tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19732997712610495202024-03-14T13:52:10.500+05:30Gates and Windows -'Enabling Human Potential' to ‘CREATORS of Wealth-with-Wisdom’GNW Ravi's SharingsRavichander Venkatraman(Ravi)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06771527454067841681noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973299771261049520.post-39410043065338293712014-01-12T20:48:00.000+05:302014-01-13T11:38:43.918+05:30Hidden Treasure Series XIX-The Science and Art of S E X<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I</span> have been contemplating for long to write on this topic.
What prompted me to write now is that on one hand the growing crimes against
women and on the other do we not find Sexologists all over the place suddenly with
serpentine queues witnessed in front of their clinics<b>? </b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Going by recent history on crimes
against both men and women, across the world, getting to hear live stories from
sexologists and why even my astrologer friend Sridhar – I suspect, IF, the dreaded 3 letter
word S E X has become a menace for
mankind, some overdoing it, some wantonly starving, some avoiding, some blatantly
misusing it. Shall we ‘walk the talk’ with our learned friend Shri. <b>GRK</b> and get to understand this topic,
we seldom discuss<b>? Shall we understand S
E X from a 2-dimensional perspective</b> - namely Science and Art, instead of being Uni-dimensional-i.e.
a mere ‘tool’ used for ‘reproduction’<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Ravi</b>: It’s been a long time since we met. Glad to meet you again.
This time, for a topic that few speak openly in this part of the world i.e. <b>S E X?</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>GRK</b>: That fundamental mistake is born out of colonial ramifications
in India and so-called religious zealots across religions over ages. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Ravi</b>: Tell me straight, Why do you think SEX has become a problem <b>?</b> Why adults/men are ‘<i>over-sexified</i>’ these days<b>? Why are women perceived as objects of
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<b>GRK</b>: Look, earlier also man has misused/over-used SEX with his polygamist
behavior<b>! </b>However, physiologically,
according to a recent research by brain scientists, <b>a man’s most dominant thought in a 24-hour time frame is a no brainer -
It is “SEX”.</b> Whereas, the women’s dominant thought isn’t sex. She is
besotted by a host of other issues. We need to understand, think more deeply,
without any theories - X or Y. We need to experience, observe, think, meditate
to understand the TRUTH on WHAT IS WHAT and HOW is WHAT<b>?</b> Now, coming back to men, today, most are slaves-bound by
authority with no intellectual freedom to do what they love to do, deprived of
freedom-Outwardly, and most importantly, ‘inwardly’. Poor them. They are, if I
may use your term ‘over-sexified’ because there is no ‘release’ for them
elsewhere – creatively or intellectually or emotionally. The sexual ‘act’ is THE
only release, which is uni-dimensional, isn’t it<b>?</b> That’s the fundamental issue with men, yesterday, today or
tomorrow. Are you with me, Ravi<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Multi-dimensional ‘releases’
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<b>Ravi</b>: Yes. Very much. So, do you recommend multi-dimensional ‘release’
for men and women for a healthier, joyful life<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>GRK</b>: Yes, for a healthier body, brain, mind and I say soul as well<b>! </b>A brisk walk, reading a book we like, playing
with children, helping the elderly, watching the stars, watching the movement
of flowers(Without cruelly plucking), listening to the wind, observing the
so-called rich or poor are some ‘releases’.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>GRK</b>: Now, tell me Ravi, you watch cricket and notably the <b>IPL </b>with
such dedication and so are millions of others. Do you get any ‘release’ there
as you are all glued to the ‘idiot box’ watching cricket, doing nothing<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Ravi</b>: As regards cricket, I always like to ‘hear’ cricket with
watching. In the 70’s and 80’s myself and Dad used to wake up at 4.30 AM to
listen to Radio Australia if there’s a match between India-Australia in the
Kangaroo land<b>!</b> We used to ‘mime’
shots that got batsman out. Dad would have cherished watching ‘live’ cricket
thanks to breathtaking technology these days<b>!</b> Miss him badly<b>!</b> <o:p></o:p></div>
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Of late, I tend to prefer
Badminton to sex if I were to choose one. What a ‘release’<b>?</b> In fact, my day depends on how I play in the morning– not from
winning or losing, but the ‘effort’ and ‘movement’<b>!</b> It’s like a ‘symphony’, more so if you play doubles<b>!</b> I have done this experiment observing
my day over a decade and hence this submission. Waiting for a partner to play
mixed doubles which would still be awesome<b>!
</b>So, playing Badminton, watching and hearing cricket are indeed great
‘releases’ for me. In fact our numerous ‘live’ and even imaginative
‘walk-the-talk’ sessions are indeed great ‘releases’.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Ravi</b>: You walk around 5-10 km every day amidst your loaded schedule.
Isn’t it one of the greatest form of ‘releases’ with the hormones happily
getting secreted, both adrenalin and serotonin?
Or in other words, is there a science behind SEX<b>?</b> <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>GRK</b>: You have already said it. For most, the very mention of the
three letter S E X word pumps up <b>Adrenalin</b>,
the ‘Energy hormone’, activates <b>Oxytocin</b>, the ‘Love hormone’ thereby
oozing liberal amounts of <b>Testosterone/Oestrogen,
</b>the ‘Sexual hormone’. However, we can’t SEE anyone of these, (but we can
quantify in a lab). But sure, we can FEEL if we have them in us. Our friends
would know if we are high/low/medium on adrenalin depending on our actions and
our spouses could FEEL the level of Love/Sex hormones.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Ravi</b>: Now, in the lighter vein, do you know the similarity between
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<b>GRK</b>: No clue. Tell me. Let me learn from you folks.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Ravi</b>: “<b>Software is like Sex:
It’s better when it’s free</b>” says Linus Torvalds,
the creator of Linux operating system and a champion of Free Software.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>GRK</b>: Hah Ha<b>!</b> Well said Linus
and true to an extent from safety perspective. However, need not be so always,
as SEX is NOT a one-sided activity. It takes two hands to clap, my boy<b>!</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Ravi</b>:<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Is there anything like soul-soul sex<b>?</b></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">GRK: </b>Yes! We could become conscious, open hearted and totally present in our passionate ‘lovemaking’ act, we may experience orgasmic activation in every cell of our Being. Only some are blessed to find their soul-mates, most of the time we are searching for one in the cosmos.</span><b></b><br />
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<b style="font-weight: bold;">Ravi: </b>What’s the way out? Can laws bring about change in mindset among mankind?</div>
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<b style="font-weight: bold;">GRK: </b>To an extent. The change or transformation has to be at the individual level. That is, understanding the ‘thought’ movement-in any pleasure seeking activity-be it sex or drugs or religion or music. It’s the ‘thought’ and the ‘images’ stored is reflected in our memory and thereby leading to ‘action’. <b>So let’s, each one of us understand the movement of our thought(s)</b>. As regards SEX, as said earlier, since we don’t have real freedom because of our million years of conditioning, we are left with only one thing called SEX. for indulgence being the easiest thing! All others demand (y)our energy which can come when only when one attains real freedom.</div>
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And, when one’s indulgence in sex too much, which is only a part in the game called LIFE, gains tremendous importance, one is destroying oneself. Life is a WHOLE, not just a single time/act. <b>Therefore if you give importance to the ‘whole’ of LIFE, then SEX does not overpower you.</b></div>
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<b>Ravi: </b>Hmmm. True. Have been observing about the movement of my thoughts towards SEX and still it’s still a Work In Progress! Tell me, whether ‘control’ is the best way like how monks or priests do?</div>
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<b>GRK: </b>Sorry, the monks and all those Swamiji’s who have denied sex, have turned their energy to God but the ‘thing’ is boiling inside; nature cannot be suppressed. So control isn’t the key. Observation of one’s thought, understanding SEX from a Science and Art perspective could possibly be a solution. (Especially for avoiding violent sex-like raping)</div>
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<b>Ravi: </b>Well, lot to take home from this session of ours. </div>
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Folks, hope you enjoyed reading these Walk-the-Talk sessions with Dr.<b>GRK </b>and ‘Yours Truly’. Now let me work on the <b>XIX </b>part series so far on ‘<b>LIFE and its Explorations</b>’. Hopefully, we should come out with an e-book shortly for the benefit of humanity.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I</span> end with wishes to each one of you for a fabulous 2014!</div>
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Ravichander Venkatraman(Ravi)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06771527454067841681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973299771261049520.post-20144534601902494922013-09-07T22:18:00.000+05:302013-09-07T22:18:50.896+05:30An 'open' letter to Obama!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My dear Barrack Obama Jr.,<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">H</span></b>ope this
missive finds you amidst spending more time in the war-room of the Pentagon
rather than in the playing grounds of the White house with Sasha and Malia, a
situation you are drawn to as your infamous predecessors drew. I’m Ravi from
Chennai, India, the cradle of human race. I wish to share something useful and
hope it gets to your eyes<b>-></b>brain quickly<b>! </b>Allow me to get<b> </b>angry sometimes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Wouldn’t the Soul of
Mahatma Gandhi weep in his grave if you were to strike @ Syria now?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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I’ll get to the point straight. You,
personally, seemed to stand at the <i>cusp</i>
of a historical blunder- That of planning to start airstrikes against Syria. Even
the common man has already dubbed it as a possible start of <b>World-War III</b>. <b>Mahatma Gandhi</b>, the person you admire most would weep in his grave if
you even think of an airstrike in Syria which if proceeded would probably spiral
into a catastrophe not only in Syria/West Asia, but in America as well<b>!</b> The peace and fun-loving Americans
don’t seem to approve of this either. Only the <b>A</b>merican <b>P</b>ower <b>C</b>enter (<b>APC</b>), as usual, thinks - “So what, Might is RIGHT<b>?</b> “<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">WHY, WHY, time and
again, APC willfully generates so much -Ve energy to America & Americans?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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My dear, may we ask you and the
infamous Bush’s-a fundamental Question<b>?</b>
Well, internal strife of various kinds was/is there somewhere in the world - Be
it India or Indonesia, Srilanka or Syria, Burma or Bangladesh. Well, America
never bothered to intervene when Lady Aung San Suu Kyi, a champion of democracy
in Burma against the military junta was languishing in forced solitude for over
a decade (or) when supposedly 100,000 Tamils were butchered during the last
days of the war in the killing fields of <i>Mullaithivu</i>
in Srilanka. On the contrary, didn’t America screw up BIG time in Afghanistan
or Iraq or Libya, over and over<b>?</b> Can
you FEEL the sufferings of the people there<b>?</b>
Their cries of despair<b>?</b> Of lost
limbs and lives<b>?</b> LIFE turning
topsy-turvy overnight for millions<b>?</b> People
forced to live in a <i>tinder-box</i> like
situation<b>!</b> As I key-stroke this, I
develop goose-bumps, dear Obama as I FEEL for every single Iraqi or a Syrian or
a Libyan or a Pathani in despair like we feel for an Indian or an American
friend. Can’t you FEEL the humongous <b>-Ve</b>
energy generated notably against America in/from all parts of the world<b>?</b> <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>NLP</b> must have taught you that there is only ENERGY which exists-
Which is <b>+Ve</b>,<b>-Ve</b> and Neutral (Peace). Can EVER America, live in peace, NOW and
in the future-When <b>APC, </b>by its
violent thoughts and actions, time and again, wantonly generated/generates humongous
<b>-Ve</b> Energy for Americans<b>?</b> Can you discuss on this with Sasha
and friends<b>?</b> With Agassi and Steffi
together<b>?</b> Or with Shakira<b>? </b>Or with any ‘pure’ spiritual guru
from India<b>? </b>Or with any pure <b>NLP</b> coach<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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“Mr.President, WHY so much of
special American ‘interest’ in West Asia, everyone is asking<b>?”</b> Even the kid on the street says that
it’s FOR your ‘life-line’ <b>Oil</b> <i>nay</i> <b>Energy</b>.
And maybe, you want to sell arms to shore up your screwed-up economy based on “credit
culture”- On “Greed than Need”<b>?</b> Even
a layman could SEE the TRUTH in this.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">To capture 1 in-human
person, do you have to wage a war against a country? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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What we fail to understand what
you did in Iraq or now planning to in Syria is simply one thing - <b>Do you have to destroy a country, make them
suffer in your quest to eliminate or capture 1 person who are supposedly in-human
like Saddam or Bashar?</b> <u>Is your Pentagon, CIA, FBI, Home State Dept. and
your billions of dollars SO inept that they couldn’t go near Saddam THEN or
Bashar, NOW<b>?</b></u> Meanwhile, can you
check with the <i>lunatic</i>(<i>Sic</i>) Bush’s what they gained by waging a
war in Afghanistan and Iraq<b>?</b> Are
they able to sleep properly without tablets or alcohol<b>?</b> I suspect they won’t die so easily. I strongly suspect that for
their crimes against humanity, notably in Afg/Iraq that they may lose BOTH their
physical and mental equilibrium, the latter to start with, if not already. Do
you want to follow their path<b>? I/V love
you, dear Obama. THINK. </b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You know, even <i>Satvic’s</i> are violently perturbed seeing American
violent one-upmanship!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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“Dear Obama, do you know what happened
this morning<b>?</b>” After our usual rigorous
badminton session, otherwise a calm-and-composed, an erudite scholar friend of
mine turned violent in his words against America when the topic turned to Syria.
I made him understand that ‘America’ is a great concept screwed up BIG time by
those in power, time and again by the <b>APC,</b>
much akin to the great land <i>Bharath</i> <i>a.k.a</i> India, as many opine, looted BIG
time by one family and their <i>coterie</i> post-1947<b>!</b> I also made him understand that Americans
by nature are very friendly and fun loving. But my Question is “HOW your single
thought of attacking Syria provokes a <i>Satvic</i>
scholar behave violently<b>???”</b> This is
no fiction, this is real. That Ravi getting angry is like saying sugar is
sweet, thy very name is anger-personified. However, NOT my friend who was kind
of forced to use violent words which is not his usual self<b>! So, shall we say a million Osama’s born/thousands re-born for every
single violent actions of the Obama’s?</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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May I suggest something useful, which
is real<b>?</b> What you want from Middle
East is stocking oil for the future, right<b>?</b>
My dear, according to our eminent scientist Abdul Kalam, Oil, being a
non-renewable energy, will be extinct in a couple of decades<b>!</b> “WHAT will you/we do then<b>?</b> Suck our thumbs<b>?”</b> So, instead of spending more time in the war-room(<i>Sic</i>) at Pentagon or White house, suggest
spend more time more with Sasha, Malia and friends and also rigorously following
up what the heck your scientists are doing after gobbling so many billions of
dollars on research on renewable energy sources<b>?</b> Why don’t America lead the world on this<b>?</b> The wonder plant family of <i>‘Jatropha
Curcas L’</i> is a case in point. If in doubt, please check with <b>Reinhard K. Henning</b>, regarded as ‘<i>The Father of Jatropha</i>’. That’s the way
forward. That’s visionary, isn’t it<b>?</b>
Of course, while most people will be benefitted, the gun-lobby or military
lobby won’t be. So be it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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My dear President, do you know WHY
the wise counsel of Nobel foundation gave ‘Nobel Prize for Peace’ for you
immediately when you were elected first time, when you did nothing worthwhile
to receive that much-coveted prize<b>?</b> <b>It was given to ‘reform’ the thought process
of the APC</b>. <b>It is to make the Captain
of America work for peace</b>. Not to become war-mongers like your predecessors
for all the WRONG reasons. Not to make innocent women and children, the aged suffer
for no rhyme or reason. To make you ‘walk-the-talk’ that America often makes,
seldom practice. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In the lighter vein, I
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Obama, I couldn’t sleep or eat watching
the gory scenes of Telly in Afg/Iraq wars. In the lighter vein, if you strike
at Syria or anywhere, I intend to sell my Telly as I can’t watch humans
destructing another, seeing science becoming an enemy to mankind and still BE
sane. Science and Technology must always remain a friend to mankind, for the
benefit of mankind, not to destroy one another<b>! </b>The souls of Alfred Nobel and Albert Einstein would weep seeing APC’s
actions in Afg/Iraq in the recent memory and Syria in the pipeline now, thoroughly
misusing technology! <o:p></o:p></div>
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I/V citizens of this lovely place
called ‘Mother Earth’, tied to a common umbilical cord, earnestly hope that
better sense would prevail in you in the Syrian situation. There are numerous <b>non-violent</b> ways of capturing in-human person(s) anywhere in the world, in
whatever place/position he/she is. All I personally request is, please, let’s
all of us learn a single thought from the lovely mountainous country of <b>Bhutan</b> where they measure nation’s
growth by <b>Gross Domestic Happiness</b>(GDH)
and not GDP what we stupidly and blindly follow<b>!</b> “<b>What a rat-race, for
what?” - </b>I mean at the individual, family, race, national and global level<b>?</b> And you, Obama, since you are captain
of not only America but supposedly of Mother Earth as well (as <b>APC</b> thinks), I thought it’s prudent to leave
these thoughts with you enable to make the world a better place to live.
Especially in the troubled Middle East and Africa. What do you say<b>?</b> <o:p></o:p></div>
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I fervently hope that in your
remaining tenure you would work for global peace and disarmament, on renewable
energy, starting with your country first. <u>That way, the soul of Mahatma
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My regards to Madame Michelle Obama
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Apologies for my anger, albeit a functional one<b>!</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Ravichander Venkatraman(Ravi)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06771527454067841681noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973299771261049520.post-48123889978235294892013-01-14T11:16:00.000+05:302013-01-14T14:30:46.051+05:30Festivals foster (Inter)national integration!My dear friends across Mother Earth,<br />
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Are you through<b>?</b> <u>Did you notice a change in your thought process</u><b>?</b> What’s the change you FELT eating the single biscuit over 5 minutes when normally we eat the same biscuit quickly<b>?</b> Do share. Well, when I did this exercise for the first time, I was astonished. <b>I started remembering and thanking the wheat growers, the baker, the company folks who mass produce them to the folks in supermarket or petty shops who market them!</b> Normally what we do<b>?</b> We simply eat fast to fulfill our hunger pangs, right<b>?</b></div>
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Well, today is one such thanksgiving day<b>!</b> It’s the <b>Harvest festival</b> celebrated across India. In some other name, it’s celebrated across the world during their harvest season. Should we not spend atleast 5 minutes remembering and thanking the nameless souls who toil hard in the fields in order to give food for us<b>?</b></div>
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Well, glad to reproduce an award-winning speech made by my 2nd biological daughter <b>Shivani Chander</b>, Class IX on how festivals promotes national integration. It sums up the mood of the day and very rightly Indians can sport a little pride, having born in this great land<b>!</b></div>
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Festivals are an important part of our life. Celebrating festivals reflects one’s culture and heritage and it’s a way of preserving them. By such get-togethers people get to know each other’s culture very much. It’s even a sort of <b>refreshing our life</b> with pleasure from the monotonous everyday life.</div>
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Festivals are important for the integration of our nation and to retain our culture for the next generations. During functions we are offering sweets and wishes to everyone because to make strong relationship with our neighbourhoods. <b>Festivals bring us cheers and joy </b>amidst the din of the competitive world. <b>Offerings to god, prayer, helping the poor on those occasions give us satisfaction</b>, isn’t it<b>?</b></div>
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Friends, festivals have become the part and parcel of our normal life in India. They reflect our culture and traditions. <b>They make us to live together in peace and harmony</b> and keep us united amidst the diverse nature of society where there is a multitude of languages, religions, castes and traditions.</div>
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Festivals are meant to rejoice ourselves over a period of lot of hard work. Festivals spread a message of brotherhood, goodness and morality.</div>
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While looking at the <b>Indian Festival Calendar</b> we notice that most of the festivals have a theme that runs across the length and breadth of this great nation. Is there any other nation in world where amidst such diversity people living in harmony<b>?</b> It is Festivals that dons the <i>prima donna</i> role fostering national integration amidst this ‘<b>Great Indian Diversity</b>’.</div>
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<u>Diwali</u> brings about a feeling of integration among various sects of the society. Today, it is celebrated as ‘Festival of Lights’ across the globe where the lights signify victory of good over the evil within every human being. It is spreading to all parts of the world. <b>I’m sure you witnessed President Obama celebrating Diwali!</b></div>
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From the lanes of Mathura and Vrindavan, the colours of <i><u>Holi</u></i> have spread all over the country. These colours also carry a message of love, brotherhood, and truth. So whenever you splash <i>Holi</i> colours on somebody, you give him a promise of being truthful towards him always, maintain brotherhood with him lifelong and shower him with all the possible love throughout your life – <b>be it a Chennaiite or a Kolkatan, a Christian or a Mohamedan.</b></div>
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<u>Teachers Day</u> – Teacher’s day is not just a day for fun and change of roles. <b>It is also a day to remember how much of hard work and time goes in</b>, before a teacher, from any part of the nation, walks into that classroom and teaches you that chapter.</div>
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Well, the <u>cultural festivals</u> are not to be left behind. Film festivals and cultural events also unite the people of India. During the month of <b>Margazhi</b>, don’t we see people from all over the world, congregate at <b>Thiruvaiyaru</b> for the Music festival<b>?</b> If this is not a tool for national integration, what else is<b>?</b> Or the National film festival, Khujarao Dance Festivals, numerous cultural festivals that we witness.</div>
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Isn’t it a quite a sight seeing girls tying <b>Rakhis</b> to boys and men? Doesn’t it spread brotherliness? <u>Is there a festival like Rakhi festival anywhere in the world</u><b>?</b></div>
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<b>The ship that never fails is friendship!</b> Doesn’t Friendship Day spread cheer and brotherhood, across Mother Earth<b>?</b></div>
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Haven’t you observed our own school Anniversary celebrations nay Annual festival<b>?</b> Most of them have themes that run the length and breadth of this great land. Don’t those <b>annual festivals of PSBB</b> spread a message of national integration<b>?</b> If not, tell me what else would<b>?</b></div>
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Friends, we know that apart from uniting people across India, <b>festivals also propel economic activity</b>, the vital cog in the wheel of LIFE.</div>
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<b>On the contrary, well, can we all, for a moment, imagine a life without these festivals?</b> Life would indeed be dull and monotonous without the colour, gaiety and laughter, isn’t it<b>?</b> It would be meaningless without the caring and sharing. And, a divided India. Like Europe or South America. Do we want that<b>?</b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>T</b></span>hank you.</div>
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Well, my dear Shivani, <b>festivals does foster not only national integration but also international integration </b>as the people are the same across Mother Earth.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>O</b></span>n behalf of all of you, allow me to wish all the nameless souls on Mother Earth who toil hard in the fields or just anyone in the ‘food cycle’,a healthy life<b>!</b> You know, lot of them suffer, going without food, ONLY to feed us<b>!</b> What an irony<b>!</b></div>
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Ravichander Venkatraman(Ravi)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06771527454067841681noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973299771261049520.post-32823770728211608822013-01-06T00:51:00.003+05:302013-01-15T18:37:14.592+05:30Heaven is just a HTKS away, Isn’t it?<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; line-height: 17px; text-align: justify;">Dear friends,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Allow me to dedicate this blog to singer <b>George Michael</b>, actor <b>Kamalhaasan,</b> my friend <b>Sridhar </b>and to <b>numerous souls</b> who yearn for a <b>H</b>ug
or a <b>T</b>ouch, a <b>K</b>iss or atleast a <b>S</b>mile! ‘<i>Heaven is a KISS and SMILE</i>’ is one of the phrases in George’s ‘</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJu170h7EhE"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Father Figure</span></a></span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">’, a masterpiece
with awesome meaning! The male cares so much for his soul-mate that he says he would
care for her like a father<b>! </b>Wow!
Kamal, an acting ‘<i>avatar</i>’, in this <i>Thamizh</i> movie ‘Vasool Raja‘, in a hilarious
way, would stress the importance of “<i>Kattipudi
Vaidhyam</i>”( <b>Cure through a Hug!</b>)</span><b> </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Today morning, Sridhar, my badminton buddy, a <i>chanakya-like</i> character who can read the
stars and their movements just like how we would do simple maths was saying
that the worst has started for the human kingdom<b>! </b>I thought we should take that conversation forward to some to
other day to understand if there’s a science and maths behind this kind of
unprecedented turmoil, in one form of the other, round the globe. <b>Or, in other words, humans going through <i>hell</i> in some form or the other, in this
‘<i>Kaliyug</i>’</b>, the last of the <i>yuga</i>. I observe that either, they kill
themselves and others around them or someone else returns the compliment<b>! Hah Ha</b>! I don’t<b> </b>mean<b> </b>killing the body.
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well, today morning conversation made me think deeper mixing with <b>George</b> and <b>Kamal</b>’s messages as to the Opposite – ie <i>Heaven</i>. How would it be? What we should do to be in a heaven like situation? <b>Sridhar</b> says mankind is worsening around the world(read <i>hell</i>) with the most affected being women, elderly and children<b>!</b> "Hold on Sridhar, we know that we die every day and are born everyday as well and that’s a biological phenomenon as well with old cells destroyed and new cells produced". And, <b>most of us would have experienced <i>heaven</i> when we sucked milk from our mother’s breast</b>! Isn’t it<b>?</b> Let’s ponder over the title now and see if we can create <i>heaven</i> like moments, from time to time, in a time when STARS in the galaxy and we ourselves are creating more <i>hell</i> like situations, in varied degree, one after the other<b>!</b> If I ask each one of you-husband and wife, parents and children, elderly and young, Religion A, Religion B, East, West, pitted against each other, we would get Wow<b>!</b> A million or zillion hell-like situations<b>!</b> <b>Sridhar is on-the-money!</b> He has predicted by reading the stars and I say by watching/reading through (y)our brain<b>!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There is this real-life story(One’s truth is story for others, isn’t it<b>?</b>) which goes like this. Summer of 1974. A young boy, 5 years of age,is the first maternal grandson of a big family and naturally was treated like a prince by all around. During one of his visits to his maternal grand father's home, during one of the evenings, he and his <b>80</b> year-old <b>great-grandma </b>were alone in that home in <i>Kumbakonam</i>, the temple town. The <b>5</b> year old prince found his bed-ridden grandma very uncomfortable and watched her kind of tossing in her bed, on the floor. The grandma pointed to the <i>bed-pan</i> and in a jiffy he rushed to get the bedpan and placed it at the correct place like a seasoned mid-wife<b>!</b> Hah Ha<b>!</b> And, he started massaging(<b>Touch</b>) grandma’s belly sub-consciously. He didn’t know that grandma has had a bad stomach and dysentery like situation. Well, those times they relied on '<i>nature cure</i>' which would take some days, isn’t it<b>?</b> But the young boys’ <b>TOUCH</b> therapy probably worked. <b>The great-grandma woke up the next morning <i>fresh-as-a-fiddle</i>,toiling in the kitchen, only to make mouth-watery delicious dishes to this stupid prince who has never seen a bedpan!</b> It’s so happened the prince in this real life story is ‘yours truly’. I recall this instant as ‘<b>Power of Touch</b>’ in action<b>!</b> Kamal’s narration of giving life to a terminally ill patient through <b>HT</b>(K)<b>S</b> isn’t unscientific, isn’t it<b>?</b> <u>It’s like the brain receiving the signals which we can’t see but can FEEL</u>. What do you say<b>?</b></span></div>
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beans, is married to a lazy <i>apathic</i> '<i>couch potato</i>'.They have been together for more than a
decade now. Frustrated to the core, she was turning <i>hysterical</i>. She happens to have
an <i>angel-like</i> person as her new neighbor who with her </span><b style="font-size: 11pt;">T</b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ouch and </span><b style="font-size: 11pt;">S</b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">mile without any expectations, has turned around this 'depressed damsel' over a span of weeks, infusing her a new lease of life<b>!</b> Without any medication, whatsoever<b>!</b> In fact, know this lady for a decade now and have never seen her smile<b>!</b> <b>Today, the
smile of the once <i>hysterical</i> woman is radiating and Heavenly!</b> Wow</span><b style="font-size: 11pt;">!</b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> What a change</span><b style="font-size: 11pt;">?</b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> How did it happen<b>?</b> It's all due to the <b>T</b>ouch and <b>S</b>mile therapy of the angel, a home maker
herself. Again here, </span><b style="font-size: 11pt;">T</b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> and </span><b style="font-size: 11pt;">S</b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> in </span><b style="font-size: 11pt;">HTKS</b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> were in action. All the four are not required at all times. However, for best results use combination according to the situation. May be a pat, may be a smile, a wink, a warm hug, a gentle touch, kiss on the cheek /hand, AND maybe a <i>Lip-lock</i> in case of soul-mates..... I leave you to fill the rest... Leave it to each one's creativity<b>!</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Brain scientists say only </span><b style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">7%</b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> of words we speak reaches the other person and the rest is body-physiology that conveys communication. I guess applying </span><b style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">H,T,K,S</b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> genuinely would do wonders in many </span><i style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">hell</i><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> or </span><i style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">war</i><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">-like situations- be it at </span><i style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Panchayat</i><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">
or </span><i style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Parliament</i><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">, <i>bedrooms</i> or
<i>boardrooms</i>! But I observe after watching animal and human behavior, we humans
haven’t yet learnt the art of </span><b style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">HTKS</b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">. Nothing
wrong if we have to learn from animals. So what</span><b style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">?</b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> As long as we get this basic consciousness of </span><b style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">HTKS, </b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">which would not only help us avoid <i>hell</i> like
situations but help others get this heavenly feeling, everyday, some time of
the other so that the so-called </span><i style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">hell </i><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">gets
frightened AND runs away<b>! </b>What do you say<b>?</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Humans of all races and religions, sizes and shapes, RIGHT brained or LEFT brained, need to practice
<b>HTKS</b> subconsciously enable have
heavenly moments not only for them but for people around them as well. And you
know, <b>HTKS</b> phenomenon is contagious<b>! </b>The world would be a better place to
live in if we get this right. What do you say<b>?</b> Do share your <b>HTKS</b> situation so
that a zillion <i>heavenly</i> situations are created to ward off the <i>hell</i> like
situations<b>!</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>A</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">llow me to sign off wishing you all in the
animal kingdom '<b>Heavenly 2013</b>'</span><b style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">!</b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><b> </b></span></div>
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<br />Ravichander Venkatraman(Ravi)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06771527454067841681noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973299771261049520.post-40872406869953552302012-12-21T18:51:00.002+05:302012-12-21T18:53:36.832+05:30Apathy, Sympathy and Empathy <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">A</span></b><span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">m pained and disturbed. Deeply disturbed. By men and women. By
their apathy (indifference) and lip-service sympathy (<i>sic</i>) to fellow human-beings. Without love and compassion; when Dogs
and Elephants have high level of them<b>!</b>
Folks, I strongly believe that the opposite of love is APATHY and NOT hate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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understand the three terms better. Shall I<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">In 2010, I was on a thanks-giving visit to <i>Sabarimala</i> with a group of 17 including
a <b>70</b> year-old woman whose <b>5</b> blood relatives were also part of the
troupe. Well, to cut the long story short, all the 15(Except the old woman and
‘Yours Truly’) rushed to climb the hill leaving us. I was in a <i>child-like</i> bliss and started my walk
very slowly, watching and enjoying the nature. I saw this old lady struggling
to climb the hill. She was panting for breath. I was shocked to find none of
her so-called blood relatives whom she fed were there to help her climb. Probably,
they all were busy to mark their attendance to Lord Ayyappa before the closing
time of 12 Noon<b>!</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">I removed the heavy <i>irumudi</i>
bag from her head and also two other bags which she was carrying. I put my arm
around her shoulder and cared for her the same way I used to care my biological mother during our spiritual
trips, including that wonderful blissful trip to <i>Vaishno Devi </i>in 1996. With every 100m, we rested for a minute, gave her
Glucose, Pine apple bites laced with salt etc, to shore up the energy. We
reached abode the hill and it was half past 12 Noon. The ‘gang’ by then had
finished marking the ‘attendance’, but then it must have stuck them that they
have left back the old lady<b>! </b>Upon
seeing us their palpable tension was relieved. The tired septuagenarian lady
didn’t utter any word to them<b>!</b> Later,
in the evening, when all had gathered in the room, I apologized to her that
couldn’t make her see <i>Ayyappa</i> before
noon. She shot back saying ”Ravi, why do you have to come all the way here to see
<i>Ayyappa</i><b>?</b>”(meaning when HE is already inside me!) Hearing that I was in a blissful
state(which can’t be shared but can only be experienced<b>!) Went to HIM and thanked HIM for having made me a ‘humane’ human
being! <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">(<u>Ps</u>: Lesson learnt, her 5 blood relatives and
others as well took utmost care of the old lady during the climb-down. I was
not required<b>!</b> Hah Ha<b>!</b>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">A highly ‘pure’ angel-like friend of mine has a child who
is a <i>dyslexic</i>. She says that she is
unable to take her child for social functions as the so called intelligent
human beings are <i>apathic</i>. Some have <i>sympathy</i> but absolutely no <i>empathy</i>. Sometimes they laugh at the
child for being unable to comprehend simple things. The mother is deeply
disturbed. So are the mothers of children who are autistic, mentally retarded,
spastic, physically/visually challenged etc. Are you with me<b>? Can you feel how they all FEEL everyday, every
single minute?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">A friend of mine and his friend, both visually
challenged, were standing in a bus stand to take a bus to go to college. There was
lot of people around. On seeing these two, some were <i>apathic</i> and some felt <i>sympathy</i>(In
Thamizh, ‘<i>Ayyo paavam’</i>) and when
their bus came they all left. No one was there to help these two wonderful
souls to board the correct bus they are supposed to take. Can you please put
yourself in those two people’s shoes and think<b>? Wouldn’t you have waited to help these two souls?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">An intelligent woman holds a doctorate and who has two
children hires a Kitchen Enabler(<i>a.k.a</i>
cook).Even if she is late even for a few minutes in the morning or evening, she
scolds her without realizing that the cook too has young children to be sent to
school and she is a mother as well like this doctorate woman<b>! </b>Let’s<b> </b>spare a thought to those who help us. <b>Shouldn’t we?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Folks, do you need any more scenarios to understand the
concept of </span><b><span style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Apathy</span></b><span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">, </span><b><span style="color: yellow; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Sympathy</span></b><span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"> and </span><b><span style="color: #00b050; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Empathy</span></b><b><span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">?</span></b><span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Now, please CTRL+ click and
visit the blog on </span><a href="http://gatesandwindows.blogspot.in/2011/03/hidden-treasure-series-part-iii-on.html">Values</a><span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">It’s lack of compassion, isn’t it?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Now, have you read that blog<b>?</b> I suspect lack of compassion is the reason for people lacking empathy
which is the highest form of LOVE, wise opine. <u>I suspect that Empathy cannot
be taught using a PPT</u>. It has to come from within and that experience is
the best teacher. </span>I say that <span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">empathy must be taught during childhood (Ideally by parents,
notably mother) According to me, lack of empathy was/is a common symptom of <i>narcissism</i>. There are lots of them
amidst us, isn’t it<b>? </b>What do you say<b>? They have to be reformed, isn’t it?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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- There’s a thin wedge separating the two<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Therefore, <u>Sympathy is a socially generated emotion</u>,
and <u>empathy is a spiritually generated emotion</u>. I have learnt to have empathy
even with the <i>apathic</i> people
mentioned in the examples above as they do not ‘love’ and mostly those people
weren’t loved either especially during childhood.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">For better understanding of Sympathy and Empathy please
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In other words, <b>Empathy</b> is the ability to mutually experience the thoughts, emotions, and direct experience of others. It goes beyond <b>sympathy</b>, which is a feeling of care and understanding for the suffering of others. Both words have similar usage but differ in their emotional meaning. Empathy is often characterized as the ability to "put oneself into another's shoes". So empathy is a deeper emotional experience. Empathy is known to increase pro-social (helping) behaviors. <b>Empathic people make awesome leaders, artists, doctors etc.</b></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Folks, don’t you think IF humans beings, like Dogs and Elephants(Watch DC/AP channels) have loads of empathy- THEN wouldn’t the family, state, country and this beautiful world be a better place? <b>What do you say?</b> Do munch and share your FEELINGS on this.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Friends, I apologise for the gap in writing. But somehow someone, known or unknown, gently tap my shoulder to make me write again. I thank them and God or God-particle for this intervention.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">A</span>llow me to end sharing loads of unconditional and undiluted love , compassion and empathy to all of you and your wonderful families and friends. Do share the <b><span style="font-family: inherit;">LIFE JUICE</span></b> in this blog with them. Wouldn't you<b>?</b></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Amen<b>!</b> Tashvidanya<b>!</b></span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Love</span> <br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ravi</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> “<i><b>You can, in a small way, gently shake the world</b></i>” - Mahatma Gandhi</span><br />
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Ravichander Venkatraman(Ravi)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06771527454067841681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973299771261049520.post-70037204925439004222012-09-01T20:28:00.000+05:302012-09-02T13:58:50.841+05:30Hidden Treasure Series-Part XVIII- On TRUTH and THE MEANING OF LIFE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;">A</span></b><span lang="EN-US">s
we progress to the last Part of the Hidden Treasure Series, am duty-bound to thank
God and God-particle for making me atleast irregularly regular or sometimes regularly irregular as regards my key-stroking this Series. Thank you blogger<b>. Thank you techies.</b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Many of us must have wondered at some point in time on
the purpose of Life, isn’t it? </span></b><span lang="EN-US">Is Life is just a
series of experiences<b>?</b> Is it a mere
existence<b>?</b> It is not just a
biological and physiological ‘dragging of feet’<b>?</b> Is LIFE a passage of time from one point of time to another point
of time<b>? Folks, time to walk-the-talk
with Shri.GRK and get to meat of LIFE or the juice of LIFE.</b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Sunny evening Shri.
GRK. Today <b>G&W</b> turned 12 today and great
to have you amidst us.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">GRK:
Congratulations Ravi. Kilo-Miles to go before you sleep.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Ravi: Ha Hah!
Well, Shri.GRK, does LIFE have any purpose<b>?</b>
<i>Nay</i> any meaning<b>?</b> What is its <i>sumnum bonum</i><b>?</b> Is there any intrinsic value to life
other than existence<b>?</b> Does it have
any implication for itself and by itself<b>?</b>
Is life something different from its roles, responsibilities, and attachments<b>?</b> Does it leave any mark or an impact,
on the sands of time<b>?</b> These are the
eternal questions agitating the human brain. Can you please enlighten us more
on the meaning of LIFE<b>?</b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Hi Ravi, before
understanding about LIFE, we need to understand that TRUTH is the meaning of
LIFE and existence.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Truth is that
“exists” (<i>sat</i>). It is THE fundamental
reality. It could be a fact, or a reality. Truth is much more than these, for,
it is eternal and universal. The reality and the fact are passing phenomena. Truth
could have regional variations and interpretation. But the core of truth, <i>nay</i> the essence of truth is the same for
all the people and for all times.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Truth has to be perceived and experienced rather than
argued and understood</span></b><span lang="EN-US">. Truth cannot be understood
through argumentation. In an argumentation to win, truth becomes a casualty.
The arguer with his ego cannot understand truth. The human ego and truth cannot
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<span lang="EN-US">Arguing about
and understanding truth is not important. No, not even needed. <b>Perceiving truth, nay, realizing truth and
living it is most important</b>. The very proof of somebody realizing the truth
is his living it. The life of a seeker who has realized the truth, becomes a
totally different experience. Then his life (life to him!) becomes a thrill, a
joy and a creative and spontaneous experience. Then it permeates light, as well
as love; that divine quality of compassion and forgiveness. Thus, the
realization of truth makes life meaningful. In other words, <b>truth is the meaning of life and creation</b>.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: WOW<b>!</b> What a TRUTH<b>!<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Shri. GRK, for some
LIFE may be chasing of material career, and achievement. For some, it may be an
exercise of power and fame and swaying over people. For some others, it may be
an endless pursuit of pleasure and indulgence in instincts. Could this really
and fully explain the meaning of life<b>?</b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">After life
what? Could biological determinism justify life as a mere natural
struggle-struggle for existence and survival of the fittest<b>?</b> Could economic determinism proclaim that man lives by bread alone<b>?</b> Could theories of repressionism, explain
total life in terms of unfulfilled instincts and frustrated egos<b>?</b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Listen carefully. The
ideologues of free will argue that life is something different, something precious
and something unique from mere existence. Is it true!<b>?</b> Does this free will exist in spite of and beyond life<b>?</b> Does this free will have an intrinsic
existence for itself separately from life<b>?</b>
We do not know. I do not know. Let us probe with fresh brains, non-prejudiced brains.
For this we need a quest for understanding life. </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Do the great
personalities like <b>Buddha</b>, <b>Christ</b> and <b>Gandhi</b> prove that their will is different from the will of others<b>?</b> Are they super human<b>?</b> </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: No. not at all. In
fact, they proved that they are the part of all of us the ordinary mortals.
They had their life cycle their attachments, their agonies, their roles and
ultimately their passing off from this earth. But, still, what they proclaim
about life<b>?</b> What they prove about it<b>?</b> <b>They
proclaim that life is what you wish it to be; it is what you want it to be. It
is what you wish it ought to be. You are the architect of your own life. Fate
is nothing but a reflection of yourself</b>. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">For them,
life is a composition, a proportion, a harmony, (compromise!?) and a synthesis,
while death is a de-composition. For them life is thrill, a duty (karma).A joy
and a song and natural rhythm (<i>dharma</i>). Nothing more than this, they do not have any
message other than their life. All their lives reflect, proclaim and enunciate
only one message: that <b>life is
compassion</b>, <b>a concern</b> nay a
great concern, after all, this <b>concern
is love-an unconditional love, and a sacred love- a love without attachments
and expectations and values</b>. <u>Thus,
<i>sumnum bonum</i> of life is ‘love’ and
forgiveness</u>. The meaning of love, nay life, cannot be understood and talked
about. It is to be and it has to be realized and lived. This love is real
living and this living itself is life. Nothing beyond and nothing beside is LIFE.</span></div>
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<b>Ravi</b>: That’s awesome learning Shri. GRK. Since the meaning of LIFE is love and forgiveness,
hope my life-partner would forgive for all her agonies for the non-conformist
life I was/am leading. She is the epitome of what you said of LIFE. She has great
compassion and empathy towards others and ours maybe was a sacred love as it
was without any expectations. Thank you again God and God-Particle for all
these experiences in LIFE.</div>
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<b>G&W</b> Ravi</div>
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Ravichander Venkatraman(Ravi)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06771527454067841681noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973299771261049520.post-74497085049239188292012-08-18T12:08:00.003+05:302012-08-18T12:11:44.876+05:30Hidden Treasure Series-Part XVII- On Senses<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt;">F</span></b><span lang="EN-US">or
long I used to wonder if I have become a slave to sensual pleasures. I still
wonder how to overcome. To some extent I have succeeded. Today am able to enjoy
my morning Tea or Orange juice without sugar thereby relishing the original
taste of the Tea or the Orange. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: <b>Senses are the gateways of pleasure in life</b>. They-eyes, ear, nose,
tongue and body-are the means through which we derive all our pleasures. After
all, pleasures are integral part of life. All pleasures seeing beauty, hearing
music, smelling fragrance, tasting delicacies, and touching (through body) are
the thrill of life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Abusing sensual
pleasures have brought sorrows as well in my life, though I have realized it.
Hope am not too late.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Better late than
never, my boy. You see, unfortunately, the senses, instead of being the
gateways of pleasure, have become the pathways of sorrow and misery in man’s
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Any particular
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Man does not only use
his senses in a natural and spontaneous way for deriving pleasure. But also
abuses them to indulge in the latter. Often he misuses, abuses and over uses
all his senses including body to indulge in the so-called pleasure, which is
not natural to him and which is also harmful to him. No other animal over eats
as man does. Neither any animal indulges in over sex as man does. Perhaps man
is the most wildest animal who violates all the natural laws of life and the
rhythm of life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: You sound harsh to
human-kind. Why do we do that?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Sorry for sounding
harsh. Look, we have built the civilization and the so-called culture, which
glorifies indulgence in desires; this so-called civilization through its
constant advertisement and propaganda (through mass media) creates and
instigates the unlimited desires (for consumption) in man. They persuade him
indulge in these desires through the gadgets and aids of mass production. In
this consumerist society, many of us cannot differentiate between the essential
needs, rather needs of survival, and the artificial needs or secondary needs,
thus all of us are chasing over the satisfaction of wants and desires. Nobody
has time to pause, look back and think. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: So, have not senses
become sources of sorrow<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Yes. we abuse our
senses to indulge in advertisement created needs. So, senses become the means
of man’s sorrow and thus his enemies. In this pleasure-hunting life and
gadget-based economy, we are lost in “living”. Hence no question of life and
its joy <i>nay</i> the thrill. <b>We are lost
in information gathering, and no question of wisdom</b>. <b>We are lost in sensual
gratification</b> and no question of joy of life for us. Thus, senses have become
enemies of mankind. Having been abused, they bring only sorrow for us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>GRK</b>: <b>Self-realisation is the only way</b>, I guess. Till then…<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt;">F</span></b><span lang="EN-US">olks,
as I said earlier, I have indeed abused my senses for pleasure and it was about
to turn into sorrow. But self-introspection and self-realisation made me master
the so called sensual pleasures. However I have a long way to go in not
succumbing to other desires. After all, am human, right<b>!</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ravi<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ravichander Venkatraman(Ravi)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06771527454067841681noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973299771261049520.post-48404442764041063502012-07-21T19:23:00.000+05:302012-07-21T19:26:17.816+05:30Hidden Treasure Series-Part XVI- On Prayer, meditation & Samadhi<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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of pray to God or some like me to God-particle, don’t we? Well what is
prayer<b>? </b>Can it have a commercial or
utilitarian motive? Well, let’s all walk-the-talk with the friendly sage we
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GRK. Kindly make us understand what is the meaning and essence of a ‘prayer’<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Happy evening to you
and to our friends. Well, Prayer is not a bargain. It does not have utilitarian
purpose or commercial motive behind it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Awesome. But many of us pray to primarily seek favors from God or God-men/women<b>!</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Ravi, Prayer is a
communion with your higher self or nature or God. It is the consecration of
yourself to the unknown, to the nature or to the God. <b>Prayer is a song of sublimation</b>. Unfortunately, many of us have
made it so mechanical, so dry and so routine-like that the prayer lost its
thrill, its joy and it’s ecstasy. Many of us carry our daily anxieties, care
and cravings to the prayer hall. As a result, we fool ourselves that we are praying
but actually we do not pray.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Shouldn’t we
surrender ourselves and self and society imposed image when we pray?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Prayer is a
reflection of our self, nay an introspection of our self. It is and unfolding,
rather surrendering of oneself and one’s ego before the altar of the higher
self. Prayer is a highest sacrifice, nay, a renouncing; it is a quest for
identifying with, nay merging with universal spirit or cosmic soul.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Many a time I try to
pray, I get disturbed by external sounds. That’s why I don’t pray in an
organized way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Ravi, you need not
have an organized set-up to pray. That’s a skewed notion. <b>A true
prayer needs a ‘still’ brain</b>. A ‘still’ brain is a vacuum state of brain or
a zero frame of brain. A ‘still’ brain is a meditative mind. Highest form of
meditation is prayer. <b>This prayer itself
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chattering brain or a roaming brain like yours, full of strivings, desires and
conflicts cannot pray. Nor does praying with a material purpose behind it. No
prayer with a commercial or material longing, is a true a ‘holy’ prayer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: The <i>corpus collosum</i> connects the RIGHT and
the LEFT brain. If we want to still the brain, we do know that meditation
helps keeps the <i>corpus collosum</i> ‘still’ so that both the brains are made
‘still’. How about this new-but-no-new understanding from brain scientists
perspective<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Awesome understanding
of understanding of meditation from the brain perspective. Neuro science is
evolving and many of us cannot understand. However we can experience. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“<i>Sarve jana sukhino bhavanthu</i>.“ “<b>Let happiness and prosperity be to all</b>”.
That prayer reflected the highest concern and the greatest compassion to all,
which made it a holy consecration. <b>Thus, Summum-bonum or the substance of prayer
is ‘peace’ and ‘bliss’</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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THEN. Is it something when we get to the grave<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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perpetual ‘bliss’ through ‘stilling’ the brain is Samadhi. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;">T</span></b><span lang="EN-US">hank
you for this understanding Shri. GRK. Shall endeavor to ‘still’ my brain to at-least
10 minutes to start with<b>! </b>My prayer
would be<b> “Let Universal Love and compassion
to anyone and everyone engulf this beautiful world, to make it a better place”.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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prayers for all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</div>Ravichander Venkatraman(Ravi)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06771527454067841681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973299771261049520.post-87208693000019273652012-07-15T12:26:00.000+05:302012-07-15T12:38:37.174+05:30Hidden Treasure Series-Part XV- On Discipline and Control<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;">W</span></b><span lang="EN-US">hen
I was in school, I used to skip classes on Saturdays( which was for Half-day)
as apart from traveling 20Kms two-way, I normally found nothing useful taught
Saturdays as everyone used to be in a holiday mood. At home, I used to plan
that day to put to good use. Being born to be a rebel, I used to (and still)
change some stupid man-made rules to suit my convenience. That practice
continues even today. Also I didn’t have a set pattern of timing for anything.
I just did/do what I like and I enjoyed what I did. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Shall we
understand this term discipline as I find children in India being mentally and physically
tortured under the name of discipline<b>!</b>
Even my academician wife sometimes wishes that I were a little more disciplined<b>!</b> I often wonder what the hell is
discipline? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Welcome Shri.<b>GRK</b>. Today, we shall discuss the one
word that has been haunting me for many years. Shall we understand what Discipline
is all about<b>?</b> Indians, I bet, are
still suffering from colonial ramifications, especially on regimented Discipline!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Sure. Discipline does
not mean merely a behavior pattern. <u>It is not simply a set of ‘do’s and ‘don’ts</u>;
neither it is a code of timing, expectations, or values; <u>nor a conformity to a
set institutional functioning</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: You know am
child-like, don’t conform to any institution. I seem to function spontaneously
to activities and events and I tend to sleep well without alcohol. Is something
wrong with me<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Hah Ha<b>!</b> Ravi, <b>being child-like</b> (Not childish)
<b>is a gift</b>. So you don’t bother. Just continue the way you are.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">Discipline is a natural and
spontaneous way of functioning in LIFE<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Does discipline
anything to do with social orientation, then<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Discipline implies a
<b>rhythm</b>, a cycle, an order in life. It is a <b>natural</b> and <b>spontaneous</b> way of
functioning in life. It is most informal; it does NOT have anything to do with
social orientation nor with value expectations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Wow<b>!</b> Thank you. However, what about
self-control<b>?</b> Earlier, I used to
have dysfunctional anger and have lost self-control, many a time, in
controlling my tongue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: I’m glad that you
have gotten over that dysfunctional anger. However functional anger is very
much required. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: You shared what’s
not discipline. Can you make me understand the true meaning of Discipline so
that I shall be a better person? Still I’m succumbing to cigarettes, after a
meal with no-self-control<b>!</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Ravi, <b>Discipline means a restraint nay a control
over one’s instincts and desires-biological economic, social and psychological</b>.
Thus <b>self-discipline</b> or <b>self-control</b> is the most natural and
highest form of discipline. This is nothing to do with fear of any kind, of
military, party or of government. Rational non-conformity and constructive
dissent are inseparable and integral part of self-discipline.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Awesome. But, we are
witnessing a paradoxical situation in today’s world. We are living in a
civilization which provokes, increases and glorifies the number of human wants
which in turn ultimately leads to all types and forms of exploitation,
biological, economic, social, political and psychological (ex: greed,
injustice, violence, inequality, possessiveness, slavery, colonialism and
imperialism).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: This civilization
provokes human instincts and desires in an endless way through powerful mass
media, all under the name of sophisticated living and cultured existence. On
the other hand, the so- called discipline, in traditional sense, prohibits
fulfilling these provoked instincts and needs biological, economic, social and
psychological conditioning. Could it be possible to have an instinct provoked
and at the same time not satiating it. (Not fulfilling it<b>?</b>) This is a tremendous contradiction in our present day life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">Self-awareness and
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Are we really
concerned with imparting the true self-discipline to our children, not the imposed
discipline<b>?</b> If so, we must understand, discipline as harnessing of one’s
instincts by him/her and the taming of his/her ego by himself/herself. Then
only, we can be truly disciplined people and nation. This discipline (not
regimentation) does not curb rational non-conformity or stifle creative
dissent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Ravi</b>: So <b>self-awareness</b> and <b>self-realisation</b>
is the key and it <b>should come from within</b>. Thank you so much for this understanding.
I guess this is what I wanted.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Folks, we are
nearing the end of this Hidden Treasure series with the chapters on Senses, ‘Prayer,
Meditation and Samadhi’, Science of Sex, TRUTH and LIFE still remaining. Hope to
complete that in the coming weeks.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">T</span></b>o
all my Muslim friends from across the world, wishing you all in advance on the eve of <b>Ramzan!</b> It’s a great time of the year for the
self to be tamed and time for self-introspection,self-control and self-discipline, though
regimented. Look forward to <b>delightful Biryani </b>that you folks make<b>!<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Kind Regards<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Ravi<o:p></o:p></div>
</div>Ravichander Venkatraman(Ravi)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06771527454067841681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973299771261049520.post-19676101566407494882012-06-29T19:53:00.000+05:302012-06-29T19:53:21.417+05:30Hidden Treasure Series-Part XIV- On Self, Peace, Serenity and Bliss<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Friday evening to you folks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Well, as we all strive hard to be in peace; in a world full of
“races” among man’kind’, thought would be prudent to really understand the
TRUTH behind <b>Self</b>, <b>Peace</b>, <b>Serenity</b> and <b>Bliss</b> ,
many striving hard to attain that ‘state of the brain’, using various
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">:
Wonderful connecting with you again. Post the visit to <b>Anandashram</b> in Jan’12(what they call ‘An abode to bliss’), these 6 months
in almost near hibernation did made me stronger, more relaxed and at ‘peace’
with myself first. But still, maybe due to genetic disorder, that dysfunctional
anger still remains and I tend to “smoke-out” especially “Atrociously selfish” people. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Well,<b> DO we all have to go
Ashram’s to be in peace??</b> Let’s understand the ‘juice’ behind this ‘state
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">:
Hey, glad to walk-the-talk with you again. By the way, how’s the climate in
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Well, there are only 3 climates in Chennai – They are hot, hotter
and hottest<b>!</b> Our body is hot and
hence our brain is also hot. No wonder you would often find verbal skirmishes
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Let’s understand the TRUTH in ‘peace’ first. <b>‘Peace’ is NOT merely absence of sorrow</b> NOR absence of
suffering. A human may NOT be peaceful EVEN
with all the comforts and luxuries of life. He/she may NOT be happy as well as
peaceful with all the pleasures. Haven’t you noticed<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> <b>Peace is a sense of
fulfillment</b>. It is an attitude of our brain–a state of brain, <i>nay</i> a quality of brain. The sense of
fulfillment is possible when only we have contentment-contentment of wants,
desires and aspirations. Thus again, contentment is a feature of peace, which
in turn is a state of brain OR a condition of brain after so many years and may
be births of ‘collective consciousness’ stored in the brain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Well, sounds interesting. Could it be possible for us, the human
beings, with the flimsy, fragile and sentimental brain-stuff, to ‘still’ the brain
to attain peace<b>?</b> If everyone has to
go Ashrams to find peace, what would happen to humanity<b>?</b> Disaster, gentleman as God-men and God-women would rule our lives<b>? </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Hah Ha<b>!</b> Not to bother.
The brain is always restless and oscillating. It is nomadic and all the time;
wandering and roaming, rather straying in all directions without any
purpose. Only a ‘still brain’ can
experience peace; for peace needs calmness of brain and NOT a wandering brain.
A calm-and-composed brain is a ‘still brain’. It is not restless and does not
have many longings. It is serene and <b>serenity
is a condition of peace</b>, <i>nay</i> an
aspect of peace. A peaceful brain is a steadfast-brain. In other words, peace
is ‘<b>steadfastness</b>’ (‘stilling’ the
anxieties, desires, feelings). It is <b>anchoring
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Does contentment alone sufficient to attain a peaceful state of
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Peace does not only require contentment but also a brain which
could withstand and resist against the daily hurts and injuries of life. The brain
has to insulate and immunize to all the daily agonies and sorrows, which are
unavoidable part of life and it has to develop a capacity to resist against
daily onslaughts on peace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Thus, peace is an unperturbed state of both brains,
rather a culmination of it. For this, human beings need an intellectual
courage, an extraordinary courage to face life as it is and its daily
trivialities of suffering, with an equanimity or ‘<i>detached-attachment</i>’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: What is bliss, then? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: When the ‘self’ forgets itself in a rapturous joy of life
experience, it loses identity and merges with the experience itself as a part
of communion with the cosmos, it experiences ecstasy. (A ‘self-forgetfulness”) This
ecstasy itself is bliss, a thrill and an extraordinary joy. It is a highest
form of peace and everlasting too. <b>Attainability
of bliss is a greatest benediction to man and mankind</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Ravi</b>: ‘Self’ forgetting
itself<b>!</b> What is ‘self’, then<b>?</b> Does this ‘self’ mean our name, our
caste, our sex, our age and our religion<b>?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Yes, it means all these and much more. Self means ‘i’, our identify,
our self-consciousness. I am so and so, my level is this and my status is this
etc. it means status and the level.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Ravi</b>: Is ‘self’ then a
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK: Absolutely.
</span></b><span lang="EN-US">‘Self’ in other words means an image of oneself. It
means attachment to certain things. It is a divisive force. It divides ‘i’ from
the rest. It leads to choice making. It is subjectivity leading to angles in
one’s perceptions. Thus it leads to contradictions, as self-versus others. In
understanding, it colors, <i>nay</i> blocks
our understanding. Self is ego, it is pride, it is estimating of one self,
often self-conscious estimate. Thus it leads to conflict with on self, with
others, the surrounding reality and with the whole nature itself. Hence, ‘self’
leads to sorrow-contradiction-conflict-agony and peacelessness. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: So, what’s the way out for mankind<b>?<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> The only way is to be aware of the self, to sublimate the self, to raise
above the self, to forget the self; <i>nay</i>
to erase the self itself. Where there is no ‘self’ there is no contradiction,
no conflict and no sorrow –no colored perception and no understanding based on
choice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Ravi: </b>Awesome<b> </b>learning<b>. </b>Easy to understand<b>, difficult
to practice as we all are conditioned to dogmas and our own doctorates! </b>Thank
you for your time. Look forward to our talks again next week.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Folks, I guess we need to understand this deeply to get the juice. Take
your time and one may get the juice by reading and re-reading and pondering over
it. Let’s all aim to be in bliss which <b>GRK</b>
says is the greatest benediction of man’kind’.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">W</span></b>ishing
you all a blissful weekend with your near and dear ones<b>!</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Kind Regards<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>G&W</b> Ravi<o:p></o:p></div>
</div>Ravichander Venkatraman(Ravi)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06771527454067841681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973299771261049520.post-62737887519590915432012-06-23T19:42:00.000+05:302012-06-23T20:02:04.134+05:30Hidden Treasure Series Part XII- On ‘Revolution’<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US">My dear
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">H</span></b><span lang="EN-US">istory
is replete with bloody revolutions, isn’t it? Sometimes silent revolutions do
happen but that’s a rarity. I was thinking
deeply on the lives Shri. Aurobindo and Mother and I wonder if this ‘divine duo’
together have brought about a silent revolution<b>?</b> They have cultivated ‘Vegan’ way of living and purity in <b>T</b>houghts, <b>W</b>ords and <b>A</b>ctions. There
is lot of science as well if the wisdom(s) is/are dwelt deep. During my recent stay
there I observed that from the food served to room maintenance to the ‘common tip’
could really see science meeting spirituality. What is remarkable is that even
the visitors shun alcohol, which is simply a transformation, in a city, known
for ‘Wine and Dine’ culture, thanks to the French.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Let’s NOW continue
our ‘conversation’ with Shri <b>GRK</b> to
understand the term ‘Revolution’. We are witnessing the Arab Spring, which is leading
to a bloody revolution in Middle East where the wonderful people in that part
of the world crave for democracy and decades of ‘high handed-ness’ of the
erstwhile rulers in Egypt and Tunisia were done to dust.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">Indians are craving for a
revolution!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Great to walk-the-talk
with you again. We are witnessing the Arab Spring. History is replete with ‘bloody’
revolutions. We in India, crave for one NOW, a country TO BE freed from the
clutches of ‘crony capitalism’ and monstrous corruption. Do we have to take to
violence to bring about THIS revolution in India<b>? If nothing works, taking to violent ways does help, right?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">WHAT is NOT a revolution?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Ravi, ‘Revolution’ does
not mean simply a radical change or an abrupt change or a violent change. It
need NOT be an upheaval. It also does not merely mean overthrowing of one
regime or social-setup by another regime or another type of set-up. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Also, a
forcible change brought out in a societal set-up in social institutions or
institutional arrangements or in organizational hierarchy is NOT a total or
complete revolution by itself. In fact, a revolution need NOT always be
accompanied by bloodshed, destruction and violence. It also does not really
indicate the substituting of one party rule by another, of one kind by another,
of one type of government by another caste or religious rule.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: If Arab Spring is
not a revolution, then WHAT else is? Sir, “What does <b>TRUE </b>revolution mean?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">What does TRUE revolution
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: <b>TRUE</b> revolution means a change, nay, a <b>radical change</b> in <b>oneself</b>
and <b>one’s understanding</b> first. This
understanding is possible only through <b>self-awareness</b>
(self-knowledge) and self-enlightenment. <b>True
revolution</b> must mean a <b>radical change</b>,
in our thinking; in our thought pattern, in our beliefs and style of living and
way of life. <b>This is a total and deeper
and lasting revolution</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: You mean TRUE
revolution starts with the <b>self</b> sans
society<b>?? Stunning understanding…</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">How to bring about the
revolution in oneself?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Yes, this is possible
only through the clear, objective, and deeper perception of us and our thoughts
and feelings. This revolution means, in other words, liberation of oneself, from
one’s subjectivity and prejudices, caste-mindedness, religious affiliation, nationality,
consideration, sex orientation, status-consciousness and other limitations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: You mean shunning
our dogmas and doctorates, titles and praises that we are conditioned to<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Well said. The revolution (true awareness) which takes
place in oneself is the starting point of all other revolutions such as those
changes in social setup and institutional hierarchy etc.; for these are the
reflections or the results of an enlightened individual’s mind (self). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Wow! Shall we say,
thinkers and doers like Adi Sankarar, Christ, Mohammed to Karl Marx to Mahatma
Gandhi brought out some kind of revolution among mankind<b>?</b> Why our own Anna Hazare in the recent times to weed out
corruption in India<b>? </b>Is revolution
then, some kind of <b>Collective
Consciousness?<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">Is revolution then some kind
of ‘Collective Consciousness’?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: <b>Indeed</b>. Ravi, a set of enlightened individuals who have awakened
and revolutionized themselves can cause and create an everlasting social
revolution. In fact, an awakening (revolution) in oneself and at oneself, is
the only lasting revolution than any other type of revolution than any other
type of revolution. The injustice, the inequality the exploitation, the
hypocrisy, the violence, the wickedness the cruelty, all these and many more
which we see in our societal setup and institutional structures are the
reflections and actions of such a animalistic human brain. Thus and hence, <b>starting point of revolution must be in
individuals and their thought patterns, but NOT in social structures and
institutions</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Allow me to be little greedy on this. How does one bring about
such a revolution, on all parts of Mother Earth<b>?<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">How does one bring about such
a revolution, on all parts of Mother Earth?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: This revolution is
possible only through ‘holistic’ education, unfettered, liberating, universal
and humanistic education but not through the “mass conditioning” or
indoctrination which is taking place at present in our schools and colleges
under the name of education we see in India.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Ravi</b>: I get your anger. But allow me to share that a start has been
made. Nin India, no longer the young brains today listen to their educated and ‘imprisoned’
parents. The Central Govt the leading the way in providing holistic education. So,
no more marks-race for rank and crown races(<i>Sic</i>).
<b>It’s collaboration that’s emphasized and
NOT competition. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>GRK</b>: I don’t know. You are talking only about CBSE which is
miniscule. What about my children in rural India, my friend<b>?</b> <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Ravi</b>: Sir, I don’t know about
other states of India. Kindly have a look at the state board text books in
Tamil Nadu. It induces reading and learning as they are pictorial and evoking
thoughts, thereby activating the brain of the learner, more so thee RIGHT one.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>GRK</b>: I am glad that the soul of <b>Shri.J.Krishnamurthi</b>, one such revolutionary, would be in bliss
SEEING the start to the revolution, in India, education to start with, as he thought
of.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Ravi</b>: Thank you for this understanding of ‘revolution’. Shri.GRK. It
need not be bloody. Let ‘<b>activism</b>’ in
India change into ‘<b>actionism</b>’.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">F</span></b>olks, with
that understanding, The <b>I</b>ndia <b>A</b>gainst <b>C</b>orruption (<b>IAC</b>) movement is indeed a
revolution to weed out corruption, both at the individual level and at the institutional
level, isn’t it<b>?</b> The education
revolution that we are witnessing with emphasis on ‘holistic’ education for
wholesome brain development is a revolution. The Education Loan Task Force to
help poor students get bank loans is also a revolution. We all need to be
actionists, isn’t it? What do you Say, Srini <i>na</i><b>? </b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Wishing you all a peaceful weekend
where’s you get time for yourself<b>!<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Kind Regards<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>G&W</b> Ravi<o:p></o:p></div>
</div>Ravichander Venkatraman(Ravi)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06771527454067841681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973299771261049520.post-50509740929419034652012-06-02T00:11:00.000+05:302012-06-04T09:55:53.038+05:30An Interview with GOD-Part II<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">M</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">y dear friends,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">H</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">ope YOU </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">and <b>your</b>
folks enjoyed the<b> Juices </b>laced<b> </b>with<b> humour </b>in the 5<sup>th</sup> May blog <b><a href="http://gatesandwindows.blogspot.in/2012/05/interview-with-god-part-i.html">‘Interview
with God’-Part I</a>. GOD, </b>being<b> </b>the
</span><b>G</b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">iver,
</span><b>O</b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">perator
and </span><b>D</b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">estroyer. It had to rush for a closed door meeting with Jesus and
Mohammed, leaving the last posed Question unanswered.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ravi: </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Love you God<b> </b>darling<b>, </b>how are you? What happened in the
closed door meeting? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">GOD</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">: <i>De</i> Ravi,
thanks for your unconditional love. Well, it was a useless meeting with Jesus
and Mohammed groups for the umpteenth time. I’m calling upon <b>Krish</b>(na) to resolve this issue. I have
lost my patience. Krishna, you know, is deadly. Jesus and Mohammed are
immortals. They have already merged with the cosmic ocean. They have become abundant
sources of energy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">: Oh yes, we know. Some people, especially Indian
woman simply adore Krishna. God, many people here in India think and propagate
that everything in their lives happens according to your whims and fancy and that
they don’t have any control over the happenings in their life. If it’s true,
then are you NOT a PERMENANT <b>match-fixer</b>,
a BRUTAL <b>manipulator </b>of the highest
order<b>? <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #9bbb59; font-size: 12pt;">Is GOD REALLY a BRUTAL manipulator and a
PERMENANT match-fixer?</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">GOD: </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Well, well, Ravi –<b>
</b>That’s indeed a ‘bouncer’ to me and without ducking it, I shall try to hook
it for a<b> ‘DLF Maximum’. Ravi </b><i>Kanna</i><b>, </b>the answer is<b> Yes and NO. </b>Understand
this deeply first. Think.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">It’s YES for people who have studied only mythology and
are highly spiritual and NO for NON-believers and for the majorly scientific
brain. <b>Rarely do they meet</b>. That’s THE
situation. BUT, I said <b>YES and NO</b> to
you as I am aware you are both a believer and a non-believer, the third
category for whom <b>science meets sex and
spirituality</b>. Iconoclastic sages have this understanding of me, i.e. <b>GOD</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ravi: Awesome</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">. Thank you so much for this understanding. For some
people in either category, “It’s my way, or the highway”. I wish they see the <b>link</b> between <b>S</b>cience, <b>S</b>ex and <b>S</b>pirituality for sheer <b>wisdom</b>. <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">God</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">: Can I ask you a Question<b>?</b> I wonder WHY you don’t ask ME anything<b>?</b> I chanced through the ‘Favours asked’ database and found that you
have asked for only 1 favour – That of having 2 <b>girl</b> children. Nothing else you have asked me, EVEN in precarious situations!
Why son<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">: Well, God, you only told me that my soul was in a
doggie’s body last birth. So, I thank you everyday for being born as a human(e)
being, <b>Nothing more. Nothing less</b>.
Yes, I yearned for sisters at childhood. I was not fortunate. Thank you. NOW, I
have 2 for company in the form of biological girl children... What more can I
ask<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #9bbb59; font-size: 12pt;">Why it’s awesome to have more girl children
NOW than EVER before?</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">God</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">: But girls means more expenditure, right, in your
society<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">: I understood that It’s “LAW of Economics”, God.
Today, in India, women, are in short supply AND are more empowered as well.
Women are SEEN everywhere – from <b>IIT</b>’s
& <b>IIM</b>’s from Panchayat to
parliament, from Entertainment to Environment, in IT or Beauty, from BPO’s to boardrooms.
Gone are the days where the domain of the typical Indian woman was in kitchen
and bedroom<b>!</b> I suspect, tomorrow, in
India, men would have to pay dowry in-order to marry a woman<b>! </b>Already, it’s happening in Haryana
where the women-starved men (because of female infanticide) are paying dowries
to marry women from Kerala<b>. </b>So, it’s
simple <b>Smithsonian economics</b> of
demand and supply that rules the roost.</span><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #9bbb59; font-size: 12pt;">God, I’m worried about lovely American
people. Please do something</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ravi: </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">God, I’m worried about lovely American people.
Mindlessly, their rulers have misused / misusing their position, time and
again. I could not digest both the Iraq/Afghan wars, sitting in Chennai,
watching gory scenes on the <i>Telly</i>. <b>How</b>
you intend to bring sense to America that “<b>Might
is NOT RIGHT</b>”?. They bribed Obama with the Nobel Prize for Peace when he
MERELY announced the closure of Guatamono bay. They are NOW fiddling needlessly
with Iran. Iran is unlike Iraq. They are more intelligent and deadly. Like
Israel, they have lots of scientific brains who can even destroy humanity if
pushed needlessly like America does, if their backs scratched by America time
and again. Not Americans. Americans, by nature are peace-loving and very
friendly, we all know. Hence, my concern.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">GOD</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">: That’s a tall order, Ravi. I doubt if they would
learn. However, it shall be taken care, Ravi. You please don’t lose sleep. I
understand your LOVE for Americans. However, the ‘grand design of the cosmos’
would prevail. <b>If</b> Destruction like the
2004 Tsunami or 9/11 or 26/11 is required for mankind to become KIND, with every
soul on earth, then, so be it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #9bbb59; font-size: 12pt;">WHY this ‘KOLAVERI’, God? Why sometimes
you unleash the ‘D’ side in you?</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 10pt;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">: Sorry, God, I can’t fathom Destruction of that order
for whatever reason. Not just you, ‘<b>Every
soul is Godly’</b>; my daughters go further in saying that their doggie doll,
the piano too are Godly<b>! </b>No one has
any right to kill anyone. Why the hell you unleashed Tsunami at my brethren in the
coasts of Indonesia, India and Srilanka in 2004<b>? </b>Why are you SO cruel sometimes<b>? You took away everyone – The one prayed to you and the one who didn’t?
WHY this ‘<i>kolaveri’ </i></b>GOD, from
time to time’?</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">GOD: </span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;">My
child, <u>destruction and construction are two sides of the same coin</u>. Do
you understand<b>?</b> Constructive large
scale construction follows these destructions. Haven’t you seen how the lives
of the Tsunami affected changed for the better than ever before? Look, till whole
of ‘mankind’ BECOMES ‘man<b>KIND’, my
destructions will continue. </b>However am not to be blamed for man-made
destructions of oneself or inflicting on others and the effects of continued
rape of the environment. These man-made can be prevented. That’s how the grand
cosmic design is<b>! So, You guys screw up yourself
and those around you MORE than I screw you folks. I screw up nicely once a
while. You guys torture body, brain and soul, one way or the other!! Hah Ha! </b>Idiot,
You are conveniently blaming me<b>!</b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #9bbb59; font-size: 12pt;">And what’s God’s entertainment?</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Ravi: Super. </span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">You are NOW talking OUR language.<b> </b>Tell me, HOW come, most<b> </b>mythological creations were majorly with
wars and women?<b> Were you watching the
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">GOD:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">. Watching you folks twist and turn, toss and tumble
in LIFE is a great entertainment for our God fraternity, as you people watch evil
soap operas on the Telly or gossip about fellow humans or cherish watching <b>IPL.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #9bbb59; font-size: 12pt;">Is GOD THEN an evil force?</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">: <i>Hello</i> God,
you are showing your ‘evil’ nature here. You are talking like a sadistic <b>Hitler</b> or like Saddam’s elder son<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">GOD</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">: Stupid. Hitler was my creation. Saddam Hussein was
my creation as well and so are his many official and non-official progenies. Mahatma
Gandhi and Mother Teresa were also my creation<b>. Each one had their roles to play; some played to perfection, some
delighted me and some misused blatantly</b>. <u>The ones who misused….<o:p></o:p></u></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ravi: </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I know you are NOT a sweetie pie, God darling,<b> “</b>What did you do to the souls of especially
Hitler, Gen Dyre”?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">GOD</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">: You have been to Sabarimala right? En-route the
hill, have you not spotted a beggar with NO limbs, eyes gorged, but can speak
well<b>?</b> HE carries Hitler’s soul in
him. For the last sixty odd years he is there only. HE will spend another 80
years at the same place, begging for pardon. <b>Need to explain where are the others?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">: <i>Ayyo</i>, you
are deadly. <i>Dunno</i> what’s in store for
me. You are scaring me, God<b>! And where
is Mahatma Gandhi’s soul NOW?<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">GOD</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">: Chillax, my boy. As regards Gandhiji, he’s already
part of our GOD Jr. fraternity. It’s like a ‘Hall of Nobility’ you may like to
call – from time to time till they merge into the vast cosmos. The concept is
like ‘Hall of fame’. And he deserves, doesn’t he<b>?</b> Mother Teresa has also joined the list. They are undergoing ‘induction
programme’ now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">: Yes, MY LORD. we Indians have built a temple for Gandhiji
in Orissa<b>!</b> By the way, there is a rumour
mill doing rounds that the world would end by 2012<b>!</b> Have you planed any such thing<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">GOD</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">: <u>Open your eyes and understand Evolution of species,
mankind etc. and where ALL you folks on Mother Earth have grown from
physiological, scientific and psychological perspective</u>. See you soon. Take
care.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">: Thank you GOD for your time. Would love to touch
base with you again… C you again soon…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>F</b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">olks, hope you enjoyed this never happened ‘<b>Interview with</b> <b>GOD’-Part II</b>. No offences meant to anyone, including <b>GOD</b>. Understand and cherish the ‘juices’
and the satirical humour without hurting
anyone. Intend to continue this series as we are getting more questions from our
friends. <u>The interview with GOD series would have a common thread and that
is</u>…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“God is a hypothesis which can NEVER BE PROVED but CAN
always be FELT</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">. <b>However,</b> <b>Godliness</b> is <b>present in everyone”</b></span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> - </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">‘Yours Truly’</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">AND</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> there is NO right for anyone to kill anyone, be it
animalistic animals or humane animals, humane humans or animalistic humans (Like
me?)</span></i><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Hah Ha! </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">S</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">igning off sending you all joules of positive energy.
Please don’t forget to share that awesome energy, the constructive LIFE force
with your lovely folks as well<b>!</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>Cheers</b> for a ‘Born Again’ weekend<b>!</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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G&W</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> Ravi</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>A</b></span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">m key-stroking this ‘piece’ in bliss from
Aurobindo Ashram Guest House (a.k.a Park Guest House) in Pondicherry with
laptop on my lap and myself on Mother’s lap and we both facing the ‘Mother
Ocean’. Mother and Aurobindo are simply divine ‘avatars’ to have blessed us.
What’s so remarkable about them is their universal words of wisdom where
‘spirituality meets science’ and “Wow! What a coincidence?” We stayed in a room
named ‘Wisdom’! Maybe, subtly,
Mother and Aurobindo tells me to always seek for wisdom rather loading my
small-but-busy brain with more and more information, mostly USELESS</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>! </b></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shall we NOW
walk-the-talk with Shri.<b>GRK</b>, the iconoclastic sage we are fortunate to have
amongst us and understand Wisdom and Intelligence, in its purest form<b>?</b></span></span><br />
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<b style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="text-align: justify;">: Great to chat with
you amidst the ‘pristine’ surroundings of Pondi<b>cherry</b> beach.</span><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Hey, this place is
well-kept. This place is splendid for a ‘break’ in TIME for mankind. Souls like
Aurobindo and Mother are ‘<i>avatars</i>’ to
have blessed Mankind to ENABLE them to be more KIND.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>Ravi</b>: The rooms in this
Guest House have individual names like Serenity, peace, bliss, courage etc. and
we were allotted a room named ‘<b>Wisdom</b>’<b>!</b> Can we have a clear understanding of Intellect, Intelligence and Wisdom in its PUREST sense<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">What is Wisdom in its PUREST
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: I shall start with
Wisdom. My dear, Just by staying in a room named Wisdom, or by reading books,
we cannot get TRUE wisdom. Nor wisdom is available in online or offline stores.
It is neither marketable nor is a merchandise. Nor it can be accumulated, memorized or stored
up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Confusion….. Elaborate
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: <i>De</i>, Wisdom comes with abnegation of the ‘self’. To have an open
mind is more important to learning. We can only have an open mind only if we
throw away the two D’s – That is our dogmas and doctorates we have been
conditioned – both by society and self. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span>Let the self-abnegate
itself. Not by cramming it with full of information BUT,</div>
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and so-called poor, so-called beautiful and so-called ugly,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and the influences about us<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Shall we NOW say
that Wisdom does not come through fear or suppression or oppression, but
through the power of observation - of everyday incidents in human relationship.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">And WHAT is Intelligence in
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Well said. Moving on,
Intelligence is the integration of reason and love. But the Intelligent quotient
(<b>IQ</b>) that we use measures only our
reason. So Emotional Quotient (<b>EQ</b>)
and Spiritual Quotient (<b>SQ</b>) are also
integrated in Intelligence, in its purest sense. However a caveat –
Intelligence should never be crippled by LEFT brained Analytical thinking or <b>IQ</b>.Liberal doses of WHAT and HOW, the essence of RIGHT brained thinking is required for wholesome blossoming of human brain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of oneself and around us(<b>SQ</b>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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conditioning and responses (<b>EQ</b>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Then what is
intellect<b>?</b> Seems to be that there are many
intellectuals around us<b>?<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Look, training the
intellect does NOT result in intelligence. Intellect is merely a conditioning
of thought functioning independently of emotion. In other words, one may have a
high <b>IQ</b>, but <b>EQ</b> and <b>SQ?</b> Modern
education should radically reform from being LEFT brained oriented to more
holistic whole brain development.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: And the repercussion
if <b>IQ</b> alone is practiced?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Well, until you
really approach all of life with your intelligence (Which is <b>IQ</b>, <b>EQ</b> and <b>SQ in conjunction</b>),
instead of merely with your intellect (<b>IQ</b>),
no system in the world will save man from the ceaseless toil for neither bread
and butter nor conjugal family relationship or any relationship for that matter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: That, in the words
of brain scientists means wholesome development of the brain is required. For 800 long years, Indians have forgotten to
use their RIGHT brain. SOME did, most were sent to the gallows. And we
shamelessly remember them now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Thank you so
much for this learning today and let me NOW hear the sounds of Mother Ocean, we
are fortunate to hear from our Guest House Garden.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Folks, hope
you have enjoyed and cherished the LIFE juice in whole brain development for
humankind. That way the torturous world we live in, would indeed be a better
place, isn’t it<b>? WHAT do you SAY?<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;">S</span></b><span lang="EN-US">igning
off sending tons of joules of positive energy<b>.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">G&W Ravi<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</div>Ravichander Venkatraman(Ravi)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06771527454067841681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973299771261049520.post-60415921015923916332012-05-11T22:23:00.000+05:302012-05-12T13:29:04.156+05:30Hidden Treasure Series – On ‘Love’ – Ver 2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">My dear friends across spheres of
LIFE, </span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">A</span></b><span lang="EN-US">fter a lot of thought I FELT the necessity to key-stroke the
phenomenon of boy-girl OR man-woman LOVE. In fact, I suspect if we confuse this
love with UNIVERSAL LOVE, that which is unconditional AND undiluted LOVE - To
all co-beings - to <b>mankind</b> or Animal
Kingdom. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The unfortunate suicides committed by a couple of Chennai based students,
two budding Engineers because of so-called “LOVE failure”(<i>Sic</i>) provoked me to understand this phenomenon – I for one could
not digest taking one’s life for any reason whatsoever. Being born as a human itself
is a GIFT, isn’t it<b>?</b> Also we find that
the entertainment industry invent many an ‘acute’ and ‘obtuse’ angles and ‘sub-plots’
on boy-girl AND man-woman relationship which indeed spoils ‘innocent’ brains.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Let’s NOW walk-the-talk with Shri. <b>GRK</b> and understand this ‘phenomenon’ that
happens between a boy-girl and a man-woman<b>.
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<span lang="EN-US">Well, the
response to our earlier <a href="http://gatesandwindows.blogspot.in/2011/03/hidden-treasure-series-part-i-on-love.html">blog</a>
on <a href="http://gatesandwindows.blogspot.in/2011/03/hidden-treasure-series-part-i-on-love.html">Love</a>
was indeed overwhelming. Now relax <i>and enjoy </i>the conversation<i> on <b>Ver 2</b> of the phenomenon called <b>LOVE</b></i><b>…</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Pleasant evening to
you, Shri.<b>GRK. C</b>ould you make me<b> </b>understand this boy-girl love or
man-woman love, which we somehow find glorified in Cinema, India, in particular.
I suspect that a better term could be used as people (<i>mis</i>)use the term ‘Love’ here as well. So please solve this ‘Love’
confusion once-for-all for me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Hey Ravi, English is
a poor man’s language though elegant and the easiest to communicate. One word
may mean many a meaning. Also English language is more suitable for science
rather than LIFE. No wonder there are only 26 letters in English. Sanskrit and <i>Thamizh</i>
are very rich and have meaningful words and clear rules and have lot to
convey for LIFE. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Well, what we
discussed earlier in <a href="http://gatesandwindows.blogspot.in/2011/03/hidden-treasure-series-part-i-on-love.html"><b>Love</b><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">-</span></b></a><b>Ver 1</b> is <b>Universal Love, which is the fulcrum of the existence of the universe</b>.
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">L</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">ove thyself first!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Is it NOT some kind
of Bio-Chemistry that happens between a man and a woman<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>GRK</b>:Hey, haven’t you
watched Discovery Channel series on ‘Anatomy of Sex’<b>?</b> We all now know that what
happens between a boy and a girl or a man and a woman is nothing but subtle
physiological changes with rapid hormonal secretion,<b> </b>namely<b> Oxytocin.</b> Even
in a relationship between a man and a woman or a boy and a girl , the bottom-line
should be ‘<b>Unconditional Love</b>’. <b>However, they need to LOVE themselves first</b>.
If they can’t, then I suspect they can’t love others unconditionally and accept
the person as they are. The conflict arises when one wants the other to be what
they want them to be. That is <b>possessive
love</b> which is <b>poisonous!<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Out of concern of
humanity, allow me to pose this question. “<b>GRK</b>
<i>Ji</i>, Is there a link between alarming
divorce rates today and Love(Or the lack of it)<b>”?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Look, we are not able
to accept other person’s shortcomings and that’s the crux of the matter. So
where is ‘Love’ here<b>?</b> View absence
of unfettered, unconditional love with uncluttered brains, full of dogmas or
doctorates; their bio-chemistry also fails. So, both body and brain goes for a
toss. <b>Divorce is just an event</b>. Their
souls are divorced long back<b>!</b> Divorces
are happening in alarming proportions in India because either marriages are
forced and CONDITIONAL; AND also because some marriages are done in a ‘romantic’
mood.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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LOVE Hormone<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: <i>Ji</i>, I love romance. Romancing gives positive energy, boosts secretion
of <b>Oxytocin</b>, the <b>LOVE HORMONE</b>. I believe that there is
no age-bar to being romantic or being in romance for continuous supply of Oxytocin.
Is there anything wrong with being romantic<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Nice to see you understand LOVE from ‘Physiological’ perspective.
Slowly your brain is getting evolved to understand LOVE from the soul’s
perspective.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">G</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">uard
against Romantic fools<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Ravi, Romancing or
being romantic is NOT stupid. It may give energy. However, we should only <b>guard</b> against <b>romantic fools</b>- man or woman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Romantic fools<b>??? </b>Am I one<b>?<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: I don’t know if you
are one. Your LIFE companion would be able to judge better. After all, she has
taken great pains to tolerate and live with you for so long<b>!</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Ravi <i>kanna</i>, a ‘romantic fool’ is one who is
always in a romantic mood, with his/her feet miles above/away from the ground
(Reality). He/She theorizes heavily and lives in a dreamland on his/her own –
He/She seldom understands practicality. You would find these attributes in some
poets; poets over the ages are almost always bachelors<b>!</b> They fool around but they never get ‘caught’ and hence their
romance remains alive<b>!</b> They go on
dishing beautiful and even soul-lifting poetry. <b>One should NEVER get married to a woman or a man in a ‘poetic’ mood.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">D</span>O</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">
Romance - ONLY if you like yourself
first</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: These days I find
young school children, especially boys in India have a skewed opinion on LOVE,
thanks to the <i>Telly</i>. What are your ‘words
of wisdom’ to them<b>?</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Hey, you don’t bother
about them. The same thing your father must have said about you and his father
about him… This generation kids are awesome ONLY if their parents NEITHER over-indulge
NOR being un-mindful of them. I see some of them taking these extremes. Do we have to teach them on boy-girl love? I
FEEL we elders need to understand first before making OUR teenage friends to
understand. All I wish to say to them is <b>DO
Romance - ONLY if you like yourself
first</b>. However, the essence of romance is LOVE which MUST be unconditional,
without any ‘hidden agenda’ whatsoever. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Ravi, “<b>Conditional Love is NOTHING but a transaction OR most times a stamp of authority
with the affected soul fuming inside”</b>. Some people do prefer to live that
way. It’s their choice. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">I</span><span style="font-size: small;">s there a </span></b><span style="font-size: small;">‘</span></span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.scienceofsoulmates.com/"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none;">Science’ behind ‘Soul-mates</span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">’</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">?<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Can I share a LIFE
‘juice’ to boys and men, girls and women what I inferred from a path-breaking
book <a href="http://www.scienceofsoulmates.com/">Science of Soulmates</a> by <b>William Henderson</b> on the ways and means
of finding your ‘soul mate<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“<i><u>The main tool in finding your soul mate
is YOU. Your true self. Spend time to become your true self and this higher
most powerful being will find the way</u></i>”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Do one useful thing.
Write a review of that book and share the rest of the juice(s) with our
friends.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Certainly. I only
read the chapter-wise review in the website. Will have to buy the full copy from Amazon.tic gool,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Thank you for
your time Shri. <b>GRK</b>. Am taking a 3
day break to Pondy, trying to be a responsible biological father to my
wonderful children, who apart from my LIFE partner have tolerated me so far<b>!</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Hoping of
finishing the rest of the ‘Hidden Treasure series’ THEN. See you soon<b>!</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">F</span></b><span lang="EN-US">riends, let’s get ourselves trained to look for soul mates with romance
energizing OUR glorious ‘avatar’ as a human being. We all have one common goal
– To evolve as ‘Humane’ humankind, isn’t it<b>?</b>
Hope the <a href="http://www.scienceofsoulmates.com/">book</a> is useful to us
for better understanding as to HOW our brains work and HOW to SEEK for soul
mates rather than just LOVE-mates<b>!!! </b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 115%;">F</span><span lang="EN-US"><b>ascinating, </b>indeed<b>!</b></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">With Love to you
and your family,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b> G&W </b>Ravi<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>Ravichander Venkatraman(Ravi)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06771527454067841681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973299771261049520.post-72058694122254216362012-05-04T21:06:00.001+05:302012-06-03T10:47:25.900+05:30An Interview with GOD-Part I<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">M</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">y dear friends,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">C</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">ertain instances or people MUST have made us realise
the existence of the </span><b>G</b>iver<span style="font-size: 10pt;">, </span><b>O</b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">perator and </span><b>D</b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">estroyer (<b>GOD</b>) at some point in time. Thanks to writers like Robin Sharma and
Balakumaran coupled with recent developments in the study of brain, made me to
stop and look deep into those circumstances/events in my LIFE. Over the years I
have kind of understood this phenomenon clearly. Let me share with you one such
event.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">I attended the 1983 batch of 10<sup>th</sup> std PKN
School, Tirumangalam reunion held on May 1<sup>st</sup>. The saintly among the
teachers who were present there, Shri. Poovaiah gently reminded me to meet Shri.Balaramamurthy,
a retired English teacher, an Octogenarian who is ailing. In the evening I went
to Balaram sir’s home and <b>……</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Well, soft-spoken Balaram Sir whose English language
skills were legendary, is suffering from <b>Dementia</b>,
I guess. He has completely forgotten the past<b>! His hands are shaking rapidly and trembling fingers bent, pointing
downwards. </b>His wife-cum-mother, warns me that he could not stand for long.
Without wasting much time, I bent downwards in a typical “<i>Abhivadhaye</i>” style to seek his blessings. Now pause and a take a
breath<b>!</b> Some of you may SEE GOD,
some of you can understand the phenomenon called GOD, some of you may not
understand and some of you may have a hearty laugh. No issues. We move ON<b>…</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Well, I was in the same “heads-bowed-eyes-on-Guru’s-feet,
hands-covering-ears” pose for more than 2 min and I could FEEL Mrs.Balram
getting restless. Well, lovely ladies and ‘Gentle’men, slowly Balram sir’s hand
lowered and I could FEEL both his hands touch my head and bless<b>!</b> Well, that point in time I didn’t realise
HOW the ‘fingers bent hands’ could straighten, form a circle around my head and
bless<b>!</b> There were tears in his eyes
as well<b>!</b> <b>HOW?</b> Think later. Let’s move on NOW<b>…</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Folks, I have been waiting for an interview with GOD
and finally <b>IT</b> has agreed(Yes, God cannot be HIM or HE, else women and men
would rule over other!). Now, relax, forget your dogmas and doctorates(If you
have), and enjoy the satirical humour and some LIFE juices – Not from me – from
<b>GOD</b> himself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">GOD Intoxicated
heavily by humans<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">GOD</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">: Good evening Ravi, sorry for keeping you waiting for
43 years<b>!<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ravi:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Hi GOD, great to FEEL you. Am glad that you have
finally heeded to my request. Well, shall we walk the-talk<b>?</b> Before that, would you like to have a drink<b>?</b> Must have been a long journey for you<b>?</b> What’s your take<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">GOD</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">: Thanks Ravi, get me chilled buttermilk or Tender
coconut though I’m used to drinking ‘<i>Somapanam</i>’
only.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">: <i>Somapanam</i><b>???</b>
You also require intoxication. Is it<b>?</b>
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">GOD</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">: No, Ravi. Understand this. From time immemorial
human beings have been praising us NON STOP, 24/7/365<b>!</b> Eulogies like “Praise the LORD”, “POTRI POTRI, different abhishekam
etc..” with varying degrees have made me/us also <b>heavily intoxicated</b>. <i>Somapaanam</i>
helps me/us to <b>de-toxicate</b> as it does
not contain alcohol, it’s herbal-made, here in heaven.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">HOW and Why
do people fear GOD?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">: Tell me, HOW and WHY do people fear for you<b>? </b>Why do people bribe you for their
sins or to SEEK favours<b>?</b> Why people waste
time in performing meaningless rituals<b>?</b>
Goddy, can be please enlighten us<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">GOD</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">: <span style="font-family: inherit;">Simple. Very simple. They don’t understand that GOD
or GODliness is present in every creature and not only humans. The animals know
it. Humans, with all their so-called advanced brain have failed to take note
of. They have divided themselves into groups and sub-groups and sub-sub-groups,
all in illusion</span><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">!</span><o:p></o:p></b></span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">So, instead
of seeking ‘inwards’, they are seeking ‘outwards’ for GOD! How funny?</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Let
me narrate with a live example. There is this 91 year old former cop from
Kerala who spends 20 days in a month visiting Sabarimala by foot. His reasoning…
He is seeking pardon from me for killing 50 persons while he was <i>Khaki-clad</i>, on a killing spree under the
guise of protecting people. He justified his killing-spree earlier<b>!</b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">IS GOD made
the RICHEST and most corrupt by humans?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">: Tell me, I guess you must the most Richest and also corrupted
soul in the world. Do you agree<b>?</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">GOD</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">: I love you, Ravi as few people dare speak the TRUTH.
Take the example of Vijay Mallya. This bum’s company produces liquor which is
running like a river across India<b>! In
fact it unites the divided India! Look at the disastrous effect! </b>He is NOT bothered.
He simply goes and bribes in Sabarimala or to Lord Venkateswara and gets back to
business. What will those fellas do<b>? </b>They
have to keep people like Mallya going as the bribes are humongous. Hope you
understand. Anyway we have formed a committee to investigate and punish Gods
and humans indulging into this kind of huge bribes. Don’t worry. Please
understand. I also have limitations. Your Anna Hazare is doing an awesome job. After
he drops his body this birth, I shall ask him to form <b>GODPAL</b> and errant Gods would THEN have to go to jail<b>! Hah! Ha!</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">GODS are
once humans, isn’t it?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">: Let me get it right<b>?</b> We thought GOD is ONE and
you are quoting two more souls whom humans consider GOD.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">GOD</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">: Yes, let me clarify that. These guys Siva, Venkat,
Krish, Christ, Mohammed….. Gandhi, Saibaba Sr. and Saibaba Jr, MGR….</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mary
Lakshmi, Kali….</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> are all
made GODS by you ‘emotional’ humans. Of course they deserve as they were ‘</span><b style="font-size: 10pt;">Godly</b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">’, isn’t it</span><b style="font-size: 10pt;">?</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>Ravi</b>: I’m glad that you included <b>MGR</b> in that list. Near Chennai, people have built a temple for him
and they wear his once-famous ‘fur’ cap when they go to worship him<b>!</b> For Mahatma Gandhi, there is a temple
in Orissa and people wear Khadi dress and sport ‘Gandhi’ cap while visiting
that temple. And, to top it all, the ‘emotional’ people of Thamizhnadu have
built a temple for the ex-actress Kushboo as she was ‘gorgeous’ personified<b>!<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">GOD</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">: You see Ravi, Hinduism is all about freedom and
democracy and hence the 6 crore and counting Gods in that religion<b>! As you said, all were once humans and all
had one thread on common – ie. Godliness.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Who were I,
what am I? Whose collective consciousness (ie stored in LEFT brain) am I?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">GOD</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">: Ravi kanna, do you know in whose body you were in
last birth? Know that you were <b>In a DOG’s
body!</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">(Ravi shouts <b>Eureka</b>…
and runs to the garden to be with his doggy friends) Take a break NOW…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">GOD</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">: What happened, Ravi<b>?</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">: I love you GOD. You speak only the TRUTH. When I was
young, most of my holidays used to be spent playing-mostly outdoors from flying
kites to playing cricket, taking snack bites from the hands of many a Mom. Many
a time, I shall be late for lunch and Dad would be furious. At the sight of me
entering our home, he would BARK “<b>Are
you a street DOG?” <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">: God, please check my understanding. Brain scientists
have recently proved that man’s most dominant thought in a 24-hours’ time span is ‘sex’.
Can we NOW safely say that ‘male’ humans have inhibited the collective
consciousness of a DOG’s brain by virtue of their sexual behaviour<b>?<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">GOD: </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">It’s evolution of the cosmos, Ravi. Some may have been
a monkey, goat, cow, Tiger, snake… in previous births. And have imbibed the Collective
Consciousness of that brain. Do you understand, boy<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">: Yes. NOW it’s crystal clear. So, <b>Ravi</b>chander Venkatraman as I’m known in
this birth was a DOG in earlier birth(s) and hence my DOG-like brain. In fact, I
have offered my brain for research purposes. Thank you for this understanding
about me. Shall we move on<b>?<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">IS GOD a BRUTAL manipulator and PERMANENT match-fixer?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ravi: </span></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">God<b> </b><i>chellam</i><b>, </b>Many people here in India think and propagate that everything
happens according to your whims and fancy and that they don’t have any control
over the happenings in their life. If it’s true, then are you NOT a PERMANENT <b>match-fixer</b>, a BRUTAL <b>manipulator </b>of the highest order</span><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">?</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">GOD: Ravi </span></b><i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Kanna</span></i><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">the answer is<b> Yes
and NO. </b>Understand this deeply. Will talk about this later.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Now, give me a break – I have received an emergency
call from Mohammed. This guy has become troublesome and giving me sleepless
nights. In fact, he is my special son. A very very pure person. That’s his
problem. He can’t tolerate impurity. He is seething with anger with America and
the West. The D side of the GOD is very active in him NOW. I have to do
something. I have called for a closed door meeting between Mohammed, Jesus and
myself. I hope both would drive some sense onto each other first. Let us see. I’m
optimistic. If they persist with their differences, then shall ask <b>Krish</b> to intervene. You, know how
deadly he is. We call him the ‘silent assassin’ of good-over-evil.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">: Thank you GOD for your time. Would love to touch
base with you again… C you again soon…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">F</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">olks, hope you enjoyed this never happened interview
with <b>GOD</b>. No offences meant to
anyone, including <b>GOD</b>. Understand and
cherish the ‘juice’. Intend to continue this series if YOU say so. All would
have a common thread and that is…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“God is a hypothesis which can NEVER BE PROVED but
CAN always be FELT</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">. <b>However,</b> <b>Godliness</b> is <b>present in everyone”</b></span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> - </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">‘Yours Truly’</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>AND</b> there is
no right for anyone to kill anyone, be it animalistic animals or humane animals,
humane humans or animalistic humans(Like me)</span></i><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">! Hah Ha! </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">N</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">ow, Ravi, once-a-doggie signing off sending you all
joules of positive energy. Please don’t forget to share that awesome energy,
the constructive LIFE force with your folks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Cheers<b>!</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">G&W</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> Ravi <o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>Ravichander Venkatraman(Ravi)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06771527454067841681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973299771261049520.post-45377962164811575292012-04-28T01:39:00.000+05:302012-04-28T01:39:56.200+05:30A fictional-but-not-so-fictional humorous conversation with Shri.Abdul Kalam, Former president of India AND Supposedly a HIGHLY PURE ‘BRAAHMAN’!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>M</b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">y Dear Friends-on-Mother-India and around the world,</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">
understood writing is indeed NOT easy as I keep succumbing to lack of concentration
to use the RIGHT brain to write something meaningful and useful to humanity.
However, some well-wisher or other mildly taps my shoulder to continue writing.
Well, allow me to stop abruptly the Hidden Treasure Series where we have
covered 11 chapters. What we have left out is ‘LIFE juices’ on Senses, Science
of sex, On Self, on Revolution, On Discipline and control, On Peace, Serenity
& bliss, On Prayer, meditation & Samadhi culminating with the meaning
of LIFE. I understand that Almighty has intended a different path to the Hidden
Treasure series now. Hopefully, in 2-3 months, we would make the full version available
in Amazon for all our brethren to read and cherish the juices, anytime.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Now,
my dear Indian friends, relax and enjoy the Juice(s) and the humor as well in
the fictional-but-not-so-fictional ‘walk-the-talk’ that ‘yours Truly’ had with </span><b style="font-size: 10pt;">Shri.Abdul Kalam, d</b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">istinguished scientist
and former president of India, a HIGHLY evolved soul and a PURE ‘BRAAHMAN’!</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">V</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">enue</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">: IIT Madras Day: Friday 27<sup>th</sup>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">: Good
morning Kalam <i>ji</i>. Your energy is
infectious seeing you bubbling with energy at 5.45 AM in track suits and shoes<b>!</b> - A sight to watch<b>!</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Kalam</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">:
Ravi <i>paiya</i>, <i>iniya kaalai vanakkam</i>. Look, <b>‘Body and brain are part of one system’</b>.
If one is affected or left unattended to, the other is also automatically
affected. We know this through our <i>shaastras</i>.
Science also conveys the same. What
‘young brains’ have to do is to sharpen (i.e., giving food) to both body and
brain in sufficient quantities to keep both in equilibrium. Most of the time we
end up sharpening one alone neglecting the other and that’s where It’s Ground
Zero for the Sorrow cycle to start. Do you understand, young boy<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">: Crystal
clear. Now, tell me something. What do you mean by ‘young brains’? Are you NOT included<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Kalam</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">:
Good Question, <i>thambi</i>. U see, when I
mean ‘young brains’, I don’t mean the physical age or colour or creed. It means
fresh brains, unfettered and unprejudiced brains, keen and sharp brains WITH body
and brain being in equilibrium. Warren Buffet is an Octogenarian. Look at his
sharp brain actions even now. On the contrary, painful to see young children
being goaded to behave like adults under the guise of entertainment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">: Oh, I
caught you<b>!</b> So, instead of writing
poems and watching nature or writing for a speech, you are also watching ‘hip
movements’ of boys and gals on the Telly<b>?</b>
That reminds me, <b>do you watch prime time English news on Telly?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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What to do, Ravi when all other entertainment gets bored being a ‘bachelor boy’?
Hey, you have missed out one major entertainment, which is only available on
LOK Sabha TV<b>!</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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watching the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha proceedings is awesome entertainment. <i>Ayya</i>, I was watching the other day with
kids and was telling them ‘What to Unlearn from Elders’, not only politicians,
but in general<b>? </b>They simply marvelled
at the patience of the Speakers of both the Houses especially Meera Kumar mam<b>! They commented that they weren’t as a
spoilt brat like most of the ‘elderly kids’ in Parliament and they taught me
how to raise one’s attention without shouting down on THE other’s throat!<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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Yes Ravi. That’s why, I consciously prefer to be in the company of children and
students. Their brain is fresh and I learn a lot from them though they think
they have learnt a lot from me. Hah Ha<b>!<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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other words, is that the reason why you sub-consciously you avoid addressing
‘old brains’?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>All I’m sharing is that “The ‘old brains’ may kindly rest their body and brain</b>. It would do a world
of good for them and the peace of the world at large. There are indeed many
holy places like Anandashram for them to be themselves. People have a variety
to choose from. Believer or a non-believer. India, that way, is a blessed land
with so many options to be at peace with ourselves, atleast at the evening of
our lives, which we deserve<b>!”<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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WHEN do you think Indians in general, learn to gently ‘agree-disagree’ instead
of ‘disagreeing-agree’ or blindly ‘agree-agree’ method that we follow, be in
home or panchayat or parliament.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Oh yes, Ravi. What to do<b>?</b> That’s a
disease perpetrated because of ‘colonial’ ramifications. <b>Only holistic Education
and thereby ‘Ignited brains’ can solve this behaviour malady.</b> It takes time,
Ravi. Please be patient. Am confident that this will happen with the children of
India and the world WHO are simply awesome. <b>My only wish is that they should NOT
inherit <i>marks-money-power</i> culture</b> (<i>Sic</i>) some or many of their elder
generation had with many pushing the children in that direction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">: If you
were to meet the greatest Tamil Saint and scholar of all times, Shri.
Thiruvalluvar NOW, what would you ask him<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I would request him to be the President of the India. He had astounding vision
and knowledge. And his couplets are applicable at all times for all humanity.
Lot of Management lessons the MBA schools would NEVER teach<b>!</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">: Well,
well, well, that reminds me. Do you know that your name is doing the rounds and
some forward-looking Mother India-loving souls are actively running campaigns
on the net to bestow upon the second term for the Office of the President of
India upon you<b>! </b>Didn’t people
contact you<b>?<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Kalam</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">:
“Shall we have a break Ravi, as we walk-thru-the-woods of this lovely place<b>?</b>” I don’t quite understand that how a place
of this stature can still be called as an ‘Institute’ while your downtown
typewriting or computer teaching shops are also called Institutes. Funny, isn’t
it? English is a poor man’s language. That’s why you know, I didn’t give much
importance to it. <i>Thamizh</i> and
Sanskrit are richer in meaning and more beautiful. Anyway Functional English is
good enough, isn’t it<b>?</b> Anyway, people
mock at my <i>Tamlish</i> pronunciation of English.
What to do<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">: Well
said on English, your English communication is astounding. Tell me, What do you
want to do in this 10 min break<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Kalam</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">:
We’ll jog 3 stretches of 100 m and let’s see who wins. Winner gets lime juice
for the loser. Game<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">:
Ever-ready gentleman. Here we go…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">‘Prime
Point’ Srini <i>na</i> is ready with his
whistle and says “Guys, On your march, GET, SET, GO…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">(Readers,
Kalam pips Ravi <i>boy</i> to the post,
winning all the three races)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">: (Tired
and petered) <i>Ayya….</i> <i>Saami….</i> where and HOW do you have all
this energy<b>? <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Kalam</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">:
(Playing proudly with his hair): Simple Ravi. Result of ‘Body and brain in
equilibrium’. Do you NOW understand<b>?</b>
I like experiments, u see. <i>Chalo</i>, let’s
start our walk again. Did you note that the lime juice we had now was also in
equilibrium with the syrup, water, salt and sugar to shore up our energy<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">: Yes, it
was Srini <i>na’s </i>idea. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Kalam</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">:
No wonder he is one of the young brains, I admire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">: Tell me clearly;
haven’t you seen the campaign for you to be next President of India doing the
rounds<b>?</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Kalam</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">:
Hey, am not budging from that Question. Let me attempt to answer. Yes, I have
seen the campaign doing the rounds. On one hand, am thankful to Almighty to receive
the love of so many humans in India and abroad, especially young brains. <b>On the other hand</b>…..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">: Kalam <i>ji, </i>sorry to interrupt. As a ‘man watcher’
and beloved son of <i>Mother Nature</i>, <i>Mother India</i> and <i>Mother Thamizh</i> and not belonging to any sect, class, creed or
group; sensing the sentiments of Indian people, I suspect that people with
visionary powers fear and FEEL that it will be a hung parliament in India in
2014. So, they probably foresee president’s rule. <b>And you are their ONLY choice. Their saviour, in fact</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Kalam</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">:
Yes. Maybe that’s a possibility with the 2 national parties losing enormous
ground and the regional parties holding sway. <b>I suspect that something major will shake us for good in 2014! <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">: Kalam <i>ji</i>, Mother Earth shook for a while
recently in Chennai and the coast of India. Is it some kind of that ‘shake’ you
are referring to<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Kalam</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">:
I wish not to be that way. Again, understand through science. Earthquakes are a
result of Energy imbalances on Mother Earth which man does knowingly or
unknowingly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">: So, do you
envision a ‘<b>Political Tsunami’ in India, circa 2014?<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Kalam</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">:
De Thambi, <i>unaku yenna breaking news
venuma</i><b>?</b> Why are you putting
words in my mouth, <i>da</i><b>?</b> Look, I don’t wish to be a prophet. You
know, humans from time immemorial are very emotional when bitter truth is told
to them. They killed prophets and Saints. Indians are emotional as well. They
build temples for their heroes. When a cricket wins, it is hailed. When they
lose, they are nailed. Haven’t you properly understood history<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">: Sir, please
leave all this HISTORY for the time being, you please tell us whether you are
interested to work out of Rashtrapathi Bhavan, again for a second-innings or
not<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Kalam</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">:
So, you little fella, you won’t leave me, right? Here we go…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Look
Ravi, I thought deeply onto this. On one hand, as I said, am grateful to
Almighty for all your love and affection bestowed to me. I enjoyed solitary
walks on the lawns of the R.Bhavan, had an opportunity to meet so many thousands
of ‘young brains’ and learn from them. On the contrary, am worried about this ‘hero
worship’ culture Indians has mastered-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We fail to even acknowledge the knowledge
of our own elders in family OR in any institution for that matter. <b>Hero worship begets crony capitalism mentality
which is DANGEROUS. </b>The brainset of the people have to change. We take
pleasure in crucifying ‘pure’ people in leadership or elsewhere. Look at what our
folks have done to one of the greatest economists India was fortunate to have i.e.
Shri. Manmohan Singh. <b>Haven’t you
crucified that soul already?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Look,
all of you young brains, we have so many capable leaders and champions among us
in all walks of life. They are all in
front of us. <b>For the post of President
of India, I shall be glad to interview the shortlisted candidates given by you
folks. <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">: <b>Are you serious of giving it a pass?</b>
People are spending time and money for the campaign and shortly children also
would be involved. In fact it was they who started this campaign silently
telling their parents and their parents stole that idea! <i>Hah Ha</i><b>!<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Kalam</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">:
<u>Please leave me alone lovely emotional people of India</u>. I have had my
cup of tea at the highest office of India. <b>Now,
with all your permission, please allow me to do what am good and doing happy and sometimes
joy at -i.e. </b> Teaching, Researching,
Motivating and igniting young brains, reading and writing Thamizh poetry and of-course
watching Prime Time English News and Lok Sabha proceedings for entertainment<b>! </b>My main unfinished agenda is to make
solar power affordable to mankind. It’s a <b>WIP</b>
(Work in progress)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">: Oh,
that’s music to our ears regarding Solar. On the personal level, I could get to
meet you often in <i>Chennaipatnam</i>.
Second, you would live longer as you don’t have to do <i>Naatu Panjayathu(National Panchayat president<b>!</b>)</i>. You can be yourselves, isn’t it<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Kalam</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">:
Am glad that atleast you have empathy on me. As I stated, I would love to
select a person with impeccable integrity for the office of President of India.
As I said, we have many capable candidates.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">: Like…
can u name some<b>?<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Kalam</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">:
So, you thought you are a Karan Thapar or an Arnab Goswami, is it<b>?</b> I bet, you can’t beat them in
entertainment for sure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">: One last
word as we wind up our lovely session – What do you think of making the cricket
icon, Sachin Tendulkar- a ‘nominated’ Minister to the <b>GOI</b>?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Kalam</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">:
Well, it would be productive if he is groomed to become a sports minister. Else
if he remains as a ‘showpiece’ like earlier experiences, then it’s an exercise
in futility. Time will tell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you Kalam ji and <i>Srini na</i> and IIT
Madras for this opportunity. I enjoyed and cherished the food for both the body
and the brain. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Thank you friends. Take care. “Srini, the director is calling”. He wants to
play badminton with me. Please take me to the indoor stadium. See you, Ravi.
Atleast next time make an effort to win the 100 min dash with a Septuagenarian
like me, okay<b>? </b>Please practice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hope you enjoyed the juice(s) laced with mild satire in this ‘piece’. Would be glad
and thrilled if Kalam ji gets to read and share his laugh and his REAL thoughts
with us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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end with an optimistic note amidst the din and muck in India – in both body and
brain of many, ‘old brains’ to start with. I for one, envision a period of
President’s rule in 2014 and India would be super-power starting 2020<b>!</b> It’s my personal opinion. Kalam is
indeed THE person during the President’s rule BUT he is not interested as you
heard him. So let’s look for another <i>Kalam-like</i>
less-impure soul. Now, pause and look at the IIT model of excellence. Can’t it
be replicated all over India? Won’t the former Director of IIT(M) Dr.M.S.Ananth
fit the bill<b>?</b> Let’s all think and
THEN Respond decisively. Folks, I just gave an idea, not a name or a person. Naming
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aging brain 'invents' numerous PROBLEMS to possible solutions and a Young brain
ACTIVELY seeks Various possible Solutions to a Problem</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">- ‘Yours Truly’ </span></div>
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</div>Ravichander Venkatraman(Ravi)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06771527454067841681noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973299771261049520.post-15409167527845232982011-12-09T22:23:00.002+05:302011-12-10T11:32:57.556+05:30Hidden Treasure Series-Part XI - On Patriotism<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">My Dear Friends-on-Mother-Earth,<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">A</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US">t the age of three, maybe inspired by my Dad and his fiery patriotism, the day-after India defeated Pakistan in the 1972 war, ‘Yours Truly’ was found running in the street of <i>melaveedhi</i> in Thanjavur loudly rhyming “Ayub Khan Down Down, Pakistan Down Down”. No wonder the child was lapped up by all and that instant is somehow green in my LEFT brain, which otherwise is useless in remembering names, numbers and formulae’s.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Wars after wars, man, the biological brute hasn’t learnt the lesson. However, as we evolve towards a peaceful world order, (thanks to India a.k.a Bharath) we need to redefine patriotism, isn’t it? Read on…<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Wonderful connecting with you again. From a scholarly perspective, can you trace the word patriotism and its origins as I FEEL that patriotism is dynamic and not a static regional perspective<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Sure Ravi. <o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">‘Patriotism’ does not mean one’s territory consciousness especially in comparison with and at the expense of other territories. In this sense, it is nothing but a feeling of ‘in group’, something of exclusiveness instead of inclusiveness. Thus, it is anti-universal, if not anti-social, and inhuman.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Wait a minute gentleman, did I get you right<b>? </b>Anti-social<b>?<o:p></o:p></b></span></div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">GRK: I understand your shock. The roots of the sentiment of patriotism go back to the tribal consciousness; especially to an inimical negative relationship with other tribes. The feeling of being patriotic to a tribe had grown into that of a clan or a caste. Later it encompassed to a race. Patriotism to a race later became a feeling to a region and then at last it has become a feeling to one’s political and geographical boundaries, i.e., nations and nationalities in the dictionary of political science. Thus it is primitive.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: And then what happened<b>? How did humans redefine it?<o:p></o:p></b></span></div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: He redefined Patriotism as a sense of feeling or PRIDE to one’s nation, race, caste, religion and THAT led to many inhuman acts. It has culminated in various forms of chauvinism including the atrocious fascism. At present, it is leading to various sorts of divisive movements and tendencies, in a country or among countries themselves, such as regional and language movements, ‘sons of the soil’ concepts, movements of locals, over emphasis on regional autonomy etc. Thus, extreme form of patriotism to a limited object, leads to unhealthy parochialism.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Ravi, under the name of patriotism, humanity was murdered, a country exploited the other country, one nation subjugating the other, a race dominating the other. Cultural genocide occurred in many parts if the world under the name of the sentiment. In-human exploitation and colonization of many countries took place. Blood flowed in streams; empires collapsed, masses were massacred and the earth was made miserable and left wounded and hurt.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Well, that’s history, we all know, forgave and forgot. However, some countries do not have seem to have learnt the lesson. I was loathing with anger with American rulers for destroying Iraq to KILL one man. <b>What does Patriotism mean in the current context, especially for this hold land, Bharath, one of the emerging economies, the future role model to the world?</b> I’m aware of the greatness of this holy land and hence this Question.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ3crtd_80GPNNqjrtwP6N_nwErmzCfNmvbJRQttgFH7ye6e5PB3Fq7OwwDepz3U4wTYdRY_9tKhyQENszn5c6qkNwWB8NXxmD7mVuzyAGhhmCvnhz_ahf_q6FAJUSmQtum6NGKobv5TrQ/s1600/Hands+on+a+globe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ3crtd_80GPNNqjrtwP6N_nwErmzCfNmvbJRQttgFH7ye6e5PB3Fq7OwwDepz3U4wTYdRY_9tKhyQENszn5c6qkNwWB8NXxmD7mVuzyAGhhmCvnhz_ahf_q6FAJUSmQtum6NGKobv5TrQ/s320/Hands+on+a+globe.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Patriotism is a <b>glorious</b> and <b>ennobling</b> one. It’s a <b>universal</b> one. It should mean one’s sense of concern and care to one’s immediate fellow beings and surroundings. It must mean the generosity, the love and the great concern to one’s neighbors. Thus it is a feeling or ‘homeliness’; a feeling of neighborhood and a feeling of generosity to one’s fellow beings and surroundings. The best meaning of patriotism is very well expressed in the saying that ‘charity begins at home’. <b>Charity here does not mean giving a gift, or a dole to ill-placed people, but giving a generous human concern and treatment</b>. All those people, all of us, who talk so much about patriotism, do we really have this generosity, this love and this concern to our neighbors, fellow beings and surroundings<b>?</b> If it would have been so, this earth must have been much happier and peaceful place to live with. <o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: I guess the human LEFT brain is conditioned so that we only remember the negative feelings or provocable instincts in the sentiment of patriotism, the so-called national pride, racial pride, caste pride and religious pride; but not the positive & humane sentiment of generosity and homeliness to the immediate neighbors. Why is it so<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: That’s because the ‘fish always rots from the head down.’ The rulers and the ruling-elites throughout the world are nowadays talking very much about the values of non-aggression, non-interference, Non-violence, and mutual co-operation and universal brotherhood and peace. <b>Do they really believe in what they say and propagate?</b> <b>If so, why they are provoking their masses to hate the masses in other countries?</b> Why each country, through a huge sophisticated propaganda machinery, is trying to spread hatred and canard of lies against its neighbors or other countries? Why one ruler is feeling insecure against the other? Why one type of government defames the other? Why one class of rulers indulge in cold war against the other class of rulers? Why THEN, <b>Stuxnet</b> on IRAN<b>? Why Memogate? </b>Why and why? In fact often rulers and ruling classes and regimes provoke their masses to rise in war against the other countries masses, <b>just to divert their attention from the growing suffering, poverty and exploitation at home.</b> The fear and frenzy of war is used more as a tactic of survival for the ruling regime or system. Than as measure to protect one’s boundaries. Thus patriotism takes the shape of a war phobia.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Allow to me add that Sports and entertainment are a great leveler sir. We adore an Imran Khan or WHY even a pugnacious Javed Miandad for his tenacity. Our Bollywood is adored there as well. We revere Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan, the ‘Frontier Gandhi’. This hold land Bharath never invaded other country. What I’m suggesting is <b>Masses, throughout the world history, in any country or in between the countries, never fought world wars</b>. The rulers and the regimes, committed on the destinies of helpless millions, decided and indulged in world wars. They created war hysteria and hatred among the nations and races all under the name of so-called patriotism. The rulers even went to the extent of giving national awards to those who fought valiantly in the wars and massacred as many soldiers and peoples of the opposite country as possible. <b>Is it a real valor to kill human beings enmasse and under the name of patriotism?</b> <b>Does this deserve awarding of national honors?</b> If an individual takes away another’s life, it is considered as a heinous crime. How is it that they justify and glorify and award honors to a soldier who kills many in war<b>? </b><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: I’m glad for your understanding of this crucial aspect. After all <b>human life is human life</b>, in whatever context it is and to whichever country it belongs. <b>It is precious and Godly!</b> When do we realize this<b>?</b> When shall we start realizing it<b>?</b> After all, this tiny little precious earth cannot afford to have one more world war, without wiping itself off from the universe. Thus any sentiment, including patriotism which divides people, and causes hatred, has no place in this modern world. <b>What we need now </b>is<b> Universal Consciousness </b>and <b>Universal Brotherhood</b> and NOT the patriotism of insecurity in this world. i.e., due to the lack of intellectual self-sufficiency in us. We attempt confining humanity to national boundaries. <b>We need to build the bridges of understanding between different countries, cultures and peoples</b>. But NOT balkanizing people through the egoistic patriotic national consciousness<b>!</b> That is the only way to lasting peace and happiness on this earth, my friend.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ravi</b>: Thank you so much for this sharing. I’m sure everyone would have a re-think on Patriotism - in the modern ‘flat-and-wired’ but divided world. India has since time immemorial been exporting Spiritual Gurus throughout the world and scores of spiritual seekers come to this land and India has always welcomed them. No wonder THEN, this holy land never waged a war against any country. <o:p></o:p></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">F</span></b>olks, proud to be born as an Indian in this birth; in the emerging world order of universal brotherhood. And always our revered thanks to our spiritual thinkers and to the technologists from all over the world as well for giving the platform to share and care – online or offline throughout the world. <b>B</b> for meaningless and FEELINGLESS <b>Bat</b>-and-<b>Ball</b> has long been replaced by meaning and FEELINGS – Children these days chime <b>B</b> for ‘<b>Bandwidth</b>’ and <b>Brotherhood</b>. So let’s cool down Professor, because world would be a better place, albeit humans would pay a costly price to achieve it. Thanks a ton. My heart is indeed lighter after getting heavier first, how about you readers<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ps</b>: I suspect it was a Godly intervention to give Nobel Prize for peace to Obama as a deterrent in him, the American ruler, to wage wars like his inglorious and inhuman RIGHT brainless predecessors, notably as-deadly-as-Hitler father-son duo who MISUSED patriotism, ransomed the prosperity of ever-friendly Americans, bankrupting the treasury as well. I wish somehow I meet them once and give my peace of mind to them for what they have done to the world order.<o:p></o:p></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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</div>Ravichander Venkatraman(Ravi)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06771527454067841681noreply@blogger.com2Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India13.060422 80.2495830000000312.916343000000001 80.157828500000036 13.204501 80.341337500000023tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973299771261049520.post-65725283426414450702011-12-02T20:04:00.004+05:302011-12-03T12:45:37.283+05:30Hidden Treasure Series-Part X- On Education<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;">I</span><span lang="EN-US"> used to wonder even now how on earth school + college education alone would help someone to be successful and or joy in LIFE. I used to wonder how cruelly creativity is nipped in the bud in schools in India by ‘rote’ based learning. However things are changing becos’ ‘change is the ONLY constant’, isn’t it<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: A wintery evening to you Shri. GRK. Hot <i>Bhajji’s</i> and steaming Tea awaits us as we speak. Today’s topic is something closer to your heart; I wish we have taken up this much earlier. I’m referring to Education. Tell me, isn’t too much emphasis been given to Education notably schooling where we often find that there is a race for ‘marks’ for more marks, tests-and-mundane-retests, to basically test what one does not know<b>!</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Hah Ha<b>!</b> It however does not occur in Western Society, my friend. We have a myopic view on Education. ‘Education’ does NOT merely mean schooling in civic virtues and social behavior. It also does not mean conditioning rather molding of students to a set pattern of thought and value. It is also not indoctrination of an ideology, politics, thought pattern or a religion.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Also, Education is NOT only learning of skills and crafts. It does NOT merely mean information gathering. Thus cramming and repetition have a very little place in a true education.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Then you mean that the ‘degrees’ have no meaning<b>?</b> Shri. GRK, these days, parents in India, especially the middle-class, are ready to sacrifice anything for their wards being ‘educated’ and get Engineering or a medicine degree. <b>What does a true education mean</b>? <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Ravi, true Education means a process of ‘self awakening’. This is possible when only there is self- awareness on the part of students. In other words, <b>education is a kindling process, and self enabling process</b> and also an <i>ennobling</i> process. True education must kindle the RIGHT brain of human beings. It must elevate man, the biological brute, to a level of human, then humane and later even divine levels. Thus acculturation of man is the <i>sumnum-bonum</i> of education. Here acculturation does not mean just learning of table manners and socially accepted behavior patterns. In true education competitive & acquiring ability occupies secondary place, while developing RIGHT brain is primarily emphasized.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: You mean, Real education is taming of the man into a humane individual in brain and spirit<b>!</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Haven’t you already<b>?</b> Didn’t you wife or kids say so<b>?</b> Self- awareness and Self enlightenment is the highest goal of all true education. This education alone can lead man from darkness to light, from passive inaction to restlessly dynamic action and from ignorance to discretion <i>nay</i> wisdom. <b>Discretion is the soul of education</b>. Then only man can understand his life and his true relationship with fellow beings, nature and Almighty fully.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Having said that, isn’t dissent and non-conformity a part-and-parcel of education?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Indeed. <b>The truest education is based on the values of creativity, dissent, non-conformity and dynamism</b>. A real education is possible when only a student is allowed to be creative, to think for himself, even if this thinking differs from all known thought patterns and behavior. It even may differ from all established values and institutions. Thus it is based on dissent and non conformity –an opportunity to differ and non-conform to all known thought patterns of behavior, and institutionalized values. <u>Then only a real “flowering” or blossoming of an individual into his full-fledged personality is possible</u>. Then only dynamic and enlightened individuals could be created and thereby dynamic society too.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: If it’s so, then, what we need at present is not conditioning, but de-conditioning, not schooling but de-schooling of brains under the name of education. We cannot impart discipline, in the sense of mechanical conformity, to the children under the name of education and through coercion and fear. The fear-generated-discipline is not a true one and cannot last long any system; especially education, based on fear and coercion cannot bring enlightenment, peace and harmony to the mankind.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Well said. Hence we need a creative education which alone can bring the total revolution on this earth. This means molding of individuals into human beings with basic human values, such as honesty, truthfulness, non-violence and above all the great concern to fellow beings. Thus only we could produce less selfish, less greedy, less possessive, less aggressive, less cunning and less brutal human beings out of our schools and colleges.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ravi</b>: I’m sure that’s the way forward in India, with educational reforms being done step by step. Activity based education is being promoted, "marks" making way for 'grades', more RIGHT brain activities as well. As I said earlier, the world is in safe hands, if these children are allowed to THINK by themselves. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-dkxwEYLQ8YbBdAYcAoYa2Zj2Taui3Bscw3y3dRM8cQTlJf_-uJ2mpMphMrLt_Uz799Wt8GYB7mp6p_v6odkZ-jAFH738wzQgcpreaN_iF3D3ruO8ykEEw3bAlQHvV0QnRzYLN9LhARxf/s1600/Papa+ImageEventOrangeJPG_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-dkxwEYLQ8YbBdAYcAoYa2Zj2Taui3Bscw3y3dRM8cQTlJf_-uJ2mpMphMrLt_Uz799Wt8GYB7mp6p_v6odkZ-jAFH738wzQgcpreaN_iF3D3ruO8ykEEw3bAlQHvV0QnRzYLN9LhARxf/s320/Papa+ImageEventOrangeJPG_1.jpg" width="230" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">F</span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">olks,<b> Anandashram</b> is calling me/us again and the retreat awaits us. Awesome sharing sessions and many self-realisation beckons us. I FELT these are awesome learning for the seeker. If any of you are interested in attending the annual ‘<i>satsang</i>’(<i>nay</i> retreat) at Anandashram in English, it’s between <b>30<sup>th</sup> Dec-1<sup>st</sup> Jan</b>. In Thamizh, it’s during 26-28<sup>th </sup>Jan. Contact <a href="http://www.anandashram.org/">www.anandashram.org</a> for more details and your accommodation requirements. One of THE holiest places I have seen so far, this place is a ‘holy-land’ sans Gods and Goddesses, Godman or God-women, mundane and meaningless rituals. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">S</span></b>igning off having understood that my post-graduation degree obtained is just a grain of sand. Lots to learn and get ‘educated’. Thank you Shri. GRK for this humble learning. Anandashram is one such place for this kind of education or culturing. Thank you Almighty. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Love<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Ravi</b>chander Venkatraman<o:p></o:p></div><br />
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</div>Ravichander Venkatraman(Ravi)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06771527454067841681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973299771261049520.post-52264076601991047992011-11-25T21:13:00.002+05:302011-11-25T21:40:40.766+05:30Hidden Treasure Series-Part IX-On Religion and Culture<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US">My dear friends from across Mother Earth, across religions and cultures,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">A</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US"> relaxed Friday evening to all of you. Many a time, I used to wonder the usefulness of religion in modern era, especially in a civilized society. We are aware that r<span class="snippet"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;">eligion based differences have started countless wars, even their sects with almost no difference, claiming more lives than any other cause in recorded history.</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="float: none;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: <i>Pranams</i> to you Shri. <b>GRK</b>. It was an awesome week that went by with almost doing nothing, but watching. Today was one the happiest days. Watching Ashwin ball-by-ball score a delightful maiden Test century against the Windies. Understanding cosmic consciousness and the connect; one of my prediction did come true today. Like to hear<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: I already wished to you in your ‘inner’ introspections and ‘external’ adventures, my boy. Go ahead.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLqfNxUDXnlPHsMbvZKzj1KgvT3zR94Hwnnq2rPqNIpMjPgxUebwSIWr9li6DeHxSmzXJFtXRawE5l4XRfQqcNwfoHpsXWaIJbkU6QmFYK9wgn95DYZfXHpSQL8dGDcCbg9c_YrRZE6VlM/s1600/Ashvin%2527s+maiden+Test+ton.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLqfNxUDXnlPHsMbvZKzj1KgvT3zR94Hwnnq2rPqNIpMjPgxUebwSIWr9li6DeHxSmzXJFtXRawE5l4XRfQqcNwfoHpsXWaIJbkU6QmFYK9wgn95DYZfXHpSQL8dGDcCbg9c_YrRZE6VlM/s320/Ashvin%2527s+maiden+Test+ton.jpg" width="242" /></a></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> Courtesy: www.espncricinfo.com</o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Thanks to ‘Times of India’, had an opportunity for a <i>teta-a-tete</i> with cricketer Ravichandran <b>Ashwin</b> and was simply stunned by the difference in the <b>T</b>hought(s), <b>W</b>ord(s) and <b>A</b>ction(s) process in him. A week after the first meeting, as playful am till today, I was playing cricket on my mobile phone when Ashvin, coming at number 7 top scored in two matches<b>!</b> Quite a feat considering that he is an off-spin bowler and that there are real batting stalwarts before him. I promptly SMS<i>ed</i> him of this ‘playful’ incident and wished him that he would become the highest scorer in an innings. 8/10 would laugh at this or say wishful thinking, as we all know Ashvin as an off-spin bowler and not a batsman. Well, today, he scored a delightful Test century without any fuss and was the highest scorer in the Indian innings - coming at No.8 with only <i>Nine, Ten and Jack</i> to follow<b>! FELT extremely glad that my wishful thinking came true.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">On Religion</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Well, that’s the ice-breaker for the main course today. </span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The <b>Dalai Lama</b> exclaims “<u>We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection</u>.” How true<b>?</b></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Nice to hear about Ashwin though I don’t follow cricket. From what I hear from you, cricket is his religion and a way of life for him. <o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Well, Ravi, <b>Religion </b>means<b> religiosity</b>. <b>Religiosity </b>is an<b> attitude of the brain</b>. <b>It is a way of life</b>, practicing of a set of values such as <o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Love Gentleness<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Non-violence Compassion & Concern to co-beings<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Neighborliness Nobility <o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Contentment Restraint on over-indulgences<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: THEN, Are visiting the places of worship, performing rituals NOT the means to reach GOD?<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: That’s the SAD part. Unfortunately, for majority of us religion has come to mean temples, mosques, and the churches. It has come to mean a system of beliefs and prejudices and a set of idols and rituals, rites and funerals and pilgrimages and holy bathes. Thus, <b>we forgot that religion is only a means to realize an end, i.e., god or godliness</b>. In this sense, religion has become a dividing force (among the people), destructive force and a negative force. <o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: But it is also a great unifying force, gentleman<b>!</b><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Yes, ONCE religion was a unifying force when humans were uncivilized or semi-civilized. However, in today’s context, in a civilized society, it ceases to be a unifying force, a constructive force or an inspiring force. An organized religion represents a hierarchy of power and thus creates and encourages a vested interest. Religion <b>no</b> longer represents religiosity. On the other, it is more a negation of religiosity. Hence, organized religion has no place in enlightened humans.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">On Culture</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: “Religious” people bound to disagree with this. So are people who believe in rituals. Let’s go with it. Moving forward, what is the real meaning of culture? Is it something to do with the way we dress or speak English<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Nice joke. “Culture” does not mean table manners. It does not mean sophistication in dress, diet, housing and way of living.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Culture means refinement</span></b><span lang="EN-US">- meaning culturing, softening and mellowing of heart. <u>It means the development of <b>RIGHT</b> brain</u> – Resourceful states such as love, tolerance, generosity, compassion, tenderness, non-violence and above-all, forgiveness. Real love means a great concern to co-beings, to co-human beings-<i>nay</i> to the nature and surroundings. This love-this great concern-to others and their sufferings is possible when only we accept them and appreciate them as they are; but do not attempt to judge them according to our pre-conceived standards. This love <i>nay</i> humane love is possible only through real culture.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: May I add that, in other words, culture means tolerance to others and their way of life, however crude or imperfect it may appear to us. When only we can appreciate other, we can give tolerance to them. When only we tolerate others then only we can feel love or concern to them. Then only we can be generous and forgive the human weaknesses. For this we need tremendous patience, especially patience to bear with those who are inadequate and vulnerable (Children, women, subordinates, etc.)<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Well said. <b>Culture does not mean the development of LEFT brain and its faculties alone.</b> It does not indicate acquiring cleverness, smartness, IQ and manipulativeness etc. it also doesn’t mean an ability to remember and acquire information (wrongly called knowledge). It is nothing to do with having status, rank, power, privilege and an influence. It certainly does not mean an ability to compete and win. Even in these days of aggressive competition, culture doesn’t mean the manipulative faculty of a person to survive in the struggle for existence, which on the other hand is feature of a ‘jungle’(<i>sic</i>) and NOT of a civilized society.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: That’s awesome learning. Is culture got to do with universal <a href="http://gatesandwindows.blogspot.com/2011/03/hidden-treasure-series-part-iii-on.html">values</a>, we discussed earlier<b>? </b>Our first PM, Shri. <b>Jawaharlal Nehru</b> said<b> “</b></span><span class="body"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit</span></u></span><span class="body"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">.</span>”</span><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Absolutely. Culture is a set of human values which are universal in scope, appeal and implications. Practicing of these values and this culture-a culture of compassion, concern, non-violence, non- aggressiveness and co-existence is the only way for lasting peace and brotherhood on this tiny and fragile Earth. Thus, we need to understand and define culture in a more humane way.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><br />
</span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Well, not to worry Shri.<b>GRK</b>. I asked my daughters if they know their friends’ caste(s) and sorry came the answer. The world is in SAFE hands. Not to bother. For the moment, let’s CELEBRATE Ashwin’s century - Help yourself with a glass of beer and let me get a glass of butter milk with its condiments for myself<b> - A toast for his religiosity and culturedness</b> – AND, a toast to his ever-supportive family and meaningful friends as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">S</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US">igning-off with a straight batted six<b>!</b> Have a celebratory weekend. Happy Thanksgiving Day as well<b>!</b><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Y</span></b><span lang="EN-US">ours <b>T</b>ruly<o:p></o:p></span></div><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">chander Venkatraman</span></div>Ravichander Venkatraman(Ravi)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06771527454067841681noreply@blogger.com0Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India13.060422 80.2495830000000312.916343000000001 80.157828500000036 13.204501 80.341337500000023tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973299771261049520.post-11279574598002390252011-11-19T20:19:00.001+05:302011-11-19T20:21:05.359+05:30Hidden Treasure Series-Part VIII-On Perception, understanding and realization<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">My Dear Folks,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;">R</span></b><span lang="EN-US">amesh, a humane (e) friend of mine, complimented me the other day for doing nothing for quite some time now. I was stunned by his understanding. How did he understand me the way I have to be understood<b>?</b> Wasn’t there any ‘colors’ to his perception<b>?</b> How did he realize that am going through a ‘process’ and enjoying every minute of it<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Let’s ‘<i>walk-the-talk</i>’ with Shri.<b>GRK </b>see if we can have a<b> </b>have a firm ‘grip’ on perception, understanding and realization.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Fantastic Saturday evening to your Shri. <b>GRK</b>. Am on top-of-the-world now – having the privilege to ‘walk-the-talk’ with you.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Am I to understand that your ‘self’ is in a state of ‘<i>Aanand</i>’ with all your adventures and explorations<b>?</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: I do not know. As far as I could remember nothing affects me much - Small success (es) and privileges that Almighty willfully gave me or the failures that beckoned me. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">On perception<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: The world is full of opinionated people. ‘Switch on’ the prime time News in <i>Telly</i> and that would tell you the story. Well, What is perception<b>?</b> Is it a mechanical or a casual looking at things<b>?</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: No. Not-at-all. Perception is being ‘aware’ of things. It’s a natural, simple and spontaneous awareness of (wo) men and matters. Or in other words, <b>perception is the</b></span><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB">sinquonon</span></i><b><span lang="EN-US"> of ‘awareness’</span></b><span lang="EN-US">. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Is perception easily possible<b>?</b> Could one perceive ‘right’ all the time<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: No. Could not be. Because we do not perceive things as they are,<i> nay</i> as they exist; we have “angles” of perception. Many “angles” such as ‘self’, caste, race, class, education, religion, sex, age and many others interfere with our perception.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Do you mean because of the early conditioning of the brain, notably the LEFT<b>?</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Yes. We are taught from the childhood through family, through job and through religion to perceive things from different angles but NOT as they are. In fact we are ‘conditioned’ to perceive things in a particular way. That gets registered in the LEFT brain. Thus, we do not perceive things as they are, but as we wish them to be. Thus, our “angles” interfere in the perception of things.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: That was stupendous. With all my inherent limitations, my wife conveyed that “She loves me for what I am”, THEN and NOW. I couldn’t have asked for anything better, right<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"> <b>GRK</b>: You are blessed, my boy. Moving on, <b>could it be possible for us to appreciate a ‘rose’ as it is?</b> No; not easy, isn’t it<b>?</b> The consciousness of the particular color of the rose, the type of rose, and the fact - whom it belongs, and whether it is beautiful in comparison with another rose which we have seen - all these stand in our way and interfere to perceive the beauty of the ‘rose’ as it is.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">On Understanding</span></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Is ‘understanding ‘ a subset of perception, THEN?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Yes. Understanding is the part-and-parcel of perception. It is an exploration into reality and as well as culmination too. <b>It is a natural, spontaneous and intense insight into men and matters</b>. Our conditioning, our angles, our self and our subjectivity de-limit our understanding and stand in the way for understanding the reality.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Relationships would be liberating if humans have this kind of understanding without perceptions and prejudices. BTW, does ‘ego’ play a part in perception and understanding<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Yes, indeed. However we do know that in becoming egoless, we don’t become a ‘moron’. However, an ‘ego-less’ person is charged with Cosmic consciousness and is in connection with the Almighty / Cosmos. May I add that it’s a big sense of relief when one lets go of their ego, which in fact plays a role for “colored” perception and “imperfect” understanding. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">On Realization<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: What is Realization, THEN? <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Realization is the perception of one’s self. It is highest and the final. This involves not only the realization of one’s self, but also his relationship with others, with society, with nature with the Almighty/Cosmos/The supreme force/Natural laws and forces. In other words, realization is a perception and understanding of (wo)men and matters, <b>as they are</b> (<i>sath</i>) and their <b>patterns of consciousness</b> (<i>chith</i>) and <b>appreciating them</b> (<i>ananda</i>) and living and <b>moving with them</b> (<i>sivam</i>) in a natural and spontaneous way.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Thus, realization means liberation of oneself from all his angles, limitations and possessions. Realization is an ‘earthly’ process as well as transcendental too. <b>Realizing oneself, in other words, is ‘</b><i>nirvana’</i><b>. It is attaining <i>moksha</i> or ‘resurrection’</b>. <u>Hence, the need for a clear and pure perception</u>. Then only total understanding or realization is possible.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ravi</b>: That is very liberating to me as I inch my way forward to be in THAT state. Thank you for your time. Hope you take some well deserving rest during the weekend.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">F</span></b>olks, hope you are enjoying the conversations as much I en’joy’ key-stroking these words-of- wisdom from Shri. <b>GRK</b>, who according to me is Yogi-like, a living Socrates / Aristotle-like, am fortunate to know. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
Wishing you all an ‘invigorating’ Sunday.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Love<o:p></o:p></div><b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">chander Venkatraman</span></div>Ravichander Venkatraman(Ravi)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06771527454067841681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973299771261049520.post-54402731161191697332011-11-11T18:29:00.000+05:302011-11-11T18:29:21.032+05:30Hidden Treasure Series - Part VII- On ‘Family’<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">My dear brethren from Mother Earth’s family,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt;">T</span></b><span lang="EN-US">oday’s topic has an obvious answer to it – however, listen in to the words of wisdom from Shri. <b>GRK</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: A chilly Friday evening to you <b>Shri. GRK</b>. Tell me, does the word ‘family’ means only blood- related<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Hi Ravi. “Chennai and Chilly-climate<b>?”</b> Well, to start with, let’s understand that ‘Family’ is NOT a mere group of people-parents and children-just related by blood. <b>It means a perpetual institution of love, affection and of mutual concern</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: To beautify this statement, Can I share something with you<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Yes, go ahead…<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: These are two girl children, aged around 10, i happened to know, from different cross-section of society recently. i would not like to get to their situation nor disclose them. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-US">“i always ask the kids to address me as ravi or ravi na. I asked these two girls to do the same. But after an after-thought, asked them how they would like to address me<b>?”</b> Pat came the reply from both, in different circumstances, on different days – I did hold my breath – cos’ the answer was -</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘<b><i>Appa</i></b>‘(Meaning father).”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: My boy, am glad that your cosmic ‘horizon’ is widening. Could also understand that those two kids may not have a biological father. So what<b>?</b> They have a non-biological father and that is you. You have more responsibility NOW. However, follow detached-attachment. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Absolutely. I follow that basic principle to my bio-daughters as well. As of now, for those two girls, am making some interventions, working on the food-for-their-‘brains’ for NOW. I reckon that they are both leadership materials for the future. Both exhibit enormous courage, discipline, crystal clear communication and what not<b>?</b> These traits in them, ‘product’ of devastated families - took me by surprise, initially, but not NOW.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Am happy for them Ravi. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Tell me, why with all education and understanding, some of us on ‘Mother Earth’ still ‘fascists’?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Simple. Let’s go back to the family -Today, we come across many families which have become the centers of recurring quarrels, feuds and intrigues. These are more the centers of conflict than that of love. The children brought up in a family in which blood-bond is over-emphasized, are likely to become caste-minded and race-minded and even fascists.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Ravi, “<b>Family </b>does not mean<b> a mere co-habitation. It is a unique institution characterized by a sense of ‘we’ feeling and sense of ‘belongingness’ and a sense of ‘role’</b>- feeling as father, mother, son or daughter. It is <b>based on unconditional love, cohesion, unity and mutual respect and concern</b>.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: (To tell you the truth, both the girls exhibited all the traits that you mentioned)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"> Were people earlier less quarrelsome than NOW?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: True. Unfortunately, in the process of time, ‘family’ has become an institution of unequal relations and hierarchical relationships. “In this type of family, male head, the man takes granted that he is superior to the woman. He treats his wife as a private property and as one of the personal belongings. She is supposed to be his possession. Thus, he (sometimes also she) treats children equally as his possessions. After all, he gave birth to them. Hence, he thinks he has every right to treat them as his possessions and to mold them, tame them, dictate them and fashion them. Thus, he takes it granted as his birth-right to OWN the children as “belongings”(<i>Sic</i>). For the moment, the father forgets that children have their own interests, aptitudes and individuality. After all, they are individual human beings in their own right.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: You are singling out fathers. Come to 2011, applicable to working or non-working mothers as well. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: I agree. Very few fathers and mothers understand this fundamental fact of life. They, especially father, become blind in their parental instincts. The dictatorial behavior of father (Parent) is based on 3 false presumptions. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">He thinks he is older and elder and thus wiser too (equating age with wisdom is NOT true!) <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">The children do not know what is good for them and thus it is his duty as a parent to correct them and to mold them. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US">After all, he is their father, and he knows what is good for them. Hence, he has a right to mold them as he likes. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: If only we think, all of us know how false and how irrational and how unscientific these assumptions of a parent, including that of ‘Yours Truly’ are<b>!</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: As a result of this thinking, the parent becomes all the time corrective towards children in their sitting, eating and dressing habits, in their interests and persuasions and in their beliefs and behavior patterns. Thus the parent imposes his/her personality, and likes and dislikes on children. That parent becomes authoritarian & dictatorial possessed with an ‘all-the-time-corrective’ attitude towards children. In this way, the whole atmosphere and the interaction in the family, especially in between parents and children, becomes artificial, formal and contrived. The relationship between parents and children loses its spontaneity, informality and warmth. Sadly, the children brought up in this type of family develop many inhibitions, complexes, fears, phobias, double-standards and a sense of insecurity. No child’s personality can bloom to-the-full under the authority of ever-correcting parent. <b>A corrective mentality is a</b> <i><span style="color: red;">red-pencil</span></i> <b>mentality</b>. It is a feature, <i>nay</i> a disease, of an over-active LEFT brain. A corrective LEFT brain always searches for the loopholes and faults in others and also expects perfection from human beings! <i>Hah hah</i><b>! </b>How funny human ‘brains’ are<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: And, the larger implications<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: The family, which is supposed to be the ‘school of civic virtues’, may even turn out to be a breeding and training center of children with fear, jealousy, hatred and suspicions and recriminations and complexes, in any part of the society, anywhere. In this type of family, the members may have at best ‘mating’ interest or ‘economic’ interest (for property inheritance). But, they may NOT have the sacred and unconditional love, mutual affection and concern and respect to one another’s personality (individuality). <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: And WHAT are the implication(s) to nation(s) as it comprises millions of families? <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: That nation, where ‘family’ relations ARE authoritarian and unequal in nature, CANNOT train citizens for democracy. It cannot build up democracy in the country and also the world-brotherhood of nations. As simple as that.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ravi</b>: Thank you for the sharing. Could be an ‘awakener’ to many like me who have a skewed understanding so far that family is only blood-related. Thank you so much.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>GRK</b>: My pleasure, Ravi. Take care and see you soon.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Folks, hope you have enjoyed the conversation. Do munch and share your thoughts. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Signing off with my best wishes to all of you and your wonderful families.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Kind Regards<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ravi</b>chander Venkatraman<o:p></o:p></div></div>Ravichander Venkatraman(Ravi)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06771527454067841681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973299771261049520.post-42523662654976377302011-11-04T22:18:00.000+05:302011-11-04T22:18:43.751+05:30Hidden Treasure Series - Part VI- On ‘Self’<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">My dear friends and friends-of-(y)our friends,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt;">T</span></b><span lang="EN-US">oday, without much ado, we get to the ‘meat’ of the understanding of the true meaning of ‘self’ which bothers many of us, isn’t it<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: A cheerful Friday evening to you <b>Shri. GRK</b>. Tell me, Does the word ‘self’ mean our name, our caste, our sex, our age and our religion<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Yes, it means all these. And, much more. Self means ‘i’, our identify, our self-consciousness. “I am so and so, my level is this and my status is this” etc. For those, self means status and the level.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Is ‘self’ not an image of oneself<b>?</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: We can safely say that ‘Self’ in other words means an ‘image of oneself’ or in other words, you see yourself in a disassociated state.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: And what the ‘self’ does to an individual if not understood properly<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Self means attachment to certain things. <b>It is a divisive force</b>. It divides ‘i’ from the rest. It leads to choice making. It is subjectivity leading to angles in one’s perceptions. Thus it leads to contradictions, as self-versus others. In understanding, it colors, <i>nay</i> blocks our understanding. Self is ego, it is pride, it is estimating of on self, often self-conscious estimate. Thus it leads to conflict with on self, with others, the surrounding reality and with the whole nature itself. Hence, ‘self’ leads to sorrow-contradiction-conflict-agony and peace-less-ness. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: And what’s the way out of this ‘self’ consuming pride in mankind<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: The possible way for peace or joy or happiness is <b>to be aware of the self</b>, <b>to sublimate the self</b>, <b>to raise above the self</b>, to forget the self, <i>nay,</i> to erase the ‘self’ itself. Where there is no ‘self’ there is no contradiction and no conflict -no colored perception and no understanding based on choice.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: In short, as regards ‘self’, <u>we becoming the ‘subject’ to ourselves is FAR better than we becoming the subject(s) to others</u><b>!</b> Anyway for your information, have stopped using CAPITAL ‘I’. Instead using ‘i’. Not just symbolical.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: That’s the progress man(kind) develops. See you soon<b>!<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi: </span></b><span lang="EN-US">Thank you for these awesome walk-talk sessions with me. Shall always cherish these sessions with you and right now FEELING manifold ‘joy’ as these ‘pearls of wisdom’ are being ‘shared’ with our brethren on ‘Mother Earth’<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16.0pt;">A</span></b><span lang="EN-US">llow me to end with a quote by <b>Robert Louis Stevenson</b>:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span lang="EN-US">“In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be the gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy”</span></i></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US">.</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #330000; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #330000; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Kind Regards<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #330000; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">G&W</span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #330000; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> Ravi</span></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div></div>Ravichander Venkatraman(Ravi)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06771527454067841681noreply@blogger.com1Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India13.060422 80.2495830000000312.916343000000001 80.157828500000036 13.204501 80.341337500000023tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973299771261049520.post-20368110363190094412011-10-30T22:54:00.001+05:302011-10-30T22:56:08.289+05:30Hidden Treasure Series – Part V- On ‘Jealousy’<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
<div style="text-align: left;">My dear readers,</div></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;">A</span></b><span lang="EN-US">m indeed grateful to <b>T</b>imes <b>o</b>f <b>I</b>ndia (<b>TOI</b>) for giving me an opportunity as a humble ‘reporter’. Click for the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2309632493438&set=a.2259892969981.123974.1028115760&type=1&theater">article</a> “Quality Time with Family counts” and the other, a masterpiece WHAT children taught the elders – as to HOW and how NOT to celebrate Diwali – Click for that <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2309626013276&set=a.2259892969981.123974.1028115760&type=1&theater">story</a> “Sound Bites: Go easy on Noise”.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Well, I take the debits for having discontinued the ‘Hidden Treasure’ series in our blogs, walking-the-talk with Shri.<b>GRK</b> and sharing <b>LIFE JUICES</b>. Well, NOW, i swear on Mother Earth, that shall key-stroke one per week till we complete the series and bring out the e-book on Amazon next year. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: A happy Sunday evening to you Shri. <b>GRK</b>. Today i am going to listen to you on the dreaded disease called ‘Jealousy” amongst mankind since time immemorial. I suspect that you shall DO something, through your enlightened thinking; share the naked truth, and ‘mantra’ as well - so that most ‘migraines among mankind’ are cured<b>!</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: That’s nice to hear, Ravi. However, not sure if migraines (Especially among women) be cured because of this sharing. Anyway together we can make an attempt.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Tell us Shri. <b>GRK</b>, i see Jealousy as a weakness and find it more among the educated and ‘haves’? Why this anomaly?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: “Jealousy is INDEED a weakness”, Ravi. “It is an <b>intense</b> FEELING which consumes more the person who feels jealous than who is the target of jealousy. Often it is due to comparison. A person who compares himself / herself and measures in relation to others, other things and situations; he/she feels jealous of those people and the things”.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Are there any other reasons that could be the root causes of Jealousy<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Jealousy is also due to the <b>sense of possessiveness</b>. “We feel to possess things, gadgets, houses, motor cars, wives/husbands and children too. Whenever one wishes to possess somebody, (SAY a girl!) or something, and fails to possess, he feels jealous of that somebody or something”. The sad part is, “In our attempt to possess friends, girls and children, we forget that they have their own individualities, their own interests and their own will, and hence, cannot be possessed as dummies and tools”.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Professor, we have witnessed people in power or the highly educated be “insecure”. Could that pave way for Jealousy – a heart-killer in real-life<b>!</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Yes, my friend – Jealousy is also due to the ‘feeling of insecurity’ nay, ‘inadequacy’ in one’s brain. A highly dominant LEFT brain which is frightened of its realities and inadequacies, attempts to possess things, people, ideology, bank balance, religion or ‘love’, as a substitute for its inadequacy (feeling of insufficiency). The frightened LEFT brain feels possession as an anchor, as compensation and as a refuge. A frightened LEFT brain is a lonely brain. It is a desolate brain, which suffers from the feeling of insufficiency and inadequacy. Thus it lacks ‘peace’. <b>Jealousy is the feature of an under-developed RIGHT brain AND an aggressive LEFT brain, nay, a possessive brain</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: That’s awesome learning – What I simply understand that Jealousy is a result of lack-of RIGHT brain development, notably, at childhood. We, in India, are conditioned to a particular religion, stream of study, ‘rote’ learning, societal conditioning etc – However the silver lining is, my dear GRK, <b>Gen Y</b> and <b>Gen Z</b> are different from yours and mine generation. They have clarity in their thought and an awesome RIGHT brain, furthered by Group activities in school, thanks to the eradication of a dreaded COMPARISON tool called ‘ranking’. Today it is ‘grading’, WITH both subjective and objective grading, you know well. And there are creative ‘projects’ activating Their RIGHT brain. Knowing their talent and the platform already laid to them, plus the opportunities in India, <b>i</b> swear professor, if their RIGHT brain is nurtured, there shall be many Nobel prize winners and more and more successful CLEAN entrepreneurs as well from upcoming generations - from India, in India, by Indians.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Yes, I agree on the upcoming generation To a great extent. We are in such a ‘rat-race’ that there is no time for people to introspect, FEEL people around them – Where is the time for RIGHT brain activities like ‘Caring and sharing<b>? </b>And knowing what their wards want<b>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: And, What are the implications when Jealousy breeds?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Jealousy breeds competition, nay conflict -It may result in sorrow, agony, sense of deprivation and a feeling of un-fulfillment, thus it becomes a self-consuming weakness-ultimately affecting the brain.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Awesome learning Shri. <b>GRK</b>, helping understand the vagaries of human ‘brain’ behavior. Well, Shri.<b>GRK</b>, please could you share with us a ‘mantra’ for mankind to come out of this malaise- A source for ‘migraines’ or even ‘heart-attacks’<b>!</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Yes there are three ways. Very simple ones, indeed. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">To <b><span style="color: red;">STOP</span></b> <b>comparing</b> things and people in relation to oneself. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><b><span lang="EN-US">To <span style="color: red;">NOT</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US"> to feel to <b>possess</b> things and people.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050;">DEVELOP</span><span lang="EN-US"> RIGHT </span></b><span lang="EN-US">brain activities consistently.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Well, Shri. GRK, thank you so much for this ‘sharing’ and shall expect you to talk on ‘Self’ next Friday. So, long, THEN.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">GRK</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Thank you Ravi. Sure we shall share on ‘Self’ next week.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">F</span></b><span lang="EN-US">olks, let me end this ‘piece’ with a quote from<b> Aristotle </b>on<b> ‘Jealousy’<o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
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</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="body"><i><span lang="EN-US">“Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbor to have them through envy”.</span> </i></span><b><i><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="body"><i><span lang="EN-US"><br />
</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US">i </span></b><span lang="EN-US">even loved this one from<b> Van Wyck Brooks: <o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="body"><i><span lang="EN-US"><br />
</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="body"><i><span lang="EN-US">“Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and purity wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere”</span></i></span><span class="body"><span lang="EN-US">.</span></span><b><span lang="EN-US"></span><o:p></o:p></b></div><span style="float: none;"> </span><br />
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</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="float: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Love<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="float: none;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ravi</span></b><span lang="EN-US">chander Venkatraman<o:p></o:p></span></span></div></div>Ravichander Venkatraman(Ravi)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06771527454067841681noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973299771261049520.post-16779144663557303402011-09-26T23:10:00.001+05:302011-09-27T09:29:56.685+05:30Karma Account AND Bank Account Time to check (Y)OUR Karma NOW?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Karma</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #9bbb59; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Account AND </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Bank</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;"> Account <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Time to check (Y)OUR </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Karma </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">NOW</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><u><br />
</u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">My dear friends of all ages on ‘Mother Earth’, Friends-of-your friends as well,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;">F</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">or regular readers of this blog, I admit that ALMIGHTY ‘willfully’ willed a break for me and apologies for my key-stroking absence since April 2011– For the record, for the moment, my LIFE is back to ‘Square One’ – I have willfully re-wound my career and LIFE clock(s) by Eleven Years backwards<b>!</b> Sounds crazy, no doubt. I could SEE your eye-brows raising or shirking! If you’re a Right brainer, your eye-brow would have raised, if you are a LEFT brainer your eye-brow would have shirked! Check out and Do share.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Sabbaa</span></i></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">…(Ushhh….) <i>Chillax </i>(Chill </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">and<b> relax), </b> my<b> </b>‘motherly-but-always-in-tension’<b> </b>wife and some ‘angelic’ humans, male or female. It is YOU who keep me going in this <i>Kaliyug</i> where there is “marks-race” first, then “money-power-race” and THEN humans becoming <i>machine-like</i> in bed!(Read <i>dog-like</i>)<b>. </b>For me, <b>LIFE </b>is indeed beautiful and ALL the souls are wonderful and we are linked through one common umbilical cord to our Universal Mother– i.e. ‘Mother Earth’</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">!</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> We are all born- Simply to do ONE thing – To make ‘living’ for us and others on Mother Earth and for our next-generation, a better place, </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">with<b> joy, </b>sometimes<b> <i>Aanand</i> </b><i>(Bliss)</i><b>. </b><i>Cho(</i>So<i>)</i> simple. It is only humans (Esp. if they have high IQ, like our many highly LEFT brained friends) who make their beautiful LIFE extremely difficult by inventing <b>Problems to Solutions</b> rather than working out <b>Solutions to various situations!) </b>Needless to say that the people around them suffer the most, especially women and children</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">!</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">I</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">t’s Y2K time for me, folks, when <b>G&W</b> was born. For wounding my bio-clock by eleven years or more, anyway Badminton helps me. <b>What</b> happened to you Ravi</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">?</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> <b>What</b> are you doing Ravi? <b><i>Ennachu</i></b> Ravi<b>? Have </b>you gone ‘nuts’<b>? </b>Could hear-out your genuine concern for me.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Loving Maanida(meaning co-human beings)</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">, am back to become a ‘joyful home-maker’, baby-sitting to my 2 teenaged bio-daughters, working on their ‘food-for-the-brain’ by coaching them <b>HOW to cook a meal for the brain?</b> – both RIGHT and LEFT. Rest of the time, my LIFE companion was kind enough to let me ‘meander’ OR ‘wander’, to let me DO what I WANT – be it attending ‘congresses’ on various subjects-from <b>sex</b> to <b>science</b> to <b>spirituality</b>. Her only request is I should NOT share anything with her <i>i.</i>e. Where I go and What I do there. HOW can I complain, my dear married male friends of mine<b>?</b> <i>Sollunga paakalam</i><b>?(Tell me please)</b>. ‘Yours Truly’ is indeed a blessed soul, right</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">?</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">For the record,<b> am greedily building </b>my<b> </b></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">‘Karma Account’</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> with the Almighty, </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">laced<b> </b>with<b> ‘</b></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">Cosmic Consciousness</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">’ WITH the sets of opportunities presented to me.</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> I have had my share of chasing ‘Bank Account’ earlier, which the Almighty willfully kept on </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: yellow; font-size: 10pt;">‘Yellow</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> signal’ mode last couple of years. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Going forward, I realize that tis’ time for me to build multiple Bank Accounts from NOW on– As I have given my “WORD” for adopting out of my bio-family – ‘<i>Child-like</i> Brain’(s) to start with - Am working on 4 brains already and there are at least 40 waiting as per the latest score chart – Mostly have-nots – Struggling women with phenomenal tenacity to educate her wards and children as well. What do I do NOW, Sharma <i>ji </i>or LORD Stanley , Janet <i>ma</i> or ‘Her Majesty’ Jaya <i>maam</i><b>?</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Folks, i owe this thinking to Shri.<b>KVR</b>. </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://gatesandwindows.blogspot.com/2010/10/sharing-precious-thought-life-juice-to.html"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Click</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> and Munch if you haven’t, on my first meeting with him, a year ago and the ‘LIFE Juice’ for all of us to build our Karma Account. The Green highlight in that blog sums up.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Now<i> Chillax again </i>and </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwg7uyy9g2c"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Listen</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> to Culture Club’s <b>Bow Down Mister</b>. The person with that androgynous (cross dressing) style of dressing is Shri. <b>Boy George</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Kindly Note</span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">: <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">From now on, all our blog writing will be in the form of ‘<b>sound</b>’ as well. So, some of you who find reading a pain, do listen as you have better ‘auditory’ sense than ‘visualization’. So all our blogs would be in ‘Sound cloud’. Well, to start with, <a href="https://rapidshare.com/files/1626381360/Karma_Account_and_Bank_Account.wav">Click</a> for a sound version of this blog. This is my way of offering my <i>pranams</i>(respects) to Boy George who along with Michael Jackson LEFT a message for us to decipher from their LIFE style.“WHAT is that message, Ravi?”, you may ask.<b> </b>Will share with you coming Friday in our next blog<b>…. An earth-shaking find </b>followed<b> by belly-blowing guffaw, </b>I swear or a Eureka moment for all of us FELT by me after listening to <b>Dr.Edward Coffey’s </b>presentation on<b> ‘Brain and Mind- Battle of the sexes’</b> under the aegis of the <b>Intl. Neuro-Psychiatry Congress</b> held in Chennai, a fortnight back.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 16pt;">A</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">llow me to sign off with a message that “<u>The world would be a better place if two or more people talk TO each other rather THAN talking ABOUT each other</u></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">!</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">” Amen!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Tashvidanya…</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Endrum Anbudan<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">G&W</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> Ravi <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Lyrics of Bow Down Mister – Kindly link the blog with the lyrics and song as well<o:p></o:p></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt;">From Bombay to Bangalore<br />
All the Hindus know the score<br />
If you wanna live some more<br />
Hare, Hare, Hare<br />
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If you do not take the vow<br />
You can eat the sacred cow<br />
You'll get karma anyhow<br />
Hare, Hare, Hare<br />
<br />
Bow down mister<br />
Hare Rama, Hare Krishna<br />
Bow down mister<br />
We say Radhe Shyam<br />
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Do the right thing with your hands<br />
Lay down on the pleasing sands<br />
Whatever else your faith demands<br />
Hare, Hare, Hare<br />
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From Bombay to Rajasthan<br />
Nitai Gaura, Radhe Shyama<br />
Hare Krishna Hare Rama<br />
Hare, Hare, Hare<br />
<br />
Bow down mister<br />
Hare Rama, Hare Krishna<br />
Bow down mister<br />
We say Radhe Shyam<br />
<br />
Bow down mister<br />
Hare Rama, Hare Krishna<br />
Bow down mister<br />
We say Radhe Shyam<br />
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In the desert Jaisalmer<br />
They put kum kum in their hair<br />
At the Westeners they stare<br />
Hare, Hare, Hare<br />
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Paint a tilak on your brow<br />
Open like a lotus flower<br />
It's time to check your karma now<br />
Hare, Hare, Hare<br />
<br />
Bow down mister<br />
Hare Rama, Hare Krishna<br />
Bow down mister<br />
We say Radhe Shyam<br />
<br />
Bow down mister<br />
Hare Rama, Hare Krishna<br />
Bow down mister<br />
We say Radhe Shyam<br />
<br />
Bow down mister<br />
Hare Rama, Hare Krishna<br />
Bow down mister<br />
We say Radhe Shyam<br />
<br />
Bow down mister<br />
We say Radhe Shyam<br />
Bow down mister<br />
We say Radhe Shyam<br />
Bow down mister<br />
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Raise your head and lift your hands to the lord x4<br />
<br />
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare <br />
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare <br />
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare <br />
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare <br />
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Raise your head and lift your hands to the lord<br />
Raise your head and lift your hands to the lord<br />
Raise your head and lift your hands to the lord<br />
Raise your head and lift your hands to the lord<br />
Raise your head and lift your hands to the lord<br />
Raise your head and lift your hands to the lord<br />
Raise your head and lift your hands to the lord<br />
Raise your head and lift your hands to the lord<br />
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Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare <br />
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare <br />
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare <br />
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare <br />
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Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare <br />
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div></div>Ravichander Venkatraman(Ravi)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06771527454067841681noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1973299771261049520.post-82639741304498059962011-04-01T22:58:00.000+05:302011-04-01T22:58:39.141+05:30Hidden Treasure Series – Part IV- On ‘Courage’<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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</b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Dear Bretheren,</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">A</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">m indeed grateful to Almighty to assist me forever –BE in the company of ‘Highly Pure’ souls like FEW of us, almost ‘pure souls’ like SOME of us and ‘less impure’ souls like MANY of us. Even VERY FEW ‘highly impure’ souls end up helping me for no rhyme or reason, I have observed over the years<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">! </b>Thank you benevolent almighty. As my colleague Priya always says, ‘<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Life is indeed beautiful’, if ONLY one WANTS it that way!</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Well, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">lemme </i>start with my answer to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Appu </i>who has commented (See comments section and please share your thoughts/ experiences etc) that some of the views in OUR blog are coming like ‘bouncers’ to him. Well, my dear <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Appu</i>, I’m no <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Douglas Jardine</i> (Of the infamous Body-line series) to bowl a ‘bouncer or a ‘beamer’<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">!</b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>I’m a spinner and love the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">googlies</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">doosras</i> and even <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">carom ball</i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">!</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hah Ha! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></b>Well, as I keep repeating – That ‘Yours Truly’ is only a ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">key-stroker’</i> and do NOT wish to take any credit for OUR blogs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, one may give me ‘debit’ if any. The thoughts and thereby words have emanated from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dhyan </i>and writings of many or simply ‘man watching’ (‘Women Watching’ as well<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">!</b> – Those interested in human behavior may read those two books of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Desmond Morris</b>). <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Folks, you would agree that while it requires <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">compassion</b> to ‘share and care’, it takes ‘<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">courage’</b> to speak our mind and THEN ‘walk-our-talk’, isn’t it<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">?</b> Well THEN, what’s courage? <b>I</b>s it a sheer physical prowess or shouting slogans or hurting others as we have a wide mouth to speak, freedom to DO whatever we WANT at the cost of others and able hands and legs to physically hurt, not to forget the technology arsenals<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">! <o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">I</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">s America so courageous that they use all the arsenals and warheads against countries that don’t tag their line<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">A</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">re some agitating students OR politicians OR even the mafia OR just anyone on ‘Mother Earth’ so courageous that they take to violence to show their physical prowess or might<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">?<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Read on…<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">: A happy Friday evening to you Shri. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">GRK</b>. As you know, our brethren on ‘Mother Earth’ have started cherishing the ‘Hidden Treasure Series’ and some of them have requested an e-book to be made on the series…<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">GRK</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">: That’s nice to hear, Ravi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We shall do that. Time would come for that. Let’s cross the bridge when we come to it.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">: Thank you so much for your permission. Our friends like Suba would be happy hearing this. Well, let’s get to today’s topic. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I</b>s ‘Courage’ physical prowess alone or something else<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">?<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">What is Courage?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">GRK: </span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Not at all, Ravi<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">. </b>Courage is not mere physical prowess. It is not the capacity to endure suffering, pain and agony patiently. Going into dark alone, playing with a snake or tiger, fighting with the robbers unexpectedly met, may be the acts of courage; but they do not reveal the full meaning of courage.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Oh!</b> is ‘courage’ something to do with the ‘intellect’ or ‘mind’ which science couldn’t unravel even NOW?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">GRK</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">: Ravi, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">’courage’ is a psycho-physical phenomena</b>. Its generating centre is in the mind and intellect. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hence, the greatest courage is the ‘intellectual’ courage</b>. Realizing that each one of us IS alone in this life and world is itself a great act of rare courage. In fact, most of us are frightened to think that we are born alone into this world and THAT we have to face and confront life alone by each one of us.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">: If it sounds so simple, WHY and HOW do we fear THEN? <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">GRK</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">: <u>Our fear to accept life as an alone process is due to our sense to possess gadgets, house, wealth, wife, husband, children, subordinates and friends as devices (rudders) to overcome our feeling of insecurity</u>. All these DO fail and will not be of much help in assuring us of our security. So we resort to ideologies, religions, power, and status and then at last to the thought of God<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">! – </b>With<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>all these coming <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">handy</i> as measures of security to our aloneness<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">!</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Am afraid to ask if this is ‘helplessness’-If NOT, what else?) <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">None of these possessions, obsessions and attachments could give humans a sense of security or sense of fulfillment.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">: What is the greatest courage THEN for ordinary mortals like me?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">GRK</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Well, the greatest courage it to face life as alone-process and accept it, confront it and live with it!</b> As such it needs a great courage for a human to accept life and death with the same equanimity. Humans need the rarest courage to accept death as part and parcel of life. After all, death is not cessation of life, but fulfillment of it. It is not dissolution of life, but culmination of it. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Death is not shattering of life but fruition of it</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">: Onto that, is death a ‘fixed’ or a static phenomenon?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">GRK</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">: Death does not take place at a particular point of time in our life. It is a simultaneous process along with living itself. We die every day, every minute, and step by step, as we live on. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Thus life and death are a continuous bi-polar process</b>. After all death is the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sumnum bonum</i> of life. It is the termination nay a conclusion of life itself. It is an ‘<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">octave</b>’ of life song. Death is NOT an-end phenomena, but an everyday process of life.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">In other words, life does not mean mere pre-determined “dragging of feet” mechanically and the passing of time. It is a ‘live’ process, at the same time simultaneously perishing or dying at every moment.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">: How does one make an attempt to realize WHAT you said<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">GRK</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">: To realize that death is inseparable part of life and to understand that our life and our entity is not permanent on this earth, we need a great courage <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">nay</i> a rare courage. <b>This courage is possible when only we realize the fundamental truth or fact of life; that death is another side of life-or other embankment to the river of life</b>. This very realization is a greatest benediction and peace <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">nay</i> courage. When we attain this courage, THEN only it gives us the real and true courage AND that is an ecstasy, a liberation, a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">nirvana</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">nay</i> a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">moksha</i> by itself. Do you get the point, Ravi<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">: No way, my conditioning does not allow me to say YES right away to your thoughts and views on courage. Need to munch. Kindly give me some time.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">GRK</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">: Take your time. Hope you understand this fundamental ‘juice’ of life. Thanks for your time. Allow me to leave now. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ravi:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Thanks a ton once again<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>Shri.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> GRK. </b>See you soon<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>I can’t wait to talk to you next Friday on ‘Religion and Culture’<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">!<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Folks, some of you realized souls would have <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">gotten</i> and cherished the LIFE ‘juice’ on ‘courage’, many souls like me would need time to munch. That’s better rather than ‘disagreeing-agree’, like most Indian politicians do,<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Isn’t it? </b>What do you like to share, especially our brethren in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Slovenia</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Saudi Arabia</b> who are silent readers of our blogs and whose numbers are increasing, not to forget readers in the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">US</b> of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A</b> where the number of readers have crossed 2000<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">!<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">W</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">ishing you ALL a ‘rocking’ weekend and hope India rocks tomorrow in the Cricket world cup final.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ofcourse, the ‘Lankan Lions’ roar and are raring to go for the coveted cup<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">!</b> May the best team win, isn’t it<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">? </b>And we all would celebrate, whoever wins<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">! Ultimately, the wonderful ‘team’ game CRICKET would be the eventual winner! <o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">With Love,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ravi</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">chander Venkatraman<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>Ravichander Venkatraman(Ravi)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06771527454067841681noreply@blogger.com1