Look Within.......Connect with "YOURSELF"......!!!

Hi all !!
Here's my latest article published in the February 2012 issue of "The Focus Global Reporter".

This is very much in line with my book "You Connecting With.....YOU!!" published last year. We are all so busy tied up in our respective hectic schedules that we have no time to .....forget "stand & stare" and "watch squirrels hide their nuts in grass" but also no time to spend time with "OURSELVES", no time to look "WITHIN" .

We go all out to connect with others but in the process forget to connect with "OURSELVES". Probably, if we try looking "WITHIN", we may find more peace, success & happiness, than we ever will find by looking without.

So, begin this New Year on a note which propells you "WITHIN YOURSELF", deeper and deeper. Go right ahead and ......before logging into your Rediffmail & Gmail & Yahoo mail accounts , pray, log into "YOUR OWN SELF ! And, don't be surprised if, in all probability you find many more unanswered mails in this "YOURSELF" -mail account than you would in any other accounts.

You may find a large number of questions in this "YOURSELF"-mail account which need to be answered immediately. When you answer each of these questions, you may be unravelling the deep mystery that is YOU "WITHIN YOURSELF" !!!!!

So hurry, don't delay knowing "YOURSELF" !! for that is the most important task and also the most crucial one for you ...!! Go Pierce The Dense Dark "BLACK FOREST" .......WITHIN !!!!! //best//mg


The “Black Forest”….. Within
Manisha Gupta

Driving through the beautiful Black Forest (Schwarzwald) region of Germany, it was amazingly awesome to look at the dense dark forests on either side. The bright sunny afternoon’s golden rays lit up the tree-tops, but below that one could see only darkness. Surprisingly, not even the brightest of the sun’s rays could pierce through the thick jungle. No matter how long the sun shone or how bright it’s light, it could at most only brighten up the tree-tops, while the huge forest below lived in total darkness. Even during a snowfall, the top of the forest is covered with the soft white snow, but the interior remains pitch black. This is depicted in the typical Black Forest cake.

This drive through Schwarzwald set me thinking. Isn’t a human being exactly like the Black Forest? On the outside, you may be calm, cool, soft and serene as the snow clad trees or chirpy and bright like the sun-lit forest, but the interiors are as dark as the Black Forest. What can pierce the darkness within yourself? Do you get to see the real person within you? Do you try to look for it in earnest? Probably, the answers are in the negative. Reason- Well, where is the time.

You spend life’s hours connecting with family/friends/colleagues through the mobile/internet, depressed if you don’t get through. When in all probability they may not be so desperate to hear from you. But have you ever thought of connecting with yourself? With ….YOU? Have you ever tried calling …..“YOURSELF”…???

Have you tried to pierce the “Black Forest”….. within yourself…?? That may be the golden ray of happiness!! And what better occasion to begin this journey within you, than the New Year….!!

ManishaGupta©2011

'Agony Path'.....????????

On the children's insistence about not missing a Hrithik Roshan movie,and in inspite of us resisting spending a Sunday watching blood & violence, the children won and we finally did go and see "Agnipath". but alas it proved to be an "AGONY PATH".......!!

As usual,

the good only shed tears
& the bad men everyone fears

and as if this wasn't enough
there was more & more gory stuff !!

I wonder why the film had so much violence.

why does one go to watch a movie?...for entertainment, for leisure, for happiness i believe. while you have Pizzas delivering happiness at home in 30 minutes, cars giving you keys to happiness, houses being built to provide you happiness, coke allowing you to "open happiness".... and drink it too, many other products offerring you this important ingredient of life ....HAPPINESS, then why, pray tell me, do film makers want to take away all the happiness of spending a beautiful Sunday watching a great movie??

why can't we have movies also, which give us happiness ....in some form or the other....you know visual, mental,spiritual whatever form?? atleast we should be saved from travelling on the 'Agony Path' ....!!!