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Three Days Food Distribution at Dayalu Baba Ashram for Makara Sankranti

Posted by | Jan 26, 2022 | 5,740 views

Every year around January 15th we help to organize the Makara Sankranti festival at Dayalu Baba’s ashram in Odisha. Dayalu Baba is a sadhu who has been living at the base of a sacred mountain on the edge of Odisha’s Simlipal forest range for many decades. This year we arranged to feed all the visitors for three days (14th, 15th and 16th of January) from morning till evening.

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Eye Glasses for Sadhus and the Mystical Deity of Lord Shiva Who Cures Eyesight

Posted by | Oct 21, 2021 | 12,917 views

On one of my recent trips I went to visit the ashram of Dayalu Baba, a sadhu residing on the edge of the Salandi reserve forest in Odisha, I noticed his glasses were broken and were missing one arm. He had improvised by tying a string around it, and was wearing them crooked because without the other arm they couldn’t stay straight.

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Perception of the Universe Through the Vedic Scriptures

Posted by | Sep 23, 2021 | 31,388 views

The universe exists independent of our perception of it. The eyes and senses are like the imperfect screens of a cell phone. Some model will have higher resolution and some lower, some are black and white, some are color, some can show photos in 3d, some can’t. Various phones can display the same image data but it will look completely different depending on the capacity of the device.

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The Vedic Origins of the Piggy Bank

Posted by | Aug 4, 2021 | 14,222 views

Every so often echoes of the Vedic past can be detected in the most obscure of items. Such is the case with the simple ‘piggy bank’. Was this staple of childhood nostalgia just a cute animal chosen at random or is there a deeper hidden meaning? If you promise not to squeal we’ll give you the clues.

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