Oh, I know how you feel dear... I know how you are shaking, I know your crying alone in the far away country...
I know the way your heart is ripped, I know how your soul is torn...
I don't really know what you desire, but I do know that you are worn.
Don't give up honey, be strong... like all moments in life, this is a phase it will pass..
I am there for you :)
"Don't take life too seriously, after all nobody gets out alive anyway!". Gaze to the deity that you have worshipped for years, he doesn't look like a deceiter, does he? Believe me, he is leading you though you don't know.
Believe.
Showing posts with label God and me. Show all posts
Showing posts with label God and me. Show all posts
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Lets worship Shakti this Navratri
Hindu religion is beautiful in the way its fluid. There are no 'tenets' as such. No single deity can claim supremacy. All the forms lead to a single source, God and 'his' Shakti,..... God himself is no 'being' but an entirety of what 'was', 'is' and 'can be'... So,in a transcendental sense, its nothing but energy... So, in fact God and Shakti are not two different entities... its the same. The terms would have come about probably because we humans feel a need to classify 'living' entities as 'male' and 'female'...
Oh! I am digressing from the title!!!!
We consider Navaratri as an auspicious period, or at least a 'good' period. We worship the Goddess and pay reverence to her... But do we understand her? She is Shakti.
While offering Poojas this Navratri, lets invoke the Shakti.
Shakti, for me, signifies two things: 'Female' part of our universe, 'Energy'.
- 'Shakti', the energy within us... doesn't really matter whether one is a male or a female. Lets realize and utilize the energy within us. Lets realize our potential. Potential as a human, potential as a citizen, potential as a child, potential as a sister, potential as a friend and so on.... Do we realize how much can we do... achieve... offer... to this world... and to ourselves...
- 'Shakti', the female ... A famous quote goes as follows...
“Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”
Lets respect women through our words, actions and habits.... If you are a women reading this, it goes for you too... Lets not underestimate our sisters, mothers, daughters. Lets treat them as equals - equal as family members, equal as citizens, equal as human beings....
Lets give them equal opportunities, lets not assume them to be a 'weaker' sex... Shakti means Power, how can it be weaker?....
A society that worships 'Shakti, the female power' kills its daughters in the womb.... considers its daughters a 'burden'... considers wives to be 'nagging decorative home pieces'... considers women to be sex objects/ child bearing machines.... somewhere we all are aware of this paradox...
Let us supplement our prayer offerings with our thoughts and actions this festival season... Lets us pay our reverence to Shakti - ours and the universe's.
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Flashback 2....
Tuesday, 7 August, 2007
Why do people write blog?
Why do people write blog?
Is it because they want to write or they want to share? Or is it because they want to express (well, I understand this is somewhat similar to the first option i.e. 'write')... Or is it because they have spare time in office...
Like all good questions in life, this one too doesn't have a definite answer. But I guess its the third one. or the second.... ummm, i think its the fifth - i.e. No definite reason - How stupid A!
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Friday, 11 May, 2007
The painter
Tell me what am I supposed to do… My dear Ganesha is flowering blessings on me, right at the time when I was writing myself off...
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Friday, 4 May, 2007
The artist...
Unbelievable - that’s the adjective that comes to my mind when I think about life…
And unpredictable - Right from the time when we are little kids we hear people say these things about life.
But now, I am really beginning to understand the reasons behind it.
Past two & a half years have changed my life in a big way. My thought process is no longer simple, my soul no longer unhurt… Life is like some odd, confused strokes by some amateur painter….But somewhere I believe that that painter is too great to make mistakes, so I look up to him and not say anything. I think he already knows what I can't even say.
PS: Apologies for using 'HE' for a gender neutral 'artist'. Read as She/ He
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Tuesday, 1 May, 2007
Disclaimer to the argument
I don’t really believe in the argument in the bigger 'sphere' of things….. Read it carefully, it only talks about 'Search in…'
There are no 'collective decisions' in world. Whenever people talk about collective decisions, decision is taken by only one party*, rest 'n-1' abstain from decisions…
**** a party can have more than one individual but their interests are already common even before the discussions start*
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Tuesday, 1 May, 2007
Argument: Search procedures involved with an arranged marriage are better than love ones.
Argument:
Search procedures involved with an arranged marriage are better than love ones.
Support theory:
Arranged marriages are like an optimization algorithm. Each partner searches 'n' number of nodes before finalizing on a target. At the end of the match-making, each person (read 'Family') is satisfied because he/ she knows that they can't get better than this. In short, they know that this is the best they can get, so they 'have' to be happy with it.
Unlike this, there is a lot of 'cognitive dissonance' in love marriage proposals - lot of 'thinking' and 're-thinking' because somewhere at the back of their mind, each person 'thinks' that he 'deserves' more; this increases (manifold) the chances of going back on so-called 'commitments'.
There are other points too. Cost of 'search' for a 'love' marriage is much higher than cost of search for an 'arranged marriage'. Pls. note that cost includes cost of time and emotions. For e.g. time spent in 'finding' & courtship is much much more than time spent in printing an advertisement in matrimonial & arranging 'family' meetings. Same for emotional costs: If the option 'A', 'B', 'C' from amongst your shortlisted matrimonial list refuse to marry you, you might brood over it but then it won’t be for long. But if your partner of 'm' months refuses to marry you, you will have to go through a lot of heartburn. Also, there are no additional costs in 'arranged' marriages, like you don't need to fight with your parents. You don't need to fight with the society.
Now the important point. Specially in Indian context, individual lives have no 'value' at all (Pls. note that I am not saying if this is right or wrong). Given the fact that marriages are 'family' matters (& not between individuals), every person in the 'family' has equal voting rights in the decision process. (Though 'un'fortunately they are not equal 'stakeholders' :-) but anyways…) So, if everybody has equal voting rights, it makes sense that they are involved in the 'search' process itself.
PS 1: For those of you who know me well, you might be wondering why an Ayn Rand fan is counting the pros of a 'collective decision'. I would just say that life is not very simple, so even though you might feel that 'individualism' is very important, the other party might not feel the same. So, either choose a partner who too believes in this, or give heed to this argument... cause this is what works with the 'average' people of this world.
PS 2: Ever wonder why people still 'fall' in love?
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Friday, 2 February, 2007
Musafir hoon yaaron... na ghar hai na thikana
Life changes so quickly...
World around me is in state of flux these days... people shifting jobs/ cities... getting married... getting engaged... and couples parting.
I was a bit sad that one of my roomie was leaving Bangalore and moving to Chennai. It felt just like yesterday that I met her..Then one of my friends remarked, "...hum log mussafir hain..". Thats was so apt... Its like meeting people on the journey. The only difference is that we have been together for a little while longer.
We are so close to so many people around. Never know what future has in store for each one of us.
I blink and the world has changed...
__________
Thursday, 11 January, 2007
“Duty Demands Nothing in Turn. How can the world recompense rain?” - Thirukkural (Ancient Tamil literature)
Wish I could be that good... not too demand anything...As a child I was very much like that. But probably not now. I have overgrown my good self.
Expectations get formed on their own, involuntarily. And when one does something good and nobody acknowledges it... It doesn't feel right... It pinches somewhere.
But why did I do it? For 'recognition'? Not really. Did it just like that. So, it should not pinch. Move on A*. Keep walking. Keep doing what you feel like. Keep smiling.
Why do people write blog?
Why do people write blog?
Is it because they want to write or they want to share? Or is it because they want to express (well, I understand this is somewhat similar to the first option i.e. 'write')... Or is it because they have spare time in office...
Like all good questions in life, this one too doesn't have a definite answer. But I guess its the third one. or the second.... ummm, i think its the fifth - i.e. No definite reason - How stupid A!
________________
Friday, 11 May, 2007
The painter
Tell me what am I supposed to do… My dear Ganesha is flowering blessings on me, right at the time when I was writing myself off...
_______________________
Friday, 4 May, 2007
The artist...
Unbelievable - that’s the adjective that comes to my mind when I think about life…
And unpredictable - Right from the time when we are little kids we hear people say these things about life.
But now, I am really beginning to understand the reasons behind it.
Past two & a half years have changed my life in a big way. My thought process is no longer simple, my soul no longer unhurt… Life is like some odd, confused strokes by some amateur painter….But somewhere I believe that that painter is too great to make mistakes, so I look up to him and not say anything. I think he already knows what I can't even say.
PS: Apologies for using 'HE' for a gender neutral 'artist'. Read as She/ He
________________
Tuesday, 1 May, 2007
Disclaimer to the argument
I don’t really believe in the argument in the bigger 'sphere' of things….. Read it carefully, it only talks about 'Search in…'
There are no 'collective decisions' in world. Whenever people talk about collective decisions, decision is taken by only one party*, rest 'n-1' abstain from decisions…
**** a party can have more than one individual but their interests are already common even before the discussions start*
____________________
Tuesday, 1 May, 2007
Argument: Search procedures involved with an arranged marriage are better than love ones.
Argument:
Search procedures involved with an arranged marriage are better than love ones.
Support theory:
Arranged marriages are like an optimization algorithm. Each partner searches 'n' number of nodes before finalizing on a target. At the end of the match-making, each person (read 'Family') is satisfied because he/ she knows that they can't get better than this. In short, they know that this is the best they can get, so they 'have' to be happy with it.
Unlike this, there is a lot of 'cognitive dissonance' in love marriage proposals - lot of 'thinking' and 're-thinking' because somewhere at the back of their mind, each person 'thinks' that he 'deserves' more; this increases (manifold) the chances of going back on so-called 'commitments'.
There are other points too. Cost of 'search' for a 'love' marriage is much higher than cost of search for an 'arranged marriage'. Pls. note that cost includes cost of time and emotions. For e.g. time spent in 'finding' & courtship is much much more than time spent in printing an advertisement in matrimonial & arranging 'family' meetings. Same for emotional costs: If the option 'A', 'B', 'C' from amongst your shortlisted matrimonial list refuse to marry you, you might brood over it but then it won’t be for long. But if your partner of 'm' months refuses to marry you, you will have to go through a lot of heartburn. Also, there are no additional costs in 'arranged' marriages, like you don't need to fight with your parents. You don't need to fight with the society.
Now the important point. Specially in Indian context, individual lives have no 'value' at all (Pls. note that I am not saying if this is right or wrong). Given the fact that marriages are 'family' matters (& not between individuals), every person in the 'family' has equal voting rights in the decision process. (Though 'un'fortunately they are not equal 'stakeholders' :-) but anyways…) So, if everybody has equal voting rights, it makes sense that they are involved in the 'search' process itself.
PS 1: For those of you who know me well, you might be wondering why an Ayn Rand fan is counting the pros of a 'collective decision'. I would just say that life is not very simple, so even though you might feel that 'individualism' is very important, the other party might not feel the same. So, either choose a partner who too believes in this, or give heed to this argument... cause this is what works with the 'average' people of this world.
PS 2: Ever wonder why people still 'fall' in love?
________________
Friday, 2 February, 2007
Musafir hoon yaaron... na ghar hai na thikana
Life changes so quickly...
World around me is in state of flux these days... people shifting jobs/ cities... getting married... getting engaged... and couples parting.
I was a bit sad that one of my roomie was leaving Bangalore and moving to Chennai. It felt just like yesterday that I met her..Then one of my friends remarked, "...hum log mussafir hain..". Thats was so apt... Its like meeting people on the journey. The only difference is that we have been together for a little while longer.
We are so close to so many people around. Never know what future has in store for each one of us.
I blink and the world has changed...
__________
Thursday, 11 January, 2007
“Duty Demands Nothing in Turn. How can the world recompense rain?” - Thirukkural (Ancient Tamil literature)
Wish I could be that good... not too demand anything...As a child I was very much like that. But probably not now. I have overgrown my good self.
Expectations get formed on their own, involuntarily. And when one does something good and nobody acknowledges it... It doesn't feel right... It pinches somewhere.
But why did I do it? For 'recognition'? Not really. Did it just like that. So, it should not pinch. Move on A*. Keep walking. Keep doing what you feel like. Keep smiling.
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