Timeless River

 

Time flies, it flows like a river, and you are flowing in it never backwards but always forward no matter what the tide is and the current is. Time this mysterious river that ages us all and takes us away from the physical world after a finite amount, I wonder who decides how long we get to travel in its waters but one thing is fixed. We cannot travel forever and the journey will end one day. We start this journey with so much energy and as the body get's older the energy fades. Right from the beginning of time when human kind lived in the wilderness in small tribes. Humans spend their time to survive, in the beginning it was all about survival. All they did was hunt, so they could eat, find shelter so they could be safe and wore animal skin. We don't just live in the river of our own time, our river exists in different rivers which directly affects your individual river. For example, the Earth too has its river of time, and the earth has evolved drastically over time. It has been home to dinosaurs, and depending at what age of the world you belonged to, your river of time would have been directly influenced by the earth's river of time. We don't have the dinosaurs anymore that was at a different time in the earth's journey and in its current time and the influence it has in our lives, we humans have travelled a long way but yet we work for the basic things the early man did. Food, shelter and clothing, we go to work so we can have all that we require for our basic survival. But that's not it right, though basically it is the only things we need somewhere in the river of earth's time humans evolved to amazing breath taking extends. 

It's not just enough for us to survive we need to thrive, we need more than food, shelter or clothes, we need luxury, we need more in terms of everything, bigger houses, more money, recognition, status, success I could go on and on. Somehow it is not enough for man to have enough, cause enough seems to be never enough. Somehow without being in that league of having more you are going to fall back in the line of society's hierarchy. In other words if you need to get your ass kissed or seem relevant you need to have more. But yet we evolve, we evolve and we don't even notice it. Maybe the earth too has an ultimate purpose to play in the universe. But do we really even want to know what is the earth's purpose when we struggle to understand our own. Meantime we are stuck in the survival process that has got so complicated since the early man we have completely fallen out of sync with the planet. We have fallen into an illusion of a possession driven life and somehow accumulating possessions is the modern man's ultimate goal. We have just become hoarders, we have reduced ourselves to collecting worldly possessions and it has become so normal it will be madness if you thought anyway else. I guess there is nothing wrong in having or wanting to have and experience wealth and having all the possessions one could think off. But then concluding that all this is what defines you or life is the part I'm talking about. 

Not having any messiah assigned to save us and the teaching of the old and ancient times fading, are we losing the grip of reality? Are we lost in the greed for power, money, and success. Have we made sacrifices for the wrong reasons or have these reasons become the new standard for survival that we forget to be humane. The truth is we are all so deeply affected we don't stop to think and instead feed all our energy to running the rat race hoping one day we find fulfilment like once when we were children and in turn we feed these survival skills to the younger generation thinking without it they would be doomed but in actuality we are dooming them by just teaching them to survive in a way we are tying to escape from. The truth is we don't need anything to thrive, we don't need to stress ourselves to the point of madness to find happiness. We just need to understand that the things we are truly looking for are free and there is no price required to be paid. What we all truly want is to dance through life, not matter if it is a thunderstorm or sunshine we are experiencing in our physical reality. What we want is to celebrate life and to live life each moment being completely present and aware of each breath you take and being content by the fact you have truly and joyous lived that moment. What we want is not plan and wait for the experience to come but live that experience each day until it comes true. What we truly want is to be surprised by life each day and lead fulfilled lives in spite of all the things that seem to go wrong or not your way. 

What if you could be the person that takes you to a place within yourself which you thought that never existed. A place that can give you a new level of clarity, focus and drive to be who you truly were meant to be. Being alive is just being aware of your breath, cause that is the only way you know you are alive. Think about it maybe you'd wake up worrying, or wake up desiring so many things, but, not even worry or desire can exist if your not alive. And to be full of life and live each moment to its fullest you cannot be worried all the time nor be a prisoner of your desires, you need to understand the gift of life first to be truly alive, the fact that you're just breathing must mean something to you. And the day it means everything, that day you would begin to realise what it means to be full of life. A profound moment where you are set free from the cycles and man made madness and routines. A point where you see life not from the living or survival point of view fed into your head since birth, but rather from the a point to just live and be you. An effortless sense of being you, clear in the head and focused, full of love in the heart and surplus of energies all driving you to be whatever you wish to be with no regard to possessing anything but rather just experiencing, contributing and supporting to sustain that life in and around you. An abundant being that doesn't need to hoard or hold on to things cause you're always evolving to better versions of you that is already abundantly rich in every way you can fathom.

It is in that realisation that truly sets you free from everything even yourself that seems to be chained to so many things binding you. Be quiet, silence yourself so you hear that inner voice. True growth happens in silence and it does not seek an audience. True growth isn't looking for approval but liberation, liberation from the noise to a peace and quiet where the world is under your grasp and happiness a choice rather than a pursuit. It's in the quiet moments transformation happens where you have the ability to transcend to a new version  of you that seemed impossible to achieve. For this you got to stop running and stand still and from the stillness of your being you will begin to live and enjoy your life in every breath you take living an effortless life riding the waves cruising through the river of time effortlessly. Somehow making your experience here like you were on a timeless river. Because in your stillness time flows through you and in the mad man's world you run behind it. 

Star Light (Part-2)

 

Drumbeats are coming from a distance, the kind of beats that makes you want to sway to the rhythm or move your head to the beats. There’s something about music it sets you free, there’s something about music it gives you wings and makes you want to fly. It moves you in ways you thought you wouldn’t have, it makes you express yourself in ways you thought you couldn’t have. The drumbeats are approaching, can you feel its intensity, can you feel the sound reverberating into you almost like an invisible hand caressing your soul, and you feel alive like you never have before. There is no denying that music is inspiring, and it’s rightfully said that “Music is food for the soul”. It makes you wild and grips you from within making you sway to its rhythm making you feel like the wind, wild free and ferocious. It teases your senses and at times giving you the goosebumps, remember, how many times have you listened to your favorite song, over and over again repeatedly, like an addiction you take it all in. I feel the universe too is sort of the same, it inspires you through people or when you travel to an exotic country, music, food, cinema or even art. We are all so uniquely different, different things inspires us. Like them drum beats I sometimes feel the universe is drawing our attention to something within ourselves, that sparks a fire within us, that brings a yearning for us to be an instrument like the drums and allowing the universal juice to flow through us and then sending the beats or vibes of who we are to the world. Imagine radiating pure awesomeness all the time, I wonder how that would feel? Can you?

Imagine all of the wonders man has accomplished over the centuries, if you notice only the most exquisite pieces of work may it be in architecture, philosophy, medicine, technology, the arts etc. etc. has stood the test of time. Time will erase us all one day, nothing stands against the test of time apart from the wonders you leave behind to inspire future generations, it’s almost like leaving a time stamp stating that the people of this particular generation belonging to this era of time leave this marvel behind so the future generations be inspired to evolve and blossom to a better community. And through the work they left behind we get a glimpse of what the people were like at that age, what they thought and what they hoped for the planet to be. But the planet also faced dark periods through the ages, it has suffered and has been put to the test but amazingly humans emerge out of it not to barely survive but to thrive prosperously. Maybe some of us would achieve greatness in a global scale or maybe to the point you inspire your country men or maybe just your community in your town or village or just your family. It does not matter at what scale or capacity you brought that change, what’s important is you’ve inspired, even if its just a soul and by that one act you would have started a small ripple in the fabric of time and space for something extra ordinary to occur in the future.

There is a story of Lord Krishna when he was a child, he was wrongly accused of eating dirt and when his mother Yashoda came to correct Lord Krishna for his doing, Lord Krishna responded saying he did no such thing, but not believing the child she asked him to open his mouth and found the entire galaxies and stars the complete universe in Lord Krishna’s mouth. What if, that was a clue the Lord gave us, to tell us that we are the universe and we embody all the mysteries and wonders of it within us. How else would have man evolved from dwelling in the caves to sending launch vehicles into space, how could we achieve such unimaginable feats unless there was some magical mystical mystery in our being. We create things like God creates, only restricted to our potential, but then what is our true potential. Each one of us has that potential but we have lost the ability to see it, believe it, understand it because we stopped seeking it. It is there always calling out to us, speaking to us through people, experiences or even in the drumbeats coming out from that distant drum. You are more than you imagine because you are as deep and wide as the universe something which we cannot fathom. If you think your waiting for the experience so you’d wake up, trust me, it happens a lot in a person’s life. Now its all about responding to that call and taking a leap of faith in that direction, you are just a chemical reaction away to a spontaneous soulful combustion so just decide and let go and watch yourself create wonders.

I hear the drumbeats beating and I feel so alive that I cannot stop my legs from tapping to its rhythm. The hardest part in life is when you’re struggling and you feel the shit has really hit the ceiling, you feel heavy and chained, stuck in a reality you just can’t wait to escape and when hope behaves like a flickering torch light in the darkness of your doom just about to run of its battery charge. Close your eyes and listen to that drum beat and let it guide you, that silent voice that whispers in your ears “Keep Going” listen to it and do what you must. For all the energies you have inside of you, is for you to wield, you will realize that the more you can wield it, you sort of feel like you’re holding the Excalibur of your life and then as you learn to use it, you will also learn to create your world as you please. You will realize the power within you and in self belief the real journey starts. You will realize that you are a weapon that can change your own fate and for others. A weapon so unique that there is only one like you out there in the entire world and in the cosmos. There is only one color to darkness and that is black but the light its more. Light can be broken down to its spectrum of colors, VIBGYOR like we learnt in physics. So maybe there is no one version of the truth and due to our uniqueness we see the truth in different versions, but whatever it maybe go ahead and experience your truth, your truest truth because you absolutely deserve it.

Have you heard about a British soldier named Henry James Tandey  who sparred the life of a wounded Adolf Hitler during the first world war. I guess many would have debated a lot on, why oh why, didn't he shoot Hitler. Well in his defense, who would have known that Adolf Hitler would go ahead and do what he did. Yes for sure Henry could have stopped the second world war but maybe that wasn't natures intention. The sad part is even after his life was sparred Hitler did not change his ways, his near death experience did not transform him to be a better man but he rather saw it as an opportunity thinking to himself "Ha, now I can go ahead with my evil plan". And like all villains we see in movies we saw him fall too. But I wonder. what if, he transformed his life after that incident and went ahead and became the leader of Germany only to transform the world to a more compassionate place. I wonder what that Hitler would be like, maybe he would have grown his ridiculous moustache out completely and wore a smile on his face kissing people and lifting their spirits up, I feel he would have made a very strong awesome leader. But that was not the case because he had his head so far up in his arsch, he was totally consumed by the darkness within him. He wasn't a cesspool of love, oh no, it was hate. You see, if the darkness doesn't transform you for the greater good it will consume you until you're doomed. So don't hide it, ignore it nor be afraid of it, instead acknowledge it, learn from it and embrace it, cause if you prevent it from consuming you it will lead you to the light. 

My Dad used to always say aim for the stars and if you fail at least you'll fall on the clouds. But I'll say there is no limit to where you wish to aim and even if you fail, get back up and aim again. Nobody will understand the battles you are fighting  nor will anybody come to fight it for you. Only you know the importance of it, and it is ok if you feel you have lost too many battles until now because only a few battles have been lost for you still have the war to win. Like I said you are just a chemical reaction away from reaching there and this time you're going to be awake while you fight to win them.