Moments so Far ...

I have been running for a long time. I ran under wooden planks, with simmer of lights bursting on my head. I lied down besides railway tracks on green grass with speeding trains going past. I have been a turtle protecting my thick skin from onslaught of an hunter. I have been a bird with white bottom and huge dark wings running away from fire and settling on a huge rock gulping a spider. I have been a king marching on gold carpet laden steps and body with huge spear in one hand watching the moon sink into the dark sky. Slowly walking through the walls of huge palace and into it. A huge dark man sitting on a huge rock, bold and majestic, beside a lake. Thick jungle all around. Serpents flying. A king riding a huge chariot killing huge animals around. A hen beside a dark and huge farm of black soil. A child playing happily with his friends below a big banyan tree, until being marauded by a huge bully boy. An old sadhu with big white beard floating over blade sharp grasses and

When you learn to cycle. You fall. You getup. You fall and you get up again. Some people fall 5 times and some 50 and some 5000 times. Ultimately you learn to ride bicycle. Once you learn, you will not have to learn again. Then you can only improvise. You can leave the handle or try more stunts. You need balance. You need to earn as well as learn. You have to use head for business and heart for friends/family. You cannot mix both. You need life. You need work. You need to learn from your enemies what not to do and from your friends and well wishers about what to do. You will love some and you will not not be loved by some. Know that more people love than who hate you. God has given variety in world to let you appreciate love through lens of hatred. Observe hatred but do not fall into cycle of reciprocating hatred. Balance it with compassion and thank the hated for showing you hatred. You are made up of spirit. Spirit consists of love, of compassion, of gratitude, of feeling connec