Unmanned
Landers landing on the moon have a coating of previous metals like gold. This
moon-scrap goes into the value of billions of dollars. In the near future, it
will open a new vista for high tech kabadis, the swanky version of our humble
neighborhood scrap dealer. America with its 40 years advancement in space
technology over its nearest rival will gain the most out of this new business
stream. Scrap dealers in America listening? In order to avoid scrap clashes in
future, there should be a treaty by which the owner country will retain the
rights over the space scrap. Mankind is ever ready to fight over any type of
issues. So when we will wipe out all contestable things on mother earth, we
will enlarge the domain of quarrels, taking into space. So it's high time we
fix it now itself. Let's agree on the principal that 'bhai mera kabad mera hi
rahega'. Means, I retain the right to my scrap, wheresoever it may land up! Something
is better than nothing. We will have at least one reason less to fight.
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About Me
- Sufi
- Hi, this is somebody who has taken the quieter by-lane to be happy. The hustle and bustle of the big, booming main street was too intimidating. Passing through the quieter by-lane I intend to reach a solitary path, laid out just for me, to reach my destiny, to be happy primarily, and enjoy the fruits of being happy. (www.sandeepdahiya.com)
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
A moment captured in the hills
Life and living losing
footing amidst the smoke of hate, greed, anger, ambition and jealousy. More
than the carbon bugs chucking out air, it will be the nefarious exhausts from
evil human minds that will turn mother earth unlivable during the coming decades.
But in the unconcerned vales, the mountain eagle is gliding effortlessly,--
The mountain eagle flying
in splendor and ecstasy,
Its unquenchable tempests
creating airy firmament,
But does this fraction of reality
possess anything good for the prey as
well?
The prey, the little mouse is tucked
in a little corner in the hills. It’s a flimsy covering, a roof of cobwebs and
dew clinging to it. The little creature is sipping the night’s nectar. Watery
beads. Jewellery of leaves. A little piece set-up by the free-flowing
spontaneity of the existential force. And the larger of life and living
meandering through it. Has the eagle spotted it? It seems to have!
Museful Dumplings on a Cold-lashed Day!
And
dear brothers and sisters, here goes the winters caravan. Definite signs of
climate change! Unprecedented fires somewhere, and icy blizzards at other
places. Here, in north India, it’s unprecedently frozen.
Homo-sapiens
beat other species of the genus Homo to rule and crowd the planet to its last
guts. Wait fella wait, great are the ways of evolution. Evolution doesn't end
with Homo-sapiens. It's but a brief coma, a tiny pause, a cute little interlude
before the juggernaut takes on further. Artificial intelligence will sow the
seeds of almost a different type of species of the genus Homo. The great AI
will do us what we did to other species in manipulating nature and depriving
them of their natural rights.
It
seems almost inevitable: the doomsday scenario born of unchecked ambitions of
the Homo Sapiens. But all nightmares and fears melt in the gentle heat of real-life
stories played by people like Lata Bhagwan Khare. They are the ones whose grand
spirit still throws a silver lining across the dark clouds.
She
hadn't anything. Well, not in the terms we are used to evaluate possessions.
Age wasn't on her side. She was 65. Poorest of the poor, the biggest
disadvantage! But she had wealth, a big mountain of it, in terms of subtle
intangibles. She had courage and conviction. And most importantly, she loved
her husband. They were a simple farming couple in a Maharashtra village, happy
in earning a day’s wage and look forward to another hard-worked but peaceful
day. When you learn to stay happy and joyful in the present, life turns a string
of shiny beads. Past doesn’t pinch you, the future doesn’t scare you. Life but
will have its share of tests and challenges. So, like all of us face, they also
faced one. The 70-year-old farm laborer fell sick. The treatment meant almost
that much amount which the poor couple hadn't seen in their entire life. But
she, a life-long equal partner in his life and living, was sure that she had to
save her husband at any cost. He may die, like all of us will one day, but not
on account of the unavailability of medical treatment. When people far younger
and far more privileged would have lost hope and surrendered to desperation,
she saw chance at life in the Marathi headlines on a greased local daily paper
piece she was using to hold the samosa they were eating. It announced a big
price for the winner of a Marathon soon to be organized. And the old woman with
a young spirit ran a marathon, barefoot, her sari tucked with determination,
her naked feet bleeding, and the mocking jeers of the spectators who took it as
a comic act worth their cheap entertainment. Very few have the depths of soul
to feel the mammoth struggles going inside a fellow human being. The woman won.
Beyond the story of laurels, to her it was simply a matter of money beyond the
finish line so that she could help her soulmate during his fight against the
disease. Enjoy the story of this courageous woman. A story of love basically!
Bask in her glory!
Let’s
pump a bit more warmth into the frozen bones and eyes that seem to have lost
hope through a bit of talk on ‘soulmateship’. I know we have an overestimated
view of our own validity and suitability to be an idealistic soulmate, provided
we come across someone suitable for our pre-existing suitability to be a
soulmate. Sounds a bit egoistic! In practical life, soulmateship is fabricated
and carefully formulated with conscious effort. Soulmates are delicately worked
upon relationships. We presume that we are a package and wait for the destiny
to make us meet our soulmates. Well, guys it doesn't work that way. Soulmates
are made. We never meet someone as soulmates. Don't expect to meet yours. Love,
that initial attraction and biological pull, is just the first step. After that
it's a long way to a careful walk on the road to turn someone's soulmate.
Beyond the categories of caste and class, soulmates like Lata and her husband
are what substantiate all about life and living. With such little realizations,
greatness is just one step and one breath away! Claim yours today itself!
Well,
we can discuss a bit more about love which is supposed to be the bedrock of any
relationship in cluding that of soulmates. I just point out a bit of advice to
all those into the business of soulmateship. Hate is not the opposite of love,
indifference is! You may ask, ‘How?’ Well, I give my feeble light on this. Take
it if you find it digestible.
See,
love and hate are almost the shadow of each other, just a thin line between
them. In fact, they may—ad they do on a routine basis—interchange. In fact, the
love—hate combo fuels each other. Beware, ‘indifference’ is what kills the soul
of a relationship. When the person doesn't matter anymore to you, not even
worth hate, that is when a relationship dies. So, indifference is the opposite
of love, not hate because even with hate, there is still a possibility, indifference
kills all prospects. Don’t allow indifference to creep in. It’s the termite for
the institution of soulmateship. Beyond the Love—Hate chemistry, the sole
purpose of being human is to consciously try to evolve spiritually. And your
love, beginning from self and those who are near to your self, is the ladder to
take you there.
Coming
to the more mundane wheels of life. Even in the frozen lanes of December
end streets, there are hot tempers and
frayed attitudes. I am too common of an Indian to add to the noisy Chorus about
NRC-CAA that has jolted India. in any case, the opposing notes from both ends
have turned it into a defeating Blizzard. I am more concerned about my little
issue. We haven't had electricity for the last 8 days in our village. To the
hell with both the opposing armies on the NRC-CAA battlefield! All I want is
restoration of electricity, so that I can continue reading with my 12 books
that I am reading simultaneously. My stock of candles is gone. Inverter supply
shrieked before calling it quits. I just want electricity. And most of you also
need the basic necessities of life. So kindly leave the battlefield my bruised,
bloodied and lacerated pro and anti NRC-CAA soldiers and come back home to find
out if there is flour in the bin, light in your bulb, drinkable water in your
pot, sewage channel in your street! Come brave hearts come! You have
participated in the historical battle, created enough history. Now return with
pride and loads of prejudices. And see the littlest things that also need your
benevolent look. Come home o my brave soldiers! All I need is this f***ing flicker
in my dead bulb so that I can read my books at night!
Beyond
the pitched ideological battles, this lonesome tree marvels at the humans’
ingenuity in fighting over fiction and be totally unaware of the facts. The
lonesome peepal! It’s left out as an insignia of the past. All around you see
the brown guts of tilled earth, where not even a single blade of grass isn’t
allowed without the distressed farmers’ permission. Just 40 years back, the
lonesome peeplal had a big family of trees around him. But then man-born
greater needs, call it greed, arose. The farmland now creeps over the horizon
like a deadly parasitic creeper. Let's see, how many more misty dusks remain in
its destiny?!
Under
the peepal, a mighty truth is written on the soiled stage of life. These are
the beautiful feathers of a bird, scattered as the aftermaths of life and
living. The scythe of time reaping the harvest intangibly, everywhere in all
directions. Colours melting back to seep int the womb of mother earth for
another step in the corridors of creation! Nearby, in the grayish black swathes
of a cold, frozen afternoon, a former colony of weaverbirds hangs like corpses
of once alive dreams. The cycle gone, the caravan moved ahead and the remnants!
An abandoned colony melting into the greyish dusk! Humans got any message?
Not
far from the lonesome peepal, among the grassy waste outside the main village
habitation, he has set up his very own colony for his son, daughter in law and
a noisy brood of grandchildren. All this is complemented by pigs, goats and
poultry. A world in itself. Sube Valmiki was young when we little ones hopped
over the banyan’s branches. Now it's a grandfatherly sage, so is Sube Singh and
me a greyish fatherly figure marveling how swiftly time flies!
His
sparse beard and thick moustache is snow white. His multicolored woolen cal and
shiny red blanket make him stand out as a milestone as he smokes hookah sitting
on his charpoy in front of his little world surrounded by wasteland and tufts
of bunchgrass which have been decimated by the frost. 'You are turning into an
old sadhu!' I tell him. He welcomes the compliment with a disarming smile. As a
child, I remember him as a sturdy youth working for us on some house repairs.
Now I am a greyish middle aged man and he is acquiring the golden shades of old
age. He has settled outside the village in a world of his own. His
grandchildren play with more verve and enthusiasm even than his little goats.
His pride possession, Moi Rani, the lady pig is tethered. Her long rows of
shiny teats along the udder a hallmark of its feminine fecundity. 'She is our
offering to Moi Mata! We keep her for non commercial purposes!' he says. Well,
i understand that she is a sort of offering to a local goddess. But I cannot
understand fully. 'Non commercial' doesn't make much of a meaning to me. Does
it mean her sons and daughters also go along the same way? Most probably not.
That would be taking one's faith too far! At the most, it may mean she will not
be sold for some bucks in the pocket, and won't be slaughtered to add to fun
and funstry on some celebratory occasion. Her pedigree i suppose is beyond the
deity's protection. Anyway, they don't think that deeply. And that is why they
can have a real laugh!
He
has even a pet raven. A feat in itself in taming a wild bird known for its
claim on independence and gaukish husky
kawing! He had chanced upon it under a tree, a mere meatball, waiting to become
something’s meal. He picked it up and showed astute mastery and common sense in
parenting it. The bird flows to enjoy freedom in free skis but acknowledges its
gratitude by coming back almost regularly and sit by him.
Raven
in
cuddling heaven!
Its
irritable kaw-kaw melting into bearable notes,
Its
erstwhile black monochrome, ewwe!
Glowing
now with a likeable hue,
Love
is the best form of truth and beauty,
Take
it as your conscious humanoid duty!
Back
home in my yard I have a little more reasons to smile over the frozen time. Rajnigandha
(Tuberose) smiles at long, long last! In fact after 1.5 years! It appeared to
have lost interest in life, living and smiles. Looked just a faded, forlorn
bunch of grass in the pot, waiting to be cast away for some better, more
attractive flower. Little did she realize that I have the patience of a
grandfatherly sea. I put away any idea of any replacement. Lo, here she
reciprocates with a lovely little bouquet! It's soooo fragrant! It seems to say
a gentle sorry for the delay! No worries baby! Better late than never! Even
long delayed smiles are better than any other alternative! Keep smiling? Nearby
is the Reddest Rose. Pouting heavenward as a passionate kiss from mother Earth
to the Sky, with loads of love of course! When the sky melts and goes down on
its knee to kiss the petalous hand of mother earth! A holy kiss! The daughter
of the yard, Hibiscus, has charted her journey from a pleasantly uncouth
toddler to a lithesome, curvey, confident young woman. She has delicately
touched the peak of her youth...vow...what a journey! And how can I ignore the
indomitable spirit of the garden cactus!? Her forefathers braved the desert
sands to bloom. She carries sturdy, hardy genes. Her flowers stay for months.
Amazing. Mercury hits the bottom, but they stay unperturbed! These are
five-petaled little red marvels that continue to kiss night frost and faded
sunrays with same enthusiasm! Little wonder they stay for weeks after weeks. Glory
be showered upon thou Garden Cactus. You beat the thorny ignominy to blossom up
a flowery smile. All you need to have a flowering smile is to overlook the
thorns. All of us have pinchy edges to our persona that pierce soft skins
around. Accept your own thorns. Forgive others for having the same. And all you
have is a bouquet of victory for all..smiles...smiles...smiles! And this
Parijat showers love like a crazy lover! A fragrant heap of love is found every
morning under it after the frozen wet nights. I give her an ounce of my care.
She multiplies it thousand times and showers me with heavenly drizzle of
scented dumplings. Thank you darling!
Outside
in the streets, a group of migrant Bihari laborer is moving in this cold to reach
the construction site where they are employed currently.
Their
dreams frequently suffer a break,
They
are but the ones who help others make!
An
old woman is walking behind them. She is going for morning rituals at the
temple. Devotion is the easiest means to realize the Ultimate. But out of
millions and millions of hardcore devotees, how many qualify to be real
devotees? Not many, I suppose! Simply because the majority of our devotion, in
the form of rituals, prayers and beliefs, falls in the category of a deal with
the object of our devotion. The moment your devotion becomes free of your
'deal', you take a quantum jump into realizing the hidden truths lying at every
nook corner.
In a
nearby chaupal, idle men are baulking in endless debates! Who says women are
talkative? Have a look at them! They can beat any number of women in chatting
on non-issues days after days, years after years. After a life-long war with
words how many of us realize the real meaning of knowledge and information?
True
knowledge, I suppose, is just coming home with the realization that all the
information fed in our neural network is only a means for survival, a mere tool
like a chair to sit upon. It also sets up the course for unknowing and
unlearning, and the consequent swiping the screen clean, to be in sync with the
intangible, but ever manifesting, intelligence in its undivided form. Logic,
words, knowledge and information are mere chisels and hammers to chip away the
mind-created stone from the huge rock of our assumed self, ego, and carve out a
dimensionless entity. So one's logic though can't take you to the Truth, but it
can at least help you in avoiding the tricks of the false. So guys pic up your
tools, but remember they are nothing more than a stonemason's instruments in
his rucksack as he moves to his stoneyard.
From
the ones who sound most affable to the ones pounding your nerves with obnoxious
ferocity, all of us are equally distant from the most presentable best 'truth',
simply because there is no absolute 'truth'. The only absolute truth may be
that there is no absolute truth. The so called truths are merely flimsy bubbles
floating in the sky. So guys glide freely cocooned in the bubble of your truth
with only this much caution that you don't crash too often into other's bubbles
floating around. This is what good and bad might be all about. Otherwise, this
existence does not even care what this hypothetical talk is about the
absolutes, sin, piousness, etc., etc.
When
my own voice starts disturbing me, I douse it under the all-overpowering notes
of the great mystic Osho. The rats of my mind go to sleep. Today, I remember him telling me:
‘Freedom
and equality are two opposite conditions. If you want to maintain equality,
then freedom can't be sustained. If you cherish freedom, you have to forget
equality. People can be cut to a tailor-made size of equality, but it won't be
possible without taking their freedom from them. You can't have equality other
than in jail. And even inside the jail, if there are some elements of utility
and convenience, inequality will creep in. So the jailor has to be stone like
hard and unsparing in approach to manage perfect equality. Complete equality is
possible only in a state of perfect subjugation and control. It should be so
tight that nobody gets a chance to be unequal to anyone. So if communism takes
control of earth, the entire planet will turn into a mammoth jail. Communism
can't succeed without jail.’
Monday, January 20, 2020
Crossing the threshold of individual consciousness
Nothing stands in isolation. Can a drop of water stand alone in the ocean? Can an ocean exist without a drop, i.e., with a hole in its heart and the drop missing? Same is the cosmos. It's one continuity in one or the other form. Sea is nothing but drops drops everywhere in the expansion of its geographical spread. Same is with the super sea of cosmic consciousness. It's merely individual consciousness everywhere. Now the question is: how come there is a perception of individual consciousness? Well, that's how the fabric is! Start dividing a sea into tiniest dots! What happens? All we have littler seas made of tinier drops! The threshold from individual to infinite intelligence exists and doesn't at the same time. Possibly the sea itself perceives itself like a drop. Divide it into countless drops, they retain the feeling of individualty. Individual consciousness is thus nothing but a point of perception in the transforming whirlpool where the elements are going cyclically. Is a drop fundamentally and qualitatively different from a big sea? It isn't! Coming to humanoids. The so called conscious is the littlest bit of perception surrounded by the subconscious, which in turn melts into the infinite intelligence and consciousness pervading all around. That's the ladder to spread yourself, to feel more meaningful. One's subconscious part of mind is most active just before sleep and immediately after waking up. That's when the gates open tangibly for taking a quantum jump from conscious to subconscious and further on into superconsciousness. Grab it. Put your affirmation and claim to a larger self. There are infinite possibilities. What you seek at your greediest best may not be more than a drop of water desiring to double its size. You have the pathway etched to be the sea itself. You already are. Just that all that remains to be done is to start seeing through the walls of conscious, watch eagerly through the windows of subconscious in those walls and get connected to the infinite right there in front of you. It's suitable to start with tangibles to break the virtual shackles, just like it's easier to start with body in yoga. The higher battles with more virtual demons are managed further on the path. At the mind front, it's more convenient to start with the conscious part because it's tangible through its operational part through thoughts and emotions. There starts the second tier of management leading to the subconscious part and further on to be out of the prison to come united with everything around. It's not mother existence's concern whether there are storms lashing a drop, pond or sea, or peaceful calm waters pervade. To her indiscriminating eyes all things are just as they are. What happens in the drop of your consciousness is solely your own concern. You create the storms or peace in the tea cup of your existence. And the tools to make and break are conscious thoughts and their shadows in the form of emotions and feelings. They majorly decide the energy pattern pervading across this specific pattern of awareness, this little arrangement of energy within the super sea of energy. Pain, suffering, disease, stress and tensions are mere effects, little obstruction in the flow of river, the life stream. And the repair work primarily begins from the conscious part of the mind , which operates through thoughts, emotions and feelings. So just like u go gyming, go gyming with thoughts. Work like a mason. And etch your reality, your better self on the subconscious, which in turn reflects as your truth on the endless canvas hung around with its infinite dimensions. Good luck!
LOVE: The Ultimate Alchemy
Ravindranath Tagore says, “Love is the only reality and it
is not a mere sentiment.” The great mystic and poet very
suitably sees it as “the ultimate truth that lies at the core of
creation”.
Love defines the countless pathways to the cause of creation
as Lord Byron points out with poetic precision: “Love will find
a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”
Do you think fear, anger, hate, envy, jealousy, ego, lust and
greed have their own standing? No. Just like darkness is simply
an absence of light, all these tortuous tools that lynch our self
are nothing but phantoms doing painful rounds in the absence
of love. Like a tiny lamp puts out darkness simply by casting
light, without fighting the dark, a simple ray of love, a symbol of
our true self, chucks out the flimsy appendages of the unreal self.
There is definitely limit to everything in cosmos. But there
is one exception: Love, prem as we say it in Hindi. Yoko Ono
feels the mankind’s regret in not fully absorbing their self in the
sea of love when he says: “The regret of my life is that I have not
said ‘I love you’ often enough.”
One need not fight fear, fury, hatred, jealousy, distrust, ego,
lust and greed at various fronts to defeat them. They have a
common root: burial of your loving self, your essential nature,
under the peripheral dust of illusions and ignorance, making you
identify with what is essentially not your real self. Remove the grime, allow the light of love to emanate from your soul, enter
your behavioral self, and all around you see peace, harmony and
balance. The vices, which you yourself condemn against yourself
after being judgmental on your own self, just dry up, like fresh
rays of sun dispel the last traces of dark clinging to the morning
twilight.
A house—an assemblage of concrete, mortar, bricks and
steel—turns a home only with love and care. Without affection
decorating it from inside, it’s merely a soulless structure. Billy
Graham says it very aptly: “Nothing can bring a real sense of
security into the home except true love.”
The mankind’s fears driven by greed have already resulted
in nukes and super-nukes having the capacity to destroy not
just earth but many planets and stars around. Does it serve any
purpose? The modern civilization sitting on the stockpiles of
death and destruction is always one button push away from
annihilation. No man, we don’t need hate anymore. We need
more loving people around. The moisture of love will dampen
the explosives of death and destruction.
Love for your man, your woman, your family, friends and
near and dear ones is the seed that holds the potential to blossom
into universal love for all and everything making you a loving
person. So guys start your journey on the love path as a lover, as a
caring husband, wife, parent or friend and proceed onto nurture
the seed to help it grow into a robust tree of loving kindness
for all. This basically is supposed to be the natural evolution
course for your consciousness attached to this mater, this mix
of materials called body comprising water and few kilograms
of matter found in earth. The consciousness, the blueprint, the
carrier of your previous journeys, is on the path of evolution, to
merge into the all pervading super-consciousness, like a drop of
water is moving to mix with the seas.
Do you think you can fight darkness by flailing your arms
and fists in the dark? No man, that’s not the way. Darkness
cannot be dispelled. It stays irrespective of your fusillade. All you need is a small lamp. It simply leaves darkness redundant
by itself.
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy
into a friend,” Martin Luther King, Jr. Love definitely is the
panacea for thousands of ailments afflicting human society. The
Modern Gandhi of the West further says, “Darkness cannot
drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive
out hate; only love can do that.”
Haven’t you felt almost fully alive when in love with your
man or woman? Well, that sums it up. This feeling is just a
glimpse of the eternal bliss available on the higher rungs on the
same ladder. Move up. There are no alternatives. This is the sole
destiny.
Mind you, there are no sinners. We just have loving and less
loving people. Come, join me in tilting the scale in favor of love.
That is your destiny. Later or sooner, in this avatar or in the ones
coming up next, you have to get along. Just like a river’s natural
destination is the sea, your soul’s journey is to merge into all-
encompassing love of the eternal entity. The so called sinners,
who we scorn at, are nothing but strayed selves, like the river
exploring its final path to the sea gets into a lake somewhere but
finds it unviable to stay there and takes on the journey again. All
of us have to explore and find the fallacy of many a thing that
our disillusioned self makes us believe and come face to face
with the ultimate meaning of life.
Max Muller says: “A flower cannot blossom without
sunshine, and man cannot live without love.”
Come, let’s explore the path of love, the alchemy, which
remedies the suffering self, making it a beautiful, loving entity.
Love is the seed of spirituality. Holy people of all religions
and faith reached one single point, all-encompassing love.
Saint Basil: “A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds.
A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship,
and he who plants kindness gathers love.”
Love, compassion and kindness are the biggest commonality
across various faiths and belief systems. Love is basically the
essential nature of soul. Kindness, compassion, gratitude,
generosity, truth, beauty, and all other virtues we hold in
high esteem are simply the manifestations of love. Love is the
light that shows everything as it is. It dispels the dark corners
surrounding our selves. It is the guiding light that takes us on
the path of our individual and collective destinies.
Though no words are sufficient to cover the fathomless
power of love, let’s try to know a bit more about our loving self
and its miraculous powers in shaping our lives.
This book is meant to set up an instructional manual to
help one rise higher on the scale of evolution by changing one’s
limited love, defined by family and relations, to universal love
for a compassionate and all-loving being.
The work is meant to help one hone the art and craft of
building a loving character, which in turn sets up the base for
a happy and joyful life. All the chapters in the book are full of
commonest of the common day-to-day techniques, which can
build up our compassionate self, like we work in the gym to
strengthen our muscles.
Things are rapidly aggravating. It’s an angrier world than
ever. Material progression has proved counterproductive.
Mother Nature is ailing due to our greedy onslaught, which
borders on raping mother earth. Now an ailing nature is
handing over its pain and miseries to the human society in the
form of wars, diseases and strife. Irony is that we are materially
the most advanced society in history with the USP of being the
most miserable one at the same time. Isn’t it the right time to go
into a pause and rethink our collective priorities? Through my
work, I am simply trying to ask individuals and organizations
to reconsider their values because there has been a basic flaw,
otherwise why would there be so many problems.
My work involves simple tools and techniques of going into
self-discovery to see things in a larger perspective. It’s a semi-spiritual journey looking within and out to be aware of the
bigger plights written everywhere, to inculcate a basic loving
nature almost at the instinctive level, to be more observant of
the self as much as we observe things outside. It breeds self
responsibility, leading to a considerate nature. These are the
basic building blocks of a compassionate self.
For decades I have been into spirituality and meditation.
All the simple instructions, guidance tools and observations are
born of my own experiences. Spirituality is not something about
mysteries in the farthest corners of the universe. It’s simply about
being a more aware person. It’s about realizing the basic loving
nature in each and everyone around. It’s about harnessing joy
out of the mundane incidences of life.
Working on this book itself has been really rewarding. I
cannot ask for much other than writing it. It has given me so
much of unconditional love and peace while working on it. I
am not looking much on the material front from this treatise on
love. All I need is one more partner in spreading the message of
unconditional love, peace and harmony.
I firmly believe that ordinary beings possess extraordinary
potential to win against odds, to jump over hurdles, to smile
over tears, and, most importantly, to be happy when there aren’t
enough reasons to be. People like you and me are the faceless
constituents of a massive commonality. We are surrounded by
a swiping generality. We are coloured in the monochromes of
mundane reality. Still we are special. And that speciality is love
at the core of our being.
Through my work, I acknowledge and celebrate the
extraordinary in the ordinary people. I see heroes and heroines
on the common stage of life chugging around. And most
importantly, we have the very same essentially loving nature
at the core. Just that the flimsy clouds of ego and apparent
sufferings keep it buried inside. I try to help people unearth the
basic seeds of goodness inside to help them grow into luxuriant
trees of compassionate beings.
We fight, and oftentimes fail, but write a little passage in the
infinite book of life: an ordinary life that was lived substantially.
On the small stage of life, we live very intensely. Somehow, the
world would not be the world that is still beautiful without our
contribution. We heave humanity onwards in its march to some
better destination. Just that all this gets overshadowed by the
shifting clouds of ego, stress, frustration and jealousy. We simply
need to look beyond the clouds to spot the glorious sun.
With our essentially loving nature fully acknowledged in
our daily lives, all of us can be the heroes and heroines of our
stories. The seed in us, the seed of love, carries the potential
to be the tallest, luxuriant-most tree. The powerful force of
creation propels the potential for maximization. Nature doesn’t
want it to be a world of half-smiles, half-growths, half-blossoms
and half-potential. There is a tendency for fullness. It pulls the
process of evolution for the maximum, for completion, for what
we call greatness. And the driving force for all this is love. It exists
in each and every atom in the cosmos. All we need is to be aware
of it. And this awareness needs practice. I have put an effort to
nurture this habit of always reminding ourselves of our basic
loving nature.
O my mind, my seat of potentiality, take my journey further,
Be the seat of my strength, not weakness,
Be the seat of kindness, not cruelty,
Be the source of light, not darkness.
You, me and all of us are born for the stories of greatness.
Let’s acknowledge our loving nature to see through the journey.
Please be my partner in sharing this message of universal love.
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