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When life is in chaos and nothing seems to work, Time appears frozen and so are footsteps, Darkness fills heart and sadness fills soul, Cross your heart and remember, this too shall pass. When world seems against us and so does destiny, The sunlight burden shoulders and moonlight burns, Night sky gives wounds and stars don't twinkle, Cross your heart and remember, this too shall pass. When loneliness grips us and friends start to leave, Feeling of worthlessness becomes a friend indeed, Logic of life seems tough to decode and Why is the most used word, Cross your heart and remember, this too shall pass. Hold on, don't give up, keep faith and live, Good times never stayed so shall not tough times, Situation will change and best time will come, but till then, Cross your heart and remember, this too shall pass.

The first time I read this quote, it kept resonating in my mind for a very long time, as if somebody had just revealed the biggest secret of this universe to me unknowingly. As I continued to think about it, I realized that every struggle whether internal or external is indeed aimed to achieve freedom. Our external struggles help us establish ourselves in this world, prove our worth to this world and keep us moving from one socio-economical level to another. What we leave sets us free but at the same time what we achieve binds us. Our internal struggles help us realize and prove our worth to ourselves. Struggle to become a better human being. In the process we free ourselves from the grips of that old person but cling to the new one. Both aim Freedom from old but bind us to the new. Life binds itself and also frees itself, when its born and when it leaves. We are like experiments of life, we are born , we bond to the world around us and then one day we have to leave everythin...

Mann tu itna vyathit kyun ha Aisa kya tu khoj raha ha Kis vichar ko dho raha ha Kuch aisa jo samajh k par Jiska ha na koi aakar Par lagta sa ha saakaar Jeevan ka jaise adhaar Wah kya jo bhudhi ko b Bhram men dalkar dol raha ha Ruk ruk kar naino se yun Ashru ban bol raha ha Kuch ha, per kuch b nahi ha Vicharheen ek sonch sa wah Uthal puthal karta jeevan ko Bina mol ke tol raha ha Mann tu itna vyathit kyun ha Aisa kya tu khoj raha ha Kis vichar ko dho raha ha

The title that I chose for this blog is from a discourse of  swami Tejomayanada of Chinmaya mission and it just pierced inside me as if he had given my thoughts a perfect expression. With my experiences of life I have come to an understanding  that everything we do, feel, think is relative. It dwells from the experiences we have accumulated by living in the school of life from many lifetimes. It's like a database of experiences from which we draw our inferences using our intellect, like a machine using artificial intelligence but far more complicated to comprehend. As long as we are alive we must respond. The nature of our response may vary based on our situation or learning's from our experiences. No one can escape this response till he's alive and the day we stop responding is the day we are dead. We choose our response based on our comprehension of a particular situation. It's an endless cycle which momentarily seems to end w...

Everyone who is born on this earth is a 'Sanatan Dharmi' by birth. Religion follows after wards. There isn't a word that defines religion in Sanskrit or hindi. Using 'Dharam' as translation for 'Religion' is a misnomer. Dharam doesn't mean religion, it means 'Righteous Karma'. The principle of Karma is the ultimate and absolute truth in this universe. We all humans and animals are bound by this principle and can't escape its consequences. Sanatan means 'Eternal' and 'Dharam' can be defined as 'Righteous way a man should lead his life'. Sanatan Dharam doesn't push us to pray or mandatorily believe in certain form of God, instead it lays down a path of defined principles following which we can realize God. It doesn't define any rituals or procedures to worship God, it leaves this to the discretion of humans to use their intellect to decide upon the best way they want to realize Him. It stresses on one God ...

What is a necessity and how it differs from need, or are these two synonyms. In this post I have tried to explore these two words. I think, necessity is an absolute need without which survival would not be possible and need is relative. It keeps changing with time, situation and thinking of generations or people. Necessity remains constant for all. If I represent need and necessity by two circles, I can draw a relation between the two. A meeting point where both become interchangeable depending upon situation. Here situation is an umbrella term which includes time, people and their dependencies. Water, oxygen and food are absolute needs without which we would not be able to survive on this planet. Sun, plants are necessities and have an indirect dependents on them. We keep on inventing needs and then things to satisfy those needs. Certain needs become necessity , means of survival and vice versa. It depends in which situation we are ...

When we were born, did we know what being Perfect was. We are all born in the same manner, spend equal amount of time in the incubator called womb. We are born perfect but why is that when we grow up we loose that perfection or so do we actually loose it. At least this is what the whole world is busy making us reálise, that we are not perfect. And when this world is not around, we akeep comparing ourselves, our lives with some perceived perfection the person next door is, and we ought to be like him or her. Who decides what perfection is. Some say God is perfect, who has seen God to know what perfection is. But may be, what they mean is when you reach a state of mind when you are content with what you have and are satisfied with yourself, you reach that state of ecstacy where your desires end and happiness starts. Isn't this what can be defined as a meeting point with God, where the world means nothing, neither do its fantasies fascinate us anymore, life has joy....