The Quest ..

"Who You Really Are" - From Balto 2 - The Wolf's Quest

You must go to the east, go to the west,
The road is rocky and the way is far.
It's a dangerous trail, a difficult quest,
If you want know who you really are...

There are voices all around you,
To comfort and to guide you.
Fathers and teachers,
Powerful creatures.
And a voice that sings inside you.

Or you can turn back around,
Run along home.
Back to the place where your friends are.
Perhaps that is best,
You need the rest.
Who wants to go on a ridiculous quest?

Unless you want to know,
You truly want to know,
Unless you want to know...

Who you really are.

Who are you?
Who are you?
Who are you?
Who are you?
Who are you?......

Ochintu Koi mane ...

Ochintu Koi mane raste male, ne dheere thi poochhe ke kem che ...
Aapne toh kahiye ke Dariyashi mauj ma, ne uparthi kudarat ni rehm che ...

Faatela khissa ni aad ma muki chhe ame chhalkaati malkaati mauj ...
Eklo hou ubho ne toy hou meda ma, evu laygya kare chhe mane roj ..
Taadu vasaay nahi evdi patari ma aapno Khajaano Hem Khem chhe ...
Aapne toh kahiye ke Dariyashi mauj ma, ne uparthi kudarat ni rehm che ...

Aankhon na paani toh aave ne jaay .. nathi antar ni bheenaash thati ochhi ...
Vadh-ghat no kaanthao raakhe hisaab .. nathi parvaah samandar ne hoti ...
Suraj toh ugine aathmiye jaaye .. maari upar aakaash em-nem chhe ...
Aapne toh kahiye ke Dariyashi mauj ma, ne uparthi kudarat ni rehm che ...

-Dhruv Bhat

Perception...

A dialogue from Matrix - "You are in a Dreamworld Neo" .. How true it is ...

The world around me is not the true world but just what I percieve it as. My behaviour in day-to-day life is based on how I percieve each and every moment, every thing around me, all the events, people and their behaviour.

And all this is just in my mind. The way I percieve things is what I SEE or CHOOSE to see and understand out of what is happening.

Its kind of Spectacles through which is see everything filtered. I am always blinded to what IS and just see what I want to and totally unaware of this "WANT" of mine.

Need to wake up to this want ... which again I would point to a creation of EGO!!!

What A Wonderful World

I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world

I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world

The colours of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces of people going by
I see friends shakin' hands, sayin' "How do you do?"
They're really saying "I love you"

I hear babies cryin', I watch them grow
They'll learn much more than I'll ever know
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world
Yes, I think to myself, what a wonderful world

Oh yeah!

Bharat ki baat sunaata hoon ...

Jab zero diya mere Bharat ne
Bharat ne mere Bharat ne
duniya ko tab ginti aayi
taaron ki bhasha Bharat ne
duniya ko pahle sikhlaayi
Deta na dashamlav Bharat to
Yoon chand pe jaana mushkil tha
Dharti aur Chand ki doori ka
andaaza lagaana mushkil tha
Sabhyata jahan pahle aayi
Sabhyata jahan pahle aayi
pahle janmi hai jahan pe kala
Apna Bharat wo Bharat hai
jiske peeche sansaar chala
Sansaar chala aur aage badha
Yoon aage badha badhta hi gaya
Bhagwan kare ye aur badhe
Badhta hi rahe aur phoole phale
Badhta hi rahe aur phoole phale

hmm hmm ho ho
ho ho ho ho
Hai preet jahan ki reet sada

Hai preet jahan ki reet sada
Hai preet jahan ki reet sada
main geet wahan ke gaata hoon
Bharat ka rahne waala hoon
Bharat ki baat sunaata hoon
Hai preet jahan ki reet sada

ho ho ho ho
ho ho ho ho
Kale gore ka bhed nahin
har dil se hamaara naata hai
kuchh aur na aata ho hamko
hamen pyaar nibhana aata hai
Jise maan chuki saari duniya
ho Jise maan chuki saari duniya
main baat
main baat wahi dohraata hoon
Bharat ka rahne waala hoon
Bharat ki baat sunaata hoon
hai preet jahan ki reet kahan

Jeete hon kisi ne desh to kya
hamne to dilon ko jeeta hai
Jahan Ram abhi tak hai nar me
Nari me abhi tak Seeta hai
Itne paawan ho log jahan
Itne paawan ho log jahan
main nit nit
main nit nit sheesh jhukaata hoon
Bharat ka rahne waala hoon
Bharat ki baat sunaata hoon

ho ho ho ho
itni mamta nadiyon ko bhi
jahan mata kahke bulaate hain
ho ho
Itna aadar insaan to kya
patthar bhi poojee jaate hain
Uss dharti pe maine janam liya
ho Uss dharti pe maine janaaaam liya
Ye soch
Ye soch ke main itraata hoon
Bharat ka rahne waala hoon
Bharat ki baat sunaata hoon
Hai preet jahan ki reet sada
ho ho ho ho

BREAK FREE ..

Break free ... the title itself is explanatory ... but it doesn't strike me ... as in I dont need to break free as I am already free ... but Am I ??

I am just a follower, a dependent on others' ideas, not having thinking of my own, observing whatever the current trend is ... or how people around are behaving and start behaving like them...
We are human-beings no more. We have become sheep. Just following another one in front of us and not opening our own eyes.

We have forgotten, or worse, never known, why were we brought into this world ... with a certain background/identity/brain ... Just living this life (not even living actually) just existing as I was given a birth. Get education as others do, graduation, post graduation (that too, never think on my own, but going for it as all are going in that direction), job, marriage, kids, their education, n so on ...

Life's become meaningless...
My definitions of success are based on what others have decided already.
I am wealthy if the world tells me so.
I am happy if the world talks of me like that!
I made a mistake by choosing some professional path to go on, because no one in the world succeeded there....
I am intelligent if I have followed the path made by others(declared successful), perfectly.
I blog because it is considered as an In-thing.

I am a failure if within some period of time I have not achieved a milestone!
My decisions won't ever be fruitful because statistics show that only 0.1% of such decisions have given the expected results...

If I have some kind of food .. I'll get some kind of disease ...
I should work out to stay fit .. because ???? others are doing so...
I should reduce sugar intake ... reduce cholesterol levels...
I have gotten some disease and it has been cured only once in a million cases...

Have I ever thought of doing anything original ... oops this dialogue is also not original in itself .. so vague...

All my decisions, all my thinking, my attitude, targets, goals ... each and everything is just derived from/influenced by what has been put forth by the world/society/history...



The only thing that I need to do is open my eyes ... BREAK FREE!

Inspiration ...

An inspiring song that brings my spirit up always! :)

Yeh Haunsla kaise rukey ... Yeh Aarzoo kaise jhukey ..
Manzil mushkil toh kya .. Dhundhla saahil toh kya ..
Tanha yeh dil toh kya ...

Raah mein kaante bikhre agar ...
Uspe toh phir bhi chalna hi hai ..
Shaam chhupaale suraj magar ... raat ko ik din dhalna hi hai ...
Rut tal jaayegi .. Himmatrang layegi ...
Subah phir aayegi ..

Hogi humein jo rehmat ada ..
Dhup kategi saaye tale ...
Apni khuda se hai ye dua .. Manzil lagale humko gale ...
Jurrat sau baar rahe .. uncha ikraar rahe...
Zinda har pyaar rahe ...

Yeh Haunsla kaise jhukey ... yeh aarzooo kaise rukey ....

My Presence ...

Well, for many of you the title might be enough to know about what am I going to speak about, for others there may be raised eyebrows and several question marks, thats what i anticipate!!!

We often ask the question to ourselves, what is the meaning of my existence in this world? And then get the answer, "I have many things to do and many goals to achieve".," People should know me", "My name should be listed in XYZ lists", and so on. In pursuit of fulfilling these wishes we just give our whole lives.

I want people to recognize me, I should be famous. My existence should have a meaning in other people's thinking. My thoughts should be acceptable and I should get respect from others. And at the minute level, people should call me or even acknowledge me. I often see people turning grumpy when not called to or even when not waved at.

Reason ? My answer to all this is Ego! My sense of self is satisfied when I get recognition. When people say good things or bad things about me, The Ego gets an Identity. All my efforts are diverted towards proving this identity, proving my presence by the Ego. It always keeps the image intact come what may. For the same purpose I may even go against my well-wishers.

All of the negative emotions like sorrow, anger, misery are the ways of Ego to keep alive the identity. If this identity is alive, there is no scope for me to awaken and be alert against the Ego. Even rejection, despair, feeling unwanted, lonely are all by products of Ego!

I keep calling people, friends so that I keep them informed about my Presence. I hurt people, or help them, take charge of their lives of give my charge to them and keep reminding them the same. I disturb others in whatever they are doing, make jokes in an ongoing lectures, give information about what things I have done so that it may be registered in people's minds. I publish blogs so that people recognize my writings. I take pride about things people say for me. Even I need consolation so as to feed my ego, and for that I remain dejected or depressed, low on confidence, etc.

Thus Ego has to just trigger this thought of "My Presence" and its work of keeping me asleep is done. Now I have to wake up and just know My Presence IS.

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Listen ...

Listening - Now who does not know the meaning of LISTENING!!!
Answer is ... all those in sorrow, disease, stress, etc. all kinds of negative experiences.

Listening is to hear while being present. Another way to put it would be: hearing 100%, with awareness.

Now you would think what is this crap. We always hear things 100%, and we are always aware about same. But, Are you ? I'll come to the point directly. When I say I listen to people 100% I need to check whether I am listening to them or am I just listening to myself (even when they are still speaking). It sounds funny but this is true for 99% of the world and I don't know where the other 1% is.

When I am in conversation with a person, my mind(EGO) is always giving judgments about the person and his style, etc. Instead of listening to him/her I start listening to my mind, which goes on speaking its own story in the background. Most of the time predicting what the opposite person is gonna speak. And sometimes that turns out to be correct and my EGO gets some sense of success. And the mind goes on louder and faster, which leaves no scope for me to even hear the opposite person, I just make a plastic face as if I were listening and was very much interested in the content of the talk. We just don't care or don't respect the opposite person at all. Most of our such victims turn out to be our families. The non-listening then becomes the cause of communication gaps(obviously), misunderstandings, stress, and what not.

Well the outcomes can go beyond this and I won't go deeper into that now, as the topic is LISTENING.

Another aspect to Listening is to listen from something. This means, I already have a predefined conversation about a person. And as soon as a dialog between both of us starts, I listen from that predefined point of view. I perceive the whole conversation as per my past experience with that person, ruling out the possibility that there might be a newer and more fresh concept to be shared. Here too I just listen to my EGO!

Listening also applies to situations, which can also be called perception. I find listening to be a better suiting word. As per our listening to the situation we react.

When I am listening 100%, I am always at peace, in harmony. Life becomes beautiful and positive. Even nature helps me in doing so.

Listening 100% and Listening from nothing (having no predefined perceptions) is the way to Live fully!

Definitions .....

The present world functions on definitions.

• Characters of people - predefined
• Handling any situation - predefined
• My Behavior too - predefined
• Way of life - predefined

All these definitions are not taught by someone but I make them myself in a period of time since I started learning by perception of the world or adopting some definitions from others definitions. My thinking for my life then is always based on these definitions. I always stick to these and stop myself from growing or learning.

As I come into adulthood, I start thinking that I know most of the things, which is to say (unconsciously) "I have defined all the things that concern me" and then my mechanical life starts. It can be successful, but is a dead one. I just have the same routine for years and years and my definitions never change, or the better way to put "I don't let my definitions change". I perceive people as per my definitions about them, I always listen to them from something. I always think that I know what the opposite person has to say. And that may be the case, but then I am not listening to that person but to my own definition about the person, from past.

My growth stops as I have closed myself to all the knowledge that could have been gained from the nature, world, universe.

The DEFINITIONS are the Prison BARS that I live with and yet am not aware of. Again the work of EGO appears! It just keeps this prison invisible from me and I feel I am living an Ideal Life!

I know where my Life is going and I am doing just great !!! I am Living my life Fully.

But AM I REALLY ?

I..

Who or What is I ?

I = Image of me.
Most effective weapon of EGO.
"I" is not me but the Image that I have created about me for projecting in front of the world. "I" am this or that, my likes are these and "I" do not like that, "I" behave in this way in such situations, etc.. are all definitions or boundaries that the Ego has created for me.

The Ego creates all these definitions so as to prove its existence in form of "I". In this process of proving my existence I work my whole life, running here and there for just projecting a bigger image of me in front of the world.

My Point here is "To become aware of these definitions about me created by the Ego and how the Ego functions to make me believe that I AM those Definitions" where as in reality I am not.

"I JUST AM ..."
There is no need to prove my Existence. In the process of this PROVING I create so much disturbance in the world that I just lose the Essence of my BEING. All the negativity is the result of this act of proving one's existence.

.. to be contd...

Jonatahan Livingston Seagull...Some inspiring quotes ...

• Heaven is not a place, and it is not a time. Heaven is being perfect.
• You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn’t flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn’t have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.
• Heaven isn’t a place or a time, because place and time are so very meaningless. Heaven is…”
  
• You didn’t need faith to fly, you needed to understand flying.
• The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly.
• If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we’ve destroyed our own 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 that we might see each other once or twice?
• Break the chains of your thought, and you break the chains of your body, too…
• 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
  

The EGO ...

I always wonder ... what the Ego really is ! Get to see different forms of it and yet can not see those forms when they r acting ...

So many aspects, may be writing this blog is also being forced by my ego!!! So lets see what my Ego has to say about "Ego".

EGO: A False sense of self.

This gives rise to another question, What is Self? I won't go into that rite now as I am yet to realise that. Well that doesn't mean I know or have realised the EGO either!!

Prooving my presence everywhere and always ... work of Ego.
Working for a sense of achievement, fame .. Ego ?
Showing Off .. ofcourse Ego!..
Being right always ...
Keeping my image in front of others...

Not just the visible one...
"I do Not have an Ego" is also a greater EGO and more dangerous ... as I may be under the impression that I am Egoless .. but in Fact I MAY be carrying more Ego than anyone ...
Or even .. saying that I am an Egoist ...

So what is the work of Ego ... keep us blinded from whatever is true...
Something like Matrix, the Ego blinds us from the truth and shows us a world that is already judged and defined,built on rules, the world as it wants to see ...

When we identify with the Ego, the predefined and judged world is what we see around us and thats where the beauty of Life ends.

Now what here is the judgemental world ? ..
Where everything depends on pre-defined perception as defined by the Ego ...
Whatever we look at or whatever is happening everything gets a name or property ..
For eg. This thing is good/bad ... What I am doing right now is not proper, etc. etc..
Everything depends on judgements which are defined already and are baseless.

Wherever there's anything that can open our eye's to the truth, the Ego would divert us back to its judgemental world.

...Pending ...

Some random lines to ponder on ...

inspire...


Live Life, STOP Analyzing it.

Dur Reh Paaye Jo Humse, Dum Kaha Manzil mein Hai...

Ab Jo bhi Ho, Shola banke patthar hai Pighlana

Tu Chal yuhi ab subah shaam, Rukna Jhukna nahi tera kaam...


abstraction..

Ab mujhe hosh ki Duniya mein tamasha na bana,
Tune Deewana banaya toh main deewana bana...

Shaheedon ki mazhaaro par lagenge har baras mele,
Watan par mitnewalo ka baaki nishaan hoga!

Being the One is Just Like falling in Love,
No one can tell but U know it...

Deewano ki ye baatein, deewane jaante hain..
Jalne mein kya mazaa hai .. Parwane jaante hain ...


Life ...

Jeevan k Din Chhote sahi, Hum bhi Bade Dilwale ...
Kal ki humein Fursat kahaa, Sochey jo hum matwaale...

K Mar k bhi kisiko yaad aayenge..
Kisike aasuon mein muskurayenge...
Kisiko ho na ho humein to aitbaar ....