Where there is ART there is MAGIC :)
The whole of September 2015 was filled with everything i LOVE! Both MUSIC and DANCE...and shows by the best of the best not just in the country but internationally!! What a blessing it was to witness two major events of the year ...happening on the same weekend. While i have friends and family on both sides, which makes it even more special! Being involved and working with such artistes is always inspiring.
While newspapers and people were grumbling about the haze and the heat ....we at Swara Community Arts Center and Sutra Dance Academy were all breathing in ART and nothing but ART :) And we had no chance to even notice the weather!!
Sutra Dance Academy presented an Odissi dance performance titled GANJAM with live music by musicians from Odisha India. And Swara Community Art Center had a LIVE recording session of the fusion concert by the band, SwaraAsia, East Meets West. Both world class!! Too much magic to handle in one weekend!
I will of course write about both the shows in detail and share photographs soon.
For now, i am still soaking in all the magical moments and am lost for words!! So, once i am settled ...i will get to it ok?! SOON! :)
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Sunday, September 20, 2015
Checkmates!
Ever been in a situation when you cant move either way!?
Well, unlike in the chess game, we cant just end it there and start over. Life simply goes on with the checkmates! Is that not interesting!?
But these checkmates made me realise something amazing and here i wish to share it with you all.
Though from the out it looks like we are trapped in a certain situation, what really happens is, we move on within.
Every checkmate in life is a turning point within because when you cant change something on the outside...you naturally start changing within. I guess that's part of the master plan!
And when we start changing within, we find a new path and then we are free to move again...only till another checkmate happens of course! But life is fair, it puts you through a series of simpler situations first to train you to look within for the smaller paths and waits patiently to give you the ultimate checkmate where it might seem almost impossible to find a way out. But since you are a little trained by now, you don't panic and just continue looking within for some light to be shed on the path waiting for you to be discovered.
You of course will have to grope in darkness for a little while, bump into walls and fall and rise a few times before you identify the right path. It could be scary at some points but knowing that the path is there for sure, gives you the courage to keep looking. But the trick is to keep moving, no matter how dark or scary it gets! And the signs of getting nearer to your path will be when you start seeing colours on your way, when you start feeling lighter and when you start feeling so joyous that it becomes impossible to cry over anything. Then you know you are getting there....
So, if you feel like you are trapped in any situation at any point of your life, REMEMBER to LOOK WITHIN ! Remember the other dimensions of life which most of us forget to look at. We are so absorbed with everything outside that we miss the unlimited paths running within us.
Well, unlike in the chess game, we cant just end it there and start over. Life simply goes on with the checkmates! Is that not interesting!?
But these checkmates made me realise something amazing and here i wish to share it with you all.
Though from the out it looks like we are trapped in a certain situation, what really happens is, we move on within.
Every checkmate in life is a turning point within because when you cant change something on the outside...you naturally start changing within. I guess that's part of the master plan!
And when we start changing within, we find a new path and then we are free to move again...only till another checkmate happens of course! But life is fair, it puts you through a series of simpler situations first to train you to look within for the smaller paths and waits patiently to give you the ultimate checkmate where it might seem almost impossible to find a way out. But since you are a little trained by now, you don't panic and just continue looking within for some light to be shed on the path waiting for you to be discovered.
You of course will have to grope in darkness for a little while, bump into walls and fall and rise a few times before you identify the right path. It could be scary at some points but knowing that the path is there for sure, gives you the courage to keep looking. But the trick is to keep moving, no matter how dark or scary it gets! And the signs of getting nearer to your path will be when you start seeing colours on your way, when you start feeling lighter and when you start feeling so joyous that it becomes impossible to cry over anything. Then you know you are getting there....
So, if you feel like you are trapped in any situation at any point of your life, REMEMBER to LOOK WITHIN ! Remember the other dimensions of life which most of us forget to look at. We are so absorbed with everything outside that we miss the unlimited paths running within us.
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