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

Cause and effect

How long can the lava retain its heat after leaving the volcano?
If you remove sun from the sunrays,
there are no more sunrays.
If you remove gold from the necklace,
there is no more a necklace.
Where is the question of an effect without the cause?
If you remove cause from the effect, then nothing remains.

Excerpted from 'Frozen Thoughts' Vol. 10: Issue 8 (February, 2011)

Are we listening?

Whether it is teaching, learning, building relationship, or selling – a good listener will always have an edge over others. A good listener will not listen to the words, but he will also listen and understand the emotions behind those words. He will not only listen to what is being spoken, but he will also catch the unspoken messages, and that’s complete listening.
Excerpted from 'Frozen Thoughts' Vol. 10: Issue 7 (January, 2011)

Pride and arrogance

"It is those people who do not empty or share what they have that suffer from pride and arrogance."
Excerpted from 'Frozen Thoughts' Vol. 10: Issue 3 (September, 2010)

My love

“Love is love, only when, what yo do and what you do not do, does not alter my love for you."
Excerpted from 'Frozen Thoughts' Vol. 10: Issue 3 (September, 2010)

The message

"There are so many messengers carrying loads of messages everyday, which we fail to observe in our mundane life. The message is important and not the messenger."
Excerpted from 'Frozen Thoughts' Vol. 10: Issue 4 (October, 2010)

Forward thinking

"At the point of realisation, do not look into your past; but focus on your future.
Use knowledge, not to dissect your past; but to construct your future."
Excerpted from 'Frozen Thoughts' Vol. 10: Issue 4 (October, 2010)

With the flow

"When you go with the flow, you become one with existence and when existence is with you... everything is possible."
Excerpted from 'Frozen Thoughts' Vol. 10: Issue 3 (September, 2010)

Difference

“How the world sees you makes a small difference. How you see yourself makes all the difference.”
Excerpted from ‘Frozen Thoughts’ Vol. 10: Issue 3 (September, 2010)

Within

As in the within, so in the without! As your thoughts, as your feelings, so will be your world. What is the point in pointing figures outside and crying? It’s like cleaning the bottle from outside, while it is dirty inside. There is no outside world as such – it’s just the reflection of your inner world. Let the evil within disappear, and see how it evaporates, bit by bit, from the world outside too.
Excerpted from ‘Frozen Thoughts’ Vol. 10: Issue 2 (August, 2010)

Good to man

“If only we can be as good to man as we are to god, no prophet or messiah would ever be required to visit this planet.

In fact, prophets and messiahs became so because they were as good to man, as they were to god.”
Excerpted from ‘Frozen Thoughts’ Vol. 10: Issue 1 (June, 2010)

Giving and forgiving

Man keeps getting and forgetting and Nature, like the divine, keeps giving and forgiving. We have taken more from society that what we have given. To redeem ourselves from our karmic indebtedness, we should work to leave behind a peaceful world for posterity.
Excerpted from ‘Frozen Thoughts’ Vol. 10: Issue 1 (June, 2010)

There are no secrets

The secret is ‘There are no secrets’.
Eventually, everybody will know it.

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

Excerpted from ‘Frozen Thoughts’ Vol. 10: Issue 1 (June, 2010)

Karma

What happens to you is not in your control. Accept it. However, how you are going to respond to what is happening to you is absolutely in your control. Take responsibility for it. Your present is created by your past karma. How are you respond to your present will cause the Karma from which your future will come.
Excerpted from ‘Frozen Thoughts’ Vol. 9: Issue 11 (May 2010)

Suffering

Suffering is caused when you mind wants life to go in a particular direction, but your life goes in a different one altogether. You try to define life, but life defines all definitions that you confine it to. Suffering is caused when you resist ‘What Is’.
Excerpted from ‘Frozen Thoughts’ Vol. 9: Issue 11 (May 2010)

You got to believe

Life...

There is no saturation in life…
only saturated minds.
There is no stagnation in life…
only stagnant people.

Life is a mere open parenthesis…
fill as much as you want…
there is no close parenthesis.

There us as much room
as your heart can conceive…
as much room
as your mind can believe…
as much room
as your attitude towards life.

The only word that can befit life is ‘More’.
Excerpted from ‘Unposted Letter’ by T.T. Ranga Rajan

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

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