Author of health

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease. ~ Buddha

Greater person

"When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all of your thoughts break their bonds, your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction and you find yourself in a new great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be." ~ Patanjali

Why do we lie?

We lie because it helps us to escape a
situation which may not be pleasant

The curse of lying is that
it develops in us the ‘attitude to escape’.
The blessing of honesty is that
it develops in us the ‘attitude to face’.

If you want to hit the top
you need the ‘attitude to face’
everything in life.

And, what will shape this attitude in you?
Honesty!

Excerpted from ‘Unposted Letter’ by T.T. Ranga Rajan

Idea

"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas." ~ Marie Curie

Solution

Even if we cannot be the solution,
let us at least be the solace.
Even if we cannot help, let us not harm.
Even if we cannot solve the problem,
let us not cause the problem.
Even if we cannot be the accelerant,
let us not be a retardant.

If you cannot be the pain balm
to the battered souls,
rather than being the cause of headache,
the world will come in search of you.

With compassion in words and actions,
help every man to find his solutions
and this world will belong to you.

Excerpted from ‘Unposted Letter’ by T.T. Ranga Rajan

That's life

Success is in the big things;
Happiness is in the small things;
Meditation is in nothing;
God is in everything.
That’s life.

Excerpted from ‘Unposted Letter’ by T.T. Ranga Rajan

Always alone

All relationships are only on the surface.
Deep inside you are always alone.

A thousand people may surround you;
yet a part of you is always alone.
Even when you embrace your beloved,
a part of you is always alone.

You came into this world alone
and you will leave this world alone.

Liberation comes from knowing
‘Existential Aloneness’
is your true nature.

Relate from this space
and you will be dependable;
else, you will be dependant.

Excerpted from ‘Unposted Letter’ by T.T. Ranga Rajan

Attitude in life

Two thoughts decide your attitude in life:
1) What you think of yourself when you have nothing; and
2) What you think of others when you have everything.

Painting your life

At birth, your life was a plain canvas.
Your potential is the colours.
Your choices are the strokes on the canvas.

At death, this canvas
will either be a treasured masterpiece
or an unnoticed scribbling.

That would be the judgment day
on how good a painter you were
in painting your life.

Excerpted from ‘Unposted Letter’ by T.T. Ranga Rajan

Prayer & meditation

In prayer
you talk to existence.
In meditation,
you listen to existence.

In prayer,
you listen to your own voice.
In meditation,
you listen to the beyond.

Prayer is
communication with existence.
Meditation is
a communion with existence.

Excerpted from 'Unposted Letter' by T.T. Ranga Rajan

Live fearlessly

To live is to live fearlessly

When you have nothing to hide,
you have nothing to avoid.

True freedom if found
only in transparent living.

The greatest compliment
One can give to oneself
Is to declare,
“I am an open book.”

Excerpted from 'Unposted Letter' by T.T. Ranga Rajan

Give with love

"Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected" ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Generosity

"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need."
Excerpted from 'Sand and Foam' by Kahlil Gibran

Wisdom listens

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens" ~ Jimi Hendrix

Involve me

“Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.”
Chinese Proverb

Environment, Trees & Us

Vaibhav's post Save Trees made me wonder on what the Save Tree Campaign is? Why the Save Tree Campaign is? and Why we want to save Trees? After a lot of pondering on the topic and then brain searching I established that it's the selfish nature we have that we want to Save trees. Certainly our selfishness. Then I got confused, where does selfishness come in as we have enough to survive through our life, its more of selflessness towards the coming generations.....

Though confused, but yes I am determined that we need to save trees, we need to save forests and we need to save the wild animals that have their habitat in the wild woods. You must be thinking WHY? Well lets go through the following points to answer this Why -

1. Trees and forests are the source of clean air and most important is they are the source of oxygen that we thrive on.
2. Trees are the source that help us conserve the fertile soil and the water
3. Trees are the source of Food (don't we all love fruits?)
4. Trees are the source of Fuel (Dry wood) (Fossil Fuel - Oil etc)
   
5. Trees make forests that are habitat of the wild animals and these wild animals over ages would turn to be the source of Fossil Fuel for future generations (as is at the rate we are using the current resources, we would drain out all the oil in say next 100 or 200 years)

So Trees are certainly a lot helpful through the lifecycle and even after their lifecycle is over. Paper certainly is one product that we use, but using it in conservative manner is the crux to participate in the drive to save Trees and thus cascading down the effect till wild life. However, just being conservative in using the Paper would not solve the problem, if we are really concerned, we need to join the wave to plant a tree for every tree cut. That is we need to ensure that we set a target to plant one tree for say 50 sheets of paper, every pile of wood that we burn, every pile of wood we use in our furniture etc.

Do you want to join me in this initiative? Do you want to create a wave?????

So do I hear a Yes from you all who read this?

Save trees

Define Human Being: A creature that cuts trees, makes papers and writes ‘Save Trees' on it. SAVE TREES!

The best music of life

“Love is the best music in the score of life. Without it , one would forever be out of tune in the immense choir of humanity." ~ Roque Schneider

Milky Way

If the Milky Way were not within me how should I have seen it or known it?
Excerpted from ‘Sand and Foam’ by Kahlil Gibran

Teacher

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
Excerpted from ‘Sand and Foam’ by Kahlil Gibran