To turn towards Thee, unite with Thee, live in Thee and for Thee, is supreme happiness, unmixed joy, immutable peace; it is to breathe infinity, to soar in eternity, no longer feel one's limits, escape from time and space. Why do men flee from such boons as if they feared them? What a strange thing is ignorance , that source of all suffering ! How miserable that obscurity which keeps men away from that very thing which would bring them happiness and subjects them to this painful school of ordinary existence fashioned entirely from struggle and suffering !

- The Mother, Auroville

Have you heard of the cow who attained liberation (Moksha)?It was dyslexic and kept on repeating OOOOMMM !

on this dussehra, wonder what ravan ( the 10-headed one) used to do with his headaches, if he had any ! ! i miss attn to such detail in mythology..daily truths....like whether krishna used to shave and if he did, with what? were the kauravas a test-tube or rather earthen-pot baby experiment gone awry!!!!

repeat an old fav for those of u who might have not read it....

all science is poetry.....can u imagine a world without the technologies of today.... where do they emerge....Mathematics and calculus and its various implementations are critical in the development of various technologies....and mathematics has its roots in "zero" an empirical definition arrived at by the indian spiritual mystic , Aryabhata.The first two postulates of mathematics are never under question; they are sacrosant....They just have been there eternally....mysticism is poetic ; to me The Beatles were mystics , as was Kabir.But so too was Einstein......science is an art , too....mystical, poetic......

All of us know of Kekule and his mystical dream ( the inter-twined snakes) which led to the discovery of organic chemistry . A very fascinating alter-insight into processes of "intelligence" and its expresses is provided by the book, "The Man Who knew Infinity" , a biography of the mathematical genius, Srinivas Ramanujam.

Happy Dussehra!!!!!!!!!and wishes for the awakening of intelligence as different from knowledge all around...

for those browsing my blog.....the perspective of the sharing is "can we also see it this way?"...a shift in perceptions and insights which have tremendously helped me motivate me to share, in the hope that it may serve as lead pegs for some fellow-travellers on the highway of life. I share because i feel like doing so; in much the same manner as a few of you may chose to read.When one shares, one throws the door open for infinite possibilities, expected and unexpected.The process of pro-actively sharing is an act on its own and has its own fulfilment while the interaction emerging from it is a universe of its own.They have their interconnectedness as well as a certain uniqueness of experience in their own spaces.The experiencer is a part of the experience in colloquial realms until sometimes when the experiencer dissolves into the experience and only experience remains.Valuation is always contextual to a set of known parameters and never absolute.Parameters shift dynamically as do valuations.It is positionality which more often than not that stifles real growth, as in it leads to a static potential rather than a kinetised dynamic.Movement is a quality of life.

Every part of the whole is a whole in itself as a beautiful Sanskrit shloka indicates...

Om Poornamadha Poornamidham..

Poornaatpoornamudhachte..

Poornasya Poornamaadhaya..

Poornameve Vasishyathe..

Om Shanti Shanti Shantihi...

Synergetic Convergence....a phrase I learnt at my University.....a fascinating phenomenon in consciousness....a leaf is a whole by itself, so is a branch....but when some leaves , branches, roots etc come together....they form a tree which is greater in expression than the mere summation...

Spiritual Jokes


What did the Yogi say when he walked into the Zen Pizza Parlor?
"Make me one with everything."

When the Yogi got the pizza, he gave the proprietor a $20 bill. The proprietor pocketed the bill. The Yogi said "Don't I get change?"
The proprietor said, "Change must come from within."

The "I" thought :
The "I" thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the "I" thought has to be enquired into.

was recently rummaging through some old notes of my granddad..chanced upon a couple of beautiful expresses:

man as a rule is always a fool,
when it is hot, he wants it cool;
when it is cool, he wants it hot;
always wanting what is not!!

a tiny pebble, idly tossed,
into the placid stream.
with gentle splash, it sinks from sight,
and never again is seen.
But , outward from that central splash,
the spreading ripples tend....
who knows on what distant shore,
the spreading impulse ends....

- authors unknown

today is "saraswati pooja", a lovely concept in prayer; an expression of gratitude for all the wisdom and knowledge that flows into our lives from myriad sources.mebbe one should add "blogging" to the endless list of media and sources that fulfil the dream of the rigveda; "Let noble thoughts come to us from every side".The universe, the original multi-media classroom...fascinating, awesome,inspiring, disciplining, self-regulatory and so much more...we are all learners and teachers at the same time as a certain Mr Bach had expressed...

Let this day be a dedication to the spirit of "learning"....

some learnings I have had on "learning" itself"

• never pre-judge, pre-suppose.
• be aware of the contexts and the assumptions.
• every speck in creation is a potential teacher.
• our perceptions and mental formations can inhibit genuine learning.
• learning is an attitude in humbleness.
• teachers persist in our lives until we learn what we have chosen to learn.Hence , we observe repetitive patterns recurring time and again.
• unlearning is a critical part of learning.
• the process of learning is joyful, a voyage in discovery ; not self-condemnatory or guilt-provoking.
• .................and so much more.....

Choosing to "live" over merely existing is a dangerous decision. One earns the right to live after lots of trials and tribulations.One runs the risk of being misunderstood,feeling isolated,being labelled as being insensitive , so on and so forth. Those who have experienced life, if even for a few fleeting moments can never just exist...Return on invests is proportional to one's ability to take risks away from security aspects. Every artiste who dares to exhibit takes the risk of encountering rejection, every musician who steps onto the stage faces the same ; ships maybe safer in the harbour but are not meant to be there. A person who dares to share his/her feelings stands the risk of his/her emotions being trampled insensitively.

Examples abound of people who have dared and been ridiculed; the Beatles, Marilyn Monroe, Abe Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi...the list is endless....

But to me, the choice to "live" is well worth every risk. The stench of death and decay on the other side is too pungent for comfort.

the process of creating holds a great fascination for me....be it a painter, a sculpture, a cobbler,a carpenter. a software engineer, a wordsmith....the process holds great appeal to me. the focus, the passion, the energy transfer from creator to creation....the dancer becomes the dance at some moment...the adrenalin gushes...all of creation seems to revel in celebration...