Sampath-Musings

  FROM SAMPATH’S DESK:       ENJOY THE RAINY SEASON     Isn’t it intriguing and mind-boggling that water is a blend of Hydrogen and Oxygen? Everything is made up of atoms. An atom is the smallest particle of an element like Oxygen or Hydrogen. Atoms join together to form molecules. Likewise, a water molecule has three atoms viz. two Hydrogen (H) and one Oxygen (O) atom. Water is thus referred to as ‘H 2 0’ and a single drop contains millions of water molecules.   Having known what water is, let us delve into the mundane aspects of water. Needless to say, water is the sine-qua-non, be-all, and end-all for all living beings including humans, and rains are the main source of water which we get in what everyone knows as the rain/water cycle.   The rainy season is not a disturbance to your routines but a value addition enabling you to live comfortably during the rest of the year as we get plenty of water from the rainfalls. However, you...

  FROM SAMPATH’S DESK:           JOURNEY FINDS A LIFE FRIEND AND THE FRIEND JOINS THE LIFE JOURNEY   Will two or more people journeying together in public transport end up in close friendship in the life journey? Yes, it can happen, but only rarely!   In life, it’s common to see love and affection between blood relations. But seldom two persons not related to each other, are attracted towards one another to make a friendship, and only in a few cases, enduring ones. There are many factors that weigh in the thought process of deciding to forge a friendship, examples being a person’s handsomeness, intellect, knowledge and wisdom levels,  sweet talk, kind heart, accommodative gestures, and helping nature, among others - perhaps single or a mix of these characteristics - that unite two persons as friends. This is not and cannot be an exclusive list. More than anything else, it is a matter of heart-to-heart factor that clinches friend...

  FROM SAMPATH’S DESK:     SRI RAMAKRISHNA PARAMAHAMSA (18 February 1836 – 16 August 1886) (Born Gadadhar Chattopadhyay/Chatterjee in Kamarpukur village in Hooghly, West Bengal in the erstwhile Bengal Presidency)   Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa - YOU were a spiritual treasure; YOU believed all religions stressed equality in collective measure; Transformed religion from God-realization to service to people with pleasure; Infused unquenchable fire in people for Divine truth-finding and disclosure!   Maa Kali was not just YOUR most-venerated and worshipped deity but a living reality; Everyone and everything else was only a triviality; To YOU, HER Darshan (live appearance) was a sure possibility; That happened many times - an actuality and factuality; HER visibility and YOUR live interactions with HER were  out of Divine mutuality; All that blessed and graced YOUR life with totality!   YOU likened the mind to a mad elephant ...