Life is like a ……………………….
Reflections by participants at the Senior Citizen Center of Hindu Temple, Bowne Street, Queens – Facilitated by Rathi Raja Feb 4, 2009
Meena Mani
Life is like a Pencil
Your parents and teachers try to sharpen your brains while you are young.
You have falls and hardships and you become blunt.
Sometimes you think you are sharp and hurt other people’s feelings.
Other times you are blunt and ruffle feathers anyway.
Each experience sharpens you constantly and hopefully matures you.
But in the process your life expectancy is shortening and
Finally when you leave this world
Nothing is left of you but the shavings or your contacts with people.
Damini Mehta
Life is like Gujarati Pickle
Sweet and hot at the same time.
Sukha and Dukha go hand in hand.
Hira M. Modi
Life is like a Coconut
Outside it is a hard shell.
Inside it is a sweet fruit
All you have to do is break the hard shell.
Mira Vaswani
Life is like a Banana
Outer side is green and hard
Inner portion is soft
So we are like that.
When we are angry we are hard like the outer skin
And after sometime we become soft like the banana’s inner portion.
So life is hard and soft.
We must always think positive, not negative.
If you want your life to be soft, make others’ life soft.
Linda Izzo
Life is like a Plant
If you over water it, it will die.
If you under water it, it will die.
Therefore do not overdo anything.
Life is like a Cake
If you prepare it with love
It will taste delicious and look beautiful.
Divya
Life is like a Rose.
It look so beautiful in the beginning.
But when it continues to bloom
It goes through the hard and harsh waves of nature.
Helpless after some time it dies.
Its crushed leaves have the greatest fragrance
For the entire world.
So lets all live like a rose and leave fragrance all around
After our journey on the earth.
Nirmala Ramasubramanian
Life is like a Rosebush
The rose flower is attractive to look at.
When you go near the bush, the thorns hurt you.
Approach it carefully, avoid the thorns, then a bee stings you.
You still manage to pluck the rose.
You enjoy the beauty and offer it to your Lord.
Life is like Rasam
Drink the top part and enjoy the flavor, very soothing.
Get it from the bottom, the dhal portion is filling
You need a good stomach to digest the spices.
Mix it before using, it is both soothing and filling.
So life is a mixture of good and bad.
Mix it and enjoy it.
Radha Sankar
Life is like a Car
We drive it.
First we get comfortable within.
And the best part is we are in control to steer.
In which ever way we want to go.
It can be in a safe path or the wrong path.
Which may lead up to a crash.
So we are in control of our life.
Urmila Gathoria
Life is like a Fruit
Which tastes sweet and times sour.
Life is a challenge which has to be taken.
Life is mystery.
You will never know what.
All you have to come through your life
Is to prepare yourself to solve it.
Nikhil Trivedi
Life is like a Sunflower
It starts blooming in the presence of the sunrise of love.
And dies in the sunset of hatred.
Life is like Coffee Beans
It is hard of course.
But
When we put it in the boiling water of living honestly
It not only becomes soft
But also
Delicious and aromatic.
Kanchana Boyapati
Life is a Journey
Enjoy the ride as you go along.
We are living through history.
Making it happen as we go.
Mohini Gulhati
Life is like a Classroom
Every day a learning experience.
It is how you look at it.
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Filed under: Adult Scripture Class, Arsha Vedanta Center, Vedic-Senior, YICG
The simplest of things can provide a deep insight into how powerful we can be in the present moment. The other day I tried to conduct a ‘Raisin meditation’ with my students. Each one was given 2 raisins. To start with, the first raisin was eaten the way one would do – automatically.
Quickly pop it in your mouth, maybe bite it once and a speedy swallow. And then look for the next one.Fpr the second raisin it will be different!!
Hold the second raisin by the thumb and index finger. Look at it carefully. Note the creases. Rotate it and continue to look at it. Press it a little and feel the texture and transfer it to the other hand. Repeat the process. Now slowly bring to the mouth and place it on the tongue. Roll it around in the mouth and keep your self in the sensation. Move the raisin to the left, right and under the tongue. Repeat this process. All in slow motion. Now slowly take a bite – very very slowly. Feel the juice slowly coming out and relish it. Now a second bite – in slow motion. Continue this until it has been completely chewed and almost dissolved. Now slowly swallow it. Feel the emptiness in your mouth. Just close your eyes and savor this experience.
One student writes ‘This will help you get through a nervous breakdown’!!!! Om shanti shanti shanti.
