Muralidharan Saravanamuthu

My last post on  Destination - Truth it is  may have been difficult for few of you to either accept or reject. This is understandable as " Being sensitive is to be aware of all those things that are happening within us and around us without taking a stand for or against them." After we had this discussion in our group, few of my friends applauded the views shared by me.  Few of them politely said that they were comfortable with their gurus and their satsangs.  One of them rhetorically asked, "Why should we reinvent the wheel when our gurus have already laid down the path and the processes?"  And then, NC, who initiated the original discussion, asked, "What is permanent?" I will share what my response was but, before that, let me share some of my reflections on permanence. This quest for permanence or immortality has been mentioned many times in our mythological stories: Individuals, who are on a quest to attain immortality, perform strenuous penances to in...

Recently, in our engineering batchmates group, we discussed about truth and destination! This whole discussion was triggered by NC, our globetrotting 'Swamiji', who frequently invokes 'the divine grace to light up our paths forever'.  During his rebuttal to my criticism about a WhatsApp forward message, he mentioned that the number of Gods grew as the population grew but the truth is one.  He also said that paths may be many, but the destination is the same. I, with all the innocence that I could muster, asked him what he meant by truth and destination.  He responded in a roundabout way with analogies which were not directly answering my questions and so, I requested him and anyone else in the group to provide direct responses. PNS, our 'Chinna Kal Siddhar', shared his life experience of that day which was his cryptic way of conveying his views which is, essentially, living life moment to moment. DJ, a born-again Christian, was forthright in communicating his vi...