Stairway to Heaven

This is a song of hope :

Theres a lady who's sure
All that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven.
When she gets there she knows
If the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for.
Ooh, ooh, and she's buying a stairway to heaven.

Theres a sign on the wall
But she wants to be sure
cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
In a tree by the brook
There's a songbird who sings,
Sometimes all of our thoughts are mis-given.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it makes me wonder.

There's a feeling I get
When I look to the west,
And my spirit is crying for leaving.
In my thoughts I have seen
Rings of smoke through the trees,
And the voices of those who standing looking.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it really makes me wonder.

And its whispered that soon
If we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason.
And a new day will dawn
For those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter.

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow
Don't be alarmed now,
Its just a spring clean for the may queen.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by
But in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on.
And it makes me wonder.

Your head is humming and it wont go
In case you dont know,
The pipers calling you to join him,
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow,
And did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.

And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul.
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last.
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll.

Return to Innocence

That's not the beginning of the end

That's the return to yourself

The return to innocence

Love - Devotion

Feeling - Emotion

Don't be afraid to be weak

Don't be too proud to be strong

Just look into your heart my friend

That will be the return to yourself

The return to innocence

If you want, then start to laugh

If you must, then start to cry

Be yourself don't hide

Just believe in destiny

Don't care what people say

Just follow your own way

Don't give up and use the chance

To return to innocence

55 Rupees

The omlette is in my hand. I am barely able to hold it as it has just come from the pan. I try to press it inside the bread. Somebody pats me on the back before I take the first bite. I turn around to find a man in his late 30's looking straight in my face. He does not say anything for sometime.

We are just looking at each other. I look in his eyes. They are red. Suddenly i can see the transition from red eyes to wet eyes. He asks me " Saahib you have 55 rupees? " I get annoyed when someone older than my age calls me a saahib but somehow i have acclimated myself to this word as it is very much a part of the IT industry.

I ask him why does he need 55 rupees. He says that his mother is down with some disease and it to undergo an operation in Mumbai which is the other day. He has to reach Mumbai at any cost but he is falling 55 rupees short to buy the ticket. He says it has been 5 hours he has been begging on the railway station platform but nobody has helped him. He says " Saahib i will wash your feet and drink the water that has come off if you help me. I will do anything you say. Please give me 55 rupees." I am surprised and shocked to hear his story and the statement he just made. It had never happened to me earlier.

I take out a hundred rupee note as i donot have change and give it to him. He sees it as if it is the biggest treasure that he has ever had found in his life. Its his ticket to Mumbai... to reach his mother. He takes the note and reaches a TC standing nearby and buys the ticket. He then turns back hugs me and falls at my feet. I put the omlette aside and pick him up. He is still crying. He looks at the omlette and i am assured that he has not eaten anything since a long time. I buy him an omlette and appease him by saying that everything will go well.

The train sounds the alarm. It is time for me to get back in. We depart and i get back in my window seat. My eyes are wet and they are still peeping out of the window to get a glance of the man. I will never forget this moment. He has disappeared in the crowd......

I am the hIghWay

Pearls that swim the rift of me
Long and weary my road has been
I was lost in the cities
Alone in the hills
No sorrow I feel
For anything I feel yea

I am not your rolling wheels
I am a highway
I am not your carpet ride
I am the sky

Friends and liars
Dont wait for me
Cause Ill get on
All by myself
Put millions of miles
Under my heels
And still too close to you
I feel

I am not your rolling wheels
I am the highway
I am not your carpet ride
I am the sky
I am not your blowing wind
I am the sky here
I am not your autumn moon
I am the night
The night

I am not your rolling wheels
I am the highway
I am not your carpet rag
I am the sky
I am not your blowing wind
I am the lightining
I am not your autumn moon
I am the night

D 20's

The end of teen and the evolution of a new Conception... the 20's

It is when you start thinking that your dreams are not only yours but they have an inseparable connection with the ones you adore the most in life...
It is when you think that you feel sad because what you have is less as per your wishes... but then suddenly you feel contempt because you see others who donot have even that much..

You start noticing the smallest hidden facts in everything around you.. You think you are an Einstein of some kind because your mind is so intractable and it somehow doesnot stop thinking about every single thing it comes across..

Everything you do in life is with the strongest force.. U cry, laugh, get boisterous with all your energy levels... You feel that music defines life in some or the other way.. You try new things no matter how challenging and difficult they seem... All the things that give an adrenaline rush seem to draw your attention...

You look at your job and feel that it is nowhere to what you had imagined yourself but still you have to go for it because somewhere you have a scary feeling a new job mite want you to start all over again from the bottom...

You realize that unless you donot dream you cannot achieve what you want.... So sometime you start day-dreaming too :D .. Nothing seems impossible to you... You become a pugilist who just wants to lambaste the opponents which turn out to be you own troubles in life...

You vision becomes clear as you sweep the dust on our life's journey path... You become focussed as you want to achieve all that you desire in your life.... You realize that your future will take shape on the wheel of your efforts..

You get you heart broken, lie down on a bed and think why that happened to you... You love someone but you don't get Love in return... Every morning you get up thinking that the love of your life is with the wrong person and he/she still finds happiness but you don't.. You realise that you have become so selfless that people use you and throw you away so you decide to become selfish and live for yourself.... You realise that people who you regard as the closest to you are not really the closest one's but people whom with you have lost touch are the one's whom you really need..

You keep talking about the same thing again and again to your friendz because you are unable to take any decision...

You realize that a partner for life is always better then a thousand in the shack... you search for "THE ONE"of your life.. You decide that you will repay all the debts that you owe to your parents but you suddenly come to know that you cannot do it... So you decide to give the all the happiness and comforts that they want...

You start thinking that luxury is a necessity to enjoy the flavors of life... You want to embellsih your life with all the colors of this world.. You start making a BUCKET-List ( List of things you would like to do before you kick the bucket ).. You pen down your wierdest imaginations with a hope that the little peice of paper will become meaning of your life...

Your opinions get stronger and stronger and you realise what is right and what is wrong... you come to know that each and every moment you are being watched and judged...

You feel lonely, alone and confused... you wish that you could go back and live the past but you find that its just drifting away and what you have to live is only the present...

So all the above is a part of the 9 to 6 cycle that most of us have and after reading this we all will relate it to ourself in some or the other way...

Well we call it the 20's aka the Renaissance

Be Yourself

Someone falls to pieces
Sleepin all alone
Someone kills the pain
Spinning in the silence
To finally drift away
Someone gets excited
In a chapel yard
Catches a bouquet
Another lays a dozen
White roses on a grave

To be yourself is all that you can do
To be yourself is all that you can do

Someone finds salvation in everyone
And another only pain
Someone tries to hide himself
Down inside himself he prays
Someone swears his true love
Untill the end of time
Another runs away
Separate or united?
Healthy or insane?

To be yourself is all that you can do

And even when you've paid enough, been pulled apart or been held up
With every single memory of the good or bad faces of luck
don't lose any sleep tonight
I'm sure everything will end up alright

You may win or lose
But to be yourself is all that you can do

To be yourself is all that you can do

Discovering the MIND

We all know something about our conscious mind. At least we can make certain presumptions about our consciousness. Consciousness for most of us is the fact of the awareness of our thinking, feeling, and doing. Although, the reactions to the stimuli may differ from person to person, or even in the same person from time to time, the fact that everyone is capable of reacting is taken as a sign of consciousness. These conscious acts are sometimes termed as conscious mind.

Similarly, certain acts are performed reflexively or without conscious awareness. For instance, mind goes on thinking bad thoughts despite attempts to control them. From where such thoughts as of anger, lust, jealousy, hatred, and even desire to harm others, come? Same is the case with good or noble thoughts also. Selflessness predominates in some persons to the extent that these persons give up everything and start working for the welfare of world. From where do such thoughts arise?

All these thoughts arise in the Subconscious mind. The Subconscious mind is a sub-total of all the past experiences of our lives ( whether they be good or bad, sad or happy). The experiences that we come across from the day we stand on our feet are processed by our conscious mind and then is passed on to our sub-conscious mind in the form of some subtle impressions. These impressions interact and give birth to a proclivity. Proclivity can be termed as a tendency to react to a particular way in a particular manner. These tendencies when mixup with the environmental factors give rise to the desired outcomes.

For instance, suppose there is silent unseen and unknown tendency to take alcohol, or to smoke, in our subconscious mind. Necessary conditions in the form of a friend, a bar, a cigarette vendor, etc. would bring forth the desire to drink or to smoke; and we are in there!

So it can be said that the conscious mind is a gateway to the sub-conscious mind. Whatever we sow in it we reap the same. We come across a lot of articles that talk about the so called "positive thinking" :D I call it a mere piece of crap because no one is focussed to teach the basics of the art of mastering the mind. The legacy of the sub-conscious mind is still a myth or an unknown fact to billions of those who wander in search of success with a torch of POSITIVE ATTITUDE. It is only a mere torch unless it is kindled with the flame of fire of positive energy that is reaped from the Sub-conscious.

Realise that we have the ability to create our life's experience, and that we have been doing that from the day we were born. Make the choice to start using this ability consciously now, in order for you to create new subconscious beliefs that honour you and are more effective than ones you might have using up till now, or to create even more of the experiences you were having already. Your life becomes a very interesting journey when you do. It is never too late!

If your Sub-conscious says that you can do it then no power in this world can stop you from doing it... The moment your Sub-conscious fails or falls in a dilemma you will find yourself as big failure, no matterhow hard you try you will neva succeed.....

You just need to tell yourself YOU CAN..... The above stuff has nothing to with positive attitude. Its just a voyage to the innermost secrets of the Sub-conscious....