adarsh bhat’s blog

We finally did the much postponed tech talk on the wiki today. Thanks to a crooked means adopted by Narsing, we got a great turn out for the talk.

Following that we had another one of our sessions on spirituality today at the office. We usually have these on Friday evenings between 6 and 7 in the evening. This is the third such session. In the first session, we had a general introduction by Narsing. Following that, we had a session on the teachings of Kabir. Narsing’s wife sang some very beautiful poems by Kabir. The topic of this session was chanting.

There are a bunch of folks in our office who chant the vedas every day for half an hour in the morning. Although I’ve been much curious about this, I had never attended one of these sessions myself. At the beginning of today’s session this group chanted some verses from the old hindu works – rig veda, aranyaka and upanishads. It had a strange calming effect on me.

Following that, Rehan Lateefi (our new program manager) played some recorded chants from the Quran and followed it up with some explanation on those verses and on the principles of Islam in general. He also made some good observations on the misinterpretations done by the so called jehadis.

Another good session. Looking forward to more.