Lived life...the real way...

On November 13th, the third part of Maestro Ilayaraja's "Netru Indru Naalai" was telecasted on Jaya TV. I had the oppurtunity to watch the whole telecast without any interruptions (thanks to my roomies who had gone out ;-))

It goes without saying that the programme was such a wonderful one. There were two masterpieces. One was from a Malayalam movie (a Balumahendra film, I guess it was Oalam or something like that) and the next was a Telugu piece. The first one was a wonderfully orchestrated piece with Ilayaraja chipping in with the aalaaps (if I may call the "dhamdhana dhamdhana" that way). The second one was rendered by Shreya Goshal, SPB and Ilayaraja with an excellent orchestration again.

I was actually doing some calculations with the TV running in the background. When these two pieces begun, I dropped everything and started listening to them and in a moment there were tears flowing from the eyes. The mind was blank. It was so blissful at that point. I let the tears flow as they wished, and laid there, still, basking in the beauty of the composition.

I felt I had lived that moment to the fullest extent. I was rooted in the present. It was an inexplicable feeling. It was then I remembered an excerpt from the Art of Living courses where they say something on the lines of "How many times have you laughed till tears flow out of your eyes...How many times have you forgotten everything and lived in that moment.....Those are the mometns when you have truely lived your life".

It was such a joyous experience. Thanks to the Maestro for that soul stirring music. It was as if, the string on which my soul was running was plucked and set into a vibration. As all of us know, Ilayaraja is such a spiritual person and it is no wonder that his spirituality has its say in his music.

I was so happy for having lived life the real way, at least for a moment...

Shameless shams

Today, I happened to visit the blogs one of the budding playback singers in the Tamil Industry. I visit her space sporadically and she had one particular post where she had talked about how a particular post was lost when she tried uploading it.

Being a very popular singer, her posts attract a large number of comments. As usual this post also saw a large number of comments. Many of them suggested saving a copy before posting, some other helpful software and such things. There were 17 such useful tips/empathy messages, none of which drew a response from this star.
Then, one particular guy, using a bug in the blogger, posted a comment in that singer's identity. Immediately came a furious reply from the singer followed by a few exchanges betweent he 'hacker' and the 'star'. Subsequent to this, I posted a comment on the singer's post which more or less, read something like...

"One interesting observation...Human beings generally tend to focus on the negatives more easily than the positives. So many people had given so much useful information, but they weren't able to attract a response but one hacked message is able to genereate an immediate response. Nice way to gain a person's attention na? Sorry about your lost post"

Now, to my surprise (and anger), when I returned to her blog sometime later, I found my comment missing and there was a new post. The new post carried a thank you all message (to all the commenters of the aforementioned post) and that the hack issue had been resolved.

What I am irritated about is why are people afraid to accept criticisms. By deleting my comment and subsequently sending a thank you message to the others, she has shamelessly concealed the whole incident. I definitely hate this whole attitude. And worse, it seems she's also involved psychology... Wonder what her patients will go thru a sham psychologist...

I am not going to reveal her name and hence attract more hits to her blog. I'll tell you, I was and still am mad with her God-gifted voice, but my obsession stops there. As a person, the lesser said, the better.

This is not a problem with her alone. Being in a star status and also being easy-to access (thanks to the blogger) she would have resorted to such a mean act. But many of us are like that. (Please note that I ain't perfect either...Just that I hate this attitude) We have ugly faces and we try to cover it up all the times in front of others. Why all this...

Logic...

One of the most valuable things I have learnt from my Isha classes is that logic is not all-pervasive: it is only a minor subset of the whole. The alphabet set of logic cannot explain life and world. It does cater to your materialistic livelihood. Period.

More often than not, we tend to disregard many occurrences as "illogical", thanks to our deficient logic.

I was having a good refreshing discussion with Bhoobi yesterday night, in our terrace. We were discussing about life in general intercepted with a few gleanings from our yoga classes. He gave a beautiful anecdote to explain the handicap of logic.

You eat one laddoo. It tastes amazing. You feel happy. Logic tells you that if you have 10 laddoos, you'll be still more happier... Sadly that is not the case, isn't it? Our experience says otherwise.

Well, all I can say at this point in time is that Isha is imparting amazing LIFE knowledge. Though confounded by logic many a times I guess I am realising a fraction of the drop of the ocean: logic is useless in the para-materialistic world.


p.s: If there's a way by which I can control all your lives for 10 days, I'll make you all attend the Isha course.

And the party consists of De-Noi,Banti, me and Bhoo... 

Potato fry...Payasam...Rasam...close up 

Kalyaana samayal saadham... 

On Diwali @ Naresh's place...