The Shine of Truth

 An inspirational line relevant for our times taken from the writings of Nanaji, Akshay's maternal grandfather. He used to write regularly on spiritual matters for Tapovan Prasad, a magazine from Chinmaya Mission. Akshay was born a month after he passed away this day in 2001. Remembering Nanaji fondly on his 21st anniversary.  

The Beauty in the Bleakness

 As one more pandemic stricken year comes to a close, we mark ten years without Akshay. Its been a chaotic year no doubt, glad its getting over. See I even missed posting on Akshay's birthday in March. But there's beauty in the bleakness, almost as if God is whispering in our ears to look at the splendour of his Creation and add to it in whatever way we can. Just as Akshay did in his short life. 

It was Archy's birthday yesterday, he turned eleven. There was a pretty cake, but it didn't seem to interest our furry friend much. Look how he gives a grateful look for the birthday song. Amazingly human!

Up in the skies, today is an eventful day. Five planets are lining up and will be visible to the naked eye. Five twinkling stars, all in a row specially for Akshay to watch from wherever he is. 

The day Akshay was consigned to flames was Bahrain National Day, and the whole nation was decked up in lights - a grand farewell for Akshay. God's ways are mysterious aren't they? 

Always in our heart

Miss you, love you dearest Akshay. 

All of nine years now without you. 

The world has been in the grip of Covid -19 pandemic for nine months now, 

masked, sanitised, socially distanced and quarantined. It's as if humanity is in a kiln. Let's hope a something good comes out after all the roasting!

 

Time Unspools into Space

Eight years ago Akshay let go of his body. Time is a combination of past, present and future. The past is in our heads, and the future in our hands. Einstein once said,' I never think of the future, it comes soon enough.' These pictures from the past are glimpses of happier days. This going back and forth brings the awareness that we must accept death as a part of life and not the end of life.

The Pieces of the Puzzle

Life is a puzzle, just like love. There are so many pieces that are needed to complete the picture. Thank you Akshay for being a piece of our lives for ten years. Our lives are incomplete without you. You would have been eighteen today in your Earth life.

The Other Side of Pain

How do we get on the other side of pain? I came across this very visceral description of grief by Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love.She says, "Grief is a force of energy that cannot be controlled or predicted. It comes and goes on its own schedule. Grief does not obey your plans, or your wishes. Grief will do whatever it wants to you, whenever it wants to. In that regard, Grief has a lot in common with love.” Grief happens upon you, it’s bigger than you. There is a humility that you have to step into, where you surrender to being moved through the landscape of grief by grief itself. And it has its own time frame, it has its own itinerary with you, it has its own power over you, and it will come when it comes. And when it comes, it’s a bow-down. It’s a carve-out. And it comes when it wants to, and it carves you out — it comes in the middle of the night, comes in the middle of the day, comes in the middle of a meeting, comes in the middle of a meal. It arrives — it’s this tremendously forceful arrival and it cannot be resisted without you suffering more… The posture that you take is you hit your knees in absolute humility and you let it rock you until it is done with you. And it will be done with you, eventually. And when it is done, it will leave. But to stiffen, to resist, and to fight it is to hurt yourself.

Cosmic Zen

Akshay is now six years old in his spiritual home. He must be enjoying his outer space explorations. Busy learning all the heavenly lessons by heart. Playing other worldly games. A world devoid of the drama of human life. Experts say, the human soul travels on and through many different planes and dimensions of existence between the period of death and rebirth. Some of these planes and dimensions are in our present universe(Viswa Brahmand) and some are in other universes. Although this fact is mentioned in some of the Indian Tantra astrology literature, and 18 Puranas, Western scientists have only recently found the mathematical evidence of multiverse – multiple universes. It is said that the human soul’s last station is the moon, before it enters the plane of the Earth for rebirth. The plane of the moon is the place for accumulation of all souls, who are ready to reenter the earth for a new birth. No wonder it is said that the Vimottari dasha system based on the moon’s nakshtra at birth is one of the finest predictive tools. Once on earth and after many intermediate phases, the souls select the father and mother with whom maximum rinaanubandhana or karmic debt exists to be born as the child.