Worshipping the Divinity in our homes # Water pot/Water Vessel #Water Memory

When it comes to worshipping and offering prayers, there are many preferences that people choose to have. Some like to have a separate consecrated space, few of them have pooja rooms specially dedicated to it. Few of them have a small corner of their kitchen.  Whatever the convenience, offering anything with gratitude and love is going to manifest in positivity.

I too follow the same routine. I do have a dedicated small pooja room space and also have a small place in my kitchen. I find this space too divine , firstly its on the East side and when I light the lamp in the early morning and offer flowers to the deity, I feel it absolutely peaceful, divine and get a lot of oorja(energy) .

Our tradition places a lot of importance on lighting oil lamps in the morning and evening– it can be anywhere near the deity, near the Tulsi plant etc.  Recently I read a small piece of written work, wherein lighting an oil lamp near our water pot or the vessel  that we use to store water  is stressed upon.  I found this just so simple – why hadn’t I thought of it all these years –-May be it was to come to my lap and my understanding now. This one thing is giving us Life - From then on, I have been putting a small rangoli, lighting a lamp near to my water vessel.  Water is life – she is energy and truly when we worship the energy that is putting life into each of us, life reverberates.

Listening to a mantra first thing in the morning when cooking helps me become peaceful and I get a lot of solace. There is less anxiety and impatience in the morning especially when we have to complete the household chores and rush to the office.  Less impatience is more calmness and stillness within ourselves.  It helps us look better, perform better, complain less, act better and most of all feel at peace with ourselves and with the outside world.

Try lighting a lamp near to the water pot or vessel everyday – chanting a small mantra when doing it makes the water attract positive energy and your entire day becomes that of joy.

I have made it a practice to smile at the water that I am drinking and then say to myself that the water that I am going to drink is going to make me healthy, at peace, happy and joyful.   There are definitely positive results that I am seeing for myself.   You may choose to hold the water bottle and put in a small thought of peace and gratitude and see the way the water behaves inside your body.  It’s an absolute miracle. Check it out for yourselves!!

WATER HAS MEMORY – TRY IT!!!

With Gratitude

Rekha Mahadevan

Of Vadapao Wednesdays, My Books, Workplace Trinkets – Inner Peace IT IS!!!

Many of you would agree that a five day working is such a breeze for every working professional.  More so for a lady who has to juggle between home and office.  By the time you settle down with Monday and Tuesday, Wednesday smiles at you and what more than when your canteen guy serves you yummy vadapao (just the right spices and crunchiness )   I love the way he gets the vadapao in the big container and the soft paos (lovely baked ones) and the spicy and hot dry garlic chatni accompaniment.

When vadapao romances the cutting chai, it’s a wedding of cuisines.  Have always been a lover of vadapaos and cutting chais right from childhood. The spicy interface between me and vadapao still continues and then the saying goes “EK SE MERA KYA HOGA”.  Yes, I can definitely eat two of those and I can say this with pride- hahahah.

The sight of the vada making its way into the soft pao and then taking the bite of it is something that I cannot explain and is truly beyond my comprehension.  Mumbai,  vadapao, cutting chai are all synonymous and just gel so wonderfully.

I have made my workplace more fun loving and lively since I always believe that the workspace has to be bright and happy. One spends around 8 hours plus at this second home, So I have these happy faces and smiley icons that peps me up, helps me concentrate on my work, helps me pen down my favorite blogposts during the lunch time.  There are books that pep me up like the Tagore works.  You will find Louise Hay, Cheryl Richardson on my desk and I love these books, these books have made friends with me.  Then there is Rhonda Bryne and Mahatria Ra and of course my all-time favorite Dr. Wayne Dyer. The bonding and friendship is just perfect with these books – I don’t leave them and they for sure don’t leave me. These guys are so much a part of me, my life, my workplace in its entirety.  They play a huge role in my life and it is thanks to Maddy (aka Mahadevan – my hubby) who instilled an interest of reading in my life – its been more than 15 years of reading and there is no stopping ever since!!

Can there be any other deadly combination – vadapao, chai and your favorite book –Aaah!! Truly truly peaceful. 

P.S:

Here you can experience the charm, beauty and gastronomical experience of my favorite Vadapao without straining your eyes and brains too much (check the photograph).   I love my desk so much and relate to every item here – they are so much a part of me – the photographs of travel, life quotes, positive affirmations, My favorite books, coffee mug, the Morrocon glass where my money plant is evergreen,  the hand painted glass bottle with yet another plant – they say hello to me every morning- the Buddha peacefully meditating on these lovely books give me the encouragement to write something different and new- something which I love doing.

So here’s to some happy writing  -More to think, more to write, more to feel happy about!!

Love

Rekha Mahadevan

NOT WITHOUT MY KAJAL – FOR SURE!!! – JAI TO JAI KAJAL 

As long as I can remember (don’t know – how long) never been without my KAJAL.  And girls and women who romance their kajals just the way me, Radhika (my lil sister),  Jyothi  and Shreya  our  daughters, my sister-in-law Latha, would agree totally that staying away without using it is fact sinful  J. In fact,  so depressing. - You may call me a KAJAL addict and I am one of THE most addictive kaajal users.

In those days we used to get the humble JAI KAJAL (the green small dibiya). I remember having to pester my mom to buy me one and it costed around 70 paisa to be precise.  It had such a pleasant fragrance to it and it still does.  I still own one of those pieces of  JAI Kaajal with me.  It still adorns my dressing area. The sight of that small dibiya of kajal around my home in some corner would bring such joy and smile to my face and this was so true for me as well as my sister Radhika (she would not differ) from this for sure.  There were days during my childhood and growing up years and times when I would feel low (god alone knows why) ,  JAI KAJAL came to my respite. And then I had it all -HAPPY EYES and SMILING FACE IT WAS yet again.  The 70 paisa kajal used to last me for quite many months I remember, but now all the LAKMES AND PLUMS AND MAYBELINES do not even make their way through a month and times when I really used them darker, it lasted for only 26 days to be precise.

Believe it or not, the kajal kissed eyes and a small bindi can complete the look just so wonderfully for any Indian girl.  The manner in which the kajal just glides on our eyelids and adorning the eyes is like a painter getting his high when he is using his brushes and colours on a canvas. 

There is so much a kajal can do to the eyes, it can mush up your look, give a smoky look – you choose how you wish to look. The olden times kajal like Jaikajal used to smudge and I remember we had to really take care to check ourselves now and then to ensure that the kajal doesn’t smudge. We used to be so particular.  The greatest advantage is that you can get away with the slight dark circles under your eyes by giving it the smokey look. See it rescues you there as well!!!

You get to create dramatic looks, smokey, bold eyes, Arabian style, reverse smokey and last but not the least, the latest one that is winged look.

Times have changed now and the latest versions of kajal are smudge and waterproof. But at times, I miss the smoothness and the crayony feel of JAI KAJAL. 

With the modern woman being out for work and staying outside home for more than 8 to 10 hrs, the smudge proof kajal is the one she can depend on – be it for a quick outing or a meeting or just chilling with friends.  You may choose to call it any name, kajal, eyeliner, kohl – the feeling that it gives you is truly high.

So JAI TO JAI KAJAL!!!

Love

Rekha Mahadevan