![]() Still a bit to do, but it looks fantastic already. My mum is happy, so it’s now all steam ahead with selling her retirement flat, and we’ve watched enough of those “property porn” shows to know what can be done to dress the rooms for maximum effect. Been a bit busy you see, but in a really good way. You won’t probably have noticed, but I’ve not posted anything new around here for over a fortnight. Just a few things that need sorted out first… Now that my time is being freed up from doing the actual caring (which was not my forte and can be done so much better by those professionally trained for such work), I can soon get back to being what they call “economically active”. As far as she is concerned, her state pension pays for all of it, and I intend to move heaven and earth to keep her there. ![]() Of course it does help that it looks like a 5 Star Hotel it does help that she is still able-bodied enough to enjoy all the activities, and finally it helps immeasurably that the financial side of things is being taken care of by myself. The relief was palpable, as so many old folk really resist going to live in such places. To my absolute delight, they were also the words that came from the mouth of my little mum this week, when I asked her if she liked her new care home. 1 Singles from over the decadesīut as ever I’ve got side-tracked. (Nothing against Noddy and Roy of course, but even they must be getting embarrassed at the abundance of riches accumulated since making their respective festive hits forty-five years ago.) Christmas No. This blog may feature songs from the 1970s more than any other decade, but if I have to endure another festive season listening to Slade and Wizard, I will be very grumpy indeed. His big-budget karaoke shows highjack the seasonal chart, so nobody makes Christmas records any more. Gita also emphasises on that which is changing, such as karma, how to manage it etc.Those of us who watch mainstream telly in the UK, will recognise those words, as they frequently come from the mouth of Mr Simon Cowell, who seems to have singularly ruined this time of year for music lovers. Ashtavakra emphasises on that which never changes. Everything changes, this is true, and some things never change, that is also true. Isn’t it? So both are true, this is true and that is also true. On another level, the same person is standing here who was here ten, twenty or twenty-five years ago. Isn’t that so? The person you were five years ago, and the person standing here today, are they different or not? Is that true or not? Yes! Yet it is not the same person who used to be this is on one level. On one level, if we observe, everything is changing, our thoughts are changing, and we are no longer the person we were yesterday. In the past it used to take me one hour to comb my hair, then half an hour, and now, not even one minute! Maharajji doesn’t have to do anything! So some changes occur with time, we should observe that. All others will come and go.Īnd then there is another thing that is true, that according to our karma and time, old age creeps into the body. That is why we feel that we are permanent. There is something within us which never dies. And he looks at someone else and says, ‘Poor fellow died, I am not going to die’. See, do you ever feel that, ‘I never grew old, or aged, I am the same?’ Isn’t that true? Ask any elderly person, no matter how old, he will tell you that he doesn’t feel he is going to die and poor fellow dies. This matter is one step ahead so both are true. The effect of karma does not touch you at all. But, what was said in the Ashtavakra, in reality these are all external things. This influence of karma affects body and mind.
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