Skip to main content

Happy New year 2020. Yeah, Cheers!

I packed my luggage and rode towards Malana and Kasol. Being a stoner, it was something to cherish, to be there for the New year. With the present climate, I could not start early. I started around 9 in the morning and found a stay by 7 in the evening. On reaching Malana after 2 days, I ended up at a fake party that brought me together with a few boys from Kerala.

We just smoked up and lazed. On the 31st we took a bus ride to Manikaran for a natural hot spring bath. My plan was to attend a party as it was the new year but ended up cooking dinner for 5 people. 

Happy New year 2020. Yeah, Cheers! 

The first day of the year was lazy and I didn't like it. Everything happens for good and good things take time. 

The place was a mess. Torn blankets, filthy kitchen, dozens of bottles stocked up, ashes everywhere, with cigarette buds thrown around. Cleaning happened only once a day though. The guy running it, Regish was a lovely soul but in vain. He said he used to work in Dubai for a few years, lived in Kerala for a while and had then moved to Malana. Worked in a restaurant for some time and now was running this guest house. It was him alone managing everything from cooking to cleaning being on a high most of the time. The other 3 guests were from Kannur. Damn, so close to Coorg. Two of them working in Dubai and one worked in a shop in Kerala. 

The very first day of the year went for a toss and on the 2nd morning, I started to Bir Billing as guided by the great Rajinikanth. I asked Regish for the bill and he said 350 a day. It was worth the stay being a new year and I ate a few meals too. I started, said goodbye and rode on.

In life, often we feel we are off track, confused with what is right and wrong. What's right to you might be wrong to another. Overall we must not forget nature and its way of balancing lives. After all, what are we? humans, one among them million lives that are going extinct every day. We have brought our lives and lifestyles to such an extent that living has gone out of life. We are shaped by our experiences and only at the final moment when we close our eyes, we realize what we are. 

The funny thing is I'm in between. On one side I've lived with people having more than what they need, living to show off and always thinking to be better than the next person and on the other side, there were people who worked one season and rested another living together sharing whatever they have. Being in between is a rough patch, but I like it. On one side I have enough to eat till I die and on the other side, I'm always changing myself for my own betterment. It feels like a joker. :)

In this present world, one who's normal often ends up confused. He who knows life and ways of living right is often called a joker. After going around the country living with people across corners, seeing their culture and lifestyles, living in cities, villages and a lot alone in my tent, I have understood that I always felt the best with my own company. 

Spirituality on the other side has proved to me that the god we believe takes the side of Dharma, Satya and Karma. There is no point living tit for tat, nature does the job. I am someone who believes in all religions, they are all beautiful in what they really teach and I have faith in them all. What's unfortunate is today, even religion is manipulated by selfish self-proclaimed leaders with the compulsion to follow what their so-called leaders say rather than trying to understand the meaning of their own religion or understand God.

Islam believes in One God, Allah. Allah literally means One God, the supreme and the ultimate creator. For they can't call another god by name. Like in Hinduism we worship God in many names as per the individual needs, Laxmi for money, Vishnu for family, shiva for knowledge, shakti for energy and it goes on. Even Bhagavad Geeta, In conversations of our gods like Krishna and Vishnu, mentions the supreme one who is beyond themselves Krishna and Vishnu. Christianity on the other side, one is free from all sins once they confess. Sounds simple but it takes courage to speak out the fault.

My view is I believe in one God, the supreme. The one who has sent us messengers like Jesus, Mohammed and Buddha. People used their names to guide people in the name of religion. In Hinduism, I feel we follow the lives of some great people like Shiva and Vishnu who were also humans who lived great lives.

The trick between the three main religions, Islam says there is one God and one is not supposed to call him by any other name, he knows this so he is allowed to eat beef which is a form of god. In Hinduism, we have created numerous energy centres in various names. We want to have the power so we keep god aside and believe in these energy centres which work using gods energy. Hence we pray to cows for energy and are not allowed to eat them. Jesus on the other side, tried to live a rightful life and was still crucified with torture where the Christians understood to live was a balance of good and bad and to get over the guilt so you simply confess to god himself and move on.


Related Videos


Picture Gallery




On the way to Himachal.

On the way to Himachal.

On the way to Mandi.

Somewhere in Himachal.

On the way to Malana.


Like the blog? Then support the blogger

You can contribute through Phonepe @ 7259496378 ( Akarshan Devanand )

Or

Bank transfers can be made to

Federal Bank

Akarshan Devanand Bhagwan

Account number - 19310100012360

IFSC - FDRL0001931

Kushalnagar branch

---

Instagram

@Akarshandevanand

https://instagram.com/akarshandevanand?igshid=ZDdkNTZiNTM=

YouTube

https://youtube.com/user/TheAkarshan17

Thankful to them all, Thankful to the One! Much metta

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

India - from divide and rule to divide and sell

The Indian politics loves the MNC'S over any Indian farmer feeding them to oversize.  A job valued 2 lakh in the USA is done at 1 lakh in India, where there is a about 20% to the Government, then a share in every penny spent out of the remaining 80%. The higher the pay scale, the higher the tax. The higher the income, expensive are the things you buy, the costlier the things you buy, the more you feed the system for free. All you trendy ladies and gentlemen in the cities feasting of the grains and veggies, the ones who grow can hardly afford a proper clothing. All oversized humans, enjoying the protein from cows and chickens. Do you know there is hardly one veterinary doctor for every 30 kilometres and every time an animal gets sick, it sufferers until someone reaches on time. Does anyone have any idea, what you are living on and what you are living for? Had any of them once opened the religious books of each other, this world would have been a much better place with a...
Post a Comment
Read more

La Sovereign De Himalayas - The cry of my soul was calmed with purity

As we left the Sadhu, we glided down the slopes enjoying the speed but for Dinakar he had to give himself some push whenever the cycle stopped. Turns out he parked the cycle in good condition at an ashram before going to Satopant and when he returned someone had broken a connecting part between the gear and frame. We planned to stay at the Gurudwara at Govind Ghat which we reached around 4 in the evening. Turns out Dinakar smoked too so while Ramesh rested we went out to have a smoke. Later that evening a Sadhu came and took a bed next to ours and joined in the conversation. That's when I heard the name Khagbasundi for the first time, Dinakar spoke about it before saying it was one of the toughest treks, both me and Ramesh were interested the moment he said it was one of the toughest treks. Ramesh watched a video and looked confident enough to do it. We had no clue about the distance or how many days we had to plan for but we knew we had to carry out groceries. After making sure we...
Post a Comment
Read more

A week in Dev Bhoomi, to realise Human body is a Miracle and people cannot be bought.

Chander Verma is a father of 3, a local resident of Munsyari. Having done various jobs in the past and now running the Mayank Homestay by himself, on lease at 3.5 lakh a year. The day I reached, I told him that he was paying way too much but he already made an agreement for 3 years. He did magic with his hands when it came to cooking though. No bad habits, would smoke a cigarette rarely if someone offers, humble and a neat gentleman. Lovely kids and a beautiful family, living life on what they could afford. He knew his expenses would gradually increase so I asked him to think wisely before he did anything. I had long conversations with him, numerous times during my stay. When I called him to discuss my bill he was kind enough to offer the room at 500 and dinner at 150, even suggested that I extend my stay till the roads ahead were open. I wasn't moving around much but had to be paying rent for my stay and took only 1 meal. Dinner. Survived the rest of the day with biscuits and tea ...
Post a Comment
Read more