Dukhasya anantaram Sukham. Sukhasya anantaram dukham.
Happiness follows sorrow. Sorrow follows happiness. It's like a cycle. So it's in sukha that we must worry more. Because dukha will not be far behind !!!

Annadaata Sukhibhava!

My grandmother used to say this at the end of her meal out loud. I am thankful to her for that otherwise I wouldn't have heard it at all. The last thing at night before sleeping she would call out to the Lord as, 'Kasi Kalabhairava, Panduranga, Deenabandhu, Bhaktavatsala....'

My mother also says 'Annadaata Sukhibhava' at the end of each meal although to herself. I rarely remember to say these words myself. I usually can't wait to finish my lunch to sit in front of my PC so whither the time to be thankful for the meal??

Disgusting Papers

Disgusting- that's the newspapers today are..Especially TOI Mumbai.. It's full of women's inner wear advertisements, movie people in minimal clothing and almost semi porn. The articles aren't that great either. There's bad news printed in big letters and little positive things. Why do I still buy this paper?? We did buy HT earlier and for some reason switched to TOI again. I can't remember - was HT better??

More And More

'There is enough in this world for everyone’s need but not enough for everyone’s greed'
Gandhiji said this.
Like I always say I hate this new age mantra- do more, work more, earn more, spend more, invest more, eat more, drink more, talk more, enjoy more, more and more......till you are no more.
This is nothing but greed.

'Punardarshanam Prapthirasthu'

Blessed are they that have had the darshan of Vithoba and Rakhumai of Pandarpur. They are both splendid! You can't take your eyes off them. Only till pushed away does the pilgrim move. Such is the rivetting beauty of the Lord and His Wife. The heart can only pray for another opportunity to visit the holy place.

Choice Is A Myth

In the film Kandukondein Kandukondein, the character of Soumya played by Tabu says, I haven't chosen my birth, my parents, my feminism, my name etc.. so why must I choose my husband myself.
I found that line interesting. It's true we don't choose anything. I think choice is a myth. We have little control over what we are born with and also what we will acquire, what we will experience and what we will 'get' in general. Yet we expect and set ourselves up for disappointment.
A distant relative was thoroughly disappointed at the birth of a grandDAUGHTER and not a grandson which she expected. Something so completely out of her control. Yet there is a preference. Sometimes, does God listen to our preferences?
He only gives/does what He likes. At most He will make us want what is in our future and give us the satisfaction that we have got what we wanted.

'You Will Get Used To It'

A colleague from my previous workplace once told, 'You know when God laughs. When we are making plans for our future'. That's true, I thought. We make plans for several years ahead when we don't know what will happen the next minute. He alone knows what's in store for us.
Funny thing is that although we make plans, lay down conditions, likes, dislikes, preferences and all, when we get something else we make do with that only. How we accept eventually what comes our way and get used to that. We can't control yet we expect.

Astrologer to client: The next 3 months are going to be very bad for you.
Client: After that time.
Astrologer: Welll, you'll get used to it.

We just get used to it.