paragliding weekend at sheilar, India

flying for the first time at Sheilar, near Kamshet, India was a liberating experience indeed. The longish ridge that provides for constant flow of soft and sweet wind gives your wings the perfect lift. It was my first flight after completing CP course at Nirvana Adventures. At a height of nearly 1500 ft above the take-off spot, which itself is around 120mts from ground level everything changes: a view very few humans are naturally born to enjoy; serenity that birds don't share with the land crawlers; liberating solitude; enveloping sky; stress-busting smell of pure nothingness; and a sense of life that's worth living. When I joined Nirvana Adventures school of paragliding, India's leading school and, must admit, my second home, little did I know that it would teach me to respect nature immensely. I certainly look forward to flying around the world some day.

HANDBOOK 2010

Health:
1. Drink plenty of water.
2. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a
beggar.
3. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food
that is manufactured in plants..
4. Live with the 3 E's -- Energy, Enthusiasm and Empathy
5. Make time to pray.
6. Play more games
7. Read more books than you did in 2009 .
8.. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day
9. Sleep for 7 hours.
10. Take a 10-30 minutes walk daily. And while you walk, smile.

Personality:
11. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their
journey is all about.
12. Don't have negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead
invest your energy in the positive present moment.
13. Don't over do. Keep your limits.
14. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
15. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip.
16. Dream more while you are awake
17. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need..
18. Forget issues of the past. Don't remind your partner with His/her
mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.
19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don't hate others.
20. Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present.
21. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
22. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems
are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra
class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
23. Smile and laugh more.
24. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree....

Society:
25. Call your family often.
26. Each day give something good to others.
27. Forgive everyone for everything...
28. Spend time w/ people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6.
29. Try to make at least three people smile each day.
30. What other people think of you is none of your business.
31. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends
will. Stay in touch.

Life:
32. Do the right thing!
33. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
34. GOD heals everything.
35. However good or bad a situation is, it will change..
36. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
37. The best is yet to come..
38. When you awake alive in the morning, thank GOD for it.
39. Your Inner most is always happy.

changes

a beautiful beginning to 2010. though i don't really know what was so beautiful about it. year changed and so did people. to the year that has changed, i look forward to you having a good time with your; to people who changed, goodbye.

bad start to good omens

reading a book for the last 4 months. i just can't finish it. the more i read, the more the remaining number of pages i see. it's not only an interesting book, but a fast -paced one too. plan to finish it by this weekend. terry pratchett and neil gaimon, it's not your fault. maybe, i didn't start it at an auspicious hour.

news

today, the mns people beat abu azmi for taking oath in hindi (and not marathi). hmmm...so we have more news for our news-hungry citizens. one more interesting topic to talk about over a couple of drinks, or coffee, or sitting on the katta... i'm actually divided in my thoughts when it comes mns...while i do like what raj thakrey' stands for, i wonder if such actions are going to achieve anything good eventually.

but, as citizens, we are a happy lot as long as we keep getting news like these to pass our time. hai na!?

recharged

it's been a long time since i wrote, or blogged. there was simply nothing to write about. or i simply didn't feel like writing. my mind was on a trip, flitting every moment from one subject to another aimlessly. i thought i should meditate. i tried but didn't really know the methods. checked out a lot of sites; asked few people; read few books , but none could help me learn. then S told me i should try Art of Living. i jumped at the idea and before i knew i was amongst a handful of 30 somethings, 40 somethings, 50 somethings and 60 somethings.

i felt strange, like a stranger in a strange place doing strangest of things. i felt stupid in the beginning, then like a kid and then i felt a calm within like i had never felt before. every moment was a fresh moment in life, which gave me a new perspective on everyday things. i could not sleep at nights, and was told it was due to high amount of energy that i gained during the evening kriya. by the end of the 6th and the final day at the course 1, i felt absolutely recharged. it was a wonderful, strange but wonderful, experience and there is no feeling like being recharged.

another mile.

talking about concentration pill, i think i need one right now...like right now. i am indeed focused in life...jut that i can't see it clearly forward. however, i am simply being a driver, driving a car with its high-beam on. going that extra mile, only to see another mile opening before me. this way i am staying focused to the limit before me. but it's when my mind travels beyond . that's where the problem lies. i can see several things. things beautiful and too true to believe. and then my mind travels further, until it reaches the gaping den of the beast. that's when i return to the cozy compartment of my car, driving another extra mile.