Madhumitha's Blog

I cannot find a word short of “miracle” to describe what one month of yoga has done to me. Like every other person in 20’s, I too believed that yoga is for the old and jobless. I was more interested in the intellectual part of spirituality. I was shying away from experiencing peace within me. But I left all inhibitions and threw away my preconceived notions. At most times all of us have opinions about everything even before we know what it is. It took a lot of convincing and acceptance to throw my notions about yoga. My very first session of yoga was 2 fort nights ago. It felt divine. I am a huge fan of discourses by Osho. I have read a lot of his work. Every time there was an emphasis on experience of God through yoga and meditation. I never took it seriously. It was always the intellectual side that fascinated me the most.   I can still remember as if it is all happening now in the present how it felt to stretch every muscle of my body. The sad part is most of my muscles were...

After months of preparation and planning, I am in Mumbai at last. It all still feels like a dream. I still feel that I am going to get back home in some time. The only thing I could see from the aircraft were buildings and more buildings. This city is full of people, rich poor ugly beautiful old and young. The roads are always full of vehicles. The life line of this city seems to be the railways! The whole city is divided into east and west by the railway.The rains are so nice! It comes went it desires. Everyone has an umbrella of various size color and pattern. The population here is just too dense. I don't remember seeing any individual houses. But Mumbai has its own spirit! Hope that I fall in love with it soon.

I have been to about a dozen cities in the world. Chennai has always been close to my heart in multiple levels. I enjoy travelling to new places but noting is as beautiful as Chennai. It has a certain vibration and positive feeling to it. Trust me I am not being biased in any sense. There is a list of reasons which made me fall in love compulsively with the city. First thing anyone would suggest tourist to visit in Chennai are the beaches. They are the prima donna of this virgin land. Kissable blue skies, endless limits of water which rubs ones feet and tonnes of shining sands. Pure heaven. There are so many temples in the city, in all possible shapes and sizes. The sweet sound of Tamil. The language has various forms and is very lovely. Personally I am not that good in the language. But people who can indeed speak it well are gifted and on the top of my admire list. Chennai is known for its heat. But it never kills anyone. I makes one shed liters of water. When there is...

This book was plain brilliance. A beautiful combination of fact and fiction. A low bow for Amish. The way the book is written is just too good. We all loved Dan Brown just because he was able to mix truth and fiction in the right proportions. Amish has the same talent. His imagination of what could have happened is so vivid and drawing. I was hooked to the book. The story starts where Shiva  is a tribal leader in Tibet. His tribe is constantly in war with neighboring tribe. The kingdom of Meluha sends a proposition to Shiva. They are ready to accept Shiva and his tribe into their well planned dynasty. This seemed as a good deal for Shiva. So he along with his people went to Meluha. Meluhans were Suryavanshis and there opponents were Chandravanshis. The Nagas were group of people who were deformed yet strong. They have evil intentions. They were astounded by the planning and perfection of the city. Even the bricks were made to size. There was uniformity in way o...

I hope that no one saw that terrible hindi movie Haunted. I first thought that I must not write about it. But couldn't resist it. The basic plot is that a piano teacher is i love with his student. Tries to attain her but at the end he gets killed by her. He haunts her as a ghost. She commits suicide to liberate herself from him but he traps even her soul. The whole idea seems so gross. A hero from todays time goes back to the past to fix the problem. There were so many glitches in the story. First the story was painfully long. They must have stopped it with them reaching the mosque. It got annoying after a point. I was more irritated than scared. The movie was on 3D but the effects were bad. Some scenes were scary and gave me the chills. Others were little annoying. The movie would have been better without 3D. I got up towards the end and walked away. The movie was like mental torture. I hope that I learnt my lesson hard. No more ghost movies. I just don't want to clog my ...

This was a book which was in some was very special. I would not say that this book rendered my life and was ground shaking but it gave me a glimpse of what life is for a sanyasin. I used to have a crazy idea that I can become a saint(when i was young not now though). I was amazed when I used to hear about austerity that the Indian monks upheld to become one with God. My idea about God has been very dynamic. I my young age I used to think that God did not exist. But then slowly I became a run in the mill devotee. As I grew up I got exposed to books and discourses by many enlightened people. I got to know that there are many ways to reach God. He's within us. All we have to do is connect with the divine in us. This book gave me a glimpse of how a life a sanyasin  would be. "Ma Devika Anand" wrote this book very modestly. I wonder how a woman from England ends up in India and forever in love with Osho. I have read books by him. I wish he lived longer so that I could have ...

I have no words to express how much I loved this book. I is just beautiful. I had fallen in love with the idea of living in Rome for at least a few months when I was a teenager. Recently I am into reading a lot of spiritual books in hope that I become as still as the mountains and as clear as rain water. Here Elizabeth(the writer) narrates her life story. How she had a bad divorce and hence to recuperate she travels to 3 most beautiful countries in the world: Italy, India and Indonesia. I don't know if it is just coincidence but all the 3 countries have I in it. She chooses to live 4 months in each country. I love the way that the book has been split up into 108 chapters. The prelude is called as 109th bead(very very nice). She mentions the importance of the chanting beads. Why they have 108 beads. Rosary came from the Indian monks. The last bead is used to denote the end of 108 beads. She gave each country 36 beads adding up to 108. I am so much in love with the book and the ...