Monica Gulati

By Monica Gulati - Apr 24, 2024

For a long period of time, we try to find temporary resolutions and harmonies in our life, through the tool of a half-lit ordinary mind and reason. And it does serve a purpose to our growth and understanding. But after we have been long enough in the domain of this logical-analytical mind, and after we have tried at infinite instances to find resolutions, no matter how decent or worthy, on the same level, something still feels limited, and amiss. It seems like that is the time when one can rise above the conceptual, dualistic mind, and access the calm, peace and higher Force of Consciousness above the mind. It is at such a stage that an aspiration from below rises upwards and stations the consciousness above the physical mind which is still stable, like an open, ready receptacle.

By Monica Gulati - Apr 24, 2023

“Kabir ka ghar shikhar pe, aur silhali si gail,Wahan paanv tike naa papeel ka, tahan manva laade bail.”

By Monica Gulati - Apr 24, 2023

This study explores altruism, selflessness and rejoicing in the happiness of others, a state which also helps dissolve the idea of jealousy and divisiveness. Truth is One, and there are infinite possibilities of approaching it. We explore these ideas in the light of Buddhism, in the light of Zen and in the light of Sri Aurobindo, providing a resolution to all who struggle with the large gulf between knowing these truths and embodying them.

By Monica Gulati - Apr 24, 2022

For those of us who have loved, or even tried to, know the obstacles that come on the way from within the being or expecting, demanding, controlling, in the name of love. And yet, we all start from there, but have also the potential to refine and purify our love to a more self-forgetful, self-offering kind of love, full of warmth, humility, wisdom and compassion. This article explores our starting-point of human love, a mixture of expectations and demands as a step towards getting closer to our true nature of love, the divine Love.

By Monica Gulati - Oct 15, 2023

What bothers virtually every one of us is self-obsession. That too, an obsession about a separate self, that is me, myself, limited in this frame of body, mind and life. And believing that limitedness and sense of separateness to be true, one finds oneself always incomplete, lacking, not enough, and which takes us on a perpetual journey in a want to be more, more, always more; and which ultimately can only be fulfilled in the Divine. And isn’t it a paradox, that the more I live a life of self-forgetfulness, not making the little ‘me’ the centre of my world, the more life takes a deeper, truer meaning? In self-forgetfulness, I find true contentment. This article explores self-forgetfulness advancing towards self-giving, in the light of the words of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo.