The Three Body Clinic

Reflections on Characters from the Series Vikings I recently finished watching the series Vikings on Netflix and I was quite intrigued by the unique intersections shown in the evolution of faiths. The Vikings believed in nature and lived closer to it. Yet a primal instinct of exploration, born out of curiosity in the key protagonist Ragnar Lothbrok, brings about a revolution in the community. Farmers, savages, and worshippers of nature eventually become some of the greatest explorers known to mankind, exploring through the sea. While the epic on Netflix is based on fiction and there may be changes in the storyline, the character evolution is beautiful. Ragnar Lothbrok Ragnar Lothbrok can be considered an archetype within all of us. That curiosity, desire for power, and yet deep love for his people drive him to travel the world. A firm believer in his faith and in his gods, his belief is tested during his journey when he meets Athelstan, the priest, within whom he finds an unexpected a...

 Much has been spoken about this concept, my favorite being the discourses by Osho and Jiddu. While today I was contemplating and summarizing the understanding of these concepts to finally pen down something I can come back to always, I realised the idea of loneliness first exists in our mind, hence we couple it with some story always in our mind, an ongoing dialogue in our head either with ourselves or with the other.     The idea of loneliness is a story we create in our head, to kill that concept of future we create more stories and ideas to help us get rid of loneliness our present is thus in reality just acting in accordance with the fear of loneliness. In the process when things do not go as planned we tend to feel hurt, more fearful of our future being lost, as our planning was based on fear always.     Hence entire work of Jiddu and Osho connects when they say look at your thoughts in present,in the day today movement of thought and observe where the act...

       It has always taken me some time to get into writing. School was always filled with essay writing which I used to enjoy so much and that felt so easy to do always. I perhaps wrote without any fear of judgement, entire curriculum in fact was interesting as it was my intense desire to just learn and read. Exam was mere activity that I was undertaking as a part of the course. What went wrong later was that the idea of writing as a part of creative outlet or expression of my ideas was distorted by the fact that writing became performative, it wasn't fun any more, it appeared as if I need to prove plus English being my second language it was always as if I need to develop separate skills of writing and expression it felt.     Marathi being my first language, I don't really know if I think and express myself adequately in marathi too. Maybe it is a mix of all, English, Marathi and Hindi; I am so grateful for knowing these languages as it has opened up vast...

One of the unique experiences in human existence is the uniqueness of each individual being. Entropy exists in each species to help adapt and survive. We are less predictable and cannot be put into any kind of structure, not only societal but overall, even something as simple as being bound to a particular diet, healthcare regime, or a specific thought process. The more flexible we are, the more adaptable we become, and the stronger we are to bear the impact of a constantly evolving existence. When it comes to health, as defined, it is not only physical but extends to emotional dimensions as well, along with aspects that we access in a more spiritual sense. To simplify, let us consider the dimensions also mentioned in the WHO definition of health, which encompasses physical, mental, and social health. As the definition goes: a state of complete physical, mental, and social well being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Let us understand the concept of social well bei...

The idea of happiness encompasses in human minds, essentially certain materialistic possession which basically stems from the need of identification that in turn leads to building relationships with things. While so many of our habits and attributes stem from our animalistic characteristics and our relationship with the jungle, this idea of identification seems to be pretty evolved with the development of human 'ego'.  Animals do not accrue more than what is essential, even babies do not choose to stockpile their toys.      The ego needs certain attributes associated with it to develop an identity and one gathers things to differentiate oneself from the other souls. While it is necessary to possess what is needed to survive, have certain identity we end up accumulating to an extent where we lose our identity, forget that we are spirits before humans and entangle ourselves in the illusions of the world.  A short interaction with a spiritual being in a tiny abode ...

'Change is the only constant' reminded a friend, when I faced the dilemma of executing the radical decisions I had made. The things that we own end up owning us, the start to a radical shift for me was by auditing the things that I owned and consumed. Other aspects such as friends, relatives, career choice, etc shall come subsequently. While I had been able to part easily with the idea of validation through a social media post, parting with the things I had collected was one of the hardest things to do. I would have shifted so many places in my college life as well as my career later on, but I never mindfully filtered the things that I carried and kept with me all along which in turn occupied lot of space physically as well as in my mind.  Fashion that is sold to us through some idea of a temporary mood shift called 'trend', some festive offer, end of season sales, festivals, office meetup dress codes force us to feel the fear of missing out, yada yada yada... in hindsi...