I am Soul

Hear day and night that you are that Soul. Repeat it to yourselves day and night till it enters into your very veins, till it tingles in every drop of blood, till it is in your flesh and bone. Let the whole body be full of that one ideal, "I am the birth less, the deathless, the blissful, the omniscient, the omnipotent, ever-glorious Soul." Think on it day and night; think on it till it becomes part and parcel of your life. Meditate upon it... All your actions will be magnified, transformed, deified, by the very power of thought. If matter is powerful, thought is omnipotent. Bring this thought to bear upon your life, fill yourselves with the thought of your mightiness, your majesty and your glory.

These conceptions of Vedanta must come out, must remain not only in the forest, not only in the cave, but they must come out to work at the bar and the bench, in the pulpit, and in the cottage of the poor man, with the fishermen that are catching fish, and with the students that are studying... If the fisherman thinks that he is the Spirit, he will be a better fisherman; if the student thinks that he is the Spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks that he is the Spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on...

----- Swami Vivekananda

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Courting New Impressions

The traditional philosopher would urge not to change yourself with time.. But realistically, is it possible?? I think not.. A world of countless individuals, changing all the time, proposing new theories, exploring the unexplored, inventing the unimaginable. Sitting amid, how is it not possible to harbor new ideas, new thoughts, new impressions???

I still remember the day i got my first and only (till date) offer letter. I had so many ideas, so many thoughts, so many wishes run through my mind in those few seconds. Life seemed to be complete. But again, i was yet to confront the blitzkrieg. Now i come face to face with the vagary of life, engaged in a slug fest. The brutal truth "life is not a bed of roses" is evident now. Now i have totally new sets of ideas about my life: the worst is yet to come.

Sitting in the comfort zone of my sweet little home is making me uncomfortable. An idle brain is cultivating moronic signatures in me. Passing days are making me more and more lazy, both mentally and physically. But even in these tough times, some events has led to the metempsychosis of my hopes. I have started to court new impressions, again!! An impression of a better time, an impression of a better life.

Let us divert from here and take a look upon the people around me. Situations coerce us to have new impressions about those who were a cause of concern for us. Alas!! Some are not any more. Times have changed, so has they, so have i. Nothing is stagnant over here. Time flows in its own jaunty attitude. But the morons like me get baffled. We dont realize the right time to move on. Some precious time of our small little lives get wasted understanding the harsh truth: people around us also court new impressions.

So here we go. So does the world. We all change. Changes are necessary. They teach us some valuable lessons of life, some lessons that leave on us enduring impressions, and even alters the rattling flow of our lives. Sometimes we waste a precious winter in the hope of enjoying the next. There is nothing we can gain by remaining imbecile. It is time when i start courting new impressions, instead of waiting for others to do the same.

"Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourselves. Therefore, make your own future."

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