Happy Diwali

Season's greetings to all.

Wishing you a very Happy Diwali and prosperous year ahead. 

May those who need Food/Shelter/Cloth be blessed with the necessary and no one stay without it during Diwali and days to come.

May all of us be blessed with peace, happiness and good health. 

Prayers,

Jini

Hope

- Painting by George Frederic Watts (1886)

With her clothes in rags, her body scarred and bruised and bleeding, her harp all but destroyed and with only one string left, she had the audacity to make music and praise God ...

These fabulous lines seem to me like real marvels in the form of words, very rare to encounter in a practical world.

The moment I got them, there was an instant impulse of fearlessness that ran through my body. That feeling was so profound, so simple and so real that it is hard to describe in words. Somewhere this painting depicts a side of us, which some of us may believe and follow it through while others might bury it in some corner of our heart.

We live in such a paradoxical world that I am fully convinced that there is no right or wrong way. It is just a matter of choice. We either choose to stay in the game or we choose to give up. A friend of mine recently told me that everyone’s gifted with strengths and weaknesses and life is all about playing it right.

Sometimes we end up giving up to the situation thinking that there is no way – no hope. And more often than not, all we need is to just step back a little and probably try to widen our horizon to see the hidden dimension and get a perspective.

It all ends up to - who is the last man standing?

So keep playing the music till you have your last string intact. Don’t give up.

Love,

Jini

Actions have consequences

Actions have consequences… Actions have consequences… Actions have consequences… Very strong and impactful words aren't they?

When we were born we were never given a rule book that states the do’s and the don’ts of a human living. Nobody told us the right and the wrong deeds on our first day or the idealistic way in which humans should behave that will set us apart from animal beings. We experience few things, fall miserably (sometimes), dust ourselves and then eventually learn to catch up with to the speed of our dreams (or our journey). But these learning never come easy and cheap. It comes with a huge price.  

As an MBA professional, we are taught the famous 80:20 rule in our B-school and whenever my boss asked me anything pertaining to numbers, my favorite alibi used to be “well it’s a 80:20 rule you know..”. But in our lives, there aren't any 80:20 rules. It is either 100 or 0. We always live on the edge. You are there or you are not there. You are either honest or you not. You are either right or you are wrong.

What really amaze me are those who shamefully hurt someone and walk away like nothing ever happened. No pinching of conscious, no nightmares, no apologies, no loss of sleep - absolutely nothing. But what these wondrous animals forget is that their actions have consequences. There are repercussions that are left behind as gifts for the ones who are sitting there and wondering for the rest of their lives feeling really stupid.

“Why did I trust this person in the first place? Why did my conscious never stopped me or alerted me?” These questions always hound them.

When people betray, they are not just betraying trust of a person but there is much more at stake. The stake is loss of ability to trust again, loss of self confidence, loss of fear to fall again and what if I am unable to get up this time, loss of innocence, loss of love (momentary but definitely). And no matter how hard one tries to erase these memories, few marks always stays permanently as learning.

‘Nature’ is very smart. It never tells you how to how deal with it. It lets you deal with it yourself but gives you all the ammunition to deal. Some of the bitter mysteries of life that is hard to swallow (at least in this moment).

Jini

Wind can take it all...

Wind can take it all – Pain, Anger, Fear, Revenge, Frustration and bury it in a place where no eye can find it.

Easier said than done!

I met an old family friend and a dear neighbour who lost his only son few months back in a road accident. His son was returning from his morning badminton game when a young school boy lost control of his bike and hit his son so hard that his son died then and there. When I saw him (our old neighbour)  at my house today, I was slightly taken a back. I didn't have the courage to look into his old eyes, which were once full of dreams. I have grown up in front of him and I know for sure that he is one of the gentle hearted beings that I have ever known in my whole life. I simply greeted him and sat there quietly. Had few occasional talks but my mind kept dabbling between 10 years back when we saw him as a proud father happily marrying his son and now I was seeing an old and helpless father trying to collect pieces of his shattered world.

What I have heard is that he and his entire family did not opt for any legal action against that young boy. Not because they did not want to get entangled in our complex legal system but because they realized that fighting a lost battle (in moral sense) will not lead anyone anywhere. They had already lost their valuable treasure. They decided to forgive themselves, the young boy and their unreasonable circumstances.

Sometimes we put our ego so high in our day to day lives that we simply forget the concept of ‘forgiving’ and ‘letting it go’. We have all experienced some or the other time in our lives – ‘sooner or later we came to terms with the situation’ and decided to ‘let it go’. The profound peace that came as a by-product was certainly worth a shot and we all know it very well!

Make a decision today and tell the wind – ‘Please take it all – Pain, Anger, Fear, Revenge, Frustration and bury it in a place where no eye can find it.’ May the peace prevail.

Prayers for all.

Jini

The Royal Secret

This is one post for which I have taken my own sweet time to write. And am glad I took that decision because from the time I decided to write and to the time I actually wrote, I have got some great learning along the way which has definitely influenced this post  in a positive manner. 

As a blogger, I can’t wait to share my learning and experiences with all. I really hope that this post reaches to the maximum people in various parts of the globe.  Feel free to share it with as many people you know. 

I just finished reading The Holy Bhagvad Geeta (A sacred Hindu Philosophy & Guide). I consider reading the Holy Bhagvad Geeta as one of my life changing experiences and I feel indebted to the knowledge (whatever little that I have gathered) and want to share my feelings about knowing it with as many people as I can. 

Being a Hindu, presence of The Bhagvad Geeta was known to me since my early childhood but never thought to actually understand and implement the key lessons taught in it, till I reached a point where it automatically came into my life. After experiencing it, I strongly feel that it is truly when one is ready to gain the knowledge is when it actually comes in one’s life – another law of nature into action.

It happened to me at the right time when I really needed it and when I was ready to take the knowledge in true sense with an open mind. The actual realization of the experience and the change started happening once I was done with the 70% of the reading. Till then, I was just engrossed into reading and was just going with the flow.

All my friends who knew that I was reading it asked me - How do I feel after reading it? my answer to them is 'Light' and ‘Realized’. Lot of misconceptions, questions, doubts were clarified. So if you are sitting there and reading this post and thinking - "Ok good for you that you found it interesting, but what is the Royal Secret that you wish to share with me?".

The Royal Secret is the moment of realization – a thought and an assurance that there is the presence of Absolute Consciousness in Me, in you and in everyone of us ,which is one and all, which is full of endless possibilities and that the power to manifest these possibilities lies within ME. Something that is beyond time & space, something which is so powerful that – water cannot wet, fire cannot burn, wind cannot blow. It was there, is there and will always be there. 

It cannot get better and simpler than this :)

There is so much more to it and one need to explore more to experience ‘The Ultimate Truth’. I am deliberately keeping this part of the post very short (like a movie trailer) because I want you to experience it yourself and come at your own conclusion.

Personally getting introduced to this awareness is a stepping stone to the endless possibilities. You could be sitting in any part of the world and you may have got or may get an opportunity to explore your new world in the form of a book, a guide (The Holy Geeta or any other sacred philosophy that you believe in), a mentor or good and bad experiences that will open the gate to this awakening  – My personal recommendation is that do give it a try and you never know it may be a big turning point that you have always waited for :)

Happy weekend!

Love,

Jini

You can write to me at jini.blogspot@gmail.com . 

It's extreme

People often quote me as an 'Extremist'. Honestly, not just them but I too quote myself an extremist and do not shy away to accept that. Frankly, when we step aside our real self and simply observe our actions and our thoughts that are projected in the outer world with an unbiased and neutral mindset, we can clearly see what we are. I feel not just me but most people in this world are extreme in one or the other quadrant of their lives. How? Here is my reasoning…

If we weren't extreme, there wouldn't clearly be any discrimination. Everything would have been simply ‘neutral’ or ‘perfect’ or ‘just enough’ in this world. There are tons of live examples that we come across on a daily basis like extreme happiness, extreme sadness, extreme wealth, extreme poverty, extreme enthusiasm, extreme laziness, extreme peace, extreme violence, developed countries, not so developed countries, rich, poor, emotional soul, practical soul, green signal, red signal, cold, hot, male, female, synonym, antonym, yes, no and so on. Had we been perfect or properly balanced, we as an individual wouldn't fall in some of those attributes mentioned earlier.

Yesterday, while going to work, in my train bogey suddenly I heard a young girl in her early 20’s started yelling at an aged lady more than double her age. Mistakenly the old lady stamped the girl’s foot and the girl out of anger started yelling at the old lady with not so pleasant words. Hearing this, another woman jumped into the conversation and asked (in anger) the girl to mind what she is speaking and that GOD is watching her behavior  Obviously, I was equally agitated with the girl’s behavior but that aside, wasn't both kind of reaction extreme? One defined ‘bad’ and another ‘for the sake of good’?

Another example – Look at the lives of most successful or popular people, weren't they extremist? Because they did something more than somebody to gain that position or achievement.

Question is how come we as a universe of Planets, Stars, Sun and Moon are still so well synchronized midst of these extreme energies? If good is ‘good’ in literal sense and bad is ‘bad’, then scientifically, emotionally and spiritually where do we stand?

Still thinking J

Hopefully answer will come in!

Cheers,

Jini