hello bibliophiles, hope you are enjoying your current read.  As an avid reader, my objective and desire is to read different genres and explore the world of books. So today, I’m about to review a self-help book written by Dale Carnegie, international bestselling author.   How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie is a knowledge loaded piece of writing. It is filled with real experiences of individuals who used the techniques mentioned in this book. It touches essential areas of one’s life, such as career, friendship, interpersonal and professional relations, value of others and their perspectives, and many more. In a simplified manner, Carnegie provides tips and tricks to deal with the difficulties of human life. The book is not only about improving one’s attitude but stresses upon the values of cherishing relationships and positive attitude in life. It carries valuable advice, experiences and life lessons from successful individuals listed on the pages of his...

  The one who waters our roots with the elixir of knowledge is a teacher. The one who is beyond all kinds of discrimination is a teacher. The one who taught us discipline, punctuality and virtues is a teacher. A teacher is like a parent. They take care of us. And they made us who we are. Everyone and everything around us is a teacher. Because life is all about living and learning. The one who guides us is a teacher. The one who taught us everything unconditionally is a teacher. I bow down to you with utmost gratitude. Thank you for being my teacher. -Saloni Bajaj # HappyTeachersDay #Gratitude #Teacher

"Time is money" but unlike money you can't get it back. Once the time is gone, it's gone forever. But there is something unique about time. Most of us know that time is eternal . We don't know when it started or came to being and we can't know when it'll stop or cease to exist. Each and every moment of time is essential and loaded with limitless possibilities.    If we contemplate it, we get to know that everything takes place in time . Nothing can happen outside time.  How? Let's go deeper. Try to remember a pleasant memory. Now you remember that. That memory was an event in the past and past is a component of time. Thus, memories are in time. Your actions, their results, everything occurs in time. But what is this time?   Time itself is a memory, it is a healer , it can give you happiness or take it away from you (it depends on your state of mind). It is something you cannot escape. It is always there whether you notice or not. This time ...

After a wait of nine years, finally, I read this gem named ‘The Alchemist’ by Paulo Coelho. My reading journey began with two novels, when I was in 9th grade. The first one was Bram Stoker’s Dracula and the other was Paulo Coelho’s The Witch of Portobello. Then I came across Coelho’s one of the greatest works that is The Alchemist .  My desire to read this book was otherworldly. I wanted this very book and struggled a lot to get it. It might seem bizarre but I found this book nowhere. I searched libraries, bookstores, even asked some of my friends but something was stopping me from reading it because either the novel was out of stock or sometimes unavailable, or sometimes out of budget. Then, there came a time when I was a non-reader for almost 5 years. Fortunately, in January this year, I bought this book and I was jumping with joy, but I couldn’t read it due to a busy schedule. I read it during lockdown (due to the pandemic) in June. One thing which was always there in my heart...