Exposure

Exposure in itself doesn’t have any label—the content and the context give it one.

Thus what is being exposed…and what is being exposed to…and the extent to which it is being exposed, and to, all form the complete package, with a label affixed thus.

And for photographers, exposure still has a different meaning. They play by varying the amount of exposure they subject the shot to…and thus roll out not indiscriminate shots, but distinct ones.

In the times when digital cameras were not the norm, it used to be a happening (more so for non-photographers!)—or should we call it a casualty, nothing short of a mishap on those days?! A roll of film, when extracted from the camera (or while still inside the camera the chamber containing the roll was flipped open), faltered and met with exposure, the roll of film would go for a roll as a ball, rendered completely useless!

As are varied colors of life, so are varied the exposures, with and in, their impacts, their meanings in life, which is everything that is relative—absolutely relative.

That is the only label life could be ‘exposed’ to…Absolutely Relative!

Sushmita Mukherjee,

June 23, 2012

BE-ING

As I am led to a blog posted on Linkedin, “Where do we get the need to write?” http://ow.ly/bDfZm, by Tim Sunderland, I find myself repeatedly trying to access the link. Yet each attempt is led to the same message: the server is unable to connect to the link.

But nothing goes in vain. Something intervenes always, serving as the purpose for a situation. And many a times, the real cause is camouflaged as something else, which ultimately bares itself. The same meaning the incident beholds for me as I find myself completely unplugging, as the answer forces its way out through me—the answer of the being that I am. The ‘title’ of the blog post is enough, even without accessing the contents, as it allures me to come out with the answer which directly alludes to what I feel and believe thus. It is a healthy provocation, as it invokes the churning spontaneous, within. 

It indeed is a question which each writer is asked by others...and at one point is asked by self of Self too. Either way it is the conviction that is being questioned. And the answer depends on: what writing is for us, means to us, and feels to us, writers. We know writers are not created. Writers are born. Some realize their Calling—As Writing and In Writing—sooner than others. But sooner or later, each does.

Creativity, one is born with. It is not something which is created after the being is created.  This holds true for all forms of creative expressions. All are expressions of The Divinity Within. Herein is being shared the perspective of a writer, with respect for creativity in any and all forms.

Writing is the truest form of self-expression for us writers—expressing the experiences with the expressions creating further experiences. Like whole of life it goes in a cyclic fashion and we marvel at how our own writing leads us to know what we know, yet little do we know, that we know the same, till those words encapsulating our knowing, our knowledge, come up and out...through us. Writing is a journey with self—as self—to merge with The Self. And this journey is a journey of sharing with all, all that a writer gathers, as blessings—the revelations, realizations...everything—and keeps gathering as journey proceeds...forever...and thus sharing too, forever...

The need to write is embedded in our essence...and thus runs to the unfathomable depths within. It is BE-ING who one is. The need to write is as elementary and as indispensable as breathing.

As we breathe so we write and as we write so we breathe.

Right?! (To my writer friends: feel free to disagree)

A Writer is Born. As the Writer evolves, so does the Writing and vice-versa...merged as One. As one writes, so one breathes and as one breathes, so one writes. It is not something one does. It IS Everything That One IS...

Sushmita Mukherjee,

June 19, 2012

Unscramble

What comes to the fore does so because a dose of something definitely has visited before. Every effect has a cause and the cause comes into effect, gains an identity, only when an effect comes to the fore. Inseparable they are, as is everything in life.

 

Same holds true for what you all happening to be reading—in the form of these words. For that please take a look at the Post Script, as in this case what the Post Script contains has actually led to the script of this article.

 

Coming to the aspect of pain, pain is experienced, but that pain too doesn’t come on its own. It has a triggering agent. And the pain too serves as a triggering agent for something else and thus goes on the cycle, as life in its entirety is cyclic. Every facet is so…but yes what we learn from the various faces of life that is indeed in our very own hands. On our choice depends our subsequent experience. Experience is constructive only when one evolves from the same.

 

Pain doesn’t weaken you, but awakens you to your strength. Simple, as is unscrambling of the word—WEAKEN: add an ‘a’ and remove an ‘e’ and it is transformed to AWAKEN, as you yourself are transformed through such times. Well these words are not intended to hurt anyone. I know it is difficult but not impossible, as you yourself have accomplished it, repeatedly. These words simply wish to lead you to your own strength that you have shown time and again.

 

Unscramble your thoughts, which cause one to vegetate, and ponder on those times, painful, which didn’t weaken you—rather awakened you to your true strength and potential (and real-ization of the same) and ruminate on how you faced the situation which faced you. You will become your own inspiration. And you will be infused with strength at the further realization of a Force acting in, as and through you, and manifesting things which would be logically not possible.

 

It is something within, unseen which made—and makes—you face that painful face of life that you were faced with, with such a brave face. With this you begin to face life forever with gusto, glee and gratitude as you know that the Highest Powers are Within, guiding you, available and accessible 24x7; but yes only if you will allow It to guide you and only if you choose to access It. It has, and does, even when you are not aware of It. Now is the time to access it consciously. Is it not?

 

It Is All Yours…the only ‘Thing’ that you Own and can call your very Own, Forever…

 

Sushmita Mukherjee,

June 15, 2012

 

Post Script:  My friend Bhavesh’s beautiful quote on pain which doesn’t weaken  but strengthens one triggered this. All of a sudden the word Weaken flashed an image of the word Awaken as I awakened, with gratitude, to the potential article which has now turned into a reality. I am grateful to Bhavesh and the Force Within

 

Tribute to Attributes of Words

Coming here, to post the postings under “What A Design!” has a reason, as everything has. All that transpires is an effect of a cause that perspires thus. Though yes reason is an individual’s domain, but how far that reasoning is individual is debatable as our perceptions are cumulative effects—of the individual and the collective. In fact the collective goes a long way to form an individual’s perception—more so if the individual has not been able to break free from the conditioned thinking.

 

Whatever be the mechanism behind the perceptions, one thing is certain that we all aspire, with ardent wishing that may we know what perspires to lead to that which has transpired—the reason behind the happenings in life.

 

The reasons for my presence here, with this tribute to words, are:

(i) Because of the attributes of the words.

(ii) And the reaffirming revelations I have had, which follows—and which I have deliberately kept under quote, as they came not now, but days ago:

 

“All realizations are actually revelations and revelations facilitate realizations. My revelations through (and as) words have truly led me to this realization of their limitlessness, with limitedness lying with the human perception and not words. When we accept the same, we revel in the same—as words, truly, more so for us writers, are respected and accepted as limitless. As we enter a realm we realize that there are more—stretching to the infinite. And it is prayed 'So Be It,' as far as the experience of all is concerned. Words heal...as the origin so the periphery.

 

Moreover, when looking from the perspective of life in general, we are creations of our own perceptions. Human perception being limited, humans comprise a race with majority living an unfulfilled potential. It is only when we open up to the treasure trove within do we realize the limitlessness. Even a glimpse of it is enough to enthrall us. At the same time soothes and empowers us, with the awareness of all that is there is there within, waiting to be tapped. Thus propels and impels us to open the ‘tap’ so as to allow the uninhibited flow of the blessings, which are thus real-ized, as made manifest, with blessings routed to an infinite reservoir within.”

 

As, “Love is the biggest healer,” to sum up, a line is remembered, “Pen is mightier than the sword.” It still is and will, as it has since time immemorial. Only the pen has become more of a metaphor, replaced by the keyboard, with the fingers that once held pen now tapping the keys of the board. But thankfully, words remain irreplaceable and words’ worth, undiminished—immeasurable as ever, and so to be, forever.

 

Sushmita Mukherjee,

May 31, 2012

 

P.S. Thanks to Mr. Kaustuv Chatterjee as well, for this post, as his comment on the above-mentioned posts, on the web site speakingtree.in, incited comments from me which forms a part of this post. And I had quipped that it could become a post and so it has. He is thanked from the bottom of my heart for making me go within and access all that has come out—all that turns out to be a revelation for me as well. As now I know that I know all that has been shared.

 

Left to Write

The ‘Right’ of ‘Right’ is ‘The Right’ of Every Citizen, but with deficient governance, The Right is deemed suspended…and this when stood for, is adjudged ‘Not Right’. Yet it cannot choke that which is ‘Left’, which is always there, only at times ignored and left by us,‘The Right’ to ‘Write’. That is what makes pen mightier than the sword.

The Right to Write enables us to express our Right to Live, and not leave matters that need to be expressed and exposed, suppressed. As they are suppressed we are oppressed and as we Write we Writ against all that is oppressive. As we Write we express all that is already Writ indelibly on the psyche of people, yet unexpressed as it would be inedible for those who wish to impose and propagate ignorance and create a culture of suppression and dependence.

There are no rights or wrongs inherently but expression seeks freedom inherently. It is A Right, Written largely in our psyche from the moment of our inception.

And it is always Left to Write when people are forced to move from Right to Left in pursuit of their Right to exercise their Rights.

Sushmita Mukherjee,

May 28, 2012

HOPE

The beginning lines, in italics, are of my friend, Bhavesh Bati’s, and I am thankful to him. As while commenting on his comments I accessed all that follows. Discussions have this empowering abililty and this is how life operates as it continuously has us involved in co-creations—conscious or unconscious. Thus the comment was deleted as a comment and transformed into this note, which notes all that came up, and found its way out.

“Why Hope for something to Happen, when We have all the Power to make it happen????????

Hope Cripples us... And the result, you can see ^*everywhere around us... Look at the life of people living with hope and of those living without one... Living every moment out...”

Hope is a positive aspect, but for that you have to absolutely sure and have absolute faith in your intents and the support from within. Hope doesn't cripple. It is the doubt that does. When you look ahead with hope and faith you do not become hopeless. But yes just hoping but not intending to play an active part in the fruition of the hope is crippling. Everything is relative. So nothing could be labeled as good or bad—it is all contextual.

Hope on its own, cannot stand fully. But by 'being' hope one allows all to stand on their own. And again to be it, one has to be one's true self as every manifestation begins within.

The situation ^*cited is a result of an adulterated hope. Mixed with hopelessness--"Since we can't do anything else, let us hope that something will happen" being the philosophy, is what my perception tells me. It becomes a default option wherein, one instead of playing one's part places the onus on the external. We are always making things happen--consciously or unconsciously. Even when we abstain we are choosing to allow things to happen in a particular fashion.

And in the context of conscious choices do we not come across situation when the materialization happens not quite in the manner we envisioned? What do we say then and how do we accept the same?

With the affirmation from within, "Everything always happens for the best". And then again we state that we had hoped it would transpire in a particular manner, but though it hasn't, we hope all sees the bigger picture behind the manifestation as we do, that "Everything does indeed happen for the best. The manifestations, which corroborate this fact, though invisible, now, would be visible at the right moment."

Just imagine a statement: “I hope not, as I simply know that the thing will transpire in the fashion desired”. Yet things transpire as per our desire, ditto, when the mind-body-soul is in coherence.

Logic of the metaphysical plane is absolute and works on the principle of absolute faith.

Faith keeps one truly alive. As faith keeps hope alive one is assured that come what may, irrespective of the situation, everything does work out for the best as the same is ensured.

We are not even the doers. We are the ‘choosers’—whether we choose to be who we are and allow the Force Within to work fully and freely. The choice is ours and the choice is the determinant of our life.

Be-ing holds the key to all materialization. And through being when our doing emanates we are filled with irrevocable hope which rubs on all around and dissolves all hopelessness for good and for ever.

So hope doesn’t cripple us. But the way it is used decides whether it is crippling or rejuvenating. And this takes me back to a debate that has been on since time immemorial, “Science is a boon or a bane?”

What do we say about getting the answer: “We hope to get to an absolute dissolution of the debate”, or, “We know we would get to it since we would make it happen?”

Sushmita Mukherjee,

May 21, 2012

Is It The Other Way Round?

Coming in the wake of “So Be It”, little did I know that I would be drawn to the words that are forcing their way out—as an expression of what is being felt within. And this is not the first time that the same has happened as this is the way it always does with myself grateful as I wake up to their presence. The Force convinces me--even as it forces its way out—that nothing could be more apt following what it follows… “So Be It”. And who I am to say anything if not “So Be it”.

It directly takes me to the fact:

We keep praying for things and whatever it is we pray for is definitely a great matter of great significance to us—irrespective of what others might think.

As we pray and call out to The Almighty…the truly All Mighty, considering it as an entity separate from self, the ways we pray are usually:

(a) “I wish for…”

(b) “Please give me…”

(c) “May I be able…”

Whichever way it is, it makes implicit that, that our answers are not implicit to us in our life as they are not explicit. It is quite natural as well, as we live our life as physical beings on this physical plane—bound by innumerable bindings of the mind. No wonder life becomes a grind—day in, day out—with no ways out in sight. The insight being inaccessible to us as sight is more outside than inside.

And the root of all misery is the belief that to ‘earn the faith and thus blessings of God’ we have to ‘do’ something; and that God is in temples, but not in the primary temple—that is our own being. That our ‘be-ing’ is a proof of existence of The Life Force, that we call God, within, eludes us triggering the biggest delusion and sufferings thus.

Yet when we accept that the divine is within we spontaneously realize that we have been given everything. It is we who keep the materializations at bay by not allowing the Life Force to fully flow through us. What we pray as “So Be It” is thus affirmed as “So It Would Be” as “So It Is” already. We become aware that the manifestation which we seek is already made manifest with faith. It is only the concept of time and space that deludes us with veiling of the same.

My faith tells me that it is The Divinity within, which is calling out to us, praying and at the same time affirming, “You have been given everything. Realize your self and real-ize your fullest potential.”

It is the other way round. As The Creator is one with all of Its Creation there is no separate entity to look up to, but an inherent entity, within, our Highest Self—The Source Within, The Creative Force of The Universe.

It is the Force Within which seeks release as IT prays, “So Be It”.

It is the other way round with God urging, praying and affirming, “So, Be It”, “So Be It” and “So It Is”.

Thus instead of “May God Bless All” the affirmation comes out as confirmation from within, “God Blesses All”.

Sushmita Mukherjee,

May 17, 2012