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Remains of the Day: On Guru's Grace
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Remains of the Day. Thursday, May 21, 2015. An elderly relative asked me this question a few weeks back, and I believe a response to it might be illustrative to many others. The question is, in my own words: If, as per many scriptures, one gets enlightened only with the grace of a Guru, then how and when will that grace happen? Do we need to do something to be enlightened, or should we just wait? Let's look at some answers to this question from the big shots of the last century:. Of grace is: " unmerited.
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Remains of the Day: Follow the Heart, but How?
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Remains of the Day. Thursday, May 28, 2015. Follow the Heart, but How? Spiritual and self-help literature often advises people to "follow their heart". What it means is: go with your feelings. This advice bears some close investigation. In an infant, feelings are, to borrow a phrase from the visual field, monochromatic. They are of a single flavor. Either the infant is happy, or sad, or fearful, etc. There aren't multiple conflicting feelings which have to be resolved. The advice to follow one's heart as...
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Remains of the Day: Blue Ridge Parkway, all the way (Day 1)
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Remains of the Day. Tuesday, May 12, 2015. Blue Ridge Parkway, all the way (Day 1). My last long ride was in California. From Orange county, I went through the deserts and the western Sierra mountains to the Devil's Postpile national monument, and on to Mammoth Lake. It was a great ride. For me, the parkway ride would therefore begin at milepost 469 (the south end) and end at milepost 0 (the north end). From the north end, it is 120 miles to home. I booked a night's stay in Maggie Valley, NC (about 19 mi...
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Remains of the Day: A Refutation of Solipsism, continued
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Remains of the Day. Thursday, May 28, 2015. A Refutation of Solipsism, continued. According to Vedanta the world is created by the universal mind, even so called my mind is really part of the universal mind, when your mind goes to sleep it just means part of the universal mind has switched to a different state. It does not mean the whole universal mind goes in abeyance. Universal Mind" is presumably a translation of Brahman. Brahma satyam jagan mithya. Asangoham,18): "Brahman is real, the world is unreal".
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Remains of the Day: Blue Ridge Parkway, all the way (Day 1, continued)
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Remains of the Day. Tuesday, May 12, 2015. Blue Ridge Parkway, all the way (Day 1, continued). From the map, it was clear that after I entered Tennessee (at Johnson City), the tedium of riding on a busy freeway will be a thing of the past, and I will be traveling through forests and hills. But Johnson City was another 140 miles on I-81south. By now my butt was getting a little sore. I had been riding for more than 6 hours, after all. I wondered about the IronButt association's honors. Twice it happened t...
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Remains of the Day: January 2015
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Remains of the Day. Wednesday, January 28, 2015. Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino. This is a peculiar film. Its appeal is hard to argue against, and it is harder still to ascertain the reasons for the said appeal. The characters are all outlandish, cool in an urban-ghetto way, witty and never lost for the right word, and very, very opinionated. The film contains self-conscious references to the following entertainingly kitschy aspects of American culture:. A heavy dose of unusually profane language.
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Remains of the Day: The Ist and the Ine
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Remains of the Day. Tuesday, May 05, 2015. The Ist and the Ine. Ist and Ine were sisters. Ine was beautiful, charming and self-effacing. Ist was different. She was more of a rebel against norms and rules. While both Ist and Ine were their father's darlings, their mom was worried about Ist's future. Ine was soon married and in a few years, had two beautiful children. Whenever she visited her parental home, she was beaming with contentment and joy. But her experiences and associations didn't offer her secu...
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Remains of the Day: March 2015
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Remains of the Day. Thursday, March 05, 2015. How to prevent rapes in India. India, as I have often held, is a mostly lawless region where the powerful or the cunning can get away with almost anything. The police and the courts are dysfunctional. While the police is busy brown-nosing their political masters, the judiciary is stymied with horrific inefficiencies and badly designed laws. Along with urbanization and formal education, the average age of marriage has steadily increased in the last 30 years...
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Remains of the Day: FAQs, continued
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Remains of the Day. Thursday, May 28, 2015. Q: Do you recommend Goenka Vipassana meditation? A: I get this question quite frequently in response to my oft-read critique of Goenka Vipassana. Q: If not Goenka meditation, what type of meditation do you practice and recommend? Posted by Harmanjit Singh. Labels: Religion and Spirituality. Stresses of modern life. Self knowledge is easy enough to know empirically. Who am I empirically? A flow of experiences. This invariable I is consciousness or Brahm. Buddhis...
