Wednesday, January 30, 2019

................Eternal Values................


Hari!Om!

Though we are mere players on the stage set and in control of The Almighty,  yet, its cowardice, mean, sub-human to ward-off  the responsibilities of our thoughts & actions  on to THAT.  We are only deluded from the path of a NON-RETURN REUNION.

Parents or Spouses enjoy  God status, yet are still to err. The children or spouses ought give meaning to the relationships and gracefully, valiantly take the blame for unity with the ONE.  

 Jai! Hind!

INDIA & INDIANS CONTRIBUTION TO INDIA & THE WORLD

Hari!Om!
THIS IS A VERY RIGHT FORUM AND APT HOUR TO SHARE OR EXCHANGE WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO BECAUSE WHATEVER SAID AND DONE INVARIABLY FOR ALL OF US, OUR LIVES (INCLUDING THE PEACE, HEALTH, PROSPERITY WITHIN) REVOLVES AROUND OUR PROFESSION OR CAREER OR WHAT WE OFTEN CHERISH TO         DO ( BY OUR SVADHARMA OR NATURE) THAT IS HOW ONE CAN COMMUNICATE OR RELATE TO THE WORLD AND THAT’S WHERE ONE SHOULD BEGIN.
Well, talking of what India or Indians could contribute, I choose this opportunity to begin with a reminder to all of us about the Grandeur of Indian Scientific, Cultural & Technological Heritage and where or what we are now and where the world is heading due to exploitation of the nature, of the people, culture, society etc.
India, of course, beyond doubt is heading to be a future only Super Power, by virtue of; being the largest and fastest of the Developing Countries, being the Restrainer and Sustain-er, being also strategically located, central to the world, being a home to Versatile Natural Resources, being a home to also Paramount Human Values & Relationships and above all heading to be the most populated nation in the world as also the Youngest Country in the world with huge population of Youngsters (of high potential energies,innovations, vision etc)
Here, I must also say,whatever across the Globe we Human Beings are into, in the name of Developments, Industrialization,  Self-reliance, Technologies, Cultural Revolutions, Cultural Invasions, Globalization, Super Power, Religions etc etc, everything by each an every individual or organization should be oriented towards……….
showing the World or the Earth the future;
sustainable development
maintenance of Human Values & Relationships
universal brotherhood & selflessness
patriotism
These are the things which would take a Nation or World forward in progress to development without any damage to the Environment. Any advancements, any Technology, any innovation whatsoever is useless if developed or obtained at the costs of exploiting or damaging Mother Nature or Human Relationships or Human / Animal / Environmental Health ( both physical & mental) etc.
I am very confident, India and Indians only can contribute towards Herself and the World as in the past with the strength of Her Scientific, Cultural & Technological Heritage, which now needs very badly to be inculcated in the Young India, the torch bearers,leaders and potential rescuers of the future. Its high time we salvaged our Heritage.
We must realize whatever advancements / inventions / technologies that we take pride in or boast of or are wonder struck with TODAY are HIGHLY INFINITESIMAL in comparison to the deep philosophical, scientific, cultural, technological heritage of India, even if we put together all the heads of the whole population of this world together.
The secret of it all is it being purely VALUE BASED, applicable for all time (ETERNAL), PURELY PROFESSIONAL, AN INDISPENSABLE SUPER MANAGEMENT CONCEPT. RIGHTEOUSNESS BEING THE KEY.
THE ACTION IS : CONDUCT WITH OURSELVES, OUR PROFESSIONS, THE HUMAN FRATERNITY, ENVIRONMENT ( FLORA & FAUNA), SITUATIONS IN A VERY OBJECTIVE, RIGHTEOUS AND PROFESSIONAL WAY, MANAGE METICULOUSLY WITH COMMITMENT, RESPONSIBILITY AND OWNERSHIP BUT WITHOUT SELFISHNESS OR GREED OR ATTACHMENT TO THE RESULTS OR FRUITS OF ACTION.
There is no meaning in running after mere gross achievements in terms of possessions, whatever kind or number they are WITHOUT ANY HIGHER IDEAL OR VALUE. A few leaves from the book of knowledge or experiences of lives of people ( known, unknown) from time immemorial, we should get imbibed with for inspiration.

Jai! Hind!

Action in Inaction; Inaction in Action

Hari!Om!

Actions & Inaction in the aforesaid phrases are very important in our lives. I am sharing my thoughts to know
others views and learn more or better in the process.
The Bhagavad Gita and all such texts & Scriptures convey very very deep messages. They were all meticulously designed to cater to every Individual Intellectual Capacity of ALL TIME and not prescribed for specific set of people or class or level of education or intelligence. They were rendered as a part of SANATANA DHARMA, A Way of Life & Living. Every time one reads them a different perception comes to view, depending on the level of one’s knowledge, like a Pandora’s Box. And definitely, no perception is wrong. Action or Inaction are both by themselves, 2 sides of the same coin. Action in Inaction can be - Not being tempted into any particular action. Inaction in Action can be – to be detached from the results of action. This may be one perception. Simple example, A parent’s act of indifference to the child’s adamant demands. Here the child is being psychologically trained to know what should be “the fair requirements” and to learn to not to be adamant. The Interview of a Job or a Business Meeting for an Order, being fair & honest to yourself & the Job / Business instead of pretending in front of the audience without clinging on to the result, ie. A Job Offer or an Order Confirmation from the Client can explain Inaction in Action. We should not be tempted or forced into any action or inaction by whatever means and maintain a detached attitude from the results of the action or inaction, irrespective of whatever is done through out the process of action or inaction. There are innumerable perceptions of the phrases with still more innumerable examples to explain or convey the meaning. These phrases are are pointers & reminders, a wake-up call to us, as in the quagmire of life, handling our desires / emotions / duties, we tend to forget, the only reason we are in the World. We should follow our Svadharma and do our duties, wherever we are, whatever is our situation, with our Intellects in control of our Minds. Intellect and Mind are 2 sides of the same coin and Intellect should not be confused for Intelligence. Intelligence is only to do with gross knowledge or expertise in different subjects of the world. Intellect is something very subtle and is a subject of knowing oneself and to have the senses & mind in its control. This message is conveyed in the famous picture of The Bhagavat Gita, we all know, ie. Lord Krishna driving the Chariot of Arjuna as his Charioteer. Krishna personifies the Atman or Intellect in us; Arjuna, our gross Bodies, the Embodiment and the doer or actor; the horses as the Mind; the reins of the horses as the desires; the Chariot as our Life Cycles; if the desires of the mind are in good control of the Intellect our life can get a smooth sailing to our ORIGIN after duly conducting all our duties in the world, meticulously. This is the essence of the message in the picture. The Actions & Inactions are nothing the expressions of one’s duties in the world. Learning in life is never ending. Even after all that we learn or experience in life, we are a "Zero". That is the power of zero, the summit or culmination of all knowledge.
Pl. post your views, comments to enable refine my learning process. Jai!Hind!

WORLD, THE PEOPLE, THE MOTHER EARTH IN A CHAOS – ALL BY THE HUMAN ABILITY OF THE CHOICE OF ACTION

Hari!Om!

We all know, Human Beings are the only Species  of all the life forms, who have the GIFT of the CREATOR, The All Pervading  Almighty to choose our Thoughts & Actions. That’s how we have the word “Decision” and  a meaning for it. As tributaries we have the bonus Gifts of the ability to think, analyze, rationalize, communicate with one another and so on to justify the God Principle at “Gun Point” for FINAL APPROVAL & RESPONSIBILITY, as,  yet after we are not confident due to fear over losing our ATTACHMENTS which are out of  nothing but EGO or DESIRES, the “PRIME CAUSE” or the PRIME MOWER of all life forms.

No other life form, at least on The Earth, have the aforesaid extra abilities and yet all the other life forms are very peacefully & meticulously leading their lives, supported by their individual character,  the Laws of Nature &  all the rest including the Human Fraternity. They also  depart gracefully on Summons.
One cannot hear of a Dog hissing or a Cat barking or a Tiger wagging his tail, anxious for some fondling by a  Human or other. One cannot even hear or see a Snake roaring like a Lion or an Elephant flying in the air. A big bird  as a Eagle wouldn’t  ramble in the Bushes and etc.
One cannot even find a Bunyan Tree sprinting around like a Rabbit. None of us can imagine that the Sun would stop giving us  Sun Light to go for a Shut Down Maintenance. Its not possible , the Atmosphere has to go for a refueling of its tank and that we all have to wait until he returns for Oxygen supply  to enable us to breathe. No one on the Earth would have ever heard of an apple, on its ripening from its tree, to  fly out of the Atmosphere.

 They all well understand, regard & respect each other, whoever they are, life form or non-life form and only use themselves, others  around, the Environment  following the Laws of Nature and conducting their duties, from arrival to departure, from the equilibrium  of one form to instability of the other or absorption into yet another.

They all have no problems with any one or a thing or the Humans. They  rather give the very equal consideration, regard & respect  to  all as  required. However, they cannot and hence do not express or communicate the way we do between ourselves, even if it is an exploitation they have to meet  from us. Only because they have no choice of action and follow strictly, the laws of nature.
Its only, we Human Beings who are the “PROBLEM MAKERS” and ironically  have the problems within ourselves and everything. We Humans, at the back of our Minds, apparently  are “hyperactive” always uneasy, restless and unable to manage with combination of the abilities gifted to us  and decipher its jumble,  grab or snatch the first opportunity to exploit, every other around, be it a co-Human or the Plant or Animal  Community, the Ether or the Earth and exhaust or burn out the Desires out of Egotism.

I just re-collected a song from a popular Hindi Movie of late 1970s or early 1980s, an Amitabh Bachchan starer, which has song  pictured  on AB & Sashi Kappor and which goes, THUNE ABHI DEKHA NAHI---------- HUM WO HEIN JO DHO AUR DHO PAANCH UN BHANAA DHEN. 

Apparently, its only this kind of  concept that we Humans often MISUSE and blame it on itself or others around. We have heard of Scientists  researching on replicating of the Big Bang Theory with hefty funding from so called “smart countries” of the world. We hear of Oil / Gas / Metals / Mineral reserves Exploitations across the Globe with disastrous damages to land /ocean life & non-life.
In the name of civilization, progress & development,  new new discoveries and inventions have been coming-up day in and day out , NEVER ENDING!! For eg.  We know of plastics & polythene   and its effect on the Environment.  We know of the Cutting down of Trees & Forestry for Paper & Pulp Industry to meet endless demands of the Humans. We know of the Chemicals, Petroleum Refineries, Thermal & Diesel Power Plant Industries, The Fertilizers & Cement  Plant Industries, Automobile Industries to meet the Human exploiting demands and its effects. We know of  the  effects of Global Warming, Acid Rains, Glaciers , The Air & Water Pollution. 

The extensively growing population WITHOUT ANY CLUE OF THE SUSTAINABILITY LEVELS OF THE pitiable MOTHER EARTH,  its ever exponentially  increasing demands for CONCRETE JUNGLE, Oil & Power, depleting natural and conventional resources for everything including water, food , inefficiency & incapability to meet their own demands have turned the WHOLE HUMAN SPECIES more as  CANNIBALS . 

The 3rd millennium has gone Hi-tech & very advanced from the previous, in exploitations, with huge, Electronics & Cellular  Manufacture & their Network  of High Frequency Powerful Broadcast or Transmission, to glee over remote, quick and easy connectivity to all across the globe, at the cost of polluting & causing Hazardous Radiation Effects on  the physical & mental health of all species on the Earth.

In virtual communication, Desktop  Communication  is “obsolete”  with advent of the 3rd millennium. Its now Mobile Connectivity as also “SOCIAL NETWORKING” all in  the so called name of “QUICK AND CONNECTIVITY FROM REMOTE, WHEN ON THE MOVE”. Other exploitations are old, outdated and not the trend. Its SOCIETY EXPLOITATION OR SOCIAL OR SOFT POLLUTION NOW. LIFE IS NOW VIRTUAL. PEOPLE ARE HAPPILY, PEACEFULLY CONTENDED WITH THEIR FACEBOOK / IBBIBO/TWITTER / LINKEDIN AND ARE TOTALLY OBLIVIOUS OF THE REAL WORLD OUTSIDE. Out door games are long forgotten.
People are not interested in Personal Meetings.  Reasoning is, “Whatever for?” or “We are anyway meeting on Face Book, daily”. Games are available on the Television or at the desktop, laptop or palm top now.
“Time” and its Management, value also is lost, ironically, despite all the fastest & latest commuting / communicating  facilities, awareness & need,  all the regular tutoring, training & updating across everyone on the subject, through “Top Class” World Experts.

On the contrary to false show or claims of comfort, in living, lifestyle, career success  & relationships, PEOPLE ARE MORE STRESSED AFTER, AS THEY ARE MEETING EASY SUCCESS IN VIRTUAL WORLD WITH ADDICTION THAT IS  detrimental to the psychological / mental & physiological health.  Whereas, outside or in the  so called  Real World,  every where it is only FEAR, PANIC, HATRED, JEALOUSY, RESENTMENT, DIS-SATISFACTION, False Prestige, SELFISHNESS, Obsequiousness, Thieving, , Ego Clashes, all  in clear contrast  to the artificial exchange of  Virtual World Pleasantries and their  trance. 

Each one is a competition for every other. NEGATIVE EGO  AND EGOTISM ARE IN FULL AND TOTAL CONTROL OVER EVERYONE, WITHOUT A SINGLE EXCEPTION, ACROSS THE GLOBE. Resistances to the same are challenged by all of us with full manifestation  of the Ego. Still  more ridiculous  now with a lots of scams that are of avarice, “mutual” evil motives .
Humanity & Human Relationships and their value bonds are totally missing. Now no more Parental, Marriage, Family, Teacher & the Taught, Mentor, Employer, Employee, Customer, Supplier Values and bonds . There are no HOMES  now. Only Valid Relationship is that of Money. Snatch each other and amass wealth, money & then power to protect it, the easiest and quickest way, attaching no values to human ethics, honesty, hard work etc.

This is all quite contradicting to General Potential Human Ability to think well, analyse, understand,  interact or conduct  with  Everyone including the Animals etc  and any situation according to their Nature, in self-defence, mutual co-existence & sustainable development.  
Humanity, one to one Human Relationship, Universal Love, Regard, Respect, Value for each other, Human Feelings, Emotions, Strengths & Weakness, Sense of Responsibility towards Oneself, Family, close Kit & Kin, Community, Society, Civics & Environment, the Attitude of Kindness, the helping tendency, the Resource ability , being Assertive and Meeting Commitments are all the Attributes now forgotten by us. 

THIS IS A TOTAL DIS-REGARD, DIS-RESPECT, SUFFERING THAT WE ARE MEETING OUT TO all the flora & fauna, the Environment, to Ourselves & our Future as well. Unless we get enlightened of the gravity of the situation, mend our ways, we are heading straight and very near to a Catastrophe or Cataclysm.

Its well researched and acknowledged thought / theory that Human Body is designed to consume vegetable or food of plant origin.  Animal or Flesh eating causes Cannibal tendencies that are now prevalent, by and large in the Human Society. The Narrative appearing above gives a vivid description of the said State of the Society & its drastic effects also on the Environment.
Let us all try and be a Vegetarian, spend some time alone daily, meditate and flash back on  our  days events, thoughts, attitude, actions, reactions and on any improvements on them for the next.
 I re-collect a Dialogue in a Telugu Movie, which goes --- “ Help 3 people in genuine need and ask each of them to help again 3 people in genuine need, so on and so forth, spread the message”. May be it can be nature, Environment, Society, Authorities, not necessarily people.  

Further, a Society is born at Individual homes, “charity begins at home”, is a famous saying. We need to re-build Homes around us. Values for Parents, Marriage, Children, Grand Parents, Siblings,  Neighbourhood, Relatives, Community, Friends, Organizations, Mentors, Patriotism, etc need be developed in the minds of people, giving meaning to every relationship, its association and inculcate the inherent Eternal Values & TRUTHS.

Let us all join together  to pray The Almighty to give us the Wisdom, Strength, Courage & Vigour i.e. the Right Frame of Mind to make correct choice & decision  to act upon and thus  save the Earth / the Environment for the Future.

 The Almighty would be immensely proud of the Human Fraternity, rather than regret on the decision to grant the havoc creating EXCLUSIVE ability to us, Human Beings.

Jai!Hind!

Ancient Scriptural Texts Vs. Modern Science

Hari!Om!

Modern Science, its discoveries and inventions claim many achievements to convince many people of the times with its Logics, Documentations & aggressive "MARKETING" that the  Ancient scriptures  are baseless, superstitious, have no meaning and that are useless tinsel. Very contradictingly same have re-discovered very convincingly, found them as the MOTHER OF ALL SCIENCES that include exhaustively all the aspects, beyond the imagination of any Human with his narrowed down thinking( Who, ironically, is in halucination of possessing most advanced thinking faculties & achievements lists)
The very essential and yet advanced, high level science is the science of life & living, which is not available from any of the modern texts or are not of the depths or levels of  the Ancient Scriptures to the actual needs of Modern Man in deep Delution.

The ancient scriptures had no so called Marketing or Documentation as in comparison to the present but were of the highest levels beyond any imaginations of all the people of the world put together, with their "Worldly Conditioning". They were based on True, Gross & Subtle Experiences of LIFE MASTERS, their LIFE VISION, Introspections & Reterospections, Deep Disciplined Research over a very long period of time by many of the Masters.

The unique concept of their design were their relevance for ETERNITY,  ie. all time. In our modern time, this, some may understand also as, Marketing. In reality they are all only conveying clear & eternal truths and dont really need any Marketing, documentation.  For receiving / digesting & using any knowledge, one should be really fit, physically, mentally. Know thier values, merits & demerits, strengths & weaknesses, the uses and disuses, else it is harmful, detrimental to the individual or the Mankind / Globe / The cosmos itself.

That is what the modern science is doing
They touched-up or rather covered all aspects and there was nothing missed out. Some of the Scriptures or myth. texts are for LIFE & LIVING, of a lot of depth, they contain deep messages and are for ALL TIME. Every time we read or listen a lecture or discourse on the subjects, we form a different perspective, depending on the level of our knowledge on the subject at that particular instance.

Quite similar are many of the "So called" Gross Modern Knowledge texts, from which we develop intelligence, i.e expertise or proficiency in the particular subject of study. Whereas, some of the OLD TEXTS as these are to develop our INTELLECTS and take them beyond this world to higher planes.

The gross world texts also do have the depths but our default focus is only to the extent of usage towards a particular purpose or job or rather merely with an aim to develop skills and  thus making ways for earning a livelihood through exchange of the knowledge skills for MONEY, FOOD SHELTER & CLOTHING.We don't go beyond our levels of capacities to venture into any understanding or learning, almost UNAWARE. Any true master of the subjects can vouch for this.

There would definitely be many contradictions, in these texts, which are actually APPARENT. The deep message of such APPARENT contradictions is that we should deliberately use our thinking faculties, question and analyse the so believed contradictions, ourselves and extract the hidden truth. As we use, the Subtle Intellect gets sharpened. Being conditioned to this worldly affairs right from the time we are born we all the time tend to relate anything with this world. We need to think and and analyse beyond this world to get to receive such knowledge. And it is only then the question to respond,digest & react.

The power of our Mind & or Intellect ( Both are integral parts of our Mental Equipment) is such that we could go to the deepest of the depths, understand or digest the philosophies of life in a jiffy or may never even be able to go near receiving the knowledge despite the Mastery of all the Texts available.So obviously the mastery referred here in that case is only APPARENT.

The Mind & Intellect here are only differentiated in such texts or commentaries to make us understand the deep philosophies through the limitations of Communication / languages and our worldly conditioning. 
Modern Science or Humanities knowledge texts do not focus on  the spiritual values that the spiritual texts focus, as the key.
A point to append as a CAUTION is the study & understanding of any subject or text of philosophy should be from ABSOLUTE POINT OF VIEW or an "out of the world" reference. Whereas the APPLICATIONS need be in relevance to our present world or our SWDHARMA, ie. individual nature.
  • Jai! Hind!


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