Schools have prayer songs where every morning all the school students, teachers and administration assemble and sing these prayer songs! Translating one of them that still resonates decades after I finished school!
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How do you handle adversity?
Adversity is a state of hardship, difficulty, or misfortune that one deals with in life. The way we handle adversity in our lives says a lot about us.
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Sage of Kanchipuram (Maha Periyava) once explained what is Trikarana Suddhi to a few students. Sharing the story & experience!
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How does inclusivity feel? How does it make you feel?
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Anyone who has ever tried to apply for a job and registered on the job-search sites would know the pain that comes with it. Some of these seem to be common across the world.
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In an attempt to learn new things that are in my area of discomfort, I set out a year back trying to learn new things.
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One of the childhood stories came up in a conversation today. When do we hear this story and when do we choose to act on it in life seems to make a difference!
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Hard one to battle – as it is only in our head! Sometimes, failing and picking ourselves up seems much more easier than facing the fear of failure!
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Have you experienced an awkward silence when you are with a friend or in a group? What did you do? Did you try to fill the awkward silence, or let it be?
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There is a difference between knowing something and doing it. Over the course of life, we learn and come to know many things. However, when it comes to implementation – do we remember all of them? Or at least some of them when we need to?
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It was an interesting opportunity to converse with a few women leaders from a diverse set of fields today.
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We know the proverb Opportunity knocks once!
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During conversations, some have the tendency to sow seeds of doubt! How it takes shape over the subsequent days and weeks is left to the individuals involved in the conversations!
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How many of us look at our resumes after they are created? How many of us know how we are perceived by others? How does it matter?
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Small steps or even baby steps can help us work towards our bigger goals.
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The video by American water company to save water especially outdoors was quite helpful!
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Dental hygiene and brushing teeth are a critical part of our health. However, it is interesting to observe the extent of importance we seem to attribute to it across different cultures.
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Not everything we need to learn is taught at school or in classes outside. Home is a place that can help us learn a lot as well!
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My mother used to run a printing press, and I had the opportunity to grow up observing her overcome her challenges on many fronts and learned from the experiences!
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Fishing is a calming activity that can seem like an extremely stressful one for some of us!
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Narada is a divine sage, who is the child of Lord Brahma and sings praises of Lord Vishnu!
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Sometimes our face expresses what our mind is thinking and not what we intend to feel 🙂 Being at peace with ourselves and our surroundings naturally brings a smile on our face. When someone tells you to smile more, it fundamentally means you are getting a feedback that you are going through stressful times and it is reflecting on your face.
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It is interesting to see how scientists are researching and finding Earth like habitable planets outside our solar system.
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Once there lived a woodcutter in a village. He was very hardworking and had earned a good name in the village.
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During one of the classes for ten year olds, an interesting topic came up for discussion. Have you ever shirked any responsibility?
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Interesting opportunity to meet two spiritual teachers this week.
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One of my college friends posed an interesting question whether we (our friends circle) are doing what is possible to save our planet Earth?
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Do we have the ability to differentiate our wants and needs? How does differentiating them help?
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An old couple used to live in a village. They had a son who was not interested in studies, nor working. While his mother always supported him in his efforts, his father was always apprehensive about his son’s ways and wanted him to change.
Continue reading “Short story – value of a coin”Two stories about elephants
Two different stories about elephants bringing out two different perspectives and different ways to solve our problems!
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How many languages do you know? Can you read, write and/or speak them? How comfortable are you using languages as a way to communicate your thoughts?
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Carcinization (or carcinisation) is an example of convergent evolution in which a crustacean evolves into a crab-like form from a non-crab-like form. What is so special about being a crab? What can we learn from this?
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Do you have the right skills to fetch you one job that can fulfill your needs?
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When we face challenges in life, how do we get to know how to solve them? How do we know where to look for help and who can help us? A small story from Ramayanam gives a clue!
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My mother and mother-in-law have two very different parenting styles and I have had the opportunity to learn from both 🙂 Sharing the tips & learnings from my mother in law in this post!
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Focusing on ourselves is not always being self-centered! When we take care of ourselves, we are in a better physical and mental state of mind to be there for others!
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A Hindi poetry by Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, recommended for undergraduate students in India. The poem outlines a unique perspective about the life of Karna!
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What do we have control on? The feeling of helplessness is in the air and our thoughts tend to get to pose this question pretty frequently these days!
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The Thirukkuṟaḷ is a classic Tamil language text consisting of short couplets of seven words each, each of them being called a kural, focusing on virtues of life. Sharing some of the verses on parenting!
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This is one trait we all seem to be needing now.
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