Death and silence

There is a certain gloominess. ..an event normally gets me thinking but this simply paused everything ..a certain stillness fills the air

My neighbours brother passed away in the recent train accident ...

I won't see him again ...I remember him as keeping his car absolutely clean coming over from Bangalore with 2 kids ...

Calling it fate doesn't help ...neither does it make sense to blame anyone ...everything just hangs and in the silence the earth holds another child in her arms and the family stares into a future they don't want to be in without that child

There are no explanations ..no words of comfort ...nothing material ..nothing spiritual even ..just the reality of life and it's uncertainty

we just move on ...I move on ..I explain people who ask me whether the job I offer will be permanent and I've always replied that my waking up the next day isn't in my hands how can something I offer be permanent?

Here it is ..

I've always believed that the difficulty and beauty of Vedanta is in accepting this reality and embracing life ..overcoming the instincts by empathy

But the silence of the moment is more meaningful than breaking it using the noise of  words

Way of life

"People keep saying Hinduism is not a religion. It's a way of life . How can a way of life not remain a religion ? Every culture wants to define and structure social living .How can any religion not be a way of life .Christianity is a way of life so is Islam . Religion defines living "

there is this invisible force of pooling in resources for this program which is either fear , taxes or God. .. People get 'educated ' into a mould where behaviour is termed normal

Soul is different subject altogether. To me its an emotional sink until the thought process is isolated and Dumbledore's pensieve is used to look at it closely for study with the 'fine text ' from the philosophies of the religions

The life of Jesus or Ram would adapt and question today's so called religious structures and use the medium of communication better

It is important to note that any great 'Divine ' life was both a political and religious icon of the times. ... they were deified to bring in a certain control and repeatability or system into a naturally chaotic world order