It was Sheroo’s birthday. She was Meherbai’s neighbour and the birthday-girl personally did all the chowk-chadan-toran-sagan herself before carrying a silver tray containing sev-dahi-banana and a boiled egg covered with a delicate embroidered muslin. Sheroo desperately wanted to get married and ever since she was 20, her parents, friends and match-makers (kaj-walis who were themselves spinsters) showed […]
At their usual Chai-pe-Charcha session, this time at the US Club at Colaba, Meherbai’s Mandli drove the waiter crazy (so what’s new?) with each one ordering a different dish and different preferences ranging from “Don’t put salt!”, “Put more salt!”, “No Ajinomoto in the soup!”, ” Yes, more Ajinomoto!”, “Make it sweet!”, “No sugar please!”, […]
The earliest form of life began in water because of the play of extreme hot and cold temperatures inside and outside the thermal-vents along the ocean beds which created life (science calls this molecular synthesis).This magical quality of water, which generates a rich biodiversity, right from the water-bacteria to a giant whale, is […]
Occult literature is full of allusions to the underlying oneness on which all oriental philosophy rests. You can find it everywhere if you really look for it. Upanishads call it cosmic-consciousness. Hinduism explains the one life force in all forms, shapes, colours and sentient beings with Tat Tvam Asi or ‘Thou are that’. The German […]
Meherbai’s Mandli met at the PVM Gymkhana for a chai-pe-charcha, usually referred to by their husbands as ‘Khotta-Kharcha’ – the usual, boring male point of view being – why spend on tea or coffee at Clubs, five-star hotels or expensive Coffee-Shops when you can easily make tea or coffee at home. The female point of […]
I confess! I hated spinach as a child. Granny would nag me big time with her “Eat your spinach” and go on like an old gramophone record stuck in a groove. History has a way of repeating itself! In my 40s, I found myself stuck in the same golden words – “Eat your spinach” and […]
Some of us are born smiling, most of us have to work at it, which means learning new techniques and unlearning some old mental habits but the good news from the frontiers of psychology is that mood is malleable and happiness is yours for the choosing! Everyone wants happiness. We want it, strive for it, […]
The word ‘Metaphysics’ implies something that goes beyond the physical matter of our observation and experience. Avestan Prayers are Manthric compositions which have a tremendous effect on the mind, thinking, psyche, emotions, consciousness and everyday life. Manthra is a path towards salvation, a secret and sacred key towards peace and bliss, particularly in present times […]
‘Laugh and the world laughs with you!’ But studies at the ‘Laughter and Stress Busting Clinic’ in Midlands, UK show that we are laughing much less than our parents and grandparents did. Not only that, we adults laugh much less than children. On average, a child laughs about 50 times a day while adults hardly […]
As most readers may know by now, Meherbai was a romantic person and maybe this is why the romance never flew out of the window even after 50 years of marriage. In fact, Meherwanji worshipped the ground she walked on, saying “Meherbai Na Jyan Jyan Sabakta Pagla Parey, Tyan Tyan Ujarda Thai” (She lights up […]
Few people, especially in the third world countries, are familiar with 06, a man who accurately predicted the future like no one else. He was born in 1896 and passed away in 1971. Just as this limited, three-dimensional world, functions within our five senses, there exists an ‘unseen’, multi-dimensional world which we glimpse in our […]