learning and growing

What a person is fond of somehow defines his or her character.My grandfather is fond of pens and he complains if i ever give him a use and throw pen,irrespective of the purpose.So he requires the best of pens,even when he is just putting a full stop.He is an avid reader as well,a quality that my father has inherited and my father can actually recite all the Sanskrit slokas of Gita,so if i ever see my grandfather reading a book from 3am in the morning,till 12 in the night,without a break-i mean it because there are times when he avoids bathing and eating as well,i am not surprised.He is a listener,a very good one for that matter but when he starts bombarding someone with questions,one is taken aback.Not only that,he has one rare capacity to memorize news from the television.I wander what his rank would have been if he sat for Civil Service Examinations.He was a good Civil engineer of his generation but he never boasts about that.He is in his nonchalant mode most of the time and i know m...

I did not go to college today and hence i had enough time to work on things i usually don't pay attention to,except on Sundays.So i washed my clothes,cleaned my comb and bed and my present study table.Living in a hostel and then doing all these things along with maintaining one's regular schedule becomes difficult.Now that many people counsel me to actually go for meditation classes,i just thought of trying it on my own today and i have realized that it can become productive only when one does it seriously,not that i did not try to be serious because my endeavor was quite serious.I tried my best to think of nothing but as one may analyze,one is still thinking when one is thinking of nothing.So i put in all my best efforts to think of nothing,and i was thinking of nothing and that did not help.I am an impatient person as well and i did not feel like something of immediate good nature was happening to me.I know it takes time,but how long do i wait?And another thing was i did not ...

Being a good student and being a good human are two entirely different concepts.I remember visiting one of my ex-classmate's house once and she providing me with rotten food deliberately and because in some matters i am very much British,i considered that act to be mean and nasty,something i can never think of doing,but that classmate is a good student.At present in my class i have people who are way too desperate to get what they want,even if that means exploiting others and they are great students.I know people who think that,to be in the intellectual region they need to smoke and mate and yes,they are good students.Then i know people who will not get tired helping you,no matter what and make you enjoy their company by their generosity and kindness and they may not be good students but they are exceptionally good human beings.Not many belong to this zone but if one gets to see two or three such people in their life in the KALYUG,one may well consider oneself as a fortunate being,...

The creation with which one can connect to is all that one can ask for.I recently had a visit to DVC[DAMODAR VALLEY CORPORATION],and it was when i saw the sunset and the river reflecting the sunlight,that i realized that i have grown up.Believe it or not there was a strange cosmic connection.I started wandering of how i did not see rather observe this beauty earlier because this was not my first visit there and what caught my breath was the time.It just captured me.For a moment i just felt that TIME was the creator;that abstract something that makes everything around you seem real and concrete.What more?The bond that you feel exists with nature can be a bliss.One might just feel happier because one is a part of that bond.There was just no line dividing the water and the sky and there was no line in my mind that could divide me with what i was feeling then about the entire thing.I had my cousins with me that day,they were busy capturing the moment and i was myself captured in the heart...

Now that hardly one and a half month is left for my third year to get over,a strange sense of relaxation overwhelms me supported by the fact that a stronger effort will now be required for the coming years.Now that i reflect back,it seems like yesterday when i was all tooth and nails,working hard for my class ten board exams.It seemed the world to me then for little did i know that apart from being a good student,there are always other odds that contribute towards making one a successful student as well.But those days are gone now and i just try to convince myself towards being and moving towards what is required.Because i have become more mature now(which i can rightfully assert)and as Hamlet once said to Horatio that there are more things on heaven and earth that one can think of.Going with the flow is not easy because reality interrupts and bothers but accepting with gratitude what one faces is a necessity and because i have a strong conviction on Karma,i will rather wait,watch,smi...

He was walking down the street.It was dawn.He had things in mind-about the origin of magic that he often asked his father when he was a four,about his perception of the paintings that his elder sister made:he admired them and envied her sister at the same time because he knew that he cannot paint like his sister.He also thought of the endless lectures he received from his mother on good behaviour,the neighbours' children and his lack of interest in doing his work.He is now nineteen.But he had a long way to go.His past was not too good or as he thought.He bothered himself with what was true and could have been avoided.He knew that,but it was dawn and he wanted to try and keep things out of his mind now.His eyes were burning because of his lack of sleep.He was exhausted for not being able to think nothing.He saw the incomplete Sun,four people at the other end of the fragmented street smiling and looking at him.He knew, he was not suppose to think of situations that did not allow him ...

The new year has already started and has already introduced a lot of changes into my life,some i welcome whole heartedly and some i am accept thought not really and can't welcome them.My last year was good enough because i had to face less unpleasant situations and by the end of 2015 i was already in the position to fulfill two of my bigger plans.Firstly,my bank account which reached quite a sum i wanted it to and that comes from my spending less on unimportant commodities.So it was hard earned in the sense that i often avoided spending it on items i wanted to eat-a gathering done in the past three years of my college life.Secondly,my investing of my dedication towards by blog and getting my page visits exceed one thousand in a period of less than seven months,which is quite a task i say and the fact that i would be able to fulfill two things this year was not really planned.I sincerely hope that this year too,proves pleasant enough for me because this is quite an important year in...