Shades of the Sea

what is hell ? has anybody seen it ? well, i have. In my humble opinion, feeling very sleepy at 2330 hrs, time of year being last week of may(peak summer) , place being chennai and above all, POWER CUT. all of this in combination is the perfect recipe of hell.

another recipe, long and tiring day at office, totally hungry, with plans of cooking upma of all dishes (simple to cook). everything is almost set and about to start the fire, POWER CUT.

with these two events, happening on 2 consecutive days, was totally out of mind. next, a walk to the beach.

5min there and am at peace and in 1 single piece. i saw a boat on the shore and my mind responded f4 and 20s  should do the job. walked back home, collected my gear and walking again with a happy heart, started clicking.

Also decided to start a new collection of photos. Title being Shades of the Sea. Will see how far it goes. Will see how many shades i will be able to see.

seeing is believing

what is found in mahabharatha, is found everywhere||
what is not found here, is found nowhere||

the dharma yuddha starts. Arjuna is confused. Lord Krishna gives upadesha. this is Bhagavad Gita.
during the course of upadesha, Arjuna wishes to see the cosmic form of Lord Krishna

मन्यसे यदि तत् शक्यं मया द्रष्टुं इति प्रभो|
योगेश्वर ततो मे त्वं दर्शय आत्मानं अव्ययं ||

manase - you think; yadi - if ; tat - that; shakyam - is able ; mayaa - by me;
drashtum - to be seen; iti - thus ; prabho - O Lord; yogeshwara- yoga -- eeshwara - Lord of all mystic powers; tatah - then; me - to me ; tvam - you; darshaya - show ; aatmanam - your true self ;
 avyayam - eternal;
if you think i am able to behold your cosmic form, o my lord, o master of all mystic powers, then kindly show me that unlimited universal self.


श्री भगवान उवाच -
न तु मां शक्यसे द्रष्टुं अनेन एव स्व चक्षुषा |
दिव्यं ददामि ते चक्षुः पश्य मे योगमैश्वरम्  ||


na - never; tu - but; maam - me; shakyase - are able; drashtum - to see; anena - with these; eva- certainly;
sva chakshusa - your own eyes; divyam - divine; dadami - i give; te - toyou; chakshuhu - eyes;
pashya - see; me - my; yogamaishvaram - divine inconceivable mystic power;
But you cannot see me with your present eyes. therefore, i give you divine eyes. behold my inconceivable mystic form.


why all this excerpts from the bhagavad gita ?
in order to make arjuna see his mystic form, krishna had to give him special powers. the eyes which arjuna had were not of any use to see the divine form. ( equivalent to a 1000 suns etc etc etc this is only what sanjaya has seen because of divya drushti given by vyasa to give running commentary to dritharashtra. arjuna never spoke of what he saw and i speculate the vision sanjaya had was way more different than what arjuna had)
our eyes are tuned to be sensitive in the so called visible spectrum range ( about 390 nm to 750 nm ) in the electromagnetic spectrum
this leaves me with these questions...


what percentage of the electromagnetic spectrum can the human eye perceive ?
nature is way more than what meets the eye!
why has nature made us practically blind ? ( we get to perceive only a infinitesimally small percentage of electromagnetic radiation )
and-seeing is believing ???

the monk who sold his ferrari

disclaimer : i have not read the book.

the monk who sold his ferrari.

the title says - a monk who sold his ferrari.

if a person has a ferrari and decides to become a monk, why did he sell it ?
he should have given it in charity.

just a small humor... 

bulletsu, bombsu & bhagavadgeete

|| सर्वे जनाः सुखिनोभवन्तु ||

this does not mean that people employed in the SURVEY department are happy.

it means let there be happiness to everyone. let everyone get the capacity to SURVEY their minds. 

-- ಬಿchi

seriously it is a bomb, in form of a bullet and with teachings of bhagavadgeete!

time to cleanse

यात्रा संस्कृतं तत्र सम्स्क्रुतिम
एतद श्रुत्वा अहं विस्मितास्मी. भारत देशस्य संस्कृतिः पुरातनं अस्ति किन्तु बहु सम्यक अस्ति | संस्कृतं अति सरल विज्ञानिक च अस्ति | १०००० वर्षे संस्कृत भाषे कोपि व्यत्यसं नास्ति | एतद  भाषा बहूणि भाषासु मातृ भाषा अस्ति |
एक विचारं | प्राचीन काले संस्कृतमेव आसीत | वेद - उपनिषत एतानि महा ग्रन्तानि संस्कृतमेव आसीत | इदनीम्तने सहस्राणि महोदयाः कन्नड - आङ्ग्ल- इति भाषाणां भाषन्तरं कृत्वा पुस्तकानि प्रकाशं कुर्वन्ति | किन्तु भाषन्तरं  कर्तुं समये पण्डितस्य अभिप्रायः आगन्तुं शक्यते | एताः अभिप्रायाः तस्य गुरवः अभिप्रायाः सन्ति | एताः अभिप्रायाः अस्माकं चितनं विकारं कुर्वन्ति स्म | सहजोदसीन अभिप्रायः तदा आगचति यदा वयं संकृतमेव पठनं कुर्मः | तदर्थं वयं संस्कृतमेव वदामः | संस्कृतमेव चिन्तामः |
वदतु संस्कृतं | जयतु मनुकुलं |

confusion1

pic describing my current state. but it is satyaveer in the pic.

here is the confusion.
all of us want the same thing spiritually, at the end. mukti. mukti from this cycle of birth-death-birth. so many philosophies to guide. yet they are all different in their own ways. these days, there is also a steep rise in the hindu religious fanaticism and the sole purpose of following a particular path is missing. absolutely. 
now, i dont know how to put my confusion.
yet here i am.

dwaita says

यदि नमपरो न भवेत् श्री हरी 

      कथमस्य वशेत जगातेदभूत |

यदि नमनतस्य वशे सकलं 

      कथामेवत नित्य सुखं न भवेत ||

advaita says

|| अहम् ब्रह्मास्मि ||

people have followed both. achieved their goals. yet there is this difference. why so ? 

maya

came to know that our brain works on 12 W of power. and millions of nerves are triggered with thousands of stimuli. in order to optimize the power consumed, our brain processes only the required stimuli, controlled consciously  or sub-consciously.
we are able to talk converse over phone even in crowded majestic. mind filters out unwanted frequencies.
also, our M1ND 15 AL50 ABLE T0 R3AD TH15.
mind makes suitable assumptions while reading the
the above line.
it deos eevn tihs. example of siutable assumptions.
this means mind is hardwired to repair the faults to a certain extent,  to see, to perceive things.
this may not be right always.
mind does amazing things. no doubt. but, in reality, things are definitely something else. while concentrating on something, there is a loss of thousands of other stimuli. even these are a part of the real "real".
it is all in the mind.
may be this is MAYA.