Many people say, “I would love to practice meditation but I really don’t have the time.” After studying their lifestyles, we usually find that they are so busily occupied doing so many useless things, that they have no time to do the one thing that really matters. The petty, the trivial, the frivolous and the […]
Author: Ruby Lilaowala
Meherbai’s Farcha-Pe-Charcha
With the Divali festivities behind them, Meherbai and her Mandli had a Chicken-Farcha-Pe-Charcha with cold coffees at the PVM Gymkhana. The subject under discussion was ‘Sasujis and Vahumais’! Meherbai: My Sasuji was extremely kind and loving and treated me like her own daughter. In fact, she pampered me and at times, she and I would gang-up […]
Interpretation Of Dreams
We spend a third of our lives asleep, so why not explore the messages that your unconscious self is sending you? We dream in symbols and what those symbols mean to us can be interpreted in so many different ways. Take an apple for example. Let’s say three persons see an apple in their dreams. […]
Kekoo Kaka Goes To A Coffee Shop
There are two types of Parsis – those who love tea and those who love coffee. Kekoo Coffeewala, more popularly known as Kekoo-Kalingar (Watermelon) loved coffee since childhood. His psychiatrist knew that Kekoo’s coffee-mania went back to his embryo-stage since his mother Ketayun had an urge for this beverage throughout the nine months she carried […]
Spirituality And Religion
The etymology of the word ‘religion’ comes from the Latin root word ‘religare’ which means to unite or to join. To join or unite what? Obviously, Man with God and more importantly, man with man. Has any religion in world history managed to do that? In fact, most wars have been fought in the name […]
‘Diwali’ – The Festival Of Lights
All our lives, we have been saying and hearing that Diwali is a festival of lights. We already know that Diwali is associated with the return of Lord Ram and Sita to Ayodhya when the entire city was lit up with lamps and ‘mashaals’ to welcome this couple after fourteen years exile in the forest. Enough […]
Meherbai’s Mandli Discusses Food On World Food Day!
By now, readers know that Meherbai’s Mandli members were complete foodies and great travellers. So on the eve of World Food Day, which falls on October 16th, the Mandli gathered at the Parsi Gymkhana grounds, to discuss food they had eaten in different parts of the world, over Korean barbequed chicken sandwiches, bhajiyas and tea. […]
Exposing The Yawn
There is no point in denying it, ‘Everybody yawns’! The yawn held practical value for the father of medicine, Hippocrates, the 5th Century BC physician who concluded that intense or prolonged yawning was a proof-positive symptom of an impending fever. He was incorrect. In fact, there is little evidence that the yawn has any diagnostic […]
Meherbai And Her Mava Cakes!
Meherbai and Merwanji were enjoying their afternoon tea with Khari biscuits and home-made mava cakes. The fragrance of the freshly baked cakes reached the sensitive noses of their obnoxious neighbours, Jaloo and Aloo, who decided to have some under the guise of a courtesy home- visit. Merwanji answered the door since answering doors for the […]
Supreme Reality Can Only Be Experienced
In ancient India, there were secret-schools or gurukuls where occult knowledge was given by word of mouth. Secrets regarding higher spiritual states of mental exercises (Raj-Yoga) were whispered by the Guru to his chosen disciple or shishya, and this knowledge about the Supreme Reality is the greatest treasure anyone can have or experience. The pupil […]
વરસાદમાં ગોવાની ટ્રીપ
મહેરબાઈને વરસાદમાં ગોવા જવું ખૂબ ગમતું તેથી દર વર્ષે દસ સિનિયર સિટીઝનના કપલ સાથે તેઓ ગોવા ટ્રીપ જતા. વરસાદને માણવા જેને તેઓએ સુખની જાત્રા એમ નામ આપેલું હતું. આ વરસે પણ જવાનું નકકીજ હતું પણ વરસાદના દેવતાઓએ મુંબઈમાં પૂર લાવ્યું હતું. બધાજ કપલો ફોન કરી પૂછતા હતા કે ‘જવાસે કે નહીં?’ ‘કોઈ પ્લેન જશે કે […]