na punyam na paapam na saoukhyam na duhkam
na mantro na teertho na veda na yajna
aham bhojanam naiva bhojyam na bhokta
Chidaananda rupah shivoham shivoham
(Nirvaanashtakam)

I going through a few works of Adi Shankaraacharya today. This means

I am not bonded by sins or virtues
I am not aware of any Mantra, any teertha, any yajna or any Veda
I am not prey, shall not seek and shall not be had
I am one with ecstatic joy, I am truth. I am truth!!

How powerful are these lines? Just you think for a few seconds and you are lost in another world. You seek refinement and you wish you were anything but what you are right now! These lines were running in my mind ad I sat before this life like image of Chandrashekhara Bharathi stood before me.


Just that face and stature speaks volumes about his personality to you. You seemed to gain energy through just staring at his photographs. Beauty is a very mediocre word to describe that face! It is that radiance and what they call in Sanskrit as ‘Varchass’ ...the radiance of inner knowledge that appeals to you.

After a while I just grabbed the book I was reading and sat in my lonely spot in the balcony near my room. You can see the main road from there directly.

Two women were hitting each other drunk and yelling at the top of their voices. Many men stood near the pan shop and left fumes inhaled from their cigarettes, many more trying to walk straight on the road after a considerably large ounce of drinking.

Vehicles going and coming, ambulances rushing from accident zones to hospitals, ministers traveling, buses and cars etc etc.

Uff what is life?

A mad rush?

To achieve what?

Something illusionary, temporary and momentary?

Is it all worth it?

Why are we here?

What is our purpose?

I was lost in questions . .. I just picked up my pod and played the list randomly and put on my earphones . .. and there was Shankaracharya speaking to me in MS’s voice

Bhaja govindam Bhaja govindam Govindam bhaja moodha mate

Punarapi jananam
Punarapi maranam
Punare janani jathare shayanam
Iha samsaare bahu dustare
Krupaya pare pahi murare

Birth and death in cycles again and again
To sleep in the mothers womb again and again
This samsara is too much of pain
Please help me cross this ocean for once and for all .. . . . .

I just remembered the last two lines of the movie samsara that shot to critical acclaim recently

Is it great to control one urge
Or give into a thousands? . .

What a question, what a question!