Indiaah!!

Recently, I saw this movie 'Stranger than Fiction'...It revolves around a man named Harold Crick,a man of infinite numbers, endless calculations. His routine is very rigid, guided by his wristwatch. Everyday he'd brush his 32 teeth 76 times, 38 times back and forth, 38 times up and down. Every weekday for 12 years, he'd run at speed of 57 steps per block for 6 blocks, barely catching the 8.17 bus to work, which involved reviewing tax files. Basically, he had a monotonous, humdrum life!

It got me thinking! (Though it wasn't at all about what I'm going to blog on! It was about how this man later finds out that he is a protagonist of a story being written by an author elsewhere.Whatever she writes, comes out to be true.But I happened to watch 'Colours of India' on Discovery Channel the same day while flipping through the channels.)

It got me thinking that here in India, we people have such a vibrant, colourful life.Anyone travelling here wouldn't take much time to realize how motley the crowd is over here! Its like ''WE CELEBRATE LIFE!!! ''. We have learnt to count our blessings from our ancestors, ours being a much ancient civilization.














Ever heard of Hasya yoga/laughter Yoga? It is an exercise routine developed by Indian physician Madan Kataria. You can see it being practiced in many local public parks these days. This is just one of a slew of forms of 5000 year old art we call -'YOGA'.

योग: चित्त-वृत्ति निरोध-Yoga Sutras 1.2

which translates to : "Yoga is the inhibition of the modifications of the mind".
The goal of yoga may range from improving health to achieving Moksha. Ours is a spiritial country!

• We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.(Albert Einstein)
• India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend and the great grand mother of tradition. (Mark Twain)
• If there is one place on the face of earth where all dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.(French scholar Romain Rolland)
  
• India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border. (Hu Shih,Former Chinese ambassador to USA)

If we don’t see even a glimpse of that great India in the India that we see today, it clearly means that we are not working up to our potential; and that if we do, we could once again be an ever shining and inspiring country setting a bright path for rest of the world to follow.

I CAN SAY I AM A PROUD INDIAN!