Becoming You

"So, where would You hide, if i became You"

We keep searching for something that which we can't name. We long for it knowing we had it once...Can't say we have forgotten or lost it ..maybe just distracted. We go on with life pretending that everything is in order, checking every now and then if we are living a "normal" life and yet having this constant urge to divert. But to where? How? we have absolutely no idea...so again we go on pretending that we are OK with the routine..school..family..work...vacations and so on....

Sometimes, we panic as the underlying truth ignites our heart and in its light, for a brief moment we see that this is not what it is all about....its not about jobs, ambitions, relationships, wealth, politics, education, hobbies, sports or religion...it has got nothing to with any of what we have been calling "LIFE" We panic not because the truth is intimidating but because we see how far we have gone astray. How entangled we are with everything the society has built in the name of civilization. Irreversible! We panic because we see HOW simple it actually is while we have made it so complicated. Is it even possible to get out unhurt! Good news is, we can!....bad news is we can do it only one person at a time...never mind how many billions the population of the world is today..we  can only make it one person by one person. Each person has to find their way out by following their own paths. You cant help another to get out...for you are lost yourself and your way out will not be the same for another person. So never drag another person with you for you will only delay them. If you found your way...get on with it as quietly as possible so you don't distract another person from theirs. 

The search goes round and round..takes several turns, ups and downs, falls and rises and eventually ends abruptly where you started...YOURSELF! Then you realise, you are the way out, you are the love you seek, you are the light in your eyes, you are the search, you are the answer, you are LIFE itself. A center of the center which connects to EVERYTHING around you. Then, what is there left to do, you reflect on every leaf, every ray of the sun, every drop of rain, every grain of sand...you feel everything contained in you. You will not pluck a leaf or flower for it is a part of you. You will not kill an ant for it is a part of you. You will not hurt another person for they are all a part of you. You become YOU and it goes on infinitely...you see no end to it. Its overwhelming, mind boggling and beyond what your little heart can handle...yet it is joyous...not the kind of joy where you would scream and jump and hug people...no, but the kind of joy that is so subtle that you will not react in anyway, a smile maybe all you can manage with the calmness settling in your heart, you breathe the universe in and exhale the love in return. That's when you will realise..what you have been searching for is what you are made of ....LOVE!     

Look beyond the illusion of colours and dimensions
and step into the infinite oneness

Love descends upon hearts as light descends upon earth,
if only we learn how to be as receptive and still as a tree

Rainforest World Music Festival 18

As promised, I will now share my experience at the Rainforest World Music Festival but I am not going to describe what the event is about or what happens there during the three days because you can read all about it in their websites and other hundreds of posts uploaded and shared online. What I wish to share here is about how such events make you feel when experienced live.

What I loved most about it is that the 20k people who attended this event coming from all over the world are ALL music and nature lovers!! The vibes you feel when standing among hearts tuned in to the forest and Music is quite overwhelming.  One of those rare times when people are not thinking or talking about wars, politics, floods, terrorists, poverty or business and so on. For a brief moment, people are just being people...loving life and living every moment in amusement for they all know that the 3 precious days will end so soon and they will have to go back to the"reality" they are trapped in.

We now live in an era of seeing everything through  palm sized screens. Music too has been contained in these miniature world where you are in control of when it should begin, end or how loud or soft it should be...with all the distractions that comes through a mobile phone people hardly hear the music uninterrupted. Even if they do...no vibes of an instrument gets pass the speakers of a mobile phone ...all its magic lost in the process of recording and downloading...what you hear through it just plain notes...nothing more then that. You may not believe what i am saying unless and until you have heard these musicians performing live before a cheering, screaming and dancing crowd facing a stage with a 130 million years old rainforest as the backdrop!! It's surreal ...you can feel the soul of the forest in tune with the music, the musicians and the audience. It's an unbelievable connection...and i am not exaggerating!! You have got to be there to know it...no videos or audios will ever be able to capture the experience in its true sense.

While listening to the most amazingly talented musicians...I remembered Micheal Jackson and thought...no wonder his audiences screamed , cried and even fainted during his performances! I cried even when I watched his Smooth Criminal movie which was played in the cinemas those days!! So watching him live would have sure been overwhelming. Now I see the effects of live performances especially to watch it with people who have made the effort to travel from all over the world like from the US all the way here just for the 3 days coz they sure know how precious these experiences are...otherwise it might all seem like a waste of time and energy to those who think why not just download the music n listen at the comfort of their homes.  Believe me...music is not meant to be heard through mobile phones! These traditional instruments have a soul that connects to nature and that can only happen when it is LIVE!!

Ok I can go on and on about this cos probably I don't even know how to explain it...but I do have a little more to share about the festival in my next post.  See you soon🙂💕