Some Feelings..Some Words...From The Heart...

A Chinese Proverb says, “if you want happiness  For some moments = indulge in any sense-pleasure For an hour = take a nap or a walk  For a day = go for a picnic For a month = get married (debatable)  For a year = inherit a fortune (that is, in one year you must have spent it)  For a decade = get divorced (Well, Well, I added this one to make my married friends imagine happiness) For a lifetime = give, give, give (love, care, help, time, patience, smile, tears to others in need of them.) For eternity = know who you really are from the one who knows who he is not." Now, we must ask ourselves, which happiness we want. We are all happy today since everything is in place as per our wish and want (house, wife, child, health, job, bank balance, knees, heart, liver, kidneys, lungs, the list is endless and subjective). Just imagine that one of the factors in this list is taken away. Now what happens to our “Happiness Quotient” is a true indicator of how happy we really are. L...

Haven’t we all noticed that after the honeymoon period ends, our married life/romantic relationship faces a neutral/dry period? This phase of the relationship has no heat, no romance and possibly no love. It eventually leads to break – up, divorce, cheating or being a part of love-less relationship only surviving on the fear of society. Why is that? How do we ensure that the love quotient doesn’t reduce? How do we ensure that even after 20 years of marriage, the heat and romance is maintained? Only by doing 4 things in our life, we can ensure that our life will be beautiful, where love is concerned. 2 things we have to remember and 2 things we have to forget. -           REMEMBER everything our partner has offered us When they remember our birthday, cook for us, etc., are we grateful for it? We do thank them, but we forget that we don’t deserve anyone who should remember the day we are born or cooking for us. By not forgetting this feeling of...

Many people ask why a person does not change in spite of listening to and agreeing with many discourses, and sessions/seminars/camps? While the reasons would vary according to people, it is normally due to the fact that most people listen but not internalize through contemplation. It is like eating food, but not chewing enough and thereby not digesting it.  Repeated listening, and thinking over it is necessary. What we hear at a Satsangh, etc. is, in a sense, like the Pandavas in the Mahabharat War. They were few (only 5). And they had to combat the vast Kauravas (100), in whose army there were stawarts like Bheeshma, Dronacharya, Karna. Here Pandavas metaphorically are what we intake, listen from evolved souls/saints/seers. But once it goes in, it has to combat with our past archives in our subconscious, like our set beliefs, views, opinions, which are not only many, but also deeply entrenched, which we always held as correct, practical, flawless. And the stalwarts are our strong ...