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Toward’s the end of the rainbow

Saturday, August 15th, 2009
Rainbow

Rainbow

There is a saying, that at the end of the rainbow you can find hidden treasure. Many of us are still persuing the same things in our life. We all know where the real treasures are and where to look for them. we know that the rainbow is an illusion and the treasure out there is a myth, it will be gone as soon as the the light start to play a bit differently.

But did Light ever play differently , well no, light always travels in a straight line, it either stops at the opaque objects in its path or is bent or reflected by the stuff coming in its path.

Light has a simple straight path, we all know that, but we are so busy in our lives looking at all the colors projected by the rain drops in its path that we get immersed looking at those colors, which fade away as soon are the rain is gone. We keep our eyes glued to the rainbow and back of our heads towards the light simply blocking it. Remember light will never take a u turn to get into your eyes, one or the other time U have to turn around and look at the sun directly to see the pure light unseperated by the rain drops.

This is the light which has got all the colors which u had been looking for in a rainbow, and if u look long enough at the light -

U will realize –

” rainbow merely consists of seven colors, the raindrops can just separate in only those colors — but The light has more colors then u have ever thought of.”

Had written on somewhere in  2004, and was previously published on horizontalrings.com


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Creases in time

Sunday, May 31st, 2009
plain paper

plain paper

Origami – The ancient art of paper folding. One of the things that everyone of us learns as a child. As far as I can remember, the first few things that I had learned was the airplane and the boat. And if I am not wrong these are probably the first two most common thing which we learn as kids or are fascinated to, simply because they can be put into action.

As we grow up and if we retain our interest, get some guidance, help form some books, we get to learn more technical details of this ancient art of paper folding.

One of the very important aspects of this art is that it does not ask for complicated tools. And the very basic material that is required to created any shape is a sheet of paper (generally square). Then depending on what kind of guidance and references you have got and used, you usually end up learning some basic shapes and figures. And as you learn more, complexity of these shapes increases.

Boat

Boat

Starting form simple shapes like the boat, which requires few basic simple half division folding and creases, you may go to complex designs like the frog (my personal favorite) , swans, lily, rose, rockets etc, which require good practice of folding the paper properly, generating creases and including some tricky maneuvers like the mountain folds and the valley folds when some section requires making a crease on the same line for both the sides of the paper and then inverting that section.

Once completed these images display their complexity and beauty both at once ( that is if done properly).

creased paper

creased paper

All this time most of us appreciate the final shapes, the plain simple paper with which we started has been forgotten and even if you open up this shape, the crease have been set so deep and strong, the simple plain paper is lost behind these creases, which we created during the time we learned this art, and probably, now, cannot appreciate the beauty of the plain paper, even though all the shapes are and are only because of the simple plain paper.

God is simple, over the ages we have learned to fold him into such complex shapes and designs. These creases have been set so deep in our minds that we cannot see past through these shapes and see the “Simply Divine”.

Had written on 13 December 2004, and was previously published on horizontalrings.com

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Why do we pray ?

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
Gauhar with Mamu

Gauhar with Mamu

Few days ago my sister and 5 year old daughter ( Gauhar ) were here. I was lots of fun and how last two weeks passed god only knows.

On that note I remember a simple conversation between her and my dad, here it goes.

My dad does his daily prayers, which takes around approximately 30 minutes to complete.

My niece used to sit next to him most of the days during this time. Here is one very intresting question she posed to dad,

“Nanu, why do we pray ?”

Instead of answering her dad asked her

“Why don’t you tell, why do we pray”

And her simple reply was:

“Because god give us everything we need!”

The world for a 5 year old is so simple, I hope for her god remains as simple as “we pray and he give”

God is simple let not make him/her complicated.

Had written something similar long time back. Will put it up when i find it.

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