Sunday, April 13, 2014

ARDRA - APRIL NEWS LETTER

WHAT TO FILL IN OUR BASKETS

FROM THE SEASONS OF SITUATIONS

When i read Tagore i understand there a soothing, calming peace flowing from within from his modest language. It is a fact that he did not leave an empty basket  behind him for his followers  on his eternal journey from this world.

I have seen destiny placing a lot of unpleasant situations  and it is not humans but situations they face create  unpleasantness. Humans err and misjudge situations and end up in miseries. It is true that the good ones also can face deadly situations and end up as victims. Faced with such many ordeals i know i was at several times accused of the things which  i have not done. I tried to retaliate and fight. I learned at the end  that our  world is not a focus point to support any individual in trouble with full heart. It is just a passing phase, a platform,  a day or a small event dais to talk about or sympathize. The me or i factor is important for humans as if it happens to me it is something to be talked and if it is to another human it is a matter less important as it needs to be judged with a different measure scale.

 It is with pain i noticed and at times wondered why people invade and fill their mind's emptiness in my earthen territory and i tried several times to fight back and failed to reason out because the people invaded my territory tried to display their ordinary behaviour most of the time. There i want to believe that extra ordinary ones haunt not  others or chase or challenge other humans but try to improve their own gifted life. Even at times my sincere approach also caused a negative impact that i learned it is difficult a task to please the thinking pattern of different people at different situations.

I have learned from my experience that when faced with unpleasant situations it is better not to retaliate but to look up for the extra ordinary souls who can inspire at that moment of pain. 
In politics of life i learned not to focus on pleasing local streams which join with anyone and it is good for a good hearted human to stay away from such forces. It is to be noted that good humans faced with bad situations suffer a lot because they would not have planned for any escape routs as they  are not equipped like the master planners and rooks.

Faced with such difficulties of a lifetime i learned that i can look for a better vision if i try with my whole heart to meditate on Tagore or such great inspirers.  Power is not the ultimate factor, there we see the less powerful constitutional leaders. In our country people think the post of a Rashtrapathi is  less powerful, less meaningful  a designation but  we were fortunate to have a few  respectful Rashtrapathis in our country to remember  - Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Dr. Radhakrishnan, KR Narayan,   Dr. Abdul Kalam. When i think of them i know i can identify them as extra ordinary individuals with a different and great vision.  Instead of trying to step down to the level of the ordinary  segment one's vision should be to join hand with with the real visionaries.

It is true that as humans it is difficult a task to focus and fill always good deeds in empty baskets. It is a fact that at times there can be situations forcing humans to behave in a way to fill all emptiness in the already empty basket as it is easy and ordinary a task.

To be extra ordinary one needs to fill a better vision and not spread  negative emptiness to a gifted life.

I know invaders and situations provoke me to challenge my face value  and try to redeem my net worth.. Let me think in this way...

Let me grow to reach up to the vision of the extra ordinary..... 
Let me  fill my basket with goodness.....
Let me bookmark a few humans who signed on a vision which benefited several million human beings
Let me  fill a season of flowers and a bag full of Tagore in my basket.

Situations and Provocations are ordinary challenges and extra ordinary ones will not redeem their gifted life on that but try to improve their own vision. Let that vision be my guiding force, guiding light..






Saturday, April 12, 2014

ARDRA - APRIL NEWS LETTER

WHAT TO FILL IN OUR BASKETS


When i read Tagore i understand there a soothing, calming peace flowing from within from his modest language. It is a fact that he did not leave an empty basket  behind him for his followers  on his eternal journey from this world.

I have seen destiny placing a lot of unpleasant situations  and it is not humans but situations they face create  unpleasantness. Humans err and misjudge situations and end up in miseries. It is true that the good ones also can face deadly situations and end up as victims. Faced with such many ordeals i know i was at several times accused for the things  i have not done. I tried to retaliate and fight. I learned at the end to understand that the  world is not a focus point to support any individual in trouble with full heart. It is just a passing phase, a platform,  a day or a small event dais to talk about or sympathize. The me or i factor is important for humans as if it happens to me it is something to be talked and if it is to another human it is a matter  less important as it needs to be judged with a different measure scale.

 It is with pain i noticed and at times wondered why people invade and fill their mind's emptiness in my earthen territory and i tried several times to fight back and failed to reason out because the people invaded my territory tried to display their ordinary behaviour most of the time. There i want to believe that extra ordinary ones haunt not  others or chase or challenge other humans but try to improve their own gifted life. Even at times my sincere approach also caused a negative impact that i learned it is difficult a task to please the thinking pattern of different people at different situations.

I have learned from my experience that when faced with unpleasant situations it is better not to retaliate but to look up for the extra ordinary souls who can inspire at that moment of pain. 
In politics of life i learned not to focus on pleasing local streams which join with anyone and it is good for a good hearted human to stay away from such forces. It is to be noted that good humans faced with bad situations suffer a lot because they would not have planned for any escape routs as they  are not equipped like the master planners and rooks.

Faced with such difficulties of a lifetime i learned that i can look for a better vision if i try with my whole heart to meditate on Tagore or such great inspirers.  Power is not the ultimate factor, there we see the less powerful constitutional leaders. In our country people think the post of a Rashtrapathi is  less powerful, less meaningful  designation but  we were fortunate to have a few  respectful Rashtrapathis in our country to remember  - Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Dr. Radhakrishnan, KR Narayan,   Dr. Abdul Kalam. When i think of them i know i can identify them as extra ordinary individuals with a different and great vision.  Instead of trying to step down to the level of the ordinary  segment one's vision should be to join hand with with the real visionaries.

It is true that as humans it is difficult a task to focus and fill always good deeds in empty baskets. It is a fact that at times there can be situations forcing humans to behave in a way to fill all emptiness in the already empty basket as it is easy and ordinary a task.

To be extra ordinary one needs to fill a better vision and not spread  negative emptiness to a gifted life.

I know invaders and situations provoke me to challenge my face value  and try to redeem my net worth.. Let me think in this way...

I need to grow to reach up to the vision of the extra ordinary..... 
I want to fill my basket with goodness.....
I want to bookmark a few humans who signed on a vision which benefited several million human beings
I want to fill a season of flowers and a bag full of Tagore in my basket.

Situations and Provocations are ordinary challenges and extra ordinary ones will not redeem their gifted life on that but try to improve their own vision. Let that vision be my guiding force, guiding light..






Sunday, January 5, 2014


പ്രിയപ്പെട്ട മീര

ഇന്ന് ഞാൻ മാതൃഭൂമി വായിക്കുമ്പോൾ കാണാനായി ഒരു ഹൈഡ് ലൈൻ
"രാഷ്ടീയം വികസനത്തിനെതിരാവരുത്"
ദൈവമേ, ഇത്  രാഷ്ടീയവൈരം തീർക്കാൻ ഇന്നലെ ഒരു ചെയർമാനെ പല നുണക്കഥകളും പല തരം മാധ്യമങ്ങളിലൂടെ എഴുതിപ്പിടിപ്പിച്ച് ഇല്ലാണ്ടാക്കിയ ആൾ തന്നെയെന്ന്  അറിഞ്ഞതിൽ അത്ഭുതപ്പെടുന്നില്ല. ഇതേ ആൾ തന്നെയാണു കവിതയെഴുതാൻ വന്ന ഒരു പെൺകുട്ടിയെ ഇല്ലാതാക്കാൻ എല്ലാ കുതന്ത്രവും ചെയ്തത്..

മുഖം മൂടിയണിഞ്ഞ് ഇതേ ആൾ കളിക്കും വികസന രാഷ്ടീയം കണ്ടില്ലെന്ന് നടിക്കും കാലത്തിനപ്പുറം ഇനിയൊരു കാലചക്രമുണരേണ്ടിയിരിക്കുന്നു.

എത്ര മനോഹരമായ പദം.. രാഷ്ടീയം വികസനത്തിനെതിരാവരുത്..
എതിർമൊഴി  പറയുന്നവരെയെല്ലാം രാഷ്ടീയ നിശബ്ദ കുതന്ത്രത്തിൽ ഇല്ലായ്മ ചെയ്യുന്നവരുടെ പ്രഖ്യാപനങ്ങൾ കേട്ട് കേട്ട് ഇപ്പോൾ  ഒരു കോമഡി ടൈം പരിപാടി പോലെയായിരിക്കുന്നു പ്രകടനപത്രികകൾ..

ഏതായാലും കുറെ അഴിമതിപ്പാടങ്ങൾ ഈ മനോഹര വികസന രാഷ്ടീയക്കാരൻ കുതന്ത്രത്താൽ വികസിപ്പിച്ചു. അതിൽ നിന്നും പണമുണ്ടാക്കുവാനുമായി.

പ്രകടനപത്രികയിലെ സ്നേഹസങ്കല്പങ്ങൾ രാഷ്ടീയഭംഗിയിൽ വികസിച്ചുകൊണ്ടേയിരിക്കുന്നു..

മീര, ഇതേപോലെയുള്ള കുതന്ത്രങ്ങൾ.. വികസനത്തിന്റെ ബാലപാഠങ്ങൾ, നമുക്ക് വേണ്ട ...
ഇതേ പോലെയുള്ള അറിവുകളും ഇതേപോലെയുള്ള അതിശയകരമായ ഇല്ലാതാക്കൽ വികസനവും നമുക്ക് വേണ്ട..

ഗായത്രി..

Thursday, September 26, 2013

SEPTEMBER NEWSLETTER


HEARTBEATS OF A RUINED COUNTRY..


Give and take...
Forgive...
Have you followed any of these principles in  its noblest form.
No.. 
That is the truth..
After terrorizing and ransacking the heartbeats of a nation and innocent human beings there the masked cries of our rulers to cover their mistakes and blunders.

Give and Take.
Kuchela gifted Krishna not gold coins or a bundle of currency notes but his heartfelt offerings and  that can be termed as  pure giving. Taking back nothing he walked away and he would not have been in need of any luxuries. Duryodan on the otherhand  gifted Anga Desh to Karna to purchase his loyality.  Our present leaders believe in such Give and Take. Question them  and we end up in Vanaprastha for sure.

Why didn't  you forgive your detractors? You terrorized them and finished off instead of forgiving..
You with all your rage did shows to block the ones who tried to give you back what you have distributed..

Truth is that you cannot forgive anyone and you give only to the ones who fall on your feet.
Pure learning is that give not with an expectation to take back..
The simple example to understand how one can grow.  America believes in destroying and finishing off its detractors to show their supremacy whereas Europe grows on its own  rich  resources.

Forgive ...
Is it not that you finished one of your detractors yesterday..
A chanced encounter and you feel happy for the outcome and no remorse in you that you have not worked for forgiving someone. If others have not offered you a forgiving feeling you go totally out of control and you finish even them too.
Truth is that but you don't like to accept it. When you are not able to embrace the noblest form of give and take and forgive your detractors it is noble a concept not to demand anything even from others.
 
Give and Take ..
Forgive..
Have you followed any of that in its noblest form..
NO..
That is where you stand....
The worst human error is that what is preached not  practiced and that is the root cause of all human miseries.


Tuesday, September 3, 2013


ARDRA NEWS LETTER
August 2013


EDITORIAL

Why India is still an underdeveloped country.?

Sreenarayana Guru said do not make, endorse, sell, use liquor.

And  Sreenarayana Guru Award is for the one who endorses Liquor.
Someone told me in the past that one film actor paid Rs.30 Lakhs to get a Padmasree Nomination.
Do not know really how one endorses liquor can get a Sreenarayana Guru Award.
People of this country are mute spectators of this kind of great shows by the rulers.
If our Leaders behave in this fashion, India will remain as a underdeveloped even after 1000 years.
To certain extent people have learned to give less importance to the shows of our leaders.
Who is responsible for this….
Suffocation of a kind people feel here but there still hope left in our dreams..
People of this country got this confidence nowto say to the rulers that you cannot smother the dreams of one ancient civilization forever.
Let the dreams of people of this country be more brighter than the paid up awards of nepotism of our Leaders..
Let India be a beautiful country from within..


 
IT WAS NOT A DREAM
(Poem of the month)

 
 




 
 



Once
I looked upon a majestic hill near Kedar
Years rolled on seasons
and it  was raining in gardens
while i was in my eastern sea shores
i watched the hill falling
like a paper pillar,
It wasn't a dream
it was floating in front of me
grounded, as if to finish off
its own rude rancor.... 

 
COLD COFFEE
(a short story by Meera)

 
In South Indies, just relished this cold cofee. My cousin Gayatri told me today this news that Lalit Modi is going to receive a life ban from BCCI. She further said that one love guru is going to get one more feather in his 70 crores of arrogance. 
Gayatri has changed a lot. She explode these days on slightest provocations. I am unable to handle her. Further to that there this cold coffee effect still in me. 

There one funnily dressed lady entered in 'Apple Bar' near South Indies with a lot of make up. I haven't seen anyone with so much of paint. She was wearing a bright red coloured lipstick and hand purse in red. I looked at her through my the window.. She gulped a bottle full of beer.

Phone rang and i sent a mail to Gayatri and said i want to meet her in the evening.

Later in the evening we met near Chinmaya Mission Temple.
We paid Rs.1000/- towards poor feeding. 

We sat there inside and listen devotional bhajans. I felt a kind of coldness in me. Fragrance of cold coffee was there in my fingers. 
I loved the fragrance of coffee.

I could not find an answer that why i  started liking cold coffee. 

I have noticed a coldness in me and even after experiencing the worst i understood i can remain calm from within.

Even when my outer layers of life quarrel and argue on invading thorns of  life, there i found a coldness emerging from  the fragrance of freshly blended cold coffee.

Gayatri opened up her ipad and showed this news. 
Confessions of a lady columnist that 'gossip hurts'. 
Gayatri had this smile on her face that this columnists had hurt in the past a million people by her not so worthy columns and finally she found it like one new invention - 'gossip hurts.'
Even after reading that i wondered why i feel this coldness.

Gayatri said a million things about Solar Panel to Page three hype to new books to reviews of films. 
I felt a coldness in my brain cells..
I watched a film called Chennai Express and hated it for the artificial, created outbursts and exaggerations in that film. I never could see the trace of real Shah Rukh Khan i expected for in that film..

Coldness still in me..a kind of detachment and i started loving it..
Gayatri forwarded her blog today. She made fun of that love guru again, it is true that even i felt his finishing off strategy  too silly. 

There again this coldness. 
I started enjoying my cold coffees, coldness

You know Meera, i am fed up of seeing this political rivalries, too irritating.... After finishing off his detractors in the meanest of meanest tricks,  look  at that love guru celebrating his life with his
seventy crores of arrogance in film parties and show off stages. I don't think it is greatness but a kind of narrow unworthiness.. ... Gayatri could not control herself.. 
She wasn't like this.. From an easy go lucky free spirit she changed
Strange.. I thought....

Power shows, dramas, show offs, i know it is not our...
it is not our  cup of... coffee.... 
Gayatri said with a smile on her face..
There still this coldness in my heart
I did not say anything..
I relished my coldness..

My heartbeats are accustomed to that coldness..
Aroma of cold coffee..
Soul filling fragrance
Soul filling coldness.....