A year gone by

 

In the year gone by
have you let life bypass you
Have you let the joy of your being
find expression or have you
found reasons to excuse yourself
Have you let the love in your heart
warm this world or have you found
reasonable excuse to languish in frown
Did you find something wonderful
to say of all around you or have you
become the judgment day damnation
Have you loved, laughed and teared up
or have you remained untouched by life
Years shall go by.  ---Extract from Isha Blog

Thoughts

I am perplexed, I am petrified, I am confused but at the same time I feel a sense of achievement, a strange happiness and a sense of belonging. The flow of these opposite thoughts keeps going until I reach a state of slumber where there is none but me and my consciousness. How I wish this state could be reached often and how I wish - one of the subjects taught in school was - how to perfectly balance your thoughts!

Moment to moment, the flows of thoughts and feelings, sensations and desires, conscious and unconscious processes sculpts my nervous system like water gradually carving furrows and eventually gullies on a hillside. My brain is continually changing its structure. The only question is: Is it for better or worse? It must be better because that what my inner voice shouts loud. One more year is going to pass, time is flying and I know I am wiser than yesterday. I know I have learnt my lesson this year and I know I am going to work on my weak points.

A Guru can never die!

Swami Dayananda Saraswati

 

I do not know how to express or how to react - I seem to be normal because its the same morning , same day , same days work which I am carrying out from last 2 days. Nothing has changed.

 

But yes something seems to be missing! Each time I look at a Facebook post which has a picture of yours a tear comes rolling down my eyes. May be I don't want to show this me to anyone but today let me confess the biggest truth of my life. Your teachings have changed me and you have helped me in what I am today.

 

They say a guru can never die. He is always there with you , in the form of his teaching and guiding you. You continue to be there, personifying the teacher, if you follow his teaching. I promise to do little bit from my side. May you show everyone the right path.

 

Hari OM.

 

OM Sri Gurubhyo Namaha!

Cut the crap - You see!

We are told to love people unconditionally, but sometimes we must get rid of people unconditionally. Some toxic people just keep slithering and oozing in through the cracks in your resolve; they refuse to respect your boundaries. No more mixed messages. You must learn how to close a door permanently. Cut and cauterize. Monstrous sociopath-like disengagement is your right. Your life is worth more. Don’t waste another minute. Let them say you are awful. Block, ban, delete and disconnect. Compassion? Have some for yourself! Do what you must do to take care of yourself and don’t you dare ever feel guilty. ― Bryant McGill

 

Bemoan

Here I am back into my space after a gap.....and this was an effortless visit.

Sometimes you reach at such a stage in life where nothing matters - relations, friendships - you just want to hibernate and be in solace of your own thoughts! You want to detach from useless conversations, from unhealthy relationships - you yarn for peace, for freedom, for being what you are. You loath to admit your mistake and you feel a strange peace in it.

You want to be understood, you want to understand but unfortunately or fortunately nothing works. Nothing at all!!

Parallel Lines

Parallel lines have a lot in common, but they never meet ever.....
You might think that is sad
But every other pair of lines meet once and then drift apart forever..........!!!

Thoughtprovoking#

Equanimity



Sunset Point - Pune - Lonavala - 2015

There is a stillness in atmosphere which I cannot define. As always, thoughts flicker in the depths of my mind. Sigh! Right now down the memory lane, I see an archive of fragments - forgotten tales, lost memories, beautiful people and enriching experience. I come back to my writing after a gap of 2 months. I am not sure what keeps me “busy” these days. I am also not sure what make me write today. I am also not sure what makes me happy and sad at times. It’s tough at times to keep your feelings under control. I heard someone saying today that feelings are dumb. So true! Don’t ever respond to them. Just experience them. But we in our eagerness and foolishness become slaves to our own feelings which are deceptive and temporary at times.

 

I somehow realise today that the most important thing in life is the most misunderstood. I crave for mountains, sea, vastness of night sky and all the more I crave for woods where my heart wants to be! I crave for a place we can go - where the troubles of our time are far away.

And all good things come to an end :)

They say - "All good things come to an end only to give way to better things in life". I found this post in my drafts today while thinking that I should come back to blogging. Guess I forgot to post it last year.

Orkut - the social networking site might have gone off the air. But I am sure it has left a mark on lot of us - I being no different. You will be missed Orkut that is what comes to my mind right now. Thanks for changing my life so drastically !! Without you I would not have been the way I am right now. Thank you!!

Gyan

 

 

I read it somewhere:

•  Love yourself first
•  See your problems as opportunities to grow and become a wiser person
•  Seek ways to find creative solutions for your personal challenges
•  Compartmentalize your problems
•  Learn to laugh at yourself
•  Do several acts of kindness each day
•  Empathize with others but don’t absorb their problems
•  Learn to compartmentalize your most difficult struggles
•  Maintain your core values and be confident about adhering to them
•  Seek advise but always make your own decisions and be accountable for them
•  Know it’s ok to leave a job if there’s an unhealthy corporate culture
•  Accept there isn’t a perfect resolution for every conflict and not every conflict warrants indefinite energy to solve
•  Seek feedback from a wise mentor
•  Embrace your positive traits so you can confidently admit to the negative ones and work at changing them
•  Reach out to your network for support and reciprocate support to others
•  Let go of a dysfunctional relationships
•  Give others the benefit of the doubt
•  Surround yourself with other happy people
•  Drop unhappy behaviours
•  Don’t think there’s a resolution for every problem or conflict
•  Don’t stubbornly persist in a fundamentally dysfunctional relationship
•  Don’t deny your core values and submit yourself to someone’s who contradicts yours
•  Let go of notion that you can manage and fix everyone else’s problems
•  Let go of fake friendships (ones that aren’t reciprocal) or ones that force you to abandon your values
•  Don’t assume you’re the only one who has struggles and problems
•  The closer you look into people’s lives you’ll find that everyone has challenges large and small and they surface at different periods of their lives
•  Don’t hold grudges
•  Don’t remain in an unhealthy corporate culture that stifles your creativity
•  Don’t allow others who know less than you influence your decisions
•  Don’t persist in defending your negative traits or negative thoughts
•  Don’t avoid feedback of all kinds
•  Don’t decline support from your network

Just !!!

"Just Tired" - she muttered.
But you could tell it was not just a lack of sleep

 

But a lack of hope and happiness
- that made her act the way she did.....