The Crust of Life

I was born with God inside me. The moment I was born, that God was removed from inside me without my knowledge and thrown away. Then religion was stuffed and hammered in its place. As I grew up, the void of God inside me started to grow as well. I searched for something to fill this void with. I tried to drown myself in my profession in hope that this void will go away. But, it kept on growing. I tried to fill it with home and family, art and philosophy. But, this void grew bigger. I tried to fill it with more religions, but to my despair, it kept on growing. I travelled to the mountains and valleys, waterfalls and seashores and soaked in the beauty of nature in an attempt to fill this void with. But, all in vain. The void inside me kept growing. Finally, I tried to fill it with love, joy and peace. But, it kept on growing incessantly. This void of God is much much larger than all the religions of the world, all the nature and beauty, all possible knowledge and skil...

सूरज की गर्मी और बादल की नरमी एक कली को फूल बना देती है दुनिया के फासले और दिल की मोहब्बत हर रिश्ते को मुक़म्मल बना देते है मेहनत और मशक्क़त के ज़ख्म कामयाबी के मरहम से भर जाते है ज़िन्दगी का हर एक लम्हा ज़िन्दगी का एहसास दिलाता है ग़म से मायूस न हो मुस्तन ग़म ही ख़ुशी का ज़रिया बन जाता है

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde Such a simple quote that sets you free from the shackles of "have to be" and you start floating freely and aimlessly in celebration of this freedom "to be". Celebration, as usual, lasts only for a few moments that make you happy and cheerful - make you forget the pain that you had to go through number of times to earn this moment of celebration. In this moment, everything is forgotten and everyone is forgiven. Sadly, this moment is also destined to the confines of good, cherishable  memories. Memories are deceptive. Moments that you really want to forget crop up every now and then and make you cringe. Hastily you try to shrug it off by getting busy in doing something that you did not plan to do. Somehow those painful memories cry out louder to get your attention. Once it succeeds in getting your attention, it curses you for causing such memories! How thankless these memories can be! You ...

Love makes you walk a mile in your loved one's shoes. Seldom its a comfortable mile.

A little surprise party on a birthday or an anniversary. A small note of appreciation. A gift of new expensive watch. A surprise vacation plan. These are some of the unspoken wishes one has. Its an acid-test for my loved ones. I set this unspoken wish to be an indication of their love and care towards me. If they(loved ones) do it, I feel they care for me. If they don't (regardless of countless other things they do for my joy), I feel that they don't love me/they don't care for me. Ofcourse, I would feel hurt and let down if they don't do it. So, I rub it in. I tell them my expectation after the event has passed. And express my hurt. This way, all they can feel is guilt. Do I get pleasure out of it? No! But, why should I feel the pain alone? At least, next time they will know what is expected of them on such occasions, if they really love me, care for me. So called "wise" people say that, "You must express what you want", "You must be a demand ...

Context that you operate from gives you the perception of the person. This perception is responsible for the way you behave with that person. When you change your context, that same person will appear different to you.

Stress is caused by fear of change or desire to change. Fear of change causes resistance to change while desire to change causes resistance to the present. Both results in resistance and hence stress.

Ofcourse, God Exists!!! Afterall, God is created by man! Let me just give you some out-of-box perspective on this...these are my thoughts only. Existence of God is in the human mind. Human mind thrives on knowledge. Most part of this knowledge is aquired knowledge. Each one of us process this aquired knowledge and create new knowledge that we call our own. We all share this knowledge with others in varied quantities. Thus the knowledge spreads. Psychology is a science of human mind. Sociology is science of human relationships or science of collective minds. The prophets and the saints who established religions were sociologists who understood collective human mind. They used the knowledge given by psychology to establish order in human relationship. They used two fundamental aspects of human behaviour, fear and desire, to bring order in human relationships. The origin of God dates back to few thousand years when human beings were savage. They were organized in clans and they were warr...

Love, Joy, Peace can travel greatest of the great distances at faster than the fastest speed in shortest of the short time. The only thing it cannot penetrate is thinner than the thinnest wall of arrogance, anger, lies and suspicion. Demeaning and ridiculing others will elevate you fast and high on a bubble of false pride. Just that the bubble of false pride doesn't last too long. The person on whom you fix the responsibility for things happening in your life becomes more powerful. For happenings in my life, I fix the responsibility on myself. For you, it IS what it MEANS to you. Fact is, it doesn't mean anything. It is what it is. I feel what I choose to feel. I am learning to attach my perception with your feelings. When you look at hurdles as problems, you avoid them. When you look at hurdles as opportunities, you overcome them. if you can't appreciate something that you have, its better to lose it. if you are going to regret losing it, better appreciate it. Wh...