Source: The Kathmandu Post
Posted on: 2007-11-20 11:01:36
Prince or commoner, rich or poor, every individual who wishes to get empowered and enlightened benefits greatly from the guidance of an able guru. Even gods have sought out gurus for themselves. Lord Krishna's guru was Sandipanirishi. When Swami Vivekananda first visited Ramakrishna Paramahansa he asked: "I have read the Bhagavad-Gita and other scriptures several times, I lecture and give discourses on the Gita and Ramayana. Do I still need a guru?" Ramakrishna didn't reply to Vivekananda's question. After a few days Ramakrishna called upon Vivekananda and handed him a parcel to be delivered at a nearby village that could be reached in a few hours by a boat.
The boat and sailor would be ready the next morning. All he needed to do was to go to the village and deliver the parcel to the designated person. Vivekananda agreed and decided to start early. He found the sailor ready with his boat. Suddenly, upon sitting in the boat, Vivekananda realized that he didn't know the road to the village. He inquired of the sailor who had no clue, either. Vivekananda decided to go back to his guru to ask him the shortest way to the village. Upon this Ramakrishna said, "Narendra, this is my reply to the question you asked me when we met the first time: Today, you have the medium (the boat), you have the resource (the sailor), you have the road (the sea), you know what to do (deliver the parcel) and you also know where to go but you don't know the way. Likewise, you have read all the scriptures, and you can conduct wonderful discourses on them. However, to realize the wisdom of scriptures one needs a guru, someone who has already traversed that path so that he can guide you through the journey and encourage you to not give up."
In Sanskrit, 'gu' is one who dispels and 'ru' means darkness. Every individual who wishes to rise above his existing levels needs a lighthouse, a guiding star to guide him on the journey of life, which can help by dispelling darkness at every step. Lord Swaminarayan ordained Sikshapatri, containing 212 conventions of code of conduct for every human being. One of the points reads: "Even the most learned of men will become morally declined if he is not involved in devotion to God and in good acquaintance."
Many seers have made various suggestions on how to embark on the spiritual path according to their perceived wisdom. Is there a universally accepted spiritual definition? How should one lead one's life which balances both the spiritual and the material? To understand all this and choose the right path for a balanced life of duty, responsibility, love, detachment and striving for higher consciousness, you need the grace and guidance of a spiritual master. As the saying goes "When the disciple is ready the Master arrives." Like a lone ship sailing in turbulent waters hunts for a safe harbor for anchorage, similarly, one has to make constant efforts in the journey of his life to find a true guru, a harbor against all storms.
Posted on: 2007-11-20 11:01:36
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Thousand Wishes !!!
There are thousand wishes in my life, all the wishes are such that each wish is killing me, they come as if to get fulfill., there are many wishes they come but still they are very less.I do not know when they are going to be fulfilled. In love there is no difference between living and dieying. Love cannot be explained.There is no difference in love, live or die. There are thousand wishes in my life which are unfulfilled.
No one can fulfill those wishes but for many of them many wishes comes true. Why do i have so many wishes ? Can't i be a person with very little wishes and all the small wishes that i make gets fulfilled. How many people in earth are satisfied with what they have ? I do not think there are many people in the earth who are satisfied with their life,job,wife and many other things. ?
There are thousand wishes the wishes are such that each of the wishes are killing me.!!!!!
No one can fulfill those wishes but for many of them many wishes comes true. Why do i have so many wishes ? Can't i be a person with very little wishes and all the small wishes that i make gets fulfilled. How many people in earth are satisfied with what they have ? I do not think there are many people in the earth who are satisfied with their life,job,wife and many other things. ?
There are thousand wishes the wishes are such that each of the wishes are killing me.!!!!!
Monday, November 19, 2007
Satisfaction
I do not know what to write today. I thought of this topic called satisfaction, are we satisfied ? We have job,good salary, good house to live. We have everything or we are in search of these things. now think if you will have all these things will you be satisfied. ? Does the things make people satisfied ? How do you say that i am satisfied ? Probably when you will be happy and think that you have achieved something in your life then, you will say i am happy and satisfied. But i think this is wrong. No man in this earth is satisfied. No one is. everybody wants something. everybody is need of something.
most people in earth are in need of money then comes..other material things.we created this money and now we are after it ... we are not satisfied. even if we get money we will not be satisfied. satisfaction cannot be acheived. It is something like love or death which cannot be described. I am satisfed means you do not want anything from life. you have lived your life. Safisfaction starts with "Santosh" which means complete happiness and satisfaction. Many people is asia and some part of europe has this name "Santosh" .. Santosh is complete satisfaction because it does not have any religion, it does not care about knowledge ., it does not care about acheivements and accomplisments it is just a state where you feel you are satisfied. It can neither be created nor can it be destroyed. It is immortal. It will never die. Live for ever and ever.
This is for today !
See you every body. The first lesson of satisfaction is Feel free.
Step 1 : Feel free, Do whatever you want to do. Do not hesitate. There is no rule for you. You are the creator and you are the destroyer. you can do what your mind and heart says you to do. Whole world is yours and you are the creator of this world. you can do what you feel doing. There is only one rule to this step 1 and that is NO RULE. Feel happy that you have come to this world. There is something for you. Do not worry ! If you have dreams do not think that you are alone in this race., this is the dreams of the creator whom you believe in.
most people in earth are in need of money then comes..other material things.we created this money and now we are after it ... we are not satisfied. even if we get money we will not be satisfied. satisfaction cannot be acheived. It is something like love or death which cannot be described. I am satisfed means you do not want anything from life. you have lived your life. Safisfaction starts with "Santosh" which means complete happiness and satisfaction. Many people is asia and some part of europe has this name "Santosh" .. Santosh is complete satisfaction because it does not have any religion, it does not care about knowledge ., it does not care about acheivements and accomplisments it is just a state where you feel you are satisfied. It can neither be created nor can it be destroyed. It is immortal. It will never die. Live for ever and ever.
This is for today !
See you every body. The first lesson of satisfaction is Feel free.
Step 1 : Feel free, Do whatever you want to do. Do not hesitate. There is no rule for you. You are the creator and you are the destroyer. you can do what your mind and heart says you to do. Whole world is yours and you are the creator of this world. you can do what you feel doing. There is only one rule to this step 1 and that is NO RULE. Feel happy that you have come to this world. There is something for you. Do not worry ! If you have dreams do not think that you are alone in this race., this is the dreams of the creator whom you believe in.
Monday, November 12, 2007
Third World
This is thank you to Alfred Sauvy for creating this word called “Third World”. I do not know weather he is alive or dead now but this is from the bottom of my heart that I want to say thank you. Thank you for creating the difference! As he has mentioned that The Third World has nothing, and it “wants to be something”. Which means this world is underdeveloped. The characteristics that we possess are poverty, high birth rates, lack of infrastructure and dependence on first world. This is thank you to the person who created the third world.
We are poor people. We do not have jobs, we cannot do anything. We are dependent on developed world and First World countries. Let me say one thing. We are different in economy, culture, religion and infrastructure. But it is the mind of those third world people, who are leaders in the First world. Without those brilliant mind First world do not exit. And there would not have been any difference. It is always easy to blame others. Can you blame yourself? No one wants to be dominated by other. Every body wants to run the race and win it. Americans are good at this because they are far sighted people and do not care about anything. They have this “Who cares?” kind of attitude. This attitude helps them to be one among the entire nation. They are not strong nation and not number one nation in world. It is the other nation that thinks they are number one and strong among the world. As far as we come from this world, where we do not have big industry and we are not technologically brilliant but day’s are not far when one of the kid from First world would say,” Daddy, Where is this software coming from ?” and Father of First or Second world would say,” Son, It comes from Third world ?”.It is very easy to make difference. I really hate this word “Difference” and sometime I like it too. There are many reasons beside it. Why we have to create these differences? To whom we need to prove? And for what? One day when the whole world will have some kind of natural disaster and what will happen then? Imagine one day whole world turns upside down and none of the entity exit in this planet. What will happen then?
At that moment you will have only one question in your mind,” who is going to take care of you?” If you live in first world then probably you know the answer but if you come from the world I come from then Think again. You will be the one in that first world!
As far as I know there is no First , Second and Third , there is only one world and in this one single world the rulers are humans and humans behaviors has great impact in the society they are living. World can be better place to live if we accept the things as they are or as natural they are. Rather then modifying it to prove you are the best.
We are poor people. We do not have jobs, we cannot do anything. We are dependent on developed world and First World countries. Let me say one thing. We are different in economy, culture, religion and infrastructure. But it is the mind of those third world people, who are leaders in the First world. Without those brilliant mind First world do not exit. And there would not have been any difference. It is always easy to blame others. Can you blame yourself? No one wants to be dominated by other. Every body wants to run the race and win it. Americans are good at this because they are far sighted people and do not care about anything. They have this “Who cares?” kind of attitude. This attitude helps them to be one among the entire nation. They are not strong nation and not number one nation in world. It is the other nation that thinks they are number one and strong among the world. As far as we come from this world, where we do not have big industry and we are not technologically brilliant but day’s are not far when one of the kid from First world would say,” Daddy, Where is this software coming from ?” and Father of First or Second world would say,” Son, It comes from Third world ?”.It is very easy to make difference. I really hate this word “Difference” and sometime I like it too. There are many reasons beside it. Why we have to create these differences? To whom we need to prove? And for what? One day when the whole world will have some kind of natural disaster and what will happen then? Imagine one day whole world turns upside down and none of the entity exit in this planet. What will happen then?
At that moment you will have only one question in your mind,” who is going to take care of you?” If you live in first world then probably you know the answer but if you come from the world I come from then Think again. You will be the one in that first world!
As far as I know there is no First , Second and Third , there is only one world and in this one single world the rulers are humans and humans behaviors has great impact in the society they are living. World can be better place to live if we accept the things as they are or as natural they are. Rather then modifying it to prove you are the best.
Friday, November 9, 2007
Thursday
Well, Today is Thursday ! Bright day for every body. Wake up do your morning activites and start preparing for work,study,plans and every other things in detail. Look at the news. !!!!
Finnish 18 year old killed himself and some of his class mate in a school. What a tragedy. President of Finland says, One of the tragedy that she really is speechless.
How many of you thing it is tragedy ?
Think People .... We have to Think....
We live in a planet where people are depressed very easily. Not only depressed but infuenced easily. Why are we following the fucking tradion ? Can't we do our duty. It is always difficult to choose a right path no matter what. The easier path is really very easy. We just have to do one thing and it will be highlight of the day !
Why do we want to attract attention ? May be because we want to see our creation, our stuffs we like show people our creativity, ideas and thoughts. One of the biggest drawback in today world is that we can attract attention very easily. Just write a blog or post a video in internet which catchs the attention of the audience. But is there any one in the world who do not wants to grab the attention of people. If you want to get famous do not do anything stupid. Yes you will be famous, but just for one day !
Who cares in this fucking planet about any body ? Why should people care about you ? What is that you are giving in this planet ? These are some questions that make a human stupid.
These question really are very strong and depressing too. We all are born as humans. But one thing is creating the chaos and fight among all of us. "DIFFERENCE"
We all are different.
We have difference in physical, mental and emotional senses. We are not same. We also come from differenct culture, background,family and so on.
Who the fuck first created it ? Even if it was created but why ? Now, The reason is we have the difference because without it the world will be no better place. Imagine a world where every body is same. In physical,emotional and mental level. There would never be development, acheivements, accomplishments and what so ever.
It is understood that we all are different but my topic today is "THURSDAY"
Why this thursday is so gloomy.
So sad, Thursday was the day ! Every people wants that fame. If i would have to say something i would rather blame the media, internet, and behaviour of human.
When every day is same. The days passes quickly. We are bored with it. We like changes but not only inside us but outside too. We want to do something very strange and some how catch attention of people.The question now a days is not how ? but the question is when ?
Internet is killing all of us. We are so seek with it that we want to learn,earn and make fun with it.
I will blame internet for creating this tragedy. Imagine a world without internet.
No plagarism, no information and no communication what so ever.
But in we will have creativity, creation and developments to in some other way.
I do not know what the shit i am writing here .......
The tragedy what took place was not good and awful.
I am sorry to those who have faced a negative consiquences with it. The impact with this show that nothing is in control. You can make thousand rules. Every body will follow the rule but there is always some one who does not like being ruled.
Let it be free. Every thing. Make every thing free. No charges for communicaton, no charges for morning and evening food and no charges for studying. Then the world will be better place.
I do not know who the fuck created this language called "English"
But whoever created it...., It was a job well done.
We do have difference but we have one thing in common. Language ... at least most of the people in world speak this language.
Do not believe in what Darwin said or Da Vinci. Belive in what your heart says at that moment. Becasue every thing in this planet is good. and whatever you belive is natural. Go along with your heat. If you want to rape somebody go and do it. Do not ask. Do not hesitate. Do whatever you feel. Just Do it.
Fuck off all the books, Fuck off all the rules. Who cares !!!!
But before you do anything THINK TWICE-
You can do whatever you want untill and unless you are hurting another human being or living entity.
Do not hurt any living beings !
So live your life. Life is just one day ! We all have problems we all have troubles in our life. But Just learn in that moment. Think and Learn. Do what ever you feel. Do not go by rules. If you like then go by rules but if you do not like them fuck off. Just live a life of simple human being.
Always remember :
Learn by doing. !
To sum up,
It is not good that we humans are depressing. It is the climate, nature that is depressing. Our actions are controlled by Nature. We need to find out how this nature can be controlled not our actions.
Imagine how can you control next 1 hr of your future time. Let me give you and example. I have to meet my wife today near airport at 7pm.So, What's come in my mind. Start the car.
Check the fuel is enough or not.
If it is not enough fill the gas.
go to airport
pick her up
and come back home.
These are some of the simple statements that comes in a simple human. Now let's do it.
When we transform our thoughts into ACTION
We are not sure what might happen. I could not reach to airport because I got Flat Tire. Now what ?
How did it happen ?
Who did this ?
I have not thought about this but how could my tire get flat.
And then we try to find alternatives. This is the point where we cannot do anything. This is the place where our plans are not controlled by our action. We are not the controller of our action but some body else is.
Who is that ?
Finnish 18 year old killed himself and some of his class mate in a school. What a tragedy. President of Finland says, One of the tragedy that she really is speechless.
How many of you thing it is tragedy ?
Think People .... We have to Think....
We live in a planet where people are depressed very easily. Not only depressed but infuenced easily. Why are we following the fucking tradion ? Can't we do our duty. It is always difficult to choose a right path no matter what. The easier path is really very easy. We just have to do one thing and it will be highlight of the day !
Why do we want to attract attention ? May be because we want to see our creation, our stuffs we like show people our creativity, ideas and thoughts. One of the biggest drawback in today world is that we can attract attention very easily. Just write a blog or post a video in internet which catchs the attention of the audience. But is there any one in the world who do not wants to grab the attention of people. If you want to get famous do not do anything stupid. Yes you will be famous, but just for one day !
Who cares in this fucking planet about any body ? Why should people care about you ? What is that you are giving in this planet ? These are some questions that make a human stupid.
These question really are very strong and depressing too. We all are born as humans. But one thing is creating the chaos and fight among all of us. "DIFFERENCE"
We all are different.
We have difference in physical, mental and emotional senses. We are not same. We also come from differenct culture, background,family and so on.
Who the fuck first created it ? Even if it was created but why ? Now, The reason is we have the difference because without it the world will be no better place. Imagine a world where every body is same. In physical,emotional and mental level. There would never be development, acheivements, accomplishments and what so ever.
It is understood that we all are different but my topic today is "THURSDAY"
Why this thursday is so gloomy.
So sad, Thursday was the day ! Every people wants that fame. If i would have to say something i would rather blame the media, internet, and behaviour of human.
When every day is same. The days passes quickly. We are bored with it. We like changes but not only inside us but outside too. We want to do something very strange and some how catch attention of people.The question now a days is not how ? but the question is when ?
Internet is killing all of us. We are so seek with it that we want to learn,earn and make fun with it.
I will blame internet for creating this tragedy. Imagine a world without internet.
No plagarism, no information and no communication what so ever.
But in we will have creativity, creation and developments to in some other way.
I do not know what the shit i am writing here .......
The tragedy what took place was not good and awful.
I am sorry to those who have faced a negative consiquences with it. The impact with this show that nothing is in control. You can make thousand rules. Every body will follow the rule but there is always some one who does not like being ruled.
Let it be free. Every thing. Make every thing free. No charges for communicaton, no charges for morning and evening food and no charges for studying. Then the world will be better place.
I do not know who the fuck created this language called "English"
But whoever created it...., It was a job well done.
We do have difference but we have one thing in common. Language ... at least most of the people in world speak this language.
Do not believe in what Darwin said or Da Vinci. Belive in what your heart says at that moment. Becasue every thing in this planet is good. and whatever you belive is natural. Go along with your heat. If you want to rape somebody go and do it. Do not ask. Do not hesitate. Do whatever you feel. Just Do it.
Fuck off all the books, Fuck off all the rules. Who cares !!!!
But before you do anything THINK TWICE-
You can do whatever you want untill and unless you are hurting another human being or living entity.
Do not hurt any living beings !
So live your life. Life is just one day ! We all have problems we all have troubles in our life. But Just learn in that moment. Think and Learn. Do what ever you feel. Do not go by rules. If you like then go by rules but if you do not like them fuck off. Just live a life of simple human being.
Always remember :
Learn by doing. !
To sum up,
It is not good that we humans are depressing. It is the climate, nature that is depressing. Our actions are controlled by Nature. We need to find out how this nature can be controlled not our actions.
Imagine how can you control next 1 hr of your future time. Let me give you and example. I have to meet my wife today near airport at 7pm.So, What's come in my mind. Start the car.
Check the fuel is enough or not.
If it is not enough fill the gas.
go to airport
pick her up
and come back home.
These are some of the simple statements that comes in a simple human. Now let's do it.
When we transform our thoughts into ACTION
We are not sure what might happen. I could not reach to airport because I got Flat Tire. Now what ?
How did it happen ?
Who did this ?
I have not thought about this but how could my tire get flat.
And then we try to find alternatives. This is the point where we cannot do anything. This is the place where our plans are not controlled by our action. We are not the controller of our action but some body else is.
Who is that ?
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Welcome Snow!
This is the first day snow fell, Welcome Snow., I hope This snow will bring lots of pleasure in the mind of people,friends and relatives. Christmas is coming and this is the time for celebration. If you do not know what you want, the question of creating it doesn't arise. What every human being wants is to live joyfully; he wants to live peacefully, in terms of its relationship he wants to be loving and affectionate. All that any human being is seeking for is pleasantness within himself, pleasantness around him. Once your mind gets organized, the way you think is the way you feel: your emotions will get organized. Once your thought and emotion are organized, your energies will go the same way. Then your very body will get organized. Once all these four are organized in one direction, your ability to create and manifest what you want is phenomenal. You have the power to create; you are the Creator, in so many ways. The whole technology is just about this - transforming you from being just a piece of creation to the Creator himself. This is not in search of God; this is in search of becoming a God. This is not in search of Divine; this is in search of becoming a simple human.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
19 October 2007 "Happy Vijaya Dashami 2064 "
It was cold, chilly night in the center of Lappeeranata University of Technology., Me,Ananata,Jhamak,Bishal met in my room, We decided to do some party., We were not sure of the venue, then we thought about our friend Bala who was sick, we wanted to see him.
We realized that one guy was missing, it was not difficult for us to figure out who it was, probably we are just 6 nepali guys here in finland. It was Sijan. so, we asked him to come to bala's palce, we went there we saw Bala was dancing, celebrating and was really in jolly mood. We were suprised by what we saw. Later He said that, Today is Vijaya Dashami 2064 Let us Celebrate ! We thought why not, We must celebrate !
The celebration started. Now we were 6+2 guys., Probably don't be surprised the two guys were our special guest. One guy was Bala's flat mate., From Finland- Teemu and The next guy was Bishal's very good friend- From Pakistan-Mubin....
Guys started preparing the food,chicken....Pulaau..,
We wanted a Nepali way and the Nepali way was given by me., I was talking with Teemu,Mubin and Jhamak- We started a discussion, a round table discussion. It all started with religion,sex,what's on man's mind ?, what is on women's mind ? Then it heated up... The talked went on and on...
It now came to GOD.,nobody agreed with what i have to say, because i wanted to put what i mean to say to these guys and they do not agree with me.. I still say that why are we following the tradition ? Why is there difference in culture,country and religion ? Every discussion was ending with big question-Why ? My dear pakistani friend was not happy with this question.
I was just alone defending myself, I wanted to say that-"All religion in this world connects to these keywords such as TRUTH,PEACE FOR MAN KIND ....." These were done by some great human in the past such as GAUTAM BUDDHA,JESUS CHRIST,MOHAMMAD etc., These great people were Human First and they will always remain human to me. We are treating them as god but why ?
We do this because we are following the tradion. Our parents taught this and we are following. But I want to say,
NEVER REPEAT ANYTHING THAT YOU HAVE NOT EXPERIENCEd IN YOUR LIFE
still people will not understand me... because i am defending myself and no one will be on my side. every body wants to get a safe landing, anyways..., I do not know ... Probably i thought i was ruining the disucssion so i kept quite after that.
Guys prepared a great DASHAIN dinner it was the best dinner i had it here in Finland since months. We all enjoyed a fine Nepali Dinner !!!
All the cleaning was done by my beloved guys except me.... because i am lazy !!!
This way we celebrated a great dashain festival... Thanks to all my lovely,sweet and great nepali guys. You guys are great !!! Cheers Finlandia Vodka to you all !!!
Remeber guys, I am lazy and i will be lazy... One thing you all have to do is try to improve my habit and I wont be lazy anymore.
Thanks to our special guests ! Mubeen and Teemu !!!
HAPPY VIJAYA DASHAMI 2064 TO ALL NEPALI WHO IS LEAVING ABROAD AND MISSING THERE HOME LAND. CHEERS TO YOU ALL !!! AND TO ALL NEPALI GUYS, I HOPE ALL OF YOU DREAMS, AIMS,GOALS COME TRUE ONEDAY AND PROBABLY ONE DAY WE SEE A NEW NEPAL !!!
Monday, October 15, 2007
War, Games and Spirituality
War and games have been part of life since time immemorial. They are both tendencies that have impacted human life and society, sometimes favorably and sometimes adversely. The Mahabharata war began with a game but what came out of it was wisdom of Gita. World has seen lessons after World War II, when tolerance, pluralism and secularism gained prominence. But when war became a game, we have failed to learn a lesson. For the mighty and powerful, war is just a game, as has happened in Vietnam and Iraq. Pakistan and India have fought many wars and the same is true of the Middle East. In spite of so many ethnic conflicts in central Africa, Congo, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast and now Sudan, no lesson has been learnt. There is a thin line between game and war. While the East has chosen the concept of seeing life as a game, in the Middle East, it is jehad. One thing that seems to be common between war and game is that, in both, you need to be insensitive towards the other. If you are sensitive towards others' feelings, you can't defeat the other. That is why the concept of Life is a game in-sensitizes you to the pains and the pleasures of life. Today, when children play video games, Internet, watch violent cartoons, they get in-sensitized. These games have turned into real life situations, leading to classroom violence. The last decade has seen unprecedented instances of violence in schools. Dropout rates in schools in Washington DC are an alarming 50 per cent and there is an increase in gang violence amongst the adolescents the world over. The intellectuals of today have to devise ways to bring back sensitivity and sensibility in the younger generation, without which there will be neither safety nor security on this planet. Fear of dominance of one community over the other, one nation over the other, have caused nations and communities to amass weapons. Amassing wealth and weapons has become a game. On many occasions, caste conflicts and cash conflicts are all subsidiaries of the arms race. Many think that spirituality makes men realize the ultimate. Spirituality is definitely an antidote to war. It helps to prevent the game from turning into a war and war turning into a game. Spirituality, people often think, is just a practice; it is an attitude as well. A practice is always bound by time but an attitude gets woven into that time. As practice, it is limited to occasions, to time and has time-bound effects. It is easy to adopt spirituality as a practice but takes courage, maturity and understanding to build it as an attitude. It is attitude and intention that matters more than action. The Americans apologized for mistaken notion when they bombed civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq. When the Israelis pounded Lebanon or when Sri Lankan forces bombed Tamil Tigers' schools and hospitals, all they said was sorry, it was not our intention; it was a mistaken identity. Here, war has become a game. Today, many around the globe say spirituality is the answer. Will humaneness in spirituality put an end to war? Will it make you submissive and docile? Will it take away the joy and fun in aggression? Will it make you an escapist? This stream of questions smolders with no answers to put them off. In fact, it should not be. An answer can only be used once, but the path created by these vital questions can be trodden many times to an open-ended human evolution.
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Mahatma Ghandi on Education
The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as we assess the value of land or of shares in the stock-exchange market. We want to provide only such education as would enable the student to earn more. We hardly give any thought to the improvement of the character of the educated. The girls, we say, do not have to earn; so why should they be educated? As long as such ideas persist there is no hope of our ever knowing the true value of education.
Daily Quote from Krishnamurthy...
Do you understand the problem, sirs? Only the mind that is free can discover what is true—discover, not be told what is true. The description is not the fact. You may describe something in the most lovely language, put it in the most spiritual or lyrical words, but the word is not the fact. When you are hungry, the description of food does not feed you. But most of us are satisfied with the description of truth, and the description, the symbol, has taken the place of the factual. To discover whether there is a reality or not, we must be capable of seeing the true as the true, the false as the false, and not wait to be told like a lot of immature children.
Friday, October 5, 2007
वहत कृष्णमूर्ति सय्स
"Truth is a pathless land ". Man cannot come to it through any organization, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, not through any philosophic knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the contents of his own mind, through observation and not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection. Man has built in himself images as a fence of security—religious, political, personal. These manifest as symbols, ideas, beliefs. The burden of these images dominates man's thinking, his relationships and his daily life. These images are the causes of our problems for they divide man from man. His perception of life is shaped by the concepts already established in his mind. The content of his consciousness is his entire existence. This content is common to all humanity. The individuality is the name, the form and superficial culture he acquires from tradition and environment. The uniqueness of man does not lie in the superficial but in complete freedom from the content of his consciousness, which is common to all mankind. So he is not an individual."
लाइफ ऎंड डेथ
We all live in the shadow of the fear of death, we believe that life and death are opposed to each other. This feeling causes us to miss life and we miss death as well. When we are born, death is born with us.
Every day changes into night, and every night changes into day. The present elapses into the past and the future dawns upon the present. This cannot happen without the element of death. This process of change is death. If you want to die peacefully, live totally, completely. Death is the crowning glory of life lived intensely and fully. But our life is wasted in searching for the meaning of life.
The meaning of life is in life itself. No philosophy, no scripture, no cause can give meaning to life. You have to seek your own meaning and nobody except you can come upon it. Osho said, "It is your life and it is only accessible to you. Only in living will the mystery be revealed to you. Once you know what life is you will know what death is.
Death is also a part of the same process. Ordinarily we think death comes at the end, that it is against life; we think death is the enemy, but death is not the enemy. If you think of death as the enemy it simply shows that you have not been able to know what life is. Death and life are two polarities of the same energy, of the same phenomenon - the tide and the ebb, the day and the night, the summer and the winter. They are not separate and not opposites, not contraries; they are complementary.
Death is not the end of life; in fact, it is a completion of one life, the finale. A man who has understood what his life is, allows death to happen; he welcomes it. He dies each moment and each moment he is resurrected. Each moment he dies and is born again."
Every day changes into night, and every night changes into day. The present elapses into the past and the future dawns upon the present. This cannot happen without the element of death. This process of change is death. If you want to die peacefully, live totally, completely. Death is the crowning glory of life lived intensely and fully. But our life is wasted in searching for the meaning of life.
The meaning of life is in life itself. No philosophy, no scripture, no cause can give meaning to life. You have to seek your own meaning and nobody except you can come upon it. Osho said, "It is your life and it is only accessible to you. Only in living will the mystery be revealed to you. Once you know what life is you will know what death is.
Death is also a part of the same process. Ordinarily we think death comes at the end, that it is against life; we think death is the enemy, but death is not the enemy. If you think of death as the enemy it simply shows that you have not been able to know what life is. Death and life are two polarities of the same energy, of the same phenomenon - the tide and the ebb, the day and the night, the summer and the winter. They are not separate and not opposites, not contraries; they are complementary.
Death is not the end of life; in fact, it is a completion of one life, the finale. A man who has understood what his life is, allows death to happen; he welcomes it. He dies each moment and each moment he is resurrected. Each moment he dies and is born again."
हे राम
Hey Ram! With these last words, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi breathed his last. What would he have thought of the current controversy over the historicity or otherwise of Ram, the epic hero?
It would be interesting to ask: What is the historicity of the wind or cosmos? Behind visual reality, there exists something one can call supernature. Beyond history, there is the realm of metahistory.
How can man with his arrested sensibility, give expression to eternal life or eternity, in a language which is itself man-made? When we do not have a recorded or authentic history of language how shall we be able to understand the word 'history' used in language?
The word Ram means causing rest, charming, loving and delightful. Gandhi knew from the core of his heart that Ram is the hidden centre of all apparent reality. It is the unchanging reality, underlying a shifting reality. Ram is part of metahistory. Ram possesses highest power but never reveals himself as a possessor of power. People with inferior power exhibit their power in mindless activity and vanish like a bubble.
Much of Bapu's philosophy was based on the substance of Indian thought. He did tend to believe in avatars or incarnations and believed in the saving power of the name 'Ram' in salvation through Lord Krishna. For Gandhi, the legend of Ram is so deeply embedded in the Indian way of life that it is difficult to think of India and Indian culture without any mention of his name.
The metahistory of Ram has inspired many poets and artists to depict his character with all its glory and transcendental splendour. After having understood the superficiality of so-called history Oswald Spengler had said in his book, The Decline of the West, that history should be the business of a poet.
Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolence, truth and simple living was derived from a belief in the power of the very same principles epitomised by Maryada Purushottam Ram - the ideal personality - immortalised in the legend's story, the Ramayana, narrated in as many languages, forms and cultures as its plural versions.
It would be interesting to ask: What is the historicity of the wind or cosmos? Behind visual reality, there exists something one can call supernature. Beyond history, there is the realm of metahistory.
How can man with his arrested sensibility, give expression to eternal life or eternity, in a language which is itself man-made? When we do not have a recorded or authentic history of language how shall we be able to understand the word 'history' used in language?
The word Ram means causing rest, charming, loving and delightful. Gandhi knew from the core of his heart that Ram is the hidden centre of all apparent reality. It is the unchanging reality, underlying a shifting reality. Ram is part of metahistory. Ram possesses highest power but never reveals himself as a possessor of power. People with inferior power exhibit their power in mindless activity and vanish like a bubble.
Much of Bapu's philosophy was based on the substance of Indian thought. He did tend to believe in avatars or incarnations and believed in the saving power of the name 'Ram' in salvation through Lord Krishna. For Gandhi, the legend of Ram is so deeply embedded in the Indian way of life that it is difficult to think of India and Indian culture without any mention of his name.
The metahistory of Ram has inspired many poets and artists to depict his character with all its glory and transcendental splendour. After having understood the superficiality of so-called history Oswald Spengler had said in his book, The Decline of the West, that history should be the business of a poet.
Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolence, truth and simple living was derived from a belief in the power of the very same principles epitomised by Maryada Purushottam Ram - the ideal personality - immortalised in the legend's story, the Ramayana, narrated in as many languages, forms and cultures as its plural versions.
१० एअर हिन्दुगर्ल मेमोरिज़े कुरान
Backed by her parents, a 10-year-old Hindu girl who has learnt Arabic is in the process of memorizing the Koran to become a ‘Hafiz’, says a teacher at a madrassa near here.
Hemlata, alias Shabnam, has been memorising the holy book at Madrassa Madinatul Uloom in Khagaul near Patna for the past few weeks.
"First she learnt to read Urdu followed by Arabic and is now memorising the Koran, a rare thing for a non-Muslim girl. It all appears to be god’s wish," said Hafiz Azam, a teacher at the seminary.
Hafiz is a term used by Muslims for people who have completely memorized the Koran. Such people are allowed the privilege of using the title Hafiz before their names. They win this title by passing one or more tests. In one such test, they are asked to recite from memory a passage taken randomly from the Koran.
Dressed like a devoted Muslim girl, Hemlata covers her head to join a group of Muslim students of her age daily to memorise the Koran at the madrassa. "I want to become a Hafiz by memorising the holy Koran," she said.
The Koran is divided into 114 Surahs (chapters), containing approximately 6,200 verses comprising some 80,000 words or 330,000 individual characters.
Hemlata, a Class IV student, said she was eager to achieve the feat at the earliest. "I will work hard," Hemlata told IANS.
Hafiz Alam said: "It is a difficult process to memorise the Koran, and she will have to devote four years to achieve her goal."
Hemlata's parents are proud of their daughter. "We are happy and encourage her," said her father Dilip Kumar Choudhary. Now, her younger brother, Ashish Vidyarthi, also wants to emulate her.
Hemlata, alias Shabnam, has been memorising the holy book at Madrassa Madinatul Uloom in Khagaul near Patna for the past few weeks.
"First she learnt to read Urdu followed by Arabic and is now memorising the Koran, a rare thing for a non-Muslim girl. It all appears to be god’s wish," said Hafiz Azam, a teacher at the seminary.
Hafiz is a term used by Muslims for people who have completely memorized the Koran. Such people are allowed the privilege of using the title Hafiz before their names. They win this title by passing one or more tests. In one such test, they are asked to recite from memory a passage taken randomly from the Koran.
Dressed like a devoted Muslim girl, Hemlata covers her head to join a group of Muslim students of her age daily to memorise the Koran at the madrassa. "I want to become a Hafiz by memorising the holy Koran," she said.
The Koran is divided into 114 Surahs (chapters), containing approximately 6,200 verses comprising some 80,000 words or 330,000 individual characters.
Hemlata, a Class IV student, said she was eager to achieve the feat at the earliest. "I will work hard," Hemlata told IANS.
Hafiz Alam said: "It is a difficult process to memorise the Koran, and she will have to devote four years to achieve her goal."
Hemlata's parents are proud of their daughter. "We are happy and encourage her," said her father Dilip Kumar Choudhary. Now, her younger brother, Ashish Vidyarthi, also wants to emulate her.
२० थिंग्स यू डोंट क्नोव अबाउट डेथ
1 The practice of burying the dead may date back 350,000 years, as evidenced by a 45-foot-deep pit in Atapuerca, Spain, filled with the fossils of 27 hominids of the species Homo heidelbergensis, a possible ancestor of Neanderthals and modern humans.
2 Never say die: There are at least 200 euphemisms for death, including "to be in Abraham's bosom," "just add maggots," and "sleep with the Tribbles" (a Star Trek favorite).
3 No American has died of old age since 1951.
4 That was the year the government eliminated that classification on death certificates
5 The trigger of death, in all cases, is lack of oxygen. Its decline may prompt muscle spasms, or the "agonal phase," from the Greek word agon, or contest.
6 Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your dinner begin to eat you. Ruptured cells become food for living bacteria in the gut, which release enough noxious gas to bloat the body and force the eyes to bulge outward.
7 So much for recycling: Burials in America deposit 827,060 gallons of embalming fluid—formaldehyde, methanol, and ethanol—into the soil each year. Cremation pumps dioxins, hydrochloric acid, sulfur dioxide, and carbon dioxide into the air.
8 Alternatively . . . A Swedish company, Promessa, will freeze-dry your body in liquid nitrogen, pulverize it with high-frequency vibrations, and seal the resulting powder in a cornstarch coffin. They claim this "ecological burial" will decompose in 6 to 12 months.
9 Zoroastrians in India leave out the bodies of the dead to be consumed by vultures.
10 The vultures are now dying off after eating cattle carcasses dosed with diclofenac, an anti-inflammatory used to relieve fever in livestock.
11 Queen Victoria insisted on being buried with the bathrobe of her long-dead husband, Prince Albert, and a plaster cast of his hand.
12 If this doesn't work, we're trying in vitro! In Madagascar, families dig up the bones of dead relatives and parade them around the village in a ceremony called famadihana. The remains are then wrapped in a new shroud and reburied. The old shroud is given to a newly married, childless couple to cover the connubial bed.
13(*) During a railway expansion in Egypt in the 19th century, construction companies unearthed so many mummies that they used them as fuel for locomotives.
14 Well, yeah, there's a slight chance this could backfire: English philosopher Francis Bacon, a founder of the scientific method, died in 1626 of pneumonia after stuffing a chicken with snow to see if cold would preserve it.
15 For organs to form during embryonic development, some cells must commit suicide. Without such programmed cell death, we would all be born with webbed feet, like ducks.
16 Waiting to exhale: In 1907 a Massachusetts doctor conducted an experiment with a specially designed deathbed and reported that the human body lost 21 grams upon dying. This has been widely held as fact ever since. It's not.
17 Buried alive: In 19th-century Europe there was so much anecdotal evidence that living people were mistakenly declared dead that cadavers were laid out in "hospitals for the dead" while attendants awaited signs of putrefaction.
18 Eighty percent of people in the United States die in a hospital.
19 If you can't make it here . . . More people commit suicide in New York City than are murdered.
20 It is estimated that 100 billion people have died since humans began.
2 Never say die: There are at least 200 euphemisms for death, including "to be in Abraham's bosom," "just add maggots," and "sleep with the Tribbles" (a Star Trek favorite).
3 No American has died of old age since 1951.
4 That was the year the government eliminated that classification on death certificates
5 The trigger of death, in all cases, is lack of oxygen. Its decline may prompt muscle spasms, or the "agonal phase," from the Greek word agon, or contest.
6 Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your dinner begin to eat you. Ruptured cells become food for living bacteria in the gut, which release enough noxious gas to bloat the body and force the eyes to bulge outward.
7 So much for recycling: Burials in America deposit 827,060 gallons of embalming fluid—formaldehyde, methanol, and ethanol—into the soil each year. Cremation pumps dioxins, hydrochloric acid, sulfur dioxide, and carbon dioxide into the air.
8 Alternatively . . . A Swedish company, Promessa, will freeze-dry your body in liquid nitrogen, pulverize it with high-frequency vibrations, and seal the resulting powder in a cornstarch coffin. They claim this "ecological burial" will decompose in 6 to 12 months.
9 Zoroastrians in India leave out the bodies of the dead to be consumed by vultures.
10 The vultures are now dying off after eating cattle carcasses dosed with diclofenac, an anti-inflammatory used to relieve fever in livestock.
11 Queen Victoria insisted on being buried with the bathrobe of her long-dead husband, Prince Albert, and a plaster cast of his hand.
12 If this doesn't work, we're trying in vitro! In Madagascar, families dig up the bones of dead relatives and parade them around the village in a ceremony called famadihana. The remains are then wrapped in a new shroud and reburied. The old shroud is given to a newly married, childless couple to cover the connubial bed.
13(*) During a railway expansion in Egypt in the 19th century, construction companies unearthed so many mummies that they used them as fuel for locomotives.
14 Well, yeah, there's a slight chance this could backfire: English philosopher Francis Bacon, a founder of the scientific method, died in 1626 of pneumonia after stuffing a chicken with snow to see if cold would preserve it.
15 For organs to form during embryonic development, some cells must commit suicide. Without such programmed cell death, we would all be born with webbed feet, like ducks.
16 Waiting to exhale: In 1907 a Massachusetts doctor conducted an experiment with a specially designed deathbed and reported that the human body lost 21 grams upon dying. This has been widely held as fact ever since. It's not.
17 Buried alive: In 19th-century Europe there was so much anecdotal evidence that living people were mistakenly declared dead that cadavers were laid out in "hospitals for the dead" while attendants awaited signs of putrefaction.
18 Eighty percent of people in the United States die in a hospital.
19 If you can't make it here . . . More people commit suicide in New York City than are murdered.
20 It is estimated that 100 billion people have died since humans began.
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Who wants to do this ?
What are you thinking looking at this picture ? Do you have any idea ? What the men and women are doing ?
Dont let anyone enter inside or will you ?
Save yourself from the virus., protect yourself., Just Dont let anyone enter inside you without a good preparation. Be prepared. Try safe sex and save yourself.
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