Life's Fun and Silence

Bhakti                                                                Benares - The faith of the people here makes even a non-believer like me believe ! My friend recently updated his Facebook page with the above photo of a man praying in Benares, with the tag line, “Benares - The faith of the people here makes even a non-believer like me believe ”. This friend of mine, is a very keen observer of life around him. Mostly quite in his disposition, with good tastes but clear mind. But his tag line was quite an invitation for me to put down my thoughts on faith nay bhakti, and that is the reason for this blog. Faith can move mountains. Well, and this old man’s fait...

Laughing Causes and brooding Effect Most people underestimate the power of knowing the "cause", while the "effect" seems to get all the affection. Most of our communication pattern reflects this trend. We seem to be in high with effect and little or no attention to the cause. Whether it our analysis, solutions, communication, interactions, we seem to focus more on effect. Nature by definition is a cosmic drama between cause and effect. The cause is the origin while the effect is the outcome of the "manifested cause". Science has always studied nature as a cause-effect relation. From Newton’s law, Faraday's principle or Einstein's special theory of relativity, everything is an explanation of cause-effect theory told in many ways. The Sun, is the primary source of energy for our solar system and its rays that reach the earth, is its extension or manifestation. The sun's rays thus assume a different form to reach the earth. Now, ...

Child's play It has been my experience that anytime I smile at a kid, the kid smiles back, involuntarily and very genuine. But the better part of this "smiley" conversation between me and the kid, is the inedible mark of happiness that it leaves behind to stay with me I have had similar experiences for now over 3 decades and it has never failed. I have always felt light and happy after seeing a kid smile.  So what did this experience tell me. Well that is what i share with you in this blog Kids are pure in their action, with no memory to jog or experience to repeat and act. My grandmother used to tell me "kids are but manifestation of God". I never understood this statement when I was a kid, but begin to understand the import now. What she meant was that God reflects innocence and being happy without leaving a trace of control or power.  A blooming flower is innocent and beautiful. A lion cub is cudly, cute and full of energy. A kid brings a s...

Hey Tunku,                                                                                                           11-01-2015 10:53:55 I am taking the liberty of addressing you by your first name because I sense a bit of closeness with you. I follow you in twitter and have been reading your articles in the “The Daily beast”. On a friendlier side, I have a very similar pepper-salt combination over my head. I also love your hairstyle which reminds me of the Shahanshah, where Amitabh plays a hero. Some caveat. I am not scholarly, reasearchly Standfordish kind of guy. So I don’t compare well with your English and flamboyance. However, I have seen life and death at close quarters and lived my life, true to my feelings....

Universe of Life - Brain pickings

The Separators One of my friend called me and casually chatting and during the chat asked what I was doing for the upcoming new-year eve night. I said, nothing. He then said that he had noticed that I don’t wish birthdays, wedding anniversaries also. And in a very searching tone, asked why do not I show importance to these events in life and so on so forth? I did not have any valid reason to explain away that difficult question. This blog is an after-thought of that question. It neither answers nor is expected to answer that question. But it did leave me with a larger revelation that I think, has changed me. Time, as it stands, is very difficult for people to understand. Einstein himself struggled to explain what time is and what it meant for physics and common man. Probability, space, money, weather, clock, life itself and even geography is impacted due to time. So what am I saying…Let me try with a story first. Flashback! This story is more than 5000 years old. The great ...

Corporate Bhakti – Something to break the monotony of reading and sending New year greetings. There is no equivalent word for Bhakti in English, the language that I write this blog. But it is not the meaning of Bhakti that I want to share but experience of Bhakti that I want to share. I have experienced this state and/or realisation over a period of two decades. It has been my conscious effort to understand this state of Bhakti as against other feelings like trust, faith, dedication and righteousness that truly gives me the satisfaction today! And yes, once I understood that Bhakti is a different feeling (feeling is still not an apt word for it), I was keen to understand how, why and for what purpose can I work in that state of Bhakti, in the corporate world. One caution – language or semantics may cloud your understanding and you may like to caution your mind from falling in that trap. Only principle – Each individual is a universe. Bhakti is not comparable within two differ...