भगवान - इंसान

जब दिखेगा सभी में उसे भगवान
तब बनाएगा धरती पर स्वर्ग इंसान

Life is Beyond Both

Where living is neither celebrated
nor is dying mourned,
because it is known that
life is beyond both.
Come, let's go there.

Let Your Words Inspire

Let your words inspire,
let your thoughts heal and
let your silent presence spread love.

Mind & Heart

O' the dwellers in the joys of the mind,
have you even felt the love of your heart?
How you wallow in the cloud of your own thoughts,
and prevent the sun of love from shining through!

मैं कहाँ सोचता हुँ

मैं कहाँ सोचता हुँ ?
सोच तो बस आ जाती है
और मेरे शरीर से
अपना कहा करवा जाती है 

Was that the best I could've done?

'Was that the best I could've done?' That's the only question I ask myself now.

If the answer is a yes then great, else I resolve to do better next time.

Either way, I don't leave any space for resentment, guilt, or the burden of others' expectations or mine to weigh me down.

I forgive myself quickly, learn and simply move on to create the next best moment of my life.

Often I don't succeed in being the best version of myself, but I still don't give myself any space to feel resentment or guilt. That makes me wonderfully free.

Grace Showering

आइना - Aaina

वो नहीं जो सिर्फ 

दिखाए मुझको मुझे 

मिले तो मानु उसे आइना 

जो मिलवाए खुदसे मुझे 

Wo nahin jo Sirf 

Dikhaye mujhko Mujhe.

Mile to manu use aaina

Jo milwaye khudse mujhe. 

The Power of Desirelessness

What separates a billionaire from a beggar? Wealth. Yes, that’s the first cut. But at a more subliminal level, what makes a billionaire bigger than a beggar is the fact that the billionaire doesn’t need anything from the beggar, nor does he want to become a beggar. On the other hand, a beggar wants everything that the billionaire has and wants to become a billionaire. Since the beggar wants to become a billionaire, the beggar invariably makes the billionaire bigger and larger than life.

The keyword here is ‘Desire’. It is this desire to become someone that makes ‘that someone’ bigger or more important than us.

Two men who do not need anything from each other are absolutely equal. So what makes us smaller is our desire to be someone who we think we are not – wealthier, more powerful, more famous, more beautiful and so on. Now flip that point around – if we accept who we are and release our desire to be someone else, then we are already equal, we are not smaller and hence ‘that someone’ is not bigger.

Now, a lot of us harbour a desire to be God. What if we recognize our own Godliness and drop that desire as well. Then we instantly become equal with God, because we don’t want to be Him, nor do we need anything from Him.

When that desirelessness arises from an understanding of our ‘completeness’, we allow the universe to operate through us by a desireless acceptance of His will as our will. So we become a fantastic filterless channel for manifesting the divine, through us.

Unflinching desirelessness is an instant power unlike any other. But a truly desireless person will not care for that too, because seeking power through desirelessness is again a desire.

It is through such absolute desirelessness that a nearly illiterate paanwala simpleton had attained enlightenment in just three years. His name was Nisargadutta Maharaj.

Evolution of Love - Part 2

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I
I love
I love you
I hate you
I love you
I love
I
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Guilt is of no Use

A soul that chooses to stay with the body can make a person survive a bullet through the head. And a soul that chooses to go can find an excuse as flimsy as a sneeze to leave the body.

So let go of your guilt for your dear one's death, if you are carrying it. Your negligence didn't kill them nor your diligence could've helped them live.

That beautiful soul chose to go, it's as simple as that. Any further layer of thought than this in your heart is excess baggage. Leave this behind and travel light.

Guilt is of no use. It only makes you love yourself less.

Peaceful Ambition: A Beautiful State

I seem to be increasingly tapping into a delicately balanced but beautiful state that I call ‘Peaceful-Ambition’. I am at peace with where I am and yet fully aware of where I have to be (Ambition).

My peace (Sattva) doesn’t prevent me from action (Rajas) and my ambition (Rajas) doesn’t hamper my peace, despite various setbacks and challenges. Ambition drives me but not because I’m unhappy where I am. On the contrary, it drives me because I know that this is what I am – ever growing peace, joy and love.

I share this not in pride, but to create recognition that such a beautiful state exists. Ambition should not cause stress if you approach it from the right state. I sincerely pray that we all can access this space more often. That will help create what we call – The New Earth.

Betrayal is the highest Love

Yes, that’s right. How, you ask?

A soul that chooses to betray you does that so you could experience your highest potential through forgiveness. The soul knowingly incurs bad karma in the process, but it doesn’t care about its own downfall so long as it creates an opportunity for you to grow. That’s how loving that soul is towards you.

Your opportunity for growth is through loving forgiveness. But have you truly chosen forgiveness yet? Or do you wallow in revengeful thoughts and hateful emotions? If it’s the latter then you’ve lost a grand opportunity created by someone who loves you enough to be led by the dark forces so you could see the light.

Do you feel betrayed by a lover, cheated by your friend, or back-stabbed by a business partner? The revengeful and hateful thoughts have not brought peace to you. How about trying a different option this time?

Mysterious are the ways of life. 

Am I This or That?

If you are a perfectionist, life will surround you with imperfect people and then you will loathe them.
If you are punctual, life will crowd you with the unpunctual lot, and you'll scoff at them.
If you are a control freak, life will give you kids that can't be controlled and you'll wonder who is controlling who.
If you are an optimist, you'll have pessimistic colleagues and you'll berate them.
If you are peaceful, you will have quarrelsome neighbours, and then you'll judge them.
If you are a good person, you will be cheated by bad people, and you'll hate them.
If you believe in love, you will be betrayed, and then you'll fear even the idea of love.

Life will keep on throwing these contradictions at you until one fine day there is a shift.
That shift will make you realize that choosing one invites the other, because one can't exist without the other.
When you say 'I am this', life brings you 'that' because in the absence of 'that', 'this' is not. (Like in the absence of night, there is no day)

And with this shift comes the possibility of acceptance of both 'this' and 'that'.
Then life becomes beautiful because the perfectionist stops loathing imperfection, the punctual doesn't scoff at the unpunctual, a control freak doesn't feel the need to control anyone, a peaceful person doesn't judge the quarrelsome and the good doesn't hate the bad.
And this leads to the next beautiful realization: to call yourself 'this' or 'that' is incomplete because they are all labels, properties, judgments.

Then your identification stops at 'I am'. You cease to be 'I am this' or 'I am that'.
Once you get there, stay there.
Once you can stay there, take me there.
;-)

पाक मोहब्बत - Paak Mohabbat

खुश हो की हम मिले तो सही
बिछडने का तू रंज न कर
प्यार को आँसुओं में भिगोकर
पाक मोहब्बत नापाक न कर

प्यार के अज़ीम पल बिताकर
उन्हें नाम देनेकी ज़िद न कर
बेनाम ही बेहने दे तू इसे
ख़ास मोहब्बत आम न कर

मदमस्त परिंदा है ये तो
रोक मत काटके इसके पर
फलक को करके नज़रबंद
दिलदार इश्क छोटा न कर

बेदाग़ सफेद चादर है ये
कोई रंग का छिड़काओ न कर
इसे रिश्तों का दाग देकर
नामे इश्क बदनाम न कर

**** Transliteration ****

khush ho ki hum mile to sahi
bichadne ka tu ranj na kar
us pyar ko aasuon se bhigokar
pak mohabbat napak na kar

pyaar ke azeem pal bitakar
unhein naam dene ki zid na kar
benaam hi behne de tu ise
khaas mohabbat aam na kar

madmast parinda hai ye to
rok mat katke iske par
falak ko karke nazarband
dildar ishq chota na kar

bedaag safed chaddar hai ye
Koi rang ka chidkao na kar
ise rishton ka daag dekar
naame ishq badnaam na kar

Universe

Universe is one big poetry. That is why it is called 'Uni-Verse'.
:-) 

Seven Billion Stars

Seven billion stars
on earth
look at the sky
and
wonder about the beauty
of their counterparts
in the sky.

Crest of Creativity

I am now living at the peak of enthusiasm, and the crest of creativity, writing and creating more and more amazing stuff. Internally I know my capabilities and with the help of my passion I want to reclaim the lost years of lifeless existence. I feel there is so much creativity bursting inside me now that the whole universe looks too small to contain it.

Moon so close

Pardon my shameless staring,
ignore my useless gawking,
forget my senseless stammer
and my obvious misdemeanour

For never before
have I seen the moon
so close. 

Quotes that have occurred to me - 2

1. Every character of a novel is made in the image and likeness of the author.
2. A birthday is nothing but earth completing one revolution around the sun. If that is a cause of celebration then every moment deserves celebration because earth completes a revolution from some reference point in every moment. So every moment is a new birth worth celebrating. 
3. Behind every gym is a pot bellied businessman.
4. I didn't give medicine to my sick mother because I was too busy posting "Mother's Day" messages on Facebook and WhatsApp.
5. "The objects in the mirror are closer than they appear," says the rear view mirror. Wish we could say the same about relations.
6. Man invented morality. Nature knows neither virtue nor vice. It knows only consequence, which man colours as reward or retribution.
7. The real freedom is in being internally neutral, neither for nor against anything.
8. Every question is not a sign of defiance. Every silence is not a mark of diffidence.
9. We never really grow up, nor do we outgrow our toys; we simply replace them with new ones.
10. Love at first sight is actually a carry forward from previous life.
11. Envy is great for earth. It makes the world go green.
12. The darkness in life is a prism that reveals the twinkling stars.
13. The file that makes an otherwise light email heavy is called attachment. How profound!
14. Those who follow their hearts become performers; the rest become audience.
15. Good is a sweeter fiction than bad; but it is a fiction nonetheless.
16. Beware - if you cannot 'be aware'
17. This year let's go somewhere we rarely go - within.
18. The person who said 'Knowledge is Power' hadn't tasted Awareness.
19. There is so much more in the moment than we allow.
20. Life doesn't have full stops, it only has commas.
21. The universe is one great story. I am and will be telling only a small part of that.

The gift of the setting sun

The setting sun left me a gift.
It made the whole earth my shadow.