Last Scene Of The Drama :)
We share gratitude on behalf of many in America, who are grateful for Arun Dada's visit -- just after his first circle. :) Last Wednesday, Arun Dada spoke at our Awakin Circle, as Professor...
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Arun Dada Lands In America! :)
What a joy to receive Arun Dada and Jignasha in America today! See some photos here. He arrived with first-class karma (courtesy of Jiggy insisting on him using a wheelchair :)). Audrey raced up...
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48 Hours in Delhi
Few days ago, I had a short layover in Delhi, en route to Bhutan, but I just couldn't touch India and not step in. So I extended my layover in Delhi for 48 hours. :) Just now, I saw this email...
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Chance Encounter With 96-Year-Old Dada Vaswani
I had met him once before. Also by chance. Last November, I was sick and my body was weak, but Sheetal felt deeply called to have me accept Dada Vaswani's invitation to attend a public program. It...
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Startup Service: Dance of Abundance
Every entrepreneur had a story. Growing up, Yash and his friends would often step out of his house at 3AM to get “idli sambhar” from a street fellow on a bicycle. More recently, he...
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Five Days in Bangalore
Lots of inspiration unfolded in the last five days in Bangalore. It started on Friday night, with an Awakin gathering at Rajesh and Vallari's place. Awakin Circles have a simple format of an...
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Bulldozed by Love, in the Company of Noble Friends
The gifts were varied and unconventional: "Two apples from my community." "A fist full of space." "Myself." "A Spanish translation of The...
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An 80 Year Old Hand
Big, round flashes of light blind us for a moment. Loud, honking sounds zip past us. The howling, almost-monsoon wind pushes us from East to West. Just then a faint plea reaches my ears: "Son, I...
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Gauva Uncle of Kantidara
"What are the inspirations in your life?" I ask him. "The sky because it is so infinite." After a pause, he smiles big with half a tear in his eye: "My mom. She gave me all my values." Then he...
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Q&A With Kanti Shah
A saint sees a devoted young man sitting in the back of the room. He calls him up and says, "Young man, let me read some Gandhi to you." The young man humbly gets up and sits at the feet of the...
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Experiments in Grace
It's 2AM. Police are blocking off entire streets, newspapers haven't yet printed these headlines yet, fear is quickly spreading throughout the city of Baroda. Communal riots, between Hindus and...
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Smallest Big Story of Goraj
It's the big story. A village woman with 7th grade education goes to the Ramakrishna Mission to become a nun; they reject her because she doesn't have a college education. So she finds another...
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Courage Under Fire
The scene is tense. February 27th, 2002. Communal riots are spreading all across Gujarat, and the government has imposed a national curfew to contain the situation. One week passes, second weeks...
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Ramdass Maharaj
What is the best form of service? The best form of service is that which gives rise to humility. Whatever you do, if it curbs your arrogance, if it brings forth humility and good character, that...
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Harisevak Dass
He doesn't know when he was born. Nor does he know who his parents are. His earliest memory, from when he was 2, is of being taken care of by a group of wandering monks, each of whom were intense...
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Wings of Love
Love in action. We've all heard the cliche a million times but there's something about the way Nancy Rivard says it, that it reverberates in your heart for days to come. Maybe it's because...
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Les "No Traces" Kaye
"Why do you wear those robes?" someone asked him. "Because it makes it easy to sit cross-legged," he replied. End of story. With Zen master Les Kaye, there are no romanticized descriptions, no...
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Gordhan "Ironman" Patel
You can't find a single tea stall or a paan store or an alcohol bar or a gambling joint in Navaagam, a village outside Ahmedabad. There's one primary reason for this clean, literate, and inspiring...
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Dwarko Sundrani
A reporter once asked Gandhi, "Bapu, give me your message for the people." He instantly replied from a moving train, "My life is my message." Repeatedly, Gandhi asked his supporters to burn all...
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Prahlad "No Fears" Patel
"Dear Mom and Dad, I am leaving everything to find God." Fourteen year old Prahlad Patel left that note for his parents and took off. Before Prahlad could find God, though, his parents found...
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