The Cup of Life

  The urge to sit and pen down the blistering thoughts emerging out of the vacuum created by “The Odyssey” (some may call it a movie; I feel it an epic in itself) is real and so prominent that it surpasses all the earthly lavishes for a moment. The following views are personnel and are solely my opinions. MY BLOG MIGHT LOOK LIKE A SPOILER ALERT, BUT THE STORY OF “THE ODYSSEY” IS A BITTERSWEET BEFORE WATCHING IT. There was a rise of civilization, a meaning to what is right and what is wrong, a shape to the gods along with the devils and a home to cherish. As time passed, the language of humans changed. The truth turned into lies, the honest turned into deception and the wittiness turned into cunningness. “The Odyssey” is a future born out of one deception, one lie and one cunning thought, famously “The Trojan Horse”. The movie takes you through a story of how to finally disclose the story of where. I take you though the values, ideologies, meanings that I decipher out of it. ...

  1. “Svadharme nidhanam śreyaḥ, paradharmo bhayāvahaḥ.” - “It is better to perform one’s own duty imperfectly than to perform another’s duty perfectly. The duty of another is fraught with danger.” Meaning: If each person sincerely fulfills their own responsibilities — however small — society remains balanced. Chaos begins when people neglect their own roles or interfere in others’. 2.  Confucius : “When everyone performs their duties according to their station, harmony will prevail.”

  Note: Picking up words from different sources and stitching them into an article is not the motto. We chalk out practical and implementable ideas and actions so that we could grow step-by-step… Have you ever thought that a normal human brain gets about 65,000 thoughts per day? Most of us wouldn’t have noticed it because we are so busy in the growing world. Yes, we all agree that 20 to 30 years of age is when most of Indian children are supposed to be settled as per their parent’s advice and peer pressures. An interesting survey by the UNICEF in 2021 showed that 1 out of 7 students aged between 15-24 years of age felt depressed and lacked interest to do things. I think the main reason for this particular age group is the vulnerability towards settling down in their lives. People born in at the verge of 1996-2000 are almost Millennials age grouped and are almost in the middle of an orthodox viewpoint of families to the carefree and open-minded families. What we go through is s...

  Have you ever wondered what is the true meaning of “EDUCATED ILLITERATES”??? We often boast ourselves that we are educated and that we have the royal taglines of MSc, MTech, MPhil, PhD and so on. Most of us even mock ourselves that whatever we learn in these professional degrees or not but the taglines will surely come in handy during marriages. Is the education only limited to a match-making ceremony or just to create an image in the village that we are studying more than others??? Its so unfortunate that we grow to have the degrees in hand but still fail to understand the true meaning of education. So, what is the true meaning or purpose of the education??? The irony is - we know to read but don’t know what to read., we know to write but we don’t know what to write. We are blessed with learnings of ABCDE but are cursed with the lack of knowledge how to use them. Why am I saying all these??? Just a single day of oppression and inequality can change the way we think. Bu...

  “Everyone’s perfect in their own imperfect ways…” It’s a busy day and you rush between the crowd towards your classroom only to find yourself slipping and falling down to the floor at the very next moment. Now if you had a power to recap what happened second by second, then you could find yourself amused because – at the very second when you realized you were falling down even before you touched the ground, you were in the deep trauma about what the people standing around would think and feel. So now once you have fallen down, its obvious that you mostly care about how well composed you look rather than where you have been hurt. If it was the end then there wouldn’t have been a necessity for this article to show up. There is a sequel to this simple story where you go to class and think about who all were present while you fell rather than listening to the lecture that your favorite teacher is presenting. You invest so much of energy in thinking that the brain starts heating u...

  In the new age of short-lived Reels and Shorts, articles like the one below might find very few audiences. But for those who do visit this page today, please spare a few minutes to read. Buddhism has a very unique way of understanding the life and one aspect of their life lessons is how we learn from our surroundings. The very pillars of life on earth are centered on the mantra of – Learn, Grow, Teach and Repeat. This is how creatures have evolved and have adopted to their surroundings in this vast luring earth. “ The Cup of Life ” denotes the very nature of life to understand and nurture the knowledge from the surroundings. All human beings are flawed and that’s how we learn and grow. But in the long run some of the characters and attributes like ego, self-esteem, shyness, anger and carelessness can create a barricade in attracting knowledge towards us. This is where emptying our cup comes into play – we should wear off our ill-senses before we try to learn something new fro...