Tales of the Wanderlust

The colours on the canvas fade slowly As the winds of life erode the surface Of my our imaginary worlds Those worlds that are made and destroyed By wills and fancies – ironically not mine! For solace we can fall back on Karma, Honestly where will civilizations be  if not for these philosophies? Well, for some, dreams are like bubble wrap, Meant less for nurturing, more for bursting Either for the pleasure of others Or for ourselves, as we have nothing better to do! But thanks to those fancies we beggars can ride once in a while.

Don’t call me a drunkard; I drink to be honest The world kills the candid men; you either lie or die Spirits make us blurt out the harshest of the bitter truths Hence listen, sober fools Often the protagonist and the hero of a tale are different The protagonist is destined to be, but to be a hero is a matter of choice The protagonist shoulders the responsibility because the hero bears the burden The protagonist was because the heroes rose Sadly, the heroes are forgotten as the legends are propagated No one knows which is inherent and which you absorbed over the years Tales are a grotesque mixture of innocence and vile astuteness They now spread rigor mortis slowly into inspiration Should I fight or should I love the death of the spirit The answer glows as the warmth spreads Leave the coils and be a free soul eternally And hence I drink and strive to peel off the layers to reveal the reality Don’t call me drunkard; I d...

Walk slowly but steadily, there is this light to guide you. Transcend, from illusion to truth from darkness to light realise you are already immortal! Transition is constant, we are changing ever. Determine the direction by looking at this soothing light it will lead you, me, us from lower to higher levels of consciousness from turbulence to benevolence from disturbance to peace from experimental to supra mental! The light glows everywhere within the best and worst of men.

For the past few days a soup has been simmering inside my mind, an eclectic mixture of Objectivism, Laissez Faire Capitalism and Libertarian Socialism. No to mention the anarchist inclinations that makes me take an anti establishment stand. The aroma that arose from that pot was both tantalizing and invigorating. It led to one of those phases in life when one questions everything that is internal, values, attitude, ethics, philosophy and Faith.     But, can faith be questioned? Is it not placed on the pedestal of untouchable sanctity?   The answer that emerged after a prolonged strife is that yes for the former and no for the later. Whoever says that faith is unquestionable is wrong, no two ways about it.   Faith has to be questioned time and again. It is only after going through the furnace of questions do beliefs transform into faith and that why, beliefs can be superstitious but faith never. The more we doubt and interrogate the more pristine it becomes. Actually ...

The fall that churns your stomach keeps from tumbling down. Knowing is the first step towards ignorance And ignorance first step towards knowledge. Dattatreya accepted everyone possible as guru, Is it because he was an Avadhuta ? Or did he become that because he learned from all? Do you how to eat multiple helpings of Akara Vadisal ? Lick the pickle between multiple helpings of sweet. If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find one enemy to keep you alert Paulo Coelho Tweets! Atishoo atishoo may we all fall down.

Convoluted mathematical derivations seem simple before the turns of destiny which is unravelled unrivalled. If we have the magic key that opens every door honey  the challenge is to find the key hole now. Fate does not make you weaker instead it keeps getting smarter. The neural network of the universe is ever updating every move that can possible be conceived by human every thought that is still covered in the mental placenta is a mere variable in the universal equation. If in doubts destiny lets you win, experiments with you and learns skills which will be used against you. Still man lives on, the one who knows this and the one who doesn’t. He runs behind the solution of this equation which the universe has not yet finished and hence he will live on. As yet another night fades into a pale dawn It rekindles lost forsaken hopes. But still we look forward to it. Cheers to life. The most effective narcotic known to mankind yet.......

The mind gets disturbed when everything is calm Yet finds peace in disturbance If peace and transients are two sides of the same coin Where do I go in search of peace and why? Any relationship is an additional bundle And which one is the last to break the camel’s back? We spend our entire lives carrying bundles Is that all I am made for? Oh no baby, do not follow me I am not marriage material. And why do things I run away from Get attracted to me all the more? Thrill of chase leaves both of us tired. When I can’t even practice what I preach What use is any preaching of? If questions and answers are two coins of the same side Should I even look out for the answers of these questions? To hell with the world I am on my way to become an Avadhuta!

Once I get tired of running hither thither I might sit down and look up. Realising that I have been only running in circles all along and as a confounded schizophrenic might stare at you. I might want to pour out all the contradictions in me I would want to sleep to make up for these restless nights. Like the skin shedding its toxins while healing My mind shall let go of all its sins. Then it might dawn on me how great life is and how callously I have squandered it. This dawn of greatness shall spread the light of humility Then my heart will be filled with remorse For all those things I never did and I will never do. If at that time if I seek solace, refuge in you Don’t turn me away Narahari! Let me just soak in your infinite love And let me just be……..

When all decisions in life is determined by others can you even call it your own? If everything is predestined and karma all powerful why even placate the Gods? We all should lead lives as it pleases us but what happens when your pleasure lies in pleasing others? If neither questions nor answers come from inside Why bother thinking at all? Well all said and done, one has two choices either to live in the illusion that we determine our lives or accept & resent that we are mere spectators of the grand play called ‘la vie’.

Faith is not believing that God will solve all my problems; It is all about trusting that even his not solving is for my good. Confidence is not just being sure that you can It is all about understanding that even if you can’t you don’t lose much. Strength is not about winning time and again It is all about being complacent, knowing that you fought hard. Life is not just crossing hurdles after hurdles It is all about getting up with a heave and moving towards the next one. Hope is not anticipating good times It is all about the conviction that even this will pass.

                I shall not enter the sea I stood defiant, stubborn. I did not want to enter the sea as I would not be able to bathe in it, because I was not dressed properly. I thought just standing on the edges with waves touching your feet will not be fun. A person of coast has a special relationship with the waves and he becomes snobbish, snooty as with someone you love.                 So, while my friends moved away holding random loci, I started walking along the coast when she reached out to me by stretching a gentle wave of silky warm cloak and invited me in. She played with my senses by blowing air around my hair; she laughed at me and enticed me to come near nay challenged me to stay far. To hell with it, I wanted to take off my floaters and roll up my pants and run towards her and step into the warmth of this Arabian Beauty. ...

The thin line separating solitude and loneliness is the same that separates fasting and starving. We walk alone often as we don’t have any choice or sometimes by choice to follow our calling. But are we actually alone in this convoluted world? When everything is connected to every other thing through a web of life; no please not the internet but by the underlying, unidentified, often ignored string. Do not the birds carry messages of love across the globe? Does not the wind bring stories from distant lands? Does not the sea carry the brave to their new homes? Aren’t our paths are shaped by thousand other hands? Strangers give hope and show love without any reason as long as we are open and shed our inhibition. A boatman rows me across and shares his food saying ‘eat my son’! And if I am humble enough to accept, I could see heaven. So having no company presently isn’t all that adverse     There is someone walking your path with you unseen. Albeit he is at a different time i...

  You are death. Still an arcane attraction, makes you, my orbital eccentricity. Like a alcoholic slowly drinking from the cup of his life, I move towards you to become one flash in your eternal glow, For dying in you, gives me the pleasure of having lived a thousand lives.   

May we be sensible to realise That the Journey is our destination. May we be wise to know That the purpose of life is to live wholesomely. May we be astute to ask the right questions and not to demand answer immediately. May we be prudent to set our priorities And achieve our aims. May we be open to embrace love When it comes to us And content to let it go when it wants. May we be humble to keep learning. May we be, always small to keep growing. May we all be blessed. May we be never too far Its small world - may we meet again Till then Bon Chance et Au revoir

The Deafening sound of silence Subtle and humble, The disturbing noise of thoughts Overlapping Growing exponentially. Microcosm and Macrocosm And everlasting entanglement in it. Vagaries of life And life in those variations. Schizophrenic plot to plunder my soul. When these chains break When these stains evaporate When these waves subside Only one thing emerges True, eternal Clear concise I Me Myself Nirvana……

The three wise monkeys – Mizaru (see no evil), Kikazaru (hear no evil) and Iwazaru (Speak no evil) were sitting on the shores of a foreign sea and contemplating about the ways of the world and suddenly Kikazaru asked “What is your greatest discovery in this strange land?”   The ever pensive Iwazaru became more pensive and was thinking on the lines of human nature and goodness of the universe when Mizaru quipped “The Greatest discovery is finding each other and not to forget the fourth one Shizaru – the one who does no evil.” All three nodded in agreement when Iwazaru added “Like all the truths of life this might seem very trivial at the first glance but to find the right people with whom you can resonate and speak your mind, people with whom you can be yourself, people who become your friends for life even after you speak with them for a few hours, people who become a part of you and of whom you become part, is one of the greatest boons of our lives.” Kikazaru went...

What did a few hours of Corporate Finance do to a group of students? Some fell asleep, some lost their sleep, some got terrified and some gratified (with the group studies). And then there were the six of us(Appy, Ashish Bhai, Binay, Panda, Laddoo and I)  who went bonkers and decided to go the beach at 12 30 AM And off we were to Jumeira Beach by taking a cab.!!!!  The moon was bright and beautiful. The stars seemed like small pieces of glasses strewn over a black velvet blanket that were reflecting the light of the moon and the Hunter Man (Orion) emerged slowly from behind the clouds to stand guard for us. The waves we whispering their welcomes. Cool air in our hair and cool sand beneath our feet we stepped into the surprisingly warm water.... The surprises nature offers us subtly, never end. After a good deal of playing in water in a mildly 'nicotine induced high' we sat on the shores with the skyline of Dubai behind and the endless sea in front of us. This serenity...