The Past of the Present is in the Future of the Now

I Am is the primordial presence — the pure being that exists before any story, role, or experience is added. Long before we said, I am sleeping, I am anxious, or I am a father, there was simply I Am . I am NOT the furniture in a room, I am not the window in a room, I am not the walls in the room, I am not the space inside the room. I AM the space in which all these appear. Much after, the furniture and walls are removed, I the Space will always be there, as I was always there.  This I Am is not an activity, not a state, not a relationship. It is the silent fact of existence itself — self-aware, formless, unconditioned. Experiences come and go - sleep passes into waking, anxiety fades into calm, roles change with time. Yet I Am remains, untouched by what is added to it. To remember this is to come home — to know that our essence is not in what we do, feel, or possess, but in the sheer presence of being. That is who we are. Before sleeping was, before waking was, ...

Here’s how the Dalai Lama uses the example of time—decades, years, months, days, down to seconds—to illustrate the profound Buddhist insight into emptiness and the elusive nature of the present moment: The “No Present” Insight In a teaching often referred to as the “theory of relativity according to the Dalai Lama,” he explains: “Present minute means one minute period. Present hour means sixty-minutes period. Present day is 24 hours. Present month is 30 days, isn’t it? Present eon is billions of years… within one millisecond there is also past and future. So half is past, half is future. No present! We cannot find the present. Without present, there is no basis for past and future.”  This highlights that our conventional understanding of “now” is just a conceptual construct—and if we investigate deeply, we can't pinpoint an enduring, self-existing present. Investigation: What Appears vs. What Actually Is To illustrate the gap between how things appear and their ultimate...

In the movie Interstellar, Dr. Amelia Brand (played by Anne Hathaway) argues that love transcends the physical dimensions we can perceive. She says :   “Love isn’t something we invented. It’s observable, powerful. It has to mean something... Maybe it’s some evidence, some artifact of a higher dimension that we can’t consciously perceive.” She suggests love could be like gravity - a force reaching across time and space, hinting at dimensions beyond our own. She is told that Love has social utility in bonding, rearing etc. But, she goes onto suggest what social utility is there for people who have died. Why does one continue to Love beyond boundaries and dimensions. She raises a very pertinent question of life.  How is love born?   Biologically, love arises from a mix of neurochemicals like dopamine, oxytocin, vasopressin, and serotonin. These shape bonding, attachment, empathy, and joy. But beyond biology, love springs from awareness : recognising a shared exis...

                My Painting - My Tribute   In the sacred city of Mathura, in 3228 BCE, a child was born in a prison cell. His name was Krishna—an avatar, a strategist, a lover, a sage, a cosmic enigma. Today, more than 5000 years later, his flute still echoes through the soul of India, stirring hearts, awakening dormant love, and guiding lost seekers. I was born in the 1960s—not quite in a prison, but perhaps in a psychological one. Named Ashutosh, by my father,  after Lord Shiva, I often wonder if, in naming me thus, my father unknowingly triggered an ancient polarity. For Shiva seeks Vishnu and Vishnu seeks Shiva. Their dance is eternal. My inner being—warmed by the fires of seeking and curosity to know how Life works - has been quietly seeking Krishna across lifetimes. One Life, Infinite Roles What made Krishna so unique wasn’t that he lived for 125 years—it’s how he lived. In every chapter of his life, he wore a new attir...