#18 Ending up blogging and leaving behind a few life lessons... :)

It has been a month since my laptop is not working; nor do I have enough money to mend it. I wait for my friends to sleep so that I could use any of their laptops. Even after getting a pc, I am unable to think what to write because I feel uncomfortable while writing on a laptop other than mine. I do not know what I am going to write in this blog. But I make sure I write something:

            It is a cool night pouring outside my building where I am living in a small rented room. Street dogs are still afraid of roaming the streets after the crackers-night, Diwali. The one person who is genuinely glad to see the dogs frightened is the old woman who uses to work as a servant of the building since the time unmemorable. I call her Akka, elder sister. She sleeps on the ground floor, near the main door. At night, you could see her barking on the dogs for waking her up from sleep. It seems that like human beings, dogs also love annoying others for no reason.

Anyway, my examinations are starting within a few days, so this may be my last blog of 2015. Meanwhile, you could read my new book titled ‘Superhuman in You,’ coming soon. I always try to write something that would help people to have a better life. While you read my book, you would come to know the truths that you know already. Books do not teach us anything. It just does the work of bringing the hidden knowledge, dwelling within us, to our conscious state. Experience is everything. Take risks, do mistakes, see failures, learn from it and move on in life.

Teachers, gurus, leaders and books can never teach us anything. They only do the work of bringing truth in front of us. Everything is lying within us; we just have to keep seeking the truths through the scriptures or teachers or whatever.

I have never felt myself as a writer. In fact, I feel I could never write a good fiction during my lifetime. It is because I am not interested in entertaining people. Comedy nights with Kapil could entertain more Indians than any book could ever do.

I think everyone is a born writer, even you. What you all need is to learn how to put down your thoughts on a blank paper. You do not want to be perfect for the things you love to do. Write something, write from anywhere to anywhere, even try to write rubbish. The discipline will prove worthwhile. Try to write things what other people do not know. Do not afraid to speak and always be honest. Do not shirk your responsibility towards reading. Make reading your addiction. The more you read the better you write.

            Another thing I learnt is that if you want to achieve something in life, you must have to do struggle. In everyone’s life a time would come when he starts doubting himself. Disappointments would make him cry. The body would suffer; emotions would tear him apart from his inner self. Life would become like a pendulum that oscillates between sorrows and failures, but, anyhow you have to survive it. Remember, the hard times will never come to stay, it will always come to pass.

            At last, I would say, try to do the things what others are not doing. Make a habit of doing something different. If you do what others are doing, then you would end up living a life what else are living. 

            A poem from Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore inspires me to go for the things I love. He wrote this poem in the regret for living a life half-filled.  

The song that I came to sing remains unsung to this day.

I have spent my days in stringing and unstringing my instrument.

The time has not come true, the words have not been rightly set;

Only there is the agony of wishing in my heart.

The blossom has not opened; only the wind is sighing by....

... I live in the hope of meeting with him; but this meeting is not yet.

Commentary by Sudhir Krishnan

Each one of us has a purpose in our life that we have come to fulfil. That purpose is the song in our heart that we have come here to sing. We spend so much time trying to understand what it is. Yet like the bud, many of us have to open up to it yet.

Blessed are those whose inner light has been lit. For they are truly singing the song they came here to sing.

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#17 Holy Books and Religion - My Personal Point of View

What we think depends upon the thoughts of five people who surround us most of the time. I surround myself with books. Our mind not only read the stories written in books but also experiences it. Read the biography of Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, Swami Vivekananda and other spiritual giants and leaders, and you could confront with the truths of life, making you an experienced player of the life in a very short span.

It was only the books of Khushwant Singh which propelled me to read Holy Bible. He had always suggested his readers to read Old Testament of Holy Bible in order to write well. Though, I have never read complete Holy Bible, Holy Quran and Guru Granth Sahib, but these books helped me to realise the supreme energy surrounding us. Scientists call it as magnetic field energy and people like me pray it as ‘The God’. Science is a product of being made, still searching the truths and trying to solve the infinity with its reasoning and facts. So for me, the God is truth.

I believe religion had never brought conflicts in the country. It is human beings who have made up this beautiful earth a hell. Religion is the journey of realizing the Superhuman dwelling within us. Religion is one and the rest of holy books which created new religion are just its aspects and nothing more than that. Christ, Guru Nanak and other messengers were also made up of flash and bones. They died too. They were not God. They all were Superhumans. I have not read anywhere Jesus ordering his people to kill Jews and Mohammad to kill Christians. They all came to spread brotherhood and love, with only one religion ‘God’.

Religion is classified into ceremonials and spirituality. Ceremonials: Pundits memorize mantras to earn their living. Some of them do not even know the perfect meaning of the mantras. They are not spiritually built, so most of them fight for their respective religion. On the other hand spiritual education is the highest of all the education. It is the education of realizing self. Lord Buddha had always said, ‘The real victory of a human being is when he conquers himself.’ But, unfortunately, we are busy in conquering each other.

Holy books have always inspired me to get more out of life. I do not remember when I last visited any temple or church, but still, I believe in God. Where is the need to find Him? He is everywhere; feel Him. We are just different tides formed by that supreme ocean and settled back into the ocean again. Make love your religion. Respect your words, keep promises, help others, spread positive messages… The earth is not as worse as my elders have taught me. It is a beautiful place to live in.

For me, my religion is my gift, love for books.     

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#16 Why I do Reading and Writing? — My Secret

I was in class 12^th when I picked up 2 states by Chetan Bhagat. It took me around 20 days to read it. People often speak unfair about his writing style which I will never agree. Truly, he is the Shakespeare for the people like me. If I would have read Paulo Coelho or Jeffery Archer at that time, I would have never thought of writing anything. The second book, I read was what happens to good people when bad things happen by Robert A. Schuller. I read it thrice and still I read some chapters from it in order to feel better. Above all, I read writings on love, sex and women by Khushwant Singh and the night train at deoli and other stories by Ruskin Bond more than ten times.

            Today, I could see more than 100 e-books in my Kindle, and more than 50 paperbacks lying around me. I have lost incalculable number of books too. Once, I have recorded my reading speed. I found I read 2 books a week. And according to one survey, an average Indian reads one book a year. Even to cut a few number of trees, you need to sharp your axe. To write well, first you need to learn how to read well.  

            I was not a book lover nor had I born with some supernatural talents or whatever. In fact, my writing was ridiculous. But, I think we all are born to do something. There is something lying within us which requires to be manifested. I worked on my writing skills for continues 2 years on an average rate of 6-7 hours a day (it includes reading too). Now, writing a blog or any article is an easy task for me. A writer’s biggest challenge is how to fill a blank page. What you write, a junk or a masterpiece, will never matter, but you must write something in order to nurture your writing.

            You can read my blogs as my autobiography because I do not have any other things to share. Though, as people say, I have an old writing style, but I always try my best to help people through my articles. If my blogs help even one person I feel my purpose of writing is fulfilled.

Knowledge has always been my first desire, second writing, and at last, to share my knowledge with the others. Greatest of knowledge is the knowledge of self. You could find this knowledge in your own book. Reading books help me to find my better self. It is true that we do not know about our self. Rather than improving others, it is better to improve our-self first.   

 Every month, I spend half of my pocket money in purchasing books because, as I always say, investing in mind is far better than investing in banks. Aimless life is a helpless life. Without aims and goals, all holidays are boring. And honestly, from last few years, I’ve not experienced boredom. 

 ‘Age can never tell how mature you are and grades can never tell how intelligent you are,’ I recall what I read. Earning a living and how to live is entirely different. I do not have much achievement to share, but with an equally apt quote from wings of fire by A.P.J Abdul Kalam I want to share you what I’ve never lost:

“Let not thy winged days be spent in vain. When once gone no gold can buy them back again.”

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