In these hard times, Meherbai’s Mandli met every evening to do elar pelar and gaam-ni-gossip. They also held Antakshri sessions when all the kagras hurriedly flew away hearing their besura voices! Once, they also had a Jokes’s Eve, when all the husbands flew away like the kagras because all the wives cracked jokes on their husbands! The limit was reached when Koomi Kajwali said, “My…
Your future is the result of your habitual thinking – it is already in your mind. The future of a country, likewise, is in the collective consciousness of the people of that nation. Tomorrow’s events are inside your mind, in your thinking… so are next week’s and next month’s! No coronavirus or disaster is likely to happen to…
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]We welcome Earth Day, which falls on 22nd April this year, with a feeling of shame and a sense of apology. Man, yet again, has proven to be man’s greatest enemy, leaving all of humanity praying for the ongoing Pandemic, which has claimed over a lakh of innocent lives, to tide over soon…
Your future is the result of your habitual thinking – it is already in your mind. The future of a country, likewise, is in the collective consciousness of the people of that nation. Tomorrow’s events are inside your mind, in your thinking… so are next week’s and next month’s! No coronavirus or disaster is likely to happen to…
A few decades ago, ‘Corona’ referred to a shoe company. I am talking of the days when TV had not yet come to India and hence the only powerful medium of advertising was the radio. Whether it was All India Radio or Radio Ceylon or Vividh Bharati, the ‘Corona’ shoe advertisement blasted like this in…
We know the physical causes that lead to earthquakes and tsunamis, but there are more subtle spiritual issues involved, based on the Karmic principle, that all right actions bring joy, while wrong actions bring grief. When wrong actions reach an extreme, it leads to massive destruction (pralaya) bringing about an en-masse settlement (group-karma) of human…
For Parsi Times readers who’ve been wondering where our Meherbai had disappeared to, from their favourite Parsi-newspaper, the mystery finally unfurls… but in the meanwhile… Abhan Aban thought that Meher aunty had applied too much vanishing cream and vanished! Sagan-No-Gathyo Sorab thought she had become Late i.e. gujri gaya and therefore the ‘Late Meherbai’! Hormusji Homeopath thought the…
Once in a while, Meherbai’s Mandli held a musical evening. Every Mandli member contributed to it. Sometimes, it was an instrumental evening which was always dominated by Hormasji-harmonium and his brother Zubin-Xylophone. They were the male stars always accompanied by their respective wives, Temina-Tabla and Mani-Mandoline! These four rock-stars were away on a tour of…
According to Hindu philosophy, ‘Sat-Yug’ was a long period of truth, honesty and beauty. Later ages, like the ‘Treta-Yug’ and the ‘Dwapar-Yug’, were a mixture of good and evil. ‘Kal-Yug’ marks the evil age, when man’s consciousness sinks to an all-time low. This Yug or age is followed by total destruction (Prayala) and renewal to…
The German philosopher Goethe said that “Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing and a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.” Now, in a way, every married couple is a ‘Karmic Couple’ since marriage is the biggest Karmic-connection to settle trials and dues of past births. However, today an ordinary…
Can you instantly fascinate strangers? Produce sparkling conversation at will? Make friends with ease? Always talk others into doing what you want? No? Thank God – you would be insufferable! But without aspiring to those heights, most of us could exploit the enormous power of speech to attract, explore, persuade and comfort more effectively than…