Butterfly Effect

Do you know the power a butterfly holds? 

A flap of a butterfly wings - will it have any significance? Can it change lives of many? Can it change the world? Think!

In a valid Scientific theory, The Chaos Theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions, in which a small change at one place in a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state.

In other words, a small change now, in here can cause a large change later (ultimately) in somewhere. For example, something as small as the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings in Brazil can set off a Tornado in Texas!! The flapping wing represents a small change in the initial condition of the system (atmosphere), which causes a chain of events leading to large-scale phenomena. Had the butterfly not flapped its wings, the trajectory of the system ( the sequence of events that follow) might have been vastly different.

Thus, everything is linked. Everything is related. Nothing is isolated. Everything that happens matters. Even the smallest tiniest things.A seemingly small action ultimately produces a large outcome.

Seeds or coconut washed ashore centuries back on a barren shore creates vegetation and islands we live now. But neither the seed nor the tide that brought it knows of the sequence of events that it triggered and the mightiness of the civilization it had started!

A grain of sand seeping inside an oyster few years back ultimately gives rise to the beautiful pearl. Yet neither the sand-grain nor the oyster know the sequence of events that they started and the preciousness of the thing they created!

A deed you had done a decade back may have resonating consequences today and later!- Just as a flap of a butterfly wings then creating a hurricane now. But neither the butterfly nor the air around it knows the events they have triggered and how big an event it may create!!

If you change even the smallest of life's details, you completely change its outcome. If you change slightestly your routines of things, ultimately it may lead to a large change much later in your life. And you'll probably know it when that large change occurs!

So just like butterflies, just keep fluttering and flapping your wings. And be wise, be considerate and keep flapping your wings for good! Who knows, if it can produce a hurricane, it too can produce a spring of joy with comforting cool breezes. One day.

No Matter What

A song to go with the thoughts...


 

No matter what they tell us
No matter what they do
No matter what they teach us
What we believe is true

No matter what they call us
However they attract
No matter where they take us
We'll find our own way back

I can't deny what I believe
I can't be what I'm not
I know our love's forever
I know, no matter what

If only tears were laughter (ooh)
If only night was day (ooh)
If only prayers were answered (hear my prayers)
Then we would hear God say (say)

No matter what they tell you (ooh)
No matter what they do (ooh)
No matter what they teach you
What you believe is true

And I will keep you safe and strong
And sheltered from the storm
No matter where it's barren
A dream is being born

No matter who they follow
No matter where they lead
No matter how they judge us
I'll be everyone you need

No matter if the sun don't shine (sun don't shine)
Or if the skies aren't blue (skies aren't blue)
No matter what the end is
My life began with you

I can't deny what I believe (what I believe, yeah)
I can't be what I'm not
(I know, I know) I know this love's forever
That's all that matters now
No matter what

No matter what (no, no matter, no)

No, no matter
That's all that matters to me
(Repeat X 7)

Cosmic Consciousness

How conscious are you? How much aware are you of your surroundings, the environment and the macrocosm you are in? Are you for certain sure that the truths you believe are truths and the facts you take for granted are indefutable facts? Do you know how you exist and why you exist?

Let's tease a bit on your intelligence and play a bit with your awareness!

Imagine a measuring ruler on a corner of a table. Imagine an ant moving on the ruler from the 1cm mark to the 2cm mark in a straight line. Now somebody took the ruler moved it in zig-zag motions and placed the ruler on the center of table, all the while the ant is still moving in a straight line from 1cm mark to 2cm mark on the ruler. But with respect to the corner of the table, what is the pattern or path of movement of the ant? The ants movement is in a straight line, but the ant moved NOT in a straight line!!

Now imagine a cargo ship moving from one end of antlantic ocean to the other in a straight line. Somebody observing from earth will definitely see it moving in a straight line. But when point of reference is from a place near to Earth on space, one can see the earth's movement on its own axis, while the ship is moving in the earth. So what is the path of the ship from his reference?

Let's expand your horizons.What happens if one observe it from the Sun? He can see Earth orbiting around the Sun, while rotating in its own axis, while the minute ship is moving!!

Expand your conciousness and awareness of this to another level. What will be the path of the ship if its observered from the center of Milky Way (galactic center) around which our Sun rotates, and around the sun the earth rotates, while rotating in its axis..And to this the fact that the galaxies ( including Milkyway and all stars and planets in it) are moving at a speed of thousands of kilometers per hour away from the center of Universe ( point of Big Bang)!! Now, to get path of our little teeny tiny ship, one will need a sophisticated complex mathematical geometrical analysis!!.. (for the movement of our planet, see this link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NH5yK3ZN54)

So can we say the ship moves in a straight line? What is the truth? Does it depend on our consciousness? on your awareness? It surely depends On the frame/point of observation we are in? In other words, it depends on the frame of consciousness we are in.

So Will the truth of someone be an uncomprehendable explanation for another? Can you explain the larger truth to aless conscious who is absolutely convinced of his convictions? Or like the Man with knowledge (Al-khidr) said to Moses, maybe you just have to say,"You can't bear with me"

And all this while, we are talking about expanding our conscious self in spatial dimensions. What happens if one can expand his consciousness in the temporal dimension - time ? Can he look at the Grand Timeline, from beginning of time to the end of time, laid before him like a foot-ruler. Can he see into it and see the events unfolding at a particular time? Is this the Lauh-ul-Mahfuz ( Book of Decree/Tablet of Events) that Angels recite in the Heavens?

And what about consciousness in other planes, such as spiritual? Where does your thoughts come from? Where is your mind housed in? Where is your soul roaming? What happens when one expands his consciousness in this spiritual dimensions? Is it how the sages gets devoid of bodily pain?

One thing is for certain. It is through more consciousness you understand more the meaning of this life. And through knowing more and being aware of more, you are prepared to face anything, with patience. Yet, the more we get aware, the more we get conscious, we become aware of how little we really know!!  

Note :
Cosmic Consciousness by Deepak Chopra - http://www.anhglobal.org/en/node/591

Shauban 15th.

Undoubtedly, the islamic Hijri month of Shauban is one of the four holy/sacred  month to Muslims. There are a lot of authentic ahaadhith to prove this. It is a virtue to fast most of the days of this month, except the last few days the month.

Likewise, mid Shauban or Shaban 15 night is a night with extra benefits and extra virtue to be observed with extra prayers and supplication. Prominent scholars such as Imam-al-Shafi'ee and  Ibn Taymiyyah and many others are of this opinion. But there is a group of scholars who differs in view and regard the night as any other night. Thus, this creates a lots of fuss and misunderstanding about this night. But there need not be, as very clearly explained in the below links

http://muslimmatters.org/2013/06/21/fussing-over-the-15-shaban/
http://qa.sunnipath.com/issue_view.asp?HD=7&ID=140&CATE=24

And the below links tells how the night can be observed in worship and prayers

http://www.islamicity.com/Articles/articles.asp?ref=IC0409-2468
http://www.deenislam.co.uk/dua/Shaban_1.htm

The problem with the people is glorifying a thing to an extreme.Be it a night, a person, an event or even a place ,etc. As such some go on extreme to glorify the night to have unwarranted ceremonies, visiting graveyard at the night and performing unprescribed congregational prayers. And the others, to counter this bid'ah behaviour totally ignore the blessing and goodness of the night.

As for me, I would pray and recite Surah YaSin that night, inSha Allah. For I believe there must be a truth about the night of Shauban 15 for many prominent Islamic Scholars to agree upon benefits and virtues of that night. And I believe  in a merciful God who will not punish me for praying Him. I seek every opportunity to purify my soul an be closer to Allah.

May Allah have mercy on us.

Humans

When you meet a person, what do you really see?
Do you see only what your eyes show,
The appearance, the shape and the form,
The features the contours and outward looks?
Are they the only things that you just see?!

Or do you see more to it  from your mind's eye,
Do you think, there is more to this man than the body,
With feelings, a mysterious mind and a soul,
All within an intangible dimension you can't see.
Or are you too hasty in your travel to give it a thought?

A man is bigger than what our limited vision percieves.
His self stretches to all dimensions and planes that exists,
He is one from a family, with deeper bonds and loved ones
If only we the people open our inner eyes to fully see this!
Then the world maybe a place with less cruelness and torture!

The Man : Solace in the Dark

In pitch darkness, under a moonless sky sat alone a man absorbed in his own thoughts. He is oblivious to the darkness and the passing cold breeze. In fact, the quietness and darkness is his ally. He is a man with a good heart who seeks to delve deep into himself under a peacefulness, with his normal senses uncalled-for. And the man finds solace now, in touch with nature With no disturbing noises and with no speck of light save for the tiny sparks of the twinkling stars.

The man likes to be alone under the ancient light of these stars. It seems that he and the stars has built an intimate bond and that stars smile up on him each night when they see him. At least he thinks so. These ancient specks of light in the vast sky has been witnessing the man come out of his shelter to be under the open sky each night at this hour; just as these stars has witnessed all wars and all romances of this world from the beginning of the  world.

The Man sat in the darkness listening to his heart, and looks up at the vast sky. He sees the dark clouds and the beautiful stars. But as he gazes at the stars, its not the stars he thinks of. The stars make him closer to nature and makes him think of nature's beauty. And the thought of beauty and the feeling of beautifulness makes him think of a certain beauty and beautifulness that has whisked past his life making an unforgettable mark he can never forget.

In fact, it is that Beauty that brings him here at wee hour of the night, tonight and all the other nights.It is that beauty, how she has touched him, and his heart's longing for that beauty that has made a habit out of him to rise at this dark hours and go out  to be under the sky and  be in touch with nature.

With a prayer on his lips, the man gazes at the stars and into nothingness. Sometimes, he stays this way till dawn. Somethimes tears forming in his eyes. sometimes with a smile on his lips, but always with a pain in his heart.

Tonight he is thinking how all this has started. How a seed of love got planted in his heart from a place least expected and how it has blossomed at a least expected time. How it has brought him sweetness yet a bitterness because how confined he feels unable to attain that Beauty that has radiated love into his soul. Confined by duties and responsibilities. Confined by moral obligations.

Yet he remembered the grave grief he had upon a thought that he may never attain his hearts desire, his Beauty. And that Beauty may well be happy with another. Yes. he e remembers, that grief, how he cried, how tears flowed as his soul collapsed weak and crumbled to the floor. And it is these quiet times with quiet prayers that lifted his soul and spirit. It is that grief that made him look into his inner soul and listen to his hearts whisperings. It is that grief that made him in touch with himself and more aware of his soul and spirit, as it does now, in the quietness of the night.

It is said,

"If eyes were a window to the soul, then grief is the door.
As long as it is closed, it is the barrier
between knowing and not knowing...
Walk away from it and it stays closed forever.
But open it and walk through it,
And Pain becomes Truth."

And the man, he knows the pain, he knows the truth. And he believes each passing night is a step taken on a swerving staircase that shall bring him close to happiness.

Bottleneck

Hectic! That's word to describe the past few days. Running here and there, attending to daily duties and taking charge of responsibilities, I have found myself no free time except a few hours in the night before sleep. No free time to be alone, to be myself and to look into myself.

And when i find free time I want seek my passion and express myself, my thoughts and feelings through these rants and writing. But the most frustrating of last few days is, I just couldn't!!...and i just doze off to sleep.

When I try, all the thoughts and feelings come up at once and it creates a block in the pipelines that pours out what's within me as writings. Its like a thousand of many coloured shapes - dotted dices, spherical marbles, cuboids and irregular shapes - held inside a bottle and when I try to pour them out they get blocked in the bottleneck.

So here I am. Many thoughts crossing my mind on what to write, yet unable to open these gates and express. I need to streamline for a smooth flow of those tiny marbles, dices and shapes. So, I hope that this writing on the problem itself may help to overcome it.

In hectic days, in a distance place with limited connectivity, far from where the heart is, it better do!

Within Me I see You

"You have no idea how hard I have looked for a gift to bring You. Nothing seemed right.
What's the point of bringing gold to the goldmine, or water to Ocean.
Everything I came up was like taking spices to the Orient.
It's no good giving my heart and my soul because you already have these.
So - I have brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me" 

 ~ Rumi

There's this Light in the dark corner of my subconcious
Radiating its rays all the way to my conciusness,
And did you for even a moment think,
That the Oil that keeps that flame will run dry,
And the light will get dimmer as the time goes by

Did you think that this abyss of silence,
And this unfathomable long absence,
And the tick-tocking of the grand clock,
Will lay layers of dust on it to block
That Light, and diminish it.

No! it hadn't dimmed and it lights bright
So, the memory's and thoughts remains
and when I look deep in to my soul self
My sweetest pain, I keep remembering You,
Oneness of both i see, together smiling.

Kisses for me

Nice Video :P.  Have a smile. And yes! save all your kisses for me ;)

Though it hurts to go away
It's impossible to stay
But there's one thing I must say before I go
I love You (I love you) --you know
I'll be thinking of You in most everything I do
Now the time is moving on
And I really should be gone
But You keep me hanging on for one more smile
I love You (I love you) --all the while
With your cute little way
Will You promise that you'll save your
Kisses for me
Save all your kisses for me
Bye bye baby bye bye
Don't cry honey don't cry
Gonna walk out the door
But I'll soon be back for more

Kisses for me
Save all your kisses for me
So long honey so long
Hang on baby hang on
Don't You dare me to stay
Cause You know I'll have to say

That I've got to work each day
And that's why I go away
But I count the seconds till I'm home with You
I love You (I love you) --it's true
You're so cute honey -gee
Won't You save them up for me -your

Kisses for me
Save all your kisses for me
Bye bye baby bye bye
Don't cry honey don't cry
Gonna walk out the door
But I'll soon be back for more

Kisses for me
Save all your kisses for me
So long honey so long
Hang on baby hang on
Don't you dare me to stay
Cause you know
You've got to save your

Kisses for me
Save all your kisses for me
Bye bye baby bye bye
Don't cry honey don't cry
Won't You save them for me
Even though you're only three...

Blowin in the Wind

Listen to the Silence. Feel the gentle caress of the wind on you. Do you have questions that are unanswered?

The Answers are blowing in the wind.

 

How many roads most a man walk down
Before you call him a man ?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand ?
Yes, how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned ?
The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

Yes, how many years can a mountain exist
Before it's washed to the sea ?
Yes, how many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free ?
Yes, how many times can a man turn his head
Pretending he just doesn't see ?
The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

Yes, how many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky ?
Yes, how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry ?
Yes, how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died ?
The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind.