Pearl of Wisdom

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa while explaining spiritual freedom once said....

"'If you mix milk and water, you can separate them again only after much effort. But if you convert milk to butter and keep the butter in water it will not mix.' This aptly describes the technique of living. Wisdom must be churned out of life, and, armed with that wisdom we can mix with the world, engage in any activity and live in any situation without getting diluted or lost. This is spiritual freedom in its perfection.

Doing good may not be enough.....

Dr S. Radhakrishna was berating the modern young men and women in one of his lectures, about their lack of beleif in religion, "I do not beleive in metaphysics or religion. I beleive in doing good. That is my philosophy", he said was the thinking of the modern young men and women. This was precisely what I subscribed to. I always beleived that "doing good" was enough. I need not bother about metaphysics, religion or philosophy. I read on.... curious to know how I was going to be proven as wrong. Next was another sloka with an interesting comparison....

Asuryā nāma te lokāḥ andhena tamasāvṛtāḥ

Tāṁste pretyābhigacchanti ye ke cātmahano janāh-

Curious I read further to see what the sloka meant.....A man who is not aware of his divine nature is like a man living in a deep cavern where sunlight has never entered. He who ignores this ever present reality of the Self is keeping away light and clutching at shadows. "ātmahana" means people who kill themselves. BY neglecting our true nature, by ignoring it and by clutching at the shadows of the non-Self all the time, we commit suicide; suicide of the most serious kind. In an ordinary suicide, only the body is killed, which is something external to us, but here we kill ourselves, our real Self.

Interesting thought.........

.. uh.. ... um... uh.. Can I have a .........

(I was blog hopping when I ended up on a blog where people talked about their funny incidents with condoms. And I recollected a real embarrassing incident that happened to me. )

The practice in our hostel for birthdays was that we used to get condoms for the birthday boy, fill it up with water, (That stuff can take in plenty of water.) and then hurl it on the birthday boy. (Yeow ???? I know. That being the point.)

The incident I am about to narrate happened when I was in 3rd Semester Engineering. My (buddy and) room mate and I had gone downtown. The next day was another friend's birthday and so we decided to buy some condoms for the birthday ritual. We went around town searching for the least crowded chemists shop. We finally found one that did not have too many people in it. I was too shy and knew I would feel too embarrassed to make the purchase myself. I tried to get my roomie to go and buy it. He too did not want to make that looooong trip from the road to the chemists desk. We kept arguing on who should go .

After a lot of coaxing, my roomie finally built up the courage agreed to go buy the condom. I stayed back a few yards away, on the footpath, while my roomie went to the shop to buy the condoms.

Roomie : "uh..um.. Condoms please.. ".
Shopkeeper: "Which one ?"
My smartass roomie: (then turns around and asks me loudly) "Which one do you want ?? KS ? Ribbed ??".

My gawd !!! I wished I was dead !!!

I-Pod !!!

A few days back, I was chatting with Pooja on Yahoo messenger, when all of a sudden she asked "Hey !!! Do you have an I-Pod?". I replied, "Now what ? You want to borrow that too ? C'mon you still haven't returned so many of those things that you have already borrowed." "What I have not returned ?", she was irritated. "Well, you still have to return my `Kenny G` CD, my USB memory stick, my Jeffrey Archer Novel.... do you want me to continue ??". "Oh! you are so possessive !!!" And as usual, it went into yet another unending argument.

The very next day I got a forward with a beautiful eye-pod. So I sent it to her.


I dont think she appreciated my sense of humour however, coz she socked me in my arm when I met her that evening.

Sleepless in Flight.

No. No.. this has nothing to do with the Meg Ryan - Tom Hanks starrer "Sleepless in Seattle". Nor is this an advt for some stupid mattress that you keep hearing on the radio. This is just an interesting tip for sleepless travelers on those wretched flying machines. No promises that you will be able to sleep. But at least you have one more chore to do, in your attempt to fall asleep.

http://cyberkraze.blogspot.com/2006/11/travel-tip_20.html