ASSORTED TALES with RASHMI SHARMA: Recent Episodes
Rashmi Sharma
Here's bringing you everything about Art, Humans, Love, Spirituality, Philosophy, World and most important, You and Me. Don't just hear it, FEEL IT.
It's an old tale of a Samurai Warrior and his bride who become entangled in a sea storm and seem to be close to death, but faith saves them.
Each of us has our own unique flaws. We're all cracked pots. In this world, nothing goes to waste. You may think like the cracked pot that you are inefficient or useless in certain areas of your life, but somehow these flaws can turn out to be a blessing in disguise.”
The Master presents Himself. The eighteenth-century female, Saint Sahjo Bai is the best example of the same. At the time of her wedding how she met her Master who changed her life is worth listening to.
Lord Shiva tells Parvati the importance of a Guru and why is He the dispeller of darkness.
This is the fourth era we are living in which is known as Kalyuga as per the Hindu Mythology. How and what are the changes going to take place , is really a breathtaking experience while reading the books extracted from the original vedas.
Silence is the key to knowledge. What? Not convinced! Well this short story is for you then.
Life never goes as planned. Well pleasant surprise are welcome but we get shaken by the unexpected crises. What to do then? Are there any books which teach us how to cope up with the unexpected crises.?
She was a mystic from Rajasthan. Her love and longing for the spiritual Master can be seen through her songs.
When we feel lonely, we try all the possibilities to cheer us but only to realise its transitory nature. Then what is it that will replace this feeling of loneliness with fulfillment?
Bulleh Shah - The Love-intoxicated Inconoclast. It includes the tales of his love for his Spiritual Master, Shah Inayat in a unique way. How he would dress up like a women and dance to please him. And how his journey from this worldly love to Spiritual love started and culminated.
Of all the tools we have to work with in our journey through life, the most important is the mind. Everything that we do is governed by our thoughts, whether it is eating, working or entering a relationship. We act through the body, but whatever we do is the outcome of a thought.
Love is the most powerful emotion, as it's the only food of the Soul. It's a story of a man's love for his wife and how that transformed him.
Borders do discriminate between two brothers from the same mother. This story, 'The Enemy' is by Neerja Mattoo the writer of 'The Stranger Beside Me' - Short stories from Kashmir. Read it to feel it. And say no to war. Let's be kind to each other.
We all make mistakes, take wrong decisions and regret about it too, but rarely accept them and seek forgiveness. We know we could be better, but we want to be accepted as we are.
Dear Daddy is an extract from a book ' Letters from Kargil ' by Diksha Diwedi. She writes her emotions expressing her love for her father who was a martyr. The words in the letters are every daughter's words to her father. Very emotional and a touchy letter.
We think we are self-made. But the fact is that we always grow under the guidance of a teacher, the moment we first breath on this earth. We require teacher at every step and in every aspect of our life but unfortunately, when it comes to spirituality. One cannot be Spiritual without a Teacher or a Master.
A human being is supposed to balance between worldly beliefs and spiritual values and we often get stuck, as to how to balance this conflict. So how does one fight this battle of balance?
Lord loves humility, but what a pity! Because if the Lord loved anything else, we might be able to give it to him, but humility? We are somehow allergic to being humble. We think we are humble whereas the reality is that humility comes only after realizing that we are insignificant.
We humans are basically religious by nature. We believe in the super powers but some of us fail to accept that there is a God. Some believe the cosmos is all about science and nothing else.
What is this life if full of care, we have no time to stand and stare. Really we all have become too busy fighting for our rights and needs that somewhere we have lost the small pleasures of life. We need to logically ponder over the actions that we take and thrive to get peace. Because peace costs no fight, no rights and no money. It's within. We just need to look inside.
Sarmad was a sufi, a mystic who fell in love with a hindu boy. And that changed his whole life, which lead him to search for true love. He was disappointed not to find it in this world till he met his Master and His Master finally quenched his thirst. But alas the society couldn't understand and he was beheaded.
Whether a simple crush, infatuation or years of marriage, poetry has helped express the difficult sentiments of the heart. Amrita pritam, a world acclaimed writer and poet has written love, hurt, separation, pathos emptiness and all sort of emotions in the form of poems and novels.
Life does not begin with birth and end with death. There is much more than this. Our knowledge is limited to material world only because we cannot comprehend the other spheres due to the fear of unknown realms beyond this world.
Personality traits of a man and woman are defined separately. Masculine qualities convey strength but feminine qualities are considered meek, sacrificial and all loving. What will happen if only one existed?
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. Charity is a selfless act. So while doing charity, we should remember that we do not expect anything in return because your left hand should not know what your right hand gives.
Life throws many questions towards us without any answers. So here we discuss our personal opinion on the same. We do not claim to be Philosophers or Preachers. It just a heart to heart talk.
We suffer in life, but when help approaches us we start doubting, as to why would anyone help us for free. How can anyone be so kind. How can God be so kind. We are like those patients who take the medicine but do not eat it and thus complain of being sick .......
Humans have their own concepts about each and everything around us. And rely a lot on science. The reality is far beyond the concepts made by human beings. To know that an organic is an orange, one had to taste it.
We escape reality and accept illusion to make life easy. But the truth is simple that nothing is permanent. Since we cannot digest this fact we start fantasizing and embrace illusion.
We often dwell into sadness and cling to it so dearly that we fail to see the hidden ray of hope. Poet Henry wadsworth Longwood says we all have hidden sorrows, while the other poet says the sun will shine soon.
At the hour of death, we are going to be judged on love and not on what and how much we have put into our actions. Our mission is to recognize the universal truth. Mother Teresa says ' Each of us has a mission to fulfill: a mission of Love. RUMI says......
For a person to follow the path of higher sources, he should have some rules to bind by and some important things to remember so that it's easy for him to reach the destination.
Bollywood is a trem given to Indian cinema, actually stems from the culture of storytelling. Initially films were inspired by the early street dances also known as nautankis.
To become a lover of Lord , one must think twice, because it's a path of hardship and sacrifice.