Saturday, May 5, 2018

Belief in Oneness

Believe in Oneness. Man must have an identity as a human but not by caste or religion. Caste is a status born with what we do. History teaches it. Religion is what we believe. Religious beliefs are necessary for a person’s peacefulness and promote harmony. It had evolved to teach the human about the right or wrong at that instance of time.

There is one basic principle common in all religions, that you as an individual is just a human. The people around you are similar such kind of humans. To so far what I have read in any religious scripture or shlokas, any sayings, stories said by religious leaders, what I chose to believe is “There are a lot of human values in every religion.” To me, any religious book is like any other normal book which I read to improve my understanding on unknown topics. Before you chose to believe any culture, tradition, religion try to realize analyze the origins of the practice.

To my knowledge what I was taught in my 3rd standard, there are few little paragraphs in my social book about religion. There it was mentioned about Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, Sikhism, and Buddhism which are very dominantly believed by global population.  The concise and straight point I understood is that “There is one supreme power who monitors human activities.” From that age, my respect for other religions rose gradually.

It’s not fair that individuals should live with a religious, caste identity. I learned I believe, remember just a two-word statement but a bottom line, “History repeats.” There is great inner depth in that statement.

The way the life on earth started on earth, in a step by step manner, I mean, the evolution, is the same way as it ends. Charles Darwin had written about the evolution of living things which includes the human beings. As per which life on earth had undergone many metamorphic changes during the evolutionary process. For humans, animalàbarbarianà Nomad à early manà… fast forward… à civilized manà modern man.  That is the simplest way to express and understand, apart from technical details.  From my observation and thought process, the evolution has not yet stopped. It’s a cyclic process. There are discussions and postulates from the scientific community that the evolutionary process is still on the way.

To what extent scientific development may be, what may be the comforts of life, the end will be like that animals, and of course, humans are also called as social animals. We can understand relating to humans. You are born naked- your life burned or buried naked.

One should try to believe in and protect the culture, but never try to predominate others beliefs, because your own culture is not yours. Just look the past history. Your culture has undergone many alterations while passing from your ancestors to your granny, papa, and mama. Example, you may not wear the dress exactly, the way your granny or papa used to. Question to yourself, why are you practicing a tradition, culture. Don’t say I have no problem as I am happy about it.  But an intriguing fact is that you follow it as per your comfort. More interestingly when you are in a foreign land, a different place where your action may be against the local beliefs, you may even think and fear a lot to do your daily activities.

      The one who protects and provides the comforts to the people became the king (Leader). People with their work provided revenues to the king. Here both are mutually dependent on each other. There is no supremacy. When the king acted like a man or human people respect him, support him. If the king or any leader acted like he is the only supreme, suppressed people, oppressed for his own comforts, humiliated, forget other fellow human beings like self, a revolution started. If you look into any historical background of great kings and their dynasty, the founder of one dynasty had been a working soldier/ minister in another dynasty.  

Whenever the greed for “me, my, mine” rises, there humanity dies.

    One must accept the deviations in culture, tradition. Change has been the constant thing ever happening. In the course of humanity changes in culture, tradition, happens. They should be considered and to be acknowledged.

     One must think, during the development of the history of caste or tradition, any race, a group of intellectual individuals at that time had thought to believe some principles which are necessary for their work proficiency or a survival practice, shared with close associates and accordingly the seeds for a caste system, a race developed roots in the human society.

      Example, those people who need to offer prayers to god had thought that you need to be holy while offering prayer to god. What is holiness?? How to be holy?  To be holy you should not eat meat, to be non-violent, to be peaceful so that god is satisfied. Those group of people became Brahmins.
      Contemporarily what the culture we are seeing now is not the same as how it looked in the past nor how it originated. One can clearly notice cultural changes and you can understand the reason behind the changes as individuals thinking, human intellect, human consciousness is not uniform in the course of the human history.

      Follow what you believe, practice what you trust, try to protect your individual identity, but never deprive, humiliate, disrespect other beliefs.

-16th June 2012

Sunday, April 29, 2018

Motivation

Today everyone is sanguine of entering certain professions. They call it their dream, ambition in life. In their choice, they should be the best by hook or cook and should pursue as your heart is satiated with. Refraining from the path to achieve the goal makes you unsuccessful in your life.
No one says dreaming is worthless. Great Indian scientist A.P.J Abdul Kalam says “you should always dream that you have succeeded in achieving your goal, go on dreaming till your dream clings to your hands.”   
Your ambition is your dream. Achieving your dream is your aim. Dream can’t be fulfilled at once. One has to face many hurdles to fulfill the DREAM, according to Distorte. He who fails to prepare is preparing to fail, so prepare, prepare, prepare. Who has confidence in himself can gain the confidence of others.
Goal setting is an indispensable part of one’s life. Remember the setting goal is the bottom line of life. “Life without a goal is like withered rock and tree.” Everything in the world runs with a selected goal or aim.
A player aims to win the game
A tree aims to fulfill the hunger of people
An ant aims to store food for the future

Like this ant to an elephant, unicellular to multicellular organism is assigned with a work, they carry on till they achieve it. Their commitment to achieving this assigned work is called ambition. Ambition is an indispensable part of anyone’s life. Dream, Goal, Aim, Aspiration are synonyms of Ambition
                It is useless to think ambition is to be settled in life, full meals a day, rejoice in life enjoying the worldly pleasures. All this is a fool’s paradise. In the real sense, ambition is the success. To be successful in life, in society, nation, world, as a human. Success is dependent on various factors. Character is the prerequisite for success. The character is like tree and reputation is its shadow. The shadow is what we think, it is the tree that is real. Our character should be mannerly, innovative, modesty, magnanimity. Our character reflects the idea, how good we are.
Cells make tissues
A good coach makes a good player
Good character makes a successful man.
        The forthcoming subject to success is Time Management. There is saying in Sanskrit “alasyam amrutham visham.” It means simply that even an elixir of life turns to be poison, which makes life exile out of the body’s reign. The goal is a thing to be climbed to, not an escalator to carry you. Try to climb a maximum number of steps to reach the goal and never repose on, till you cling the opportunities which pave way for the threshold of success. Everyone has aims and ideals to follow, but their implementation in proper time is vital. Maximum fail to apply, which ultimately leads to unfruitfulness.
One should be creative in their work. A creative thinker is flexible and adaptable and prepared to rearrange his thinking. This is a competitive world. One should be always indifferent from others that arrest the attention of superiors. Then only one can be a superman. To be Superman, be creative, imaginative. Imagination is intelligence having fun. Reflexive thinking turns the experience into insight. One shouldn’t be like the frog in a well.
Commitment, enthusiasm, patience play a key role along with the above. Anger is the enemy of man itself which leads to all difficulties. Working with patience enthusiastically makes one superb in life. Our life’s lion share should be used to achieve our goals.
Knowledge and wisdom should be proportionate in achieving success. Knowledge without wisdom leads to many destructions for which one has to face for…
Sky is your limit
Star is your goal
Hard work is your route
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. There are two kinds of failures. Those who thought and never did, those who did and never thought. Thus one should never flinch from aims and ideals. Ambitious persons should be tenacious, wrestle with to face anything, founded upon anyone, quick at right decisions, and be positive and refraining from your path makes you a failure.
Arise, awake, await till you reach the destination. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. If you try you may fail, if you don’t try you are guaranteed to fail. If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it. Every arrow that flies into the air feels the attraction of earth. A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital. Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse. Never feel failures: they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life. These failures, what would be life without them? It would not be worth having if it were not struggles. So never mind failures. Hold the idea a thousand times and if you fail thousand times, make the attempt once more.