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		<title>Emerson &#8211; Worship</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The concept of duty is explored exhaustively in the Gita as Svadharma and Svakarma. Bhagavan Krishna exhorts Arjuna and tells him that it is better to die doing your dharma than to commit a life to somebodyelse&#8217;s dharma. In our parlance these days, I see this as living a life that is true to oneself, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rathiraja.wordpress.com&amp;blog=903490&amp;post=68&amp;subd=rathiraja&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life is Like a&#8230;. Reflections by Indian Senior Citizens</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life is like a ……………………….  Reflections by participants at the Senior Citizen Center of Hindu Temple, Bowne Street, Queens – Facilitated by Rathi Raja   Feb 4, 2009       Meena Mani   Life is like a Pencil Your parents and teachers try to sharpen your brains while you are young. You have falls and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rathiraja.wordpress.com&amp;blog=903490&amp;post=62&amp;subd=rathiraja&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Raisin Meditation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The simplest of things can provide a deep insight into how powerful we can be in the present moment. The other day I tried to conduct a &#8216;Raisin meditation&#8217; with my students. Each one was given 2 raisins. To start with, the first raisin was eaten the way one would do &#8211; automatically. Quickly pop [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rathiraja.wordpress.com&amp;blog=903490&amp;post=60&amp;subd=rathiraja&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Emerson and Chapter 10 of Gita &#8211; Vibhuti Yoga</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I slowly pierce through Emerson&#8217;s seminal piece called &#8216;Nature&#8217;, a pattern emerges. A grand scheme of Dharma and Isvara as non separate from each other &#8211; interpenetrating and inseparable. The vision of Chapter 10 of the Gita, which outlines the Vibhutis (Glories ) of the Lord, is equally charged with the grandeur of nature [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rathiraja.wordpress.com&amp;blog=903490&amp;post=52&amp;subd=rathiraja&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Emerson for Now &#8211; 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emerson &#8211; A revolutionary mind. I see parallels between the Vedic seers who explored consciousness and the nature of Reality with such vigor, letting seemingly foundational pillars fall by the wayside, fearless yet compassionate. These seers helped us understand that not only is Reality not what we think it is, but also not a cause [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rathiraja.wordpress.com&amp;blog=903490&amp;post=48&amp;subd=rathiraja&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Immortality</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dedicated to all my friends who have suffered deep losses this year. Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there, I do not sleep. I am in a thousand winds that blow, I am the softly falling snow. I am the gentle showers of rain, I am the fields of ripening [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rathiraja.wordpress.com&amp;blog=903490&amp;post=44&amp;subd=rathiraja&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Benjamin Button and the nature of change</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Benjamin Button did strike me as an extraordinarily Wise Person, with no fear of death. He could make the ultimate sacrifice by walking away from someone he loved, for all the right reasons. Clearly his sense of dharma was very strong. Of course it is a fantasy, played out over 90 years. The movie has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rathiraja.wordpress.com&amp;blog=903490&amp;post=40&amp;subd=rathiraja&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our Deepest Fear</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to share a poem by Marianne Williamson, popularized by Nelson Mandela “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.  It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rathiraja.wordpress.com&amp;blog=903490&amp;post=39&amp;subd=rathiraja&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FaithHouse Manhattan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have had the opportunity to develop a relationship with this new organization through it&#8217;s dynamic and visionary leader, Samir Selmanovic. A recent entry in their blog has excerpts from my speech at the AFS World Peace Forum. You may find it interesting. Please visit http://www.faithhousemanhattan.org/ looking forward to your comments. Rathi<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rathiraja.wordpress.com&amp;blog=903490&amp;post=38&amp;subd=rathiraja&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gita Vicara &#8211; 2007 &#8211; Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2007 19:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year  truly inspiring speeches are made by our graduating class. And every year I think I should get a copy. This time I persisted, snatching the copies from the speakers!!! And hounding them for the digital versions!  That is still a work in progress. Following are excerpts from their talks.  I could not get [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rathiraja.wordpress.com&amp;blog=903490&amp;post=34&amp;subd=rathiraja&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gita Vicara &#8211; 2007   Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 14:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vijay Gogia<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rathiraja.wordpress.com&amp;blog=903490&amp;post=31&amp;subd=rathiraja&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coming to Our Senses</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jon Kabat-Zinn&#8217;s book,  &#8217;Coming To Our Senses&#8217;, seems a little heavy in the beginning, and I was wondering where had the author gone, when the writing started to unfold like a lotus in bloom. I had thoroughly enjoyed the previous book &#8216;Wherever You Go There You Are&#8217;, his engaging handbook on Mindfulness. To quote: &#8220;Thirty [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rathiraja.wordpress.com&amp;blog=903490&amp;post=30&amp;subd=rathiraja&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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