mallusatish's PhotoBlog

Our Village Temple

2013-05-02T01:44:35Z

The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life. Georg Simmel

Angel Cloud, For all peoples killed by meaningless violence

2013-04-20T01:15:13Z

“What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.” ― David Levithan,

Life is going to give you just what you put in it

2013-04-15T19:17:54Z

“I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's, and my country's past, holding in my hands these truths: that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness; that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things. This much, at least, I've figured out. I know this much is true.” ― Wally Lamb,

It’s Time To Fight Back.

2013-04-09T00:42:08Z

I’m going to be letting go of routines in the coming weeks, and return to a life of daily variety, mixing things up and turning them upside down again.

The power to unbend your Mind.

2013-04-06T13:33:16Z

It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion. ~Horace

In Dark there is Light

2013-03-27T02:07:46Z

“If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.” ― Pythagoras

My New Look

2013-03-23T22:13:57Z

Today is our 14th wedding anniversary we went to Sri Venkateswara Temple at Tirumala we performed Srinivasa Kalyanam (marriage of the Lord Venkateswra) and I shaved my head in respect to the Lord

Good health to you all my friends

2013-03-21T01:50:01Z

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. Buddha

Beautiful Evening

2013-03-19T23:36:18Z

Nothing compares to a quiet evening Just the two of us. Are you with me?

Maya

2013-03-17T17:26:36Z

Shankara says everything is illusory. Whatsoever you are seeing, hearing, feeling, all is illusion. It is not real because the real cannot be contacted by senses. You are hearing me and I am seeing you hearing me: it may be just a dream, and there is no way how to judge whether it is a dream or not. I may be just dreaming that you are here listening to me. How am I to know that this is real and not a dream? There is no way. Shankara says with senses there is no possibility to know whether the thing confronting you is real or unreal. And if there is no possibility to know whether it is real or unreal, Shankara calls it MAYA: it is illusion. Illusion doesn't mean unreal. Illusion means an impossibility to decide whether it is real or unreal -- remember this. In Western languages MAYA has been translated very wrongly, and it gives the feeling in Western terms that "illusion" means "unreal." It does not! "Illusion" means the inability to decide whether the thing is real or unreal. This confusion is MAYA. This whole world is MAYA, a confusion. You cannot decide; you cannot be decisive about it. It is always escaping you, always changing, turning into something else. It is fantasy, a dreamlike thing. In this world of illusion nothing is certain. This whole world is like rainbows. They appear to be, but they are not. If you are far away they are, but if you come nearer they dissolve. The nearer you come, the more they are not. If you reach to a point where you were seeing a rainbow, it is no more there. The whole world is like rainbow colors, and it is so. When you are far away everything is hopeful; when you come nearer the hope disappears. And when you reach the goal, only ashes are there -- just a dead rainbow. The colors have disappeared, and things as they appeared are not. As you feel them to be, they are not.