Who am I?

“I” is the most illusionary word in the dictionary. We often use it to refer to things that do not exist, or to talk about things that are either less or more than the original. In other words, ‘I’ refers to falsified ego. If I have to tell you the truth, therefore, I am not this ego that persuades me to believe that I am smaller or bigger than someone else. I am what I am. I simply ‘am’!

I am not this hands that write this essay, for it is just a small part of this most complicated and complex entity, my body. I am not this eye, for it often sees things that do not exist and make me believe that they do and it does not see things that truly exist – such as God! I am not this nose that has now almost forgotten how to cherish the beautiful fragrance of flowers. I am not this limbs that often walk the path of, or perform, adversity. I am perhaps not what ‘I’ am.

In reality I am the innocence, creativity, satisfaction, love, detachment, forgiveness and integration. But this “I” is not any one of them.

I am a bundle of responsibility. I am a son who needs to fulfill the dreams of my parents who bartered their sweats to bring me up. I am a going-to-be parent myself, who needs to be responsible like what my parents are. I am a student who needs to (apparently write a CIA) be responsible enough to succeed a course that is pursued. I am a citizen that needs to justify the cost of my motherland. I am an employee who needs to be sincere and loyal. I am everything that this world has made me to be. What about that 'I' that existed even before I came in this earth?

I am primarily the part of the universe in which great things like love exists. I am the undeniable and eternal part and parcel of God the image of which reflects in my heart. Yet my responsibility to make that reflection clear and apparent is basically what “I” am.

I am a human looking for the answer to the question: who I am? Even after answering the question, perhaps I do not know the answer! 

What is a human?

Upon reflection and having lost in a reverie looking into this blank white page wondering what human being is, I just realized that human is indeed a blank paper in which he writes the words either of wisdom or follies. Just as my writing a good, reflective and sincere paper in this page would determine the extent of marks that I would get from my teacher (apparently I am writing this for an assignment), things are quite the same with life. There is someone, high, up above, yet everywhere who monitors every word that we write in this page of life, and that is the…clichéd, overly talked about, undefined entity, whom people often refer to as God!

Human, as I understand having researched my heart out in the field of spirituality, is an image of God the almighty. Saying so looks so simple, yet this is often not understood in its complete sense. We err, we misbehave, we go astray and so forth; we do things that an image of God, ideally, ought not to do. But alas, it is ironically humans themselves who need to understand in their full consciousness that they are now a blurred, hazy, distorted and obscure image of the original. 

I would immediately like to digress from the hectic debate of 21st century: Who defines good or bad? Or who defines morality or goodness? I would counter those debates only if I wanted to defend badness. 

Human being for me, therefore, is the embodiment of innocence that cherishes the nature and its beauty and acknowledges the entity that created it. Humans are those creative units of this universe that define and reflect the beauty of universe itself. Humans are those creatures bounded, without complains to the path of Dharma and righteousness. Humans are those instruments that resonate to the rhythm and contralto of divine love. Human is a drop of the ocean that streams together and collectively losing its own identity, in its greater identity of being a ‘human’. Human is a quintessence of detachment and forgiveness that defines itself for the existence of universal love. Human is ultimately, that life which has no meaning until it gets connected to the power that created it (an inspired definition!).

Having defined humans thus, I would rather assess, all to my chagrin, that there are but a few “HUMANS” in this earth!

The one who understands this is not intelligent but WISE!

Kuonki….morning bhi khabi night thi…!

With a stark dim twilight of the dusk what results is the darkness of night. The darkness along with its blinding affect also does one thing…herald the serene, joyful light of the morning.

Well, day and night appears everyday. What’s so enchantingly philosophical about it?

‘Indranayan Jyotish Vidyalaya’, an independent and an exclusive astrological organization based in Bangalore, India, has something uncanny to say about the very common phenomenon of day and night.

Some of the eminent analysts and astrologers of the organization with their unfailing clairvoyance and ability to analyze things, say that the phenomenon of day and night function as a daily re-occurring microcosmic subtle indication of a greater macro-cosmic occurring of the similar king of phenomenon.

It explains that exactly as the night appears, that can be directly related to a period of time or an ‘age’ that denotes this night-like darkness in the form of the existence of a period of time during which people loose their innate sense of righteousness. The period therefore should be characterized by darkness. The period which, in Hindu scriptures, is referred to as 'Kali Yuga’. And this is the period in which we the people of the current generation dwell in.

And interestingly, no matter how clichéd it might sound, “after this prolonged vicious darkness, morning is surely nor far,” said Swami Vitulukrishnaiyer, who has spent his whole life in the field of astrology, and whatever he has predicted hitherto, has never failed to come true.

Through his experience, learning and an innate sense of divine accomplishment he claims to have experienced an eccentric feeling of a ‘vibrational’ effect, a sudden change in the cosmic activity that is not likely to be felt unless a change of an epochal nature is evident in this world.

He relates his experience as a testimony to the predictions of many scriptures of the past most important of which is the one given by ‘Bhrigu Rishi’ a saint and astrologer supposedly having had divine powers. He, 2000 years ago, had predicted that after the year 1970, there will be a great shift in the cosmic activity of the universe heralding a complete change in humans and the functioning of this would in totality. And it is after the year 1970 also, that Swami Vitulukrishnaiyer started sensing this ‘change’ in the ‘vibrational effect’.

This partly also explains the ‘Mayan Calendar’ of the ancient tribes of America which also predicted a change that would occur during the same period, a shift of the age of ‘pieces’ to that of ‘Aquarians’.

So what does all this mean? “A change of such nature and magnitude is only possible if the world has marked a final epiphany in the evolution of human kind. It could be possible that the most powerful divine force of the universe has taken its birth to transform this world and that we are either unaware or ignorant about it” said Swami.

If, at all, this was to be true, what else is needed to be done, except…….”wake up dude, the sun has already risen!” 

A fiction Report - you don't use your brain if your believe this!!!

Age-less beauty, now a reality? 

Health is wealth and beauty, treasure.

People, since times immemorial have been searching answers for questions as thus: Can beauty be ageless? Utopian writers have always specified a “yes” in terms of Arts and literature. But what about the physical beauty that is apparently the most important ‘x’ factor for youths? And unfortunately no poetic explanation and platonic verbosity is of help for generation of today as far as the concept of beauty is concerned.

Scientist of the Asian Institute of Miraculous Drugs (AIMD), based in Bangalore, India, has ultimately come by an answer that might interest the beauty-conscious youths of today. Dr. Philip Marvel, an experienced researcher and scientist of AIMD claims to have discovered a drug that, to the surprise of people, can really make beauty ‘ageless’!

How does it work? The drug is developed, through intense research and findings, by fusing the genes of humans and the animals which live for more number of years – animals such as tortoise! When this drug is consumed by humans, the normal growth and changes of the body as well as the skin prolongs, sustaining the youthful features of humans such as the beautiful wrinkle-less skin.

The apparent question that appears is that if the genes of two different entities are fused, will there not be a confusion in the personality of the human, or in other words, if humans consume the human-tortoise fused gene, will his personality depict the tortoise behaviorally  or other wise?

Dr. Philip Marvel explains that the genes that will be fused are only those that plays the role of bodily beauty and growth and not any behaviors as such.

What ever complexity might entail or what ever risks the drug might involve, the answer the youngster were yearning for has finally metalized. Now all it takes for a youngster to be eternally beautiful is to grab a tablet or two of the miraculous drug and make one’s beauty ageless……down to the explanation of any practical human and not the old poetic, utopian intricacies!

A small objective thought process!

Identity???

The way by which a person is known to this world, or the image that a person forms to the society to be recognized can be defined as ‘identity’. Being popular or common, being rich or poor, being aristocratic or downtrodden are all part of identity that we differentiate humans with. A person is identified as kind, compassionate, rude or cruel all for the impression that one has created in the eyes of the people based on their inherent distinction between two obvious opposites of qualities.

The Chinese philosophy of Yin and Yang is documentary in substantiating this image of the equal opposite of good and bad that is projected in a person. This philosophy believes in the non-existence of anything without the presence of both the positive and negative aspect of qualities in it. If summer exists in Yang, winter becomes the Yin, and if Yin projects femininity, Yang forms masculinity. Not in a different line, thus, is the opposite of ‘good’ in Yin and ‘bad’ in Yang drawn in forming the judgments of the qualities of human beings.

The factors determining the identity of a personality is many. Physically a person can be identified as strong or weak, emotionally one can be positive for happiness, joy, laughter or enjoyment and negative in anger, taking to tears, agony and frustration. Mentally one can be sound or unsound, and morally one can be ethical or unethical, kind or rude, compassionate or cruel, natural or unnatural.

Popularity of a person is one big factor that contributes to one’s identity. Yet popularity is determined by factors such as talents, affluence, appearance, work, affiliation to already popular people and deeds.

Great spiritual leaders who preached the essence of living and the meaning of life are identified as ambassadors of the God while people who perpetrate human cruelty, terrorism, criminal offences such as rape, murder or theft are deemed to be the envoy of evil in humans.

Determinants and elements of such distinctions are endless. What appears to be macrocosmically dominant is the general disparity of human identity between the two big qualities of ‘good’ and ‘bad’.

Essay

Should handwriting be an emphasis?

Gone are the days where writers of imminent stature or those wanting to be one used to sit under a tree and write a poem with the juices of their mental geniuses and dexterous abilities placed high. What takes now for a written piece of article to exist is merely the tip of fingers! Thanks to computer revolution.

Technological innovation and our heavy dependence on them, as thought by many, makes us disconnected with the conventional ways of human lives. Conventional methods are assumed to be more important than the new. This concept incorporates the example of our gradual indifference towards the habit of writing with our hands. This habit used to be a matter of our ability to shape beauty in not just what is written but also the way it is written. Beauty, therefore really seemed to be shaped by the way a thing looks like and not merely what it contents.

Sit in front of the computer and move your fingers ferociously, your work is done – the benefits - less time consumed and an additional advantage of auto spelling correction and being able to cut and paste, add and subtract anything and anywhere in the article unlike having to tear off the entire handwritten page if a little error is committed!

But no! Things have not changed too drastically. Not everything that we write in life can be done away with the speed of your newly adjusted fingers. What about the examination? We still need to write with our hands and taking a chance of ignoring the importance of handwriting could seriously hit us hard! Needless to mention, those friends of us who came to us lamenting about the low marks that they got in their papers for a major reason of lack of neatness and good handwriting and other dexterous techniques of beautification; are documentation of this fact!

But the question which is rather a mysterious one and more hard-hitting than this, is that whose mistake it is exactly? It is wrong for the teacher to expect one’s students to present one’s paper neatly? Yet it is the students’ mistake that they have chosen to move along with the time and they neither have good handwriting nor do they chose to have it, having realized that they have now a better choice of writing better, faster and easier – in a computer? Is it the teacher’s mistake having to correct hundreds of papers of the students who have left their handwriting no more comprehensible or it is the students’ mistake who, having influenced by the computer, no more remember how to be neat? It is the teacher’s irresponsibility or the students’ carelessness?

It is most unfortunate for a student to have scored less in a very important examination just for the messy handwriting that he writes in. Yet neither the age, nor the computer; neither the teacher not the student can be blamed for this. However, there are categories of students who inherently are born with lack of basic art such as neatness or carefulness. Computer’s influence isn’t much the determinant of their state. What about them? Not all questions can be answered.

However, the important thing to remember is that trying to evaluate whose mistake it is, is not going to take us anywhere near our goal. It is us who needs to pass the examination and not the teacher. It is therefore extremely important in our part to rectify our limitations and write things better. A solution could be by limiting our dependency on computer and practicing writing in the paper more than just being carried away by the mere joy of speedy fingertips!

In the process there are much more benefits that we can avail. Using computer less will save much of the electricity! It will improve our handwriting and what more – it will help us pass our examination!!!