A LESSON FROM YOUNG

Love and romance are integral part of life at any given stage.The emotion is so powerful an energy.This very energy is pro-life, pro-happiness, pro-health,pro-well being.......for growth and for evolution of soul.
As we put on years we slow down generally on all aspects of life. I have observed many persons  who preserve enthusiasm in life ......experiencing lighter side of life............ and others who are hardly pulling their strings of daily routine... getting heavier at heart day by day.

The enthusiastic ones are full of joy, happiness, doing great tasks with ease.They are also having problems in life, but know how to peacefully solve problems or accept the odds. This category belongs to people who are problem solvers. They may or may not reach great heights, but their happiness quotient is quite high.

The other category of people are always complaining. They somehow don't want to solve problems, rather they give undue limelight to the problems and problems associated with solving those problems.They are so called problem mongers. The approach rather should be how to face or solve the issues.

A close observation of youth in their late teens, twenties, generally shows that they possess exuberant energy, joy, happiness, zeal for life.......Sometimes i feel they are happy for no obvious reason....a carefree disposition of mind, newly found understanding of their existence....the power of their presence, an unending hunger for life, trying to explore every aspect of existence, strong affinity for life....... the sheer motive that pulls their being...... love for constant change and romance of experiencing the unknown.

 They do have trust in themselves and want to see themselves in the highest position possible.Sometimes dream of very high seemingly unachievable goals. We can find many interesting examples around in our daily life.What is the basic driving factor......They have the energy to push things in their own way to achieve levels, sometimes seemingly beyond their scope.
Their love for life is so alive, fresh and ever increasing...........

As we age we stop dreaming ..... noticing good things in life and start brooding about bad things happening around. Lack of observation for positive things translates into experiencing only negative aspects. This ignorance about the abundant beauty and positive inputs prevalent all around adds to our not experiencing the greatness of life......and hamper us... fully being alive and enjoying life.

Where that enthusiasm of childhood and early adulthood goes....
Why we stop celebrating life with advancing years........
Nature is celebrating all the time......love and romance in nature does not evaporate with passing days......that remains the same following the natural course demonstrating spectacular beauty in all the seasons......be it summers or winters,spring or autumn.

We can also experience the joy of living in all the stages of life ....the choice is ours.......only point is what to choose ......a positive and progressive attitude for life ....or a negative and demeaning approach towards this beautiful river of life.

A LIFE LOST

Why life happened to me....is a big question......
Why was i given this thought about trying to find the purpose of my life is still a bigger question.....
 How can i commit this grave mistake to ignore this self introspection.....

As we have a close look on a normal person's life....he takes birth, grows up, takes education and knowledge, gets employed and earns money.......gets married and has children.Then he raises his children, meanwhile looking after may be his parents or close relatives.....and later on his grandchildren and so on the life goes on.....taking care of his own clan.......Nearing his last few years gets care from his loved ones....And one fine day he dies, leaving behind all his blood relations , friends, accumulated wealth or whatever he saved.

Is this all that we came for...... took the pain of a life .......What happened to the insight that was provided to we humans only........... to help and guide us to choose the right direction to lead life.....make right choices at right time.......to have a judgement to choose right options in lifetime.......why an inability to discriminate wisely is prevalent......

Why that insight provided to us by The Almighty is not working.....are we sleeping.
We are doing everything for our loved ones only although whether we will be reciprocated with the same or not we rarely give a damn to it....
We are trying to provide the best only to people who are near and dear ones....although we have the capacity to take care of much more.
We have the capability to shower our love and affection....... to provide and guide many more....some unknown or unrelated also.
We can really touch many more hearts.....lives..... than what we actually do in life....
Only if we go beyond the boundaries of our own family and consider others also part of the family and help out.

We try to seek God in  religious places....but God resides in hearts.....
Hearts of fellow humans.
Why not to extend our hand to the hand seeking help....touching his heart....feeling the presence of God then and there.
Man seeks God through mind, but God is seen through hearts only.

OPTING FOR ILLHEALTH OR HEALTH

Another day while walking in the park, i heard an old man telling his friend that age is just a number.He was saying that at seventy eight  he feels as young as he ever felt and he is rather mentally much more at ease....and has all the time in life for pursuing his hobbies....He looked really content and happy.Otherwise at this age majority of the clan are always complaining about their health.

I wonder why certain people remain healthy and why others fall critically ill.It is the ultimate truth that everyone has to die and leave this world.....Umpteen number of causes for justifying the death have possibility in our life.Sometimes one fine day we get to know that Mister so and so passed in his sleep .... didn't wake up in the morning........although he had no health problems, but had a sudden unexpected death.

On the other hand there are numerous examples of people suffering for years.....sometimes for decades at a stretch,but they don't get back to their state of health n well being even after getting best possible treatment.......They bear health problems throughout their life.

Now we hear ...... that there are many diseases which are actually life style problems.
How does the life style impact health....Today's life style that people follow is generally a major cause of ill health...May be certain routine we follow these days enhances a possibility of health problems.

Does a certain life style impact the mind also ?
Do certain things we follow impact our thinking process....our mind. Our mind is probably one of the strongest tools that we explore with throughout our life.Even a critically sick person's mind also works quite fast. An old man or woman can always suggest on varied topics although they may not be physically very active.A good or bad attitude towards self , others or for life are strong deviated excursions of the mind only.

Generally we observe that while we indulge in negative emotions like jealousy, anger or delusion, healthy or unhealthy competition,work for unrealistic goals we over press the body and the mind both. Increased awareness of everybody about everything and many other factors contribute in building physical health or reversing it.......

All our body secretions,the enzymes and hormonal system get disturbed, the digestive system gets affected, elimination  of toxins gets hampered. What happens when such negative emotions give rise to more negative thinking and that remains there for longer durations.

The physical health starts deteriorating with deterioration of thought process. A very good example of this would be.......Suppose you are walking down trying to cross a very busy road.Suddenly a vehicle crosses you with speed.... rather fleeing past precariously close to your body.........What happens? The fear of getting run over by the vehicle triggers such enzymes and hormones in the body immediately and one feels bitter taste. A negative thought of fear could infuse such an impact although the feeling of fear sustained for a very short time....... one second or two........
How can we deny accepting the grave deteriorating impact of negative thoughts......

Such an incident can trigger such huge change in taste. So what happens if the thought process deteriorates....isn't that an invitation for bad health.The food we eat does not really help at all beyond a certain level. Basically what and how we think..........whether the thinking process is constructive or destructive......... is the most important basic ingredient for good health....i.e. physical,mental,emotional and spiritual health.....

All the systems of the body remain affected badly until a pleasant feeling comes on the way with a full force and impacts the mind for longer duration......As a single bad thought has an impact on the well being.......similarly a single good and positive thought also has an equal impact....the choice is with oneself.

They say every breath that the Almighty has assigned...... one will have to take....whether in good or bad health......So how to lead life....riding on excellent health or drowning with the burden of sickness  ..... the choice rests with the self.

CAN STRAY MINDS BE TAMED

Yesterday i observed an incident which forced me to think deeper....it goes like this. As i was strolling on the roof of my house i saw two kids of a laborer coming towards my house, a girl and a boy of around five or six....They had biscuits and chapatti in their hands....both were playing and also eating these in between...There they saw a stray dog.The girl tried to shoo away the dog, but the boy went forward and started patting the dog....holding the food in one hand.

The dog was wagging its tail..as it was pleased with the boy.The dog sat down.The boy hugged it.....caressed it.The dog didn't get distracted at all by food held by the boy. Then the boy started giving it food bite by bite.....sometimes trying to put a bite in the dog's mouth......And the dog was enjoying every bit of that love and hard and dry chapatti.

This incident catalyzed a thought process in my mind....that its amazing how a stray dog can be tamed in no time with love.....
Then how about the antisocial elements or terrorists or misguided miscreants or negative seekers.......can they also be changed with love.....

May be in their life they didn't get enough affection or care.May be they had to bear all the odds in their childhood.May be no caring parent was present in their growing years.May be there was no body to guide them in positive direction.
May be they were never adequately introduced to this positive emotion that is love, care or affection.May be that's why they lost touch with life and adapted unacceptable means.

We can't ignore this problem by taking refuge in a karmic explanation.......
Can they also be streamlined with love and affection.....yes...definitely so.....
The need is to recognize the absence of affection in their formative years....and do the needful by understanding them......showing genuine concern and affection and giving them a guided progressive direction.....

My grandmother used to tell me an interesting concept.It was like this...... She used to tell that a human being's mind is just like a vessel and the vessel is full of thoughts..... emotions.These thoughts and emotions build up over a period of time. These vary in quality in accordance to the inputs and experiences of life and flow out whenever an output is required.

The quality of out flow from the vessel that is mind definitely depends on the stored inputs over the past..........
Whatever was stored there over a period of time flows out...
Genuinely...... love, affection and care can help in improving the content and quality of outflow.

RELIGIOUS ENTERTAINMENT

Religion ........what is religion....everyone knows about that.....So much is already available to read to listen to or to see......A more appropriate question probably is ......what is the purpose of religion.......some people know about that........and very few actually understand that and even lesser want to tell the truth about religion to their fellow beings.
So generally speaking every one is simply accepting what ever little knowledge is available or understood......majority of people have no inclination to go deep and understand the actual purpose of religion.....or they have no time or means for doing deep study.
Then there is this bigger problem of politicizing the religion which acts as a deterrent for the actual seekers.Another problem of superstitions and misguiding advisers is quite prevalent.....The innocent follower of the religion accepts all as told by the priests.....or so to say more experienced followers....without an iota of doubt they accept.
There is one more interesting class of followers which takes pride in following the rituals...the whole essence of religion lost in performing daily rituals...and beyond that no research on the subject of religion is ever exercised....except for propagating the rituals.
No self research on the highly respectable scriptures is practically done. We actually start worshiping the scriptures without putting in an effort to analyze and understand the meanings.......or we simply read scriptures without actually thinking about the hidden guidance in these.
Why we practice the religion with ignorance.....without proper analysis and research.......Why this whole practice of rituals......daily visit to the shrine...becomes nothing more than a good routine followed daily.
The whole practice becomes a kind of religious entertainment ......without actually benefiting the practitioner.....Its time we rethink our concept of how to follow the religion.....how to get maximum benefit.......
An introduction to God is propagated by all the different faiths...and its an automatic first step for a child to get introduced to the concept of existence of a higher force... The Almighty....So role a religion can't be ignored........

LIFE IS TOO VALUABLE FOR SOCIETY NONSENSE

That day i called a friend, she was at a party, thrown by her friend celebrating her fiftieth birthday....well its really good to reach your fiftieth birthday hale and hearty......and its good to be with a select group of close friends........but a celebration with more than fifty or hundred odd guests doesn't justify the quality of time spent for fifty odd years.....

It seems people all around are trying to find odd reasons to either throw or attend a party........generally a behavior of teenagers or persons in their twenties or thirties to the maximum......but here we see people from older age groups as equally active or sometimes more frequent party goers.....

Everybody around seems to be in a never ending race with ever growing number of competitors from all walks of life.....My maid was asking for a day off one day, as i asked the reason for that she in her rustic style told me she has to attend a reception at night ......... her nephew got married and the reception was in his and his bride's honor.......its so amazing how people from even lower class are adapting these activities which are unduly propagated by the middle class and rich alike.......

Its neither a matter of money nor time........its only the inclination ....the psyche.....an unmindful copying of good and bad alike.....the highly contagious trends of the era......the distorted opinion about self worth......shallowness of thought process.

All practice gets infuriated to inexhaustible levels to feed ego....blow it to peak the highest level possible......just to enhance a false feeling of happiness .......distorted self esteem......surrounded by false company...actually not realizing being alone there.

Our behavior is a mirror image of our inner feelings.......priorities........justifications.....jealousies.....competitions........happiness......contentment......joy.
Whatever is inside comes out as a reflection...a true copy.

One of my teachers once told me that there are two ways to draw a longer line........one is to physically draw your line longer than the line of comparison...........another way is to rub the line of comparison to make it shorter than your own line...........in both the cases your line wins..........

But there is a lot of difference in the actual interpretation of both the actions i. e. drawing your line longer and the second action..... rubbing the line of comparison a bit or more to make it shorter......

Drawing your own line longer needs an effort to work harder, longer inputs with more dedication.....to grow one's own line or let's say self esteem.......a positive outlook for growth.....

Rubbing or erasing other line or say leveling the other person's self esteem needs a wicked gesture or a highly manipulated and motivated action............A negative practice to heighten your own ego.........

So why this run for the show is experiencing new heights and dimensions......varied approach and all variety of indulgence........fake show of affluence...happiness....with bankrupt peace of mind and values........

And the biggest bankruptcy....that of time....of life ...all actions accomplished without a single progressive thought ....without taking notice of progress in evolution of soul....
Without the basic objective of the valuable life ........... blessed to we mortal beings.......by the Supreme Power........ by His Grace