conscious code

When your heart and mind aligned:
• You speak the truth
• You live with clarity
• You act with clarity
When your mind and soul aligned:
• You speak with wisdom
• You live with presence
• People listen
• You live with Wisdom
When your heart and soul aligned:
• You live with passion
• You know your purpose
• You live with peace - you live in peace and choose peace
• Your life has meaning and You are the meaning
• You have the passion
When your heart and mind and soul aligned:
• You speak with Genius
Align the fine patterns of your heart and soul and mind and live with genius, and speak with genius
• You have good grace
• You speak with grace
• You live with grace
• You are the sky, the earth, the sun the stars
You ride the wind, you ride the sky you ride the waves
I sing the patterns of your heart and soul and mind

{author and art unknown}

Australian aboriginal proverb

 

3D paper swan

My daughter's new project.

requires a lot of patience and love of art.

if anybody wants to give it a try

here is the link

Rosette/ Sugar waffles

few months back i am looking for a recipe online and unexpectedly saw a video about the long forgotten favorite Kerala delicacy of my teenage years.

Achappam or challaguttulu- gulabi poolu in telugu.

after watching the video, i thought these are easy to make and saved it and searched online for the mold to buy but couldn't find it. so i put that thought to

"what to buy when i visit India list"  

and forgot about it.

recently my husband wants to go long drive on country side and 
visit balloon fest along the way. 
 
my son is ready, me and my daughter are back and forth and joined them at the last minute. like something inside guided me that i must go. so i did.

me and my son walking around the field and an old lady walking with Achappam in her hands!!!!

 i must be hallucinating, and thought, do i really wanted them that bad? 
i ask my son to make sure she really walking with them and to confirm i am not hallucinating.

He thought i lost my mind, 
 guess what!! i thought i did too kiddo, 
but he conformed she is walking with bag full of achppam!

enthusiastically i started walking the opposite direction where she is coming from and Bam!
At the rural Ohio, in a Balloon festival, i found Achappam but they call them sugar waffles!

 

they taste same, crunchy and semi sweet, awesome!
but in India they don't dust sugar powder on them.
if they make here, they sell molds too right, now i know the name sugar waffles and searched online again, but the original name is Rosette.
these pastries are Swedish and Norwegian origin. 

Rosette recipes are popular in the United States among families with Scandinavian ancestry.
 
what a small beautiful world we have as a human species. 
and what a coincidence is that!
that's why earlier i felt that i must go to festival at the last minute?
still unbelievable experience.

synchronicity at it's best.

{written by me}

what is normal and abnormal?

normal people? abnormal person?

who gives these labels to whom?

what is this commotion between normality and abnormality.

who decides these label?

if a person reached out of your expectation or your vision  you call that person abnormal?

a person may be out of box thinker and you try your best to drag that person back in to it,

since it is too much for adjudicator to even try to experience that out of box journey, they simply label a thinker rather than becoming part of it.

Some things should not be taken literally, its about a simple concept, people are basically sheep and there is so much comfort to be part of a herd, but not all, some go in a different direction. I understand this without having to articulate...

It is all a state of mind.

out of box thinkers always abnormal. because they think.

Its all about honest choice.

be honest to yourself and your choices. 

that's all it matters at the end.

at the end no one is going to be there, but yourself.  
some take hundreds of lifetimes to get it. 
for some that understanding is happening
NOW. 

meanwhile.....
 "The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function."

..............F. Scott Fitzgerald

{written by me}





 

Get to know yourself, be alone!

I'll take weird and unproductive please

A constant reminder to persona

examine the life

science of self-realization (Bhagavad Gita)

Knowledge is a treasure and it is a gift of the Lord. If you sharpen it with good education and the spirit of inquiry, the Ultimate Reality will be revealed to you in a flash.

_sage of Kanchi 

 

 Finally, after years of searching for straightforward translation, Krishna gave me permission to read Bhagavad gita, overwhelmed with gratitude and I offer my respectful obeisances to my spiritual master and guide, 
The soul with in me for the opportunity.

I offer my respectful obeisances unto all the Vaisnava devotees of the Lord who can fulfill the desires of everyone, just like desire trees, and who are full of compassion for the fallen and conditioned spirits like mine . 

 

highly recommended bhagavad-geeta sources to read are:

 sri acharya prabhodananda Yogeeswalru translation in Telugu, English, Kannada

 Indu gnana vedika 

Bhakti Vedanta Swamy Prabhupada

Iskon 

 

 Hare krishna Hare krishna krishna krishna hare hare

hare rama hare rama rama rama hare hare 

future for sure

artist unknown 

food for chakras

picture by: wakingtimes.com

pollination

Louie Schwartzberg 

is a Filmmaker who has been filming 

flowers for over 35 years using time lapse  photography. 

He shows us the amazing world of pollen and pollinators 

with stunning high-speed images from his film 

“Wings of  Life”.


we all are in the creators imagination designed all of us 

creatures with so much care, beauty, colors,

timing, purpose, highly organized, as 

humans we have no right to rune it, creator is using our eyes 

to check his beautiful creation, us humans are just for that 

purpose to enjoy behalf of him, we are not here to destroy.

I Am Restless

I am restless. I am athirst for far-away things.
My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance.
O Great Beyond, O the keen call of thy flute!
I forget, I ever forget, that I have no wings to fly, that I am bound in this spot evermore.

I am eager and wakeful, I am a stranger in a strange land.
Thy breath comes to me whispering an impossible hope.
Thy tongue is known to my heart as its very own.
O Far-to-seek, O the keen call of thy flute!
I forget, I ever forget, that I know not the way, that I have not the winged horse.

I am listless, I am a wanderer in my heart.
In the sunny haze of the languid hours, what vast vision of thine takes shape in the blue of the sky!
O Farthest end, O the keen call of thy flute!
I forget, I ever forget, that the gates are shut everywhere in the house where I dwell alone!

~ Rabindranath Tagore

destination

"The end of religion is the beginning of spirituality. 

The end of spirituality is the beginning of reality, 

and the end of reality is real Bliss. 

When that too is gone, we have reached the destination."

~ Babuji Maharaj 

Bhagavad Gita

vyasa

Perseverance in (seeking to gain) the knowledge

of the Supreme Spirit, and perception of the gain

that comes from knowledge of the truth,

This is called knowledge :

all that is contrary to this is ignorance.

 Bhagavad Gita 13:11

The Parent's Tao Te Ching

Make the Ordinary Come Alive

Do not ask your children

to strive for extraordinary lives.

Such striving may seem admirable,

but it is a way of foolishness.

Help them instead to find the wonder

and the marvel of an ordinary life.

Show them the joy of tasting

tomatoes, apples, and pears.

Show them how to cry

when pets and people die.

Show them the infinite pleasure

in the touch of a hand.

And make the ordinary come alive for them.

The extraordinary will take care of itself.

By William Martin

Chandogya Upanishad

There is a light that shines beyond all things on Earth,

 
beyond us all, beyond the heaven, beyond the highest, 

the very highest heavens

. 

This is the light that shines in our heart."

~ Chandogya Upanishad

in the honor of winter Olympics Sochi 2014

Never cooked Russian food or ate in the restaurants :(

how did we miss that?

Russia is a huge country with rich history how come it never occurred to me to try their food?

Russia is in headlines now with Sochi winter games and i want to try the food on the day of closing ceremony.  

what would be a better time than this;) 

Menu:

 Borscht Soup (recipe)

Piroshki Bread (recipe)

Golubtsy (recipe)

 Pelmeni  (recipe)

 Blini Crepes (recipe)

ok menu decided,
recipes ready, enthusiasm in high 
let's see how they turn out! or let's see how i am going to mess them up;)

thank you all the bloggers for your recipes and pictures!!!


**** UPDATE ****2/23/2014



cooked all of them, cheated little bit;)
we don't eat beef and pork so substitute them with mutton and turkey.
pelmeni dried after a while so i have to check what is the solution for it.

 Borscht Soup and Piroshki Bread turn out a hit among testers!!

awesome job Russia in Sochi!!!!
spasiba