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There was this person I knew. He worked in the Government service for the minimum required time to avail monthly pension benefits, then took to Sannyasa. I used to wonder how this could even be termed Sannyasa.

When noble motives drive you, you can insist on the same in others too.

Love is your first step into the heart. Until you love, you won’t even know that there exists a heart that can sing, dance, celebrate, get hurt, and be crushed.

The way you go about education could be one of two ways: First way is to gather knowledge, skill, ideas, concepts, thoughts, views, attitudes, and so on.

Very often when there is violence, and especially when Hindus resort to violence, a question arises in everyone’s mind:

Primarily, you and I are ‘bhogīs’, ‘enjoyers’! Let me clarify before you misunderstand. Within you, there exists a structure of bhoga or happiness or enjoyment or contentment—in short some experience! In other words, whether in the name of external enjoyment or internal meditation and practice of samādhi, you are primarily seeking experiences.

We will attempt to cover this comprehensively, one at a time.

It is very much in the nature of religion to create two kinds of followers—the pious, and the fundamentalist.

Human life can be broadly divided into two pursuits, in a sequence. When young, you pursue security, comfort, pleasure, happiness, and stability.

From the time you step out of your house, everyone around is at their ‘customer-service’ best. They seem to assume that you and I are in constant stress; they offer assurances and ask you to wind down.