Somnambulism is not mere sleep-walking. It is also an active state of physical expression of dreams, causing one to dive into one’s distant past and act under the impulses of dormant desires and latent knowledge. Amplified, it can be said that in dreams the physical body remains senselessly passive, whereas, in somnambulism it unconsciously and…
Some places have a peculiar influence about them. Mysterious things which happen there pass our understanding and interpretation. They confound and astound us. For the last thirteen years I have been annually visitingGalatga, for atleast a fortnight’s stay there. It is a village near Nipani, a prominent marketing center for tobacco, in Belgaum district, Mysore…
Mythological works are full of stories depicting the materialisation of curses. Shravan’scurse of Ramayana fame is a glaring case in point. Thoughts are creative forces. Our thoughts and its emitted energy can do good or cause damage not only to us, but its subtle effects can work for the welfare or for the ill of…
The lure for making easy and quick money is so enticingly deep rooted in men that the unscrupulous persons devise and resort to all sorts of merciless means to exploit the weaker members of the society. We, who are told that everything is fair in love and war, sadly see that this convenient let –…
Just as it is difficult to say as to what set of clouds in the sky would come down as rains, equally so is it to say as to which of our dormant wishes might emerge upon the vast invisible expanse of our minds and materialise into an actual incident. Here’s a true event portraying…
Mental pain engendered by apprehensive feelings is what in short we call fear. Fear springs out of ignorance. Fear haunts us because we are empty of perspective knowledge of life and rational understanding of situations. With our lacking of courage to face the natural effects of our thought-free and thoughtless actions, fear gets the better…
In the year 1951, I trekked into some parts of the Naga Hills. There, in Ukhrul, a small hill town, I came in touch with a Tibetian monk and got friendly with him. I was privileged to be in his saintly company for a week. Besides Tibetian, his mother tongue, the holy Rampa had a…
