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When I was in school, I get compared with others. But I never liked to be compared. I wanted to different, wanted to be unique. I never liked being just another guy and never liked becoming just like any other guy. My parents had their own dream for me, but after all that I have gone through in my childhood; I was so ready to dream one for myself. I was 16 and that’s when I started being on my own, even if it meant being alone. I bought my first Walkman, with my savings. And when people’s words don’t mean anything, music was everything to me.

I was never that expressive, but then was the time I wanted to be so. And I started expressing, though I didn’t have any idea what I was doing. Those few years passed by nicely. There was a storm in the middle that it seemed like I might drop out. But that one long week passed by and the sky became clear. The year that followed was one of the best times I had so far. It just felt like I had everything and it all seemed to have fallen in right place. Then it all started to tumble. Too much misunderstanding and ego totally flipped everything in my life. I became silent, only physically and not in heart.

“Sometimes… it’s not the song that makes you emotional, but the people and things that come to your mind when you listen it”

I wanted a new start and was preparing for that, at all cost. Yes, it really cost me a lot out of my life. I have stopped laughing much, but my smile got better. I have stopped speaking much, but my silence got a new meaning. I have stopped shedding tears and I just became stronger. Then, I had enough time to observe, learn, think and change. I read every possible topic that I came across just to know how much there is in this universe that I missed so far. This made me realize that I was giving too much of me to hold on to this this small box. I changed quite a lot, in other words grew up. And still going strong…

“You will never know how strong you are, until being strong is the only choice you have”
I started seeing things in their simplest form. My thoughts and actions became simple, I became cooler and life just got better. Many just see a part of me and they believe that’s all is me. They don’t know who I was and who I could be and yet never hesitate to judge me. What I can do and what I want to be are sometimes too different things. Many tend to confuse between these two things. Only people who know me now are the ones who dared to break my silence.

“Sometimes, the whole is greater than the sum of parts…”
Being expressive is actually good and truthful. But not many people like it when I say to their face that they are doing wrong and that I don’t like it. That’s the same I expect from others, to tell me straight to face when I do something wrong and not gossip at the back. But the problem is, both these are difficult for many people. If someone would ask me, if I dare to be expressive again, my answer would be a definite yes. And this time, it’s only going to be about the right people who are around me and with me…

“People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don’t think that’s true. Being surrounded by wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world”

Love and Life...

In my life, I have been through quite some moments. Moments that have made me feel the importance of people around me against everything else. Every moment, I have learned something about myself and about the people around me. With this my dreams of life have changed and grown into something that I have never foreseen.

“This condition obtains even where there is no slavery in the legal sense. It is found where as in caste system, some persons are forced to carry on the prescribed callings which are not their choice”
I grew up in a part of world where marriage and relationships have been tied deep down in the culture. Here, marriage is essential for life and it felt good. But, as I grew up I began to see the true face of things. Marriage is more like forming an alliance, a sort of signed agreement for life. People place things like the caste system [a racial system], astrological beliefs, mainly a good job, money, house(s) and other material possessions before understanding and love. Love is not a choice for many, as their lives have been confined and regulated within so called customs and traditional systems which are driven by the narrow minded.

“There is no caste of people. There are only human beings and ones not being human.”
Not everyone is a victim of this system. Many are actually living happily, since they found their love. But that doesn't make this system right. There are many who faced threats for opposing or even tortured; many who have killed their love inside, being afraid that they couldn't oppose this system; many who never even gave a thought of making this choice. Many parents have themselves destroyed their son’s and daughter’s dream, in the name of inhuman prides like caste, creed, greed and materialism. The worst is when the one among the two in love, seeks to be in safe haven by abandoning the loved one for one of the above reasons.

"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. Because these little imperfections in us are the one's that make us perfect for each other."
This inhuman behavior is not the problem with the uneducated. The educated also play a big part in this. What good can the education system be, when the allotment to the system itself is based on a certificate that is for the caste. The so called education is just an other system that is not there for providing knowledge to people, but just to keep them busy with everything else. For most people education is merely the way to earn more money and status. I'm sure that the Internet has given much more knowledge to people and helped broadening minds, than their education.

"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource."
Love is a magical feeling that touches the soul; a beautiful idea that has spread beyond just physical realms; something more than that meets the eye; everything that a heart ever wishes for; one that makes life meaningful; beyond differences, beyond reasons, one that makes us human. Isn't love a dream of life? Isn't this meant to a choice of one's life? Everyone has a dream, hoping to become part of or sometimes life itself. Living such a dream would mean more than everything in this world and beyond. A dream, out of the customs, beyond beliefs and beauty and never for sake of needing one; but, to be with one who feels larger than life; to be with one only in love and in all times; A dream, to live... It's literally fascinating to see, the change love can bring in one and in this world. As generations have passed by, people have changed and are changing, seeing the world with a open mind and heart. But still seems like it would take a couple more generations.

“Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.”

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There are times I never did try a thing. I have heard from people around me asking to stop being so conservative. The question is not how conservative am I, but why am I conservative. I know I was afraid and my ego was smart enough to come up with logic to hide that I was really afraid. It made me happy to think that I was smart and could handle things, but was I ever true…?

I know I was afraid of losing, but losing what? In recent times, I realized that everything I was afraid of losing, are the things that I never had. Then why is that I have this fear, might seem like unnecessary or is there something more to this? Fear and Courage for me are 2 ends of the same scale. It is just about where I'm and how much I could avoid the influence of my ego on both. With ego's survival mode and reasoning stupidity, both ends seem dangerous to me.

“It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.”
I felt it might not be just fear. There was something that I'm yet to realize. The day came and It was who I am that I realized. I'm a curious and like to learn new things. When I started learning, initially and even up until recently, I have thought that I'm able to understand new things, a lot of things; so my perception of world is changing now; people around me are still just the same; they don't understand these things nor me. But it was nowhere close to what actually happened.

I had a perception on new things and for the other part, I was almost the same. It's me who I didn't understand and It's who I am that I failed to see. I have let my ego influence choices in my life. I'm trying to overcome this for quite some time now. I thought about doing this post about more than a month ago. This mean time was filled with moments that has been quite interesting, to say the least and have made me realize things about myself. This feeling of being heavy and light at the same time is very different and I have never been here before. As always, it is hard to accept truth. But I don't want to deny it anymore.

“Life is not a problem to be solved, it's a reality to be experienced.”
I have done things in my past that I'm rather not happy with or not so proud of. If you ask me, If I had a chance to go back in time where I could take them back, I would choose not to. What I have done is already past and I can't change it. But, it has changed me. My choices have made me who I am now. Every choice has made quite a bit of impact in and around me and it always will. I'm going to move on with my choices and with my life. I would atleast be satisfied that the course of my life has been built only upon my choices.

I had a dream... to be a human; to learn from my mistakes and never repeat them; to rise up stronger in every fall; to live every moment in life and not count the days; to respect freewill and to be free; to be just true and to be me; to love and to be loved; to choose and to live my life. I had a dream and I'm living it now...

“There is no life as complete as the one that is lived by choice”

Life

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It's been (quiet) quite some time in my life. I'm trying to figure out what my next step in this life should be, as always. It's been some years since my last post and thought I could have a post about certain moments of my life. I think that looking into the past to understand things that we have taken lighter, though were significant and recollect things that has went deep inside our memory in due course of time, might be good. I thought to do once in a while, with the determination of how much would that while be, being the trickiest part.

“The past can hurt. But, you can either run from it or, learn from it”
There are times when, we try to run from our past or at least think we could. Everything seems to have come to a stand still. In certain moments when everything seems to go wrong maybe due to our actions or even others, we desperately seek a way out, but couldn't find one. We wish and pray we could change what has happened, but deep inside we know that we can't. When it's finally over, we seek a change in atmosphere, maybe, a new start.

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending”
Once I had a wish to life a perfect life. The question was “What should I do to have a perfect life that I wish for?” If I know that, maybe I would have all the happiness in the world, from that moment on in life. But, what experience and knowledge could I possibly gain from that moment on in life? The only experience I could think of was learning to spell the right words and let genie do its work. It felt boring and then again I ended up with more questions than answers. I had a question then, “Can life, ever, be perfect?” with the very definition of 'Perfect' being different for each of us because of our unique perceptions.

“Nobody has a perfect life. Everybody has their own problems. Some people just know how to deal with it in a perfect way.”
I have heard people say “Change is the only thing that doesn't change”, which is quite intriguing. I wanted change, within me and surrounding me. It was not who I was that held me back, but who I thought I wasn't. I had to go through certain moments before I could realize that and change can only be possible when we realize what we experienced and learn from it. We only perfect things by experience and when we are done, we move on in pursuit of new challenges. Success but more importantly failures in our past, have given us the knowledge and understanding of the world that we live in. It's quite true that failures bring out one's true nature and potential.

“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often”
Life is how we see it and what we make of it. We cannot run from our past, because it is what makes us who we are now. In bad times, we could let things happen its way, while we just watch or we could just sit and worry all day long, but we're not going to see anything change. Just when it seems to be the end of the world for the caterpillar, the world sees the butterfly. Leave it all behind, rise up, make a choice, move on and act upon that choice. There is no life as complete as the one that is lived by choice. Life, has taught me many things for the better. Life has given me all the patience, knowledge and strength that I hold now and one of the best being the idea of, keep moving forward. All it takes is a bit of courage and hope, that, the best is yet to come!!! smile

“Where there is a will, there is a way”

Life is about destiny, not fate.

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We see the world with different perceptions, yet we live in the same world. We live a unique life in our perspective. I don’t experience the things that happen in your life and vice versa. The things that happen in one’s life are unique to them in their world. This is very true at the basic level of the events of life.

Let’s have a broader look and instead of uniqueness, let’s try to find the similarities in our life. At a very broader scale it’s easy to say that your life is similar to me, because we may have so much in common. I agree that sometimes still our lives may not be similar by any chance. Take your time to sit, relax, think and analyze the lives of the people whom are close to you. For e.g. it can be your best friend’s life or even your dad/mom’s life. I ended up with lot of questions. Whenever a question arises in my mind, I spend most of my time on that until I find the answer. Why so much difference in our lives, yet we are so close and share a lot of things?

Some people believe in fate. I tried to understand the concept of fate. To my knowledge, Fate is “All that happens in your life are already meant to happen and there will be no change.” This is what I got from the people who believe in fate. Some may agree and some may laugh at it. We may argue, but for how long? What we need is answers and not arguments.

“Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.”
Fate as it seems is bound with the concept of sins and good deeds. And it is also built on rebirth or reincarnation. The reincarnation here is about getting a balance between sins and good deeds and thereby nullifying the total to get rid of further births. So if you commit a sin, you will be born again. If you do good to others, you will be born again. So how will I know to nullify the total???

“Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.”
This concept has a major flaw. If everything that you experience now depends on your previous birth, let’s rewind to your very first birth. What were the rules at that time? Surely there can’t be predefined events, because your account of sins and good deeds will be empty. So if you say that God lets you do whatever you want in your first life and then based on that decide on rest of your incarnations, that’s not justifiable. Because if in your first life you can do anything, and someone else in their nth birth/incarnation (n>1) is living with you, don’t what to you do affect that person’s life??? You can analyse this with many angles. This is a concept that contradicts itself in many places. May be the ones who thought to propagate this concept didn’t spend much time to design it well. So it has been a false and wicked propaganda by some power group on earth to induce fear and thereby control the mass on earth. There are so many like the above statements. People who propagate this and who blindly believe in fate say these. Dark places? It just seems to be part of the fear inducing plans.

“No man can make another's destiny and all the wishing in the world will not make it so.”
Destiny refers to an event in your future that fulfills the purpose of your birth. This too deals with rebirth/reincarnation in a way. Reincarnation here has a very profound distinction from the previous concept. The purpose of rebirth/reincarnation here is to learn things that we missed in the previous birth. So it is like we are in a school and in each grade, we apply things that we have learnt in previous grades and also learn new things. So you decide that you are going to play this role and learn these things in this incarnation.

“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped”
You may or may not be able to fulfill your destiny (wished event). So the decisions you take in your life, the path you chose for your life, controls your destiny. So the future depends on what you do now. Unlike fate, destiny doesnot say that life is always a chain reaction. It is sometimes the case of what you did yesterday determines what you do today and what you do today determines tomorrow and so on. But you can break the chain here and that makes a significant difference. It's like, you may dwell into something that may not be your destiny. But at some point in your life when you realize your destiny, you have all the freedom to make the choice and shift your path towards your destiny. The path that you may take may change. The time that you take to learn and realize can vary. But your destiny may not change. You decide your destiny when you decide on your birth/incarnation. So you have control your life. The things you see and face in your life are because you invite them to experience them.

“It's choice--not chance--that determines your destiny.”
Some may accept and some may not. It depends on what you wanted to learn in this life. The knowledge and truth around the concepts are all there in this world before our eyes. You may not see it, if you are not paying attention to it. The knowledge was never lost. It was always there, but hidden by some. I agree that the knowledge is not readily available to all even now. It should be and it will be soon. It is time for the world to make a shift. The energy is already in the air. I hope that all of us will make the shift. In the mean time, I’m just trying to discuss the information that i have, just like many others in the world who are doing this. Hope soon people have all the knowledge and come together to make this world a better place to live in, for everyone.

Change Your Mind, Change Your World

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We always interpret things in the form of actions and reactions. But if we take the truth that the actions are just caused by the thoughts, we will give more importance to thoughts than the actions. The thought is what we have to look into, if we have to change our future.

"We are the change"
One may look at the cloudy sky and say “hey, look at those clouds, they look like a bird.” The other one says “hmm, This is how I see and it looks like a nice horse for me. How do you see it as a bird.” For another one It may be nothing but just clouds. There is a great wisdom in this if we can see it. Our perception defines the world in which we are in. In simple terms, what the eyes see is what mind decodes. The world we see is just a mirror image of what we our mind is. There will be at-least one example which you can remember like the cloud. Just give a thought on it. The world outside is just the same for everyone, yet there is a difference that we all feel. It is what we feel, that actually makes the difference.

Many in this world want a change and some in this world need a change. What kind of change – a change in work, a change in life style, a change in looks, a change in perception, a change in fortune, a change in power, a change in control, a change in others, a change in the world and sometimes a change within us. What exactly defines ‘Change’?

Change means to us as one thing in this world replaced by another, i.e. one that we don’t want, replaced by the one we want. And we have been doing this for all time long. What if the one we don’t want is the same thing that someone else wants or, the one we want is the thing that someone else doesn’t want to have in this same world we live together on? How many times have we thought of this, when we want a change?

“Be the change you want to see in the world.”
The differences are the cause of all bad things that are on this earth. We don’t want bad things in our life and so do others. What can be done so that our change benefits us and doesn’t hurt others and vice versa? We live on one physical world, yet we are in different perceptual worlds. So the change that one wants should not be applied on the one physical world that we all share in common, but should be on our own perceptual world. It is rather a change that we need inside than the change we want in the world outside. We know that there is quite a bit of difference between want and need. If we want the outside world to change for us, then we have to do that by force and that is what have lead the humanity to the world of difference and disharmony we live in. Yet with all these difference, if we remember the similarities in us, if we remember that we all are one as humans, then we can have everything in the world that everyone needs and yet we can be in this world, harmonious than ever we have been. For the physical world to be harmonious, we have to unlock the perceptual world that our mind creates for us. So it is our mind that is the only key to unlock this gateway and it is the only through this way, we will reach the golden age.

God and Spirituality - the essence of human life.

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Religions tell us who we are, what to believe, who to be and what to do to be what it wants us to be. For the people who feel that religion is love, you cannot say that it’s not without some conditions and some force. But this is exactly opposite what we really are. As a spiritual being we are free, with unconditional love and we are limitless. Because we don’t like to live within a limited cage, religion uses fear tactics such as guilt, shame and punishment theories to exercise this control. Because of this fearful separation of ourselves from god, we loose the connection and also feel empty. The fear has been the greatest cause of dumbness in humanity that stops us from realizing who we are. Religions have portrayed us as the creatures made by nature carnal and if left on our own, will do the wrong thing. By saying so the religions has made the humanity to feel themselves as low level creatures and not as co-creators of this universe, which is what we really are. It is the truth that we as spiritual beings are the creators of our world and there-by stand as co-creators of this universe. And by portraying as nature carnal, religions have made people forget about the inner spiritual self, which is what we really are and not this carnal.

"The essence of religion: Fear God and obey God.
The quintessence of spirituality: Love God and become another God."

Where is God? This has been ever the greatest question for the people who follow the religions. Religion talks about the heavens as place of the God. But in spiritual reality god is everywhere. Everything in this universe is part of god. With religion, at times, God can seem far from the reach of aspiring humanity. Religion embraces forms, rituals and practices which have emphasis on outside world than the inner spiritual reality. God and Spirituality is first about inner, higher self than the outside world.

“Only in a quiet mind, is adequate perception of the world”
The mind is a conscious projection of soul. But our mind is not completely conscious. As we have heard and known, we have a conscious mind and a sub-conscious mind. Sub-conscious mind is responsible for our reflex actions. Some or most of our habitual actions have become part of sub-conscious mind. The sub-conscious mind executes the action (habit), even before we try to interpret the event from our conscious mind. That is why it is hard to change a habit. As the time goes on, some or most of the religious practices, which we repeatedly perform, tend to become habits that in-turn are a part of our sub-conscious mind. Thus the religious matters have moved away from pure-consciousness state, making our sub-conscious mind the bigger part of our mind. Since the religions’ emphasis more on the outside world, we tend to look outside from our mind and hence the projection gets broader, thereby making it harder for us to look at our inner self. Spirituality places emphasis on inner self. As we spend more time looking within ourselves and start to understand the spiritual reality, the size of the projection i.e. the mind decreases. Take an electronic projector for example. The projected image is small when the distance between the projector and the wall and the size increases as the distance increases. The soul is the projector and the mind is the image. As we understand the spiritual reality and bring our mind closer to the soul, the mind decreases in size. At a point where the mind overlaps with the soul, the projection is no more. This is the pure-conscious state. But as we dwell in the pleasures of this material world, we take our mind far away from soul and hence the mind seems to be the biggest reality. This is the state where we find most of the people today. All the fear, search and emptiness which have lead to the hatred, greed and wars on this earth are because of this.

“It is God that the humanity really needs and seeks.”
Let us have a thought on our past. There have been many civilizations in the past and every civilization had their own religious practices. When the day the civilizations ended, their religious practices too saw the end. Today this world comprises of many new world civilizations. May be the religious practices has changed, but our belief of God and the true spiritual essence of our life has never changed. With the increasing global spiritual awareness, it is time for us to remove the differences, bloodshed, and all the pain and sufferings of the past by placing all our faith, belief and emphasis on God. We always know that there is a better way of doing things and spirituality is one real better way to reach God. Let us step up to make this earth more spiritual, more flourished, more harmonious and a better place than ever it was. Let the future be an Aquarian age for us and for the generations to follow.

Love Mother Earth: She is also our mother

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Mother Earth – With all her enormous energy and potential resources she has supported life and been a good place to live. She is home for millions of species and billions of human beings. Over the last 3.7 billion years or so, living organisms on the Earth have diversified and adapted to almost every environment imaginable. You can find living organisms from the poles to the equator, from the bottom of the sea to several miles in the air, from freezing waters to dry valleys to undersea thermal vents to groundwater thousands of feet below the Earth's surface. She has given everything to make our life harmonious.

We have taken whatever we can from her. Has she ever said no when we ask for something? In turn to the things she has given to us, what have we done to her?
She gave us air to breathe, we polluted it.
She gave us water to drink, we again polluted it.
She gave us land to live, we bombed it.
She gave us forests to balance life, we destroyed it.
She gave us ozone to protect us, we damaged it.
She gives us everything she can to her children to live in harmony, we showed her anger, hatred, greed and we have made her so ill.

We have damaged her too much. We have to stop further damage. It’s every human being’s responsibility to fix this. Remember, every once in a time, when we forget to fix things, she herself has taken steps to fix the damage done to her. But at what cost - lives of her children? Yes, it’s true. This has been the case every single time in the long, forgotten history of human beings. We have failed to show her our care and respect. She has taught us the same lessons many times and we still do the same mistake. “As you sow, so shall you reap”.

Let’s not let the same to happen this time too. Let’s step up to change the history this time, let’s step up save her. Let’s do whatever we can within your limits and strength. It may be planting a seed for tomorrow or turning all our gadgets into green as far as we can. It’s not about what others are doing rather it’s about what we can do to save our mother. It doesn’t matter how small or big the thing we do is. Anything, anything we can do to save her, please, please let’s do it.

“Save Mother Earth, Save Humanity”

It is all about love

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If we have been shown a group of people and asked "What are the differences between those people?" We have a whole lot of differences to say and sometimes we think it’s endless.
If we have been asked the opposite of that question, meaning "How can you say that those people are one and same or the similarities between them?", then we may say that "Those 2 speak the same language or these 4 are from same part of the world...”

Just take your time and think practically, how do we find similarities between people? It’s obviously through differences. Yes it seems true most of the time in most of the people's life. We have been made to perceive so because of the past or so called history which has taught us only envy, hate and greed; and also the present which is still same as the past. We all forget that, at the end of the day we are still the same, we are just human beings.

1) Is this our fault? Does this mean we are bad?
No.
2) Is there a way to change this?
Yes.

Human population was almost down to 2000, 70000 years ago

The above research finding says that we all came from just around 2000 people. So it means that we all are descendants of the 2000 people. They were one as human beings at that time, they didn't have any differences, they were able to fight back the natural disasters together and they brought us to be we are now in this beautiful world of ours.
Just think about that. Where did we learn to find all the differences, worth for nothing, on this world now?

Let’s start it as simple as possible. First of all, we should love ourselves. Love your family; tell them that you love them so much. Show them the way and Let them follow you.

"First yourselves; now your family and then the humanity."