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Book Review : Behind A Thousand Names by Osho

Naked pursuit for Truth: When you are writing a lot, the reading takes a back seat. As I was writing, editing and packing my second work, “The Bookwallah MBA” giving Exciting Reviews of Wisdom from 75 Bestsellers of recent decades, so-to-say the cream of human knowledge, the current book in my hand by Osho obviously was slowing down. After all, you know what happens when riding two horses at the same time! Now that the Bookwallah has hit the Kindle and Amazon stands, my hands are free. Also, my mind and Osho got his total attention. The publisher of the book ‘Behind A Thousand Names’ and a lot others by OSHO, is Full Circle. Coincidentally, I also seem to have come a full circle in reading spirituality. I read Rajneesh two decades back and went through a lot of spiritual masters’ speeches, writings after that from Jiddu Krishnamurthi to Jaggi Vasudeo, from Ramakrishna to Ramana Maharishi and from Vivekananda to Eckhart Tolle. This particular one came with the strong recommendatio...

Feature Article: Work From Home is a ‘Family’ar Terrain!

Human beings are programmable. We are nothing but a ‘bio-chemical-algorithm’. Just think of it. Our hardware-the body, manages itself very well. Whether we are ‘present’ are not. Even when we were absent yesterday night, it digested all the dinner we ate. It managed the breathing rhythm, temperature and even hit the mosquito that sat on our body, in a reflex action. As a matter of fact, the it ‘doesn’t need’ us. We only need to maintain and help it perform better. Coming to our software side. We are blessed with an unlimited and expandable hard disk, a super processor and quite a bit of RAM (70,000 thoughts-program code) per day, besides the pre-loaded ROM (DNA), OS and other sub-routines. With our (Mind) Control Unit, we are actually programming ourselves every day. Deciding to do ‘what we want’ and ‘making it happen’ in the world around us. Hence, we are the masters of our destin(y)ation. Paul Goleman in his book ‘Change Your Habits & Change Your Life in 21 days’ points to ...