Where The Mind is Without Fear

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection:
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is lead forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action—
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

-- By Rabindranath Tagore

The life we live(?) !

As time goes by, one realizes, there is nothing called Time. Time does not exist. Things gradually disintegrate. This is a constant process of energy changing its form. Which, Us humans try to quantize in terms of time.

For me, it’s been three years since I have been at this resort, healing my self, and seeing others healed. All the time witnessing the constancy in people’s behaviour and their perceived understanding of evolution. So mutually contradicting and yet so fully true.

We breathe means we bleed too. Most of them us so addicted to the emotional rollercoaster ride that we eventually self destroy our true being. Under the pretext of being truly honest, we always lie to us.

Year 2005 and we are still living barbaric ways. Hunting for weaker; living off the exploits all this is nothing but just pure animalistic instincts. We call it as the ways of civilized society. We have religion that teaches us to hate. We have politicians that divide us on our colour, caste, race, geography, language and even gender. We have priests who preach hatred and lawyers who lie under oath whereas doctors who prescribe drugs under pretext of healing you. We love them. They give us that daily dose of drama in otherwise absolutely meaningless life. We slog like slaves just to earn the resources to keep these politicians, priests, lawyers, doctors and rest of them alive and well.

We pay them. We bring them back every time. We take away the joy of childhood from our kids. We take away the freedom from our friends. We take away our own life from ourselves. Just to do that 9-5 job so that we can pay mortgage, pay insurance, pay government, pay to priest to get forgiveness from our sins and pay to lawyers so that none of the others would sue you for not paying them.

In the end, we die with cancer, heart trouble, kidney failure, liver problems, gun shots, car accidents, stress, drug over dose, surgeons mistake, mistaken identity, terrorist act and if nothing else hurricane and tsunamis.

What have we done to deserve this?

Post Katrina, Americans fume in anger- The Times of India

Post Katrina, Americans fume in anger- The Times of India: "Post Katrina, Americans fume in anger"

Lessons are learnt by ordinary people at a very high cost. Lesson taught to common people due to mistakes of those in power.

Need to write some more... but don't have words.

Conman jailed for fooling lady love- The Times of India

Conman jailed for fooling lady love- The Times of India: "Conman jailed for fooling lady love"

Look what humans can do when they are so deeply in love with someone. Don't get me wrong. Every one of us goes through the phase when we do things just straight out of our hearts desire. But at age of 19, are we really mature enough?

I don't see any foul play here but what I see is compulsion placed on the young mind to become achievers and show off that they can earn that money. True heart feelings have been forgotten.

An ideal story would have been, if the girl in question, instead of demanding a good career from him, she could have inspired him to do something worthwhile. Just look at the devotion/commitment of this kid. His smart mind could have set him up as a successful entrepreneur. But nope, the princess of the story wished to be demanding.

Not that I mean to say the girl was wrong. The only fault is, with the changing value system of our society. I mean the society world over. The so called middle class, the upholder of value and tradition, is soon forgetting it all. Letting in the value systems as projected by the media.

Any one has a suggestion on how to correct this imbalance in the value system? Any insight into why this still happens? Any one with a different view point on this story? Looking forward to hear from others.

What is Love?

Some closeness brings the warm feelings and these feelings are usually confusing. Why is that we always make mistake in understanding what is love? Why do we always try to fathom this infinite universal phenomenon that’s called Love? Why do we want to understand it? Why can’t be just simply live with it? Why do we need to do certain things or act in a certain way because are supposed to be “IN” love?

I have seen those who fall in love, injure themselves. That’s exactly is my argument that one should not “fall” in love. Love is elevating. Love is exhilarating. Love is universal and it is so powerful and gentle that it can’t harm anyone. What love is it that breaks people’s heart? What love is it that in name of God, thy shall kill a fellow human.

I have seen the spin in the eyes of so called friends when they said they love me but what they really meant was they want to take things from me. My money, my peace of mind, my ideas, my honesty and finally leave me with their stress and difficulties. What good is this love?

Seeing the sheer abuse of the word “love”, I really get annoyed, paranoid, scared or whatever, when someone say they love me. I don’t see even a genuine affection exist anymore.

Where is all that gone? Or I am just being naively antique in my expectations? Who knows! Anyone, can throw some light on this?