Soft is Strong

We usually think that soft is weak.

 

But we have heard that soft women when needed can be stronger than most men around them.

 

Air & water are in gaseous /liquid state , but can erode the rocks in solid state.

 

Air finds its way into many so called air tight containers.

 

Water tight compartments are penetrated by water / a leakage by a small lapse.

Think about it.

Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong

Krishna & Butter

We all have seen pictures of Krishna enjoying butter & stories of Krishna stealing butter.

But why butter?

Is it because he loved cows? Then why not milk or yoghurt ??

Cows represent the satvik qualities - white, calm, caring and so on.

Well butter is the outcome of churning milk/cream/yoghurt.

So to reach Krishna the output from the satvik cow, goes thru the various stages and needs to go thru the churning process and then it reaches Krishna.

Now maybe when we see / think of Krishna and butter, we may have a new perspective.

Another way to understand is that Krishna used to steal butter. What does this signify? Butter is the final product of a process: the milk is first made into curd and then the curd that is well churned becomes butter. And like milk or curd, life is the process of churning through so many events, happenings and instances. Finally butter comes out, which is the saintliness in you

FIR

We know how well we are doing on teh spiritual path by the FIR test

• F - frequency of
• reading scriptures
• being in satsang
• thinking of the learnings
• swaying away & becoming aware
• I - intensity of
• desire to read more
• go for a stasang
• go deeper in the knowledge
• being disturbed
• R - revisit / repeat / revise /recovery
• the chapter read
• going to satsang of such groups
• revise the knowledge
• recover from the disturbances

Try it....it does work to help us move on

Passion & Gita

Yesterday I watched a Kathak performance by the Maestro - Pandit Birju Maharaj & his disciples.
They were all very passionate about the dance form and it was a treat to witness their performances.

Birju Maharaj & his troupe , demonstrated the creation of various scenes with the bells tied on his / their feet  -  A peacock rain dance, ducks in a pond, a hockey game, geometric sequences and much more. it was an amazing experience.

But what I really want to share is that he said he saw dance in everything. He sees the combination of rhythm & movement in everything from signing on documents to typing on lap tops to playing ball and in opening window. And he works to recreate the scenes with the rhythm & movement in the dances that he composes. And its his passion for the dance which enables him to see dance everywhere and he works very hard to share it with others.

Its said when you are passionate about something you can connect everything around you to that subject.

Wish I had the passion for Gita knowledge to that extent - to see the Gita principles around  & to be able to translate them to others in a form that they can appreciate & enjoy and then make the connection.

Praying & Waiting!

Gita in Bollywood movies

All movies have some element of Gita in it. We just have to look for it.

1. Om Shanti Om

- what we wish for or want, becomes a vasana & we come back to complete it / live it. Om wished to be born son of a rich guy with luxuries...remember & behold ...there is a mention that the life we lead & events that happen we have wished for them in the past

- for a good casue the cosmos helps you when you ask ...the famous bottle award speech

2. Agneepath

- In new version the villian repeatedly talks about Atma not dying while killing someone
- Only the one who is stronger can forgive the weak ( physical, financially ...depending on circumstances)

The trees & oxygen

The cost of Oxygen. A very interesting perspective!

In one day a human being breathes oxygen equivalent to three cylinders.
Each oxygen cylinder on an average costs Rs 700, without subsidy.
So in a day one uses Oxygen worth Rs 2100 and for a full year it is Rs
7,66,500.  If we consider an average life span of 65 years; the costs of oxygen we use
become a staggering sum of Rs 500,00,000. Rs 50 million. Thats a million USD!!!!

All this oxygen is derived free of cost from the surrounding trees.

Imagine having to pay for the air we breathe!!!!

Very few people look at trees as a resource and there is rampart tree
cutting going on everywhere which should stop.

Please care for trees.  In olden times there was a saying if you cut a tree your family will be cursed unless you plant 7 new trees. A very simple way to preserve the enviorenment.

In the Gita there is a mention that nature is doing its duty endlessly of providing is sunshine, oxygen , water and som much more. Without expecting anything in return.

The least we can do is respect nature and and learn selflessness from it.