Few more tips about
this blog
It’s often mentioned “It
was a wonderful story. Never heard of it before?” So coming to stories in this
blog (Or me, my Guru series) They are from three sources broadly speaking.
1. One, of course that
is clearly evident is from Hindu Mythology and Puranas. Many stories from Epics
of Hinduism namely Mahabharat and Ramayan are take and told to explain certain
aspects of our life and its situations. That way, it becomes easier for the reader
to also see that they are just not some stories that ought to be read out of
blind belief – but are ‘guides’ that explain how we are to handle ourselves and
our situations of life! Many people including Indians read these scriptures out
of faith and then keep it aside! That is not the purpose of these scriptures. They
are to be ingested in our way of thinking living and dealings in life. Only when
that happens, can we take pride in our treasure trove of knowledge passed on by
our ‘Seers’. Unlike other religions of the world, nowhere in Hinduism, we are
told to behave as ‘blind sheep or sinners’. We are ever asked to realize our ‘real
divinity’ and act in accordance with that ‘Divine’ that is in all of us!
I also write stories
from ‘Upanishads’ which are dear to me in so many ways!
2. The second set of
stories is anecdotes and fables taken from all over the world.
3. Third, are the stories
which have been written for the first time ever – solely for the purpose of
this blog – many times fresh off the oven – meaning I had written and posted it
simultaneously. ‘Stories and All’ series especially belongs to this category.
Sometimes, I have
developed a sentence I heard or a joke I liked into a story for you. Well,
whatever is the source; remember story is just the medium used to drive home
the point. It was used to show the possibility of living ‘an attitude or a
character’. It was to show how mind and ego work towards creating hell for us
and how we get entangled in it. It also is to show how and what techniques we
are to apply to come out of this quagmire of ‘self-inflicting disease’ of ‘self-destruction’!
It is to help us to ‘aware’ of our ‘slip areas’. It is to point us our fall or
remind us of our weakness – the causes and effects of such weakness and how to
overcome it too! If you like and remember the story only, the whole purpose is
lost! But...
Contd....
Points to be taken :
- Every thing has a purpose. WE need to seek it to know it.
- When we assign 'value' good or bad to everything we read we miss out of getting what it has to offer us! We need to empty our hearts of its tastes for our minds to receive from it!
- Even when we read, we read out of ego and hence need to be told the same story again and again by the Universe to drive home a point.
