The Holy-day

There are days when you get up feeling really positive and happy. 
For the past few days, everyday I've got up to has been such, which is quite a contrast to the past few months. 
Who do i have to thank? Well lets see....someone, everyone. 
Sometimes things stay in your subconscious and take long before they surface for good. All that gyaan about 'New Day New Beginning', ' Live in the Present', 'Trust', and various other things all does come to you. But you don't have to wait for it. Move on with your life, go to new places, meet new people and before you know it, it will all come to you. You'll be sitting there and it will all click. And little pieces of your soul will come back. And all that fuzzy stuff, those years of your life you've wasted, they will eventually begin to fade. And you'll feel like smiling again. Just for the heck of smiling.
Life is a roller coaster my friends. The sooner you begin to enjoy the ups and downs, and the bumps all around, the lesser the chances of you falling sick. 

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you

God is all pervasive. He sees every action that you do, and ever reaction that you give. Nothing you do remains hidden from that supreme power. 
Know that if every good deed you do is re-payed by good deeds, your bad is also accounted for. Yes forgiven by god. But accounted for.
Do good. Speak good. Think good. 
Before doing anything that you believe is not good, think. Would you like it if someone did the same to you? You will never be able to do anything wrong. You would only bring a smile on your face and everyone else's around you. 
Doing good to everyone doesn't mean everyone will be the same to you. There will be many people ready to bring you down. Upset you. Shatter you. Forgive them. No one is worth hating. There is an inherent goodness in everyone. You forgiving them shows that you are above the mistakes. God resides within you.   
If you expect people to understand you, you need to make the effort to understand them. If you want people to respect you, respect them too. Love people, if you want to be loved. Spread smiles. 
Always be your bigger self. "EGO is the only requirement to destroy any relationship. So be the bigger person skip the 'E' and let it 'GO'." If you've made a mistake and you know it, first forgive yourself and make amends. Things that are done can be undone. Remember if you come from your natural self, the other person will understand. 
Life is worth living with everyone. Remember its not always about you. Be self-less. Spread joy. Be joy. Do onto others as you would have others do unto others as you would have others do unto you. 

Mistakes

You’re at your friend’s to see her freshly made science model. It’s on the table. You pick it up for closer examination and its slips out of your grasp, on to the floor. Mistake.

The noise pulls your friend to the spot. She looks down and then at you. You are told to go away. Intention.

My mistake is a mistake, yours intention?  

A mistake is a mistake, neither yours nor mine.

But a mistake happens and is made once. If done again then it seizes to be a mistake.

Take the lesson from a mistake. You’ve made it. It’s done. Regret isn’t making it any better. Take the lesson and move ahead.

Stay with the pinch of it. Not the regret.

Life is lived and loved today, right now. Live it. Love it. Yesterday is not making a difference and you can’t make a difference to the future. The present is a gift from god. That is why it’s the "present". Appreciate it. Be grateful. Smile. Live elated.

Painting of the soul

When going to the guru empty yourself.

Once Buddha gathered 100 people for a sermon. People waited eagerly for Buddha to talk but he sat absolutely silent.

All of a sudden a disciple Mahakashaya started laughing. Buddha called him in front and presented him with a lotus. He told the people “What can be conveyed through words I have told you people, what cannot be told through words I have told Mahakashya.” Saying this he walked away.

It was a heart to heart transfer.

The Bhagavad Gita was conveyed by Krishna to Arjuna in the same way. Only the receptive can understand it.

When going to the Guru one must empty them selves.

The Guru is there to fill in colors to your soul’s canvas. It however must be remembered that a canvas will always look beautiful if old paints are not overlapped by new ones.

Let your canvas be blank, empty as they may, for the Guru to work wonders on it.

The Guru has the power to put everything in place. He is the one window in a room through which the light filters in. Let that light shine in. Leave the window wide open.

I CAN. WILL I?

                   So you know those times when there are too many things you want to do? Too many plans that you want to put into action , but have no clue how to go about them, and there is this terribly strong-evil voice in your head which says that you won't be able to handle? Its like you are in a candy shop, surrounded by those beautiful, colourful, delicious, well carved sweeties, all of which you want and desire but you have only a ten rupee note in your pocket.
                    You are confused as to what to let go and what to hold on to. Everything at that point seems important. Essential, like a gasp of fresh air when one non-smoker is stuck with ten smoking goons in the tiniest cubicle ever. You want to make this life of yours make sense. You want to do so much but something seems to stop you. Something. But you cannot for the world understand what it is.
                    Definitely seems like the devil himself. Pulling you down into the rut of nothing-ness when all you want is to rise up. Do everything that you have ever thought of. Shine. Find yourself amidst the dark and confounding crowds of life.
                      But if that is what you want then how can anything stop you? Why should anything? Someone once said that the busiest and most successful man is one who has time for everything. Can't you be that man? Can't I?
                       Can there come a point where we can just press the mute button on those evil voices and say that I am going to make it happen?
                        There is only one answer (at least for those determined enough), YES. Life is not about giving  up because people who don't know you like yourself or some stupid voice in your head said that you can't. Its about standing up and saying I WILL because I CAN.


P.S. Its amazing how writing can help you sort things out for yourself. Try. Because in Step Up language, its not about what you got. Its about what you make of what you got.

Life Inside

I let my hand slip over my bare stomach,
Over the life that lay inside.
Over the joys of being a mother,
When, I opened my eyes.


Flashes of mom, dad and family came,
Of the horrors that i was about to provide.
The social disgrace that this might bring,
The dismay of being sixteen and having a child.


Thud! I felt my hand go,
Thud! Again on my seemingly little stomach.
How could you have let this happen?
Now you have to let it go, I heard.


To the reality as I opened my eyes,
To the harsh truth of what, why and when,
I saw a beam of sun rays creep in,
And fall silently on the life inside.


Everything felt soft and untouched then,
Pure as divinity it seemed.
Something then called out to me,
Perhaps the nature itself.


I let my hand slip over my stomach,
Over the life that lay inside.
Over the joys of being a mother,
When, I once again, closed my eyes.


Flashes of a little baby came,
-beneath the light blue sky.
Of a toddler holding my finger,
Of the little life inside.


Then to the series of joys I opened my eyes,
To the hopes, happiness and high tides.
To the beauty that god had bestowed on me,
To the deed i'd breathe to life.

CON-'FUSION'

            Then there are times when you cannot think straight about some issue. You are completely bogged down by the entire situation and you try with all your might to come out of it, when you are hit by a gazillion  multi-faceted thoughts about everything that could possibly be thought of in relation to that issue. Thoughts that all blend together. The 'fusion' of 'confusion'. You want to get out of the rut of mundane thoughts that cloud your existence, but all seems like an impasse. You seem to have reached a dead end.
             It is here that you must realize that no matter what, you are always in control. Its like a cycle with four wheels. Even if you have no balance and skills what so ever, you can ride and reach some place as long as you take the decision to. The only thing that is required is for you to take the decision to ride, in this case to get an answer for the confusion.
             Every situation brings with it two choices. the easy one and the right. The right is always going to be easy in the long, pragmatic sense, and your heart will always know it, even though the others might seem like a sumptuous blueberry cheese cake(remember those are always drugged). No matter how big the number of thoughts and critical evaluations may be. No matter how appealing the rest may seem. There is always that one thing that nags you. That, my dear friend, is the right. The right one.
             By the end, its always, only your choice.