Wisdom is the jewellery, language is just the case

The biggest stupidity of Indians is that we consider language skills equal to intelligence, and sometimes more than intelligence.

To me, ideas and wisdom are more important than language. That is why people do PhDs on Kabir Das and Surdas, but not on Panini — the ancient grammarian and linguist of Sanskrit. Most of you may not have even heard of him, yet you all know Kabir and Surdas.

Wisdom and intellect are the jewellery; language is just the beautiful case that presents it in order. 

Kabir and Surdas are popular even though they used imperfect language - because the jewellery was real.

And this is one of the reasons why our students can't learn English properly. Deep down, they are afraid of being mocked, and they dare not speak or write.

Fake Morality Trap: The Pattern — In Detail

Thoughts are like patterns. The more you recognize them, the more you can see what lies behind them. Every school of thought has a hidden agenda and a support system. For instance, capitalists and moralists often support each other for their own benefit.

How? Let me explain.

The world has only two categories of people:

First, the rulers — 10%.

Second, the conditioned / indoctrinated — 90%.

The 10% have access to all resources. And the 90% are trained to accept their lives as they are. They are conditioned to believe in their fate so they don't question the system.

Now, let's try to understand how they do it.

For this, two things are done:

First: Formation of Religion without Spirituality.

Second: Providing manipulated literature to indoctrinate people.

And this work is done smartly and secretly. A team of intellectuals is prepared who influence people's reasoning and rational thinking. They first make people sensitive, and for this, a kind of tragedy or untoward incident is created or planned. Then, people become emotional. They become sensitive, and afterwards, a fake narrative is built.

After building the fake narrative, people are provoked and unrest is created so they can't raise their voice against genuine problems like education, poverty, health and mental health. Rather, they are given cheap tools so they forget about it. Such tools decreases their attention time span and ability to comprehend. 

And in the entire process, one person from their own group is portrayed as a hero and then he/she is assassinated or killed.

Thereafter, behind closed doors, a plan is built and implemented for the long run.

And now a Blue Print for their 100 years rule is prepared. The faces of power may change but the blue print will remain the same. They do debates, criticise each others in public but meet at dinner parties in private. 

This is the pattern.

And once it's seen, you can never unsee it.

Fake Morality is a Trap -- True Morality is Born From Spirituality (Introduction)

Part I

The Pattern

Thoughts are like patterns. The more you recognize them, the more you can see what lies behind them. Every school of thought has a hidden agenda and a support system. For instance, capitalists and moralists often support each other for their own benefit.

How? Let me explain.

The world has only two categories of people:

First, the rulers — 10%.

Second, the conditioned/indoctrinated — 90%.

The 10% have access to all resources. And the 90% are trained to accept their lives as they are. They are conditioned to believe in their fate so they don't question the system. 

Part 2 -- The Trap

They are indoctrinated to bear everything quietly and call it fate. They are taught to follow moral values like "Always speak the truth," and so on. However, the 10% themselves don't follow these values.

Why?

Expansion — and rule.

The very base of capitalism is expansionism. To fulfill their ambition, they want full control over natural resources, national income, human resources, politics, and the economy. So they build a structure of morality for the 90%, as I explained above.

And now the question arises:

Is every school of morality a conspiracy?

No, not all.

Part 3 -- The Forgotten Voices

J. Krishnamurti and Osho Rajneesh introduced true morality, but people didn't get what they wanted to say. They missed them. And before them, many more philosophers like Vishnugupta Chanakya came, and they too were either ignored or misunderstood.

I too had already written about fake morality and true morality, but I am certain no one will read my content properly. And if they somehow read it, they will hardly understand it. And even if they do understand, they will feel as helpless as I do. Because I know people don't like difficult and honest intellectual experiences; they like easy, sensational content that gives them temporary relief. My writing will break their beautiful dream.

Part 4 -- The Fragrance

My morality is more about self-control but this control is not a forceful control. It comes through inner wisdom after Self Actualisation.  And I favour the benefit of a larger group of people, not a handful of capitalists. I feel true morality is like the fragrance of flowers — very subtle to capture. You can't write it in words. It can only be practiced. It is deeply rooted in compassion, kindness, and Self-Realization. 

But I know the structure of society is built in such a way that people only listen to those who are successful at a concrete level. And a person like me has no concrete success. My success is of self-mastery and self-discovery — the kind that hardly anyone admires.

In the upcoming posts, I will describe these parts in detail. Stay in touch.

The Smog is in the Lens

It seems the weather has mood swings too. Morning sweats, afternoon and evening choke on dust. Politics has the same fever, changing colours faster than sky. We argue about everything — roads, air, rules, taxes, budgets — loudly, endlessly, as if noise will fix the nation.

We say environment is toxic. We say economy is fragile. We check AQI, we check water, we check Sensex, we check petrol price, we check headlines. We never check the filter inside our own head. That filter is the dirtiest.

We love queues everywhere. Actually it is not queue, it is chaos. Registers, approvals, subsidies, signatures — such chaos gives us a stage, someone to watch, someone to whisper about, someone to judge.

If someone opens an umbrella for another in this heat, we do not see shade. We see scandal. If someone offers help, we invent a story. We make kindness look guilty.

If every open hand looks suspicious to you, the smog is not outside your window. The slowdown is not only in GDP. Both live inside your glasses.

Clean your lens. The city and country will breathe better for a much longer time.

Draupadi: The Fire That Held the Mahabharata Together

She is perhaps the most misunderstood woman in Indian History. TV serials turned her into a proud, sharp-tongued queen who "provoked" Duryodhana. WhatsApp forwards turned Karna into the tragic hero and Draupadi into the villain.

The truth is far deeper — and far more painful.

The Myth of "She Insulted Duryodhana"

We are told Draupadi laughed at Duryodhana and called him "blind son of a blind father," and that the vastraharan was his revenge.

But the critical editions of the Mahabharata do not support this popular dialogue. It was a later addition, a convenient excuse to justify a crime.

And what about Karna, the"misunderstood character"? 

Let's be honest. It was Karna who called Draupadi a veshya in the full sabha and ordered her disrobing. It was Karna who constantly instigated Duryodhana for war, playing the victim card while lighting the fire from behind because he wanted to prove that he is better than Arjuna.

This is how history works. Those who never come to the front lay the trap, and then decide who will be shown as culprit and who as victim.

Who Was Draupadi, Really?

She was not an ordinary woman. She was Agni-putri, born of fire.

Tradition says she was the incarnation of Chaya Sita. In Ramayana, when Ravana abducted Maa Sita, it was Chaya Sita — the shadow form, daughter of Agni — who went to Lanka, while the real Sita remained protected in fire.

After that trauma, Chaya Sita did intense tapasya of Lord Shiva, wishing for a husband like Shri Ram.

Shiva smiled and said, "There is no one like Ram."

So she cleverly asked for five qualities instead: a great archer, a truthful man, a physically strong man, an intuitive man, and a handsome man.

Shiva granted the boon.

In Dwapara Yuga, she received exactly what she asked:

Arjuna — the great Dhanurdhar

Yudhishthira — the embodiment of Satya

Bhim — the immensely strong

Sahadeva — the intuitive, wise

Nakula — the most handsome

She got what she prayed for. But fate rarely gives without a test.

And here is the subtle twist few know: Arjuna himself was Nara, the partial amsha of Vishnu in his previous life. Draupadi's life was thus intertwined with divinity itself.

Why Didn't She Just Destroy Them?

Draupadi was fire. In her rage, she could have cursed and burnt the entire Kaurava army to ashes.

She didn't.

If she had, society would have learned a dangerous lesson: Only the strong have the right to justice, the weak must remain submissive.

That is why Krishna also did not end the war single-handedly. If God does everything, humans learn inactivity and fatalism.

Draupadi chose to become the sutra — the thread — of the Mahabharata. Without her suffering, there would be no questions of dharma, no lessons on morality, no mirror to a sinful society.

She endured humiliation so that dharma could be re-established not by miracle, but by struggle, choice, and sacrifice.

Draupadi was not the cause of the war. She was the reason we still understand what justice means.

Let Sanatan Choose

Durga Puja in Bengal has never been only about rituals. It is about devotion and rituals. They do what they are being taught in their doctrines and beliefs. So let's just respect their path and belief. Let them continue their journey. Who are we to tell them that this is right and this is wrong? 

The recent appeal by the VHP (Vishwa Hindu Parishad) and preacher Dhirendra Shastri to keep non-vegetarian food away from pandals has sparked a storm. The VHP later clarified it issued no fatwa and only sought cleanliness and traditional sanctity. Now such statements again spark communal violence. He is indirectly mocking a specific religion. 

But the debate remains: who decides what to do and what not to do?

In Sanatan, we have always had two paths: Vaam Marg and Dakshin Marg. Vaam Margis perform rituals with offerings and sacrifices. Dakshin Margis follow strict vegetarianism. Both are accepted in our scriptures, as per one’s nature and sadhana.

I am vegetarian myself, but I do not criticise non-vegetarian traditions during Puja. For me, it is an individual choice. Our scriptures clearly allow us to choose, yet they also remind us of the law of karma — we must pay back for whatever we do.

Let sanctity be maintained, but let choice remain too.

Reference:

1. The Hindu: Call to keep Durga Pujas in West Bengal vegetarian kicks up a storm

What True Independence Means

Flashback, 15 Aug. 2016  

"Independent is one who has an independent attitude." 

~ Sudhir Singh

On Independence Day, we celebrate freedom from rulers but are we free within?

True independence isn’t just about a flag or a date. It’s about an attitude.  

An independent attitude is thinking from your own perspective, even when media, people, community and society are trying to manipulate you. You are independent when you can see behind the curtain of the big play. You are independent when your opinions are your own, not the borrowed one. It’s saying “no” when something doesn’t align with your values, and “yes” when it scares you but you feel it's right.

Countries become independent when people develop independent attitude. A nation of dependent minds will always look for someone to lead, fix, or rescue them.  

A nation of independent attitudes builds, questions, creates their own ideas, develop their own perspectives and stands tall.

This 15th August, let’s go beyond parades.  

Let’s check one thing: Where in my life am I still waiting for permission?  

Because independence begins the day you decide: I will think, choose, and act for myself.

Grey side of human psyche

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I would like to praise the endeavours of this person who has made this video and on its basis want to tell all of you, "Don't share any information you are getting through WhatsApp** or any other source of social networking site as it can be dreadful and put someone in a desperate condition. Being a stalwart and responsible citizen of a country we have to circumscribe it at our own level and it can only be possible if we avoid sharing rumours in WhatsApp or any other messenger.

Let yourself not be the cause of someone's death. And mind you if this vicious circle of blind forwarding will not be terminated then it can be possible that we will be the next prey of this trap. It can be you, I or someone who is innocent."

The True journey.

Everyone is going towards a journey,
a journey of eternity,
sometimes walking,
sometimes laughing,
and sometimes crying,
but the journey goes on,
continuously.

It is a journey of time
which never stops for a while.

It is running as if never comes again,
though we are thinking
that the time will come back again,
but it never comes
just like the past.

We meet people,
and talk with them.

Sometime

we like them.

Sometime not,
 but the journey goes on.

It never stops.

Only the Faces are changing,
thoughts are changing,
but still there is something
which never change,
which never change like the old wall,
where people are spiting,
and it looks like a fall,
a fall of eterrnity,
a fall of humanity.

But still the journey goes on,
still the journey goes on.

Look the birds are flying,
look the people are running,
but why are they running?

Why are they running?

I ask from myself again and again.

So I decided why not to ask?

Why not to ask the cause of running?

So I decided to ask a question from me
and then I ask, "Why are you running?"

He said because time is running,
I told him why not to stop the time?

Why not to stop the watch?

He smiles and said,
"It can never be done at all
because life is so small."

I told him again,
"why not to stop
and find the cause?"

He said this journey can never be stopped.
This journey can never be stopped.
Until it never comes to its Lord.
Until it never comes to its Lord.

But who knows if the journey goes on,
but who knows if the journey goes on.

The Education and philosophy

Philosophy and education both are the same things.  Only the difference is that one is shadow and another is a body itself.  Philosophy work as a shadow which provide us the ideas regarding the future implementations in the field of education whereas Education gives it a ground to be implemented at a same time.  In Indian school of thought philosophy means darshan.  Darshan stands for something which guide us to look inside.  Thus philosophy helps us to introspect and guide us what are our weakness and what are its solutions?
       Lets talk about the education of present scenario.  The present education is though having a fine philosophy but it is not implemented at the ground level.  Why so?  The reason is commercialization of education.  Education is something which is not a subject of earning rather it is a subject devoting and sacrificing.  But now education become a business but lead different education institutions towards cut throat competition.  And ultimately the main victim of competition is student and the teacher.  Schools want grades and 100 out of 100 marks whereas for implementing it teachers are forced to make the things happen.  Further teachers force students to learn without understanding as our curriculum is very comprehensive therefore everything is done in wrong manner.  Schools don't bother about the real knowledge as their main concern is marks and grades.  Students also don't bother as the touchstone for their knowledge is their makes and grade.  Now the question is:  Where is education and where is learning and who is a true learner?
       As per the guidelines of NCF-2005 learning should be based on understanding and without burden but tell me very honestly how many students feel burden-less in their learning and how many students able to understand everything completely?  It means NCF-2005 is not implemented at the ground level and cooperative learning is not being emphasized.  Let me predict the future of our country.  In future students have 100 percent marks but having base less.

Competitiveness a blessing or curse.

Ravan is the most intelligent person having fine intellectual skills, acquired the knowledge of all the Vedas and considered as the great learner, having a fine understanding of discrimination between right and wrong but only one thing became the cause of his fall i.e. his lust for women.  He raped his own Bhabi the wife of Kubera, raped all the appsaras lived in the Heaven, Killed his own brother Kubera, killed all the Rishis doing yagya for gods and put their blood on a pot.  Then dumped it in the ground. Later Janak worshipped for a child.  Lord Brahma told him to plough the fields without dress during the morning time, then they found a little girl child crying in the field.  This Girl child was no one but the blood of rishis collected in the pot.  Thus the real mother of Sita is Earth and Father is all those Rishis who were killed by Ravana.  And later, this girl became the cause of the death of Ravana.  Those who said Ravana is good are mistakenly exploring the wrong information and showing their intellectual bankruptcy.   Whatever, He did due to his competitiveness.

       Lucifer becomes Satan due to his competitiveness and rebeled against the God.  Then turned to be a serpent and betrayed Adam and Eve. Son of God was sent to save the children of Adam and Eve who is now worshipped as Christ.  He didn't compete rather enhance his True self and led Himself toward Self realization and later turned to be selfless and philanthropic.  Whatever arguments anyone can give and whatsoever anyone tends to justify but Right is right and wrong is wrong.  Due to competitiveness, Suyodhana turned to be Duryodhana, due to competitiveness Lucifer an angel turned to be Satan the Master of Demons, due to competitiveness Kansa killed six sons of Devki, due to competitiveness people are creating a conspiracy.  Due to competitiveness Cassius plotted a conspiracy against Ceaser.  Competitiveness is a crime.

      Do we really need to be competitive to be successful?  I don't think so because in actuality there is only one truth that is God or we can say the pure self.  If everything is one then why to compete and with whom to compete!  Lord Krishna in Mahabharata told Arjuna that his duty is just to do his work and nothing else because every action leads us toward somewhere.  He very wisely told Arjuna that though with doing krama one cannot be influenced by its impression because then detach ourselves from the result of the krama and consequence is, we keep remain free from our all actions or we can say krama Mukta just like Janaka.

     I can simplify it with the help of one of the stories which I read in a book written by Swami Shivananda "Karma Yoga."  In it, he told us about a story of two young men.  Both are strong and healthy and living a life of Bhramcharya.  One day both are doing Pranayama in the riverside of Kashi suddenly they found two women drawing in the river.  Both of the young boys jumped together and save the life both of the women and took them towards the riversides.  The first young man said, "Almighty has given me an opportunity to serve you.  Thank you very much for providing me with an opportunity to help you."  After saying these lines he left the place.  But the second young man said to another woman,  "Because I saved your life and according to shastras those who can save your life can be able to be your husband.  So I am offering to you to marry me."  The woman decided to marry the second young man.

     Now the actions are same but the Bhavas or intentions are different.  The first one though did the same action which the second one did.  But the first one is not influenced by his action whereas the second one is badly tied himself with the result of his action.  So, friends, this is Nishkam karma yoga.

     Thus competitiveness need not be required for performing an action and with the help of Karam yoga, we can save ourselves from the result of our action either good or bad.

Thank you 

I hope you will like it.

     

Insight - Divide and Rule

DIVIDE AND RULE, many times we hear about this phrase and often use it also in our day to day life.  Though society and people seem to be the same and just like the one group i.e. humanity but still something enforces us to avoid humanity and give emphasis to the self-made groups.  These groups are certainly made due to the feeling of separatism and egotism.  If we erase these two things then perhaps there will not be more than one group i.e. human race.  But due to our personal benefits and satisfaction of our ego, we made groups based on religion, language, region, culture, and country.  The thing which we need to comprehend is that we all are the different leaves and flowers of the same plant.

We are the different flowers of the same plant

And the very common thing in all of the groups which are being made due to the upper mentioned frictions i.e. an individuality or we can say a mind. Don't we ever try to understand that on somehow our own ego is forcing us to make different groups??

For the exact amplification, I would like to share one of my personal life experience.  As I belong to a Rajput(Agni vansha) family that is why the people of my village are having a great sense of egotism regarding their caste.  They consider themselves as brave and superior.  Recently my nephew is arguing with my sister that the Surya Vanishes(Rajputs) are the greatest and there is no one like them.  She told me regarding his opinion.  I just laugh because I was thinking about who give us a title that we are Rajputs or Brahmin.  It is the diplomatic game of the people of the higher class to acquire the benefits.  First, we are human and our duty to save the rights of human beings. 

Therefore, the first thing first is that we should not be violent or aggressive just because someone has hurt our religion or belief rather be thankful to them for providing us with an opportunity to judge our power of tolerance, and if somehow we fail to tolerate then try not to harm anyone because God lives in his body also. And moreover, bravery is not the inheritance or copyright of a certain race or a group. Rather any person who has guts and also having a feeling of diligence, industriousness, and honesty toward his or her task or deeds can acquire it.  

Because honesty and bravery both of the terms are synonyms. Only a brave can be honest and only an honest person can be brave.  

Now, where is caste, religion and race? 

So I just want to conclude my perspective in a few of the lines that these things are made only to divide us so that we can become slaves and ruled by the ruler and mind you every time we are being ruled only in this manner.  So let's join hands together and take a pledge that we are humans and Son of God. 

That's why we are intelligent and brave and no one can divide us on the above basis.

Small things but effective

Our country comes under the list of one of the biggest country in the world and we are also dreaming that one day we will be the superpower.  But let's see if we are exactly able to become the superpower in future.  I don't think so. 

• How can we be a superpower if we are not able to sort out our own domestic problems?  

• How can we be on the list of one of the best country in the world if our people are still fighting for small things?

• How can we be a nation of universal tolerance if our own people are very intolerant toward small things?

• How can we manage to be the superpower if we don't have a sense of driving on the road?

These are some questions which rise in front of us as it depicts that we are still not being able to be on the list of the best nation because we desperately like to be aware of our rights only, not our duty. Let's analyse and synthesis how can we judge a person as if he or she is aware of his or her duties.

 I have a very small but the most effective parameter for testing if we are a responsible citizen or not.  Have you ever seen how people walking on the road?  Only through observing it we can identify them as if they are a responsible citizen or not!  If someone is driving very recklessly then it means he or she don't have any concern with the nation and society rather he is living in his own world of imagination in which he or she is the king.

 If someone is driving very slowly then it means he or she is very submissive and don't have the courage to raise the voice for the wrongdoing as sometimes if anyone overtakes them they just watch as if they haven't seen anything.  It reflects that this kind of people comes under the list of victims whereas the first one comes under the list of culprits.  Now the big question is: Who will do a research on it that in our country the ratio of the people of the first category is more or the people of a second? 

 Who will do?  

I think we need not do it as the people of the first category is more in comparison to the second one.  

That's why there is a lot of accidents in our country. Do we still think that we can be a superpower?  I think first we need to be responsible for our behaviour only then we can be able to be a superpower.  Because only those people can be supreme who have the courage to be responsible for their deeds and only if the citizen is responsible then our country can be on the list of the best nation.