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Get a copy of the book 'Real Lessons in Reel Life' here... Your entry into the elusive world of Maya, the stage set by Man to learn from to live on the stage set by Nature.   https://asok22.wixsite.com/real-lesson Asoka Chakra, quintessentially Odiyan For 17 years, I have been receiving referrals from the world over. On the morning before my long procrastinated maiden trip to India, to Bhuvanesvar specifically, where did I receive a referral from? Well, what do you know? It is from Bhuvanesvar! If you do not call it coincidence, what else? Or is it that I am specifically on the lookout for these quirky incidences. Perhaps if I were to look at other tiny unimportant data, I would surely see a pattern and claim synchronicity! [ Referral ] Am I so important to the Universe that it decides to indulge in some kind of divine game? A mystical prank. That would be putting own self as a point of reference as if Nature gives a damn to the single individual. In fac...

23.5.2010 Coincidence? Again? The day after Indra Shan passed away, the obituary column in the Star announced with a verse from the Bible… I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Then, I was watching a Denzel Washington movie called ‘Book of Eli’. He was portrayed as a gun wielding futuristic servant of God trying to save the only surviving Bible. He managed to follow the said path but succumbed to his injuries sustained in his journey albeit accomplishing his mission. He was narrating in the background at the end of the movie and his last words were… I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Is it because I am looking out trivial things like these?

9.4.2010 Coincidences – Are they really? Or another force... Just a few days ago I was watching a documentary on Independence of Vietnam, Ho Chih Min and the Vietnam War. 4 hours later, I was talking to my dear friend, Sasi, who told me that he had just returned from Ho Chih Min City! Here I was doing my own things and suddenly the word ‘Ho Chih Min’ get in the way twice in a row on the same day. Is that a coincidence or what? A few years ago, I browsed a thin easy-to-read book on coincidences. Some of the facts that the author highlighted were beyond the imagination of an average man. To actually think out things and somehow correlate all the events were indeed recommendable. I reckon this how people come up with conspiracy theories. The famous example of coincidence is the one comparing events surrounding the lives of Abraham Lincoln and John F Kennedy. The other example is the number ‘8’ and events involving John Lennon. When I was working in Labour Wards, my colleagues and I had...