I am not in a writing vein currently. But then someone told me that we need to keep on writing. Write not only words but also the actions and thoughts. It helps us stay in touch with our inner conscience. I do not have any questions to ask to anyone and truly speaking I have asked all the questions to myself so I am empty and blank.
I keep on repeating the same thing: “NOT MINE BUT THINE SHALL BE DONE!”
Then I keep quiet and slowly but steadily silence and comfort wraps me with a serene joyous peace. Throughout the day I repeat the same thing and feel the same mysticism.
There are few sentences which have got this special magnetic effect. They have got the unworldly and heavenly quality with them. Whether they make ‘conversation with god’ easy or not, I do not know but they make you feel as if you have related something to GOD.
There was a SMS which was in Anu’s inbox. It read “miracles take time to get established so if you are yet persevering to make something out of you, do not worry, God has shaped your life himself”. I repeat and think about it always.
And as BRADLEY WALKER’S song “Love and Life” says:
‘I tried to stay on the straight and narrow But I've walked a crooked path And I've felt worthy of forgiveness And deserving heaven's wrath Right on the money and off by a mile Ahead of my time and way out of style But I'm hanging tough, I ain't had enough I ain't giving up on life or love Well I try to stay away from the bottle But I've reached out for the glass I try to pull back on the throttle But I still run out of gas I've been an angel, but never a saint Hung with the devil, don't nobody faint Cause I'm hanging tough, I ain't had enough I ain't giving up on life or love.’
And then I add to it: NOT MINE BUT THINE SHALL BE DONE because I know you will never decide anything which will be hurting!
Since the first season (2004-2005), apart from selecting a not so deserving singer as INDIAN IDOL, one thing which has always remained consistent with the immensely well-liked show is the judge ANU MALIK.
The talented jury members like SONU NIGAM, JAVED AKHTAR, FARAH KHAN, UDIT NARAYAN, KAILASH KHER, SONALI BENDRE and ALISHA CHENAI kept on getting recycled but “ANU JI” never left his supreme chair.
He kept on talking and media gave his kibitz a rank of being straight forward and cheeky. This increased his buoyancy and then in no time he started resembling an egoist and over confident being.
But there was always a pun; His innumerable irritating remarks and comments increased the TRP of the shows and so the bequest of slighting the participants and his fellow judges was continued with perfection by “ANU JI”.
“ANU JI” has got a habit of declaring results of INDIAN IDOL (though his prophecies are yet to come true). The audition rounds make him suggest the results of top 10 and if he finds a female participant beautiful, it can even be top 5. I personally doubt if he represents the whole of INDIA and if at all he does, then he can make up to the prime ministerial elections too.
One more fact about “ANU JI” is that he asks all the participants selected in the audition round to go outside the audition room and brag about themselves. In his words,
“BAHAR JAAO AUR BOLO KI MAIN NEXT ROUND MEIN AA GAYI HOON AUR SABKI BAND BAJA DOONGI.”
I am grateful to SALIM (one of the judges of II 5) to interrupt him while he was suggesting the same to one of the GIRL contestants.
“ANU JI”, “ANU JI”, “ANU JI”….. Why do you blow your own horn?
“If he is a good singer then I qualm my understanding about music,” said ANU once while all other judges were in favor of a singer and he was not.
“ANU JI” your understanding of music starts from getting motivated or in your ancient words, “getting inspired” and mixing the composition according to your willingness and finally releasing the track in the market.
“ANU JI” has one more trait, his caliber of insulting and fighting with his fellow jury members. He is not only good but a trend setter when it is about having ego clashes with others of equal or maybe better music sense than him.
INDIAN IDOL happened to copy the format of AMERICAN IDOL with full copyrighted authentication but ANU MALIK has never cared about it ever in his life.
Pick up a song which is famous and hum able and clothe it. That was his policy.
But then one charlatan always reverberates with the other.
So does INDIAN IDOL with “ANU JI”. They both have a mutual understanding which is beautified by the attention giving Indian public.
INDIAN IDOL & ANU JI: AN IDEAL MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN!
That is something which really intrigues me now and then.
What about the life beyond the extents of our grasp?
Is it a void if it can not be explained by SCIENCE?
Will take sometime to write about it.... this post was to notify about my current state of mind....
nowadays: I study and in free times either I laugh, love or feel lost!! :)
The three L's of my life iced by an S....
Feeling lost helps me a lot to think about world and worldly organisms.
Laughing makes me feel pretty and happy!
Loving is always good... Love my family and girl friend!! :)
Study helps you keep in touch with reality.... how important is it to be real anyways??? ... It is because the virtual world does not feed you sometimes (only sometimes).
“MOKSHA” or “MUKTI” is no longer a HINDUISM myth or belief. Its potent nature has not failed to impress people all around the world of different religious faiths. The search for final liberation from the soul’s recurring transitions into life and death has attracted the attentions of man. “MOKSHA” is the Sanskrit word given to the emancipation of spirit from “SAMSARA” and the continuous suffering that it involves.
The concept was first developed in HINDUISM and later on its heritage was carried forward via BUDDHISM, JAINISM and now by the various spiritual gurus.
I was trying to recollect the facts associated with the attainment of MOKSHA and got to know that it is related with KUNDALINI and arising of SHAKTI, the goddess of power and fearlessness. KUNDALINI means coiled and is considered to be the hidden centre of energy placed at the end of the spine, the arising of which can result into a high level of enlightenment and the FINAL FREEDOM i.e. MOKSHA. There are particular stages required in the awakening of this secret and sacred source of energy. They involve definite ways of meditations which consists of PRANAYAMA, OCEAN BREATH, BREATH OF FIRE and regular practice of this, basically related to the four kinds of yoga techniques as mentioned in YOGATTATVA UPNISHAD.
The concept is pragmatic. Even if we leave the KUNDALINI awakening concept aside, the breath control yogic methods do help you to slow down the mental thought process and helps you to attain the peaceful substances.
Coming to what I feel an exaggeration and self declared strategies are TANTRA and SEXUAL RITUALS.
TANTRA states that the whole world is a play ground of goddess SHAKTI and lord SHIVA. The practice involves worship of SHAKTI through specific rituals involving MANTRA and YANTRA. Apart from these digestible ways there are few secret practices which involve sexual procreations, sepulchral in lieu of death and laxation that involves elimination of fecal wastes in form of vomiting and micturition.
Even relation of such phenomenon can cause nausea in a normal human but there are people who do believe on this. The recent SWAMI NITYANAND episode is an issue of great concern. The consent form which his followers signed had a thorough essence of TANTRA being practiced. It is said to believe that such sexual performance awakens the SUSHMUNA NADI and KUNDALINI rises upward within it.
Sex according to me is very personal for every human being and it should be maintained as it is because this is one of the many behavioral facts which separate a human from an animal and makes us a superior living beings and a better creation of god.
THE WORLD OF NAGAS
After mentioning all these beliefs or should I say credulous nature of YOGIC FAITHS, I would like to mention the NAGA SADHUS who made the front cover news of all the papers in the last thirty days when KUMBH MELA was in progress.
Austere, mystic and nomadic vicars are some descriptions used for the NAGA SADHUS who are believed to be the practitioners of YOGA and believed to be enlightened humans in search of MOKSHA. They are considered to have relinquished all the worldly attachments and pleasures including the sexual desires and live in forests, caves and temples all around INDIA.
Among the many clans of SADHUS like the JATA who carry swords, the AGHORIS who are expected to keep company of the ghosts and reside in the SHAMSHANS where the dead bodies are burnt; there are the NAGA SADHUS who are naked and non shaven wearing their hairs in form of thick locks. They are also called DIGAMBARAS.
NAGAS are considered to be a paradigm of renunciation. With their long hairs and ash smeared bodies, the NAGAS regard themselves as the illustrations of LORD SHIVA. They are even accompanied with ancient weaponries like TRISHULS, SWORDS and STICKS representing their warrior naturism. They smoke on CHILLAMS with marijuana and the blues eyes represent them being high, not due to some enlightenment but due to the dope.
The NAGAS make their public presence felt during the KUMBH by taking the holy bath in the GANGES in HARIDWAR.
They are the sole show stealers of the grand event and people flock from around the corners to see them.
The SADHUS and their unconventional ways have always left the world mesmerized. They feel to be holy because they are not concerned with the regular needs of a normal human. Anything which is different is appealing but to the extent where you are not aware of the grave secrets behind it.
MY INNER BELIEF
Speaking much without knowing enough can be fatal so I want to say that all my views are my feelings and not something which I have concluded through some extensive research work.
The only thing which seems to be rational in all the legends stated above is the YOGA and the breath control practices suggested by it as I have stated before. TANTRA and its secret rituals, the SADHUISM and renunciation of social life is not at all something which satisfies my senses.
All the religions around the world preach one thing in common; WE HUMANS ARE REPRESENTATION OF HOLY ON EARTH AND GOD CONSIDERS EACH OF US AS OWN. Being aware of this doesn’t require bringing such acute transitions in the life given to us by the almighty. It is equivalent being a non believer when you adopt something which is out of the flow. If a person is a devotee, he doesn’t need to reside in the caves with dismantled hair and ugly looks to impress the creator and achieve the immortality as MOKSHA.
The day I was born, I was told that GOD RESIDES IN BEAUTY, LOVE, HUMANITY, CARE, POSITIVITY and UNCONTAMINATION. I feel it is lucid to believe this than staying dirty and living on dope and scarcity.
We are not born humans to stop working and live like wanderers surviving on anything we get. With the size of brain that we are blessed with, we are here to create the wonders that god expected us to do while creating us. Not to waste our life for some hypothetical faith on MOKSHA.
It is great to keep one’s mind balanced but it is insane to go to such an extent just to meet some liberation. Why to? We were not born to think about the pains and hassles of life but to feel the beauty of the world and to enhance it.
The people who take the path of SADHUISM and TANTRA according to me are the most self-centered beings who are so much involved in their personal fulfillment that they just forget their duty towards HUMANITY, EARTH and OTHER LIVING BEINGS.
ARE THESE SO CALLED MYSTICAL THINGS OVER RATED?
With the vast media coverage of all the events involving the BABAS and the spiritual practices, we are giving these renunciates a big uplift to promote their legacy. According to them, they don’t need it but they have not shown any hindrances as yet to stop them being projected as celebrities and holy lots.
I think our media should stop this. Our country has a record population of citizens who don’t work and we don’t need any more. It is going to affect our economy more. 40% of earning mass cannot support 60% of such spiritual mobs.
India has to grow more and for that everyone needs to work, not to search some liberation from it.
THE FINAL VERDICT
If given the full authority I would love to delete the sects in our religions which are so widely misunderstood that they create something so not human. We cannot come closer to god by denouncing our loved ones and all our responsibilities or having some crude forms of sexual pleasure.
OUR COUNTRY NEEDS TO GROW UP AS A WHOLE. SWAMI NITHYANANDA and may be more will not let us do that. I am not against their personal lives and believe me I was speaking in favor of NITHYANANDA till I came to know that he was involved in TANTRIC practices.
TANTRA VIDYAS and all such things will never make your presence closer to god. They cannot. The way in which they defy the rules of being a HUMAN are massive. They create a devil out of a man.
I hope everyone realizes this someday or the other.
TO BE A BELIEVER OF GOD DOESN’T REQUIRE ANY PAINS, IT IS A GIFT TO ALL OF US. WE CAME WITH IT. WE CAME WITH THE FAITH ON ALMIGHTY.
JUST NOURISH IT AND ONE DAY YOU WILL FEEL THAT, THE TIME YOU WERE BORN IN THIS WORLD WAS THE HOLIEST AWAKENING.
THIS WORLD IS A GIFT AND EVERYTHING AROUND IS YOUR GIFT!
…..amit mohan
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A.R. Rahman, Gulzar and Mani Ratnam team up again after GURU to create a musical brilliance in RAAVAN.
A.R. Rahman is not a rhythm maker, he is an experience. There is no escape from the hypnotic effect of his music. His music rises from one level to another defeating his previous music. It is relative to god of music competing with his own creations.
And then there is Gulzar, a poet of his own might and demands. Sometimes I think, only he could understand what was in his mind while penning down the verses but then the fact remains, the reverberations that he causes with the movement and pace of music is inevitable, animated and flushed with beauty and delicacy.
Last but not the least, Mani Ratnam, the gem of Indian Cinema proves how close he is to harmony again. If Roja was an appetizer; Dil Se, Bombay, Yuva and Guru were the high class main courses and now RAAVAN is the tastiest dessert anyone can feast upon.
Talking about the music album, RAAVAN consists of six stunning tracks.
BEERA, sung by Vijay Prakash and Mustafa Kutoane is the promotional track as seen in the first look of RAAVAN on televisions. It doesn't have a very extensive lyrical base. Sung to extol the character of RAAVAN portrayed by Abhishek. The word BEERA is repeated a number of times throughout the song but I am sure of one thing that in the next few months one is sure to hear the ringtone of various mobiles set up as BEERA. BEERA comes up from a Hindi word VEERA. The catchiest song and the best use of exhilarating music in the recent times.
Look for the line: "Janm na pooch, jaat na pooch,
Pooch jo pehchaan BEERA ka abhimaan hai,
Beera ke dus maathe Beera ke sau naam
Chere jo Beera ko…dhama dham dham…"
BEHNE DE, sung by Karthik has the true essence of Rahman's music and Gulzar's lyrics. A soft revolting song with varied pitches. The metaphoric lyrical radiance is the strong suit of this song.
THOK DE KILLI, sung by Sukhwinder Singh is again full of lots of energy and pumps you up whether or not you understand the real meaning of Gulzar's lines. One time listening will not satisfy your hunger of discovering the effects being produced by this track. It is highly stimulating and enriching. Sukhwinder Singh's voice adds the additional x-factor to the song.
RANJHA RANJHA, sung by Rekha Bhardwaj and Javed Ali is an extended version of the famous Punjabi poetry "ranjha ranjha kardi hun main, aape raanjha hoi". Gulzar adds his lines very intelligently to the historic lines and Rahman composes the music which acts as a catalyst to the overall bohemian upshot that the song produces. Rekha and Javed Ali sing the song brilliantly and with the equal craziness as required for singing such songs.
KHILI RE, again sung by Rekha Bhardwaj is a slow romantic song showing the grave emotion of separation. Rekha is the star of the song. Her voice passes through your ears, directly to your heart like a cold reliving breeze during a sunny afternoon.
KATA KATA, sung by Ila Arun, Sapna Awasthi and Kunal Ganjawalla is a marriage folk song. Ila and Sapna add the required feel to this traditional number. A beautiful song, wonderful to listen and has its own charm. It will be difficult to understand but a proper hear will let you make out the meaning and after the sense gets clear, the song just keeps on engaged.
As stated before, RAAVAN proves the intensity of the great maestros. Not like the recent trends in music, RAAVAN has songs based completely according to the requirement so it gets unconventional sometimes.
A must listen for all the true music lovers.
Mar 31, 2010
A journey of 25 days, Journey with 3000 students, Journey with 5 massive jolts, Journey with 3 final destination holders.....
That was IMS League Belgaum 2010.
We, the constituents of IMS Belgaum team didn't sleep for a month just to make the event a success,
And our AWARD FOR TAKING ALL.......
THE SMILES ON THE FACES OF ALL THE STUDENTS OF BELGAUM.
I generally overlook my deep intentions to write about music because I feel that “MUSIC” has resemblance with something heavenly as it has the capacity to make or break your mood and it is hard to describe it in words but there is a little thought change that happened in my brain after listening to “a few” screams being recognized as music in today’s world.
SLIPKNOT is how they call themselves and SLIP + KNOT is how you can try to make out their intentions. Their screams are loud and piercing, sometimes resembling an ultrasonic sound which is beyond the audible frequency of human ears. They abuse you and they mask it in the deafening guitar strums and drum beats. Still they make people crazy because they make them believe that music is not only about feeling godly but also about feeling devilish. Humans were always blind followers of someone who stepped on a path different from the rest without recognizing whether the path is rational or insane. A group of creatures stand in front of them wearing some dirty masks on their faces and they turn up in a huge population just to hear some curses and abuses.
“CAN I HEAR SOME FUCKING NOISE, YOU MOTHERFUCKERS,” is what they say standing on the stage and the crowd enacts a pack and howls as if they are giving birth to some 666 incarnation right at the moment. I see that and I feel ashamed to be born as one of them.
God gave us birth to create beautiful things, nevertheless we are more than happy to feel like a MAGGOT and a BASTARD and a DOG.
KUDOS SPLIPKNOT and all the bands sharing qualities akin to them, you have proved that,
“JESUS EXISTED IN PAST BUT THE PAST IS ALWAYS A FUCKING PAST.”
Off late I have been working hard to prove something to myself that I can even work harder. Every night when I return from my office I still have some energy left which helps me to speak on phone and watch television and sometimes even surf (like today). But I need to work harder... so much that I just return have food and sleep off to wake up early next morning.
The office environment is more than just friendly, we are like family there. Though the earning is not satisfactory but there is job satisfaction when it comes to be happy with your work and the proper recognition.
I feel I found someone to protect. Probably will get a chance to repent now. :)
Don't get confused! It is not one of my "creative" blog titles.
My daily habit forced me to visit the guardian's world news web page and these are the words from several extracts published there.
What has happened to everyone around? As a teacher of English Language, I tend to ask my students to figure out the connotations attached with the unfamiliar words so that the task of deducing their meaning becomes simple. But now, I will have to equip myself to one better thing:
THERE ARE NO +VE WORDS SO ALL THE WORDS ARE EITHER -VE OR THEY DON'T EXIST.
I am not getting paranoid but the decision seems to be pragmatic when we see so much evil around us and we feel good just to write about them.
Few lines I wrote about this situation:
I was never worried about the evil, I was told to be wary of the devil, But then I spread my sight around, And what I found was a rebound, The world was not beautiful as expected, It was not even world, It was hell regenerated, So I forgot my knowledge and started afresh, Now I was also striving for bone, blood and flesh.
I agree, a day can not end without the devil's play but we can still try to reach the god' domain.
Amidst the cloud of hatred and irrationality, we are somewhere deceiving ourselves by trying to behave like humans, when the humanity was lost several years back, on the day when AMERICA bombed JAPAN.
It is a question for all who consider 9/11 to be the worst of all forms of terror attacks. Was it worse than the ARMAGEDDON faced by Hiroshima and Nagasaki???
In the A.D., there were people who had a prior sight of all these HAPPENINGS and they tried to convince every bit of humanity till their souls were parted from the flesh and bone they used to carry. Mahatama Gandhi asked all to follow non-violence and now he is scrutinized for doing this.
Think people," HAD IT BEEN A WORLD OF NON VIOLENCE, DO YOU THINK THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN ANY 9/11??"
I know you would never try to pay any attention as you were born with that EGO which is nothing but the SATAN breathing inside you.
Now, this is some title I give to my blog after a period of 40 days. I was stuck, I was stirred, I was pained, I was petrified, I was happy once and then, I was sad again.
So, as you can get getting entangled in so many lovely turmoils; some emotional and some universal, I forgot my blog... So I return back to blog again, to pull my ashes and frame the words out of it, type it and claim the beauties of life which I enjoy..
can you see the dark me somewhere, or just the curves and fines of my exterior, look deep, look inside, and if that's not your thing, fall by my side, and try to gauge your darkness by my side. the truth will be blunt and parted, and you will feel the beauty of the unseen and separated, fall by my side, and let the shadow own your pride!!!
I like a few things around but just can't imitate them. U know that is the chief problem when it comes to people like me. We are so concerned about ourselves that we can try but can't learn the things in their soul eternity. We wish.... and the wish list goes on increasing till we just stop adding more to it and sometimes till we die.
Again a depressive talk... NO!! it is not. It is a realization and it is never late to stop in life for some seconds... stop breathing and feel yourself....
"why am I like this???"
Yes, pose this question in front of you.. it will hurt for some time and then you will find yourself in the greatest realm of reality... the wonderful moment where there is a SECRET RISE within you....
So as a band aid to the things which I needed to learn and I didn't; I write this post... some one will get benefited cause EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON... :)
(& I was talking about things which can be taken... never about copying the persona as a whole... )
It really is very hurting when you love to do something and there is a severe drought in that part of the brain/heart which supports you to do the particular thing.
In my case, thing which makes me free is "writing" and since past four to five months or even more than that I am not in sync with the words and the chains of thoughts which help me pen down.
Is it loss of feelings, thoughts or is it just lack of time I devote to it?
Reasons can be many but the effect is one: IT HURTS ME.
Change the things now for better. Fight the adversities. Try to win. Now or never!!! lolzz What is this?? What kind of attitude is this?? Why can't we just accept things as how they are??
