Liquid Flow

My health was not quite good today. So I went to the land where I am growing organic vegetables since some time. I harvested some spinach, beet and carrot. I began to feel better in a way like the earth was healing me with its motherly affection by transferring some of her strength in me.

There is a dynamic exchange of energy going on in every moment of our life. With the people we meet, with the air we breathe, with the earth we walk on and in the way we speak, with the light that touches our skin, or with the sound that penetrates our soul, with the technology we interface or with the stillness within..! There is a constant exchange of energy - sometimes tangible (measurable by physics in the form of electrons, wave particles, etc) and sometimes intangible (like feelings, intuition or peace sensed by the heart). I realized today that being present and paying attention of this constant exchange without judgment (labeling good or bad) is the beginning of a true relationship.

Weight Loss

When the concept of future drops, so does the heaviness of being.
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Happiness and its Relationship with Art

Recently was asked to deliver a speech at IIM Ahmedabad on 'Happiness and its Relationship with Art.' Some of you wanted me to share the transcript. So here ya go :)
http://autobiographyofanunknownmoment.blogspot.com/2008/01/happiness-and-art.html

Growing Mushrooms

I started cultivating this variety of oyster mushrooms about one and half months ago. I am moved by the beauty and miracles of nature, seeing them grow everyday !

Pale Blue Dot

On Acceptance

Once, someone said that after absorbing J. Krishnamurti's teachings for more than 30 years, he felt that his entire teaching could be summarized in one sentence, "Sit with What Is."

Below, Eckhart Tolle says something equally powerful:

"See if you can catch yourself complaining in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness."

Courtesy: Partha
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A Poetic Caress

Here's a short film I recently directed with the help of Shammi Nanda, on a poetry I had written sometime back. The background sound was given by Sugandha Upasani, while the words were spoken by me.



You may find the words of the poetry here.

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....everything feels liquid...........
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Unearthing the Vastness Within

'You are not what happens; you are the space in which it happens. You are not your thoughts; they come and go. You are the vastness in which these thoughts appear and disappear because underneath all your thinking there is the stillness of pure being,... pure consciousness, the timeless dimension of yourself.'
-Eckhart Tolle

Uncertainty

The hand reaches out of the window,
Yearning to touch the light in empty space,
Speckles of dust kiss the fingertips,
Leaving uncertainty between the nameless and the named.

The lover draws the loved one close,
Tasting her raw truth with his mouth,
A feeling of oneness envelopes him,
Leaving uncertainty between the human and divine.

You ask me to transcend this illusory reality,
Beyond this impermanent pleasure and pain,
Beyond this cycle of birth and death,
Beyond these transient surface waves.
...But when I feel Your Grace,
In this moment,
My world feels simplified.
Leaving no uncertainties,
Unwarranting faithless games,
For the spirit that moves
Through You and me,
Is
The same.

Sep, 15th
In the train, somewhere near Goa