Finding Chika – Mitch Albom

 

At first I thought the story to be a fiction but when I googled I came to know the story to be true, I don’t know what to say about this.

Finding Chika, while being painful presents us a braving, beautiful child’s heart, caring and patient older souls. Mitch has always taught us in his books how to respect, support, what we can learn, at the same time how to be strong when being with departing kinfolk. Also that if we really wish there is a lot we can offer/contribute to the world.

Human connection is beyond comparison, it is not bound by the blood, doesn’t make any distinction. Although children come with a set of responsibility like any relation in the world, each moment spent together is priceless. It is said, every experience in life is either a learning or a cherished memory, here it was both.

milk and honey – rupi Kaur

 

An honest, contemporary poetry. There is nothing superficially fancy here. I felt it takes an amount of courage and frankness to publish an open book like this that brings out to light still silenced subjects like child abuse and safeguarded matters as bruised heart, going through highs and lows of love.

Through plain language, Rupi  pens down the reveries of thoughts at the same time heedlessness in (the book is said to be about) love, loss, trauma, abuse, healing and femininity.

Ramana Maharshi-Upadesa Saram by Ramesh S. Balsekar And WHO AM I? - Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

Must read because these works are so direct and literally enlightening.

 

Ramana Maharshi, was one of the greatest Gurus who traversed the path of realization through self-enquiry. Highly evolved soul himself, Balasekar in this book Upadesa Saraam expounds the work of Ramana Maharshi.

Ramana Maharshi’s book Who am I ?– Nan yaar? Is translated and explained by several writers.

Both of these books, Upadesa Saram and Who am I, wrapped up in a few pages are bullseye on the matters of self-enquiry.

If I am not my name, my education, my body, my work, my senses, my relationships, my mind, my possession, my achievements then who….. am….. I …..? this constant quest is the pointer and the answer to it is the essence of self-enquiry.

It is very evident that all means to realization leads ultimately to heightened knowledge of unanimous self.

The entirety of self-enquiry cannot be summed up better than by the words of Ramana Maharshi – “The “I”-thought is the first to arise in the mind. When the enquiry “Who am I?” is persistently pursued, all other thoughts get destroyed, and finally the “I”-thought itself vanishes leaving the supreme non-dual Self alone.”