Simply at home

 The word Transformation is a widely spoken word in the field of Spirituality. Detailed explanations and lots of subtler things that its hard and hardly understood however a simple word it is. Here is somethings i understood, Transformation is nothing but Change.  Change from one state to another. For instance,  Water changes to steam,  Steam changes to vapour, Vapour changes to clouds, Clouds changes back to water. Technically all are the same and one. Simply this is what Spirituality is in essence. But to understand this union in a simple way one talks about how each of us need to Change ie Transform. From one stage of being to another. The best part of transformation is once we move from one state we dont return back to its old form. That is I break an old habit and into the new. Another Simple example is Lifecycle of a butterfly.  Courtesy of image : Google images. This image depicts the transformation physically, however same is the case of the Spirit once you move from one stage

 Attention is something anyone should have when it comes to focusing and learning anything in life. I am going to share an experience I just had and decided to share what enlightenment I just got to the terminology or tagging one a ADD or attention deficit disorder.  I was trying to read a couple of pages from a spiritual text, normally very insightfull areas need more understanding and repeated readings, however this one is a story like chapter ideally easy to read and relate. The TV was on with songs i dont prefer, the road was buzzing with traffic honking of vehicles, somenes watsap was playing some forward, technically i have been able to focus on reading despite all these sounds. But what happened just now? I could not read one short passage, i was reading and re-reading. It was my mind, it was running with multiple things from within that i could not focus or give attention to reading. IT was nothing from the outside. I was thinking of what was my next series i wanted to host, a

I dint plan to pen this down in line to Mother's Day month, however landed to be so. A flow of thoughts that I wanted to capture in form of text. If you feel it to be true do share with like-minded friends. Thq. You and I are all miracles, this thought dawned on me when I was told - ' oh you are a mother to be'. For each of our lives are from that unknown source. Till then I dint understand the true meaning of the word miracle. A huge shift in mindset a huge shift in the physical self, yes that is a mother to be. If just a mother to be, can feel this much of understanding and maturity, imagine what she can be when she becomes one. U dont need to if you are one u know it already. In the modern era, when we have all possible help which my mom or grandmom never had; is complaining about no time, no energy, no support, no understanding, no me time and so on.  For some reason I never understood why this me time was such a hype these days. Well thanks to media and markets which i

 The following is basic for minimum of 4-5 members and it can be incremented multiple times or double or Tripple the ingredients for more quantity and refrigerated in huge quantities for years together and used as an instant mix Ingredients for masala 1/2 teaspoon channa dal\ 1/4 teaspoon jeera 1/4 teaspoon Fenugreek (venthayam) 1/4 teaspoon daniya (corriander seeds) 1/4 teaspoon urad dal 4 red chillis 1/2 tea spoon pepper (full black pepper) 1/4 teaspoon ellu (black or white) 1 block asafotida (perungayam) Curry leaves for paste and saute lemon sized tamarind  6-7 table spoon of gingelly oil 1 teaspoon mustard seeds 1 tea spoon channa dal 2 red chillies 1 cup roasted groundnuts salt to taste one bock long turmeric Method 1. Soak the lime sized tamarind in water. 2. IN a plain kadai or pan head it and when dry to sauté all of the above ingredients under masala and mixer grind it corse it should not be powdery.   3. in a kadai or pan add gingelly oil let it heat and let mustard seeds sp

    Life is full of unexpected twists and turns. While each day we plan and try to take over or space in that most times when we work with kids or any other there is always an element of surprise. Lets call this the unexpected. we need to face it and work around it. So today my son happened to peep into the bag filled with vegetables bought for the week, tore apart the plastic expecting something else that he could munch. To his surprise it was small onions (not shallots) that fell off the plastic and was spilt all around. Since it was not what he wanted he moved on. Now, I had planned an activity entirely different for that day, I was sitting there observing all this, and a thought a spark, why not pause and convert this itself as an activity for the day? Normally the focus would be to get to the planned activity and think that as the goal and so on.  I would react or i would clean that space to move to that activity planned. Entire mood would go for a toss. now life is going to be li

 There are many different types of Rassam (clear south Indian soup). Todays post is about making instant rasam powder mix. Ingredients  1 Cup Dhaniya (coriander seeds) 6 Red long chilly 1 spoon black pepper 3 spoons jeera 3 spoons kadalai parupu (Channa dal) 1 spoon urad dal (ulutham parupu) 1 spoon toor dal 2 inches long turmeric (varali manjal) Asafetida 1/4 spoon salt (for preservation) Method Separately dry roast each of the ingredients. Grind them all and store this for months. Add a spoon full of this rasam mixture to make healthy and immunity building rasam (lentil soup).