Intuition - Mumbai Reality

Have a strong feeling that by April 2009 the real estate industry in India will witness crash in prices of over 30% than today and by Nov 2009 it will go down to 50% percent. The best time & place to buy would be around end of the year in posh locales....the only way thats hapeening is through the broker route. The real estate industry is dead long live the broker !!

Fun

Having fun has a lot to do with not having fun ! No am not trying to write great one liners here but am trying to share with you what 'fun' I had yesterday at the cricket ground at bombay gymkhana.

I found myself atop the prize giving stage with the likes of Harsha Bhogle and Mandira Bedi handing over trophies to our team for being the runners up at the Masters Corporate Club. The last three days I had been preparing myself for the most boring three days, while what happenned was completely the opposite. As I tried not to have fun and looked around for cues of boredom the more life enveloped me, someone invited me to a match another made me the team manager before we knew it we were winning all matches and then there was Mandira on stage and my name being announced to a decent applause. Indians I have realised will applaud for anything thats called onto the stage very loudly by the host on stage.

The weekend came to an end but has left me wondering that just when I had surrendered to imminent boredom, I met 'fun' !

Thoughts on Life

Everyone surviving needs clarity ! Am surprised why not much has been written about this simple fact of life. If I look around, religion has been created to provide clarity to an inquisitive mind, all of education is to make sense of the world around us, the expensive exploration of space while millions perish in hunger is only to provide more clarity about the world we live in.

Not convinced, try this test on yourself, name one initiative of mankind that does not strive to provide clarity or help in ensuring survival. Or for that matter leave mankind and start with yourself, what is the most important question you have for your own life. I can bet you its about clarity either on your self, the people around you or the world you live in.

The most important aspect of this eternal search is communication. As without that your search is your alone and that is akin to reinventing the wheel and making a spaceship in one life all by yourself.

This stress on communication in ourculture then becomes very clear, the vedas say that the word is the lord and I used to wonder, out of all things why is the 'word the lord'. Till I realised that no man or woman can rest in peace till s/he finds an answer to the confusion that surrounds them, which we all call 'Life'.

The saint is happy and content not because he has found God, in fact the saint has the least to do with the concept of God for s/he realises that this hunt for clarity is futile and what is probably in control is to relinquish this hunt once and for all and accept things the way they are. This acceptance then leads to abundance as then you are no longer running around in circles but sitting at one place looking at everything the way it is and realising the truth. That everything 'is'.

One man who did it best was Buddha, but nothing stops anyone from realising this simple fact of life that no man or woman ever knew where s/he has come from and where s/he will go, and the biggest reality is not what you will find some day but what is today around you within you every second and everywhere which is you !

Aham Bramhasmi I Am Brahman (Brihadaranyaka Upanishad of the Yajur Veda) Tat Tvam Asi That You Are (That is You) (Chandogya Upanishad of the Sama Veda) may then start appearing to provide some clarity.