Life As I Know It

Hi Friend!

Please watch my daughter’s video on YouTube. This is an invitation to join us in World Peace Event to be held on January1st,2012. For details please watch video and log on to your facebook account.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT0IvjJmncw

Regards

Hi Friend!

Thank you so much for your support for my experimental “ Meditation Audio for Enhancing Relationships” on YouTube. I’ve crossed the mark of 100 hits.

It wouldn’t have been possible without your support. The link is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzqc_hlXEuc

Thank you so much. I’m indebted to you.

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Hi Friend!

This is a very touching incident. Today morning I was brushing my teeth. There was a small moth flying around me. It came and sat on the mirror. It was a beautiful moth; black and white. I was admiring its beauty, and suddenly I noticed that it had a well formed design on its back– two eyes, one straight nose and smiling lips. I couldn’t believe my eyes. I kept staring at it for quite some time.

I felt like capturing this beautiful moth in my camera, so I rushed to get my camera from the drawer in my room. When I returned, I couldn’t find him on the mirror. So I searched for him here and there. To my utter surprise, it was lying down on the floor with its wings open. I felt something amiss. So I leaned forward to realize that it was no more!

I felt so sad for him. I think it came to bring sunshine to me, to say Good Morning, and Good Bye. I never ever realized that a creature, as small as a moth could bring sunshine to someone’s life. It touched my heartstrings. May its soul rest in peace!

I thank you moth for your beautiful gesture. You touched my soul. I’ll miss you.

Regards

Hi Friend!

Please check this meditation audio for enhancing relationships on YouTube. The link is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzqc_hlXEuc

Thanks so much!

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Hi Friend!

I want to share something very precious with you. I’m a proud mother indeed.

Today, my younger daughter Anubhuti who is nine was asked to write a few lines on “Dedication” in her school. She wrote it like as follows. I felt very proud of her, and am sure that even you’ll feel so. Please spare a few moments from your busy schedule for my daughter’s creativity. This is the ‘unedited’ version of what she wrote.

DEDICATION

Q.: What do we mean by Dedication?

A.: “Dedication” is the devotion that we ought to direct toward our work. If we do not focus, we do not achieve our aim. You know there are so many people in this wide world, who have overcome so many obstacles in life. How? They have worked hard for it; devoted themselves utterly to their work. For example, Raymond Clarence Ewry!!! This is what we mean by Dedication.

Q.: Why should we “Dedicate” ourselves to work?

A.: It is impossible for us to achieve anything if we do not dedicate ourselves to our work. If we just slack off how CAN we achieve anything? If we just keep hoping for money and don’t do anything to achieve it? That’s the reason why we should dedicate ourselves to our work.

Q.: How is “Dedication” important to us?

A.: It is like this: Dedication is like a mother to us. She gently helps us to rise even if we are beaten. She gently puts strength and determination into our mind and our body. If we are passionate about sports, then even when we fall ill, we occasionally grab the ball, whether it is volleyball, basketball or football. Why? It is the focus, the dedication. This qualifies that dedication is important to us. It keeps us going.

THANK YOU!!!

Friend, I felt too good to read this small article. Instant, thoughtful, and creative! For those who don’t know about Raymond Clarence Ewry—An American, he was among the most successful Olympians of all time. He contracted polio as a child, and for a short while was dependent on wheelchair. Through hard work, dedication and immense courage, Ewry taught himself to walk and jump. He persistently engaged himself in leg strengthening exercises; eventually defeating his illness.

Thank you.

Regards

Hi Friends!

Just wanted to inform you all that I am pursuing my PhD in Metaphysics. My specialization is “Spiritual Counseling.”  I am enjoying my studies, and learning a lot. This course has helped me change my perspective about myself, about people around me, and about life as a whole. The lessons in my course are real life lessons, and they are truly helping me enhance my spirit. My inner world has changed a lot, and so is my outer world. I feel happier, more peaceful, content, and composed all the time.

When I tell people about my course and my specialization, they ask me—“What is this Spiritual Counseling? Has it got something to do with the religion, converting to a particular religion, or following some rituals on a day-to-day basis?” And friends, my answer is– “NO.” No dear, you don’t have to do anything of this sort. It is all about spirit, enhancing your spirit. Our material body follows the rituals of a particular religion but a soul has no religion. The human spirit should follow only one religion, and that is the religion of “Humanity.” Do no harm to other fellow beings. Let us all make this world a better place to live.

If you want to know more about this, please get back to me.

Regards

Hi Friends!

This is a poem about accepting self unconditionally and enhancing self-esteem. Hope you all will like it.



A sweet, li’l charming girl me,

I was born with a silver-spoon;

Unheard were the melodies,

and the songs that I would croon.

Movies, parties, zooming around,

Food n friends to surround;

Only fritter, chit-chatter

I was mad as a hatter.

My dreams were so vivid,

Desires so high;

Every time I took a leap,

I came down with a sigh!

I got up every time, and won

Accolades a ton; but

My heart would cry n yell

Dear, this is not done.

I dug inside, deeper n deeper

To my soul’s core;

It was dark as night all around,

I could go no furthermore.

Peeping further inside,

Into the crappie hell;

Came a voice soothing

I feel, I must tell.

Buried were my strangled desires,

Feelings of guilt n shame;

They grew enormously there

As I couldn’t tame them.

But friends, it was time

To clear all that grime;

And I started singing

My life’s melodious rhyme.

So I upped my esteem, and

Hugged myself tight;

Gone was the dark night, and

Everything was just bright!

Regards

Hi Friends!
After my day’s work, personal and professional commitments, I returned home quite exhausted. The moment I entered my home, my kids hugged me. My tiredness was half-gone! Then I freshened up, prepared a cup of coffee and just came out in my balcony, overlooking the sea-front. I rested my elbows on the iron rod above the parapet and just drowned myself in the beauty of nature. The breeze was cool, sweeping past by the coconut trees lining the beach, the sun was about to set, the rhythmic sound of waves was tranquilizing and the chirping of birds was just enough to pull me into a state of trance. I just pulled in my easy chair and lay down on it. I probably fell asleep. I woke up after an hour or so and found myself to be all new, rejuvenated, energized. I was wondering as to what could have happened in my short nap that I am feeling so good and then I churned my grey cells and tried recalling some phenomenon that happened to me during my sleep. I had a dialogue with myself—my “inner-self”.

I was walking past a street and saw a man sitting in anguish. I asked him, “What happened, my friend?” He replied that everyone in this world is better than him. No one loves him, no one cares for him. I asked, “Do you love yourself?” He said, how can I love myself when no one else does? I had to tell him that he has to love himself first, and only then the world will follow suit. Love thyself truly, fully, unconditionally, with all pluses and minuses in you. Don’t sit and solve the puzzle of how many pluses and how many minuses. Just have a look at them and improve your pluses, the minuses will reduce automatically. He felt happy, I felt happy too. Do you know who he was? He was my inner-self. As my inner-self felt happy, I too was happy.

Then I went inside a park. It had lush green lawns, palm trees, beds of various fragrant flowers, birds and bees all around and kids playing in the play area. I sat there for a while and pondered over what makes kids so happy? Why are they so energetic, so vibrant all the time? And I realized that it is because they just don’t bother about others and their opinions. They are just by themselves. While playing, they fall down, get hurt and sometimes cry too but nothing to bother my friend; they just get up, brush their bottoms and get back to their play. Do you know who they were??? They were my simple thoughts, telling me not to bother about someone else’s opinion about myself, just be myself, and that’s it. 

From there I came to the beach. I went and stood amidst the waves; coming towards me and going back into the sea. I was amazed at the restlessness of the waves. I asked them, friends why do you look so restless, why do you come to the sea-shore and why do you go back? What do you expect, what is about to happen to you? And they laughed at me. They said, our dear friend! We aren’t here to expect something; we aren’t here to please someone. We are just we. We do our job without any expectations; we just come to the shore because we ought to and that’s what we do. We are ourselves and we enjoy being ourselves. And you know friends; this was again my conscience telling me to be myself and to have no expectations from others.

But I was still not convinced with the reply the waves gave me. So I poked them again. Friends, tell me one thing. I understand that you have no expectations from others but what about your expectations from yourself? I thought they might muddle up the words but no! They told me that they don’t expect anything from themselves as well. I was surprised. I asked them why? They replied in a very calm tone that the expectations are like utopia; you can never have it in reality. The unfulfilled, insurmountable expectations bring the feeling of distress and you feel discontent. So why to have them at all?

My pristine sleep was interrupted by a sharp thud; a coconut was falling down and the moment I opened my eyes, I couldn’t believe that I was sitting in the cozy atmosphere of my home. I just took some moments to gather all the pieces from my invaluable, incredible dream, where I made my first rendezvous with my true self.

While pondering over the snippets, I was thinking that one must have self-acceptance, self-esteem and certain expectations from oneself, though not unattainable because having expectations will only bring out the best in you. If we have no expectations at all from ourselves, we will be nothing more than a lumpish squid. So, do have expectations but they should be realistic. Secondly, as far as the opinion of others is concerned, I don’t pay heed to what someone says about my looks, my attire, my culture and many such personal and superficial things because I know why I am the way I am. And if I am the way I am, there’s a valid reason to it.

It was the effect of this dialogue with my inner-self which brought me to the sunshine.

 I would like to quote, “Always know in your heart that you are far bigger than anything that can ever happen to you.” – Dan Zadra

I will now try to follow these principles of life and work towards becoming a more self-assured and enlightened human being!

Regards

Hi Friends!

Do you know thyself??? What a stupid question to be asked, that’s what you are thinking; am I right??? Right, so tell me now, how well do you know yourself? You’ll say that I know myself the best; I look into the mirror at least 4-5 times a  day; I know what I like, what I don’t, who I like who I don’t and so on n so forth. But friends I am asking about your “self”; are you really aware of your “self”, the inner-self, your true self??? If yes, well n good; if not, it’s high time, just put on your thinking caps and get moving…

What is this “self” and how do I know it, why do I need to know about it and many more questions like this will now run through your mind. I have written quite a few times earlier also that please devote some special time for yourself and only yourself. No other thoughts should clutter your mind at that time. Just devoting fifteen minutes a day is enough for you to slowly get the grip of your inner-self.

We are all beautiful within; God has made us great to deliver greatness to the world but we don’t realize this. We all have something unique about ourselves, we are all unique, no two people can be same on this planet and we are a big, rich source of energy which can do wonders for the well being of mankind. Friends, recognize that potential within, help yourself and others in whatever way you can, enrich your soul and lead a meaningful life. But how???

Here are a few suggestions for you my dear friends:

When you look into the mirror, tell yourself that you are looking at a responsible person who’s the ‘in-charge’ of his/her life, for yesterday, today and tomorrow. This way you’ll learn to take responsibility of your life and you’ll not hold every other person responsible for the condition of your life.

Accept self as a whole with all –The good, the bad, the ugly. Accept yourself as a package. Every positive is followed by a negative and vice-versa. So whatever way you are, accept yourself fully, unconditionally.

Love thyself first. (before you “love your neighbor”, just kidding)

If you commit a mistake; don’t ruin your whole life by brooding over it; just learn from it, make required corrections and move ahead. Never repeat it.

Feel good about yourself, treat yourself for the good you did, pat yourself and feel proud of yourself.

Think, talk and act positively, always. Make it a habit to be positive all the time.

Get into a good habit of being Happy all the time, whatever be the situation.

Don’t feel depressed for things which you can’t control; just leave them aside.

Doing these simple exercises would enable you to spend some quality time with your own self. Positive affirmations help you grow as a better person each day.

So what are you waiting for- start right now, right away…

Cheers