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Who I Am...?

2011-06-29T23:49:00.000-07:00

Friends,

Daily we can see so many people telling this phrase “Do you know who I am?” They think they know who they are! Do we really know who are we? This is really amazing thing that we don’t know who we are and we go on saying “Do you know who I am?” Please bear in mind; in daily usage we will still be saying “I am eating”, “I am taking bath” etc. I am not mentioning such things here. Here I am trying to say who we really are; even saying “we” is wrong because there is really only one reality without a second, from which such a beauty of creation has arisen. For example; as long as there are walls till then it is two houses or say multiple houses. If we break the walls then the space between those houses will be one. Does the space is in the house or the house is in the space? Does the space present within the house merges with outer space or the outer space merges with the inner? Nothing as such; we cannot break the space, they were already one and because of mere walls we were in illusion that they were separate. Now are you in the body or body is in youJ? Compare the body to the walls of the house! It is some thing like that, as long as we think we are the body till then there will be “I”, “thou” or say “many” Once the identity with the body falls; then our notion of “I” and “thou” also vanishes.

Suppose say that the houses have been constructed on wheels (Next Generation Technology)! Already there are few buildings which rotate slowly; I don’t know for what purpose they made it! The earth is rotating already and in turn all the buildings too! Leave that apart now, say if we move the house from one place to another place, does the space within the house move or just the walls move? Is it possible to move the space from one place to another place? Now say we moved from India to America or say some other place; do the bodies have moved or we have movedJ? Who is going to be born and who is going to die? What this mystery is all about? Is this not an interesting subject to be taken up?

What happens in the deep sleep? Our knowledge about the gender of body, our education, nation which we belong to, our miseries, happiness everything just drops. It is just that we will be out of network coverage area; though the device (body) is “on”, we won’t get incoming calls nor we can make outgoing calls! If we don’t bring our nationality, religion, gender, caste or any other nonsense; we are really one! Whether we are rich or poor; whether our gender is male, female or neutral; whether we belong to this nation or that nation, whether we are happy or unhappy; whether we belong to this religion or that religion, whether we belong to this caste or that caste, we won’t be having any differentiation whatsoever in deep sleep. Whatever the dualities we had during waking state just falls off. In deep sleep we are back to our source, but we are unconscious. We are really intelligent in deep sleep; we become stupid after waking up and tussle starts once we are in wakeful state. The differences that exist in this world are created by human and we say that human is the most intelligent species on the earth. Now I leave the reader to decide who is intelligent and who is not! The more the educated one gets; the more idiot that person becomes. This is because that person is in illusion that he or she knows many things now. It is better to burn such knowledge to ashes.

Shiva says;

“Jnyanam bandhaha” That knowledge is the bondage; of course our so called knowledge is bondage and we think that knowledge is power. To hell with such knowledge; through such knowledge we have split humanity in to tiny pieces, like 7-8 dogs having their own group in an area and not allowing other dogs! Please see; it is the work of intelligent species for such a chaos in this world. After waking up the real problems start. When we are asleep, we are really free! Why such a craze for alcohol, drugs, entertainment like movies, cricket, football etc.; we are unknowingly seeking that permanent rest or say blissful state. But we are going in wrong directions by doing so. What happens after intoxication or getting lost in any entertainment? We just forget our whole mess about life and start singing, enjoying and smiling for two or three hours. After gulping alcohol we fall into deep sleep. We will be in deep unconscious state. We won’t know where we are; we will be happy but we will not be aware of that happiness! It is just that, we have forgotten all about ourselves, that’s all. Getting into that happy state through such methods won’t help us; because in the morning the same hell will be there. Now the same problems look more horrifying and difficult to solve; because by consumption of intoxicants the mind and body will become weak. The more the intake and frequency of such intoxicants; the weaker the mind and body becomes. The intake of intoxicants makes the mind to waver; by this the ignorance increases! What happens when it rains into a clear lake, the mud from the bottom comes up and the whole water becomes muddy isn’t it? Now we cannot see the bottom of lake, that’s what happens when we drink! Because of such muddy mind we are unable to know ourselves.

Once our experience is beyond our body, mind and emotions we are all one! Once the spirit leaves the body then whatever we do to the body, there won’t be any response from it, because there is no receiver present in it now. The receiver has been delinked from the device called body. Through that device we were in communication with the world. Once this happens then if you speak to the body, that body won’t respond to you. Whether you praise or abuse there will not be any responseJ. Even if the eyes are open we can see that there is something missing in the eyes and the eyes look totally empty. The main essence has slipped out of the body. Through the eyes something was peeping out and now that is missing! So we cannot be the body for sure and gender is just for the body. We are neither male nor female nor neutral gender, yet we can take birth in the body of any gender. The thing which has left from the body cannot be seen and we cannot take a photograph of that! Can we see gravitational force and take a photo of it? We blindly believe in gravitational force and when it comes to such things doubts arise. We say that we can see the effect of gravitational force; we say that when we throw a stone upwards, the stone comes back to earth. But the same case with us to; who is making this body to move? Who is putting the food in the mouth? Who is listening; certainly after we leave the body if anyone screams then there won’t be any response from the dead body. Though the ears are intact, still there won’t be any response. This means ears are not hearing the voice; it is something in the body which was hearing through the ears! Who is feeling the touch? Who is enjoying the taste of food? Try putting a “Rasagulla” in to the mouth of a dead bodyJ! It won’t start eating, though “Rasagulla” was a favorite item for that person!

Then are we the mind? How can we be the mind? Mind changes like anything; one second back it was thinking something and the next second it thinks something. One time it likes something and the next time it dislikes the same thing. Mind has changed trillions of time and still we are here. Don’t give much importance to your mind; it is like a chameleon changing its colors always. Mind is just a memory; it is just bundle of thoughts which we went on gathering with information. Hence Jiddu Krishnamurthy says that thought cannot be creative! Why not a thought be creative? It is because it is already there in the memory. It is something like computer hard disk; whatever is there in the memory can be played or worked upon in the computer. We cannot operate the things which are not present in the computer memory! Something like that with our memory too, how can we be creative out of our memory which is stale? We can be creative only when we become hollow and empty, in silence creativity comes out. Hence a kid is more creative; it has not got much information in the memory. It asks so many questions which can’t be answered, because it is not educated yet and that’s the reason it is intelligentJ! It asks “Why monkey is having a tale and not me?”, “Why GOD has made lizards?” and so on! Certainly we don’t have any answers to such questions! We have to become empty to be creative else we can gather information to remain an idiotJ. We don’t remember many thoughts which have come and gone till date. Then how can we be the mind or say thoughts!

Are we the emotions or feelings? So many times our emotions have changed and so many times we have been in the whirl wind of feelings and we are still alive. So many times anger has come and gone; so many times lust has engulfed us and has gone. So many times we have fallen in love and fallen out of love, even after marriage people fall in love then how can we be the feelings. So many times we felt that this is the end of life but we are still carrying on with the life! So we cannot be feelings either.

Here I want to mention one thing; that intellectually understanding the subject is not enough and it is not going to help much. It should become an experience and one should see who they really are. By seeing I don’t mean that you will see yourself, how can you see yourself? When we can not see our own eyes and need a mirror to see them; how can we see our selves? Even if we come in front of a mirror (I am not mentioning the body here) we cannot see our selves, but we can see the mirrorJ! How amazing it is! That’s the reason we called this as “Darshan Shastra”; that we see or say we come to know who we really are. It is not a philosophy. Whatever we have in our scriptures is not philosophy; they are the ways to seek and know ourselves. They are just the ways and are not for keeping somewhere in the house and offering flowers and prayers. Instead offering prayers, better burn them and no need to keep them in the house. At least the house becomes clean and you will have place to keep some other items. Different people said that experience in different ways. I am mentioning here as different people, because the same nothingness or say “Brahman” (or any other name in that matter, don’t stick to words much) through different bodies, places and languages expressed the same truth in different ways.

Kanaka Says

“Nee maye oLago, ninnoLu mayeyo;”

“Nee dehadoLago ninnoLu dehavo?”

Like this he goes on saying about many things; he is amazed with the experience! How to express such an incredible experience and out of that amazement he goes on singing. He says “Are you in Maya (illusion) or Maya is in you! Are you in the body or body is in you! He is asking GOD these questions. We may say GOD, truth, my own self etc., it is just a matter or a way of expression.

Sharif says

“KoDgana koLi nungitta nodavva tangi” and the song continue…!

He is a person who likes to speak things like puzzles! He expresses here, how come the infinite thing has been swallowed by the finite thing? He is amazed by the phenomenon. “I” the infinite has been swallowed by this finite body, what a wonder! The whole universe is with in me and how come I am in this finite body, really it’s a wonder right?

Rahim says

“Bindu me sindhu samaye”

He says “Drop contains the ocean” how amazing the phenomenon is! Whom to tell such an incredible mystery? Who will agree to my statement? They will surely think that I have gone mad! But who cares; no problem even if the whole world mocks at meJ!

Once this becomes your experience, then you will also wonder and eye brows will go up and we will be dumbstruck, will not be in a position to tell about this to anybody. Others may think that we have gone mad! It takes quite some time to put that experience in words. Many people whom I tell such things think that I have gone mad or else they think that I am drunk and I can understand their problem too. But I cannot help, it is better to be mad rather than an idiot. I want to stop but I cannot stop telling or writing about that.

Once I was in a bar and another person started speaking with me, he may be around 50 years. The discussion went on and it got diverted to “Adhyatma” (Study to know the soul). Starting I was hesitant to speak on that and he was speaking many things which he had memorized from the scriptures. I told him that he is repeating whatever is there in the scriptures and it is not his experience. He became angry and asked me whether “Jnanodaya” (self realization) has happened to me or not! I was hesitant; but couldn’t keep quite too and said “yes it has happened”. He continued and asked “Then have you seen the soul?” I smiled and said “How can you see the soul, when you are the soul!” You can see everything else and not yourself! Nobody can see you; you are the witness of everything! He said that I am lying and enlightened people will not come to bars and he left me! As usual there was a smile on my faceJ, what can I do?

Shankara says “What is drunkenness to me?” and explains, if we put alcohol in to a vessel and take it out, will the smell of the alcohol can touch the empty space within the vessel? This is said by Adi Shankaracharya. I say; if you pour water into the empty space, what will happen to the empty space? Nothing right; like that even if we pour alcohol nothing will happen to the empty space. There happened a person in Japan, he went to the forest and did meditation for few years and after years being in solitude and with nature he realized and came back to the city where he was from. What did he do after coming back? He used to do his regular work and evening he used to be seen chatting with his friends in the bar. It is better to get enlightened and then start drinking or else drinking will become a hindrance in self realization! Self realization is not a special thing. You will become just natural; as long as we are in the body we will carry out our daily routine. Only thing is that our hankering for things here and there will evaporate. The dog like behavior of ours which was there by looking at bones (things) will vanish. Our agonies, miseries, depression etc. will vanish. We were thinking them as great problems and now they look silly! If we hold a pebble very near to our eyes, then we won’t see the things which are beyond that pebble and the pebble looks too huge. Now by holding the pebble far away the pebble looks small, like that our problems also look smaller. Daily all those problems will be there, but they won’t look like problems hence forth. It is a part of interdependent life we are in and we have to go through it.

Intellectually understanding this is not enough. Understanding is required to start the journey for self realization. Just understanding verbally and playing with words will leave us like idiot scholars or pundits who have memorized scriptures like parrots! But in our daily social life this “I” and “thou” will be there, that is not going to change anyway. But deep down; the one who has known or experienced will know what really that “I” means.

Ashtavakra says, “I am always without I”J.

Then the question arises as why we are unable to perceive the truth? It is because our reception is not clear. The receiver is covered with so many layers of ignorance. Those who have cleaned their receiver unit and the device called body; they will perceive it easily. Let me tell you, the grace is showering equally and all the time on everyone of us. It has not stopped even for a fraction of second and it will never going to stop either. But those who have made their container straight and don’t have holes in the container will receive it easily. But those, whose containers are upside down and also whose containers have holes will not receive anything! It is like the sun, which goes on showering light on everybody and everything without any difference. But if you are inside your house, totally closed like a cocoon, then how will the light shower on you? Come out of your cocoon and the light is there already. If you come out of your cocoon called your ideas, beliefs, religion, nation, education, caste etc.; it becomes very easy else you will be in your own grave and thinking it as the ultimate thing. It is better to format our brains and erase our memory first and then something worth can be written over it.

There is a Marathi song (I don’t know the lyricist, if anyone knows please tell me)

“Varasha kaLi pavusa dhara, Tula na disala tyata ishara” He says that, the rain (grace) was pouring all the time. But you (he is referring to himself) couldn’t get the signal of that! What to do if you have gone out of network coverage area; how can the signal reach you? Signal comes and falls on everybody’s door, but you are closed inside your own cocoon! Then it’s whose fault anyway? You can get the signal anywhere; be it in the house, office, and monastery, or jungle, market, under the tree or on the top of the tree. It doesn’t matter where you are but it is just that how efficiently you receive that signal!

One day in a family get-together; while discussing some matter, I told something (which I don’t remember now) and one of my relative asked me “Sitting under which “ichala” tree (it’s a tree from which local alcohol is prepared) did you got enlightened?” in a mocking way! I asked back “If you have a head ache or stomach pain, you will come to know about it under whichever tree you are sitting isn't it?” She kept mum! It is something like that, if Buddha was enlightened sitting under an “ichala” tree, people would have started worshipping “ichala” tree instead banyan tree. It is not that what happened to the earlier people, the same way it should happen to us too! It is not because of “ichala” or banyan tree it will happen, it will happen based on your signal reception capacity. Please clear and clean your units properly, it can happen in the deserts too!

With Love

Vishu

Boredom...

2011-05-08T10:39:00.000-07:00

Friends,

Many of us have gone through the entertainment called “Boredom” The only species on this earth which gets bored is human. Have anyone seen plants, birds, and other animals getting bored? I haven’t seen any! Whenever I have seen any animals or birds silent, they look really relaxed and a charm hovers around their face. The way they sit and walk, looks as though a prince is moving. Even Alexander the great looks pale in front of them! They never look bored at anytime, because it is not in their nature!

Whenever we see a human sitting silent, then there will be unrest around them. Even while taking rest we look as though we are in some race. We look totally dull and stupid doing nothing. Many will be so uneasy that they start looking here and there for some work. They take some book and start reading and suddenly they will throw that book down. They drop the book and start changing the TV channels. For few minutes this goes on and they will get up and look outside as what is happening. There is nothing new outside, so they come in and start re-arranging the house. If this also doesn’t make them relaxed then they will start searching something in the house to munch. This is the reason for obesity around the world. The mechanism of the mind is as such, it always wants us to hang on to something, and it will never allow us to relax peacefully! Otherwise it is the death of mind; hence it goes on giving new wish to us. It has an infinite wish list; one wish would have not completed and by then gives few more wishes. It is like a monkey which goes on deciphering each thing and looks inside and throws out! It would have not held a thing for few seconds and by that time tries to pick another thing and drops the previous one. If we watch our mind, it is more than a monkey. Has anyone seen a poster or sculptor of “Hanuman” sitting in meditative-ness? It is something meaningful; this indicates us to take the monkey like mind into meditative-ness! It is very difficult; hence many will run out whenever they are asked to sit for meditation! We can see so many knots on the face of such monkey mind like people sitting for meditation. They look as though they have a constipation problemJ! It is better for them to get out and carry out their own work or else meditation makes such people much more tired than relaxed. They are not yet ready for such things, when they get ready then something can be done about that, other wise it is just waste of time!

Even in the parks we can see people being not at ease. They came there to relax, but they will be in some kind of hurry, be it in the morning walk, evening walk or on Sundays. Though there is no urgent work, they will be looking tensed as though they have lot of work! They will take the walk in a hurry and sit on the bench for five minutes and then run to house. Even while sitting on the bench they will look uneasy and sit on the edge of the bench and are ready to run back to house. In the house they say that they relaxed at the park. But from the face we can very well see the unrest popping out. I thought the old people who are retired will be relaxed, but the unrest on their face is much heavier than others. They think they have seen everything in life, they say that their hairs have gone gray experiencing life! But if you have experienced life in totality then there should be a sign of satisfaction on your face! This really is missing and that is the problem. They do not have work and in those long hours of non-doing, the reminder of death pops out in the mind. This makes them more uneasy and the heart will be filled with fear and they engage themselves in some other work like “Bhajans”, “Satsangs”, or some social work etc. This they are not doing for the sake of doing, but they want to get the hell out of that emptiness and fear. This is horrifying as after living for 60, 70, 80 years they feel they have not known life at all. How can we know life when we are just running behind the mind wherever it takes? This religious work they are doing is out of fear and not out of love, they are afraid that they may get into hell. When we don’t have work, then the hell inside us pops out. This is the reason we want to get engaged in some or the other work. Be it watching movies, cricket, serial or gathering friends and partying or whatever; it is to just forget the nonsense going on in the mind and get engaged in some other nonsense. The mess which was already there has not vanished but we added some more mess in to our mind. Like this we go on gathering garbage day by day, we are great garbage collectors in this world and are not aware of it yet!

Weekends are the most horrifying days to pass; passing forty-eight hours is not that easy! Almost everyone will plan what to do on those days. Take the car, bike out or book some taxi and escape from the place which used to haunt since five days. Though the house was ours and own, it still looks horrifying! We took lot of time and money to build it and we are still paying the loansJ. After all these dreams to build the own house, our own house looks like mental hospital and we escape from that place. Madness is inside us and not somewhere outside; by escaping from one place to another or one work to another, this madness won’t vanish. Where to go is another head-ache, spouses will be fighting over this issue every weekend and on every holiday. Almost all the places near by have been visited and it is so boring to go to the same old place! Going some where far will be bit difficult as the money flow has to be checked. Almost 80% of the money has to be paid for monthly expenditure and some money has to be kept for unplanned and unavoidable circumstances.

If this is not the case, then prepare some dish to pass the time. Almost all types of food have been tasted and all sorts of experiments have been done to make a special dish! This also looks boring and we get some food from outside and try passing that day. We went to all the restaurants and even trying new restaurant and cuisines is of no use! We have seen almost all the movies, serials and all entertainment looks so boring! Even the comedy shows have become like tragedy showsJ! How long can we go on laughing for those same stupid jokes?

If these all things make no difference in us then log on to either “facebook” or “orkut” and check what the others are doing. What new videos or jokes are uploaded! After few minutes this also gets bored and the same question remains in the mind as “What to do now?” While we were new to any social network we were in a happy mood as the old friends are getting in touch and we share few old school and college incidents for few days and then again the same thing “Boredom” This is something like newly wed couples. Each will go on exaggerating as how much they love each other and what the partner mean to them in their life. They go on saying “Without you my life seemed empty and you filled that emptiness with your love!” and there will be tears in their eyes expressing about this. But after few months the same case again, two empty people married each other and that emptiness doubled! Two bored people got married and now it is boredom square! Now both the soul mates sit beside each other and scratch each others brain! Always there will be some tussle between the soul mates; they go on itching each other! Many times I escape from that place, starting seemed funny for me and now it looks stupid! The same fight goes on everyday and they stretch it like chewing gum! Like this they go on chewing each other’s skull! If there is fight then life looks somewhat entertaining otherwise so boring you know!

Even the same case at the work place, for few years everyone works so interestingly and the involvement will be at its peak. We were very happy running behind ever changing technologies. We used to get updated very quickly to get recognition from the top management. Now it is totally opposite, the same technologies seem boring, the pace with which they are changing, we feel frustrated! Now we are unable to relax to maintain that pace. Slowly this enthusiasm diminishes and again going to office is a head ache. Monday seems like a hard rock on the heart, because we have to get back to office! Even when time comes to relax, we cannot relax, because the running mind will not stop suddenly. If I compare my school and college days, then I can clearly find the difference. Those days I could sit for hours without doing any thing. No thoughts used to pass, I was so much immersed with the nature and there was just joy within me. But over the period of time it started vanishing; of course because of my own stupidity, but now I am coming back to that state of blissfulness. I laugh at my folly for un-necessarily going through that turmoil, but it is good that I went through it. Else I would have never known my folly!

Then taking care of kids and guiding them for their career is another tussle. It is not for the career of kids, every parent pushes their kids to the field they have chosen. Else they will push them to take the career, which they couldn’t get into. They wanted to become famous and couldn’t become, so they make their kids to run fast to become famous! They want to leave a carbon copy of themselves on this earth! We were stupid and we want to make our kids also as stupid as us! What the kids will do? They produce kids and leave their own carbon copy. This production of Xerox copies continue forever! We don’t want to leave them to choose their field. Leave about the career, parents decide what the kid should wear, eat, behave, sit, and talk and this list is infinite. Nice kid means the one who listens to all the commands of the parents and has no wishes of its own. Such kids will sure become dull and stupid!

The things which we went behind as happiness have really turned out be pain in our neck. Take any example for that matter; be it career, life partner, kids, car, house etc. They are all momentary; the happiness from them could be for just few seconds. Please check carefully; just do not waste the life in sleepiness. By sleep I don’t mean the night sleep. The sleepiness we are passing our life daily. Awake and see life afresh, see whether all that we have done so far has really given any meaning to our life. This we have done many lives and will be doing the same thing again. When we are born then again our career will start from nursery and the same rut again… career, life partner, kids … or whatever other things!

The main reason for this boredom is because of repetitiveness. Hence we came out of something called as liberation. Whatever we achieve, we will end up in boredom sooner or later. Unless we won’t get back to our source, nature won’t leave us to settle. Deep within us is not at all happy with any kind of settlement, but mind won’t leave us to know our source! This is the game we are in! Certainly, if we have done the same things over and over again, then there is no meaning in repeating the same! Leave about the above things, even birth and death is repetitiveness. Only the place, form and, parents may change. Again we get attached to them, the way we are attached with our relationships and ideas now! If this is the case then there is no death at all. Actually death is a myth! It is something like changing the dress we have worn. The way we throw our old dress out, we throw our body and get into new body! The old body is of no use and what we wished to accomplish or to be with other life partner or to take revenge of someone will lead us to next life situations accordingly! Actually body throws us out and not that we drop the body. If we drop our body by our own wish then we are liberated anyway!

By liberation I don’t mean that there will not be another birth, it means that you can take birth at your own will! You can choose your parents, place, and nature of work you want to carry out on earth etc. You can decide about number of years you are going to live and escape from here! Everything will be at your will. If liberation means there is no birth then it is not at all liberation. Liberation means one should be allowed to be born if they wish. You will take birth to help others to come out of the nonsense you have gone through many lives!

If we are more ambitious, then we make someone as an icon and start acting and following them! This is another stupidity. We make a player, actor/actress, industrialist, saint, or a philosopher as our icon and start imitating them. Many people try to act like their favorite actor or actress. After watching a movie the imitation and dialogues of the movie go for few days. I used to imitate cricket playersJ, how stupid I was! It got dropped very soon but! I have seen many acting like famous Guru’s who are running NGO’s now. The imitation of the master by disciples is clearly seen and they are not aware of it. Of course master will hit at right time to such disciplesJ. We are not here to imitate others, be it anybody. If someone says you to become like Rama, Krishna, Buddha, Vivekananda or anybody else then don’t listen to them. We are here to become ourselves; repetition is not possible in this world. Even the word becoming is not correct; we are already that, made up and we are complete and we are struggling to become perfect. This is really hilarious; we are already complete and trying to become complete! Some one asked Buddha as what did he got after his enlightenment, Buddha started laughing (though he would have not, I would haveJ) and said “I didn’t get anything; I lost everything and found that I was already complete!” We are already enlightened; we have to just recognize it. What will we do after recognizing? We will laugh at our stupidityJ, in a way it is a joke!

Once upon a time there was a lioness and its cub, lioness died and the cub was looked after by a bunch of sheep. The cub became young and it used to behave like sheep. It used to eat leaves. We also become the way our company is! One day an old lion came from some other part for hunting to fill its stomach. After seeing the group of sheep, it attacked to catch one of them. To its surprise it found a young lion in the midst of that group of sheep! Instead catching sheep, it chased the young lion. Young lion started escaping; it was doing so, since the other sheep were doing so. After much difficulty the old lion could catch hold of the young one! Of course it was a lion and that too young! The old lion took the young one to the lake nearby and made it to peep in to the lake. The young one looked its face and also the face of the old lion in the lake. Like a flash it recognized itself. What will it do after recognizing? It roared and for the first time the sheep’s trembled listening to that roar!

So what will you do after recognizing yourself? You will also roar “AHAM BRAHMASMI!” or whatever you want to roarJ, or you can keep silent too! It’s up to you what you want to do!

With Love

Vishu

Matrix...

2010-11-10T05:36:00.000-08:00

Friends,

Many of us have seen the movie “Matrix…” let me try to explain the essence in a different way. Is anyone interested in it? Do we have the technologies to make a reality out of this fiction movie? Knowingly I have chosen the name for this article, so that at least out of curiosity people will read! The story is all about us, that we are in a certain matrix and bound to that. The matrix is very limited with little activities from our senses. The whole adventure in the movie is to get out of this limitedness and become unbound. We are in a certain type of illusion. Are we not in illusion? Sure we are in a sort of illusion; everybody in their hearts of heart would be having this question as whether this is all real?

Take for example the fire, scratch a match stick then suddenly there is fire! From where did it come from? Blow little air to the fire then the fire is not at all there, where did it go? Amazing right? Suppose we tried downloading a copy of a file and in between there is some network problem and we couldn’t receive that copy of file, where did that copy disappeared? With the union of male and female new life comes out, what a miracle! After death, there won’t be a trace of anybody isn’t it? Let us not dig more in to this illusion and get in to “Matrix…”

We said that there are seven “Chakras” (energy centers) in the subtle body of ours which are operating at different locations of the body and generating energy to operate the body. Where will we feel the lust engulfing? At what center the jealousy erupts? Where will we feel love or hate? Where will we get choked when we feel like crying or we feel grateful? Which center activates when anger comes or we start thinking? Please start observing the next time you are in to such situations! I will not dig more into these chakras. If anyone is interested they can get into “Wikipedia” for more details, it is just waste explaining the same thing over and over again! The whole exercise is to make these centers to work at their peak of energies! Once these centers start working at their peak then it doesn’t take much time to come out of the body! The technologies for these centers to work at their peak are “praNayam”, “Breathing techniques”, “Meditation”, “Singing” etc. By singing I don’t mean the chaotic songs now days everyone is interested in. Actually such songs and music will spoil the energy centers. If we observe carefully, listening and singing such songs make us uneasy, isn’t it? Even drinking, smoking etc. spoil the working of energy centers. I have the experience of thisJ! More intakes of spicy food and things like onion, garlic, green chilly etc. make the energy to move downwards. These are all called as negative “praNic” food. The things which make our energy to drop down are called negative “praNic”. In positive “praNic” the things like fruits, green vegetables, ash guard etc. will come.

When each energy center starts working at its peak then each door is opened and the energy moves up through the central nervous system (we call it “sushumna”). After the sixth door opens then we are in joyous state, sort of coolness covers the top of the head and bliss overflows. All the new born kids will be in that state by default. So we can find them smiling, playing all the time. We can se such a charm on the face of the baby. It has not got any car, bank balance, fame or anything but it is very blissful. Slowly with the teaching of parents, teachers and watching everyone around; the intelligence of the kid starts corrupting and becomes stupid! It starts gathering ego, jealousy, hate, desires. Slowly all the centers start getting closed! So many desires attack us and we are tampered by them. If a computer system gets corrupted or gets a virus attack then we execute defragmentation and antivirus software to clean the system. These “praNayam”, “Kriyas”,”Bhajans”, and “Meditation” are like that software which will align the inner software. The whole of Sanskrit language and the seven “Swaras” is devised scientifically. Each word and each “Swara” hits particular energy center, that’s the reason we stressed on the pronunciations with exact sound effect. Daily if we practice these things then slowly lust turns in to creativity, hate in to love, misery in to gratitude, and anger in to compassion. The mind and body which was not listening to us will come in control. Has anyone seen a photo or sculpture of a chariot being driven by six horses and a charioteer driving the chariot with all the six ropes in his left hand and a whip in the right hand? It is symbolically represented like that; the real meaning is something different. We are driven by six senses which are pulling us in different directions, we have lost the ropes and there is no question of whip being in our hand or not. Once the ropes are lost then with the whip we cannot do anything!

I have heard

I saw Mulla riding a horse which was going in all the directions with full speed. After watching Mulla for a long time I asked him “Mulla where do you want to go?” Mulla Said “I don’t want to go anywhere, this horse is dragging me everywhere and what shall I do?” I suggested him to use the rope and whip to take control of the horse. Mulla said “There is no rope and if I use the whip the horse is running at greater speed!”

This is the situation with us too, servants have become the master and there is no trace of the master. We are just running behind the senses wherever they take us. The mind is pulling us in thousands of different directions. So the old symbol of six horses doesn’t fit now days! We have to have thousand horses driving the chariot, the body is the chariot! Take the senses in your control and use the whip called knowledge to give them one direction! So to give the senses one direction, “Rishis” came with so many technologies which took them many years and many lives to invent! They have invested their whole life to give those technologies to the people. Such people were mocked at, abused and even killed. Yet they go on working and that is their compassion. One day a person came to Buddha and spat on Buddha’s face, Buddha just wiped it and continued with his talk. After few days that same person came and said sorry to Buddha and asked to forgive him. Buddha said “That day is gone and you have totally changed now, the person who spat and the person who is standing before me now are totally different. So don’t worry about that” If this incident had happened with us then what we would have done?

With all these misbehaviors of ours they still come and do their work. Please check, the temple which you are going and doing prayers, that person is out here and doing his or her work. May be we are abusing the same person whom we worshipJ. This life is really amazing, how wonderful it is! I can clearly see people including my family and relatives abusing the same person whom they worship in temples and houses! That is the problem, when a person is alive then our ego gets hurt and jealousy erupts and we start abusing them. When they depart then we make a temple and start praying and garlanding! Nothing else can be done you know! I have seen people saying “why that Guru travels by airplane”, “why he should have car?” We think that he should go by walk to America, England and other countries. That person should not travel by car. Earlier there were no vehicles so they went by walk. Taking a bullock cart or chariot was added burden! Government will decide who a Guru is! This is amazing, a bunch of idiots decide who is a Guru and who is not. If they feel that certain person is a guru then they reward that person. It is something like a beggar giving alms to a king. People decide what a guru should do and shouldn’t, what to wear and what to not wear. If they wear casuals, jeans and tea shirts then that person is not a guru. If one comes with a fag and a glass of wine then that’s it, gone case! It is just idiotic. We are just stuck to uniforms; by wearing uniforms we don’t become knowledgeable. Dress code is no way concerned with being a guru or not. First of all the very word has lost its meaning hence let us forget about this word. “gu” means darkness or ignorance and “ru” means dispeller. Whoever dispels the darkness that person is called a Guru.

If one is open and ready to learn then that person will learn from anything and anybody. “Dattatreya” has mentioned twenty four gurus’ like air, water, sky, earth, and thief and so on… For all the twenty four gurus please surf the internet. If one is not ready to learn then even, “Shiva’, “Krishna” and the entire Gurus who have come and gone will be of no use. We have missed them all, that’s the reason we are dragging with life till now! Still we are missing them and who is at loss? Because of this ego of people, “Rishis” created temples and energized them with their overwhelming energy. At least people will bend in front of that idol and sit in that energized field and imbibe that energy. It is very hard to bend in front of a live person u see; everybody wants to make others bend in front of them. Because of this ego we are missing the ultimate reality! Now constructing temple has become a business, I am not saying everywhere but 99% what goes on in the name of GOD is business. Once the guru departs from his or her body then disciples start acting as masters and they deviate the whole thing and then that place just becomes another worshipping place. If we start explaining the things which is not in our experience, certainly we will deviate. When people were stuck with “Vedas” and “Upanishads” then Shankar came with “Vedanta” that is end of Vedas. People had just made everything a ritual. Because of the so called rituals, people are not interested in this! Now I can see so many deviations of “Vedanta” too. Such a simple and straight forward thing and it is being deviated. There are thousands of commentaries on “Bhagavad Gita” each extracting their own meaning out of it! Why commentaries is required if one has experienced? If a person has experienced then that person will say in his or her own way isn’t it? They may quote some statements in the scriptures, because most of us are stuck with our scriptures. The scriptures which will lead us to liberation have become like a hard stone tied to our neck isn’t it? It is something like a map and we are worshipping the map and never started our journey. Where will we reach by doing so?

Many say that guru is not required, that is the ego! To earn little money and a shelter we went around fifteen years of rigorous training under many teachers and when it comes to cross this cycle of life and death no one wants a guru. With all this education for years we still topple many times in life, then think of liberation! Jiddu Krishnamurthy went on saying that guru or whatsoever is not needed to know the truth and he went on preaching for forty years, at least he should have stopped speaking! If any intelligent person had heard that guru is not required then after hearing that statement the person should have left that place. But I have seen many still listening to his discourses and reading his books year after year! Even if one has heard that guru is not required then by hearing the statement that person has made the speaker a guru, am I right or wrong? We cannot know everything in life. We have to take help of the one who has known the subject other than what we have known, that is intelligence isn’t it? We do not go on repairing car, bike, TV etc.; we take the help of the one who knows it. Few can do on their own I am not denying that. If a person is very intelligent then that person may not require a guru, but such people are very rare and can be counted on fingers since millions of years!

I have heard

Mulla went to a watch repairer’s shop and from his bag poured all the parts of the watch and said the shopkeeper to repair it. Shopkeeper asked in amazement as what has happened to the watch? Mulla said that it fell from the table and it has broken in to pieces. Shopkeeper said “But how can the watch break in to hundreds of pieces?” Mulla said “After it fell from the table I tried to repair it!”

That’s what we are doing with our life, trying to fix it here and there. Heart is broken in to pieces, mind has shattered, and body has gone to nuts! Some days back I was sitting in a park and an old man (around 75 years of age) was complaining to the yoga teacher that his sugar and BP has not come to normal even after doing “praNayam”! Yoga teacher said that it takes some time to give the result and asked him to do it daily. That old timer was doing “praNayam” since a week, such an idiot and they want the result like instant coffee! Whole life went in fixing unnecessary things here and there.

Shankara says,

“praNayamam pratyaharam, nityanitya viveka vicharam”

“japya sameta samadhi vidhanam kuru avadhanam mahadavadhanam”

It should be made a daily routine from the young age, the way we brush and take a bath daily. The meaning of this stanza can be got from the internet. But I have heard people saying that they don’t have time even to scratch their butts! I have seen the same people sitting in movie halls, watching TV, gossiping meaningless things, reading newspapers. I have heard people talking about celebrities as what they wear including the underwear! Underwear’s worn by celebrities are being auctioned and people are there to buy them, what to say to such idiots? What soap they use, when they go to bath room and what they eat etc. Everyone is busy talking such idiotic things all over the globe. When it comes to do the thing which is most vital, people don’t have time. They go on complaining the problems of life and not ready to practice the things which take them out of misery. When death nears then they start trembling and start chanting mantras and singing “Bhajans”! I have a friend whose age is around 55 or 60 he was a non-believer in GOD. Now he says that he has started praying in front of the photos of GOD. What is essential has not been done, these prayers won’t help much. It may give some solace that you prayed that’s all.

Shankara says,

“kurute ganga sagar gamanam, vrata paripalanam athava danam”

”dhyan viheena sarvamatena, muktirna bhavati janma shatena”

He says that doing pilgrimage or practicing rituals and giving donations won’t help to cross the ocean of life called birth and death even in hundred life times. With one pointedness get in to meditativeness and find out who are you?

Let us get back to “Matrix...” So after the sixth energy center or door opens then the energy enters the top of the head. The whole passage has become like a hollow flute. We will be in a blissful state. Once the seventh door opens then we are in touch with the source. We were already one with the source, but the invisible wall called ignorance vanished. Drop falls back to the ocean and becomes the ocean, else ocean floods in to the drop. It is one and the same. That door is called as “Brahma Randra” or “Vaikunth Dwara” or the door of highest perception. Has anyone seen devotional movies? Seven doors open and then it is the entry to paradise. This is just an external representation. Even the movie makers might not know this! Has anyone observed the temples carefully? The temple tower contains seven, five or three doors under which we enter the temple isn’t it? This is again the external representation of the same phenomenon what I have explained above! I am not yet clear about the difference in number of doors. If this happens then, when one wish to get out of the body can get out and when one wish to enter the body can enter! We can create one more body, how is it? One can know their past and the future! We will be out of the “Matrix…”! If we show this in any TV news channel then everyone will start doing “praNayama” Shall we do that? But the idiotic thing is that we are stuck in silly things here and there? Amazing thing is that 99.9% of people go on missing such a simple thing; wow how is the grip of these desires! Is it a fiction or a realityJ?

Many devotees have sung the same thing in different ways.

Sharif says,

“soruthihudu maneya maLige adnyanadinda”

“muruku toleu huLuku janti koredu saridu keela sadali”

”haraku chappara jeerugundi,melakeri hogalare”

Meaning of this song; the house (his body) is leaking with ignorance. All the parts are broken and he is not able to get out of this body and he is slipping down. I am in this situation now! Please bless me to get out of this!

Kanaka says,

“bagilanu teredu seveyanu kodo hariye, koogidaru dhwani keLalillave narahariye?”

Meaning of this song; please open the door and give me service, can’t you here my voice!

With Love

Vishu

Bang...

2010-09-07T23:06:00.001-07:00

Friends,

Am I going to come up with another theory called “Big Bang Theory”? Who knows? May be possible that I may bang all the theories, or I may support all the theories! I feel that this “Big Bang Theory” will be the next big religion in this world; science has already become another religion by now. People instead worshipping in temples will worship this theory! The term “GOD” or “Bhagawan” will be replaced by the word “Physics”. There is no end to our stupidity, whatever the case might be!

These scientists poured so much money to understand the creation and they got nothing out of it! This is really hilarious, which got them nothing :-); they would have used that money to help others! We were telling this thing since millions of years and no one is ready to accept it. We said that this creation has sprung out of “Shoonya”; this doesn’t mean zero, this means nothing. Now these scientists say that GOD didn’t created this universe; it is the law of physics that created this universe from nothing and they call it the “Big Bang Theory”. Whatever the theory they are coming up now is the same theory saints came up with earlier too. GOD doesn’t mean that there is a big person sitting up and checking our transactions of life and creating this universe every fraction of a second. GOD means “Generator-Operator-Destroyer” or “Brahma-Vishnu-Mahesh” that “Brahma” creates, “Vishnu” operates and “Mahesh” destroys. They are not three persons in the first place; the same energy within us is creating, maintaining and destroying at the same time! I have a suggestion to that scientist that before giving some statement please understand the earlier theories too. The earlier saints were great scientists, we called science as “Vigyana”, the way now scientists have given some name to their theories the earlier “Rishis” or saints have given some naming conventions, we are fighting against naming conventions and not the real stuff.

There is a temple in “Tamil Nadu” called as “Chidambaram”; the temple is empty and has no idols in it and people worship that empty space! But later people didn’t understand the purpose of it; they thought what is the meaning of worshipping this empty space? So “Rishis” understood the problem of people and came up with something called as Idols and worshipping the idols! When kids start crying then we give some toys so that they can stop crying. For those who wanted something to hang on and cry before, idols were created. We can cry in front of that idol and tell out our problems. Pour all our feelings that which can’t be told to anyone else, by doing so we get un-burdened and relax. As kids love different kinds of toys, saints created different types of idols. If anyone is miserable then go to the temple and sit in front of the idol and tell out our problems, because no one else will listen to our problems. They have also got the same problems and they get irritated listening to us:-). Else sing some songs whole-heartedly, chant mantras and bring down the turmoil in the heart and mind. Earlier “Rishis” knew the human pschycology very deeply. If possible we will explore on these idols and the meaning behind it some time later. But if we are stuck to idols then we are still in the nursery, the earlier we move further the better it is! How long can we be in the same grade whole of our life? This is not just in this life; we have been in the same grade since many lives. Till now we have not yet learnt anything, look at our ignorance level! I will leave the reader to think over this a little bit.

There is neither hell nor heaven somewhere up or down; it is with in us. When we are miserable then we are in hell, when we are joyous we are in heaven. Hell and heaven is a state of mind with in us. If one leaves the body with miserable state then that spirit will be in a state like hell. Just think of the agony if one leaves the body in misery, there is no way to cry or yell at! When the physical body was intact then at least we would have cried and got relieved! We won’t be having an option to throw our stress and hell out when there is no physical body! If one leaves the physical body joyously then that spirit will be in a state like heaven that’s all. The same case with “Punya” and “Papa” too, when an act brings us misery then that is “Papa”. The act that brings us joy is called “Punya”. This is very simple; there is no one up there to neither punish nor reward for our deeds. We are the one who is writing the software for ourselves. Once we know that we are the one responsible, and then it’s up to us to decide what we want to write. This universe is an echo system; if we do good then good will return to us. If we do bad then bad will return to us. It’s just a matter of time; we could be very strong and may have all the powers but let me tell, this will also not help in our safety! That is the meaning of “What you sow, so shall you reap”! Actually because of both misery and joy there is balance in this world. It is like two wings of an airplane, two pedals of a bicycle, debit and credit of an account entry etc. Daily we swing between those two things. We have been swinging like this since millions of lives, in different forms in different ways. Those who want to shuttle can go on shuttling forever, that’s what we did since many lives and that’s what we are still doing! Is there anyone to come out of this endless shuttling? There are ways; it’s just a matter of will take it up to come out of this nonsense!

We even said that cutting down the trees or slaughtering the animals is a “Papa” It is because the whole creation is going on in a rhythm! What will happen if we break one pin from the microprocessor? The system will go haphazard or it may not run! By cutting down the jungles we are reducing the generation of oxygen, which is the basis of life. We are using whatever the little oxygen we have now! Actually we are breathing more carbon dioxide now days! What will happen if we take too much carbon dioxide? This will make our energy levels to drop down. It will increase negativity or toxins in us; this will in turn increase fear, jealousy, hatred, and possessiveness in us! The words “Papa” and “Punya” were used to convey the balance or imbalance in the nature and with in us. The whole creation is happening in a great order, which we have meddled with it too much! We have to face those consequences anyway!

Sure the earlier “Rishis” would have come up with so many inventions too! Be it weapons, airplanes, submarines and nuclear weapons. Millions and millions of years have passed; we may not have those inventions. But they came to know one thing the danger in it. If these technologies get in to the hands of crooked people then they will use that for destruction. They want to rule the world and can do any nonsense for that! They would have destroyed those inventions, the earlier ‘Rishis” were more intelligent than now day’s scientists! We can see so many tyrants in our history and their madness; they will use such inventions for destruction. At last Einstein was repenting for handing over those inventions to the leaders of the nation. What for did they used his invention, we very well know about “Hiroshima” and “Nagasaki”! What for those inventions are being used now? Now days if any stupid leader comes up with such crookedness then no one will be alive here! Everyone has nuclear weapons and that’s it, just “Bang…”!

These priests have always misled the people; they have bye-hearted scriptures like parrots and with their stupid imagination have misled the mass. Why are they against such experiments? If everyone comes to know the truth then no one will enter the temples, churches, and mosques. Those priests are happy that someone also believes what they believe in. They want to increase the number of people to follow their belief. If no one believes then these priests will be nowhere and where will they get money from? That scientist experimented and he got nothing out of this universe and that is his experimentation and if we accept it then it is just a belief to us. It is not a belief to that scientist; it’s his hard worked experience. He might be wondering after getting nothing out of this universe. But it’s still a theory for him too and not the living reality! Of course this universe is just a wonder, we cannot know anything about it! That’s the reason we can see “Krishan” playing around. We can see “Budha” and “Mahaveer” sitting very silent. We can see “Shiva”, “Meera Bai”, “Chaitanya”, and “Ramakrishna” dancing like mad! We can here “Purandara Das”, “Kanaka Das” singing from the core of their heart! That’s the reason Socrates says that he knows only one thing that he knows nothing! “Lao Tzu” says, “If the truth is told then that very moment it becomes false”! We cannot put truth in words, it can’t be defined, and it can’t be put into few formulas. We cannot come up with any theory for that, but we can live that truth and wonder about it! We can just say “Wow how wonderful, this creation has sprung out of nothing!”

“Shankara” says “Aham Brahmasmi” that I am that nothingness; “Brahman” was the name we gave those days and now we say nothingness. He doesn’t stop there and tells that “Tatvamasi” that you are also that nothingness. “Krishna” says, “Nainam chedanthi shastraNi, nainam dahati pawakah”. How can we pierce or put fire to that empty space? When “Krishna” says that in him everything is getting created and destroyed; he means to that nothingness! He is not referring to his physical body; he is referring to that nothingness which is flowing in each of us! That’s what “Jiddu Krishnamurthy” refers when he says, “You are the world”. When “Al-Hillaja-Mansoor” told that he is the truth, he was cut in to pieces. When Jesus said that he is the son of GOD, he was nailed on to the cross. He later said that there is no difference between him and GOD! Socrates was given poison for preaching such things! Now days it is very difficult making such statements. Whoever says like that then they will be put behind the bars or else they will be hanged to death! That’s what we have done to such beings. If there are such beings out there, please take care and never make such statements:-).

Whatever the name we give; be it “Bhagawan”, “Brahman”, “GOD”, “Nothing”, “Atma”, “Paramatma”, “Nirvana”, “Soul”, “Fanha”, “Father”, “Mother”, “Love”, “Enlightenment” or whatever the names further we will come up with and also those names that which I have left mentioning, there is actually no difference at all. We are fighting based on the words and using our own crooked logic to prove that we are the one who is right! Say for example there are so many poems and statements on love, each lover expressed his or her own way about their feelings. Each language has its own words for it. Do we fight for those differences; instead we will appreciate them, isn’t it? Parents try to give unique names to their kids; does anyone fight for those differences in names? Oh my friends please don’t fight. Let there be diversity but yet let there be unity. There is so much diversity in this universe, which has sprung from nothing and there is so much communion in this nature. Because of this diversity there is so much beauty around! It’s a pity that the so-called intelligent species has lost its intelligence. If we take out human race out of this universe then everything will go in a beautiful rhythm!

All the enlightened beings live that nothingness; there is no meaning in finding the source of creation. But it is very meaningful to dig out “Who we really are?” It is first and foremost thing to inquiry our source rather than the source of creation. When we were in the womb of our mother, we were almost invisible and now we are visible to everyone! If such a thing comes over a period of time then the source of creation should be within us! If we look at our body and the complex phenomenon going on inside then it is something incredible. How the food is getting digested and forming flesh, bones and blood? How the emotions are getting triggered? How the mind is wavering? Wow I wonder! Above all this is out of nothing and my wonder enhances:-)!

This is really incredible, when we are all out of this nothingness then we are just nobody. Whatever we do to others, we are doing it to ourselves! That’s what I mentioned in the earlier article of mine “Death”. We are put to-gather that single nothingness, which is everywhere. If everything has come out of that nothingness then that nothingness must be everything! This is very simple, am I right or not? That’s the reason we said that GOD is “Nirakar” which means that there is no form or say it is nothingness. That nothingness is not inert; that’s the reason such a beauty of creation out of it. That nothingness is operating in so many beings of this universe, how wonderful this operating system is! The same nothingness is operating these galaxies, animals, birds, plants, humans etc. Say for example we prepared variety of dishes from rice grain like “Dosa”, “Idli” etc. Now if some one asks from what these dishes are prepared then the answer is simple that it is from rice. If I ask someone to show me the rice in those dishes then what will anyone think of me? May be they will smile at me or else give me a slap! Like that our questions are, we are asking the same things, as show me GOD! This is as stupid as asking show me the rice now! We are made up of the same stuff and yet we are fighting as who is great and who is not! It is something like an “Idli” asking to another “Idli” as “Do you know who am I?”:-) If someone asks, “Do you know who am I?” then that person doesn’t know what he or she is! If that person had ever knew, then that question would never have arisen! But actually they are saying about their money, fame, position and power! When death knocks then all those things will not be there, then we will ask them “Who are you?”:-) Nobody will be there to answer, because we are just nobody!

With Love

Vishu

Kalki...

2010-08-19T05:40:00.000-07:00

Friends,

Do you folks think that this is an interesting topic? Much discussions are going on everywhere on this topic. It is being discussed as end or world, 2012, third world war etc. five thousand years back Veda Vyasa wrote many “Puranas” including “Bhavishya Purana”, “Kalki Purana”. In “Bhavishya Purana” he has written about all the forth-coming kings, saints including Buddha, Jesus, and prophet Mohammad. That “Purana” also mentions about British rule in India too. In “Kalki “Purana” he has mentioned about the nature of people in this era and destruction of major part of earth. He has mentioned about a person who is going to bring back the human values. Look around carefully you may miss that person:-). How come “Veda Vyasa” could write all about this so clearly thousands of years back? Even “Nostradamus” has mentioned in his predictions about this.

Everyone discusses about Mayan calendar, Nostradamus and others, they leave this man “Veda Vyasa”! Is that because he mentions all this so clearly? Many countries are jealous of India; hence they tried erasing the whole culture from here. But will we leave like that simply? They were jealous of our prosperity in all angles, diamonds, gold, pearls and also science, yoga, mathematics, architecture, astrology, philosophy, music, dance, poetry etc. To add to their jealousies there are great beings like Krishna, Buddha, Mahaveer, Adi Shankara and they fall short here because there is a long list of such people. If they have just one GOD then we have many! How come so many enlightened beings happen only in India? There is a great science behind this; it is the highest technology:-)! We too are much obsessed with foreign things whatever it could be. We are ready to accept any bullshit if it is something foreign. If we stick to Indian things, our own people will prosper. I am not against other countries, let them also stick to their own things. I have come across many Indians staying abroad telling this phrase “Bloody Indians”. Dudes you have abused your mother! It is time to bury them deep down the earth so that such weeds won’t crop up again! If you cannot help in improving then at least shut all your openings! Okay let that be, such scoundrels will be there all the time.

Okay coming back to “Kalki Purana”, in that he mentions about a being taking birth and eradicating crookedness on the earth and mentions about incessant rains, eruption of volcanoes which will affect major portion of earth. What my intuition tells is, it can’t be a birth of a being. If we split “Kalki” it is “Kaal + Ki”, may be time will take care of it. Many beings like Rama, Krishna, Buddha, Jesus, Moses, Mohammad came on this earth to teach human values and no one is following on those lines. So it is time now to care of the loss made by us by the nature itself, it will take care for sure. Is it taking care or not? It has already started; don’t wait for a day like 2012 movie! Sure nature has to take care; humans are meddling with nature too much. They are spoiling it by launching satellites, testing nuclear weapons, air traffic, sound pollution, and air pollution etc. Each one of us is responsible for this. Too much population has grown and for the stay we cut trees and make houses. We keep a flowerpot in front of our house to keep the greenery! Someone asked me “Why there is increase in the population when there is rebirth?” I said the population of animals has come down and they have born as humans. We can very well see vultures in the form of humans! Human is inclusive of all animals and very dangerous. In the cities sound pollution is too much; the sound of the horns will cut our eardrums. These auto fellows and college students take of the silencer pipe from the their vehicle, which will make such a bad sound. If you tell them then they are ready to hit. Even in the park, each one will put their own songs in their cells with full volume. All are well educated and you cannot tell them also. TV is on all the time and many times no one will be watching it. These mobile signals are very harmful and if I talk more than five minutes then I feel pain in the ear! I have seen people talking over hours on this mobile. Mind is engaged full time no break for it. This is quite natural as why humanity has gone to nuts. I have seen people in NIMHANS silent and serene. May be they wanted to escape from this madness and have joined mental hospital. I feel it is a good idea to join mental hospital:-).

Now let us explore on our nature of mind. These natures of human are being mentioned in “Kalki Purana” too. There is fight within the family; brothers, sisters are fighting. Husband and wife are fighting, parents and children are fighting. As usual there is fight between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. Whether “Sanatana Dharma” exists or not but this fight remains forever. There are divorces for silly reasons. There is too much cunningness all over world. This cunningness is deep rooted and wide spread over the globe. In all the areas we get cheated. Auto fellow will check whether he can take the passenger for round trip to accelerate the meter value. Police are taking money from roadside stalls; they are even taking money from beggars. I have never seen such beggars like this. Begging has become a profession now, it’s a huge network now days. Traffic police are engaged in making money and are not interested in maintaining the traffic. One day I was caught for riding the bike without dynamo in the night, I asked for the receipt. He asked me three hundred rupees for that. After coming home I checked the receipt and on that he had written just hundred rupees. Conductor in the bus will not give the ticket and takes half the ticket amount. There are many who will agree for this too. Let me not mention about politicians, I feel vomiting sensation in my tummy!

In the work place also the same scenario. I have few experiences in a company in “Bangalore”. I joined that company and was feeling great as after two years of my agony in Bangalore, I was in a good company! After few weeks I was sent to a client and some other guy had done that project. One more guy used to accompany me for that. After few days he was removed and I was the only one going to the clients place. After two days the client called me and told that he is going to cancel the project and I can go back to my office. I came back to office and the next day the project was cancelled. Later I came to know that this was a trap made by one of the vice president to save the other guy. Director came to know that it was me who was handling the project. Two more tough projects I had done in that company. Day and night for few days I sat and completed and again the two vice presidents told to the director that the person who accompanied me for the previous client has done the project. I was smiling and didn’t feel like telling back. I was thinking, these people at the age of forty-five or fifty are so cunning and it amazed me. I was not at all sad, as I am always happy that I have done the work and it satisfies me. Till now I have not done any work for the appreciation. Even if anyone appreciates I feel shy and leave that place, I think now I am okay with that too:-).

“Pujaries” are telling so many lies to earn money. They tell that there is some “Dosha” (not “Masala Dosa”) and ask people to perform some ritual that involves huge money. Those who have done something wrong would be seen in the temples much. They think whatever the wrong things they have done will be cleared by doing such things. GOD is not that stupid oh idiots! By taking a dip in “Ganga” sins won’t be cleared, such things are told by dull witted and cunning people to make themselves comfortable. There is unseen grace flowing within us, which is named as “Ganga” by enlightened people. Take a dip with in yourself then sins will be vanished. The “Ganga” flowing from the head of Shiva is that grace and not river “Ganga”. These “Pundits” have misled everyone. Symbolically it is represented like that. If one has not done anything wrong or even if he or she has done and stopped will not be afraid even GOD comes in front. That person will be ready to tell them out and when you are so true none of the GOD will punish. I am not saying here that there is someone sitting up and ready to punish people. Just for the sake of conveying I said like that. If something within you is pinching for wrong doings then already you are being punished. Everyone knows in his or her hearts of hearts about the true color and that’s enough punishment!

Why such a madness all over the world? This madness is spread in the space too. By our anger, hatred, jealousy, meaningless talks etc we are spoiling the nature. This madness is because we are behind position, fame and money. After reaching good position one becomes restless, because so much responsibilities will come. We cannot sleep at night and the day will pass in managing many mad minds. With that responsibilities there will be stress and people get high blood pressures, migraine, heart attacks etc. How much famous a person can become? Someone will be there to overtake that place and again jealousy engulfs. People are doing so many weird things to become famous. They are putting straws in mouth to get into world records. Take my idea, put those straws in your ass and the next day you will be in headlines:-). Many are posing naked to be in the front page of magazines and on TV! Will anybody become famous by shedding his or her clothes? Parents are pushing their kids to become famous, they are scolding and many times slapping the poor kid to strive hard to become famous. Their intention to make the kid famous is very selfish, through them they want to become famous. Many are mad to become famous and I am tired of becoming famous in each of my life:-). I am not yet clear about this life, many times I regret taking birth this time!

How much money is required? How many houses? How many cars? Have they given any happiness to you? Those things have really not given any happiness, may be for few days they would have given but soon it vanishes. Later maintaining those things is a big headache. Joy is within you and not in the things; you are joy! I am not against these things, but the pain we take to own them is to be seen and whether they have given any joy. I am not against anything in this world but we have to examine whether they really have given any joy. These things may vanish tomorrow but the pain and agony we took will remain with us. In the park an eighty-year-old guy was speaking with me and said to take a site and it will help me later. He has a house and a site, which is in litigation now. He can’t even attend to the court! I was wondering about his agony and he is advising me to take a site. Oh fool at least at that age become silent. Of course after running for so many years the mind won’t stop so easily.

Watching all these things my wish to live has vanished; I am even finding it heavy on my heart even to earn to fill my tummy. This has become a concern in my house! Many of my relatives used to say that I am intelligent and will sure come ahead in life and I have totally taken a U-turn. Where ahead, to the graveyard? May be that is my intelligence; when everyone is running I have stopped! Many parents tell that their son or daughter is not having time even to eat and they eat in the car itself! They say that they don’t get time to eat in the office too. Is it a matter of pride? Such foolishness is there all over the world!

No one is aware as what they are doing and what for they are doing! There is just chaos everywhere; in the nature, in the mind, in the hearts. Stop for a while, rethink as where are we heading and what for we are doing all these things. Why are we taking so much pain and watching everyone in agony my heart cries out oh GOD help them please :(.

With Love

Vishu

Mind...

2010-07-01T00:56:00.001-07:00

Hi Friends,

How about a glance at our own mind? Actually there is nothing called as your mind or mine, it is just one thing flowing in everybody’s skull. This is the mechanism made by nature to get us trapped in this world with variety of ambitions, wishes, aspirations and what not. It won’t allow us to rest and look life with the open eyes. Majority of the problems are of this stuff called mind. Actually there isn’t any mind; it is something like a mirage created in the desert. From the far it looks as though there is water and when we near the spot, there is nothing! If you really try to find the mind or the source of the thought then will not get anything. Try it out, daily for sometime in the whole day give time to find your own mind!

I have heard

Bodhidharma went to china after his realization to spread the message of Buddha. Hearing this news a king of china came at the border to receive him. After receiving him, the king told Bodhidharma his problem. He told that he is troubled by his own mind. Actually mind is just bundle of thoughts; it is the accumulation of information over the years since our birth. It is just garbage collected by us and now troubling us! So Bodhidharama told that king to come the next day and also to bring his mind along with him. The next day the king was there and Bodhidharma had a wooden block in his hand, king got afraid and Bodhidharma used to look so fierce! Bodhidharma asked the king to close the eyes and find his mind. Bodhidharma told the king to just tell where the mind is and he is ready to bang with all might wherever it is, will just finish this troubling mind today! King was trembling and he has to follow whatever the master tells. The king closed his eyes and after half an hour opened the eyes and there was bliss in his eyes! He offered gratitude to the master and told that he was unnecessarily troubled by such nonsense and can’t even find the mind.

So this is how it is, actually you will find nothing. The whole world is a mad house, don’t worry about it. Everyone is troubled by it; no one will share all their thoughts even to the most loving person on this world. The only person you can open is to a master; he has gone through all this nonsense and is just unconcerned about it. It is something like the wind; you cannot stop it and tell the wind not to touch me! What is the trouble with the thoughts? If something good comes then we feel something good, if something bad comes then we are troubled by it. Let us look in to the bad aspect of it as the major concern is of that! May be we will get thoughts about killing someone or lust over opposite sex and so many scriptures have mentioned that this is all sin! So the conflict, is it not? Don’t be worried about this, based on such statements these pundits are minting money! They too get the same thoughts and they don’t tell them outJ. What earlier Rishis meant by sin is something different! If anyone indulges in too much pleasure with opposite sex (Now it is with same sex tooJ) then they will suffer physically and that is the hell. Body has a strong sense of memory and these conflicting impressions will make us suffer later with variety of ailments. In a way with these pleasures we are inviting diseases, everyone knows about this. So they made something called marriage and stick to one person. They came out with the science called astrology to match the pairs. These “Gotras” are nothing but genes history carried over many lives. They knew all this science thousands of years back. How come “Veda Vyasa” wrote on “nadi” astrology? He wrote about the past lives and future lives of all the beings including what is happening currently. If possible will explore on this later, if this knowledge reveals to me (will it or notJ?). May be, will write one software for thisJ. Of course it might be possible that by taking the finger print of the thumb we can know, it is a barcode written by nature to keep the track! That’s the reason the thumb impression is unique! If one goes through the gymnastics with one person then others just have the same thing. May be little variations in the body here and there, what is the big fuss in it? Every one has the same combination of flesh, bones and skin. Don’t be worried about this mind, everyone has the same filth. There is neither good nor bad about it and who labeled these things as bad or good? I am not saying here to indulge; I am trying here to understand the mind and relax and not to get troubled by it!

I have heard

Timma was a very good man and his time was up and left the body and reached heaven. There Chitragupta received him with great honor. You know up in the heaven there is nothing called as discrimination of caste, actually there isn’t ay caste. We are simply quarreling with each other for these silly matters. I don’t know when we will become matured; anyways this is there in all the ages. So Chitragupta opened the ledger of Timma; page after page there was just good deeds written. They are still working manually, will write a software for them to search everyone’s account with good search criteria like count of bad deeds, good deeds etcJ. Sure I will grab the projectJ, anyone is there for the competition? Chitragupta was at loss as to get the highest heaven, one should do at least one bad deed. Timma was furious and told “People were avoiding me on the earth as I was pointing everybody’s bad deeds and here there is no place for doing all good deeds!” Both sat and thought for a while, Chitrgupta gave Timma a suggestion “Your body is not yet buried, so enter the body and commit one sin and you will have the highest heaven”. Timma agreed and entered the body; he had only three hours for this act. Timma was at loss as he did not know any bad deeds; he is not like us you knowJ! At last thought that committing adultery is a bad deed, he remembered his neighbor who used to give nice glances. Timma being a good person used to ignore this. Timma got up and straight away went to her house and knocked the door. She was surprised to see Timma and asked the purpose of the visit. He told that he is not having much time and wants to make love to her! Nature takes over and the act is performed. He leaves the house as he doesn’t want to die there. While going out, that lady comes and tells Timma that she is great-full to him for showing so much love! So again one more good deed, he missed heaven againJ.

So don’t go on labeling what is good and what is bad, it is only our view! We look life in compartments and term them as good and bad. What is good in one place is bad in another place. What is auspicious in one place is in-auspicious in another place. Just open the eyes and see, we can see this difference all over the world and are fighting for such silly things! Understand the nature of mind and be loving and caring to every being on this earth. Don’t be always goody, goody all the time; when it is required to give a slap then give one!

This mind is amazing; it thinks bad and then repents about it! That’s how it is functioning. This is the conflict in it. It gets angry and then gets angry over getting angry, else it becomes depressed! Both are one and the same. Shishunal says “Henta mojina kuduri, hathida myala tiruguvudu honnondu keri! He tells, ones we are on the horse called mind then it will take too many places. Don’t go on riding on this horse called mind. Kabir says “Chalat khat tedo tedore, tu durghand ko bedoro” He tells his own mind as why are you wavering hither and thither (like a drunkardJ) and spilling filth all over. Go straight and the way is so simple. Even they have gone through the same rut, so don’t be afraid that they are different and feel down. They have given the ways and we have to utilize that! They too have gone through the same jealousies, possessiveness, lust, hate, love, greed and what not. After going through all this they have understood that this is all nonsense and have become silent. When they have crossed this repeated circle of life like a bull taking rounds in oil mill to extract oil, we too can cross and it is very simple. Rather it is the simplest thing on the earth, but mind is not satisfied with simple things. It wants to be great always and in all the fields. So those who want to be great have to go through the twists and turns of life, there is no another option left.

I will mention one of my recent incidents to explain the functioning of this mind. I was near Kundapur for an Advance Meditation Course. The area is vey nice and covered with forest. Nearby there is a small falls and one evening we were led there by a local guy. We were heading to the falls and two of the girls told that, there is one more girl coming behind and someone has to go and get her. I went and she was searching for the way here and there, there was little fear in her eyes. When she saw me, there was a smile of relief and we both started moving. By that time I had forgotten the way and searching which way I came. So we started moving in different directions. There was again fear in her eyes. I asked her “Are you afraid of animals?” she said no. Then I asked “Are you afraid of me, that this guy is lying that he do not know the way and may do something wrongJ?” again she said no to that with a smile. Somehow we reached the spot and all were enjoying in the falls. I told other girls about this and all started gigglingJ. After that fun we returned and that girl was glancing at me. I asked her “Are you thinking that, this stupid did nothing when he had opportunityJ” For that all the girls started giggling, so this is how it works. One way it is afraid and one way it repents for missing the opportunity. Don’t give much importance to it.

I have heard

One day a husband was telling his wife about a dream he dreamt previous night to tease her. He said that last night the neighbor woman came in his dream and both made love! Wife asked him a question “Her husband would have not come in the dream right?” So the husband told yes and asked as how come she knows about that? Wife told, because he was in my dreamsJ

When the turmoil in the mind becomes too much, then people go to psychiatrists and tell their conflicting thoughts. They are afraid that they may go mad. Psychiatrists will not be of much use; even they are going through the same hell. You better ask them and check. Whatever the medicine they give is just chemicals. This makes the mind to go to sleep, it won’t give any solution. When the effect of the chemical vanishes then, again the same rut continues with more force. Tablets won’t give you any solution, they are just sleeping tablets. They are just like alcohol. Even the medicine what we take for our physical ailments is also like that. It won’t cure the disease, it will just suppress and this leads to some other ailments. I am not saying Allopath is totally wrong, but majority of the ailments can be cured with minimum effort. We have “Ayurveda” which acts as a catalyst and boosts the energy centers. This energy in turn cures the disease. If one practices Pranayam, breathing techniques, meditation, singing then majority of the diseases won’t touch us. Even we made food also like that; our food contains basic medicine to avoid diseases. We have season wise food varieties, is it not? The earlier people were so intelligent and made everything as a part of daily routine in the house. We have just ignored them and think that we are educated and forward, we are just stupidJ. We eat pizzas and burgers and act like buggers. We spoil our health and then go to gym for loosing weight. There also we show our ego that we go to gym. This is just stupid and idiotic. We are also fancied by these soft drinks which are of no use. This will spoil the health; they are just marketing to earn money. Even they are marketing these genetically modified seeds; this is not good for health. This will also spoil the land. I have heard that some are burning the natural seeds to make innocent farmers to buy only these genetically modified seeds. When are we going to wake up and this government is allowing as they are getting huge money as bribe from those companies. Like this they want to rule on all nations. Look at their minds, just rotten!

This is the cunningness of such great nations, they call themselves as civilized. There should be some limit to everything, when are you going to act like a human? They looted all the wealth from here where in diamonds, gold, pearls, emeralds etc used to be sold on the streets. This selling was not one or two; it was in bulk in kilograms! They looted all the knowledge from here and ruined Nalanda University. That university used to teach around sixty four subjects, that was the only university available on this earth. People from all parts of the globe used to come for study. They have now patent on all those things and no one else should teach them. When we do patents on yoga and other stuff then we question our own people as why is it necessary. Such knowledge should not be patented and charged. We say that earlier “Rishis” didn’t charge anything for such knowledge. They did a wrong thing; they should have kicked on the ass and should have charged. Same rules won’t hold good in all the ages, those days majority of the people were humble and innocent so it was okay then. If they don’t charge then how come the economy of the country will improve? Are they helping the people in the villages or not? Just see with open eyes, this will create jobs for people. People from all over the globe are coming; fund is flowing for the hotels, transport and what not. Give a thought, am I right or wrong?

With LoveJ

Vishu

Death...

2010-05-25T22:48:00.001-07:00

Hi Friends,

Well folks, don’t feel bad that I am always stressing on death often. I feel it is better to know death so as to live the life fullest. It is only the fear of death everyone is afraid of. I may mention one or two experiences of mine and try explaining it. Again this is not the final explanation! I am writing this based on my experience. I was not willing to share those experiences, but felt that by sharing at least few will start the journey. If even one person starts then that’s really fantastic, hardly do we get someone on this path (“parame brahmaNi kopi na saktaha”). Of course whoever interested will go through or else they will skip saying this as crap. Everyone have their likes and dislikes.

If we watch anywhere in this world, we can just see dead bodies moving here and there! There is no juice left in anybody and are carrying out daily routine like robots. We can just see kids and teenagers laughing and giggling. Even they have become dead serious in this race called life to prove something great and have too many ambitions at a tender age. Almost all are dead and are serious, higher the position and bank balance they have the grimmer they become. Many don’t even smile for a joke too; they have taken jokes also very serious. Kabir says that this is the city of dead people! No life left in these lives, Jesus says “Leave the dead to the dead” he said this when a fisherman told that he will join him after burying the dead body of his father!

There was a master in China named “Chuang Tzu”, one late evening while going through a town he stepped on something and looked down to find one skull. He was near a grave yard where great people’s body used to be buried. He took that skull and begged pardon to the skull and kept it in his bag! Disciples asked as why he kept that skull with him! Master said that, this is the skull of a great person and if he were alive he would have killed me and one day my skull will be down here and someone else will kick on it. I thought I will look at this skull whenever somebody abuses and insults, one day my skull will be there down and why now get angry over some abuses and insults! Of course we should use skulls as paper weights, make a hole on top of the skull and use as flower potJ. Keep it in front of a dressing table and start decorating the face. Look at that skull and also our face, one day our skull will be used as paper weight or a flower pot for sureJ!

A simple man used to sit at the entrance of the city, people used to ask him regarding the direction to enter the city. He will tell some route and the people used to end up in the grave yard. They will come back and start scolding that man as why did he say like that. He used to say “Grave yard is the place where everyone finally settles, other settling in life is just primary preparation for final settlement. So I thought why not get settled in the first place!” Of course it is better to get acquainted with the final site! Guru Nanak once left home and parents were searching for him everywhere, finally found him singing in a grave yard! When asked his reason behind such act, he told that everyone finally comes here, so thought of settling here only! Why give trouble to others for carrying this body after death! Earlier Guru will send his disciples to stay in grave yards, after watching bodies being burnt and phony tears of relatives and friends dispassion naturally dawns and the running mind will stop and you are back to your nature. When we are relaxing blissfully without any thoughts running in mind, we are really in yoga. Yoga means union, the body, mind and spirit are in total tune.

This feeling of union can be experienced in many ways. When we are in love with somebody then we are in that space, we think it is because of the lover it happened. It is not because of the lover it happened, that time we are in touch with the source. It is because, that moment all the thoughts seized and we got unburdened and yoga happened. Later the presence of that same lover makes us away from that source, this is altogether a different thingJ. Nature gives a glimpse of un-bounded feeling in many ways. When we listen to a melodious song or music we are in that space. When we watch a beautiful sunrise, a sunset, a deep valley we get in touch with that space and we say “Wow!” When we go to sleep and get a sound sleep without any dreams we are in that space, this sleep is a momentary death and we get refreshed in the morning. We are that space and not the body or mind nor emotions! We are the one unchanging and watching all the changes in the body, thoughts and emotions! We are put-together that single space, acting in different bodies! It is something like different types of balloons with sizes, shapes and colors but the stuff inside the balloon is same! Give some time and recall those moments of blissfulness. This space we can enter in many ways, naturally or by “Pranayam”, breathing techniques, meditation, singing etc. Daily practice of such things will sure make us to be in that space more and more time, when it becomes a permanent phenomenon and that’s it, you got it! It is my humble and sincere request to one and all to practice these things on daily bases. It is best to find one living master and practice under his/her guidance! I will leave you folks to find a master who has experienced that! How will you findJ? Masters who lived earlier and left will be of not much use, they may guide you to a living master unknowingly! This depends upon your intensity in this path! It is amazing; though the masters get crucified, poisoned, killed or insulted they still go on doing their work. There is no end to their compassion and there is no end to our stupidity, we are not even ashamed of this. Sorry for being so straight forward, I can’t be diplomatic and I have to do my job in this life.

Okay let me explain my first experience. One day I was feeling so dejected, depressed and life seemed meaningless and that day I was not able to sit in single place. So much was my agony and I remembered one technique which I had listened in a discourse. The technique is like this; before going to sleep one has to remind themselves that they will doubt if dream happens while sleeping. The doubt should come while dreaming and not after waking up. This is pretty difficult but if daily one practices then one day it becomes ingrained in the awareness and truth reveals! So that day I slept early and made one conviction that, if any thought comes or dream comes I will open my eyes. Starting I used to open the eyes very often as the thoughts and dreams were too often, later the frequency reduced. I remember doing this exercise till 2 AM. Later I was feeling tired and opening the eyes was very difficult, I don’t know when I fell asleep and after sometime I saw a dream and doubt arose that this is a dream. At the same moment I saw my body on the bed, I was above and the dream vanished as though we switch of a TV! Finding my body on the bed I wondered and there was fear and with in a fraction of second I entered the body. Got up and looked in mirror and stared laughing loudly. I was thinking that I can be in any body! If I abuse anybody then I am abusing myself, whatever I do to others I am doing it to myself. After this incident I became very light, if anyone abuses then I used to smile, of course I was doing this since my childhood. Actually there is no other in this world! The same consciousness is flowing through each creature and things in this world. How amazing the phenomenon is! There is no two in this world; the same consciousness is performing all the activities. It is just a play going on, don’t take it too serious and burden yourself. There is no purpose of life and if we understand this that we have done the same things over and over again, one wants to end this. It’s up to each individual to decide what they want to do.

The next year I attended an Advance meditation course in Art of living Ashram, in that course there is a “Prakriya”. The process is to stretch completely and keep both hands beside; the hands should not touch the ground. Later we have to go on raising our hands keeping the hands stretched till we take our hands above. The hands should be touching the ears and parallel to each other. After that we have to bring our hands down again! This is such a simple task right? But there is one condition, that the time to raise the hands should be slow and should be done in ten minutes and the same was while bringing it down. So this is totally twenty minutes of process and should be done with closed eyes. Don’t try this process in your houses, should be done under guidance! Just imagine the pain after few minutes; I could hear people screaming, yelling and making weird sounds. My hands were paining a lot and I felt like dropping the hands, but then again gathered courage and I was holding on. When the time was fifteen minutes the pain was horrible and I was murmuring inside as “Hmmm, haaaa, huuuu” No matter what, I wanted to complete the process, and then suddenly there was an upsurge of energy from the bottom of my spine and that energy reaching every cell of body. Tears rolled down, pain in the hands vanished and after few seconds there was another round of upsurge of energy from the bottom of my spine! This time I was delinked from my body and I wondered “Where is my body!” I was dumb stuck and I was there in that state for few minutes and later felt my body again. For two days there were no thoughts and I was speechless! This reminds me of Shankara’s last stanza of “Atmashtakam”

“Aham nirvikalpo nirakara rupo”

“vibhur vyapya sarvatra sarvendriyani”

“Sada me samatvam na muktir na bandhah”

“Chidananda rupah Shivoham Shivoham”

These are the two experiences I had; I used to be blissful and light. I could have stayed in that state forever but because of drinking, again I gathered ignorance. Later I found that drinking is not good if I want to stay blissful! Alcohol, cigarette and tobacco items imbalances the energy centers in our body. May be I am trying all these habits to experiment to know the effects! If possible will give whole chemical reactions with formulas as what happens in our operating system if we take alcohol or smoke etc! Will also give whole software what is written in the body if it reveals and how the technologies like “Pranayam”, meditation, breathing techniques etc will help to change that software! I had this dream to write an operating system of mine while studying Diploma, now I feel I was looking for the main operating system which operates this whole universe! If possible we will continue this subject on death later.

Kabir says “Whoever is ready to put fire in their house, come with me!” this is quite difficult, but we can start being in the house! He says that he has a wooden block in his hand to hit hard on the head of people to shatter their ego and dreams! Is there any one ready for this blow? Don’t delay much; we delayed since many lives and each life we said we will see later! We somehow postpone such things, because it feels like a fairy tale and doubts arise that this is all a lie! Why not get in to it and start practices, theory won’t help and theories are for making someone to start the practical. Don’t go on adding transactions to your life, if our life comes to basic things then it will be really burden-less and joyful. Please see our life is becoming complex and tedious by adding more responsibilities and ambitions!

With Love J

Vishu

Relationships...

2010-05-13T04:33:00.000-07:00

Hi Friends,

I don’t know why I picked this subject to write, but thought we can extract some learning stuff out of this subject. The whole life of ours is running on these relations. Take any relationship, we can find some fun and agony linked with it. I may stress more on the agony part of it than the fun, because we are afraid to look into it. We close our eyes towards that and somehow try to avoid, actually the agony is the portion which has maximum share in any relation!

Even our pet doggy won’t listen to our commands, and then think about humans! We are trying to make these relations to listen to our commands. Those relations are also trying the same things that we have to listen to them. In trying to make them understand and getting understood by them, there is lot of strife in relationships. We are doing the same things even now, it is really a wonder still we are into these relations! Have you folks seen school day plays (“DombaraTa”)? A person will walk on the tight rope with a stick in his/her hand to balance. Once he/she reaches the other side, then we clap and give money to that team. In schools we use to pay fifty paisa to watch their breath taking events. We are also doing the same thing in our lives; we are on the tight rope called relations and balancing these relations with the stick called compromise! We are doing this on daily basis and no one claps and pays moneyJ; which is the only difference between the two! I am amazed seeing all this, how wonderful this life is! In between this tug of wars, glimpses of happiness flash like a thunderbolt and life looks again so wonderful. If this happiness was not there, then everyone would have been liberated by now!

In a single house there is so much strife on daily basis, just take husband, wife and the kid. This strife is there because each one is having their own likes and dislikes. Parents are striking their kids hard to study and the kids don’t like studying, they just want to play and play. We being elders are jealous of those kids playing so happily. I have seen the faces of kids when they were called by parents for studying! They show a face which looks as though it is end of life for them. We too were not interested in studies; we were enjoying just playing. I am very lucky in that way, my parents didn’t tell me much to study. It’s still a wonder for me that how I completed some education! I feel if I were not educated then I would have been still luckier! When kid doesn’t act according to the parents, then parents start quarrelling between themselves and put blame on each other that the kid is spoiled because of him or her. The kid has to listen to parents; it knows that it is dependent on parents for food and security. I have seen many parents torturing their kids about many things; how to sit, how to behave, how to talk and the list is endless. Many times I wonder how the kid’s agony will be and they show anger in many ways. We don’t show anger but eat it within and gather many other diseases. Anything which makes us not easy is called “dis-ease”. Sure the kids will take revenge later whether knowingly or unknowingly.

If we elaborate the family a little more then we can have real fun! Let us add two more persons to the above family list; mother and father of the husband. I am sorry ladies; still the fashion of husband staying with wife’s family is very rare so please forgive me. I am not biasedJ with gender, but trying to explore and understand the current social structure. In some older article of mine, I had mentioned about a triangle called “Bermuda-Triangle” will explore that triangle! May be Pythagoras was within this triangle, so he couldn’t come up with a solution for this! I may not give a solution but will try understanding the problem; we may get the solution. This triangle is very complex and both the husband and father are in great trouble! They are in trouble because; they cannot understand what is happening between wife and mother or wife and daughter-in-law. It is very easy to get into and come out of the “Chakravyuha” of “Kaurava’s” but impossible to get out of this family relationship trap. I am saying here the two males are unaware of what is happening between the ladies. They can’t guess what is going on in the ladies mind.

These ladies understand each other so well and both are aware of what they are up to! What surprises these gentlemen is that, the ladies express their emotions in actions! Ladies won’t say the things directly; they will throw the utensils, show anger, keep silent for few days etc. The only ache they get is the head ache (other than the ache they get during pregnancy), one minute back they would be okay and suddenly this head ache engulfs them! That too ladies and head acheJ, something to think deep on it (hey ladies just kiddingJ)! They are just carried by their emotions and want their gentleman to understand by their actions, looks and eye movements. In many of the functions the gentlemen are at loss watching the behavior of their better-halves (or bitter-halvesJ, whatever). The ladies are suffering from possessiveness and in turn jealousy. Mother can’t see her son becoming so attached to the wife and she will do lot of drama to pull the son and listen to her. If son moves to mother then wife is there to do lot of drama to see that he will be back in her arms. Ladies are so much jealous that they don’t want to share whatever is dear to them. Of course this poor guy is dear to both mother and the wife and between them he is tossed by both mother and wife. The ladies feel in-secured whenever the loved one is in the hands of others. Gentlemen too have possessiveness and jealousies, but it is not within the family and this won’t bring much strife within the family. He is jealous if any other guy looks at his wife. It is other way round in case of girls; if any girl looks at her husband then she is very happy and proud of it. Only thing is that the husband should not look at the other girls, eyes should be only on her. But if she looks at other guy then that’s okay, husbands rarely will come to know when his wife is looking at other guysJ. She is very clever in it, let me not explore much on this and keep quite. Ladies please forgive meJ

I have heardJ

There was a meeting going on by women liberation party. Even many gentlemen were called to attend the meet, of course whom else they should open their grievances! One women lib was roaring that women have suffered all the ways in life. She was stressing that only women have suffered in this world and not the men. One gentleman like me (though I am not, but stillJ) raised his hand. That woman lib roared again; now tell me what way women have not suffered, they have suffered all possible ways. That gentleman stood up and sat silently. The moral is “Women have not suffered silently”. They will make a huge rampage of some issue in one way or the other. Poor gentlemen can’t even express their grievances and they suffer them silently.

There was a debate going on in a function about empowering women, in between a guy stood and said that he is suffering from a girl and he doesn’t understand this empowering women issue. Someone asked him “Do you want something called as Empowering Men too?” I said to this that, empowering men has never happened and it won’t happen in the future either. After listening to this two to three girls sitting beside me started staring at meJ and a married guy gave a nice smileJ!

We see so many differences within the family, over seventy percent of cases are on property and divorces! We somehow try to manage to be with it, no guts to come out of it easily! Why because there is already so much investment in it and very difficult just to drop the whole security system. Just thinking of dropping creates fear in the heart and it beats at a rapid speed. Then again hold the stick called compromise and balance the show.

Wow there is so much to learn from this life; from every simple thing we can learn hundreds of things. Where is the time to watch a movie? This going to movie is to just forget the strife going on within, so for two to three hours focus the attention on movie and send the strife to backend! It is like drinking alcohol, for sometime forget the whole nonsense and get unconscious! Next day the same things again, same strife and now added to that is the hangover of alcohol! In one of my companies there were two girls and whenever they used to come to a movie they will bring “Tiger balm” and tablets along with them. They said that they get head ache by watching movies, so we carry these things along with us! I said this is really amazing and I am just astonishedJ! Hey girl, don’t be angry on me if you read this article!

I have heardJ

Mulla was buying shoes always from one shop and he will buy two pairs, one pair of size five and the other of size seven. He was not having any siblings. He was buying almost every six months once. The shopkeeper had this question as why Mulla buys two pairs of different sizes. Once this shopkeeper asked Mulla ‘Sir, I have a doubt and can I ask you if you don’t mind” To this Mulla said “Carry on with your question, I will never mind” So shopkeeper asked the reason behind his buying two pairs of shoes with different sizes! Mulla said to the shopkeeper “you see I wear seven number shoes in one foot and five number shoes in another foot” and you won’t sell me single pair with different size, so I buy two pairs. Shopkeeper says in a surprising tone as why he wears like that when both the foot are of equal size! Mulla says “See if I wear five number shoes then I get so much pain in one of the foot and the pain is so much that I forget all the worries of family, work and other things. The other worries look very small compared to this pain and do you know the relief when I take out that shoe at home?”

So all our entertainments are like that, wearing five number shoes. Forget daily nonsense for sometime and get lost in some other world! Be it movies, alcohol or anything. Staying at home silently is very scary, can’t stay at one place. Being lonely is out of question, too many thoughts and feels like no one is there for the support. So many questions as what will happen if I get old, who is going to take care of me? What will happen, the same thing will happen what is happening to the old people now. Mind weaves so many nets and we are on the hunt to look out for a partner and start a relationship! So start finding a soul-mate and sooner that soul turns very sore and both with in sometime the soul-mates turn in to sore-mates. The honey and the horny turn in to phony and thorny.

What can happen in the old age, the old timers are also feeling in-secured. They start laughing clubs and start laughing in the mornings. Though there is laugh or not they go on saying “Ho ho ho ho, Ha ha ha ha, He he he he” We too will do the same things when everyone abandons, this is for sure. My father was saying yesterday that one of his friends in the park was telling about the strife going on in the house. He goes on telling the same daily “Mahabharat” to my pop and that eighty year old can’t stay without saying it to somebody. I suggested my father to tell him to express it in front of a wall; this is better than expressing in front of others. I am not joking it is just a matter of expressing; if we express in front of a wall we can use foul language if we want. This way we can get relieved more than expressing in front of another person. Just start shouting in front of a wall or look in the sky and start yelling with whatever foul language comes out your mouth, let tears come out of your being or laugh at yourself for the nonsense you have chosen for yourself and you will feel un-burdened. Keep it in mind; it’s our whole hearted wish in whatever the situation we are in now. If really the wish of wanting this and that drops out of the being then 99% problems in life is solved.

If there is so much strife between two individuals, then think about the whole world! Naturally the strife is too much. There are billions of people and each has their own stuff in their heads. This strife is because of silly things, like who is great, to have more power, who’s GOD is great and so on. Unless they don’t kill or threaten other people then they can’t prove that they are great. These so called great nations are utilizing the weakness or rather simplicity of other nations to swallow their natural resources and many more things. These so called great nations also go on spreading GOD’s preaching as “Love thy enemies” and what not. This preaching is just to cover their cunningness in creating strife between two nations and communities. No matter if they make others to suffer, they want themselves to be happy, rich and powerful. Somehow by hook or crook they want to rule on everyone. These same people say that we don’t have civilization, what to do with such civilized people? Hey great nations, please remember one more preaching of GOD “What you sow, so shall you reap”. The hatred or whatever you sowed between two nations will today or tomorrow yield fruit in your land for sure! It is a matter of some time; every thing has its own time. Then you won’t be having time to say “Please GOD forbid!” Why should GOD forbid in the first place, when you yourself don’t follow GOD’s preaching and go on preaching others?

With Love J

Vishu

Maya...

2010-04-14T03:04:00.000-07:00

Friends,

Hey I am not explaining any love story around the girl named “Maya”J. This topic on “Maya” or illusion has troubled me since many years; Let me try to decipher it and present. Though I may not be able to explain accurately, but will give a try. When I am totally clear about it then will make another attempt, this is a warm up session or just the glimpses! Though it may get too intellectual, but will try to make it entertaining. Let me clear the meaning of the word “Maya” it has two meanings. It means that which can be measured; also that which can be measured is not perceived the way it is, so it also means illusion and the play is going on. This theory of “Maya” over the centuries has lost the meaning and so called scholars are fighting over this. Always scholars, priests fight over the meaning of words and not the actual stuff. They are the one responsible for the creation of divisions in the society. Politicians use this division to cook their own food, so in a way both are interlinked. Simple hearted people just live their life and leave this place peacefully whenever death knocks.

Let us take an example; suppose we are fond of “Gulab Jamoon” and instead tasting those sweets, we started discussing over the recipe and started fighting. I have seen many ladies debating over the recipes often. Say suppose we are thirsty and instead drinking the water, we took a book trying to get meaning of water, its chemical combination and collected all the words which mean water, this sure will not quench our thirst. Another example may be taken; say we are hungry and started collecting all the books which explains preparation of variety of foods and we started reading them. When are we going to prepare the food and eat? That’s what has happened, all the masters indicated something and we are just stuck to those indications. The daily practice of practical technologies like “Pranayam”, “Kriyas” etc no one is doing. Scholars are debating over the sayings of those masters since time unknown and fooling the public. Leave about fooling others, they are fooling themselves and this is the heights of stupidity. “Kabir” says “panDita vada vadante jhootha” meaning; scholars debate wrongly or else we can say debating in itself is of no use!

I subscribed for “advaita” (I will try to explain this “advaita” also) on the yahoo group, they were discussing on “Bhaja Govindam”, in that they were discussing the meaning of words and the grammar part of it. The mailing list was in thousands over the grammar part of it. I couldn’t stop laughing for days, later I unsubscribed. In the first stanza itself “Shankara” says,

“bhajagovindaM bhajagovindaM, govindaM bhajamuuDhamate

“saMpraapte sannihite kale, nahi nahi rakshati DukRiJNkaraNe”

He says to an old man who was by-hearting Sanskrit grammars; “Oh, idiot” stop this nonsense and sing the song of lord, this memorizing the grammar won’t save you when death knocks. Now if this simple line is not understood, who is at loss? “Shankara” says “idiot” to the one who is learnedJ, this is so hilarious right!

I have heard

One scholar was crossing a river, he took a boat and the boatman was rowing the boat. So the scholar started asking the boatman, he asked “do you know Sanskrit?” the boatman said “I don’t know, I know to speak the local language which serves my purpose”. Scholar continued “your 25% of life is wasted, anyway do you know Vedanta, mathematics, science etc”, the boatman said “no I don’t know anything and whatever the little money I earn takes care of my living and I need not keep an account as I earn enough for the day”. Scholar said “your 75% of life is wasted” like that the debate was going and there was a bad weather with big waves in the river and boat started sinking. Boatman could see the fear in the eyes of that scholar and asked “do you know swimming?” scholar said “no I don’t know”. Boatman said “your 100% of life is wasted”J; he jumped out of the boat and swam to the bank. That scholar used to speak that the soul is eternal and it doesn’t die. But he was afraid of death; it is so funny. Our own philosophy won’t help us when we are facing the situation. This is called as “Maya” and still we think we are intelligent. I have to confess here, that I too don’t know swimming but can be learnt. Take the moral of this story for swimming in this vast ocean called life!

I sent a mail to that group saying you people have not understood the first stanza itself and it is so funny! They got angry on me (such idiotsJ they are) and I unsubscribed from that group. This is how it goes around any master, they say something incredible and the scholars around them start debating on it. When are we going to drink the water or eat the food?

It happened while studying in eighth standard, there was a lady teacher who was explaining about “Kanaka Das’s” statement. Master asked all the disciples as who will go to heaven? No one dared to answer, but “Kanaka” said “nanu hodare hogabahudu” (we can take two meanings, one “I may go” and another “if I the ego goes then possible to go”) and all other disciples got angry over him as how come he can say like that? Our madam started explaining the actual meaning, that if “I” goes then possible to go to heaven. She was trying so hard to explain it; she wanted to tell the kids that she has understood what “Kanaka” means when he says like that! But she has just read it from somewhere and repeating it in front of the kids, how come the kids get it suddenly at that age? I was giggling inside thinking this madam is trying so hard (and that is the ego) to prove to us that she has understood. If she had really understood the meaning, then she would have kept quite or she would have told it in her own way and not repeating like a parrot what she has read! This is called “Maya” we think we know and yet we don’t know.

I have always found teachers repeating the same thing whatever is there in the book, there were many who will just read the lines out of the books and will dictate the same lines to take down the notes! There is so much waste of time, energy, paper and ink. Of course they have to earn their livelihood. Later in the colleges I stopped taking down the notes. I used to carry one notebook which was used for writing the cricket score!J One day I was writing the notes, on a single line I wrote all the sentences! One girl asked me my notes later; I gave the notes which had just thick mark of ink on it. She asked “where are the notes?” I said “it is on the same line layer after layerJ, decipher and take it!” She showed me a face mixed with wonder, confusion, question mark and anger! I can understand her problem, how can she know my way of thinking? We are like sheep following others; nothing of our own stuff. We are so much engrossed in the daily routine that we don’t have time to just sit and see the nonsense we are doing! Ninety percent what we are doing is waste and ninety percent what we have in our house is a waste. People go on keeping un-usable things year after year! House is just dumped with things and things and things. People are not ready to dispose the things which are not used for many years. Then think about this mind which is carried since millions and millions of years, certainly very difficult. Ninety-nine point Ninety-nine percent in the mind is crap; still we go on holding on to it! We think we have knowledge and this is “Maya”.

We have all the securities, support of the spouse and that too certified spouseJ! Yet there is always insecure feeling that the spouse may leave. What’s the major difference between a male and female, just little variations of flesh hither and thither. Peel of the skin, no one will love anybody including Miss/Mr. universes. We are just attracted to that thin layer of skin, how amazing the “Maya” is! If the spouse looks at the other good looking people then jealousy erupts and fight starts. Marriage certificates won’t help in these cases and this is “Maya”. We have all types of health insurances and when we fall sick or meet an accident, fear or pain of that never vanishes looking at those insurances. Later you may pay the bill, but fear will not vanish and this is “Maya”. When death nears neither the insurances nor the support of loved ones will help in any way and this is called as “Maya”. This can be extended to all aspects of life; I leave the reader to ponder a little more on that.

So “Maya” is not which is not there and we are seeing that, it means we perceive something else! Diamond is made of carbon which has little different combination of carbon and glitters a little. We don’t keep carbon in our house and we keep diamonds, this is “Maya”. Who gave value to these diamonds? If we take the human race out of this universe, there won’t be fight between other creatures for those stones. They would have not started fighting for diamonds, gold and all stupid stuff and create turmoil in this universe! If any celebrity does any bullshit thing, we follow the same things like sheep! Why are they doing like that? They are not happy with themselves, they want somebody to praise, clap to whatever the nonsense they are doing. This is a sign of inferior complex, those who want to rule and do show off are inferior complex people! In many of the TV programs they go on praising each other, one beggar praising another beggar! Somehow they want to be in news; else they feel as though out of this place and they do many nonsense things to be an item of news.

So like this, all things which are visible to the eyes are made up of atoms (in Sanskrit we say “aNu”) and can be measured. The same atom with trillions and trillions of combinations produces different things. Each atom has a tremendous energy, we know this when an atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. What is the difference between a space and a wall? We can move in the space, because the speed of atoms is very less and not visible through the eyes we bestowed! This empty space contains so much data, how come pictures in TV appear and songs in a Radio play? We bang on to a wall, because the speed is so much that it looks solid! Take a simple example, if the wings of a fan move we can not see the space between those wings. Like that the universe is made, which looks so wonderful! Everything has life and nothing is lifeless. Because of this life, everything finally crumbles. Everything is changing and changing nothing is stagnant. We know that “Energy neither be created nor be destroyed but changes its form”. Another example may be taken, if a white light passes through a prism, it splits in to seven colors. These colors create so many shades and we can very well see them in this universe! Scientists say that, if they go on deciphering any thing they get nothing! This we were saying since millions of years that this universe is made out of nothing! We are just caught up with nothing and this is “Maya”J. Scientists are experimenting this by keeping powerful electromagnets near an empty space by creating artificial black holes. They say that ions or atoms are emerging out of that empty space. How wonderful right! They are using some naming conventions and we have used some other naming conventions. There are many languages and in each language each thing has different words, it is as simple as that!

So out of nothing this whole universe is made, so the name “advaita” and out of this we see “dvaita” and many things have emerged! Now the question comes, as why I do not perceive the way the things are made right? Let me try to explain, time being I am not much clear so don’t take this explanation as final. But we can start pondering over from this thought. Many have seen 3-D movies, if we take of the spectacles then we won’t see anything on the screen. We just see some blurriness on the screen, something like this has happened. The eyes (it’s a 3-D spectacleJ) through which we see the things around us! Each species has its own level of vision, smell and other things. We perceive everything with different levels of hurdles or you can say frequency. Each species has different level of spectacle in different sense organs! Animals can see in the night also. Owls can see only in the nights. Animals come to know about floods and earth quakes and take action accordingly. They can move from that place within no time as they have not made any investment in lifeJ! They can smell the things which are too far. We here the sounds within certain frequency range. Wow how wonderful, it is something to be amazed of. We are here to pass that university of liberating from this trap, this trap is very limited. This is just like being in a jail and that too small cell where in we can’t even move our legs and hands. Leave about moving, our hands and legs are tied and we are creating many more cells around us and this is “Maya”! So in this trap we go through many tests, finally the one who gets cooked or ripe totally yells to come out of this and wants to become one with that nothingness. It is nothingness merging with nothingness; what an amazing phenomenon it is, wow I just wonder! It is not just hundred and ten meters hurdles, it is a great trap and the one who comes out of this trap is an emperor.

We are running this hurdle since millions and millions of years, if not tired yet then continue this race or else think for a while. Those who are ruling little piece of earth or something or the other is not the real emperor! Naturally what we are going through is a greatest trap or else we have trapped our selves and we need to get out of this! Is there any one to take this adventurous journey, we can have real fun! I cannot give guarantee that we will reach the destiny, more challenges will come and possible that we will loose everything. Our ego may get hurt thousands of time; people may say that we have no guts to face the challenges of life, let them keep those guts with them. We may loose our relationships, wealth and what not. We may loose all the support in life. This is a game for those who are not bothered to loose, those who are just ready to plunge into it just for the sheer joy of that adventure. Of course we have to pay this price to reach the ultimate bliss, there is no way out!

“nischala tatve jivan muktihi”, un wavering mind or stand on this will sure lead to liberation!

Wth Love

Vishu

Monitor...

2010-04-05T05:08:00.000-07:00

Friends,

Normally whenever a teacher is absent or on leave, then that gap is filled by some other teacher. If not possible to replace with another teacher, then there was this last option that any one among us has to become a class monitor for that period and keep the class silent. Going out and playing was out of question. All the guys 'n' gals will be told to do whatever they feel like but keeping silent. Such things were happening in high schools more often. I have seen; if a gal becomes monitor (she will behave like "Jhansi ki raNi") the black board will be filled with many guys and few girls on whom she is jealous of. If a guy becomes monitor (of course looks like "Chatrapathi Shivaji") hardly any guys name on the board and many gals name would have been there. Fight starts between monitor and the others over very silly reasons, very heated fight and all of them have forgotten that this whole thing was set up to keep the class silent and to my amazement even monitor is shouting in loud voice. I really used to enjoy the hilarious seen. The teacher comes and takes a look on the black board and he or she is not amazed; as they have seen this for many years, there is no empty space on the black board to write anything. Monitor starts telling "teacher everyone was talking and they quarreled too...!" To my opinion monitor is the one who made much noise than others in the class. The teacher will say; its all okay now take the duster and clean the board. So at last the work of the monitor is to clean the black board! Next time also the same scenery continues. Wow I used to love it, such an entertainment without paying any buck.

This monitoring business continues whole life; monitoring spouse, monitoring kids so on and so forth. All the old ones are the saddest people as no one will listen to them, and so we all will be one day. For them they have lost the grip of monitoring, that's the pain in their neck and many more places. I have seen many old timers saying in the Bangalore parks "What shall we do? We have to just eat in the house and sit in the corner of the house, no one listens to us." But the same parents of us were telling this to us. "My lovely kid, you are my diamond, gold... etc" and now the same kids have become like this and this journey ends one day in the grave yard, we are also in that queue sooner or later to go to the permanent place. There it will be written as "Rest in Peace"...quite natural, before that peace is just a word in the dictionary.

So this incident goes something regarding monitoring. This incident happened while I was studying in third standard.

One day after lunch, our gorgeous and nice teacher told us that she won't be coming till five in the evening because of some other engagements. She told us to keep silent and to do some work related to study. Before going she made me class monitor to keep the class silent and give the names of people involved in breaking the silence, she has always seen me silent in the class and not involved in any mischievous things, of course I am very innocent you know! Also she knows all members in my house, so may be some consideration for me to take charge of the class. I couldn't say no to this offer as the information would have gone to my mother. Once she left, I was thinking what to do now. Everyone wants to enjoy this freedom (including me), how can I handle this situation now? Normally I won't get into such situations of monitoring others and getting monitored by someone else. I love to be free and also let others to be free. So I came up with this idea, I stood up and told the whole class “all are free to do whatever they feel like, nobody’s name will be given to the teacher” and I didn’t calculated the consequences of this statement!

That's it, whole class roared... With in no time all my friends started screaming and running on the wooden planks (our seats on which we used to sit during primary). There was shower of "peNe" (this was used to write on the slate). The class was really resonating like home theatre. So the class was quite energetic and throbbing with joy. I was sitting in my place looking at my amazing leadership qualities. I was in my peak of bliss; I just missed my enlightenment:-). After sometime neighbor class teacher came and made us quiet. How long can you folks think we were silent, after the teacher went, with in few minutes we were back to our celebrations. Like this probably two to three times we were warned but in vain. Finally our class teacher came, I was sure that other teachers would have made complaint about the whole situation in our class.

There was a look of despair from our teacher all over and the eyes finally looked at me and she asked..."Vishwanatha tell me who all made noise in the class?" How could I answer? I thought for a moment and said spontaneously "I don’t know teacher!" That's it her hand went on her forehead and she said "What is this? I thought you were a very innocent boy!" I was giggling inside but showing her a sad and serious face. She said "Everyone will be locked inside the class and no one will be allowed to go home!" she went outside and locked both the doors. Once she went out again the ripples of giggle started coming from our comrades, but no one dared to make big noise (including me). I thought they will open after school bell rings, but bell rang we were still inside the class, all the other class folks fled to home; many came to the window and peeped inside and they had a big smile on their face. Now all of us were sitting silent. Fifteen minutes passed, half an hour passed, an hour passed but still the doors were not opened. Everybody's parents started coming to school. Not my parents as they knew this guy would come around 7.30 after playing.

All were discussing something outside the class and our class teacher came and told us that there will be punishment for this behavior of ours. Do you folks know what the punishment was? A gal and a guy have to come and slap on both the cheeks of each other. Wow what a punishment, guys getting slaps from gals and vice versa, our teacher had hit our soft corners. Who wants punishment like this? I really don't like hitting anyone but we had to do this. So the slapping ceremony started, one by one came in front of the black board and the exchange of gifts went on. My turn also came and from the other side a cute and soft girl came. I felt how could I hit this girl? I took my hand and kept my palm on her face, it was like "How are you girl?” My class teacher told me "Vishwanatha if you don’t know how to slap, come here I will show you the real slap!" Now I took my hand and showed as though I am hitting hard but same way again kept the palm on the face lovingly. She also did the same way. Like this everyone finished the exchange of gifts one by one, later we were relieved from the class. Our class teacher told me, that she will never make me a monitor ever! Wow that's okay for me, such liberation from the nonsense.

How are my leadership qualities folks?

With Love

Vishya

Occasion...

2010-04-05T05:05:00.000-07:00

Friends,

Everybody have attended many functions, parties and some other gatherings, in those occasions at least a few or say at least one occasion nobody can forget that too if it is theirs own. All the functions a person can forget but not their own marriage. I have often seen people saying "Twenty years back I too got married in the same place, I was so happy before that”. I have seen almost everybody saying this dialogue jokingly (I doubt, since everybody cannot say the same joke many times). This joke has troubled me always, as why all people say the same thing in one or the other way but all the jokes leading to "I was so happy before marriage”

Okay coming back to occasions; even I remember one of the functions; it is my "Munjvi" (thread ceremony). Sorry folks for not inviting you all, but let me take you through virtual glimpses or highlights of my thread ceremony. Hope you all folks will enjoy this ceremony!

I was studying in my second standard then and my mom told one day, that there will "Munjvi" for me, my brother and two of my cousins. I asked what this ceremony is. My mom told "This is a ritual in our parampara and have to do it". I asked back for what purpose it is done? My mom and others couldn't answer me properly and I told them "If you don’t know the reason yourself then why do it in the first place?" I got scolding "you just keep quite; you are always asking some rubbish questions". When ever I had asked a valid question, I always got this phrase back “don’t ask stupid questions”. Whenever I have asked, what for this ritual, or function or any festival; I got scolding as "don’t ask idiotic questions, go and play outside!” They were not ready to accept that that they too did not know the exact reasons. I was happy going out and playing outside, under the sky, amongst the trees, birds. Later I used this idea to get out of the house asking some questions which can’t be answered, even I don’t have any answers for my own questions till date and who wants the stupid answers?

Let me not deviate much and come back to my "Munjvi". So the day came and we all were in a temple near by. I have attended maximum functions in that temple; thread ceremony, marriage, "Ram Navami", "Krishna Janmashtami" etc. We went to the temple and all our age group kids started playing; running, jumping, screaming... My mom called me and said that the ceremony has started, she told me to get ready and sit in a place where some ceremony was happening. I told my mom “I am in the middle of play; I will finish and then come”. Natural, what can an eight year old kid would have told? Poor "Vishu", I pity him. I had to go or else I would have had nice scolding, beatings. I was made to wear "Dhotra" and the ritual started. "Homa" started and so much of smoke out of it, almost everybody's eyes and noses filled with water. After an hour or so "Homa" was finished, I went to wash my face and clean my nose. It was such a relief and my head, nose and throat became clean and I was feeling very light.

Then there was a special event, our favorite saloon guy "Pandu" was there to carve our head to look like "KOBRI BATLA" (only a round patch of hair will be kept at the center of the head) for all the four of us. I was the only victim as other three of my brothers were in their early colleges, how could they agree for "KOBRI BATLA”? All the girls would have made fun of their new hair style in the college. Though now a day’s guys may agree for this hair style, thinking at least this will become a tool for getting attention from girls towards them. Even girls would have loved it and said wow, look at that guy gal’s, what a hair style, he is looking really hot! As far as getting attention is concerned, girls are very delicate and cautious in this matter; guys think that they are going behind the girl trying to persuade her for accepting his proposal doing all weird things, but they don’t know one thing that the girl has made them to chase her. In a way girl is chasing the guy sitting in a place. They have lot of patience in this matter. Let me not elaborate much on this subject; else girls may get angry on me.

I have heard

Mulla Nasruddin was sitting outside his house enjoying the evening sunset in his garden, suddenly wife comes out and tells what are you doing here? Sitting and enjoying? See in the house there are so many problems.

Mulla asks, what problems cropped up now? You were watching TV and suddenly from where did the problems arose? All the children are settled, now what?

Mulla’s wife says, because of you only all the problems and you were only behind me that you love me so much and take care of all the things, I was not having any feelings (so clever) and you only forced me to get married.

Mulla says taking a deep breath; yeah you are right, I was the one who was behind you and have you seen or heard any time that the rat-trap going behind a rat and trapping it? No it doesn’t happen; rat only goes to the rat-trap and gets trapped.

This Mulla has taught me a lot; he is a very wise fool.

Please don’t be angry on me girls. Okay let me continue my “Munjvi”. In between some breaks are required; else it feels like reading a documentary.

Then it was "Bhikshandehi" event, I was told that if I ask alms saying "BHAVATI BHIKSHANDEHI" people will give me money, wow this I could understand suddenly. So all the dressing was over for that "Bhikshandehi" event along with my new hair style and I stood there asking alms with a whole hearted voice "BHAVATI BHIKSHANDEHI", "BHAVATI BHIKSHANDEHI" and people started coming and giving alms. As they were putting only coins in my "jolagi", I said to them “With such a loud and loving voice I am asking... put some notes” and they had to put more money, how can they say no to an eight year old kid asking so lovingly? Naturally I was the one having more money in my "jolagi".

Hey, being my dream to be a vagabond, this idea may work. I will come monthly once to one of the house for food (3 times) and give me some “Dakshina”, but please make it at least hundred and one as you all know rates have increased a lot. That day I will do your house work (cleaning the house, getting things from market etc but not taking care of kids). I have told this idea to my relatives; they are ready for this concept.

I took all the money from my “jolagi” saying it is my hard earned money and I am not going to give it to anybody. I went near a group where few of my relatives were playing cards; often my attention was going there during the events. I said to one of my "mama" to take this money (my alms money) and I will come later to get double of it or else you teach me so that I can also play and win. You guys think now how I would have got scolding, all the money went back to my father and I had a sad face. Later in my first job I played all games like “remy”, “three cards” and “andara bahara”.

Later they called me for one more event, that I have to wear "Langoti" and they will take a photo of mine. Naturally I was the only one on whom they can try all this, as my brothers would not agree. I said if you are taking a photo then I am ready for anything. I was ready with my "langoti" and a small branch of banyan tree in my hand. It really didn't matter me what they were doing and for what purpose all this, I was happy that my photo will be taken. So I stood there with my glamorous outfit along with a branch of banyan tree and an awesome hair style, if I had given a ramp show in fashion TV, I am sure it would have hit headlines in all the TV channels and news papers. The old camera takes a long time to take a snap and by then all were gathering around me and when I saw my age group girls started gathering around me and giggling, I said make it fast...and leave me. At last snaps were taken and I was relieved. I saw one of the “langoti” snap long back, it was with one of my aunty and I doubt it would have been missed by now.

So the "Munjvi" was over, the next day I was in my class and all the guys started laughing (I think girls started giggling) and they took my hat off, saying "topagi harasrile avanda" (I tried to avoid but couldn't). I got nice tapings on my head and the hat was flying all over the class, I tried to get my hat back but in vain. So I settled in my seat and after 15 or 20 minutes of play the hat was back on my head without doing anything.

Hope you folks would have enjoyed my “Munjvi”

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Keep Celebrating, Keep Smiling, and Keep Enjoying...

With Love

Vishya

God 1.1...

2010-04-01T23:32:00.001-07:00

Hi Friends,

Let us continue our discussion on GOD, let me see what all ideas pop out in this article!

Hey folks, do you think it’s not the age to write and think about this subject? Do we have to think about this when we get older? May be when we near century mark? Come on, not a problem to get into this at this age. I think we have already delayed a lot. I have seen all these old timers in the parks, they don’t speak about GOD. I have sat so many times near them, none speaks about GOD. They will be speaking about where the “Bhajji”, “Pakoda”, “Dosa”, “Coffee” is good and what price each restaurant is offering, else they speak about politics, cricket, movies and the list goes on. I don’t know who the hell they will be explaining these stupid things after their death. One more thing is they will be condemning the girls and boys going hand in hand. They criticize over the dressing of girls wearing glamorous outfit. They will be discussing that the girls now days have forgotten all the culture and good behavior and stuff like that. Folks you know the psychology behind this? Very simple, no energy is left in them and they can’t do anything about that now. Jealousy erupts from the bottom of their tummy, looking any guy going with a stunning girl. Their face turns so sad, they have missed all this in their young age and those days’ girls were not wearing such glamorous dresses. When we become old timersJ and see any girl going in two pieces, then the same story continues with us too. To add chili to our jealousy and wound, live-in relations are becoming more prominent and a fashion. Of course who wants to be with the same old dumb spouse? Some variety is required you know!

So, in the old age GOD turning out to be a lover of ours is very rare phenomenon! I have seen many old people in these yoga classes, ask them to make their spine erect, no one will be able to. They need some support on the back or a chair. If this is the case then how does the energy will move from the base of spine to head? To make the water to flow in the tank on the top of the house, we have water pumps to pump it up. What are we going to do in such situations at old age trying to pump our energies upwards? But I have seen the same old people suddenly sitting straight and acting like young guys! Do you folks know when?

Okay I will take up an incident… I was in Coimbatore for about three and half years. Learned little bit of Tamil and there I used to go for a walk in the nearby place daily evening. It’s a posh locality known as Race course. It is two and half a kilometer length round. There were many girls coming for a walk. There was this girl; very gorgeous and used to come for a walk. First time when I saw her, I was wondering that she would have come for a grand function in the nearby place. Her makeup and dressing was such that, I said “Ooohhhh” spontaneously when our eyes had a glance! Daily she used to come dressing like that with a long flowing shining silky hairs. She can go for modeling for sure! After this incident, our glances increased and I started teasing her, like going near her and then turning away. She used to repeat the same way with tossing her hairs in the air and adjusting her “dopaTTa” or something like that. I don’t understand such behavior as why and for what purpose they do like this. There used to be a light smile along with a pinch of shy on her face and was of course very beautiful. After many days of teasing like this, I thought its time to stop such things and started walking without doing such things. But she will pass near me and toss her hairs again and used to give some weird looks. She could be conveying me that “You stupid continue flirting! Why did you stopped? Come on talk to me, I am open for a talk!” Whenever she used to take a walk, I have seen many old fellows sitting upright and continuing their conversations with full of energy like an adult. Where this energy went while attending yoga classes? All uncles will be ogling at her; it’s been very long since they looked their wife like that! More than looking at that girl, I have looked the behaviors of others. In a way it is more fun watching others than these beautiful faces!

Later I stopped going there as my work got increased at the office. After many days again I went for a walk. Saw her coming from the other side, she saw me from the far and made her spine straight and adjusted her walk a little bit. When we came near, she took her hand into the hairs to toss. Mean while I said to her “Long time no see!”J When we met on the other half side of the round, I could see her smiling with a shy, trying to cover the smile and turning her face little away from me, but eye balls glancing at me! Wow I love such looks from girls!!J

Gals can you explain me this behavior or am I asking a great secret?

I have heard…

Mulla Nasruddin was sitting outside his house and was of 90 years old. He screamed to his servant “Hey VishuJ get me my teeth set quickly!” I hurried and took the set and was about to give him, then suddenly Mulla said to me in rage “Not required now, you delayed long!” In a surprise I asked him for the reason behind such behavior! Mulla said to me, there was a beautiful girl passing by and I felt like whistling at her but she left already!!

Do you folks think anyone will remember GOD at that age!

I have taken up examples of male being a male; female gender is also included in the same way. Don’t feel you are too GOD loving (or fearing). I was wondering why ladies mind is compared to that of an ocean and we can’t understand what the lady is up to! After observing a lot, I could understand this that she won’t display any ripple of her feelings in her eyes. You really need to see deep down in the eyes to get that. But males display it so easily and look stupid! That’s how the ladies have an upper hand in any relationship! Oh ladies, don’t blame meJ.

I have heard…

There was this head lines in the main page of a daily hot selling news paper, that an aunty got raped by four young handsome hunks in a park early in the morning while she was taking her morning walk!! These hunks are not yet caught. Next day the same paper had a headline saying that, more aunties started taking an early morning walk in the same park.J

Folks, do you feel that the subject is getting deviated? No not at all, everything is interlinked. These old timers say to the young ones that this is all nothing; you folks are wasting time behind all these things, pray for GOD and nothing else can save you! But when their seniors told them, they didn’t listen. Our juniors will also not listen to what we say. This teaching continues…

Long time back, I was in a bar having my weekend sip. In the same table there were four or five old timers having their sip. After some nonsense talks they started topic on GOD. They were exchanging which temple they went and which one is having more power. Which place is going to give them more benefit and all. I was enjoying my drink and I was watching them smilingly. One of the old timers asked me “Don’t you believe in GOD?” I said I don’t know about that subject and tried to come out of discussion. They started laughing at me and started saying don’t you know Krishna, Rama and it went on. I said to them, that I have heard about their name and nothing much I know really. They started telling me about GOD, HEAVEN, and HELL etc. They told me that I will land up in hell if I don’t worship GOD! Now I started talking a little bit.

I asked one old fellow a question “Do you believe in this glass?” He looked at me with ridiculous smile and said that of course he believes and no doubt in it! I asked again “Do you believe in this glass or do you know and can see that it’s a glass in front of you?” He said “Yeah, I know this is a glass” I said to them, that when I know like this then I will worship and there is no point in believing. They continued telling, you see all these people have said about GOD and worshipping. There are so many holy books explaining about GOD. I said to them, suppose there were no holy books and there were no Krishna, Rama, Mahaveer, Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed like people in this world then what you people would have done?

They were looking at each other and discontinued conversations with me. May be they thought it will be difficult arguing with me. But what’s the difficulty in talking about it? Sure we don’t know about GOD, let us agree upon this and then start searching for GOD. Anybody’s experience in life can’t become an experience of ours. We don’t stop eating after listening KRISHNA, RAMA and all the loving people on the earth had their food. If they had food means it’s for their stomach and we have to eat our portion of food to come out of hunger. Like wise we have to experience in life what they experienced as something called as GOD. Their experiences can not become our experiences.

With Love

VishuJ

Rocketting...

2010-04-01T23:30:00.001-07:00

Friends,

Let us refresh few things to get the momentum and remind the school days before stepping into college. Will make “Rocketting…” issue just a part of this article; I will try to include important things of our early college days. All incidents which are going to be mentioned are related to JSS College, but in all the colleges more or less similar incidents will occur.

Our primary school days were passed with little time studying and lot in playing variety of games like “gilli dandu”, “sarabadagi”, “gida mangya”, “reach”, “bagari”, “goli gunda”, “dabba aisa paisa”, “lagori”, “dabba dubbi”, “Ottappa” and the list goes on. Let me not skip the games played by girls; “kunTalpi”, “aNi Kalla”, “haggada aTa”, “chavanga”, “adagi hacchi aTa”; for this last game if any boy was available then this game will lead to some other game also, hope all are wise enough to understand that game. I have also played all the games played by girls. During rainy seasons on “nagara panchami” festival, tying “Jokali” to a tree branch and catching “laddo” or “kobri baTla” by mouth tied on the far branch was fun. There used to be lot of heated fight for playing the “jokali”. Anybody has played rotating “kobri baTla” tied to a thread like a “bagari”?

After moving to high school, all these games dropped off and we moved to playing cricket, volley ball, basket ball, and foot ball. Apart from these games, we used to go for long bicycle rides to “Neerasagar”, “Kelageri Road”, “Kalaghatagi Road” etc, on the way we will be collecting “Neerala HaNNa”, “Mavina Kayi”, “bari HaNNa”, “kavaLi kayi” etc. That used to be so much of fun. If I have forgotten mentioning anything then please remind me.

One of the milestones in our life was completing SSLC, which became the last milestone in my life. After finishing the SSLC exams there was great feeling of freedom in all of us, it was as though completing a great expedition. I could see the smile of freedom on everybody’s face and all were looking so beautiful. Does that smile still exist on everybody’s face? Because this is a crucial question to be asked, we have become more matured and we almost have all (more I believe) that we wished to have. My experience tells that we are stuck in what we have now, leave about what we don’t have. Have you folks heard of a king having hidden his life in a parrot? If you kill the parrot, the king dies too. Like that our life is split and placed in many things and persons. Does that story contain some moral? I leave this question to you all; little more pondering is required again on that story.

So the same evening after finishing the exams, there were groups of four or five in different junctions (“kootu”) of the city. One among them was “Malamaddi kootu”, the area where I stayed and was famous for many more things. We all were discussing that the days of slavery are over and will be in college; where in lot of freedom will be there. We can wear colored dresses and need not sit for all the periods and so on and so forth. Another important thing was that girls from other schools will also join and will have ample of options, and so been the case with gals I think. This getting together in the junctions and chatting went on daily and we started going back to our houses late day by day. One day my mom told me “enle inno college meTla hathilla iga koota kotige nintha konda haraTi suru athena?”… Meaning you have not yet stepped into college and already started chatting in the junctions or what? This translation is for non-kannada readers (there are few and may increase also).

Apart from chatting in the corners, roaming in line bazaar, visiting temples also became a habit. We are such a devoted beings you know, whether we have devotion towards god or not but are devoted to the devotees. Of course even the devotees will be visiting the temples for same reason. On Monday “uLavi Basappa Temple”, Tuesday “Ganesh Temple”, Thursday “Rayar Matha”, Saturday “Hanuman Temple”; because on specific days in those temples devotees will be more. All of them will be seen so much immersed in the love of god, it was worth watching and in between, the eyes will roll here and there in a fraction of second looking for other devotees. Even God cannot help us in such a situation, all of us were in our peak of energies and by the rule of magnetism we know unlike poles attract each other, that was the peak age of practically experiencing the attraction. Of course the rule has changed to like poles also attract each other recently (only for humans). Let us not dig more and make an issue out of it.

We entered college and our adventures started one by one. Being seated in the front desks till SSLC thought of having a promotion and I moved to last desks in the college and later moved out of the class totally. All those guys who were in college cricket team were allotted 100% attendance for theory classes. What a blessing in disguise for me and till II PUC, I have hardly attended any classes. May be around 20-25 classes including both the years.

Our adventures started with calling proxy, bunking the classes and later absconding to movies, especially to “Modern talkies”. Getting the tickets in the beginning used to be such a fun, each one will push the other guy to get the tickets, all will be looking around to hide their face from anyone who can recognize their face. Though I was daring enough to get the tickets, I was not sent as they will reject issuing tickets looking my school like looks. I have to hide in between the friends to get into the theatre. Later all will leave the hall with dejected face saying all the money got wasted. Now days so much pain need not be taken, you switch on any TV channel there will a girl in two pieces and a topless guy both shaking all the parts of their body. Girls are luckier now; guys come just in single piece. “Duryodhana” like characters are also not required as there is nothing much to strip. Otherwise it is very difficult to strip so no one will take that much pain.

One more fun was teasing the girls. We were never friendly with girls; rather we were happy teasing, pebbling, whistling, and passing comments at them. If they become friends then all this fun will end. As long as the teasing was light and fun it was okay with them too. Of course sitting in front of the mirror for hours to get ready and watching from all angles how the dress, hair style fits and if no one is there to tease or pass comment at them was such an annoying thing to them you know. If you tease, they will be angry and if you don’t tease then they will be miss something and will be frustrated the whole day. They will tell almost everyone in a complaining way that she got teased by some guy. But you can see such an enthusiasm in them and glitter in their eyes, while complaining about it. Girls could be thinking, earlier Krishna (lord) was there, who used to tease “gopikas” so much and even used to snatch their dresses and now the gals can’t even find a single dare guy to at least snatch their “dopaTTa” (so boring you know). Many girls (those not got teased) were jealous of other girls who were got teased and I can understand their pain too. Though I was afraid to try this adventure, but never failed to observe.

I had this wish to tease at least one girl and see the response, while studying Diploma in “K.H. Kabbur” one of my friends challenged me that I don’t have guts to tease a girl. I took this as a challenge and saw four girls coming from the opposite side. Some how got the courage (of course teasing four girls, more courage is required!) and made my mind to tease them even at the cost of a slap. I had no idea what to say to them, when I approached them suddenly an idea stuck my mind and raised both my hands like a beggar and started singing “de de pyara de pyara de” in a begging tone. To my surprise all girls started giggling loud and ran away from me (Oooh la la). Even all my friends started laughing loudly.

Later I discovered that this love is not more than begging. Begging bowl is little visible with guys, it is invisible with the gals but it is there. Because of this barter system there is so much conflict between couples, whether married or unmarried.

Now coming to attending the classes…

There will be 100% attendance from guy’s side for English periods and all know the reasons for such an interest in English. Girls could have been jealous of that madam I think seeing all guy’s eyes glued on that madam. There were not so good looking male lecturers/professors (so sad gals). This madam was very daring. In one of the lesson there is a word “buttock”, after she read the sentence one of the guys stood up and asked the meaning of that word. That madam patted on one of her butt and said “This is called as buttock”. All giggling comrades became silent. I think every year she will pat her butt like that.

Another English teaching lady lecturer was there, we used to call her as “Nadira” (she resembled actress “Nadira”) and I need not mention earlier madam’s name. One incident about “Nadira” madam I still remember, one day one of my friend told that while coming on the road he saw “Nadira” madam coming on her “TVS champ” with dynamo on. This poor guy has signaled that the dynamo is on, but to his surprise that madam instead switching off the dynamo has adjusted her “saree”. Poor guy, he didn’t even thought of that. After listening to that incident I have never signaled to any lady even though the dynamo is on. But I do get a smile whenever I see a lady riding a vehicle with the dynamo on.

At last on “Rocketting…”

This “Rocketting…” started in the English class taken by the lady where 100% guy’s attendance used to be there. This “Rocketting…” was nothing to do with satellite or something, it was to do with launching paper rockets. I was the teacher to give training to many of my friends from making to holding and launching the rockets. In one of the demo launch which I was showing to my friends sitting in the back desk told that this rocket will reach the front second desk. Our madam was writing something on the black board and I released the rocket with extra power which crossed second desk and also first one. I thought this will hit our lovely madam, meanwhile after crossing the first desk the rocket got a deviation (because of the wind) and went inside the cupboard beside the black board! There was a sigh of relief in me. My heart started beating like a “shatabdi express”. For about fifteen minutes I could here my heart beat. Later training on launching the rockets went and many learnt. After this incident I was not there in the college for few days. Later when I came back to class, I was surprised to see all the guys sitting silently. I enquired the reason behind their innocent behavior, it was because of too much noise they have made in those days and have launched the rockets at girls and one girl or a group of girls have gone and complained to the principal. I think guys would have not launched at those group of girls, they don’t understand simple things (of course not much matured that time). That group of girls could be jealous of this, after watching only cream of girls getting hits of rocket. After knowing who all went and complained, it was obvious for me that why guys not launched rockets at them (sorry gals).

This was not the end; everyone had given my name to the principal, I was among the main rocket launcher’s list. Without launching the rockets at the girls, I was in the list. I thought its time to get scolding and will be told to bring my parents. I got the information that I should go to HOD of botany department and meet him for resolving rocket launching scam. I met the peon outside the HOD room and told him for such and such a scam I am here to meet the HOD. He looked at me from top to bottom two or three times and asked me in a surprise; “Who has given your name in this scam??!!” I used to look like an innocent school kid then so he would have thought, this guy cannot do such things. He told me to get into the class and he will just strike my name out of the scam list. I told him my name and after confirming the removal of my name from the list came to the class with a big smile on my face. All my friends were jealous of me for escaping from the scam without any punishment or scolding.

Of course I am still an innocent guy you know!

With Love

Vishu :-)

Slap...

2010-04-01T21:40:00.000-07:00

Hi Friends,

Hey don’t worry; I am not going to slap anybody in this article or may be I will… (Including meJ, but it depends how we take it up.). I am going to mention few school time incidents which happened while studying fifth and sixth standard. Later it may go humorous or serious, I don’t know as of now.

The incident which I am going to mention is related to real slap. Not in the sense of physically hitting or something like that but it may sound like teaching a lesson to somebody. Based on that incident I am going to elaborate the subject, if any ideas click my mind. I have seen many (including me) saying “I will teach a lesson to him or her so that they will not forget for lifetime”. Have you folks come across such situations in life? Of course everyone comes across this on a daily basis. The list goes like “I am going to show what I am”, “Do you know who am I”, “I will teach a lesson”, “I will just slap on the face”, “I am going to kick on the ass”, “I am going to f*** off”.

We entered high school and we were feeling little grown up. Grown up in the sense, we started developing ego. Variety of competitions started between us. In our sixth grade we had ME (moral education). In this period, they taught us some morals. I have not learnt any moral out of those periods. Actually I have never learnt any moral during my education. Have you folks got any moral out of education? Many of such periods, there used to be competition between boys and girls. Something like boys asking questions to girls and vice versa, later counting the marks as who won the competition.

One day it happened that a teacher told the class that there will be such a competition between boys and girls. But the rules got changed; first boy sitting in the first desk has to ask a question, to the first girl sitting in the first desk (may be teacher wanted to involve all). If she cannot answer the question, then she has to standup and the next girl will answer. This will go on till any one of the girl answers that question. All the girls who cannot answer and were standing will get a slap on both the cheeks from the guy, who has asked the question. Now the girl who has answered the question will get the chance to ask a question to the guys. Answering of that question will start from the next guy who has asked the question earlier. Now the slapping will be from a girl to the guys on the cheeks. I think now everyone understood this competition. This is quite entertaining and romantic right? We can imagine how shameful it will be, if not answered. This competition was continuing and a girl stood up and asked a question. She was really a competent girl in our class. Her question made many guys to standup till I answered the question. After listening to my answer, she became little dull. She might have had plans to slap me also I believe. Of course in a class we have our own close friendsJ, whom we want to give a slap in one way or the other. We may call those ways in different names like “healthy competitions”, “ambition”, “challenge” so on and so forth. Any bullshit name we give for it, but deep down the intention is to slap the other.

So the girl came and started slapping the guys who were standing (around seven to eight guys I guess). I was watching her while slapping the guys, such a glitter in her eyes and so much vengeance filled heart. She was taking so much pride in slapping the guys. My heart was saying to me, if this is called education and moral, then better to leave such education. Later it was my turn to ask the question and I was in difficulty. So I asked a very simple question, which can be answered by anyone. When the very first girl answered my question, there was so much happiness in the girls section and few were looking at me in a teasing way. Happy means, my question made no girl to standup for getting slaps. They didn’t understand one thing that, it is very hard for me to slap or hurt anyone, so I asked a very simple question.

Now not knowing the answer is not at all hurting, but getting slaps from the opposite sex was of deepest hurt. We all have never got hurt so deep physically, even though the hands have gone or legs have gone. We are hurt very deeply when the ego is hurt. This is so hilarious; we have not seen the ego and are troubled by it! Does anyone have seen it? This is something to think about sensibly.

On one way parents, teachers much talk about love, friendship, compassion and all bullshit (they are just plain nonsense talks) and on the other hand, they really preach competition, always be first, prove that you are something, do you know which family you are born in and don’t spoil the name of our family etc. This is amazing; each family is saying the same thing, that our family is the most respected one. Many times I giggle to so many statements like this. My father never asked me how much marks I took and all; even he never knew in which standard I was studying. This has helped me in many ways. Mother sometimes, when she gets time out of her busy schedule will tell me at times, look at him he has taken more marks and look at you, you are always in the playground and let me tell you “Cricket won’t give you food to eat!” But whenever my name or photo used to appear in the paper she would be very happy. Of course I too liked when I used to get special look from others (especially girlsJ, hey just kidding, I am afraid of special look from girls). But she was not having much of a problem with my studies as I was getting okay marks, but getting less mark than somebody was the problem (slap… of course).

Of course everybody’s parents will be telling the same thing to their children, look at him/her you are no way near to them. Like this our morals develop, to come first, be good in sports, singing, dancing, debating, and looks. Almost in every field the kid should be first, now days all these reality shows have sprayed ghee on such morals (fire). Small children burn with jealousies, hatred, envies their friends, who are in one way or the other a step ahead. Yesterday I was watching one reality show, a girl sung so nice that tears flown out of my eyes and she got a very good standing applause from judges and audience. In between the camera was on the girl who had sung earlier. Her face turned so dull and sad, she was burning with jealousy. Many commit suicide for such silly things in life. Sportsman spirit has vanished totally.

Now days parents want their kids to be number one in all the fields (almost all), I am not kidding. What they couldn’t achieve or were planning to achieve didn’t happen, make their kids to take up the same career and push them hard to fill that gap. It is nothing but fulfilling theirs own ego. This ambition is in all of us, to become great in every field. This competition leads us to turmoil, distress, anxiety and annoying situations. So forget about peace and sanity, we are into pieces and insanity.

We want to prove that we are something great, some great persons are there like Alexander, Hitler and list goes on. Are they great because they killed so many people? To me they look like mentally sick people, who need treatment. Even all the creatures on the earth don’t kill their own species. They kill other species just for food and they can’t help this behavior of theirs. We are all humans having intelligence and kill (or do something to) others just to prove our so called greatness. This is just stupid; in the whole of the history what we studied, we have such idiotic personalities. Really great beings like “Buddha”, “Mahaveer”, “Nanak”, “Kabir”, “Purandar Das”, “Kanak Das”, “Basavanna”, “Akka Mahadevi” etc are no where to be seen. If any thing is written on them, it is just two lines. Of course such people are of no use to prove anything great, because they will smash our ego right away. We go to such places and throw few coins and beg them to take care and make us successful. May be we are afraid that we may get punished, if not done that duty. This prayer of ours is not out of love. If we were given a boon to choose between a bag full of currency and an idol which we worshipped for many years, which one do we choose? Say suppose we were in North Karnataka and because of floods our house is drowning, what all things we will save first? Do we save idols of god (may be idols of gold)? They didn’t asked us to offer any prayer. None of the gods have begged us to offer any prayer, or have they asked anyone? Whom are we trying to fool with? What are we fooling around here?

Why are we proving consciously or unconsciously (most of the time unconscious) to others that, we are something great? This proving to be great takes many ways; proving good in studies, that is to be the most intelligent. But I have not seen any intelligent stuff in school or college time; it is more of a by-hearting business. It is to do with memory and not intelligence. Till now I am confused what really intelligence is. Any one knows what intelligence is?

Then there are sports and games. It was so hilarious for me that each year we used to fight for different houses (green, blue, yellow, red), during school time. I remember one incident; there were inter-school sports at “Vidyaranya” High School (during my SSLC). I was also part of it. I was in ‘C’ group (one group less than my classmates) because of my height and weight. So I was competing with a year or two lesser age boys and didn’t get a good competitor, so lucky I have always been. That year I missed inter-school sports individual championship. That was all planned by “Vidyaranya” school staff I believe, they can’t digest “KE Board’s” being the champions every time. They were trying somehow to make their school champions. So it happened, we were on the line to start 100 Mts. Sprint, the teacher started saying “On your mark set get…” and after this he has to clap the wooden clapper to make the indication to start running. I was waiting and mean time, few guys had already fled. He is telling me to run and I said, you have not clapped yet and not ready to call those guys back. But this is how it goes on, somehow to slap others. That day I came home and was thinking that all these competitions are full of bull. After few days threw all the medals and cups into the well and burnt all the certificates to make the water hot and had a hot bath (it was of some use at least). This goes on in every field like drawing, singing, dancing…This is our real experience and not friendship, love and compassion. Our peace mission games of different types between nations erupts only hatred and not friendship. We should really think whether to continue such missions or not. We can utilize that money for helping flood affected areas or something like that.

This proving to be great spreads its wings in different ways in different forms. Competitions which start between friends in the same class will become bigger and the clash/slap (competition) starts between two classes. That’s when a class becomes united or else to hell with unity. Later it becomes bigger, between two schools, two “taluqs”, two districts, two states, two countries and so on and so forth. Every nation is united when there is attack from another country, or else the internal fight goes on. All the countries are spending more than seventy percent of the nation’s wealth for producing ammunitions. Now we cannot eat them and can only be used to destroy the planet earth; almost it is going to nuts. We are unable to handle floods and tsunamis here on earth and we are searching for water on the moon. I don’t know what to say, whether to cry or to laugh. May be they will shit on earth and wash their butt on moon! What else can you do finding water on the moon? These leaders of all the nations go on talking about peace, solving hunger problem so on and so forth. Can’t they use that money for feeding the poor and making them better? Its only talk, they have their own interests in this whole drama. Other wise each politician’s property figure would not have been in billions.

Hey, it is possible that your kids or grand kids might stay in Pluto, Jupiter, or Neptune planets when they take up their career, this idea may be further extended to other galaxies. Possible that you may go to your daughter’s place (say Pluto) to help during her pregnancy! Wow, such a great idea right? Once in a year all will gather on the earth, saying this is our hometown! Your kids may mention “Earth” as hometown in “Orkut“

In the home or in the office, this slapping one another goes on daily. Corporate meetings are meant for rotation of slaps between colleagues. Even if only husband and wife are there in the house, they exchange slaps often. Only on birthdays and anniversaries they will try avoiding it and postpone to the next day. Ever green combination is of Wife-Husband-MIL (Bermuda triangle like), I have placed husband at the center knowingly!! Pythagoras should find some theorem to this triangle; okay he is not there, I will try to find some theorem and post it laterJ.

Now let us deviate from slapping to clapping. Do you think clapping is a good thing? Be aware of claps and appreciations. In a way slap is better than a clap, really this is my experience. Each one of us craves for appreciation from all others. Even if we are appreciating others, it is an investment to get the appreciation back. Though we say no not like that, we really want to appreciate, but let us close our eyes and look deep within. Some where a voice says yes we need appreciation back. When ever somebody is appreciated or praised, suddenly our face turns green and it starts boiling in our tummies and we put a false smiling face and nod to that praise as yes even I was thinking the same way. When we are out of that place we start criticizing the praised person on that matter. We find a partner who nods to our criticism, of course that person is also nodding for the same burning sensation. So whenever a person is praising, see deep down in the eyes what exactly is the demand.

To make it little clear, I will take one more incident…

One day I and my colleague were having lunch on the roof top of our office. One elderly gentleman came; he is one of the main members of our “padayatra” committee. He is been into this over 15 years. We youngsters (I feel still youngJ) take this yearly adventure just for fun. So he came and we wished him “Hello sir, how are you?” He said “I am a small man; you great people have to say…” But I could read his intention behind that statement and there was a light smile to ridicule us. He really wanted to be appreciated and not to appreciate us. My friend told him “Don’t tell like that sir, we are just very young and don’t compare us with you like that” and turned to me and said “What Vishu, what will you say for this?” I looked into the eyes of that person and said “Sir, you are the only person on the earth who recognized greatness in us, rest don’t have brains to see our greatness” My friend got shocked and that person’s glitter in the eyes diminished and he fled the place saying “Of course everyone has some greatness!”

One more incident I will narrate, this will really give more clarity.

This is an incident which happened while studying fifth standard. That time I couldn’t understand it, but now it is clear to me. There was this mathematics teacher; I have seen him in temper always. In one of the class, I was looking into his eyes (as usual, observing is a built-in function in me) while he was teaching, without any fear and totally relaxed. Once or twice he looked at me with rage and after sometime came and slapped me on one of my cheek. I was really wondering for the reason behind that slap, whole class was silent and I didn’t do anything, I was just calm and relaxed. Do you folks wonder why? It is very simple; his ego got hurt looking at me so relaxed and without any fear (10 year old kid!). You know you have to bend your head like a servant in front of teachers and elders. After that incident he never looked at me for the whole year (may be feeling guilty). This is so amazing that teachers/elders are expecting respect from students/juniors and vice versa. It is so hilarious; it is something like two beggars begging from each other and both beggar’s bowl is empty. I think these incidents will make us more aware of psychology behind clapping. But really nice persons don’t expect and the irony is they get it.

After slapping and clapping for few years, we vanish deep down the earth and become manure for trees. This in turn becomes food for those who are currently in this slapping and clapping business. This play continues…We should move till the effect of slaps and claps won’t’ leave a scar on our heart and mind. Till then keep enjoying claps and slaps. What for have I taken so much pain in writing this article? Should I have to say it explicitly? Of course I need to get both clapping and slapping. So don’t be miserly in giving claps or slaps to this article, just pour both the things. Both are required for the growth of the human.

Okay let me conclude this article with MullaJ (I love him so much),

“Mulla” was a traffic police, who was very prompt in his duties. One day during his duty rounds, found one car parked in a no-parking area. He waited for the owner to come. A lady opened the car and Mulla gave a receipt of 200 bucks penalty. He explained to her the reason for the penalty. She said to him that she knows the SP, for that “Mulla” said, lady this all won’t help; the lady said I know Governor, chief minister and also prime minister. “Mulla” said to her “Do you know Mulla?” then something can be done about the penalty! So the lady asked “Who is this Mulla?” “Mulla” points to himself and says here he is!!!

Keep slapping, clapping and also smilingJ

With Love J

Vishu

God...

2010-04-01T02:57:00.000-07:00

Friends,

This subject of GOD is the major cause for conflict in this world! So let us try to understand this subject of GOD or rather around GOD. This subject may take little diversions here and there, but it will be related in many ways.

I do remember, from childhood I was never present in any of the “Pooja” in my house. I was playing alone on the trees or in the grounds with the friends, but used to be there in the house during lunch time. I am blessed in that way, “Pooja” has not become a part of me. I used to ask my mom lot of questions and she will send me out for playing as she didn’t knew the answers. I too don’t know the answers for my own questions and what’s the difference if I come to know or not! There were so many rules in the house like “don’t sneeze once”, “don’t stretch hands and legs after waking up in the morning”, “don’t ask where I am going”, “don’t laugh loudly”, “don’t bring other caste friends” … and the list is infinite! Oh my GOD it is difficult to breath on this earth following all these rules. I used to tell my mom in anger “Call your all GODs and I want to talk to them and ask them as what will happen if I do these things”. I was in the house just for sleeping and eating. My father used to ask me at times “Have you made this house like lodging?” I used to smile and keep quite. Of course now I feel; it is not more than lodging. Whether we stay for few days or for few years, what’s the big difference. What are seventy or eighty years of our life compared to millions of millions of years of this universe? So many people like us came on this earth and did so much nonsense dramas and left. We too will go soon… today or tomorrow or say the day after. This is the reality or is there anyone who is going to stay for ever? No one will come behind anyone, those to whom we said that we will be there for many lives. Also those whom we took care day and night, washing their butts and cleaning their nose. Please remember, we too won’t go behind anyone. Though few tears fall from eyes like crocodile’s tears, is totally a different drama. The crying is not for the departure of the loved ones, but the loss of support in many ways. Everyone loves themselves on this earth for sure. Till now I have never got tears or sad feelings by seeing anybody’s death.

The photos of GOD or the temples have never made much impact on me. There was a photo of “Adi Shankaracharya” in my house and I was attracted to that personality. His mere sitting and his serene eyes made a deep impact in me. I used to think (may be from second standard) that this guy seems to be somewhat different and have to search one guy like him! Whenever I have come across a lesson on such people like “Mahaveer”, “Buddha” and many devotees like “Meera bai”, “Akka Mahadevi”, “Kanaka Das”, “Purandara Das” sure I have been pulled towards them.

I was visiting temples for various reasons; though doing “Pranams” had become like a habit seeing any temple, but my cousin made me aware of this and I am thankful to her. But no harm in bowing down, if we begin bowing down physically it will become heartily one day! I was watching everyone in the temple including the priest. Many will take more rounds around the temple seeing any neighbor beside them or any good looking opposite sex! This is to prove that they are very pious and devoted to GOD. We can not see them having same humble and innocent eyes outside the temple. We have different intensity of looks to different kinds of people. The eyes we show to the superior are totally different from the eyes we show to the sub ordinates or workers. We are like chameleons changing colors according to the situations and people around us. Is everyone aware of this delicate phenomenon going on inside or else totally unconscious? We think that GOD is just within the four walls of the temple and can do any nonsense outside the temple. This cleverness won’t help us in anyway; rather we are deceiving ourselves being cunning and over the period we have to reap that in someway or the other. This life keeps good accounts of everybody, don’t think that there is somebody up there keeping these accounts. Everything is written in our own minds in the form of impressions; rather we are writing them ourselves. That is the meaning of “Jaisi karani vaisi bharani” or “What you sow so shall you reap”. Such sayings are there in each and every language. This life is a great echo system! This great country of ours has invented thousands of methods to erase those impressions. We don’t have any respect for those methods now days.

In the scriptures everything about life or GOD was told in some stories thinking that human is intelligent to get the moral out of those stories and they created some characters with some looks. We are stuck to the symbols and idols of those stories and moral has lost in the vast space. It is something like; we saw a movie and instead getting the moral we got stuck to the actors and actresses. We started making them celebrities; they themselves don’t follow the morals which they acted for and they say that they are educating the public through movies! First extinguish the fire which is burning your own ass; out of that learning try to extinguish the fire of others! Else consider the logos of the companies; don’t go on giving offerings to the logos by garlanding and other things. We have to start working to run the company! Make your heart a garland to the divine and offer; then there is meaning in the offering.

Temple priest knows the mind frame of us; he knows what for we come to temple. He knows our greed and fear. He is also as greedy and fearful as us. If we are cunning outside the temple, he is cunning both inside and outside the temple! He is more cunning than us and his eyes clearly speak about his intentions. He thinks he knows GOD and I have never seen such idiots in my life. They have just by-hearted few verses of the scriptures and they tell it out. Computer is better than “Pundits” which stores many songs and chanting and we can as well listen from it. He bows (though not physically) before a rich customer, rich means who performs big “Poojas” that involve lot of money! We can see saliva coming out of his mouth and greed in his eyes seeing a rich customer. He gives a big list for the “Pooja” and keeps in mind what is missing in his house! He will have good eye on devotees whenever he takes the “Arati” plate, he will watch everyone and keeps account of who is putting how much. Many times people end up putting more seeing any neighbor beside them. So the priest is lucky in that way, we receive colored rice and flowers based on the money we have put in the “Arati” plate. They will also be watching any lady bending and doing “Pranams”J. I am not saying that such things should not be done, but we should be clear in what we are really doing!

Once it happened; my friends called me to visit a temple, now normally I won’t visit a temple. I went with them and the priest performed “Arati” and brought the plate outside. I checked in my pockets and had no coins; I had only hundred rupee notes. Who will put hundred rupees, certainly I won’t! So I just took the warmth of the “Arati” and didn’t put any money. The priest gave me an angry look; he gave flowers to everyone except me! I came out of the temple laughing loudly.

What is the reason behind going to temples? We are afraid and greedy; we hang on to GOD for various reasons. We pray GOD for keeping us well, getting a good job, a life partner and making us successful. To make it simple we are just begging. GOD is one in all; security person, employment exchange, marriage consultant, doctor and the list is infinite. I have seen in Bangalore, a small temple being constructed in the corner of the house premises. He is the security for the house and other things, in another corner a small house for the dogs. So there will be two watchmen GOD and DOG! This is how we utilize GOD even, and we are not ashamed of this! If something goes wrong with us, then we say that there is no GOD at all. It’s time to look our face in the mirror; this reminds me of a song from “Pradeep”…. “Mukhada dekhale prani, jara darapan mein”

It happened

Once village people told saint “Farid” to ask “Akbar” for money to build a school in the village. They told that he has lot of love and respect towards him and won’t deny the request. So “Farid” went to “Akbar” and he was praying (daily “Namaaz”). “Farid” was waiting for him to complete the prayer, at the end of the prayer “Akbar” started asking GOD to give more money and to broaden his empire. “Farid” just started to leave the palace; meantime “Akbar” saw him and said with respect “Holy saint please wait, you came and now leaving without telling anything and what’s the matter?” “Farid” said “I thought I came to a king to ask something, but I am sorry, I came to a beggar to beg something!” he left the palace saying that he came to a wrong place. We don’t know about people like “Farid”, we know only about kings. Of course people like “Farid” never make any sound and leave this place peacefully. This world is suffering from the few people who are making big noise about nothing, that noise is of no relevance to this world.

Nearby my house there is a park and adjacent to that there is a famous temple. Daily I go there for a morning and evening walk. Recently I am seeing few girls coming to temple early in the morning and performing some rituals. I think this is for getting a good life partner. They will be taking rounds around the temple and glancing around to look for guys. I sat there few times to see them, they give nice glances. They might be thinking “Oh this is the guy GOD has sent to me! GOD please make him my life partner, he is okay for me” If they get a partner within the stipulated weeks of this ritual then they will stop all this nonsense and will never turn back to the temple. GOD could be seeing this and having a belly laugh, after creating so many varieties on the earth people still coming and begging! What is lagging in this world?

In the temples even the “Mantras” and “Songs” are being played on CDs or cassettes and drums, bells are run by electricity. We don’t want to take pain in singing and beating drums, we want returns without any investment! Great science behind chanting “Mantras” and singing has just turned in to whole mess. These pundits for sure don’t have any brains; else they would have not been pundits. People see this and yet they are blind and stupid, this is the wonder of life!

“jaTilo munDi lunchita keshaha, kashayambar bahukrita veshaha”

“pashyannapi cha na pashyati mooDaha, udara nimmithyam bahu krita veshaha”

This business was there in all the ages, having all these knowledge we are still as idiots as we were. The seven “Swaras”, “Mantras”, “Pranayama”, “Kriyas” were invented to get liberated from the cycle of birth and death. They erase the impressions of our mess called mind, to invent such things took the “Rishis” many lives and have invested their whole life in providing these technology to the masses. What do we do? Whenever we see such people, we say look at that fool! We were such people who abused “Buddha”, stoned “Mahaveer”, poisoned “Socrates”, cut “Al Hillaj Mansoor” in to pieces, nailed “Jesus” on the cross. This is their reward for spreading love and compassion! Each “Swara” in those seven “Swaras” hit a particular energy centers in our body and mind and cleans the system. Singing is so soothing to the mind and body. This increases perception, memory, logic and intuition in us. The whole Sanskrit language has been scientifically devised by our “Rishis”. Scientists in London have experimented for twenty years on this language and now Sanskrit is made compulsory in three of the schools in London. We were telling this since millions of years, now we have kept it aside and preaching our kids to talk in English. We are ashamed to speak in our own language which has a great work that combines science and art! We have made competitions of all these things and in reality show the judges go on fighting for these things. We are bound to the things which liberate us; this is called “maya”. “Maya” doesn’t mean magic; it means we do not perceive the things the way they are. All the great devotees sung the songs out of overwhelming devotion in them, they were not calculating that they will be famous and can earn money. Many were not having primary education even, see the beauty of life. Temples were generally constructed on the mountains and were energized by the saints by meditating there. If we go there by walk, we will do “Pranayam” unknowingly and get tired after reaching top of the mountain. Naturally meditation happens sitting in that energized field. See the thinking of those great souls, wow how beautiful. What do we do now? We go there by car or bike and keep our ass on the ground for few seconds and escape from the temple. Who is at loss, how stupid and idiotic we are!

If we heat the water to hundred degrees, sure it will evaporate. There is nothing called as belief in this, it is as simple as this natural phenomenon of evaporation.

“praNayamam praTyaharam nitya nitya viveka vicharam”

“japya sameta samadhi vidhanam kuru avadhanam mahadavadhanam”

Everything was invented to move towards liberation. Daily practice of such things will sure liberate us; there is no doubt in this. How can there be doubt when it is pure science? Science has not yet reached five percentage of what was done in this country over millions of years. Of course science has made our life comfortable, but has spoilt the atmosphere too.

On the name of GOD we are doing so much nonsense in this world, lot of bloodshed is happening on the name of gods and religions. We are fighting for whose GOD is more powerful and who is going to save us. People are spreading their religions and using so many cunning ways to get the people converted to their religions. They are giving money, house or job to get the people converted. Earlier they were assaulting physically to get converted. Do you belong to human species or not. Those who want money are getting converted too. Can you provide these things without getting the people converted? Then you really know what love and service is. For that you need really a matured mind, else you are still like kids who say “my papa is great” like that “my GOD is great”. This is just stupid and idiotic. Are we interested in GOD or some other business? If GOD says “love thy enemies” please do so, you get converted first then you have really understood the meaning of “love thy enemies”.

I have an idea

Many people go to temple and cry before GOD as what wrong did they do for the current sufferings they are undergoing. People go to temples only when there are sufferings; else they go to avoid any sufferings coming their way in the life. None goes out of love to the temple. Normally idol in the temple never speaks you know, but the idol should come into life and give nice beatings to that person and give the list of wrong doings. The idol should give such a kick on the butt that the person should never come back again with a complaint. If such things happen then people will never visit any temple. They think that GOD has gone to nuts and should be treated in a mental hospital!

Let me end with a story

There was a rich merchant in a town; he had gone to nearby city for a business deal. He was coming back to his town in a ship, there was a tornado and the ship was almost in the verge of breaking. The merchant was trembling with fear and prayed to GOD along with other passengers. He prayed to GOD that he will sell the palace situated in the center of the town and distribute the money to the poor in return if GOD saves him from the tornado. Few minutes later the whether was normal and the ship reached town? News of merchant selling the palace spread like a wild fire in the town. The merchant was in great agony now, he visited his friend who was a lawyer and asked for the solution to his problem. The lawyer said that this is a very simple problem and provided him with a solution. After a week the merchant announce that he will sell his palace and distribute the money to the poor. He announced that he will sell his palace and a cat together, the price of the cat being ten millions and for the palace being one rupee. Buyers couldn’t understand the logic behind this, but purchased both as the price put together was reasonable. The merchant kept ten millions with him and distributed one rupee among the poor.

This is our intelligence even with the GOD; such people are called “smart” now days.

With love

Vishu

Race...

2010-03-26T21:12:00.000-07:00

Friends,

For sometime relax and read; I feel we have run enough in this life of ours. Thought of giving a break to GOD and leave him/her peacefully and turn back to our selves and see what we are doing! I want to check when we really rested in our lives. Leave about physical rest; it will rest peacefully one day in the graveyard, I am mentioning here about mental rest.

The mind will be carried on to the next life; it’s a carry over system. That’s the reason we can find people understanding same subject at different depths. We can find few kids very proficient in certain fields at a very tender age. Where did it come from? It’s a carry over system; every kid will not understand the same subject at same age and at same depth. If I take my example I wonder the reason behind my liking towards spirituality so much. Many elderly people tell me that I speak like an eighty year old man! Many have told me that this is the age to earn and eat well and not to think of all this, this is the age to get married and have fun, but I am not interested in neither of them. All married people know the fun in their lives! I know that I have to take care of my living till I reside in this body. Many have asked me about my savings in this life. I have told them that I have saved five millions. I have my own calculations for that. If I had married then calculate the money for the marriage, a flat, car, education for the kid and other miscellaneous expenses! Sure it comes to minimum five millions, I need not run behind and take pain in earning that much! Be careful and cautious in this very life, do you wish to repeat the same things? Few things would have been changed; there could be more advanced technology, flying cars, people could be invading other planets and galaxies! It might happen that, because of so much strife in the world all the nations would have been left with no arms and ammunitions after killing each other! We have already spoilt the atmosphere and nature might perform its own natural activities to bring about balance. It is already happening with tsunamis, earth quakes and tornados all over the globe.

Being born in a human body is a very rare phenomenon. Many saints have told that the human body is achieved after passing through 8.4 million species of all kind! Biologists have discovered around 1.8 million species so far. Just imagine getting into human body; how many millions of years we would have gone through in different bodies, repeating the same things like eating, sleeping and reproducing. Once we get the human body, it is not necessary that we will be born as human again! Unless we live really like humans, it is not possible to be born as human. Just think to get a matured and understanding mind, how many times we would have born in human bodies. Are we wasting this life being born as a human or are we utilizing it? This reminds me of a song from “Kanaka Das”, “huTTada yonigaLilla, meTTada bhomigaLilla, aTTu uNNada vastugaLilla.” Meaning of this line; no species left in which we have not taken birth, no earths left on which we have not stepped, no things left that which we have not eaten. Just contemplate on this line often; whole knowledge is hidden in this simple yet profound statement. It is not required to go through all the philosophies if the meaning of this line ingrains in our hearts. We have had many spouses and kids; no one is chaste on this earthJ. Possible that you are in love with the one whom you hated in the previous life. We could have gone through variety of relations with the same person! Possible that those whom we loved and hated in the last birth are not with us now and are scattered all over the globe! Anything is possible in this life; it’s a wonderful play going on.

Scientifically it is proven phenomenon that this is not the only birth we had. Using regression method we can know the past lives. Scientists have discovered that there are around fifty thousand earths in this universe. Our scriptures say that it is infinite. There is one word in Sanskrit “Anantaanant”; bit difficult in translating this word, but you can say “infinite infinities”. How many lives we have gone through the same rut? How many times we have done the same things over and over again? How many times we have gone through the pleasures and pains of life? Are we not bored with it? Are we not tired of the same repetition? Keep in mind; both pleasure and pain are together, if you choose marriage then migraine is attached to it! Success and failure, honor and dishonor, love and hate whatever other pairs in life, they come hand in hand. They are not opposite words! They are harmonizing; we were taught wrong in our schools that they are opposites. It is something like buy one and get one free; this concept of buy one and get one free in shops is not a new thing to life! Because of this trap one sits and thinks in a corner of this world to get out of this vicious circle called life. One thinks to come out of this repeated hankering for things, fame, love and what not. What next having all fame, money and all the things around? One day death will come and knock on our hearts without any sound and all the name, money and whatever the things will not be there in a fraction of second. We waste so much time and energy behind that. We see this happening daily and yet we don’t see. We say “That poor chap died…” We don’t see that, from the exit of that person we are one number closer to the death. When we are buried or burnt, some others will say “That poor chap died…” We don’t see our death nearing, always somebody else dies!

It happened J

One day a thief was chased by many in a famous town. Many chased the thief for stealing from a wealthy merchant in that town. While chasing him the people lost his sight in a narrow lane. While searching for him, they found a simple man sitting silently under a tree. All the people asked that poor chap “Did you see anybody running this side?” That poor guy said that he didn’t see anyone. People of the town got doubt that this person is also involved with him and trying to rescue that thief. They started harassing him and pressurizing (like the police) to tell the truth! That wise fellow thought for a second and told to the mob “I know where that guy will come, follow me and I will show” The wise person took them out of the town and brought them to the graveyard! Anger of the mob got increased and asked him “Have you gone mad or what? We asked for the thief and where is he? Where have you brought us?” The wise man said smilingly “You folks forced me to tell where a bout’s of the thief; I am sure where ever he could be now, he will come one day here for sure! Let all of us wait for him!”

Where are we running here and there like a Tom & Jerry cartoon show, our body got twisted and turned millions of times, our mind got churned millions of time! Yet we don’t see it, this is the wonder of life. Everyone is cut and torn many times in many ways and yet we don’t learn. Everyone gets into misery and cries their heart out, yet we don’t find the source of that pain. This is the mystery of life, how magical it is! Relax, one day we all will go to graveyard; let us close our eyes and see with in, our mind is running in multiple directions. How many directions we can go at a time? Each direction calls and says “Come this way and you will find joy!” Listening to it we went in many directions and we are left with agony and helplessness. Nothing really we have achieved, may be we could have gained little wealth and little name in our circle but the heart is as empty as it was. Still we are listening to the same old rotten mind of ours and running in some other directions. It sure has not left us in peace. Stop listening to the mind and be at peace! Use the mind to just carry out day today activities.

In this race of life, our minds are engrossed in millions of things. It wants to have everything in life. Mind is the greatest beggar in us. Once you get the things that mind wants, it is suddenly bored with it. Is that the experience of everybody or am I the only one to experience this? If you get a bike it gets bored with in one month, a spouse with in two months, a car with in three months, flat with in six months and so on. Still the mind never stops after these many experiences, it goes on and on… It is something like ten divided by three; never will we get the answer, it‘s a recurring figure.

I have heard…

One guy sat for penance for many years and the GOD appeared before him and asked “Son, I am pleased with your penance and I am ready to fulfill your wish” The guy opened his eyes and his joy had no bounds. The guy told GOD “My beloved GOD, whatever I wish should come true” GOD gave the guy a conch shell and said “Keep this in your hands and pray, your wish will come true” and GOD disappeared. To check whether this will work out or not, guy held the shell in his hands and said “I need a palace” and there the palace was ready. He was living with his wife and kids happily. One day a “Sadhu” came to his house and asked the secret behind his success! The guy told everything to the “Sadhu” guest. “Sadhu” told that guy “This is nothing, I too did lot of penance and I have a Great conch shell, if you ask one it will give two!” The guy tried the great conch shell and asked for a bungalow, great conch shell said “Why just one why not two?” amazed by the power of this shell they exchanged the shells. Later that guy searched for the “Sadhu” everywhere but couldn’t find him. The great conch shell just used to speak, but never used to give anything. If you ask “Okay give me two bungalows, then it will ask why not four, if you ask for four then why not eight” like that the great conch shell was.

This mind of ours is a great conch shell; it will go on begging and begging. Mechanism of mind is as such, it is a device to deceive us. If you have one million then mind will say why not two millions. If you have “Maruthi 800” then why not “Honda”, “Skoda”, “Benz”….This is the case with every thing and in every field. Going behind philosophies is also the same; there is no difference in what so ever we are running behind. In this continuous flow of thoughts we are unable to sit and see this trap. If all the fame, money and intelligence of this universe are ours then mind will say “What next?” there is no end to this nonsense. We have seen so many famous and wealthy people, do they look happy? I see the ignorance and arrogance increasing in them. They say “Do you know who am I” in anger. Means that person is saying, be careful I can harm you and I can make you suffer the whole life. This sure is not an achievement; I don’t want to compare them with animals. It is an insult to the innocent animals.

I have heard

There was a car going in a village road and seeing this jazzy car, a dog in that village got excited and started barking and running behind that car! After few minutes of great race the dog overtook the car and started looking at the car sticking its tongue out! What next after over taking everyone? Where will we go? We look stupid like that dog after over taking everyone and the mind asks “WHAT NEXT?” Just relax…

Don’t ever think the school or college life was relaxing, it was even worst. We were running behind the subjects to pass the examinations and get settled in life. We were running behind the other half to impress and trap them. We tried to do so many things to impress the other half, like games, singing dancing and there is no end to this list. Men run physically behind a girl and the girl is running mentally that the guy will run behind her. She will come near the guy she is interested in and if the guy catches the glimpse then she will run away. This is a great hide & seeks game of life. She is interested in the guy who doesn’t follow girls, but want that guy to follow her. If that guy doesn’t follow then she will be frustrated and she can’t even express it to other girls. Of course possible that the other girls are also trapping that guy, because it is rare to find a guy not following a girlJ. This is hilarious; sometimes I wonder and smile about their behavior! Though this life was comparatively okay and we had much fun but it withers away soon. The years in schools and colleges move rather very fast, we feel so because those days were of less stress and burden.

We are even running physically, from getting up in the morning till reaching office is a great piece of entertainment in a house. Especially making the kids to get ready and send them to school is a scene worth watching. The to and fro journey from the house to office and back through the jam packed traffic is as adventurous as climbing the Mount Everest. People go on honking the horns of the vehicle even though there is red signal. Still there will be sixty seconds for the green signal, already there will be chaotic music of the horns. One day I was going on a foot path, there was honking of a vehicle. When the sound became louder, I turned back to see for surprise that the bike was coming on the foot path. He was honking me to give the way! Should I have to laugh or cry; or else touch his feet to take his blessings? Everyone wants to reach their house as early as possible after the office hours. What will they do after reaching home early? They will start fighting with the spouse. If the spouse has not yet arrived then they go on changing the TV channels. Go on watching each channel for a minute or two. Everything should happen fast. Complete the supper quick and should go to bed soon so that we can get up early. How will the sleep come fast? If the mind is doing so many calculations, how will it sleep? If mind gets really tired then it is really worth in life, we are getting closer to something precious in this life.

If we are on bench at the office then we are little relaxed. Again fear grips as the company may send the people on bench to home. So get upgraded to ever changing technology. We have to run, since after getting a job we have invested in so many things and we need to pay the monthly rentals. If not married, then look around to have a good life partner! Once you have the partner then real running starts! Till we get married the married couple looks so wonderful. Married people are keeping quite and waiting for the unmarried to get in the trap. Married people say that this bondage of love between the couples is made in heaven and so many rosary statements. If the marriages are made in heaven, then divorces are made on earth! I am not saying here that the married life is totally wrong and there is no fun at all! But how much really the fun is and how many lives repeating the same thing? Once we get married then that’s it, there is no coming out of that circle! Parents will be planning to get their offspring’s married and come out of the responsibilities! But soon there comes the grand kids and again back to daily routine taking care of grand kids. This running after day in and day out ends in a fraction of second, death knocks the door and body falls apart. Our spouse will be afraid to look at that dead body of ours! People around us will cry for sometime and they hurry to bury the body soon, they have to or else the body starts smelling. We spent lot of time in decorating this body of ours! They take the body out of the house that was built by us which involved lot of energy, time and money. We used to be proud in saying that the house is mine and the house doesn’t even know that we are departing. Later offspring’s will quarrel over that property for their own share! By then we would have born some where else, or in the same family who knows. Oh my GOD, please help me to come out of this nonsense!

“punarapi jananam punarapi maraNam punarapi janani jaTHare shayanam”

“iha sansare khalu dussare kripaya pare pahi murare”

This is my old compositionJ. Hey just kiddingJ

With Love

Vishu