Parsis worship Ahura Mazda (our name of God) through revering and worshiping nature. And our symbol is Fire. Each Fire Temple has a consecrated holy fire that is kept (smoldering) burning night and day. Each fire is lit with a spark of the original Atash Badshah (now housed in Udvada in Gujarat), and so it [...]

Today is Parsi New Year. And Srividya from Poona called me yesternight and requested me to post some things about Parsis this week… so here goes… The Parsis were a warrior race originating in ancient Persia a few thousand years ago. They were known for their bravery, their amazing intellectual achievements and their devotion to [...]

In school (Don Bosco, Matunga), we had something called a calendar, which was basically a smallish blue coloured book, with the portions for every year, a (duh!) calendar, so we could enter into it like a diary stuff that we wanted to, our marks in various tests and exams AND the Remarks page. Here sadistic [...]

Today is the day… my 2 little waves remember the ocean that they were born in… It’s the birthday of my nephews Aarman and Ahun Aarman means “a wish” Ahun means “of God” Together they are a Wish of God! They definitely make you remember God many many times when you are around them… “oh [...]

…We railwayed back to the ashram and what an eventful last few days we had here! The whole of India is talking about the agitation of the Gujjar community against the Rajasthan Government. Since being proactive happens to be Guruji’s mantra, he visited Bayana where the first round of talks were going to happen between [...]

If you search for synonyms for ‘hot’ in the word doc, you really should come across ‘chennai’ somewhere in the list, i would place it right under magma and just above scorching. Before long you may hear a conversation like… How’s that girl? WoW! She’s so Chennai!!! The rest of the universe feels really pleasant [...]

I successfully installed my first system update for the year 2008 – the art of living advance course.Cant tell you how much I was looking forward to the silence and the Hollow-and-Empties and Guruji’s talks and the satsangs…I realized that just as Part one has 475 tag – 4 sources of energy, 7 levels of [...]

This happened in Rishikesh, almost 14 years ago. Late one night, Guruji called me and gave me a slip of paper with a number on it. He told me that i should fax (emails were non existent then!) to this number a message saying that Guruji cannot make it to the function. This was one [...]

I love Monday mornings at the Ashram especially. I have always loved monday mornings at the Ashram, but somewhere down the line the reason changed… Let me explain: In the earlier years, a lot of us would be sharing a room, sometimes 12-16 of us would be on an Adv course to share a dorm, [...]

Whats to write about our (very short) trip to Alibag… Here are a few pics… the sea was warm and the pool was hot! The hammocks were lovely to sleep in, the food was terrible Upasana hanging around: Me with cap and me without the cap: Vishu the Bathing Beauty (?) Dinesh in (well actually [...]