Category Archives: Mind / Body / Spirit

RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Our life is like the seasons. It is simple; it is complex; it is also, at times, prickly. Yet, in the midst of happiness, or chaos, it is as exciting as a nail-biting T20 cricket match. It also seems like everything in life is happening at the same time — health, career upheavals, […]

RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR We live in the best and the worst of times, to use a Dickensian phrase, albeit the great English novelist may not have pictured the gloomy COVID-19 hurricane. To cut a long story short, the foremost thing that each of us could do is making, not just attempting, a constant and resolute effort […]

RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR The conscious self and the divine self are two sides of the same coin. When the two coalesce, it is akin to the mind acquiescing to itself, while relating to the whole self, or consciousness. In the process, it seamlessly integrates with self-awareness, but not so much with the unconscious self-awareness, or unconscious […]

RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR The human being is endowed with authority, intelligence, and love. Philosophers surmise that we are all masters of our own thoughts. We hold the key to every situation. We also possess within us a transforming and revitalising dimension. This is one of nature’s greatest characteristics — it makes us what we are and […]

RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Tales of ‘miracle’ cures, or spontaneous healing, that emerge on the basis of faith, where the visually- challenged see, the hearing-impaired hear, or the disabled walk, are legion. The fact is: science has no respect for miracles. Yet, it is everyday knowledge that science has delved into the existence of such, as yet, […]

RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Being conscious of ourselves and others is as simple as our everyday chores — if only we are receptive to hear the echo and experience things around us. Yet, the apparent thing is we tend to drift to a different level when we are aloof of our own self, or side-step our experience. […]

RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR The philosopher Aristotle never thought in threes. From his law of contradiction, also labelled as the law of the excluded middle, to the binary logic of our modern computer programmes, our mind-set focuses its compass and radar on certain pros and cons and vice versa. The mediaeval philosopher René Descartes, however, offered a […]