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Sunday, April 24, 2011

WE LIVE AND DIE; HE DIED AND LIVED

This one is a special dedication to a very special person. The one who lived and walked on this planet a approximately 2011 years ago. If you ask me the best example of unconditional love, sacrifice and forgiveness I would suggest his name. A lot has already been spoken and written on him surprisingly many years before he came into existence in flesh and blood. He was praised, adored, followed, loved, believed and can be said as one of the wisest man that has walked on this planet. Also he was persecuted, mocked, laughed, spitted, beaten, thrashed, amused and convicted. Still he stood for what he was sent to do on earth till his last breath. I know I am really nothing to comment on this great man life who has become an inspiration to more than millions and millions of souls.

Mostly people think that Christmas is the most important festival according to Christians    maybe because is symbolizes the birth of Jesus Christ but in reality Easter is the most important festival to a catholic all around the world. Because it reminds us what we are and what we believe in. This day was the same day when Lord Jesus Christ rose from the dead in flesh as he had said after crucifixion on GOOD FRIDAY. He was a living example of gods love to man.

The pinnacle of God love and affection to man was the knowing and willing sacrifice of Jesus and God knew that no matter how hard he wants to bar us from doing sins we will do it as we had done in past so he decided to send his own son in from of human and repent for mans sins. Imagine yourself taking punishment for mistakes done by every human being that has or will be born. I am damn sure you would never volunteer for this. That’s what he did and was chose and sent as human. One man taking punishment of sins of only god knows how many people. If you ask me what is the meaning of Christianity I would tell you it’s the celebration of Jesus Christ’s life. It is the celebration of life and death of one of the most selfless and pure hearted man, son of god as this is said in bible one of the old written manuscript. Remembering his love and sacrifice becoming a living example of it to make earth as good as heaven is Christianity.

Christianity is not a LIFESTYLE or REGULATION as most people believe and stereotyped as “if you are Christian than you MUST be alcoholic or compulsorily a NON-VEG or egotistical”. neither did Christ nor does the bible say any such things. Christianity doesn’t have a DO’s and DONT’s list.

If you believe in love, respect, equality, prayer, forgiveness, Gods Divine power and humanity at large then you are a Christian  If you have ever seen the statue of crucified Christ you see many injuries on Christ’s body its said that whenever any human being (catholic or non) sins its translated into an injury in is crucified body. It occurs whenever you don’t respect your parents, lie, commit adultery and the biggest scare occurs when you lose faith in your own self and in what you believe.

To feel what actually Jesus did see the movie THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST for a change and imagine what ever he did he did for you and whatever happened to him was because of your wrong doings and sins as it is traditionally known from ancient times. I know that am not perfect and it would be absolutely foolish to ask for one such thing as this world doesn't accept such people. But just make u realize how much more punishment you want him to have because of you and your deeds. Everyone has there own conscious and you know best more than anyone what right needs to be done. 

Christ said “don't just love you loved ones and hate those you don’t like but love those who hate you and pray for those who persecute you”

I pray the resurrected Christ forgive you of all your wrong doings and give a everlasting peace in life. Also you get the best EASTER eggs be delivered to you by Easter bunny this holy season.

Happy Easter and god bless you.

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Saturday, April 9, 2011

A SIDDHI FOR AASIDDHI

The resent unpredicted rains caught me off guard and I was annoyed by the fact that I was stuck under a tree which barely provided any shelter for about an hour with some crazy people of which one was carrying her sandals in hand. It hadn’t stopped raining yet and I couldn’t move but those guys eventually did and as they left I saw the same girl walking bare foot on wet road holding sandals in her hands my initial reaction was “ajeeb pagal log hai yaar!”.

I turned around to check and there I saw someone had dropped a wallet there.

“Stupid people” I corrected myself.

I opened it to see a beautiful hand made sketch of Guruji, an ATM card and a family photo were clearly visible. This could be of one of them I realized.

I looked around they were walking and were some distant way

I shouted “excuse me!” none of the four responded

“Helloooo there Mr. Blue shirt” they just continued.

“Oh miss excuse me!!” the girl did not react.

“behere hai kya?”  I asked myself in an angry tone as I didn’t want to go out and wet myself

But eventually I had to run toward them shouting which made me more annoyed as they made me look foolish.

I pulled a guys shoulder and as he turned around I yelled “dude! You all deaf or what?”

Still the terrified confused guy was silent along with everyone. And all of a sudden the entire group simultaneously got busted with energy and started doing various kinds of hand action and I was shocked and embarrassed and without uttering any more words I just showed them the wallet. All of them checked and the bare footed girl got tensed.  She was the culprit. Then she snatched the wallet checked it as if I was a pickpocket and all of a sudden her expression change and I felt “dude I am so screwed”.

Again series of action were performed of which I understood none, then she did a Namskar and I interpreted it as a thank you all started smiling. I wanted to apologize for yelling but I guessed they didn’t hear as all had hearing disability.

“Nice sketch” I said and enacted. The girl smiled and nodded her head.

“Guruji? You drew it?” I questioned and she nodded with more energy with frisk hand motion close to her heart. All I could do was smile instead.

“what your name?” I questioned slowly and with wide mouth motion like a mimic.

And the name she had was one of the most amazing names that I ever heard

SIDDHI as it was written in driving license.

“SIDDHI!! Woaw!! Meaning unusual accomplishment or self perfection. Perhaps truly justifying her personality” I said to myself regretting my initial comments.

“Very meaningful name…..sanskrit?” I asked and she nodded and gave me one of the best smiles that I had ever seen in my life.

Things that happened subsequently where not important but how it began and how it ended were important. When everything was said and done the girl ‘SIDDHI’ was still walking bare foot on the road and was dumbstruck on my bike racing against time. In short we are so always running behind everything every time that we fail to notice the basic essence of life. Life goes as fast and as slow as we want it to like in above situation. Our reaction to an unexpected event like untimely rain is very dramatic where as a deaf girl just wants to enjoy her walk in rain that happened in middle of summer season and I can hardly remember the last time I walked bare footed on road during rain enjoying it. Its like traveling in a train, you can see the glimpse of many new cities but to actually enjoy it you have to get down from the speeding train itself. similarly by the time we have achieve what we want we are so busy in setting new goals for ourselves that we forget to enjoy our own SIDDHI, our achievements. Some one said to me that what ever you have achieved till date is your SIDDHI and its different from other around you. Life throws this opportunity to everyone the trick is to recognize it and experience it. That’s what a imperfect girl named SIDDHI taught me that day.

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