Meditations on Transcendence

Last week we saw lots of bombs and bomb scares across Indian cities. Enviousness or misplaced religious ideologies are the heart of such destructive actions. Religious identity has lead to perpetration of violence. How do religion and spirituality differ? Are these the same things? Spirituality is the essence, the core and religion the vehicle. The inherent essence of spirituality is same across all religions - only the body, the vehicle carrying this essence varies. Its like using a Tata safari or Scorpio to come to office. The essence is traveling and one need not get fanatic about belonging to a safari or a Scorpio club. Today's civilization has totally forgotten the essence and carrying on a specific set of meaningless rituals, customs in the name of religion. We all sometime or the other have taken pleasure in thinking ourselves superior to others. Religious identity is used as a tool to enjoy the kick of feeling superior to others. But spirituality teaches us to be humbl...

Monsoon is out here in bangalore ...........I left early in the evening from office suspecting downpour. I usually have the option of taking either the old Madras-lifestyle-Ashoka pillar-4th block route or the inner ring road-Koramangala-Silkboard route to find every evening nirvana at home. I hugely rely on my intuition to make the decision at the breakaway point. Its this belief in the predictive capability of the subconsious faculty. Somewhere a hidden inner energy guides us, hints us about the right choices. As it is we have complex innumerable possibilities, with our finite resources has to be supplemented by tuning in to the inner voice - the voice of the infinite. Its simple when the mental faculty is in alignment with the inner voice. The test of faith comes when it is in crossroads with the innervoice. Everybody at some point in their life have to make this leap of faith in investing and acting on the innervoice. Faith and immense belief in the innervoice takes one to unknown ...