ती आहे... अळवावरचे पाणी...
जे हाती कधी लागत नाही...
आहे एक मृगजळ...
ज्याने तृष्णा कधी भागत नाही...
ती आहे... एक स्वप्न...
जे कधी सत्यात येणार नाही...
आशेचं वेडं पाखरू...
जे फिरुन घरट्यात येणार नाही...
फुलाहून नाजूक ती...
जणू चंद्राची चांद्णी आहे...
ती अस्मानीची परी...
माझ्या हृदयाची राणी आहे...
कवितेतून भेटते ती मला...
तिचे गोजिरे रूप घेऊन...
माझ्या मनातून संगीत वाहते...
शब्दांचे सुंदर साज लेऊन...
धुक्यात हरवत्या वाटेवरती...
मला ही धुंदीत राहायचे आहे...
माझ्या प्रेमाचे प्रतिबिंब...
तिच्या डोळ्यात पाहायचे आहे...
तिने यावे...चंद्र-ताऱ्यांचे पैंजण पायी लेऊन...
भ्रमराला ही धुंद करणाऱ्या...
फुलांचे सुगंध घेऊन...
ती येताच.. काळाचे धावते पाऊल...
अचानक थांबावे...ते एक क्षणाचे स्वप्न...
मी अनेक युगे जगावे...
प्रेमाची ही पाऊलवाट..
या मुशाफिराला नवी आहे...
आयुष्याच्या या वळणावर...
तिचीच साथ मला हवी आहे..फक्त...
तिची साथ मला हवी आहे..
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Sunday, September 2, 2007
The Meaning of Life: Discover Your Purpose
Many books I’ve read seem to assume that we’re either genetically or divinely encoded with some sort of built-in purpose, and all we need to do is take the time to discover it through private introspection. You just sit down one day and write a mission statement and trust that what comes out of you will be the guiding force for the rest of your life. Perhaps every 6-12 months you update it.
Personally I think that’s nonsense. I see no evidence that there’s any pre-encoded purpose in any of us. You may have experienced strong social conditioning towards a particular purpose, such as if you’re born a prince or princess, and certainly your DNA will control some aspects of your life, but that isn’t sufficient evidence of any sort of divine will at work. I think in most cases you’ll just end up with a wishy-washy mission statement that doesn’t mean much.
If you begin with the assumption that you have a pre-encoded purpose and attempt to discover it merely by sitting down and writing a mission statement, I think you’ll end up building a house of straw for yourself. You won’t have a rational foundation for trusting your purpose. In most cases you’ll feel like you’re just guessing, and you might look back on your mission statement a week later and find that it’s not so interesting as you thought it was when you wrote it. You’ll always have doubts about what you’ve written.
When people try to sit down and write out a purpose or mission statement, they usually lack sufficient clarity to do so intelligently. How exactly are you supposed to define your purpose? Are you simply supposed to know it and squeeze it out of your brain like a sponge? What if you can imagine several different missions that might fit you, but you have no idea which is better? What if you can’t think of anything at all that seems meaningful to you? What then?
Just because you may not have a pre-encoded purpose doesn’t mean you don’t have a purpose though. It simply means that it will take more work to define your purpose. Your purpose isn’t really something you discover. It would be more accurate to say that your purpose is something you co-create based on your relationship to reality. I wouldn’t exactly call it a free choice though. There may be multiple choices for you, but all choices are not equally valid. What is needed is an intelligent method for developing your purpose, a process that makes sense, such that when you arrive at your final answer, you have high trust that it’s correct
Personally I think that’s nonsense. I see no evidence that there’s any pre-encoded purpose in any of us. You may have experienced strong social conditioning towards a particular purpose, such as if you’re born a prince or princess, and certainly your DNA will control some aspects of your life, but that isn’t sufficient evidence of any sort of divine will at work. I think in most cases you’ll just end up with a wishy-washy mission statement that doesn’t mean much.
If you begin with the assumption that you have a pre-encoded purpose and attempt to discover it merely by sitting down and writing a mission statement, I think you’ll end up building a house of straw for yourself. You won’t have a rational foundation for trusting your purpose. In most cases you’ll feel like you’re just guessing, and you might look back on your mission statement a week later and find that it’s not so interesting as you thought it was when you wrote it. You’ll always have doubts about what you’ve written.
When people try to sit down and write out a purpose or mission statement, they usually lack sufficient clarity to do so intelligently. How exactly are you supposed to define your purpose? Are you simply supposed to know it and squeeze it out of your brain like a sponge? What if you can imagine several different missions that might fit you, but you have no idea which is better? What if you can’t think of anything at all that seems meaningful to you? What then?
Just because you may not have a pre-encoded purpose doesn’t mean you don’t have a purpose though. It simply means that it will take more work to define your purpose. Your purpose isn’t really something you discover. It would be more accurate to say that your purpose is something you co-create based on your relationship to reality. I wouldn’t exactly call it a free choice though. There may be multiple choices for you, but all choices are not equally valid. What is needed is an intelligent method for developing your purpose, a process that makes sense, such that when you arrive at your final answer, you have high trust that it’s correct
Meaning of life......Introduction
What is the meaning of life? Why are we here? Is there a God or isn’t there, and if there is a God, what is its nature? Of all the world’s religions, which one is the most correct? Is there an afterlife? Are we primarily physical beings or spiritual beings? People have struggled for millennia to tackle these questions. Wars have been fought over them. But as much as these questions cause people to lose their heads (sometimes figuratively, sometimes literally), the bottom line is that these are very practical questions.
The way we answer these questions will provide the ultimate context for everything else we do with our lives. If we place any value on our lives at all, we must give some consideration to these questions.
Let’s say you have your life organized around goals, projects, and actions. You set a goal like starting a new business. You break it down into projects like writing a business plan and launching your web site. And then you break those projects down into actions like going to the bank to open a business account and registering your domain name. Fair enough.
But why start the business in the first place? What’s the point? Why pick this goal vs. any other goal? Why even set goals at all?
What determines the goals you set (or don’t set) is your context. Your context is your collection of beliefs and values. So if the values of money and freedom are part of your context, you might be inclined to set a goal to start a new business. But with different kinds of values — a different context — you may be disinclined to set goals at all.
The most significant part of your context is your collection of beliefs about the nature of reality, which includes your religious, spiritual, and philosophical beliefs. Your overall beliefs about the universe will largely determine your results. Context dictates goals. Goals dictate projects. Projects dictate actions. Actions dictate results.
Within a certain context, it will be virtually impossible for you to achieve certain results because you’ll never set the required goals that will lead to those results.
Your context works like a filter. When you are inside a particular context, you lose access to the potential goals, projects, and actions that lie outside that context. For example, if your context includes the belief that criminal behavior is very bad, then you aren’t likely to work towards becoming a future leader in organized crime.
The way we answer these questions will provide the ultimate context for everything else we do with our lives. If we place any value on our lives at all, we must give some consideration to these questions.
Let’s say you have your life organized around goals, projects, and actions. You set a goal like starting a new business. You break it down into projects like writing a business plan and launching your web site. And then you break those projects down into actions like going to the bank to open a business account and registering your domain name. Fair enough.
But why start the business in the first place? What’s the point? Why pick this goal vs. any other goal? Why even set goals at all?
What determines the goals you set (or don’t set) is your context. Your context is your collection of beliefs and values. So if the values of money and freedom are part of your context, you might be inclined to set a goal to start a new business. But with different kinds of values — a different context — you may be disinclined to set goals at all.
The most significant part of your context is your collection of beliefs about the nature of reality, which includes your religious, spiritual, and philosophical beliefs. Your overall beliefs about the universe will largely determine your results. Context dictates goals. Goals dictate projects. Projects dictate actions. Actions dictate results.
Within a certain context, it will be virtually impossible for you to achieve certain results because you’ll never set the required goals that will lead to those results.
Your context works like a filter. When you are inside a particular context, you lose access to the potential goals, projects, and actions that lie outside that context. For example, if your context includes the belief that criminal behavior is very bad, then you aren’t likely to work towards becoming a future leader in organized crime.
Saturday, September 1, 2007
Monday, March 12, 2007
marathi kavita
अखेरचे येतील माझ्या हेच शब्द ओठी
लाख चुका असतील केल्या, केली पण प्रीती
इथे सुरु होण्याआधी, संपते कहाणी
साक्षीला केवळ उरते, डोळ्यांतील पाणी
जखम उरी होते ज्यांच्या, तेच गीत गाती
सवर् बंध तोडूनी जेव्हा नदी धुंद धावे
मीलन वा मरण पुढे, हे तिला नसे ठावे
एकदाच आभाळाला अशी भिडे माती
गंध दूर ज्याचा, आणिक जवळ मात्र काटे
असे फुल प्रीती म्हणजे कधी हाय वाटे
तरी गंध धुंडीत धावे जीव तुझ्यासाठी
आर्त गीत आले जर हे कधी तुझ्या कानी
गूज अंतरीचे कथिले तुला ह्या स्वरांनी
डोळ्यांतून माझ्यासाठी लाव दोन ज्योती
लाख चुका असतील केल्या, केली पण प्रीती
इथे सुरु होण्याआधी, संपते कहाणी
साक्षीला केवळ उरते, डोळ्यांतील पाणी
जखम उरी होते ज्यांच्या, तेच गीत गाती
सवर् बंध तोडूनी जेव्हा नदी धुंद धावे
मीलन वा मरण पुढे, हे तिला नसे ठावे
एकदाच आभाळाला अशी भिडे माती
गंध दूर ज्याचा, आणिक जवळ मात्र काटे
असे फुल प्रीती म्हणजे कधी हाय वाटे
तरी गंध धुंडीत धावे जीव तुझ्यासाठी
आर्त गीत आले जर हे कधी तुझ्या कानी
गूज अंतरीचे कथिले तुला ह्या स्वरांनी
डोळ्यांतून माझ्यासाठी लाव दोन ज्योती
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