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Can you ask the mind? Do you mind if I take a dig at you? When you want somebody’s attention you will do all gymnastics to draw their attention. You will jump, crack joke, act funny, push yourself through to be noticed for a while. When you look inside. Do you find somebody sending thoughts to allure you, grab your attention, a bait to hook you? If you are attracted to the thought then the thought stays and links up another and then another and … a thought leading onto another — courtesy Indrayani the elephant at Art of Living international ashram If you let the thought go then it goes away just like the cloud. Have you wondered to explore who is that that sends the thoughts. First randomly and then sequentially, logically… Or thoughts just come for you and there is no force behind it. What’s your take? No matter if there is a single thought or flood of them, why do humans aspire to be free of thoughts? Is our real nature t...

You judge the color of the sky based on yesterdays clouds that you remember today as seen yesterday.  You judge yourself based on your thoughts that come from yesterday’s situation as you remember today as it happened yesterday.  Are you seeing things as they are and as they happen?  Are you clouded by thoughts born out of your perception of how it happened?  Do you make a factual statement based on something somebody told on someday as to how it happened in their analysis of the worldly situation? Whom are you judging here? What are you judging? On what grounds you stand when you judge? What is the basis of judgement?  Are you basing your claims based on a moving platform? Will you have an stable opinion about yourself or anyself for that matter? अपने वजूद को समझो, क्या तुम्हारा आधार है। निराधार राय को जन्म दे कर किसकी पहचान बना रहे हो।  हथेली मैं बहती हवा को पकड़ कर एक ठोस पत्थर की पहचान कैसे निर्धारित कर सकते हो।  ...

If you were a child going to a fair with your father and in the hustle bustle of crowd you lose contact with your father. You were holding your father’s hand and somebody came in between and then a stream of people rushed in and you were thrown in different direction. What will happen to you? You will search for your father.  Then the colors of fair might attract you and you will be lost in them for a while.  You will suddenly remember your father and run around to find him. Then the sounds of fair might attract you and you will be lost in them for a while.  You will suddenly remember your father and run around to find him. Then the lights of fair might attract you and you will be lost in them for a while.  You will suddenly remember your father and run around to find him. Then the circus in fair might engage you. You may come into the act of the circus and then go elsewhere and then come again. In between you may remember your fat...

When you reject you miss When you accept you blossom Only when you water the field the seeds will blossom into beautiful flowers and huge trees If there are no seeds there will be no tree, no matter how much you water You have all the seeds of virtues within you know that The infinite has already put the seeds in every cell of you Do not reject a child as stupid, dull Parents, Schools and colleges do They lose the challenge to kindle a flower They only get whats already blossomed A teacher may not reject a student Just because he appears to carry a heavy weight of karma he cannot postpone his enlightenment to few more cycles of janma and cleaning A student may not reject the teacher he may not doubt is he really loving and caring as talks or is he just a walking encyclopedia Your capabilities may differ Some may be fair, some brown and some dark in complexion Some may be fluent, some barely talk and some can be dumb Some may listen clearly, some barely and some...

When you learn to cycle. You fall. You getup. You fall and you get up again. Some people fall 5 times and some 50 and some 5000 times. Ultimately you learn to ride bicycle. Once you learn, you will not have to learn again. Then you can only improvise. You can leave the handle or try more stunts. You need balance. You need to earn as well as learn. You have to use head for business and heart for friends/family. You cannot mix both. You need life. You need work. You need to learn from your enemies what not to do and from your friends and well wishers about what to do. You will love some and you will not not be loved by some. Know that more people love than who hate you. God has given variety in world to let you appreciate love through lens of hatred. Observe hatred but do not fall into cycle of reciprocating hatred. Balance it with compassion and thank the hated for showing you hatred. You are made up of spirit. Spirit consists of love, of compassion, of gratitude, of feeling connec...

A nation which had given up. A nation which had no hope in the system. A nation which believed in nothing. कुछ नहीं हो सकता , क्यों वक़्त बर्बाद करते हो, सौ रुपये दो और आगे बड़ो,  ज़िन्दगी मैं और भी गम है,  यह सौ रुपये बचा के क्या करना,  फालतू की कीच कीचक क्यूं करना.  Senior citizen narrated their times of less corruption. Youth wondered was there ever a time of less corruption.  The common man sweats and burns his blood everyday of his life.  He wants a little money to buy some bread. He wants a little money to buy some education for his kids.  We created a generation of whales who learnt only to gulp big money.  Huge monsters. You dare not raised your voice against them.  They were your representative. They were your killer too.  Murderers. More than the money they made you hopeless.  More than the society they forced you indoors.  You just bothered about your life.  You just cared to meet both ends meet.  What ...

She could not hear when she was young. Her doctors warned that she would grow but will not have mental growth. She was born in Delhi and her parents realized that she could not hear when she was almost three months old. Then began their journey to hospitals , sometimes in bus and sometimes on foot. Her parents accepted her as gift from GOD and decided to give to the best of their abilities. She did not like the hearing aid when she was few months old. She would just throw the foreign object away. She would get very irritated when her parents could not understand what she was trying to convey. But they persisted and she would have absorbed their fighting spirit, she has now blossomed into her youth, a beautiful and energetic basketball player who is making her parents proud with her medals and achievements. She has even been to special Olympics to represent India in basketball. She found the spirit to live and she is living handsomely. Truely an insiparation for one and...