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Meeting Nipun Mehta – A Paragon of Generosity

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Last night, my very close friend Rahul, invited me over for something similar to a spiritual gathering at his place by the name awakin’ meet. It was to be led by one Nipun Mehta – a gift activist of international repute. Nipun has been facilitating  these worldwide gift economy initiatives – under the title Service Space – random acts of kindness that seek nothing in return, besides possibly a small request to keep the good work going. A Ted talker and also a dignitary selected by President Obama for an important committee on inter-faith harmony, Nipun is a name to reckon with.

 

There were sixty odd enthusiasts who had come to listen to Nipun. The evening started with an hour of total silence followed by his address that was perhaps as deep as the silence itself.  Listening to Nipun, his values and his conviction in the value of generosity was a total delight. With his every word, I got reconnected to my master Guruji Rishi Prabhakar who was another embodiment of selfless living, of not stopping at anything short of seeing godliness in every living being.

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My Courageous Master

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Tears flow down my eyes whenever I choose to write about my master. What a divine being he was. Just as the word ‘water’ cannot quench a person’s thirst, any amount of depiction of my master’s personality cannot come even a few shades close to experiencing him first-hand. But anyways, words is all I have, to work like fingers pointing to the moon.

It could be a lucky stroke of randomness or result of the spiritual merit that I earned in my past lives; but meeting this giant of a man and being with him just like a son would be with a father is undoubtedly the most profound gift that existence has blessed me with. Upon thinking about him, his whole figure stands bang on my mind’s eye. Anybody who knew Guruji Rishi Prabhakar well can testify that he had the most wonderful set of eyes in the whole world. Replete with love, drenched in stillness and adorned with a sparkle that signified a life being lived in total contentment. He had a set of eyes that any man would lust after. Keep Reading

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SIMPLE LIVING & HIGH THINKING

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One of the biggest challenge facing us and the future generations is that of global warming & limitless plundering of natural resources by mankind. All this is due to excessive consumption on part of all of us.

In a recent Kaya Kalp retreat at Katarkhadak, Guruji Rishi Prabhakar praised the virtue of a simple life. He even attributed the economic recession in the world to the excessive greed of the people of USA. I chose to investigate into this aspect of excessive consumption. Keep Reading

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A journey to where you already are

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Guruji often says that a problem lies in identifying a life situation as a problem. Once you have identified it as a problem, there is nothing you can do about it. On the contrary, if you do anything about it, you will only mess it up further. Let us draw a parallel of this with one another Eastern mystic culture – Zen Buddhism.

In the Zen culture, when a new seeker comes in and asks the master – ‘Oh master, I seek to be enlightened, please guide me’, the master takes a baton and gives the fellow a hard knock on the head. The seeker more often than not gets the point and walks away. By itself, the master’s action defies our understanding. But hidden beneath is a very sound logic.

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