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Vedantic Technique to Detach from the Mind
Meera works as a Software Engineer in Bangalore, navigating the relentless pace of deployment deadlines, coding and endless Slack notifications. One evening, after an exceptionally brutal production outage, the pressure caught up with her. Sitting at her desk, her chest felt tight. Her mind was racing. “I am incredibly anxious”, she thought. “I can’t handle… Continue reading
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Stop Fighting Your Mind
Adi Shankaracharya looked at the mind very differently. He didn’t see it as a solid thing. He saw it as a flow. A continuous movement of thoughts, memories and reactionsthat creates the illusion of a fixed self. The Mind Creates and Covers Shankara explained the mind in two simple ways. First, it projects. It takes… Continue reading
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Stop Taking Criticism Personally
Criticism doesn’t just feel like feedback. It feels personal. A comment, a remark and the mind starts looping.You replay it, analyze it and it begins to affect how you see yourself. This is where the real problem begins. Who Is Actually Hurt? When criticism hits, there is a simple question to ask: Who is feeling… Continue reading
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Vivekananda: The Power of Being Real
The Serpent and the Saint When Swami Vivekananda arrived in America in the 1890s, he stood out wherever he went, dressed in saffron robes, calm, tall and full of quiet power. For many, he was unlike anything they had ever seen. One day, a well-known American lady – refined, intelligent, but skeptical – saw him… Continue reading
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