Entries from November 2006

November 30, 2006

Expectations from children

This is a painful truth of a parent’s life. All parents that I know of expect all their children to be successful and happy and caring and well mannered and obedient as if they were made to order. My parents expected me to master of all and I resented it and now when I am [...]

November 28, 2006

Hurting by thoughts

Jainism teaches that one should not hurt anybody with thought, words or action.I could understand hurting by words and action but thought or intention I could not really understand till I came across quotes from Bhagwat geeta and that somewhat cleared my doubts.
Angry thoughts make us lose control over ourselves,lustful thoughts degrade us and greedy [...]

November 28, 2006

misintrepretration of religion

Islam is the most misunderstood religion in the world after 9/11.I was reading an interview by Shireen ebadi the Nobel peace prize winner 2003.She was asked whether every tenet of Islam could be followed in today’s world, she replied and every word of hers made sense to me.This is what she said-
“Many Islamic laws like [...]