Season!

This happens once in every few years. I receive a similar type of news from 2 or more people who are not even remotely related to each other yet they are all close to me.

This time around it will go down in history!

Sob sob! :( 

Dhisssssssh (sound of breaking heart!)

PS: Happy wala birthday dearest Ganpati Baapa! Tu bhi na ekdam funny hai!

People

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We often meet new people in our lives. At work place, at some classes, in a share rick or may be even randomly on the road! Have you lately connected with someone after several years? Are you getting to know a person who works with you or with whom you share a ride to and back home from work? Do you happen to exchange messages late until midnight and beyond when your eyes just refuse to transport you to the dream world?

People come into our lives. Some are here to stay while many leave us at some point. A forwarded message that i received via mail describes beautifully how we are attached to people and how we should know to let go of them.

With some you know its not meant to stay for long. So while you are with them cherish every moment. Enjoy. Be a part of the happenings. Let your hair down. Don't hold back. Dance away to glory!

For all those who are part of my life, and to those who are yet to come, a big thank you.

God bless us all :)

Peek -a- boo

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BLANK!

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Will be back soon.

Exams get over on the 8th and i already have a list of things to do and places to go. As of now a weekend at Pilani, Rajasthan and couple of days in Ahemdabad, Gujarat are surely happening! :)

Will the day getting closer and closer the restlessness is creeping in. Well best of luck to me for the next couple of days. Keep visiting!

Simplifed

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In leaps and bounds you grow,
you grow to learn the truth,
the truth that shows you a new side,
a new side which widens your perspective for life.
For life teaches you to make mistakes,
make mistakes only to rise from them.


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Me

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Its just an illusion of you that makes me smile and i smile away.


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The Quarter

What kept me away from my blog for the past 4 months? Lets see, October was a crunch period when I was busy cramping for my CA Final exams. November was the exam month. So till the 22^nd only studies were on my mind. The remaining days of that month went in doing nothing, absolutely nothing.

Come December and my travel attack began. The first week I was at my uncles in Pune. The next week I went to Igatpuri for a 10 day Vippasana meditation course. And at the end of the month the gang of girls vacationed at Kerala. We welcomed 2011 in the most serene and innovative way. It was extremely self- satisfying for me to have successfully accomplished our first ever 10 day long trip to a place far far away from home.

The New Year has begun and with the first month bidding us adieu new memories have already taken shape. The experiences teach you a great deal. You know you have learned from them only when you are put in a similar situation again and you react in a positive manner. I found myself in one such situation and all I could do is thank my stars for it. It’s an unpredictable world out there. You never know what will strike you; hit you hard, right on your face. You just learn with every jolt. Get up on your feet and smile wide.

January too had many days which involved nothing but only lazing around, sleeping whole day long, and watching Bostan Legal day and night. I have lazed around enough. Enough to gain a few kilos! Now its time to fasten my seat belts and get into the third gear, to begin with, with my books.

It is just a matter of time told a reassuring voice on the afternoon of 21^st January, 2011 when the exam results were declared. I believe in what she said and more over I believe in myself. It indeed is just a matter of time.

January was a month of seeing off friends, promising to meet only when the year comes to an end, getting connected and reconnected with new and old friends.

February looks like a promising month. After a year long break from attending dance class and performing in public forums I have two events lined up one for feb and the other for march! Ofcourse you are invited for both!

Its never a wrong time to make resolutions and never too late to work upon those which you didn’t keep up with! It pricks more to read what you have written and realize that you haven’t been following it. So the best way is to blog about it. To begin with I want to

1) straighten my sleep clock,

2) get up not later than 6am,

3) practice yoga and meditation,

4) shed a few kilos,

5) not eat junk,

6) not sleep in the afternoon,

7) read a book other than the study material,

8) keep my room tidy always,

Will keep adding to the list as and when more things come up.

Till then have a fantastic February!

Momentary Lapse

Sunk Cost. It is a concept in Costing where you treat certain costs that you have incurred on some previous occasion as sunk or irrelevant. Which means if you have to decide on doing (or not doing) something today, just ignore what money you spent in the past. Make your decision based on what money you will spend in the future. Sounds really simple. But when the left brain starts functioning its really difficult to rationalize.

How beautifully this concept of Costing teaches us to live in the present moment. Forget what has happened in the past and just live in the present. In life too it is equally difficult to apply this sutra. Only a conscious effort from within get us back to the present, in the moment.


Everyday is different. Somedays are exceptionally beautiful while the others suck big time. I think its this act of balancing that highlights the importance of each day you live. In many ways it keeps you grounded.

When you face a terrible day, learn and let it go. Don't carry it forward the next day. You will only saddle yourself with the load from the past. Its very difficult to not refer back or sit and ponder over the past but to move ahead you have to place that barricade.

Keep reminding yourself that every day is a new day, every moment has to be lived to its fullest essence and every breath adds to make your life as beautiful as it is now. So acknowledge it. Respect it. Cherish it.

Love.

PS: I had a terrible day doing costing and the act of getting over it is on.

The Kodak Moments!

Archives! Revisit the days which are dated forever.
Random pictures that were clicked by me over the years featuring the best of my friends. Presenting my best, candid, unedited (but none censored) pictures of me and my friends.

1) The PCC nights! I know what you guys are thinking. Don't worry thats just Iced tea to keep me company.

2) Me, on one of the good hair days :P and long study nights.

3) Chocolicious Abha!

4) Beauty Queen, Ms Moon, scrubbing her face with tea leaves :P

5) The absolutely crazy trio. Abha, Me, Choti. I guess we were in yogi's car!

6) A very very eventful day. (I trust abha's memory. she won't remember) ;)

7) Me and Pooja. I know P that this is not your best pic, not even close to it but its still special to me! :)

8) Me and Sid. In TYBCOM. When was that? :P

9) The talk, dark and 'handsome' footballer of our group. ( I know somebody is coughing) :P

10) Me and Romil on the last day of college.

11) The gang at Vichoo's during PCC days

12) The troublemakers!

13) The school ke baacha log!

14) At Costa Coffee after watching the best movie ever. China something staring Deepika Padukone and Akky.

15) Manan- Mera number kab aayega???!!! :P

Krishnaya Thubyam Namaha

Krishnam vande parmanandam vande
Krishnam vande parmanandam vande
Murali dhara krishna tulsi dhara
Murali dhara krishna tulsi dhara
Mann mohana anand vandana
Mann mohana anand vandana
Hey giridhari van maali
Hey giridhari van maali
Yamuna teera bihari hari
Yamuna teera bihari hari
Krishnam vande parmanandam vande
Krishnam vande parmanandam vande

Its a magical bhajan. Just hear it once and you will agree with me too. Makes you want to sway, dance and sing along with it.

I am shamelessly copy pasting a mail i received on Janmashtami.

Once Queen Kunti, mother of the Pandavas, told Krishna, "I wish I had more troubles. You were always with me when I had troubles. Nothing can equal the joy of your company. I can trade all the pleasures of the world for a moment of your Presence."

Krishna gave her more knowledge of the Being: "I am in you as you. There is not a place in this world where I am not. People think of me as a physical body and they do not really know my nature. Body is made up of these eight aspects: earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intellect and ego. I am the ninth -- beyond all this. I am all-pervading. Though I am in the body, I am not the body. Though I am working through the mind, I am not the mind. I am much more than what you perceive. I am present in your heart as you and anytime you need me, I am there. You can always count on me".

Saints fell in love with Krishna. The dispassionate would be drawn to him. Krishna means that which is attractive. The very core of your Being is such, the bliss and joy of the Self is like that. It just draws everything. The symbolism in Krishna's birth is beautiful. Devaki as the body and Vasudev as prana or breath came together to bring forth Krishna.

Krishna is always depicted as the Blue God. It means that the body is so transparent, almost as if it was not there. Whatever is infinity is represented by blue. The sky is blue, and so is the ocean. Krishna says in the Gita: "People do not know my true nature. Nobody knows." In all his life only three people knew his true form -- Yashoda, Arjuna and his childhood friend Uddhava. Krishna says: "People think of me as a physical embodiment, as a body. I am not the body; I am the Consciousness which is present in everything, everywhere... I am the sweetness in sugar, the light in the moon, the heat in the sun". He expresses himself as 'all-permeating'.

Krishna always stands with one foot firmly on the ground, the other foot crossed over, as though it is touching, but not really touching. It is elsewhere. That is called the 'tribhangy' pose, implying perfect balance.

Krishna was makhan chor, stealer of butter. Butter is from milk. Milk is fermented to get curd and the curd is churned to get butter. Life is a process of churning. Your mind is being churned by so many things, events, happenings, and instances.

Finally what comes up is butter which is the saintliness in you. And Krishna steals the butter, the saintliness. It means he loves this mind which is like butter, which is not hard. This means infinity is coming towards you, loves you so much that it steals you at any cost. He seeks you out, wherever you are.

Janmashtami is the day when you enliven the virat swaroop – the cosmic vision -- of Krishna in your own consciousness, once again. Letting your true nature manifest in your day-to-day life is the real secret of Krishna's birth.

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Beautiful, isnt it? Here is a post on Radha Krishna i had penned last year. You might want to read that too :)

Dear Son,

Wake up. Its show time.
Its time to show the rest
that you can be the best
The time is just right
to prove your might.
As always the sun shines bright
but today it has a radiant light.

Wake up my child
wake up.
I know you can reach heights
to every ones delight
make them realise
you are no less,
just different from the rest.
None has told you
how things are to be done

My Son, don't have in your mind
a slightest doubt,
cos you are the on who will sort
it all out
When you have chosen between
the right & wrong,
you have always sung the
triumphant song

And today the day has come
when you have to shake
yourself up
Wake up my son wake up.

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This was written last year on 3rd may, 09. That's what my diary reads. Just happened to flip through it today.