Thursday 29 February 2024
Wednesday 28 February 2024
Tuesday 27 February 2024
Wednesday 21 February 2024
Kindness
We talk so much of kindness but
we never focus on being kind to ourselves. We are so knotted within us but we
preach kindness. We push ourselves, deny our blocks and try to prove ourselves
to the world while our personal foundation is so challenged!
Generally, people feel good when
they are spoken of well and praised even. Human tendency is naturally to
gravitate towards where you feel good or where people make you feel good.
Getting involved in a busy
schedule often does not give you an opportunity to self-analyze, to dig out the
toxins buried deep within. Maybe, from childhood, may be later in life. But,
not worth neglecting!
Ultimately, every one of us has
the responsibility to review and correct impressions and perspectives so as to
give more opportunities to life. Moving along, wanting to be in the light and
yet, holding onto the dark spots where light does not enter, is like moving one
step forward and one step back. How does it help?
As I always say, it is so easy to select a few and dole out your goodness, no holds barred! Almost like dog lovers who cannot love humans the same way as they do their dogs.
But so difficult to offload the
baggage you have built up with people based often on simple misunderstandings
or unrealistic expectations, not to forget ego driven attitudes!
Either you have the wisdom to
understand the journey of those around you or you just keep being myopic
without giving even a benefit of doubt.
And you know what? I have seen
that with such attitudes, we miss out on some great relationships! But, sadly,
what you don’t even know, how will you miss?
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Speakingtree Blog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari
Sunday 18 February 2024
Meditation
Many people think meditation is
something you do in an isolated place with closed eyes. But a meditative state
is one of “no thoughts”. Anytime, within any activity, done with deep
concentration, one can reach a state of “ no thought”.
The mind exists only as long as
there is thought. If you think you have a mind, you do. If there is no thought
at all, there is no mind and that state is the ultimate state when the true
self shines.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Speakingtree Blog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari
Monday 12 February 2024
Trust and Faith
I wonder what all this fight within and without, all the conflict, the rat race to that illusory and non-existent place called “the top” is all about. It seems to alter intrinsic human behavior. And not in a good way.
Granted, it is great to be
relevant. Wonderful to be recognized. Euphoric if your name is in the neon lights!
Then what? After that? We all
have a little void within which we are desperately trying to understand. To me,
it is that core that does not belong to this world. It is that spiritual core
that knows the extent of our earthly journey. We try to ignore it in our
commitment to winning races which can never be won because there is always
someone below and someone above you.
I have seen famous people cry
alone. The higher they go, the lonelier it is . Emotions going haywire at what
compromises you may have had to make in your values and principles so that you
can have a million followers on social media. Popularity kick!
Please have more followers but
for the right reasons, when your work has spoken for you and you don’t have to
succumb to rigged awards and followers to gain some empty publicity for
yourself.
Life is much, much vaster. The more you want, the more you will want. Poor Satiation levels can only be counteracted by genuine contentment and understanding that you will always get what is ordained for you.
Somehow, we feel irrelevant
unless we are the talk of the town. Again, after that what? Do we become better
humans after that? Do we suddenly start understanding concepts of right living?
The most unaccepted fact of life
is death! The mad scrambles to defeat age and to refrain from entering the
“vaanprastha ashram” and defying the natural progression of life is so self-defeating
if we can see that for ourselves.
That is why the society is devoid
of trust and faith. It is said that faith is more fragile than love. We lip
read most orators who speak of the unseen, inner world and continue our cudgels
with our ambitions and greed.
Aptly said, that unless we
personally reach this point in our thought processes, nothing will sink in anyway.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Sunday 4 February 2024
Evolutionary path
We get our present life based on our performance in other lives. Soul connects, discord, relationships we managed and those we didn’t.
If we look at each one around us,
family, friend or foe, we don’t need to be an Einstein to know that there is a reason.
Opening your heart with
compassion is enough. Try never to get emotions all knotted up about anyone or
anything from YOUR side. We don’t understand that by retaliating, we ARE
starting that knot!
If YOU take a wrong step, YOU are
on the wrong path. You can’t justify it with any argument accusing another.
Your decision is in your hands. Period.
I often sit down and examine my feelings!
Intense as I used to be, I have understood that I am in my own space. My mind
body spirit are mine. I have come alone and will go alone. So, I need to
balance my life between who I really am and who I am here.
You keep trying. Some things
work. Some don’t. You fall ! And you rise again, this time hopefully wiser in
understanding. And this is a pattern on the path of learning.
But let me learn this fundamental
rule. No one and nothing should change the course of your life if you are on
the right track. And I don’t mean we should not have examples to follow.
Just that we tend to emulate lifestyles which will not really get us on an evolutionary path. And we must be careful.
Two emotions we MUST avoid are at
any cost:
HATRED and ENVY! They just seem
to corrode all the goodness within us. And for what reason? No one else is
affected but US! And That would be a sad, sad story to tell each time.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
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