If you are a real estate agent you learn early on that the most important thing, the only thing that matters is Location! Location! Location! Yes, it matters hugely where you live. Where you live determines how happy you are and whether there is meaning and joy in your life. And yet, …
Srikumar Rao
The question you never ask can set you free
We are so inquisitive, aren't we? We want to know. We want to know what’s for dinner and whether we will get promoted and whether our kid will get into the top university. And we don’t hesitate to ask questions. LOTS of questions. But there is one question we do not ask. We do not …
What Spiritual Lesson Can A Baby Teach You?
We have an insidious habit that plays havoc in our lives. We don’t recognize that we have this habit. In fact, we may even consider it a virtue. Curious? Read on ... Many speakers say that we should pay attention to everyone who crosses our path because each person is unique and each …
How To Give up Your Grudges (So You Can Call In More Inner Peace & Joy!)
What do you do if you have a spill on your countertop? You clean it up. If you carry a grudge, you essentially have a mess on the figurative countertop of your mind and it is spoiling your beautiful kitchen and your ability to cook healthy meals! Here's a simple step you can take to do …
How to cope when you’re having a really bad, terrible day
There are times, many times when we feel overwhelmed. When everything that can go wrong, does so. And when the Universe, in a burst of creative energy, devises ways in which things can go wrong that you could not have dreamed of. Don’t despair! You can cope using the technique I am about to …
What Is True Freedom?
We are obsessed with freedom. We view it as an inalienable right. We are ready to fight, and die, for it. We think we have it and have to protect it because it is fragile and can be stripped from us. In our minds, freedom is essential for happiness. Perhaps. But our thinking about …
How To Rejuvenate Your Life
Do you sometimes feel stuck in a rut? You work the same job, meet the same people, interact the same way with those same people and live a predictable life that has few surprises? Here is how to get zip and sparkle back into your life, and to make the world, or at least your neck of it, a …
Can a timeless musical teach you to be happy? (Hint: yes, indeed!)
Hello Folks! I grew up in India and Burma – now Myanmar. It was a cloistered existence in largely closed societies. We had no Television. No theater. No clubs. No discos. Reading was my escape and I devoured books. P G Wodehouse was a favorite and thriller writers like Edgar Wallace and …
Yes, it is a wonderful world (& one thing you can do to make it better)
We would all like to live in a wonderful world filled with peace and feelings of brotherhood. Or sisterhood. But it seems as if we, collectively, are drifting further and further away from this ideal. As I write this there are horrific scenes of carnage in Sri Lanka in the midst of what …