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Coronavirus lockdown – not all bad

Prashant Solomon
April 26, 2020
Blog

The world is under lockdown! The year 2020 is still being dominated by the Coronavirus Pandemic. With just about every country on Earth being affected and most of the world in lockdown, this is perhaps the most significant event that we have ever witnessed. With millions sick and thousands dead across the world, there is obviously sadness in the air. With many businesses either shut down or about to be and many people losing their jobs this is a financial emergency for the entire world. That being said, everything is not all bad. The lockdown has its positives as well.…

Time to look back and introspect

Prashant Solomon
December 25, 2019
Articles / Blog / Christianity / Spirituality

This appeared in The Indian Express on December 25, 2019 Prashant Solomon The last week of the year is heralded by Christmas. At this time next week, we will be in the year 2020 which is not just a new year but the beginning of a new decade. This is a perfect week for reflection. It is a great time to look back at not just the year but in this case, the last 10 years and take stock of our own lives. Are we happy with the way we have spent the last year or decade as the case…

Stepping into Christhood

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. — Matt. 5:14-16 . There is a way, tried and true, that saints, adepts and avatars have walked. The way is universal and timeless and will reunite you to your higher self and when this happens, the most subtle consciousness of God realization will shine through you. This is the path of individuated Christhood and Buddhahood that Jesus, Krishna, Gautam Buddh and Mahatavar Babaji and many others, even in civilizations long forgotten, helped forge. As you follow in…

Playing Earth Games

Recently Elon Musk said that he believes it is entirely possible that our physical world is a highly advanced virtual reality game being played by our advanced future selves. But what if it’s way more glorious than that? Think about this. 20 years ago the video games we had were very primitive according to today’s standards. The graphics were cheesy, the experience of playing a video game still felt totally like a ‘game’. Fast forward to 2019. The video games of today have graphics that are very realistic. If you wear a VR headset and play a game you feel…

The Beloved – Part 1

It has been too long in terms of Earth time that we have seen each other in the flesh. You have been gone too long. Time is a strange illusion. At times it feels like just yesterday that I used to look into your eyes and joy leaped out from the depths of my heart. And yet at times it seems like it has been eons since I saw your smile and heard your sweet laughter. With each passing day it is one day further from the last time I saw you. But once again the illusion of time is…

There is a lot to be thankful for

Prashant Solomon
September 13, 2018
Blog
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Each morning when we wake up, we have no idea what the day will have in store for us. Not just that, we actually don’t know if this will be our last day on planet Earth. The only thing we do know for sure is that we are still alive at this moment. As we go about our daily life, we often complain either silently or expressly about the things that we lack in life. Not enough money or not enough happiness or not enough free time or not enough this or that. Life is something that is not meant…

A Spiritual Butterfly’s Caterpillar Experience

Prashant Solomon
April 11, 2018
Blog / News / Speaking Tree Times of India / Spirituality
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(Published in the Speaking Tree, The Times of India April 12, 2018) Sometimes we don’t understand life – the things that happen to us or in some cases, that don’t happen to us. But the important thing to remember is that life on earth is about evolving spiritually, and this is not only about meditation and prayer. Life itself is a property of the Spirit. Life is about growth, experience and learning. Life is eternal. Sometimes we don’t understand why “bad” things happen to us. Whether this refers to relationship problems or breakups, finances, career confusion, health issues, addictions, depression…

Another new website design

So throughout most of the month of March 2018, I have been learning a lot of technical stuff about web hosting, web servers and setting them up. I am now hosting and managing all my sites myself. Plus, I also learned about a great new plugin for Word Press called Elementor in which I have made both this site and the new site for my company - Chintels. It has been a very interesting and educational process.

Don’t worry be happy

‘Here’s a little song I wrote.. You might want to sing it note for note, don’t worry.. be happy!’ This is the opening line of the famous song by Bobby McFerrin back in the 1980s called ‘Don’t worry, be happy.’ Now more than ever, people should heed the words of this song. The times we live in are stressful indeed, but when stress begins to control us, it can lead to fatal consequences. We have all heard about the things that are bad for us – smoking, drinking, obesity, etc. but the real killer is stress. The bad news is…

The Man From Yamuna Pushta

(Published in The Speaking Tree column of The Times of India Edit Page May 22, 2017) Yamuna Pushta is an embankment of jhuggis (hutments) behind Raj Ghat, Delhi, on the banks of the Yamuna River. I had gone there in 1995, as a reporter for a Delhi-based evening newspaper, to cover a story about drug trafficking that was allegedly taking place there. When I got to the Pushta, I visited the jhuggi of a man who had been a drug addict since childhood. I sat in his 8 feet by 8 feet jhuggi. His wife and two kids had been…