At the beginning of 2018, I read a book called “Who says you can’t? you do”. The book itself is very good but the best part of it, was the closing line by Daniel Chidiac, which was something like “If you think this book helped you feel better and you want to spread that love and great feeling with your loved ones, pass this on to someone you like.” I don’t know where is that copy now since I forwarded it to someone close to me. Though, that closing remark just made complete sense that we all hold some responsibility to give back to the society for all that we get from it. It can be serving others with some help, like helping elderly ones, or helping the poor ones by sharing food or helping them to make a living, or guiding the coming generations, we all have that something that we can always give back to the society.

So, what I found to share back, is my learning or understanding that I decoded in my life. Although, I still strongly believe that we should all explore our lives on our own. We should face challenges, we should fail and then try again, and finally win at different levels in our lives, and hence decode and understand our life on our own. However, not everyone is that sort of adventurer in life, not everyone wants to struggle, and as it is said that sometimes we find answers to our questions from someone else’s life as they might have faced the same problems that we are facing now, so why not to learn and know from them?

During a training around Personal and Interpersonal Effectiveness, the trainer asked what you call the title of your biography, and I had nothing but Understanding Life -decoded, to what he said you should come out of that engineer zone. Even though over time while writing the decodes, there was always a sense that something was missing, this instance helped me to reflect again and ask, what really matters?

After a beautiful journey of 5 years of writing about the small things of life, in 2023, there comes a realization, of what is that one thing, that makes the difference, at any point in life. What is it that one thing that makes a moment a memory, that makes a moment an experience, that makes a moment a realization? What I understood or decoded, is Mindfulness. 

As per Bhagvad Gita 6.5-6.6,

“A man must elevate himself by his own mind, not degrade himself. The mind is the friend of the conditioned soul, and his enemy as well. For him, who has conquered the mind, the mind is the best of friends; but for one who has failed to do so; his very mind will be the greatest enemy”.

What could be the best way to be mindful? How to transform our life from Mindfull to Mindful?

And finally while being on that quest, some real-life events inspired me to rather than being in the quest, start to be in the moment, and start to live the moment.

वर्तमाने जीव वर्तमाने भव
Live in this moment, Be in this moment.

What is Vartamanah?

Vartamanah is the Sanskrit word for “Present”. This exact moment, while you are reading, is Vartamanah. Not a second sooner, not a second later. Even a second is a bigger quantity, so consider the smallest quantity of time, zeptosecond (a trillionth of a billionth of a second) is Vartamanah. And the key ideology behind Vartamanah is, to be fully alive in the present (or Vartamanah), to be mindful in this moment.