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

I go to the garden opposite my house everyday in the evening, where I see many boys/girls taking a selfie – a craze which has been recognized now as a clinical dis-order called “screen obsession”, if it is your predominant passion. Personally, I don’t see anything abnormal in this, since most of us are heavily body-conscious. Paradoxically, the first lesson taught in nursery level of Vedanta is “I-am-not-this-body”, and perhaps it is also the last lesson we choose to imbibe or accept. Nevertheless, when I see the “Selfie-culture” prosper, I wonder if someday, they will come up with a camera which can capture our mind (feelings, emotions we entertain) and which will exhibit out thoughts, instincts, and beliefs. It sounds only so dangerous. Imagine that someone closest to us has an access to our inner personality or anybody can see our thoughts, feelings, and the inner murmur while we are acting so sanely or saintly outside. I wonder how many relationships will survive to see the sun-ris...

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 features in this list is taken away. Now what happens to our "Happiness Quotient" is a true indicator of ...

I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it!!

Love - On Valentine's Day If there is one word which has never got the respect it deserves, then it is "Love". It is also a word which has seen upon itself the highest distortion and misuse. We have used (or should I say abused) it so much that very few feel the need to know what it really means. Everybody seems to know it, everybody seems to practice it too in their lives. But alas, how many of us can claim to live it. When we say "I Love You", what does it really mean? Unfortunately we never felt the need to learn its sublime essence. If asked, we would just nod and say "Ofcourse, I know the meaning of love. I love my parents, my spouse, my children, my friends, my God too, my.... the list is endless." We believe that it means attraction, liking, passion, a deep longing, a sense of mineness, care, missing someone, feeling deeply hurt if it is not reciprocated, and feeling shattered if that person leaves us. But the checklist is different when ...

Normally, positive thinking is to expect the best out of every moment in the future. While this may be true, is not accepting that whatever comes out of each moment will be the very best also positive thinking? - a graceful acceptance trusting that there is fairness in all situations, even though some events appear to be unfair from our limited perspective and short-sighted vision. This needs Bhakti - a trust in Isvara, an order which governs everything in creation. An unwavering faith (Shraddha) that this creation has come out of a wholeness, a benevolence, and there is no scope for any like/dislike in the ordainer (Isvara). If our observation does not seem to concur with this, we should be willing to give it up and accept the above declaration of all scriptures. Our evaluation of what we perceive is based on our preconceived notions determined by our limited knowledge causing us to feel bound. Nothing ever happens without a reason, without a cause. Nobody causes situations to happen...

Sister Shivani made a potent observation relating to the Law of Attraction. She said, "You get what you are, not what you want."   Many people religiously follow the ingredients given by the books on this Law (visualize what you want, feel as if you have got it, no doubting its potency) and yet are unable to see the promised manifestation of their desired visualization. Thoughts lead to destiny, no doubt. But our perception is restricted to the thoughts we created in this birth only. The soul remaining the same, it takes on new bodies in every janma. The thoughts created in previous costumes (bodies) also have their own impact in the present embodiment. The Karmic accounts are carried forward from birth to birth. Perhaps this aspect is not considered while we discuss the Law of Attraction. In short the Law of Attraction is subject to the Law of Karma. When the desired manifestation does not fructify, one tends to become negative, sad, depressed, angry, hopeless, desperate. N...

One Liners - "There was once a time where daughters were equal to 10 sons and now the daughters are the cause of tension."