Author: sipractce
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The story of Vignesh and Amla
Vignesh is an orphan. As a young boy, he was attending a school run by a public service facility. Without notice the funding for this facility was cut off from its foreign source. Without any funding left to support the expenses, the school was closed. All the children attending the school were left with no…
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Truth and its limits
Posted on July 27, 2012 In a recent book titled, “The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone” Prof. Dan Ariely describes a series of experiments. He traces the behavior of people and their tendency to be truthful, fudge a little bit or be increasingly untrue to outright liars! This tendency seems to…
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Three good books
Recently I was introduced to three good books. The first book: Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling by Stephen Cope This book was introduced to me by one of my friends. The author refers to one of the verses in Bhagawath Geetha as the central theme of…
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2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,500 times in 2013. If it were a cable car, it would take about 25 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the…
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Mind over Matter – Part 3
Reflect on the many situations in personal relations, where innocuous observations have resulted in misperceptions and totally irrational outcomes. How often we see something and perceive it to be something totally different? How often we hear words incorrectly or comprehend them inaccurately, yet believe what we heard is the truth? All our senses – the…
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Mind over Matter – Part 2
In our last essay on Mind over Matter we dealt with the subtle aspects of mind, matter and the Self. Matter is what we perceive through the mind. When the mind is held in check and used as a tool and as an enabler, the objectivity of the observer increases. The consciousness – the Self…
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Mind over matter
Why is it that people, who can handle complex issues at work, become extremely agitated on simple matters in personal life? Why is that we refuse to see the limitations or blemishes in one situation, when we can accept the same or look over them as acceptable or inevitable in other situations? Why is it…
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Happy Thanks Giving – 2013
As I sat down to write the message for Thanks Giving, I decided to look back on the essay written on earlier occasions. There is a message written in Nov. 2010, which I believe applies equally well for this year. So, instead of writing some thing new – which every author thinks is some thing…
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The many Gita
Recently I received an e-mail from one of our readers. The message suggested that the reader was surprised that there is more than one Gita in Hindu Scriptures. The general belief is that Bhagawath Gita is the only “Gita”. Until a few years ago, I was also one of those surprised to learn that there…
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Morality is paper thin
At their young ages, we tell children that it is not proper to lie. They behave accordingly until they grow up and find out the benefits of being truthful on their own. Then they share the norm with their children and this continues through generations. Nowhere can one find a precise definition of lie or…
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