Pappablogs

Dear Dhaani, You are 2 years and 7 months today. Come next year, and you will start attending school. And thus will begin a new chapter in your life. The thing that i am going to write to you today about will not make much sense to you  in your initial years at the school, but i think it is important for you to understand this as you grow up. You my dear, like every other child on this planet are blessed to be born with an inherent connection with your inner self. This connection is what makes a child so special and innocent. This is what we adults miss in ourselves and other adults when we see you children being so pious and pristine. I believe there is one prime reason for this. As we grow up, we start focussing only on our outer world and forget the world inside of us, our inner world. Today i want to talk to you about these two worlds.  The outer world as you have already started noticing is the world which the god has created, and we humankind, have modifie...

My mother and father were my first teachers. I am grateful to be born to such kind, simple and empowering souls. They brought us 5 kids with aplomb in the limited resources we had. They taught us simple but powerful lessons in life through their actions. Today on teachers day, I am reminded of their main mantras which I will try to pass on to Dhaani. 1. Never Cheat or use unfair means -  It sounds so obvious thing to do. Everyone would teach their children not to cheat and use unfair means. But what is important is to practice and not to preach. During my childhood, I saw my parents practicing it. It only helped that we saw some others practicing the opposite. My father was a simpleton who never used unfair means in life. That other people and his close relatives used unfair means to take benefit out of him, is another story. He never reciprocated. We as children at times questions this one-sided goodness. But today I know that whatever you do in life, good or bad, always co...

Dear Dhaani, Its been almost two months since I wrote you a note. The last few months have kept us all busy with our travels.   One of the trips was your first international trip ( to Bali and Kualalumpur) .   I Will write about that trip in some other post of mine. In this post, I want to talk to you about a mantra which I have learnt from my parents, but keep forgetting every now and then. I want you to make it one of the basic mantras of your life. The mantra is - Love People, Use things. There, it is so simple. I tell you what beta, the most simple things in life are the most difficult to follow. Look at us adults, almost all of us learnt this same mantra in our childhood from our adults ( parents, teachers and elder siblings). We followed this till the time the adulthood and worldliness overtook our inherent geniuses. We were subjected to some newer concepts   such as : 1    1.        A bigger c...