What is making you insecure?

Insecurity

I live in a flat. Each morning when I open my window curtain, I see the opposite house light on.

First thought which flashes my mind- What a waste of electricity!

Some person has left it on and gone on a vacation, to keep away thieves.

People's insecurity can be such a big problem.

Whenever anyone shouts and shows anger at me, I realise that it is because they are so insecure with themselves.

People find it difficult to be silent since they are insecure with themselves.

Most of the violence is due to this insecurity of people with themselves.

If we make ourself, our best friend, insecurity would vanish and world will be devoid of problems.

Please people, spend time with yourself. Love yourself. 

If you do not spend time with yourself, you are missing meeting an important person

 - Swami Vivekananda.

Love yourself and Be secure

Ramani Kasturi

Sukh Karta Dukh Harta

Sukh Karta Dukh Harta

Ganesha!

He is going to be the topic of my first blog.

Writing after a long long time......hope I get the flow of expressions.

Ganesha - the remover of obstacles...please clear the unnecessary thoughts from this world of Ramani and give her wisdom. Please show yourself to me.

I have a strange connection with Ganesha.

1. He reminds me of my little sister, Sivi.

His form reminds me of me and Sivi visiting the Ganesha pandals in Pune - in the colony and nearby.

2. His form also reminds me of daddy. I got a beautiful orange Ganesha from him, which I treasure.

And daddy also taught me 'mudakarakta modakam'.....and each Ganesh Chaturthi we make sure we all sit together and sing it. Daddy, love you for the initiatives and efforts you have taken to guide all of us....(you deserve a separate article on the lessons I learnt from my dad). I have seen people giving more importance to prasadams to Ganesha than prayers to Him. And then I silently thank you dad for teaching us the importance of prayer and self-control.

Yes. this same shloka I chanted in sanskrit recitation when I was in my 5th std and got first prize. The prize didn't matter much to me then. What mattered and is still fresh in my memory is one of our school strictest teacher, Jaya madam giving me a fond hug after my chanting.

3. This also reminds me of joining my MSc classmates in walking and watching all the pandals in Pune one night of Ganesh Chaturthi. (Mamma-You had made tea for all......how you welcomed all - without a trace of complaint.....its your unselfish love towards all which protects me even now mamma).

4. Ganesha reminds meof one of my lovely and naughty friend, Surekha Tilekar.  She once brought a beautiful Ganesha to class. We all cleaned the class. We were in eigth class then in K V BEG, Kirkee. And our teacher told us not to do it since we should maintain the sanctity of Ganesha...and we shouldn't be wearing shoes in the class and we should be showing aarti twice.

5. SaiBaba, appeared to me in a dream once as Ganesha's pujari.

6. Living in Pune, and not admiring Ganesha is not possible. Every year the week before Ganesh Chaturthi, newspapers would start publishing advertisements and articles with such creative formations of the Lord, it used to put me in awe an admiration. I remember me as a small school going girl cutting up the creative representations and making a file of it.

6. Finally, one of our lab peon, who brought a Ganesha in the lab and called all the students and faculty and sang the aarti as 'sukh harta and dukh karta' and I just couldn't control laughter :-). Oh! thats a big problem I face....uncontrollable laughing at wrong times. Thank God! its getting better with age.

I love the song 'Sukh Karta Dukh Harta'.

Don't forget to show yourself to me Ganesha.

Yours

Ramani