CHILDREN – By Khalil Gibran, Lebanese poet
Your children are not your children
They are the sons and daughters of life’s longing for itself
They come through you but not from you
You may give them your love, but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts
You may house their bodies but not souls
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow
Which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams
You may strive to be like them,
But seek not to make them like you
For life goes not backward or tarries with yesterday
You are the bow from which your children
As living arrows are send forth
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite
And He bends you with his might
That His arrows may go swift and far
Let our bending in the archer’s hand be of gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
So He loves also the bow that is stable
2009 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 30, ബുധനാഴ്ച
2009 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 29, ചൊവ്വാഴ്ച
My Country, My Life- Part1
My Country My Life – By L.K. Advani
A well narrated Indian history and politics from a legend . Fantastic language and very impressive writing. The whole book is divided into 5 phases (5 phases of his life) and described the indian politics,the details of various freedom fighters,politicians etc..
Very informative and I used to keep my Oxford dictionary with me while reading the above book.
Have a look at the following,which I learnt from the above book:
I am what I am today principally because of the values and tradition that I acquired from RSS – LK Advani
Every significant event has its own predestined time of occurrence
Advani- Born in Karachi and lived in Sindh for the first 20 years of his life
Advani left Karachi for good in 12 September 1947.
A more assertive leadership could perhaps have succeded in bringing these districts to India,in which case India’s western boundary could have stretched right upto the sacred Sindhu river. Sadly,that did not happen
Arab muslims who had settled along the coast,as in Kerala,had their mosques
Nadir Shah looted the country once.British loot us every day. Every year wealth to the tune of 4.5 million dollars is being drained out,sucking our very blood – Sindh times
Our object will be to sacrifice married bliss for the joy of serving the country – Jai Hind Party
Let positive,strong,helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood.Lay yourself open to these thoughts and not to weakening and paralysing ones
Curiosity kills the cat
Bombay, a city with which Karachi shares close historical ties and many common characterestics
Our mother passed away when I was just 13 and Sheela,only 7 – Advani
Time had inevitably taken its toll leaving me to muse,sadly,about the transience (last only for short time) of human life
When the door opens and lets the future in!!
Kindled the fire of patriotism in me
You receive so much from society but what are you giving back? Is’nt it your duty to do so? Is’nt it our responsibility to liberate our motherland??
Indira Gandhi during Emergency: Nation is more important than democracy
Advani was Minister of Information and Broadcasting in Morarji Desai’s government
Indeed,dynasticism is now part of the “basic structure” of congress
Ayodhya movement opened my eyes to the deep-rooted influence of religion in the lives of hindus of all castes and sects across the country
We have been unable to provide clean drinking water to hundreds of millions of our citizens,more than half of our population
What can be more shaming than to read that many infants in our tribal areas die of malnutrition??
Duty, Dedication & Discipline – Three principles that I learnt before I started my life as a political activist – LKA
About partion,LKA says – “ What an accursed (horrible) fate mine is..”
Join RSS. It is a good organisation which teaches patriotism& discipline to young men – LKA
Mother,had’nt you taught me from Bhagavad Gita that the soul is indistructible??
- Hemu Kalani hanged by Brits in 1943
Freedom is the birthright of every nation – Bala Gangadhara Tilak
My pre-partition memories of Karachi have always been that of a tidy neat city – LKA
The word hindu is clearly derived from Sindhu,the old as well as the present India name for the Indus. From this Sindhu came the words Hindu & Hindustan as wellas Indus & India – Discovery of India by Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru
Congress leaders believe that India would get her independence by sending memorandums & petitions to the British.RSS seniors would tell us “ we don’t think that the British are going to go away so cheaply”
Two nation theory first fell on my ears,it felt as if I had touched a live wire – LKA
Without a well organised population and without a voluntary force at its core consisting of individuals strong in character and imbued with the spirit of sacrifice,nothing tangible can be achieved – LKA
“Learn to listen more and talk less,express your opinion in clear and concise terms; but don’t challenge others in an argument beyond a point even if you know that the other person is in the wrong. Nine times out of ten,an argument ends with each of the contestents more firmly convinced than ever that he is absolutely right.Once you have made your point and your friends doesn’t agree,what is the point in stretching the argument? If you can’t convince him,simply keep quiet.
A man convinced against his will
Is of the same opinion still
Instead of condemning people,let’s try to understand. To know all is to forgive all. God himself does not propose to judge man until the end of his days. Why should you & I?Human beings do not change the way they live simply by listening to other’s advice. They have to realise the need for change themselves”
How to win friends and influence people – by Dale Carnegie
Godward passion transmuted to manward love.People read Gita as a pious act and for a little peace of mind.We never realised that this is a book of intense practicality.
- Swami Vivekananda
I have committed the biggest blunder in creating Pakistan and would like to go to Delhi & tell Nehru to forget the follies of the past and become friends again – Jinnah
Largest ever cross migration of population in human history – LKA about partition
One hindu woman posed question to Nehru- “Partitions take place in all families,property changes hands,but it is all arranged peacefully. Why this butchery,loot and abductions? Could you not do it the sensible way families divide?”
India is the world’s most ancient civilization,yet one of its youngest nations.Much of the paradox found everywhere in India is the product of her inextricable antiquity and youth.
British Prime Minister Clement Atlee had announced on 20 Feb 1947 that His Majesty’s Government intended to transfer power to Indians in a united or partitioned India by June 1948. Mount Batton arrived in india in 1947. In a maddening short span of 5 months,he completed the task of dividing India in 1947.
I am however convinced that the partition riots were to a large extent, avoidable – LKA
Uncertainity often results in suspicion,which turns neighbour against neighbour more so in a communally charged atmosphere
They made me aware of the harsh realities of life faced by millions of my countrymen and also imparted a welcome discipline to my daily habits – LKA
Generations to come will scarce (rarely found) believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood – Tribute to Mahatma Gandhi by Albert Einstein
I was shell shocked is an understatement. What had impressed me most about Gandhiji was his absolute honesty and purity of his personality – LKA
The sangh might not believe in Ahimsa but neither did it advocate aggression.The swayam sevaks were only taught the art of self defence
If the teeth were to bite the tongue, do we pull out the teeth? Even those who have done injustice to us are our own people. So, we must forget and forgive
A lie repeated hundred times becomes a truth – Goebbels
To call RSS anti-secular is to show one’s ignorance of what is secularism stands for and what the RSS stands for – LKA
We must be able to show that India is not only in theory,but also in fact,a country where hindus,muslims,christians & everyonewill be able to live without fear and with equality of rights.That is the constitution that we hae framed and which we propose to apply rigourously & scrupulously – Dr. Shyama Prasad Mookharjee
Our goodness or inaction has been interpreted as weakness by Pakistan.It has made Pakistan more and more intransigent (refusing to change views or behaviour)
India was the motherland of our race and Sanskrit,the mother of Europe’s languages,she was the mother of our philosophy,mother,through the Arabs,of much of our mathematics,mother through the Buddha,of the ideals embodied in Christianity,mother through village community,of self government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of all of us
- Will Durant “The Story of Philosophy”
To be continued..
A well narrated Indian history and politics from a legend . Fantastic language and very impressive writing. The whole book is divided into 5 phases (5 phases of his life) and described the indian politics,the details of various freedom fighters,politicians etc..
Very informative and I used to keep my Oxford dictionary with me while reading the above book.
Have a look at the following,which I learnt from the above book:
I am what I am today principally because of the values and tradition that I acquired from RSS – LK Advani
Every significant event has its own predestined time of occurrence
Advani- Born in Karachi and lived in Sindh for the first 20 years of his life
Advani left Karachi for good in 12 September 1947.
A more assertive leadership could perhaps have succeded in bringing these districts to India,in which case India’s western boundary could have stretched right upto the sacred Sindhu river. Sadly,that did not happen
Arab muslims who had settled along the coast,as in Kerala,had their mosques
Nadir Shah looted the country once.British loot us every day. Every year wealth to the tune of 4.5 million dollars is being drained out,sucking our very blood – Sindh times
Our object will be to sacrifice married bliss for the joy of serving the country – Jai Hind Party
Let positive,strong,helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood.Lay yourself open to these thoughts and not to weakening and paralysing ones
Curiosity kills the cat
Bombay, a city with which Karachi shares close historical ties and many common characterestics
Our mother passed away when I was just 13 and Sheela,only 7 – Advani
Time had inevitably taken its toll leaving me to muse,sadly,about the transience (last only for short time) of human life
When the door opens and lets the future in!!
Kindled the fire of patriotism in me
You receive so much from society but what are you giving back? Is’nt it your duty to do so? Is’nt it our responsibility to liberate our motherland??
Indira Gandhi during Emergency: Nation is more important than democracy
Advani was Minister of Information and Broadcasting in Morarji Desai’s government
Indeed,dynasticism is now part of the “basic structure” of congress
Ayodhya movement opened my eyes to the deep-rooted influence of religion in the lives of hindus of all castes and sects across the country
We have been unable to provide clean drinking water to hundreds of millions of our citizens,more than half of our population
What can be more shaming than to read that many infants in our tribal areas die of malnutrition??
Duty, Dedication & Discipline – Three principles that I learnt before I started my life as a political activist – LKA
About partion,LKA says – “ What an accursed (horrible) fate mine is..”
Join RSS. It is a good organisation which teaches patriotism& discipline to young men – LKA
Mother,had’nt you taught me from Bhagavad Gita that the soul is indistructible??
- Hemu Kalani hanged by Brits in 1943
Freedom is the birthright of every nation – Bala Gangadhara Tilak
My pre-partition memories of Karachi have always been that of a tidy neat city – LKA
The word hindu is clearly derived from Sindhu,the old as well as the present India name for the Indus. From this Sindhu came the words Hindu & Hindustan as wellas Indus & India – Discovery of India by Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru
Congress leaders believe that India would get her independence by sending memorandums & petitions to the British.RSS seniors would tell us “ we don’t think that the British are going to go away so cheaply”
Two nation theory first fell on my ears,it felt as if I had touched a live wire – LKA
Without a well organised population and without a voluntary force at its core consisting of individuals strong in character and imbued with the spirit of sacrifice,nothing tangible can be achieved – LKA
“Learn to listen more and talk less,express your opinion in clear and concise terms; but don’t challenge others in an argument beyond a point even if you know that the other person is in the wrong. Nine times out of ten,an argument ends with each of the contestents more firmly convinced than ever that he is absolutely right.Once you have made your point and your friends doesn’t agree,what is the point in stretching the argument? If you can’t convince him,simply keep quiet.
A man convinced against his will
Is of the same opinion still
Instead of condemning people,let’s try to understand. To know all is to forgive all. God himself does not propose to judge man until the end of his days. Why should you & I?Human beings do not change the way they live simply by listening to other’s advice. They have to realise the need for change themselves”
How to win friends and influence people – by Dale Carnegie
Godward passion transmuted to manward love.People read Gita as a pious act and for a little peace of mind.We never realised that this is a book of intense practicality.
- Swami Vivekananda
I have committed the biggest blunder in creating Pakistan and would like to go to Delhi & tell Nehru to forget the follies of the past and become friends again – Jinnah
Largest ever cross migration of population in human history – LKA about partition
One hindu woman posed question to Nehru- “Partitions take place in all families,property changes hands,but it is all arranged peacefully. Why this butchery,loot and abductions? Could you not do it the sensible way families divide?”
India is the world’s most ancient civilization,yet one of its youngest nations.Much of the paradox found everywhere in India is the product of her inextricable antiquity and youth.
British Prime Minister Clement Atlee had announced on 20 Feb 1947 that His Majesty’s Government intended to transfer power to Indians in a united or partitioned India by June 1948. Mount Batton arrived in india in 1947. In a maddening short span of 5 months,he completed the task of dividing India in 1947.
I am however convinced that the partition riots were to a large extent, avoidable – LKA
Uncertainity often results in suspicion,which turns neighbour against neighbour more so in a communally charged atmosphere
They made me aware of the harsh realities of life faced by millions of my countrymen and also imparted a welcome discipline to my daily habits – LKA
Generations to come will scarce (rarely found) believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood – Tribute to Mahatma Gandhi by Albert Einstein
I was shell shocked is an understatement. What had impressed me most about Gandhiji was his absolute honesty and purity of his personality – LKA
The sangh might not believe in Ahimsa but neither did it advocate aggression.The swayam sevaks were only taught the art of self defence
If the teeth were to bite the tongue, do we pull out the teeth? Even those who have done injustice to us are our own people. So, we must forget and forgive
A lie repeated hundred times becomes a truth – Goebbels
To call RSS anti-secular is to show one’s ignorance of what is secularism stands for and what the RSS stands for – LKA
We must be able to show that India is not only in theory,but also in fact,a country where hindus,muslims,christians & everyonewill be able to live without fear and with equality of rights.That is the constitution that we hae framed and which we propose to apply rigourously & scrupulously – Dr. Shyama Prasad Mookharjee
Our goodness or inaction has been interpreted as weakness by Pakistan.It has made Pakistan more and more intransigent (refusing to change views or behaviour)
India was the motherland of our race and Sanskrit,the mother of Europe’s languages,she was the mother of our philosophy,mother,through the Arabs,of much of our mathematics,mother through the Buddha,of the ideals embodied in Christianity,mother through village community,of self government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of all of us
- Will Durant “The Story of Philosophy”
To be continued..
2009 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 13, ഞായറാഴ്ച
Life's Mysteries - By Osho
08.09.2009
Completed reading “Life's Mysteries” – An introduction to the teachings of Osho forwarded by Khushwant Singh.
Very impressive book. Very much informative.
A few notes from the above book as attached:
Osho
Never Born – Never Died
Only visited this planet Earth between December 11,1931 – January 19,1991
A few basic truths have to be recognized. One is that nobody is born for another.The second is that nobody is here to fulfil your ideals of how he should be. The third is that you are master of your own love and you can give as much as you want- but you cannot demand love from the other person,because nobody is a slave.
Love is greed he affirmed tracing its origin to Sanskrit word lobha – greed.
Osho has his own therapy to overcome tension:
And you will be surprised that if you approach any part of your body,it listens,it follows you – it is your body! With closed eyes, go inside your body from the toe to the headsearching for any place where there is a tension.And then talk to that part as you talk to your friend.Let it be a dialogue between you and your body.Tell it to relax, and tell it tthere is nothing to fear.Don’t be afraid.I am here to take care and you can relax.Slowly slowly you will learn the knack of it and then the body becomes relaxed.
What is important and unimportant?
That which can be taken by death is unimportant and that which cannot be taken by death is important. Except meditation,nothing is important
You will be taking with you only whatsoever awareness you have attained; that is your only real wealth
To me death is not the end of life but the very crescendo of life,the very climax.It is the ultimate of life.If you have lived rightly,if you have lived moment to moment totally,if you have squeezed out the whole juice of life,your death will be the ultimate orgasm – Osho
Life has no aim other than itself because life is another name of God.
Except man,the whole existence trusts only in life.There is no other God and there is no other temple.There is no holy scripture
Our whole upbringing is such that it goes against pleasure,against joy,against the sense of humour,against rejoicing in small things of life – singing a song or dancing or playing flute.Nobody is going to call you a saint because you play the flute beautifully except me – Osho..
Receptivity is a state of no-mind
The less you think, the more you are!
In reality, nothing ever repeats
Love is both. It is rich and painful.It is agony & ecstacy because love is the meeting of earth and the sky,of the known and the unknown,of the visible and invisible
Religion has given many things to the world;homosexuality is one of them.All kind of perversions…
It is a fundemental law of life that love brings you to deeper and deeper dissatisfactions.
Love and love more deeply, Suffer and suffer more deeply. Love totally and suffer totally because this is how the impure gold passes through fire and becomes pure gold.
Be like two pillars that support the same roof,but don’t start possessing the other,leave the other independent. Support the same roof – that roof is love – Kahlil Gibran says
Our emphasis will be on verbs,not nouns; avoid nouns as much as possible. In language you cannot avoid,but in life avoid because life is a verb. It is not love,loving. It is not relationship,it is relating,it is not a song,it is singing,it is not a dance,it is dancing
Life knows no fulpoints; commas are okay,but not full points. Resting places are okay,but no destination.
Meditate- Without it,nothing is possible
With it,nothing is impossible
Laughter is part of the highest consciousness achieved by man
& Seriousness is a disease
Although it is just foam,without that foam those waves will look naked
The whiteness of the foam gives a beauty, a life, a certain dance to the wave.
Each effort will become better and better and better ,more and more perfect,but never perfect.
Silence is beautiful – but silence does not mean seriousness.
God never created ordinary persons
Life is significant and there is no purpose in it. It is purposeless significance, like a song or a dance
There is no need to postpone celebration. Immediately,right at this moment you can celebrate
You are,you are not to become..
To me,when a child is happy,jumping,the whole family should be happy and jumping with the child.And when the child is ill,care should be taken of the child but no sympathy should be shown.Care is okay; sympathy, no.
The child should be the first,the priority should be his!
Learn to laugh with the flowers and the stars and you will feel a strange weightlessness coming into your being..as if you have grown wings and you can fly.
The calculative mind is a desert like phenomenon and the non calculative mind is a garden.Birds sing there and flowers bloom…it is a totally different world.
The house is full of guests and the host is missing.You have all the things of the world but you are not.A tremendous misery is the outcome.You have all the pleasures,all the money,all that man has ever dremt of and in the end of centuries of effort,suddenly you find you don’t exist.Your inside is hollow,there is nobody.
It is starange. If everybody is serving everybody else.Why should I not serve myself,you serve yourself? Why create this complexity and make it a burden- that I should serve others and wait for them to serve me?
Duty is a four-letter dirty word.
Make it a point that your life has to be a life of love, and if out of love you respond,that I call responsibility. If you love,you are bound to respond;there is no burden. Duty is a burden.
Love can cancel gravity,love can cancel burden.Out of love any response is beautiful.Without love,responsibility is ugly and simply shows that you have a mind of a slave.
Youw ill have to listen your heart and go with it, whatever the cost-it is always cheap.Whatever you have to lose,lose; but if you have been listening to the heart,you will be the winner in the end,victory is yours.
Responsibility helps you to become more and more free. And only a person who knows the taste of freedom, who knows the beauty of responsibility, is worthy of calling himself a human being; otherwise you are camels and nothing more..
I don’t accept the idea of Mahatma Gandhi that Briton is responsible for India’s slavery. India itself is responsible for its slavery. Otherwise, just in a single hour,all the British people can be thrown into the ocean.India just has to understand that freedom is our birthright.
Everybody wants to be dependent; everybody wants somebody to take responsibility. In freedom, you are responsible for every act,every thought,every movement. You cannot dump anything on anybody else
The indications that you are on right path are very simple: your tensions will start disappearing,you will become more and more cool, you will become more and more calm,you will find beauty in things which you have never ever conceived could be beautiful.
You will feel life not as a problem but as a gift, as a blessing, as a benediction.
Sitting in a public bus or in a railway train,when you have nothing to do just close your eyes.It will save your eyes being tired from looking outside and it will give you time enough to watch yourself. Those moments will become moments of the most beautiful experience.
You don’t know how much you are holding in and that is the cause of tension.
Man can rise above gods and fall below animals.Man has a great spectrum. From lowest to highest,man is a ladder.
People have a certain tendency to be respectful about the dead.The longer they are dead,the more respectful they become. So, I am giving you a recipe; if you want to become respectable,be dead and everybody will be respectful to you…
The ego is a comparison.
Self-respect and pride are non-comparative.
In ego, you are always comparing. I am superior to others, I am better than you, I am higher than you, I am holier than you – I am a saint and you are a sinner..
Self-respect is respect without comparison. Pride is dignity.
I am against ego, but not against pride, not against self-respect. Those are the most important human qualities.
Ego is the root cause of all fear in you. A man who is ego less is also fearless.
Death comes and destroys the whole fiction of your name, your fame. The death comes simply and effaces all;not even footprints are left. Whatsoever we go on making out of our life is nothing but writing on water – not even on sand, but on water. You have not even written it and it is gone.You cannot even read it; before you could read it, it is gone.
Never ask “who is my real friend?’ Ask, “Am I a real friend to somebody?” That is the right question.Always be concerned with yourself
The proverb is “A friend in need is a friend indeed”. But deep down,that is greed.That is not friendship, that is not love.You want to use the other as a means and no man is a means,every man is an end unto himself.
Friendship is the highest form of love.In love, some lust is bound to be there,in friendship,all lust disappears.In friendship nothing gross remains;it becomes absolutely subtle.
A friend always feels grateful to those people who allow him to love them, to give them whatsoever he has got.
There is not much difference between truth and a lie.the only difference is that truth is a lie repeated so often that you have forgotten that it is a lie – Hitler
Have you ever said hello to a tree? Try it and one day you will be surprised;the tree also say hello to you in her tongue.
So on and so forth…………….
Osho goes on!!!
Fantastic book to read.
Completed reading “Life's Mysteries” – An introduction to the teachings of Osho forwarded by Khushwant Singh.
Very impressive book. Very much informative.
A few notes from the above book as attached:
Osho
Never Born – Never Died
Only visited this planet Earth between December 11,1931 – January 19,1991
A few basic truths have to be recognized. One is that nobody is born for another.The second is that nobody is here to fulfil your ideals of how he should be. The third is that you are master of your own love and you can give as much as you want- but you cannot demand love from the other person,because nobody is a slave.
Love is greed he affirmed tracing its origin to Sanskrit word lobha – greed.
Osho has his own therapy to overcome tension:
And you will be surprised that if you approach any part of your body,it listens,it follows you – it is your body! With closed eyes, go inside your body from the toe to the headsearching for any place where there is a tension.And then talk to that part as you talk to your friend.Let it be a dialogue between you and your body.Tell it to relax, and tell it tthere is nothing to fear.Don’t be afraid.I am here to take care and you can relax.Slowly slowly you will learn the knack of it and then the body becomes relaxed.
What is important and unimportant?
That which can be taken by death is unimportant and that which cannot be taken by death is important. Except meditation,nothing is important
You will be taking with you only whatsoever awareness you have attained; that is your only real wealth
To me death is not the end of life but the very crescendo of life,the very climax.It is the ultimate of life.If you have lived rightly,if you have lived moment to moment totally,if you have squeezed out the whole juice of life,your death will be the ultimate orgasm – Osho
Life has no aim other than itself because life is another name of God.
Except man,the whole existence trusts only in life.There is no other God and there is no other temple.There is no holy scripture
Our whole upbringing is such that it goes against pleasure,against joy,against the sense of humour,against rejoicing in small things of life – singing a song or dancing or playing flute.Nobody is going to call you a saint because you play the flute beautifully except me – Osho..
Receptivity is a state of no-mind
The less you think, the more you are!
In reality, nothing ever repeats
Love is both. It is rich and painful.It is agony & ecstacy because love is the meeting of earth and the sky,of the known and the unknown,of the visible and invisible
Religion has given many things to the world;homosexuality is one of them.All kind of perversions…
It is a fundemental law of life that love brings you to deeper and deeper dissatisfactions.
Love and love more deeply, Suffer and suffer more deeply. Love totally and suffer totally because this is how the impure gold passes through fire and becomes pure gold.
Be like two pillars that support the same roof,but don’t start possessing the other,leave the other independent. Support the same roof – that roof is love – Kahlil Gibran says
Our emphasis will be on verbs,not nouns; avoid nouns as much as possible. In language you cannot avoid,but in life avoid because life is a verb. It is not love,loving. It is not relationship,it is relating,it is not a song,it is singing,it is not a dance,it is dancing
Life knows no fulpoints; commas are okay,but not full points. Resting places are okay,but no destination.
Meditate- Without it,nothing is possible
With it,nothing is impossible
Laughter is part of the highest consciousness achieved by man
& Seriousness is a disease
Although it is just foam,without that foam those waves will look naked
The whiteness of the foam gives a beauty, a life, a certain dance to the wave.
Each effort will become better and better and better ,more and more perfect,but never perfect.
Silence is beautiful – but silence does not mean seriousness.
God never created ordinary persons
Life is significant and there is no purpose in it. It is purposeless significance, like a song or a dance
There is no need to postpone celebration. Immediately,right at this moment you can celebrate
You are,you are not to become..
To me,when a child is happy,jumping,the whole family should be happy and jumping with the child.And when the child is ill,care should be taken of the child but no sympathy should be shown.Care is okay; sympathy, no.
The child should be the first,the priority should be his!
Learn to laugh with the flowers and the stars and you will feel a strange weightlessness coming into your being..as if you have grown wings and you can fly.
The calculative mind is a desert like phenomenon and the non calculative mind is a garden.Birds sing there and flowers bloom…it is a totally different world.
The house is full of guests and the host is missing.You have all the things of the world but you are not.A tremendous misery is the outcome.You have all the pleasures,all the money,all that man has ever dremt of and in the end of centuries of effort,suddenly you find you don’t exist.Your inside is hollow,there is nobody.
It is starange. If everybody is serving everybody else.Why should I not serve myself,you serve yourself? Why create this complexity and make it a burden- that I should serve others and wait for them to serve me?
Duty is a four-letter dirty word.
Make it a point that your life has to be a life of love, and if out of love you respond,that I call responsibility. If you love,you are bound to respond;there is no burden. Duty is a burden.
Love can cancel gravity,love can cancel burden.Out of love any response is beautiful.Without love,responsibility is ugly and simply shows that you have a mind of a slave.
Youw ill have to listen your heart and go with it, whatever the cost-it is always cheap.Whatever you have to lose,lose; but if you have been listening to the heart,you will be the winner in the end,victory is yours.
Responsibility helps you to become more and more free. And only a person who knows the taste of freedom, who knows the beauty of responsibility, is worthy of calling himself a human being; otherwise you are camels and nothing more..
I don’t accept the idea of Mahatma Gandhi that Briton is responsible for India’s slavery. India itself is responsible for its slavery. Otherwise, just in a single hour,all the British people can be thrown into the ocean.India just has to understand that freedom is our birthright.
Everybody wants to be dependent; everybody wants somebody to take responsibility. In freedom, you are responsible for every act,every thought,every movement. You cannot dump anything on anybody else
The indications that you are on right path are very simple: your tensions will start disappearing,you will become more and more cool, you will become more and more calm,you will find beauty in things which you have never ever conceived could be beautiful.
You will feel life not as a problem but as a gift, as a blessing, as a benediction.
Sitting in a public bus or in a railway train,when you have nothing to do just close your eyes.It will save your eyes being tired from looking outside and it will give you time enough to watch yourself. Those moments will become moments of the most beautiful experience.
You don’t know how much you are holding in and that is the cause of tension.
Man can rise above gods and fall below animals.Man has a great spectrum. From lowest to highest,man is a ladder.
People have a certain tendency to be respectful about the dead.The longer they are dead,the more respectful they become. So, I am giving you a recipe; if you want to become respectable,be dead and everybody will be respectful to you…
The ego is a comparison.
Self-respect and pride are non-comparative.
In ego, you are always comparing. I am superior to others, I am better than you, I am higher than you, I am holier than you – I am a saint and you are a sinner..
Self-respect is respect without comparison. Pride is dignity.
I am against ego, but not against pride, not against self-respect. Those are the most important human qualities.
Ego is the root cause of all fear in you. A man who is ego less is also fearless.
Death comes and destroys the whole fiction of your name, your fame. The death comes simply and effaces all;not even footprints are left. Whatsoever we go on making out of our life is nothing but writing on water – not even on sand, but on water. You have not even written it and it is gone.You cannot even read it; before you could read it, it is gone.
Never ask “who is my real friend?’ Ask, “Am I a real friend to somebody?” That is the right question.Always be concerned with yourself
The proverb is “A friend in need is a friend indeed”. But deep down,that is greed.That is not friendship, that is not love.You want to use the other as a means and no man is a means,every man is an end unto himself.
Friendship is the highest form of love.In love, some lust is bound to be there,in friendship,all lust disappears.In friendship nothing gross remains;it becomes absolutely subtle.
A friend always feels grateful to those people who allow him to love them, to give them whatsoever he has got.
There is not much difference between truth and a lie.the only difference is that truth is a lie repeated so often that you have forgotten that it is a lie – Hitler
Have you ever said hello to a tree? Try it and one day you will be surprised;the tree also say hello to you in her tongue.
So on and so forth…………….
Osho goes on!!!
Fantastic book to read.
2009 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 9, ബുധനാഴ്ച
2009 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 6, ഞായറാഴ്ച
Onam
02.09.2009
Wow!..One more onam in my life. Had a good shave and bath. Wore “ona kodi” and went to office. Worked till 1.00pm and went to collect Renu from her office. Then we took kids from Baby sitting and visited Prasannan chettan’s house. As usual,it was really a grand ona sadya with 2 types of payassams. I like the sambaar and avail of chechy very much. We presented onakkodi to all there and chechy expressed her dissatisfaction on that. She does not like all these formalities. Anyways, we had a good time there and back to home by around 5.00pm. Renu & kids had a good sleep from 5.30 till 8.00 while I was browsing various channels and with Osho’s new book.
I am really addicted to Osho’s way of presenting various issues in our life. He is I think one of the best philosophers the world has ever produced. I can read any other books with the kids’s noise and TV switched on, but not Osho’s.I need total silence at home when I read Osho’s books. I am indeed fortunate to have books written by him with me.
We had dosa with sambar for the dinner and I slept at around 12.30 mid night. Saji George called me at 11.30 night to wish onam. He sounded very “happy”.
Kids were happy with new books, skirt& blouse, toys and “mulla poovu”
Note:
While coming back from office I saw one accident spot at Emirates road with police and ambulances around. I saw one body in a stretcher that was quite disturbing to me. There was an accident between one truck and a mini bus and the driver of the truck died on the spot. Life just goes away in a fraction of a second..and we all running around..I don’t know for what???
Wow!..One more onam in my life. Had a good shave and bath. Wore “ona kodi” and went to office. Worked till 1.00pm and went to collect Renu from her office. Then we took kids from Baby sitting and visited Prasannan chettan’s house. As usual,it was really a grand ona sadya with 2 types of payassams. I like the sambaar and avail of chechy very much. We presented onakkodi to all there and chechy expressed her dissatisfaction on that. She does not like all these formalities. Anyways, we had a good time there and back to home by around 5.00pm. Renu & kids had a good sleep from 5.30 till 8.00 while I was browsing various channels and with Osho’s new book.
I am really addicted to Osho’s way of presenting various issues in our life. He is I think one of the best philosophers the world has ever produced. I can read any other books with the kids’s noise and TV switched on, but not Osho’s.I need total silence at home when I read Osho’s books. I am indeed fortunate to have books written by him with me.
We had dosa with sambar for the dinner and I slept at around 12.30 mid night. Saji George called me at 11.30 night to wish onam. He sounded very “happy”.
Kids were happy with new books, skirt& blouse, toys and “mulla poovu”
Note:
While coming back from office I saw one accident spot at Emirates road with police and ambulances around. I saw one body in a stretcher that was quite disturbing to me. There was an accident between one truck and a mini bus and the driver of the truck died on the spot. Life just goes away in a fraction of a second..and we all running around..I don’t know for what???
2009 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 3, വ്യാഴാഴ്ച
Five point someone & Pravasam
23.08.2009
Read the book “five point someone” by Chetan Bhagat. As mentioned in the cover page of the book, it clearly indicates what NOT to do at IIT. Since the has some kind of similarity with my Engineering course, it was quite interesting. I felt the story as a real one and not out of imagination. From my personal experience, the friendships at college days will not have much of relevance once you grow up. Each individual has priorities in his life than the intimacy of friendship during our study time. This is my personal view and quite a few friends are of exception in my life. Anyway, it was an interesting book, thou not for serious reading. I can give say 65 /100 as rating
08.08.2009:Completed reading “Pravasam” by Mukundan. Wonderful,I can say.Clearly depicting life of various expatriates at different parts of the world and linked in a very natural way. Fabulous writing by Mukundan and we will sit on that novel till we reach the last page. I can give 85/100. All expats should read this.
Read the book “five point someone” by Chetan Bhagat. As mentioned in the cover page of the book, it clearly indicates what NOT to do at IIT. Since the has some kind of similarity with my Engineering course, it was quite interesting. I felt the story as a real one and not out of imagination. From my personal experience, the friendships at college days will not have much of relevance once you grow up. Each individual has priorities in his life than the intimacy of friendship during our study time. This is my personal view and quite a few friends are of exception in my life. Anyway, it was an interesting book, thou not for serious reading. I can give say 65 /100 as rating
08.08.2009:Completed reading “Pravasam” by Mukundan. Wonderful,I can say.Clearly depicting life of various expatriates at different parts of the world and linked in a very natural way. Fabulous writing by Mukundan and we will sit on that novel till we reach the last page. I can give 85/100. All expats should read this.
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