Stepping Up

On the first day of the Shravan month, I passed by a Shiva temple nearby. So many devotees of lord Shiva were gathered around the temple, and so many vendors were selling ritual items. I thought they were earning much more than they would earn on normal days. On normal days, they might get plenty of time to count the currency and put it in their pockets. Today, the countless flow of money is coming, and they do not have time to count it.  Shiva is infinity and also zero; he has no beginning nor end.   Shakti is the energy between zero and infinity. Without Shakti, Shiva is not active, like dead, endless matter. Shiva, who contains endless energy (Shakti), forms the entire universe. Therefore, I am sorry if I contradict your belief that knowing yourself as the inner self only in the form of energy is partial awareness. Matter (Shiva) and Energy (Shakti) transform into each other and create life in the universe. Aatma (the pure form of energy, the way we imagine it) creates its ...

  I am fond of photography, I don't know if I am a good one or a bad one, but it gives me pleasure when I am clicking photos of nature . It allows me to stop time for myself while nature is moving around me. I am addicted to experiencing the feeling of being one of them. At last, life is all about experiencing and observing the life happening around you, and also the life that is happening to you. Through these experiences, we (as the soul in this body) get conditioned either towards the supreme or away from the supreme. Moreover, it is also important to ask oneself: "How do you perceive these experiences?" Even in the bad times of life, if experiences are perceived correctly, one may be able to move towards supreme consciousness. Nature helps! One fine day in the monsoon, I decided to go on a solo trip with my camera. I stopped near the "Narmada Canal" to click photographs of pigeons moving and flying around. While I was clicking the photographs of the flying p...

  The intuition of writing about this topic has been for the last few months now. At present, I am at my work desk at my home, and there's a money plant that is taking my attention, intuitively telling me to think about it. My mother told me last month, "Why aren't you planting other trees as you said last month?" We have moved to our new home. I have a dedicated study space on the first floor. Just in front of my table, there's a window. On the edge of the window, I have put a money plant about which I am talking now. I told my mother, "I don't know why I am not bringing another plant, but soon I will bring."  Intuitively, I brought this small plant, and I am taking care of it each day. Every day I water it. Last week, when I was away from home for work reasons, I told my wife Reena to not forget to water it. Now the question, "Why am I not bringing other plants?" Maybe because I am not sure if I will be able to take care of it. Maybe I am...

  It is human nature to never be satisfied with what you have. We start expecting more, more, and even more with life. When we don't get what we expected, we feel underwhelmed, dissatisfied with life, and vulnerable to someone else's actions. We start being obsessed with those things that are not ours, but we expect them to be ours. This obsession distracts you from your real potential. People start asking for it, but they forget to focus on "How to earn it?"  The View Mount Abu was wrapped in mist when we arrived. The hills looked soft, almost unreal, and Nakki Lake reflected the sky like a quiet mirror. It felt like a place where nothing had to be proven. We were enjoying the best time. But across the valley, perched high on a cliff, stood a glass-walled bungalow glowing in the morning light. My friend Ishaan noticed it immediately. “That,” he said, “is how life should be.” He didn’t say could be . He said should be . And that single word changed everything. When ...