Keepers of the Kalachakra

by Ashwin Sanghi

‘Mythology is a set of lies that people rarely believe,’ Brahmananda said and paused. ‘And history?’ ‘A set of lies that people have agreed to believe.’

‘Reality cannot be explained by words, because it lies beyond the realms of the senses and the intellect,’ said the monk. ‘It can only be intuitively experienced. When the rational mind is quietened, the intuitive mind awakes.’

The Upanishads talk of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam—the notion that the world is one family. It is the idea that everyone and everything are related. Distinctions and separations are false.’

love was not about finding someone you could live with. Rather, it was about finding someone you couldn’t live without.

The distance between Earth and the sun is one hundred and eight times the sun’s diameter. The distance between Earth and the moon is one hundred and eight times the moon’s diameter. The diameter of the sun is one hundred and eight times Earth’s diameter.

There’s a touch of belief within every doubter and a touch of doubt within every believer.

The word brat stood for ‘Born Raised And Transferred’.