Well 6:30 pm on Last day to get my pass for Govandi Station with the concession form in my hand , A pass worth 690 bucks and Rs.680 in my wallet { Including all the Chuttas and Chillars} times are seldom so desperate ! Option 1: I go the next day ......I have to slug it out with a government employee who is least interested in helping me ; rather who derives fun seeing me caught helplessly in the technicalities of date and time ! Option 2: I forget the concession form I have to shell out a good 1200 odd Rs. ! Option 3 : I ask aditya to lend me a 10 Rs. which I promised to return by paying for rickshaw the next day !
I took the 3rd option and well by 6:45 I had brand new quarterly pass to Govandi in my hand !! Eureka !!
As all the pumped up adrenaline abt what to do and what not to ends .....my mind began to think
that note of Rs. 10 was worth Rs. 10 to aditya but for me it was much much much more than that !
That note saved me a argument wid the government employee , it saved me the mentlal tension of not having my pass and standing in que the next day , It saved me from the murderous 2nd class compartment on the morning of monday going to Kurla !!! man It was well worth 1000 bucks for me and this aint a hyperbole !
I realised why having 10 bucks in ur hand is worth a 100 in ur bank account ! Well unfortunate as I was I didnt have them so Aditya came to my rescue ......but had there been no aditya !!!
Damn I cud have given anybody 20 bucks the next day for giving me 10 today !!! thats when I realised I was ready to take a loan @ 100% interest dat too on a daily basis ! I guess thats the type of people on whom these Venture capitalist survive giving loans @ 30% interest !!! DAMN ! Thanx God for the lessons in economics and Maharashtra Education board please try and rope in such practical examples !!
Friday, September 19, 2008
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Self Awareness !
I dont know, whether you people have experienced it but theres this very strange experience of mine. At times when I look into the mirror looking at myself and keep looking at myself more than I normally would ,it strikes me as a very pleasent sense of awareness that the person in front of me is me !! That face ,the body its mine 100 % of it ! I exist and I m in full control of myself !
Its very rarely that u look at yourself so intently , we always look in the mirror for just to check on the odd shabbiness of hair or some cosmetic appearance of that sort ! but we hardly see ourselves as a person in mirror and there I sincerely think we miss something ! its not the face thats important , I dunno but I sort of feel that u get a brief vision into urself as a person when u stare at urself in the mirror or for that matter even ur photograph !
This self awareness gives me a kind of kick for doing something as in I feel like I m in more control of myself and can do whatever I want! I get to know myself as a 3rd person and thats excellent for bringing out self corrections ! U actually kno urself more than anybody could possibly know u but in the course of time U take it for granted and stop evaluating urself as a person and tend to get pushed around and swayed by the surrounding events ! U tend to loose the awareness of ur being !
If U can cultivate this habit of being aware of urself as person , U automatically end up
being more matured , refiend and focussed person ! and basically enjoy the feeling that U exist
and are able ! Able to do the most non thought of things in this world cause you are present !!!
and are able ! Able to do the most non thought of things in this world cause you are present !!!
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Natures's Selection
Nothing is permanent except change itself !
If U cant change , U have to perish. Nature is an amazing self enriching machine , which has extreme intolerance toward it's non performing and stagnant elements. All such elements perish in course of time. those which do not perish , evolve !
You have gotta accept this, to exist is a competition. A continuous and tiring competition. But you have to compete. Its an amazing mechanism. Nature does'nt improve you. It employs a novel technique where in it has put in you an inbuilt desire to survive and it goes on making the situation to survive tougher! So that u improve. As u improve , U enrich the nature itself ! The ones who cannot improve perish !!
In nature there is no subsidy or rebate or concession for the weaker section who cant compete. Its hard and ruthless. Its the most ultimate competition of your life were in the winner gets to survive!
Its sort of hard on us ...coz the prize of the contest you are competing is that u can compete further.But thats the essence of life I guess ! The prize of this competion called life is the sheer joy of competing - living. Each day you survive this competition , you know that you are a better living being just because U have survived more. I guess precisely thats why we respect our elders. They have indeed survived here for a long time. The question arises why shud I survive , is there any aim of surviving ?
This is a very bold , but I claim. The Ultimate aim of life is to survive. The journey itself is the reward. You enrich the nature by surviving becoz the more u survive the more u evolve , more u evolve. Nature has more evolved living creature.
If U cant change , U have to perish. Nature is an amazing self enriching machine , which has extreme intolerance toward it's non performing and stagnant elements. All such elements perish in course of time. those which do not perish , evolve !
You have gotta accept this, to exist is a competition. A continuous and tiring competition. But you have to compete. Its an amazing mechanism. Nature does'nt improve you. It employs a novel technique where in it has put in you an inbuilt desire to survive and it goes on making the situation to survive tougher! So that u improve. As u improve , U enrich the nature itself ! The ones who cannot improve perish !!
In nature there is no subsidy or rebate or concession for the weaker section who cant compete. Its hard and ruthless. Its the most ultimate competition of your life were in the winner gets to survive!
Its sort of hard on us ...coz the prize of the contest you are competing is that u can compete further.But thats the essence of life I guess ! The prize of this competion called life is the sheer joy of competing - living. Each day you survive this competition , you know that you are a better living being just because U have survived more. I guess precisely thats why we respect our elders. They have indeed survived here for a long time. The question arises why shud I survive , is there any aim of surviving ?
This is a very bold , but I claim. The Ultimate aim of life is to survive. The journey itself is the reward. You enrich the nature by surviving becoz the more u survive the more u evolve , more u evolve. Nature has more evolved living creature.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Happiness
It was my final pre University english Oral exams. We were told to get prepared for an extempore! I had no problems with the extempore being my schools champ. So I was at my creative best saturated with ideas of How to floor the professor with my On the spot thinking.
So it came I was asked abt my idea of happiness and to start off by defining it, well the definition of something as abstract as happiness, I didnt knew what to say. So I started with whatever I could cojure up and I defined it as follows, "Happiness is that elevated state of my Mind in which it craves to be in perpetually and every endavoer of mine is directed to be in the same". beleive me it was instantaneous and everything went fine after that.
After getting home, I thot over the definition and I liked its succintness .I felt really good by the time I digested it that I could so aptly define something as abstract as happiness in just 2 lines So after that a lot of thot has gone into the concept before making this blog entry.
My good friend Pratik Bhide had once said while having a discussion that Happiness is not same for everyone. Hitler got happiness in killing the Jews and Sachin Tendulkar got happiness the Ball for a Six. That prompted me to think more two very diverse things yet both implied happiness for the individuals! And tendulkar am sure wouldnt be happy killing the jews or hitler content by hitting the ball for a Six ! So I think a person is happy when he is in a particular elevated state of mind and diffrent things take him into this state!
Having once been in this excited state , we develop a crave to be in it again and again ! coz yeah the state of mind is really great to be in ! and this crave for it makes us work towards it. So then every action of our body is in that direction to achieve that state again. YEs the intensity of this craves varies directly wid the difference between the excited state U have experienced to the normal state u r in already. U can define a abstract happiness scale , where 0[zero] can be defined as your normal state and say something like eating my favourite piece of choclate gives me 10 units of happiness. Its difficult to quantisize happiness but this was done just for example !
U can caliberate your own scale likewise !
So there you have it , plot this happiness of urs Vs. time on co-ordinate axis and u can have your very own self monitor of how have u been living. evertime u go in the negetive side of the axis the crave to be on the positive side increases. Enough of Statistics and graphs.
I read in Buddhist literature abt trishna. This Trishna { desire } is the same as My crave for
higher level of excitation. Gautam Buddha gave a excellent philosophy wherein he says Drop this trishna and U could do away wid all ur sorrows. I have a innovative thots here which I would ellaborate furthur down as you read. I think buddha is wrongly interpreted when its said that
Dont have trishna { crave } for doing away wid the sorrow. Buddha preached a much more Matured concept where I guess He wanted us to be control of our own trishna rather than doing away with it. Crave for achieving something is the basic driving force which has brough us this far , people would find themselves at wits end if suddenly one day they found they didnt crave for anything more, Try and imagine it yourself. I would give a example and disturb your imagination. But would'nt that be great ?Everyone is content with evrything, no wars , no fights , no greed no Boredom too coz U absolutely dont desire anything. This is what they called the Moksha ! At absolute peace with one self ! Absence of crave abt every physical and material happiness is Moksha itself, U trascend the normal human driving force and dont need it no more as u look down to what u have been doing and feel peace!
But Nature has its own ways. In this world of 6 billion people only 3 to 4 people would be such .
Rest all like you and me live enjoying This small excitation of physical happiness ! And thats perfectly allright ! Coz nature itself wouldnt allow everyone to be in Moksha ....coz Function of the nature would stop ! Nature keeps balancing this graph of your life . So each day you find your avg graph to be above the X-axis !Thank the nature !
So it came I was asked abt my idea of happiness and to start off by defining it, well the definition of something as abstract as happiness, I didnt knew what to say. So I started with whatever I could cojure up and I defined it as follows, "Happiness is that elevated state of my Mind in which it craves to be in perpetually and every endavoer of mine is directed to be in the same". beleive me it was instantaneous and everything went fine after that.
After getting home, I thot over the definition and I liked its succintness .I felt really good by the time I digested it that I could so aptly define something as abstract as happiness in just 2 lines So after that a lot of thot has gone into the concept before making this blog entry.
My good friend Pratik Bhide had once said while having a discussion that Happiness is not same for everyone. Hitler got happiness in killing the Jews and Sachin Tendulkar got happiness the Ball for a Six. That prompted me to think more two very diverse things yet both implied happiness for the individuals! And tendulkar am sure wouldnt be happy killing the jews or hitler content by hitting the ball for a Six ! So I think a person is happy when he is in a particular elevated state of mind and diffrent things take him into this state!
Having once been in this excited state , we develop a crave to be in it again and again ! coz yeah the state of mind is really great to be in ! and this crave for it makes us work towards it. So then every action of our body is in that direction to achieve that state again. YEs the intensity of this craves varies directly wid the difference between the excited state U have experienced to the normal state u r in already. U can define a abstract happiness scale , where 0[zero] can be defined as your normal state and say something like eating my favourite piece of choclate gives me 10 units of happiness. Its difficult to quantisize happiness but this was done just for example !
U can caliberate your own scale likewise !
So there you have it , plot this happiness of urs Vs. time on co-ordinate axis and u can have your very own self monitor of how have u been living. evertime u go in the negetive side of the axis the crave to be on the positive side increases. Enough of Statistics and graphs.
I read in Buddhist literature abt trishna. This Trishna { desire } is the same as My crave for
higher level of excitation. Gautam Buddha gave a excellent philosophy wherein he says Drop this trishna and U could do away wid all ur sorrows. I have a innovative thots here which I would ellaborate furthur down as you read. I think buddha is wrongly interpreted when its said that
Dont have trishna { crave } for doing away wid the sorrow. Buddha preached a much more Matured concept where I guess He wanted us to be control of our own trishna rather than doing away with it. Crave for achieving something is the basic driving force which has brough us this far , people would find themselves at wits end if suddenly one day they found they didnt crave for anything more, Try and imagine it yourself. I would give a example and disturb your imagination. But would'nt that be great ?Everyone is content with evrything, no wars , no fights , no greed no Boredom too coz U absolutely dont desire anything. This is what they called the Moksha ! At absolute peace with one self ! Absence of crave abt every physical and material happiness is Moksha itself, U trascend the normal human driving force and dont need it no more as u look down to what u have been doing and feel peace!
But Nature has its own ways. In this world of 6 billion people only 3 to 4 people would be such .
Rest all like you and me live enjoying This small excitation of physical happiness ! And thats perfectly allright ! Coz nature itself wouldnt allow everyone to be in Moksha ....coz Function of the nature would stop ! Nature keeps balancing this graph of your life . So each day you find your avg graph to be above the X-axis !Thank the nature !
Monday, August 27, 2007
On the Infinity and finity of human imagination
I had heard and read quite a lot of things which discussed the infiniteness of human imagination. Indeed human imagination can conjure the most bizzare things ; my imagination as a child was the none the less I remmeber developing an idea of a future Autotrophic human with green hair {with the chlorophyll} ......an eight year old's solution to food crisis of the world ! as a child I was compelled to believe after reading abt fairies , alice in wonderland and other inventions of human imagination coupled with the satisfaction that I cud imagine whatever I like and want ........Human imagination was the only thing that could compete with universe for the title of being infinite . It seems so very obvious to even an adult that imagination is limitless ........
space travel , electricity , computers all are a product of that fantastic thing called imagination
thats what has brought us ... from a eat sleep drink reproduce caveman to what we are today !
But yes , is this infinte ? I must agree that for every practical purpose this is the infinity .
Leaving the practicality back lets take a little theoratical approach . thats what I did to kinda
a come to the conclusion currently that human imagination is not quite infinte. that brings us to the question whats n how much is infinite. An age old maths tells me If I have 2 sets
Set A = { 1, 2 , 3, 4 .......} Set B = { 1 , 4 , 9, 16 ..........} . both the sets are infinte even though set B doesnt have all the elements in Set A . I believe human imagination is infinite .....buts its infiniteness is like Set B not like Set A.The reason why I say this is quite simple .Human imagination has one huge weak point like all other systems of human origination have.That weakness comes from the fact that human perception is very limited . Humans cant percieve anything beyond the 5 sense organs . precisely We cant percieve anything that we cant touch , smell, see, hear and taste. and even if we do percieve something which we often refer to as 6th sense ......it needs a interpretation which is again bounded 5 sense of organs. I guess its the technical implication of situation....where We cant express ourselves in words . In this case its the weakness of the language that theres no word invented to express the current feelings similarly in my argument .....theres no perception and sensation of certain phenomenas which do happen in universe .
Science says still theres no proof of life in outer space ......I say we can have life verymuch
on this planet earth itself which we dont know off particularly because we arent able to percieve their existance. its like a situation where a Very intelligent man who has just reached a certain very importrant breakthrough in a problem facing human beings for decades , wants to tell others abt it but he is deaf and dumb , doesnt have hands and legs.
how the hell can we percieve if he wanted to tell . the whole problem with imagination is thats its based entirely on human perception which is why its so very limited , yet following properties of Set B it is infinite in the domain of perception !
Offcourse we cant ignore the fact that the concept of infinity has come from this infite imagination of ours. So is it case of concept outgrowing the creator , I guess yes .but still salute to our imagination cause it could develop a concept whose implication are indeed infinite, infinite like Set A. Indeed there are more concepts which are product of our imagination like a point which is dimension less ......so what is it ? we dont know . Also concept of zero. huge implication
But ,
I would like to conclude here due to lack of time saying I have imagined all this !
space travel , electricity , computers all are a product of that fantastic thing called imagination
thats what has brought us ... from a eat sleep drink reproduce caveman to what we are today !
But yes , is this infinte ? I must agree that for every practical purpose this is the infinity .
Leaving the practicality back lets take a little theoratical approach . thats what I did to kinda
a come to the conclusion currently that human imagination is not quite infinte. that brings us to the question whats n how much is infinite. An age old maths tells me If I have 2 sets
Set A = { 1, 2 , 3, 4 .......} Set B = { 1 , 4 , 9, 16 ..........} . both the sets are infinte even though set B doesnt have all the elements in Set A . I believe human imagination is infinite .....buts its infiniteness is like Set B not like Set A.The reason why I say this is quite simple .Human imagination has one huge weak point like all other systems of human origination have.That weakness comes from the fact that human perception is very limited . Humans cant percieve anything beyond the 5 sense organs . precisely We cant percieve anything that we cant touch , smell, see, hear and taste. and even if we do percieve something which we often refer to as 6th sense ......it needs a interpretation which is again bounded 5 sense of organs. I guess its the technical implication of situation....where We cant express ourselves in words . In this case its the weakness of the language that theres no word invented to express the current feelings similarly in my argument .....theres no perception and sensation of certain phenomenas which do happen in universe .
Science says still theres no proof of life in outer space ......I say we can have life verymuch
on this planet earth itself which we dont know off particularly because we arent able to percieve their existance. its like a situation where a Very intelligent man who has just reached a certain very importrant breakthrough in a problem facing human beings for decades , wants to tell others abt it but he is deaf and dumb , doesnt have hands and legs.
how the hell can we percieve if he wanted to tell . the whole problem with imagination is thats its based entirely on human perception which is why its so very limited , yet following properties of Set B it is infinite in the domain of perception !
Offcourse we cant ignore the fact that the concept of infinity has come from this infite imagination of ours. So is it case of concept outgrowing the creator , I guess yes .but still salute to our imagination cause it could develop a concept whose implication are indeed infinite, infinite like Set A. Indeed there are more concepts which are product of our imagination like a point which is dimension less ......so what is it ? we dont know . Also concept of zero. huge implication
But ,
I would like to conclude here due to lack of time saying I have imagined all this !
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
God
Hello evryone ! This is my first blog and I m starting with a topic ........ well which I guess generally the old people discuss when they have all the time in the world and no things to do .
This article has my views about God -as a concept necessity and reality. Mind you I m a teenager and my view might be contradictory to your views. I would be refering to God by the pronoun He .Though I know refering to God as He she it or they all are equally absurd !
Starting with God as a concept. The concept of God is certain mystical superpower who is beyond individual's sphere of perception and influence .Its that power which is supposedly
responsible for creation of everything , organisation of everything and destruction of everything. Here we must be careful not to limit the word everything only to our earth which we cynically yet naturally tend to !Now we must axiomatically assume if above is th case God is infinite at least in our frame of refrence !
well and we are humans more importantly finite ! Our perception is limited to smell touch hearing seeing and tasting .nothing else is percievable for us . So first of all we must treat God as a concept because God cant be percieved by any of these ......... Just as in mathematics .infinity is a concept . you just cant compute its value using traditional finite nos. and quantities ! So any attempt to describe this God is indeed nothing more than futile ! If that is so ....you may be thinking why am I wasting my time blogging for futility and you are wasting your time reading in futility !
Well I m not here to describe God ........but to discuss God from various point of views which are indeed finite ! All said and done about God being infinite and blah blah blah ......We still do pray to him .when you need something to happen of which the probability of happening , your senses tell you is very less ! We need GOd when we feel things are not in our hands ....some atheist person may disagree here . But well thats true then for all arument that it has a for view and against view !
This desperation of our brings us to another important point of necessity of God as a concept !
when things dont fall into place , when doing everything rite you dont get what u want ..............thats when you kinda surrender to God hoping for a miracle.
Without this concept of GOd .....most of the people around the world would be
a bundle of emotional mess . The concept of God on which their hopes rest
is indeed a ray of light for people who are other wise lost in the dark !
All the religions around the world {more or less} have the concept of heaven and hell . I say ??? heaven and hell ? hello Do you know what is death ? or what is life that your are hypothesizing what would happen to a person after he would die !
Illogical from logic point of view . But the concept is immensly popular thruout the world .... people in their lives end up doing hell lot things to end up in heaven {hell lot for heaven ?! huh }! well the roots of that goes in our bringing up. Most of us
are scared into disclipline as children by our parents and guardian ....but what about the adults. Who disciplines them ...I guess thats why the religions brought the concept of heaven and hell ..... to scare into discipline the adults who stray away from their paths . Well and the concept is brought up so well that .it seems very logical when thot upon! And the heaven as it is described always is So wonderful excellent beautiful that ....people wud think twice about missing a berth in it ! I say quite cool religion guys ! you have managed what otherwise was kinda impossible task !
So finally what is GOD ? how is he important for us ? The real GOD .Frankly i dont know. nor do I need to know . but how is he important to us ? ...yes that I guess I can answer .As a concept God is an extremely important social improvement and regulation tool . Its the reason why people still trudge on with their difficult lives with a hope of better future. He is the ultimate hook or foundation for people to lay their faiths beliefs and hopes on. whoever first
brought the concept of GOD was truly a genius.{ if it was brought by real GOD !!!}.
All said and done this world continues to function without actually no one knowing what GOD is or anything related to him . But yes I still Do believe
GOd U do exist and have created nothing but a fantastic self sustaining utopia on this tiny earth !
This article has my views about God -as a concept necessity and reality. Mind you I m a teenager and my view might be contradictory to your views. I would be refering to God by the pronoun He .Though I know refering to God as He she it or they all are equally absurd !
Starting with God as a concept. The concept of God is certain mystical superpower who is beyond individual's sphere of perception and influence .Its that power which is supposedly
responsible for creation of everything , organisation of everything and destruction of everything. Here we must be careful not to limit the word everything only to our earth which we cynically yet naturally tend to !Now we must axiomatically assume if above is th case God is infinite at least in our frame of refrence !
well and we are humans more importantly finite ! Our perception is limited to smell touch hearing seeing and tasting .nothing else is percievable for us . So first of all we must treat God as a concept because God cant be percieved by any of these ......... Just as in mathematics .infinity is a concept . you just cant compute its value using traditional finite nos. and quantities ! So any attempt to describe this God is indeed nothing more than futile ! If that is so ....you may be thinking why am I wasting my time blogging for futility and you are wasting your time reading in futility !
Well I m not here to describe God ........but to discuss God from various point of views which are indeed finite ! All said and done about God being infinite and blah blah blah ......We still do pray to him .when you need something to happen of which the probability of happening , your senses tell you is very less ! We need GOd when we feel things are not in our hands ....some atheist person may disagree here . But well thats true then for all arument that it has a for view and against view !
This desperation of our brings us to another important point of necessity of God as a concept !
when things dont fall into place , when doing everything rite you dont get what u want ..............thats when you kinda surrender to God hoping for a miracle.
Without this concept of GOd .....most of the people around the world would be
a bundle of emotional mess . The concept of God on which their hopes rest
is indeed a ray of light for people who are other wise lost in the dark !
All the religions around the world {more or less} have the concept of heaven and hell . I say ??? heaven and hell ? hello Do you know what is death ? or what is life that your are hypothesizing what would happen to a person after he would die !
Illogical from logic point of view . But the concept is immensly popular thruout the world .... people in their lives end up doing hell lot things to end up in heaven {hell lot for heaven ?! huh }! well the roots of that goes in our bringing up. Most of us
are scared into disclipline as children by our parents and guardian ....but what about the adults. Who disciplines them ...I guess thats why the religions brought the concept of heaven and hell ..... to scare into discipline the adults who stray away from their paths . Well and the concept is brought up so well that .it seems very logical when thot upon! And the heaven as it is described always is So wonderful excellent beautiful that ....people wud think twice about missing a berth in it ! I say quite cool religion guys ! you have managed what otherwise was kinda impossible task !
So finally what is GOD ? how is he important for us ? The real GOD .Frankly i dont know. nor do I need to know . but how is he important to us ? ...yes that I guess I can answer .As a concept God is an extremely important social improvement and regulation tool . Its the reason why people still trudge on with their difficult lives with a hope of better future. He is the ultimate hook or foundation for people to lay their faiths beliefs and hopes on. whoever first
brought the concept of GOD was truly a genius.{ if it was brought by real GOD !!!}.
All said and done this world continues to function without actually no one knowing what GOD is or anything related to him . But yes I still Do believe
GOd U do exist and have created nothing but a fantastic self sustaining utopia on this tiny earth !
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