Seeking Nomad - life and its reflection. I just raise questions. You go within to find the answers.

What is Spirituality

What is spirituality? Who is a spiritual person?

Are all or any of the below statements correct:

OR...

Listen on or read this episode as a blog post: https://seekingnomad.wordpress.com/2020/11/03/spirituality-the-ultimate-truth/

Attachment to Liberation

All the great minds in history, philosophers, mystics and religions have time and again talked about de-attaching ourselves from the objects of desire. De-attach from people and things to free ourselves from the bondage to attain liberation. But how practical is this teaching, when there are loans to be paid, children to be raised along with taking care of our other duties and responsibilities towards family and society...

Listen on or read this episode as a blog post: https://seekingnomad.wordpress.com/2020/08/12/attachment-to-liberation/

Traps (of suffering)

We are all prisoners in our own bodies. Prisoners to our desires. Money, power and pleasures of the body rule our lives and not the other way round.

A trekker needs to carry bare minimum to climb the mountain. If he is carrying anything in excess to what is required, it can slow down his speed and there can come a point that he can even give up the journey unless he throws away the excess he is carrying. Similarly, our lives are built. The lesser the baggage we carry, the lesser the traps we fall into...

Listen on or read this episode as a blog post: https://seekingnomad.wordpress.com/2020/05/25/traps-of-suffering/

Where is my happiness

Where is my happiness – My happiness lies within me.

The answer to this question is very simple, very accessible but very difficult to achieve. Its within me. Its so simple and so close. Even though its so very close, are we able to grasp it. The answer is no. Why?

Listen on or read this episode as a blog post: https://seekingnomad.wordpress.com/2020/05/13/where-is-my-happiness/

Life in the times of lock down.

It is the time of reflection. What we humans are doing to nature. From the day one of lock down, birds have returned. I can hear them chirping all day long. The sky is clear with amazing sunsets. The air is as fresh as I breathe in the upper reaches of Himalayas.

I want to ask, can corona virus distinguish between races, religion, gender of the people it effects. Or does it respect the boundaries we humans have created between our lands and in turn in our hearts.

Listen on or read this episode as a blog post: https://seekingnomad.wordpress.com/2020/03/28/life-in-the-times-of-lock-down/

Sound of my heart…

O my heart take me to the place where I belong.

Where I smell the pine and sip the spring.

Listen on or read this episode as a blog post: https://seekingnomad.wordpress.com/2020/03/03/sound-of-my-heart/

Irony of life

There are a hundred windows in front of my window.

I see feasting in one window and fasting in the next

All these windows are next to each other. Oblivious to the happenings in the next window.

They are so close yet so far...

Listen on or read this episode as a blog post: https://seekingnomad.wordpress.com/2020/02/23/irony-of-life/

Pleasures of the senses

This post is not about Yayati. You can Google and read his story. This post is about you and me, living in this defiled age. Yayati finds mention in ancient Hindu scriptures. He was a great king, loved by all and who ruled the whole world earning him the tile of “World Emperor”. Ironically, he is also remembered as a father who traded his old age with the youth of his son only to enjoy the pleasures of the senses. He spent the next one thousand years to live a life of indulgence to fulfill the pleasures of the body.

Listen on or read this episode as a blog post: https://seekingnomad.wordpress.com/2020/02/22/pleasures-of-the-senses/

After that – What

You wake up in the morning, work all day, go out with friends in the evening and have a good time. Occasionally take a break to rejuvenate and clear your head. And this routine keeps repeating day in and day out. Over and over again, for all your lives.....

Listen on or read this episode as a blog post: https://seekingnomad.wordpress.com/2020/01/20/after-that-what/

Sea of Suffering

You see what you seek. You want to rid the world of suffering and the only thing you see is a sea of suffering. Suffering all around. You want to help but don’t know where to start.

I heard a story:

Thousands of fishes were pushed by the current on the sea shore. A small boy was standing in the midst of these fishes, carefully picking up one fish at a time and throwing it back in the sea. He kept at it all day. A man watched this little boy from afar in utter amazement. He approached the boy and asked him as to what he was doing...

Listen on or read this episode as a blog post: https://seekingnomad.wordpress.com/2020/01/09/sea-of-suffering/