Trials and Tribulations by Fire

3rd Eye and many other consultants made me famous overnight. Believe me. Before I could blink my eye, I started getting calls, e-mails, and messages from people I had forgotten, existed. Suddenly, everybody wanted a piece of me. The poor unknown me. Hah! The lure of easy money (Looks like that to the outside world!) Am sure Hannah would agree with me. Anyway, I have been swamped with calls and messages from 'friends' and others, who never even bothered to greet me or chat with me. What prompted me to write this blog was an e-mail from a lady who had received a call from some consultant, and who wanted to verify the feasibility of quitting her current job and joining the Bank. She didnt even bother with polite talk, she immediately jumped to the matter. (I was so surprised to see her e-mail, I fell outta my chair!) She wanted to know if it were worth the effort to take time off and forward her CV to the consultant. I clicked the Delete button. I knew what will happen anyway. Our...

Yagnas are the ancient method of enriching the subtle. They also purify the individual and the collective consciousness.Yagna have three aspects: Deva Puja: Acknowledging and honoring the Divine in all the forms. Sangatikarana: Hastening the process of evolution by bringing together all the elements and people in creation. Dana: Sharing and giving what one has been blessed with.

Ganesha Chaturthi: I have had another belief since childhood. I never see the Moon on Ganesh Chaturthi day. My granny used to say, If I see the Moon on this day, I will have one full year of extreme bad luck. Well, for 2 years, I determinedly saw the Moon and fell into all sorts of trouble, had a disastrous life. Not to say that people who do not see the Moon had a fantabulous life that year, but every year, during this day, I make sure I do not see the Moon. Interestingly, the Moon, which plays hide and seek every other day appears in its full glory and seems very close to earth too! Lo! That's unfair, ain't it? I want to have a nice year, why should it be ruined by the mere sight of a stupid planet! Guess the intelligent God had some idea when he cursed Mr. Moon thus. ok. For the uninitiated, here goes the lore. On a Chaturthi day, our Ganesha was going from house to house eating all he could and stuffing himself with kozhakattais and sweets . As a result, his tummy grew b...

Today was OPE Day. I hate people, events, and things that make me feel less about myself. Like OPE. I hate it but it is a necessary evil. Can't be shrugged off. You have to endure it. Else it will make your life rough. I have known other OPEs, which were so drastic and bad that today seemed like a gentle breeze. The feeling of oppression was still there, but the degree was different. Now let me talk about people who make me feel less than I am. Well, is this sentence correct? Has it been structured correctly? I dunno. Maybe PST or JD can help me out with this. I am sure NRU can not even comprehend of these things. Well, I have certainly come a long way, now. I have a penchant to make big blunders in my life. I just did one. And this is an effort to erase something similar. I know I am a fool. But knowing this makes me wiser. I can make things better. OPE is a devil of the 28th. 29th is a new day. Let me sleep over it. Goodnite! People, today, If I hurt anybody, please forgive me. I...

Love is your nature. In the process of its expression, you often get caught up in the object. This is when your sight is caught outside. To return back to your nature, you need insight. Pain is the first insight: It takes you away from the object and turns you towards your body and mind. Energy is the second insight:A bolt of energy brings you back to your Self. Divine Love is the third insight:A glimpse of Divine love makes you so complete and overrules all the relative pleasures. Trance is the fourth insight:An elevation of consciousness and partial awareness of the physical reality around is Trance Non-dual existence, that all is made up of one and only one, is the fifth insight. When love glows, it is bliss, When it flows, it is compassion, When it blows, it is anger, When it ferments, it is jealously, When it is all Nos, it is hatred, When it acts, it is perfection, When love Knows, it is ME!

Today was a very strange day; August generally is, for me. The whole of the month gets on my nerves since I have remembered. Maybe it is simply a superstition. But August generally takes a toll. I get hurt unnecessarily during the month, get into unnecessary troubles, lose something, get stressed out, and find myself in a total soup! Well, i manage to get out of these somehow, but August tends to drain my emotional and mental energy a lot. August, the Eighth month of the Roman calendar. Named after Augustus Ceasar. I am a number 1. Yeah, would love to be that always, in everything, but as of now, my birth number is 1. Number 1 is always at loggerheads with numbers 8 and 4. Numbers 4 and 8 are known as fatalistic numbers for people born under number 1. have a strange love-hate relationship with people born under the numbers 4 and 8. I generally find out anybody's date of birth and try to steer clear if they are an 8! 4 seems easier on me, but 8 is dangerous. People with a birth num...

Picture this: A new swanky Maruti Swift, shining in the moonlight. Sounds good, aint it? Well yeah. It has been designed well too. Swift's core contains a 4 cylinder 16 valve DOHC arrangement with a 75bhp performance. The new Maruti Swift VDi has a Common Rail Multi Injection fuel system to boast of. I dont know what this was. Wiki came to my rescue, now I know something. Let me give you gyan. In older diesel engines, a distributor-type injection pump, regulated by the engine, supplies bursts of fuel to injectors which are simply nozzles through which the diesel is sprayed into the engine's combustion chamber. In common rail systems like the engine in Swift, the distributor injection pump is eliminated. Instead an extremely high pressure pump stores a reservoir of fuel at high pressure – up to 2,000 bar (200 MPa, 29,000 psi)[1] – in a "common rail", basically a tube which in turn branches off to computer-controlled injector valves, each of which contains a precision...

I came across this article on a website. I found it rather amusing, so I am reproducing it here. :) Read and enjoy. The biggest problem with us Indians; is our big mouths. We talk too much. But when it comes to action, we're too tired from all that talking to really do anything about anything. Or, we come up with the most ridiculous suggestions. Like the brilliant suggestion our ministry* of (god knows whose) welfare has come up with to solve the burgeoning population and HIV crisis (we are number two and three in the world respectively). Apparently, the best way to fight the problem is to introduce - hold your breaths people (ha, ha) - paan-flavoured condoms. (*While the government is not directly involved - the condoms are being launched by a private body - any such product release will require government approval) Apparently, it's a preference for paan that has led to conclusive conclusions that paan-flavoured condoms will work where other condoms have not. By that logic, a...

Nature has a way of remembering everything. Mother Nature as we call her. It is the power of nature that is considered very potent, and that is worshipped by people who believe in New age religions. Paganism, or being different is simply to understand the flowers, trees, humans, animals around you and responding to their stimuli. This is the basis for pagan worshippers and the establishment for pagan goddesses. Well, did you notice I said goddesses; there are no gods. Err. Yes, nature is female. Not male. So pagan worshippers are also worshippers of the female form. Something like the followers of the Virgin Mary . Now, this was a base for what I wanted to write. I came across something that was shocking for me. I chanced upon a website that led me to a Yahoo group which, well, was for Witches. The list owner was claiming to be a neo-pagan follower and a practising witch, somewhere in Mumbai. Well, tll date, I had seen women who advertised themselves as witches and psychics and said th...

Strange it seems isnt it, the title. Well, I am so shocked and tortured at reading an article about female genital mutilation, this was the first thing that crossed my mind. For the uninitiated, here is a link to the most gruesome practice in the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_circumcision For people who don't have the patience to go through the entire piece, here is a shorter version. Female genital mutilation or female genital circumcision (FGC), is practised in the African subcontinent and the Middle East, among the Christians and the Muslims. (Well, this is rare in Indian Muslims and Christians! I wonder why.) The one and only reason given for this barbaric practice is that, it enhances the sexual pleasure of the husband! (Guess men, seriously need to grow up.) Here are four important reasons that this practice is still carried out by Muslims and Christians (Arabs and African-origin): The custom involves the "rite of passage" of the young girl child from ...