Wednesday, September 22, 2010

What an advice..!

No words...to say WHAT i FeeL fer this poignant piece of Magic...frem the Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda...


It's  a translation...from Spanish...but...but..what an idea...fer us Humans...who have made our Lives soo Complicated...n Cruel...


We need to learn so much from the birds, animals & trees...which dance & celebrate existence, love, the sun, wind & rain....while we try to use the same to divide & sow seeds of hatred amongst ourselves...!! :-/


Take care...n Take a Deep Breath...before u dip into this gem...!!! 


LOVE,
The boy in rags








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Keeping Quiet ( Spanish= A callarse )
by Pablo Neruda 


Now we will count to twelve
and we will all keep still. 

For once on the face of the earth,
let's not speak in any language;
let's stop for one second,
and not move our arms so much.  


It would be an exotic moment,
without rush, without engines;
all of us would be together
in a sudden strangeness.  


Fishermen in the cold sea
would not harm the whales
and the man gathering salt
would look at his hurt hands.  


Those who prepare green wars,
wars with gas, wars with fire,
victories without survivors,
would put on clean clothes
and would walk about with their brothers
in the shade, doing nothing. 

What I want should not be confused
with total inactivity:
Life is what it is about;
I want no truck with death. 

If we were not so single minded
about keeping our lives moving,
and for once could do nothing,
perhaps a huge silence
might interrupt this sadness,
of never understanding ourselves
and of threatening ourselves with death.
Perhaps the earth can teach us
when everything seems dead
and later proves to be alive. 

Now I will count up to twelve
and you keep quiet and I will go.
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Silence and Darkness... :)

A snap I took of my lit'l Buddha i-Dol-l...a GiFT indeed...!!


and i dont know why that caption/saying came... :)

Perhaps...influenced by Emerson...who said..."[Only] when it is dark, you can see the stars"...


As i said...


We need DARKNESS to appreciate LIGHT...and SILENCE to appreciate the Song-birds & MUSIC..!
....Else we could well become Numb to even the good-things..


Hmmmmm... :)


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Love,
The Boy in Rags...
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Click on the image below...& lemme know how you like it... 

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Out of the Blue..!

Oh My, My !!


No words to express the incredible POWER of this phenomenon today...featuring...something very rare....something...called Intuition...!
{I don't want to talk much about it here...though some of my close friends have been unlucky enough to hear loads about it...! :) }


Today, was my first day at office...with my head & body still reeling in the wake of my ruthlessness & restless travels & travails...


And I had gone to the office with loads of sweets to share on the occasion of my sister's recent engagement...(August-29, a Prime...as i noted.. :) )...


Sure enough, replies & wishes started pouring in from many of my friends...spread out over different office-buildings...& I too got busy planning about my future line of work...now that i was back in office...


But one such mail from a dear friend...caught my eye...!
I don't know HOW...and I simply do not know WHY...!


It was a simple mail from him--my friend & colleague Shreyas, which said he would love to catch up with me...
But in the signature...was his mobile number....which was what struck ME immediately...!!


I did NOT do ANY calculations...Absolutely NONE...!
But my "HEART" (it's not the heart literally, when we use this term...mind you..!), instantly felt that this number, MUST be PRiME...! :)


My MIND laughed off the idea...since the probability that a number that is of the order of 9 BILLION & 900 Million ...being a PRIME is simply sooo tiny...JUST that it is ODD is NO reason to believe it to be PRIME...!!


BUT...


As I was discussing with my dear friend Siva over tea in the morning...we're more of HEART-people...& soon, my HEART had won over...!


I quickly ran a check on the number...HEART in my Mouth.....


[9900-----9]


Aannnd....


VoiLa...!!!!


It was PRIME indeed...! :)


ANNND don't think it is just hindsight now....


There is something beyond LoGiC,...
It even surpasses MAGiC...


(for what we call as Magic..is usually just sleight-of-hand..!)


It is what is called Intuition...it happens to ALL of Us...some or the other time...but we seldom listen to it...since, we have some other priorities...!


Like LoVE, it is one of the greatest GiFTs of which we can sometimes see a glimpse of...! :)
And just like LoVE, it is the least understood...& un-explored...! :-|


And today...me moron was lucky enough to be in a state of Mind-less-ness, so that i did not sniff this voice... :)


I immediately hastened to thank my friend...for his mail to me..:)


But the beautiful part was...while doing it...me discovered YET another lovely fact about that number...!! :)


Me came to know...that...that....


the NUMBER....the 10-digit number....was in fact the hypotenuse of a Right-angled Triangle...!! :)


In other words...it was ALSO the eldest sibling...to put it in my words...of a "basic" or "unique" Pythagorean triplet (a,b,c)...!!! :)


"Basic" in the sense, 


Given that (a,b,c) is a "basic" Pythagorean triplet, we can trivially derive an infinite number of Pythagorean triplets for ALL +ve integers k...
ie. if (a,b,c) is a Pythagorean triplet, 
then, it implies that (k.a, k.b, k.c) is also a Pythagorean triplet fer ALL values of k over the set of +ve integers.


E.g., Given that (3,4,5) is a Pythagorean triplet,
then, so is (6,8,10), & so is (9,12, 15) & so on...!! ( see why..?? :) )
[Try it with your friends & Maths "cheaters"...oops i mean "teachers" esp., when they ask you to tell them some Pythagorean triplets...!! :)]


But (3,4,5) is irreducible (in the realm of Integers!) & that is  what i called a "basic" Pythagorean triplet.. :) But right now, me moron do NOT know the exact term used fer such triplets...MUST be something similar is what...my Intuition tells me..!! :)


ANYWAY, where was I...??
Where AM i..??


Here i AM...still reeling....will faint to sleep now....my DREAMS await me..!! :)


I am still thrilled to recall the moment when I discover, to my SURPRISE & WONDER...
that the 9 Billion-plus number...could NOT only be a PRiME...but then..later on...the eldest sibling of a basic Pythagorean Triplet too...!!


I could NOT ask fer MORE...on an other-wise ordinary looking day...!


HOPE you too have had experiences of this kind...(need not be w.r.t numbers...ANYthing...!)...


and HOPE u will stop & LISTEN & FEEL what your HEART--nay, Intuition has to say..! :)


Good Night...! Sleep Snug & Tight...!
And my you Feel such Love & Delight..! :)


LOVE & Best Wishes,
the moron in rags...
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And to make you smile now...here goes...(Courtesy Jim Davis...) :)
Click on it...fer a clear view..! 

Sunday, September 5, 2010

When Life Seemed Nothing..!

I sat & sighed heavily....

Recently, I have had the feeling that...Life...the thing we're so excited about...this phenomenon...is....


Life!  is Nothing.... :-(


In-voluntarily, an equation came to me...out of the dull & dreary emptiness of TIME....where ALL I could see on the time-scape (like land-scape...) was Nothing-ness...


In deed, I felt...
"Life!" = "Nothing..." :(


I went out...fer a walk alone...and then mentally gazed at the strange Equation-essence that I had seemed to have distilled from the cauldron of my experiences...


It was both beautiful & bitterly painful...to make eye-contact with it..., as i could sense something laughing at my helpless-ness...

But then...


After having felt empty, tired, lonely, & frustrated....& having uttered that....a strange thought...an observation pops up...followed by a gush of emotions of some special people, & loved & loving ones...


I sigh...smile...nod my head...& remark silently to my-self...

"Life!" = "Nothing..."

Hmmm...!!

But well...u moRon..!

The equation...is commutative....so please re-Right it...i mean re-write it...& you shall see... :)

Indeed...THANKS to some Miracles....some Angels....

"Nothing..." = "Life!"

Yes...!! I exclaimed...!! :)

NOTHING...equals LIFE! 

I Sigh again....but this time...with a smile on my lips...& tears in my eyes...

:). . .

Love & THANKS,

a Life (or a Nothing ! ) in 'rags'. . . :) . . .












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To make you smile. . . :) (please click on the picture below to 'see' clearly)

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Do NOT Miss GOD...! :)

Watch OUT...!! Open your eyes..!!
Don't MISS...and regret later...but SEE n Rejoice NOW..!!


I don't know...


I just don't know...! :-( 


The saddest part is that we humans somehow, somewhy JUST Can't FEEL it...!!! :-(


We're insulated against the Miraculous presence of anything Truly Divine...though we can ONLY follow dogmas & rituals superficially...!!


Me just had a tiff with my relatives & people in my village regarding some stupid procedures & thoughts that they seem to still harbour...without ever having any convincing reasons to do so...! (For example, the idea of Animal-sacrifice to appease the so-called Gods & Goddesses, Un-touchability, Looking down on people of other countries, color, or communities...first of all, CLASSifying ( & hence dividing !! ) people like that....
Fears about Celestial bodies/events like Eclipses, New-Moon, etc... & then the ridiculous idea that we can even propitiate the ANGRY planets & stars, abhorring/avoiding a person on the (BLIND!!)-basis that he/she was/is born under a bad-star or angry planet's influence, etc..!!
(Would consider to agree if they can at-least calculate the so-called influence of all the 10^11 X 10^11 stars in the observable UNIVERSE...!!!!! 
Ludicrous..!!! 
And quite Frustrating in deed..!!! 
Instead of appreciating the Beautiful chance called LIFE on our Love-ly Planet...we spend our time perpetuating such ugly Un-TRUTHS...instilling future generations with FEAR & IGNORANCE instead of a sense of AWE n WONDER at the marvels of our Universe & our incredible abode of Earth...! 
WHEN will ASTRONOMY replace our ASTROLOGY...? 
WHEN will SCIENCE temper our Pseudo-Science driven by Religion...n uncover the TRUE Religion of Humanity & LOVE...??? )
But it is amazing that they do NOT Believe ANY Good things the SAME way...!! :)


Phew...!!!


Came across this Lovely song...& want to share it..BEFORE it's too LATE...!! :)


It's from a forth-coming Bollywood movie called "Anjaana Anjaani"...


Sung beautifully by a Mr. R -- :) Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, son of the legendary singer...the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan... :)


Sorry for those who do NOT understand Hindi, but the song..is essentially a message by the so-called ALMIGHTY (force)...who says to the listener :


"YOU do NOT know, nor can you see or feel...But GOD is Right there...!! :)
Even in your moments of Abysmal Darkness and Despair...fear Not..GOD is there...
Your Miserable Lines of FATE...Courage & Faith CAN Repair...
Because, even When you Feel you are LEFT all ALONE...
Despair NOT...for GOD...is ALWAYS with you...Right there...!! :) "




But....ALAS, we people...do NOT seem to CARE...


I always used to say...that GOD has perhaps STOPPED Looking AFTER Us...!! 


But perhaps...it is the Other way round...


It is US...who have Stopped 'SEEING', Stopped FEEL-ing... :(


Will we WAKE up...??


Shouldn't we TRY..?? 


I leave you with the "divine" lyrics...


and Lots of LOVE..and a piece of GOD...it's upto YOU to FEEL it..!!


R...
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Tu Na Jaane Aas Paas Hai Khuda...! 

Dhundhla jaayein jo manzilein
Ik pal ko tu nazar jhuka
Jhuk jaaye sar jahan wahin
Milta hai rab ka raasta
Teri kismat tu badal de
Rakh himmat bas chal de..!
Tere saathi mere kadmon ke hain nishaan..! 
Tu na jaane aas pass hai khuda..!


Khud pe daal tu nazar, Haalaton se haar kar
Kahaan chala re..? 
Haath ki lakeer ko, Modta marodta, 
Hai hausla re
Toh khud tere khwabon ke rang mein
Tu apne jahan ko bhi rang de..!
Ke chalta hoon main tere sang mein
Ho shaam bhi toh kya ?
Jab hoga andhera
Tab paayega dar mera
Uss dar pe phir hogi teri subah
Tu na jaane aas pass hai Khuda..!


Mitt jaate hain sabke nishaan
Bas ek woh mitt ta nahin haye
Maan le jo har mushkil ko marzi meri haye
Ho humsafar na tera jab koi
Tu ho jahan rahunga main wahi
Tujhse kabhi na ik pal bhi main judaa
Tu na jaane aas pass hai Khuda..!
Tu na jaane aas pass hai Khuda..!...

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