Raju Hiremath

Dasara Festival is arriving in a months time. When there is a talk about Dasara festival, the word synonymous to some of us is Mysore and its Dasara celebrations.  Major attraction of Mysore Dasara is it's world famous event - the herd of elephants undertaking a procession in the heart of city with it's leader carrying a Golden Howdah (Ambari) presiding with Majestic Goddess Chamundeshwari (Maa Durga). The procession celebrated with Pomp and Splendor is worth watching. In case you are not aware, the elephants doing part of this procession are from wild forests. They have been well trained and domesticated. To make them accustomed for the sound and noise of Dasara celebrations, they are brought to Mysore at least 45 days before the Navaratri starts, so that they get used to the Hustle and Bustle of city noise. During those days they are taken out for a mock drill - a parade on the streets of Mysore from all the way from Palace to location called Banni Mantap which is approx 6 KM...

  I had the privilege of visiting the hilly state of Uttarakhand in the 3rd week of April. Sharing my experiences in 4 parts according to the stages of my trip. Trying to keep it short in lesser words. Part I After coming from Namma Bengaluru and laying low for a few days, I went trekking in a nearby forest with our host. Pahadi walking was a good stretching exercise for the body. Midway we stopped and prepared Maggi with collected forest wood. Food made out of wood fire tastes different no doubt. Later on, we trekked to Mahadev mandir on top of the hill. Had darshan, rested for a while and came back. Before we left we poured water and made sure the cooking fire is completely out. Summer has many fire instances in jungle and many a times there is no sufficient water to douse the fire. A time well spent in the Jungle. Also realized the efforts walking 2 kms in hills is more than 4 kms walk in normal roads/parks. Sharing 3 videos from this. Part II     I also had the ...

Since the period of vedas food has been given importance in Indian diet. Called as "anna" food has been referred as "Anna Brahma" "Anna Poorna" since ancient times. Cutting short to the present scenario India is recognized overseas as the country with abundant talent & a country with huge potential. Silently we are also on way to form 20% of the total world population being Indian. A promising country with growing population is seriously nobody's concern when they can self-sustain to form a force to recon with. Fiction ends here! Reality check - Out of 132 Crore Indians roughly 20 crore of them do not have their food/meals daily. In more simple words, out of every 100 people - 15 of them do not get food daily. Who are these people? Why are they getting not food?  Doesn't it surprise us that, for some people having full meal itself maybe their definition of happiness!! I am not writing this to discuss and find a solution for these...

In our day to day life we all are fulfilling certain goals & serving different purposes in our lives. Each one of us have a unique goal/purpose of working in a particular job or we have chosen a business opportunity basis our skills & intuition.  No matter we are on a job or our doing own business – we all notice sometimes a day goes so fast and we have still lot pending work to be done. The reason for pending work may be as unique as each one of us. Sometimes this leads to missed deadlines, targets and spill over of the work on your home life. Hence it is always better if we start our day 10 minutes early & plan for the day.  A key to set tune for a good day, a highly productive day for any individual is to have it planned and organized. Organizing yourself, your work & your home should be your habit. If it is not your habit – it is time to change now - our habitual errors, ignorance are the ones which have always caused discomfort in work, ill health, sta...

Many of us, during our childhood, were told the Hindu Mythological story about Lord Ganesha and Moon, we were also told not to see the moon during Ganesha Chaturthi. It is said that whosoever sees moon on Shukla Chaturthi i.e Ganesh Chaturthi will be falsely accused/blamed. Keeping aside this Mythological Story about Lord Ganesha falling off and Chandra Dev (Moon) laughing at him, let us see what is this all about scientifically.  Before understanding this, one should know that all beings including humans have positive energy and negative  energy within them. The one who nurtures a particular energy of his/her's - will lead their  life accordingly in the respective path. Based on this you can say that positive or negativity happenings in one's life is the effect of their own self. It is natural that all human beings are derived from nothing but darkness, we keep on adding to this by food (grown on earth - mud), surroundings, thoughts, influences, and u...

Office - home - office - home - office - home..... that's what I have done all along for quite some time, like any office going regular guy. The company where I work has a 6 days a week and Saturdays are FULL working days! So Sunday is all I have got for myself, which I have been spending for my spiritual practice for last 10 months except a month in between where I was running around for my younger Sis matrimonial engagement. To summarize Sundays are packed affairs for me – I constantly fight to get each of the 24 hrs in a day, yet unsatisfied.  But what matters is the how’s the weekend!! One fine night, I was enlightened by a thunderbolt . I realized that I have been making all to please others while I have not done enough for myself and my happiness, I had become kind of a  frog living in a well. Yes, a frog!!  A frog who had forgotten where it belongs to, a big world outside the well where it once lived before moving into the self-constructed we...