Searching for self… May 1, 2008
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Floating clouds in a vast sky…
Are they seeking the land beyond these skies?
The flame glows so bright…
Did it find the cosmos the air beheld?
The river flows unstopped
What keeps it alive, The ocean or the journey to it?
Man, matter, mind…
What is it that we all keep searching?
The cloud, the birds, the river and me
There is something we are seeking.
Unseen, unknown, myth or hope,
It’s this pursuit I live everyday.
In this pursuit of life,
Somewhere, will lie the discovery of self.
And, with that, the end of a lifetime of search…
A lifetime I spent not realising
All the while, what I was searching was me.
And then, will I depart.
Without having found myself…
Humility beckons, Irony stares…
Life is but a pursuit of identity.
The cloud, the birds, the river and me
Who are we in time, space and destiny?
A journey of self March 19, 2008
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Life goes on.. with or without people..
At the end what remains is just us and the memories of people who came and left…
At the end what remains is, always a ‘journey of self’.
-HKN
Discover your Destiny January 2, 2008
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Yes, there is a destiny that awaits us all. The irony is that we are not destined for it.
We need to make a choice.
Either,
We can decide to walk through our lives, never realise what are we looking for and why, weather with seasons and finally stop with time. This is a good life, mind you. We would have lived, we would have died, though with little consequence whatsoever. And then, when it all ends, we would call it fate. But, my friend, is it not a self chosen one?
Or,
We can choose to look for reason – reason in everything we want to do. This reason is our destiny. We can decide to run, fall, fail and maybe, maybe succeed in discovering our destiny.
Most of us will never dare to look inside for this reason. Of the some who will, many of us will get lost and perish in pursuit. Of the very few who will last, what are our chances?
It is always our choice -
To resign to fate
or To discover our destiny…
Do not stand at my grave and weep June 20, 2007
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Thought provoking poem by Mary Frye
Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there; I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints on snow,
I am the sun on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning’s hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there; I did not die.
- Mary Frye
Here and Now June 17, 2007
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On immortality of friendship, relationships and people:
Straight out of Jonathan Livingston Seagull (by Richard Bach)
“If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we’ve destroyed our ow brotherhood!
But overcome space and all we have left is Here. Overcome time and all we have left is Now.
And in the middle of Here and Now, don’t you think we might see each other once or twice?“
Only you know what you can do June 5, 2007
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Know yourself. The greatest journey is the journey within.
From Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
“Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation.
Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you’ll see the way to fly. “
Finding my krishna May 25, 2007
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I believe in God but not religion.
Religion for me is a manifestation of human insecurities. Religion to me is void and null.
But God is not.
Through my years, I have moved from being over pious to atheism but all through those transitions, I have been no more than plain confused. And then I decided why follow a norm? If there is a God or a power, I’ll find it to believe it… and thus began my quest.
In this journey of self realisation, I have christened my own God.. my God is my Krishna. No form..no figure..no compulsion to believe..my Krishna in its simplest levels is no more than my conscience.
And this way, every moment I know my Krishna is with me… I don’t look for Krishna outside..i don’t have to believe or make believe..don’t have to reject or revolt..
I am living with my Krishna
And yet.. the quest of finding him more continues…
And this quest only makes me delve deeper inside…
Hence, the search for Krishna is the search for myself.
The search for – ” Who am I? Why am I here? ” - there has to be an answer.
