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"The Hanuman Effect" = Cultivating & Carving our Minds

Our body and mind is ever evolving. While our body grows older, our mind grows younger. At least, that’s how it is supposed to be. How come our minds grow younger? Well, the more you learn, the more you understand simple facts of life, the more your mind can process information and channelize it through right sources. The same statement you read a year back might mean entirely different when it is read today. This is why we have to give special attention to our mental growth. None of us want to go backwards. The first step in order to grow is to understand oneself. Now understanding oneself is easier said than done. But if a person has enough time to notice himself, retrospect his thoughts and actions, and have the humility to learn from others, and accept the beauty in differences, that is when he start being self aware. Ego is the enemy of self awareness. Why is that so? Ego makes you look through a tainted glass, and reality of you and the people you look at, is stained resp

What/Where is God?

"Quest For God" by Swami Vivekananda O'ver hill and dale and mountain range, In temple, church, and mosque, In Vedas, Bible, Al Koran I had searched for Thee in vain. Like a child in the wildest forest lost I have cried and cried alone, "Where art Thou gone, my God, my love? The echo answered, "gone." And days and nights and years then passed A fire was in the brain, I knew not when day changed in night The heart seemed rent in twain. I laid me down on Ganges 's shore, Exposed to sun and rain; With burning tears I laid the dust And wailed with waters' roar. I called on all the holy names Of every clime and creed. "Show me the way, in mercy, ye Great ones who have reached the goal." Years then passed in bitter cry, Eacch moment seemed an age, Till one day midst my cries and groans Some one seemed calling me. A gentle soft and soothing voice That said 'my son' 'my son', That seemed to thrill in unison With all the chords o

To my Mother

Heavens greet me in my mother's arms Blanketed in her tender love Moments of despise, blooms to rainbows so bright When she say “its alright, I will hold you tight” Strength is what she gifted me Love is what I gave her back Those quite nights when I wail in pain Her confidence poured with no constrain Her inspiration buds my aspiration Her life is the light I walk during those nights My eyes mirror her long seen dreams My heart breaths her song of love Oh ma! My heart breaths….your song of love....Happy Mothers day ma...