Why “blog” ?
“Blog” is a personal journal published on the world wide web ( WWW) . The word ‘ Blog’ is derived from weblog and later as we blog and at last only ‘blog’. It allows visitors to leave remarks and occasionally we get connected with the longtime missing friends and relatives.
I came to know about “ blog “ few years before only through my daughter . She shared her husband’s blog site called “ Servant of the Servant “ ( http://servantoftheservant-ananda.blogspot.in/ )to me and encouraged me to start writing about my personal journey in all walks of life . My son-in-law writes on Krishna Consciousness , his personal realization with God , about the Founder of KC , Srila Prabhupada , his Guru Maharaj in ISKCON , Sri Radhanath swamy Maharaj and more about Bhagavad Gita and Bhagavatham. His blog site is a combination of text, audio and video . He too expressed his interest on me writing more on self realization with KC.
I am a regular reader of his blog and admired his writing skill and the medium he has chosen to have a better one to one connectivity through variant blog topics. Known and unknown , near and distant friends reads the blog and write comments , positive or negative according to their understanding. If anyone criticize , we have to take it in the right sense and ignore it even if it does affect our feelings.
When viewing someone’s blog , we have options to view other’s also if it is open to public So it is healthy to share our personal beliefs not affecting others sentiments. So I started thinking of opening a “ blog “ of my own and christained it as “ Chander’s Memory Lane “ which was created to cherish the past.
As wished by my daughter , I started writing my own blog and the first one was “ Appa “ means “ dad or father “ . But with hesitant I stopped publishing , because the article is full of personal . I shared the same to my siblings and all are moved much ; the narration brought tears to them. They reacted to me recalling many things I missed out to share in my blog and their past good times spent with our dad.
So through my first blog I have decided to share my personal journey in Gandhian path , 40 years before , titled “ Gandhian Pilgrimage – 40 years before “ . A good response I have noticed and after that I have written many on many topics . In old Madras there is a place called MYLAPORE , where we had our own house and we moved later to West Mogappair. About old Mylapore times I have written few blogs for the interest of Mylapore lovers ! I wish the readers of my blog shall communicate their original reaction by comments for my improvements.
I wish to share my happiness , sorrows and desires , passing thoughts through my blog . I Try to express myself, the thing in the environment , the images from my dreams . I feel the content may take the readers to their own past to cherish similar moments and to the younger generations , this will be a message to understand how their elders lived and loved to live !
Recently my daughter from USA , gifted me a book , Rainer Maria Rilke’s “ Letter’s to a Young Poet “ . It is handpicked by her exclusively for me , knowing my interest towards book and value of life , the art of living and how to be happy and make others happy ! The book contains ( a translation from German to English ) a series of letters and remarkable responses to a young , would-be-poet on poetry and surviving as a sensitive observer in a hard world. Those letters , when you read again and again, still a fresh source of inspiration and insight of life and the workings of human heart. My son gave me an e-book reader in due consideration of my growing library with books ! Thanks to both of them .
The real motivators for my writing are my brother from Boston , daughter and son-in-law from Ames , an old neighbor cum my brother’s schoolmate from Mumbai and my nephew , a young Vice President of an American company providing business solutions. The real-time viewers shows many visitors to my blog site from Vietnam, California , Africa, America and from many parts of India, which also inspires me to write more and more … leave alone the trivial few who criticize !
Through my blogs I try to raise the submerged sensations of that ample past of mine , share the inner solitude of the old time in Mylapore , Madras ( now Chennai ) and other topics of my own interest. I believe I have answered my own question – Why “ blog “ ?
Let us cherish the past and live presently in happiness and forever by chanting “ Hare Krishna “.
