Deepam Chatterjee

You cannot argue with a wall

May 30, 2023

Often, in bitter arguments among loved ones and intimate friends, things can turn very nasty. Name-calling, giving the silent treatment, gas-lighting, talking about unrelated issues like one’s family, background, education, disabilities, habits, morals, and ethics, and even one’s appearance, create deep rifts and chasms that cannot be breached. Verbally abusive...

WISDOM MAKES US FLEXIBLE

May 1, 2023

It is the mighty tree that crashes to the earth during a storm whereas a flexible sapling bends to powerful winds. When the storm is over, it is the supple sapling that has survived, not the uprooted tree. As we grow old, it is our teeth that fall out. Our...

THE KARMIC JIGSAW PUZZLE

April 18, 2023

It’s a well-known fact that we all want control- on our own lives, on our beliefs and thoughts, on our possessions, on people, and even on choices and opinions of others. Nearly, if not all the wars, have been about, ‘Who’s in charge? Who controls and decides things here?’ When...

Turning awareness into action

April 10, 2023

The week between Ram Navami and Hanuman Jayanti is the time for very deep introspection. The first nine days of chaitra mas, celebrated as Chaitra Navratri, are to contemplate the self. Ram or soul is the awakening within us. It is the realisation of the real light of lights. However,...

THE LORD OF TIME’S ECSTATIC DANCE

February 21, 2023

Shiva, the lord of time, dances the Ananda Tandava, or the dance of bliss on the supreme night of awakened awareness.Who is Shiva? Who is the divine dancer who commands time and space. He existed before there was time. He will exist when everything is annihilated- when matter, space and...

Vasant Panchami: The Indian Valentine’s Day And The Five Arrows of Love

January 27, 2023

A few days ago, it was Vasant Panchami. A couple of weeks later, it would be Valentine’s Day. On Vasant Panchami, Goddess Saraswati is worshipped. But there’s another interesting story associated with this day. Since love is in the air, a not so well known legend of Shiva, Parvati and...

THE DELUSION OF PLAYING GOD

January 24, 2023

Do you enjoy advising people? Often, people come to us for advice when they need help. But sometimes, it’s not just the people who need advice, but we as well. We want to help them because we want to feel important and powerful by helping them take care of their...

SPIRITUAL PEACOCKS

January 17, 2023

There are a few practitioners who love to boast about their knowledge of various spiritual practices. They will often pontificate on different techniques. These ‘spiritual peacocks’ strut about feeling important while talking about their experiences with some obscure meditation method or their encounters with some well-known gurus, or even which...

WHAT IS YOUR ‘IMMORALITY FACTOR’?

December 20, 2022

It is in our highest moments that we need to be the most careful, for it’s in those very moments that the devil comes forth. The devil here is that heady feeling of invincibility. It’s when one is at the top of the world that all manner of temptations and...

Awkward politeness can be exhausting

December 13, 2022

What do you do when societal norms compel you to be nice when you don’t wish to be? We act awkwardly when we are trapped by societal compulsions. Someone shows you pictures of their grandchildren, another takes you to meet their relatives, someone you respect tells you an oft-repeated anecdote,...

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