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The Spiritual Birth

On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure.  Even a little effort towards spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.                                                                  The Bhagavad Gita(2:40) The vagaries of life are splendid. There will be numerous people to please, expectations to be met, successes to be had, money to be earned, house to be built, the greatest car  to be bought...I could go on and on but I will still miss out on the expansive but extremely superficial outer world. The Gita calls it  maya  and it has no less splendor than a grand opera. The more twists and turns, the more emotions it conjures, the more interesting the show is for the audience. So why did I venture outside of the show?...because I was not having fun anymore....

Seeking

I find myself in the silence of your breath,      in the rising and falling of it, I find myself in the words you never speak, I find myself when I my fingers run through your hair;     when time has no meaning left,     neither does my name as an identity, nor my physical body, I find myself in the sparkle of your eyes,     in that deep awareness within us that knows, I find myself in the spaciousness I constantly feel in my heart,     I find myself in love...

Whats the truth?

Most people believe that we are human beings having a spiritual experience But the reality is that we are spiritual beings having a human experience... --Unknown

The Moment

Whatever you are doing right now, at this very exact moment, is what you are exactly supposed to do. There is no right or wrong. 

So you want to be a writer...

so you want to be a writer if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don’t do it. if you have to sit for hours staring at your computer screen or hunched over your typewriter searching for words, don’t do it. if you’re doing it for money or fame, don’t do it. if you’re doing it because you want women in your bed, don’t do it. if you have to sit there and rewrite it again and again, don’t do it. if it’s hard work just thinking about doing it, don’t do it. if you’re trying to write like somebody else, forget about it. if you have to wait for it to roar out of you, then wait patiently. if it never does roar out of you, do something else. if you first have to read it to your wife or your girlfriend or your boyfriend or your parents or to anybody at all, you’re not ready. don’t be like so many write...

Notes to my 15 year old self : The Grandeur of Silence

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature -- trees, flowers, grass -- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.                                                                                                        - Mother Teresa You are inherently a fiery one. You are always ready to take it head on, irrespective of who i...

Dear God...

If you are only in a statue,      I don't think I can trust you, If you are only in religious scriptures,      I am wary of you, If you reside only in a mosque, temple, synagogue or church,      I don't think i can connect with you; But if you are in my mother's anxious love In my father's unconditional everything In my husband's secret romance If you are the wind, the trees, the grass, the forest, the essence in my favorite books If you are the goodness I possess And if you are the drive in me to be of service... Then I don't think I have a choice, but to surrender and embrace you...