Tea Break With Life

Happiness, that one feeling which has been the constant quest of human actions and endeavors.  With thousands of self help books around and with all privileges of life many humans continue to live without being happy. Most of the time the absence of happiness is blamed upon unfulfilled wishes and negative outcomes. Here we face a fundamental question, 'what is happiness dependent upon?'. Is it material object of our desire? Is it a certain sense of accomplishment? Or is it a mental state which is produced as an outcome of the above? Common sense will lead us to the third answer that it is a mental state that is an outcome of material achievements and mental accomplishment. Then rises the question of discussion we have today, if it is a mental state, is it possible to be happy as we wish without the reasons that generally lead to that state? For thousands of years spiritual masters have taught that it is possible and happiness is our normal state. But since here today we don...

From headlines on newspapers to prime time news channels, reports regarding rising incidents of violence keeps shocking us day after day. The atmosphere of hate is witnessed on angry social media comments to incidents witnessed around us. What can be the possible reasons for the rise of hate and anger in the society? why are social unrest and incidents of intolerance being reported around the world? Why is the modern human being prey to rising levels of anxiety and depression? These are questions that can be analysed from different paradigms. Diving deep into them from a socio-political perspective leads us  directly into the question of culture and community. Understanding Humans and Modern Culture: Human beings are not mechanical machines or robots that work according to fixed programs. Every human being is unique and works dynamically and according to ones own characteristics. Human life is build around the culture it lives in and grows in sync with the same. Human life ...

The idea of  'balance' gets repeated from time to time, in varying circumstances and with different meanings encapsulated within. Now when talking about balance in life, again it is used by people with different inner meanings. As we try to unfold the idea of a balanced life, it is important to understand that the blog is just my idea of a balanced life, and how I believe it should be. The Idea of Balanced Life The first question is that what kind of  life is termed as balanced? People believe different ideas as representation of a balanced life. Is it the life of compromise, where you start walking half way across for everything? Is it the life of mixing everything up? The Khichdi life? xD. Or is it the life where you start acting matured? If you ask me, I would say none, but it has elements from all of the above. Now how does that work?  The idea of a balanced life has two main components, namely a balanced mind and a balanced outlook. Now a balanced out...