Monday, July 21, 2008

Bike Ride to Vikramgadh

First bike Ride to Vikramgadh
Datta, Rishi, Amit, Shailesh and Myself.
We decided to meet at 6:00am opposite national park. By the time datta and Rishi came it was already 6:20.
So started towards manor and informed amit to meet us at 6:45 at Nallasopara.
We almost missed him and then we slowed down. He had seen us, so start to follow and met us 500m ahead.
We kept riding till Vithal Kamat's at around 70kph. Finished breakfast and we reached Manor by 8:30, right on to

Manor Wada road towards vikramgadh. Although it did not rain heavily, there were drizzles on the way.
The ride was fantastic, we reached vikramgadh and asked for khand dam.
The road to the dam was full of stones but we made it with ease and then there was stone throwing competition.
The winner ofcourse was Datta.
Then, asked for "dhabadhaba" and were told there is a palucha dabhdabha almost 5-6km towards jawahar.
We missed it twice, went back and forth, but finally found it. There is a rough road going upwards towards left near

Jabm, 1 km after a board of wild life of koyna.
A trek of 1.5km took us to the waterfall and we soon realized that won't be able to go under the waterfall.
Still we trekked down and went into the water, it started to rain in sometime.
Perfect timing, all so satisfied that did not want to go anywhere else.
Pictures speak more then words, so here is the link to the photos.
http://picasaweb.google.com/himanshukhona/Vikramgadh

Friday, July 18, 2008

Love Thyself

Loving yourself is an art. We all love ourselves but from a wrong perspective.
From the perspective of the people around you.
On the other hand, The biggest mistake we make is trying to love others around us before we love ourselves.
I still make this mistake at times. Its a wrong perception that loving everyone is good.
Without loving ourself, loving others usually means a selfish love, external love and not ethernal love.
This is the most common pitfall causing disharmony among our loved ones.
Consider a mother who loves his son more then herself Or wife who love her husband more then herself or vice-versa.
Eventually, it ends up in huge expectation from the other person.
This in turn causes disharmony, fights, rights and wrongs.
Instead in all the above cases, if one would love himself first and more, the expectation will become zero.
And the love will be eternal. The action of anyone other then you will not effect and that is the reality, it should not effect. Why? Because you have no control over other's action. You have only control over your actions.
So its a logical conclusion.