Hey Shekhar,

Your words (not your words!) epitomize what Bhagvadgita says. There is a song in Telugu, "Jagamantha kutumbam naadi, ekaki jeevitham naadi" - which when translated mean - "The entire world is my family, and I live alone" (mind you readers - there is a lot of difference between loneliness and aloneness)

Good One Shekhar!

Dear Shekhar,
Hope you are having a great time in Sedona. Your post somewhat talks a bit about the 'Law of Detachment' Deepak teaches, and that I have been trying hard to follow for the last few years.

I thought of a quote that Sidney Poitier wrote about his career in Hollywood and I would like to know how you much you feel the same.

If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't. The journey has been incredible from its beginning. So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.
- Sidney Poitier

Regards,
Himanshu - Greetings from New York City

The line - 'To live and yet not to exist'.. have a flood of emotions in it.
So simply said, and very well said.

To be - without being aware of the me or I. Its that a state an ego less state? Its exhilarating to realise it though difficult to maintain. Don't you think?

will we feel the better if we are able to be all those fantastic paradoxes ? 'joy' then must be more than just what the nerves feel - well nerves but more subtle nerves - like , nerves inside the heart , nerves of the mind.. dont want to sound presumptuous here , but wanted to share a few lines i wrote some time back :

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fatalistic psychic structures
on the deeper trappings rest
rueing the painful time-loss
enlivening thus the un-being
nerves of thought is all i possess
hurrah and alas!
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Nice poetic rendition of the concept of "detachment" as in the Bhagavad Gita -- the self being merely an instrument in a Grand Plan. But most often there's conflict between the pursuit of/progress in our respective professions and the practicality of adhering to the concept of "detachment", isn't it? For eg., do you see yourself directing, yet not being a director? or screening your film without your directorial contribution tagged in the credits that roll in the beginning or end of the film?

Yes, And the story I wished to share was... Fox...a clever fox... very creative & very passionate.... Very hungry... and there were bunch of grapes......

Tried hard to reach..... could not reach..... so said Angur were "khatte". No life after death.... no GOD.... No soul.... nothing... and "vice a versa"...

Think by what analogy fox reached this conclusion... Incapability???..... do you think was the reason.... I think so.....

Anyways the point is....... there are lot of incapable, egoistic and "lazy" people out on the planet... Some are scientists some are intellectuals....some are poor materlistic asthiks

The conclusion is ... blaw blaw blaw..

All are like the clever fox ... clever indeed...Apne aap ko Tasaalli de lo bhaiya.....

Ok if you were to give me marks about what I said ....out of 100..... what you think you would have given me on this very fact...

Any comments.....

dear sir,
i just read ur "not my words" and i feel that u are a very imaginative person and a philosophical one too.the words so simple yet so poetic and so meaningful.words so simple yet so difficult to understand the simplicity of words...so is life..