Monday, September 17, 2007

Most sincere appeal

Dear All,

As mentioned above, the following is my humblest and
the most sincere appeal to all , Some of you might take is seriously,
some may take it as insane, some may become angry and detestful and
some may just sarcastically joke about it and others may neglect it.
These different reactions are due to different mental status in
accordance to the level of ignorance.

Over the 5 years I have been roaming around the world, I
have met with people with different mentalities and have seen various
kinds of people. I know you all must have noticed a shift in my
behavior during the last 6 months or so. There is a reason to it. If
you have looked at my emails, you will find, I have been stressing of
reading Bhagvad Gita a lot these days, well I have done that and put a
sincere effort to understand the philosophy which is so sublime and
important that, it will change your entire life and direct you to the
blisfull and a happy life with no anxiety, that is a guarantee. But
this is only possible if you read the book sincerely and with
submissive attitude, an argumentative attitude will not help.

Now you must be thinking why is that all of a sudden I am
talking all philosophical. Bhagvad Gita says,.

" While contemplating the object of senses a person develops
attachment for them and from such attachement lust develops, and from
lust anger arises"

"From anger, complete delusion arises, and from delusion bewilderment
of memory. When memory is bewildered intelligence is lost, and when
intelligence is lost on falls down into the material pool"

"lust is the all devouring enemy of this world" .

While associating with various people during , I observed their
behaviors. Frankly speaking I saw, most of the people I met are
diseased with lust, anger, greed, pride, false prestige, false ego
which is making them sometimes happy and sad, nevertheless everyone I
know is in anxiety all the time. Some people are obsessed with
material things, like restaurants, shopping, clothes , fashion , some
are obsessed with food, some want to speak about others mistakes
without realizing what their own , some want to gossip , some are busy
comparing once wealth , beauty or other such opulences with others and
becoming envious, some are trying to lie, cheat and threaten others to
satisfy this lust which everyone things is love. With so many
anxieties occupying once mind there is no question of happiness,
Inorder to satisfy these anxieties, people take shelter or
intoxication , women or men, gambling, meat eating naively thinking
them to be fun. And I am sorry to say this but all these symptoms are
present in all of us in different degrees. But the fault of our
generation is that, we take it to be normal and try to adjust with
these things and eventually regret on our actions. That is the modern
society we live in.

All these things with are the source of misery , we take it
to be happiness , this is the delusion we are living in, the reason
for this is mentioned in Bhagvad Gita , which says, that It is the
misidentification of ourselves which leads to all this misconceptions.
Most of us identify ourselves to be the body or the mind, but the
truth is we are neither this body or the mind, we are eternal souls
and parts of the same Father.

Now all these things might seem to you as some fairy tale or some
concept with is just a fantasy to all, but the fact is this is the
real truth which cannot be explained but has to be realized.

People talk to me about common sense, but these very people fail to
see, that the lives we are living are no better than animals. Animals
as we see around us , are engaged in four basic things, eating ,
sleeping, mating and defending. We as human beings are doing the same
in a sophisticated ways misusing our higher intelligence to find out
ways of advancing in better eating , better sleeping, better mating
and better defending. But people fail to recognize that this advanced
human form is being bestowed for higher understanding. As per the
Vedas, this human form is very rare and, should not be wasted in
material desires. The purpose of human form of life is to know what
are we and why are we here and Bhagvad Gita is the ABCD of this
inquiry. When you observe the environment around you , intelligent
person would ask , that who is supplying these necessities of life,
such as eating, sleeping, mating and defending to the animals, they
are not building factories of working 9 to 5 jobs , but they are
sustaining , with Gods supply.

I write all these things to you all , because , having spend a little
more than a year or so , I feel that I should share this greatest book
of knowledge which is available only by good fortune to some. Some of
you would think that I am very egoistic and proud to think that I know
better that anyone, but I have no intention to displace any pride
since I am as ignorant as anyone else and only difference is by some
divine intervention, I have been presented with this opportunity and I
am trying to understand this wisdom and I want to share this with you
all. The decision rests on you. Once again I would emphasize that I am
not trying to convert any one to Hinduism or something . I am just
trying to present this scientific knowledge totally unknown to today's
mudane world . All the religious scriptures derive their origin from
this wisdom, that will be realized in the later stages of
understanding. For now one who is serious may try to take this as a
course and try to study with determination and sincerity. With
progress you will find your self detached from all the nonsense things
which has been polluting our minds, and you become least interested
with material discussions. The best way it to have faith in the
teaching and read it diligently every day for atleast half an hour in
the morning and try to apply what is learned there. It is not at all
difficult to find half an hour totally dedicated to this task in the
morning .I am trying to apply and learn this science from past 6
months and I will continue to do it further, If you have any questions
regarding this topic feel free to contact me or visit the following
link where you will find more details, rest of the material
discussions are least attractive to me.

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Somthing to think about!!!!

Death, as we all know is a sure reality. At the end of ones lifetime a living entity has to leave whatever material possesion he has accumulated and die. At this critical moment of time, nodbody can help you to live longer , even the doctors become helpless. Nor millions of dollars, not the assests , not your family, wife, chlidren, mother , father, or friends can save a person from death, so this reality brings us to a point were we as human beings having an advanced intelligence should think , that if everthing I accumulate by so much of effort is going to be taken away from me then , why should i work for the bare neccessities so hard . One may argue that since the life is short and one is going to die one should enjoy as much as possible at any body's expense. Well it is a very lucrative idea but it is an idea which is full of ignorance and has no reality . People are made to think in this way in todays modern world. This is mainly because the innocent mass of people are led by some ignorant and atheistic , selfish leaders. Young generation who have seen their forefathers, worshipping and following religious principles , do not feel the need to so the same since the world around them does not care for it , the world they live in is full of hypocrisy and ignorance,at every step, so the due of the parents in this age has increased immensely to properly educate with proper reasoning about the religious and regulative principles inorder to avoid them to be pushed into ignorance.


Now from Bhagvat Gita and other vedic scriptures, we get the information, though death is fact, it is not the end of life. A person or a individual we see in this world is a eternal spirit soul, this spirit soul is never destroyed, burnt, wettet, dried or anhiliated, the symptoms of the soul is consiouscess in the body. The nature of the soul is to be blissfull and happy ,hence every individual in this world is searching for happiness,

The search for happiness is not something material , it is the property of the soul. But the major drawback of the modern philosophy is that they are not adequately made aware of these principles and hence they are misdirected to fall in to ignorance. Now one may ask , ok if there is a soul so what is the connection of death? The answer to it is , death is a phenomenon, wherein this soul , changes body and goes to another body according to the activities and desires in his present and previous life. So life of any person who is a spirit soul or the consiouscness and not the body, is eternal and does not end. As per the activities it performs in this life will determine his next life. For example , if a person not considering these things, carelessly , indulges in just eating , sleeping, mating and defending, which pertain to this material body , will have to accept a body of an animal , which has better resources to fulfill the purpose which he is interested in, i.e eating, sleeping, mating and defending. These are the repucursions of living life of so called " enjoy and be merry life is short" , indeed life is short hence one should immediately think of utilizing it properly in Krishna consiouness and not wasting it. For, you do not know , when you will again get a chance of this human form of life with advanced intelligence.

Moreover, if you analyse the life lived by a Krishna consious person and a so called modern man, you will find that even materially , a Krishna conscious person is happier and satisfied than a modern day man , who is always tensed and full of anxiety due to fear and unpredictable future, since he is in ignorance without the wisdom of age old Bhagvad Gita.

So lets analyse the aspects as they stand today.

Modern philosophy,

1. Enjoy, life is short and one day
your are going to die, what is the use of following regulative priciples.

Vedic Philosophy,

1. Human life is meant to achieve Krishna consciousness and elevate to spiritual realm of GOD.

Modern Philosophy,
2. Highly insufficient to explain a logical
explanation of origin of life and
purpose of life.

Vedic Philosophy,
2. Gives exact number , dates and years on the species and the creation of the universe.


Moder Philoshophy
3. Looks very lucrative , but pushes one
into a darkness where people are frustrated
envious, jealous, hypocrates , lusty, and
criminal minded.


Vedic Philosophy
3. Indeed requires some hardwork and effort to understand the philosophy and apply, but makes on self realised of the true meaning of life and it gives happiness if practiced.


Modern Philosophy
4. This philoshopy is based on mental speculation

Vedic Philosophy

4. Philosophy can be realized in its true essence when practiced properly under the supervision of a bonafide spiritual master.

Modern Philosophy
5. Leads to lot of after affects , life , frustration
anger, anxiety, fear etc.

Vedic Philosophy
5. No harm at all, will make person lovable, free from anger and fear.

So it is a point to be thought by intelligent men, whether , it is worth spending the most valuable human form in quest of something that is never going to be true, or to utilize this life for finding out the truth and following them. First step to understanding the absolute truth and end the cycle of birth and death is to understand in toto the philosophy of Bhagvad Gita As it is and try to apply it practically.

Saturday, September 1, 2007

Why does bad things happen to good people?

One may ask , this question and question the judgement of GOD , It often is puzzling when we see some very terrible things happening to people who are good. Well the answer leads to reincarnation.
Reincarnation:
Many people today do not have a slightest of idea about reincarnation or life after death, many people donot "believe" in reincarnation. The question of believing or not believing , arises when one is in ignorance, but when by the grace of Krishna and Guru, one becomes knowlegdable , there is no such thing as belief, everhing is a fact. As per Bhagvat Gita , a living entity after death changes bodies , in the same way as he changes clothes, this phenomena is called transmigration of soul or in other words reincarnation.

The living soul, changes or transmigrate from one body another according to his desires in the past life under the direction of the nature. In that particular body the living soul, does some work during his prescribed lifetime from birth to death and the results of work, that is karma ,has to be paid by the living entity as per the law , so it some of these results are carried to the next life from the previous lives.

Thus , whatever a person experiences ,in this life, i.e good or bad is nothing but the payment of his karma or actions. So a person may be acting good in this life due to his good activities in past life, but , the sinful acts or the bad karma , from the previous lives , puts that particular individual into distress. So happiness and distress experienced by a person are only because of his bad karma and not because of any one else. A person in the current situation who has caused that distress is just a medium by which you are paying off your debt. Now if a person out of ignorace starts blaming others for his distress , he starts developing negative karma, which he has to pay in later stages of life. Thus a person is constantly creating and paying karma in a cycle of birth as per his activities. Now some one may ask , so is there and escape to this cycle , the answer is yes, By sincerely surrendering to the lotus feet of Krishna (GOD) one becomes free from this cycle of birth and death.

Now one more question that may arise is why is that GOD , put us in this viscous circle ,if he is nice?
Well GOD is good, he is always a well wisher of a living entity, It is not GOD's fault that we are stuck in this cycle, but it is our desires which place us in this precarious position. We wanted to lord it over the material nature and become GOD ourselves , and Krishna is just giving us that chance. He never interferes with the little independence we living entities have. In fact , GOD is so kind, that every moment, he finds and the opportunity sitting with every ones heart to instruct the living entity to return back to HIM. He sends his representatives in order to carry out his missions.

Our true identity

Who are we ? Are we to be known by religion , country, name , caste, creed, sex , occupation or something else. All these are just designations of the material body , which is represented by the above mentioned elements, but factually, every living entity in this universe is a servant of GOD, when he forgets this constitutional position , the living entity under the influence of maya(illusion ) starts serving his senses. Hence one way or the other every one is serving , the only difference is with the minute independence the living soul has , he can either prefer to serve Krishna , the reserviour of all pleasure ,or he can choose to serve the senses under the influence of maya , which is under the supervision on Krishna. So one way or the other a living entity is still serving Krishna.
This fact is easily visible, a person who is lusty searchs for the opposite sex in order to serve his genitals, angry person screams and try to beat others inorder to serve his angry mind, fights occur because of the tendency of different mentailties clashing together. So called love of the material world leads into divorces and fights, since the husband or wife is no longer capable of satisfying others senses. So this is how people are serving different senses.

Whereas a devotee , engages in the normal activities ,but only to serve krishna, all his senses are utilized to serve krishna, he uses his tounge to chant Krishna;s holy name, and to taste krishna prasadam, his eyes to see Krishna , his nose to smell flowers offered to krishna, legs to go to the temple, hands to prepare food of do service for Krishna, genitals to beget children in Krishna consiousness, hence all his senses are controlled and he lives in peace.

But the most unfortunate thing for this so called modern age is , people are too much engrossed in serving their senses, this is only due to ignorance. The biggest problem is they do not see the need to change this and find out the source of ever lasting happiness, inorder to find a little happiness , they are ready insult others, exploit , cheat in order to please their senses. It is impossible to fully satisfy the senses, that is explained in Bhagvad Gita, senses are compared to snakes , they will never stop hissing, so it is a waste labor to work day and night to satisfy the senses and neglect the self. Young boys and girls , today are engrossed in so much of materilism, that many of them dont even find time for GOD a few minutes in a day. We have become so ungrateful, that we, the part and parcel of GOD, are living in the world created by him, which is his property, using a body given by him, everything practically we are attached to is HIS property , but we are fighting with each other to acquire the lordship on it , which will be forcefully taken from us at the time of death , instead of thanking him for what he has given and using it properly for HIS enjoyment.

People around the world are just setting up bad examples for the future generations, which will be born in a polluted environment, where, they will be taught only to work hard to gratify the senses and die in the end with a regret that with so much of efforts it also, he was unsuccessful in his mission to satisfy his senses.

It is utmost important or to pharse is better MOST important the responsible people should read this age old wisdon Bhagvat Gita and take to Krishna ,rather than wasting this human form of life simply eating, sleeping, mating and defending .

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Ignorance personified

Today's Civilization is in the strong grip of ignorance. Ignorance means not with material ignorance , but ignorance about true nature of life , using and maintaining this all important human form of life. The basic definition of life has become to enjoy life as much as you can at anybodys and every body's expense. People have become arrogant in their dealings, most of them have a smiling face and a polite gesture outwardly but from inside the story is altogether opposite. This is the effect of this age called Kali yuga in the vedice literatures, these things are very correctly pointed out in Srimad Bhagvatam about this age. In Srimad Bhagvatam it states people in this age , will have a short life span and over the years it will become shorter, good qualities ,like , tolerance, mercy, truthfulness will diminsh, and everyone will cheat each other for money, people with money will be considered well cultured and many more things, which are already true in todays age.

It is very unfortunate , that parents have lost control on their own desires and hence are incapable of controlling their children. Parents them selves are indulging in smoking , drinking , illicit sex etc, which naturally influences the child.
Today parents thing satisfying the material desires of a child who is not even aware of good and bad things is showing and expressing their love for their child, but the fact is that this kind of love is weakness , and is only spoiling your children rather than making them responsible individuals.
I have seen such children who now are at the age of 25 -26 and they are totally lost in their material desires, as soon as they get some money they think of spending it for fun, by drinking , smoking and partying , not worrying about the consequences, Having being pampered from the childhood, they have become arrogant and disrespectful to others , which makes them selfish . At the time when they are in thier prime , these moments are happy moments, but , it is a fact that they are ignorant that they are creating troubles for their entire life.

This happens due to lack of restriction on the child's desires , which grows further and takes form of a conviction a mentality of life in the child's mind. It is therefore , very important to educate parents on the science of selfcontrol as stated in Bhagvat Gita , so that they can control and chanelize their chilrens life , inorder to make them human beings.

It has become a norm now a days to speak with each other in a scarcastic tone and try to blame others for all the misahaps and never look at ones own mistake. This is a very dangerous situation and it should be taken seriously by everyone. Hence this age old wisdom of Bhagvat Gita is so very important and essential in every home .

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Timeline of the universe.


From the authorative sources i.e Vedas , we get the above timeline for the existence of the universe. The point to be noted herein , is that the time line represented here is well organized and with accurate numbers. Hence the source can be taken to be authorative.

Explanation:

The timeline describes that Brahma the first living entity is the engineer and he is the one who engineers this universe,on the instructions of the Supreme Lord Krishna. So all the times are in reference to the life of Brahma. In short As long as brahma lives this universe lives, and when brahma dies, the universe is annhiliated completely.

The years mentioned are earthly years.

Brahmas 1 day (i.e 12 hours ) consists of 14 manvantaras
1 manvantara is the period where the father of living entities called manu generates all the living entities , and 1 manvantara consists of 71 divya yugas.

And 1 divya yuga comprises of 4 cycles , namely, satya yuga , treta yuga, dvapar yuga and kaliyuga.

Such is 1 day of bramha (i.e 12 hours) after the day of bramha, the night comes when brahma sleeps and the lower universes are sunk in the devastation water. After this night which is equal to the day comes yet another day of brahma where creation takes place.
In this way bramha lives for 100 years.

And after 100 years bramha dies and the universe is destroyed.

We currently are in kali yuga of the seventh manvantara as per the scriptures.

Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Television .. Killing peoples minds.

Television a invention made as a entertainment for men , has turned into a controlling force of peoples life. People rush from their work in a hurry so that they do not miss their favorite shows. Once a person sits in front of the Television , it becomes very difficult to drag him from there. People get annoyed when they are told to switch off the television . So it is evident that television has captured people's mind in such a manner that it has become almost impossible for some to live without television. Television and media has become a force which is directing people's life and pushing them into darkness of ignorance.

Every show or movie and even the so called news channels are broadcasting useless information, which is occupying the minds of the general populace and making them idle in every respect. People have become lazy and are constantly anxious. Bhagvad Gita says inorder to live a happy and a peaceful life, it is utmost neccessary to free ones mind from lust, anger and greed. And our friend Television is broadcasting only these three things with a sweet coating so that people may swallow it. All the shows are filled with sexual scenes whcih invoke lust into persons mind,even so called love stories are based on lust. All the movies have violence, which is a emblem of anger and greed. And the so called news channels which are supposed to be informative are informing about famous people's lusty , greedy and angry behaviors , so that the general populace should become the same.

Sometime ago, somebody told me, it is very important to watch Television, for it gives news and for entertainment. For me , I see no entertainment in Television, I only see demoniac propensities , which put you into further illusion and increase, three vital enemies of the self , namely, lust, greed and anger.

As per the Vedic wisdom, Out of 8400000 species of lives, human form of life obtained by a living soul, is supposed to be the most valued and a rare chance to understand the self and its relation with the Supreme consioness, but as humans , what are we doing is wasting our human form by developing out propensities for greed, lust and anger ,these very same propensities, which are so dear to people in the young or you can say healthy state of its existence, wil pinch and become a nigthmare during the old age, and make everyone think about the wastage they caused during their whole life time.

The civilization has reached to such a point , where is not watching Television is considered a negative point and people look at you will a sarcastic wonder as if you were somekind of a fool , to not participate in the worldwide display of lust, greed and anger. Out of ignorance about the nature of the true self, the older generation also thinks that Television is a ultimate source of enjoyment and people have become addicted to it and which influences the younger generation to follow the same. The so called humour showed on the television represents a sarcastic humor which also induces anger in some corner of the heart. Qualities like, mercy, truthfullness, honesty, tolerance , self control, respect which at some time were prevelant in the society have become alien to the younger generation , which is bought up in the atmosphere of hate, greed, lust, anger , no respect of elders.

Television had killed the imagination of the people and puts people in a illusory plane which just makes them daydreamers.

All the effects of Television are bad , So It is very important to break the jinx and come out of the illusory world of television. It requires a initaite from the elders in the society to control their watching of the television and divert their attention to learning their place in the existance by referring to religious scriputres and teach the same to their kids in order to mend a better society. Thats the only way, to become God conscious.