Here is one that I would like to bring to your notice and also present it as an example of how can one make a difference in the world. 

Today I am going to talk about ‘Project Forgive‘. Click on the phrase and a new tab/window will open that will take you to the project page. 

Everyone of us, in some form or the other, to certain degree, greater or not so greater, have suffered immense hurt and losses. It could be as small as our feelings being hurt to as immense has having lost everything. In my personal experience, there is no greater sadness for ordinary folks like you and me to having lost ‘Every One’. That is just un-imaginable. I know that feeling. I have been there. I was almost all alone for that patch in time. I know the kind of courage it would take to even remotely think about anything as simple as ‘forgiving’. To top it, forgiving the  person who is responsible for your losses? Hell no. 

Yet, forgiving is the only acceptable act that will bring peace to you. I can see the resistance already in your mind. I can relate to it. Then, I will stop at that point. I won’t further your apprehensions, as I have seen and experienced, it is difficult, indeed, not impossible. 

I urge you to read about this ‘Project Forgive‘, watch the video. Feel it. Not just analyse it. Sense the power, the strength in it. Then do the right thing. Each person will get a different message out of it. As each person has different issues to deal with. Remember to stay focused on the core message. Not on the words or storyline. The message. 

I have committed myself to promote this project. As much as I can, with or without the limitations I have. I am sure you will do the same. When people have spent so much on lost causes or causes that are so overly hyped, I feel it is time to support and promote something so genuine and something that can have longer lasting effect on the lives of people. Something that will go a very long way. 

I wish you peace, beyond all understanding. 

If one looks at the descriptions of these events more equanimously, the only message that comes across that they were hallucinated for whatever reason. Modern science and psychology has admitted that hallucination can occur without use of substance. One can be under tremendous stress, depression or emotional turmoil or fear and still can experience hallucinations.

Do not get me wrong. I am not judging them, their experience or doubting their wisdom. What I am intrigued is the fact that most of them were ‘transformed’ after certain specific grand event in their lives. Which makes my nasty little rascal mind to think, what if, by some means, if such experiences could be reciprocated? We have the technology. We also have the resources. Why not make a product/practice out of it so that more people can attain higher levels of wisdom and there will be peace on earth. Once again.

I may sound naïve and farscical here but come to think of it, when so many of them did go through such experiences, what is the common factor? Their reading? Their meditation? Their food? Their life style? Nope. Only common factor was most of them had that ‘experience’. If only we could figure out what that is and reproduce it. It would be such a wonderful thing. Imagine world so full of wise people. Imagine a world with no more hierarchy, order, no more teachers and no more seeker or masters. All human beings living in harmony and peace.

On second thought, I resist that urge. What will happen to all the excitement of ordinary life? What will happen to all the spicy gossip and masala scandals of guru caught on tape in compromising state? What will happen to millions and billions of rupees worth economy that thrives under name of religion and spirituality. All that pomp, snobbery and glamour. I will miss those saffron robes, weird beards, and strange character uttering rubbish on TV and entertaining me. I love comedy. I am a sucker for laughs. Have you seen those pre morning TV shows? I did once. No comments, you get the gist. Above all, what will happen to all the scandals that will follow the death of them masters, all the in fights amongst trustees to control vast amounts of wealth?

I guess it would be a bad idea to find that ‘experience’ and reciprocate it. So my friends, let’s have fun, discussing, deliberating, debating and reasoning with each other under pretext of finding an answer. It sounds very intellectual. So be it. I enjoy the vibrant energy and get to learn a lot from it. So long as no one comes across insisting that one is right and the other is wrong. I cannot be bothered. No one is wrong. No one is right either. Everyone simply is.

Peace be with you.

Starting from April 1, 2012, The project ‘Happiness Effect’ enters it’s next phase. This is where plenty of material is created for training and communicating purposes. Video, Screen Casts, Slide Shows, Audio Blog, Booklets, Conventional Blog articles and all that. Hopefully with contribution from others too. Else it could become a pretty slow process. 

I have completed the process of acquiring the required tools, applications for delivering the next phase. I have even drawn out a plan and hopefully I am able to stick to it and stay on course. Exciting times have just begun. 

If anyone has any suggestions ideas, please do share with me. I will try and incorporate them. Look out for more video posts, blogs and even small books for quick reading. 

Thank you all and everyone for your continuing support to The Storyteller and his Happiness Effect project. Everything bout the ‘Power Of I’ and beyond. 

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Maitreya: How can you be so sure of what you are saying?

Me: I am not.

Maitreya: Don’t play with words.

Me: I am not.

Maitreya: So what is the benchmark or test that can prove your theory?

Me: Since it is not the conventional science, of course I don’t have lab reports of having tested these ideas on Monkeys and mice or rabbits or pigs. Yet, so far, it hasn’t failed in running a verification trial on humans.

Maitreya: How do you do that?

Me: Would you like to participate?

Now Maitreya was more than curious and was bubbling with mixed emotions and desire. On one hand, he was amused, intrigued and entertained by my theories. Obviously, for him I was just another lost young man, wasted to alcohol and misadventures of life. Yet, it was difficult for him to go beyond that. The obstacle could have been anything.

I was fascinated too, observing him. On one hand he is a well read, highly knowledgeable therapist with a great reputation and fan following and still he was unable to let go of his pride, prejudice and ego. In many ways, he was my teacher, my guide, my guru and yet that evening at that very crucial point, while simply talking about my concepts, our roles switched. I became his teacher, guide, and his guru. Interesting aspect was his resistance. Indeed for me it was a little strange too.

Me: What do you want?

Maitreya: Moksha, Nirvana!

Me: You have it.

At this point he was really stumped. He looked at me, as I had picked up my beer glass quietly sipping away from it. A few strange awkward moments of silence followed. He sipped from his beer. Looked at me, closed his eyes, and took a few deep breaths. I think he was either digesting what I had said or was simply trying to calm his anxiety or anger. Finally he gave me that classic look that said, ‘What the hell are you saying?’

Me: You can’t want what you don’t know. What you know, is most likely what you have experienced. Something that you have experienced is with you. You only have to seek it, within. Not without.

He still looked a bit rattled and was trying to either make sense of what I had said or maybe he was trying to invent questions to counter me.

Me: My dear Maitreya, if I were to ask you that do you want xandaloopadilogphe, what would be your answer?

Maitreya: No. What the hell is that?

Me: My point exactly. Since you don’t know what it is, you can’t want it. You don’t want what you don’t know. It does not matter if how you know it. The difference is, even if you were to only read about it, since you want it, it means you know what it is like to have it. You have experienced that. Let’s take a simpler example. Happiness. You have experienced it. Hence you always want it. You have experienced sadness and hence you don’t want it. Apply this to anything. Moksha, Nirvana … whatever exotic or otherwise spiritually high words, it still means the same. Since either you want it or don’t want it, you have experienced it. Since you have experienced it, I say it is there within you. Not outside. Hence you need to seek for it within. Not without. Think about it.

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Our desires, needs, wants, craze and also their opposites are all based upon our own experience. Somewhere, in our lives, we must have experienced it and hence we keep wanting that experience again. Instead of focusing on the experience itself, most often we get carried away in the activity or the object involved. It does not necessarily have to be your own involvement. It could be a memory from reading about something. It is always the end result that we expect to reproduce. The object or event as such is incidental. 

Some may argue bout what if someone read or hear about something fascinating that they did not know before. Friends the answer is simple. It is the feeling or expectation of repeating one of our known experience that triggers the desire to want it. Not the new found object or activity. So remember, there are two aspects to this story. One indeed we must understand that it is our own experience that drives that crazy need/want for something. At the same time, be open and allow more experiences to fill your life. 

Have a good one. 

I was introduced to this story by a learned scholarly friend from Luxembourg. I remember my awe when I heard the story for the first time. I also remember clearly that the awe was not about the story itself but how it related to humans more. In fact the modern day humans. Of course our discussion at that point of time was about the collective consciousness and how people have simply become herds and blindly follow anyone who is willing to lead them.

Of course the original theory about this 10o^th monkey is arguable and there are various views on it. Some strongly believe in it where as some on very ‘scientific’ level tend to defy it. On a side note here, I am getting equally annoyed by this ‘scientific’ community. Very few of them are pragmatic and sensible. Most of them come across simply as arrogant and ignorant idiots. Science and education seems to have blinded them instead of opening up their vision of the world. They are more sceptic then most sceptics I have seen. If you observe carefully, all these scientific minded and rational people are at root, sad and forever unhappy.

Back to my point of 100^th monkey story. Putting aside the validity or truth about it’s ‘scientific’ nature, for a moment just look at what it is telling in simplest way. Isn’t it true, if applied to humans? I mean look at us. If 10 people start doing something or following something, we tend to notice it, add 10 more, we start noticing it more. So on till such time that it reaches a critical mass of becoming a ‘trend’ … then we start worrying. Since we don’t now much about that something, yet we see it as ‘trend’ of things that are happening, we worry that we will be left out. Guess what? Before you know, you become the 100^th monkey. By this time everyone is doing that something so you are also automatically doing it.

How mindless we have become. To me, it is shocking. What surprises me is that more and more people are turning this way. Becoming followers. The freedom of making choice is diminishing. Somehow the human race has accepted, that too willingly, to become slaves. The only word that comes to mind is ‘Sad’. It is too painful for me to even elaborate the range and depth of the sadness I feel when I see so many trapped slaves.

Where has gone the good old fashioned spirit of living. The courage of facing the challenges. The joy of laughing and sharing. Sheer excitement of being alive and kicking. All that is missing unfortunately. Our education is making us more stupid and no one is noticing it. We all know that man has learned nothing from the History and yet we keep teaching History to young minds?! How cruel can we be to our own children. When we are allowing this, we are nothing but that 100^th monkey.

So after a long absence, I am back, gradually returning to my schedule of writing, posting new articles and also adding plenty of new contents for all to share and benefit. That is my passion. I simply love it. Remember, if you ain’t lovin it, you better not be doin it. Things done with passion, almost eccentric like mad devotion and belief in the creative work you do, you will succeed. Trust me. I am your living example. I am not Steve Jobs or Warren Buffet or any other extremely successful personalities. I am just another ordinary Joe, like you, yet enjoying life to the fullest. I have my dreams and one at a time, they are all manifesting.

You want to manifest your dreams then get ready to walk your mile. Be prepared to walk on Success Boulevard. Get set leave foot prints on the sands of history. Become and beacon of inspiration to others in your life. Start with your own self. When you will shine others will notice and will want to do the same. Spread some joy and do so have some in your life first. Come join Happiness Effect. An idea that changes lives of people, those who embrace it lovingly.

Reach out and you will be supported. You will be carried to where you ought to be. Don’t be afraid. It is your time. Right here right now.

With similar modules installed on my other sites in this project group, I hope and intend to deliver much more in terms of sharing life experience and Law Of Attraction.

This post is for a low key announcement that, yes I am all stations go now.

Well not only Hollywood but almost every conceivable media, section of society, believers and atheists, sinners and saints, intellects and duffers, rich and richer, poor and those who don’t fit as either rich or poor, students and teacher, ancient and contemporary has wrestled with this date. World is ending! WoW …

There are some optimists amongst them. Good on them. A certain section of the society snobbishly snubs them of as ‘New Age’ people. They don’t see anything theatrically gory or grand finale to dear Earth with all the pyro technique. They rather tread on gentile side of human being. They are toying with the idea that something magnificently beautiful is going to happen to what is called ‘Consciousness’. Whatever it be, no one has spared the topic. Sometimes it feels as if the topic is more abused then the subject of discussing GOD.

Now since everyone is taking a token dip in this flowing river, I thought I did also indulge myself and express a few views of my own on the entire subject.

For those of you who have followed my writings, my thinking and my training, you know, I am all about freedom. I am about life. Joy and happiness is what interests me. That is the reason why I am so fumbled to see many learned people actually paranoid with this idea of world coming to an end. People have started preparing for it. Suddenly there are so many unheard clans, spiritual groups and followings, Churches, Evangelists, Gurus and well you know the lots, the crystal danglers, are cashing on this one story. Many have even flourished. A few have stretched the hysteria to that extra mile by setting up ‘safe’ points on the planet where a few chosen ones will have access to and be saved on the dooms day.

All sorts of new forms of science surfaced. Words those are more difficult than pronouncing the names of the characters from Chronicles of Narnia or Lord of The Ring have assumed place in commonplace vocabulary. Suddenly some bizarre hypothesis is hard sold, rather slammed upon under pretext of ancient civilizations unearthed secrets. Some even are futuristic in their flavour with adding a bit of spice of unknown frontiers of space and aliens. Everybody is everywhere except where they need to be. Everybody is either digging the past in an attempt predict the future. No is here where they ought to be. There is only one truth and there is only one place. Right here, right now.

I don’t get it. What is the story behind so much of attachment to life? Isn’t death obvious? Why worry about something inevitable? Is it ego or ignorance? Oh hell what difference does it make? Ego and ignorance are synonyms in my understanding.

If, for GOD has a plan to wipe the earth out, so be it. I cannot be bothered. I will definitely not be bothered with a pathetic idea of saving myself from the wrath of GOD or the power of Nature. It will be stupid to even think that I can stay unharmed with the rest of the planet will be wiped out.

Let’s say if I do manage to save myself from the event of disaster, what good is it? Can you imagine life on planet after that? Do you have any idea? There will dead bodies around. No drinking water, shortage of food, no toilets, no hot showers, no super market, no cars, no airplanes, no clear sky, no colour TV, no cell phones, no trees, no birds, no people, well not many, all struggling to survive, more or less like the victims of hurricane, flood, tornado, famines, tsunami, earthquake and worst, a nuclear holocaust. Have they even thought that they may not even have their own loved ones with them?

Something like one permanent winter, with Sun blocked by the cloud of dust. Will it be life worth living? Will you living at all? One will barely be surviving. You don’t seem to get the picture do you? Go to Somalia, Congo or in that case any of those suffering African nations or any nation in that matter where people are just hoarded together in refugee camps. Live there for a day and taste for yourself. Live without comforts of your current life. Live without convenience of your modern city and then think about what would it be like if the entire earth became one big refugee camp? Are you prepared to live in such conditions? Heck not me. I did rather die in the holocaust. Whatever it be, an earthquake, a meteor or direct lightening on my head. I did prefer to be dead, and accept GODs will. I will definitely not bother myself to find ‘safe’ or ‘blessed’ spots on earth where I will need to bribe to get a spot and save myself from the doom. Because life after whatever that is, won’t be worth living.

Imagine not having your friends, your family, your pet, you nagging boss, your nosy neighbour, the grumpy customer care, out of order ATM, long que at super market, crowded trains, warm rains, freezing winters, white snow, the Christmas, the Hanuka, The Id, The Diwali … the food, the smell, the noise, the chaos. The nostalgia in the madness of masses, all gone and what is left is dark dull gloomy monotonous life of survival. Not me. I did be dead.

I am enjoying my now. The present is beautiful. Devastation of earth is a big thing and let Nature worry about it. I say if the planet is going to see some catastrophe, so be it. Trust me, we have no power or control over it. We can’t even predict it, forget averting it. Mother Nature is far too powerful then entire human race put together. So why bother. Can you fix the leaking pipe in your toilet? No you can’t. Then how do you propose to stop the catastrophe? You can’t even take care of the neighbours annoying kids. You think you will be able to take care of something such magnanimously destructive and save yourself?

SO my dear friends, I will be writing the following post on that day, well not exactly the same post, but something similar for others to read.

Date: 21 December 2012

Time: Sometime during the day

Place: Somewhere on the Planet Earth

The world is coming to an end. So they say. Today. Looking around, I find people so anxiously engrossed in the topic, half scared, half amused and mix of other mutually exclusive emotions.

To me the Sky looks pretty clear. Ground is not shaking where I am. No Dragons are flying over my head nor is any volcano spitting tormenting lava on my building. I hear birds, cars, people, wind, ocean, a baby crying … just as always. And I am listening to Louis Armstrong’s ever so charming song ‘What a wonderful world’…

Note: This article is an edited/rewritten extract from my book in traffic (since it is not in motion) titled ‘Almost Enlightened’ — Adventures of a Spiritual Geek. I hope and wish to complete the book soon.

Mayan Calendar

No kidding. From where I see, I find that it amusingly true. The so called Atheists are like bunch of kids singing ‘Here we go round the mulberry bush …’

Ironic, sad, funny and yet true. Now it is a different matter altogether on my views on GOD and religion. I can’t stand the rigidity of conforming to norms, to certain belief system that closes the possibility of learning something new, discovering something different, blocking a unique and exhilarating experience. It is not acceptable for me. Life, I feel, is too short to compartmentalise and label it for sake of it.

Atheists, Buddhists, Humanist, Optimist, Pessimist, Chemist all are same for me. They all conform to norms. To rules. They are all slaves of a system they can’t understand. They simply follow what the rules say. Rules that govern their behaviour, their reaction, their response. Everything is measured. Everything is pre-determined for them.

What happened to the true spirit of human being? Well who am I to use the word ‘True Spirit’ here so loosely. However, I do feel that we are born free. Only to enslave ourselves, later on, in the chains of so called society, religion, school, church, government, belief system and all that. Amidst the reigning chaos, I do admire this bunch of jokers who call themselves Atheist.

Their profound statement ‘I don’t believe in GOD’. Love that. See, even they need GOD to prove that they don’t believe in GOD. Under the pretext of ‘Scientific’ thinking or so called logical, rational trash, they still vehemently defend their shallow stand.

Now, hang on, for a moment. Who said I am religious person? Please get that notion out of your head quick. Else you will miss the fun of this article. I am not religious either. I can’t stand the conformity of a religion. I always say, if I have to be slave I did be my own master. I am my own GOD if I have to be.

I chant, I pray, I revere the DIVINE, I love, I laugh, I accept, I surrender, I live, I die and all this is with the ultimate intelligence that I have been granted. Ouch, too heavy. Let me tone it down.

I am the Energy. The ultimate truth. There is nothing but Energy. There is only other state and that is there is no Energy. For some reason, we are paired. Definitely. To complete the oneness. Zero is a very dangerous idea. Of course Zero adds an entirely new dimension to the meaning. In fact it completes the idea of oneness. Look around and you will find that nothing is complete without something else. One gets its value because Zero has none. If there were no Zero what would be One?

You see what I am trying to say is that the belief system is good to follow, so long as one is making sense out of it. People talk about life because there is death. People value good because there is bad.

Atheists don’t believe in GOD. Fine. So they have something that they don’t believe in. The question is however, will not believing in something change the truth? It is perfectly right for them not to believe, and it is their right to do so. However another question is why should they then insist that what they believe is true? Is it not becoming religious? Conforming to norm? Following set patterns of behaviour?

All these ‘isms’ are nothing but religion and any religion in my view are enslaving. At the end of the day, what matters is did you enjoy the moment. Did you live that moment and were thrilled by the experience or you were just too busy trying to see if it fit in your religion?

We are all prisoners of the conditioning. My argument is about this conditioning. We need to break free from it. We are so overwhelmingly dictated by ‘norms’ of society. Standards set by some vague authority which we have formed to govern our lives. We created this to enslave us. We have for some reason become too lazy to live our own life. We have don’t live anymore. We just exist in this pathetic biological form called Homo sapiens.

Someone will notice that this article is result of agitation. Yes, I am agitated. I have been seeing too much rubbish going around. I saw, I read things that disturbed me so much that I just can’t sit back and do nothing about it. I still can’t do much about it.

I will definitely not write about trending subjects to attract more traffic. This blog is not about ‘fat Indian women’ either. This is my blog. My thoughts are published here. It is my world. The free happy world that I prescribe to everyone, world that I want everyone to have.

A world free from rigid belief system.

I do not teach for or against religion. It is not my field to teach that. I do not know religion enough to teach. However what I teach is to respect each and every belief that other may have. It is not the cliché tolerance either I am talking about. Look at it this way for a moment.

You do not want anyone to dictate your life. Would you? Then why do you want to dictate anyone else’s life? Live and let live.

Mother Teresa, once said, ‘Don’t call me to anti-war rally. Call me if there is a peace rally’.

Atheists, for GOD’s sake, find something that you believe in and stop ‘not believing’ in GOD.

PS: I will be polishing this post later sometime. Promise.

It was his encouragement and nourishing of a growing childs curiousity that led me to learn more. Never to worry about formal studies but to explore whatever comes to mind. To be brave, to be honest and to be gentle. With such strong early foundation, I must say I am blessed to have grown in to a more humble simple person.

The three sites are:

The Story Teller: This site. Where you are reading. This will be about me. My adventure. My life, my book and everything about me. Purely to serve as more or less a personal journal. Expressing my mind, exchanging experience had through the day, something about me.

“I factor Theory”: For those who have followed this site so far, good news, this entire ‘I’ Factor Theory has a site of it’s own. What I have been promising here now will be available there. My talks, lectures, notes, comments … the lot. Think of it as the learning centre or information centre.

Buziness side of “I”: This is where I will be offering commercial services or links or any such thing that has to do with earnings. Money part or growing business part will be there. I am not getting the right phrasing for it but .. sort of ‘office’ or ‘shop’ for me and my ‘I’ Factor.

So wish me luck and get ready to explore lots of more stuff that I am going to put up. Since now officially the project is live.