Back from visiting Amma

Lombard Chicago Amma summer tour 30 june-2 july 2010..

Wonderful darshan, great experiences .. life filled with love just pure love :)

Thank you so much amma for being with us always !

Amma says

Remember O mind, this supreme Truth: Nobody is your own!

Because of doing meaningless actions, you are wandering in the ocean of this world. Remember this song, have satsang and always chant your mantra. Give up talking about others.

We find time for every useless and unnecessary thing, yet we say that there is no time to think of God. Do not go to vulgar movies or read novels. Are we not sitting in front of the television or going shopping for hours on end?

If you always fix your mind on the Lord, peace will be experienced.

Things that happenned to me in last month

1) Graduated, a dream fulfilled... mine n of loved ones..
2) Moved in with a person whom i love a lot ...started making a home
3) Emptied out apt n workplace
4) Moved to a new city.. new State...
5) Drove 14 hrs in a 36 hr trip ..
6) Cooked so many different things
7) Went out for walks almost every night after dinner
8) Started working out
9) Finally got a swimwear and got into the pool for the first time
10) Slept in

why do u wanna marry me ???

why do u wanna marry me ?

and he said so that i can kiss you anytime i want ....

Back to back ...

why do u wanna marry me ?

and she said so that i can kiss you anytime i want ....

sweet how sweet ...

yup that was home sweet Alabama ...

Phewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Lazy windy cloudy rainy stormy lightening thundering Sunday .....
as lazy as one could get ...

Inspirational Do it anyway ! source unknown

Do It Anyway

People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered.

Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.

Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and some true enemies.

Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you.

Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight.

Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, people may be jealous.

Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow.

Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough.

Give the world the best you've got anyway.

You see in the final analysis it is between you and God.

It was never between you and them anyway.

Just got this sometime back in a fwd email and it sounds perfect to read at this moment and just perfect new post .....

wandering soul ...

many goals met.. soul still wanders and wanders and wanders .......

I know in my heart it is you ...

In the still of night
from the darkness comes the light

and i know in my heart it is you ....

In my heart in my soul
there is the glory for the lord

and i know in my heart it is you .....

When the truth is revealed
all the sorrows will be healed

and i know in my heart it is you ....


thanks for being with me ...my dearest amma ..

i feel your presence every day every minute and i know it is YOU..
and it is all because of YOU ...

A glimpse of winter on 7th jan 2010

Lake outside the school, frozen ....

the geese are having some conference and the theme for the conference is

"Climate Change and its implication on Geese community"

A closer view !

Happy twenty ten...

Another New year knocks at our doorsteps, named twenty ten ...

whats new about new years .

Is it all the same....
boundless time, bound in the boundaries of 12 months ..

Or

As always a time for new aspirations, new hopes, new dreams, new goals...
its time for Change !

New year has begun n it brings in a change for sure....
the change personally has begun on the first day itself .....
and there is more to come ...

Will embrace the change and move ahead ...
as i have some chapters to write, tasks to finish ...dreams to fulfill and make it a happy 2010 !

My first long drive in snow ...

Its winter time with the festivities around the corner and the time for winter break... Last two years were spent in my motherland with my loved ones in the mix of warm and cold weathers of plains and Dhauladhar mountains...

Coming back to this year, warm weather is no where in sight but the warmth of the loved ones is very much there with a special someone who is much much closer than the others.... So it all started with the desire to be with that special someone ....

Weather was checked and a road trip to Indiana was set ... It all went fine with little hiccups while going .. though the real adventure turned out to be on my trip back to stl.

It was my first time driving in snow, i had heard people talk about driving in snow, breaking, accelerating skidding and all that comes along with it...

A drive from west Lafayette to Saint Louis, which takes about five hours take into account the time difference of one hour and the one where i would drive at the speed of 70 on average turned out to be little different in snow. My GPS went out of satellite coverage, car started skidding the speed reduced to 40-45-50... Hands were shaking.. the car chevy aveo was being drifted by winds as much as it possibly could and i saw few cars and small trailors which were upside down... freaked me out more ...at such a time, i felt amma was with me calming me down and letting me focus on driving ...or may be actually taking over the driving..

At such a time, the only thing i could focus on was amma and her bhajans on one CD, which might have played atleast 10 times today was my only source of strength and my only prayer at that moment was to reach home safely...

Once that stretch of bad weather was passed, i was all fine... back on the speed of 70 driving on 70W.. so slowly n steadily with amma's grace i made it and here i am sharing this experience with all of you out there..

Today's incidence reminds me yet again that we are nothing but the puppets at the hand of god and we don't know whats enstored for us at the very next moment and we still hold grudges, hatred and other negative things while we should be surrendering at the feet of almighty and develop love for all...

Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu ...

Fall graduation 2009

19th Dec'09 attended the fall graduation...

One of my very good friend graduated, i was there for her... though i also witnessed the graduation of many other people whom i don't know at all .. some of them i have seen in my classes, been their TA , some with whom i have exchanged smiles or a hi in school ..

Though one man who caught my attention and i would say everyone's attention was a 86 year old Master's in History. It was a moment, chancellor recognized him with a introduction and there was this huge wave of clapping followed by standing ovation..

what a graduation and at this age..

Inspiring really inspiring ...

people follow their dreams .. no body can stop them ..

not even the age in this case ...

Hope i will be able to make my dream come true too ..
got to work hard for it ...

May 2010 is my target !