by Satinder | Sep 25, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Who Am I? |
The Science of Supreme Fulfillment: You are what you are Seeking! We have no record of any rich and famous person making a definitive claim at the end of life that he has achieved the invariable happiness while chasing material goods. But we do have innumerable...
by Satinder | Sep 21, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Quotable Quotes and Stories |
The Rainbow Fish A Story by Marcus Pfister Once upon a time there was a fish with shiny, multi-colored scales named Rainbow Fish. He was always fond of his scales. But one day, a small fish asked him if he could have one. Rainbow Fish refused in a very rude way. The...
by Satinder | Sep 20, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Quotable Quotes and Stories
Gist of Mahābhārata, the epic that contains the Bhagavad Gīta Mahābhārata, literally ‘the great story of the Bharat dynasty,’ contains 100,000 verses. It begins with a claim of completeness, stating: “What is found here may be found elsewhere. What is not found...
by Satinder | Sep 20, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Who Am I? |
Door of Happiness: तत्त्वमसि The door of true happiness is neither open nor closed. It appears open or closed when looked through the lens of likes and dislikes. Vedānta explains it clearly: In deep sleep, we are not aware of our body, name, fame, status, wealth...
by Satinder | Sep 8, 2015 | Quotable Quotes and Stories, Who Am I?
The Essence of Spirituality Only through much accumulated merit and Divine Grace (Īśvarānugrahād) one develops a yearning to know the truth of the self, world, and God. Without Grace, a person has no taste for things Divine. And through Grace alone...
by Satinder | Sep 5, 2015 | Uncategorized |
The Consummation of Knowledge in Devotion: ब्रह्मभूतः प्रसन्नात्मा न शोचति न काङ्क्षति । समः सर्वेषु भूतेषु मद्भक्तिं लभते पराम् ॥ १८- ५४ ॥ brahmabhūtaḥ prasannātmā na śocati na kāṅkṣati | samaḥ sarveṣu bhūteṣu madbhaktiṁ labhate parām || 18- 54 || Having become one...
by Satinder | Sep 5, 2015 | Poetry Unlimited, Quotable Quotes and Stories |
God’s 3 Answers to Your Prayers: 1. Yes. 2. Not Yet. 3. I have something better in mind for you. Footprints in the Sand One night I dreamed a dream. As I was walking along the beach with my Lord. Across the dark sky flashed scenes from my life. For each scene, I...
by Satinder | Sep 4, 2015 | Quotable Quotes and Stories |
You Get what Put into your Education! Once a student approached a teacher for some instruction. After a few days, the student started asking, impatiently, “When will i get something out of my education?” The teacher affectionately replied, “When you...
by Satinder | Sep 1, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Who Am I? |
THE KNOWLEDGE WORTH SACRIFICING EVERYTHING FOR! When Nalanda University was ransacked in c. 1200 CE, two surviving monks managed to salvage the most precious manuscripts from the pillaged library. While ferrying this priceless cargo, water started entering the boat....
by Satinder | Aug 29, 2015 | Uncategorized |
Self-knowledge: the Master Key Self-knowledge is not needed to be proficient in any discipline of knowledge—all one needs is the five senses supported by the mind. Thus, one can be an expert in any number of fields and still continue to be ignorant about oneself....
by Satinder | Aug 25, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Who Am I? |
True Happiness is Not Experiential We commonly use the term happiness, ānanda, to express our pleasurable experiences. There are other words that we tend to use quite interchangeably such as fulfillment, bliss, joy, well-being and so forth. These allied terms may be...
by Satinder | Aug 24, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Quotable Quotes and Stories
A Sanskrit epigrammatic saying, Subhāṣita, explains various uses of wealth as follows: दानं भोगो नाशः तिस्रो गतयो भवन्ति वित्तस्य । यो न ददाति न भुङ्क्ते तस्य तृतीया गतिर्भवति ॥ dānaṁ bhogo nāśaḥ tisro gatayo bhavanti vittasya । yo na dadāti na bhuṅkte tasya tṛtīyā...
by Satinder | Aug 23, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Who Am I? |
Gazing Forward, Glancing Back: Connecting the i-dots! By critical acclaim, Steve Jobs is considered to be a creative genius and a great visionary leader. More than one pundit, praising Steve’s ability to transform industries with his inventions, have called him a...
by Satinder | Aug 21, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Who Am I?
It is wonder of wonders that fulfillment or happiness is our intrinsic nature; we keep frantically looking for it outside. Self-knowledge puts an end to this life of relentless becoming by revealing a Self that is ever full, whole, and complete (pūraṇa). Anchored in...
by Satinder | Aug 20, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Poetry Unlimited |
Be Good and Do Good! If you can dream it, you can do it, quipped Walt Disney. Like most one-liners, this too seems to be only partially true. The world is full of dreamers who seldom do much. Likewise, we have people who do all sorts of stuff, including that which...
by Satinder | Aug 14, 2015 | Quotable Quotes and Stories |
Leadership is not a popularity contest, much less being nice and goodly-goodly. Leaders do what needs to be done (and not what they like to do), with certain unremitting inner composure and detachment. It is all about loving what you do and learning to love what you...
by Satinder | Aug 13, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Quotable Quotes and Stories |
Arthur Ashe, the legendary Wimbledon player was dying of aids which he got due to infected blood he received during a heart surgery in 1983. He received letters from his fans, one of which conveyed: “Why did God have to select you for such a bad disease?” To this...
by Satinder | Aug 4, 2015 | Happiness Inc., Quotable Quotes and Stories, Who Am I? |
People resort to meditation for a variety of reasons. Some just for fun; while a few others, to go with the flow. Some curious ones want to try myriad forms of meditation, having done some quick “window-shopping” on the net. There is actually quite a variety of...
by Satinder | Aug 4, 2015 | Quotable Quotes and Stories |
The work an unknown good person has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. ~Thomas Carlyle
by Satinder | Aug 3, 2015 | Uncategorized |
Vairāgya, dispassion, is not so much a turning away as it is growing out of. To the extent a person is able to grow out of the desire for objects, to that extent he is happy. ~Swami Dayananda
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