Life Wisdom Stories of Dada Dadi!

Everyone who has had dada dadi around them knows how much wisdom we come across everyday. Sit with them for a while and you will surely learn a thing or two about life wisdom from them. They don't teach us. It just comes naturally to them. 

If today we are sitting in a multiple rooms wallah house with all the facilities and comfort, there has been a long difficult struggle, sleepless nights, few days of hungry stomach and a lot of hard work done by our grand parents to make us see this day. 

Everytime my dadaji shared a story from his life I always had something to learn from there. I asked my other friends about their grandparents. Even they were highly inspired with values of life they had learnt from them while having conversations with them. 

Now here was the thing. Everyone who talks with their grand parents is always learning something new no matter how many times they might be repeating the same life experiences. 

We always remember our dada-dadi telling us bedtime stories. 

What about their life stories? 

Those stories have to be just in the family or we can share it with our friends and extended global family? 

Do we need to share this stories with future generations to come? 

I think the answer to all of them was, a yes! 

So here is a simple thing we all can do. 

Let us sit once again with our grandparents and listen to their stories right from the start. Pen it down and share it on our page.

If you don't have grandparents, you can always go to a public garden and talk with some dadaji or dadiji and hear out their life story. 

Lets bring life to the most amazingly inspiring people our generation has been fortunate to live with! 

Become a story teller of their life. 

Friends and Coffee

We know we have nothing important to talk about, we know nothing is going to change after we meet. Some people and some friends get inscribed in your blood and life forever. You live for them, you can die for them but you tell none of this two to them. Its just there!
Have built some relationships for life time!
Thank you for being there, all of you.
Dannys! Thank you for giving us good coffee! :)

I want to be thoroughly used up.

This is the true joy in life, being recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for it’s own sake; Life is no brief candle to me, it is a sort of splendid torch which I’ve got to hold up for a moment. I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

~George Bernard Shaw


The link came from Nipunbhai's email whose last line read this : 

A full week, and an empty wallet.  What a perfect way to return.  Reminded me of a George Bernard Shaw quote -- "I want to be thoroughly used up."

at the threshold

Blocks after Blocks coming together.
I can see it coming true.
Its happening.
It will be real one day.

It will be what it has to be.
After all the universe has decided so.
Offering help every day is no coincidence.
It is the hope I live for.
Universe is giving me more and more.

Hope is what has brought me out in open.
I am almost ready.
I know you are too.

Akhtar...

Actor Calling Akhtar is a good article but it is not about Farhan Akhtar. Mayank Shekhar( author) is allover the place. Its a good article, got to know a lot which I dint even know.
Most important piece in the article is how it shows Farhan as just another guy - who is a drop out from college, joined commerce because his other friends did that, putting up the autograph of De Niro on the wall.

Of other things - I am still not understanding why did I subscribe this magazine because they almost have every good article online. 

Life is Easy

There are things which you see, listen and experience which you can share and some you like to keep it original to feel the essence of it. To feel deep inside how it is what it is!

Jon Jandai - thank you! :)

from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse 4

"Most people are like falling leaf which is blown and turned around through the air, as it wavers, and tumbles to the ground.
But others, a few are like stars, they go on a fixed course, no wind reaches them, in themselves they have their law and their course.
Among all the learned men and Samanas, there was one of this kind, a perfected one, I'll never be able to forget him.
Gautama. "

from Siddhartha by Herman Hesse 3

" He let himself sink down to the ground of the sensation, down to the place where the causes lay, because to identify the causes, it seemed to him, is the very essence of thinking, any by this alone sensations turn into realizations and are not lost, but become entities and start to emit, like rays of light, what is inside of them."

from Siddhartha by Herman Hesse 1

"On his way, humbly, deep in thought, his calm face neither happy nor sad. He seemed to smile quietly and inwardly. With a hidden smile, resembling that of a healthy child, he walked, wearing the robe and placing his feet just as all of his monks did, according to a precise rule.
But his face and his walk, his quietly lowered glance, his quietly dangling hand expressed peace, expressed perfection, did not search, did not imitate, breathed softly in an unwithering calm, an unwavering light, an untouchable peace.
He was Buddha."

from Siddhartha by Herman Hesse 2

"It was the self, the purpose and essence of which I sought to learn. It was the self I wanted to free myself from, which I sought to overcome. But I was not able to overcome it, I could only deceive it, could only flee from it, hide from it.
Truly, no thing in this world has kept my thoughts thus busy as this my very own self, this mystery of my being alive, of my being one and being separated and isolated from all others, of my being Siddhartha!

And there is nothing in this world I know less about that about myself, about Siddhartha!"

an end?

We never lose our loved ones. They accompany us, they don't disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms. For example, I can't see who is in the next carriage, but it contains people travelling in the same time as me, as you, as everyone. The fact that we can't speak to them or know what's going on in that other carriage is completely irrelevant. They are there. So what we call "life" is a train with many carriages. Sometimes we're in one, sometimes we're in another, and sometimes we cross between them, when we dream or allow ourselves to be swept away by the extraordinary. 

~lines by Paulo Coelho in Aleph

way of life

We're not the person other people wish were. We are who we decide to be. It's always easy to blame others. you can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility. You can try to stop time, but it's a complete waste of energy.

~lines by Paulo Coelho in Aleph

Meaning, Life and Light

“The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. 

Children, of course, begin life with an untarnished sense of wonder, a capacity to experience total joy at something as simple as the greenness of a leaf; but as they grow older, the awareness of death and decay begins to impinge on their consciousness and subtly erode their joie de vivre, their idealism – and their assumption of immortality.

As a child matures, he sees death and pain everywhere about him, and begins to lose faith in the ultimate goodness of man. But, if he’s reasonably strong – and lucky – he can emerge from this twilight of the soul into a rebirth of life’s elan. Both because of and in spite of his awareness of the meaninglessness of life, he can forge a fresh sense of purpose and affirmation. He may not recapture the same pure sense of wonder he was born with, but he can shape something far more enduring and sustaining.

The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death – however mutable man may be able to make them – our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfillment. 

However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.” 

~Stanley Kubrick

picture credits: Neha Chandok's Facebook Cover Page