Yesterday Was Over Yesterday

Our past has left us a long time back; yet most of us continue to carry it in our heads and continue to be affected by it... U can help a person caught in the jaws of a crocodile. But how do u help a person who thinks he is caught in the jaws of a crocodile, while all he has is just the picture of a crocodile under his feet? The past has no reality except in the memory in which it is processed!

Nothing is a greater retardant to growth than the burden of the emotional baggage of the past... Yday was over yday n thats the reality... Today is a new day... Today is a new beginning n this is the reality... When that reality is accepted, guess our sufferings will cease instantly... 'Yday was over yday' is not an intellectual understanding. It is about emotional acceptence...

To unburden ourselves from the past, dont we need to offload our emotional baggage first? The trouble with emotional baggage is that it gives one scratched spectacles to view the world... When the spectacles r scratched, everything we see appears to be scratched too... There is an incapability of seeing life as it is n its seen only through the experiences of the past... Our past is more of an experience that we rqd to gain this maturity rather than a source of hurt n agony...

No point in living like a psychological antique... dont make life an imposition... let not our days be photocopies... our pasts exists nowhere except now, here in our own memories... Its time to wake up from this psychological slumber... What is the point in wasting another drop of tears on the past? Let every cell of our body reverbate... Yday was over yday... Let us draw a line to the past...

Carrying is an effort!

Dropping is a decision!!

Many of us have been labouring over our emotional baggage... Lets make a decision n drop it...

The person we will become in life is waiting for us in the future!

Nonsense at random!

The Devil should be destroyed! But if it is, would anyone seek God anymore? So when u destroy the Devil u destroy God!! So Devil n God becomes 1!?


Y cant materialism and spiritualism go hand in hand? Y is there a divide between the body n the soul?? If materialism is the home n spiritualism the master; is there any use of having a home to live in without a master or an empty house with the master living in it?


The highest peak gets to be the lowest valley


Education n knowledge r 2 different terms. Education is what one learns n knowledge is what one applies.


Stop using The Sun as a metephor for hard work! The earth truely does all the work..


Thanks to the Britishes to have ruled us for a while! Who else wouldve got in sundays but for them??


Some ppl say they r under a diet but i think they r off by a 't'!


Isnt fear also a kind of belief? Belief that nothing would go right!


Without ugliness there is no beauty!


Clinging to happiness drives it away faster than ever..


A river is the only thing to defy time. It remains the same everyday but changes every second! Its everywhere from the beginning to the end of its journey at the same time!


A coolie with daily wages goes to a movie to forget all his troubles n enjoy the movie! The producer of that movie suicides... Ironical!


A room with 4 walls is just a tomb! A samadhi! What gives it meaning is the place where there is no wall. A pot becomes useful not only because of the mud that it is made of, but also of the space where there is no mud!


Being a humourist is the most serious business!

Tu To Do!

1. Quit this job ASAP

2. Learn car driving

3. Stop Postponing things!

4. Start looking out for classes in western n hindustani vocal!

5. Enrole myself for 'salsa'! or well... a normal dance class is also absolutely fine

6. Rearrange my room. Loads of books piled up high n no space... So intending to rearrange

7. Buy new curtains n bedspreads (U cld add adjectives like nice n COLOURFUL!)

8. Make a life changing decision (Whether to stick with my curls or go for extenzo)

9. Wanna Meditate regularly

10. Go for a trek

11. Finish the book 'Where my friend, lay u hiding?' given to me by a good friend!

12. Finish watching atleast the 1st season in F.R.I.E.N.D.S

13. Keep up with my self induced 'rev-up' sessions!

14. To start being my usual cheerful n postive self again!

15. Start proper sightings n kadalais! (So far the best in the list :P)

Gitanjali

Ive never been into poetry... Frankly, never liked them much... But one of these days i happened to chance upon one of Rabindranath Tagore's greatest works.. Gitanjali..

A few of them even managed to bring out a lone tear, which i never realised was inside me..

Pluck this little flower and take it. Delay not! I fear lest it droop and drop into the dust.

It may not find a place in thy garland, but honour it with a touch of pain from thy hand and pluck it. I fear lest the day end before I am aware, and the time of offering go by.

Though its colour be not deep and its smell be faint, use this flower in thy service and pluck it while there is time.

On the day when the lotus bloomed, alas, my mind was straying, and I knew it not. My basket was empty and the flower remained unheeded.

Only now and again a sadness fell upon me, and I started up from my dream and felt a sweet trace of a strange fragrance in the south wind.

That vague sweetness made my heart ache with longing and it seemed to me that it was the eager breath of the summer seaking for its completion.

I knew not then that it was so near, that it was mine, and that its perfect sweetness had blossomed in the depth of my own heart.

O Fool, to try to carry thyself upon thy own shoulders!

O Begger, to come to beg at thy own door!

Leave all thy burdens on his hands who can bear all, and never look behind in regret.

Thy desire at once puts out the light from the lamp it touches with its breath. It is unholy-take not thy gifts through its unclean hands. Accept only what is offered by sacred love.

He whom I enclose with my name is weeping in this dungeon. I am ever busy building this wall all around; and as this wall goes up into the sky day by day I lose sight of my true being in its dark shadow.

I take pride in this great wall, and I plaster it with dust and sand lest a least hole should be left in this name; and for all the care I take I lose sight of my true being.

The day was when I did not keep myself in readiness for thee; and entering my heart unbidden even as one of the common crowd, unknown to me, my king, thou didst press the signet of eternity upon many a fleeting moment of my life.

And to-day when by chance I light upon them and see thy signature, I find they have lain scattered in the dust mixed with the memory of joys and sorrows of my trivial days forgotten.

Thou didst not turn in contempt from my childish play among dust, and the steps that I heard in my play-room are the same that are echoing from star to star.

When thou commandest me to sing, it seems that my heart would break with pride; and i look to thy face, and tears comes to my eyes.

All that is harsh and dissonant in my life melts into one sweet harmony - and my adoration spreads wings like a glad bird on its flight across the sea.

I know thou takest pleasure in my singing. I know that only as a singer i come before thy presence.

I touch by the edge of the far-spreading wing of my song thy feet which i could never aspire to reach.

Drunk with the joy of singing I forget myself and call thee friend who art my Lord.

I know not how thou singest, my master! I ever listen in silent amazement.

The light of they msic illumines the world. The life-breath of they music runs from sky to sky. The holy stream of thy music breaks through all stony obstacles and rushes on.

My heart longs to join in thy song, but vainly struggles for a voice. I would speak, but speech breaks not into song, and i cry out baffled. Ah, thou hast made my heart captive in the endless meshes of thy music, my master!

???

What r we?

Human Beings...!!??

A living being having the capacity to do anything n everything?

A kind of mammal thinking it has always been and also would keep ruling the world?

An alien from some planet?

An organism which has millions n millions of lives living inside it?

Or just an ever so tiny spec of bacteria formed bcoz of the moisture on earth??



How r we here?

Is it bcoz of the proverbial chakra or cycle?

Or is it bcoz of that one strong sperm?

Or maybe did God think the -1 population without us was incomplete?

This could even be a dream! Maybe we r just a dream... A dream by ourselves or even someone else's dream..



What r we here for??

R we here to earn loads n loads of money, lead a luxurious life n own everything we'd ever dreamt of?

R we here to earn recognition n fame around the world or atleast among our ppl?

R we here to impress others with our riches n our fame?

R we here for the success or the money or both?

R we here just to keep proving ourselves to everyone n everything around?

R we here for the good of others? Rather for the good of the world?

R we here for love?

R we here to live for ourselves or for others?

HAPPY NEW YR!!!!! :)

Heyyyyyy Ppppppllllll....

Wish u all an awesome new yr!!!

k.. so time to update this space of mine n am not intending to leave with just a one line wish...

Talking about new yr... what is new yr all about?? Is it a matter of a few resolutions which more often than not, lasts for a few hrs? or is it just a ritual with a series of moves rehersed through years of practice?

From the time i understood what a new yr was, it has always been a ritual to wake up late on the first of jan n its Dejavu to see my thoughts always revolving around how soon the previous yr flew away n whether the coming yr would prove to be the same... but yes.. every yr, time just flies, pulling us into life as fast as it could!

Talking about the previous yr, 2006 was just amazing...

1. Brother got married... (n that looks like ages ago!!! :O )
2. So obviously an additional member in the family which according to me is quite a change n obviously welcome!
3. Broke quite a few rules... I guess this was the yr for too many '1'st timers.. ;)
4. Came across quite a few amazing ppl who managed to change my life n my way of thinking forever!!! Thank u to all of u :)
5. Atlast did the demo CD that was pending so long and distributed it around..
6. Been recieving calls ever since for recs... which is again a good start..
7. An yr which taught like no other both in my professional n personal front!

Hmmm... Gotta gut feeling i left out something important that happened... i shall update thy if it cares to strike me sometime...

So coming to the resolutions part... Honestly am never the kind to make resolutions dedicated for new yr n breakin em again... but this new yr there were many realizations than resolutions... At the end, we after all make all those resolutions to get that 'realization' in right?

The realization was living for the moment!! Fully n totally n with all fervour! The past n the future r just illusions... the present is the juncture making my past n my future real n thats exactly what i have to live for! This moment that iam living in was worried about by me yday.. n this moment would again be worried about by me tomorrow for not having lived it... with all these, life just becomes a wild goose chase not knowing what we r living for!

Cant help but remember this phrase from Bhagvad Gita, n for all the non tamilians reading this, sorry for the inconvenience!!

"Yedhu Nadandhadho Adhu Nandraagave Nadandhadhu
Yedhu Nadakiradho Adhu Nandraagave Nadakiradhu
Yedhu Nadakkevirukkiradho Adhuvum Nanraagave Nadakkum
Yedhai Nee Kondu Vandhaai? Yedharkku Nee Azhugiraai?
Yedhai Nee Kondu Vandhaai Adhai Nee Izhappadharkku?
Yedhai Nee Padaithirundhaai Adhai Veenaavadharku?
Yedhu Indru Unnudayadho, Adhu Naalai Mattroruvarudayadhaagum!
Matroru Naal Adhu Veroruvarudayadhaagiradhu
Idhuve Ulaga Neeyadhi"

The Translation goes like..

"Whatever that happened, happened for good
Whatever that is happening, is happening for good
Whatever that is yet to happen, would also happen for good
What did u bring with u? Y do u cry?
What did u bring with u to lose?
What did u create for u to have wasted it?
What belongs to u today would belong to someone else tomorrow
Another day it would belong to anyone else
This is the universal truth"

This phrase has made me live so much more in peace! :)

So thats about it Folks... Good Night!