excellence - a parameter of quality

A giant ship engine failed. The ship's owners tried one expert after another, but none of them could figure but how to fix the engine.
Then they brought in an old man who had been fixing ships since he was a young. He carried a large bag of tools with him, and when he arrived, he immediately went to work. He inspected the engine very carefully, top to bottom.
Two of the ship's owners were there, watching this man, hoping he would know what to do. After looking things over, the old man reached into his bag and pulled out a small hammer. He gently tapped something. Instantly, the engine lurched into life. He carefully put his hammer away. The engine was fixed!
A week later, the owners received a bill from the old man for ten thousand dollars.
"What?!" the owners exclaimed. "He hardly did anything!"
So they wrote the old man a note saying, "Please send us an itemized bill."
The man sent a bill that read:
Tapping with a hammer....................... $ 2.00
Knowing where to tap.......................... $ 9,998.00
Moral: Effort is important, but knowing where to make an effort makes all the difference!

Grace ...

Recently had an occasion to experience live GRACE ....

last week, was on my way from thane to chembur in a rick which was travelling at breakneck speed on the eastern express highway.

a car suddenly cut across from the right and hit our rick.The driver and his asst ( sometimes 2 guys sit in front) were thrown out of the rick while the rick turned on it's side.I was left squatting on the ground with the rick around me and was dragged alongwith the rick a few metres by the car. The car jerked us off and went on it's way.

The inner silenec that I have been experiencing did not desert me at the moment nor did my awareness. the rick came to a halt and people rushed to lift it from above me.I was able to climb to my feet and my clothes were badly torn and my right side of the body in great pain as I was dragged against the tar road.

A young college student drove me to a Dr near my house and miraculously i had suffered no fractures etc. A few bruises were there but they are manageable.My goggles, mobile phone, watch etc were unscathed.

Looking back, i cannot believe that I could get off so easily in a bad accident right in the middle of the expressway where vehicles coming behind me could have easily knocked me off.

Grace had made it's presence felt and a feeling of gratitude overpowered me.....

awe..the essence of living...

"If you can live in wonder, you will be capable of celebration. Don't live in knowledge, live in wonder. Life is surprising; everywhere, it is a continuous surprise.Live it as a surprise, an unpredictable phenomenon: every moment is new.Just give it a try! You will not lose anything yet you may gain everything. Look if you are addicted to misery. You cling to your misery as if it is something very precious.Look at your own clinging."

~ Osho

Knowledge is beautiful but can often lead to dryness.the quest for knowledge should also be from the perspective of an explorer, joyously going through discoveries and learnings in life.

Happy Janmashtami....

Krishna...one of my all time fav characters for the sheer variety of his persona...has played a vital role in de-mystifying Godhead for me.

and what about radha.....between them , i think they account for more than 50% creative expression in the indian ethos. Take song, dance and poetry and the link is unmistakable....

a beautiful expression from a poet:

Radha Na Hoti tho

Brindavan Na Hota....

Radha Ke payal na bajti tho Mohan aisi na raas rachate...

Radha ke naina na rote tho Jamuna itni kaali na hoti...

Prem ki bhasha jaanta na koi, kanhaiya ko yogi maanta na koi,

bina parinay ke woh prem ki pujaran kanha ki patrani ho gayi....

Have a great Janmashtami!!!!

the world changeth!!!!

When we were young kids growing up in America, we were told to eat our vegetables at dinner and not to leave them. Mothers said, "Think of the starving children in India and finish the dinner."

And now I tell my children: "Finish your maths homework. Think of the children in India who would make you starve, if you don't."

-Thomas Friedman in "The World Is Flat"

oshospeak....

"Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being.Not that you are in love - now you are love.Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don't know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue."

~Osho

scientist, poet or mystic or all and more....

"The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books---a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects."

- Albert Einstein

the power of questions.....the wise ones speaketh!!!!

"Some men see things as they are, and say, 'Why?'
I dream of things that never were, and say, 'Why not?' "

- George Bernard Shaw

"The important thing is not to stop questioning.Curiousity has it's own reason for existing.One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of teh marvellous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiousity."

- Albert Einstein

the need to feel needed...

the need to feel needed...
trying my hand at comic strip creations....

click on the link below....

u need my help.....

experiencing..the key to joy

Normally, the perception filters prevent us from experiencing.The senses are under the grasp of the mind. When we are aware of the mind dialogues while responding to any event, we get de-clutched and enter the realms of pure experience unfettered by the mind's conditionings.

And the intrinsic nature of "experience" is bliss.It is a liberating experience.

It does not depend on the content of the experience.We have a tendency to focus on content and classify it as pleasureable or otherwise. Bliss lies in the process of experiencing, independent of content.