The Only Way Out Is In, So Look Deep Within!!!

We constantly seek a deeper experience of life, one way or the other. Whatever one may seek – God, alcohol, drugs, meditation or any thing that one feels will provide relief, give pleasure or fulfillment – you are only seeking to have a larger slice of life. 

The intention is always the same, somehow to have a deeper experience, to extract a little more out of life, to find access to that which is not yet for you. The question is not of the intention as the intention is always the same; it is only of whether it works or not.
 
Everything you’ve done in your life so far has been in pursuit of joy – career, business, making money or starting a family. From when you were a child till now, is your joy increasing or decreasing?
 
Now that you have grown up, you have your own life, your own family, your own bank account, everything of your own – has your joy multiplied? In the last 24 hours, how many moments of joy have you known?
 
When you came into this world, you came with no investment. So whatever happens in your life, anyway you are in profit. But the reason people are in various levels of distress is because there is no life-sense, only ego-sense.
 
If you are miserable, it is because life is not happening the way you think it should happen. If everything happened the way you think it should, the whole existence would happen within the limitation of your limited thought.
 
Is it not wonderful that so many things that you could never imagine are happening? What you enjoyed, your parents were distressed about. What you are distressed about, your children are enjoying.
 
The nature and basis of your experience is within you. Pain and pleasure, joy and misery, agony and ecstasy happen only within you. The very seat of your experience is within you. So why try to extract joy from outside? At best, the outside can provide a stimulus.
 
If you depend on the outside to bring joy to you, understand that the outside never happens a hundred per cent the way you want it. Those who think that there is something like an ideal situation are not in touch with reality. No situation or person will ever happen a hundred per cent the way you want it. But at least you should happen the way you want yourself to be. Then there would be no need for you to be in pursuit of your happiness. So the question is not of intention or direction, but of doing that which works. If you did happen the way you want yourself to be, joy would be the natural choice. What we refer to as inner engineering means not seeing joy as something that we could achieve in our life but seeing joy as the very basis of our lives. Joy is not the goal; it is the square one of our life. Other things can happen only if there is joy. Otherwise, you will live constantly with the fear of misery striking at you.
 
What great things you achieve in your life will depend on your capabilities, the situation, and the prevailing times. Regardless of what you do or don’t, my wish and blessing is that your experience of life is pleasant and graceful. 

Source: The Speaking Tree, Times of India

To be or not to be !!

Hello,

I realized yesterday, Technology still has a long way to go, here in Kukas!! There are days when u feel life is all peaceful, you are fed up of all mundane issues and you have that gr8 feeling of exploring and sharing something innovative and thought provoking with ppl around you... But LOL!!  all of a sudden ur internet gives away  >:(

Well, yesterday i was kinda sifting through all my collections of morale boosters and some of them really surge adrenaline.. Nupe!! M not conventionally lecturing you over the importance of hardwork, determination, confidence and all the stuff we've been hearing (but never listening to) since kindergarten!! m just here to rephrase what Shakespeare quoted in Hamlet, "To be or not to be?"

I could have inserted these videos, but excuse me for being impatient over the very slow network:

1. Kiran Bedi single handedly remakes India's toughest prisons.

2. Dr. Shah Faesal sets an unprecedented example for all youth (there are 4 parts to this one, i recommend all four)

3. India is full of million such examples.. randomly selected this one

Friends, this is an era of revolution.. A much needed and awaited revolution where we do not need a leader, we need to do it alone, person to person. Before we even finish counting the zeros involved in a scam, another scam erupts with even more zeros. Lets remember, we are not 1.2 billion Indian population, but we are 1.2 billion brains, 1.2 billion human resources..  For once, lets try and rise above petty issues of life and focus on what really matters- getting 80% marks, flying off to foreign, acout for an elite living, becoming a research scientist and earning in multiple zeros?? or letting the holy manna grace us all by doing our bit for social good inspite of achieving or despite of failing in all the above mentioned lucrative attractions??

As students, the prime focus in hands- with or without any promises of future is to study hard.. but lets all study harder than we ever did.. not to top our universities but to ensure our powers and authorities to do something for people who are born and die on the streets, who struggle hard for even the basic necessities of life, who clean our toilets to earn 30 rs per day, who commit suicide for mere debt of 10,000/- and endless such who-s....

Jai Hind!