Wrt ‘ee jevanevella nashwara’ (this life is so impermanent) feeling - is it better to not feel it and (unknowingly of course) assume that everything will be as it is forever?

Probably if I did not have any appreciation for silence / meditation, if I’d simply tried to understand all the words here, maybe I might’ve found it pretty complex as well. Some people who read what I write but havent met me for a long time wonder if I’m a very serious fellow… but my colleagues in US ask me if I’ve taken over the humor dept over here having heard from others here, as I am in general a very active fellow making everyone laugh (or atleast trying ) a lot of the time and also somehow have managed to con clients into thinking I’m very efficient at work as well.

A really simple book if you like… I thoroughly enjoyed reading this - it had many practical ideas implementable in ordinary day to day situations. Seven Laws of Spiritual Success by Deepak Chopra. It had many beautiful ideas which I hope to cultivate better over time.

I best thing I would love about your blog is photographs….

Most of the time when I read your and Sanjay’s lines, I start feeling like ‘ ee jeevanevella nashwara types ‘.. Well, my personal thoughts so!

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Thanks,
Veena

As always you fill up my blog with best of writings,

It’s strange how we move from one goal to other so quickly, Education, Job, house, wealth - the list keeps on increasing. but whenever we attain peace as a first step. it’s amazing how we attract everything we need. I guess most of the people lives end up in barking at wrong tree.

couldn’t agree with you more, I am fortunate to be part of huge sufi community and most of them turn out to be ordinary and so ordinary it seems that extra-ordinary is name of the ordinary.

I sometimes get concerns about how much I am under-utilizing my life - shouldnt I be achieving lots of things? assuming an average life span of 70 half my life is already over and I havent made lots of money to assure myself of a luxurious life with financial security nor have I made some world changing discovery nor have I positively touched people’s lives or made any significant contribution to society. I feel helpless and lost.

Then I recall some of the ideas here about ambitions, and then I esp recall something you had mentioned somewhere of some Sufi master who is some unknown person who simply sweeps the streets of Pakistan all day. Then i realise that if I can just be even 1% cleanse my heart and be as unburdened and lighthearted and down to earth as such a person - this is the one and only thing that really matters - there’s nothing more to achieve than that. All these other temporary ambitions merely become irrelevant consequences out of countless outcomes. Who am I to nominate myself for such things …and I feel more at peace…

“to spend next five days just meditating in a resort” - is truly the best thing one can do as a holiday!! enjoy!

love your work and love your art, you inspire

What a inspiring blog , suresh , I just felt like writing as if you asked me a question

I guess i can hope you will bring more wisdom to your readers after this trip!

see you soon friend, your pearls of wisdom meanwhile continue to shine even without you!