Points to Ponder: April 6, 2018 I once heard a story where a person was granted three wishes. The person was overjoyed at this opportunity. However, every time he made a wish, he forgot to spell out some aspect clearly and as a result, although what he got corresponded to what he wished, it never
Points to Ponder: April 5, 2018 Conventionally perfectionism is defined as refusal to accept any standard short of perfection. The perfectionist applies this to himself as well as to others. It is usually seen that striving for perfectionism involves a lot of self criticism as well as the criticism of others. Criticism focuses on the negative.
Points to Ponder: April 4, 2018 Our inner world consists of the mind, intellect and sanskars. Sanskars are tendencies, nature, habit, personality of the soul. While the original sanskars of the soul are knowledge, purity, peace, love, happiness, bliss and power, there are other sanskars that the soul acquires. Any Karma that the soul performs repeatedly
Points to Ponder: April 3, 2018 1) The experience of time is related to the number of events that take place in that time. If the number of events is more, time seems to fly by faster. If the number of events is less, time seems to slow down. For example, you are in your
Points to Ponder: April 2, 2018 Our lives today are full of hustle and bustle. We are all always brimming with this energy of over activity. The signal that we constantly send out to the other is “I am busy”. But if we take a pause today and look at our average day, we would find
Points to Ponder: March 28, 2018 We are all aware of the concept of taking a break. Usually what we understand by the expression is to change place and move to a different surrounding for a while to arrive at a different experience. Life in general is full of stress and worry these days. Taking a
Points to Ponder: March 27, 2018 Yesterday we explored the characteristics of a pure soul. We understand that right now, I, the soul, am away from my pure state. Today we shall understand the process of purification of the soul. The malware that has crept into the soul and is interfering with its pure and powerful
Points to Ponder: March 26, 2018 Purity is the mother of Peace and Prosperity. Today we shall explore this. First let us understand these three virtues. Let us start with purity. Purity is mostly thought of as synonymous with cleanliness. In an age where we are only concerned with the external, purity is thought of
Points to Ponder: March 24, 2018 Yesterday we saw how wisdom is the light in which we see our inner world clearly. Have you noticed how any space has to be regularly tidied and arranged in order to prevent it from cluttering. We need to visit all spaces that belong to us regularly to identify
Points to Ponder: March 23, 2018 Yesterday we understood how the soul feeds on the very thoughts it creates. Our immediate environment and memories are the primary source of our thoughts. If we look around we discover that most of the time, the environment that we are in and the memories that we carry do not
