What is life?

I have been thinking for a long time about what we do in our life. We start by being taught in school, how to become a good citizens. We spend a great part of our childhood studying. And finally we get the diploma that will ensure us “the position we deserve”. We participate to increase of unemployment……….until we find a job.  Through hard tests we are accepted in the world of work. We perform a good professional career filled with activity and efforts……a lot of efforts…….till we fall down exhausted… But we are great professionals with our valuable market share.

Time keep on passing, and….we select new targets. We meet the sweetheart of our life, and promise a never ending love. Passionate hugs and here comes a baby into our home. Dammed night couldn’t close my eyes. We keep on advancing in the society trying to make the best of our time. We are the stars. Where ever we go and we are finally rich, but we need sometime more to triumph completely. O God ! One day they tell they can do without you. By this time you think getting crazy. You feel destroyed. You feel you lost means of communication; you realize you are cut-off from everything. Now time does not pass any longer. Still you are loosing it. You realize you have been living in the fog, in search of a silly target. You become walking Ghost. Trying to escape your enemies. You are only one longing hours to pass till your time comes.

The Bank Account of Life. Imagine there is a bank that credits our account each morning with Rs. 86,400/- It carries over no balance from day to day. Every “Evening” deletes whatever part of the balance we failed to use during the day. What we do ? Draw out every paisa, of course ! Each of us has such a “Bank”. Its name is TIME. Every morning, it credits us with 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off, as lost, whatever of this we have failed to invest to good purpose. It carries over no balance. It allows no overdraft. Each day it opens a new account for us. Each night it burns the remaining of the day. If we fail to use the day’s deposits, the loss is ours. There is no going back. There is no Drawing against the tomorrow. We must live in the present on to-day’s deposits. Invest it so as to get from it in the utmost in health, happiness, and success ! The clock is running. Make the most pf to-day.

To realize the value of One YEAR………… ask the student who failed in his class.

To realize the value of One MONTH…ask a mother who gave birth to a premature baby.

To realize the value of One WEEK……..Ask the editor of a weekly newspaper.

To realize the value of One HOUR….ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.

To realize the value of One MINUTE…ask a person who missed the train.

To realize the value of One SECOND…ask a person who just avoided an accident.

To realize the value of ONE MILLISECOND…ask the person who won a silver medal in the Olympics.

The whole life we accumulated money doing Day and Night job, never worried about our health and losing our health. Finally retired and whatever we have earned till the end of retirement is being used to cure our bad health.

We should treasure every moment that we have. And Treasure it more because we shared it with someone special, special enough to spend our time. And remember that time waits for no one. Yesterday is History. Tomorrow is mystery and to-day is a gift. That is why it is called …………the Present.

Upon this evaluation, an idea came to my mind on how to improve my life. I will take things easy. I will try to open my heart to my love. I will listen to the ones surrounding

Indian Philosophy’s

Indian philosophy’s focus is to determine the nature of that spirit or self which is the center of everything, the animating force which makes a person alive, alert and aware. It is consciousness, variously called the self, knower, seer, experienced or the witness. It knows no distinction of gender, nationality, race or religion. It is the unchanging and all pervading, transcending the limitations of time and space, birth and death. Ultimately it is the substratum or essence of the entire manifest universe.

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan wrote: “The philosophic attempt to determine the nature of reality may start with the thinking self or the objects of thought. In India the interest of philosophy is vision is turned outward, the rush of fleeting events man is the spirit that is the center of everything.”

Atmanam Viddhi or ‘know the self’ has become the rallying cry of sages who for millennia have represented the highest of Indian thought. The self is beyond the reach of the senses. So while we perceive the world around us, we are unable to perceive the self, which is its source. If the self is indescribable, how are we to know it?

Scriptures containing the message of realized ones can help us in this respect. In the Bhagavad-Gita Arjuna earnestly seeks to know the self in order to understand what action he should take on the battlefield at Kurukshetra. Responding to Arjuna’s queries, k Krishna, the realized one, describes the self: “the self, the spirit dwelling within this body, is always identical with the Supreme Being. It is free from identification with the body and mind. It is the seer, the witness, the true guide, the lord and supporter of all… it cannot be cut by weapons, burnt by fire, wet by water, or dried by the wind. The self, being ancient and everlasting, never takes birth and never dies… He who has realized oneness with the Supreme Being, who permeates all and in whom all exist, attains the vision of immortality and reaches the supreme state.”

Since the self is real and permanent, it is not within the purview of the ordinary mind or intellect of a human being experiences three states of consciousness: waking, sleeping and dreaming. The Dream State of consciousness is not considered to be real because, upon awakening, we realize that the world we experienced in the Dream State does not fit in with the waking state world. Because there are discrepancies between these two worlds, we reject the Dream State as unreal. The same can also be said of the waking state world, which we only assume to be real because we have no other standard with which to compare it. And certainly the sleep state world cannot be considered real because no world whatsoever is being perceived at the time of sleep. Thus not one of the three states of mind is real. Furthermore, it is obvious that none of these states is permanent.

In seeking what is real and permanent, we must unfold a fourth state of consciousness, which both goes beyond and at the same time includes these three. The fourth state is that three. The fourth state is that which manifests itself in meditation where the normal functioning of the mind is transcended.

When we close our eyes in meditation, the forms and events of the outside world no longer impinge on our consciousness, and we are able to focus our attention on our inner self, which is immortal and indivisible. Through continued practice of meditation we come to realize that not only is this self our own essential nature, but it is also permeates all of manifest creation.

God and Nature

Of all parts of Nature, only man puts his own interest before the needs of the system. How we can operate according to the altruistic laws of Nature, which is the same as God.

"Every molecule, every cell, every organ ... has self-interest. When every level in the body shows its self-interest, it forces negotiations among the levels. This is the secret of Nature. Every moment in our body, these negotiations drive our systems to harmony."

The cells in organisms unite by reciprocal giving for the sake of sustaining the whole body. Each cell in the body receives what it needs for its sustenance, and spends the rest of its energy tending to the rest of the body. At every level of Nature, the individual works to benefit the whole of which it is a part, and in that finds its wholeness. Without selfless activities, a body cannot persist. In fact, life itself cannot persist.

Science acknowledge that the biggest, if not the only, problem with our world are we. Below are two examples of such states of mind:

"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image"

"And in simple words we shall say that the nature of each and every individual is to exploit the lives of all other people in the world for his own benefit, and all that he gives to another is only out of necessity. Even in that there is exploitation, but it is done cunningly, so that his friend will not feel it"

Thousands of scientists, judging by the latest reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, already state that we must stop working against Nature, as we have been doing for centuries, and begin to work in harmony with it. They explain that Nature already knows what to do and when to do it. If we only get out of the way, things will sort themselves out. Just as each body has its immune system; Nature has mechanisms that maintain its balance.

This balance is a dynamic equilibrium controlled by interrelated regulation mechanisms, in which Nature thinks not of particular elements within it, but of the whole system. Just imagine the havoc our body would fall into, if each organ cared only for its own good, instead of caring for the good of the whole body.

In such a state, organs would steal blood vessels from one another, denying neighbouring organs nourishment and oxygen. Organs producing antibodies would direct them against other organs because other organs would be considered foreign bodies, and the ones with the strongest antibodies would destroy the other organs. Soon, very soon, the body would die, and its self-centred organs would die with it. When such a process happens in an organism, it is called "cancer."

The fact that Nature does exist and that it isn't destroying itself every single moment is proof that Nature does not work egoistically. It is a proof that Nature works as a system, putting the well-being of the system before the well-being of its parts. When the system's needs come before the needs of the part, it is called "altruism." In an altruistic system, the particular elements constantly contribute to the system, whether it is an organism or a human society.

Humans, in almost every aspect, are just another animal species. But there is one aspect in which we are different from Nature: We put our own interest before the interest of the system. This is the essence of egoism. We don't need to teach animals, plants or rocks how to behave. Their behaviour is always in harmony with Nature, altruistic, putting the system's needs before their own. This is why when prey animals hunt, they hunt only enough to sustain themselves, and thus maintain the natural balance of their habitat.

But humans don't hunt to eat; they hunt to gain wealth, to exploit. This is why we have penalties for poaching. The only problem with the human race is that, unlike animals, it runs on an egoistic "operating system" instead of an altruistic one. To mend ourselves and to stop disrupting Nature's homeostasis, we need to install an altruistic operating system instead of our current, faulty system.

And to find the missing disk, we need to go to the "program vendor," the Creator. The words "God" and "Nature" are synonymous. This is why they have the same numeric value: 86.

We can replace the egoistic disk with an altruistic one, and today, when many already recognize that a real change of heart is necessary, they are stepping to the fore and introducing it to the world. 

Just as we turn to the program vendor when software we install doesn't work, when human nature fails us, we must ask the "nature vendor" to provide us with one that works properly.

Man’s history

Man’s history-is the history of his struggle to conquer the nature and harness it in the service of mankind. The more we read the man’s history and scriptures more we get convinced that a vast reservoir of powerful facilities are dormant within us and once these are activated one could create a life Maharishi Valmiki could even create “KUSH” out of a straw.

Man is the most superior creation of the cosmic order. Once he knows how he can improve his fortune, he will certainly take measures to improve it. He will become the architect of his destiny and not a tool of the destiny.

The millions of creature from amoebas to mighty animals do not acquire knowledge, but the human beings are a special category and they desire to equip themselves with knowledge and regulate their day-to-day activities.

With the help of his knowledge and intelligence the primitive man made stone weapons to fight against enemies, formidable creatures, etc. The sparks were invisible till they were brought out. Likewise, milk contains Gee but it cannot be seen till a special process is adopted. Then he miraculously discovered the way to produce fire by two pieces of wood were rubbed against each other to produce flames and used it for his protection in the night times and for cooking food.

Afterwards he made wheel to move about using domestic animals and soon invented agriculture, cattle rearing and farming. His knowledge improved by doing inventive, creative works and he became a civilized being. However, the limitations of his senses and the incomprehensibility of his mind to know about the secrets of life, Nature, Universe, God gave him the knowledge that he is incomplete and imperfect and that a thing called Spirit higher than the mind is there and by means of which perhaps all the secrets of the Universe can be known and all his fear of the forces beyond his control or power, he could not overcome death and achieve immortality.

Truly we live in a thrilling age. Everyday new discoveries are being made, so that we may live without pain and unnecessary suffering. We are continuously finding new ways of conquering the dread diseases that have so long held the whole human race in bondage.

It is also well known that the quest for health is almost as old as the human race itself. This we know from the most ancient writing of the past. And still the wonderful search goes on, for there is no quest in which man and woman are as vitally interested as in this search for vibrant, youthful living.

Human is better placed than the other species. He is not born just to enjoy pleasures. All sentiment being eaten, drinks, sleep, and possess sexual impulses. The Beast need not labor much to obtain their needs but the civilized man has to toil to get his food and shelter. By mere eating of grass the elephant grows to a huge size. A lion deprived of its meat will not consume grass. But man’s desire can never be satisfied, by enjoying pleasure. He has been gifted with various senses and he should use them properly.

The animals confronted with danger protect themselves in many ways. But man has no poisonous fangs to bite. Their hands and legs are used for constructive purposes. The organs provided for man should be utilized for creative purposes. The organs provided for man should be utilized for creating conditions for better living. No doubt that all the beings in the world have been created by a super power –God.

It is also true that the finest machines made by man cannot be compared with the marvels of the human body and the intricate way in which all parts work together to keep in health. Here is a living organism that not only reproduces its own kind, but also repairs itself and has the ability to think and plan for the future, so that race is preserved and its ideals are perpetuated.

Our life functions in an organic connectivity. We are one life and this life itself is godliness. While we are creating conflict constantly, living in man-made divisions of religions, races and nations, a man of meditation comes to realize that there exit no divisions and fractions in life. All divisions exist only in the over-developed heads and under-developed heads of people. We are conscious of the leaves, branches and stream of the tree, but we cannot see the roots of the tree, the source of one life. This is the real misery of men on earth.

As in every part of the human body, there is a wonderful harmony and inner strength that enable it to overcome almost serious handicap. Trouble comes when that harmony is broken. Perhaps, through poor habits in living. The germs of decease may then enter and eventually destroy the body unless they are checked by normal defense mechanisms of the body.

The Creator is a force of love and wants to bestow His love. Hence, He created in us a desire to receive delight and pleasure. As a result, all our choices aim to increase our pleasure or decrease our pain. Every mineral, plant, animal, or person wants only one thing: to feel pleasure or avoid pain. Without the prospect of future pleasure, we simply cannot live.

The belief that in the future we will be happy is what we call "hope." When we say, "I'm hopeful," we really mean that we believe in the likelihood of experiencing joy and pleasure in the future. Otherwise, what can we be hopeful about? Thus, all our choices reflect our desire for pleasure.

Our Reaction to the BEAUTIFUL as on today-2

"Attractiveness is not simply in the eye of the beholder. It's in the eye of the infant right from the moment of birth, and possibly before birth,"

With the urban scenario becoming much more comfortable with wearing less. One wonders whether there’s a change in the way our men view our women. One would think that with so much exposer and the male’s tendency to sexually obsess over women’s body parts. The age-old stereo-type of ‘leg men’ or ‘breast men’ has expanded to include other varieties like ‘naval men’  ‘butt men’ or ‘back men’. It is quite fascinating to watch a sharply woman with exposed abs and a belly button jewel gyrate in a film or at a disco.

Today’s item numbers focus so much on dancers in low-waist skirts that this region of a woman’s body has started to have a kind of sexual appeal.

It’s not surprising that the glutinous maxim us has become a new erotic zone too. One get thrill when girls wearing low-rise jeans and short tops bend over. Whether you catch a glimpse of thong or bare butt, it’s equally exciting.

Whether girl has a good face or not. But technically speaking, what are really important are her breasts.

By repeated exposer to the various parts of the female body through music videos, ads or films, men are bound to lose interest in long-term intimate relationship, as they will value a woman only for her parts and not be able to develop the ability to relate to her. This is the reason, why most people experiencing problems in their intimate life.

Supposing, by contrast, we prefer more subdued, delicate bird-song or more restrained, quieter colors in our flower beds, what then? Our scale of values will differ, and our response to the new song or the new garden will not be the same we will find, them ever beauty or flashy. It all depends on the previous experience that have been fed into the brain and which have established the rules of the song game or the flower game.

If stated boldly like this, these comments seem rather obvious, it must be remembered that the cherished idea that there is such a thing as intrinsic beauty still clings on touchiously and against all the evidence. Nowhere is this more vividly encountered them in the world of “feminine beauty.” The world of the human female form, of beauty contents and artists ideal models, for centuries men have argued over the finer points of feminine perfection, but no one has ever succeeded in settling the matter once and for all. Beautiful girls still persist in changing shape as era succeeds era or as the girl watcher travels from society to society. In every instance there are fixed ideals, which are hotly defended. To one culture it is vitally important that a girl should be extremely plump, to another it is essential that she should be slender and graceful, to yet another she must have an hourglass shape with a tiny waist. As for the face, there is whole variety of preferred properties with almost every feature subject to different “beauty rules” in different regions and phases of history. Straight, pointed noses and small snub noses blue eyes or dark eyes. Fleshy lips or petal lips each have its followers.

Because of these variations an extraordinary situation develops. When attempts are made to find cross-cultural beauty queens, as in the Miss World or as Miss Universe contests, whether we move across space or time these are dramatic variations in the female body ideals, and all hope of finding an intrinsically perfect feminine beauty must be abandoned. These does not of course, mean that there are no basic human female signals, “Nor” does it mean those human males is necessarily lacking to inform responses to such signals. Gender signals and sexual invitation signals are present in our species, just as in any other. But sexual body signal of that kind are present in all human females, regardless of how ugly or beautiful each individual may be considered to be by local rules. An ugly girl can own a complete set of female anatomical features, possess efficient reproductive organs, be an excellent friend, and have a charming personality, and yet despite all this a human male may find her so visually unattractive that he cannot bring himself to mate with her.

This would be hard for a monkey to understand. A male monkey does not consider the comparative beauty of a female of his species. To him a female is female. There are no ugly monkeys. But the opposite sex and as beauty rated individuals. His highly developed taxophilic urge invades almost of all of his areas of interest, classifying and grading remorselessly as it spreads, and his response to human females is no exception. The result is that a tiny variation in says, the tilt of a nose or the curve of a cheek, can make all the difference between attraction and repulsion.

In fact, it now appears that everyone is born with a pre-programmed understanding of what makes a person attractive

Obviously, the precise set of the face or, for that matter, the exact measurements of the female breast, make little difference to the qualities of a female in practical term, as a lifelong breeding partner. But these are the subtle ties that have arisen as important elements in human beauty rating and which frequently play a part in mate selection.

This invasion of the sexual arena by our powerful aesthetic tendencies has led to a number of social curiosities. At one end of the scale there are the thriving industries of plastic surgery, beauty culture and cosmetics which enhance local visual appeal, so that female who may in reality he had cooks, poor mothers and selfish companions are able to promote themselves as potential mates of the highest order. At the other end of the scale are the lonely-hearts clubs that cater for at least some of the many isolated and rejected females who although they might be good cooks, excellent mothers and wonderful companions nevertheless remain alone and unmated merely because of their plain features or unacceptable figures.

If this trend were to grow it would eventually lead to an increasingly wide gulf between the “beautiful” people and the “ugly” as beauty married beauty and ugly married ugly. When people marry, mate selection is often based on the partner’s beauty rating rather than on their qualities as lifelong breeding companions. As a result such pair bonds are frequently unsuccessful. Several factors help to prevent this, not the least of that is the fact that a “Rich ugly” may sometimes be preferred to a “poor beauty”. Also many individuals refuse to allow their compulsive beauty rating to dominate mate-selection when the final, crucial moment of decision arrives. Instead they make their choice on more appropriate grounds, even though they have always paid up service to the aesthetic appeals of the human body. Even after establishing a mate ship such individuals may continue to play the human beauty game, when assessing film stars, pin-ups or passersby in the street, but they relegate it to their fantasy worlds and do not permit aesthetic invasions to over power their real life breeding systems

Our Reaction to the BEAUTIFUL as on today-1

 In nature and art Aesthetic behavior is the pursuit of beauty. This is easy to say but difficult to explain, because beauty is such an elusive quality, especially when viewed biologically. It bears no obvious relationship to any of the basic survival patterns of the human animal, such as feeding, mating, sleeping or parental care. And yet it cannot be ignored, because any objective survey of the way people spend their time must include many hours of beauty-reaction. There is no other way it describe the response of men and women who can be found standing silently in front of paintings in an art gallery, or sitting quietly listening to music, or watching dancing or serving wines. In each of these cases the human sense organs are passing impressions to the brain. The receipt of which appears to be the only goal involved. The advanced wine taster even goes so far as to spit out the wine after tasting it, as it to underline that it is his need for beauty that is being quenched and not his thirst.

It is true to say that virtually every human culture expresses itself aesthetically in some way or other, so the need to experience the beauty reaction has a global importance. It is also true to say that there are no absolutes involved. Nothing is considered to be beautiful by all peoples everywhere. Every revered object of beauty is considered ugly by someone, somewhere. This fact makes nonsense of a great deal of authentic theory, and many find it hard to accept. There is so often the feeling that this, or that, particular form of beauty really does have some intrinsic value, some universal validity that simply must be appreciated by everyone. But the final truth is that beauty is in the brain of the beholder and nowhere else.

However a new study has cast serious doubts over the reality of the old saying "beauty is in the eyes of the beholder".

A team of researchers have revealed in a new study that infants just a few hours old showed their preference for attractive faces compared to plain ones. According to, the researchers came to the conclusion after carrying out the study that if photos of an attractive fashion model and a plain-looking woman are kept together, newborns will be drawn towards the prettier face. The finding undermines the theory that people develop the idea of beauty from the experience of interacting with different individuals

In fact, it now appears that everyone is born with a pre-programmed understanding of what makes a person attractive.

"Attractiveness is not simply in the eye of the beholder. It's in the eye of the infant right from the moment of birth, and possibly before birth," The Researchers’ team tested infants over aging two days old, but the group also included some born only a few hours earlier. Each baby was held in front of the pictures and closely watched by researchers to the left and right.

The observers followed the baby's eyes and pressed a button whenever the infant looked at the image on their side.  The researchers found that babies generally would flick their gaze between one picture and another, but spent significantly more time looking at the fashion model than the plain-looking woman.

The finding undermines the theory that people develop the idea of beauty from the experience of interacting with different individuals.

If this is so, than how can any statement be made about the biology of beauty? If everyone has their own idea of what is attractive and what is ugly, and these ideas vary from place and time to time, then what can possibly be said about the beauty-reaction of the human species, other than that it is a matter of personnel taste? The answer is that in every instance there do appear to be basic rules operating. These rules leave open the precise nature of the object of beauty, but explained how we come to possess a beauty- reaction in the first place and how it is governed and influenced today.

If we ignore man made artifacts for the moment and concentrate on the response to natural objects; the first discovery to be made is that beauty objects are not isolated phenomena- they comes in-group. They can be classified. Flowers, butterflies, birds, rocks, trees, clouds, all the environmental elements, we find so attractive come in many different shapes, colors and sizes. When we look at anyone specimens we are seeing in our mind’s eye, every other specimen we have met before. When we see a new flower, we see it against our background knowledge of every other flower we have encounters previously. Our brain has started away all the information in a special file labeled ‘flowers’ and soon as our eyes settle on a new one, the visual impact it makes is instantly checked against all that stored data. What we are seeing really only because a flower after this complex compassion has been made.

In other words, the human brain functions as a magnificent. Classifying machine and every time we walk through landscape it is busy feeding in the new experience and comparing them with the old. The brain classifies everything we see. The survival value of this procedure is obvious enough. Our ancient ancestors like other mammals needed to know the details of the world around them. A monkey for instance, has to know many different kinds of trees and bushes in its forest home, and needs to be able to tell which one is poisonous and which thorny. If it is to survive, a monkey has to become a good Botanist. In the same way a lion has to become a good Zoologist, able to tell at a glance which prey species is which, how fast it can run and which escape pattern, it is likely to use.

Early man also had to become a master of observation, with our acute knowledge of every plant and animal, shape, color, pattern, movement, sound and smell. The only way to do this was to develop a powerful urge to classify; everything met with in daily life. It becomes important that it developed its own independent existence. It becomes as basic and distinct as the need to feed, mate or sleep. The human animal is a master classifier of information and almost, only classified information will do, providing it is encountered in the real environment and seen to be part of the world in which she / he lives.

It is hemophilic urge that is at the root of our response to beauty. When we hear a new bird-song for the first time, or walk into a garden, we have not seen before. Our response to the sounds or to the arrangement of flowers may be intensely pleasurable and we have not seen before. Our response to the sounds or to the arrangement of flowers may be intensely pleasurable and we say “How beautiful.” The source of the pleasure seems to be the song itself, or the garden itself, but it is not. It is new experience as checked against all previous experiences in its particular category. The new song is instantaneously compared with all similar songs we have before the garden with all previous gardens we have seen. If we find beauty, it is comparative, not intrinsic, relative not absolute.

But if beautiful is a matter is classifiable relationships then so is ugliness, and it is still necessary to define the difference between the two. The answer lies in the way we have set up “our classes” when classifying the world around us. Each class or category is recognized, because certain sets of objects have common proportions, which make them similar but not identical. Lumping, them together on the basis of their shared properties is the way we arrange them in our minds.

Despite our countries innate modesty, there is no doubt that we are a body-fixated society. From the days of Madhubala, Nargis, Vaheeda Rahman, Sharmila Tagore, Zeenat Aman, Madhuri Dixit, AishwaraRai to Bipasha Basu and Mallika Sherawat today, it’s rather clear what Indian men want. The Male gaze is sometimes appreciative, often critical and always all pervasive.

Attraction, at deep, biological level, is all about survival of the species. So how male react to females stems from their perception of the latter’s health and capability to produce healthy offspring. A high waist-to –hip ratio and large breasts have been visual signals of fertility from time immemorial as well. The importance of physical appearance has been steadily rising since the ‘30s. As the media depict the most beautiful people in society, men and women alike have begun to place far more importance on appearance. For men, this can be to show his social status to other men and as they, cross-culturally, value a woman’s attractiveness not only for her reproductive potential, but also as a sign that they can obtain a high status, attractive woman.

Where is our life force?

It is not outside; it is inside…. And what about the intellect through which we earn wealth and gain respect? That also is not external, but, an internal potential. We don’t see introvert and often keep wondering why God has befuddled mankind by giving us instruments of perception of the external things and events but no fine-tuned instrument of knowledge of the inner world. We never notice the immense treasure of talents, virtues and divinity, hidden inside our own self. What is easily seen by us is – my child, my material property, my this, my that, and what not! But we can’t see our future; The Omnipresent God and our souls are also far beyond our perception. What to say about the inner world, we can’t even see many components of our own body. We can’t look at out own eyes. If we just try to see (without a mirror) how is our nose, how are our eyebrows? How do our eyelids look like? If we can’t even see these gross external parts of the body, how will we see what is inside? When we peep into our inner world and attempt to know it, we perform some kind of dhyana (Meditation). In fact, dhayana yoga is the best method of seeing inside.

Recently doctors and physicians are beginning to realize that many of our physical illness originate in the mind and that mental process and stress effect our corporal health to such greater degree. That was higher to be believed, researches have confirmed both statically and experimentally that emotions behavior and personality actually affect our body to a great extent.

Unavoidable mental stress causes the Body’s immune system to falter. Immunologists, Physiologists and Neuro-biologists now are sure that emotion and mental stress causes an abnormal imbalance in our body’s cardiovascular disorders, asthma, migraine headaches and kidney ailments and some of the other diseases are due to mental stress or runway emotions. Even certain forms of cancer may have their roots in the mind.

Cardiologists are now absolutely sure that a positive nexus exists between cardiovascular disorders and hypertension (High Blood Pressure) in the case of people having the so-called type-A personality. These individuals are aggressive, ambitious extremely goal-oriented and restless. They are always in a hurry and pressed for time. Psychologists have noted that type-A people are frequent visits cardiologists chambers much more than type-B people who are more relaxed and cheerful. Hormones released by the endocrine glands account for the increased rate of heart disorders.

Stress is something that only high ranking executives suffer from. Nothing could be more incorrect, we all suffer from it. However, in spite of the enormous amount of research done on it, the concept itself remains far from clear and different authorities continue to use the term to mean different things.

The mechanism by which the mind exerts its influence on bodily activities is not entirely clear but it is certain that it lies in the brain. Two glands situated there the Hypothalamus and the Pituitary act in close co-ordination to control the endocrine and the nervous system of the body.

SCIENTIFIC INTERPRETATION OF GAYATRI MANTRA

Line. 1--Om bhur bhuvah swah

Line. 2--Tat savitur varenyam

Line. 3--Bhargo devasya dheemahi

Line. 4--Dhiyo yo nah prachodayat

Gayatri mantra has been bestowed the greatest importance in Vedic dharma. This mantra has also been termed as, the mother of the Vedas.

The literal meaning of the mantra is:

O God! You are Omnipresent, Omnipotent and Almighty, You are all Light. You are
all Knowledge and Bliss. You are Destroyer of fear, You are Creator of this Universe, You are the Greatest of all. We bow and meditate upon Your light. You guide our intellect in the right direction.

The mantra, however, has a great scientific importance too, which somehow got lost in the literary tradition. The modern astrophysics and astronomy tell us that our Galaxy called Milky Way or Akash-Ganga contains approximately 100,000 million of stars. Each star is like our sun having its own planet system. We know that the moon moves round the earth and the earth moves round the sun along with the moon. All planets round the sun. Each of the above bodies revolves round at its own axis as well. Our sun along with its family takes one round of the galactic center in 22.5 crore years. All galaxies including ours are moving away at a terrific velocity of 20,000 miles per second.

The alternative scientific meaning of the mantra

Line by Line

Line 1:--OM BHUR BHUVAH SWAH:

Bhur the earth, bhuvah the planets (solar family), swah the Galaxy. We observe that when an ordinary fan with a speed of 900 RPM (rotations per minute) moves, it makes noise. Then, one can imagine, what great noise would be created when the galaxies move with a speed of 20,000 miles per second. This is what this portion of the mantra explains that the sound produced due to the fast-moving earth, planets and galaxies is Om. The sound was heard during meditation by Rishi Vishvamitra, who mentioned it to other colleagues. All of them, then unanimously decided to call this sound Om the name of God, because this sound is available in all the three periods of time, hence it is set (permanent).

Therefore, it was the first ever revolutionary idea to identify formless God with a specific title (form) called upadhi. Until that time, everybody recognized God as formless and nobody was prepared to accept this new idea. In the Gita also, it is said, "Omiti ekaksharam brahma", meaning that the name of the Supreme is Om, which contains only one syllable (8/12). This sound Om heard during samadhi was called by all the seers nada-brahma a very great noise), but not a noise that is normally heard beyond a specific amplitude and limits of decibels suited to human hearing. Hence the rishis called this sound Udgith musical sound of the above, i.e., heaven. They also noticed that the infinite mass of galaxies moving with a velocity of 20,000 miles/second was generating a kinetic energy = 1/2 MV2 and this was balancing the total energy consumption of the cosmos. Hence they named it Pranavah, which means the body (vapu) or store house of energy (prana).

Line 2: --TAT SAVITUR VARENYAM:

Tat that (God), savitur the sun (star), varenyam worthy of bowing or respect. Once the form of a person along with the name is known to us, we may locate the specific person. Hence the two titles (upadhi) provide the solid ground to identify the formless God, Vishvamitra suggested. He told us that we could know (realize) the unknowable formless God through the known factors, viz., sound Om and light of suns (stars). A mathematician can solve an equation x2+y2=4; if x=2; then y can be known and so on. An engineer can measure the width of a river even by standing at the riverbank just by drawing a triangle. So was the scientific method suggested by Vishvamitra in the mantra in the next portion as under:-

Line 3:--BHARGO DEVASYA DHEEMAHI:

Bhargo the light, devasya of the deity, dheemahi we should meditate. The rishi instructs us to meditate upon the available form (light of suns) to discover the formless Creator (God). Also he wants us to do japa of the word Om (this is understood in the Mantra). This is how the sage wants us to proceed, but there is a great problem to realize it, as the human mind is so shaky and restless that without the grace of the Supreme (Brahma) it cannot be controlled. Hence Vishvamitra suggests the way to pray Him as under:

Line 4:--DHIYO YO NAH PRACHODAYAT

Dhiyo (intellect), yo (who), nah (we all), prachodayat (guide to right Direction). O God! Deploy our intellect on the right path. Full scientific interpretation of the Mantra: The earth (bhur), the planets (bhuvah), and the galaxies (swah) are moving at a very great velocity, the sound produced is Om , (the name of formless God.) That God (tat), who manifests Himself in the form of light of suns (savitur) is worthy of bowing/respect (varenyam). We all, therefore, should meditate (dheemahi) upon the light (bhargo) of that deity (devasya) and also do chanting of Om. May He (yo) guide in right direction

(prachodayat) our(nah) intellect dhiyo.

The important points hinted in the mantra are

1) The total kinetic energy generated by the movement of galaxies acts as an umbrella and balances the total energy consumption of the cosmos. Hence it was named as the Pranavah (body of energy). This is equal to 1/2 mv2 (Mass of galaxies x square of velocity.)

2) Realizing the great importance of the syllable OM, the other later date religions adopted this word with a slight change in accent,

Nature of the mind

The nature of the mind is to accumulate. A gross mind wants to accumulate things; an evolved mind wants to accumulate knowledge. When emotion becomes dominant, it wants to accumulate people. The mind’s basic nature is to accumulate. The mind is a gather – always wanting to gather something. The mind of a person on the spiritual path starts accumulating ‘spiritual’ wisdom. Maybe it starts gathering the guru’s words but until one goes beyond the need to accumulate – whether it is food, things, people, knowledge or wisdom – it does not matter what you accumulate. The need to accumulate indicates a feeling of insufficiency, because somewhere, you got identified with limited things that you are not.

If you bring awareness and sadhana into your life, slowly, the vessel becomes empty. Awareness empties the vessel. Sadhana cleanses the vessel. When these two are sustained for a long period, then your vessel becomes empty and only then, grace descends upon you. Without grace nobody really gets anywhere. If you need to experience the grace, your vessel has to become totally empty. If you are living with a guru just to gather his words. Your life has been wasteful.

If you do not experience the grace, if you do not empty yourself to bear the grace, then the spiritual path needs to be pursued for many life times to come. But if you become empty enough for the grace to descend, then, the ultimate nature is not far away. It is here to be experienced, to be realized, going beyond all dimensions of existence, into the exalted state. It becomes a living reality.

The Attitude that wherever you go, you must gather as much as you can, has become part of you. your education gas always taught you how to gather more and more things in order to make a living. With this gathering, may be you can enhance the physical quality of life around you to some extent. But all this gathering is incapable take you even an inch closer to the ultimate nature. Only sadhana or inner work can bring the awareness necessary to constantly cleanse your vessel. Innocence, too, enables absolute surrender. But surrendering is not something that you do; it happens when you are not. When you lose all will, when you have become absolutely willing, when there is nothing in yourself, then also, grace descends upon but I would insists, stick to the path of awareness and sadhana.

The web of bondage is constantly being created only by the way we think and feel. Whatever we are calling, as awareness is just to start creating a distance between it that you think, feel and yourself. What we are referring to as sadhana is an opportunity to raise your energies so that you can tide over these limitations or these mechanisms through which you have entangled yourself to your thought and emotion.

Mind always has the tendency to waver and to be unsteady. As often as it inclines like a horse, to roam unrestrained over the pastureland of sense-objects, so often should be careful to bridle it down and bring it under control.

There are many solutions for a man to realize truth, has included in them the vital message pinpointing that mind is a person’s best friend. Equally true is the statement that it is also his worst enemy. Hence to be always happy it is necessary to “be friend” it by taming it. If the mind remains “stagnant” and “Empty” worldly desires will rush to fill it up and then keep agitating, till its demand are met. A mind with no such desires will not be in need of anything. On the other hand, it will always seek the grace of God. A spiritual soul will never relish material pleasures.

The soul, which has fallen into the foul sink of object worldliness, should be redeemed by a mind, which is absolutely free from all affinities. The mind will be friend of the soul that has full control over the “Self.”

A man who keeps check over the mind will not be perturbed by the mundane opposite love and hatred, heat & cold, happiness & misery honor and dishonor. He will be respected by all. Such control can be achieved by assiduous practice, when he will be steady and even while he faces worldly sufferings, he will not be impatient when there is delay of his success. He relinquishes his desires, regulates his sense, and attains complete dispassion. Being volatile, it is difficult to have pin-pointed ness of the mind.

The Power of Concentration and the Law of Attraction

Everything in creation is influenced by the law of magnetism (also called Law of Attraction). The law of magnetism teaches us that whatever we concentrate upon, we draw to ourselves. If we focus on goodness, our life can be a garden of happiness; if we concentrate on wealth, we will draw wealth to ourselves.

Success in life presupposes the power of concentration. Just as a magnet draws to itself iron filings and not rice grains, so too, the quality of our focused thoughts will create a dynamic but silent power within that will find us placed in situations akin to the nature of our thoughts. If we think ' good health ' and with faith and belief embed this deeply within our minds over a sustained period of time, we will gradually create for ourselves situations and an environment, which will be conducive to good health.

Here's how heaven looks like!

Washington, August 4 (ANI): What happens when you die? It is most certainly one of life's biggest questions.

Several near-death survivors have come forward to narrate what they had a glimpse of when they were in heaven.

Now, Don Piper, an ordained Baptist minister, who was once pronounced dead following a car accident, has shared his intriguing story.

He says he remembers music that was "beyond spectacular" and aromas he'd never smelled before. His grandfather was there to greet him warmly, as dozens of others who had died in years past stood before him in front of a magnificent gate, reports ABC News.

Piper, who insists it was no dream and visited heaven, has chronicled his experience in the New York Times bestseller, "90 Minutes in Heaven." "It was the most real thing that ever happened to me," he said.

There were lights reflecting off the gates, which looked like they were "pulsating with life.” That's because in heaven there is no artificial light, God illuminates it with his glory. In front of the gate stood his grandfather, welcoming him "home," he said.

"I was heartbroken when he died," he said. "Now I'm at the gates of heaven (and) he's the first person to greet me."

Piper, who was ordained in 1985, said he could not have imagined what he saw in heaven. "You know, if I was having a dream about it, this wouldn't be in it," he said. "Some of these people who met me at the gates, I haven't thought of in decades."

He believes he was sent back to spread a special message: "Heaven is a real place." (ANI)

Where is our life force?

It is not outside; it is inside…. And what about the intellect through which we earn wealth and gain respect? That also is not external, but, an internal potential. We don’t see introvert and often keep wondering why God has befuddled mankind by giving us instruments of perception of the external things and events but no fine-tuned instrument of knowledge of the inner world. We never notice the immense treasure of talents, virtues and divinity, hidden inside our own self. What is easily seen by us is – my child, my material property, my this, my that, and what not! But we can’t see our future; The Omnipresent God and our souls are also far beyond our perception. What to say about the inner world, we can’t even see many components of our own body. We can’t look at out own eyes. If we just try to see (without a mirror) how is our nose, how are our eyebrows? How do our eyelids look like? If we can’t even see these gross external parts of the body, how will we see what is inside? When we peep into our inner world and attempt to know it, we perform some kind of dhyana (Meditation). In fact, dhayana yoga is the best method of seeing inside.

Recently doctors and physicians are beginning to realize that many of our physical illness originate in the mind and that mental process and stress effect our corporal health to such greater degree. That was higher to be believed, researches have confirmed both statically and experimentally that emotions behavior and personality actually affect our body to a great extent.

Unavoidable mental stress causes the Body’s immune system to falter. Immunologists, Physiologists and Neuro-biologists now are sure that emotion and mental stress causes an abnormal imbalance in our body’s cardiovascular disorders, asthma, migraine headaches and kidney ailments and some of the other diseases are due to mental stress or runway emotions. Even certain forms of cancer may have their roots in the mind.

Cardiologists are now absolutely sure that a positive nexus exists between cardiovascular disorders and hypertension (High Blood Pressure) in the case of people having the so-called type-A personality. These individuals are aggressive, ambitious extremely goal-oriented and restless. They are always in a hurry and pressed for time. Psychologists have noted that type-A people are frequent visits cardiologists chambers much more than type-B people who are more relaxed and cheerful. Hormones released by the endocrine glands account for the increased rate of heart disorders.

Stress is something that only high ranking executives suffer from. Nothing could be more incorrect, we all suffer from it. However, in spite of the enormous amount of research done on it, the concept itself remains far from clear and different authorities continue to use the term to mean different things.

The mechanism by which the mind exerts its influence on bodily activities is not entirely clear but it is certain that it lies in the brain. Two glands situated there the Hypothalamus and the Pituitary act in close co-ordination to control the endocrine and the nervous system of the body.

Life is...unpredictable

Eva Ekvall, the former Miss Venezuela who finished third in the Miss Universe pageant in 2001, has died of breast cancer aged 28. Aged 17, Ekvall was crowned Miss Venezuela of 2000, and the next year was third runner-up in the Miss Universe Pageant. Her name was also listed as one of the most beautiful & most sexiest women in earth.

As a Buddhist, she was the first non-Christian to have won the title of Miss Venezuela. Ekvall was married to the radio producer John Fabio Bermudez and the couple had a 2-year-old daughter. In February 2010, just months after giving birth to her child, Ekvall was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer, and underwent eight months of treatment that included chemotherapy, radiotherapy and a double radical mastectomy.

Last year, she told newspaper El Nacional of her need to send out a message about cancer prevention. And the model explained,

"I hate to see photos in which I come out ugly. But you know what?

Nobody ever said cancer is pretty or that I should look like Miss Venezuela when I have cancer". She chronicled this experience in a book of photographs, Fuera de Foco (Out of Focus), released on December 2010. She went on to become an advocate for Senos Ayuda, a cancer awareness group.

In a heart-breaking Twitter post over the weekend, Eva's husband posted a photo showing a close-up of his hand holding hers at her last moment, with the caption, "Always together ... I love you wife".

Her family has confirmed the model passed away at a hospital in Houston on Saturday (December 17, 2011), according to the Huffington Post.

Everything in life is temporary, because everything changes...

That's why it takes great courage to love, knowing it might end anytime but having the faith it will last forever...life is like morning dew drop in end of grass ,for you and me everybody have to face this noble truth.

- Try to understand people, not their words -

The Habitat of departed soul

Almost all major religions of the world believe in immortality of souls. However, how individual life continues after shedding the physical form is a jigsaw puzzle – different philosophers and religions having given different viewpoints. The Creative Spirit of Life is multidimensional and ever-changing. The essence of life is change and growth. May be we are spiritual beings going through human experience and through numerous incarnations, ultimately we are to be the perfect expression of our innate Divinity!

On coming out of the body, the soul finds itself in a strange environment. Just as after a prolonged period of hard work one seeks a comfortable bed, in order to relax after the lifelong engagement with the body, the soul needs rest and sleep (a period of inactivity). This period of sleep provides the soul a great deal of rest; hence the prayer for the departed soul to rest in peace. However, the soul does not fall asleep immediately after death but takes some time in doing so. Generally, the duration lasts for about a month. It is because the habits and memories of earlier bodily attachments (Vasna) are fresh and strong at the time of death and only gradually loosen their hold. As an analogy, consider the state of body after hard labour. The circulation of blood is fast and one cannot fall asleep even on a comfortable bed till blood circulation becomes normal.

After its separation from the Physical body (Sthul Sharir) on death, the soul assumes an Astral body (Sukshma Sharir). The form of this body is somewhat similar to that of the physical body. The being is pleasantly surprised to find a sudden acquisition of levity. Now it can move freely in space like a bird and reach anywhere simply by willing to do so. After abandoning the physical body, the soul hovers around the mortal remains. Finding the near and dear ones mourning, it makes a vain attempt to communicate with them or re-enter the dead body. The following narration of a departed soul illustrates the point. "After death, I found myself in a strange situation. On account of my previous attachments with my physical body and dear ones, I wanted to interact with them but found myself helpless.

I could see and hear everyone and I talked loudly, but found that I had become invisible and inaudible to the embodied living beings. Though it disturbed me to some extent, I felt very happy in my newly acquired body in which I felt very light and could fly around with great speed. I recollected, that while living I was afraid of death, for which now there did not appear any reason, whatsoever. Having acquired the new subtle body, I became less interested in the older one, since this astral (Sukshma) body was in every way much superior to the previous one. I felt that I was existing as before and could see and move my limbs as earlier. It convinced me that there was nothing to fear about death and dying was only an ordinary natural process involving change of body."

Vedic Devata in the Human Physiology.

Every individual is cosmic. Total natural law is available in everyone. The Sun, the Moon, The planets, and the stars, all are available in every level of our Physiology, including the cell and the DNA. Vedic Devatas in the Vedic Literature are also available with human physiology.

Vedic Devatas are the various aspects of Natural Law that organize the entire Universe and maintain it in perfect order. They are laws of Nature, or collection of Laws of Nature, with specific administrative functions that provide for the creations, maintenance, and dissolution, permeating the whole creation. All the Devatas, all the impulses of creative Intelligence of Natural Law, are present in every point of creation.

The Vedic Devatas are administrative of every aspect of creation. In the same way that the law of gravity exercises its ‘ruler ship’ over the attraction between different masses. The Vedic Devata that administers silence is called SHIVA, -and the Devata nsork that administers dynamism is VISHNU.

The Vedic Devatas are not separate from the ultimate reality of the SELF- ATMA- the unified field of natural law. Every point of creation, manifest or unmanifest, animate or inanimate, microscopic or cosmic in dimensions, in its ultimate reality is nothing but the unified field. Every individual law of Nature or any collection of the laws of Nature, acting under any circumstances within time and space, is nothing but the dynamic of the Unified field. Every ant or elephant, every bird or tree, every human being of every race and from walk of life, and the Devata themselves, ultimately are the unified field.

The Vedic Literature displays the eternally lively self-expressed value of Natural Law; it is the sequential evaluation of the laws of Nature, the impulses of Creative Intelligence, which evolve into material creation.

The holistic value of Natural Law, eternally awake within itself, locates within its WHOLENESS, within its generality, the element of specificity- the five Tanmatra (the five basic structures of the administering intelligence of Natural Law) lively in the names Ganapati, Shiva, Vishnu, Surya and Devi. These names evolve into form- intelligence evolves into philosophy. This is evidenced by the fact that these five basic fields of intelligence (Tanmatra) have their own philosophy (Mahbhuta)- and that they are not only the intelligence of every grain of creation, but are also the actual structure of every grain. This is evidenced in the discovery that has identified these complete structures of Natural Law and their functioning intelligence in the human physiology.