Why We are?

Years have rolled by, man thinking on this million dollar question "Why we are into this Universe?".  Some say it's by chance, some claim that we are here for a purpose.  So recondite is that purpose that no one has clearly figured out as to why we are here!  Rational thinking led us to create newer dimensions in life.  Adding facilities to our living, in fact eased our way through life.  Earlier scientists, who in contrast with current day scholars aimed at research that helped unlock the mysteries of laws of nature.  Newton defined the laws of motion and popularised the theory of light, Ptolemy proposing his heliocentric theory, Galileo with his own experiments on stars and many more laudable men.  These men took us to some extent in realizing that this world does not exist as such, but governed by some law, in simpler terms bound!

If this is the case, how do we just come into this universe?  What is that purpose that we are intended to achieve?  Nobody knows.  We wanted to be relieved off the mysteries of this life and meditated towards a pure soul, called God.  Some argue that God sent us here to serve people and called that is the 'purpose'!  But, if we are sent to serve others, whom does the served by serve?  Or does that continue as a chain.  If at all it happens as a chain, what is the purpose of the very first man?  Whom did he serve?  No clues here too.  The evolutionary theory states that man evolved from a monkey.  This evolution applies to the monkey too, which implies that the monkey must have evolved from some other primitive organism.  So, coming again what is the purpose of that primitive organism on this Universe?

Physics has one interesting area of research, 'atomic research'.  Which defines that every composite matter on this Universe is composed of atoms, which too are decomposable.  If the most primitive organism that first evolved on this earth can be traced, then what is the purpose of that organism?  Yet again, that organism can be considered to be composed of chemical components, which in turn decompose to molecules and finally to atoms.  So, it seems that there is nothing as such called 'living thing'!  It's all how these atoms combine to form molecules and various combination of molecules resulted in first organism and there on evolution has started! So, it becomes little clear that until the cause of existence of atom is questioned this is the answer.  Phew!  I muddled up so much... This is my solution for our existence folks!  Do comment if you got an alternate.... 

From conscience, with Love

Ryan has been greatly helped by his conscience on many critical occasions of his life. The moment was so surprising when his conscience spoke about its own credits to Ryan. So, here goes the soliloquy of Mr. Conscience.

Dear Ryan, I have been with you not since you were born but when you started reasoning things. The type of reasoning that you do with me is totally different than that you do with Mr. Intellect. I have always insisted you to be 'just' with people and hold on to morals, how hard the situations may be. I have been motivating you to learn your purpose of existence on this earth. Your intellect guides you only on things that help make this life more comfortable, or even move you from one misery to the other. I always struggled to liberate you from the fetters of this common man's life. This, I never did on a spiritual note but on a realization flavor. I wanted you to realize the existence of things. Realization in it's true sense means analyzing and accepting things in their true nature, not a pinch more or less. It's only with the help of me you always tried to unlock the mysteries of this very existence.



Money has been your motivation in life, no doubt aided by your intellectual mind. Whatever you did was to earn the most amount of comforts in life. It is good as long as you desired for what it's within your capacity. When you long for something that's out of your purchasing capacity, greed creeps into your mind. You make desperate attempts to acquire those material comforts in order to satisfy your greed and not you! This is because greed has kept you so unhappy and when you got what greed wanted, you are satisfied not because you actually got that thing but because you are away from the shackles of greed. My duty at those times was to illuminate your mind with thoughts pertaining to transience of material wealth. How wealth degrades with time, this was most important of all teachings that I made to you.

You always had qualms about desire and it's effect and as usual tried in vain to quit desire, only to free from the thought and not from desire itself. Desire is the personal liking to something, loss of which leads to dissatisfaction. The degree of dissatisfaction is directly proportional to the amount of liking that one has for the substance and not to the size of the substance desired. If you like a pen immensely and a car superficially, the unavailability of a pen hurts you more, not the car. But then desire helped you to climb up in your academic career. You earned better grades and secured a great future. After achieving so much you were still worried about quitting desire. You were so poor that you didn't realize that desire to quit desire is in itself desire embedded in it! When you start living for others and start learning to understand nature and with no more personal intentions, it's that moment you have quit desire completely.

Yet another thing you confused yourself with was 'good and bad' syndrome. I got you cleared off this issue through a simple term 'perception'. There is nothing that can be termed in a wholesome as good or bad, only the way we see and who sees it makes the difference. when I cut down a tree that was a hindrance to the public, am I doing good to the public or harming the tree? This shows nothing can be absolutely called good or bad. Stating in a more complex term, the doer cannot comment on his actions but only the influenced can say if it's good or bad, but again no universally agreed upon answer. No universal answer implies no action has been unanimously accepted as good or bad by people of the world. Things that bring most benefits are termed as good and vice-versa as bad. So, I advised you not to involve too much with this complicated issue and do deeds that benefited most people.

I'll speak more............

The New Year

It has become almost habitual for everyone of us to plunge into party mood on every new year's eve. This celebration of ours is of course aimed at welcoming yet another year of happiness and prosperity. But, do we just focus on just the new year day i.e., Jan 1 and fail to make the most out of the remaining 364 days? I guess, this is the scenario! What does a new year mean? If not as a general opinion I would like to project my thoughts here as simple as possible. The year that has gone by might have given us all sorts of experiences ranging from sadness to extreme happiness, failure to pinnacle of success and countless. We might have done some highly noble deeds and at the same time harmed a few hearts, with deeds and words. The year is the excellent opportunity to put all our negatives on a hold and gear up for the future, retaining those noble qualities.

Yet, I haven't mentioned what we need to do as we usher in to the new year! Well, here is one short list of activities, which I have shortlisted through my observation and experiences. The first and foremost would be adjust with the circumstances. There are many people who decline to bend for the situation. They command the similar requirements even knowing that it's not available. This is not fair as we need to travel places around the globe. It may sound so silly but you'll realize its worth only when you start working for a concern. So be prepared. Next would be, analyze things better before you speak or do. This is an elementary fact, but i feel that everyone of us forgets it with high probability! Analyze the people around you and also the situation before you proceed with your word or action, because it will decide how good you are with people or even the otherwise!

Moving on, concentrate more on retaining your friends rather than trying to make new ones. Many of u would take this sentence in the negative sense. "Concentrate" implies 'give extra efforts to'. So take efforts to keep your current friends from moving away, because that's the toughest thing since you need to take care of friends with varying attitudes. Making new friends doesn't require any effort, as they come when they like you, without any stimulus. When your current comrades are not reciprocated by you, you may lose a valuable asset. So be warned. Further, try to use knowledge for the welfare of people and country rather than to showcase your grey cell potential alone. This is the trend with almost every learned men/women nowadays. Learn to educate others. This should be the motto and this is how many world nations stand tall. So drop all your pompous display of knowledge and start working on how you can be worthy to your country, after all it's you who has to take care of your mother, i.e., your country.

A final note will be don' t take what people do to you for granted. Nobody does something to you without a pinch of care imbedded in it. So try not to harm them at least, if not you reciprocate to the fullest. These are my simple observations that can be embodied as traits of human behavior. Some may be tough to practise, but am sure the effects are divine. If you are ready for all these rejuvenations then you are ready to party out! Finally, be humane in your behaviour and be concerned in your attitude. Happy New Year friends!

Hyper-Media

The role of media, especially television is so commendable these days. The news channels in particular provide us with the latest update of events occurring in the most isolated part of our country. We come to know about the celebrations that create a jocular mood among the public or the deadly terror attacks that leave people maiming and their relatives in a sullen mood. We get to know about the stock rates at the share markets and views of educationists on various critical issues. All these services from our visual media make one doss their hats in respect. But, there is yet another issue that sometimes, can tarnish the image of these media enabled services. That's none other than going 'hyper' over the issues.

To get clearly what the term 'hyper' really means when we throw accusation at the media, the recent coverage of Mumbai terror attacks can be taken as the impeccable exempli-gratia. We, the citizens of India were deeply drowned in sorrow on viewing those harrowing attacks on our fellow countrymen and we really appreciated the media lens men for getting the glimpse of the happenings, in real time. But, this note of praise soon ended when the news channels started dealing with news as 'commodity' as a well known national daily rightly quoted. The channels started flashing sophomore news on the screens terming it as 'breaking news', even as the officials were waiting for confirmation from the personnel inside the action points.

Each channel wanted to prove its supremacy over the other and in the race failed to bring in the feeling of national sensation into the minds of citizens rather made them irritated with half-baked news that were later stated as false by the same media that reported it. The news correspondents at one point even questioned the rescued hostages who obviously had had a gruelling experience. This showed the media's hunt for news that made them go mad at the hostages. I duly respect the news correspondents who spent hours covering the events of terror attacks, even risking their lives. At one point, the media started reporting the commando plans even! This portrayed their cursory act towards news coverage and how unmindful they were of the consequences of revealing the very sensitive army plans. The message is simple. India is a democratic country where everyone has fundamental rights to his/her own credit. The media has the full freedom to write or telecast anything they wished. It would be more sensible if this freedom is used for what it is intended for, of course with minimal recklessness and maximum enlightenment!

Solitude

In this busy world most of the children are forced to experience solitude or loneliness. This pushes them to extremism of boredom leading to depressed minds. Often this may lead to detachment from life and may impose a negative impact about life in to the young minds. They may turn shy and become less sociable. But, does solitude have any positive influence? Well, like two sides for a coin, benefits of solitude are aplenty! First and foremost we get to know the challenges of maintaining the house. It's not an easy task to look after your living place. You need to answer people of diverse disciplines from electricity to dairy. These experiences will lend us the helping hand in our future. These minutes of direct interaction with these people are otherwise unavailable.

Many feel that being alone drives your mind towards deleterious thoughts that may affect your intellect. The wise uses it the other way. We can use our solitude as a blessing in disguise, an environment that is calm enough for one to think on. A noisy place is not ideal if one wants answers to his questions, be it scientific or spiritual. Yet another impact of solitude is the confidence that it leaves on the person it affects. Devoid of people to help, a solitary being plunges in to activities all alone with the only weapon 'confidence'. When we get constant pushing from friends and well wishers in solving our issues we only become too much dependent upon them. This by no way means that the help they render is useless, it only highlights the conducive nature of solitude. Thus, next time when you feel lonely be proud of it since it has greater benefits of leaving you undisturbed from gossips and at the same time be sociable.

When fishes go fishing

Terrorism has spread its wings so wide all over the world that nobody has got any clues as to how to suppress it! The major flaw lies in trying to eradicate the effects of terror every time rather than taking measures to uproot the prime cause of this ugly act. Nobody has ever thought as to why most youth resort to this deadly act of massacring people. The cause needs to be analyzed from the destitute point of view to get a clear understanding of the reason as to why these youth fall prey to terror groups. As always, survival is the key for any human being in this world and everyone looks for a chance to edge over the other. In this race for supremacy, the brainy community enjoys the top luxury and amasses most of the available wealth through business. The poor go poorer. This is not a imposed stature on the poor but it's their only option as they have no other means of livelihood.


From where do the so called terrorists spring from? They are initially one among the billions in this big world and trying to earn their living as everyone do. But, these youth have a family that is unable to sponsor them a day's meal. Under the pressure to live in this world somehow these youth resort to some illegal activities in their childhood. Their minds, from then on refuses to cooperate for any productive activity in life. A sort of addiction. The already existing terror groups look for these kind of hapless young men and mesmerize them with offers such as compensation for family and canvassing in the name of religion. As these men are already in a sullen mood they immediately yield to the bait of those illicit groups and start working for them as suicide bombers!

The leaders of the world who have great care in reviving this only living place in this Universe so far, must try to find all these young minds with anger on life and try to relieve them off their poverty. It's human nature to look out for obvious means of earning wealth, not fearing of the consequences. These minds must be ignited with good thoughts of peace and also they need to be convinced that prosperity springs from peace. This can also be done on a humanitarian basis, educating those juvenile criminals about the ill effects of taking a weapon that will ultimately end as noose for their own neck! This cannot be called a novel way of eliminating terror as it'd been carried out for sometime in the past time, must be done on a full fledged basis. It's high time for us now to prevent these maniacs from hunting men as some fishes go for the kill of fellow fishes. In both the cases, the result is adverse

Indian Pot-Pouri

Why is it so difficult in a country like India, where taking some crucial decisions by any leader always beckons criticism? Why is that any measure or an act finds colossal time to get itself implemented despite its immediate allocation of resources? Well, this one is best answered by analyzing the people of India rather than its administration. India is a land of people who are from variety of races and religion. They speak multifarious languages and follow a myriad of customs. They have plethora of cuisines and piebald of clothing. In a country of such diversity it becomes extremely difficult to arrive at one single conclusion before imposing an act as part of the constitution.


Any decision taken in our country must not affect the sentiments of the masses. The sentiments may be religious, customs performed throughout time or their aesthetics. When several of these factors contribute to the glory of particular group of people it becomes mandatory for the leaders of our country to take decisions such that none of the groups get agonized or feel that their glory is being tarnished. Each state in India has got its own tradition and none of them, of course would like to give up their prosperity, under any case whatsoever. This is not an accusation thrown at the organization of our country, but a description of the demographic layout of our nation. Leaders taking strategic decisions in country like India must analyze the consequences in terms of mentality of all the groups of people who would be affected.



Yet another conflict that arises during decision making is due to the large population of our land. This huge population count has led to various economic classes. The leaders have additional burden of making sure that their decision suits all those classes and none of them is dissatisfied. India is the biggest democratic country in the world and its constitution is so big only to make the law benefit all the classes of people. So, lets not simply accuse our leaders for not taking the most accurate decision for the very first time since it may also due to the fact that they might have come to that conclusion, excluding a class of people by mistake. By this point I by no way support politicians who take crude decisions. Its only an observation that would corroborate good leaders who take strategic decisions. For other reckless leaders, the preliminary task is to first understand that they have been elected to work for the people.