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The last post ended with questions. "Who's fault is it that this world now has so many corporate zombies? People who hate their job and live weekend to weekend because they have a family to feed, emis to pay, things to buy and places to go? Where lies the solution for people who cannot afford to stop dead in their tracks and rechart the course of their life?" Well, I don't have an answer that may be applicable to all, as again, one size does not fit all. But there are some indicators, which I hope may help in the thought process of how to find lasting peace and happiness, especially if you are stuck to a job you don't like - like how I was a year back. 1. Do a pros and cons analysis Quitting a job may not be an answer for everyone . To see if this is for you, make a list of things that you hate in your job and a list of things that you are able to do because o your job. For example, for me, the biggest thing that I was able to do because of my job

It has been exactly a year since I quit my corporate job. And first things first -that does not make me a quitter. All through my 28 years of life, I have been made to believe that life follows a single course and as if to reinforce this, everyone around me was taking the same course. School, under graduation, then a post graduation or a job, buy a house / car, get married, have kids, work, work, work, then go on vacations now and then, grow old and then die. The life in between is peppered with all sorts of emotions and dramas and love and hate and gossip and expectations and gratifications and disappointments and whatnots. Well, I also embarked on the same course -school, under graduation in engineering, because only an engineering degree has job value and no one who does a BA Lit, or BA History or Journalism gets a well paying job, then a post graduation because I am not an engineer material and I wanted to escape working in an IT firm, got a job offer in a MNC bank, got m

Svadhyaya means "self- study" and also "study of the self". Self study gently leads us to study of the self. Well, why is this self study and study of the self is needed. Even before that what it is that we must study? As mentioned here already about the purpose of yoga, to know what it is that we are seeking, we need some pointers and directions. These indications indicate the level of consciousness - the state of mindlessness -when the individual ego merges with the supreme consciousness. But even before our mind aspires for this lofty goal of God consciousness, it needs to be intellectually convinced about this pursuit. Existential questions like why am I here? What is the purpose of life? Why are we born? Why is this world as it is? Why is there suffering? What gives lasting happiness? What is the point of running behind power / money / things /experiences? Is there God? If so, why did he create me? Why is the God unfair? If he truly omnipotent,