Am i living just because i was born one day...?

will i love my children just because my parents loved me?

mere existence--is that what they call life these days?? so what,even a vegetable is living,atleast its useful...

but my existence.....???

 

According to the bhagvad gita,our purpose in life is to serve God...

now how many of us can love someone unconditionally...?

how many of us can serve someone whose very existence we start doubting,when something goes wrong...?

Leave that apart,with egoes as inflated as ours,who'll believe we are born to serve somebody else...??

 

that's the whole point of The Gita,God has to be adulated,he's on a level well above ours...

they say only a person who has faith can understand the gita,not one reading it merely for philosophical speculation...

God is not somebody else,he is 'The Supreme One'...

 

Sometimes i wonder what is the point of me knowing this stuff,even understanding it to an extent and having faith in it...and then not following it...??

Am i not worse than a person who doesnt follow it because he isnt aware...?

Am i not like the person who knows the questions to be asked in an exam the next day,and not preparing answers??

 

What is the point,if i think ill about others,when i know,my only relation in the world is with 'The supreme Soul'...

 

When i know my aim in life is to meet him,not ,why is that i compete,feel ecstatic on topping the class and crib on getting even a one mark less..?

that's what,the gita says,to do the assigned job for him,be detached from results...

 

I mean we think being in distress is suffering,but according to gita,even happiness is a suffering...then why do i feel happy on receiving a compliment and sad the moment i get a comment...

 

Why do i cry when a loved one dies...i know the gita says the soul is eternal,there's no point lamenting...

why do i get attached to a body which was with me...

 

why do i feel lonely at times,why do i forget,i can't have a happily ever after meeting the one,but ,my soul can after meeting "THE ONE" 

 

 

Walking on the road... I wonder what lies ahead...

the puddles of mud,makes me wonder if i'l fall in one of them..

the stones in my way,make me cautious of the future ahead...

the people in the street,make me wonder if u've come to rescue me...

the sound of blowing horns,awaken me from my dreams... 

but the lights in the dark...assure me of u around me...

i've never bin a religious person..bt neither am i an atheist...i dnt believe in going to temples..

bt i cant refuse my family for a two-day trip...

Few days back i visited Sri trayambakeshwar temple and shirdi(near mumbai)... i've bin dere before bt dis time i noticed the humumgus crowd and endless lines which set me thinking...

if i dint knw it was a temple..i wud've probably thgt, ppl were getting smthin free inside...

i cud see numerous faces standing barefoot in lines in da scorching heat and literally burning floor(my uncle went to take a whole round of da temple,and his feet actually had burns!!)

dere were faces tired of standing in a queue...

faces irritated and frustrated...

faces shushing their chidren...

children runnin away from their parents...

faces waiting for da line to move...

faces waiting for life to begin...

lets be optimistic...may be one in 20 faces was thinking abt God...bt wat abt him...? was it abt seeing his shrine on entry to da temple...?? or was he making a pact wid"god" that since he'd travelled such a long distance,god ought to fulfil his wish...??

then i saw ppl bribing priests,to gain entry into da main temple without having to stand in da lines.. i felt disgusted...well it was a little contradictory for me...smhow i always associated god wid being right and bribery being wrong... oh how stupid of me...Now i understand why is a priest called representative of God... coz it was God's plan...he wanted da priest to earn money(read bribes) in his name...

By then even i wanted to see wat was so special inside(altho i'd bin dere before)that ppl who wunt normally climb stairs or even walk coz of old age,joint pains and various ailments,wanted to do da same dis time...

bt of course i realised...its their faith...their faith ki bhagvaan sab theek kar denge...

Ppl have always neede smbdy to take care of them... smbdy to guide them... smbdy whose fear made them not cheat... smbdy theu cud look upto... smbdy they cud idolise... smbdy who gave them courage... smbdy who said meek shall inherit the earth..

Why shud i say anything abt others' faith...i have no right to question their beliefs..

bt i've da right to state my own...well...my god...my god is within me... my conscience is my god... smthing that gives me da strength to face da world wenevr i fail... smthing that stops me frm doing wat i think is wrong...

i dnt need a separate time to talk to him...to pray...to visit temple...i'm in constant touch wid him...wid me..wid da god inside me...

if God is da supreme power, da eternal truth... that is inside me...