Reflections & Stories

Happiness Or Meaning?

Just read something thoughtful ...   What would you rather have: a happy life or a meaningful life? You can both be happy and lead a meaningful life, of course. But most of us, consciously...

100 Million Trillion

Here's a story I read that reminds me of 100 million trillion ... :)  Long long ago in an ancient land, there lived a very wise man who happened to be the Vizier at the court of a great...

Vyaktigat Shunyata, Samuhik Purnata!

Today Kishan and myself got a small glimpse of the Ashram History 101 with Ajit Dada, who was literally born in the Ashram premises, and who's family has been around from the times of Gandhiji...

Fostering Kindness In Schools

“To explore kindness as that thread of meaning requires finding out if we can be strong and still be kind, be smart and still be kind, whether we can be profoundly kind to ourselves...

Cultivation Is Happiness

I am in process of reading 'Highway Dharma Letters' and I wanted to share a quote and my insight into the quote, "The Avatamsaka sutra says that 'All happiness in the world is...

Meals On Wheels Mumbai

Last Sunday, our dear Vidhi officially launched Meals on Wheels in Mumbai. Rupali and Ketan lovingly opened up their home (our home — as they put it) and 25 of us were there; the youngest...

Meals On Wheels In Mumbai

With deepest respect and gratitude to all of you today, I'm writing these thoughts. Thank you for creating and holding so many service journeys, in beautiful ways -- in person or in...

Video On Safai Vidyalaya

Principal’s Round Table Of 2016

The last Principal’s Round Table of 2016 was an event to remember!  It was attended by over one hundred educators including many Principals and Heads, representing schools and...

Learning The Art Of Surrender

[At the Laddership retreat held in November 2016, Sachi shares from a deep space about one key shift that she experienced in the past year. In her journey with Ashiyana and Shunya, she reflects about...

HeART Circle - Expressions Of Love

If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. ~Eckhart Tolle   Sometimes life’s most precious moments, the ones that make us come alive with a renewed sense of purpose,...

Can We Work With The Power Of Small?

“We are here to hospice the old systems, and midwife the emergent new ways” Typically the term “startup” connotes small groups of passionate people working away in obscure...

What An Incredible Day!

What an incredible morning! Just wow! I am really amazed by the last morning of 2013. It’s a blessing to be able to spend this morning in such a beautiful way :) We reached the nearby park...

Seva Cafe On History Channel

Imagine a Restaurant where there are no prices on the menu and where the check reads Rs.0 with only this footnote: "Your meal was a gift from someone who came before you. To keep the chain...

One Small Step At A Time

"Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower." - John Harrigan. Is the seed sown? I believe, yes. It’s only a matter of time that a beautiful flower blossoms. But...

Four Poems, When I Was Moved By Love

[Originally Posted by Ashwin Karthik] OM I was introduced to ServiceSpace last year, while I was preparing for my TedX speech. It was my dream to be a Ted speaker, and TedX was good enough...

"We Redefined Disablity"

Inclusion Retreat was one of its first kind organized by Service space in Ahmedabad. It was a chilled morning when I landed at Ahmedabad Airport where my friend and volunteer of Service Space...

"There Is Fun In Being Ordinary" (Awakin Talk With

A couple of months ago, Jayesh bhai was in Pune silently serving many in the community there by his presence. Here are some excerpts from his Awakin talk at the Urban Ashram. In a separate post, we...

Planting Seeds

Yesterday was one of the most memorable days of my life. We were planting seeds literally. For over a year, I have been feeling helpless with this urge to do something every time I visited...

Inclusion Retreat In Bangalore

We had a half-day ‘Inclusion retreat’  on 2nd  October, 2016 in Bangalore. Jaideep, Priyanka and I invited few guests and it was a close gathering of 9 of us with Deepa,...

Maitri Inside And Maitri Outside

[Originally Posted by Moved by Love] The gathering opened with a sharing on the story of the mythical bird 'simurgh' from the classic poem of Persian poet Fariduddin Attar. 30 birds undertook an...