The Holy Ganges

Ganga, as seen from Train...

Banaras street

One of the crowded street of Banaras

one of my favorite photos...

Gods with Dogs

Do you see a footprint beneath the veil of water?

another photo of Ghat at Banaras

Siberian birds on Ganga

Banaras Ghats

Bramha Ghat at Banaras

Banaras trip photos

Sunrays emerging through the mortal sky!
(as seen from the train)

fantastic trip to Banaras

Guys and Gals,
Just back from a fantastic trip from Banaras. It was a super-charging trip from one Holy city (Nasik) to another (Banaras)...

Boy, was it fun! Met up lot of my relatives for the first time... most of them have left an indeliable mark on me. Enjoyed everything from Malai-yo (a super light delight full of rich proteins), to crowded streets, to the Holy Ganga, the list is endless.

I danced like never before during all the ceremonies of marriage! (yes, its all recorded and may be displayed)...

Okay.. more of it later.. promise!

Cheers!
have fun,
Saurabh

the me within

the souls have switched
the me has gone
trying to impersonate
the me within

uncanny as it might be
power surge; combating reality
re-discovering the true self
reviving, the me within

the restless encounter
overpowering iota
passionately insane
invading, the me within

great souls converge
sun, taking a new breath
gloriole, highlighting reality
empowering, the me within

wee soul; outgrowing body
new paradigms; outgrowing mind
information, outreaching the world
learning, the me within

reinventing passion,
re-living the life,
phantom mind, manifesting
re-discovering, the me within

hindsight, teaching and engraving
subtle values that drive
hope, both lost and found
managing, the me within

Small corner of my heart

Joy, within and without
thundering cloud of emotions
showering beatitude and joy
eternal bliss; in the small corner of my heart

Feelings, corroded by the material world
Joy, seemed to have forgotton me
Radical thoughts; from here and now
vanished; from the small corner of my heart

Amnesia, had struck and hit hard
Friends, long gone in material search
restless, i become in their absence
abstaining; from the small corner of my heart

Insights, from young and new
Generation, both from now and then
Primordial intelligence; losing its focus
sparing wisdom; from the small corner of my heart

Caged intellect; with broken wings
Flight to freedom; staggering
Articulated mind; stupefying thoughts
shattered; in the small corner of my heart

Joy, beaming with happiness
Actions; speaking louder than words
kickstarting perpetual emotional cycle
accelerating; the small corner of my heart

Admiration; felt and achieved
Desire to grow; to regions abound
resurrecting artist; reinstating faith
Hope floats; in the small corner of my heart

The year ahead: 2007

Thinking. Action. Learning. Growth.

That's FY2007's theme. In brief.

It will be the year when Andy Grove will help me nurture my business and address Strategic Inflection Points; Steven Covey will give me some tips on 7 Habits; Goldratt on bottleneck identification and improvement; Hugh MacLeod (gapingvoid.com) will pump in some inspiring stuff.

I will be defining the new year objectives, KRA, aspirations, growth direction etc by 1st Jan. Will keep yal updated!

Happy New Year folks! Have a great year ahead!

Fire Starter

Divine chaos and divine mortality
the inferno within; the ultimate tranquillity
the source code of Life; like a scarlet fire
momentary anguish and the momentary ire

pain succumbing to pain; inhibited crime
turbulence to passion; transcending the sublime
vibrant thoughts in a prolific stance
the material and mortal; disintegrating in this trance

inflated ego; breaking down and degenerating
conquering mind; bubbling and bursting
FireStarter within; getting conceived and has born
Driving new world; between mortal & divine, it is torn

option to choose is between Life and Eternity
Has a passion to create; got to choose mortality
where better souls have lost, the best ones shall emerge
Life will make me Eternal; says the passionate urge

all myths & legends; its upbringing transcends
its Value is immeasurable; the Oracle portends
FireStarter is born, growth shall be rekindled
and world shall resurrect; The Being is rechristened

Turbulence to Passion

Sailing through turbulence
riding crests and troughs
circumspect and joyous thoughts

reckless emotions; transcending reality
restless and living; its sardonic charm
slicing the sloth witin; obliterating inertia

Incisive thoughts; cutting through the pain
Rebellious gait; striding with confidence
stolid mind; dynamic & resistant thoughts

astral life form; sharing same body & soul
adulerated thoughts; diluted and acidic
charring its dark form; evolving

mutating genes; decomposing soul
the nascent life; bubbling & expanding
the end has come near and begin again

the blatant body has risen
overcoming impediments & ignorance
steering celestial spirit; regaining nobility

the angel has invaded; the dying spirit re-lives
arcane & unjust thoughts; all wiped out
new soul, new mind, new thoughts; renewed passion

The Disconnected Soul

Discontent
Distant voice trailing off
Soul breaking the mortal cage
in Chautauqua, where sanity gathers
The disconnected soul, observes

Ignorance
As blissful as it might be perceived
Disconnected discourse, barely audible
Unattentive thoughts, radically misbehaving
unprecedented urge for the wisdom drive

Surreal
Receptive reality, pouncing ahead
Growing discontent over worldly pretence
Sundry souls fathoming the divine, dissatisfied
the susceptible soul, prone to reality

Ideate
Scorching mind, gobbling ignorance
the Chautauqua, where the great sages learn
the burning desire, unintelligible perception
the simmering soul, mind facing the heat

Rhyme
primordial rhyme in strings
cordial thoughts, beyond rationale
the drunken wanderer rhyming with reality
insightful strings, consistently changing, teaching

Growth
the silver bullet is ineffective
Mind unleashing the Wise Beast within
ruthless energy, passionately divine
Crystalline images, morphing reality

Chaos
the natural self, self-contained emotions
aboriginal mind, preserving change
synergy evolving despite chaotic flow
Undercurrent of emotions, self-driven causality

2+2 = 7596238

How is 2+2 = 7596238?Actually, this is one of the masterpieces of Glasbergen and one of my favorities too. The caption in this particular toon reads: "In an increasingly complex world, sometimes old questions require new answers".

Most of the times, we assume standard answers to questions. In reality, there are always multiple solutions to a problem. Its all about your perception; how you look at a problem. Every perception / paradigm gives you a different and unique answer. Rock on.

Our mind - the perpetual thinking machine - helps us collate, integrate, fuse, differentiate, slice, multiply the ideas. It is our greatest resource that helps to realise the sublime knowledge within.

Ideas, notions, concepts, creative intellect, memories share one very interesting thing - they can be unified to create something even more stimulating. Juxtaposition leading to evolution. Just place them together and see things in a different light. A new paradigm. A new perspective.

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Woaw! what was that all about?

Well, nothing specific as such. Hadn't written much about anything in the past few days. Thought of scribbling down something I believe in. Nothing else.

Life's hectic as always.

Still manage to surf gapingvoid.com to pump up my creative hormones (Rock on Hugh!); a dash of wiki and investopedia.org help me understand things better.

futurebrand.com, jwt.com, initiativemedia.com etc daily update me about the latest trends in Brand, ad and media world. Peps me up.

Other than that, its my rare but fruitful visit to thinkingtree.blogspot.com that helps me write about stuff I like. (Yeah!)

Life's resonating with positive vibes. And I am here to experience it, real-time. Ciao.

Wake up

Thoughts. Plans. Actions. More thoughts. More plans. More Actions.

Power Surge. Great Learning. Growth. Evolution.

Infusion of zillions of thoughts. Thoughts of new order. New paradigm. Designer patterns. Random thoughts. Actions. New wave.

It's time to shake you, wake you off your slumber. Wake up goddamit. Wake up.
Get up. Get ready for action. Be prepared.

Bubble. Burst. Vacuum. More surge. Information Overflow. Information Implosion. Information Explosion. Zombie.

Wake up goddamit. Wake up.

Business. Work. Paradigm. String. Birth. Re-birth. Cycle. New Order. New breed. Selfish. Growth. Dynamism.

Informative songs. Information. Processing. Data. Analysis. Deductions.

Relentless actions. Like automatons. Machines. Intelligence. Natural. Artificial. Strategies. Leader.

Power surge. Wake up goddamit.

Break off. New branches. New twigs. Creative intellect. The twig has grown. Stuckness. Usual candor.

Bright ideas. Ideas. Break-even. Profit. Bottom-line. Novel ideas. Shit work. Fertile results.

Brand. Seed. Supercede. Precede. Visibility. Certainty. Precedent. Ground-breaking.

Wake up goddamit. Wake up. Learn. Grow. Urge. Evolve. Avoid Ignorance.

Life's good with information. Wake up.

Major Mental Mess (MMM)

The title wasn't intended to be an alliteration; that's my mental state these days. It's in a form that the universe immediately after Big Bang was: Chaotic and in complete soup.

While working on a big project currently, I contantly think about the importance of systems in a set-up? What drives what? Does a large project build up the essential system? Or neat systems help you bag more projects? It just gets cyclical. Yes, that means I dont get any answer and my mind wanders off quickly.

Why can't both be the answers? Both are essential, right? They are. But, the interesting thing is, in a start-up when the systems are not in place, big projects themselves act as Evolutionary Mechanisms, which helps evolves an enterprise. Translated which means: Necessity is the mother of invention. When there is need, things are invented. Then, what is proactiveness? Identifying that need in advance and acting on it. That is necessary in a business set-up. Predicting and acting. PDCA cycle. (Plan Do Check Act)

Later when the start-up grows, projects come to them. Just like that. Cuz, they have strong systems and brand in place. I know a lot of brand visibility and positioning perspective will crop up, but should be discussed later; thus we shall skip it for the time being.

Your liberated minds might think: What be wrong with this homo sapien? Something well-known, so effective. Why ask?

In today's market-driven brouhaha, when competition is already sharpening their tools to cut your throats, what happens to companies trying to thrive? Trying to survive? What if they just have plain technical aptitude, enthusiasm etc? Yet, a strong system is required. May be at a smaller level proportionate to company size and its requirement. More than that, I think, gumption is required. Fierce Energy is required. Rest can be taken care of.

There are plenty of thoughts currently, but am unable to articulate them. Hmm, it's not rare though. There is something else beyond comprehension. My Gawd, MMM!!

These days I largely rely on SMS. For me, it's Save My Soul. Just a selfish avatar of SOS. Every now and then, I send SMS signals to my colleages, so that they can come to my rescue. Being in Intellectual Battlefield currently, time-n-again, such Mental Rescue Missions do liberate (or delay the project) a lot.

Thoughts are totally undisciplined. Just writing for the heck of it. It generally energises me, rejuvenates me etc. Whatever.

But seriously, despite umpteen brainstorming sessions I am still clueless about the question. We're all trying to bring order to the chaos. Its not that we dont have system. But we need a Perfect System. Absolutely foolproof. Divine. We are working very hard towards it. The Perfect System has not showed itself yet. PS: Where are you?

Too many parameters to monitor in the current project. Trying to figure out the right ones. The Neos. Which would outshine others. Which would be foolproof. Which would be Almighty Incarnated. The Chosen One. Whatever.

Its a very consuming process, I tell you. But, a lot of soul searching is required. Which makes it very interesting. Hehe. Very rewarding later. Patience is also running out of stock now. A lot more inventory is required. Heavens! What the heck is happening?

Folks, more MMS (My Mental Story) later. Meanwhile, do me a favour - Think over and reply to my SMS. Good night. Sleep well.

tranquillity re-born

Peace is back,
the emptiness is gone,
harmony resurrected
tranquillity re-born

Long waiting hours
distant her and time
all standing still
her looks sublime

The inseparable soul
her beauty mesmerizes
innocent eyes and looks
Subtly, she entices

> to be continued >>

In me...Become me

Its been many days that it has not come to me. It needs to be rediscovered. It reigned supreme in my mind till few days back. Its absence haunts me. It acts as a fuel to my mind. Hmm, it seems to be hiding somewhere.

Are you playing with me? You know, you wont succeed; I am good at discovering you. You may hide, but can't vanish. Not from me.

You have helped me before, you will help me now. I am just searching for the clue that will help me re-discover you. I am unable to find it yet, but I know I am on the right path. Previously, various elements have blessed me with your presence. Love primarily discovered you. Nature was a close second. Where have you gone now? Dont play anymore. I need your power, your presence. I need you. In you, lies my essence. Limitless vitality. Immense Creativity. Come to me.

I am driven by you. Your presence makes me feel stronger about myself. Why have you left? Yes, somehow I didnt nurture you enough to stay back...with me. I was confused and lost. I still am. Therefore I need you. Your mere presence makes me pulsate with energy. Let me discover you. Your power...once again.

I know you want me to discover you. What clues have you left behind? Help me find them. What are you waiting for? I wont let you go this time. I will fuel you to sustain and grow. In me.

Come soon.. Oh! Inspiration! Come over. Free me. Overpower me. Excite me. Charge me. Change me. Be within me. Be my soul. Become me.

Eagerly waiting for your arrival,

Saurabh