Tag: goal
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Long-distance running:there is more to what meets the eye!
Image credit: Gemini When you look at athletes who are long-distance runners like marathoners, one gets amazed that how such a skinny man/woman runs for distances like 5Km, 10Km, 21Km, 42Km and even 100Km! Because for a common person, it seems difficult to even run for 1Km as we don’t need to do that in…
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The ultimate aim of life and how to achieve it?
No matter what we do (or not do) in life, it ultimately sums up to just one thing. It is the raison détre of doing (or not doing) anything. And what is that elusive (or as it seems elusive) thing? It is nothing other than the desire to seek happiness. The common denominator of our…
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Do we really need a Chanakya in the current scenario?
Philosophy of साम, दाम, दंड, भेद (saam, daam, danda, bheda)- a critical review A little while ago, I heard a politician making a remark that “saam, daam, danda, bheda, etc. whatever is to be used for winning elections, we will use that”. Sometime back, one of my acquaintances was telling me that in politics “saam,…
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The taste of failure (or near misses)– a bitter sweet experience!
Failure to achieve some goal or a target, of any nature, is often looked down upon and is best seen as something to be avoided. Even in the young age, people around you don’t encourage you to take risks, lest you could fail and fail hard! This is one of the big reasons why we…
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The “Karma” conundrum- 2.0
Whenever there is an unfortunate and tragic event, a debate sparks off on the sidelines regarding the Karma-fal (कर्म-फल) theory. The proponents of this theory claim that every outcome is predetermined as per our own actions (Karma). It is onto us how to perform the Karma, but we cannot determine the outcome. And even of…
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The “Karma” conundrum
If you are not living in Antarctica, you must have heard the famous verse from the holy Gita, which goes like this: Which literally means that “You have the right to perform your actions (कर्म/karma), but you are not entitled to the fruits (फल/fal) of your actions”. On the face of it, it seems very…
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