ME TIME

Everyone is in a hurry.Wonder where they are going.What are they trying to accomplish?Just a look around, and one can see the chaos everyone has created of their beautiful life.No place seems to be positively exuberant of calmness, peace. Tried to observe a religious place and of course found a hurried affair there also. Except for a secluded natural terrain, this pleasant calmness was nowhere visible.

Gross needs of life don't diminish, although these change shades.The balance between work time and relaxation time is missing absolutely.
Remember an incident while i was around fourteen.My grandfather was visiting us and we children were playing Badminton.My grandfather was sitting in an easy chair watching us all from a distance.Suddenly a thought crossed my mind that may be i should go and speak to him for a while,as i get time in between the games. After a small conversation with him of probably two minutes,before the next game started, as i was about to leave, he insisted on, me to sit down for a while and relax. I could see the peace on his face, simply relaxing. Doing nothing for a while.

Today i think how many of us are even aware of this relaxation agenda.Its not that now we do not get that in between short intervals when we are relatively free, its just that we have forgotten to spend that time relaxing with self, spending that time in real joy, knowing self.
Knowing the real self.

We spend that in between luxury time either on phone or in front of a television, creating an endless series of chaos,endlessly enhanced thought process.Too busy in all segments of life causing physical as well as psychological ill health.Don't have time to even die, kind of approach, is by far visible all around.

Blessed are those who are aware and have the smartness to steal that opportunity to relax and gauge the present to be with the moment. Enjoy the moment.
Life is too short.These moments are much shorter than life itself.Their pleasant impact on physical and mental health are exponential, not to speak of the benefits at psychological and spiritual levels.
Again the choice is there.

BASIC ESSENCE OF THE CORE

I wonder what does a simple life mean to today's fast moving people experiencing cut throat competition in each and every sphere of life. Majority of us are jumping in and out of more than a single role at the same time at any given instance.We have to meet the deadlines at the office as well as at home and to add to these may have other upfront responsibilities also on other levels may be social, religious or  political etc.

So that leads to a multiple personality of the person leading to more than one personality slides or rather more appropriately worded, multiple roles, slipping in the definite role at a particular time.
Generally we do it perfectly well and have no problem wearing different cloaks.

Daily we are acting as if we are on a drama stage, different  roles with perfect skills and taking on and off different colorful cloaks, leaving an impact on physical and mental being.
The original self buried under all these external covers, which get added daily, to make a strong invincible wall around the basic core.

The core of personality covered by the constantly accumulating dust due to this constant inflow of varied coverings with passing time.The original personality layered with hundreds or more, cloaks during a whole life time is the final outcome.The true nature of self, lost somewhere without our knowledge.
The basic essence of self, buried deep, never to be touched ever again.Leading a lifetime, but in vain.
Most important job of knowing and accepting self, forgotten way behind.

Everyone is born with that unique essence which is our true nature.The filth that we get loaded with and so carry during a lifetime hiding the original is not light, its very heavy. And only we our self can penetrate through it to reach the core touching our basic tendencies, the true essence we were born with.
 Also taking our true potentials to the glowing heights, for what this journey called life actually was.
  

THE TRUEST REFLECTION OF SELF

The Japanese say:
You have three faces.....
The first face ; you show to the world.
The second face; you show to your close family and friends.
The third face; you never show to anyone; the truest reflection of who you are.

The whole life is spent to safeguard these identities, to be shown whenever, whichever is required.....for the given audience. Full potential is pushed towards the effort to protect these three or may be more identities.What a farce of self for the self itself.
What a waste of life.....

The confusion created about oneself can never harm or do good to anyone else as it does to oneself.
Then what is the aim.....is it to confuse others or actually oneself only.
Can we ever confuse ourselves about how we feel or what we actually are.

Inherently we know each and every aspect of ourselves very clearly. Then why we are trying to hide it from self. May be sometimes certain ugly truths about self can not be opened for the public to safeguard oneself. Generally by showing our untrue face to people we start imagining that farce as our real self. Still that's far from truth.

What happens if all these faces start merging into each other.....  not shown as a slide show...... rather amalgamated together.
A dangerous proposition crunched by lots of confusion.
Remember the simple era with simple people with simple needs which resulted into much happier and content times, those culminated into generously pleasant lives.

What happens if the true nature of self is realized first, leaving the complexities behind and then the effort towards accepting it, starts.Generally majority of people are simple at heart, but with general complexity of minds due to the social and cultural environment and systems around, we lose touch with our fair self....the simple happy disposition of mind is lost.

Why not to converge towards real self for contentment in life.............
Mirror tells the truth....
Do you recognize your own reflection....

JOY OF THE JOURNEY

A journey or the destination, what gives joy for a longer period.What gives sustained, although not very smooth waves of pleasure for a longer period of time.

The time spent in a path is generally longer than that single moment we experience after reaching a destination and if we are not aware we lose the joy of enjoying the path. A constant search for the positive end result steals the small and big happiness associated with small and big achievements during the travel.

My last journey gave me a chance to watch a young mother struggling with her small baby, in taking care of her.Sometimes the stress could be seen clearly on her face, her body language and her speech.
This stage of baby will never come back again to be enjoyed and she definitely forgets that her stage is bracketed for the time being only and so agitates, mentally and physically too.The only thing that remains of the moment will be the sweet or sour memory.The baby surely grows with every passing day.This time will definitely flow further, faster than can be realised, like a flowing river,  never to return to the same terrain.

Living the joy of the moment can never be relived again, once that moment passes.They become good or bad memories and also the past. Experience is in that very moment only, rest is all history.

Each and every moment of life gives a good or bad experience.Good experiences are enjoyable for sure, still many a times we miss on that also. Bad experiences have their own swings which do enrich the life.

The land scape that i could enjoy while travelling is also equally beautiful if compared with the final destination, then why not to enjoy the journey too.Why to look for the final destination only or positive achievements only, for generating happiness to overcome all other emotions.

Reaching a goal is very important,but equally important is in what kind of mental disposition we traverse the track.
The in-between time taken can many a times be not shortened by will. So why to lose the joy of these passing moments.

Our mind needs a constant feed back of well-being to remain comfortable. Why not to provide ourselves the feeling of fulfilment daily at every moment. All that is around us has a potential to cause a real contented feeling, the need is to feel the joy hidden in that moment......Rest depends on us.
Do we have the potential to steal those moments instead of looking for that single moment only.....

PASSWORD.......HAPPINESS

Last night was specifically bad I being too tired for a good sleep after a hectic day schedule which was full of challenges, which definitely left an unending trail of anxious moments.We may have any amount of preparation for dealing with anxiety, real testing happens only in practical situations.Only real issues give us a fair idea how enabled we are to still be happy, at peace.

Anxiety levels do rise and fall. Main challenge is how these are dealt with. And also how long it takes to get back to normal. How much we can really switch back to the normal state of being happy forgetting the issues at least when we need to take rest, to get ready for another day.

I have seen people faking happiness in company. Problems remain at the back of their mind and still they indulge in fake laughter. Not bad. That's a good try at least. What if that laughter turns real and happiness touches the bounds, may be momentarily. A touch to well-being happens, may be for a very short period of time.

What if we become a child again, may be for sometime......
Be child like for a moment.....without fear...without any undue attachment....
Totally focussed on the object that gives a smile on her face........no distractions whatever it may be.
Being happy. Experiencing the joy and peace.

All our effort, as we lead life is towards creating happy environment....towards experiencing satisfaction...happiness to the core.
Are we ready for it......
Are we giving ourself time and space for real happiness to culminate......
Are we de-cluttering our life......

A seed also germinates in conducive conditions only.It doesn't need a river to swell up and let the tiny root break the shell.It doesn't need whole sun energy and soil of the whole planet for the required warmth. Nature is working in silence in a very smooth happy mode.

We also do not require such big paraphernalia to be in that state of complete relaxation....happiness....bliss.
What we actually need is an approach to be happy....
Time for oneself.....and a hobby to forget the surroundings and creating a masterpiece.

Life is an ongoing process to achieve real blissful happiness which touches the core of your heart and soul.Ready...Why wait....
Put in the password....Happiness.

ENJOY THE FREE RIDE CALLED LIFE

A rainbow is generally admired by everybody. Different colours in it look so mesmerising and beautiful.At times i feel i can watch it constantly for hours or may be more....such a beautiful phenomenon doesn't stay for that long and can be seen at a specific angle ,distance, time, duration in a supportive weather...a different angle will take away the view at the same time......Such a wonderful virtuality.

At one moment its there n at another moment it simply vanishes as if nothing ever existed there...An oasis is another example where one sees virtual water body from a distance and as one approaches that spot no water is actually present....Laws of light, nature at display

I wonder what other features beside these more commonly known phenomenons are prevalent which we mistakenly take as real....

The hazy hilly landscapes over the clouds, mesmerizing vision through dew droplets, beautiful sun set and  a sun rise over a sea horizon....all are there for freshening up the mind, a treat for the soul.

Can it be that certain events we are aware of as virtual are virtual with respect to certain conditions..... and others that we consider real may not be the case.Everything around is changing, nothing exists independently. Everything exists as compared in relativity.
 There is no permanence....Neither in personal wellbeing, social status, perception of life or any related things, concepts or values, religious understanding within the same religion nor in anything around which has a physical status.All is a relative explanation.

Just like a rainbow in the sky or oasis in the desert the virtual perception might change with certain changes in parameter to sudden and complete disappearence of the event......

Certain obstacles like ego, greed and lust don't let us enjoy the free ride called life that we are entitled to.....there can be many more unmentioned obstacles also. Just for once only if these don't exist... not watered....not inflated to unimaginable volumes...we may experience life in its most splendid, peaceful, simple and beautiful form.The serenity may be experienced by the soul or even eyes.....who knows........

HOW SMALL I AM

Last night was watching the beautiful night sky,wondering about the enormity of the sky and hanging stars......beautiful, mesmerizing view it was.Isn't it wonderful that we are living on planet Earth which is a small planet of our Solar System.

Our huge bright Sun one of the Trillions of the stars comprised by our Universe...amazing it is.....
And i a miniscule, infinitesimally small speck on our beautiful Earth trying to make my presence felt....i may not die unnoticed, i am concerned.

Recently was watching Cosmos...A spacetime odyssey...a series related to the Multiuniverse of which scientists say our universe is a very minute part.Wondering where do i stand.............................

The multitude of diverse expansion of  this so called visible and also invisible stars, galaxies, milky ways, blackholes makes me more inquisitive about this pertaining persistent enquiry about my existence. All the big things, people,projects, ideas,our contributions,everything seems so very small in front of this big never ending and also ever extending dimensions of celestial bodies.

Here i have not considered the time shift yet....seeing in the past or future....
So where do i lie......
Sometimes with inflated ego one does think big of oneself ....but still how big.....
Still quintessimally small one is.
Constantly evoluting like all other diverse flora and animals,just a very small part of the  visible existence........could not think about my importance being anything beyond this.........