A PLACE OF BEAUTY

Imagine your life, not as it is now or how it used to be, but imagine it the way love songs, fairy tales and bed time stories told you it was going to be. Imagine waking up one fine morning from a soft bed into luminous sunlight, beginning each day feeling warm, well fed, well loved and well cared for. Imagine moving effortlessly through your day, surrounded by the people you love, doing a job that leaves you with a sense of joy and accomplishment.

Imagine returning home at the end of your lovely day to a beautiful warm house filled with the smiling faces of those you truly love, good things to eat and evenings spent by a glorious fire, laughing with careless abandon. Imagine walking in a beautiful garden, just over a hill of constant torment, past the rocks of hurt and anger, over the brook of constant worry, past the weeds of intolerance and hatred, to a place of such perfect peace that even the ground feels soft and receptive beneath your feet. Turmoil and anguish disappear under a shady tree. Trouble never lived here and peace will never leave. No one ever grows old, no one ever becomes ill and no one ever dies. Welcome to the world of the hereafter-welcome to the Garden of Souls.

There is a Garden of Souls. It is not only a real and vibrant place, but it is closer than we imagine. It is where we once lived and it is also where we will return. It is a place we will see again only after our lifetime of struggle, hardship and hurt has earned us the reward of true and final peace.

RAB NE BANADI JODI

My kid innocently blackmailed me to take her to the movie RAB NE
BANADI JODI. I have never been to keen to watch a Shah Rukh Khan
movie and was very reluctant to go. We were lucky enough to get
tickets for a Sunday evening show.
I found the movie very interesting and thought provoking. In my
opinion it is a neat and clean adult movie. Wondering what I am
saying. The movie is surely not for kids. The message in the movie
can be digested I guess after you become an adult. The message is
simple. When you love someone you accept the person as he or she is completely. There are no conditions. I have already written this
in one of my earlier postings. When you see God in your lover, you
know your lover is flawless, as God is always perfect. What may
seem shortcomings to you may be their strength.
The lady in the movie goes through a lot of confrontations. The
married lady in her stops her from relating emotionally with her
friend. But the woman in her feels for him. I am sure many women,
particularly in conservative countries go through the same thought
process. Feelings being an abstract entity cannot be controlled.
This does not mean starting affairs outside marriage. But
suppressing your feelings can be dangerous. One of the best ways to
tackle this situation would be to enjoy it without feeling guilty.
This is what the leading lady did for most part and all was well.
Personally, while watching the movie I imagined the climax would be
that she never comes to know the secret that her husband and lover
are same. For me that would have been a more appropriate end. But
the director and audience know the best. It is a must movie for married and single people.
NOTE: Read my earlier posting on LOVE