Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Sometimes it helps to explain terms!

The blog name and the login name might be confusing to a lot of my friends so let me preempt any questions by a brief explaination...

About my login name : Atma_tripta is a a sanskrit phrase meaning someone who is content with himself, someone at peace with himself. Such a person doesnt seek to be someone, doesnt imitate anyone, lives a carefree life and is ever free...i.e moksha or nirvana. Everyone of us is full of joy..its a matter of realisation of that truth. Iam waiting for the day it will come to me!

Kahkim sounds like a korean name (naaah..I dont have a korean GF!) its actually a combination of two sanskrit words...Kah +kim they basically stand for kah==who and kim==what.
Its also inspired from vishnu sahasranama (1000 names of vishnu a hindu god) where it is said that when a devotee asks the question savah kah kim padamanutaamam( who or what is the ultimate bliss that is the object of all sacrifices and good deeds? then the reply booms back from the question itself as the syllable 'ka' which has a hidden meaning in hindu philosophy as being the syllable of beginning/creator...This implies(obviously Iam cutting short all the explainations here!) that the god is not somewhere sitting in heaven with big stick to punish us if we dont believe him... He will be a very poor god if he is pleased by praise and displeased by the lack of it....god is here in ourselves, our thought everything we can imagine...We are nothing but drops of water in an ocean!

Kah Kim (who ,what?) are the basic questions we all need to ask to understand ourselves better.
who are we? what are we? : The attempts to sincerely answer this question without fear will take anyone to the depth of philosophy where you will find yourself! Enjoy the journey!

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