Sallekhana - The Way to Go!

Sallekhana(santhara) is a practice in Jainism, where after discharging ones duties in life, one stops being a consumer and goes into deep meditation until death.  You may call it total voluntary retirement from consumerism in favour of spiritualism. It is akin to euthanasia in terms of the final result but not in methodology or philosophy.

The very core idea behind Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism is that the soul is part of God which never dies but keeps changing body by virtue of repeated births (role palying) and this material world is just an illusion. Influenced by this core idea, the philosophy behind santhara is to get ready for the life after successfully completing the present term. It is like preparing  soul for the next level. The idea is not to kill self but self realization, in which the soul finally overcomes bodily senses and worldly illusion. Its a celebration to usher a new beginning in quest for the truth.

The first emperor of India, Chandragupta Maurya observed Sallekhana before his death. I think it should be made mandatory after the age of 80 (preferably 70... preferably 60...)

Dev Shastra Guru - Pt. Jugal Kishoreji - Translation

My thousand salutes to the Gurus who have attained complete knowledge (Kewal gyaan).

Now coming back to self, under the spell of five worldly senses I am enjoying the poison of this unreal and delusive world and I am unable to cast off from the witchcraft of the non-living. Not able to see my own greatness, I am totally obsessed by this grand illusion. Oh God! Lift curtain from this illusion.

I know, my body and me are two immiscible entities like oil and water. Both have separate sets of attributes.  But  infatuated, I have surrendered the power of judgement to the guile and acquired the attributes of non-living. Fallen to the sham, my term has extended  in this delusory world by the way of repeated births and deaths. Oh Lord! I am sorry for my misjudgement. Give me some sensibility.

Unfavourable and sad moments drive me away from this delusion at times, but then come the moments of joy and fun enticing me back into the unreal world. Oh Lord! Pull me out of this fragile bubble.

Equality or singularity is my true nature. There is no impurity in me hence no bias. But the truth has shattered into several lies.   Oh Lord! Give me my stability and oneness back.

I have fulfilled numerous temptations and desires, yet I remain unsatisfied. My greed is like a bottomless well. Oh Lord! Today I have come to taste the joy of satisfaction.

I always thought that worldly lamp was the true source of light, which is blown away by the slightest gust of wind. Oh Lord! I have come to light my inner lamp perpetually.

I was always under the illusion that my actions were controlled by others and it was others who made me love or hate them. Oh Lord! Today I have come to disengage my self from others.

I can't keep my possessions with me for long. And the fear of losing them keeps me stressed constantly. Oh Lord! by nature I am a cool and free person. Break me free from my attachments.

Oh Lord! I will bust the sensory illusion and rise above the worldly feelings to get in the state of perpetual happiness by meditation. I will see the ultimate truth and feel the absolute strength. Yes, my lord! I will merge in you one day. 

Why can't there be a Single Theory of Everything...

I think, Einstein's General Theory of Relativity was a comprehensive theory as far as matter is concerned. But he could not explain the behaviour of imps like sub atomic particles, electrons or photons with this theory. Hence the rise of quantum physics.

However, Einstein and other scientists are fundamentally wrong when they try explain the two with a single theory. Quantum physicists have been quite close in their general explanation regarding the electrons. But with all sorts of contradictions and uncertainty, their findings suggest, it's not science. Hence, quantum physics should be called quantum religion. The imps are not particles and they are independent of time and space dimensions. Matter(proton/neutron/quark) is physical but photons and certain sub-atomic particles are meta-physical in body and soul analogy.

Every matter, living or non-living has two entities, body and soul or consciousness as one might like to call. As we see in the case of living, the physics does not apply to soul(psyche). Similarly, behaviour of sub atomic particles can not be explained by the laws of physics.

Therefore, its a wild goose chase to find a common string of theory to tie  the two entities together. The best we can do is to extend the realm of quantum physics to quantum religion having two streams viz psychology and philosophy. Pure physics will never be able to explain these little magicians in this grand illusion.

There  is an urgent need for another religion. Did I say more blood shedding??

One Too Many

Last night, as usual, there was a fight between electrical appliances viz. TV, fans light bulbs etc at my house. Each denouncing others and singing its own glory. Just then the power went out and there was a serene silence in the house.

...but that silence and the darkness left me wondering, why the objects drawing life and drive out from a single source behave so differently? How would one feel if each were to merge back in the source? How the colours feel on uniting and radiating as a white beam of light? 

Before I could ponder further, the power came and my thoughts dissolved in the cacophony of the objects reborn.

Tangled In Strings

Hum log khilaune hai ek aise khiladi ke
Jisko abhi sadiyon tak ye khel rachana hai,
sansaar ki har shay ka itna fasana hai
ek dhundh se aana, hai ek dhundh me jaana hai
- Sahir Ludhiyanavi

Meaning:
We are toys of a player, 
who has to play this game for ages. 
The story of this world is that 
we come from nowhere and go to nowhere.

Then why all this ado. Come on inside. Lets take that ride together without greed, fear, malice or anger.

Why remain tangled in strings. Let's cut them and break-free to write our own story. Live happily and make this world a better place to live.

Religion Vs Consumerism

The gist of religion or spirituality is that the soul was the only truth, buried deep under the lie of illusory matter.   Having said that, defining and differentiating  good illusion and bad illusion and subsequently attaching material rewards and punishments to them was nothing but a marketing strategy adopted by the religious preachers and practitioners. Poor needy and greedy always fall to such gimmicks. Hence the rise of religion and consumerism thereafter.

Consumerism is nothing but an appendage of religion, like the the two political parties. Both spit at each other and flourish, while the subjects languish. 

Present Unknown

“I am who I am,” God said to Moses. Try and catch the present if you can.

Present moment or stillness is the truth, but it is totally elusive to the fugitive subjects like me.

Yes, I Know, I am who I am but I don't know who I am. Hence a mortal.

Ten Commandments In Jainism

Uttam Kshama:  Forgiveness is a clutch paddle. Use it to quickly disengage from unnecessary argument or dispute.

Uttam Aarjav: Let mind, speech & actions be in a linear sync.

Uttam Mardav : Treat all at par.

Uttam Shauch:  Karmanev adhikarste ma faleshu kadachan - Our actions must be duty or goal bound and not reward oriented. Stay clean in your dealing.

Uttam Tap: Raise the bar and push yourself to the limit in order to challenge the impossible. Yogah karmasu kaushalam. Strive for excellence.

Uttam Sayam: Its not the speed but its losing control which kills. Exercise supreme control over body and mind.

Uttam Bhramcharya: Keep temptations at bay and stay on course in your pursuit of excellence.

Uttam Tyaag: Queen's gambit. A voluntary sacrifice of part to save the whole or achieve the ultimate goal. Sacrifice without purpose is meaningless. Sacrifice emphasizes one's focus on the end game. Be a macro man.  

Uttam Akinchan: 'No attachment' is true freedom. Break all chains and shackles.

Uttam Satya: Mission impossible! Truth is an undefined expression in this mortal world. However, the ultimate objective is to find the truth-the light.

                                          

ELECTION HOLI 2014

For once Indians are pointing finger at themselves and showing the stain to the world. Yes, they are in process of picking a 'seemingly less dirty' shirt out of a stinking pile of dirty linen. A shirt which they would have to don for next five years. General Elections in India is a five yearly blue moon event when common man is hailed by the sitting and would be lords soon to be forgotten and left alone to languish in misery.

 

This year's elections are spiced up as coaltar has been added to the usual saffron & green gulaal Holi.  It all started when the ruling party was having a party. Anna's movement against corruption gathered steam as the government in power was plundering national resources & funds rampantly.  There was a huge media coverage of the movement. Common people from all walks of life came forward and protested against the prevailing corruption. A Lokpaal bill was drafted by Anna and company but politicians cutting across party lines were against the draft. As the demand for implementing the bill was growing louder, politicians started thinking of strategy to thwart the menace by breaking the movement. Once again 'divide and rule' ploy was used to dissolve the movement. A faction of Anna & company was lured into joining the elite power club under the leadership of AK. AK ate the apple and was expelled from the paradise. Sentenced to earth, AK landed with his men as Aam Aadmi Party. The common man received them as a gift sent from heaven and soon crowned him as the prince of Delhi darbaar. But chhote sarkar had a king size ambition. He relinquished Delhi crown in pursuit of greater goal. Armed with a brooshh and tar he jumped into the national arena to play election holi,  a game which he grossly misunderstood and underestimated. The earthly rural India rejected his idea of  tar so now he is trying to steal some green gulaal and save the day & face.

 

Holi aside, ages later, the system sucks. I find the party system in democracy outdated and misplaced. How could a single party with common interests represent an entire nation of over one billion people. I strongly advocate that the party system should be abolished, in stead, we should elect and send a bouquet of good people, who have a sound background of social service in their localities, to the parliament. And these 500 odd representatives along with a body of bureaucrats should work out a manifest and rule the nation.  

It will be difficult to execute the above model at the national level in the beginning but it may be tried and tested at state level first. 

Flight 370

No SOS/ no phone calls/ switching off of data transmitter and transponder/ dive to low altitude serving dual purpose( radar obscurity and door opening)/ path of the flight and the final destination. From a sad disaster it all leads to a grand design. 

Probably after switching off the transponder, the pilot donned the oxygen mask and decompressed the aeroplane and continued on course for a while to make sure all the passengers rested in peace. Then he turned around and brought the plane to low altitude. He navigated over Malaysia and Indonesia before setting the final course and parachuting down. After the pilot(s) jumped to safety, the flight continued with its cargo of dead bodies to its crash landing destination on its preplanned route toward Antarctica deep down the Indian ocean. Never to be found out...

....sounds sick!! But then the world ain't in the pink of health

 Posted on CNN on 23rd March, 2014

The Black Holes

With due respect to Stephen Hawking's latest revelation, 'Black Holes' should be treated as the  multiphase power cables to the giant digital gaming console called The Universe.

In other words, 'black holes' connect this world to the power source next to God's couch. It's play time, mates.

Science - God's Religion

God worked on his most ambitious project and created man. He endowed the super toy with a tiny chip of his mind along with other gizmos.

 

In the tropical resource rich woods on the banks of ancient rivers, human civilization flourished. The clever ones took up the job of learning and teaching. And they marketed their theories in the name of God and under the trade mark of Dharma(religion). They made rules and formulated code of conduct, which was binding on all. However, they kept the knowledge under wraps. This knowledge was only available to their families and caste. ....God's will thus far.

 

These knowledgeable guys enjoyed their status in the society and had little materialistic desires. They believed in indestructible soul and illusionary disposition of the universe. They gave body little importance and thought that by controlling senses and mind they could attain super-natural powers and finally crack the perishable shell of matter to come out of the great illusion, they all were bound to.

 

The creator got scared of his toy, who was about to wreck the stage he created for his entertainment. God gave a 180 degree twist to the script and started revealing algorithm and logic in nature and matter through common subjects, who were obsessed with material. A new religion was born called Science. The religion had its roots in material. It rewarded the disciples with materialistic rewards instantly. The master stroke worked. From soul, the man was swayed to material. Soul preachers and practitioners were frustrated in their wild goose chase and the toy was soon dancing on the beats of science and technology.

 

Science describes nature by way of principles, rules, theorems etc, but all these hold good under certain limits. However, we have seen the extent and realm of these principles stretching over the time. But till now we have not had a set of rules which are not limited by conditions. Having come thus far, scientist have ample indications that it all is a digital illusion. But having their roots deep down the matter, it will be hard for them to breach the limits, which bind us all to the material.

 

The creator is now preparing his toy for celestial launch and mobility as reward for his unperturbed obedience and faithfulness. Theatre Universe will rock with activity for a long-time as God has slyly reversed the bias of the tiny chip in the toy's brain. The poor toy has now moved far away from the switchboard to be able to switch off the light.

Overtake Fear to catch up with Peace...

Lion survives on flesh n blood not because of its own power but 'cause of the fear others have for it.  

Perpetrator and victim both are not equally culpable. It is the fear in victim, which provokes violence in the assailant, and the victim is punished suitably for the provocation subsequently.

Only way to end violence is:  Howsoever weak, always go down fighting. Not for the life, fight for the pride ('herd' may be more appropriate here) and against injustice.  

God is Great

I went to our temple today and I told God that he was not doing his job properly. He retorted, man, I created the world and soon after lost interest in the seamlessly repetitive creation of mine. I left it to the mortals to come out of the cyclical grind but unfortunately they tend to get so lost in the state of tangential coma that they find it hard to come out of disgusting monotony of everyday morning crap. I gave man the gift of knowledge but alas!, he is not using it to break-free from the loathsome cycle, instead he is using it to sink deeper and deeper into it. 

 

I said sorry to God and bowed to his greatness.

Why can't Pakistan ever tie a friendship band on Indian wrist

Pakistan holds a strategic position on the world map. To American discomfort, it is the only weak link between China and oil rich (and US defiant) Iran. Our smart neighbour is well aware of the delicacy of the geographical situation that it enjoys. Wooed by the top two anti world powers (USA & China), she is a spoiled brat.

Friendship aside, the estranged sibling will keep hitting the poor brother at will. Its time for the elder bro to get up and hold nothing back and let Pak have it all.

Light does not travel in a straight line

Light path has curvature of the universe.

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Humans Vs Bacteria

If at all, the above two graphs suggest that bacteria too have an active brain.

Honesty is the best Politics

Religion & God were wonderful concepts for the development of mankind. But unfortunately, we saw propriety rights over these concepts claimed by Krishna & Avatar co., Mahavira & Associates, Buddha & Buddha co., Mohammed Pvt. Ltd., Jesus & sons etc.  

Non-violence, love and peace, the very core concepts and ideas of these religions were breached blatantly in in bid to claim the patent rights over God.

On the same lines..., honesty is a great concept for construction of a prosperous society. Lately we are seeing a wave of anti corruption movement in India. Well, a call of the moment. But unfortunately, its going the God's way. There is a bid to privatize the right to fight against corruption. Instead of fighting the menace together, there are different sects and clans claiming to have the sole right over fighting against corruption. Individual ambitions, aspirations and egos have clouded the beautiful core concept. The remedy is again going to become the cause.   

Shakespeare-Einstein Theory

 From Einstein's postulate that the maximum possible speed in the universe is 'C', we may jump onto the conclusion that the world is digital.

C = D/T

Where C < ∞

Implies=> D ≠  ∞ and T ≠ 0

ie. Neither space could be infinite nor time could be zero. This implies that time is unitized having value greater than zero. Similarly, finiteness of space implies that the space is not in continuum but digital.

Understanding of Special Theory of relativity

At speed of light time attains max dilation and space is reduced down to a 'bit'. Any reference frame irrespective of its speed and position, can not dilate the time or shrink distance on the light frame any further. Hence, the speed of light is constant to all observers.

All in all, it’s a quantum world, where matter is fighting against the almighty energy for it’s existence. In it’s quest to assert space and inertia, matter is losing out on time. On the other hand, energy, while driving mass to restlessness, is leaving footprints on timeline in the form of dark energy or entropy or the information released (history). 

In simple analogy, a giant digital screen is being hit by a light beam carrying the code of life. I am curious to know, who’s watching us on the other side of the screen. I am not sure how long this soap opera would go on but I am sure of one thing, the guy watching us is gonna run out of popcorn one day.  

The man who grew cactus

He rode his bicycle back home
a hard day retired.
Harsh n bitter events sealed within
a bleeding arm revealed.

Earthen pot filled with soil
a soft bed prepared.
Love and care deep within
the spiny piece buried.

He took the cradle back yard
another urchin fostered.
Love and affection filled within
thorny poker watered.

Cactus cactus everywhere
not a fruit since reaped.
Happiness and joy  within
no growing pains encountered.

Satisfied with no give or take
his hated friends admired.
No remorse or regret within
flying hug with open arms received.

... may 28, 2007.

In loving memory of Pa. 19th Feb, 1933 - 11th August, 2012