To be or to become.

 Watering the plants, admiring the new crop of mangoes… and then....bam—one corner: a heap of dry leaves and some old, unused bottles silently judging me. The garden felt like to be or not to be. One part thriving, the other… well… existential crisis.

And then in class today, a student asked, “Why do human beings make choices that harm them?”

Exactly. That’s pretty much what Sri Krishna is asking Arjun in Chapter 2 of the Bhagavad Gita—Why are you resisting doing what you know is right?

Emotions of the higher self vs emotions that keep us stuck in the lower self. The eternal tug-of-war. Netflix has nothing on this drama.

A friend shared after a week-long silent retreat: “The silence settled within and without… but I’m not as peaceful as I was after the two-day retreat.”

Well, congratulations. That’s growth knocking. Not always with a soft bell.....sometimes with a loud thak thak. Comfort breaking = something is shifting.

Welcome to the world of working on yourself. No refund policy.

Your biggest responsibility is towards you. Ye dil maange more.

Once emotions are processed, something opens up......you want more layers, more prayers, more silence… and definitely less nonsense.

Frustrations, irritations, rejections, emotional drama—all surface-level traffic. Let it pass. It will honk, it will annoy, but it will pass.

That’s the magic of a Retreat. You never quite know what will pop up. Surprise syllabus.

Consistency is the real tapasya.

A young client said after 29 days of practice, she slipped on the 30th. “It’s a sin.”

No, it’s not. It’s just the mind doing catastrophic overacting.

Let’s maybe applaud the 29 days instead? Just a thought.

The journey, the confusion, the strength—all part of the package deal. No separate billing.

If challenges come, solutions also quietly arrive. The only real question is:

Am I willing to deal with it?

Do I take responsibility?

What work am I willing to do on myself?

Answer… lock kar diya jaye? 😉