|| Swanta Sukhaya ||

Greetings, There is a gruesome story that I had heard in my childhood. The story goes like this - A village household has been blessed with a baby boy. Apart from the proud father & mother there is a pet mongoose (arch rival of the cobra / snakes) which is a part of the family. One day, while the father is working on farm, mother has to go out for some household chore. She goes away with full confidence that, the mongoose would save her baby from any harm. But to her horror, she returns to see the mongoose sitting at the doorstep with blood stained mouth and claws. The first thought that crosses her mind is - mongoose has killed their only son! With this seeming breach of trust, the grief-struck mother kills the mongoose with a stone from the street. As she rushes in the house, she is shocked to see her dear son sleeping calmly and a venomous cobra lying dead nearby. She immediately understands her 'misunderstanding' but alas - the act can not be reversed. There is...

Greetings! As i was remembering my teacher from High School- one of his teachings in geometry sprung up suddenly and fit itself in the analogy for life. So what is life? The life is a triangle tangle. Life contains many triangles, the love triangle, the equality (equilateral) triangle, the right (as well as wrong) angled triangle and to top it off the trinity (Father Son & Holy Ghost / Brahma, Vishnu & Mahesh) triangle. Each incident that happens in our life cajoles, pushes, begs, shakes us up to make us think - 'how does it make sense?' As a hypothesis, in terms of geometry-of-life, lets say this translates to 'this will make sense - when i find such a pair of the 2 sides (another possibility) of this triangle (incident) whose sum is less than the third side (the side which i traversed just now as part of the incident).. Too heavy? Ok. Here is a step-by-step version. Problem in Geometry: Find the 2 sides of a triangle, whose sum is less than (short...

Greetings! Here are some thoughts on what they meant by ' forgive and forget ' when they started saying it. (And why it is better than 'give and get' and of course 'get and give' or 'get and get' .......) For-give = Give 'before' you get Means: Give love, compassion, trust etc before getting back (or irrespective of not getting) any love,compassion, trust in return. For-get = Get 'before' you get Means: After you really forgive , you get the "happiness released when you give" even before getting the love, compassion, trust, or a simple thank-you (or irrespective of not getting even a thanks). If you notice here, none of the 2 activities are really dependent on 'others' and hence can be done without giving any reasons (pointing fingers). It is very very simple, but for our bloated egos that we have to carry on our heads. Here is a recent conversation with a Rikshawallah ( RW ) which made me think. Let...