The topic I chose to talk about is neither juicy nor is spicy. It is bland coz it doesn’t talk about a thing, or maybe nothing, divorced from human knowledge, or consciousness, if you like, that is at the ‘core’ of human existence. What is it like living the unknown or a zero plane! Why on earth should anyone strive for it! Is it kinda liberation from the tyrannical shackles of the world one has lived this far, and escaping…
Everyone out there say ‘let go’ and you drop into lap of peace and happiness. More than everyone quarrel night and day with ‘what if’ they let go. This ‘what if’ is an ugly hook that they find difficult to let go off. If only they could get past this ‘what if’, they could sail through ‘let go’. ‘Let go’ appears to be a scary free fall with nothing to break it! In this little piece, we revolve our talks…
They fed to me all bullshit, talked to me loads of crap. I swallowed them all. Some were forced down the throat, others hammered into head, some I grazed like sheep, and some I shoved down the throat to stay fit. I can’t curse them coz I can’t curse a sinking man for not saving me from drowning. And this sinking man can’t curse the other man coz the other had a savage shark after him. The one fighting…
It is only difficult people that can bring out the real being of a person. It is beyond the Saints to do this nor is it within the power of Mystics and Monks. They could be the jewel in the crown of the Messiahs but what turns a stone into a gem are difficult men. It is in the nature of things, real men are shaped at the hands of hard men. It is they who help evolve the…
This is about this gorgeous, young, smart girl with a beautiful mind. This 22 years old young woman, graduated from a reputed college, in her prime reached the end of her rope and was about to put an end to it. What was it that pushed her to the cliff edge at this age while she is yet to see the world! None other than her own father! His day-in, day-out snarky remarks, taunts, and jibes tore at her heart…
Inner peace is dream for many and living reality for a few. Dragging oneself through the delusory world fighting it inch by inch only to find their own existence a crushing burden that gets more than they can bear and many a miserable soul desperate to throw everything aside and get away from it all to take a dip in the oasis of peace. A rare few make it, every tormented soul crave for it though. Up for sale,…
Last week, I went to see the headmaster of the school that I went as kid in late 70s. He’s pushing 90 now. This short and swift man in a shape hiding age, smartly dressed as a matter of routine, was terror of a man in those days. A glimpse of him on the school premises would chill the bone of even the cockiest and cheekiest, forget about the herd of lamb and sheep shaking in their boots and…
Forgive or Forget! One of them has roots in religion, the other needs not have roots, yet yields fruits. Hardly is there a religion anywhere in the world of humans that don’t sing paean of forgiveness. The sermon that asks one to forgive but not forget is stressed in many a societies which, too, not surprisingly, find their origin in religion. Forgiveness is something bred into people by faith, and hence, sacrosanct. And yet, nine out of ten people don’t…
Someone in Linked-In, not from my connection though, advised me to read books to ‘know’ what this person was posting about. Quite interesting! I replied to the person that I don’t read books. I made a forthright response with humility and grace. This person made no response nor did I wait for one. And then, I grew interested in knowing this ‘know’. This person who asked me to read books is ‘in the know’ and I am out of the…
We are thoughts or we are nothing! We are anything but thoughts! One way or the other, thoughts are engine and we are wagon, like it or not! We don’t run thoughts. It is the other way round. It is thoughts that tell us what or who we are. What we are here for! What is our purpose and pursuit! We come and go. Thoughts live on, stubborn, obstinate, don’t go away. They don’t come with us nor do they…