Sponsored Spirituality

I have a friend of mine who used to study in my collage and was one year senior to me. Before he used to be very arrogant, selfish, aloof, short tempered, and name any vices and you could find in him.

During his final years in collage, because of some personal reasons, he came across a ‘Baba’, and then there was magical change in his entire personality. Now he was soft spoken, caring, loving, talking to everyone, respecting others and things like that. The person, who used to open his eyes at 12 O’clock afternoon, now wakes up 4 O’clock morning!! I have never seen such dramatic personality change in any person till date.

So far so good. This guy is now traveling India, spreading message of love and peace. He is spreading his Guru’s divine message to all the human being he come across. To be honest, I really appreciate these changes of him, but sometimes few points really itch into my brain and I am forced to think upon them.

This guy’s father is a Doc, and I think he is very rich. For his living and traveling, I don’t think that he is spending from his pocket, because he simply doesn't do anything to earn money. Either his father must be giving him financial support, or his ashram cult must be bearing his charges. Whatever it is, the bottom line is that he is not doing anything to sustain his life. What if his father stops supporting him? What if his ashram closes, and then they stop bearing his expenses? Will he still be able to spread the message of love and peace, travel here and there and not earning any money??

To be practical, it is not possible. I don’t predict that there would be any reversal behavioral changes in him because of this, but at least he won’t be able to travel idly on other’s expenses! He would have to spend a great amount of his time for earning money. And even after that if he can save time and energy to spread the message of love and peace, then I must bow to him.

I really don’t have any problem with why he doesn’t do anything and traveling. There are many people in this world, who don’t do anything at all. I just wonder, those who are really very poor, orphans, small kids begging in railway platforms, stealing trinkets, doing boot polish to earn a piece of bread, had they been given a chance like this, couldn’t they become a spiritual prophet?? Then why don’t these kids become spirituals by simply joining a cult or society?? …………………………….Isn’t it because there is no one to ‘sponsor’ their spirituality??!

To conclude, those who belong to some cult or ashram, they are really doing noble work. Spreading message of peace and serving people. It is appreciated. But they will be respected even more if they don’t depend upon donations of devotees, and start earning their own bread. A real spiritual is the one who lives in the real world, and remembers the divine lord even for once, not the one who lives upon others bread and chanting the name of lord million times a day………!

Language

"Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal."





William Shakespeare*

Fear and love

Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.





*Nicolo Machiavelli

Sporty.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.




P. G. Wodehouse*

Exponential growth mathematics

How many cell divisions (mitosis) will it take for a 1 gm tumor to become 1 Kg?......I was reading my pathology book, and then I came to know about this information...The answer is 10 !!.....Don’t believe this? Let me explain. Let’s take a 1 gm tumor. First division- 2 gm, Second- 4 gm, Third- 8 gm, Fourth- 16 gm, Fifth- 32 gm, Sixth- 64 gm, Seventh- 128 gm, Eighth- 225 gm( aprx), Ninth- 500gm and Tenth- 1 Kg!
This is called exponential growth mathematics, where things grow exponentially in successive divisions or time intervals. After reading this, my brain took a break, and started wandering in my philosophy land. I realized that this exponential growth mathematics is really a very important and core key to success. I saw some associations between this mathematical law, and real life incidents. Let me explain this-

1:- BEGINNING IS NOT ALWAYS DRAMATIC:- As you can see from the cell division example above, in the initial part of cell divisions, the results were not so dramatic. Even after Sixth or Seventh division, we had only around 100 gm……What happens if we add only 3 or 4 more divisions? Answer is “Mega changes”!
In the same way we keep working for success. We work hard, we work long,….still we don’t seem to see a dramatic result. Sometimes after working long enough, when we don’t see any dramatic changes, we think to give up, but hey, stop! Don’t quit!.....Could be we are only a few steps away from the “Mega change”.

2:- A LITTLE CHANGE IN THE BEGINNING, MAKES HUGE DIFFERENCE IN THE END:- What if we had taken 2 gm instead of 1 gm in the beginning?? In the beginning it doesn’t seem significant enough. One might think, what difference an extra gm can make? But if you see the end result, we would have 2 Kg, instead of 1 Kg. Isn’t it a huge difference? Can you realize what adding only 1 gm in the beginning does at the end of the result?
Now in the same way, sometimes we are reluctant to add some extra grams in the beginning of our life. We try to procrastinate things. While reading, we think that ok, this is only one chapter, what difference it would make if I read it now, or tomorrow?? Indeed it doesn’t seem to make any difference in the ‘beginning’ of career. But it is possible that reading that one extra chapter in the beginning might reward us 1 extra million at the end of our career??

Success does ‘grow’, whether or not strictly following the law of exponential growth, but I am for sure that it does grow. Even if in some extent, it does follow the law of exponential growth, and by understanding this law, and implementing changes at this point of our life, I am for sure that we can make huge differences in the end.

Know all.

Every woman knows all about everything.




*Rudyard Kipling

Improvement.

Experience teaches that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious improvements, in the most ordinary occupations, are adopted with hesitation, reluctance, and by slow gradations. Men would resist changes, so long as even a bare support could be ensured by an adherence to ancient courses, and perhaps even longer.

*Alexander Hamilton

I am universe!!

I am universe!!

No no!.......Please do not misinterpret my these words as pompous or think that I am suffering from delusion of grandeur……lol……..But yes, I am not going to take my words back. Actually what I just said, is 100% truth. How come?

Credit goes to Discovery channel. I was watching a program on Discovery channel. It was on “Big-Bang”. It was told in the program that whatever today exists in this universe, they all came from only one single source, that is “Big-Bang”. Just after few seconds of the ‘Bang’, most of the light elements were formed. It took some time to form heavy radioactive elements, but yes, MOST of the elements were formed just few seconds after the ‘Bang’……..Only this much information was given in the program, rest of what I am going to utter, is my objective interpretations. After watching this program, the subject kept churning into my brain, and I concluded with some wild thoughts. Could be I am wrong, but presently I don’t see any logical reason why I should be wrong??

1. 1:- YOU WANT OT SEE SOMETHING REALLY OLD? TOUCH YOURSELF: It has been told that most of the elements formed just after the bang. After that no/little changes occurred in lighter elements. We are made of atoms like C₄, H₂, O_2, and N₂……..So whatever atoms are there in our body, they all are almost as old as “Big-Bang”. Heavy elements like radio active elements decay with time though, but they are not one of those stable elements, which are formed at the beginning of the universe.

2. 2:- WANT TO TOUCH DINOSAUR? AGAIN TOUCH YOURSELF: Living organisms die, elements don’t! If the atoms that are in my body are old enough to be from Big-Bang time, it is very much possible that out of trillion atoms in my body, at least one was recycled from a Dinosaur’s body? God knows for how many times, and from what organisms the atoms were recycled?? Touch yourself, and feel that you are REALLY touching something that was once probably a part of some Dinosaur, Mammoth, or a Roman legion!

3. 3:-WANT TO TRAVEL THE FARTHEST STAR? FEEL IT! : It is well known that gravitational force is an attraction force between two particles. As the distance increases between two objects, the gravitational force decrease, but it never becomes zero!! It can decrease to the extent of 10^-∞ (infinitive), but it can NEVER be zero. So remember, even the farthest star has a bond with you, its pulling you and so you are pulling the star. All the objects in this universe are bound to you. In fact all the objects in this universe are bound to each other like a cobweb. You are part of the whole universe, and the whole universe is you.

I guess, truth is always around us, like cell phone signals…..we only need device to catch them………… So finally do you still think it is bombastic, if I say “I am universe”? :)

Is destiny really in our control?

There are two schools of thoughts that exist in our society. One school believes that 'Karma' is everything. If you do your 'Karma', then you can change your destiny. There is another school of thought that says that 'Destiny' is everything. We are not choosers for what we can do or can become. Destiny decides that, and we have no say in it.
I don't want to support or oppose any of these schools of thoughts. I am writing this blog for my curiosity about destiny. Is destiny really in our control? Some might say yes, karma controls our destiny, and if we do our karma, then we can change our destiny!.......So far so good, I was just curious what force gives us 'inspiration' to do karma? Is that inspiration itself not chosen by destiny?
For example, I see a lad in a family (Lets name him XX), who is extraordinarily hard working and intelligent. Because of his hard work, he bangs to good schools, and makes a good career and he is very successful. He has some siblings in his family who are not hard working and they are not successful either. What made XX successful?? Those who believe in karma would say that, it is his hard work that brought him success. I was curious, why only XX in that family chosen to go for hard work? Why only he believed that hard work is key to success? Why didn't his siblings choose to go for hard work? It is impossible that nobody tried to inspire or teach the importance of hard work to XX's siblings, then why still they couldn't motivate themselves? If inspiration for hard work could be generated by external stimulations, then why sometimes we fail to motivate others? (And ourselves too!!)
Is it XX's genetic pattern that "made him" to think in a way, that he preferred to go for hard work rather than sitting idle? If it is so, then acquiring genetic traits is again not in our hand. We can't choose to get what genetic trait we want. Is it some emotional force or shock that driven him to go for hard work? Then why only XX had that experience? Why not the siblings? And if siblings too had the same emotional experience, then why only XX was motivated by that? Ultimately if you reach for the root of all the actions and phenomenons, you will find that it is destiny which controls everything!
I read about the famous debate between Einstein and Bohr. Einstein said "God does not play dice".........Bohr replied " Einstein, stop telling God what to do with his dice"!....... To conclude, if you have 'consciousness' about rights and wrongs, then consider yourself blessed that you are chosen by destiny to 'think' in that way. So, If you already 'realize' that working hard is good, then do work hard, because some people are not even chosen, by destiny to 'realize' this fact!!

Fool!!

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.




* Abraham Lincoln

Truth.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.






*Oscar Wilde

Hard Work.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.






*Booker T. Washington

Materialism.

Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.



*E. M. Forster

Educated.

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.



Aristotle.

What is worst?

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.





Oscar Wilde

Is Glass 'liquid'?

Why I am asking this?? Well it’s not my fault, actually scientist are debating on this issue for decades. Some schools say that it is ‘solid’, while there is another significant large group, which says that it is ‘liquid’!

As far as it is concerned with ‘solid’ theory, we all can say that glass is solid, because it appears to be solid at room temperature. Let’s focus on the arguments and facts, what is said in favor of liquid theory. They say glass is never ‘solid’; rather it is ‘undercooled’ liquid! In solids such as iron, steel, and aluminum, the atoms are arranged very orderly, in a repeating pattern, like tiles on a bathroom wall. Because of the random atomic structure of glass, physicists tent to think of glass as a liquid which is supercooled. Metals and other materials, say ice are solid up to their melting point, where they suddenly turn into liquid. But glass is different. When you heat glass, there is never a sudden transition from solid to liquid. Rather, glass becomes gradually more deformable.

But if glass tends to have properties of ‘liquid’, then at least it should evince some of them?? Well, they claim, they can be seen, but we need to change the circumstances a bit to visualize the liquid properties of glass. Say, if glass is really liquid, then it should ‘flow’ like a liquid? The answer is, it really DOES flow! For example, if a window glass is kept vertical for a long time say for years, and we have sensitive measuring instruments, then we can really measure that the thickness of glass at the bottom is more than the top.

Some schools, who don’t believe in this theory, say that though glass molecules are not arranged in perfect order, but they can precipitate into crystals anytime if given a favorable condition say low temperature and pressure. It also depends on the facts that how rapidly a glass is cooled after it is heated. If a glass is cooled very slowly, then it will tend to form a crystal, and not a supercooled solid. They give many other arguments in support of its solid property with order of transition, viscosity and poises.

Whatever, but it is for sure, that none of the theories are 100% evident. So there is a fare good chance, that glass is actually a ‘liquid’!

Honesty.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.




*John Quincy Adams

RSS problem

Doesn't matter, whatever I try, this Blogger RSS feed, and Yahoo.360 seems to be envious sisters! They simply don't want to talk to each other.
Lately I have updated a blog in Blogger. I knew it takes some time to update that blog in Yahoo.360 page, but despite I waited for 2 days, it was not updated. Ultimately I had to reconfigure my url address in Feed setup at Yahoo.360 page.
There is one more problem with Yahoo.360, they don't seem to have any clock!.......lol.......Yeah, whatever feed is updated in Yahoo.360 page, it comes with an arbitrarily chosen date. For example, I started creating blogs in Blogger for last 2 weeks, but they show the updating date as January!
This problem persist for some other sections as well. The comments that we post in Yahoo.360, even they are showing arbitrarily chosen dates.

Lucid Dreams!

Lucid dreaming is the state of being aware that you are dreaming. This allows you to take charge and control your dreams in productive ways. Lucid dreaming can be used as a tool for problem solving and personal growth. Lucid dreamers (sometimes called "oneironauts") regularly describe their dreams as being exciting, uplifting and highly rewarding.

Humans spend about a third of their lives asleep. Some lucid dreamers argue that sleeping through dreams is not a productive use of one's lifespan. With consistent practice, people can learn to become lucid pretty much whenever they want and recapture some of this lost time. Lucid dreaming is not easy; it requires a lot of practice and training.

What to speak?

For humans, it takes 2 years to learn 'how' to speak, yet the whole life may fall short to learn 'what' to speak!

I have done few modifications in my RSS

I have done few modifications in my RSS. Now lets see is it configured with Yahoo.360 or not properly??

Thank you

Hello,
This is my first day I am trying to blog. I don't know what and how to write in this. So I am starting here with this one line.
Thank you.