Perspectives...

What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash ----- one or two inches long, between the date of birth and the date of death on your gravestone.                     -- Eckhart Tolle

I have known you all my life,    No, I think I have known you all the way, As years pass by and the shades of grey grace our costumes,   We realize the single constant in our journey together The I in me and I in you,   They merge sometimes, like I wouldn't know one from the other, We get a glimpse of the bigger truth in our daily lives   Its really the same I       the I in me and the I in you. ..

"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

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....

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...