prized companion

This incident shows how we all love them more than anything else… it comes first .. without which we may be missing something. The role they play in our lives is much more than anything that anyone can ever think of.

More often than not, even a morning doesn’t pass  without him chanting aloud an “Om Swamiye Sharanam Aiyappaa…..” or an “Anatha natha…naga rakshaka.. bhoooloka naaaathaa…..” which can be heard a few hundred yards around but today it was the loss of a beloved … that subdued his chants, his normally rationalized thinking .. as a matter of fact.

This is what happened. He had been out for his normal walk and returned with her  and entered the house, only to find that he had lost her …. His only companion  … it was just after a few minutes of entering the house he realized it but a wee bit too late.  What began as a normal search for the most loved companion at his age of 77 beginning from the house to the rooms and other places we would normally find his love lying around, enjoying the solitude, space, and peace, went on for the next ten minutes with the neighbours being woken up on a lazy winter Sunday today to enquire if the dhobi or the milkman had come in and at what time so he could understand where the companion could have gone!  As it didn’t yield results, it turned into an inquiry with all the watchmen at the front desk of our tower to understand the number of people coming in at that time of the day near our floor so if in case anyone could have seen his companion with someone maybe we could have back.

When he concluded that it could be the  dhobi“washer man” who could be the culprit who had picked her up without giving it a second thought or asking for permission it was too much to accept. He rang up his other son who lives nearby to inform him of his bad luck and sad news… the loss was too much to bear.

After bathing, lighting the lamp was always the normal ritual with chants of “anatha natha … bhoolokanatha..” and “ swamiye sharanam aiyappa” but somehow his thoughts were not able to accept the loss and thus it subdued his prayers just asking God to return his loss .. so it was a silent prayer that day just similar to mourning the dead. No one could hear chants and there were few words spoken.

The next day God answered his prayers by sending the “washer man” and also making him realize and accept his mistake who acknowledged the crime and promised to return his important companion.

That set his mood on track bringing his smile and happiness back after a whole day of mourning. He could not contain himself and kept calling up his sons and others who were with him during his hour of sadness.

 That’s what technology does nowadays … the craze and the addiction and not to mention the dependency on it..  He recovered his lost and prized possession THE MOBILE! GOD BLESS !!!

this post was an immediate write up after observing the incident happen in front of me...in 2012

life of pi

Had a chance to view the Life of Pi. Sometimes we try to find hidden meaning in it. 

It portrays the storms that come in your life. We all sail in our boats expecting our life jackets around us in times of troubles. Pi too sailed the seas weathering the thunder and storms that came in his life and even though he lost his close family to the seas he came around to living  his life and move on in his life. Sometimes life gives you so much of troubles that it looks like God is trying your patience and endurance so much that you lose faith in yourself. Its therefore necessary to take everything in one's stride and go ahead in life, facing pains and pleasures with a pinch of salt.

Even as Pi is marooned in an island with a tiger he finds himself working out solutions in life and trying to find modes of survival without eating into each other's space and yet help each other.  Its how the animals try to out do each other in the same way as we all do in our day to day lives eating up the other who tries to compete with us  in the process of standing first. As we all try to fight in order to survive we don't realize that we are all a part of the same orbit. In the end of the fights only the two survive but they decide to help each other by not eating into each others space but being with each other in troubled times. 

Most of all when the journey ends after many days of wandering in the sea, when they reach another island where they get enough to eat and drink pure water there is a difference. The water which they find is pure in day seems to turn acidic by night thereby rendering it useless for the animals nearby. They seem to run for shelter as it turns night. When Pi decides to leave the island back he calls out for his friend the tiger who is not keen and runs back to the jungle. Pi says he could not even tell a good bye properly to his friend what it means is that we always judge the  others and take people for granted. In the process we all become attached to small things which become a part of our routine and life such that suddenly when it or they leave us we feel lost. When we should be grateful to others for what we are today and also to the society to have made us, we should thank each one who has helped us and especially our dear ones who unknowingly or knowingly help us in many ways by grooming our personality and life. 

As he says he lost his family his mom, dad and brother in the storm he never got a chance to say a proper goodbye. We all have a chance.. It's upto us to take it or leave it.

day 2

Is it possible to retract statements once said .... no 

I'm sure most people would agree that we should think before we say.

I suppose I'm one such person who generally either doesn't speak or thinks too much.. that I lose the chance to speak at a certain time or place or probably talk bluntly without realising the consequences.

Very bad in fact very dangerous isn't it ?

I agree ..

Here again after saying something its the reaction , body language of the other person, my own thought process, which makes things go haywire even before I realise the damage is done.

Though people around have been more sympathetic with me and my 'blessed' nature I'm sure very soon I'll get the brickbats for people will get even with me. I hope I have the energy in me to bear that! 

I have yet to find a solution to this profound problem in my life.

day 1

Our thoughts create our destiny. I have heard about this and read this statement so many times. Does it really happen?

Maybe some would say yes.. some say no..

When certain thoughts are entertained it reflects and gives us immediate results .... almost always. But when we turn back and realise that most were negative thoughts which gave results. And then we keep agonising over the result just wondering why in the first place it did ever happen to us.

An example ... just the other day when i had to iron clothes as i connected the wire in the socket there was this funny thought that struck that this switch is short circuited. This thought kept coming on and on everyday for almost a week and in the process i never did realise that it actually happened and i had to repair it; and the thought recurred again the very next day after i bought it and connected it again and i just let it be .... As the thought came .. had I been more conscious of it maybe i could have stopped it but i didn't. Now after two more days the iron stopped heating. You may call it intuition or whatever.... ! The crux of the matter was i had to buy another iron in the end... little did i realise that i could have stopped the thought then and there .. thereby giving direction to my thoughts more positively .. maybe.

But i have and am still learning it the hard way that maybe i have to be consciously conscious in all my thoughts to achieve anything. Secondly I feel that when we think of someone badly or negatively the aura or vibes as we call it reaches them. Negative vibes reach faster than positive moreover leading us to believe as we all believe that always "hamare saath hi sab galat hota hai.. jitna bhi koshish karo sab bura hota hai" ... blah blah...

I suppose its a learning everyday for me and i have been trying to be conscious in my thoughts that lead to a certain body language and therefore to a positive or negative result.

Hope I get renewed energy to think positively and be able to create my destiny the way I want it to be. 

think

Certain points to ponder :

It is easy to criticize others! 
Before criticizing anyone who is directly or indirectly connected with us, we should evaluate ourselves and find out  what qualification we have for criticizing others. Also 
how we would feel if such critical comments are used against us.


We should try and teach our children as many techniques as possible
for preparing foods, cleaning the kitchen, bed, rooms, tables and so on.
Let those work  become part of their life and not a  burden for them in the
future.

 

vijay

Vijayadasami and Dusshera celebrations.


Vijayadasami is the day of celebrations and success ! It is the day for converting all the negatives into the positives. It is the day which reminds us that 
One percent inspiration and 99% perspiration 
is the rule of success. Hard work with sincerity, devotion and dedication are essential
to achieve the goal.  

Converting iccha sakti to jnaana sakti and then to
kriya sakti.


Also pray for health because if iccha sakti, jnaana sakti and kriya sakti has to take effect we need to be healthy too.

AN OPTIMIST

Just as we are happy to see the shining stars,and the glimmering moonlight
our minds turn the devilish night into a beautiful sight

The optimist inside us reignites
and spreads its blaze of hope and warmth far and wide

Just as a boat is stuck in the sea,
it believes it shall one day be on its spree;

The optimist within us lets us overcome our difficulties happily
as we know that if we fall there is a force behind that bides us through;

Just as the birds flying around
without shelter or food never frown;
The optimism in us teaches to look beyond our imperfections
and never look down

Just as the ever flowing stream
overcomes all the hurdles in its realm
The optimist inside us helps us to accomplish
by suggesting us to dare to dream and not relinquish!

Glory to the person who discovered optimism
as it has recovered many of us from pessimism;

we can now believe in a reason
to bring someone else a happy season.