Beloo Mehra's Blog, page 13
January 11, 2017
Surrender to Guru
Every time Ifind myself getting somewhat lost or scattered in the multiplicity of noises coming from here and there, Ifeelthis deep need to go back to the basics, I mean the most basic fundamentals of the path I aspire to pursue.This is one of the ways I have discoveredwhich helps me to re-gainmy inner poise, to re-center myself, to re-kindle and steady that flickering flameof aspiration.
A recent journey of this kind took me to a sentence I had written in one of my notebooks. This is frommy...
January 2, 2017
Prayer in Pictures
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May the new doors open. May thedarkness be gone, and the light envelopthe entire space, withinand without.[image error]
May the heart always remember to be in gratitude.[image error]
May the wilderness and mistof life not hidethe onward and upward path.
May the path of beauty be revealed in the midst of the mist. [image error]
May the roots grow stronger.[image error]
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May the silence deepen.[image error]
May the godscontinue toblessus.[image error]
May the colourful dan...December 31, 2016
Prayer in Pictures
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May the new doors open. May thedarkness be gone, and the light envelopthe entire space, withinand without.[image error]
May the heart always remember to be in gratitude.[image error]
May the wilderness and mistof life not hidethe onward and upward path.
May the path of beauty be revealed in the midst of the mist. [image error]
May the roots grown stronger.[image error]
May the vision widen.[image error]
May the silence deepen.[image error]
May the godscontinue toblessus.[image error]
May the colourful da...December 25, 2016
An Afternoon at Ajanta
“The first and lowest use of Art is the purely aesthetic, the second is the intellectual or educative, the third and highest the spiritual. By speaking of the aesthetic use as the lowest, we do not wish to imply that it is not of immense value to humanity, but simply to assign to it its comparative value in relation to the higher uses. The aesthetic is of immense importance and until it has done its work, mank...
November 21, 2016
Show Me the Money!
Money is the talk of the town these days, actually of the whole nation. And of course, we know the reason.
From the corrupt politicians whose stacks of cash suddenly became useless overnight to the mafiaof the fake currency industry who found themselvesout of business;from terrorists of all hues and their propagandists who reliedon loads of cash to carry out their sinister inhumane agendas to some ofthe biggest tax-evaders who hoarded cash;from small and medium traders whose businesses mostl...
November 7, 2016
“Nobody can take Him away!”
Yes, nobody can take Him away. Nobody.
“वो यहाँ से जाने वाले नहीं…हम उनहें जाने ही नहीं देंगे…उनहें यहाँ से कोई नहीं ले जा सकता है…” (He is not the one to go from here…we won’t let Him go. Nobody can take Him away.)
This was declared softly and simply by Maniram, the soft-spoken, pleasant, somewhat shy and gentle-manneredmiddle-aged taxidriver we had hired for the two days we spent in March of this year in Dwarka, Gujarat. In fact, as we found out later, Maniramwas also the owner of thi...
October 7, 2016
Nine, who are One
Nine nights of the Divine Mother. Some invoke Her in nine forms and names, some in three, some in four, some innumerable.
“The One whom we adore as the Mother is thedivine Conscious Force that dominates all existence, one and yetso many-sided that to follow her movement is impossible even forthe quickest mind and for the freest and most vast intelligence.The Mother is the consciousness and force of the Supreme and farabove all she creates. But something of her ways ca...
September 27, 2016
Beautiful Little Happy Things
What do we do whensome big stuff in life doesn’t go the way we would have liked it to go?Of course, it is the dark ignorancewecarry and in which we are steeped that makes us assume that we somehow havethis rightto expect that things in life and world would go the way we want them to go!
So what do we do when things go haywire, or at least don’t go the way we had expected them to go? We cry. We shout. We agitate. We yell. We cry some more. Why, why, o why? Why is the world so harsh on me? Why...
September 14, 2016
हिंदी दिवस के अवसर पर…On Hindi Day
कभी कभी जब मन कुछविचलित साहोता हैतो वयकति कई उपाय खोजता है मन को सथिर करने के लिए। ऐसा ही एक उपाय खोजते खोजते आज मैं अपने इस बलॉग पर एक वरष पूरव कीआज ही के दिन, अरथात हिंदी दिवस के दिन की,परसतुति तक पहुँच गई। उसे पढ़ा, उसके मूल सार पर, मुखय भाव परकुछ पल मनन कियाऔर मन एक नई सफूरति की ओर जाने के लिए कुछ और अधिक तैयार होता सा परतीत होने लगा।
सोचा कयों न उसी परसतितु को दोबारा से पाठकों के समकष रखा जाये। और तभी शरी अरविनद की अंगरेजी में लिखी यह पंकतियां याद आई :
Language is the sign of the cultural...
August 24, 2016
The Love of the Gopis
Since times immemorial, Sri Krishna and His Lila remain a captivating source ofinspiration for painters, sculptors, poets, musicians, dancers, storytellers and all types of classical, folk, traditional and contemporary artists in India. Krishna as balgopal stealing butter, his childhoodantics and pranks, his acts of remarkable and extraordinary valour and courage, his friendship with Sudama, his yogi-avatar of Bhagvad-Gita, all these and more have been cap...
