Happy New Year

Often I wonder what is New year? Is it just a change in calendar? That happens every month if it's a monthly Calendar.

Is it the late night parties ? That happens for many occasions around the year.

It is the crackers in middle of the night? That's there on Deepavali too.

I am sure New year is much more than all this..It is Hope. ಭರವಸೆ in kannada. Hope for better tomorrows.Hope for the better future. 

Next moment is new and fresh. There is a hope in that very next moment. So why only wait for the new year when we can be born- reborn everyday, every minute and every second.

A Sanskrit greeting for the New year sums it up so well.. This is written by pujya Swamiji Tejomayananda.

Kshanam Pratikshanam Yannavam Navam

Taccha Sundaram Saccha Tacchivam

Varsha Nutanam Te Shubham Mudam

Uttarottaram Bhavatu Siddhidam

That which is ever new and fresh, that alone is Good, Real and Beautiful. May this New Year bring you greater goodness, happiness and success.

Happy New Year

Come back.... After a D E C A D E

Today all of a sudden a thought came to me that I should have a blog of my own. This is not any new madness. I was smitten with this idea every now and then. So once again I was here with an idea for Blog. I thought through the day, came out with options for the blog title, possible posts etc.. I had a long discussion with my daughter who is a proud blogger from a couple of months. After a lot of discussion we agreed on a name and my daughter promised me to help with creating a blog. We decided that blogger.com is the best platform for hosting a blog. Well! After all this prep...we logged in to the blogger and what do I see? This blog page which I created exactly a decade ago.. that's in 2010. May be it could have been my new year resolution back then.. and like most of the new year resolutions which fizzle out after few days this also had fizzled out just after a day😆 I am amazed by the digital footprint is an understatement.. it’s not just that I found my long last blog but also it took me back the to the days when my daughter was so little and tender.. It's nostalgic. It was time travel for me and my life over the last decade just flashed in front of me.. Reflection in a true sense.. So if this is not a good reason to go back to blog, then what else is?