Gita for Women: Recent Episodes
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Dedicated to women, covering all areas of life like management, work life balance, family, marriage, children, food, health, love, laughter; all in light of the Bhagavat Gita. Verses, examples, stories, anecdotes, experiences will be included in podcasts so that Gita is seen in action. Hoping this work shall benefit masses.
It doesn't bother me but it bothers you when people say something to you. If you're happy doing what you're doing then continue doing it and do not be bothered about what others say.
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Saw in a movie uncle. I won't go up there. You also don't go. They would take us, make us into a curry and gulp away!
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My plan was to keep my internet off for a few days and just be with my own self. I had packed food for 2 days and after that I would have taken food from different vendors and stalls; that was how it had been randomly planned like that. There was no plan and I was just going on intuition.
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We felt that a simple living, being in a disciplined environment, will bring him much needed guidance in life and that would result in better marks in examination.
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What children were not able to share with their family, they used to share with her and they had a small informal family that discussed about all the weird things that could not be shared elsewhere.
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Lemon trees were brothers and they thought that they had a complete control over there fruition and growth.
Sometimes I even felt that their negative attitude would lead to their own downfall.
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Unfortunately nobody thinks about these matters because power is most important and power comes with money.
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It was not possible to meet Kiran in the last two years but now after the second wave of Covid-19 when I met her, I found some change in her.
Of course things remained the same as they were a decade back. But her internal growth was tremendous.
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"But what about your health. You left soccer 2 years back and since then you hardly feel like you. All the time it's more about just academics. Don't you think you need some time off? Maybe you can go travelling with your parents or sometimes come out with your friends."
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"Let me simply leave. I don't have any plan. Just can't breathe in here. What I have is myself. Let me do something to save it from all the fiery gas in that house!"
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Swati had a tough time in morning especially during rains when she first went for tuition and then school. Really not having father by her side made her to do own chores at a very young age.
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Her horizons widened and she could analyse one thing from so many angles. She had a knowledge that was beyond disciplines and so much was learned doing stuffs practically.
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We learned a fact that after sometime if you can't change better accept. Diksha was getting suffocated gradually.
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Her travels were not an easy peasy stuff. Arranging her travel funds, budgeting, staying in hostels, making notes, updating her offline website, meeting and learning with people was a full time job in itself.
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She built her unabashed career with all her might. And there was no reason why it should have been suddenly dropped as if it was a piece of cake to reach there!
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Just as the evening was about to set, aunty looked sad as if remembering something from the past.
"Richa I miss my daughter. When I see you I feel it's her way of saying something."
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After a while marriage sucks. That charm simply disappears. During courtship there is a sense of independence. However, marriage is a different game! It changes your life and it changes you completely.
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As times passed, the boss started to get lunch for her. They would go out to the mall on Saturdays or watch a movie on a Sunday after shopping.
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Usually I don't like to shout on anyone, but situation in household especially during lockdown is such that no one wants to get up from bed.
All they want is rest, watch television, repeat!
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But now she threw me in a box again. Oh, why would she separate us like that?
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Many friends advised her to pick up the rural language in order to gel well with the culture whereas the folks were forgetting their own roots and wanted to adopt something that was not a part of village culture even 10 years ago.
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Later at night they all slept in the same house comfortably after finishing rare stories of life meant to be reminisced after all at such odd times. :)
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What folks generally do when they cannot win over an argument with the right logic is try to overpower the other person by giving useless statements to butcher the person's psychology and overshadow it.
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At a very young age he knew a lot about the world, interactions with humans and manipulative calculations in the brains of people.
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It helps us understand the fact that to perform the duties whatever we have to do as per our life, we have to live with a constant feeling of detachment to perform that action skillfully while remaining away from the fruits of action in intention, performing that action for its rightful enaction only.
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Why cannot such decisions be a matter of happiness and joy for each and every person including the person who is involved in that decision mostly because it is that person's life which is at a complete stake.
Not that I did not want to get married as per my parents' decision but the hurry made for it's enaction was surprising, almost bewildering.
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She was not from a finance background but being a lady who was dealing with deeper finances of family, her mind was very active at that time in the field of money and its management. She started to develop interest in financial markets and began to give it time and passion day and night.
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So when yesterday she stepped down with her cousins to walk after dinner I observed that one of her younger cousin was learning to ride her brother's cycle. The girl on the cycle was taking the support of her brother and Rishika was running behind them.
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My neighbour came to speak to my husband and she was constantly talking to him for a very long time perhaps in a negative tone communicating about another neighbour. Of course my husband did not appreciate the tone however since she was a lady he gave her a patient hearing trying to calm her down.
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A question that may bother listeners! Well, we got you answered. Also I share my feelings and thoughts over my favorite shlokas that are vital for holistic success in life.
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