Today i met an old lady while i was parked on the side of the road...
She asked for directions of a particular shop...

At first when i saw her... i said to myself... 'oh here comes another beggar...'
put up my fake smile as she got closer... and responded to her question and went "phew she didn’t ask for money..."

But then i thought... wait a min... what am i truly...?
This Poem is inspired by today's event...

What is a man in the desert.. but a beggar of water to quench His thirst...

What is a man on the streets... but a beggar to feed his belly...

What is a man in any profession... but a beggar to feed his livelihood; his immediate family (his senses) and his further family...

What are our cells, but beggars to be feed nutrients...

A fertilised egg begs the womb to be a child...

What are we... really... if there was no one to give...

if the earth decided not to fruit its trees

if the winds decided not to be free...

if the waters decided not to be clean

if the sun decided not to warm...

Beggars... Beggars... Beggars... !!! we are all beggars to begin with



The sun can be one true giver... atleast...
for it burns itself up to give...

but just like a dying star that it was built from to begin with...

it also begged once before and condensed to a star after the millions of years of begging... begging black matter for hydrogen...

Just like a devoted mother begs the God to give her a good child..

we are only givers when we have something... ALREADY... and hence...
never be afraid to ask.. to beg... to shed your ego; to fall on your feet,
for blessings account for all that exists... and blessings come to the pious.. to the beggars.. to those who belittle themselves...
to those who become valleys.

For what is a vessel but an absence of substance that it wants to carry...

Know what you want to carry.. and be a valley baby... :-)
ALWAYS.. !!!

OK. OK... not much of a rhyming poem... but you get the drift....

thank you my friend for reading me today...

(the picture above is of an African Garden that i would like to have in my backyard...
Plants begging the earth to be buds, then begging time to bloom them... then to wither away in dirt again to be food for the next time of times...)

Know what you want to carry; (know your dream...) and always be pious and beg my friend.... :-) Beg till your heart feels no more resentment... and you will become one with your giver.. ;-)

(I was listening to this in the car then... Nikonn -Sunday)

 

Ohh ... BTW... did i mention... i travel to Mombasa Kenya soon.. ?

I want to take a trip west to Rwanda after... it was hit by the 1994 genocide and now.. things seem positive...

and well... as Mohandas Gandhi said... "You will only find yourself; by getting lost in other people's work".

 

I wish he were alive... anyway... 

{Smiling...}

Once someone asked him...:

"What will you leave behind after you die..."

And he replied "My livelihood"

 

What a short and sexy answer... !!!

Lets leave behind a good livelihood...

 

Peace to you my reader... listen to the track above... (Nikonn  - Sunday)  I beg you :-p

I want to wish the folks here a prosperous 2066 (Gujarat Calendar - we follow the moon... the lunar calender) and may your life be Tarnished ....!!!! with fun... :-) may you awake to your lessons in time.. and accept your light more and more effortlessly...
Well good things come in small packages... i wish no more of speech... except this little message in my inbox... i love the truth :-)


Are Your Treasures Buried By Boring Daily Activities?

Dear Janak Patel,

Seeking something grander than getting rich is the first step in turning dreams into reality. Fulfilling your dreams is the only way to achieve lasting happiness—the kind of happiness that is based on and supports the power of your spirit.

Nothing in the material world, not even the most beautiful house or the most attractive sports car, can replace the excitement of living your dreams.


Follow The Power of Your Dreams

Find your unique gifts and strengths, develop them and then enlighten the world with them. By doing so, you will touch the hearts of many people and you will be rewarded with abundance and prosperity in your life. Money will come to you so easily you’ll almost want to slap your head in disbelief. Can it really be this simple?

Following the power of your dreams is like tapping into the universal source of all success . . .

It just takes one idea to live like a king for the rest of your life - Ross Perot





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Live life Super Styl-IN

Thousands are still loosing their jobs in the States...
they feel that they are lost somehow... helpless...

Worse still are places like Britain where the 'Royal Mail' staff members are going on strikes... holding on thousands of letters and parcels and they want to hit hard especially during these times of Christmas...
Ohh the Christmas Father will have no work Too ;-(

:-)


Meditate... practice silence and internalise...
You Don';t know how glad i feel when i am alone.... when i am contemplating myself and analysing myself....

I loved this story when in Mumbai... a guy with a degree in Law or something... having no job, decided retreading shoe soles.... Taboo really got to him from all sides.. but he stuck to an idea.. and it gave fruit...

Everyone loves their running shoes.. and in a country where good shoes are a luxury and a great waste to throw away... this guy now actually employs people to wash the old sole.. trim it to an identical  height and paste a new sole on it.. and walla...
Good as new.. and... AND.. at quarter it's retail new price...

what a genius...


I used to work in my GrandPa's construction line in Mombasa Kenya...
i used to be incharge of wall tiles selection... mechanic department,,, as a purchasing supervisor for hardware items from wood, nails to twisted iron bars to galvanised roofing sheets to doors to window louvers to glass.. you name it... i know it...
 from computer maintenance and Internet surfing cafes in our hotel.. to guest relations and conference management for the British Council...
(Psst... ask for the Janak 10% discount at Manson Hotel in Mombasa :-)

i was OUT there.. learning and giving my all... but i was NOT living a Happy life... not really.. just doing what needed to be done... since we shifted to India... i sell Aloe Vera products with my dad now ...
My father made the formulas and i design labels and marketing strategies and even Pushed in 'feed a child a meal' with ever sale that we make...

i learn and learn ... Droping my Ego.. and promise myself everyday.. that "i want to learn something Awesome today.." and indeed i Do...
At-least Spiritually i do... i go to bed; having a fulfilled spiritual thirst...
and i am still claiming "i don;t know a thing about the world..."
Coz that;s how i realise my gifts... that;s how You will realise your's...

Don;t take your unemployment as a waste... take it as an opportunity... live up to the standard of Infinity... something that even scientists will agree to... that we only use soo much of our brains... the rest is just stale... unfiring neurons...
Don;t complain about the government and the recession... that is too much for you to fix.. let go... and accept your chance to be in a better place to choose... awaken a-new, revised.. revitalised...

Be spiritual... be giving... DROP the ego Baby.... stop robotic stuff... that is for amateurs... leave those tasks for the beginners... assign work and MOVE aside easily, don;t be a perfactionist All the time... just take alittle bit care in the detail... and accept and adjust....
Move on when it comes to that... but stop staring at doors that are closed or closing... and ride life with a new Zest !!!

Awareness and the sound of Joy and Love in your ears...
Deepak Chopra said that "people are doing their best. based on their level of awareness".

Well then.. aware yourself;

Sometimes.. i think... Chaos... is when the butter is yielded... think about it...
don;t get attached with the bad... the process,  that one bad; that out of a hundred good.. we tend to spot that one bad... and magnify it... it;s a bad habit...

Be real... BE humble... and be pure with your heart now.. and live your life like a King...

The money is still on Planet earth... no one has taken bags of it out to mars... !!!
It;s still on earth... do what is Needed and not what is wanted by Your ego.. by your certificates...

Everything that happens in life is to bring you to You
Anonymous
{what a beautiful differance.. form "you' to "You".. :-}

[Sometimes... it even takes life style changing my friend.... do that too... As lord Swaminarayan says it well... "Be one with nature... suffer the winter chill and the summer heat..."

Rest, Realise, Revitalise, Realign, Restart...

Love to you; dear reader...