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Sleepy head...

Posted on Oct 13th, 2008 by crudebliss : Let Lord Swaminarayan Triumph crudebliss
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Kiddie one - Sten
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Vegetarianism; Romantically - Masala Chips...

Posted on Sep 24th, 2008 by crudebliss : Let Lord Swaminarayan Triumph crudebliss
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OK after much pondering; I decided to make readers realise that the well-being in this world; with our body, and indeed our spiritual well-being also rests on the type of food we eat...
There are so many people talking about how 'meat is bad' and how even the 'strength of elephants is just from being vegetarian '.... anyway... i'm here with a new approach... one that is practcal and really fruitful... the romantic approach :-)

So lets start the ummm ... Cookmance (don't know what else to call it ;-) and let's see what you've been missing out on... I mentioned to one of my friends... ' when we limit ourselves, that's when we can truly evolve ' let me show you what limiting your diet to vegetarianism means...

Serving of 5... I should add 5 'Indians' :-) we eat allot :-D) Probably that's why Gujarati's love a lot too :-x
{slapping my cheeks - 'Back to the cooking Janak...!!!' }

1) About 4 Kgs of potatoes (6 pounds); freshly peeled & chopped into long chips
2) 3 tomatoes
3) 1 green chili pepper
4) Some tomato sauce

Spices:
1. Salt
2. Turmeric powder
3. Fresh leaves of coriander
4. Black Mustard seeds

Make small dices of the green chili...
Wash and cut into small pieces the coriander leaves... if you don't mind the stems, you can cut them too...
cut the tomatoes into small pieces and grind them into a paste...

-  First, fry the potato chips; and infact, make them alittle crispy; then while you leave them to drain the extra oil;
-  Pop ½ a tea spoon of the Mustard seed in a small vessel with alitle cooking oil... once the popping stops (you'll have to cover the container... they pop quite abit) after the popping sound stops... quickly switch off the burner (very important) QUICKLY switch OFF the burner and then put the diced chili in the vessel;
If you put the diced chilies while the burner is on... it will be a fire hazard; as the flames will catch on the oil vapour inside of the container.... if you are asmatic... I suggest you leave this step completely... coz of the pungent chili smell after...
-   let the chilies cook in the oil for a couple of seconds...
-  now pour the popped seeds and the chilies into a lager pot;
-  pour in the tomato paste into the same pot... switch on the burner...
-  mix it alitle, so that the chili flavor mixes with the paste...
-  Let it cook for a couple of minutes; and then put about ¼ cup of tomato sauce in the pot...
-  then put the chips in,... switch off the burner.... mix the contents with a big spoon... (note: if the chips are soft; they will indeed break and make sort of a paste... so the chips have to be kinda crispy)
-   now serve with a sprinkle of the coriander leaves on the servings...
-   I personally like to drink lemonade with it... for it cuts the access oil and helps in digestion...

Well I hope i've got everything right... and that I have enticed you to take vegetarianism with a new light...

If not... then keep on watching this blog for more stuff prepared with a whole lot of vegetarian ingredients and a pinch of love... ;-)

Helpful links:
Indian spice cataloge

Soft Drinks - a truthful approach

Vegetarianism; Scientifically
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She is beautiful... !!!

Posted on Sep 14th, 2008 by crudebliss : Let Lord Swaminarayan Triumph crudebliss
OK to my regular readers... the heading was actually to get you excited to click on my blog... but i'm afraid i will tell you of my love when she feels ready... :-)

Approx. 3 weeks ago… there was alittle more rain then usual… followed by alittle more wind then usual…

A papaya tree… with more than 10 papayas fell down…. the reason was that the center of gravity; of the tree was too high (many papayas) and the ground was soft (rain)The tree was actually worth seeing… when It fell down…. More then half of it’s roots were torn and uprooted… yet it had the most biggest papaya's on it... and it was fighting to feed its fruits.... I felt so sad….

And then I decided… to let her live… instead of uprooting her completely... I call her ‘her’ because she reminds me of Earth, what a true mother can do… I gathered some ash -
ash is supposedly the best insecticide ever…. any insects; if interviewed, would say 'they hate fire…' and the proof of fire is ash…- so I gathered some ash and sprinkled under the roots of the tree… and started to build a lifting mechanism… the photos you see below are of the tree being lifted…

Every 3-5 days.. I lift the tree up by 6 inches…. And place a firm foundation under it and cushion the trunk with dead leaves….

It's silly i know... but i heard once; that if you plant a tree; then even if a railway was to be built through it, then divert the damn railway tracks... but never uproot a tree... and this tree was in my farm... the least i can do is to help her up again... !!! right >?

About a week ago

11-9-2008


16-9-08


23-9-08


The tree still is being raised higher and higher... ...

I think she will survive… I get tears in my eyes every-time I lift her… coz I can feel her telling me 'thankyou' in a cosmic – vibrational kinda way…
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Background Noise...

Posted on Sep 5th, 2008 by crudebliss : Let Lord Swaminarayan Triumph crudebliss
Chicane & Bryan Adams - Don't Give It Up

Here's a high quality video link..

I'm reading this book that is titled... 'A world waiting to be born...' it's great... I just reached the 3rd chapter and I can't believe the simple truths that it fires in me. There is a part in which Adam and Eve are described as having the forbidden fruit and how at That moment... they became aware that they were naked... that event was described as being 'Self Conscious'... till that moment they were just conscious... the trees and animals and the birds; they were in oneness with them... but once they were 'Self' Conscious... all the problems began...

How Self Conscious are we... I got a nail in my slippers... actually 2... no wait 2 in each slipper... (we wear slippers at work... well at least I do... I am King ;-) anyway... it all started when I was walking a long time ago at the construction site and a thorn pierced the sole of the slippers... I slowly started to feel a pinch every step I took. At first I thought it was a small pebble... then upon much shaking the slipper around... I realised that it was a thorn...I removed the thorn of course... but I felt very sad that day... coz most of the people around me are without shoes and worst of all; the kids Run around on the land; without any sole protection...

I realise today... that I will newer ever get a chance to walk bare feet in public... and that was one of my goals... to walk the earth bare feet... but the world has much ridicule reserved for me I think ... if I do that....

So I decided last Sunday... to cut an equal length nail of that of my slipper and embedded it into the sole of the slipper... stung quite abit... so I had it blunted... there... now everytime I walk; I walk with a conductor to the ground... (steel is a good electrical conductor) and so I got my wish... i'm one with earth... every step of the way... in fact, I actually walk bare feet in the office; for the constant running around makes them pretty feet hurt like hell you know :-)...

Left 'ouch' Right 'ouch'

 

I think that; all of us are divided as 4 kinds of people.... I saw this on the G channel;  'G for God' :-)

  1. the ones who do it even without being asked to...

  2. the ones who do something and ask 'what's next'..

  3. the ones who only do as much as you tell them to do...

  4. the ones that have to be found first; before you can tell them what to do (for they are always hiding away from work... :-)

I think I am the first kind.... the number one worker... :-) if I see that there is pain in this world, I want to be part of it – plain and simple... sometimes the number one kind can be classified as obsessive compulsive... but come on.... Jesus was an obsessive compulsive if you think like that... "takes away the sins of all man kind... from all of time..." that is obsessive compulsive.

I actually have new found energy now; now that I experience pain... I can get 'angry' easily...

I'm always the nice guy in a quarrel...

There is this guy that used to work with us for the last 10 years... he used to handle the diesel loading and offloading side.. and just recently, he was seen stealing a whole drum of it... upon catching him after 3 days at his home... we found out that he was doing this for a long-time... and had bought many houses and land in his local... I mean he has 5 children... who experienced his arrest... and according to my driver (I was not there) they were crying in terror when the police came to arrest him... I knew this guy very well... and I think he knew me well too... and to be near him everyday... and not being able to project my good Ora :-) on to him... makes me looked belittled to myself... and so I am taking another approach... 'If you mess around; I get angry with you...' no more Mr. Nice and forgiving... it's ultimately not fruitful... and as a loving being; anger is one virtue that I want to cultivate... to forge the wrongful with.

Can you imagine... we actually trusted this guy as our employee that handles the driving force of the company; and all this time our trust was being the case of the ruin of his children's lives... this is unacceptable... I know it sounds silly, His karma is in play here... but still we are all responsible when it comes to oneness... if we are the ones we have been waiting for..... we are the ones we have to remedy.

!!! .... i got the nerve to wonder what the world is comming to.... !!!

{ Video of God is a DJ }

The only way we can understand something is through our 5 senses : sight, sound, smell, taste and touch... did you know that there is :

Light within your eyes

sound within your ears

smell within your nose

flavours within your tongue

and pressure on your skin

 

that is how we feel sensations... when some light other then that of ours is perceived.. it is quickly reported to the mind based on a quick tally from that of our own; in our eyes... something has to exist to show the importance of something else... whether it is in high or low amplifications... all that we see, hear, taste, smell and touch is already inside of us... all the worlds pleasures and pains are just combination doses of the five sensory phenomenas...

personally i believe that there is this great pot from where souls draw this energy to manifest an illusion...

 

ever wondered why  so many times; when something important happens; something negative happens too... take the Olympics in china... so if the guys at the committee had chosen another venue; could the earthquake have still happened ? if you are saying yes then why did it happen; assuming that nothing happens without the consent of God... then why did it happen just before the Olympics...?

personally i believe that there is this great pot from where souls draw this energy to manifest an illusion...

 

everytime i see read the scriptures; i get so frustrated... God is so pure 'nirgun' you love him or you hate him... whole hearted... you are emancipated and disappear into His presence... the Kuwraws hated Krishna so much that they remembered Him everytime in their mundane activities and so they went to His abode too...

But as long as you are alive; you are given a choice... to accept happiness; packaged with sadness.. or to be with God... coz there are just 3 things in this whole galaxy : God, soul and illusion... the question is you as a 'soul' what do you choose between the two : God or illusion...?

 

BTW : Love; that with the earthly; (because of similar thoughts and ambitions and goals is still a part of illusion... at least that is what i think... :-x ) for even in the bible somewhere it's said... you have to leave behind your children and your loved ones to enter the kingdom of God...

Lord Swaminarayan said it beautifuly...

And so; i as a soul loves' God... but wants to add to the pot of illusion... for when it gets empty; lives; for example, are taken; and the pain generated from it is recycled into illusion energy again to refill it... that's just too mean for me to accept...

I mean 'beauty is in the eyes of the beholder...'  it's your perception which has changed... a flower was a flower, "neither bad nor good" it's your perception which has changed that, that you see a flower to be beautiful. When ego is belittled, nature and simplicity flow in like a flood of goodness and oneness... but the truth is that there is still a further road leading to God.

Don't get me wrong... i believe in Karma; and that we are supposed to perform Karma from the age of 0 to 50... so i'm still walking on the road of Karma... and to the people of God!.. time and space (illusion) is powerless !
So don't give up....

Hey i just heard on the TV right now... (Sanskar TV)
You want to talk; go to a man
you want to do something ask a woman...

Ya baby.... i knew that i was not wrong with my choice ...
Women are wonderful.... i think i will end here

[blog still under construction]

ummm i don't think so...

(-: endofblog :-)

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Happy Birthday...

Posted on Aug 31st, 2008 by crudebliss : Let Lord Swaminarayan Triumph crudebliss
Mum-my

She turns 51 today...

Not much to say... just enjoying sunday with her company...
Hey if you are new here... check this out...
Mothers day....

Thanks for the visit...
"Now where's my birthday cake maa !!!"

Ohh awww... i think i will have to run now... she's after me with a rolling pin...

HELP....!!!
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Children

Posted on Aug 30th, 2008 by crudebliss : Let Lord Swaminarayan Triumph crudebliss
Children See Children Do - A must watch video!


One of the reasons why i don't write much is because of the fact that i'm realising what and how important my task is...

There are currently saints that have arrived from Rajkot, Surat and Ahmadabad at our local temple in Mombasa... so every evening the temple is nearly full...  the parents come with their children... and i am used to sitting at the back... for i thread flowers... (-: what i didn't tell you that? :-)

Every evening this is what i do in the temple...
TISSUE RED GOLDEN

We are given a small basket of flowers :
Be a Bee
Another Flower   Be a bee : A bee only visits flowers.   Perfact Flower : The monkey God Lord Hanuman's favorite flower.

and a long needle that we have to thread them on... after the flowers have been threaded... they form a similar pattern of garland that you see above...

Now as always... children are quite the active newsense... (raw energy is how i like to look at it...) but once you give them something to do... they are so attentive... all they need is to be told with love... and they learn very fast... i think in the past few weeks, i have taught about 6 children to thread flowers... and i'm talking about children the age of 4 to 5... very hard at first... but i am an adaptive teacher... ;-) the worst i have to do is to stare at a child when they fight with each other and they would stop it; be attentive to what i am doing... and start again... There's allot you can learn about the parents from their children...

The truth is that we have been given the task of utmost relevance... they say to a child; everything is magic but we as adults are given the opportunity to take care of these creatures... what ever they learn for their first 5 years or so, sticks with them; for life...! and i am damn proud of doing my part in their upbringing... even though they stay with me for not more than an hour... they learn allot... (-:i think...:-) they learn to smile, learn to ask, learn to give, learn to respect, learn to love. I am reminded by the Global Oneness Project DVD that i got recently... super...

It's all about investing... life is...
and the truth is that the parents of today invest their time and energy in the wrong deals... i mean a bank gives you 5-10 percent...
Stock markets can go as high as 20%.
Businesses can give you 30-50%
Earth/farming gives you 1000% (try it... plant a wheat seed and nurture it till it grows... after the 3 months... plant the seeds  from the cob again and you are looking at a 1000 seeds in one year).

Children are the future... i'm not even going to put a percentage sign to signify it's importance and return... all i say is that we should opt to leave everything else and make the beings of tommorow sound and spiritual... Old habits die hard... but even the old ones were children first right ?  So lets start to fix the roots and forget the leaves/branches (terrorists and evil doors) for once we have lost a child to hatred... it takes allot of love to make him/her revert... and personally i sleep too at times; am stuck in traffic for hours; shower, eat, dress, sing... (allot of it in my head :-)

 i don't work/love 24/7 ! No one does... so lets invest smart !

OK that's it for today... !
I feel allot of good comments coming up; especially from my sweet lady friends...
Muahhhhh !!! there; you are loved too...
(Incidentally... if you are wondering who taught me to spell 'Muahh' it was MamaSue, and Elisa - very very strange people - but very very good mothers :-)
LOL
Peace

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When was the last time you behaved out of character?

Posted on Aug 21st, 2008 by crudebliss : Let Lord Swaminarayan Triumph crudebliss
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for August 21, 2008:

Organic-symmetry
today was an interesting talk in the temple... there was a chapter on renunciation and one of the things was lust....

Yah baby... we heard a discourse on sex !... not in a good or bad way... well it went something like this...

“this whole world is on a wheel, and the 2 major spokes that are sustaining it are food and sex”

that was interesting... of course there are things like compassion and love and altruism etc... but these are in the minority not many go for the good stuff... in a tally of the worlds people's thoughts, we would really be belittled to find out that OMG... it's true...

imagine the saints that have renounced sexual “pleasure...” what makes them OK without it? the answer is kinda funny, just as a monkey puts its hand in the pot full of grains...and gets stuck in it as it tries to draw it out... we are all, in a way, 'stuck' in this trap called sex... all we have to do is to let go... having said that, what is more then 'it' then?
I was actually inspired to write this blog because of my recent comment here...
we have to admit that it has a damn good position... I mean, it's still going strong after millions of years... but wait... if you draw a line and then draw another line alittle longer then the first, then the focus is on the longer line... keep on.. drawing longer lines... and you will see that this 2.1 (women I think have it lasted for longer; anyway..) 2.1 seconds; lasting piece of ecstasy is now diminishing in potency...
Gandhi actually renounced it completely and even started calling her wife baa (mother) so.. what made him tick then... ?

The answer is so simple, letting go of something brings something better in light... we have to renounce 'it' to get something better... something more coherent and lasting... 'Orgasms'; at best are just petty sprinkles of chemicals in the brain, but the worst part is that sex is getting more and more attention and is getting to be a sort of decay in modern society... I remember my economics teacher telling me that porn is actually one of the liability that a country should address. I didn't know what it meant until I turned 15 and started having urges of my own... (yes I was a late bloomer :-) Anyway; young girls as 8 and 12 are interested in experiencing 'it' and to be honest... something that is left for couples in a wed-lock ... now is turning into be a business; I was watching this episode where Tyra made a show on how young women are entering this business called the 'porn industry'. According to the interviews, they were 'getting good money' and the whole thing was actually portrayed as “OK... but be cautious of infections..”. what the.... ? where have all the true God fearing parents gone ? a child's upbringing is after all the parents responsibility... although there were women that got into it because of genuine 'no way out' reasons... but still, it's getting to be an organised, and infectious and unjustifiable ummm decay...

anyway... that is my rant for today... stop accepting sex as just a casual phenomena... it's not... even the divine wed-lock kind should be understood like a medicine...  “you take the medicine all the time... you will die !” Dada Bhagwan.

Just trying to bring something so serious into light... incidentaly... if you understand the picture... it shows that the light gets brighter as you connect with someone with the higher Chakra's... and not just the lowest one...
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Survival of the fittest

Posted on Aug 16th, 2008 by crudebliss : Let Lord Swaminarayan Triumph crudebliss
Survival_of_the_fittest
one of the greatest things I like about myself is the fact that I chose a Hindu jacket this life around... we have so many fables and stories that I can't wait to tell you about this one... (I shall one day compile these works for future generations to learn from... I believe the imagination to be the greatest blackboard – infact the greatest colour-board out there; and these fables make use of it wholly, they were designed and written by great Gurus long time ago, and mostly had animal figures in them, something like the Disney pictures...) they form an unbiased opinion about something simply because of their fictitious characters yet the truth is homed so beautifully to the reader... so without further adieu:-


There was once a small boy, an elderly father, and a donkey;

They were poor and were making their way from one village to the next;

The little boy got on the donkey while his father walked alongside,

on the way, they were ridiculed by bystanders; they said look;

the old man is walking, and the boy is riding on the donkey...


so the boy got off the donkey and told his father to climb up on the donkey;

when they reached another village, the villagers there, said look;

the old man is making the child walk while he rides comfortably on the donkey...


so the old man got off the donkey too and they both started walking side by side the donkey,

when they reached another village, the villagers there said look;

they have a donkey, but they are walking by themselves; what a waste...


so this time both the old man and the child climbed on the donkey;

when they reached another village, the villagers there said look at that;

they are abusing the donkey by both of them sitting on it together...


the father and son got so pissed, that they decided the best thing was to – get this – 'carry the donkey!'

so they paired and tired the legs of the donkey and carried the donkey on their shoulders

when they reached another village, the villagers laughed and said look at that,

they are so stupid to carry a donkey on their shoulders instead of riding on it...

:-)

IF you have stopped laughing too...please continue reading... for the ending is sad....


they reached a river and when they entered to cross it... the donkey got underwater and started to struggle and amidst the struggle it was washed away down the river...and drowned; they lost their one and only asset...


The moral of the story :

the world will never see you as right, the only thing is to keep your cool, other wise you will loose your donkey... I mean; your most precious commodity – your peace. :-)


First create your spiritual status by obeying the word of God – and then based on that, create your goal,- If you will harm less, and help more, while you pursue your goal, then you have chosen the right goal; (Gandhi said the best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others) - stick to it (Gandhi said that happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.) – and don't change your vision – if it's pure enough you will be ridiculed by the masses, but don't let that down you – just KIT (Keep It Together) otherwise you will be taken for a ride by the clowns in the circus of life...


Notice that the unattainable your goal; the more the tests you will be put through, the more the pain you will experience, the more the payback will be.

It's all about how much heat you can take... the question is where is your breaking point ?

All of us have that ... a breaking point... and it's exactly the people who have dared, those who have survived the winter chill and the summer sun; it's thier DNA that runs through us.... our ancestors went through a test that lasted millions of years for them to give you what you have... a body, synchronised with a mind that fires enough neurons to light up a 'light bulb', and a mental capacity to house God... baby this is deep, don't you think so ?


To all those who have experienced pain... congratulations... you are recruited to carry forward the light.

And remember “Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.” Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi.

 

Now dance... for you have found the truth....


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Rays of my light

Posted on Aug 8th, 2008 by crudebliss : Let Lord Swaminarayan Triumph crudebliss
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I want to thank you for visiting my blog page... However before you commence reading my work please add this page to your favorites ... it will really be a great asset, you'll see...

 http://www.scientologyhandbook.org/scientologysolutions.htm

For those new to my place; this is an index of my blogs; the older ones are quite stubborn and one minded (mine) but just as a flower blooms out of a tight covert, so have I, in my later blogs.

I've started out with the stubborn ones :-)



1. Thought of the Day

I start my journey here by describing how everything in this world has two sides and that you will have to deal with the opposite of what you desire. The message of infinity is also mentioned; and the true thing you should want in this world announced.



2. Story

Here I try to tell you of how Buddha came to self-realisation.



3. Accidents; how to avoid them & Increase your Sixth Sense

 A description of how systematically the world is created and that there is a power that I call 'Q' that handles the rewards or punishments of your deeds and desires. He has no power over your choices but all powerful with their consequential results.

It also describes how being humble can change your sufferings and make you attain your now new goals, speedily.



4. Scientific Circumstantial Evidence

Good Karma is always hard to achieve and will never be in abundance. Your success is because of your last births Good Karma being put to good use; your failure is because of your 'this' births misuse of that Good Karma.

"It's not what you want to do, but what you ought to do." Swami Parthasarathy.

Guratitanund Swami says "You should spoil 10 million tasks (activities) in order to attain self realization; in case you get all those 10 million tasks (activities) Right but failed at self realization, then you have done nothing."



5. Love; How to

Here I describe a very playful way of being with God :

We are in a world, like the little child, in a fair, with one hand you should tightly hold onto your father, (the rules and regulations that are set out by your God - "Dharma") and with the other, you should tightly hold on to the mother, (the faith of unlimited bound, that there is a God - Devotion) and that no mater what, if by chance you do break the vows of the father, then you can atleast make it home with your hands holding tightly to your mother's sari. ("Bhakti" - Devotion)



6. Money Baby!

Here I describe how our minds rub with other minds and imitate what rich people do; by spending like them, earning like them. While it is completely unfruitful to do this; for money is begotten because of your past good deeds. Like a tree fruits after some time, so does money come to you after the seeds that you planted in your past life, fruit. The Lord says that those who are poor are happy and those rich, sad.



7. Stronger then steel.

The human nature (encapsulated in ego) is the hardest thing in the cosmos; and hence very very hard to change; however with humble affiliations with the self-realized, one can change his/her nature and be part of the bliss that is God. What we are doing now, is to use the body to supply the mind with many and unmatched desires that we think will make us happy. In so doing, we sin and we condemn our soul to new birth cycles... for desire is the cause of reincarnation.



8. Secret of Success.

The secret of success is "Detachment". If you perform any task by getting 'involved' with it yet Not get 'attached' with it, you will be successful. The types of karma are elaborated : The least rewarding karma, financially, is obviously the most rewarding spiritually.



9. Anybody out there?

There is life beyond earth: "Souls with particular levels of goodness, compassion, and empathy, live in higher levels of planetary systems, and those with low moral, greed and various other levels of sin; live in a lower planetary system." The Bhagvad Gita

We are in the last chakra of time know as the "Kaliyug" so : If you walk towards God, he shall run towards you; and if you run towards God, he shall fly, towards you.



10. Earth; a complex, supreme balance, life support system.

Here I advertise the Earth as a soul full of Love and compassion. Learn from her, I walk bare feet most of the time so that I can be one with her. "Still waters reflect; similarly, a mind that is ever-changing cannot see divinities reflection". Muktanund Swami

Love has no end, but lust does. If you truly love then there cannot be hate.



11. Vegetarianism; Scientifically

I describe how we have all evolved for a single sense living organism to a five sense one; and how killing a 5 sense organism for food accumulates 5 fold the sin.



12. Planet Jupiter; a soul full of altruism

A story of how a boy hit a king with a stone accidentally and got a whole county to be governed under his rule. How we should save something true by sacrificing ourselves if it requires of us.



13. The Coconut Tree the Sea and the Sun Deity.

The sun is the source of all life, source of our rains and the reason of light.

The coconut tree grows amidst the salty shores but highs itself from the salt and stores sweet waters in its fruit. That's what a saint does, sacrifices his time and life to uplift infinite number of souls.



14. Oh my God, I'm married!

This is a playful read, Nishkulanund Swami says that the soul is the He, the body the She & the five senses the five children; every being is already married the moment you are born.



15. I & my ('Ahum; Maumutvu')

Here I describe how we get entangled in this web of I & My and how our thoughts are seeds that we plant evertime we think; in-fact the moment one has a thought, s/he should only see it as a spectator coz if one gets involved with that thought positively or negatively, you are planting the seeds for your next life.



16. 'Akshar Amrut'

A description of Heaven by the Lord Himself and how to get there.



17. How Green are you ...

The 39 Qualities of God.



18. "Be the change you want to see in the world"

Here I announce how I shall save children from the 10 different regions of the world.



19. My Lord; my Love.

Shriji Mahraj has observed that obsession with material pleasures is the cause of the cycle of birth and rebirth.

State of upsham:
"When s/he knows the eminence of his divine person and has great and intense wish to serve and to have contact with his devotees."


The 32 qualities of a saint are described here too.



20. Alpha Omega

Translated here are:

A plea to the Lord.

Prayer of Empathy

Prayer of Love

Prayer of Longing



21. Pray! Don't play nor prey

It need be known that God already knows what you want, moreover, he knows what you deserve; so basically if you pray for something, chances are you get more than what you had even dreamed of.


Translated is also a devotional song on what the Lord likes and dislikes.



22. Close to Seven

Starts by seven things that Mother Teresa quoted as a must to do. Ends with the seven random facts about me.



23. 'Sanmukh' - 'Vimukh' (to Face - Away from

Starts with a joke about a thief who hid in a religious congregation and how he was caught.

When one is innocent; (follows the path of God) s/he is fearless, and when we turn the other cheek He does the same too and we are torn away to the realms of hell by the devilish people (Yumdoots).

Always be Sanmukh (facing) God, never Vimukh (turn the other cheek) to God.



24. I want to fly, so high; destination sky.

"The steps on a stairway leading to the temple, are such that they will be stepped on, erode themselves for you, but they will still do their task; to elevate you, to God."

Translated a devotional song on how to be brave in times of hardships that was written by Brahmanund Swami.



25. Time to face the music

Out of frustration I write how time and space (maya) plays games with your mind as they test your true love for God. Referance is given of how long various celestial bodies survive for.
Lord Swaminarayan says that "we have incarnated so many times as mammals that the amount of milk that we have suckled in our every infancy, amounts to more then the 7 seas combined."



26. Battle for the atoms

How we crave for the latest stuff that all ultimately boils down to "a particular combination of particular atoms". Rise above it, this petty shallow sea that you are in. 'a true being is one that feels the pain other than his/her own'.



27. 25,000 BTU's

How warmth is really vital in our being.

Translated a devotional song sung by Devanund Swami after he got to be with Lord Swaminarayan.



28. Effulgent Shriji Maharaj

Shriji Maharaj has described the state of achievement of His Devotees. The senses of such a person are incapacitated from being attracted to pleasures of material life and such a devotee sees Shriji Maharaj as embodying His light, resplendent in glorious halo of His light in human form, benign and youthful.



29. and the flute said...

A small fable that I heard at the temple on how the flute talked to the Gopis (cow-girls) and how they implemented what they heard.



30. and the music answered...

My little sis Shunya Devi got so inspired by the previous blog that she responded as follows...



31. Free at Last

My message of Valentine to all : "May you find someone who sings as beautifully as you heart beats' and if you are alone this time around then remember, there's someone out there that will give you more joy then you'd ever fathom; while you wait for him/her, teach yourself to love by practicing on God".



32. I just realised "I was in Hell"

Janaka Maharaja's visit to Hell; how he felt so much compassion at the sight of what went on there, that he decided to stay there until Yamraja (King of Hell) himself came ; Janaka Maharaja wished for the tormented souls to be freed of their punishments, the King of hell asked for a good karma in return that was obtained one morning when; with a pure heart Janaka uttered, "Rama, Rama". As soon as he said this, those persons dwelling in hell immediately were freed from their suffering condition and obtained divine bodies.



33. Project Hell

Photo's showing you of what happens in Hell to people who don't abide by the laws of God.



34. Commiting suicide

Lack of love, having a tough time? My population lives in more agony and pain then you could ever believe; yet they choose to live. The angels are out there, working at their best to make sure that everyday is as beautiful as it can be, but if you choose to close your eyes, then what can they do but to weep at the side of you where you will lay (dead). Dusk will change to dawn. Have alittle bit of bravery in God.



35. "My longing for you". God

God comes on this earth with His chosen ones to show us his love, and love we should Him.
This is another devotional song which has the chorus saying:
'No one is yours other than God, know it oh mankind.

Life's a four day amusment of full moon, after the 5th day, the moon subsides into darkness'



36. "I have no fear of death..."

A small picture that reminded me that i have no need to fear death. Saints are truly worth being admired by... "I think they plant small bombs; that with time, will go off, giving out love in the air...."



37. The soul seeks simplicity

The simple life should be the quest for all beings, for it is the representation of Minimalism; Gods true sign of perfaction - it can be seen everywhere... seeds are examples of what no man can ever do, make orange juice out of dirt with the help of a small seed.
Also an explation on how mankind needs to sleep, and how simplicity can achieve it...



38. tally your 'tender' with God.

A reminder of tallying every day, how close you are getting to Him. A description of Jiv - Ishwar - Maya - Brahm & Parbrahm.



39. I disallow you, you cola you, and the like - if you don't change

A small assualt on the greatest threat on our children of the future... "soft drinks", how they systematically will destroy our new generations true potential; if not dealt with Now.



40. A 'Nari' in a 'Sari' - nothing more divine....

How a woman is a reflection of divinity, and how the sari brings it out...



41. Perspective Peculiar

Heart warming translations of devotional starnza's by Brumanund Swami and Premanund Swami.
"a single candle can light a million unlit ones; but a million unlit ones cannot light a single candle".
So which one are u? the single lit one or the million unlit ones.



42. A true measure of a man... How much of a 'She' he can be.

How you can near God very lovingly, a great collection of Premanund Swami's best works translated and allitle 'She'