An Indian mystic, Osho opined that discrimination starts the moment a child is born. “Boy or a girl?”, “Dark or Fair?” are typically the very first queries new parents field. We too, have experienced this first as parents and later, as grandparents. As people of Indian origin, this bias towards a fair complexion is engrained …
Faking Authenticity?
The late mystic Osho related a story about two friends setting out for a walk early one morning. Said one to the other, “Oh, look at that lovely rose; the bud is just starting to blossom and looks beautiful with dewdrops glistening on its unfurling petals in this early morning light”. With barely a glance …
Music … religion of humanity
I recently read “The Mysticism of Music, Sound and Word”, a collection of lectures by Hazrat Inayat Rehmat Khan, founder of Sufi Order in the West (London, England) and a teacher of Universal Sufism. In a passage from this book, Hazrat states: “The greatest error of this age is that activity has increased so much, …
Nada … nothing!
Fans of the Jerry Seinfeld show may recall the episode where George Costanza and Jerry meet with the executives of a TV channel to discuss the concept for a new TV sitcom and persuade them to approve a pilot. The meeting starts off genially and when asked what the show would be about, Jerry Seinfeld …