by Ranjeet Chowdhury | Nov 16, 2018 | Social
Ananya – I met this little girl of about 7-8 years on a train journey in the summers of 2016. I was travelling with my elder cousin to Igatpuri (Maharashtra) for taking up a Meditation Course there. Ananya was travelling with her mom, grandma and brother Vaishnav...
by Ranjeet Chowdhury | Nov 9, 2018 | Spiritual
In the first two parts of my present write-up, I didn’t really touch the subject of meditation as such except at one place where I had briefly discussed about the most appropriate way to meditate as per my understanding of the subject thus far. Now in this part I...
by Ranjeet Chowdhury | Oct 30, 2018 | Social
Once an old friend of mine bumped into me at a shopping mall who I was not in touch with me for over a decade or so, ever since he got transferred out of Delhi. Having exchanged inquiries about each others’ well-being and whereabouts, it was time to...
by Ranjeet Chowdhury | Feb 23, 2018 | Spiritual
As I said I did not find the experience at Igatpuri anywhere near ‘enriching’ however, the same did provide me with a lot to ponder about which led me to further clarity in my spiritual quest. The first thing I became aware of was that ‘you are not your mind’. I don’t...
by Ranjeet Chowdhury | Feb 21, 2018 | Spiritual
It was in the summers of 2016 when I took up the ten-day Vipassana meditation course along with my elder cousin and my aunt at Dhammagiri in Igatpuri (Maharashtra), where courses in Vipassana Meditation, as taught by SN Goenka in the tradition of his Burmese mentor...