MUSIC AN INTEGRAL PART OF HEALTHY LIFE

I was hardly seven or eight years old, as i can recollect enjoying an old  Hindi song played on All India Radio....a number from a Hindi movie...That was a daily routine in the home at lunch time....the radio played on good volume....mom cooking food for lunch...me playing in the courtyard with my brother and sister.I remember i always had my ears tuned in to good old music.

A few other incidents i clearly remember of listening to melodious songs or waiting for the next program so that i can enjoy the played songs....as at that time nothing of the recorded music was so easily available as it is now.....We had to wait patiently for the next aired program of music from the radio station...As a child i had a keen interest in listening as well as singing.It came natural in my case.Music was always there...as an integral, inseparable part of my life...i don't remember even a single day of my childhood without music ever....May be i started listening to music way back when i was in womb as my mother also had a basic instinct to sing....she has a very good voice.

 I never realized for quite some years that music has a refreshing impact on my mind....its giving me relaxation of mind...Every time i sing or listen to good soft music i feel a fulfillment of the soul......a thrill in life...a very positive lasting impact physically too...so soothing mind, body and soul all at once...getting in harmony with the source of energy.

It soothes the tiring exhausted nerves...replenishing the lost strength.
Music is therapeutic...as we hear from researchers of today.....They claim music can heal patients off many chronic ailments....People get sick when they lack such lighter and refreshing side of life....All our religious hymns are form of good soothing music only......Generally we don't give much importance to such alternate source for our well being... But no harm in giving it a try.

Pleasant, soft, melodious music only gives and takes nothing in return........ It rejuvenates the weak and aching nerves.
Healing nerves in turn means healing the mind. And when mind is on the road towards healing, body gets healed automatically.Remember healthy mind resides in a healthy body....rather it is more appropriate to say that health of body directly depends on the health of the mind.....If the mind is healthy, then there is no scope of the body to be unhealthy........any doubts.

LIBERATION....FROM WHAT

Everyone talks about the liberation of soul....Soul....we perceive that there is one.
Liberation originates from LIBERATE...if we try to understand what does liberate mean...it seems like a command...an action...an active participation seems to be closely linked with the word....

But whose participation...is it not self..
And what to liberate...is it not self...So self is what.................everyone understands that...
But liberate from what....i think the most important query...
Every where its written liberation from the past and the future, both, is equally important....living in the present is advocated by all...but how to go about it..

How not to get back to the past achievements or sufferings ....both facets are equally important....past is past... whether good or bad.....Past accomplishments give a pleasant feeling while past failures leave a bad taste in the mouth....but origin of both is deeply embedded in still very fertile soil of the past which is making may be not so futile efforts again and again to resurface and show its barren and ugly face.....

Similar is the case with future planning where the soil is not even ready for cultivation....we put in maximum effort for planning...and may be or may not be, maximum action of the present phase irrigates it....definitely depending on the motivation behind actualization of the plans......No harm in the future planning....but overdoing it won't solve the issues and rather will add to the anxiety levels.....Step by step approach in baby steps, reviewing the situation at regular intervals is rather going to help more effectively....so no long future plannings....

Now what about the present.... the most important and most fertile land which can actually be beautifully cultivated with hard work and right information and approach.....the seeds have to be rooted in this soil of the present with the right effort.......when maximum effort goes into improving the workability in the present...it definitely gives positive results and sense of achievement with it...and a kind of liberation from the thoughts of the past and the future...

So what is actually required........liberation from the thoughts of past and present...
 And also thoughts of attachment with the way we think....we relate....from the past, the future as well as present....Do all the work with best of effort possible...physically, mentally or cognitively...
Once any work is accomplished ....the attachment with the joy of achieving that also has to go....taking all the achievement in its stride....

And if a failure is on the cards then leaving aside the attachment with the sorrow related to it....One always learns much more from failures...as failures are definitely ground for more preparation and rock hard action afterwards....converting failures to learning experiences...the great and very personal stepping stones....

Liberate is action...its not a passive word....it demands a strong push towards freedom from all sorrows and joys alike.....from the inherent thought process....liberation from attachment to all the good as well as bad thoughts.....

LESSONS I LEARNT THE BEST

All learning comes from exceptional circumstances,be it exceptionally comfortable or uncomfortable situations.A normal life teaches normal lessons only.Any life which is exceptional in nature has a lot to share. The experiences of a fully lived life are definitely interesting and exemplary.

Life in itself is a great teacher and all people we meet during a life time are contributors to our learning experience.We are constantly learning from others....be it a bad guy, or a good servant, a learned relative, or an unsympathetic brother,or a passerby, or an illiterate or a highly qualified one, or an authentic debater of the subject, or a naive spectator....a dog.... a squirrel....a tree.....a bird..... a rock....a broken glass, a poor mother and her playful child......There is no end to this list.....

We do learn from each and every event that happened in our life....we make certain opinions about people or situations and circumstances based on our inputs....our learning....our experience.
Whether one is open to learning or is non receptive, still the data is being constantly saved in our personal hard disk called brain....to be used when and where required. Brain definitely acts as a synthesizer of ideas and knowledge exposed to it.

Sometimes we get only one chance to learn a lesson in a life time....such precious lessons....The inputs are unlimited............
And every single input has the potential of an encyclopaedia.....the need is how we actually take it...say for example.... a playful child of a poor mother shows the intrinsic very happy disposition of human life.....wagging tail of a dog shows unconditional love of the animal.....the swaying branches of a tree show the power of wind and at the same time show the strength of the stem and expertise of slightly tilted leaves and branches, how these let the powerful stroke of wind to pass......a rock may inspire strength and stability......an illiterate servant sometimes shows a solution one is looking for.....each piece of a broken glass shows full image, irrespective of its status,size...

So many wonderful things, phenomenons are happening around...the need is to keep our eyes, brains and hearts open....there is so much to learn from slight activities of day today...........

SELF-MY MOST IMPORTANT RESPONSIBILITY

Life is like a constantly moving, roller coaster ride, with no time to breath,one event after the other...all streamlined as in having a common link in between moving as on a conveyer belt. How the years pass without much notice.....a continuous chain of happenings good, bad or neutral.......
Every passing day eventful in itself, but still quite mechanical....certain fixed routine....normal inputs and expected outputs.....days pass changing to months and years.
Sometimes i feel there is some set pattern on which every one traverses his journey...the life......perhaps fixed number of days, minutes or seconds too.....generally people are so busy that they hardly realize what actually is happening......generally have no time to think that the passing moments are expended out of the fixed time provided...
Somewhere i read that if in a life time we don't learn to enjoy the things provided by Almighty which come without a price tag,somewhere we failed in finding the basic purpose of life...Let's review a few thing that come without a price tag... wonderful Nature is the biggest example.....unconditional love and sympathy is another very important example......the air we breath in...the water of rivers and oceans.....the soothing rays of Sun...the light and life provided by Sun....beautiful Moon....twinkling Stars.....unlimited beauty of diverse landscape... unlimited joy associated with each unending resource.
Until and unless we learn to humbly accept and appreciate such free provisions by the Higher Force...we fail to recognize Him....and also the self...as self is part of Him.
All these tag less assets provide us extraordinary joy...the need is to take some time out and be with this natural abundance......feel the freshness, happiness being provided constantly day in and out........rejuvenate the self.....feel the presence of most important entity of our existence........THE SELF

ATTACHMENT DIFFICULT TO LEAVE

We are social beings and so feel comfortable in the company of other human beings.The new born finds comfort in mother's close proximity.As a young child also parents' proximity is soothing, reassuring and supportive.As teenagers generally one tends to get into company of friends more, which is again a tendency to interact within that age group.

As life passes on..... the faces change from parents to friends to spouse to off springs and then to certain relatives, friends  or may be grandchildren. An endless opportunity we seek to communicate.Generally everyone is too happy when others are present around.....

In the absence of people we start using different communicating or entertainment gadgets or watch television or play a music system or seek virtual communication with unknown people on internet....why is this happening....why that reassurance is not coming from within.

We try to create an environment so that we never find ourselves alone....some people have fear of spending time without company....the moment they are alone they start behaving differently.... either depressed or aggressive......so a constant physical or mental activity is sought after even if tired physically or mentally...

This constant communion with others and unending communication starves our inherent ability to sustain alone.The mental dependency on others.....on our relations increases with each passing year, making it so difficult to live alone in solitude.

Attachment to the relationships increases, making it more difficult to spend some time with self for self introspection,self analysis.
That enriching experience to know self is lost.......................