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The beginning of the end

It may all end one day. Life as we know it might not exist. No, I am not a doomsday prophet predicting another Armageddon. I am just a history buff noticing certain repeating patterns, which I shall try to present here. Beginning of life Life started on Earth in the form of microbes that came together despite the odds. With such coming together, life branched out into a diversity of forms, species, habitats, habits and looks. Amid such diversity and plurality came the earliest humans. The ones who learned to team up with each other in their quest for food and survival. Imagine the odds they were up against. There had been mass extinctions before and the dominant species of the time, the mighty dinosaurs, had been wiped out. What chance did this ape-like creature have?   Homo sapien prevails Still, man prevailed. Whether it was the ice age or the warm age, humans showed remarkable resilience by following the rhythms of nature and trusting each other. Back in those days of nasc
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Spirituality: What no one told you

Mantra chanting is one of the easiest ways to meditate, I have found over the years. The words may sound inane, but they are powerful enough to open the chanter up to different dimensions, activate karmic patterns and hasten evolution.  That sounds so good. The concept has been marketed even better. The science of spirituality has been bandied online to saturation point. There are scores of websites detailing different mantras for different purposes and deities. That much is useful. There are many paths to evolution and it is alright for one to choose one’s own path rather than walk one that has been imposed. That’s where the usefulness of the cleverly marketed guidance on mantra chanting ends. Hardly anyone mentions the hard part of mantra meditation or essentially any kind of spiritual practice. The hard part is the cleansing of karmas, the balancing of accounts, the chiseling of the spirit and the tests that mark lessons learned and the possibility of being promoted to the nex
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