Google’s recent announcement to start offering an integrated basket of its existing services (Gmail, Google Talk, Google Calendar, and Google Page Creator) for free is the next logical step in its strategy to challenge Microsoft in its traditional stronghold. With this move, Google is aiming to get small businesses, non profit organizations, and universities as [...]

With the release of Windows Live Writer on August 11, 2006, Microsoft has delivered a winner for bloggers who want to use a desktop client.
I started experimenting with the Live Writer three days ago and was able to set it up easily to work with my WordPress blog. All the Live Writer needs is [...]

The Magic Pull
Once there was this mystery
set in the dense fog of life
nothing appeared clearly
and thorn bushes on all sides.
Being tired I stopped along the road
and lay down to rest my back a while
a pure spring gushed forth suddenly
flooded the ground and made me smile.
Too many body aches to move
how with miseries we are wed
as [...]

Self-Inquiry, also known as Atma Vichara in Sanskrit, is based on a philosophy that has its origins in the ancient teachings of Advaita Vedanta. Advaita is based on the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, and is found in a number of other scriptures that are considered sacred by the Hindus. Advaita means nonduality, the ultimate [...]

I fell in love
I fell in a well
I fell in a well of love.
I splashed all about
trying to get out
out of the well of love.
Terror seized me
came this thought;
All is lost!
Tried to swim out
heard myself shout
Help!
A drowning man
gasped for breath
close seemed death.
I wildly thrashed around
in the well of love
and in time got out
safe and sound.
Cold [...]