About రామ ShāstriXānanda ~
A Spiritual Vagabond

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You can't be grateful and miserable at the same time, can you?

Do not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness~James Thurber

Here's some of my stuff on the Net:

• Apps

  • WhatsApp, the Wonder App

• Badminton

  • Buddies

  • Eleven Years of Baddy

  • Sushev Memorial~2014 (First Edition)

  • Whitefield Inter-Community Badminton Tournament (2017)

  • Sushev Memorial 2018

• Books (🇮🇳 and 🇺🇸)

  • Brushes with Brahmn ~ Dancing with my Datta

  • Ma Narmada PariCarMa ~ A Pictorial Essay of a Parikrama

  • Ramanachala ~ Impact of Sri Ramana Maharshi

  • Ramakrishna ~ A Maverick of a Mystic

• Blog: Adventures of a Spiritual Vagabond

• Devices:

  • Android

    • Android One: Mi A1

    • Google Nexus 5

    • Google Nexus 7

    • Google Nexus 4

    • Samsung Galaxy Ace

    • Samsung Galaxy Tab

    • Samsung Galaxy S

  • Why i love the Chrome OS

    • Acer Chromebook R11 Convertible

    • Dell Chromebook 11

    • LG Chromebase

    • Asus Chromebox

    • Samsung Series 5 550 Chromebook

  • Kindle

• Ganesh Guruji

  • Swananda

  • Varasiddhi Vinayaka of 4th Block, Jayanagar, Bangalore

• Google Maps Contributions (17+ million views in 2¼ years)

  • Mohd Goes to the Mountain

• Grids:

  • వీర హనుమాన్ in Chandamama of the 1970s (Album on Flickr)

  • Shri Sai Satcharita Grid

  • Sri Brahmachaitanya Pravachan Grid

    • ಕನ್ನಡ

    • ગુજરાતિ

    • मराठी

    • తెలుగు

  • Numbo Jumbo

  • The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

  • Holy Mother, Sri Sarada Devi

  • The New Astrology Grid.

• Guru: Sri Ramakrishna, the Master

• Hanuman

  • A Glimpse of the Lord of the Air

  • శ్రీ ఆంజనేయ దండకం (Sri Anjaneya Dandakam).

• Inspirations:

  • Arunachala Ramana

  • The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

  • Holy Mother, Sri Sarada Devi

  • Shri Sai Satcharita

  • Sri Brahmachaitanya Maharaj

  • "Uncle Moon is Everybody's Uncle"

• Languages

  • Español

  • Kannada

• Ma Narmada

  • 2015~A Walkabout (Jabalpur)

  • 2016~Walkabout Week (Omkareshwar and Maheshwar)

  • Garudeshwar

  • Amazing Amarkantak

  • Ma Narmada Jayanti 2017

  • Narmada nAbhisthan, the mid-point of the River

  • Gwarighat, Jabalpur

  • Rewa~Tawa Sangam, Hoshangabad

• Numbo Jumbo (a primer on Numerology)

• Photos

  • 1,000+ views

  • Books

  • Palm Meadows

    • Birds (on IBC)

    • Equinox

    • Le Jardin de Phoolery

  • Travel collection

• Pinterest

  • 2012

  • Movies

• Trippin'

  • 2016 ~ Walkabout Week

  • 2015 ~ A Walkabout

  • 2014 - Mauritius

  • 2013 - Tirupati

  • 2011 - Manali

  • 2011 - HYD

  • 2010 - Alex

  • 2009 - Tirupati

  • 2005 - Virudhnagar

• Trippin' within Bangalore:

  • ...

  • Visit to Netkallappa Circle

  • Enter the Dragonfly.

• Twitter.

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.  Those who don't believe in magic will never find it
~Roald Dahl

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one
~Wilhelm Stekel, The Catcher in Samalkot

Something told the wild geese
It was time to go
Though the fields lay golden
Something whispered, "Snow"
~Rachel Field