Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.- Mahatma Gandhi
1. What color is our soul?
Is it black, white, red, brown, pink, blue, rainbow or natural?
Being colorful with our skin alone is a gross way of looking at things. In a bigger perspective, color doesn't matter a much, or does it? Being a black, white, brown, red are all temporary illusions to hide our inner qualities. And so are the tallness, shortness, richness, poorness. If we go even deeper - our identify is NOT only from a cultural beliefs and mundane differnt political doctrines that we are broughtup in to. Our inner strength is our true/self identity.
What we are - is what we belive in. The more human we are - the nearer to divinity we will proceed. In terms of web technologies all these colors and possesion is nothing but 'cascading-style-sheet'. They do not mean your ownership. They can vary in a very dynamic/fragile way but the core functions are our building blocks and inner science.
In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
Memphis, a southern state - A soul searching opportunity !
No place is less important and no time is perfect for our soul searching. Every moment becomes opportunity and every forward movement provides a purpose of living. To know a country you need to move to its core. As for example, we would not see United States until you see the Southern states, that's what my inner-soul tells me after living in Memphis for a month this summer. Explaining about a place is like 6 blind people describing an elephant. Everyone is right but makes it complete when we put all perspective together. I can sense a soul of a little friendlier, a courtious and some ice-breakers. The hardship and natural challenges have made south - a rugged terrain with stronger inner strength. Stout from outside but calmer and deep into their natural patterns inside.
The music of Soul or the soul of music are both originated from the south towns. Elvis, BB King, Native souls, Country vibes and so many other great musicians were created from this Mississippi river banks. We can say that - the nature has challenged them from every corners but the people have faught back equally day and night. The hurricanes, flooding and yellow fever have taken many lives apart but the town also has embraced all the races, music and cultures to its multitudes. No town is created in a day, it took thousands of years to build a community - if we stay quite enough - we can still hear the voice from the Native Americans soul. The music and the history carved in the forest Totem poles.
North may be the melting pot for modern civilization of the world where as the South is the inner core of the American values. The mixed society of orinitating musical colors. That is where great souls like Jesus come in. Whenever they are confronted with an opponent, they conquer them with love. Great mind don't get locked in a singularity. Their soul become their identity and form an union. That is what Gandhi learned and taught to the world. That is what inner knowledge or engineering of soul - that we need to follow for the years to accept the humanity as is.
Now for a short time let's close our eyes and find the best color that describes us? Are there any colors within our soul? Peace, tranquility, forgiveness, resilience, non-violence is our true color. Inner self has the capacity to absorb every possible energy when it is deformed but again upon understanding with right knowledge we all can recover all the energy that was lost making this beautiful world.
2. What music does our soul like the best, human's favorite?
Rock & Roll, Classical, Indian-Shatriya, Blues, Jazz, Soul, Gospel, Country, Rap or natural?Let's close both of our ears for 2 sec and listen to our self - do we hear anything?
3. What food do we crave the most?
Vegetarian, Non Veg., Vegan, Animal products, fast food etc. or natural? Let's fast for a few days for a great cause and feel the difference. The only thing we may loose is some weight.
4. What's our innercore business belief?
Non-profit, Profit oriented, Sharing, open-source-trade or proprietory? Do you believe that what you learned and experience today has ONLY your ownership? Or does it belong to you or to the community we gained from? Have humans created any grains from scratch yet? What responsibility do we have for the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying?
5. What political systems do you admire the most?
Liberal, Democratic, Communism with modern approaches, Natural - which means the belief in ecosystem which balances out by itself. With global environmental threats what should be our actions?
6. What is progress to us?
To stay on top of everyone, survival of the fittest? Or fittest among the survivals? Escalation towards the upper food chain and again to gain power, prosperity and good life dictated by the society or sharing of resources, maintain social harmony and hard-ship to maintain tranquility to exist in social melodies.
There are certainly many but for simplycity sake - there are two paths or school of thoughts? To enjoy the elements for all the senses that we like or the world of inner-self which is rising beyond the senses. Is this world for us to learn and enjoy most out of it? A path that we like the most to fulfill our unlimited desires or a path that is better for us? By the way what path is better for all of us? Or are there any?
Human Origin and our Purpose here:
How much openness for thoughts and progessive knowledge and spiritual searchig is required to our ultimate soul freedom. Will our living be purposeful or is it entirely possible to fulfill it by just learning?
The knowledge of being and to find its origin is the foremost quest that humanity is excavating all the times. People want to know their beginning such that they can find their end? Different cultural beliefs, religions and doctrines have taught us many ways of reasoning our beginning. Science and Paleontology gave us even better understanding of our pre-existence providing mundane signatures. The carved fossils gave humanity a different twist time to time. Interestingly the signature of inner-core self engineering can't be seen with our naked eyes. Unfortunately it can't be listened with the modern iPod neither can we find in the Beale Street.
Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
- The Dalai Lama
The eastern philosophy taught us that there is no beginning and hence can't have an end to our existence, an introvert knowledge. Western civilization taught humanity a hardship to materialism, industrialism, capitalism, commercialism, pleasurism, imperialism or modernism for better appreatiation and usefulness of natural resources. We are merely not made by accidents nor alone with a scienctific big bang theories in a day or two. The million years of existence is the image of our inner spirit hiding somewhere in the supreme-science-core. The peak of well being is the inner truth that the different faculty of sciences are searhing & researching - day by day. The songs, music, an appealing poetry all come from the soul where it all begins and hence it is where it ends.
May be that applies to every country, city, villages and rural communities and homes. But interestingly, the world is becoming well connected and getting flat. It is getting smaller and smaller as people are becoming more mobile. We have flexibility to adopt in any society if we like to. Earlier the world was not as it is today. The world has not forgotten but learned how to forgive the past. We don't have to be a Chinese to live in China nor need to be an Indian to live in the US anymore. Humans have successfully embraced the differences. We still can do better if inner self is NOT ignored and if we believe in...thou shalt love thou neighbor.
We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty. - Mother Teresa
