You've got it all

You've Got it ALL

New year…

It’s said to treat each day as a new day, new form of blessing, new day of hope and opportunities. But why even after treating each day, new year is given so much of importance?

Sometimes it takes a tiny one step to make something extraordinary from ordinary. From the series of treating each day as a new day, somewhere we lose energy and require one extra push to start it all burning again. New year just gives that extra something to our every day and gives a ray of hope to have something which will last for another 365 days.

Somewhere along the line we keep getting dusted, polished and again dusted along the year. Just like we clean our homes in Diwali, new year is something to clean all this dust and start fresh again.

So what are we waiting for. Lets just take this year as an opportunity to get the best out of ourselves.

No matter how hard the work was, how pathetic your days were, how harsh those words were, how difficult was it to survive those relations, how miserable was to go through a phase where you felt lonely; it all built up ‘you’. So lets keep it going:

Cause you have got it all! You have got it all it takes to make this year your year. To make each day count as your victory, to get the best version of yourself out there and to achieve what you are here for!

Cheers to the new year, new beginning, new hope and new you 😊

SoulFull

On a hot summer day when there is only disappointment of the heat and cycle of some routine life, suddenly shadow bigger than mine starts to disappear in daylight. Warm breeze converts into a pleasant smell and red hot soil starts to bloom. Comes a drop of sheer heaven on earth and cheeks start to get blushed. With some beautiful smell it starts to drizzle and more beautiful thing appears on face… smile J

What caused this smile? The rain, the bloom of soil or the breeze? Or shall it be the fact that all this happened in middle of hot summer day when there was no expectation of this joy? Be it any reason, it just reminded me the source of core happiness: soul!

Material things never tend to give core happiness because our soul just relies on these small unexpected things which make it smile. It just reminds us to throw away heavy burden we carry on ourselves to achieve all great things to be happy. Soul is pure and transparent. It just gets happy with the things which are pure and transparent in nature like itself. Be it unexpected hug from someone, smell of the first rain, joy after helping someone or hiking to the end of a trail. All these things just remind us that happiness is when we live soulfully <3

Without any cover, without any impurity just like nature in its true form. May be that is why it’s so peaceful when we are in nature’s lap, because it’s so pure and true.

While there are so many definitions of happiness, this one just relates best. Living soulfully because there is nothing more complete than soul…

Cheers to being full of joy, full of happiness, full of soul ‘SoulFull’…

Inner Voice

‘Should I do this or that?’; ‘Is this right for me or not’; ‘Am I doing right thing or not?’

How hard is it to find those answers? In the chaos of mind, how hard is it to find the ‘right’ answer. Well, having questions is the right path to lead towards those answers. It’s never easy to find an answer or to find a solution if the problem itself is not clear. While it’s hard enough to have answers to the questions, it’s even harder to not realize what solution is needed for that inner peace.

While there may be many ways to find that peace, I believe that there is one thing always with you which not only guide you to the answers, but will also give courage to define the problem. And that’s nothing but your ‘inner voice’.

In the chaos or silence, happiness or upsetting times; there is one thing which will always support you and show you the right way. And that’s your inner voice. If it’s so easy to have a companion like that, why is it that we still are troubled? Even if we know that we have our inner voice with us! What makes it difficult to not have it when we need! – The answers might vary from person to person and there is no one answer. But in some simple words, it’s the layers on that voice which make it difficult to hear. Layers of ego, selfishness, prioritize wrong things and all other factors those make us feel bad. More the layers, harder it is to hear that voice. No person is perfect I would say, but we all can try towards that. And once we have that inner voice always accompanying us, it’s nothing but SERENE! Be it any day, any moment or any situation; we are nothing but secluded in that voice and hence in PEACE. That voice is the voice we get when we toss the coin and hope to have choice our heart wants! That voice is the one which gives tears of happiness once we follow what it said. That voice is the voice which never is inspired form hate or anger, but always inspired by love and faith. That voice is happiness, peace and language of your soul. As it take alphabets to learn any language, the alphabets to learn the language of peace starts with inner voice J

There are so many scenarios where my inner voice has showed me the right path. And one such life changing example for me is for my love of lifeJ.  In all the situations throughout my life, that inner voice told me not to give up and I followed it. It not only gave me courage to survive the most difficult times but also lead me to the beautiful journey with him!  Of all the examples, I can give this one is the best as it took longest years that I followed my inner voice.

And while I am again lost in chaos, something sparked in me for few days and inspired me to write this. And that was nothing but that voice. So let’s hear that voice and practice such that there is time when there are no layers and that voice is always heard.

Cheers to that voice, strength of that voice and to YOU!

Cheers to my parents who always pushed me to hear that voice and bring out the best in me!

Independance !!!

And yes....It's Independance !! 

                      


Something is holding me ! I don't know what . Inspite of endless busy days, plenty of friends, distance from home, there is something else that is holding me ! Is it my fear?Is it relations? Is it my thoughts? !! What is that !!! ...

And yes.. I guess I found the answer. It is independance from myself !

There comes situations in life when you become emotionally dependant on people. Dependant on your job, on your relations , on your nature and above all on yourself. We become so dependant on ourselves that we are not ready to change it! It gives us feeling of fear to change ourselves! What if no one will like that? What will people think ? What will cause its effect on ourself?

Phewww.............

Just taking a deep breathe, I realised that none of these things matter. There is so small difference between attahcment and dependancy that we often replace them with each other. There is nothing wrong in being attached! Attached to people , attached to our thoughts, feelings, relations,job,career. But what disturbs most of us is when this attachment becomes Dependancy!
We become so much dependant on people that  we don't like if anything chnages . We become dependant on our relations such that we can't survive without them! We become so dependant on our thoughts that we can't change them! And Inspite of being our strength  these thoughts , relations and ourself catch us and holds us back.

There is no big loss I would say in being dependant. But there is a big big big advantage of being independant. Just for a moment , if we think things on which we are dependant ! What will come to our mind? People,relations,friends,family,our thoughts,our nature,our ownself,our career,our love............Just for few seconds feel that you are independant of all these things!!! How would it feel? There is no one to talk about you, there is no one to hurt you, there is no one to stop you!
We can fly as high as we can possibly imagine! And that height is Independance!

It is much more than just doing everything by yourself. It is doing things without thinking of anyone.It is doing things in such a way that will make you feel better, make you feel indpendent :)

Does it mean be detached with everyone? does it mean that don't get attached to anything ??

Never. You can not love anything if you can not feel attachement to it.You gotta feel attached and loved to your career,your relations,yourself!  But, being independent brings you freedom to love it in such a way that there is no fear of losing! And this attachment brings out the best in you!

There is nothing that will hold me. Being independant is being me! Giving all chances of freedom. All chances of mistakes, stupidity and craziness! There is no fear of losing.
So this is what independance brings to me!

No fear! Love! Attachment !
Freedom to Fly !!!

I am on that path now .
And this little moment of independance makes me FREE :) :) :)

P.S. [Thanks to my parents who let me fly in this beautiful world, due to which I am on my path of being truly Independant]

LEARNING is EARNING !!!

Look what sky is showing, look what birds are singing, look how flowers are blooming, look how wind is blowing !!! Look the nature and you will see that each and every second the whole universe is changing !

CHANGE - this word is something that we all are facing in each and every phase of life ! Some changes are acceptable and some are not ! But what causes this CHANGE ?
We all struggle with change of emotions, change of relations, change of nature, change of behaviors, change of bonding and mostly change in ourselves!!!  When everyone right now is struggling their own battle, how well we accept these changes ?!

Well, to be frank I was resistant to any changes ! any change in relations or any change in myself ! But, Life has brought me to such a point where I can understand the meaning of CHANGE !

To sum up all the experience I had, change is a way to learn ! Today, when we all are chasing our dreams and forgetting who we are ,one question arises in my mind! Do we really know who we are and what we want ? It is not any goal,or passion or any thing that we want, all we want is accept the life as it comes! We can't accept the changes and so we chase to compensate to those changes! we try to change the changes that life brings !!! But in this never ending run, we all come to a point when we actually understand that whatever change life brings is a chance to learn ! A chance to learn about relations, about emotions, about bonding and most important a chance to learn about ourselves!

No amount of salary, no amount of love and no number of relations can make us learn who we are and what we want! Accepting the change is the only way to learn who we are! and so the most important change we need to accept is the change in ourselves!!!  Anything else is secondary, we can't accept persons with their change unless we accept ourselves for our change !

To start with, I came up to USA ! and I didn't know what life is going to give me ! I cursed my life and cursed myself to come here . But, to my great surprise, today I feel like it is the best blessings I could ever have ! I am able to see life in a whole new way . I am totally independent of any relations ( of course some special ones are there), and the most important thing I could learn is to see people who really care for me !

It is said that some things are better viewed from distance . and same thing happened to me. I could see people with their original form ! As my nature holds me back every time, I did not want people to change ! I did not want relations to change . But change never listens. It comes and show its effects. But, when I started to accept those changes I felt super blessed!
This is for all the people who are in my life directly or indirectly . You all have changed my life in a better way. I used to keep chasing people for not changing my relations! But, one wonderful thing I learnt during all these experience is that, the people who accept you for your changes and still love you are the people worth having! I feel really blessed to have such people in my life who accepted me for who I am. I also feel blessed to have people who didn't accept me for my changes. Those are the people who made me learn that every person in your life has their own role. You can make an effort to make things work, but after some point you just need to let them go. Of course,it hurts to let them go. But that is the best thing to learn ! There is no point of making them realize your value, because people who accept you are the people who will always stay there for you ! People who respect you and trust you will always accept you and people who don't will make you learn some amazing lessons of life .

Again comes a new experience( not a friend this time ;) ) . When I felt like hell I just closed my eyes and felt what life has given to me. And I felt so stupid to feel upset about anything. Life has given me so much to learn. I have learnt to accept changes, to love myself, to  accept people for their changes, let go some of the people as time demands ( i wonder how i can do this right now :P ) , and most important thing I have learnt is to live !!  I have learnt to make myself happy, to love life in however form it comes, to love "my" people with fulll heart, and to LEARN in each and every second of life .

I don't know what money I am going to earn after coming USA. But I surely have earned lots and lots of things by learning. I have earned my education , my friends, my family and most important I have earned myself ! I have earned my whole being!

So cheers to Learning, as it will make you the richest person as you will earn your self!

KEEP LEARNING, KEEP EARNING !! :D ;) :*

(P.S. : I have learnt that my PARENTS are my best earning, more than myself :)  )

My Angel !

Like any normal child I was expected to be delivered ! Naagpancham, randhan chath, shitla satam, JANMASHTMI ! Every one was set to their moods . A healthy child was growing somewhere and expectations were high , but not higher than welcoming me in this new world ! I was there safe at some place waiting for my time to come in this world ! I don't remember what I was feeling at that time, but right now I can definitely say that it would be something like this : " From 9 months I have seen world from your eyes mom, I have felt air through you, food through you and I have felt tears and happiness through you. Now I think it is my time to come out and feel the same from my organs! According to doctors, I had still some time to wait there. But, how can I resist to come out in such an amazing atmosphere? Where everyone is waiting for joy to be celebrated for Krishna, How can I wait there for my turn ?! Damn to Doctors and all the predictions ! I m gonna come and rock this world ;)

Though it was quite rocking and exciting for me , it was not the same for you mom. It is said that anything that goes against nature has to pay the price ! Mom ! You needed to pay the price of my excitement ! After all what doctors said, there was no hope for me to come there and rock the world ! But here comes the time when miracles happen.

How can Krishna do this to me? How can he not let me live on the day he comes in this world ? And yes ! It started with all the excitement. I shared the most exciting and most rocking day of my life with Krishna ! After he came in this world , he started doing miracles and let me come here to rock the world ! And from that very first moment I believe in MIRACLES !!! :)

Moment turned into memory and I got my nick name ( rather first name :P ) as "GOPI" which will remain with me for the lifetime. When I was there being excited about my birth, I was not sure where I am going to come. But how can Krishna send me on this day at some place other than heaven ?!! Yes.. He gave me the right day, the right name and the right place. I did not realize this till this date so badly, but now I realize that any place on this earth with my Parents is Heaven ! Life would be so different if I was not born at this beautiful place ! I really thank them to bring me in this world like a beautiful flower, bring me up like a princess and let me fly like a bird for my dreams.

I don't know this is a fairy tale or real, but what I really know is Krishna is there for their devotees! No matter what is the place , what is the time and what is the situation! He is the one because of him I am in such a beautiful world and can survive in so tough situations!

Not to write much this time, I am really thankful to Krishna to give me birth on this special occasion. And above all I am thankful to him from my bottom of my heart to give me beautiful parents as mine! It is definitely true that God could not take care of each of us so he created MOTHER. And Mothers could not pamper their daughters to the highest level so they created FATHER. :) <3

We all have this special day and special place in our lives , where MIRACLES happen and life changes. All we need to do is have FAITH,HOPE and BELIEF. If we Believe, MIRACLES do happen !! And with Miracles LIFE IS MAGIC !!

Cheers to all the MIRACLES in our lives!!

HAPPY JANMASHTAMI !!! HERE COMES THE MOST WONDERFUL "PURNA PURUSHOTTAMA' IN OUR LIVES :) :) 

BEING "ME" 

After all of the positive inspiration that I gave to myself after coming USA, there was still some thing which was not letting me be "FREE". It was really difficult to find out what it was. After so much thinking and restlessness , finally I got the answer from myself only. Yes .!!! This is what we often forget to do!! Talking with ourselves.!!! We have read it a thousand times and we know that we need to talk to ourselves and listen to our inner voice. But, all this theory is never or rarely implemented in our lives. We get up and every day becomes busy in getting our lives easier.! But, somehow we forget to get easy with ourselves.! 

Yes..That is what we need to do .! Be easy with ourselves.! After all the restless nights , I came to know that one thing which was hindering my thoughts and was not letting me sit with the peace.! It was : "Expecting a lot, and not accepting much." 

And BINGO..!!! I just got what I was finding from so many days.! At that very moment, I decided to accept the life as it comes. Here comes again a friend whose lines are simple but quite effective. Life is at its best when you expect less and it is only possible when you stop trying to understand the life. We waste our times in analyzing our situations in life and by the time we analyze it, that time has already gone away. Again comes the new time, the new life and new analyzing..!!! Cycle goes on and on..!

So best way is to stop analyzing and start living.! Most of us really don't LIVE but just EXIST.! We love to be happy, but we keep trying to make others happy .! It is good to make others happy, but I believe that if you can't keep yourself happy then there is not at all any point in making others happy.! Then next question is : From where does this happiness comes from? Shopping ? having party ? fun?...Well, answers depend on every individual. But for me that ultimate happiness comes from within. That one point when you make yourself comfortable with life and most importantly with yourself ! It is that point when you finally realize that being yourself is the ultimate happiness.! There will be times when we make mistakes, we let down our expectations, we behave like we have never imagined.!! We keep blaming ourselves for our mistakes and rest of the time we keep analyzing it.! But, there comes one point when you finally accept yourself, expect minimum from life and that is the point you make PEACE with your mind. No amount of money can buy this peace and no amount of time can alter this peace. This is the time when you finally realize that LIFE is worth LIVING ; and the most important thing is we can not LIVE our lives by being what we are not. So just BE YOURSELF and accept every single bit of it.

So let's take time out from this busy life and give ourselves enough space to find ourselves. ! Even 5 minutes of talk with ourselves can also make our day better .! If we can spend half of our time in searching profiles of others, why can't we take out 5 minutes for ourselves?!! Let us all try to give this 5 minutes to ourselves daily and just make sure we be who we are in front of ourselves. 

Cheers to Being "Yourself". I am sure you will find a lot happiness and peace and I hope we all will maintain this for our upcoming rocking life.

Cheers for being "YOU"...(y)