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If not for music, I would be an atheist today! Such music subdues and disarms my militant, rebellious, argumentative, rational disbelieving mind completely! It is songs such as these that keep my eyes from drying up And my soul too! Music is the hotline to the divine. Naam Ali Ka Leke Tu Toh,  Naach Le Galli Galli Tu Le Naam Rab Ka Naam Sai Ka Ali Ali Ali Ali Isn't Sri Chaitanya also said to have had a similar experience:  'Dancing, laughing and weeping in rapturous ecstasies' Hats off to the passionate and heartfelt music and singing! Great energy in the voices too!! It comes from the deepest source And the listener is left thoroughly under the music’s spell, Sobbing uncontrollably in a torrent of spiritual emotions. As if every pore in the body is alive, the blood in the brain and the limbs surges, tingling! Is this? This IS true Bhakti Yoga – A Union with the divine! Patakha Guddi - Translation here .

Three days back I bought three Eggy Wraps from Cafe Coffee Day (CCD), Yelahanka Old Town. When I came back home I saw the paper carry bag had six pieces instead of three. Someone wasn't paying attention at work! Since I was having an upset stomach I hadn't planned to eat, however we all enjoyed the wraps... My wife kept nagging me for paying CCD the pending amount for the additional wraps, I kept postponing this although I was driving back home on the same route everyday. Today she'd called up in the afternoon and while hanging up reminded me to pay up for the other pieces we had all gobbled up and I told her that perhaps they were anyway charging more per piece & I wouldn't pay. She would hear none of it. I hung-up the phone without any intentions of paying. The elevated road on top of NH7 is so good that you just whizz past after getting off it right after the Jakkur aerodrome. So I was about to cross the CCD at Old town, Yelahanka when I was reminde...