India, Sept. 6 -- Penelope was the beautiful wife of Odysseus, the wise king of Ithaca in Greece. Since Odysseus was morally committed to help fight the Trojan war, he was away for years from his home. His beautiful wife attracted a lot of suitors who now boldly housed themselves in Odysseus' house and insisted that Penelope should marry one of them.

Penelope kept them at bay by promising marriage after she completed knitting of a shroud for her father-in -law. She knitted away during the day, but night after night she unravelled the day's work.

Isn't this what we do with our Sadhana daily? This undoing of our meditative hours is disastrous. We become harsh and dishonest, we forget our true nature, we criticise people and fly into a tem...