My random musings - part 2

[Ashok]

As the number of posts swelled up in the previous thread, i thought of starting a new one..........hope whatever i write make some sense to at least a few of the readers.......you can always comment or criticize me for the lack of knowledge which i display while penning down my thoughts and i would appreciate that.........however please do it with mildness  .........i am still a human .......

[Ashok]

I always wondered why is there a place for mistakes in our lives.....why cannot they be avoided altogether and why do we repeat some of them foolishly even though we thought we had learnt our lessons........as i understand, the mistakes will keep happening till they no longer will server any purpose in our lives........when the mistakes will not add or subtract anything to our lives, they will disappear on their own (or probably we stop falling into the cycle of making mistakes subconsciously)...... so what is it which i am trying to convey here........well nothing actually, just what i feel and understand........every incident may not have an explicit lesson and need not be actually, some seeds sprout later under more fertile conditions........ i might talk about morality and spirituality however the fact can be that i am actually quite away from that and i am just trying to idealise a situation in which i would like myself to be in .........and all the sermons and advices are actually for myself, an attempt to reinforce my beliefs or understandings dawned to me in time.............

Most of our walks in our lives do not have a fixed destination, though they reveal many unexpected things on the way...... it is another thing that some of those things may be unacceptable to us ......however the fact is that the lure of finding something nice enough on the way which will cause us to forget the pain of unwanted things is big enough in itself and quite tempting to set a new journey in an unknown direction.............

Thanks for reading this and keep doing fine.........take care.......love you very much.........may Baba gives you the peace which you are searching for...........!!!

[Ashok]

I sometimes wonder how would i react if i were facing Baba someday in person..........or for that matter say meeting Mahavira, Buddha, Krishna or say even Gandhiji............. I can tell you that i may not know how to react and what words to say........i would not have any idea about the set of behaviour which would be appropriate for the moment........i can practice and rehearse mentally however there are high chances that the articulated behaviour will evaporate as soon as the moment arrives........

Will i be in awe of the person in front of me.......i believe that because i never know how great the soul is behind the body, i would be inclined to assume a behaviour which will be in tune with the situation and i will be heavily under the influence of the body which i would be seeing and not the soul encased in it.......... i may even find that Rama, Krishna, Mahavira of my imagination are little different from the ones i see and i might be even disappointed if find them different from my imagination .......... or it can also happen that i find them much more beautiful and captivating than my imagination.........i am talking about the physical attributes and mannerisms........

I believe that due to my ignorance, i will receive only little from them and that little would be actually enough for me........ sometimes i feel that those people who stay around Baba may be tempted to believe Him to be a person like us....... walking, talking, eating, smiling etc............. however the Baba of our imagination does not do such activities and we will never be ignorant enough to equate him to his physical body only............ the Baba of our imagination is a store house of peace and love in which we dive into as and when we run out of them in our daily lives.......... actual Sai Baba will be radically different from what we perceive about him and what we know about him.......however we always project things on our mental plane based on our understanding, let us hope that the projection is at least proportionate so that it can be zoomed later once we are more "enlightened"  ......... let us pray that the projection is as close to the reality and that we do not ever have distorted figure, how enchanting that may appear to us in the beginning.......... 

[Ashok]

I am not sure how many of you write a journal or keep a diary and write every day or say on fairly regular basis.......... i used to do it long time back and then one fine day destroyed all the diaries when i felt that i had outgrown them........... i lost many of my good creations, however i do not feel the loss, as i do not feel the need to share them with anyone or to read them again....

if you write on regular basis, i would like to ask you if you have felt some kind of void after writing down, i am not talking about the void created by less thoughts in your mind........i mean something else........let me describe it in some other words or probably i will try to describe how i feel afterward and that may provide some clues..........i am attached to the writing for sometime and then i just do not even read them at any other point of time and feel why did i write them in the first place, if i am never going to visit them again....... i mean i feel as if i should not have written them altogether...... anyway probably writing helps me clear my mind and probably would encourage others to write (not that people will be inspired by my writing, however i am sure many would like to believe that they can write lot better than me and would like to take a plunge in writing).... and if that happens, it is going to be very good for the forum........  .......


If you google for your queries and read content over websites, you may find that many a times the real content is not in the initial few pages of the search, it is actually hidden somewhere in the later pages..........and many a times, the websites which are not visited often have some really good content.......... so if you are a little bit adventurous by nature, you should read content of not so popular websites too........... many a times i read about the same thing or same topic at different places and conveyed by different people in totally different manners and that can teach so much........ we love novel things and novelty can be in the matter of expression/presentation, may not be so much in the real substance, however sometimes we need different package for something just to be attracted towards it.........isn't it.........think about it.......!!

Take care and love you all..........