I have been working on this thought ever since , I read an articles in TOI where C.K.Prahlad spoke on the very same issue with regards to Tata nano ! In todays world everyone is concerned with pace ! Fast technological updates keep coming on after the other as Globally people compete each other to reach the optimum level of efficiency in given set parameters ! But in a given set of parameters theres a limit to the efficiency U can reach and also the competetion is hardcoz everybody knows whats to be done !
We are so concerned with the betterment in given set of parameters that we tend to forget why are we working inside the given parameters ! Agreed that conventional parameters and limitation are developed in the long run through experience, but u cant deny that bending them is impossible !
After all the philosphy we follow is of trying to find a golden mean , but while finding the golden mean we unconsiously do tend to get equally away from every extremes !
My point is, sometimes these parameters can be challenged and a system can be developed after taking one extreme ! I will ellaborate with the example of tata nano ! While making the Nano - The basic parameter challenged was Price ! Making a 1 L INR car was outta Q for majority of the car makers arnd the world ! But Tata motors decided to challenge this basic parameter and rest is history ! This car is sure to be a success coz 1 L is really affordable forthe middle class people who dont want the excellent suspensions and engines which takes u 0 - 100kmph in 10 secs ! what they want is just a ' Car ' which only Tata can give them !
Friday, November 28, 2008
Thursday, November 20, 2008
8:08 ChaShiT Fast - An amazing routine !
Well ChaShiT is Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus for those of you , who havent got the shit beaten outta yourself by travelling in this beauty!
It rumbles down the platform 4 of Thane, half emtpy ( some crazy maniacs have the brains to board it in Kalwa carshed - God Curse them !) and stands patiently till its pounded by people ! People who have their asses on fire and believe that the 1st class cushioned seat is some sort of water pool ! Damn ! Well My ass is never on fire ! So me and Aditya prefer completing the Jigsaw puzzle of the lobby of the train by manuvering our bodies to best possibly fit in the space remaining ! Its actually a test of flexibility or rigidity ! If ur body fails to be at any of this extreme conditions then be warned that when U get down, U wud be having more body parts sore than not !
The Jigsaw puzzle comprises of amazing people of amazing dimensions , drenched in amazing amount of sweat ! These pieces of Jigsaw come in variety wid a variety of expressions and body language ! Some are 'I m too high class for this crowd' , some ' keep of me U slime' , some ' smiling intelligently' , some 'smilling dumbly', some ' yet to be awake' ! Then before the trains starts U will have egoistic advisory yells of starting the fan , then curses wid a dash of " Ma... Bhen ...." when fan refuses to start followed by more egoistic attempts to start it ! Finally some resort to handerchieves givng the characteristic huffs and puffs to cool off !
Finally the motorman gets bored of platform 4. and train begins its ardous journey packed to capacity ! Then the real fun starts as the groups of people start discussing private, professional , local , national and international issues each with equal ease !! Each one with his own suggestions makes the debate hotter and better ! U can ocassionally here a" Arey Salla Reliance kay padla kaal " or " Ya Bhaiyyanna .... " or "Kal tya Big Boss madhye Rahul ne ......" and loads of such varied shit ! The Ocassional scuffle between 2 hot heads is a enjoyable event. Its a rare phenomena but when it happens , U will be taken to higher plane of imaginative swears ! FInally some mature guy ends the deal with a " Jane de ..kiske mooh lag raha hain ...." !yet to see a physical showdown those happen in 2nd class ! ahh well ! U gain some u loose some in 1st class !
Sometimes I feel 2nd class is a better place to be , coz a mistaken elbow hit is graciously forgiven there or otherwise it all goes down to survival instinct , but in 1st class U have to face strght faced hypocrites who will swear under their breadth and give u those " Pata nahi kahaan kahaan se chale ate hain " looks making u feel " Are gaali dena toh mooh pe bol " ! Train reaches Mulund and its a case of " Lemme get in U bastard or I will pull U down " countered by internal shouts " Bho******* He mulundwalle salle nako tevha nako tevdhya sankhet yetat" or sometimes a more direct " Phekun dya yanna baher " ! The train stops and u get a 15 sec interval to quickly readjust urself and the aching body parts to the more intensive packing!
Mulund sometime brings in companions of people already in train who brings a pack of samosas or Bhajji which is shared equally among all widout giving a damn to the hygine ! again the debates and group discussions start wid additonal opinions ! ! Suddenly U can have a couple of " Aur fir usne Unki ......... " followed by " Bho Bhe Bha or Ma " and then a group suddenly goes " HAHAHAHAHH " followed by swears again " HAHAHAH " till finally the N2O in their body ends !
Then comes ghatkopar ! silver haired , baldy , sherwani clad , bussinessmen wid golden specs holding a briefcase in 1 hand and 2 mobiles in the other enter the compartment and all of a sudden the " .....Che ........ Che........ che " increases ! ocassional one such guy may step on your feet and say " Ae Bhai thoda Adjust kar ne " and you feel like replying in the same gujju tone dat U cant, but yet u try!! Believe me U cant fight the guy wid sucha tone ! Well the thoda Adjusted journey continues and finally its Kurla time !!! haah ! U utilise the last ounce of energy in ur body to wriggle out frm the adjusted situation and get down at Kurla ! Phew !
Check your wallet and mobile , straighten ur "akade hue " bones and move on !
For those of you who are interested about what happens beyond Kurla please meet me on Platform 4 arnd 8:05 am on weekdays and I would happily introduce you to this beauty of 8:08 !
It rumbles down the platform 4 of Thane, half emtpy ( some crazy maniacs have the brains to board it in Kalwa carshed - God Curse them !) and stands patiently till its pounded by people ! People who have their asses on fire and believe that the 1st class cushioned seat is some sort of water pool ! Damn ! Well My ass is never on fire ! So me and Aditya prefer completing the Jigsaw puzzle of the lobby of the train by manuvering our bodies to best possibly fit in the space remaining ! Its actually a test of flexibility or rigidity ! If ur body fails to be at any of this extreme conditions then be warned that when U get down, U wud be having more body parts sore than not !
The Jigsaw puzzle comprises of amazing people of amazing dimensions , drenched in amazing amount of sweat ! These pieces of Jigsaw come in variety wid a variety of expressions and body language ! Some are 'I m too high class for this crowd' , some ' keep of me U slime' , some ' smiling intelligently' , some 'smilling dumbly', some ' yet to be awake' ! Then before the trains starts U will have egoistic advisory yells of starting the fan , then curses wid a dash of " Ma... Bhen ...." when fan refuses to start followed by more egoistic attempts to start it ! Finally some resort to handerchieves givng the characteristic huffs and puffs to cool off !
Finally the motorman gets bored of platform 4. and train begins its ardous journey packed to capacity ! Then the real fun starts as the groups of people start discussing private, professional , local , national and international issues each with equal ease !! Each one with his own suggestions makes the debate hotter and better ! U can ocassionally here a" Arey Salla Reliance kay padla kaal " or " Ya Bhaiyyanna .... " or "Kal tya Big Boss madhye Rahul ne ......" and loads of such varied shit ! The Ocassional scuffle between 2 hot heads is a enjoyable event. Its a rare phenomena but when it happens , U will be taken to higher plane of imaginative swears ! FInally some mature guy ends the deal with a " Jane de ..kiske mooh lag raha hain ...." !yet to see a physical showdown those happen in 2nd class ! ahh well ! U gain some u loose some in 1st class !
Sometimes I feel 2nd class is a better place to be , coz a mistaken elbow hit is graciously forgiven there or otherwise it all goes down to survival instinct , but in 1st class U have to face strght faced hypocrites who will swear under their breadth and give u those " Pata nahi kahaan kahaan se chale ate hain " looks making u feel " Are gaali dena toh mooh pe bol " ! Train reaches Mulund and its a case of " Lemme get in U bastard or I will pull U down " countered by internal shouts " Bho******* He mulundwalle salle nako tevha nako tevdhya sankhet yetat" or sometimes a more direct " Phekun dya yanna baher " ! The train stops and u get a 15 sec interval to quickly readjust urself and the aching body parts to the more intensive packing!
Mulund sometime brings in companions of people already in train who brings a pack of samosas or Bhajji which is shared equally among all widout giving a damn to the hygine ! again the debates and group discussions start wid additonal opinions ! ! Suddenly U can have a couple of " Aur fir usne Unki ......... " followed by " Bho Bhe Bha or Ma " and then a group suddenly goes " HAHAHAHAHH " followed by swears again " HAHAHAH " till finally the N2O in their body ends !
Then comes ghatkopar ! silver haired , baldy , sherwani clad , bussinessmen wid golden specs holding a briefcase in 1 hand and 2 mobiles in the other enter the compartment and all of a sudden the " .....Che ........ Che........ che " increases ! ocassional one such guy may step on your feet and say " Ae Bhai thoda Adjust kar ne " and you feel like replying in the same gujju tone dat U cant, but yet u try!! Believe me U cant fight the guy wid sucha tone ! Well the thoda Adjusted journey continues and finally its Kurla time !!! haah ! U utilise the last ounce of energy in ur body to wriggle out frm the adjusted situation and get down at Kurla ! Phew !
Check your wallet and mobile , straighten ur "akade hue " bones and move on !
For those of you who are interested about what happens beyond Kurla please meet me on Platform 4 arnd 8:05 am on weekdays and I would happily introduce you to this beauty of 8:08 !
Monday, November 10, 2008
In Transition !
Times flies by as I stand in transition ............. ! I can see it everywhere ! Damn it , I am already an adult ! Childhood is done with ! Kyunki Saas Bhi kabhi bahu thi and Kahaani Ghar Ghar ki have stopped telecasting their social malfunctionings !! Anil Kumble is gone , So has Sourav left the field forever! Its over 7 years since the WTC have been destroyed, 7 years ? SHIT ! I remember it like it was yesterday!! America has destroyed Afganisthan and Iraq! saddam hussein is dead! So if Benazir Bhutto! Pervez Musharraf is no more the Pak chief ! George Bush completed 8 year ,Putin is gone So is Tony Blair! Even Manmohan Singh has completed his 1st term !! Bombs have stopped affecting me or my conscience ! Terrorism is boring and a mundane routine , it seems to have been accepted by people as a part of life !! CDs which use to store a lottt in 2000 have been replaced by DVD which by blue ray ? not yet !phew !I laugh at my 6 yr old electronic diary which says it can store 200 Nos. wid a memory of 256 KB !! Hehe ! I remember mobile phones loosing their antenas for the 1st time and those elite phone which even had a quarter megapixel cam , now I hold a 5mp camera which is also a mobile ! I remember flat screen TVs as a revolution today the whole tv is flat !! Does anybody have a casette player or a walkman ?! ipod rules ! I stand in motion as I experience the silent velocity of this ever accelerating world enjoying the new trendz and challenges in a completely dynamic and ever changing environment !!
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Viviktesh
My name Viviktesh has intrigued every person who has heard it ! Some found it funny , some amazing , some weird but all of them have commonly found it unique ! I have never met another Viviktesh yet and dont think so will ever meet ! So being the sole bearer of this name I guess its my sole duty to be proud of it and let people know what it actually means !
Viviktesh is derived from basic word vivikta which comes from the 28th stotra of the Vishnu sahasranam adding a -ish ( meaning God of ) completes my name vivikt + ish = Viviktesh
The following is the 28th stotra :-
Vrushahi vrushabho vishnur vrushaparva vrushodarah
Vardhano vardhamanascha viviktah shruti-sagarah ..28
Vrushahi: Vrusha means dharma or merit.
Vrushabho: One who showers on the devotees all that they pray for.
Vishnur: One who pervades everything.
Vrushaparva: One who has given as steps (Parvas), observances of the nature of Dharma, to those who want to attain the supreme state.
Vrushodarah: One whose abdomen showers offspring.
Vardhamanascha: One who multiplies in the form of the universe.
Viviktah: One who is untouched and unaffected.
Shruti-sagarah: One to whom all the shruti or Vedic words and sentences flow.
Viviktah means the untouched and unaffected . untouched and unaffected by what U may ask .....well everything ! it means I can stay in water without getting wet or in the desert without being thirsty though these physical interpretation are hyperbol the meaning that my name conveys is be even in every situation be it positive or negetive one should be even ! It suggests that U dont need to go to himalay to practice penance in search of enlightenment, U can very well be a part of this material world enjoys its share of happy and sad moments and yet be detached as u search for that ultimate truth ! this calming evenness has been often described
in various forms like 'vidya vinayen shobhate' as in ' knowledge looks beautiful with modesty' . The great scholar who knows everything yet is quite even about it because he knows something
which makes him even more aware of how unaware he is ! Being Vivikt doesnt mean U leave everything and be detached , it goes beyond that to tell u be with everything yet be your own ! This is where your greatness is !
Being vivikt is being the beautiful lotus that grows in the puddle of mud yet has no enemity with the mud ! So as such being Vivikt is way to difficult than to give up everything and go for the truth ! For being Vivikt one needs extreme amount of self control and awareness of the fact that evrything is maya ! Hindu mythology elegantly explains the concept of maya - It begins from what the Vedic people use to worship the ' Ekam Sat' - The single truth a.k.a advaitam which splits into 2 things atman and brahmam ! atman is you and brahmam is the rest of the universe
the manifestation of brahma into reality is maya which the aham percieves as distinct entity ! but the true enlightenment of the atman is in knowing that maya is false and that the brahma is no different from him and he is not diffrent from brahman ! Essentially ' Aham Brahmasmi , brahmaeyva aham asmi ' [ I m the universe , Universe is me ] and when the atman being aware of this fact unites and flows in harmony with the Brahma to be the ekam Sat again ! U have the true enlightened enitity , who doesnt find any diffrence in happiness or sorrow and just exists on the higher plane being vivikt of the maya !
Well thats what this unique 9 lettered word , which is often misread , misprinted , mispronounced is all about ! Glad to know you found it of interest to read about it ! coz I definitely had fun 1st knowing , understanding and realising it ! I am pretty thankful to my parents who chose such a wonderful name for me ! Now it remains to be seen , being aware of everything can this viviktesh be the VIVIKTESH in his journey of life !
Viviktesh is derived from basic word vivikta which comes from the 28th stotra of the Vishnu sahasranam adding a -ish ( meaning God of ) completes my name vivikt + ish = Viviktesh
The following is the 28th stotra :-
Vrushahi vrushabho vishnur vrushaparva vrushodarah
Vardhano vardhamanascha viviktah shruti-sagarah ..28
Vrushahi: Vrusha means dharma or merit.
Vrushabho: One who showers on the devotees all that they pray for.
Vishnur: One who pervades everything.
Vrushaparva: One who has given as steps (Parvas), observances of the nature of Dharma, to those who want to attain the supreme state.
Vrushodarah: One whose abdomen showers offspring.
Vardhamanascha: One who multiplies in the form of the universe.
Viviktah: One who is untouched and unaffected.
Shruti-sagarah: One to whom all the shruti or Vedic words and sentences flow.
Viviktah means the untouched and unaffected . untouched and unaffected by what U may ask .....well everything ! it means I can stay in water without getting wet or in the desert without being thirsty though these physical interpretation are hyperbol the meaning that my name conveys is be even in every situation be it positive or negetive one should be even ! It suggests that U dont need to go to himalay to practice penance in search of enlightenment, U can very well be a part of this material world enjoys its share of happy and sad moments and yet be detached as u search for that ultimate truth ! this calming evenness has been often described
in various forms like 'vidya vinayen shobhate' as in ' knowledge looks beautiful with modesty' . The great scholar who knows everything yet is quite even about it because he knows something
which makes him even more aware of how unaware he is ! Being Vivikt doesnt mean U leave everything and be detached , it goes beyond that to tell u be with everything yet be your own ! This is where your greatness is !
Being vivikt is being the beautiful lotus that grows in the puddle of mud yet has no enemity with the mud ! So as such being Vivikt is way to difficult than to give up everything and go for the truth ! For being Vivikt one needs extreme amount of self control and awareness of the fact that evrything is maya ! Hindu mythology elegantly explains the concept of maya - It begins from what the Vedic people use to worship the ' Ekam Sat' - The single truth a.k.a advaitam which splits into 2 things atman and brahmam ! atman is you and brahmam is the rest of the universe
the manifestation of brahma into reality is maya which the aham percieves as distinct entity ! but the true enlightenment of the atman is in knowing that maya is false and that the brahma is no different from him and he is not diffrent from brahman ! Essentially ' Aham Brahmasmi , brahmaeyva aham asmi ' [ I m the universe , Universe is me ] and when the atman being aware of this fact unites and flows in harmony with the Brahma to be the ekam Sat again ! U have the true enlightened enitity , who doesnt find any diffrence in happiness or sorrow and just exists on the higher plane being vivikt of the maya !
Well thats what this unique 9 lettered word , which is often misread , misprinted , mispronounced is all about ! Glad to know you found it of interest to read about it ! coz I definitely had fun 1st knowing , understanding and realising it ! I am pretty thankful to my parents who chose such a wonderful name for me ! Now it remains to be seen , being aware of everything can this viviktesh be the VIVIKTESH in his journey of life !
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