Karpagambal Mess, Mylapore
Omigod, I was so inspired to write some notes from the road… what I’ve been up to here in India so far. And then… and then I read back on the Twitter updates since last time I came online. AARRRGGGHHHH!!! I can’t belive this!!! Life is so bloody cruel, teasing and tempting… withholding.
VT Station, Mumbai
I’m in a yellow and black taxi just outside Mumbai airport, on my way to a hotel in the Fort Area. The full moon is shining between rooftops, appearing between hoardings boasting Hrithik Roshan’s gorgeous Provogue ads and curious pictures of 67 year old Amitabh Bachchan in his role as Auro, a 12 year old child suffering from progeria in the upcoming Hindi film Paa.
Mumbai, India
The full moon’s reflection is dancing in the sea thousands of metres below us, playing hide-and-seek… revealing itself only in sparkling glimpses between scattered islands as we move swiftly across the sky, wings spread widely. Beautiful cities between sleep and awake, resting in a blur of light and darkness… trains silently wriggling across the land as if they were glow worms… A quick stop and change of flights in Istanbul… and on the other side of midnight Mumbai is waiting for us, with arms wide open. (3 dec)
Norah Jones
Can I just say that I love Norah Jones’ music? It has the most wonderful energy about it, and always gets me in a certain kind of really good mood.
Photo by Ram
What I’m sharing with you today is an email that I wrote on Dec 31 last year, to one of my closest friends. I celebrated my birthday a couple of days ago, and amidst all the happy and fun-filled moments I also spent a few quiet moments reflecting on the year gone by. It got me thinking about this email… Rereading it now I found it quite inspiring and sort of bittersweet, and I hope it will stir something beautiful deep inside you too.
How deep are your claw marks?
The only advice I can give is to dig in your claws as little as possible. Because you’re going to be dragged into the truth; the only question is how deep are the claw marks you leave in the ground as you get dragged :) And you will leave some claw marks because everybody leaves some claw marks; everybody holds on. Everybody holds on but the less you hold on, the easier and quicker it goes.
~ Adyashanti
Intricate yantras
Yantras are present in the world of nature as the crystalline forms in minerals and in snowflakes. [...] The universe consist of a pulsating network of cosmic forces, of Shiva and Shakti energies, that create various geometrical patterns, through which all forms are structured. The universe is a great yantra of incredible power and intricate beauty that one can contemplate forever.
~ Inner Tantric Yoga by David Frawley
Kareena & Saif
On 17 nov 2009 mid-day.com hosted a live chat with Saif Ali Khan. Read the transcript below.
Photo by Nataraaj
Find that place
which is effortlessly
at rest within itself.
Be there—be one with that.
~ Mooji
Quietly breathing through the bittersweetness of Shiva's tough love; discovering the art of becoming empty, disentangled, being undone... ॐ
ooh!! dharma!! beginning good ... middle good... end good...
"It's all stardust, equally so."~ Adyashanti
Quietly breathing through the bittersweetness of Shiva's tough love; discovering the art of becoming empty, disentangled, being undone... ॐ