Belief the essence

The moment alas world seems to end…
All good thoughts start disappearing…
Heart felt its identity in million tiny pieces…
Soul wants to put a step away….
Thy will of His still being continued…??
Want ignorance for being ignorant…
Asking to be easy for difficulty…
Console the difficulty,
Console the ignorant,
They are fragile,
No thoughts for you…!
Hold the waves of ocean,
Stand as still as a clam lake,
Let the thousands volcano erupt together,
But be as cool as lotus floating on ponds surface….
How ignorant I am from the entire plan…
Senses are getting alive, to doubt grace….
Still somewhere some ray of hope is twinkling….
Aye to balm I or to put delusion...
The moment alas I know what is ocean….
The moment I felt what being eruption of thousand volcanoes…
Knowing all and understanding nothing…
How strange entire plan but still true….
Can a plan play with my belief?
Can waves of ocean wash of my belief?
Can thousand erupting volcanoes’ destroy my belief?
Nay, never, nor they should …
That’s the reason Calmness and stillness accompanying me…
The moment my belief and I are together…
Bedazzled but still smile on each other…!

(I had written this poem in Sep'2007)

Organise Your Thoughts, Emotions And Energies

One of the most beautiful article I came across from Speaking Tree, TOI.. Each and every sentance is so true and meaningful...

Everything we have created on this planet was essentially first created in our minds. All that you see which is human work on this planet first found expression in the mind, then it got manifested in the outside world. A well established mind, a mind which is in a state of samyukthi, is referred to as a Kalpavriksha or wishing tree. If you organise your mind to a certain level, it, in turn, organises the whole system. Your body, your emotions, your energies, everything gets organised in that direction. If you do this you are a Kalpavriksha yourself. Anything that you wish will happen. Once we are empowered with a potential like this, it is very important that our physical, emotional, mental and energy actions are controlled and properly directed. If it is not so, we become destructive, self-destructive. Right now, that is our problem. The technology which is supposed to make our life beautiful and easy has become the source of several problems. What should have been a boon is turning out to be a curse. If life has to happen the way you think it should happen, first of all how you think and with how much focus you think, how much stability is there in your thought and how much reverberance is there in the thought process — all these will determine if your thought will become a reality or not. Today, modern science is proving that the whole of existence is just a reverberation of energy. It is a vibration. Similarly, your thought is also a vibration. If you generate a powerful thought and let it out, it will always manifest itself. To create what you really care for, first, what you want must be well manifested in your mind. Once you can maintain a steady stream of thought without changing direction, definitely this is going to happen in your life. It will definitely manifest as a reality in your life. So, either you make this human form into a Kalpavriksha or you make it into one big mess. You must be clear as to what is it that you really want. If you do not know what you want, the question of creating it doesn’t arise. What every human being wants is to live joyfully, he wants to live peacefully, in terms of its relationship he wants to be loving and affectionate. All that any human being is seeking for is pleasantness within himself, pleasantness around him. Once your mind gets organised, the way you think is the way you feel: your emotions will get organised. Once your thought and emotion are organised, your energies will go the same way. Then your very body will get organised. Once all these four are organised in one direction, your ability to create and manifest what you want is phenomenal. You have the power to create, you are the Creator, in so many ways. The whole technology of Isha Yoga is just about this — transforming yourself from being just a piece of creation to the Creator himself. This is not in search of God, this is in search of becoming a God. This is not in search of Divine, this is in search of becoming Divine.

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Before The Sun Sets, Know Who You Are

Though restless and battered by complex problems, disillusioned and dissatisfied, many of us continue to remain engrossed with the exterior. Whereas, undeterred by social pressures, the Bauls, saffron-clad folk singers of rural Bengal, sing on “Why do you run after mirages? Look within yourself to attain happiness and tranquillity. Peace does not come from outside. You cannot discover peace by owning the world”. The Bauls travel from village to village singing with their ektara, which is a simple onestringed instrument, and drum called dubki. The Baul songs of joy, love and longing for union with the Divine deliver the message that God lives within every human being. The songs imply the importance of human soul or the “maner manush” which the Bauls perceive as the true God within every one of us. Hence the Bauls find no difference between people. Universal brotherhood is a fundamental of Baul ideology. They find no reason not to be at peace with all of mankind regardless of how people perceive the Supreme Being or the manner in which they practise a faith. The Bauls reject the rigid rituals and the social mores of mainstream society. On account of this unconventional approach, the Bauls derived their name from the Sanskrit word “Batul” which means “afflicted with the wind” or “mad”. It is this “madness” and their acceptance of the Oneness of all life that sets the Bauls apart from most. The Bauls believe that authentic worship of God takes place only deep within each person where God is enshrined. Individual inquiry is stressed, emphasising the importance of a person’s physical body as that which enshrines the Supreme. The essence of the Baul belief is that God is hidden inside each one of us and neither priests nor rituals can help us to find God there. For the Bauls, searching within for God, the true soulmate, is a lifelong journey. They meditate through their songs searching for answers from within. The philosophy of their living path is intertwined with their songs. Their search for God is a personal one and they believe it to be something that each individual should carry out for himself. The Bauls believe that God must first be perceived before being experienced and realised through the pursuit of inner enlightenment. With this goal in mind, the songs they sing and the accompanying dances are meaningful meditation focused on the soul. The Bauls believe that the body is a microcosm of the universe in which the Supreme Being resides and the essence of innermost being or “self ” makes human nature divine. The Bauls profess that when you search for God, you are searching for “self” within. Though God assumes various personal forms to reveal Himself, God is actually within every human heart. If you desire to attain the knowledge and realisation of the Supreme Being, then you should focus on the inner being. God is present in every moment and closeness with God is possible to experience during one’s lifetime through surrender to Him. Understanding that thought, emotion, feeling and self-image are not only gifts from God but manifestations of God. So, the Bauls sing: “Harvest before the sun sets. Know thyself before you sail for the unknown”.

(source: Speaking tree TOI

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Kyudo ceremony

The image of the pot-bellied Laughing Buddha has become ubiquitous in recent years. An organization that worships him as a deity, promises his incarnation on earth as a savior, and promotes a ceremony to spread the message of love, peace and happiness.
Interestingly, the personage is worshipped as part of a 5,000 year-old tradition in a ceremony called the Kyudo ceremony, which originated in China. The tradition and the ceremony have come to India, courtesy a Japanese organization named Dotoku-Kaikan. The Indian chapter with centers in Delhi and Bangalore has been active for the last nine years. Depending on word-of-mouth publicity so far, only now, with this feature, are they going public about their mission. Kyudo in Japanese means search within. The legend of Kyudo ceremony dates back to 5,000 years, when Emperor Fukugi of China received a divine message to start it to spread the message of love, peace and happiness. Since then, there have been 64 masters in the lineage. It is said that out of these 64, India alone had had 28 masters in the tradition, one of them being the world-renowned Gautama the Buddha, founder of a major world religion. The Dotoku-Kaikan organisation believes that the Happy Buddha or Maitreya Buddha will emerge as the last incarnation of God to appear on earth, and he will redeem humanity from all evil and sufferings. (Shades of the yet-to-come Kalki avatar of the Hindus!). They relate the legend that the Laughing Buddha kept praying incessantly in his previous life and his prayers enabled him to strike up a good rapport with other higher beings and enlightened souls. He was finally empowered by the supreme God to ascend as the Saviour in the Kaliyuga. He was also promised help by the gods and masters in his work. It is believed that Happy Buddha will usher in a new world. To be a part of this new idyllic world, one should undergo the Kyudo ceremony, which assures salvation. Ceremony is not a religion. It spreads the message of searching towards the inner God instead of worshipping the outer God. a Kyudo ceremony resembles any Hindu ceremony. The entire ceremony lasted for not more than 20 minutes, punctuated by intonations of a number of prayers, performed in front of a big idol of the Laughing Buddha, his face resplendent in candlelight. They say people fortunate enough to undergo this ceremony as not everybody gets a chance to attend it, and that we could now consider ourselves to be blessed by the Divine. The Kyudo ceremony gained roots in Japan after it was first introduced in 1944 by a Chinese master. After he passed away, Oshima Senshi Zennin furthered the cause of Kyudo ceremony in Japan. The present guru of Dotoku-Kaikan, which propagates Kyudo ceremony, is Okubo Zennin. According to Dotoku-Kaikan, Kyudo ceremony promises to be the easiest way to attain enlightenment with the grace of the Happy Buddha or Maitreya Buddha. Kyudo main motto is to cleanse an individual of his inner negativity and sins, and spread the message of love and tolerance towards one another. In India, around one lakh people are said to have undergone the Kyudo ceremony. People who have been initiated into Kyudo report attaining a state of calm and finding a positive change in their personality. Maybe it would take a while for us to realise our promised enlightenment…
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'Poet'- A jargon...!!

I came across an interesting jargon used by B-schools of America…. ‘Poet’ student who is not strong in quant…!! Prima facie it seemed alright to me…. But if actually alright why would I think and be curious…. Till the time I was in school I never liked poems, literature etc and on contrary I loved all analytical subjects with well defined logic and scientific facts and figures…. But the work of Kahlil influenced me so deeply that I got real interest towards literature, parables, poems, stories etc… I can read text on any subject, but very few things hold my interest… mostly it is spiritual or philosophical, contemporary and generic in nature…. A piece of text or line which cam be implied in any context around us or a text to which we can co relate our self….!! What ever books I have read till now I can classify those authors in three generic categories- first category where author use language which is rich in literature and uses simile and metaphor; much focused on peripheral cosmetics that subjects gets dim in glittering jazzy language…. other peculiar style of this category author is to repeat the ‘same’ thing in 10 different ways…..!! Second category comprises of authors where language is plain vanilla and subject is presented on black board with white chalk, this give us taste of bland curry which is consume only when people get prescription i.e. as and when needed… And the third category is of authors who knows the subject clearly and use literature and language as a tool to present the subject in best presentable way with its effectiveness all alive as well as keeping the message and subject crisp, clear and graspable. Articles and texts which fall in third category, close to reality and practicality hold my interest mostly. According to me Kahlil is on top of the list of those authors/poets, after that Paulo Coelho and then Khalid Hosini …. I have read almost all the books by these three great authors… and found a unique thing which really amazed me. Paulo Coelho and Khalid both are aware of Kahlil’s work and quote it in their books…!! Other noticeable point was similarity, I found was both the authors quotes the lines by Kahlil through the main female character of their book, viz Witch of Portebello and Thousand splendid suns respectively. Well not to loose focus from our topic poet…!! I was pondering on the jargon what poet means to me and what does it mean if one is poet and lover of quant also…. Being a poet it doesn’t mean over flooding with emotions (Like a person who wished to be poet in movie Bedazzled and starts crying when he sees sunset...!) or lacking ability for numeric analysis. Why I got attracted towards this jargon was a simple fact the contrast between the actual and given meaning to this jargon…. Analysis of logic thing is procedural and can be as crisp and clear as digital signal flow (0 or 1) but analysis of literature is non-procedural and like a analog signal (continuous + & -)…. Some poets they have knack to write in an analytical way rather you can call it ability to write in introspective way…Myself being a person who always liked quant and science plus working in Banking-finance domain as well as I like reading and writing poem… In other words the inference of jargon that a person who is not strong is quant is poet doesn’t appeal me…. !!

Tid-bits

1-World is beautiful!!! It looks more beautiful when you check it during office timing beyond office work, even a tree which has shed all its leaves appear like exotic picturesque exquisiteness...

2- I am good..!! (Or bad) who decides it?? Even if I am good it doesn’t mean I have lost the rights to be bad..!!

3- If someone says, I am good… it simply implies that you are also good as the person who doesn’t know what is goodness or what is being good, can not honestly proclaim the same.

Unmatchable Man

Few days back was the birth anniversary of the Unmatchable man…. The man whom I respect and love from my core…. At times it is difficult for me to believe that such an amazing spirit can ever walk on this earth….!! But yes, Kahlil decided to walk on this earth to make millions of spirits contended and off course to me also …
Kahlil the Nobel soul blessed us with the rich heritage, a unique combination of literature and insights…. Whenever I read work of Kahlil, the feeling I get is of contentment… as if my soul was thirsty since ages together and got quenched by divine holy water… The joy of reading his work is beyond inscription…

I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart for the joys of the multitude…..
And I would not have the tears that sadness makes to flow from my every part turn into laughter…..
I would that my life remains a tear and a smile….
A tear to unite me with those of broken heart;
A smile to be a sign of my joy in existence…