Memories

June 2009 :

Friend : 'I wish to live in a world where everyone is always'

Me : Me too....but it changes fast...people changes...everything changes...... you never know when a person will turn hostile or leave you. :-)
It's more obvious when one meets many people.

Friend : I enjoy your way of talking

Me : this is the way a Buddha talks...haha!

Anyway, the only way to remain unaffected with change and feel as if nothing changes is to detach oneself from all that which changes.

Friend : Thats a task for a lifetime, dear :)

Me : really? Isn't it just about being aware & enjoy inner bliss.....just a moment is needed!


Friend : Ah, i am smiling, so cool!

Spiritual Loneliness

 Indeed, I often wonder if I represent anyone at all, and I am inclined to think that I do not, though many have kindly and friendly feelings towards me. I have become a queer mixture of the East and West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere. Perhaps my thoughts and approach to life are more akin to what is called Western than Eastern, but India clings to me, as she does to all her children, in inumerable ways; and behind me lie, somewhere in the subconscious, racial memories of a hundred, or whatever the number may be, generations of Brahmans. I cannot get rid of either that past inheritance or my recent acquisitions. They are both part of me, and, though they help me in both the East and the West, they also create in me a feeling of spiritual loneliness not only in public activities but in life itself. I am a stranger and alien in the West. I cannot be of it. But in my own country also, sometimes, I have an exile's feeling.

Excerpts from Page 616-17 of the book 'An autobiography : Jawaharlal Nehru'

Fullness of Life

We have posed often enough and struck up attitudes, but there was something very real and intensely truthful in much that we did, and this lifted us out of our petty selves and made us more vital and gave us an importance that we would otherwise not have had. Sometimes we were fortunate enough to experience that fullness of life which comes from attempting to fit ideals with action. And we realized that any other life involving a renunciation of these ideals and a tame submission to superior force, would have been a wasted existence, full of discontent and inner sorrow.
To me these years have brought one rich gift, among many others. More and more I have looked upon life as an adventure of absorbing interest, where there is so much to learn, so much to do. I have continually had a feeling of growing up, and that feeling is still with me and gives a zest to my activities as well as to the readings of books, and generally makes life worthwhile.

Excerpts from Page 615-16 of the book 'An autobiography : Jawaharlal Nehru'

The warrior of light meditates

He sits in a quiet place in his tent and surrenders himself to the divine light. When he does this, he tries not to think about anything; he shuts himself off from the search for pleasure, from challenges and revelations, and allow his gifts and powers to reveal themselves.

Even if he does not recognizes them then, these gifts and powers are taking care of his life and will influence his day-to-day existence.

While he meditates, the warrior is not himself, but a spark from the Soul of the World. These are the moments that give him an understanding of his responsibilities and of how he should behave accordingly.

A warrior of light knows that in the silence of his heart he will hear an order that will guide him.

- Excerpt from 'Manual of the Warrior of Light' taken with permission by Paulo Coelho
Website : www.paulocoelho.com

Final Aim

 Our final aim can only be a classless society with equal economic justice and opportunity for all, a society organized on a planned basis for the raising of mankind to higher material and cultural levels, to a cultivation of spiritual values, of co-operation, unselfishness, the spirit of service, the desire to do right, goodwill and love - ultimately a world order. Everything that comes in the way will have to be removed, gently if possible, forcibly if necessary. And there seems to be little doubt that coercion will often be necessary. But if force is used it should not be in the spirit of hatred or cruelty, but with the dispassionate desire to remove an obstruction. That will be difficult. It is not an easy task; there is no easy way, and the pitfalls are numerous. The difficulties and pitfalls do not disappear by our ignoring them, but by realizing their true nature and facing them boldly. All this sounds fanciful and Utopian, and it is highly unlikely that many people will be moved by these noble motives. But we can keep them in view and stress them, and it may be that gradually they will lessen the hatreds and passions that fill most of us.

Excerpts from Page 570-71 of the book 'An autobiography : Jawaharlal Nehru'

A Warrior of light often loses heart

He believes that nothing can stir in him the emotion he so desired. He is forced to spend many evenings and nights feeling that he is one of the vanquished, and nothing seems able to restore his enthusiasm.
His friends say : 'Perhaps his fight is over.'

The warrior feels pain and confusion when he hears such remarks because he knows that he has not yet reached the place he wanted to reach. But he is stubborn and refused to relinquish his aims.

Then, when he least expects it, a new door opens.

- Excerpt from 'Manual of the Warrior of Light' taken with permission by Paulo Coelho
Website : www.paulocoelho.com

A warrior of light needs love

Love and affection are as much a part of his nature as eating and drinking and a taste for the Good fight. When the warrior watches a sunset and feels no joy, then something is wrong.

At this point, he stops fighting and goes in search of company, so that they can watch the setting sun together.

If he has difficulty in finding company, he asks himself : 'Was I too afraid to approach someone? Did I receive affection and not even notice?'

A warrior of light makes use of solitude, but is not used by it.

- Excerpt from 'Manual of the Warrior of Light' taken with permission by Paulo Coelho
Website : www.paulocoelho.com

When somebody wants something, the whole Universe conspires in their favour.

The warrior of light knows this.

For this reason, he takes great care with his thoughts. Hidden beneath a whole series of good intentions lie feelings that no one dares confess to himself : vengeance, self-destruction, guilt, fear of winning, a macabre joy at other people's tragedies.

The Universe does not judge, it conspires in favour of what we want. That is why warrior has the courage to look into the dark places of his soul in order to ensure that he is not asking for the wrong things.

And he is always very careful about what he thinks.

- Excerpt from 'Manual of the Warrior of Light' taken with permission by Paulo Coelho
Website : www.paulocoelho.com

The Warrior of light does not worry that......

The Warrior of light does not worry that, to others, his behaviour might seem quite mad.

He talks out loud to himself when he is alone. Someone told him that this is the best way of communicating with the angels, and so he takes a chance and tries to make contact.

At first, he finds this very difficult. He thinks that he has nothing to say, that he will just repeat the same meaning less twaddle. Even so, the warrior persists. He spends all day talking to his heart. He says things with which he does not agree, he talks utter nonsense.

One day, he notices a change in his voice. He realises that he is acting as a channel for some higher wisdom.

The warrior may seem mad, but this is just a disguise.

- Excerpt from 'Manual of the Warrior of Light' taken with permission by Paulo Coelho
Website : www.paulocoelho.com

The Warrior of light behaves like a child

People are shocked, they have forgotten that a child needs to have fun and to play, to be slightly irreverent and to ask awkward, childish questions, to talk nonsense that not even he believes in.

And they say, horrified : 'So this is the spiritual path, is it? He's so immature!'

The warrior feels proud of such comments. And he remains in touch with God through his innocence and his joy, without ever losing sight of his mission.

- Excerpt from 'Manual of the Warrior of Light' taken with permission by Paulo Coelho
Website : www.paulocoelho.com