https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/bhadra-kaal-during-this-rakshabandhan/August 31, 2023, 10:24 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/rakhi-1.pngSpiritually SpeakingA lot is being shared regarding the time of tying Rakhi this Rakshabandhan and something called bhadrA, normally unheard of. So, what is this so-called inauspicious time for tying the sacred Resham Ki Dori, or for that matter doing any other good ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/bhadra-kaal-during-this-rakshabandhan/August 31, 2023, 10:24 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/rakhi-1.pngSpiritually SpeakingWatch your words. Do you raise the restlessness around you through your speech? Or, do your words create calmness, silence and peace? Words are powerful tools. We need to use them carefully. Often, our questions and conversations become heated. Th...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/bhadra-kaal-during-this-rakshabandhan/August 31, 2023, 10:24 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/rakhi-1.pngSpiritually SpeakingWhen we face adversity, we either break or bend. A wise person knows when to stand one’s ground and fight, and when to accept defeat and avoid confrontation. Chanakya says that the warrior enters battle to win. It is foolish to fight someone more ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/bhadra-kaal-during-this-rakshabandhan/August 31, 2023, 10:24 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/rakhi-1.pngSpiritually SpeakingArguments have been raging on social media regarding the skin tone of Lord Rama, since he has been depicted as fair-skinned in some recent viral AI images. Rama was not fair, nor completely black-skinned. He is said to have had the complexion of a...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/bhadra-kaal-during-this-rakshabandhan/August 31, 2023, 10:24 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/rakhi-1.pngSpiritually SpeakingHappy people don’t go about looking for why they are happy. But unhappy people seek reasons for their unhappiness. We hear a lot about well-being. People tell us to take care of our well-being. What, then, is well-being? Usually, we know when we a...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/bhadra-kaal-during-this-rakshabandhan/August 31, 2023, 10:24 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/rakhi-1.pngSpiritually SpeakingWhat is Dhamma? Dhamma is that which upholds. It is the law or the rule, which is applicable to us and to our life in general. When we meditate, our Dhamma is to reach some point, some goal. ‘I am meditating, not my mind, not my body.’ This awaren...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/bhadra-kaal-during-this-rakshabandhan/August 31, 2023, 10:24 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/rakhi-1.pngSpiritually Speaking“Ekla cholo re,” declared Tagore. Often, individuals who pursue unconventional paths or make major life changes find that they are not easily accepted, understood, or supported by their loved ones. However, there’s a downside. Although they sincer...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/bhadra-kaal-during-this-rakshabandhan/August 31, 2023, 10:24 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/rakhi-1.pngSpiritually SpeakingAround the spring equinox every year, Hindus celebrate Chaitra Navratri for nine days and nights. Nav means new, and ratri means the night or, that which transcends darkness and ignorance. Navratri is that which makes us new again. It indicates an...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/bhadra-kaal-during-this-rakshabandhan/August 31, 2023, 10:24 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/rakhi-1.pngSpiritually SpeakingThe wise know when to speak and when to hold their peace. Do we know when we must remain silent and when we should use words? Too many times we speak out when keeping quiet would have kept the peace. And, too many times we keep quiet when we ought...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/bhadra-kaal-during-this-rakshabandhan/August 31, 2023, 10:24 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/rakhi-1.pngSpiritually SpeakingWhat keeps you busy? Often, people put up a status on WhatsApp or Social Media declaring that they are ‘busy’. Of course, they really are busy working and don’t have time for distractions. In effect, they are announcing that they don’t wish to be ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/bhadra-kaal-during-this-rakshabandhan/August 31, 2023, 10:24 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/rakhi-1.pngSpiritually SpeakingCan we project our minds into the future and manifest happiness? Yes, it is possible. We might not have control over the situations that will arise throughout our day, but if we decide that nothing is going to have the power to change our happy mo...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/bhadra-kaal-during-this-rakshabandhan/August 31, 2023, 10:24 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/rakhi-1.pngSpiritually SpeakingExactly 40 years have gone by since the world woke up to ‘Tintin est mort’- Tintin is dead on 3rd March 1983. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Tintin is 94, and very much alive and well, thank you. It was Tintin’s creator Hergé, who had di...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/bhadra-kaal-during-this-rakshabandhan/August 31, 2023, 10:24 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/rakhi-1.pngSpiritually SpeakingWe often don’t get to choose our path in life. It’s already chosen for us. Chosen by someone we obey; by our circumstances; by our habits, by our morality; by our compulsions. Our life is hardly ever chosen by us. We are headed down a path in life...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/bhadra-kaal-during-this-rakshabandhan/August 31, 2023, 10:24 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/rakhi-1.pngSpiritually SpeakingIt is not uncommon to see people who claim to be on the spiritual path becoming non-industrious. They shirk daily chores and are often found living in filth. They are undisciplined, disrespectful and languid, they remain unkempt and unclean. Such ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/bhadra-kaal-during-this-rakshabandhan/August 31, 2023, 10:24 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/rakhi-1.pngSpiritually SpeakingAn old adage declares, ‘Work is worship’. One is often encouraged to have respect for one’s work. Ironically, in today’s fast-paced world, working efficiently has become the major cause of stress. Excessive workloads have started taking a heavy to...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/bhadra-kaal-during-this-rakshabandhan/August 31, 2023, 10:24 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/rakhi-1.pngSpiritually SpeakingA question we often ask ourselves when faced with an emotional dilemma is, “should we follow our head or our heart?”The wise declare that our actions must be sourced in compassion but we should not lose our head. In dealings with people, we must a...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/bhadra-kaal-during-this-rakshabandhan/August 31, 2023, 10:24 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/rakhi-1.pngSpiritually SpeakingWouldn’t you like to leap into the Sheesh Mahal and sit as a courtier watching Madhubala dancing in Mughal-e-Azam? Or scream in fright in Rampur on Holi as Gabbar and his gang are attacking in Sholay? Or, as Anthony Gonsalves, leap out of the gian...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/bhadra-kaal-during-this-rakshabandhan/August 31, 2023, 10:24 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/rakhi-1.pngSpiritually SpeakingHolding on to, and repeating a conversation in one’s head over and over again creates patterns of thought. This is over-thinking. Some of us keep running a conversation inside their head without even realising it.Over-thinking creates ‘pathways’ o...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/bhadra-kaal-during-this-rakshabandhan/August 31, 2023, 10:24 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/rakhi-1.pngSpiritually SpeakingWe must learn how to escape the “Efficiency Trap” and find peace of mind. Being efficient is good, but it can become counterproductive when it becomes an obsession.One should not see investing in conversations on well-being of colleagues and subor...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/bhadra-kaal-during-this-rakshabandhan/August 31, 2023, 10:24 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/rakhi-1.pngSpiritually SpeakingThe world is advancing at a furious pace. Today, we are living in a world where there is tremendous pressure to perform, achieve and continuously reinvent ourselves. The terms ‘Quiet Quitting’, ‘Remote Working’ and ‘The Great Resignation’ are on e...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/mind-traps-us-in-the-prison-of-time/October 11, 2022, 12:07 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/FOSSIL-LAUNCHES-ITS-FIRST-LTE-EQUIPPED-SMARTWATCH-1.jpgSpiritually SpeakingThe concept of years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds were invented by man to aid us, but unfortunately we have become imprisoned by them. https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/bhadra-kaal-during-this-rakshabandhan/August 31, 2023, 10:24 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/rakhi-1.pngSpiritually SpeakingWhy does someone try to please people? Many people are doing great work but feel a constant need for others’ appreciation to feel worthy. Such people will do everything to please others, but ironically, they rarely feel appreciated. Often, their l...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/bhadra-kaal-during-this-rakshabandhan/August 31, 2023, 10:24 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/rakhi-1.pngSpiritually SpeakingOften, we are bogged down by rituals, rules, and regulations. Most people get caught up in the propriety of the rituals. In ritualistic worship, the priest is usually quite careful about not making mistakes. But authentic prayer is very personal a...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/bhadra-kaal-during-this-rakshabandhan/August 31, 2023, 10:24 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/rakhi-1.pngSpiritually SpeakingWhenever great teachers have appeared in the world, they have been ridiculed, mocked, often punished, tortured, excommunicated, or even killed. They have shocked people, broken tradition and had their voices repeatedly silenced by rigid believers ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/bhadra-kaal-during-this-rakshabandhan/August 31, 2023, 10:24 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/rakhi-1.pngSpiritually SpeakingOne must never underestimate the abilities of a daughter. Girls can outdo boys in unexpected ways, as is evident in this five thousand year old tale of Draupadi. Yajnaseni, as Draupadi was first known, came out of the fire of a yagya conducted by ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/bhadra-kaal-during-this-rakshabandhan/August 31, 2023, 10:24 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/rakhi-1.pngSpiritually SpeakingEverything is connected to everything else. Quantum mechanics propounds that every particle is connected to every other particle in the universe. As a result, each particle has the ability to influence all other particles. The world we live in is ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/bhadra-kaal-during-this-rakshabandhan/August 31, 2023, 10:24 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/rakhi-1.pngSpiritually SpeakingGanesha, the elephant God, is lovingly worshipped throughout India. He is referred to as the dispeller of obstacles, giver of powers, and benefactor of the arts. “Sri Ganesh” also means the auspicious start of anything. Traditionally, Ganesha is w...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/bhadra-kaal-during-this-rakshabandhan/August 31, 2023, 10:24 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/rakhi-1.pngSpiritually SpeakingCertainly, the spectacle of corrupt and authoritarian cults in recent years has cast a pall over the role of spiritual teachers. Nevertheless, a significant amount of wisdom and compassionate work have proceeded from various gurus and their follow...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/bhadra-kaal-during-this-rakshabandhan/August 31, 2023, 10:24 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/rakhi-1.pngSpiritually SpeakingMeditation is the least of all practices. Real meditation is going from action to non-action—where you are not doing anything but everything is happening. During meditation, the waves of the mind—vrittis—slowly subside. It’s like when you switch o...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/dasa-mahavidyas-the-ten-feminine-cosmic-powers/August 16, 2022, 5:49 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/5875b282_11023_P_4_mr-1.jpgSpiritually SpeakingThe Dasha Mahavidyas or Ten Wisdom Goddesses in Hindu mythology, cover the whole range of feminine divinity, from horrific goddesses to beautiful Devis.