Self police

Hello readers

Hope you all are doing well.

We have 7 days left in this year and it shall pass fast and a fresh calendar will be viewed for the next 365 days.

We all are in the usual buzz and wonderment of how this year passed, it seemed like yesterday was first of January 2016?  Is what we hear each year, That is just an illusion we always end up living in.

There are a certain groups of people who also talk about repenting for the sins they have committed this year and how to wash them off!

Sorry for the guys who believe in such stuff because if you think logically how can you do it, it is like saying I am going to stick a broken iron bar with cement?!.

The crux is that only the sinner knows the way to wash of his own turpitudes.

Some people just burst out with emotions and confessing to on their misdeeds if I could call them so.

For a criminal who is been convicted in a heinous crime you know , he is petrified of only person now that is death, because the soul in this person has turned into a repenting machine and telling the body that it wants him to live.

Oh what a great confusion we all are into? Can we not just lead life like a straight line; is there a rule that it has to be like a trip to the Corsica or the Alps?

Let us imagine this: the world without jails, war, no harm to nature, no fights over race, religion and so on and the whole of earth is living in peace in harmony!

We all felt a little happy when we read the above lines  I am sure you will agree with me but the reality is actually alarming. Yes it is because many parts of the world are living in fear, and they are just waiting to kill each other! What a tragedy.

The Syrian war is such a pain to see and imagine what the common citizens like you and me will be undergoing there. Mosul is almost moving towards its end.

What can we do from here is just pray each day their situation improves.

Do you know the most amazing part is that we know what we are doing and we exactly know what is wrong and what is right? Yes it is the truth and I feel it is obvious because every human has a public face and private face, are you thinking I am talking about two faced people no! I am not , what I mean to say is that there are certain places we open up and someplace where we behave in  a formal way and that is normal , the reason I state it as a public and a private face is because I think that is the easiest way to convey my thought.

The public face is the outline of you and how other people perceive you.

The private face is you, and you only and this ‘you’ knows all about the public and private angle of...you again!

Lot of ‘yous’ in the sentence! But it is inevitable.

Unless we are not intoxicated with any kind of drugs I am sure we will be in our senses. We all are well aware when we have err.

The only argument is do we realize it soon or keep repeating same mistake again and again and realize it when we or on the deathbed or on the gallows!

At this moment when the year is about to end I would like to say to all the people who are going to read this blog, be vigilant on yourself then I am sure the people around you will automatically not behave unreasonably with you and, even if they do so they will learn something that day and try not to repeat it next time and rather improve next time.

Self-police is a concept which is now practiced in correction centers in the US and UK to build this awareness among the convicts which is intended to help them when they are out of prison. And if you ask me the question: “How can we follow something which was practiced in a prison”. My reply would be “You like the low waist jeans concept where do you think originated from”?

Basically it means you police yourself and correct yourself, numerous organizations implemented this technique as an audit control which will first check its own records then call the external auditors.

Self-clean up is always better is what I feel.

Try this for yourself I feel you will feel better and cleansed from inside and sleep a happy person that night.

Life is like a bicycle, you need to balance it to keep going

-Albert Einstein

If you want to test a man, give him power.

-Abraham Lincoln

The best part is when you start practicing this. I think we will be our own boss and we won’t give a chance for anyone else to point fingers at us.

Thanks for your time, have a great week ahead.

Are you Mr Nosey?

Hello reader

Hope you are doing well.

When you look at something around, you get a stream of thoughts on your mind that according to learned scholars is your basic thinking model of how your brain looks at this world.

I Will give you a small example when you look at a poster on the street of some product you may perceive what is the good feature of the commodity displayed, your friend may like the price of the, this is a simple concept that we almost aware of, but do you know the way we perceive shows our thinking model and our attitude, let us discuss more on this.

From the time in our lives we start building our perceptions about this world and foster over our own meanings we unknowingly end up in learning how the society works, how processes work and that they call “meaningfulness”.

But all good things will have cons in this case what is that, well you know humans become over smart to such an extent that they finally cheat themselves.

A small instance, you see two people talking pointing at you and laughing there is  a chance you  jump into a conclusion that they are laughing at you, in worst cases you may end up rebuke them only to embarrassed they were laughing at a banner which was just in your line of sight.

Ego is good for humans actually because without this self-personality we would lack a character, if you read the above line again there are 3 words which are synonymous yup you are right I am talking about ego, self-personality and character which one and the same.

We call ourselves adults and sometimes behave in such a way that we are not fit to be called as one.

We snoop on almost everyone possible in this world and we forget that there something even called as “minding our own business”

Why does this happen? We all have inherited this quality from our ancestors the apes they used this technique to gather food, a senior in the family used to  shout when he locates a branch full of fruits or lush green foliage this activity is called as ‘echoing’ in evolution biology hearing this call all the other family used to jump to that particular branch of the tree or to the place and share that food.

If you have noticed in big offices where there is a cubical arrangement people suddenly take their eyes of their workstations when someone makes a weird noise or a loud laugh or a cry or you hear a rubble, this is your last remaining quality of the ape in you which is still not mutated and vanished from us like the tail of an primate.

It’s about time and I seriously say it is about time, we start minding our own business try to do something meaningful, I don’t expect anyone to do something good to society atleast be good to your family and friends and yourself, that would propel you to think atleast and if you put your thinking image in the mind of the guy next door there is a hope this society will improve.

We are judging people around us without even knowing them, when we end up in this mode first let us think do they mean anything to us in our lives and also what will we get if we just snoop or gossip on someone.

Are snoopers snooping on their own pains?  Probably.

-Martin Amis-famous British Novelist.

Think again.

Thanks for your time.

Purely scientific

Hello readers

Hope you guys are doing well.

The intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.

The above definition is what is called as science.

I had been to my cousin’s wedding recently as you know the pass time these days if you don’t meet any people of your own age group is your ‘smart phone’ I know we could talk to some elders as well, in my case I chose my phone.

From the beginning when I started reading the general anthropology which was a part of my syllabus embedded in various subjects in the various levels of my education, I was fascinated how the older generations recorded, communicated and transferred information.

Particularly talking about Hinduism and the Vedas, I was reading about the family divisional systems as described in the Vedas the reason why I wanted to find this out is that, I actually wanted find out the actual origin of my own cult, just thinking about makes you feel happy try it, imagine your forefathers just being nomads in a lonely land and today you, in this silicon era!

So I found this beautiful and informative article about, the gotra system or clans, so to start from the basics what do we mean by Gotra or a clan you can call it a tribe or a group and also a root, so let us keep it as a representation of a group of people.

The time line is the mid of 1st millennium BCE (Before Christ era) and this is the first evidence of the existence of the gotra system, in Vedic India.

For example if we take a gotra called the Kashaya gotra it means that the people under the name of this gotra are direct descends of this maharishi or the great sage.

According to Indian mythology these  maharishis are considered the direct descendants of Lord Brahma  they are: Gautama, Bharadvaja, Vishvamitra, Jamadagni, Vasishtha, Kashyapa, Atri, Aghamarshana and Kaushika, so almost all Hindus who are defined by a gotra are considered to be the descendent of one of these Rishis, this was followed by Kula, and vamsha which stands for group of people performing rituals in a similar way and the dynasty which carry them forward.

Let me come to the scientific part of the subject, let us think for while why did the ancient Indians make this system of gotra, Kula and vamsha the answer is startling but impressive the motive behind this system is to curb inbreeding or incest (marriage of siblings) you know I was not shocked about the word incest, but as seriously was baffled by the level of knowledge and understanding those people because of whom we have a life today had.

Come-on the bad effects of close marriage and cross-cousin marriages is being discouraged by the English medicine since recently though the bible also is against cross cousin marriages they were still taking place.

The statistics show that there are some selected families in India who suffered from close marriage issues compared to the western countries this is because people in India are still following the old procedure of marriage atleast majority of them do, by comparing the birth charts, Kula, Gotra the progeny is made stronger which is convergent aimed at continuing the generation of that clan or group.

Simple but effective, yes these were the types of methods our great forefathers followed.

The identity

If someone asks you to introduce yourself, you would end up saying your name, your qualification and so on, what did the Brahmins do to identity themselves?

Well they created short notes which would identify them and they call it Pravara.

A Pravara consists of Rishis of whom he is a descendent of usually 3 Rishis are mentioned in the Pravara, sometimes even six Rishis can also be mentioned.

Kapi: Angirasa, Aamahaiya,Orukshaya

The grouping system of the ancients were brilliant and they targeted he cast system only to differentiate people based on their profession, Alas this system has been misused badly and many classes of people are facing problems.

The Synopsis is that the modern generations should think before condemning any system which was made by people long ago, because we are living  today through their survival and cultural systems history otherwise who knows we may have ended up as the dinosaurs  

We should imbibe inspiring thoughts and should follow the righteous path. If this is done then progress is sure and certain.

­-Yajur Veda

Thanks for your time have a great week ahead.

Stooge

Hello readers

How are you doing today?

We meet all types of people each day, some become our friends, many just pass by , among the people we meet we all have a general tendency to judge people, pass comment on each other and sometimes even mock at them, look at them as you are the superior and the latter worse than trash or vice-versa, do you think all of this is good to do and does it add any life to our years, or does it add only years to our life. Let us discuss.

Going back to the last sentence in the previous paragraph, let us meditate on this phrase “add life to our years or years to our life” well it seems too simple to understand, actually it is simple.

The first part says “add life to our years” which means, when we follow certain habits in life, it will give us satisfaction, peace of mind and also a good night’s sleep and self containment.

The second part “add years to your life” is not such a pleasant feeling it simply implies it is just adding years to this mortal body without being any use to  the environment around.

Who is a fool? Again an easy question, we normally say a person who does not understand how the world works? Is a fool, who can get easily cheated is a fool? Or who takes bad decision is also a fool. I agree with all of that but, I want to introduce you to a person who is leading a good life, he is not an idiot, who knows how the world works but still I feel he is fool and I call him a learned fool.

The person in question is not a great educationalist or a rationalist he is living within me and you, yes the sad truth we all behave like learned fool at times, I seriously do not mean any offence to anyone but as they say truth is bitter.

I remember sometime back I had written a blog about fools, I have a short lived memory, but I am clear in my mind that I had not spoken about this aspect.

Why I want to criticize this group of  given population and call them scholarly chumps is  because they behave in such a manner which seriously do not correlate age with their educational qualification or the background from where they come from.

They also forget basic manners at times and behave in a childish manner which will be an embracement for the folks of their family, friends and people around him/her.

If you ask me to be precise and name few qualities of these jesters here are they: always trying to find fault in others, mocking people for no reason, trying to copy others, bumping into conversations, trying to show the world they know everything including the big-bang theory, back answering people, peep into or rather poke into someone else’s business and snoop on them gossiping on them, assuming things without any basis.

There is another group of people whom I call negative fall guys! Because they spend half their life cribbing about what they don’t have, comparing what others have and pressuring family folks to get those which they do not have, grumbling on simple issues and absolutely no ability to take stress and reacting  like a rogue in all situations, treating money as the only valuable thing in the world giving least importance to feelings, emotions, family, friends.

Even people becoming emotional and bursting out with people who do not even care about them are also not wise, because the world is becoming a mean place where your grief is someone’s happiness and an entertainment to others, that is the illusion of life where a person does not realize until something worse happens to him and continues to take please in others pain until it happens to himself.

So do these people ever realize all these nuances any time before they leave this world? If they do, I feel that is the best thing that could happen to him.

If not then they will be in a situation where people try to throw stones inside a glass house trying to prove who is wiser!

These quotes are pertinent “Man lives less, dies more” and another famous quote “fools are not born they become”

-Anonymous

I thank you for your time, I hope you will take this in the right spirit and kick start your thinking engine and evaluate yourself accordingly.

Have a nice day ahead.