Recently, I received a mail from a friend informing me that she was writing/planning to write/had already written (I can’t remember which) an article on the ‘evil eye’. Presumably, she was referring to a practice in some parts of the world of casting an ‘evil eye’ on someone in order to harm them. My friend’s mention of the ‘evil eye’ brought to my mind its opposite—what can be called the ‘good eye’. Surely, if there is really something like an ‘evil eye’, a ‘good eye’ also e

Introduction Perhaps I was not yet in my teens when I was filled with a very dark fear. This fear, far from soon disappearing, only became more entrenched as time went by. Some events in my life succeeded in further solidifying it. At this time, I was just too scared to share my condition with anyone, including my parents. And so, I kept my fear to myself even as it continued to mount. Things remained so for many years, with me nursing my hidden fear by myself. It was only

“I am in you, you are in Me, A strange way for anyone to be!”

Oh, My Lord, what all You did, Deeds both ‘noble’ and ‘sordid’, Through this body-mind ‘I’ I call, Ah, My Lord, You did them all!