Means "world is my home". This is a beautiful saying in my mother tongue, from that part of the world which was home to me for many years, and has always been close to my heart - the land of kera (coconut) - Kerala.
The statistics are quite interesting - Known as The land of Ayurveda, the land of the martial art form "Kalarippayattu", the land where St. Thomas, disciple of Christ landed for his apostolic mission and hence the land of the first Christian converts in India, the place the first Eurpoean to India, Vasco De Gama landed for his trading missions, the state with a significant Jewish population and more recently one of the richest states in India, the only state with 100% literacy, the state with the least violence numbers, India's lowest infant mortality and highest life expectancy rates, the highest physical quality of life in India, India's cleanest state and most definitely the state with the highest level of alcohol consumption - I sometimes think of it as a land of paradoxies. There is intoxication, but an intoxication which doesn't lead to aggressiveness - how else could a thin strip of coastal land inhabited by Hindus, Muslims and Christians equally still maintain a low rate of communal riots.
Folk songs speak of legendary warriors and visionary philosophers who dominated the culture and the way of living, elders speak of children at the age of 4 being admitted to a gurukul, becoming masters of Kalarippayattu and Ayurveda. Legend speak of such masters who viewed armed conflicts as a last resort, speak of a tradition when such warriors represented princely states and faught one on one to avoid large scale war between armies.
One of them said "lokame tharavadu". Did they understand the world? Had they seen everthing on what we know as earth? They might have, at the peak of meditation, at the communion with "parabrahmam", the realization of "Aham brahmasmi" (God lives in me); doesn't matter, but they understood the key to peace and harmony.
Only if every human being were to understand this, the world would be such a better place.
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Urban Wanderer - a detached observer who immerses himself in the pleasure of observation and the scrutiny of street lifeI generally enjoy observing life. From east to the west, through accomplices and friends, I have known a lot of different cultures, and the variety of the world that we live in has amused me from time to time.This is an attempt to capture some of those moments - no theme, no agenda, just random thoughts
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- Swaroop
- Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Who am I? A gypsy? A wanderer? Well, not really, I am an IT consultant. I tend to enjoy the simple things in life, as simple as having a good conversation, or watching a cow give birth (ok.. that one isn't simple :) I do try to be a good person, a good son, and a good friend; to some I appear as mature beyond my age, to some as shy and reserved and yet to some as insane and childish - all depends on the circumstances under which you see me. I can be ferociously loyal to a cause and sacrifisingly committed to my family. Caution - I can be jealous, possessive and extremely lazy. Slow to anger, but trust me, you don't want to see me angry. I do seek rich and varied experiences, and hence do sometimes end up in weird situations.
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