Sunday, September 16, 2007

Perennial source of inspiration!


Swami Vivekananda- The name says it all! He has been a source of inspiration to so many philosophical aspirants like me!

Here is the speech he delivered in Chicago on the occasion of The World's Parliament of Religions

WELCOME ADDRESS - Chicago, Sept 11, 1893


Where have you been hiding?

I could hear it! Many a times when I was all alone, I could hear someone speaking! Whose indistinct voice was it? What was it, someone was trying to tell me? I know a lot of people might have gone through a similar experience!

I was scared! It seemed as if I was the lead role in "Stranger than fiction" movie but only difference was, the voice was not narrating my life story but was trying to tell me something! One day I thought I had enough! I gathered some courage and I talked back?

Me: Who the hell are you? What is that you want to tell me?
IV: You are asking me? LOL! You tell me who YOU are?
Me: You are scaring me! Who am I? I donno, I think I am Kish!
IV: You are Kish and you don't know me? I am your inner voice! I am YOU!
Me: Interesting!! So how come I didn't know you all these days? Where have you been hiding?
IV: Right, what a joke! I was hiding? I was screaming on top of my voice! I was trying to get your attention! I was trying to make you realize yourselves!!!
Me: All I could hear was indistinct voices! And I am surprised to know there is an inner voice which is a mirror image of myself but speaks a language of it's own! Weird!
IV: It's not weird! Everyone has an inner voice! And one has to realize it!
Me: So what do you expect from me? Why have you been bugging me?
IV: All I want is realize yourself! The day you realize yourself, is the day you will stop hearing me! Until then you will continue to hear all those indistinct ramblings!

Wow, that was weird rendezvous with my inner voice! Then, I have decided to put those musings on a paper! All I wanted was a pen and paper! I heard my IV saying- "Stupid! Don't forget you are in a techno-savvy world! You need a pen and paper? What the heck??"! Right, Oh my God, what was I thinking? I think I need a blog, not a pen and paper? May be that way I can share my Inner Voice with lot of other bloggers who will learn/appreciate my ramblings!

Here I was, searching for a name for my blog! You guessed it right, the first name I searched was Kish. So sad, kish.blogspot.com was already taken! Some other Kish has already realized his inner voice before I did! scribblingpad.blogspot.com and myinnervoice.blogspot.com were already taken as well!

While I was typing indistinctvoice, I was almost sure it was already taken, but to my surprise it was available! I think someone might have taken distinctvoice and left indistinctvoice for me!

So I will try to put all those ramblings of my inner indistinct voice on this blog! Your thoughts and feedback are heartily welcome!