Showing posts with label Teaching. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Teaching. Show all posts
Thursday, 11 August 2022
Monday, 18 April 2022
Spiritual Practices
I have realised that irregularity has been most damaging in my life. It has deprived me of using my time well.
Today, I understand that spiritual
practices done with regularity provide stability of thought, an ability to NOT
react and to become lighter as compared to my earlier intense self. Of course,
there is plenty of work to be done…
I have been listening to Swami
Sarvapriyananda ji on you tube and have been so humbly grateful for the impact
of his simple , yet profound teachings on my life , that I actually sought and
got a meeting with him recently.
So much synchronicity has happened that I
can see how the universe works for all of us if we just get tuned in. Just
listening to one talk of his per day can bring an immense awareness and open
several doors for each of us.
I feel wonderfully blessed that I chanced
upon his videos on you tube. Amazing !
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Monday, 24 May 2021
Tuesday, 23 March 2021
Humility
We have a lesson to learn from the tree. You know, we are also shaped like a tree and we stand tall too. The tree has roots to ground it . And the roots are as deep as the tree is tall, for its stability and firm anchoring. And its highest branches and leaves touch the sky as if they had a connection with the Divine energy.
Most trees have fruit all over.
All the fruit laden trees automatically bend with the weight of the fruit.
Humility.
The tree stands in the sun,
braves drastic weather conditions but never refuses shade to the humans.
Generosity and compassion must be learnt from a tree.
But we humans are unable to
balance ourselves. Both grounding (ego identity) and spiritual (soul) activity
must be equally important in life. And the wiser you get, the more you have to
bend with humility, like the tree.
These are truths of life and
lessons from nature. Everywhere we turn, there are lessons we must learn. And
all the elements of the earth teach us something valuable.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Friday, 12 February 2021
Teaching and learning
Teaching and learning go hand
in hand. As we teach our children virtues, it is not a one way flow. It is a
simultaneous opportunity for us to review our own principles. Somehow, adults
do not retain what they learnt as children.
They say, life happens when
they grow up. It’s never rung true. An excuse! Because all the wrong conditioning
we adhere to very faithfully, so why not the right things we teach our kids?
Double standards and multiple
standards which, fortunately, kids don’t know in their innocence; all the
complexes and small mindedness are developed later, when we forget to apply our
own teachings in our own lives.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Speakingtree Blog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari
Tuesday, 9 February 2021
Thursday, 2 January 2020
Happiness Quotient
Your “swadharma”, your inner calling! One
of the major preoccupations that can elude you for a long time, it is what
comes to you naturally. Something you gave an aptitude for, something that
gives you happiness. And you enjoy it.
But how do you know what is your calling in
life? Especially today, when there are opportunities galore, unlike earlier
when there were very few lines one could take. There is every chance of
confusion or of making a wrong choice.
All achievers have had one thing in common,
that they have enjoyed every minute and been passionate about what they did.
However, it can be a challenge for multi
talented people. They may be good at academics, arts, culture and much more.
People have been known to change their paths when they discover their true
inner calling.
The best way is to observe what feelings
your activities / your career path are generating. Be aware, discuss with your
teachers and friends, if and when required, and go with your happiness
quotient.
I have seen that those who do not have a
calling don’t end up developing their personalities or confidence levels and
become complex and with complexes also.
Let it suffice for me to know that I have
my own calling like everyone else does and I need to find it. Have faith that
it is there and try to
Find it, even with help and advice from
others if you are confused. Once you find it and work on it, you will find
yourself appreciating others instead of falling short in your eyes.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Speakingtree Blog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari
Tuesday, 29 October 2019
Intelligent decision
The aftermath is an encounter with a person
of toxic energy can be an extremely debilitating one. Even retaliating makes
you feel you are hitting against the wall and often, bleeding.
The tragic part is that you discover that
you are not devoid of toxicity yourself because you actually did pretty much
what you despised in the first place. Evidently, it is somewhere within and
bursts forth without warning triggered off by the other person.
Walking away from situations is probably an
intelligent decision. Ignoring is another solution. Gritting your teeth and
smiling is another but jokes apart, although it gets tough to not retaliate
when someone is being plain obnoxious, it is wiser to step aside. And if you
have a relapse, try and try again.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Wednesday, 2 October 2019
Tuesday, 17 September 2019
Faith
We look back with sorrow. We look around
with worry. We look up with faith. Wonderful thoughts I read the other day. If
you close the chapter of the past and let bygones be bygones, there would be no
sorrow. When our minds are engaged with what is happening around us, we are
worried. And that is much of the time. But if you have faith, you look up to
the Almighty. And then, there is no time or need to look around or look back.
That faith is all pervasive. And if you notice, the English language also has no
opposite of the word “faith", because that is the ultimate. So, the
opposite of belief is disbelief. Which means belief systems can change but faith?
There is nothing beyond.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Sunday, 20 January 2019
Never forget a lesson
Grow through what you go through. It is
amazing how one sentence can be like an ocean of teaching. Living through the
experience is the only way to grow. A personal experience is more profound than
any words. Remember how we were as parents, always sheltering our kids instead
of allowing them to have their own share of experiences? And what happened to
these children? Many of them could not create and grow into their own spaces.
But some parents chose to teach them how to reason and think and experience and
grow. For example, children must be allowed to fall and get up, rather than
being prevented from falling.
At every stage from the toddler stage to
adulthood, the importance of our own experience cannot be underestimated. Once
we experience, we learn from it. Mere words cannot change us unless we imbibe
teachings sincerely and allow them to sink in deeply. But we never forget a
lesson when we have lived the episode.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
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