Uncover Within

Morning Commute:  Trains. Crowds. Hustle. Late. These are the words that summarize my morning commute. Working in NY and living in NJ can be exhausting. I have large bags carrying lunch, gym clothes, snacks, make up, and all other necessities that are needed for being out for ten hours at a time. I have blisters from running to catch the train, and heavy coats and scarves to cover my freezing body and chapped face as I walk to the crowded streets of the Financial District to get to my office. The entire ordeal is insanity mixed with stress, and topped off with angry looks when I show up five minutes late to the 9 am meeting... Commuting can suck the life out of me, and leave me feeling so exhausted, frustrated, and angry (especially when the trains are canceled or running late) so what can I do? How can I make this entire process pleasure instead of pain?   By making my commute my ME time. My morning commute time is the time that I disconnect from my phone, a...

I feel like I'm drowning. Drowning in a vast ocean of expectations, of rules that do not stay afloat in my head, and fear being the anchor that instead of holding me up, is sinking me further into the darkest and deepest pits of the sea. Here I am A Woman, who was told as a little girl to dream big. To fight for what I believe in, to use my charismatic energy and intuitive mind to ask the hard questions, to push myself, and to empower others. And now here I am. The same little girl, twenty years later, told that I may be "too confident," "too powerful," "too opinionated." They wonder if I have respect, respect for the traditions, for the customs, for the role A Woman plays in Hindu culture. But what does it really mean to be a Hindu Woman? To be Mother Kunti and watch your sons go through every misery possible, and still pray to Krishna for more misery because it has taught you how to devote your love to what is the most important: serving God. T...

I feel like I am carrying around a mucky heart. A heart full of love, full of people, places, personalities but a heart that is not satisfied. I feel like my heart is on an arduous journey, constantly searching for attributes in people, personal endeavors, and experiences, that will make me fulfilled, wholesome, and content, but it is coming out less full and more mucky than before the journey began. The discovery that will bring my heart the lightness and purity it needs is coming to me, hazily and distant in the horizon of my long journey, but coming closer into focus every day. To make my heart finally rich is to align it with the soul. That alignment between the soul, heart, and mind, will bring me to the undiscovered, most exquisite and most breathtaking destination of my journey. A cove so serene, so mystical, so fulfilling that I will not even fathom to continue onwards on my journey. How do I reach this destination? I will try, through my meditation, through my reading, and...