Akshara playing with my Dupatta (दुपट्टा) on her friend's birthday party :-D

Akshara begins to recognize her freind's photo

Yesterday night, I found Akshara suddenly jumping and screaming with joy when her friend's photo came on my laptop screen saver. She has begin to recognize people in the pics. Another Milestone crossed at 10 months.

Tomorrow she gonna be 11 months old! Oh...its almost going to be one year; since the time she has come into mine and Karthik's life.

Amazing, Loving and Blessed are these days.

Love

A Darbha

Akshara's first visit to a birthday party

What more to say, about my little daughter

Akshara, when today I just enjoyed taking her

to my neighbour's home; for his niece's birthday

party. As soon as Akshara saw her co-friends

with her - aged between 6 and 10; she would

not stop calling them or talking to them.

When the music was put on; she too wanted to

dance along with it. And to add on (to dance),

she pulled off my dupatta and began to play

with her. It was fun to watch her explore people

and places.

My profound experiment with Deeksha

Hi,

I have been taking oneness blessing or what is called Deeksha over in
India since last 13 years, and i have found radical change in my
behaviour and nature. It has filled enormous wisdom and understanding
about self and the world around me. It has helped me to heal my body,
mind and soul in the most mysterious way. It has guided me intuitively
through the challenges and every changing phase of my life.

But yet I have not been able escape through the thoughts, words and
deeds that I have been committing. Mistakes keep happening and so does
my learnings. One such lesson happened few days back- After watching
regular oneness programme that telecasts in television, after thinking
deeply over the day's subject, I just felt like giving deeksha to
myself, my daughter and my husband. I wanted to use the gift of
deeksha that i received after attending a higher course at Oneness
Univercity. I first gave deeksha to my husband, and then to myself.
After I received self deeksha as it is called, I felt so nice and calm
within me. I felt deeply connected to every gesture I made. As I
opened my eyes and looked upon my 4 month old daughter, I felt so good
and was feeling very much connected to her; not out of attachment but
pure love, or u can say i was seeing through Awareness. Then I placed
my hand on Akshara (my daughter), slowly the Deeksha started communing
to me. It took me deep inside her wherein I experienced her immense
suffering that she went through in my womb. I saw how I and my husband
had affected her due to our grequent quarrels and arguements. At first
I was unable to accept my fault and was giving justification to what I
did and blamed my husband for his part of anger. But then slowly, I
moved more deeply into her; where I didn't feel any seperate from her
and fully experienced her suffering, the pain that was caused by me. I
couldn't resist, and tears began to roll down and the experienced
continued for 3 more minutes, then slowly I started feeling light
within me. i felt so good after embracing my own negativity. I also
felt that my child is talking to me "thank you mumma, for healing me,
for loving me in true form".

I thanked the Lord for all his blessings upon me and this world, for
introducing Deeksha to ordinary people like us, so that we can change
our present and future, a flight from ordinary livng to extra-ordinary
being!

At the lotus feet of Sri Bhagavan and Sri Amma,

A Darbha

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Regards,
Aishwarya
Oneness Volunteer

A family in ONENESS, of ONENESS, by ONENESS and Committed to world ONENESS

For More information contact: http://lifeinoneness.blogspot.com

What attracts us (here human) towards God or The Spirituality?

I call myself a very lucky person, for in my house I see Women from
different generation (My Paternal grandma 78yrs old, maternal grandma
75 years old and my mom 50 years old), living together under the same
roof in happiness
and tolerance with each other. Every morning when the ladies of the
house gather in the kitchen for cooking, i feel they are partying and
sharing all their past learnings and experiences with each other. Yes
sometimes they bump into arguements or go through some emotional
turmoil, but amidst these I see Spirituality or The God Factor playing
a vital role in these women.

We often have spiritual discussions in our side, whereby we try to
share all the beautiful spiritual experiences of my ancestors. So I
today I came to know about this One such lady; my maternal grandma's
mother; three generation ahead of me - never failed to worship the
Gods may it be illness or any other reason. She was highly devoted to
Lord Krishna and had a personal bond with him. I was delighted to know
of her and I continued to participate in the sharing.

I dont know when, but I was taken over my thoughts, about how many
times I would have questioned this to myself.

What attracts us (here human) towards God or The Spirituality? Is it
his love and
devotion for Him? Is he in love with God?

I reflected over the very same question, and this is the answer I got
- I as human have forgotten what is LOVE (here love means
Unconditional Love), and I know nothing of love at all. So when I know
nothing of HIM, I am not attached to HIM because I love HIM.

Its not just me, but all of us do not know about LOVE. thats why we
keep trying and trying all the time to love our parents, friends,
siblings, husband and all others...but still we have not achieved this
Unconditional Love. So it seems ITS JUST NOT POSSIBLE for us TO LOVE
GOD. We make need of GOD to only fulfill our selfish desires and to
wade away the insecurities, fears, boredom within us.

We live in so much of Fear that even Our knowledge about God or The
experience with God has also become some kind of possession and even
the slightest thought of losing HIM terrifies us. We don't want to
lose it.

So people tend to worship God, believe in a form, do prayers, chant
mantras and sing bhajans, and do all kind of spiritual practices so
that we get rid away from all these fears, insecurity, boredom, etc.

here the matter is not of any arguement nor issue in pertext to right
or wrong. But till man learns the lesson of "Accepting Oneself as I
am", we have not moved even an inch towards spiritual progress.

Onenesscity is one such spiritual city; whereby you can learn about
"Accepting Oneself". More info - http://lifeinoneness.blogspot.com

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Regards,
A Darbha
Oneness Volunteer

A family in ONENESS, of ONENESS, by ONENESS and Committed to world ONENESS

Innocent Smiles

I am these days busy attending my 2 and half months old daughter Akshara, who needs a feed every 2 - 3 hours in a day and also frequently passes urine in the nights, so I keep changing her nappies. She occassionally frets or cries, remains calm, quiet and playful through most of the midnights. Yes, what I mean is, she enjoys sleeping in the day time, and wakes up bright in the midnight, and looks at the night lamps, colourful curtains, lizards on the ceiling and if I am interesting enough when compared to them, then she looks for me and wants to know what I am doing; awake or asleep.

I usually stay awake in the nights but yesterday night I was tired, as I was awoke past three nights and days. Fortunately she slept till 4am. On her demanding I fed her; thought she may sleep again and I too can have my nap. But she did not seem to be in mood, so she lay awoke, she viewed with attention at the night lamp above the bed, and started talking with it. I lay on my back and watched her playing by herself and began to sunk into my thoughts.

I was questioning myself that why don't we as adults enjoy the "Present" of our life? Whole of our day, minute, second, passe on either thinking of our past or planning for the future. The whole day goes on in questioning, analzying, reasoning, understanding, about everything we are linked to. Whenever we look at those dark blue sky, the stars, the moon, the tall buildings around, the lush green garden behind our appartments, the cars parked in a row and the dim light of the temple from the distant; do we ever stop our thoughts in amusement? do we ever express our excitement or happiness in just watching it and nothing about anything else? Whenever we look at these things, there is always an interpretation of those materials in our mind. I mean - when we look at the stars- we immediately conclude within 'Yeah, stars always shine, they are meant to shine.'; when we see the cars parked in a row - we reason it 'which is the best one, start calculating the cost of it, analyze its design and technology and finally start dreaming of buying one.' When these interpretations happens; we tend lose the Present. We either start bringing our past or start day dreaming about our future; but we never enjoy the Present.

That is where we differ from little Akshara. She has no mind that interprets and says 'hey you are looking at that lamp for the 100th time! That you are foolish because you are talking to a non-living object! Fortunately her brain has not developed to understand the difference between the living and the non-living objects. I personally feel, that it is the most spiritual and intense moment of our life, when we are enjoying our Present. For her, everything is new, amazing and perfect. She lives in NOW and consumes the Present to the fullest!

I brought back my thoughts again, and I found Akshara watching me. Her expression was of an astonishment probably she figured out what I was thinking, she smiled mischievously and looked away to the night lamp and started talking with it again!