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Color is color

Color is color - is only a direct sense, names(blue,red,yellow),connotations (investing meanings) like black for burqah, saffron for a political party etc is only a useless exercise of adding meaning. (sky has all the colors and its just not blue, its black in early morning, with deep blue, with bright white in mornings, turning bluish by afternoon, can turn grey and dark if it rains, can turn orange, red, violet, purple in evenings and dark blues and blacks by night) Sound is just a sound, air is just air, fire is just fire.....! Any attempt of investing meaning whether through language, science, maths or drawing(depiction) takes the element away from its sensation. Whats interesting is though all we can remember or recollect or experience is only these active sensations. Experience is sensation remembered. In this case meaning does not make much sense only sensing makes sense. Knowledge is also a sensation. A comprehensive feeling of an accumulated senses. Either comes by repeating

Drive to asundi

Its been a long time I blogged! Always wondered why one has to! Anyways sometimes it could be just for simply put things on your mind. Sindhu and me drove to Asundi. It was a great drive with new roads and amazing dry landscape of the central Karnataka. We watched the burning afternoons,setting sun,evenings getting dark and ofcourse the starlit sky clear and filled. Meeting relatives and exploring temples,good weekends have become a good time for contemplation and revelation! Its become important to focus your mind on simple things like evenings or food or tea or just a walk. That small free mind is capable of making you wonder and put you in a good state of play as well open the mind for few basic questions of our existence. Realxed mind throws some interesting questions filled with wonder.I got a chance to vist a family temple at my village where there was an annual chariot ritual of Lord Hanuman. The pooja, abhisheka and the ritual was performed by my uncle and I got to see my Great