Hiranmayi

Beware of the interpreting mind Be aware of the integrated Self! Eyes wide open we drive down the same road many times in our day to day life. Watching the tree filled with flowers is a treat to the eyes. The flowers act as a magnet to our vision and the mind terms as wonderful sight. Few days later, passing by the same way and noticing the tree with less flowers or no flowers, the mind usually tends to compare it with the experience of the previous full bloom. The general comment may be, "how wonderful it used to look earlier". Have you ever been with the fall of a flower from a tree? Mostly, we are only caught up with the interpreting mind and ending up with concluding comments. When awareness happens, there is a shift in perception from seeing to being with it. The senses witness the expression but the Self remains in the essence of the expression. Tree in full bloom, tree with less or no flowers -- all have their intense moments of stillness. Changes that happen so natura...

If you had wondered that i have disappeared from the world of blogging, yes in a way it is true and yet it is not. This post is so relevant to the role i presently play in the world of action. When we move into an apartment, the rooms get their names according to the furniture placed and function accordingly-- bedroom, kitchen etc. It is but natural and sensible to function accordingly in those areas. No one chooses to cook in the bedroom or sleep in the kitchen.Wherever it is, it is the human being that adapts to the functional side. It is the functional aspects that determine the space which at one time remained as an open space. Human being is the same that operates in the open space and is fully aware of this temporary division of space as bedroom and kitchen. It is the awareness in the human being to know them all as labels of the space and yet function totally according to the zone. Mind, which is also similar to this room concept gets into its functional aspects depending on wh...