Holy day

Its good friday and hanuman Jayanti today yesterday was Mahavir Jayanti ( In India we do have so many festivals you are celebrating something or the other all through the year )

I know very little about good friday . It is the day Jesus was crucified and that is all I know about it .

There are few things that I would like to share about our monkey God Maruti ( for those who do not know Its hanuman ji’s other name ). Hanuman is said to be the epitome of strength , meditation and devotion . His world was Rama , he came down to serve Rama , his devotion even astonished Rama at times , he was a dear friend to Rama as well as a perfect devotee ( perfect combination of love and respect ) . There are two stories that I have heard that I would like to share here

1. Rama was very confused on how can anyone be so devoted to him as hanuman and wanted to ask him . Hanuman how is it that you are so devoted to me ? This is the only instance in history when a master has doubted a devotee . Then hanuman answers that every cell of his body reverberates with Rama , Every hair on his body ( monekys do have a lot of hair ) only chants Rama . Such is his devotion towards his master . This is depicted as hanuman tearing his chest and showing Rama that he is inside him . Actually he did not tear his chest .

 

2. When the ram setu was being constructed by the Vanara sena , one fine evening Lord Rama was sitting beside the sea shore , he was looking at the vanaras writing his name on the stones and the stones were floating. He also thought to try it out . He wrote his name on a stone and threw it  in the water, he was expecting the stone to float but the stone sank!

Rama got very perturbed by this phenomenon. Again he wrote his name on few stones and threw them in the water . Again the stones sank into the water. How come my stones are not floating ? He got very confused. Hanuman arrived at the scene and asked Rama ” My lord , what bothers you ?”

Rama replied ” Hanuman , when the vanaras throw the stone into the water after writing my name , it floats , but when I do the same thing the stones sink , I don’t know why this is happening “

To this Hanuman replied with a smile ” Is it not obvious my lord  ”

Rama asked ” please explain Hanuman “

Hanuman replied ” Anything that you throw away from yourself is bound to sink my lord , even the stones do not want to be away from you ” .

 

Many such stories illustrate the maturity and devotion that hanuman had for his master.

Happy Birthday to Maruti

 

Lots of love

Kullu

 

Labels are for clothes , not humans !!! Part 1

World is what we create around us , to us our world might look real and tangible. But is it really real ? 

 

For a fraction of a second Joe opened his eyes , he could feel warm blood on his face. People walked around his broken body in circles , there were 5 of them . They were talking of how to dispose Joe off ( they assumed him to be dead ).

Lets throw him off into the drain , one of them suggested. No , that would be too kind for slimy ruts like him. WHACK!! Joe felt someone kick him in the stomach. He lost consciousness . When Joe opened eyes next he saw he was falling , and then suddenly he felt water all over , he was drowning , he tried to move his hands and legs to save himself , suddenly he saw everything around him was becoming red. his broken hands and legs were bleeding due to movement. The pain that followed caused blurring of sight . After some time Joe gave up . He closed his eyes and waited for the life in him to leave him . ” So it all has to end like this ” , he thought as he sinked deeper into the water . His whole life flashed in front of his eyes like a movie. If only I was not gay , would I die this way ? He thought and smiled to himself.

 

 

20 years ago :

Little Joe enjoyed going to school . He was not a very bright student. He was not good at making new friends , he had few friends and he would share everything with them . He would never doubt or be skeptic about meeting new people . Little did he know that this nature of his would majorly alter his life. One day while walking back from school , he saw a couple of boys by the alley , he did not pay much attention to them , they called out for him , he walked towards them , he realized they were the guys from grade 10 of his school .  ” Hey Joe , how was your day ? ” One of them asked . Joe just smiled not knowing what to reply. Then suddenly they started kissing each other. Joe thought this was the time to leave and with noiseless baby steps he started walking backwards, one of the guys ( Billy ) noticed this and called out for Joe , ” Hey Joe its nothing wrong we are doing . It is just an expression of showing love and greeting each other , come here ill show you. He came forward and kissed Joe. Joe did not have time to react . Before he could do or say anything he was kissed. Billy then gave him a candy and told him that it was a gift for him . The innocent Joe took the candy and smiled at them and left the place.

 

 

… to be continued …..

 

Jai Guru Deva

Kullu

The mind !!!

Lately I have been spending a lot of time with myself . As I have told many times before ” the fun side is the inside ” . Some parts of the fun deserve a space in my blogosphere .

This is an official announcement that I , Mr.S. Kulpreeth Singh , is now an employed youth . The company that has employed me is called Opitmized solutions and as I wished for I have a non technical job , which involves talking to different kinds of people sitting far far away in Chicago , interviewing them , recruiting them and the likes…

When I stepped into this new corporate world , I got my quota of doubts and anxiety along with me. The only thing that I was very sure of in my life is that I have to grow into a good human being and be useful to others. Both of these things of mine were being taken care of by His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar , through His many ways . I had no idea why I needed this corporate world at all. I was just going with the flow. But four days into my job I have realized that so much needs to be changed in me and my expression of thought.

To put it in simpler words, we all are molded in a certain way , everyone is manufactured uniquely body wise and also mind wise.  Some are molded in a way that is accepted by majority, some are not. Not being accepted by majority is not the issue here , the issue is if you accept your molding the way it is. This is where the problem comes, Mr.Singh ( means me ) was not ok with his molding. Firstly he did not accept his molding as it had shaped up over the years and as a result could do nothing in the past to change it. All attempts were futile until very recently. Few sculptors sent by the divine took up the responsibility of making him first accept the way he was and then showing him the direction to work out ways in which he could systematically change it . Not to forget most of the process involved just pointers from the sculptors and a lot of homework by Mr.Singh. Hence a lot of mind work got involved. I will not elaborate more on the process in which this happened , but the key to crack it is to be in silence .

One of the sculptors ( lets call him S1 ) extensively continues to work on me , and the other ( S2 ) just steps in when desperately needed. Both have different ways of doing things , S1 just chizzels away all the extra and unnecessary parts , while S2 works more on the insides. Both of them do it with utmost care and love and I am so grateful for that. Also God had blessed me with a mature and healthy mind to undergo the pain that comes because of the chipping off of the unnecessary parts at one level , and also not develop hatred or remorse towards S1 for giving me the pseudo short term Pain ( is a pain with a capital P , mind it , till now I had never got tears in my eyes because of someone saying something to me , but recently I did , as a part of the molding process !!) . S2 on the other hand works on the pure principal of love , and it works like magic !!! This is the mechanics of what has been happening in my life for the past few weeks . ( If you have not understood it , is ok !!! )

My mind was not its normal self since this molding process began. The only principal I continue to follow till date is “ the observer can change the dynamics of the observation “ ( this was what I had been doing but could not frame it in a sentence , but this golden sentence describing what I was actually doing was uttered by Mr.divine Swami Harish ji  * applauze * ) . For those who did not understand , the meaning of the sentence in bold is that if you observe what is happening inside you , then it changes . Please note that for me , following this statement was not as easy as I made it sound here . Once you start doing it you’ll know what a roller coaster ride it is . With practice it became easier , but I did have moments when I lost it and was back to square 1 . I did not lose hope and with courage and commitment I started from the scratch again.

Today was the day I was feeling so calm and abundant , the day just went smoothly , things were not working out , Mr.S1 still threw sharp knifes at me to chizzel out unnecessary parts but it did not pain like before . And S2 told me I am doing just fine and I should GO WITH THE FLOW . I realized I was already doing it and hence a sense of calm came over , knowing that I am on the right path.

Because of this kind of state of mind I enjoyed my work today and when we had to go for dinner , I went to a posh Italian restaurant called little Italy , it is in a place called Jublee Hills in Hyderabad and it is literally on a hill . The restaurant is on the the third floor of the hill and when you go there you get a bird eye view of the city. I decided not to have any one along with me , I got the most amazing table in the balcony of the hotel , I placed the order and told them to get it after 10 mins , for the next 8 minutes I meditated admist the cool breeze as a part of my evening routine ( Its a hot shot tip from  Mr. Michael Fischmann to meditate twice daily once in the morning and once in the evening )  , a soothing piano piece playing in the background . The food came and on a candle lit table I quietly ate it soaking in the silence that was around , listening to the music. While eating thoughts came into my mind which would help me make my molding better. I got ideas on how to talk , how to be in a particular place , with particular people etc etc. Then magically Mr.S1 called and the conversation took turns in such a way that all my ideas were rubber stamped by him to be the most productive ways to develop.

Happy and content about it I sat down to write it here on the blog. The implementation part of the ideas is going on , hence if it is worth it , may be it will make another blogpost here Watch out for it

Lots of love

Kullu

Words , meaning , laughter !!!

The Yes!+ course in Vidya Nagar started yesterday.We started to work for this course from December 22nd 2011 .This course was scheduled to begin on 17th January, 2012 and due to various reasons it got postponed and finally started yesterday. There are 14 people on the workshop and a lot of things came up in me while I was working for the course. Its funny how things just go out of hand when you start arranging all the pieces of the jigsaw to make a beautiful picture.

At the end of everyday I sat on the bed and introspected, what did I do during the day, how did I make myself useful to others , have I done anything wrong during the day , how can I make myself better etc etc. Believe me it is not an easy task !!! There have been times when I was not aware of what I am talking , I also refused to listen to people and made them angry , I deliberately hurt them in many ways to let out my frustration , to put in a nutshell it was a roller coaster ride . Introspection was the most difficult part of all. Finding something to criticize in others is a cakewalk for me ( hehe ), but finding something to criticize in my own actions was not a child’s play ( it was an undertaker play !!! ) . This introspection brought in such frustration in me , but frustration only lasted till I accepted it and did something about it. Till I accepted it,I was a volcano who would rarely explode on others but mostly I burned in my own lava of anger , dissappointment , pain . You’ll not believe , one morning I got up and went into my balcony and wrapped my face in my towel ( so others don’t hear me crying ) and just cried and cried to let out all that was there inside. Still I went through all of it ( *applauze* ) with a faith that may be at the end of it something good will happen to me or at least to someone else .

Then towards the end ( i.e. two three days before the course ) I started to observe a sense of peace and calm in me. Things were not happening on the outside but the effect that had on me from inside was improving drastically. People who tried to push my buttons lost miserably, I was just not responding to them like before. I kept a serious face in front of them but inside I was smiling ( yay !!! this is not shaking me as much as it did before I thought !!! ) . Slowly and gradually the volcano in me was becoming a fountain of joy ( What a line this is !!! I just came up with it … clap please !!! ) . Once I realized this I had so much fun doing everything . It was amazing. The fun inside manifested around me also. Yesterday after the course I had a laughter filled dinner with three yes!+ teachers two devas and one devi . We called random friends and told them deep knowledge on the phone as a result of which we were eating less and laughing more. Truly it is said that laughter is the best medicine . Looking back at all the volcanic activity in my mind I just laughed it out over food last night !!! and it felt really really good. Any amount of money cannot give this kind of feeling Its just a beautiful beautiful world is all I want to say and end this post !!!

 

P.S –  If you are wondering why randomly the photos of three people find their place in this blogpost , then FYI they are the two devas and the devi I was talking about in the post.

Lots of love

Kulpreeth.

Agneepath !!!

After a long time I was looking forward to watch a Hindi movie . Hritik Roshan and Priyanka Chopra are both on my favourite list but when I came to know this Agneepath movie has a lot of violence I decided not to watch it . Then I met a school friend of mine and a lot of our gossip included exchange of movie knowledge , and few minutes into the conversation I realized my movie knowledge had gone very very low . I miserably failed at answering his questions , that moment I decided it was time to watch a movie and update myself !!! ( me and my mad self … LOL ). hence I gathered two bakras ( read friends ) in a cheap theatre and watched Agneepath . So here is the review .

Name : Agneepath

Cast : Hrithik Roshan , Priyanka Chopra , Rishi Kapoor , Om puri,  Sanjay Dutt and others …

Who will like this movie :

1. People who want to take revenge on someone will relate too much with the movie.

2. People who have lost their loved ones and long to meet them will also bond with many scenes of the movie.

3. People who know what they are doing is unethical but the feel it is inevitable to go through the wrong way to do the right thing will like hrithik roshan’s character.

4. People who love someone dearly and just want to give and give and give in a relationship will bond well with Priyanka Chopra’s role.

5. “Demons” will like Rishi Kapoor’s Character.

6. People who like bloodshed , unnecessary killing and violence will like the movie as most of it is just violence.

What I liked in the movie :

1.Priyanka Chopra !!! beautifully dressed , graceful character , she is the one who made me smile for some parts of the movie.

2. Deva Shree Ganesha – Very festive song , with all maharastrian colours , legime dance , teen maar beats , and very lively . you just start moving to the beats of the song !!! ( to be played in all ganesh poojas from now on  ;) ) .

3. Hrithik roshan’s body – In my dream also I dream that one day I will be physically fit like him !!! hehe

What I did not like in the movie :

1. The whole movie revolves around revenge.

2. Hrithik roshan is either angry , planning stuff or crying all through the movie. There is only one moment where he is truly smiling from inside , that is when the movie ends !!! EPIC COMEDY !!!

3.  Everyone either gets shot or is mercilessly killed , failness it is .. at least priyana chopra should have been allowed to live I felt !!!

4. I was filled with disgust whenever Sanjay Dutt came on screen !!! People told he gave an out of the world performance . It was really out of this world , he looked like a scary alien !!!

5. Most of the posters show romance scenes between Hrithik Roshan and Priyanka chopra , but in the whole movie there is excatly 2 minutes of dry romance shown between them ( coz hrithik has to take revenge kada !!! )

 

All throught the movie , the hatred and revenge is cooked up and boiling inside Hrithik roshan , as the movie comes to a climax the pressure becomes too much for Hrithik to handle and as a result Sanjat Dutt dies and after that hrithik gives a smile and closes his eyes ( I assume he also dies but it is not clearly shown ) . All in all you watch it if you can handle being bombarded with violence and negative emotions like pain , anger , misery , revenge etc !!!! Definetely do not take kids to this movie !!!

Here is a photo from the movie :

 

Lots of love

Kulpreeth

The beginnings of manipal :)

I happened to listen to the experience shared by a friend of mine who very recently became an art of living teacher , his experience was full of gratitude for the people with whom his journey began and who helped him grow to be what he is right now . Also it is said that twice in a year you should review your past and see how you have grown. Once on Guru poornima and second time on Makar Sankranti. My review report mainly starts with 7 people ( Harsha , Ashok ji , Vini , sudeshna , Nivedita , Gireeshma , Rohit ) and is mainly filled with them more or less with few additions here and there . So I thought of writing about them here today

Vini had freshly graduated from the teachers training course and used to stay 60 Kms away from Manipal . The first time I met her was for professional reasons  ( she came to take a follow up and I went to receive her ) . Little did I know that this one professional meeting was the beginnign to one of the most personal relationships of my life Like all the Yes!+ teachers she was beautifully dressed ( in white and blue ) , I went in a dirty blue short , yellow shirt and holding three big bags in my hand . I thought she would disapprove of me at the first sight , but her smile made me feel very much at home. She took the follow up and then bonded with all of us ( we were excatly 5 people at that time ). We were planning how to start the Yes!+ workshop in manipal , most of us had no idea about volunteering ( only 1 out of the 5 people had done some volunteering in their hometown ) . We were a bunch of 5 people who had very deep love for guruji and somehow wanted to spread his knowledge in manipal . With this intention we had the first Yes!+ meeting in manipal . All of us were very new to each other but we bonded very well . That one meeting I will never forget Thank god we took a picture that day. Memorable times !!!

We decided on the dates for the course and informed Vini . Since then began the Yes!+ manipal . While working for this course I used to bug Vini daily asking her every little detail about the course and how to do it. We had literally started it from the scratch and being the only boy in the group all the running around was obviously done by me None of us gave any intro talks for this course ( we did not know how to give them either ) . We just stuck posters and waited for people to come. Vini was very patient specially with me , there have been times when I have called her more than 15 times in 30 minutes . She would patiently cater to all my questions. I was such a feverish bee , I just wanted everything to be perfect. The day of the course arrived , 18 people registered . Till the day before the course we had no venue. The teacher Ashok ji  was supposed to arrive the next day and we had no idea where we would be arranging for the course to happen. Then magically through some contact we got a big hall for 300 rs per day !!! everything was done for the course. Ashok ji had to arrrive one hour before the course and Vini was going to come from mangalore . All the five of us were very excited , except for Sudeshna none of us had any idea about what to do as a volunteer on the course.  It was the first time Vini was taking the course and she was to assist ashok ji . Then one hour before the course Ashok ji says that his bus is late and Vini is going to take the first day of the course . I had full confidence in her and when she arrived for the course she had the same excitement that we had , we were volunteering for the first time and she was teaching for the first time The first day went on very very well. Vini was on top of the world after the course that day. Most of the time she was on the phone sharing her experience , getting feedback from her close friends . I could say that it was really a special day for her . So it was for me also as I got to meet Ashok Ji ( he deserves a full fleged post which is on the way , will come out sometime in feb ) . The next 7 days of the course were the best ones in my life , organising that course was so much fun, more than anything all the 5 of us volunteers became very very close and that continues till date . the last two days we went to Goa . In the mean time we had found one more hard core Guru fan Rohit  . He came just before the course started. By the end of the course he too became one of a very close companion to all of us Some of the many memorable moments of my journey in manipal are as follows :

1. Meeting Sudeshna at KC ( Kamath Circle ) , light drizzle , sweet , scared girl waiting for me on the road .

2. Everyday I would call Harsha and ask her ” Where are you ? Are you busy ? ”  and everyday she will pick my call and tell me ” I am in the hospital Kulpreeth , BYE !!! ” No one … NO ONE has irritated her as much as I did in the 6-7 months that we were together in manipal. The best part is that she remembers it as a happy memory

3. My bossy attitude adding flavours and chillies to the volunteer gang. ( I had become dominant and bossy as a volunteer  for some time and hence few people had fights , tears etc etc ) – life is incomplete without emotional drama I say !!!

4. The dinners with harsha in parota point, where she sat exhausted after her hospital work and I sat exhausted with my engineering work , we both just ate, talked a little and left but it was so refreshing to just be there for someone and to know that someone is there for you and will help you when needed

5. My foreign friends Ch Sai Kalyan Chakravarti and Tarun Reddy Who helped me from outside the country to go about working for the course.

6. Nivedita lamenting about her hectic schedules and we consoling her over food .

7. Rohit’s stone like face , he will smile only when you tell a guru story or tell Guruji’s name

8. The every Sunday wait for Vini , if she will come to manipal to take the follow up or not.

9. The first satsang in manipal where I was made to sing with a sore throat ( I sounded like a toad who is trying to be a nightingale ).

10. Gireeshma and me having cold war with each other !!! Hillarious

11. 11:30 pm , I am sitting with Harsha at an abandoned bus stop near her house , she sees a guy in the car and tells me to go and talk to him about the course . I ask why ? She says ” I have a crush on him , tell him about the course na ” . I ask her if she has even seen him properly , he looks so old . She says ” Who wants to marry him , its just a crush ” OM NAMAH SHIVAYA !!!

12. Sudeshna pouring her heart out about the one and more boys she has likely fallen in love with

13. Rohit and sudeshna doing extra bonding and making me feel left out (  harsha had left manipal by this time , else I would fight back !!! )

14. 15 of us were supposed to go to bangalore ashram , we are standing at the bus stop in manipal and the bus is in front of us , I confuse it with another bus and tell everyone it is not our bus , The conductor is shouting his head out in kannada about 15 passengers who have not come . Then I go to show him the ticket  , furious he just snatches the ticket out of my hand and leaves with all of us standing there. 15 of us race with him for 5 kms in 6 autos before he stops the bus and lets us in. Ha ha !!!

15. Priya di and Tanu di sweetly entering our  family and making it grow phenominally

16. Tanu di fresh from her TTC , came with priya di (to take her first course in manipal) telling priya di ” Priya you take the long kriya , I don’t know what will happen ” . Priya di replies with all the motherly affection she can muster ” Tanu I will give the pranayam counts and will take bhastrika , you just have to press the play button ” .

17. Guruji visiting us every year giving us extra special attention and time in and around the Udupi Krishna temple

These are few of the many many things that I got to learn during my time in manipal . All of us have grown a lot with time. The progress report stands as follows :

Ashok ji has been made a TTC teacher ( means he makes teachers now ) , he now teaches yes!+ , basic course , TTC and is also the state co-ordinator for karnataka .

Vini is married and now lives thousands of kilometres away in America . She has done blessings course and Guru Pooja Phase 1 ( I have no idea why I am mentioning this ).

Priya Di continues to bring many many people into the knowledge , her aura has spread to VIT , BITS hyd ,  Chennai , Baroda and she might be sent to manipur and those east places to start Yes!+ there Her growth is just beyond any boundary!!!

Tanu Di is incharge of Bawa’s kitchen most of the time , she takes care of Bawa and Dinesh bhaiya full time . She is going to get married to JD bhaiya ( anything about Yes!+ you want to do has to go through him , he heads the WAYE office ).

Ch Sai Kalyan Chakravarti  runs a dance school where he teaches hip hop and bollywood dance in america , he also teaches martial arts  . He has completed his TTC in america and teaches the Yes!+ course there .

Tarun Reddy has just graduated from the TTC and is now a facilitator for the Yes!+ and part 1 workshops of the art of living.

Harsha was the first one to leave and she worked for AIIMS in delhi for a year , now she is a Masters student in Harvard university , she also lives in america . She has applied for TTC but could not go because of her america plan . She has also done a blessings course.

Sudeshna has become a super hot journalist and works with the postnoon , daily grilling out hot hot stories for all of us to read

Nivedita works as a physio therapist in nanavati hospital in bombay and also pursuing her masters in the same hospital.

Gireeshma is still in manipal completing her education.

Rohit Shah now lives in america and is completing his engineering there. He plans to do the next TTC that is happening in Argentina

Kulpreeth Singh is awating his results of the CEED exam, after that he will decide the course of action for his life .

All of you who met me in manipal , now we live like very far apart , but the time spent with you all was truly memorable and you all played a very major role in my growth till now. The places where we live might have changed , the people we spend time with might have changed , we might not talk so much to each other so often now. But whenever I will be told to look back and see how I have grown and how my journey has been , without any doubt  you all will come in my mind

DISCLAIMER : There are many many names who I have not mentioned in this post , pardon me for that , I had to keep my attention to the most important things/people , else the post would be very very long.

Lots of love

Kulpreeth.

Love is doing unnecessary things …

Nikki is a small 5 years child , she goes to a play school . On the entrance to the play school nikki walks inside with cute little baby steps , her water bottle hanging around her neck. Then an another kid comes crying into the school , nikki looks at him , the kid stops crying , noticing that kids around him are not crying. His name is Preeth.   Nikki and Preeth gaze into each others eyes for sometime . Then nikki smiles and preeth also smiles. She stretches her hand forward , he holds her hand and walks happily into the school , eyes still wet and twinkling with tears but a smile on the face …

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- LOVE IS DOING UNNECESSARY THINGS ~!!!!!!!

Yesterday Bawa wrote this line on twitter and I could immediately relate to it I really felt stupid doing few things in my life , but now I understand that they are out of love …

 

 

Love

me

A stranger who refused to break my heart :)

Thanks to my recent accident my means of transport to wander around the city has been mainly the city bus and auto . While I have had my share of not so good experiences with buses and autos . Here is one special incident I would like to share.

I was dropped by my friend Dixit somewhere in Nallakunta.  I had a choice to take a bus from there or to hop in an auto. I chose the latter and went to an auto guy . He looked old and I thought he is also a smoker . Smoking and tobacco chewing auto walas are last on my priority list ( to be boarded only if no other auto in sight and/or in extreme emergency!! ). I  asked him if he can take me to my place. He told NO . I pacified myself thinking this guy has no punya for me to board his auto , I looked at him and was turning towards the road to look for the other autos when he said ” Theek hai aayie , Aapka Dil mai nahi todoonga “( Ok come , I don’t want to break your heart ) and he gave me a big smile. Wonder struck at what he had just said, I got into his auto . While we were travelling he told me that he was a muslim and he was all praise for the traditions and practices of sikkhism ( the religion that I followed ) , he spoke which such humility and tenderness , he told that he often visits a gurudwara , the best part was he was always smiling while talking .  Then he asked me about my education , I told him I have passed engineeering . He told me in in his nawabi islamic style ” Mubarak ho apko , bohot bohot mubarak ho , Allah ka lakh lakh shukar hai ki aap pass ho gaye” ( Congratulations , many many congratulations , my gratitude to Allah that you passed it ), the way he congratulated me , he really really meant it , I was moved ( till now it was only me thanking God that I passed engineering , this uncle was the first one to thank God for my passing ). Then with immense pride and a twinkle in the eyes he told me ” Sahab , mai bhi 10th pass hoon ” ( Sir , I have also passed 10th class ) . Then he told that after that he stopped studying to serve his grandfather , he told that his grandfather had taught him a lot about human values , he told me that his grandfather used to tell him only one thing and that was that we should never break anyone’s heart . He told after his grandfather passed away he came to city to look for a job and now is driving an auto since 15 years. I was silently listening . He told his son is in 12th standard and studies quite well. Showing all his 32 teeth in the rear view mirror he told me ” Sahab , my son has told me not to worry and that he will pass for sure and be a good human being in life” . This time I said “ Mubarak ho apko , bohot bohot mubarak ho ” . He told “Shukriya shukriya “.

Then we both were silent for the rest of the journey. I could not help but wonder about this angelic auto uncle, every word he spoke was from the heart, he was always smiling , he was so forthcoming , he was grateful to God for what he had and also he thanked God for what I achieved . I began to ask myself … Is money the thing we need in life ? Is poverty just about one’s financial status or just a state of mind ? I would say that in no regard I saw this uncle as a poor person, according to me he was more rich than many rich people I know.

My thoughts were interrupted when my house came. The fare was around 30 rs , I promptly took out a 50rs note and gave it to him , thanked him for the ride and walked away, he looked at the meter , then at the 50rs note and shouted a loud ” Thank you Sahab ” from his auto. I waved him goodbye and walked into my apartment with a smile Then I realised that I Should have at least asked his name. Mentally I decided that I will write about this stranger who refused to break my heart , and here it is now for you to read

Lots of love

Kulpreeth

5 things to make you beautiful !!!

People always tell me that this person is beautiful , that person is beautiful. But surprisingly when I saw them I did not find them as beautiful as the rest of the world did. Then I started this personal survey with my friends asking them what according to them makes any person beautiful?

 

Most of the boys answered that it was good looks that make someone look beautiful and all the girls told that it was good clothes and good looks that make someone beautiful. I was not satisfied with this answer , since childhood by default I have never believed someone to be beautiful just because of their good looks ( except movie stars ) . So I had this question inside me and yesterday it got answered while watching a video on youtube The video is entitled International Women’s Conference  2010 . In this video Bhanu Didi Beautifully says what beauty is

Here is what she says :

Beauty is always associated with Divinity . One of the attributes of divinity is beauty . Satyam Shivam sundaram  Satyam is truth , Shivam is purity and Sundaram is beautiful . So it is the inner beauty that really matters and 5 attributes are there for a person who is beautiful . That is vastram , vacha , vapusham , vidya , vinaya .

Vastram means that attire we wear .

Vacha , the way you express yourself , how you communicate to people , your expression , the words are also important .

Vapusham , the personality , whenever you have learnt something and if you are confident of a topic then  the way you speak .

Vidya ,wisdom in you .

Vinaya , Even if you have all these , you may be very well attired , you may have confidence of speech , good communication skils , but if you have no humility , then there is no beauty.

So these five attributes contribute to the inner beauty which really reflects in your outer self !!!

 

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I got my answer So thought to share it with you all Is it not a beautiful answer ???

 

Love

Kulpreeth

Plans + Zing Zang boom = wonder !!! Part 2

continued from Plans + Zing Zang boom = wonder !!! 

From now on the wonder part begins !!!

WONDER : 

I buried all my plans at the back of my heart . After like 10 minutes of mourning , my mind told me something needs to be done about the terrible pain that I was getting engulfed in. I called one of my friends to come and pick me up . While I was waiting for him to come , an another friend of mine passed by and stopped. Bachi came and blessed me and my other friend had arrived by then. Imagining the trauma my mom will undergo and the emotional drama that will follow on seeing my torn clothes and bleeding body parts,  I got up to walk towards the bike. I moved my right leg to walk and  Scrunch!!! a noise came from the foot , the noise was followed by a high voltage current type feeling from foot to head for a second or two. Intution told me that something was seriously wrong with my leg . Praying that it is not a fracture I boarded the bike and told them to take me to a nearby hospital . X-ray was taken and one injection was given . They told me its not a fracture and told me to wear some bandage for 10 days .

WONDER NO 1 :  So much gratefulness came over me that it was not a fracture , I still felt hope to complete few of my plans. I was thinking where did I go wrong ? What went wrong .. All my intentions were more or less for the greater good only . Then why this ? Where did I go wrong .

Instead of cribbing about the pain my mind was retrospecting what went wrong  .  Aho !!! 

Praying that my dad is not at home I knocked the door. I ring the door bell expecting the worst . My mom opens the door . She takes two seconds to process what she is seeing . I limp inside the house wanting to enter my bedroom before coming into the visibility zone of my dad. My punjabi by nature mom immediately shouts out for my dad ” Suno ji , kullu accident karke aaya , kapde phat gaye , khoon nikal raha hai ” . ( Kullu has met with an accident , his clothes are torn , he is bleeding ). My dad rushes to come and see , he has one look at me from top to bottom and I get shouted at for carelessness and rash driving and my mom adds in her bit of anger by telling its all because of Guruji ( His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ). Then I go to my room and change clothes and rest.

There is so much love in our parents , I saw my dad’s face while he came rushing out , so much love and care in his eyes. My pain was my parents pain , they did not even scold me so much because it was painful for me to stand and listen.

I saw my parents love pouring out on me , inspite of the fact that their outward expression was of anger . I was only grateful for having them in my life. Aho again !!!

The next few days I was just on the bed , bed to bathroom , bathroom to bed. I was not allowed to move an inch , for my wounds would open up , I could not cover myself with a bedsheet for my wounds would open up . Anythign I did which involved movement , my wounds would open up. I just sat and stared at my burning wounds whole of the first night . Then at 1:00 am I swithced on the comp and sat on facebook . There was a link which said live webcast from germany. I clicked on it and watched His Holiness for an hour or so. After that went back to bed and continued with the staring process. The next day my wounds changed colour, it was like there were four red pots boiling on my body. Two on my knees and two on the elbows. The pain was beyond my perception and I just lay still for two days.

In these two days of forced painful stillness , I got my answer to why it all happened. My stupidity and over enthusiasm to do things spoilt it all. My priya Di always told me ” Josh me nahi , Hosh me kaam karo ” ( never work with over enthusiasm , work from a space of awareness )  . Now I understood what that meant. Its a Aho moment Again !!! 

Its been 5 days since my injuries and inspite of this speed breaker I was able to get 6 people onto the course , resume my bhagwad gita reading , Sing a song in the lead in the weekly satsang, and also I have quite a few appointments fixed up for CST for the weekend. And also my sprain has healed almost completely.

The biggest Aho is that I have learned to work side by side with pain . Its ok if pain is there , the work should not stop ( AHO NIRANJANO ..!!!! Clap please !!! )

This episode has made me stronger, more aware , more committed and I thank the almighty for that

Love

Kullu