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Things To Do Before I Die

This is my bucket list, inspired by the movie Dasvidaniya – Things To Do Before I Die! Things that I want to do, things that I have thought of, things that I have to do in order to reach my ultimate goal – become a complete Yayawar! Not that it is a definitive list, we all are humans and our lust for materialistic things change. This will keep growing. However, the ultimate aim is to strike out each and every item here long before I die.

  1. Own a Car Done!  – Nov 2007
  2. Own a Royal Enfield Done!  – Nov 2015
  3. Own a Bicycle
  4. Own a Jeep
  5. Retire from Job and get into agriculture in remote village
  6. Own a mud-house
  7. Own 20 bighas (approx 12.5 acres) of farm land
  8. Practice no-farming for agriculture
  9. Empower at least 100 families by providing them domesticated animals (Cows/Buffalo), making a self-help group out of it – In Progress (43 families yet)
  10. Own a DSLR Done! – June 2011
  11. Visit Chandratal Done! – August 2013
  12. Visit dream-destination – Kaza Done! – September 2015
  13. Visit Ladakh Done! – Many times by now 🙂
  14. Visit Ladakh on a Motorcycle Done!
  15. Visit North-east India
  16. Go Goa
  17. Go sand bashing
  18. Go for white water rafting Done! – August 2011
  19. Go on a cruiseDone!  – September 2006
  20. Visit at least one country other than India Done! – August 2006
  21. Traverse Ganga from Gangotri to Gangasagar
  22. Learn Scuba Diving
  23. Start own entrepreneurship venture Done! – October 2015
  24. Become guest faculty at colleges at native place
  25. Learn swimming
  26. Go Bungee/Bungy Jumping Done! – August 2011
  27. Go Skydiving
  28. Re-learn Sanskrit
  29. Learn Pali
  30. Learn Prakrit
  31. Learn Persian
  32. Learn Arabic
  33. Learn Gurmukhi
  34. Read Buddhist manuscripts including the three Pitakas
  35. Read Jain Sutras & manuscripts
  36. Read Vedas
  37. Read Puranas
  38. Read Quran
  39. Read The Old Testament and New Testament
  40. Read Zend Avesta
  41. Read Guru Granth Sahib
  42. Reiterate faith in Athiesm
  43. Help at least 10 children complete their education Done! – June 2017
  44. Teach at least 100 children for a year Done! – December 2012
  45. …
  46. …
  47. …
  48. Leave all the above and live a nomadic life – Get Nirvana & become a true Yayawar!
6 Replies to “Things To Do Before I Die”
  1. Avishkar Bajpai says:
    December 18, 2013 at 16:21

    Sir kamal karte hai aap, swimming to main ek din mein sikha doonga 😛

    sir meri to do list aapki list ke serial no. 52 se start hoti hai 😀

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  2. Neeraj Sinha says:
    December 23, 2013 at 05:31

    Sikha do sirji!

    Aur serial number 52 ke baad aur kya bachta hai to do mein? 😉

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  3. Aashish Rajgaria says:
    January 3, 2014 at 05:08

    I think I’ll stop at 31 and continue from 47 then 😀
    Impressive list btw 😉

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    • Neeraj Sinha says:
      January 3, 2014 at 10:24

      Thanks Aashish! 🙂

      I have already done things listed from 38 to 45, and that’s how I arrived at 46. However, what I read were translations and the respective learned state that their texts can’t be translated truely. That’s why I’ve added 32 to 37.

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  4. Rajiv Verma says:
    April 27, 2015 at 12:19

    Now THAT’s a to-do list. Very exhaustive but not surprising for a traveler at heart 😉

    Quite a few things from your list are there in mine as well 🙂

    All the best 🙂

    Reply

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