Life Experiences by Tilak

Time is running out As we worry and stay unsure There are choices we need to make Painful and bold The comfort zone we are in Isn't comfortable anymore It's time to break the inertia Get ready for growth pangs Why are we do confused and complicated? Simple options scare us to death We want easy answers to tough questions But that's not possible and we know it I long for the simple life Where I live like a nomad Watching the sunrise and sunset Breathing pure air in my lungs The world is confusing We are trained to be lost Seekers confuse the shit out of people They dare to dare things unusual It's time for action Let us be brave and strong Let's find wind beneath our wings And aim for the skies where we belong

Recently we crossed the 8 billion mark. 8 billion of our species! Eating up and taking the space of other organisms and populating the planet. Something went terribly wrong around 10000 years back. We decided to become civilized and that was the biggest trap we created for ourselves. The countries, the villages, the town's all alienated us from one another. We ignored the nomadic spirit of our ancestors who lived free for over a 100 thousand years as nomads. They followed the rules of the nature. They lived by the nature. They were in harmony with nature. Suddenly all that changed. We tried to take control of our lives and completely messed it up. It was the beginning of end. The end of homo sapiens to be replaced by probably the robots who would evolve from us, as we replace one body part of ours with prosthetics and robotics. Another thousand years, and may be then we will be wiped out from this planet. Immortalised as robots who may live forever. But, till then, let us live like...

Healing is a process most of us are hearing a lot about last few years. We are talking about doing things that help us rejuvenate ourselves and find inner peace. Somehow it means to me the journey from self destruction to being self centred. Let me try and explain. Most of us have been on the journey of self destruction. Eating junk food. Doing little physical work, lazying around. Burning the candle at both ends. Living a very indisciplined life that leads to physical, emotional and mental stress. When we follow mindfulness and meditate. We learn the need to be self centred. To be taking care of ourselves with good food, good rest and good physical activity. We learn to respect our body and mind. We respect nature and live with its rules and rituals. Self centred is seen as bad. I think it's the best thing we can do to ourselves. And as Ayn Rand puts it, if you take care of yourself and everyone does that the world automatically becomes a better place. A toast to this thought on S...

A few years ago, I was spending the new years at the mountains near Rishikesh. It was one of the best new years I have spent.  We were living in the open under the stars in temporary tents. We could see the stars through the net covering the roof of the tent. And it was beautiful.  The food was simple, cooked in the local style, but was nutritious and delicious. We gulped it down with some whiskey and vodka, it was divine. The whole experience was so tranquil, so pure, so divine. Mountains are my first love always, followed by the oceans. Really looking forward to head to the mountains again for a few days and Marvel at the beauty of nature. God! Please make it soon. Really dying to breathe the fresh mountain air

The last two years, many of us have gone through hell. Everything seemed to be going against us. Everything. And, none of us were really prepared for this. We faced job loss, loss of loved ones and loss of things we took for granted. We needed help. Others needed our help. So we had to ask for help. Get helped and help those whom we could. It's this circle of giving and receiving help that creates positive energy in our lives that helped all of us and filled with positive energy. And, with this, the process of healing starts. The healing starts with we letting go of the things that are no longer needed. Emotions, feelings, possessions etc. I am so glad that atleast we have embarked on this journey of healing as a race. It is this journey that will help the earth and humanity last a few more generations, not the other material madness that we are investing in. I wish everyone understands this and embraces the cycle of Hell, Help and Heal consciously. Together let us make a more happ...

Why are we humans so violent? I don't know! For thousands of years, we have been killing each other in the name of gold, power, religion, ideology, differences, similarities and what not... We have short lives. Most of us won't survive beyond 75 years of age. Even then why are we so greedy? Greedy to want more and more and more? Without having the time to enjoy what we already have. And we have enough...enough to live together in peace, in harmony and in happiness. The recent attack of Russia on Ukraine makes me wonder, are we ever going to learn anything from History? Will we ever learn to live in peace? We are driven by greed that puts thousands and thousands of people at risk. Millions are looking at uncertainty that they are not responsible for. We never seem to understand that we are all connected. Our destinities entwined. Inseparable. We will either survive together or die together. That's how the nature will treat us. That's how the cosmos will react. Mankind is...

We all have heard the story of Bhimsen and Bakasur in Mahabharata. We all know how Bhimsen, during the Agyatwas ( Incognito existence of a year) stayed in a town plagued by the demon Bakasur. And how, he used his power to slay the demon and freed the town from the atrocities inflicted by the demon Bakasur. How does it connect with CSR? Well, Bakasur symbolises the social and economic evils in the communities companies operate in. And Bhimsen symbolises the corporates who have resources to manage such challenges.  Therefore, CSR or Corporate Social Responsibility could be the method by which Companies can beat social evils faced by their communities, just as Bhimsen killed Bakasur and freed the community that sheltered him and his family when they needed it. What I see here is a symbiotic relationship. The communities have something to offer to the corporates and the corporates have something to offer to the communities. It is this mutual relationship that can help both the communit...