A devotee of Sai Baba of Shirdi, Ruzbeh N. Bharucha is one of the most influential spiritual writers of our times. He is the author of eighteen books, including the bestselling Fakir trilogy, which has been translated into several languages. In 2014, Rabda: My Sai... My Sigh, published by Penguin Books, was an instant bestseller.
A former journalist, Ruzbeh is also a documentary film-maker. His documentary Sehat Wings of Freedom, on AIDS and HIV in Tihar Jail, was screened at the XVII International AIDS Conference in 2008. His collaboration with Zambhala-India's yoga, music and life spirit festival, the first of its kind-gave birth to a series of powerful videos called 'Ramblings with Ruzbeh Bharucha'. His articles have been published in the Times of India, Free Press Journal, Indian Express, Maharashtra Herald, Sunday Observer, Jam-e-Jamshed and Afternoon. His book My God Is a Juvenile Delinquent has been included in the reading list of all judicial academies in India. Ruzbeh is the 110th Master for the 'Speaking Tree', where he writes an immensely popular blog on spirituality. His Facebook page has reached out to thousands in a very short span of time. The daily affirmations and messages are a source of inspiration to many. He lives with his family in Pune.
It was this time last year when I was guided to sit for meditation after sunset for a certain number of weeks. Thus, every evening, I would sit in my Temple and meditate. After what seemed like an hour, when in reality it was less than ten minutes, I would begin to get these quotes floating about in the by lanes of my blank mind. I would tell Baba Sai, 'If you don't mind, I need to write down these quotes,' and then scribble a quote and pretend to meditate till another quote came about and thus for an hour this song and dance continued. In those weeks, each evening, I would write these quotes down and for a minute or two meditate. Often, I would just tell Baba that, Today, I shall lie down in the corpse pose and meditate', only to realize after half an hour that I was snoring my lungs out, which I would tell Baba, 'Very deep meditation, Baba,Along with intense and loud pranayama.'
This book is a compilation of those quotes. I must have written about five hundred of them in those weeks.
The theme of this book, in reality, is very simple. Give your best to each moment and leave the rest to The One and after that accept your lot with joyous acceptance. Be kind. Be compassionate. Be a bit crazy. Try not to be an adult. Be childlike and not childish. Be mature, not cynical. Don't judge. Live and let live. Spend time in work, prayer and play. We are the makers of our own destiny through the use of free will in our past lives, this one and the future. Destiny might not change but the little free will we have can decide how we go through our destiny. When life is rubbing our noses into the ground, inhale the fragrance of Mother Earth. When life is tossing us in the air, try and gaze into the sky. All is as well as we want it to be. All is as damned as we would make it out to be. We shall leave this physical body, and we should make sure that we made the world a slightly better place than we found it. This is our little world with our little ability to pass forth light and laughter. Always have faith in the Divine Wisdom, Love and Compassion. Sab theek hain. Fikar Not.
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