Nina

Indian Mom, Introvert, chai❤️

[Psychodoctor @Psychodoctor06]

You can’t rewrite the past. But you can stop letting it write your future.

You can replay what happened.
You can regret it.
You can wish you had acted differently.

But none of that changes what happened.

Take the lesson.
Accept the mistake.
Grieve what was lost.
Forgive yourself for what you didn't know then.

And then come back to today.

Because today is where your power still exists.

You can make one better choice today.

Take one small step.
Stop one old habit.
Start one new one.

Don't waste today's energy fighting yesterday.

Yesterday is finished.
Tomorrow is unwritten.

Today is still in your hands.
Use it well.

#mindset

[Goodreads @goodreads]

Happy National Book Lovers Day, dear readers! (It's our day!! 🎉)

[Nina @Ninu190]

@JustPunforfun 🙏

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@pragya_barthwal And grandchildren will reply, No our grandma is so cool and creative.

[Smriti Z Irani @smritiirani]

The tragic beauty of being a mother... 🩶

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

A reminder from Atomic Habits by James Clear:

“It doesn't make sense to continue wanting something if you're not willing to do what it takes to get it. If you don't want to live the lifestyle, then release yourself from the desire. To crave the result but not the process is to guarantee disappointment.”

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“After getting what you manifested, ask for discipline to keep it and wisdom to multiply it.”

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

My life changed when I realized discipline was just the highest form of self-respect. It’s choosing what you want most over what you want now. It’s keeping your word. It’s an act of service to your future self.

[Carl Jung Archive @QuoteJung]

When Carl Jung said:

“No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown allies will come and seek you.”

[Ganpat🏁 @ishan_putra]

Vishnu Sahasranaam Naamavali

Will post the 1000 naamas, one naama every day in this thread starting from today.

Om Namo Nārāyanāya 🌹

#Vishnusahasranamam
#1000NamesofVishnu
#HareKrishna

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@SriRamya21 Jai shree Ram🙏

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@AreyBangdu Isme wo swad kahaan jo boondi laddu mei hai.

[Prof. Krishnamurthy V Subramanian @SubramanianKri]

This post on the benefits of Vishnu Sahasranamam parayanam reminds me of my own journey with this timeless practice.

I learnt the Vishnu Sahasranamam in 1998. For most of the years since, I chanted it on special days: Ekadashi, some Saturdays, occasions that called for it. I enjoyed it every single time. A remarkable calm would come over me the moment I finished. And yet, despite the benefits I experienced, I somehow never found the discipline to do it daily. Twenty-eight years of an experience I valued, and I still let it stay occasional.

This year, faced with some challenges, I felt I needed that calming anchor rather than merely admiring it and chanting it occasionally. Since the beginning of the year I have chanted it every day, and I am truly glad the discipline finally came.

Somewhere in these months it stopped being something I do. I now feel incomplete on a day I have not chanted it.

What prompted me to start in the first place was Adi Shankaracharya’s Bhaja Govindam, where he exhorts us: “Geyam Gita nama sahasram.” Recite the Bhagavad Gita and the thousand names.

My reaction to that verse was not devotional. It was closer to an economist’s instinct about revealed preference. Here is Adi Shankara, arguably the finest philosophical mind India has produced, a man who dismantled every competing school of thought before he was thirty. He could have prescribed anything. Out of the entire corpus available to him, he pointed to two texts: the Gita, and the thousand names. When someone of that calibre narrows the field so sharply, the sensible response is not to argue. It is to try it.

So I began. And I have really enjoyed chanting it every time in these 28 years.

If I were to offer one thing to anyone starting out, it would be this. I try to chant it meditatively. Not racing to finish, but listening to the sound of each word as I say it, attention resting on the syllable being uttered right now. Done this way, the stotram becomes an anchor to the present moment, which is the hardest place to keep the mind and the only place from which anything useful gets done. The names do the work. You only have to listen.

I write this mainly for the young. Somewhere along the way, many of our brightest students have absorbed the idea that a practice like this belongs to a different India, one they have outgrown. That you can have rigour or you can have the stotram, and choosing the first means quietly setting down the second. It is a false trade, and it costs them something.

Which is why I am glad to share Prof. Kamakoti’s thoughts on the Vishnu Sahasranamam parayanam. Hear him in his own words. A computer scientist who has built his career in computer architecture, embedded systems and cybersecurity, now leading one of the most demanding technical institutions in the country. Nothing about that life required him to give this up.

To any student who has wondered whether the two can sit together, there is your answer.

Some things are best understood not by debating them, but by trying them with sincerity and consistency. Whether you come to the Vishnu Sahasranamam through devotion, through philosophy, or simply as a contemplative practice, I have found it a remarkable source of focus and inner energy.

My thanks to Prof. Kamakoti for prompting this reflection.

Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya.

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

Keep your problems smaller than your life. A flat tire is a flat tire. A bad meeting is a bad meeting. A canceled flight is just an extra two hours. These things become catastrophes when you let them. But they stay manageable when you remember the depth of your real life- the people you love, the work you care about, the beautiful years still ahead. Zoom out. Fit your reaction to the size of the problem.
— Unknown

[Nina @Ninu190]

@PenduProfessor Bakery wale aata biscuit, dadaji peepa bhar ke banwa ke late the. Sixer Jo salty hote the, in hexagon shape.

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@yogita_mittal Mujhe padh ke he maza aa gaya😔

[Nina @Ninu190]

@twinitisha I have experienced this many times.we just have to try different things. Pehle mei walk karti thi, now can’t walk more than 5-6k because of knee problem. Last week I was asking you what to do. Now I am feeling ok. Ram Ram jaap(counter) kar sakte ho.🤗

[Nina @Ninu190]

@Coffeehudigi Wishing you a very happy birthday!!!

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@SandeepMall Wish you every happy birthday!!

[Nina @Ninu190]

@twinitisha Today is one of those days nothing seems to working. Can you suggest some Netflix series? I love greys anatomy, done with latest season

[Nina @Ninu190]

@twinitisha Thanks.