Isn't life beautiful

Dear Shivam, Under the Vedic ashram system for every man to achieve the four aims in life namely Dharma (Righteousness), Artha (Wealth), Kama (Pleasure) and Moksha (Liberation) he has to go through different developmental stages in his life which focus only on one or two of these aims at a time. This ensures your complete attention to what should be important to you at that point of your life. As per these Vedic guidelines the aims for the stage of life called Tarunayauvana which extends from age 20 - 29 are Dharma and Artha in that order. Dharma and Artha may sound very philosophical to you but let me elucidate. Dharma in Sanskrit means "a law or rule that maintains the universal balance", for you as a student Dharma is to make the best possible efforts to ensure that you set yourself up for a good future for yourself and for your loved ones and achieve Artha i.e. wealth in life. The reason I wanted to share this with you is to make you understand that at this point in ...

Bombay(sue me!! That's the city I know) is where home is and it is probably one place I miss the most today. I guess you realize the significance of something only when you don't have it for too long. Everything that used to disgust me about the city; the noise, the crowd, the smells, the fast pace reminds me back of the time I spent there. There were days when I\you felt Bombay probably wasn't safe anymore but when you see a 16 year old girl waiting at the bus stop, after a bomb blast, to catch the next bus to college, you are forced to reconsider. Bombay, where millions of people come each day to chase their dreams, has today gained a character very different from the Maratha culture it was born with. To me the Bombay I know is as addictive as love, the waves smashing against the curb at Marine Drive in monsoons, the Indo-Saracenic buildings all over, the hordes of pigeons at KabutarKhaana, the Dabawallahs shoving their huge trays of tiffin-cans into the local train...