Thoughts In A Wandering Mind

              In this turn, let me divulge on the importance of a single word – 'Liberation'. It has quite a few meanings – freedom, emancipation, deliverance, release, discharge. While there may be many inferences to the word, two connotations strike me the most in the current context: 1. Freedom or discharge from the current phase or work 2. Emancipation from the present life to a greater one. Everyone works for these two objectives to attain peace and harmony in their lives. Both are very striking and haunting to me and let me delve into each one a bit deeper.             The first one – discharge from current phase, is practised by one and all whenever someone is entrapped in their routines and wants to escape from the trap. To escape is an art and to return is a science. This is as such due to the importance attached to safe passage or more commonly ‘escape’ feat. It...

               There will be problems aplenty to test a person’s resilience, perseverance and tenacity. While there will be problems due to under-cooking, there will be few of those due to over-cooking. Let me talk about some of those due to over-cooking. When something becomes ‘over’ it means it has become ‘too-much’. You can prepare something just enough but not ‘too-much’ or over-prepare it.           It will create lot of head-aches. You need to be a moderate person for things to get back to yourself in moderate proportion. When you are over-doing, you will get hit by things in excess. Once again you will be over-prepared when you are preparing anyone else overly. This is the Karma in preparation. This over-preparation is pretty perilous and suck the life out of the living soul.           Just to give an example, there are youth who are beco...

                 If I am a bit truthful to myself, these days reality is hitting me hard. There are three things which can occur to a person based on his situation: 1. Reality 2. Illusion 3. Delusion. If I were to define these for me, Reality is the product of circumstances surrounding a person which dictate a situation he is in. Illusion is the false reality which propels a person to think otherwise of what is truly his situation. Delusion is also similar but it is a thin veil which masks a person and shows a false positive.            One can live in illusory delusion and spread cheer amid gloom or otherwise but you need to get to the bottom of the reality and make a hard check on the surrounding circumstances. This is the dark reality which is haunting me and giving me trying, testing times. I can as well tell ‘all is well’ and make a delusionary mess but it serves no good....

               Since there is a brief gap in my posts during last 3 months, I thought about some topics in the mean time which are worth mentioning in this space. One of those is the way the last year has gone by. Every new year, one thinks how the previous year went by and this year I reminisced of the last year full of action. As I said, the covid times has heightened my activity and its severity. One year of my time is equivalent to 10 years of a normal persons time and this is reality and not one bit exaggeration. I am living 10 years of life nudged into one single year.               You cannot just live like that without introspection on the relevance of such a life. Otherwise you are doing more harm than good. One of the areas which come to the mind immediately is the growth and the pace of growth. India is a country where there is a quantum vacuum for gr...

                Let me resume the blogging after some finite pause. I don’t know what it is but something prevented me from laying out my thoughts in front of you. There can be many reasons and factors at play but I ended up in some waning spirits forcing me out of this activity. Since I am once again able to compile something, let me quickly put forth some of the puzzling aspects of my personality. Since many years I used to see two common sign boards around any place – ‘You are responsible for your own luggage’, ‘Parking at your own risk’.   These are very commonplace sign boards at all common places but I am intrigued recently at the abstractness in these common words.                If you attempt to decipher the first one – to repeat - You are responsible for your own baggage which means the actions you perform and their consequences are...

                    I would like to resume the tracking of the weekly covid-19 scenario in the country through this medium. Yes, there has been a lot of improvement over the time since the second wave in the country. The wave for daily infections is slowly dying down and touching the ground after flying high few months back. The 7 day average of the daily cases in the country is 13 thousand. The active cases have also reduced to 1.6 lakh. From the update in this space a month ago, both the daily infections and active cases in the country have reduced by half. In the same manner, after the next one month, the numbers may hopefully reduce by another half.                  Once the virus is negligible, it can be nullified very easily. The number of active cases should reach zero to achieve the goal and the country should turn...

            My weekly update on the covid-19 in the country has hit a roadblock, a while ago and couldn’t proceed any further. This has been nearly a month and I feel frustrated at times as well, as I couldn’t continue something I am slightly good at. I need not expose what I write always but could have written for the sake of it undisclosed and even that did not happen. If I need to be truthful, I feel a greater urge to post online than the urge to write. I feel the tense moments at the time of posting for some unknown reason. I write for free, burning a lot of oil for the sake of exposition, if the third grade reason for writing is considered. The higher reasons have a slightly different purpose as I would like to share my thoughts, change the perspectives and create a better world.           But as few others have uncovered before I could dig deep within, there is the other side of the co...