life -- as a journey

We come into the world as kids. When we are small we hardly understand anything. We keep enjoying at the expense of trouble for our parents. As we enter the school, our fight with life starts. We compete, we learn, we fight and we play.

But as we enter higher secondary (class 7-10) , we compete harder and we slowly forget the enjoyments and plays we had as kids. The later part introduces us to a feeling for the other sex. Everyday we feel we are in love with a new girl. Slowly the schooldays come to an end and with it ends our plays, our pranks and our day-dreams.

When we enter the junior college(class 11- 12) we have only one objective: to crack IIT entrance or a medical entrance. Some of the naughtiness concerning the other sex still remains. But it certainly loses its priority. With hard work and determination we get into an engineering college.

As we get into an engineering college, we are introduced to new styles and new way of living. There are no days and nights, just study time and rest time. Friends are still there to help each other. You are introduced the society and its rules. In the beginning you think that you can change it but as time passes you realize its too big to change. Slowly and steadily you complete your engineering but still you wonder whether the knowledge will be of any use to u.

At the end of graduation you decide to complete your qualification with a MBA. You enter into a MBA college. As soon as u enter u think that its a wrong decision, as it really hurts. You hardly get time to sleep. Soon u realize that being a manager is not easy. But slowly u adjust and the environment refreshes u. You give more than u knew u could. At the end u complete ur MBA but you seem tired. Soon you gather urself and get ready to face another challenge : work-life.

two min for urself

In this world where everything moves so fast, we miss to listen to our own self. This world where with each day the violence and hate is increasing, we miss our true friend and we keep on following the thoughtless footsteps of others. We turn a blind-eye to our conscience and to our inner voice. With each day as we move away from our inner-self we keep adding a burden on our conscience, which slowly becomes too heavy to carry.
Thus my friends try to listen to your inner-self. The world has become so disturbing that we may not listen its voice every moment. So my friends take two minutes from ur busy lifestyle and try to listen to your real self. For this there are many meditation methods, but I say the best one is to sit in a comfortable position (not in a lousy position), in a quite environment, close our eyes and try to relax. After some time automatically we will start hearing our real self (i.e. obviously if we want to hear to it).
So my friends, dont carry a burden but try to release it by understanding ur only friend in the world - ur "self."

FINDING OUR PLACE

We visualize others as a particular number in the maths of this world. Each of them are a certain number ( a 3 or a 100). But in the total maths of the world we are not able to find the number which represents us. So throughout our life we try to find the number that represents us. Am I a 150 or 6645?

The above paragraph tries to explain the search within each of us. The search to know Who we are?, What is our purpose in Earth?, Where do we fit in the System?, etc. Throughout our life we analyze many people and try to find their nature, attitude, etc. But when we try to analyze ourselves we fall short of words( or numbers). Thus it is easy to know about others but tough to know about ourselves.

"The biggest Journey, is the Journey inside."

ARE WE READY ?

India and China are emerging as the economic leaders of the world. But are we ready ? R we mentally and economically ready ? The world is looking towards China and India to take up the leader's role. The inflation, the GDP and the share markets say a different story. We Indians have to first believe in ourselves.

The major problem is that we Indians are not able to find our originality. We are not able to find that "thing" which makes us different from other countries. It is very difficult to find it. India for ages has been a mixture of cultures because of the time and again invasions. So to say frankly our culture is a mixture of all cultures. The thing that sets us apart is the wonderful and harmonic balance that India exhibits from this mixture. From the mixture of all cultures and religions arises a culture which is based on humanity. It consists of the good things of all cultures and yet is different from all of them.

But are we economically strong enough to take the lead. I ask, if we are not then who is ? We have companies which are always looking for growth. We have a population whose average age is below 25. We have managed the food crisis very efficiently. We have even stabilized the financial sector from the zolts of the "mortgage crisis." We have a PM like Dr. Singh, a FM like Chidambaram and a RBI Gov. like Reddy. Why should we even think ourselves inferior to the Westerners ? Besides the real strength comes from within.

So we Indians should believe in ourselves and should get ready to take the leadership role.

MAN WITH A VISION

Its better to be a man with vision but no skills, than to be a man with skills but no vision. Because skills can be developed but vision cannot. A vision is the combination of a dream and the ability to achieve it. A man dreams only things that he can achieve. A man without a vision is like a person lost in the vast loneliness of a desert. A vision is the driving force behind any action. A person with a vision is destined to achieve his success faster than a person without it. A man with a vision is always focussed and happy, as he knows with every step he moves closer to his goal.

Now-a-days many youngsters follow a path only because their friends did so, or because their parents told them to. But there are some who set their eyes on their goal and move forward to achieve it. They are persons with a vision. No matter what happens they do not move their sight from their target.

Every person has been sent into this world to do a particular thing. Everyone has a distinct role to play. Many persons ask, "how can i know why has God sent me into this world?" Our every action is a step towards completing our role in this world. Vision arises from this distinct role. A Vision guides a person towards the completion of his role in this world. Thus a vision always has a God-part in it. Every person can feel this eternal feeling whenever he acts towards achieving his Vision. If a person does not feel so, then his Vision is either corrupted(his vision will never complete his role) or his Vision has parts which do not fulfill his role in this world or his act will not take him nearer to his uncorrupted Vision.

Thus my friends seek ur Vision and act to achieve it; for it the sole reason of your existence in this Universe.

Where are the angels ?

This picture taken on Friday shows a monastry destoyed by cyclone Nargis near Kyauktan in the delta region south of Yangon.


A nurse and a soldier help a patient (C) to cross a bridge in the city of Beichuan, located around 150 km north of Chengdu, in Sichuan Province May 16, 2008.

While the world is busy witnessing the doom, I m busy in crafting my life towards paradise. Its been long since i posted in this blog, but i was busy and moreover i was not finding anything substantial. Well u find it very difficult to be a passive passerby when there is something happening which u know is wrong but u cant stop it. The world now seems to be just an excuse to its every unjustified compromise. The unstopping apathies and continuous "judgment days" are the very evidence of the self-called curses that this world has brought onto itself. While the half-awake world is living without a moment for the "complimentary doom" it brought with the "unstoppable and incomparable development", the doom is planning for a sudden and guerrilla attack. Human race still cant hunt a reason for unification; how can it stand against the will of the devils and gods.

"Hope" is still the reason for a smile and "hope" shall be the reason for life.

man on mission II - the human side of X

On February 5 I left the blog-story "Man on mission" incomplete bcoz story like this certainly deserves more than just one post. We have seen the childhood and youth of X. We have also seen how he has grown into a terrorist with excellence. But can X be changed into a better person? Yes it can be done. Is it by catching him and physically torturing him? Is it by hanging him till death? No, it can only be done by making the soft side of him arise again. Instead of torturing him physically, show him acts of human goodwill. Show him these acts every second, 24*7*365. If repeated acts of cruelty have made him a curse then repeated acts of goodwill will, atleast minimise his level of insanity. Make him do acts of goodwill like gifting poor children food&cloth and helping handicapped people. Thus, instead of targeting X we will target the evil inside him. Show him the people whose life he has destroyed. He will start hating his own "acts of evil." Then show him the life of saints like Mother Teresa, Mahatma Gandhi, etc. He can see the only way to turn his bads into good is by following the path of those saints. Thus our X, who was a terrorist, will become a much better person.
So my friends we should never target a person who is bad but the badness inside him. We should always try to change a person from negativity to positivity. No person in this world wants to be negative but the situations and surroundings makes him so. So lets give everyone, "a second chance."

Man on mission - the rising of X

The 21st century gave rise to the most dangerous form of "man on a mission" - the terrorist. So what goes inside the mind of a terrorist? How to eradicate terrorism completely? the mind of a terrorist is quite similar to that of an assassin, only that the assassin kills for money whereas terrorist thinks that he kills for religion. lets begin with considering the terrorist or the assassin as Mr. X and try to get into his mind.
The childhood of X has been a very stressful one. the ability to survive in the situation made him tough for the times ahead. An incident or series of incidents have taken away the innocence in his life. Mr. X is now a tough man with mental toughness higher than others. this tough mentality probably makes him physically tough too. He is focussed, he is determined and if intelligent then it makes him superior over others of his kind. he searches for the aim in life and if he gets the right one then he grows up to become a hero, but if he gets the wrong one then he becomes the ultimate bad man. But our Mr. X gets homage in the arms of the most dangerous and ruthless terrorist of our times. He learns all the tricks of the business. His teacher too, is now afraid of him. the pace of his learning, his intelligence and cunningness really scares his master. One fine day the recruit is sent into the field to complete his first task. He walks into the "chakravyu" and comes out of it leaving all the spokes of the wheel shattered to pieces. Still there is no sign of who did it. his work leaves his teacher shocked and bewildered. he is far better than the teacher imagined.
What makes Mr. X so tough. is it the teachings or the volcano inside him. Everytime he is assigned a mission he sees it as his revenge against the cruel world. the happenings in his life have made him a man without emotions. So how can X be changed into a human being again? Leave aside changing him, can he atleast be caught? who will catch him? can terrorism be ever eradicated from earth? I will answer all these questions in the next post ... let the excitement grow a bit....

THE END OF TIME

Dooms day ... is it really coming? the probability has certainly increased. the weather has given a reason to believe it. the summers are getting hotter and the winters cooler. is man self-destructive? but how can God create something so beautiful and at the same time make it suicidal. i have seen lysosomes under a microscope and they are not beautiful. OR is it that the most intelligent being that God has ever made knows to live in extremes. Or in the 32 chromosomes of man lies a part that makes man "the ultimate survivor."
It certainly is early to say. but its not worth to take chance and depend on adjustability of a species. that is what the difference between dinosaurs and man. man can see his future and can plan to overcome any difficulty.

So what are the different dooms day scenarios:

1. global warming - it can only be avoided by awareness and active actions against pollution.
2. extreme cold - this is the result of change of ocean currents and is also a result of pollution and environmental change. it can be avoided by the same way as GW.
3. asteroid or comet fall - i believe that we are all aware of what it is. the remedy are many and the possibility of this doom's day looks bleak.
4. e-destruction - this begins when a internet virus causes all the havoc and the computers go mad. the control over the nuclear missile is going to end the world.
5. biotechnology & nanotechnology - biotechnology is a balancing act. through these two sciences man is trying to be God and I only hope that God does not play wrath through them.
6. terrorism and war - man has no control on himself. peace is now easy to say but difficult to get.
7. energy and oil crisis - this will happen when all the sources are over. the only solution is to look for renewable sources of nature.
8. financial crisis - the great depression and so many major market are replicas of the most dreadful one. when economy is no more than man turns into a beast.
   

even the thoughts of these dooms day makes me nervous. what will happen when they come together? the best solution for humans is to become "humans"- caring, social, intelligent, balancing, God-believing, hard-working and hopeful.

"Thee art in my soul, Thee art in my mind, Thee art in my body, Thee art in me,
But is me a part of Thee or is me, Thee"

NO MORE REGRETS

What I've Done

In this farewell There’s no blood
There’s no alibi ‘Cause I’ve drawn regret
From the truth Of a thousand lies

So let mercy come And wash away
What I’ve done

I’ve faced myself
To cross out what I’ve become
Erase myself
And let go of what I’ve done

Put to rest What you thought of me
Well I cleaned this slate With the hands
Of uncertainty

So let mercy come
And wash away
What I’ve done

I’ve faced myself
To cross out what I’ve become
Erase myself
And let go of what I’ve done

For what I’ve done
I’ll start again
And whatever pain may come
Today this ends
I’m forgiving what I’ve done

I’ve faced myself
To cross out what I’ve become
Erase myself
And let go of what I’ve done

What I’ve done
Forgiving what I’ve done

A MOMENT OF AWE

TOP 10 BREAKTHROUGHS OF '07

1. Researchers Turn Skin Cells to Stem Cells Using a virus to reprogramme skin cells, two teams of scientists managed to skirt the greatest ethical issue facing regenerative medicine — the destruction of human embryos. Groups led by Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University and Junying Yu of University of Wisconsin coaxed a type of skin cell called fibroblasts into forming muscle, heart, fat and nerve tissues without using any eggs.

2. Enzymes Convert Any Blood Type to O In April, Henrik Clausen, a professor at the University of Denmark, published research in Nature describing a way to convert any kind of blood into Type O — the type that almost anyone can tolerate. He discovered enzymes that shear the problem-causing sugars from the surfaces of A, B and AB type red blood cells. Produced by bacteria, the molecular machines could theoretically turn any kind of blood into Type O.

3. Mummified Dinosaur Excavated Paleontologists from England’s University of Manchester have excavated the mummy of a nearly intact plant-eating dinosaur. Preserved by minerals for over 65 million years, the petrified body is in such pristine condition that the researchers could see a striped pattern on what remains of its scales.

4. Planet Discovered That Could Harbour Life After Stéphane Udry and his colleagues found a pair of planets that they believed could harbour life, other researchers disputed which of the two is most habitable, but agreed that the distant solar system is worthy of further study. Udry inferred that the most promising object is slightly larger than earth, circles its sun in 18 days, and may be rocky.

5. Genetically altered Mice shed fear Scientists used genetic engineering to create mice that show no fear of felines, a development that may shed new light on mammal behaviour and the nature of fear itself. Scientists at Tokyo University said they were able to switch off a mouse’s instinct to cower at the smell or presence of cats — showing that fear is genetically hard-wired and not learned through experience.

6. Transparent Material as Strong as Steel Engineering researchers at the University of Michigan have created a material similar to “transparent aluminum”. In the issue of Science, Nicholas Kotov showed that clay is good for far more than making bricks and expensive skincare products. The earthen material is made up of phenomenally strong nanometer-sized particles. When arranged neatly between thin layers of a sticky but weak plastic, the tiny bits of dirt act as the ultimate reinforcements — giving the ordinary material extraordinary strength.

7. Monkey Cloned to Produce Stem Cells At Oregon Health and Science University, Shoukhrat Mitalipov and his team cloned a Rhesus Monkey and used the resulting embryo to create stem cells. Until then, the impressive feat had been performed only with mice. In November, the team reported in Nature a surprising key to their success: avoiding ultraviolet light and dyes because they can damage delicate cells.

8. Transistors Get Way Smaller Intel announced that the element hafnium and some new metal alloys will allow them to make the millions of switches on their microprocessors far smaller. Gordon Moore called it the biggest change in transistor technology since the 1960s. The accomplishment allows Intel to squeeze features on each chip down to 45 nanometers from the current standard of 65 nanometers. But the greatest benefit may be an increase in energy efficiency.

9. Chimpanzees Make Spears for Hunting Two anthropologists watched in amazement as several female chimpanzees crafted spears and used them to brutally hunt smaller mammals. Following a troop of the primates in a Senegalese savanna, Jill Pruetz of Iowa State University and Paco Bertolani of Cambridge observed them breaking the branches off of trees, picking leaves from the sides, and sharpening the tips to deadly points.

10. Soft Tissue from T Rex Leg Bone Analyzed This spring, the oldest patient at a medical centre in Boston was a 68-m-yr-old T Rex. Experts analyzed biological molecules from the creature. Working with soft tissue from a leg bone that was extremely well-preserved in sediments, John Asara read the chemical recipe of a protein that served as a springy structural element in its bones. He concluded that it has a lot in common with chickens.