The Blend

I don't know what's the matter. ..but sometimes I have seen friends asking, what's the deal about Katol, why all Katolians are so different.. I tell you today why it is so...

It's a blend.. like a scotch made up of fine grains.. Katol is a smalltown, but it has it's own heritage... Educational institutions played thee most important role in blending this scotch... Nowadays many new convent school are opening up and the scotch is loosing it's fervor...

I am proud to be a student of BRHS. Banarasidas Ruiya...from high school till junior college. 8 years.

And this is true for all those mate in this journey...

We got very good teachers, but the most important is TIME & TALKS... the time we spent sitting beside the canal.. in the libraries..on school playground..near the lake...in the labs..at the stadium....& riding on bicycles.

It's the TIME & the TALKS that blended the scotch with that fervor... each one of us...discussed about all the hell ..most of us were fortunate to walk that path, yes there are one or two friends who couldn't achieve at this stage ...but I'm damn sure ..they are getting matured and will surpass the rest in a flash. We are never doubtful about each other so there is always respect for each other at any given time. low or high.. we gonna fly.

Each one of us had a dream, each of us had imagined future for ourselves and for our country, sound cliched but that's true.. when you are in company of good and fearless people you discuss all that comes your way. We embarrassed freedom much earlier than the rest of the world. When everyone around us is running in the rat-race for marks we were striving already for knowledge through healthy competition among us. We never compared anything in our group but everyone wanted to hit the spot. We took pride in getting less marks by solving the complex problem first.. We focused on learning the whole, not satisfied with the narrow view. We always believed in taking the control of tough situations. That's the whole thing about this blend...   we can be seen standing strong at the tipping point, because we believe that's our start point, we are trained in that way.  That's why sometimes we are accused of approaching things in a different way. We love those accusations. 

I'm more fortunate than others coz I got into another institution... UCOE. To get there the strength came from the TIME & TALKS... Will you learn Engineering in a Primary School? I did.

and so are my friends at UCOE... What hopes will you carry when you get into primary school classrooms to learn your Engineering lessons..many would feel there future is doomed, but not us. We had SkyHigh hopes, because we took the charge in our own hands. We never said a word about what we are not getting, instead we said we have this much to offer... We learned it that way, so we remember the lessons forever, and still cherish those days! 

Now we may have settled down, but the urges we have will come back to us in near future, they will not let us sleep easily. Because we had talked about our future and about the country. ..country part is still undone.

The TALKS are registered there in the subconscious with a specific TIME. They will make us act at that time.

That's all about this blend, may not be perfect, may not be smooth, but it has it's own strength, feel and fervor.

-ciao

Love Love Love

It's difficult to keep up with blogging when you have so many social blabbering websites ;) The words slip here and there and don't just build up enough pressure to come out like a blog article.

Even then there are moments which are so compelling that makes you revisit your own world... bare & raw.

It happened last weekend.

I was at Bangalore attending a social gathering of around 6 thousand people as part of Art of Living three day course.

After the first day, I got the feeling like I was sent to rehab for three days after committing some social crime.  I shared the feeling with my friend Toshi, who came along, after being forced to join repetitively. he was also sailing in the same feelings. We were like bunch of happy bachelors just experimenting with this new way of life. Nothing much serious about it. We thought it's just three days let's endure.

Day 2  of the course and Guruji arrived. People opened up before him.
During the course of event many participants shared there life experiences. Without any offense and with anonymity I am writing this.

There was a lady she stood up and told, "I was about to finish my life just before coming to this place. I have decided to commit suicide, but now I want to live. I am happy now, I have accepted those who wronged with me. I made peace with life."

After few moments another lady spoke. "I came here with my sister who lost her only son a week before. She was not at all able to forget him and was not talking to anyone so we took her here. " after this she handed over the mic to her sister to open up.... what we heard after that was soul wrenching... she started to speak.. " I lost my son a week back.. he was  a brave good boy.. he got murdered by rowdy people when he intercepted and saved a girl from them. he was my cute child ..but now he is no more.. I am not able to come out of this grief..but after coming here and after doing the processes I am accepting this fact. I haven't talked to anyone about this...but now i'm feeling some strength within me."

Another lady stood up who raised her two kids after her husbands early demise. She was much strong from within and was beaming with strength.

A girl from the crowd was crying and she told that she was given away to someone else after her birth. She was not able to forgive her mother for this and was always carrying that anger within her... but she dropped that anger after coming to this place and listening to Guruji's words.

These are not cooked up stories but the real people and there problems.

Me and my friend were silent after listening to all this. We had a different assumption before coming here.. that the world is happy go lucky and just come around here to spend some nice time. But hell no, we were dumb wrong. People came with their real problems in hope to find a solution, and many of them got the solution.
The solution was simple. for all the problems the solution was.... Letting go and Love. and that's what is the mission of this organization... to create a stress free, violence free society. One world filled with Love.


At the end of Day 2, we were left thinking how lucky we are so far...


-ciao
P.S. : title:  my answers to three questions asked on day 1.

Kshan

Kshan ek pure premacha, pudhe varshav pado marnancha.