Chamku-The Sunshine Boy!

Mustard flowers, shimmering yellow, spread over acres of farmland in a remote corner of a state in the chilly, winter struck,sun basking northern India...A quiet road transversing the fields shines on a bright sunny day and the generous breeze makes its presence felt...gently blowing across the face of a cyclist..coming from afar...lost in oblivion...

He is popularly known as "Chamku"(which means Shining in English) in his village.Why was he given such a name even though the colour of his skin does not suggest anything like that...may be the profuse sweating that he is prone to, gives his face an unusual shine..therefore the name!

Chamku always keeps on smiling..his smile is infectious! It catches on to you and suddenly you feel you are part of some girlie party that goes on crazily giggling away to glory for no reason at all....He smiles when it rains, smiles when it is scorching hot, smiles..when it is bone chilling cold ..keeps on smiling always...

Foreigners frequent his scenic village quite a bit.They come here looking for eternal peace and calm and many of them have actually confessed that Chamku makes them believe that this village can actually give them what they have come looking for..peace..for isn't Chamku just that-embodiment of peace and calm..

Chamku doesn't understand english at all..however, he loves conversing with these foreign tourists...speaks his own language and still communicates! Wow!Looking at them, you realise that you don't really need a language to understand each other...just a genuine interest in understanding others and being understood can work wonders!ha..they don't teach that at B schools...

Why is Chamku so happy?one wonders, what keeps him so content and genuinely calm? is it his scenic village, that does the magic or the people association that he gets or may be even better, the villagers....what is it?

Nobody has ever been able to answer that..

Yes, but Chamku does one thing absolutely right....he takes a lot of effort to shine the shoes of every passerby,villager, foreigner that comes upto his small box shop...a one box shop rather...works very hard..just to give that perfect shine....to the shoes....just to make them CHAMKU!

One wonders what would have Chamku achieved had he been putting all that effort into his education?

Facebooking!

Another one of my random tete-a tete with my mind!

Facebook...I have realised every time I go to Facebook, I am either bored and therefore want to fill my life with Masala from other people's lives or I need food for thought, which is somehow provoked by FB in me and may be in a thousand others!

I can't help relating the famous dialogue from three ideots-the famous Bollywood movie to facebooking which says , " aap fail ho jao aur apka friend fail ho jaye toh dukh hta hai, lekin agar aap fail ho jao aur aapka friend first aaye toh bahut zyaada dukh hta hai".

Therefore , If you have all the fun in life- (travel, go wild, buy a new car, new house, get married, have children, or join a new company at a fancy designation or a new B school( a top one on that) or relocate to London or somewhere in US), you have every right to announce the same to the world via pictures or of course the status message feed which says something like, ( Yippee...First day in blah..blahh) or (New life, new beginnings) etc etc etc...

However, the same done by any one of your FB friend ( FB friends= friends who rarely talk to each other personally, who get to know about each other's life only through a status update and friends whose conversations do not go beyond..how nice they look or how nice their trip must have been! i nut shell, friends who know nothing about your life other than what you choose to showcase to them ;P) might send you off in a frantic frenzy- not in admiration of the other's life but in lack of it !

And then starts the Food for thought syndrome..which is all about the famous questions-When, how, why, me, myself, etc etc. The good part is this provokes you( inspire is a better word here) to look forward to better things in life..the bad part is..you do nothing about the future and just sit and lament on the current state of affairs in your life!

and even worse...like me...you become a victim and decide to jot it down somewhere so that it goes out of your system, you get to see a better side to it, laugh a lot while writing this and then get on with work-which BTW is the only way to make things happen in your life.:D

So, till the time , that I happen to post a few pictures of my new muse in life..here's to FBing happily ever after!

Love thy work!

That is indeed a thought provoking statement...A statement that I have tried to live by and live through...
Yupp live through...and live through like hell..Coz with every dream, there might be a perceived price to pay.Please note " PERCEIVED"..these prices that you pay sometimes are more pschyological than real..Sometimes they just do NOT exist in the present..they are all nicely waiting for you in the future or so called future as potrayed by your near and dear ones..

and then starts the journey..the tussle of "to be or not to be".I happen to come across many such souls thoughout my day..at work..their reasons for taking any particular course could range from "Good marks" to" better paying" to "Societal recognition" to even a "nice matrimonial match." Passion does not seem to be the Trend...

Passion could be dangerous, rebellious, could just defy every existing norm and tradition and could prove that everything that has to be or will be is in the NOW, in the present that we reside in.If I do not appreciate the present of PRESENT given to me, in all proabilities my future would be just the same old story!

I am trying to reiterate certain rules that I have created for myself, to myself all over again, lest i forget the importance of the time that Iam in and the future that i am trying to create.

and the rule for my life is:

Following Passion = great satisfaction and pride and sense of achievement= great efficiency at work, great output= better paying, better growth= happiness = great life!

excerpt from OSHO!

If you can love, meditation will be very easy. The world will be more
religious if love is accepted, helped along, and love becomes a
natural milieu around you. Then meditation will be very easy because
you will know a taste through love of what it means to be dissolved,
even if only for a single moment. Then you can dare to be dissolved
for longer moments.

And if you can love, you will not be afraid of death. Lovers are
never afraid of death. And if a person is afraid of death, you can be
certain that he has not loved and he has not been loved. The fear of
love shows that the life has been without love. Lovers are ready to
die very easily. They can die for each other. They do not care much
about so-called life because they have known a higher quality of life;
they have known a higher life. They do not care about this life very
much.

But look at persons who have never loved. They will always be afraid
of death. Look at misers: they will always be afraid of death. And
misers are those persons who have not loved anyone because if you can
love a person you will never love money. Money is a substitute. When
you cannot love an individual, when you cannot love a live person, you
love dead money.

Misers, those who go on clinging to their possessions, are not even
acquainted with what love is. Their whole love has gone to dead money.
And why has it gone? There are deeper connections. A person who is too
much attached to money will be afraid of death. Really, a person who
is afraid of death will love money too much because money seems to be
a protection against death. If you have money you feel protected. If
you do not have any money you feel unprotected. Death can occur and
you cannot do anything. With money you feel that you can do something.
Money will be helpful.

A person who loves will not love money because a person who loves
will not be afraid of death. And if a person is not afraid of death,
there cannot be any clinging, attachment, mad obsession with money. It
is impossible. If you can love, then you will accept death very
easily. It will be a deep relaxation, a long sleep, a beautiful
dissolution into the existence. And if you can be receptive to death,
then meditation can be as easy as anything. The problem arises because
love is not there. When death has become a fear, then meditation will
be difficult because it is both love plus death. It is death as far as
your ego is concerned; it is love as far as the divine existence is
concerned.

I define meditation in a mathematical formula: meditation is equal to
love plus death – love to the existence, to the total, and death to
the ego. They are both two aspects of the same coin because you can
love the total only if you are ready to lose the individual. If you
are ready to die, only then can you be reborn as the existence, as the
Brahman.

Jesus says, ”Only if you lose can you survive. And those who try to
survive will be lost.” It is hard because you have not loved; it is
hard because you have not lived. It is not hard by itself. Meditation
by itself is very easy – a spontaneous phenomenon. If a human being
evolves naturally, falls into love, knows what love is, knows what
type of death and what type of life love is, comes out of it, knows
the taste of moving into and being in death, then he will love death
– not as being against life. Death changes the quality then. Then it
becomes the last point in life, the highest peak, the climax of life.
Then meditation is very easy.

Those of you who are ready to lose can understand it; it is very
easy. Those of you who are not ready to lose cannot understand it.

Source – Osho Book “The Supreme Doctrine”

Who am i??

This thought provokes me day and night..makes me go into oblivion for hours...makes me go crazy...and sometimes makes me cry...!!
Am i this free spirited life..who wants to fly away in every direction that life takes it to or a responsible, mature , pretentious..life...which puts conditions one after the another for me...more like a gravel path heading towards your own grave...

Am i the one who would want to enjoy the sight of a twinkle on a leaf..on a bright sunny day after a slush of fierce rain shower..or ..a person who would first wait for grass to get green to enjoy that experience??

Am i the one who would fall in love...rejoice..enjoy...and just be...or the one who would fall in love and then defy it by creating conditions around it?

Ami the one who would learn the art of renouncement and detachment and the beauty related to it...the beauty of not being affected..not being hurt..or the one...who will kill most of the time in figuring out the why's and how's of life...

Am i the one who would find purpose...aim in everything or the one who would make everything that comes across in life a purpose in itself...??

Am i the one who would..someday...learn...the art of being in state of absolute happiness...or the one who would let the life pass without ever even getting close to it??

What is that defines me??? What ...who am i??
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Who are you???