Life is an illusion

When I heard this phrase, though I knew it says the entire world is your family, I assumed that it has something to do with family of Vasudev - Krishna. I did not know, or did not bother to know that the da is in fact dha.  It is vashudha + eva = earth itself is kutumba - family.  Here is the shloka first appeared in  Maha Upanishad as read in wikipedia.  Also according to the same source, this phrase in engraved in our Parliament. Old or new? Don't know.

I have been busy (ha ha) writing posts on Sanskrit . Which means I have caught hold of yet another Sanskrit text book. I take lines, verses and even exercises from there and write them as my own. Something to fill my days and my ever-busy brain. And I am listening to an audible book - Autobiography of a yogi. Did not have a good impression. Some how felt like lot of lies. Pardon me, I am not a very gullible credulous person to begin with. If a person starts talking about some kind of super knowledge in childhood, that feels too much.  Anyways, the style may be better in English. I am listening to Hindi version.  I completed Wings of Fire by our late president Abdul Kalaam. Liked it immensely. Let me try to listen to it again. Along with a great style by a great person, the audio book also has some classical music pieces in intervals.  I did take a very long time to read/listen, then again try to read a work by Dostovsky - The Idiot. Some how, I didn't have the words to even write

 It is funny how some books touch your heart and really disturb you. This is one such book.  The two Burgess boys - now men in their 50s are poles apart. Jim, the composed, dignified, smart, rich - you add all nice adjectives you know - and that is he. With a nice home and a beautiful wife, kids studying well. A famous lawyer, well known in his home town of Shirley falls, seen on TV for many days in a famous case, now settled in New York. A successful man. Bob -is a lawyer too, but not famous, not confident and always looking for approval by his elder brother. He is divorced, lives in what looks like 'college dorm' - according to Jim. Has no children - in fact that is what made his ex-wife Pam leave him. Jim constantly criticizes Bob and still Bob keeps visiting their home and is emotionally dependent on his brother.  They have a sister too - Susan. Susan and Bob are twins. And are not very fond of each other. Susan still lives in their home town Shirley falls, is separated fro

 You must have seen those advertisements. Yes, there used to be advertisements in TV programs. There were no options to skip them. Ye baat kuch hazam nahi hui - This  is difficult to digest. That was my feeling while watching the serial Indian murder in 'The great Indian murder'. There is very very bad man called Vicky Rai. He kills two young girls. He kicks a film actress in front of all the people. I think, he likes to kick people. Then as the karma is a b****, he is killed in his own party. OK, if not criminal justice, it is divine justice. Accepted. But the story gets weirder and weirder. A tribal man and a petty thief are arrested with guns in the crime scene. Why would either of them want to kill, a businessman and son of a minister? And we come to know that this petty thief was carrying a gun for his own protection. And the tribal man had come all the way from Andaman islands in search of their God - an idol. Which was stolen by a welfare officer.  But as the thief says

She is brave. But stuck in a very difficult situation. Who isn't? Indu - Indu is married to a very strange and secretive family. Though there were strange events before the marriage, her parents go ahead with the marriage. As once before her marriage was broken off. By her younger sister running away with the groom. First they receive a jack fruit which is sewn from the groom's side. Which itself is weird enough. When they open it, they find the leaf of poisonous datura leaf inside. When Indu hears some one walking in the backyard, she goes there only to be pricked by large needle.  The new bride has to step into a thali - a plate filled with auspicious turmeric water. But once Indu does it, she screams in pain. Later she finds out that the plate had chilli powder in water.  So continues the journey of the new vadhu - bride. It culminates into the death of woman in the family.  Yes, though it is kind of murder mystery. It is archaic and is newer - who has seen saas-bahu scenes

 She is middle aged. And she is struggling through her job and her life. Still she maintains her sense of humor.  I am not talking about myself. I am talking about Fisk. The title character in the Netflix series.  She joins as a lawyer in a small organization. In a small town. Her boss and his sister are - let us say weird people. And there is a stereotypical asian tech guy. And the clients who come to make or claim their wills are stranger than all of these people. So here life is a struggle. To make matters worse, her morning coffee purchases from the next door cafe start with a bumpy ride. For some reason, she is banned from there. After a while, the next cafe opens - a more friendly one. But they don't serve any time of coffee - but instead some kind of vegan liquids which is so thick, it won't even drinkable using the straw.  She has no other way, but to go there. Second day she orders a juice and the barista again asks her name - she says it is still Helen. And promptly s