Dreaming a Smile-Part IV PATIENCE

Embodiments of Love!

We have seen LOVE

We have seen GRATITUDE

Now we will see PATIENCE which I do not have!

There is a reason for everything!

When a thing happens to us, we do not have the insight to understand why that is happening to us;

With time and Patience it will come to light.

Patience and Time are the 2 sides of a coin;

Everything comes when it must come!

A life cannot be rushed;

Life cannot be worked on a schedule as many of us wish that to be;

We must accept what comes to us at any point of time and should not ask for more;

Everything will be clear to us in time!

See how we exploit our patience:

Earlier time we used to talk to distant friends and relative through trunk call once in a while;

Then slowly we started getting connected through fixed LAND number;

Then started chasing the people outside the LAND connection periphery through pagers;

Then with the advent of mobiles we started talking frequently;

Our PATIENCE is something more than gold;

Instead of talking from fixed positions, we started talking whether we drive a 2wheeler, 3wheeler or 4wheeler;

We even talk on the mobile while crossing the road ready to die if we will get hit by a speeding motor;

We cannot wait for a moment that we can see people talking on mobiles with one hand on their genitals and one hand holding the mobile;

I use to wonder what would happen if a girl making dosa on a hot plate mistakenly exchanges mobile for the hot plate and keeps on her ears;

All the above nonsense notwithstanding, we now have the 2 nonsense phenomena---Face book and Whatsapp…we stay connected for 24x365x100=876000 hours

A few keep 2 mobile/3 mobiles connecting too many at a time.

All these are the results of our impatience;

Many of the calls are used as love messengers and Romantic maneuvers to share with the opposite sex the heroism exhibited at that fraction of their living moment.

Note:

Have PATIENCE;

If the girl is for you, nobody can carry her away;

If the boy is yours, he cannot escape to Mars.

धन्यवाद:

See you in the next episode

With lots of love

श्वस्ति , मङ्गलं भूयात्

राजगोपालः

rajagopal

30.09.2015

Dreaming about NOTHING

Embodiments of Love!

Note:

A girl triggered my mind by touching NOTHING, my another favorite Subject;

You may not love the subject as you will be reduced to NOTHING, at the end of this episode;

Happy NOTHING!

Nothing

Can you visualize?

Can you imagine?

Nothing…..

Does this mean there is no solid/liquid/air?

No matter…

No air…

Is this void?

Is this SILENCE?

Can I be NOTHING?

What happens if I become NOTHING?

Can you be nothing?

Okay

I am aware we are leading nowhere!!!!(Let us not start another topic on NOWHERE)

rajagopal is a man

rajagopal is the Son of Srimathi

rajagopal is the Son of Haran

rajagopal is the Employee of Xyz Company

rajagopal is a Chemistry graduate

rajagopal is a post graduate in English Literature

rajagopal is a qualified teacher with a Bed

rajagopal is post graduate Diploma holder in Materials Management

rajagopal is a speaker

rajagopal is a writer

rajagopal is a demon

remove all the above qualifiers….

Do I become nothing after removing everything?

What remains?

NOTHING

No, still there is something that can sense, perceive, feel…

What is that, that makes a difference between the dead rajagopal and the one alive?

Is it “Being Itself?”

If we could achieve this state, we will have absolute PEACE!

We will have FREEDOM!

We will have JOY!

I stop here confusing you with NOTHING!

NOTHING more to add as you have everything except NOTHING!

Hope you have realized that “Nothing” can exist in everything!

And

Everything could become NOTHING!

Be NOTHING and become EVERYTHING, as NOTHING is IMPOSSIBLE!

धन्यवाद:

See you in the next episode

With lots of love

श्वस्ति , मङ्गलं भूयात्

राजगोपालः

rajagopal

29.09.2015

Dreaming a Smile-Part III--GRATITUDE

  

Embodiments of Love!

Though I have given gratitude as the last point in the first episode of this title subject, I am going to address GRATITUDE, a rare commodity on Earth!

Flashback 1:

An incident that happened long back (in my first company):

I was in Quality control that time;

Was performing sterility test of Gentamycin injection vials;

During the exercise, a vial broke and pierced my index finger of the left hand;

Due to negligent medical care, my left hand index finger cannot bend internally;

My father used to indicate this deficiency and always was concerned about the physical deformity.

Remember this episode; I will connect this with a present episode.

As personal experience may inspire a few of you, I am sharing few glimpses of my real life;

I love my father who is no more;

He has been guiding me unseen!

Flashback 2:

before the death of my eldest brother ( he expired on 20 th Aug 2015, Thursday due to heart attack resulting from the expulsion of water logging from his lungs; within 24 hours of admitting, he expired), I had a dream I think by around 10 th Aug.

Early morning!

My departed father and departed eldest sister are seen on the banks of a river;

I am swimming alone;

All of a sudden a fearful feeling strikes me;

I see a palanquin used for the final journey of a dead person as per our custom;

Just behind that palanquin, I see a statue of LORD Nataraja, a form of my Lord Siva;

I turn to my father if I should bring the idol of Nataraja; he commands yes;

I just swim across and bring the statue and hand it over to him; he leaves;

After that a bell used in temples floats; I again swim and bring it;

Dream ends!

I did not interpret this intuitive dream that time;

Bur after 10 days I could see the meaning of my dream!

You may ask why I am talking irrelevant;

Have patience (this is another tenet we should learn as human beings);

I will bring the relevance in the climax!

My wife has been suffering from stomach issues;

She could not breathe properly;

Could not lie down on the ground normally or get up normally from the ground;

Though operation was thought of in Sep, demise of my brother added a speed-breaker;

Nevertheless, we went ahead and fixed it with a schedule on 9 th Sep;

I left Ahmedabad on 8 th night and reached Mumbai on 9 th;

Had a bath, did minimal prayer and took her to hospital;

She got admitted;

It was a critical operation;

Operation went off well;

My second sister came on that day and next day;

Her husband was not well, hence could not support physically much;

As I was the only person on my wife’s side, I needed to take care of her food, tablets, procurement of medicine;

So I used to get up early in the morning reach home by auto;

Morning ablutions;

Coffee;

Cooking;

Washing of cloths;

Tiffin box making;

Transfer of coffer into the thermos flask;

Rush out to hospital in just 2 hours as she would be starving from morning!

In between I had my mother and father’s death ceremonies which normally we observe in the formal way by creating a fire (Homam) and offering food to Brahmins;

We could not do as wife was in the hospital;

There was a new moon day (Amavasya) when I normally perform ceremonies with the dry grass (Dharpam);

Since wife was in the hospital, I did not perform that also this time;

Now I am coming to the point—GRATITUDE!

From this day 29 th Sep we have the period called PITRU PAKSHA, the period of the departed elders, when normally I perform ceremonial rites very devotedly;

Day before yesterday I wanted to skip that also!

On 26 th night I was in the train;

Very tired;

At 1.30, night it was very cold;

I wanted to pull down the shutter half way

Thinking the latch would get into the groove automatically, I removed my hand…..not fully

It LANDED on my right hand…again INDEX Finger….

For 30 minutes I wished to die because of the pain.

I tried to see a connection;

My father;

My left hand index finger already damaged;

Father was always aware, which I also was aware that he was concerned;

Now this right hand… may be he is guiding me to perform the rites of pitru paksha as usual…

Yes I have performed for the first day;

Will continue;

PITRUPAKSHA is a sign of showing our gratitude to the departed;

I have been GRATEFUL;

I was reminded by the shutter falling on my hand, to continue to be grateful;

Will be GRATEFUL!

You also be GRATEFUL!

धन्यवाद:

See you in the next episode

With lots of love

श्वस्ति , मङ्गलं भूयात्

राजगोपालः

rajagopal

28.09.2015

Dreaming a Smile--Part II--Love

Embodiments of Love!

Let us talk about Love;

I love many;

Kahlil Gibran is one among them; what a sublime poetry he has written!

Okay.

He has written lot about LOVE!

One is Love Letters in the Sand………

“Hearts united in pain and sorrow
will not be separated by joy and happiness.
Bonds that are woven in sadness
are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure.
Love that is washed by tears
will remain eternally pure and faithful.” 

It will be a cocktail to have the following message from Dr Brian Weiss :

There is someone special for everyone. Often there are two or three or even four.

They come from different generations.

They travel across oceans of time and the depths of heavenly dimensions to be with you again.

They come from the other side, from heaven.

They look different, but your heart knows them.

Your heart has held them in arms like yours in the moon-filled deserts of Egypt and the ancient plains of Mongolia.

You have ridden together in the armies of forgotten warrior-generals, and you have lived together in the sand-covered caves of the Ancient Ones.

You are bonded together throughout eternity, and you will never be alone.

Your head may interfere: "I do not know you."

Your heart knows.

He takes your hand for the first time, and the memory of his touch transcends time and sends a jolt through every atom of your being.

She looks into your eyes, and you see a soul companion across centuries.

Your stomach turns upside down.

Your arms are gooseflesh.

Everything outside this moment loses its importance.

The above is an indication of how LOVE works!

Love is the simplest but the greatest energy wave that can make wonders…

We will see a single miracle now…

I read 3 months back in a Tamil daily the following real life story…

One youngster is begging on the streets;

Earlier he was working and earning a decent salary;

He loved a girl;

After 3 years of the Titanic love, he was diagnosed kidney failure; Dialysis!

The lady still wanted to marry him;

This gentleman refused and made her marry another healthy person!!!!!

The reporter asked him the reason for this act;

For that he replied, which is the gist of all love;

“ Sir, if I would have married her, she would also suffer along with me; also she would lose the fruits of married life; after some time would turn a widow; if I could not make a simple sacrifice, my love would have turned meaningless’

I cried after reading this news as usual !

(Note: that girl is happy; this fellow is being supported by one of his school-mates for his dialysis; the frequency of dialysis is increasing and this boy is counting his days for the ultimate day when everything gets leveled.)

धन्यवाद:

See you in the next episode

With lots of love

श्वस्ति , मङ्गलं भूयात्

राजगोपालः

rajagopal

24.09.2015

Dreaming a Smile-Part I

 Embodiments of Love!

Love

Forgiveness

Patience

Gratitude

These are the tenets which compel rajagopal to take birth after every death;

Ha ha ha

You may wonder that I am talking about my physical death;

Not necessarily

Fear kills a person every moment;

There are approximately 230 fears which kill me in one way or other from the day i was born till I will be buried in the graveyard.

Let us a see a reference:

Dr Brian Weiss on people killing others has the following to say when he did his greatest experimental revelation with his patient Catherine

"We have no right to abruptly halt peoples ‘lives before they have lived out their karma. And we are doing it. We have no right. They will suffer greater retribution if we let them live.

When they die and go to the next dimension, they will suffer there.

They will be left in a very restless state. They will have no peace. And they will be sent back, but their lives will be very hard. And they will have to make up to those people that they hurt for the injustices that they did against them. They are halting these people's lives, and they have no right to do that. Only God can punish them, not us. They will be punished."

Note:

[[Brian Leslie Weiss is an American psychiatrist, hypnotherapist, and author who specializes in past life regression. His research includes reincarnation, past-life regression, future-life progression, and survival of the human soul after death]]

If this is true I cannot die again and again; rather I should live every moment with a smile;

People imagine that dreams create our future but everybody’s future is not out of dream but things decided by us to settle accounts and LEARN the 4 tenets given in the beginning of the essay.

Let us start learning the above with a big SMILE !

We will talk more on this subject which I LOVE !

धन्यवाद:

See you in the next episode

With lots of love

श्वस्ति , मङ्गलं भूयात्

राजगोपालः

rajagopal

19.09.2015

Sacrifice Part II

Embodiments of Love!

NOTE: 

One girl after reading part 1 on sacrifice (titled “Merciless Gods and Sacrifice” ;) wrote to me that she was disappointed with the quality of my article.

In that I wanted to scold the GODs and made use of that essay.

Here in this essay, my natural Love for Mothers has pervaded every word; 

Thanks my dear girl for being one of the guardians of my essay quality;

Hope you will dance after reading this article with lots of tears…...

You never live the same day twice;

So many people make every day count.

Here I go one step higher;

A girl, once married gives birth to a child;

The beauty is that though she never lives the same life twice, still she dies at every stage and survives to give shape to a body and a soul inside before and after birth.

A Sanskrit Subhashitani goes like this:

मात्रा समम् नास्ति शरीर पोषणम्

There is none equal to a mother to nourish the body.

I use to quote on every birthday wish to my friends that mother embodies sacrifice;

After conceiving she is restricted on food;

Restricted on travel;

Restricted on bathing;

Restricted on seeing;

Restricted on hearing;

Restricted on sleeping postures—turning left or right is not her free will;

She finds it difficult to go to the toilet;

She finds it difficult to move;

Then delivery happens;

Ordeals are not over;

Baby cries at night;

She has to wake up and feed even before the baby starts crying;

Baby wets the bed sheet; she has to make the baby dry and protect him from illness;

When the baby becomes sick, she take restricted food as she breast feeds the baby lest the baby becomes affected.

I do not want to turn anywhere to glorify mother

My SANKARA, is there to give me direction

He wrote Matru panchakam (मातृ पञ्चकम्) after the demise of his mother;

Though I have written an article earlier on मातृ पञ्चकम्, I love to quote again in a different context.

In the first verse, he recognizes the immense pains a mother experiences, during and immediately after the birth of a child!

आस्ते तावदिय प्रसूति समये दुर्वार-शूल-व्यथा
नेरुच्य तनुशोषण मलमयी शय्या च संवत्सरी
एकस्यापि न गर्भभार भरण क्लेशस्य यस्यक्षम:
दातु निष्कृति उन्नतोऽपि तनय: तस्यै जनन्यै नम: ॥

   The unbearable pain endured by her at the time of delivery, the lack-luster feeling and the emaciation of the body during pregnancy, the year-long sharing of the bed dirtied by the baby, none of these sufferings borne by the mother because of pregnancy can be compensated in the least by a son, however great he may be. Salutations to that mother.

Sankara, the Omniscient boy who had renounced everything and was a renowned सन्न्यासि, cries out aloud with the following verse, as he places a handful of dry rice into his dead mother's mouth, as per ritual custom.

मुक्तामणि त्वं नयनं ममेति
राजेति जीवेति चिरं सुत त्वं
इत्युक्तवत्या: तव वाचि मात:
ददाम्यहं तण्डुलमेव शुष्कम् ॥

I only give parched rice to your mouth, my mother, which spoke to me these words, "Oh my dear pearl, my eyes, my prince (king), my life, long live my son!"

When a saint who has renounced the world is vociferous in his love for mother, an ordinary mortal may not be able to compensate Her sacrifice even in my 200 births!

धन्यवाद:

See you in the next episode

With lots of love

श्वस्ति , मङ्गलं भूयात्

राजगोपालः

rajagopal

17.09.2015

Merciless Gods and Sacrifices

Embodiments of Love!

One person told me, “Enough of your physics, talk about Sacrifice”

I saw the meaning of Sacrifice in the dictionary

1.

a. The act of offering something to a deity in propitiation or homage, especially the ritual slaughter of an animal or a person.

b. A victim offered in this way.

2.

a. The act of giving up something highly valued for the sake of something else considered to have a greater value or claim:

b. Something given up in this way.

3.

a. Relinquishment of something at less than its presumed value.

Flashback:

In Tamilnadu there is a place called Madurai;

There is an IAS officer, straight forward and genuine which are rare in India;

In May 2012, Sagayam investigated reports of illegal granite quarrying in the vicinity of Madurai. These activities had been noted in 2008 by a Right to Information (RTA) activist. Pursuant to his complaint, the Madras High Court had ordered an inquiry in 2009, but nothing came of it until 2010, when Tamil-language daily newspaper Dina Bhoomi ran a series of articles, implicating among others Durai Dayanidhi, Alagiri's eldest son. This led to the arrest on specious charges of the RTA activist and the Dina Bhoomi editor. The issue was brought up in the 2011 elections, and pursued after the AIADMK government was formed.^[7]
Sagayam's May 2012 report accused several senior officials of collusion with illegal granite miners, and suggested that losses to the state from illegal mining amounted to at least Rs 16,000 crore(Rs 160 billion), and possibly twice that. Four days later, he was transferred from his position as district collector to a post as managing director of Co-optex, a handloom weavers' cooperative in Chennai.
Current Scene:
The driver of the quarry has given a complaint to Sagayam that mentally retarded people have been sacrificed in the quarry for prosperity; the driver has submitted that he brought mentally retarded orphans from elsewhere as instructed by the quarry owners and the quarry owners fed them very well; driver thought it was an act of benevolence; one day he saw 2 bodies in the truck with their throats cut  ( after sacrifice)

MY DOUBT:

What is this sacrifice called and what is the name of the God enjoying this nonsense?

Bonus offer:

I usually visit an old age home;
I can see parents of wealthy people;
Their sons and daughters are in USA, UK and Canada;
These children visit their parents once in 2-3 years;
What a great act of SACRIFICE by the children….

धन्यवाद:

See you in the next episode

With lots of love

श्वस्ति , मङ्गलं भूयात्

राजगोपालः

rajagopal

16.09.2015