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Most Inspiring Blog Entries?

Posted on August 02, 2005 in pilgrim-igatpuri.

On this pilgrimage, we've shared several dozen stories and experiences through our blogs. Unlike journalism, we don't go out to find or create stories; rather ours was a process of sharing whatever happens to us -- sitting, walking or even sleeping :) -- with the simple hope that gives an extra umph to the reader's own journey.

Often, we find ourselves in position of finding the "top ten" stories that people have found value in. You can't always gauge by the number of comments or the number of hits or the number of emails, and it's impossible for us to rate 'em; so I thought I'd just ask the readers -- which story (or stories) inspired you the most?

Please consider all the writings on this blog, Guri's blog, and iJourney.org. Inner-net stories also have a chronological listing. Following that, just post a comment on this thread or email your inputs.

Thanks for you readership; it's a big support to know that others are with you.

[ P.S. My blog will return again after two weeks of solitude. :) ]


Comments ...


   
1.
On Aug 02, 2005 Rajeev wrote:

Dear Guri & Nipun,

Namaste!

Your journals are so rich and sacred. The experience is real, I fly thousands of miles close to you when I read it. I find it extremely difficult to pick and choose one favorite entry. Someday you should publish this as a book. It is truly awesome!

May God Bless You Both!


   
2.
On Aug 02, 2005 kashvi wrote:

Hi to you two!

I generally find your blog inspiring and comforting. The most ispiring blog entry for me was the big story of Goraj --isn't it the one where anuben and a doctor found a hospital? I had recently miscarried when I came across it. I thought that I had lost almost everything that was worth having. WHen I read how Anuben who had been told she had nothing, started out by building a hut and how it grew into a hospital just because she had the wish to give, I felt comforted. I felt even I have something to give, I haven't really lost all.
I also liked the guava uncle and the Thoreau's.
Thanks for the blog. Thks for writing.


   
3.
On Aug 02, 2005 kashvi wrote:

Additionally...

I have yet to explore Guri's blog, I have only been to it occassionally and looked at the pictures. So if I only mentioned the blog entries in Nipun's blog it's just because I haven't yet gotten a chance to check Guri's --Save the best for last sort of a thing. I'm sure this doesn't matter to the two of you but just wanted to say I'm glad I yet have Guri's blog to read too!


   
4.
On Aug 02, 2005 vin wrote:

Every time I visit this & Guri's blog it feels like I am meeting both of you in person. So I think its impossible for me to say that one experience was better then the other...


   
5.
On Aug 03, 2005 Niren Joshi wrote:

I got the link to your blog through someone on a cricket blog! I'm glad to have read a few of the inspiring stories. My favorite so far is the one from Sakwa. BTW, have you visited www.goodnewsindia.com? Similar endeavor to yours...


   
6.
On Aug 03, 2005 K Sriram wrote:

Dear Guribehn and Nipunbhai,

Every blog and post and message has a special something.
rating things is a uniquely human way of scrambling our minds.

love all,
sriram


   
7.
On Aug 04, 2005 Nisha wrote:

Kantibhai!


   
8.
On Aug 05, 2005 Amit C wrote:

My list for top ten would include
http://del.icio.us/amitc/Nipun-Journey


   
9.
On Aug 09, 2005 manju wrote:

About a year ago, on random day, on a random impulse I made a pact with myself to make a personal journey to Kabir's dohas, songs.
The pact was to hike three times a week, and on each occasion learn a new Kabir doha, and recite the previous ones. After twenty dohas, memorize a kabir song. Vijay agreed to give me company on this journey.

Today's doha:
Dhan Rahe Na Jauvan Rahe
Rahe Gaav Na Dhaam
Kahe Kabira Jas Rahe
Kar De Kisika Kaam

Translation:
wealth goes and so does youth
so goes the self-identity to place/stature/status
Kabir says, outcome of actions stays/outlives
so go act in service

Vijay's prompt response to the doha :
this is our Nipun
-:)

Nipun, yours and Guri's journey happens to
be coincide my journey of studying Kabir.
Your journey/pilgrimmage is our "lab" or "Kabir in practice".

Each moment of the journey is enjoyable and
has immeasurable depth.
Your own comment is my response to your query,
"Can you really count(rate) what counts?"

love and joy to both of you,
manju aunty


   
10.
On Aug 12, 2005 Sanjay M wrote:

Dear Nipun & Guri - a lot of entries made an incomparable difference to me. The ijourney entries are simply beautiful - each a literary work of art! There is so much to learn from each of them. I loved the writeup on Goenkaji. There were some entries in Guri's blog - like stumbling onto a path and real freedom that reminded me of the tremendous priviledge of being a human being - something that I probably take for granted a lot of the time... but these posts certainly made me feel a deep gratitude for it!

Overall they've usually egged me every now and then to take that one tiny step from everything I know about myself to one tiny step beyond. So while there's no best imo post, one post - that made the most outwardly tangible difference to me - was reading about your form checking adventures. Dhamma service is something I've had an inclination to do for quite a long time, but there have always been "perfectly rational and logical reasons" that have come in my way and caused me to procrastinate endlessly. But a couple of other forces and coincidently your very poignant post the same day went straight to my heart! Deciding to postpone it no further. I registered, booked the train ticket, and made all other arrangements. And the timing is perfect, the course (in Hyderabad) starts this Independence Day! And what better way to serve my country... :-) This imo is yet another struggle for independence - even though it is in a way an effortless effort, starting with me, and through service, supporting other comrades trying to do the same! I feel this is yet another struggle for independence, and this time we need the independence from corruption, from intolerance, from apathy, from everything that is adharmic - against nature.

"I have found the enemy, and it is us".



   
11.
On Aug 26, 2005 Sanjay M wrote:

Hey Nipun... I'm back and I finally got a better (more than mere intellectual) idea of what you mean when you say Imagine being fully alive, awake and engaged." :-D


   
12.
On Sep 06, 2005 ashish wrote:

What I find most valuable is your openess and flair in sharing your experiences- thank you for that! Beyond that, it is like trying to seek what is more inpsiring, the song of a nightingale (http://www.bl.uk/sounds/nightingale.ram) or intricate bueaty of a snowflake (http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/photos/photos.htm). Both are, and so are all your experiences!


   
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