Perspectives...

"God can dream a bigger dream for me, for you, than you could ever dream for yourself. When you've worked as hard and done as much and striven and tried and given and plead and bargained and hoped...surrender. When you have done all that you can do, and there's nothing left for you to do, give it up. Give it up to that thing that is greater than you, and let it then become a part of the flow." — Oprah Winfrey There will be plenty of times when you will feel that lives not turning out well. As teens, there are many society induced success charts or a memorandum of how life ought to be. Your peers will constantly strive for this man made dictum and your elders will say no different, I am not talking about exceptions here. Needless to say, the plague will catch on to you as well and you spend the rest of the living moments upholding societal dogmas. There will be days when you will heart out because you tried your best and failed, words didn't come o

That which spreads across the sky    The orange, the red, the empty Why do you look at me like you know me    You speak to me in words never spoken before I respond with words I have never known Your beauty resonates with the stillness of my heart    You seem to be a long lost friend Take me with you     Take me through the orange, the red, the empty         and pervade my soul...

Using the introspective tool of Brahamavaidya or the Supreme science, inspired rishis in ancient India analyzed their awareness of human experience to see if there are anything in it that's absolute. Their findings can be summarized in three statements which, Aldous Huxley, called the Perennial Philosophy because they appear in every age and civilization 1. There is an infinite, changeless reality beneath the world of change 2. This same reality lies at the core of every human personality 3. The purpose of life is to discover this reality experientially, that is to realize God, while here on earth. Source: BhagvadaGita by Eknath Esawaran