In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness….

Why can’t there be stillness if you can do it? Why party all day? Everyone’s gone, and finally, Stillness! It’s here! Then there’s a crash and a hiss As my sister tames her cat, Shut the TV and stop it Sis! I hiss! Then there’s a final stillness, And I love it when no one…

Months ago I dug up the ground, but underneath there was nothing to be found. With a little effort I inserted a tiny seed, but in my mind it was all a little weed. Watered with care, every single day. “It’ll be beautiful when it grows”, everyone seemed to say, weeks and weeks it seemed…

Have you ever felt that eerie silence when you have nothing to do, nothing to commence, at the break of dawn, when the earth slows down and relaxes itself; every city, every town; When you sit down and listen, the world is so dull, yet seems to glisten; the tiny chirp of a sparrow far…

At the temple, eyes are awash with the red of kumkum and flowers. Ears reverberate with the echoes of bells, conches and mantras. Fragrance of sandal and tulsi leaves infuse the air. Hearts pour out to the glistening stone, heads bowed in awe, and in the shadowy lights cast by fire, man and stone, the…