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What are you most looking forward to this year?

Posted on Jan 1st, 2008 by owais : Be good, Do good owais
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for January 01, 2008:

If we all unite one in the name of crippling poverty, hatred, wars, cruelities on women : if we just realise feeling of oneness and connectedness : if we all just spread loves, peace and sending well-wishes n blessings to everybody we meet in our life : if we embrace and adknowledge every creature on Earth as one in every way just no kind of differentiation. remember we are all one, lets take oath to abide in oneness and spread tremendous loves and peace and wisdoms and lightness. lets revolutionize next enlightenment era in the form of oneness and connectedness.

To endeavour more to reach by every hearts of humans and could retained into their hearts, To serve kindness, loves, wisdoms, well-wishes as much as possible by me. To respect mom, nature's laws, women's ethics and integrating every different souls into love, peace, lights, wisdoms.

my biggest dream of 2008 is just my usual and perpetually strengthening dream which is To see this world without hatred, wars, poverties, respect of women, tyrannies and evils. May one day my this noble dream get accomplished by the graceness of my well-wishes n blessings to everybody i send n give whom i meet in my life.
                                                                                                 AMEN 
I am excited to be on zaadz, i am loving zaadz n in love with zaadz offcourse, this is wat i say.

 Thank you for reading my post and lots many loves n lightness n wisdoms to you.
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What amazes you?

Posted on Jan 2nd, 2008 by owais : Be good, Do good owais
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for January 02, 2008:

I am amaze people rape n murder n ruined one's life for their selfish motives, I am amaze still people differentiate on ground of caste, color, creed and religion. I am amaze how can one burn his own wife, i am amaze how can one kill his own love, i am amaze why people cannot speak truth, i am amaze why people quit their mom n dad.
I am amaze why some countries are so rich wasting n draining moneys in luxuries and some so poor that dwellers within such countries do not get foods to eat instead, i am amaze why people say you are muslim, hindu, christian, jew.
I amaze how beautiful n rich nature is, I am amaze why people go after those girls who do not know what is love but sex. 
I got startled once when i saw a child begging by a well-to-do man inspite helping spanked him and took his moneys out of him. I astonish when i saw a burned face of a woman on TV, which caused by spilling acids by his man - O MY GOD - this world is cruel. my amazement is very large but i just list few negative amazement.   

I got astonish when i saw so many beautiful n gorgeous beauties on zaadz, never saw so gorgeous n beautiful girls in life until zaadz. Thank you Zaadz. this is my latest amazement.

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Swami Sivanandajee - A great yogi, sage, hermit, vegetarianism, n

Posted on Jan 2nd, 2008 by owais : Be good, Do good owais

swami sivanandaji Maharaj


On Thursday, the 8th. of September, 1887, in the early hours of the morning, when the star Bharani was in the ascendant was born a boy-child in the village of Pattamadai on the bank of the river Tamraparani in South India. Sri P.S. Vengu Iyer, a revenue officer and a great Siva Bhakta (devotee of Lord Siva), and Srimati Parvati Ammal, an equally great god-fearing lady, were the fortunate parents of this child. The happy couple christened this last and third son of theirs Kuppuswamy.

Boy Kuppuswamy was intelligent and mischievous. In his boyhood itself he showed signs of Tyaga (renunciation) and love for fellow-beings. He used to pity the poor, feed the hungry at the door, and make his father throw a pie into the hands of pauper passing by. He often got cakes and sweetmeats from his mother and distributed them liberally to his younger companions, dogs, cats, crows, and sparrows, himself not eating a bit. He used to bring flowers and bael leaves for his father's Siva Puja.

At the Rajah's High School, Ettayapuram, where he studied, Kuppuswamy always topped the class and won prizes every year. He had a sweet voice and wonderful memory. When His Excellency Lord Ampthil, the Governor of Madras, visited the Kuru Malai Hills in 1901 for hunting, Kuppuswamy sang a song of welcome on the Kumarapuram railway platform. After the completion of the Matriculation examination, he studied at the S.P.G. College, Tiruchirapalli. In the college he used to take part in debates and dramas. He played the part of Helena beautifully when Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream" was staged in 1905.

After the completion of the First Arts Examination, Kuppuswamy went to the Medical School in Tanjore to study medicine. He used to be tremendously industrious and never went home during the holidays. He would spend the entire period in the hospital. He had free admission into the operation theater. Kuppuswamy was first in all subjects. He possessed more knowledge than doctors with covetable degrees, and in the first year itself he could answer the papers which the final year students could not.

Kuppuswamy completed the course and earned the title of M.B.,C.M. He practiced at Tiruchi. While practicing, he started a medical journal called "The Ambrosia". He got one hundred rupees from his mother for the initial expenses of running the journal. Later, when his mother wanted a hundred and fifty rupees for celebrating some festival, Dr. Kuppuswamy had the money ready for her. Even then he used to distribute the journal freely; he was very shy to ask people for contribution.

In spite of his busy life, Dr. Kuppuswamy served the Sadhus, Sannyasins, and beggars. He attended marriage functions, parties, and other social gatherings. Once a Sadhu gave him a book "Jiva Brahma Aikyam" by Sri Swami Satchidananda. It ignited the dormant spirituality in him. He began to study the books of Swami Rama Tirtha, Swami Vivekananda, Sankara, Imitation of Christ, the Bible, and literature of the Theosophical Society. He was very regular in his daily worship, prayer and Yoga Asanas. Study of sacred scriptures like the Gita, the Mahabharata, the Bhagavata, and the Ramayana was done with great devotion. Sometimes he conducted Nandan Charitam and sang Bhajans and Kirtans. He practiced Anahat Laya Yoga and Swara Sadhana.

High-class dress, and collection of curious and fancy articles of gold, silver, and sandalwood always attracted the doctor. Sometimes he purchased various kinds of gold rings and necklaces and wore them all at the same time. He used to wear ten rings on ten fingers! When he entered shops, he never wasted his time in selection, haggling, and bargaining. He gathered all that he saw. He paid the shopkeepers' bills without scrutiny.

Nothing could tempt the doctor. His heart was as pure as the Himalayan snow. His immense philanthropy and spirit of service and renunciation endeared him to all. People lovingly called him the "Heart of Love".

The rich doctor did not engage a cook permanently. He was his own cook though he had work that gave him no leisure. Occasionally he engaged a cook. One such cook of his one day wanted to have a photograph of himself taken. The doctor took him with great joy to a first class studio, made the cook put on his own suit, shoes, and hat and had a photo taken.

RENUNCIATION

As days passed, he reflected more and more and wanted to renounce the world. His heart was purified through loving service. At last, Dr. Kuppuswamy, enjoying a lucrative practice, renounced the world like Prince Siddartha, in 1923. He left Malaya for India.

At Madras he proceeded to the house of a friend and left his luggage there. He began his pilgrimage. At Benares, he had the Darshan (vision) of Lord Visvanath. He visited Mahatmas (great souls) and temples. At Dhalaj, a village on the bank of the Chandrabaga river, he met a postmaster and lived with him. He acted as the postmaster's cook, and when the latter arrived home in the evening, the doctor was ready to shampoo his legs in spite of his remonstrances! It was the postmaster who suggested Rishikesh when the aspiring doctor wanted a place for solitary meditation.

Dr. Kuppuswamy reached Rishikesh on the 8th of May, 1924. On the 1st of June, 1924, there came His Holiness Sri Swami Visvananda Saraswati. The doctor saw a Guru in the monk and the monk saw a Chela (disciple) in the doctor. After a brief exchange of words, Dr. Kuppuswamy was initiated into the Sannyas order by Swami Visvananda. Swami Vishnudevanandaji Maharaj, the Mahant of Sri Kailas Ashram, performed the Viraja Homa ceremonies. The Guru named the doctor Swami Sivananda Saraswati. Swami Visvananda wrote the necessary instructions about Sannyas Dharma from Benares. Swami Sivanandaji stayed at Swargashram for Sadhana
.

SADHANA

Swami Sivananda dressed to clothe himself, ate to live, and lived to serve humanity. A small dilapidated Kutir (hut), not resorted to by others and infested with scorpions, protected him from rain and sun. Living in that Kutir, he did intense Tapas (austerities), observed silence, and fasted. Often he fasted for days on end. He would keep a good stock of bread in his room, and for a week have this, together with Ganges water. He would stand up to the hips in the ice-cold Ganges in winter mornings and commence his Japa, coming out only when the sun appeared. He would spend more than twelve hours in daily meditation. With all his intense Tapas, Swamiji did not neglect service of the sick. He visited the huts of the Sadhus with medicines, served them, and shampooed their legs. He begged food on their behalf and fed them with his own hands when they fell sick. He brought water from the Ganges and washed their Kutirs. He attended upon cholera and small-pox cases. If necessary, he kept vigil through the night by the side of the bed of the ailing Sadhu. He carried sick persons on his back to the hospital. With some money from his insurance policy that had matured, Swamiji started a charitable dispensary at Lakshmanjula in 1927. He served the pilgrims and saw Narayana in them.

Swamiji practiced all the various Yogas and studied the scriptures. After years of intense and unbroken Sadhana, he enjoyed the bliss of Nirvikalpa Samadhi. He had come to the end of his spiritual journey.

He used to gather bits of paper and used envelopes, and stitch them into little notebooks. He entered some self-instructions in them. Some of the instructions found in them read thus: "Give up salt, give up sugar, give up spices, give up vegetables, give up chutnies, give up tamarind". In another we read: Serve Bhangis, serve rogues, serve inferiors, remove faecal matter, clean clothes of Sadhus - take delight, carry water". In another page: "Do not revenge, resist not evil, return good for evil, bear insult and injury". On some neat little pages we again read: "Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred. Cultivate Maitri (friendship), Karuna (compassion), Daya (mercy), Prema (love), Kshama (forgiveness)". In another paragraph we see: "Develop good manners, extreme politeness, courtesy, etiquette, good demeanour, nobility, gentleness, mildness. Never be rude, harsh, or cruel. There is nothing to be hated in the world. Hatred is ignorance. All contempt for anything or being must be removed through love and Vichara (enquiry)".

Swamiji traveled the whole length and breadth of India during his Parivrajaka (wandering monk) life. He visited important places of pilgrimage in the South, including Rameswaram. He conducted Sankirtan and delivered lectures. He visited Aurobindo Ashram and met Maharishi Suddhananda Bharati. At Ramana Ashram, he had Darshan of Sri Ramana Maharishi on the Maharishi's birthday. He sang Bhajans and danced in ecstasy with the Bhaktas of Ramana. Swamiji went on a trip to Kailas-Manasarovar and Badri.

 

He returned after the pilgrimage, to Rishikesh, and in the year 1936 sowed the seed of The Divine Life Society on the bank of the holy Ganga. He found an old Kutir, dilapidated and disused, which looked like an abandoned cowshed. To him it was more than a palace. It had four 'rooms'. He cleaned the Kutir, and occupied it. Then, the increasing number of disciples who sought his lotus-feet, undaunted by forbidding conditions of living, necessitated expansion. They found more cowsheds, vacant, but uninhabitably filthy. In one room, an old cowherd was living; the others were full of hay and dung. In about a year or so, the old cowherd also vacated his 'room', and the Divine Life army completed the occupation. Thus began the early life of The Divine Life Society.

From this small beginning the Society grew imperceptibly and it is now the headquarters of a world-wide Organization having a large number of Branches both within the country and outside. He got the Divine Life Society Registered as a Trust in the year 1936, with the main objects of dissemination of spiritual knowledge and selfless service of humanity. The free distribution of spiritual literature drew a steady flow of disciples of Sri Swamiji. With the getting of able hands, he started the various departments of the Society to provide suitable fields of activity for the purification of their hearts and to grow spiritually. The publication of the monthly journal, 'The Divine Life', was commenced in September 1938, to coincide with the celebration of his birthday. The world was in grip of the 2nd world-war and in order to release a continuous stream of peace-current in the whole world, to help the distressed minds of the people, he started the Akhanda Mahamantra Kirtan (non-stop chanting of the Mahamantra, Hare Rama Hare Rama; Rama Rama Hare Hare; Hare Krishna Hare Krishna; Krishna Krishna Hare Hare, round-the-clock) on the 3rd of December 1943, and also instituted the Lord Sri Visvanath Mandir with three-time regular worship, daily, on the 31st December 1943.

Swami Sivananda believed in synthesis in everything, in Yoga as well as in the alleviation of human suffering. The Allopathic treatment was inseparable from him and the Society, even from the earliest days of his life at Swargashram. He now felt the need to serve the people with genuine Ayurvedic preparations out of the rare Himalayan herbs. He therefore instituted the Sivananda Ayurvedic Pharmacy in 1945, which now has grown to such an extent that it is even unable to cope up with the increasing demands from people.

Swami Sivananda organized the All-world Religions Federation on the 28th December 1945 and established the All-world Sadhus Federation on 19th February 1947. The year 1947 saw a great expansion in the activities of the Society. It was the year of the Diamond Jubilee of the Great Soul, when a number of buildings sprang up. The Yoga-Vedanta Forest Academy was established in the year 1948 to give a systematic spiritual training to the resident Sadhaks, and also to benefit the visiting seekers.

Swami Sivananda undertook a lightning All-India and Ceylon (Sri Lanka) tour in 1950 to deliver his divine message throughout the length and breadth of the country. He virtually awakened the moral and spiritual consciousness in the hearts of the people. The effect was tremendous. Since then there was an incessant flow of seeking souls to the Ashram, as also a greater inflow of letters from aspirants from the entire country, which demanded more intense dissemination of knowledge. The Yoga-Vedanta Forest Academy Press was established in September 1951, a powerful means of wide dissemination of knowledge. Sri Swamiji convened the World Parliament of Religions in 1953, at the Sivanandashram.

The small dispensary that was inseparable from Swami Sivananda, grew slowly and became regular Hospital with X-Ray and other facilities. The Sivananda Eye Hospital was formally opened in December 1957. The Hospital has 10 beds for in-patients at present and is being expanded to have 30 beds.

The Publication League had published almost all the writings of the Master and a need was felt by his disciples to do research in his works. This gave rise to the establishment of the Sivananda Literature Research Institute in 1958, which, among many things, decided to get the works of the Master translated and published systematically in all the regional languages in India. Thus the S.L.D. Committees was established in 1959 which has Regional Committees for each language.

The Society's Silver Jubilee was celebrated in 1961, by which time the Master saw the fulfillment of his mission in his own lifetime.

Swami Sivananda radiated his divine and lofty message of service, meditation and God-realization to all parts of the world through his books, running to more than three hundred, through periodicals and letters. His devoted disciples are drawn from all religions, cults and creeds in the world.

Swami Sivananda's Yoga, which he has significantly called the 'Yoga of Synthesis', effects a harmonious development of the 'hand', 'head' and 'heart' through the practice of Karma Yoga, Jnana Yoga and Bhakti Yoga.

On the 14th of July 1963, the Great Soul Swami Sivananda entered Mahasamadhi (departure of a Self-realized saint from his mortal coil) in his Kutir on the bank of Ganga, in Shivanandanagar.


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Yoga sutra of Maharishi Patanjali - Founder of Yoga

Posted on Jan 2nd, 2008 by owais : Be good, Do good owais

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Yoga as a system of thought and practice has a primary reference to the philosophical system that flows from the teachings of the ancient Indian Yoga philosopher, Patanjali. Maharishi Patanjali  is believed to have compiled his Yoga Sutra around the 3rd or 4th century BC but archeological evidences and the study of ancient scriptures suggest that yoga was practiced in ancient India as early as 3000 BC.

In spite of the Yoga Sutra being by far the most definitive text on the philosophy of classical yoga, very little is known about Patanjali himself. In fact, the identity of this sage scholar is still being debated in academic circles. All that one might say about him is that he was a great philosopher and grammarian. Some also believe him to have been a physician and attribute a certain medical work to him. But even if such a medical treatise did exist, it has been lost to us through the passage of time. Scholars tentatively put his time somewhere around three centuries before Christ and though the date of the Yoga Sutra's composition is also a controversial issue, place it within that broad time frame.

Patanjali's Yoga Sutra, which outlines the sovereign path of Raja Yoga, is composed of a total of 195 sutras or aphorisms. These sutras are structured around four padas or chapters:


Sadhana Pada,
Vibhuti Pada and
Kaivalya Pada.

Unlike Western theoretical texts, which are often self-explanatory, Indian classical texts are mostly composed in the form of extremely terse and self-contained aphorisms or sutras. Sutras literally mean 'threads'-the idea being that each individual blossoms of thought are bound together to form the eventual wreath of a complex philosophy. Such pithy aphorisms, by their very nature invite a host of commentaries and annotations for their appropriate comprehension by the average learner-and that has been the tradition of ancient Indian scholasticism.

In this case, the six basic commentaries on the Yoga Sutra are:


Yoga Bhashya by Vyasa,
Tattva-Vaisharadi by Vachaspati Mishra,
Yoga-Varttika by Vijnana Bhikshu,
Raja-Martanda by Bhojaraja,
Bhasvati by Hariharananda Aranya and
Patanjala-Rahasya by Raghavananda Saraswati.

Beside these, there exist a number of tikas or expositions on this exemplary text.  
 

Ishvara is the supreme Purusha, unaffected by any afflictions, actions, fruits of actions or by any inner impressions of desires.

In Him is the complete manifestation of the seed of omniscience.

Unconditioned by time, He is the teacher of even the most ancient teachers.

The word expressive of Isvara is the mystic sound OM.
-Samadhi Pada: Sutras 24-27.

The first chapter, which is composed of 51 sutras, contemplates on the absolute true consciousness or Isvara and delineates the problems an individual soul is likely to face in its quest to merge with this Divine Soul.

It begins with an understanding of human thought processes or vrittis, which deter us from realizing our true selves. The Samadhi Pada advises the restraint of such natural workings of the mind and discusses the problems encountered while trying to harness it. Then begins an elucidation of Isvara, the supreme consciousness and the various gradations of samadhis (a self-absorbed, detached state of being) one could enter into for attaining that highest level of spiritual awareness. Here again, the possible mental distractions are clearly stated and the best methods of conquering these impediments are also discussed.

By cultivating attitudes of:


Friendliness toward the happy,
Compassion for the unhappy,
Delight in the virtuous and
Disregard toward the wicked
the mind retains its undisturbed calmness.

Or that calm is retained by the controlled exhalation or retention of the breath.

Or the concentration on subtle sense perception can cause steadiness of mind.

Or by concentrating on the supreme, ever blissful Light within....

Gradually, one's mastery in concentration extends from the primal atom to the greatest magnitude.

Just as the naturally pure crystal assumes shapes and colors of objects placed near it, so the Yogi's mind, with its totally weakened modifications, becomes clear and balanced and attains the state devoid of differentiation between knower, knowable and knowledge. This culmination of meditation is samadhi.

-Samadhi Pada: Sutras 33-41.

In the end, the yogi gains ritambhara prajna, which is true wisdom, whose means of knowledge are unlike any other-drawn solely from the awareness of the absolute. At this stage, the yogi becomes totally detached from all the four spheres of gross materiality (annamaya kosha), physicality (pranamaya kosha), psychology (manomaya kosha) and intellect (vijnanamaya kosha). His consciousness merely remains attached with the purely spiritual sphere of the anandamaya kosha. This is the state, which is defined as nirbija samadhi, when all seeds of earthly impressions are erased from the yogi's consciousness.

The karmas bear fruits of pleasure and pain caused by merit and demerit.
-Sadhana Pada: Sutra 14.

By the practice of the eight limbs of Yoga, the impurities dwindle away and there dawns the light of wisdom, leading to discriminative discernment.
-Sadhana Pada: Sutra 28.

After chapter one describes the different kinds of thought forms, practices to control them and the different kinds of samadhis culminating in the highest experience of nirbija samadhi, the second chapter follows it up with practical ways of attaining that state.

In 55 sutras, the Sadhana Pada establishes the aim of yoga as being the control of the chitta vrittis (thought processes) to attain the highest union or 'yoga'. It prescribes the practice of Karma and Ashtanga Yoga as a means of achieving this union. This Pada identifies ignorance (avidya) and other obstacles to meditation as a major cause of our inability to naturally merge with the Absolute, and to this end it advices the eradication of all such kleshas by practicing the eight limbs of yoga and benefiting from their advantages.

It might be relevant here to mention the fact that Indian philosophy involves more of perception and understanding as opposed to the Western 'love of knowledge' (philosophy). The Sanskrit word for philosophy, 'darshan' literally means 'to see' or 'to perceive'. In such a case, the philosopher takes on the role of a 'spectator' and having perceived the patterns of the 'spectacle' before him, prepares to merge with it and obliterates the subject/object dichotomy between the 'perceiver' and the 'perception'. And it is practices such as Kriya Yoga and Ashtanga Yoga, which forces the yogi or seeker into action. Thus, far from being a passive 'spectator', the true philosopher and yogi actually gains mastery over the Divine Spectacle, which is our entire existence! 

The practice of these three (dharana, dhyana, and samadhi) upon one object is called samyama.

By the mastery of samyama comes the light of knowledge.
Its practice is to be accomplished in stages.

-Vibhuti Pada: Sutras 5-7.

The 56 sutras of the third chapter focus on the achieved union and its result. The term 'vibhuti' denotes manifestation or residue and this Pada delineates all the accomplishments, which come as the result of regular yoga practices. They are also sometimes called the siddhis, or powers, which have become matured with practice. The practices, which have been stressed in the Vibhuti Pada are the final three limbs of Ashtanga Yoga: dharana (concentration), dhyana (meditation), and samadhi (contemplation), the amalgamated practice of which is known as samyama.

This chapter deals with the subtle states of awareness and advanced techniques of practicing samyama. The various kinds of knowledge or siddhis that might be obtained by practicing this yogic technique are also described. The Pada brings home the fact that knowledge is power and states the techniques of utilizing such potency for the best possible results.

The discriminative knowledge that simultaneously comprehends all objects in all conditions is the intuitive knowledge, which brings liberation.

When the tranquil mind attains purity equal to that of the Self, there is Absoluteness.

-Vibhuti Pada: Sutras 56-57.
 


Only the minds born of meditation are free from karmic impressions.
-Kaivalya Pada: Sutra 7.

Since the desire to live is eternal, impressions are also beginningless.
The impressions being held together by cause, effect, basis and support, they disappear with the disappearance of these four.
-Kaivalya Pada: Sutra 11-12.

Kaivalya, which is the ultimate goal of yoga, means solitariness or detachment. The 34 sutras of the fourth chapter deals with impressions left by our endless cycles of birth and the rationale behind the necessity of erasing such impressions.

It portrays the yogi, who has attained kaivalya, as an entity who has gained independence from all bondages and achieved the absolute true consciousness or ritambhara prajna described in the Samadhi Pada.

...Or, to look from another angle, the power of pure consciousness settles in its own pure nature.
-Kaivalya Pada: Sutra 35.


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What is kundalini yoga ?

Posted on Jan 3rd, 2008 by owais : Be good, Do good owais
Kundali  is the potential form of prana or life force, lying dormant in our bodies. It is conceptualized as a coiled up serpent (literally, 'kundalini' in Sanskrit is 'coiled up') lying at the base of our spine, which can spring awake when activated by spiritual disciplines. The practitioners of Kundalini Yoga concentrate on psychic centers or chakras in the body in order to generate a spiritual power, which is known as kundalini energy.

The practice comprises of awakening and then forcing this energy, flowing through nadis or channels, up the psychic channel of the sushumna, which runs from the base of the spine to the brain. The three main channels running alongside the spinal cord are ida, pingala and the sushumna. When this kundalini energy, pictured as the serpent residing in the first chakra at the root of the spine (muladhar chakra), is raised up through the rest of the chakras until it reaches the seventh and the highest chakra (sahasrara) located at the crown of the head-self-realization occurs. This induces the blissful state of samadhi. The school of Sahaja Yoga is very similar to the Kundalini school.
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What does it take for someone to earn your trust?

Posted on Jan 3rd, 2008 by owais : Be good, Do good owais
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for January 03, 2008:

I am very sociable boy, To establish oneness and connectedness is Enlightenment according to my view. I commune briskly, earnestly and merrily with people nothing needed to earn my trust but your love, recognition and participation.
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Auroville belongs to no prince, to no god.No one owns it, place

Posted on Jan 3rd, 2008 by owais : Be good, Do good owais

Here is the place which belongs to no prince or nations 
None owns it. 
a place for all of us,
The world will find joy and beatitude in it.
Here the heart will be contented & happy.
Will Amarna ever rise from the darkness again ? 

It is February 23, 2006, and I am once again in Auroville. It is my sixth visit since discovery of this incredibly wonderful community whose motive is nobler, grandeaur and commendable. I know many a number of exquisite, quiescent and beautiful places in India with better amenities and comforts.  So what is it that draws me back here again and again since my first visit , which happened by fortunate chance, past 2 years ago. The curiosity to know more, maybe the need to be a part and work for this noblest community. however instead of my having informed to owner of New Creation Corner guest house - Andre babu, ( a french run this guest house to earn his livelihood who settled in auroville by marrying an indian girl past 30 years back ). there is no accommodation available in Auroville said he humbly, and I am forced to stay in a hut of a dweller in village named kuilapalayam within Auroville. This is the tourist season, and Auroville is bursting lavishly.
What is Auroville?

HISTORY
 
It all began on February 28, 1968, during the inauguration ceremony when a crowd of about 5,000, including young people representing 121 countries and 23 Indian states, gathered at the amphitheater near the center of Auroville. and below speech summed up which Mother delivered - " Auroville belongs to nobody in particular. Auroville belongs to humanity as a whole. But to live in Auroville one must be a willing servitor of the divine consciousness ".

Auroville will be the place of an unending education, of constant progress, and a youth that never ages. Auroville wants to be the bridge between the past and the future. Taking advantage of all discoveries from without and from within, Auroville will boldly spring towards future realizations. Auroville will be a site of material and spiritual researches for a living embodiment of an actual human unity. a place where one will be able to think only of progressing and transcending oneself. a place where one will be able to live in peace without conflicts and without rivalries of nations, religions and ambitions. At last a place where nothing will have the right to impose itself as the exclusive truth.


the underlined written materials above has been known to me from Auroville visitor's centre and library ).

Try to imagine a community of 1500 people (300 of them children) spread over 20 square kilometers of land over which they have no ownership rights. Yet this community provides itself housing, public services including post office, bank , telephone, water, electricity, roads and transportation, medical facilities including a health center and an assortment of alternative healing systems, creches, schools up to the final grade, playgrounds and a food distribution system.

It has wide facilities like an auditorium, greenwork resource center, and scientific research, educational and cultural research institutions. Further, imagine 40 cottage industries, three restaurants, 35 guesthouses, farms and nurseries within this community. It has artists who hold concerts, exhibitions and theatrical performances, and photographers, poets and writers. It has a monthly newsletter (Auroville Today), a quarterly newsletter in French (Regards sur Auroville). And a weekly paper (AV News). Imagine such a place with administration, financial visitors and newcomer services to ensure a smooth functioning of the community. Imagine a high density of computers ( you will even find one in a keet hut ), its own internal e-mail network (auronet ) and an Internet web site.

Imagine such a place being run without a hierarchical order, by an assembly comprising every adult resident. Imagine this motley assembly of 900-odd members from over 30 different nationalities, languages and cultures, who sometimes do not even understand one another. " The philosophy of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo, and consequently the birth of Auroville, is based on the belief that Humanity is not the last rung of the terrestrial creation. Evolution continues and man will be surpassed. It is for each individual to know whether he wants to participate in the advent of the new species. For those who are satisfied with the world as it is, Auroville obviously has no reason to exist."


And there are those 70 per cent Aurovilians, who are non-Indians and came leaving behind their families, their countries, their jobs, their social security and much else, driven by nothing more than the belief that if there is indeed a purpose to life, it is the purpose of Auroville. And there are those whose parents were already involved with the work of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo before relocating in Auroville or were born here -100 percent Aurovilian in every sense. Many of them knew little about Sri Aurobindo's philosophy or the purpose of Auroville when they first came here.
What is this Matrimandir ? Please, not another religion. The Mother herself had this to say about religion in Auroville , " We want the truth. For most men, it is what they want that they label as truth. The Aurovilians must want the truth whatever it may be. Auroville is for those who want the truth whatever it may be. Auroville is for those who want to live a life essentially divine but who renounce all religions whether they are ancient, modern, new or future. It is only in experience that there can be knowledge of the truth. No one ought to speak of the divine unless he has had experience of the divine. Get experience of the divine, then alone you have the right to speak of it ".

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Are you a creature of habit?

Posted on Jan 4th, 2008 by owais : Be good, Do good owais
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for January 04, 2008:

Yes life has to be live by disciplines. One can enjoy his life by cultivating self-control, moderation, self-knowledge, sacrifices which is just form of self-discipline. I am trying my best to cling with disciplines.

I think Yoga is the ancient wisdom rituals which would take one to commune with Universe and putting you into ecstasy and bliss through rapture moments while practicing Yoga. Yoga is the way of living life with complete discipline and sacrifices and i think lead perfection of one's soul.
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What little things make you happy?

Posted on Jan 5th, 2008 by owais : Be good, Do good owais
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for January 05, 2008:

Socialising, adventurous hiking and jiffy moments with group of friends amuses me a lot, Playing with kids is enjoyed by me more, When mom prepared loved dishes by me made me happy, When I get recognition, embracement, respect, acknowledgement, loves thrill my soul with waves of happiness, Jogging during morning, Enchanting, elegant, splendid parts of Nature pleased and led me into mirthful moments. 
Surfing on Zaadz is also best liked by me because of discovery of great and refined people moreover from different countries of which visiting can be my dream only, In other word making friends a lot and lot is my hobby and to respect them, sending wishes and sharing knowledge, learnings and culture is my duty.

jolly, compassionate, kind, gregarious, modest, sober and cheering people made me delightful and gleeful, I love to read about great men who changed our world i.e newton,einstein,orville and wilbur wright, mahatma gandhi, st. augustine, johannes gutenberg, maharishi patanjali and so on.
 
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Life and Teachings of Buddha.

Posted on Jan 5th, 2008 by owais : Be good, Do good owais

 

statue of Buddha in a temple of Vietnam


Buddha's father was Suddhodana, king of the Sakhyas. Buddha's mother was named Maya. Buddha was born in B.C. 560 and died at the age of eighty in B.C. 480. The place of his birth was a grove known as Lumbini, near the city of Kapilavastu, at the foot of Mount Palpa in the Himalayan ranges in North-eastern Indian provinces . This small city Kapilavastu stood on the bank of the little river Rohini, some hundred miles north-east of the city of Varanasi. As the time drew nigh for Buddha to enter the world, the gods themselves prepared the way before him with celestial portents and signs. Flowers bloomed and gentle rains fell, although out of season; heavenly music was heard, delicious scents filled the air. The body of the child bore at birth the thirty-two auspicious marks (Mahavyanjana) which indicated his future greatness, besides secondary marks (Anuvyanjana) in large numbers. Maya died seven days after her son's birth. The child was brought up by Maya's sister Mahaprajapati, who became its foster-mother.
 
RENUNCIATION

Buddha's original name was Siddhartha. It meant one who had accomplished his aim. Gautama was Siddhartha's family name. Siddhartha was known all over the world as Buddha, the Enlightened. He was also known by the name of Sakhya Muni, which meant an ascetic of the Sakhya tribe.

Siddhartha spent his boyhood at Kapilavastu and its vicinity. He was married at the age of sixteen. His wife's name was Yasodhara. Siddhartha had a son named Rahula. At the age of twenty-nine, Siddhartha Gautama suddenly abandoned his home to devote himself entirely to spiritual pursuits and Yogic practices. A mere accident turned him to the path of renunciation. One day he managed, somehow or the other, to get out of the walled enclosure of the palace and roamed about in the town along with his servant Channa to see how the people were getting on. The sight of a decrepit old man, a sick man, a corpse and a monk finally induced Siddhartha to renounce the world. He felt that he also would become a prey to old age, disease and death. Also, he noticed the serenity and the dynamic personality of the monk. Let me go beyond the miseries of this Samsara (worldly life) by renouncing this world of miseries and sorrows. This mundane life, with all its luxuries and comforts, is absolutely worthless. I also am subject to decay and am not free from the effect of old age. Worldly happiness is transitory".

Gautama left for ever his home, wealth, dominion, power, father, wife and the only child. He shaved his head and put on yellow robes. He marched towards Rajgriha, the capital of the kingdom of Magadha. There were many caves in the neighbouring hills. Many hermits lived in those caves. Siddhartha took Alamo Kalamo, a hermit, as his first teacher. He was not satisfied with his instructions. He left him and sought the help of another recluse named Uddako Ramputto for spiritual instructions. At last he determined to undertake Yogic practices. He practiced severe Tapas (austerities) and Pranayama (practice of breath control) for six years. He determined to attain the supreme peace by practicing self-mortification. He abstained almost entirely from taking food. He did not find much progress by adopting this method. He was reduced to a skeleton. He became exceedingly weak.

At that moment, some dancing girls were passing that way singing joyfully as they played on their guitar. Buddha heard their song and found real help in it. The song the girls sang had no real deep meaning for them, but for Buddha it was a message full of profound spiritual significance. It was a spiritual pick-me-up to take him out of his despair and infuse power, strength and courage. The song was:

"Fair goes the dancing when the Sitar is tuned,
Tune us the Sitar neither low nor high,
And we will dance away the hearts of men.
The string overstretched breaks, the music dies,
The string overslack is dumb and the music dies,
Tune us the Sitar neither low nor high."

Buddha realized then that he should not go to extremes in torturing the body by starvation and that he should adopt the golden mean or the happy medium or the middle path by avoiding extremes. Then he began to eat food in moderation. He gave up the earlier extreme practices and took to the middle path.

ENLIGHTENMENT

Once Buddha was in a dejected mood as he did not succeed in his Yogic practices. He knew not where to go and what to do. A village girl noticed his sorrowful face. She approached him and said to him in a polite manner: "Revered sir, may I bring some food for you ? It seems you are very hungry". Gautama looked at her and said, "What is your name, my dear sister ?". The maiden answered, "Venerable sir, my name is Sujata". Gautama said, "Sujata, I am very hungry. Can you really appease my hunger ?"

The innocent Sujata did not understand Gautama. Gautama was spiritually hungry. He was thirsting to attain supreme peace and Self-realization. He wanted spiritual food. Sujata placed some food before Gautama and entreated him to take it. Gautama smiled and said, "Beloved Sujata, I am highly pleased with your kind and benevolent nature. Can this food appease my hunger ?". Sujata replied, "Yes sir, it will appease your hunger. Kindly take it now". Gautama began to eat the food underneath the shadow of a large tree, thenceforth to be called as the great 'Bo-tree' or the tree of wisdom. Gautama sat in a meditative mood underneath the tree from early morning to sunset, with a fiery determination and an iron resolve: "Let me die. Let my body perish. Let my flesh dry up. I will not get up from this seat till I get full illumination". He plunged himself into deep meditation. At night he entered into deep Samadhi (superconscious state) underneath that sacred Pipal tree ( banyan tree ). He was tempted by Maya in a variety of ways, but he stood adamant. He did not yield to Maya's allurements and temptations. He came out victorious with full illumination. He attained Nirvana (liberation). His face shone with divine splendour and effulgence. He got up from his seat and danced in divine ecstasy for seven consecutive days and nights around the sacred Bo-tree. Then he came to the normal plane of consciousness. His heart was filled with profound mercy and compassion. He wanted to share what he had with humanity. He traveled all over India and preached his doctrine and gospel. He became a saviour, deliverer and redeemer.
 

Buddha gave out the experiences of his Samadhi: "I thus behold my mind released from the defilement of earthly existence, released from the defilement of sensual pleasures, released from the defilement of heresy, released from the defilement of ignorance."

In the emancipated state arose the knowledge: "I am emancipated, rebirth is extinct, the religious walk is accomplished, what had to be done is done, and there is no need for the present existence. I have overcome all foes; I am all-wise; I am free from stains in every way; I have left everything and have obtained emancipation by the destruction of desire. Myself having gained knowledge, whom should I call my Master ? I have no teacher; no one is equal to me. I am the holy one in this world; I am the highest teacher. I alone am the absolute omniscient one (Sambuddho). I have gained coolness by the extinction of all passion and have obtained Nirvana. To found the kingdom of law (Dharmo) I go to the city of Varnasi. I will beat the drum of immortality in the darkness of this world".

Lord Buddha then walked on to Varnasi. He entered the 'deer-park' one evening. He gave his discourse there and preached his doctrine. He preached to all without exception, men and women, the high and the low, the ignorant and the learned - all alike. All his first disciples were laymen and two of the very first were women. The first convert was a rich young man named Yasa. The next were Yasa's father, mother and wife. Those were his lay disciples.
 

Buddha argued and debated with his old disciples who had deserted him when he was in the Uruvila forest. He brought them round by his powerful arguments and persuasive powers. Kondanno, an aged hermit, was converted first. The others also soon accepted the doctrine of Lord Buddha. Buddha made sixty disciples and sent them in different directions to preach his doctrine.

Buddha told his disciples not to enquire into the origin of the world, into the existence and nature of God. He said to them that such investigations were practically useless and likely to distract their minds.

BUDDHA'S TEACHINGS

Lord Buddha preached: "We will have to find out the cause of sorrow and the way to escape from it. The desire for sensual enjoyment and clinging to earthly life is the cause of sorrow. If we can eradicate desire, all sorrows and pains will come to an end. We will enjoy Nirvana or eternal peace. Those who follow the Noble Eightfold Path strictly, viz., right opinion, right resolve, right speech, right conduct, right employment, right exertion, right thought and right self-concentration will be free from sorrow. This indeed, O mendicants, is that middle course which the Tathagata has thoroughly comprehended, which produces insight, which produces knowledge, which leads to calmness or serenity, to supernatural knowledge, to perfect Buddhahood, to Nirvana.

"This again, indeed, O mendicants, is the noble truth of suffering. Birth is painful, old age is painful, sickness is painful, association with unloved objects is painful, separation from loved objects is painful, the desire which one does not obtain, this is too painful - in short, the five elements of attachment to existence are painful. The five elements of attachment to earthly existence are form, sensation, perception, components and consciousness.
 

"This again, indeed, O mendicants, is the truth of the cause of suffering. It is that thirst which leads to renewed existence, connected with joy and passion, finding joy here and there, namely, thirst for sensual pleasure, and the instinctive thirst for existence. This again, indeed, O mendicants, is the noble truth of cessation of suffering, which is the cessation and total absence of desire for that very thirst, its abandonment, surrender, release from it and non-attachment to it. This again, indeed, O mendicants, is the noble truth of the course which leads to the cessation of suffering. This is verily the Noble Eightfold Path, viz., right opinion, etc."


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What's your favorite way to meet people?

Posted on Jan 6th, 2008 by owais : Be good, Do good owais
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for January 06, 2008:

I think to establish or relate connectedness and oneness with others is a form of spiritualism. I do not have any favourite and nothing favour me in meeting people. Exposing yourself briskly with societies, sending well-wishes and good thoughts to people whom you meet or commune and one's frankness, openness, being honest is a much form of love, peace, mirth, acknowledgement, integration enjoyed by him.
I am quite sociable and amiable kind of boy which helps me to get along with people easily.  I am very friendly, open and loving to people, have tremendous friends whom never met in person or seen but still my attitude to them is as if they are my close associate this is just because of my possibility of finding oneness and connectedness with them and i think it is integral part of life.
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How do you define integrity?

Posted on Jan 7th, 2008 by owais : Be good, Do good owais
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for January 07, 2008:

pavitra (pure) karna (elements)


for example, I would say meditation - when one is in the process of integration while in dhyana( meditation ) believe me he/she feels as if flying all over the world, ecstasy raptures, tremendous energies bursting out as if sun is beneath him - this is truth my friends, see this is the power of integrity.
when we meditate we just try to focus on one positive element either of nature or god idols, now so many repulsive, negative forces tries to deflect our meditativeness and avoid continous flow of energies between us and that element inorder to avoid our ascending integration to that pure element, however who is consistent, self-control, sacrifice, modest whose thoughts are pure and clean like holy river ganges get success. when he get integrity with this element he feels tremendous powers, usher powers of subconscious mind, frees himself/herself from material world, nothing coul rule over him/her other than ownself, he/she commune with the universe and every genuine and pure processes on planet.

Integrity is love because we integrate souls which give us feeling of oneness, when one feel or observe this, he/she get tremendous amount of powers like power of love, power of fondness, power of recognition, inspirational powers, constructive emotional powers and so many others which i do not know.
Cannot you observe when newly couple fall in love, how much powers they ride with to explore beyond them, naturally they are provoked because this is the power of integration. in other word, integration of two souls.

One can be limitless happy, possess limitless peace and unending loves if he / she just try to ingrate every processes within itself and feel connectedness and oneness with each and every processes in the universe - this is genuinely my thoughts exclusively developed by own horizon. Thank You so much for reading it.
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During Kumbha, bathing into ganges one achieve liberation from th

Posted on Jan 7th, 2008 by owais : Be good, Do good owais

It is said that by attending a Kumbha Mela and bathing in the rivers one achieves liberation from the cycle of repeated birth and death. That is one of the main reasons why so many have come. The whole world is a temporary place. That is a lesson that the Kumbha Mela teaches in more ways than one. Sure, it's a lesson that all gurus, sadhus and ascetics teach, but as the night descends, you realize it again when, looking out over the Kumbha Mela area, you know that in another month all that you see will be gone. Everything will be disassembled and taken down, and all that will remain is nothing but the sand and wind. Our experience and what we have learned is all that remains. It is all that we take with us.

All night long on the morning of Amavasya, the new moon day, thousands of pilgrims were taking their holy dip in the sangam area, where the sacred rivers of the Ganges, Yamuna and Sarasvati meet. Astrologically, this is considered the best time for bathing in the rivers, when the nectar of immortality manifests. It had been a cold and windy night. The rising sun gave some relief from the cold when it came up, and the light gave us the means to better see and photograph the numbers of people that were there. Now that the sun was up, many more thousands of people came from the camps, crossing the pontoon bridges, to join the millions of others at the rivers to bathe. 

Sadhu performing rituals on the bank of ganges


we can see this sadhu doing his morning devotions. For him, to do his early meditations and readings here at the Triveni on Amavasya day is no doubt of great significance. This happens only once every twelve years, and this Kumbha Mela festival was considered the Maha Kumbha Mela, which happens only once in every 144 years. Plus, this was the first festival of the millennium making this a truly rare event.

the appropriate thing to do is to first pay respects to the Ganga. Many people offer flowers, along with a ghee lamp in a banana leaf bowl, which after placing it in the water then floats down the river. They do this because the  Ganges  is not merely a river, but represents and is an expansion of Ganga Devi, the mother Goddess. The river is said to also descend from heaven at Gangotri, before freezing into the glacier from where it begins.

After paying the proper respects, then it is time to wade into the river, splash a little water on yourself, and when you are ready take at least three dunks into the river. One has to hold his ears to keep water out as he rises from the water. One who put tilok on his forehead indicate he is a Vaishnava devotee of Lord Rama, and if he is hanging sacred thread over his left shoulder shows that he is also a Brahmin.

One my friend asked about it so i wrote it here. Thank You.


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This fivefold obeisance mantra,destroys all sins and obstacles, a

Posted on Jan 7th, 2008 by owais : Be good, Do good owais

namokar


This fivefold obeisance mantra,destroys all sins and obstacles, and of all auspicious repetitions, is the first and foremost. 

Below is the pronounciation of this sanskrit chant in english ;

Namo ariha.ntaaNaM
Namo siddhaaNaM
Namo aayariyaaNaM
Namo uvajjhaayaaNaM
Namo loe savvasaahuNaM

eso pa.ncha Namokaaro
savva paavapaNaasaNo
ma.ngalaaNaM cha savvesim
paDhamaM hava{ii} ma.ngalaM 

MEANING OF MANTRA
 
I bow to the Arahants, the perfected human beings, Godmen.
I bow to the Siddhas, liberated bodiless souls, God.
I bow to the Acharyas, the masters and heads of congregations.
I bow to the Upadhyayas, the spiritual teachers.
I bow to the spiritual practitioners in the universe, Sadhus.


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When was the last time you surprised yourself?

Posted on Jan 8th, 2008 by owais : Be good, Do good owais
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for January 08, 2008:

Few days ago, I read in newspaper a father raped his 15 year old daughter - O HEAVEN ! how cruel, selfish, insane and malice are dwelling on this planet. I sent him my scornful wishes. It is now becoming so comman nowdays men whereever see women just keep starting gloating. places are turning into evils for women.

Indian woman

 

Women walking beside the road with her child, who is being discarded by his men, and so suffering from poverty since she is illiterate and no means of livelihood for her.
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Tribal dance is colorful and graceful. Men and women decorate fro

Posted on Jan 8th, 2008 by owais : Be good, Do good owais

Tribal dance of Bastar district, India is colorful and graceful. Men and women decorate from head to foot with flowers, ornaments and dresses. All different tribes in different dresses gather in the main place of worship and dance and sing to celebrate the occasion. Multi cultural tribes when are gather in one place gives effect of different species of flowers in one place.

These tribes what we say as undeveloped are socially very developed and are content in their social life. They are economically very weak due to heavy deforestation, resulting natural resources extinct which they depend on.  Its mountains, water fall, jungle and caves are so rich that we can not keep ourselves away from visiting. It has a real beauty and very good opportunity for social science students, to explore Bastar, tribes, their richness and economic poverty the tribes are facing by modernization. Many spices are still to be explored especially medicinal value of plants hidden in forest. Massive use of timber has resulted cutting precious ancient of old trees. Nearly half of Bastar forests are converted to agricultural land thus many of many of medicinal plants may be in extinct. Your study and exploration will definitely help restoration of forest and tribal life.


tribal dancers


District  Bastar  of Chhatisgarh (India) is very beautiful place situated at height of nearly 2500-3000 feet. This is real tourist place and worth visiting to explore culture, religion, tradition, beauty of nature and living of mountain tribes. 

Kanger forest is a dense forest situated near Jagdalpur of Bastar district. Jaguar, bear, deer, peacock and other animals are part of it. Also this has deep natural caves one famous cave is Kutumbsar cave. People are allowed to go up to 300mts long and 50mts deep real depth and length of this caves only tribes know. Many superlative formations are made by natural seeping of water and lime from top of mountain.  Very dark inside the cave, need light arrangements in order to enjoy many religious idols form. This is religious place for tribes who come during religious occasions to worship SHIVLING of God Shiva shaped in the cave. Click the picture and see.


Chitrakot water fall: Nearly 30kms away from Jagdalpur, water fall from 90 feet height is covered by dense forest is known as Chitrakoot Jalashai. This area needs some luxury hotels to attract tourists from abroad so tourists can enjoy this natural beauty and live close to tribes, some hotels are there in Jagdalpur.


Cock fight is Traditional sport of cock fight is very common is conducted during market and all occasion.. They tie sharp knives in fingers so during fight they hurt each other. Cock fight is competitive game continued until one side cock dies and the bet is lost by the looser.
 
 
 


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Friends are love, enjoy it ; Friends are inspiration, accept it;

Posted on Jan 8th, 2008 by owais : Be good, Do good owais
Friends are life, live it ;
Friends are love, enjoy it ;
Friends are inspiration, accept it;
Friends are wisdom, agree it; 
Friends are relief, unwind it;
Friends are attraction, drag it;
Friends are vibration, feel it;
Friends are art, discover it;
Friends are style, apply it;
Friends are truth, honor it; 
Friends are remedy, refer it;
Friends are gift, exchange it;
Friends are personality, express it;
Friends are ideal, suggest it;  
Friends are system adopt it; 
Friends are means purchase it;

hey friends how did you like this my poem ?
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What would you fight for?

Posted on Jan 9th, 2008 by owais : Be good, Do good owais
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for January 09, 2008:

My major initiative however is for dowry system, those women who are reared and fostered into poverty,illiteracy could not get married due to dowry and are forced into evils of societies.
Dowry system is ancient graceful custom of indian society, a form of graceful gift given by parent during marriage of their daughter, now this custom has been converted by malice and nuisance into greed and way of trade, people take advantage by demanding huge money and household stuffs which is seemingly burden to accomplish by poor parent, however they agree by mortgaging their houses, farms and few belongings. the thirst of money by these heartless, malice and cruels does not get fulfill even after they get their demanded offerings and lead them to abandon or burn or even killed these unfortunate women.In either ways women just get confined and so is carried by with their curses all along their life.

women with multiple kids being abandoned by their husband is hard for them to survive and fostered them which in turn compel such unfortunate women to suicide and lead these kids into darkness and so cycle keep on multiplying like cancer in the society which is now a major challenging issue.I myself have taught many people around me please cripple this custom for the sake of these unfortunate and helpless women.I have decided not accept this custom however in my life.

I would fight for the empowerment of women, education and brain washing of children which is prevailing in some Indian communities.

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River says to me ...

Posted on Jan 10th, 2008 by owais : Be good, Do good owais
Meeting different people , hugging and soothing them,
Travelling through desert, barren and derelict lands, cooling and rejoicing them,
Fall audaciously into broad refreshing and enchanting water-falls, 
Howling exultantly, sneaking and careered down merrily by narrow streams,
Enduring scorching heats,harsh winters, toxins still flow perpetually.

Sometime winding into meanders ornately,
Sometime murmur with melodious babble,
sometime move deep silently,
Sometime notorious by tolling lives.

I am the hope for peasants
I am the music of Nature
I am the life for marines
I am the essence of nature
I am the relict for Earth

I rise placidly and unite eternally into .........

                                                                     compiled by myself
 
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What gets you out of bed in the morning?

Posted on Jan 11th, 2008 by owais : Be good, Do good owais
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for January 11, 2008:

The urge of seeking livelihood the following day since life is hard of me. Mom's call ' owais get up please - my sweet darling time up ' , and the soothing, refreshing chants evolving out of temples - sometime I am late by so get up all of sudden by falling sunrays over my face. honestly  I am quite sloth and keep procrastinate to get off bed. although, a regular morning walker who enjoys the tranquility, refreshment and enchantiment of Nature during morning , euphony of murmurs, chirrippings of birds.

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To keep loving someone but is not my sin, rich she is just tell m

Posted on Jan 11th, 2008 by owais : Be good, Do good owais

To keep loving someone but is not my sin,
rich she is just tell me,
poor I am but is not my sin,

She has love for me,
But it is different She never said me,
To keep loving someone but is not my sin.

To keep loving someone, but is not my sin
pretty she is just tell me,
ugly I am but is not my sin,

She dwell into me,
but it is different she is far from me,
To keep loving someone but is not my sin.

To keep loving someone but is not my sin,
sagacious she is, just tell me
dull I am but is not my sin

She live by my envisage,
but it is different she never convoke me
To keep loving someone but is not my sin.

                                                      composed by myself today -


                                                         with much love and lightness

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Where do you do your best thinking?

Posted on Jan 12th, 2008 by owais : Be good, Do good owais
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for January 12, 2008:

Tranquility, exquisiteness and essence of Nature energises me a lot to write. I derive much powers and inspiration through nature instead simply muse before bed. My thoughts does not pertain to nature however but versatile. My mind flows much swifter whilst meditating toward wisdom and lightness.

I never write poem until joining this site 8 months ago. I posted my first poem ' street kids '  in the month of november and third and last one ' To love someone but is not my sin ' yesterday indeed I am loving on being this site and so is grateful to all my readers who acknowledge and embrace me. Dhanyavaad ( Thank you so much ). 
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When do you feel most important?

Posted on Jan 13th, 2008 by owais : Be good, Do good owais
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for January 13, 2008:

rangoli



Good question - I feel honoured When people make me of their friend and say we all are one, we all created same. when people acknowledge, embrace my ideas or thoughts. I love compassion and so crave for compassion, lovingness and kindness.

P.S   I am quite kind, innocent, gullibe kind of boy therefore some people take it in wrong sense of being my kindness. please friends do not think in such way, I am just here to apprehend, realise, observe connectedness with everyone i meet in life, to spread loves,harmony, to send my lots of wishes, blessings,prays and feeling of oneness. I just want to realise ' commune with universe ' through every processes within universe. this is resolution or destiny or research or spiritualism whatever you feel you can think. Dhanyavaad  ( Thank you so much )   

sukhad sansar ( happy universe ) 

owais

   
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What are you addicted to?

Posted on Jan 14th, 2008 by owais : Be good, Do good owais
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for January 14, 2008:

brihadishvara temple, Tanjore ( India )



umm I am addicted to net, leading me to burn my moneys. but sorry I whisper to myself oftenly cannot give up and stop my curiosity to discover great people on this site across the world who are so loving, sociable and like-minded and sharing their cultures, living styles with whom meeting can be only my dream. I love them soooooooo much they are so wonderful and great. through them I discovered how much they do love Indian culture and fascinate, I am so grateful to them. 
I am addicted to cultural documentary kind movies, Darjeeling teas, books, chicken meats, spicy foods, coke, communication. Thank god i never smoke and drink into life.   

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How tolerant are you?

Posted on Jan 15th, 2008 by owais : Be good, Do good owais
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for January 15, 2008:

I cannot withstand if someone shows the feeling of superiority or partiality.
I cannot endure if someone is abusive to my mom.
I cannot tolerate cruelities upon poors, destitutes and women. 
the foremost thing which I cannot tolerate is being untruth, I hate liers, scornful and malice.

I allow this  -  Here is the place which belongs to no prince, to no god. No one owns it. Here is the place for all of us.The earth will find joy in it. Here the heart will be happy. Will Amarna ever rise from the darkness again?  this is none other than  AUROVILLE  my favourite place on earth.

I think we shall fight for terrorism by installing democracies in muslim countries and spread education and abolish brain wash by hardliners and rigid religious thinkers. because the main cause for terrorism is frequent brain wash by them to illiterate masses, i hope we could be able to curtail terrorism at much extent. Thank you


location of Auroville

 
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When was the last time you really met a stranger?

Posted on Jan 16th, 2008 by owais : Be good, Do good owais
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who is stranger ? to meet someone first time then what about those who knows since ages and tries to cheat, rape, or attempt to kill you. ha..... i do not understand anyone stranger, in many aspects we are connected and one. we get to learn many things and open or wide our horion through them. I meet many people briskly and embrace them, acknowledge them with my heart and so they feel as if owais has deep connection to me, indeed i had with them. this is just our outlook, rigid thinking or egoism or attitude that made us to feel to form such thoughts to them who are standing infront us as a new but which is not true at all.

friends, this is very interesting, loving, pleasing when you send your blessings, wishes, prays and acknowledge them through your heart - trust me a feeling of joyment through your soul deeply regardless how mean or sarcastic he/she is. I do not know how many friends I have in my life and through them I have learned everyday something new, to me connectedness and oneness is enlightenment and spiritualism. dhanyavaad for reading my post. 
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What do you wish?

Posted on Jan 18th, 2008 by owais : Be good, Do good owais
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for January 18, 2008:

buddha

I wish poverty, tyrannies upon women and polluting of Nature shall omit.
I wish to commune with universe and its every processes to realise oneness.
I wish to cripple all the barriers in the name of nation, creeds, cultures, gender and so.
I wish to become complete honest, and embrace, love and send well-wishes and blessings to everyone whomsoever I meet.
I wish everybody shall marry and live in harmony with mutual love and trust until their death in one relationship only.
I wish I can provide foods to hungers.
I wish I shall dwell in everybody's hearts.
I wish to become more organic and green.
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What does a good neighborhood mean to you?

Posted on Jan 19th, 2008 by owais : Be good, Do good owais
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Lively, honest, compassionate,helping people - live with mutual harmony,love and peace.
feeling of connectedness and oneness however begin with neighbourhood. Good luck everybody.

Well, I live around with beautiful, loving and helping people. I do enjoy them. houses are being interconnected. I can still memorise my childhood days which had been spend so skittishly around this wonderful childhood.

Namaste - with love and well-wishes - thank you 

owais
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O stranger O stranger O..O O... strang

Posted on Jan 19th, 2008 by owais : Be good, Do good owais

O stranger O stranger O..O O... stranger O stranger stranger......
to found her as if whole world found,
days.. days now passes by in her searches,
now... now nights appearing unmoving

O stranger O stranger O..O O... stranger O stranger stranger..........
wave of joy thrill through body, face blushes, heart beats become faster and eye sparkle,
when... when I think meeting of her in person,
now... now my muse question me what will I propose at first meet, I chuckle in me.

O stranger O stranger O..O O... stranger O stranger stranger..........

every thirst, every hunger satiate by envisage of her,
she is sooooooooooo sweet, feels to give her my life
she is sooooooooooo kind, feels to re-live with her eternally
she is sooooooooooo loving, feels to sacrifice everything
moments... moments now every passes by imagination of her

Lips... lips always saying O stranger O stranger O..O O... stranger O stranger stranger.......
heart... heart this heart now crave for her happiness,
now this... this soul sing music for her
every blessings, every prays, every wishes, every loves, every thing of me is her.
Lips... lips always saying O stranger O stranger O..O O... stranger O stranger stranger........

now.... now now only one crave by God never disunite us.

Lips... lips always saying O stranger O stranger O..O O... stranger O stranger stranger.........


NAMASTE ,
Compiled genuinely and exclusively  by OWAIS on 16/1/2008 at 7p.m ,
Your comments are much appreciated - Thank you.

sincerely,
owais

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What would make you feel better right now?

Posted on Jan 20th, 2008 by owais : Be good, Do good owais
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for January 20, 2008:

Mahatma ( great soul ) Gandhi spinning his yarn at his ashram in



If people can be honest with me - I mean to say that like here there are so many people with profile stating seemingly how rare qualities they possess and their profile eloquently stating their reflections and divinity that dwell inside them and so we feel happy indeed very much happy, excited, energised to meet them but similarly you get disheartened feel like dead when you discover them as fake people after utilising your trust and time upon them. this also led you to be much rude with others, just feel like remain in solitary. friends this is not any imaginary answer but very much truth which I decided to share with people in this community because I have recently experienced it and now I do not know exactly how much I am going to face it since I trusted ......... very much and so been cheated. 
In other word, I honestly need people to be honest and true. I respect honesty and I follow honesty and so I deserve honesty. however my this experience of fake people is not going to put me down in realising oneness, connectedness with everyone and every living processes on earth - just like to commune with universe.  
If people can be honest with me, then honestly I am peaceful, hopeful and happy .
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