Thoughts

Feel alive whenever u can. Experience life and imbibe the sorroundings. All the colors, smells and tastes.
How often we block out things and see only what we want from the boquet.....

Thorns are beautiful too...so are blank lines between beautiful verse.

Ratish

Poem - The mountain and me

When I look at the rays of light

Shing bright

From the snow clad peaks

Amid the pine trees

I think of nothing

And simply am

An observer

Do I feel any awe?

Don't think so.............

Me and that mountain

Are like twin spirits

Sharing this same space

Mountain and me

Do communicate silently

Without words.....

And understand

That we exist

To complement each others existace

May be ... May be not

© Ratish

Choice among equals

How hard do u think it would be to chose what you like? I think it is relatively simple to chose between any material stuff. You have your preferences,availability, price and thousand more criteria.

But what happens if u are dealing with people? How do u choose? Or do u choose at all? We r not perfect..... we all know this. And most of all people can learn and change..... This makes them different.

If people can bear with ur imperfections cant u overlook thiers. Why do we give stress on improving others over ouselves..........

Ratish

You are not your mind

How true,
We are not our mind - but this mind is a part of us. So can we blame it for anything at all?

Its like blaming the software when the user does not know how to utilize the features.Rather he is totally unaware that he is operating a sophisticated software.

How ever long u watch it - mind wont dissolve into thin air.Its not the devil we have to guard against, just a tool we got to learn to use.

Definitions can be many. Authous can choose a particular way to describe mind and its woking with relation to everything else out there. So all this string of beautiful prose is it really worth anything???

Its good to read and easier to forget......
Take care
Ratish

Latest retreat into nature made me wonder

Well,
A few days ago, I left my routine life and took a plunge into things I used to do a while back.It really felt great. As if I was walking on some half-forgotten bylane.

When u r in the grind, it becomes difficult to realize that u r in a grind. And a break reorients u. Especially if it leads u to trace path among natural sorroundings. There is nothing like it.The connection is always there but somehow we overlook it.

Sometimes, it becomes hard for us to imagine where a short drive can take us. Ha ha ha... the denizens of the digital world forget how it feels like to have a wind brush across ur face. Or how it feels to look at wild folwers, to hear the crickets make that noise and to smell the fragrance of the fresh air..........

The luxury of sitting on the bank of river with feet dipped in gushing water and the chill that mountain streams alone can provide. The vast sky and soft sunlignt on ur face....

Makes me wonder how long could I have sustained that life ...

Forever... Forever If I could ...

But then againg I am brainlicking back in the digital world :)

Take care
Ratish

Finnaly I have it

Hi all,
I welcome me to the world of blogging. This is just an experiment and i dont know where it will lead me.

Anyways, I know about blogs from periphery, havent read or created one before......

so - will learn, hopefully add some new dimension to myself

and Enjoy!!!

cheers
Ratish

Quest

The whole concept that there is something to be comprehended is a fallacy. This statement may not be true if u consider information about different stuff. But words like knowledge or wisdom do they have any validity? 

All you can gain with any effort is information. Your width and depth of information may be so vast that you may even begin to think that u possess knowledge. So what then is knowledge – this issue itself has been debated to death and all we have is conjectures. 

Probably the reason we believe that there is stuff to be known stems from the fact that after birth, everything we learn to survive on some level come from external impulses. We confuse the learning process, like learning to act or read or gaining information of the new things - by assuming we are gaining knowledge. 

Human beings think that they are superior to others; hence their life should have some special purpose. How much more absurd can we get? Why the humbling experiences in life are always thrown away in the dustbin. We try to negate all the information that does not fit with the way we think and only change our behavior when we cannot totally discard the facts. 

How does one get away from the things he thinks he knows?

How does one realize his limitations of thinking, even when his thinking has not got any clarity?

Is there anything known as an “improved thinking”, as one knows what one knows and all that one gains with time is merely information?

If I am not informed about a particular stuff does that mean that I have “wrong information”?

Should I be informed about everything around me?

What is the limit of things that I can be informed with that are relevant to me? 

Is the quest itself flawed? Does the answers to all these questions lie in dropping of the question itself rather than gaining of any more insight about the issue? And would it matter to anyone if we never thought about these issues????

© Ratish