vivek2012

You are confusion is quiet understandable since you are living in an age where love is considered almost as a commodity. The days are over when love was considered as the most valued and sacred emotion of the humanity. In the today’s world love is bought and sold as good as a commodity that is being bought and sold in the market. You say - Give - Give - yeah it is possible but it is not love that is taken on its face value by the recipient is accepting it, it is the value of the GIVER that is taken in its face value. You say - TAKE TAKE - yeah it is also possible to go by the TAKE TAKE policy in love affairs. But again, the person taking it is not taking it by its original face value, but the taker would take it and give it a value in accordance with the value of the person from whom it is taken. So you know the case of GIVE - TAKE policy. No need to elaborate it. Ditto.Of course, there are exceptions to it. There are people who still take love by its face value. Ready to sacrifice their lives for it. But they are already in endangered species category.But, mostly if you see, the love affairs of the day do not stand the test of the time. They fail miserably, in the most of the cases, in withstanding the onslaught of the ‘fate’ as it is called famously, within a short span of time. Then the reverse of the love i.e. its alter-ego – hate, wins over it. And when some good thing rots due to any reason, it would emit the most foulest of the smells. Love is no exception. A love affair turned sour is the most dangerous relationship in the world. The relationship may continue till the very last day of the characters involved on this planet. But it would be stark hate that would be the driving force behind such an existence. You would get to see a lot of persons, especially in India leading lives like that. It is out of the consideration of social standing and misplaced pride that such ‘relationships’ last. In the West it won’t last even for a second after the relationship turned sour. However, I would still like to believe or hope that ‘love’ in its true form still exists. One may be able to find it in some remote village where the science and technology along with its alter-egos greed and destruction have not made inroads into it. That is the only place where you may be able to find at least a sign of that fine emotion of humanity called LOVE still alive thriving with all its fine characteristics, as the people living there would be living in total communion with NATURE. NOT like us, the unfortunates on the earth, who are destined to live the lives of MACHINES. Machines have no humane qualities.

These ‘problems’ as you would like to call it have, it seems, since, been lost its significance as a matter to be paid immediate attention by humanity in order to bring about solutions to solve it. In the struggle to prove as the fittest to survive, the humans have lost their faculty of foresightedness by which they used to see the magnanimity of the problems that surrounded them form time to time. No body really cares any more. The problems are there and would continue to exist. Natural resources. It is a heartbreaking fact that we are running out of natural resources. In fact we are not ‘running out of it’ - we are ‘out running it” may be the phrase that would be more suitable to it. The world is in the grip of a few thousand people who are not interested in the preservation of its natural resources which is the real ‘treasure’ and the gift by the God Almighty. These few thousands are not at all worried about it and are in mad rush to amass man made wealth for the upkeep of their generations to come. Come to think of it. What a pity it is. By the time these generations have arrived on the planet, their would be nothing natural left for them to live on but the man made wealth which are of no use to them without the firm support from the nature. There will be no ‘nature’ at all by the time. Everything will be artificial. And nothing to make them remain as human beings would be there. They will be living like people from the primordial times - almost beasts. The only distinguishable characteristics left in them as human beings would be their ability to stand erect on two legs. Unequal distribution of finances. Why to bother. When there are no natural surroundings left, the human race would meet with its ‘natural’ end - extinction. Then what is the use of ‘Money’? Dishonesty. The less talked the better about it. I doubt my own honesty as a human being who is nothing but mute spectator of the horrendous destruction of the natural resources around me by a handful of my own brethren. Violence. It is a way of life for us. Earlier the religion was the way of life for human beings. Let us live with it. Is there any remedy? I don’t think. The advocates of violence are so powerful that it is their mercy that we, the non-violent ones, are allowed to live for one more day. As Sydney Sheldon says “Tomorrow never comes”. If by chance it comes make the best use of it. In the mean time try to go by the rule “Live and Let live” rather than the “Live and Let die” policy. That way one may get to live through the time the All Merciful God has kindly allotted one on this planet without meeting with an untimely end. It, however, depends on the Grace of God though. One will have to really strive to be a recipient of it.

Friendship is something that happens spontaneously between two persons. You may be able to ‘make’ friendship with someone of your choice irrespective of the fact that the other person is willing for it or not. The feeling for companionship with somebody, these days, is a conscious choice of people and not a spontaneous happening as it used to be in the days of the yore. It is the curse of the commercialization of everything including human feelings and passions. The facilities to make our lives more comfortable that are provided by the present times brings along a sense of insecurity too, which makes us to view most of our brethren in a not so humane light. Therefore, it is nothing but natural that the friendships of the day are made on a conscious decisions by all of us. It is more so since we don’t possess ourselves the qualities that we are trying to find in a person to be in possession to qualify as our friend!However, you can still find and make friendships provided you have a real longing for it. And, who knows you may be even lucky to find somebody of your choice!

According to Sigmund Freud “a dream is a disguised fulfillment of a repressed wish”. I think one should give due credit to him for an observation such as this. It is the most well balanced and trustworthy opinion on dreams He has put in a lot of efforts and taken a lot more pains to arrive at this conclusion. I bow to him with due respects. But I believe, there is something more to it. If it is only suppressed wishes that are the origin of our dreams, then why do we dream a lot many things which have no connection whatsoever with our suppressed wishes. For example, I have seen many times snakes, scary situations where I have been subjected to so much of pain and anguish, departed Forefathers etc which, I am almost sure, in most of the cases, were certainly not connected with any suppressed or repressed wishes of mine. However, I believe that it is an attempt by our subconscious mind, which is the repository of all the memories from our past lives, and is active while we are asleep, to bring into your conscious mind a bit of information from the hitherto unexplored and immeasurable store of the accumulated memories of our past lives. I donot know whether you believe in the theory of past lives or not. To me whatever my forefathers have told about the universe and its inhabitants are gospel truths. Therefore, I believe in past lives. Though it is difficult for me to provide you with some solid evidences for my point of contention with regards to the dreams i.e. its relationship with past lives, I think it would be possible for anybody to see this connection if contemplated with a little more enthusiasm/interest. .

ADIEU TO PRIVACY We are living in an age in which the technological advancement has almost reached its peaks. But along with the joy and happiness it has brought through this advancement, it also contributed to a very noticeable change in the private lives of human beings. The ‘peephole’ technologies, that have been developed side by side with the other technological advancements, has been posing a threat to the “Privacy” of human beings, which was guarded with utmost care by the human race till the advent of this technological boom, as it is widely known as. In fact it is Internet which should take a major share of the blame for it. Through Facebook, Blogs, emails et al, the human race is going public by revealing the most intimate part of their lives. Add to that the mobile telephone bloom - it has almost created havoc in the private lives of a major percentage of the total human race. To peep into the private lives of the hapless and vulnerable, with or without their knowledge, click a picture or MMS clip and thereafter send it to other people at will and create havoc in the lives of the affected persons has been made easily possible by invention of Mobile Telephones. Then comes the reality shows. There are umpteen numbers of so called “Reality Shows’ are aired through TV channels, which focuses on the private lives of people and make it as much public as possible. Further, the cyber-inspecting agencies does their bit to invade into the private lives of their respective citizens by monitoring emails, telephonic conversations etc. Of course, there are good reasons making such checking mandatory from the security point of view of a nation, but nonetheless it also is a form of peeping into the privacy of a human being. There may be a number of other areas, through which the privacy of human beings are compromised/invaded, which I may have not touched upon due to my limited knowledge in the subject matter. However, from what I have gathered, it becomes very clear to me that the day is not far when we would be biding adieu forever to one of the pillars of our society - the PRIVACY.

One must say that your opinion that the ‘humanity must be destroyed is indicative of a very dangerous point in the time of the history of humanity on this planet. The history is witness of many a cruel human beings who had destroyed millions of people in the name of politics, misplaced religious beliefs etc. But this opinion of yours comes as a surprise to me and sends a shiver down my spine when I contemplate about the possibility of that thought getting converted into a reality by someone. You are one among the 700 plus billion people that inhabit this planet. 700 plus Million! And to moot even an idea to destroy a race as vast as that because of a few among them believe that the race has lost its fitness to live on is, to say the least, precarious. Even the worst of the humans such as Hitler, Mussolini et al (to their credit!) had destroyed only a few millions. Even such hardcore dictators have not contemplated a complete destruction of the human race. Of all the species on this planet, the humans are the only ones gifted with the faculty to think, contemplate. Of course, it is a fact that that this faculty of thinking presently is being used mostly for destructive purposes. But that does not mean that the same faculty is not being used for constructive purposes. Of course, it is. There are millions of people who whole heartedly use this faculty for the well being of the human kind. In certain cases there a few hundred thousands who have dedicated their lives for this cause. We all owe our existence, howsoever wretched it may be, to this minority! In fact, it is their presence which is the nemesis of the evil forces of the world, and the prime reason that prevents the world getting taken over by these evil forces.Therefore, though the evil forces on this planet seems to have an upper hand over the good forces for the time being, we should not forget that we have dealt with all the predecessors them such as Hitler, Mussolini etc and taught them with befitting replies. Actually it is a cycle which repeats itself in the human history. The periods of living in agony have always paved the way to living in ecstasy too. Cheer up. Look at the brighter side of the life.

Let me start quoting from a James Hadley Chase novel titled “the World in My Pocket”. I am quoting it from memory, therefore, it may not be as exactly as it appears in the book. A character in the novel replies to a question about money The axis of the world in which we live today is Money. Without it you are a nobody in the world. The good old human values which were the pillars of the societies the world over have single handedly been replaced by the Almighty Money. Everything orbits around money. Therefore, the emergence of greed as the watch word of the day was an inevitable end. The status of a person in the society is measured by the wealth he is in possession of, howsoever stinking it may be. Everything depends on the amount of wealth you amass during the course of your life. The more you amass, the more you feel satisfied and, in turn, admired by the people around you. Since ‘survival of the fittest’ is construed and accepted as the natural law of existence, why worry about fact that 90% of the wealth is owned by 2% of the people of the world? They are the creation of the rotting societies across the world. Can somebody do something to bring back the old values in place of the ‘money oriented values’ of the present to save humanity from a possible destruction through a world war III that may be triggered off by the powers that be in their rage to amass more money? God only knows.

Honor Killing as it is widely known as, is a certainly a social evil which is required to be eradicated from its very roots from the society at the earliest possible time. The governments, I think, could do many things to curb this barbaric practice still in force. However, enacting a new law to deal with it may not be as effective as we may think. The need of the hour is education of the masses about this despicable act. The advocates of this heinous crime need to be educated on the true and literal meaning of the word “Honor”. These hapless people consider it an ‘honor’ to do the honor killing. They are not worried about the consequences of it, and one may even prove correct in guessing that these people even feel ‘honored’ to be in prisons for perpetrating it. There may be a moment in their lives when they may actually regret it, but we are not sure of it. Delayed remorse is of no use to anybody, not even to the person who undergoes it. While it may be prudent for the government of the countries, where it is in force, to enact laws to arrest this barbarous act, the efficacy of such laws in achieving its desired goal would still be debatable since this act, in most of the cases, is committed by its advocates on misplaced religious beliefs. Of course, there may be other reasons attributable, but majority of the cases reported owes its origin to religious beliefs. Chances are that it may, therefore, exist till the extinction of the human race from this planet, though I nurture a hope that it may even get eradicated when the almighty time reaches a point by where the human generations contributing to this heinous propaganda against humanity may have become extinct. I would like to further comment on the following reply by the Trap Grand Marshal. I have a little information for you to enlighten you about the misconception that you are staying in a country which is not as barbarous as other countries from where the Honor Killings are reported. It is from an article that is available on Wikipedia on the subject.

The concept of the existence of more than one universe (Multiverse as it is knows as) is not new. In the Vedas and Puranas (Holy Scriptures of Hindus) the concept would be found mentioned many a times. “ Therefore, even though it may be new found subject for the modern age scientists to wonder and study about this phenomenon called “Multiverse”, it is an astonishing fact that it, indeed, was a subject for the ancient Hindus and they have arguably commented ‘authentically’ about it. It may be argued that there is no ‘scientific’ proof to support the revelations contained in Hindu Scriptures about the ‘Multiverse”. However, it is an amazing fact many of the findings of the modern science, arrived at with the help of its multifarious accessories and equipments, have only confirmed the ‘revelations’ in the Hindu scriptures, which was earlier rejected for want of ‘scientific proof’, as authentic and scientifically valid. And, you will be astonished to know that these “revelations” were not the outcome of any external equipment or accessories based ‘experiments’, but the outcome of some inborn supernatural powers that these Hindu Rishis (Sages) were possessing! It still remains a mystery. I would not like to go too much deep on the subject since it is too large for me to do so. Those who are interested in a deep study may access such information through sources available on Internet or read books on the subject. However, I would like to end this post with the opinion of what the Famous Astrophysicist Carl Sagan had to say on the Hindu scriptures

You may have missed some facts when you say that “space is so vast a few burnt up thrusters and some junk satellites are not serious cause for concern and in the vast cosmos not a really large amount of trash when you consider how much room is out there” since these space junk, I quote from an article I happen to read in Internet, The vast space has no doubt is so spacious that anything can fit into it because everything that has been created is and have to be within it. But the space under the purview of the subject under discussion is limited to just above the earth. With regard to your assumption that it is “not a matter of serious cause of concern”, I would like to quote again from the article I have mentioned above; Therefore, the pollution by space junk above our planet is a matter of serious concern. The effects may not be apparent as of now. But it is sure to bring its share of catastrophes to add to the plethora of catastrophes that presently exist on the planet as the aftermaths of the irrational application of science and technology. With regards to your concept about science I would like the great Albert Einstein himself to clarify it; He says The present day scientists makes us believe that more and more and more are required to lead a happy life on this planet. Is not it? He further says Do you think the technological advancement of the present times has any real concern for man and his fate? I fail to see any real concern.

POLLUTION OF SPACE In my article titled “Village versus City’, I have tried to highlight the efforts by a few determined villagers to defy the attempts by the city folks to pollute their village by dumping the waste produced at the city. Here I would like to highlight one other area being heavily polluted by the human race – the Space. According to a study by US Space Agency NASA, more than five lakh pieces of debris, such as spent rocket stages, broken satellites etc, are there above us orbiting the earth in their dead tracks. The mankind has already done whatever they could ‘do’ to make this beautiful planet a place unworthy for living for their future generations by polluting it by mindless and unscientific advancement in the filed of ‘science and technology’. Each day of this ‘advancement’, as they call it, in the field of science and technology would only bring this planet very closer to its ‘untimely’ destruction. The scientific and technological advancements of the present age have already lost its original aim - the aim to help humanity to inhabit this planet more comfortably. The original aim being lost, the aim of these once sacred fields has now been replaced, as it now appears, to making this planet totally uninhabitable for the mankind at the earliest possible time. Alas, nothing, it seems, can be done even to pacify, leave alone preventing, its maddening rush to reach its new found goal, since it is done in the name of ‘scientific and technological advancement’! There are still a handful of ‘human beings’ across the world with guts and gusto in expressing their heartfelt anguish over this maddening rush. But there voices are neither not taken with the required level of seriousness it is worth, or disregarded as ‘musings of persons with a motive to prevent scientific and technological advancement’. And in certain cases these concerned voices are stifled by using strong arm tactics by the powers that be. Now the so called scientific and technological advancements have started leaving its ‘identity’ even in the space! It is polluting the space above our planet in the name of ‘space exploration’. The fight for supremacy in the space by the two super powers USA and USSR (now Russia) propelled the pollution of the space and the advent of the IT era made things more worse. Since 1957, numerous explorations of the satellites of the earth and sun have left the space a graveyard of spent rocket stages, broken man made satellites etc. By now a few more numbers of them must have been added to the estimation of NASA of the number of debris presently on the orbit i.e. nearly five lakhs – and more numbers are going to be added in the days to come! The situation is alarming, but nobody really cares. May be it is because of the fact that the ill effects of the space pollution have not yet become apparent. Or may be we donot have enough time to tackle this danger looming on our heads since we have a plethora of such issues to deal with on the ground level!

I have some interesting information on the subject. There is a person in India whose name is Prhalad Jani who is claimed to have been surviving without food or water for almost 06 decades! I know it would sound ridiculous to all. I have never had a chance to meet this individual in person, and, therefore, would not like to comment on the authenticity of his claim. However, I am placing the link to the news item that I chanced upon while browsing the net for the information of all.

Hats off to you. It is the gripping style of narration that makes one to engross in the reading right from the very beginning. The reader is literally ‘taken for a ride’ in this ‘car’. And then comes the unbelievable end. Kudos to you.

This is nothing new. The unholy nexus between the pharmaceutical companies and the so called Doctors have been going on ever since the advent of competition in the field of manufacturing of medicines. Earlier it was under wraps, but right now they don’t see any reasons to conceal it any more since they very clearly understand that the Indians have since long become shock proof to withstand the impact of such shocking news. And, in case if you feel that there will be some action from the powers that be or from the so-called ‘concerned citizens’ against such a devilish collaboration, you are mistaken. Nothing of that sort is going to happen. The pharmaceutical companies concerned are well equipped to'deal with them'. Most of the Doctors of India have chosen it as their profession not out of the love for humanity. In most of the cases you will find that they have been forced by their well wishers to opt this as their profession. They secure admission in colleges by virtue of paying hefty amounts as ‘donation’ to the colleges concerned. In addition, a major part of the seats are in the reserved category which are set aside to help students from the minority communities, scheduled castes and tribes, other backward communities etc. Though the merit of setting aside seats for such categories cannot be underrated, the facts remains that a majority of students becoming Doctors by making use of such reserved quota do not possess the required level of passion or quality to do justice to this sacred profession. The saddest part is that the a large number brilliant students possessing passion and quality to serve humanity as Doctors never get a chance to obtain a seat in the colleges mostly due to brute majority of the above mentioned categories. So, it is nothing but natural that most of Doctors would love to forget the Hippocratic Oath that they have taken immediately after taking it! It is these Doctors who view this profession as profit making one and get into collaborations with such pharmaceutical companies and disregard the well being of their patients which is supposed to be their bounden duty! As a result, presently in India the medical shops out number panshops and tea stalls! It is a big, big business. It adds every day crores of rupees to the coffers of the pharmaceutical barons. Therefore, in order to increase the sales, they will do anything within their powers such as the one presently under reference. It is a pity that this country, where Ayurveda was born, things have reached such a pathetic level.

The ‘generation gap’, as they call it, is widening day by day. The so called technological advancement has made the things more worse. There is sharp decline in the sanctity of human relationships. The respect the elders used to command from the youngsters is on the brink of extinction. The incident under reference is just an example of it. Who is to be held responsible? There may not be clear cut answer to it. There would be justifications by both the sides – the elders and the youngsters; they would like to exonerate themselves from being blamed for it. As said by a character in the famous novel ‘Day of the Jackal’ written by Frederick Forsyth “we are living in hair raising times’. And, it is a fact that in order to keep up with these times, human being had to make amends to a lot of well established norms in the society. But everything with regards to the human relationships was manageable till the dawn of the IT era. Along with its high-fly facilities that catapulted the humanity into unprecedented technological heights, it also dealt a severe blow to the time tested human values - the mankind is almost brought down to the level of robots. The youngsters, who are living almost like robots, no more care about many values that were so close to the hearts of the elders. They are not interested in anything apart from technologically advanced ‘stuff’, as they call it. The sacred books of the yore that set rules governing the upkeep of the relationships and emphasized on the necessity of safegaurding it for the well being society, have been put aside by the youngsters as ‘trash’. Of course, no efforts worth mentioning was carried out by the elders to take note of this dangerous trend and to nip it in its bud; instead, they simply allowed the youngsters to get on with it. And, now, it is payback time. I feel pity on the father though. I have not seen what was the ‘considered’ opinion of the daughter about her parents, but could presume that it was something really ‘appalling’ so far the hapless father is concerned. Though I don’t completely blame the sons and daughters of the present age for the state of affairs as it stands with regards to the relationship with their parents, I would like to remind them of one thing – the gap of age between yours and your parents cannot be shortened even by a second by anything in the Universe, it will remain as it is, try however you may. Finally a word of advice to the father concerned - 'Forgive them father, for they do not know what they do'.