Monthly Archives: March 2009

How to get motivation from Ekalavya

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

There are many stories in the Mahabharata that I find inspiring, which I have heard as a child and reconsidered in situation after situation. I have previously written about Arjuna’s eating in the dark. Here, I consider another story — the tale of Ekalavya.
The young Ekalavya, due to his birth in a lower-caste tribe, cannot [...]

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Question of the Week: Prioritizing

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Welcome to college! Pick two:

Social life
Good grades
Adequate sleep

Many of you have probably seen this list. Especially in college, we are constantly forced to prioritize — should I go to Brain Break or start my Expository Writing paper? Do I have time for a 20-minute (translation: a potentially 4-hour) nap or should I use the time to [...]

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How to be a happy student

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Philosophy and spirituality are most valuable to us when they improve our lives — an easy measure of this improvement is the level of stress. On this subject, Swami Vivekananda writes:
“Misery comes through attachment, not through work.”
The nice thing about Swami Vivekananda’s writings is that it’s easier to dissect them than, say, the hymns of [...]

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