It has been a silent and steady path, without going back and forth, with a strong belief that I hold today..My God is not outside of me. My God lies deep within me. He is not someone else, my God is me and I find him through all that I choose to be. I am answerable to myself first.
I may visit a temple or two rarely to experience the ambience or quiet within. I am increasingly finding it difficult to look at a deity in the temple and pray. I do experience something powerful in that rare temple visiting experience, which i attribute to people's faith that fills the atmosphere there. Am unable to hold an external image of God anymore..It almost seems fake and meaningless..no am not an aetheist at all..
My God is deep inside me in various forms.
I reach God through my experience of bliss when one with music.
I reach God through those minor steps that take me deeper into myself leading me to own up my blind spots.
I reach God through my own conscience that keeps reminding me that there are also greys inbetween blacks and whites.
I reach God through the wringing pain I experience when I see or hear of animal suffering.
I reach God through my intuition that has been a forever friend.
My God is an integration of the good, bad and ugly within me, all of it together that makes me "me".
Monday, December 13, 2010
Food for thought..only if you have the time to mull over this..
This I write since I enjoy timelessness and it is a very rare commodity these days atleast the way my life has got configured in the recent years!
Time is afterall a man made concept. Man keeps coming up with newer and newer ideas and methods to change the world anyway..WHAT IF..The whole concept of 24 hours being a day is changed to add 12 more hours to everyday. Should the sun going up and going down necessarily decide when we eat and when we sleep. Why is the sun allowed to decide one's age? If everyday is stretched by 12 more hours, say, I can think of many many more things to add to the recipe of everyday, an important ingredient being "timelessness" to put my feet up and relax.
Isn't it a great way to slow down the ageing process..while there are so many artificial cosmetics in the market that attempt to defy age, why not make it scientific thus!! Ok, is it going to cause havoc to your body clock, with night and day routines getting mixed up?..so let us stretch everyday by 24 more hours then and make it a 48 hour day then..not that i mind! The only issue here is that the much awaited weekends will take longer to arrive, but then there is a price that we pay for everything.
I started writing this for fun, but the more I think about it, am actually convinced it willl have great positive effects on this world..may be this is the only way to slow down. Few centuries later, this might just be spoken of in Geography text books as a concept ( of course there may be no concept of a text book then!!) Another thing, this will help our ageing parents feel just half their age and feel energetic in their minds too. Also, this is another good way of helping our children not grow up so fast as they are today..
I hear of 10 yr old boys in India asking girls out..and btw times have changed too..I hear of girls the same age actively pursuing boys too..Sorry, am an old timer at heart..why is this world going so fast, and where is it headed in this maniacal race.. my head is reeling..am I alone in this thought ????
Time is afterall a man made concept. Man keeps coming up with newer and newer ideas and methods to change the world anyway..WHAT IF..The whole concept of 24 hours being a day is changed to add 12 more hours to everyday. Should the sun going up and going down necessarily decide when we eat and when we sleep. Why is the sun allowed to decide one's age? If everyday is stretched by 12 more hours, say, I can think of many many more things to add to the recipe of everyday, an important ingredient being "timelessness" to put my feet up and relax.
Isn't it a great way to slow down the ageing process..while there are so many artificial cosmetics in the market that attempt to defy age, why not make it scientific thus!! Ok, is it going to cause havoc to your body clock, with night and day routines getting mixed up?..so let us stretch everyday by 24 more hours then and make it a 48 hour day then..not that i mind! The only issue here is that the much awaited weekends will take longer to arrive, but then there is a price that we pay for everything.
I started writing this for fun, but the more I think about it, am actually convinced it willl have great positive effects on this world..may be this is the only way to slow down. Few centuries later, this might just be spoken of in Geography text books as a concept ( of course there may be no concept of a text book then!!) Another thing, this will help our ageing parents feel just half their age and feel energetic in their minds too. Also, this is another good way of helping our children not grow up so fast as they are today..
I hear of 10 yr old boys in India asking girls out..and btw times have changed too..I hear of girls the same age actively pursuing boys too..Sorry, am an old timer at heart..why is this world going so fast, and where is it headed in this maniacal race.. my head is reeling..am I alone in this thought ????
Sunday, December 12, 2010
India..being a proud Indian
Many of us are proud Indians aren't we? We as people are survivors all through the way..Our resilience has been put to test over centuries and our undying spirit has been fostered and given every opportunity to survive and we have..our sheer numbers have made us compete to survive.
The economic recession witnessed even thin crowds at restaurants and cinemas and such lean population at malls and for a change even empty roads with free flow of traffic, one of the favourable consequences of the recession...but in our country for how long ? After few months of holding back in fear and uncertainty, people slowly started to move on since it is so part of our grain..and that moving on was so important for the economy to start turning around again! something that significant countries are still struggling with..
Our education system has been such that it has prepared us for marks through rote and hard labour all through (sure methodologies are changing here and there today, yet!).
Our infrastructure - take a simple example of roads and pavements in the garden city of Bangalore which is much talked about internationally..The number of pot holes and broken concrete slabs that a pedestrian will have to hurdle through is not funny.. One may call it apathy for the way our country remains even today, yet we as people have been taught right from the beginning to adapt and adjust with what is and go on..I think it is a great capability that we have. On a bloody narrow road which is capable of taking one small car at the most, i witnessed once sitting inside a small car myself.. head on was another car staring into our faces..on the side a motorist trying to wade through cracks and then a cyclist looking for an inch of space to navigate..unbelievable it was that none of these people looked troubled, within 5 minutes, each of them had found a way and were on the move...It was a wow experience, I actually thought there was so much "Indianness" to the way it happened and could only marvel at it!!
I have heard this from someone I respect a lot.."Resourcelessness could be the biggest resource"..how very true I have often times thought to myself!
The economic recession witnessed even thin crowds at restaurants and cinemas and such lean population at malls and for a change even empty roads with free flow of traffic, one of the favourable consequences of the recession...but in our country for how long ? After few months of holding back in fear and uncertainty, people slowly started to move on since it is so part of our grain..and that moving on was so important for the economy to start turning around again! something that significant countries are still struggling with..
Our education system has been such that it has prepared us for marks through rote and hard labour all through (sure methodologies are changing here and there today, yet!).
Our infrastructure - take a simple example of roads and pavements in the garden city of Bangalore which is much talked about internationally..The number of pot holes and broken concrete slabs that a pedestrian will have to hurdle through is not funny.. One may call it apathy for the way our country remains even today, yet we as people have been taught right from the beginning to adapt and adjust with what is and go on..I think it is a great capability that we have. On a bloody narrow road which is capable of taking one small car at the most, i witnessed once sitting inside a small car myself.. head on was another car staring into our faces..on the side a motorist trying to wade through cracks and then a cyclist looking for an inch of space to navigate..unbelievable it was that none of these people looked troubled, within 5 minutes, each of them had found a way and were on the move...It was a wow experience, I actually thought there was so much "Indianness" to the way it happened and could only marvel at it!!
I have heard this from someone I respect a lot.."Resourcelessness could be the biggest resource"..how very true I have often times thought to myself!
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
For Starters..
Tid bits of random thoughts
As I try to gather them all in a pot
Slips through my fingers
And I continue to wonder
Whatever did I start this for
Am I going to make any sense at all
To anyone in the world out there
By opening my chest out bare
And trying to pen my scattered ramblings
Here I make a start with nothing fruitful to say
Yet, my soul wishes to express
wishes to reach out to those surfing out there
To find a few minutes to partner me
In my madness..
What a lovely streak it is - madness..
May there be more and more in this world
Not the fanatical ones who are already heaping disaster
But the mad ones who counter those
With passion for things they love
With love for things they care for
With care for those that are precious
Lets stay precious to ourselves first
Life is a whole chain of interlocking blocks
Lets connect share and care in this catalytic medium called LIFE.
As I try to gather them all in a pot
Slips through my fingers
And I continue to wonder
Whatever did I start this for
Am I going to make any sense at all
To anyone in the world out there
By opening my chest out bare
And trying to pen my scattered ramblings
Here I make a start with nothing fruitful to say
Yet, my soul wishes to express
wishes to reach out to those surfing out there
To find a few minutes to partner me
In my madness..
What a lovely streak it is - madness..
May there be more and more in this world
Not the fanatical ones who are already heaping disaster
But the mad ones who counter those
With passion for things they love
With love for things they care for
With care for those that are precious
Lets stay precious to ourselves first
Life is a whole chain of interlocking blocks
Lets connect share and care in this catalytic medium called LIFE.
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