Earth belongs to no one, yet humans devised ways of owning it by drawing imaginary boundaries over it & fighting over them…Even your own life doesn’t belong to you, life assumes a form – it grows and dies, you were never the form, then what are you clinging to? 

Freedom or liberation is understanding and accepting the essence of being nothing and taking the responsibility of living harmoniously with all other sentient beings – that is Dharma – not the religion you are born into which is just another classification of something that is inherently unclassifiable. 

Freedom and Dharma are both choices of how you choose to experience life as – a Bhogi(Person bound by identities provided by external factors- family, religion, group, country, etc) or a Jeevan Mukt(Liberated Soul). 

Change the context, not the content.

Handicap is not merely physical, it is also mental, financial, karmic and in that all of us are handicapped. Reminds me of the verse

Kabhi kisi ko mukammal jahan nahi milta

Kahi Zameen Kahi Aasman nahi milta…

We try to strive for completeness in the aspects wherein we feel incomplete/suffering since we are looking at the surface, the trick is to dive to the bottom and realise that everything is complete at Source… and it has to be the way it is at the surface. This is acceptance of everything and being your bit as well as you can, till you can…Perhaps that is what Sant Dyaneshwar meant when he described his state as “Ata karne nahi, hone” (Not doing anymore, being)

If you observe, the biological needs(eat/drink, sleep/rest, reproduce, defecate, exercise) may take up 12 hrs of your day and the rest of the 12 hours are devoted to non biological pursuits.

So 50% of  “I” is mostly common for all humans across the globe – in that they have to attend to their biological needs, which is not really the problem unless those are not fulfilled. It is the remaining “Non biological” 50% “I” that harbors delusions of grandeur, especially in “Non Biological” entities/leaders and their followers across the world preferring wars, blatant profiteering, etc over peaceful, harmonious co-existence. If there is anyone deserving of a Nobel Prize then it is the one who brings about this peaceful co existence…

This is a personal choice which is surprisingly not preferred by most people across the world and consequently 100% of humanity has to suffer…

You can only be truly at complete peace when you are yourself at peace, living in a peaceful community/country and the world is also at peace. The latter 2 are beyond your control & can only be a good wish but the first one is very much in your control. If you observe closely, there are 3 causes for our suffering and they are brought upon by our own memory(past), imagination(future) and judgement(present), all 3 need to be silenced for you to experience peace.

Hence Dhyana wherein you are at Source and the mind is silent, this is the best gift you can give yourself and to the world.

Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti 

During travel you come across people from various countries, cultures, backgrounds, dressing, languages, etc. You realise that however different you are, your needs to survive are the same though the imputed needs for comfort and luxury differ radically.

In such situations, how do you communicate with each other? Best communication is that of kindness and that doesn’t apply only to when you are travelling but starts at home, society, work place, etc. Kindness is what is missing and that is why the world is what it is, choosing war mongering leaders and suffering the consequences…

Never too late to up your kindness quotient. The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step…