The peacocks called in tandem serenading the commencement of my hike. The Robin sang as usual as I passed the Peepal tree and the incredible fragrance of wild Mysore Jasmin wafted in the air welcoming morning walkers like me as I crossed the First Kilometre of my hike. Peepal tree ‘1 kilometre in 10 minutes … Continue reading Take A Hike And Feel The Universe
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Journey Of A Rookie Traveller
Frequent travelling over decades made me a relaxed traveller unfazed by missing connections and customs. Anxiety coupled with a little terror was my inevitable companion during the initial years of my travel 36 years ago. Wise travellers unlike ‘yours truly' have invented words to describe complex emotions that invade a traveller's mind. One European phrase … Continue reading Journey Of A Rookie Traveller
A Brush With ‘Stroke’
Voltaire said ‘uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one’. The most beautiful thing about Life is that it compels you and forces you to embrace uncertainty when something completely unexpected happens that ends up making you richer in spirit and strength. It is true that some of the most beautiful chapters … Continue reading A Brush With ‘Stroke’
“Watch” Your Verdict
While outer Journeys to distant destinations and treks on Mountains reveal to us the fascinating nature of universal intelligence, inner journey through meditation and contemplation reveal to us the fascinating nature of our minds and reality. Sometimes brutally honest contemplation of one's behaviour and reaction to daily life happenings can be a great way of … Continue reading “Watch” Your Verdict
A Holy, Off-Road Odyssey: Part 2
It is said that nothing that happens in the Universe is random; but is always by design. How could an adventure trip that I took essentially to drive a Land Cruiser on a challenging off-road terrain turn out to be a destination and a region that is a sacred centre of not one but three … Continue reading A Holy, Off-Road Odyssey: Part 2
A Holy, Off-Road Odyssey: Jordan
A spiritual leader once said “The essence of religion is to fear and obey God and the essence of spirituality is to experience the Divine consciousness” and my first internal Guru, Sri Auribondo said “Truth cannot be shut up in a single book, Bible or Veda or Koran, or in a single religion.” I agree … Continue reading A Holy, Off-Road Odyssey: Jordan
Valley Of Flowers And Rudraprayag
There were two places that Mamatha had missed out and wanted to visit in Uttarakhand: Trayambakeswar temple in Rishikesh and Badrinarayan temple in Badrinath. There were three things that I had missed out and wanted to complete in Uttarakhand; Valley of flowers trek, Visiting the spot where Jim Corbett killed the man-eating leopard of Rudraprayag … Continue reading Valley Of Flowers And Rudraprayag
A Holy Himalyan Bath
My soul mate and better half becomes spiritually and psychologically exhausted every few months from bearing the brunt of keeping yours truly fed. Her tolerance level nosedives from the drudgery and her mind turns into an insufferable fault-finding device. My life then becomes a precipice or a tightrope that I must walk while being ever … Continue reading A Holy Himalyan Bath
Introduction
If you remove your brain and keep it aside are “you” in the brain or the body? Why were there no wandering Rishis or seers in the Alps or the Andes like in the Himalayas? Do questions like these plague your mind? They do mine. Hi comrades. I am Mohan Ranga Rao, a 61 year … Continue reading Introduction
