Words of silence

When Buddha got enlightened on that full moon day in the month of May, he maintained silence for a whole week. All the angels in the heaven got frightened. They knew that it was only once in a millennium that someone blossoms like Buddha. They requested him to say something. He said, “Those who know, know even without my saying it and those who do not know will not know even by my saying it.”

Buddha said, “Words cannot convey it. As many scriptures in the past have revealed, truth begins where words end.”

The angels said, “What you say is right. But consider those who are in between, who are neither fully enlightened nor totally ignorant. For them, a few words will give a push. For their sake, you speak and every word of yours will create silence.”

The purpose of words is to create silence. If words create more noise, they have not reached their goal.

– from Buddha, Manifestation of Silence
[courtesy - a facebook post from Sri RaviShankar]

What is forgiving someone – wonderfully articulated

Forgiveness can never be complete. When you say, “I forgive”, you think the other person is a culprit. However you do it, a little bit still remains. It’s not complete. But when you see the big picture that the culprit is also a victim, a victim of his/her own mind, ignorance or unawareness, compassion arises from within you. – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

A deeper understanding of work and business

This is a little story about how Lord helped me understand why I should be working. There was a period while my relationship with my manager was bad. So the work which I did was not appreciated. It was also evident that I would neither get a good hike nor a good bonus at the end of the year. All my friends including some friends who are in the higher managerial ladder advised me to either switch teams or switch company. With these things rolling in the mind, work at office seemed dull. Every morning as I begin to start to office, above reasoning will go on in the mind and my complete energy would be lost with no answer. SriMurthy Bhagvan makes decisions for me. He, on the contrary to others said me not to change the team. Without knowing why I should work, I could not get on.

One fine morning, I sat before SriMurthy Bhagvan and said that am out of answers. I had thought enough and unable to find an answer why I should be working. It was already a dull period of a week. While I sat blank without answers, suddenly a realization flashed. It said that, I working or business is nothing but people helping each other. Every single person is blessed by the Lord with some skill (through college, courses, individual learning etc.) which may look to be due to his decision or it just happened due to coincidences. But however one might have got this skill, it has come to him beyond his free-will. Businesses, money etc. have been in place to make sure people help each other.
Once this had hit the mind, the work just started to go on. Learning was automatic since, if I do have to help people in a better manner, I better be skilled. While helping people, the smallest thanks for anything I did gave a lot of happiness. While still the relationship with my manager was bad, Bhagvan helped me correct that too explaining me the truth – http://chenthill.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/setting-right-relationships/ . As and when the realization hits, the energy just boosts up. Its all about making people happy by helping each other.

The work at office and the helping people outside remains the same now. The salary, bonus and hike are nothing but a Token of Thanks. Should there be a comparison with each other with Token of thanks, I guess no. If I realize I need a better Token of thanks, I can always ask for it and make decisions without hurting any relationship, for its all about helping people

Thanks to Lakshmi Prabhaji who urged me to write this down. Hope this might help some people

Setting right relationships

Without getting into the specfics, am going to share some happenings over the recent past. Don’t ever consider me as an expert or a philosopher. But just a young guy experimenting with what Sri Sri Bhagavan, the Founder of Oneness university taught me. And don’t ever create a image about me by this. If you do not want to read the story, skip to summary. Alright lets get on..

While at work I had been having some issues which prolonged for a long time (3+ years) and finally led me to think strongly about resigning. Last week, due to the love of my mother and SriMurthy Bhagvan who asked me to meet Sri Sri Bhagvan at Oneness, I went there. The conversation lasted for around half an hour. While I said, am going to resign, He said not to resign and asked to set right the relationship on the contrary. He explained in a great deal about the role relationship plays  which was beyond imagination and pit-falls in J Krishnamurthy’s teachings.

I did understand it theoretically but not very much practically. So while coming over in the bus, there were a lot of conversations going on. The thoughts which flowed were trying to find a way to set right the relationship with my boss. There were a lot of justifications and blames. The fluctuations in mental stands were evident and i could not find a way with it. Finding reasons for setting relationship is a play of the mind, which is a result of thinking. Suddenly in the morning, it became crystal clear.

The way was just to set the intent and be in the present. The significant part is not to think or make any effort. Thinking is a vicious circle. It would just justify itself and keep looking right always (at-least for me ). Being in the present without an intent also does not produce result, i can say this with my experience in cricket.

So intent+awareness=result is the key. Setting the relationship inside oneself leads to joy which is a clear symptom. The outward one will automatically get fixed with intent+awareness.

What Sri Sri Bhagvan explained me was, If the relationship inside is alright, rest of the part, such as job, new house, vehicle, anything etc. will come as a by-product automatically. The relationship got set-right once I came to office and I knew it was fixed even while I started my journey back from oneness university.

He asked me to take one relationship (a close one, eg: mother) and work on all aspects completely. I should remain on the findings, without trying to fix it. Started on it, lets see how it goes

Am certainly very happy to be a part of oneness university

To summrize:

Intent + awareness = result.

There should not be any reason for enjoying a good relationship with people. For reasons are always bound to change.

Realization

Am realizing that all my understanding is foolish and often wrong. This is in dealing with people, having conversation or building relationships etc. The understandings include all that i have been learning through J Krishnamurthy’s teachings, oneness university, understandings from work, impressions from movies,  learning’s from relationships with various friends etc.

One cannot apply the learning or understanding which is got from relating to one friend or family member to another. It may not work as each person is different. Sometimes it might look that it suits, but that’s the illusion which gives the sense of rightness.

These learning’s/approaches were often looking right and it will remain looking right from my perspective. But it would be very wrong when seen from someone else mind. So I have been illuded by my mind and was such a fool.

People keep changing like a flowing river. I can experience them at the moment only if all the images and understanding from the past die.

Note: I have been using the word ‘I’ to indicate that its perfectly possible for someone to have a contrary realization too, perhaps god only knows

A beautiful article explaining time is an illusion or we do have infinite time

http://rahulbijlani.com/essays/you-are-not-running-out-of-time-essay/

just gives an idea about time, but dont take much of growth etc. from it, they would automatically happen if one loves what he does or does what he loves and keeps doing it without a time boundary.

 

Exchange WebServices Offline AddressBook

It is now possible to download GAL contents for offline usage through exchange web services in Evolution. Offline GAL is termed as Offline Address-book (OAB) in Exchange WebServices and it may contain one or more Offline Address-lists (OAL).

The check-box, ‘Cache offline address-book’ would be sensitive if the OAB url is discovered using the AutoDiscover service from the previous page (‘Receiving’). On clicking the fetch buton, the available offline address-lists would be displayed in the combo box.  The user can select the address-list which he is interested in.

If the GAL is not selected for offline usage.  A GAL folder would be created in Contacts component and would be used just for auto-completion when Evolution is online.

To change an offline address-list, one just needs to go back to ‘Receiving page’ in preference and select a different address-list. This would remove the old OAL folder and its contents and create a new OAL folder.  At the moment, evolution-ews supports caching only one OAL, though it is very easy to extend it to support many. I feel it would sufficient to have one at the moment, but if a need arises, the plugin can be extended to create new OAL folders on demand.

If an address-list is chosen for offline usage, one CAN auto-complete while the caching is in progress!! All operations are asynchronous and cancellable.

Internals

OAL’s would be listed in the link  <OABUrl> + ‘oab.xml’. They would be available as compressed files, compressed using LZXD format.  There are three versions of OAB ’2, 3, 4′ and Evolution supports downloading, version 4 OAB Full Details file.

LZXD

To put it simply, lzxd extends the lzx decompression format adding support for differential updates. I have picked up the lzx decompression code from libmspack and modified it to make it decompress the lzxd file. The support for differential update is yet to added.

OAB

The format for the uncompressed OAB Version 4 file is available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc463914%28v=EXCHG.80%29.aspx . Evolution-ews has the decoder which decodes the oab file, converts to EContact and then we  populates the address-book sqlitedb in chunks of 1000 contacts.

And now the contents are available for offline use

CamelUrl props

“oab_offline” – says if oab is marked for offline.

“oal_selected” – contains the selected “oal id:oal name”

“oaburl” – contains the oab url

ESource props

“hosturl” – contains the host url, used for auto-completion.

“oaburl” – contains the oab url.

“oalid” – id of the OAL.

“gal” – a boolean that it indicates that its gal folder.