कल बस यूहीं समय की नदी पर पतवार चलाते चलाते सब कुछ छोड़ देने को जी किया,
पर फिर अचानक उस कश्ती का ख्याल आया जिसने खुद को मेरे हाथों में सोप दिया,
फिर क्या था न पतवार छोड़ी, न ज़िन्दगी, न सपने देखना, न कोशिश करना!!
Learning to live consciously in 2016
Recently I was in a workshop at Swaraj University about Rethinking Development and it was concluded with a Shamanic Ceremony. In the ceremony we were called to relate to an element in nature (like air, water, trees, animals) and feel their pain and express it to the one (among us) in the role of human beings, which each one of us took at different times. The idea was to revive our feeling of oneness with nature and again feel part of the one big family of the universe. I didn’t quite understand the ceremony, it didn’t hit me deep enough. But since I have come back from the workshop to Delhi, I have been disturbed. I am not able to settle in my erstwhile smooth life here. I don’t enjoy chores as much as I used to before I went to Udaipur. I don’t like to buy/handle stuff at home, in the kitchen. There’s a strange relationship I am feeling with gadgets. It feels like I have begun to notice and witness some violence and pain that has been unleashed on our planet, other living beings i
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