ONE OF THE REASON WHY FEAR ARISES…. GET RID OF IT….

I don’t think there is anyone who do not want to live fearless life. Fearlessness is the basic quality if one wants to live like true hero. Despite of this, rarely there is any one who have not feared of something in his/her life. Sometime or other fear pops up in our lives and many times we are not even aware that fear is taking over us and ruining our lives.

Swami Vivekananda says

“ It is fear that is the greatest of all superstitions. It is fear that is the cause of our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment”

“The earth is enjoyed by heroes. This is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear”. Tell this to everybody “Have no fear”.

 

Everybody wants to live like hero. When we watch movies many of us are on the side of hero only and later on copy/mimic what hero did in that movie but one thing ruins our heroism and that is fear. Why this fear haunts so much that people even forget their lives to live?

One of the main reason I have found is selfishness. It is one of the biggest reasons fear pops in people’s lives and many of the times people are not even aware that they are being selfish. When our thoughts, our lives, our motives revolve only around ourselves this thing called fear keeps chasing us!

Just do this experiment with yourselves – whenever you are fearing something, someone or some situation ,central figure about whom you are thinking is yourself. This “I” or “My” is predominant there. We are always thinking about my life, my money, my wife, my children, I may get hurt, they may kill me, I may lose, I may get beaten up etc. Our central thought revolves around only ourselves. If you ask somebody to raise his/her voice against corruption or bad elements, many will say “I have family, children and I do not want to get involved into this”. They accept this injustice out of their fear and out of selfishness their thoughts are evolving only around themselves and which is leading to fear.

If somebody has fear of water then central thought is “I may get drowned”. If somebody has fear of exams then central thought is “I may fail”. Even few students do not attend exams out of fear. Fear takes over them and then they start feigning illness or something else. Ask someone to join Army and if he is fearful then he will say “I do not want to die so early”. Again this “I” takes over. Ask someone to stand up and address audience of 1000 people and out of fear and ego he /she may not be even able to stand up properly. Hands & legs may shake. Central thought of the person could be “Will they laugh at me? Will they accept me? Will I speak properly?” etc etc. People get drowned in thoughts of future where they are the only central figure.

It is out of fear, selfishness that people do not raise their voice against bad elements, corruption and wrong in society and this is biggest reason why many countries are in bad shape.

To overcome this fear, solution is very simple. One must broaden his/her vision. Start thinking about others, have higher and broader aim/vision. If you are thinking then think big, why to think about only about our one family, think about entire society, think about entire nation ,think about entire planet. More and more vision is broader, more and more responsibility is taken then this fear will disappear. When this selfishness will disappear then this fear will also stop popping up. When we start working towards bigger goal which will benefit for entire society then many of fears will disappear. Look at all the freedom fighters, look at all the soldiers they have no fear as they lived/ are living for bigger cause.

One needs to remember that there is difference between being fearlessness and being stupid. One cannot say that I am fearless so I will go and stand infront of train or one cannot say that I will go and stand up infront of roaring tiger as I am fearless, then that person is being stupid.

Once we overcome this fear then we can move in the right path and that too with speed and right now need of the time is people overcome this fear with broader vision!

“If you are really my children, you will fear nothing, stop at nothing. You will be like lions. No cowardice. Do you understand? Be true unto death!” – Swami Vivekananda.

WHAT WE FOCUS ON, GROWS IN OUR BODY & LIFE

In our day to day life rarely we notice or become aware of our mind, consciousness. We keep on passing each day without noticing on which things we are focusing or our mind is getting hooked on to which things, on which things we are spending our energies, what is the effect of those and how it is affecting us.

Henceforth start observing and you will notice that things on which we are focusing are growing in our life, energies on which we focus, start growing in our body!

If one focuses only on problem then soon that problem will become so big that we will not be able to do anything about it and we get easily defeated by it. If a student focuses only on the difficulty of a subject then soon he will be bogged down by it & for sure he will do bad in exams or even flunk in it. If a student focuses on various solutions to tackle difficulty then such solutions will grow & difficulty evaporates.

If a soldier/king keeps on only focusing on the mighty size of its enemy then soon he will get bogged down by this & he/she will either surrender or run away. Mighty enemy will further appear mightier. If one focuses on various ways to tackle his enemy then soon he will find many solutions which will result in his/her victory. King Shivaji is right example who amid so many enemies, began with so little resources but built empire for his people!

When people are in love, they see only good in their partner. Their relationship blossoms and they are very happy at that time. This goodness grows tremendously as consciousness of both is hooked on good of each other. People whose relationships are in trouble, you will observe that they are focusing on negative qualities or some mistakes of other person. Once consciousness shifts focus from goodness to mistakes, negativity then it grows tremendously. People don’t feel like talking with each other, staying with each other and finally they separate. Person around whom one was roaming saying ‘Honey, honey, honey….’ soon becomes bitter and leads to divorce.

If somebody criticizes us, uses bad words then people who get hurt more are the ones whose focus is on this criticism, that bad word. Soon it becomes so big that it fills people with anger, hatred, few lose confidence and even few are unable to sleep as the thing on which they focused has grown up so big. On another hand people who ignore bad words or take good criticism in positive way and improve then it do not affect them infact they start improving themselves & always moving forward.

Few people, out of their ego & jealousy focus only on negative qualities of others. They are always pinpointing others mistakes or what they lack or what is lacking in their qualities and soon these qualities grow in them as well. Their consciousness is always focused on wrong things and soon they become like those people with same qualities. When we focus on good qualities of others, their skills, praise them, at that time focus of our consciousness is on this goodness and not only we feel good and positive, soon we also start absorbing those good qualities. This is the reason, in Maharashtra many people who are followers of saint Dnyaneshwara, call each other as ‘Mauli’ (means saintly qualities in others or only good part of others). Seeing good in others doesn’t mean when thief has entered in our house start seeing goodness in him, if we do that he will take away everything! We must catch him & handover to police.

If we focus on what we do not have, if we focus on what we lack in life then this lack increases. Many times people who keep on crying about money, health, small house etc  you will find soon they land up in further mess or they lose further whatever they have. People who are unhappy and say lines like ‘I don’t have money’ , ‘I am very small guy but you guys are really big & rich’, ‘ I am poor guy’, ‘I am not healthy like you’, ‘my job is not good’ etc then know that such people never ever progress in their life. Every time lack increases in their life along with increase in their cries. On another hand people who are content and happy in whatever they have are always growing in their life. Their focus in on whatever they have with them and if they are content with that then they get showered with further more abundance. This is the reason people who have, content will be given more and people who crib, cry & complain that they do not have then whatever they have also will be snatched away!

OUR BRAIN IS SLAVE OF REPETITION

Nature has given us this beautiful gift – our physical body. Many of us rarely know or observe its functions and how it works. I am sure if we are asked where is liver or where is kidney in our body and what are their functions then many of us will not be able to tell. We are not taught about our body during our education period and we remain unaware of what is good or what is bad for our body. I am not doctor or medical student but I thought whatever I have learned through observation, experience, I shall put it down.

It is said that one of the wonders of this nature is our brain and if we carefully observe then it is very true. One property of our brain is it becomes slave of activities that we repeat. It gets used to it and then our body functions automatically like that without any efforts.

If we remember our childhood when we were learning numbers or alphabets what our teachers/parents were getting done from us, we were asked to write number ‘1’ 10 times or 100 times or move our pencil on ‘1’ again and again. If you observe what we were doing we were repeating that activity till the time we master it and just observe today we can easily write so many things without much effort but at one point of time we were struggling so much even to write simple alphabets. Even this article I am writing so easily. Our brain has become slave of it and we can do this very quickly without realizing this phenomenon.

When we were growing up and started learning & playing new sports, remember how much we struggled to learn those, football, basketball, badminton, cricket, archery etc. We played those again & again & mastered it. What did we do? We repeated it again and again and our brain became slave of it. Have you observed so many complex moves of particular sport we can do so easily because we have enslaved our brain by repeating things again and again. What is practice? You repeat your methods of playing and master over it. What is core to it, repetition!

Do you remember how we learned to drive Car! When first time we sat on driver seat how conscious we were. We were unable to perform so many functions of pressing accelerator, releasing clutch, using brakes, changing gears (if your car is not automatic) at appropriate timing. It was so difficult. We continued learning and today we can drive car so easily. We have repeated this activity so many times that we even do not realize that we are pressing accelerator, releasing clutch, changing gears. We are singing, thinking, even few are smoking while driving Car! So many complex activities our body is doing and many times we are not even aware of those. Our brain has been enslaved to it and it gets these functions automatically done.

When we were kids we all must have enjoyed bathing the most, playing in water, enjoying shower or enjoying each mug of water on our body. Now when we have grown up, many of us are constantly engulfed in many thoughts. We are thinking even taking bath. Even though we are lost, our brain is applying soap on our body, it is washing our body. Many times afterwards we think ‘Did I have a bath?’ as our mind was lost somewhere but our brain did the job. If we observe this phenomenon it is just amazing. Our brain got enslaved because of repetition of our bathing activity.

Remember when we started using first time computer/laptop how consciously we were pressing keyboard, looking at each button and pressing it consciously. After repeatedly using it now how fast we are using it and few people sometimes even look very minimal at keyboard and get their work done.

Sometimes we hear music so much, we listen few songs repeatedly and you will observe when later on we are not listening automatically we mumble those songs. Infact sometimes we wonder why particular song is coming in mind. We have repeatedly so much that it start showing its effect.

Few people have this habit of having tea or coffee as soon as they get up in the morning. If they don’t get it then they become restless, they get headache or they don’t feel fresh. They have repeated this activity so many times that their brain is enslaved to it.

Look at the people who are addicted to alcohol, smoking etc. Their brains are enslaved to it. Infact I have heard that few people can’t do their routine work unless and until they consume this. Their brain is enslaved to this and in turn they destroy their body and life!

You look at today’s marketing tactics, advertisements and their frequency. We are continuously bombarded by advertisements on television, internet, print media, radio, hoardings on road, on bus stations, train stations, airports, even on our tickets, theatres. We are continuously bombarded with advertisement. If you look at them most of them sell crap and look at advertisements, they are so ridiculous. Look at our brain how it works. When we first time see some ridiculous advertisement on television how we react – ‘What nonsense’, then few more repetitions and we start ignoring this nonsense, few more repetitions and then we are not even aware that it is non sense, further more repetitions & subtle mind gets used to it and further more people buy those products. This is how most of the big brands are created today who are making huge money. I checked nutritional facts of one of the cola brand, it has 0% vitamins, 0% minerals, no fats etc. Even though everything is zero, people are drinking those and companies are making billions of dollars. Look at continuous bombarding of so many beauty creams, beauty products, shampoos etc. Have they really benefited or we just buy by succumbing to advertisements. They could achieve this because they enslaved people’s brains by continuous bombarding of their advertisements.

Look at with what movies, TV serials, print & electronic media are bombarding us these days. Extra marital affairs, break ups, divorces, multiple marriages, vulgarity, movies filled with violence, serials filled with conspiracies, actor/actress drinking liquor & portraying it as cool thing to do. It is getting continuously bombarded as they want us to accept it as normal thing. Just see few decades back ‘Divorce’ was such big thing, people used get shocked to hear such news. Look at today, families are breaking up for small small things. Most of the wisdom we get is from our family & once it is broken then people lose wisdom and they can be easily fooled or trapped in any propaganda. It drives consumption & related business. When people separate from each other, they need different houses, television, fridge, utensils, furniture and so on. It creates big demand and big corporate houses make big money!

If we observe ,if we repeat whatever that is good then it will uplift us and benefit us and if we go on wrong path and repeat bad things then our downfall is imminent. If one wants to stop some bad habit then one of the ways they can do is do not repeat your activity for one week. Set target of one week. Don’t decide for whole life then it becomes big burden. Once one week is over then set target of two weeks and continue. One more thing you must ensure that do not look back and count since how many days you have not smoked or had liquor etc. I am sure this will help.

In India there is saying ‘Mooh me RAM aur haath me Kaam’ means one must have & repeats lords name and must have good work in his hand and move ahead in life. You repeat divinity’s name while performing your daily activities and make your life also divine. This is how ‘Mala’ (In India) or rosary also works. You repeat god’s name!

I am sure good repetitions will uplift us, I am also walking on the path and improving myself!

 

DEMON MAHISHASURA..REAL MEANING, GODDESS DURGA (MOTHER GODDESS / MOTHER NATURE) AND ITS CURRENT RELEVANCE…FREE YOURSELF OF THIS DEMON…

As I have mentioned in my first blog, our ancestors were very wise and they knew that over the years people’s dialect, culture, languages will change. Apart from writing things in scriptures, they presented most of things through pictures and symbols as well so that future generations will be able to understand through these. One such picture & story is of Demon Mahishasura and Goddess Durga. Lets see how it is relevant in current times.

General story goes like this, once upon a time there was a demon called ‘Mahishasura’. He had done severe penance/austerities and out of that he got a boon from Lord Shiva (Shiva is called as Destructor. He is destructor of all the bad thoughts in out head Ex – Thoughts of attacking someone, stealing something etc come in our head. He resides in our body as well. He resides in head and all bad thoughts are destroyed there). Boon was- no man, animal or god will be able to kill him. After getting this boon he thought himself as invincible and started misusing it and terrified all human beings and creatures. In his arrogance he forgot that woman can kill him. All people and even Gods approached mother goddess for help. Mother goddess took form of women called Durga and killed Mahishasura and freed planet from this demon.

Lets understand this demon first and then lets see its current relevance. Asura is the person with immense power who uses his/her power for selfish/evil motives. One of the meaning of Mahisa in the Sanskrit is Buffalo. That is why in above picture demon is shown sitting on buffalo. If you observe carefully buffalo is symbol of inertia. For example suppose you come across a buffalo on a road and you push the button of your vehicle’s horn so that this animal moves out of the way, you will observe that it do not move so easily as it is filled with inertia. Most of the times you will have to wait or go sideways but it will not move. Mahishasura means demon inertia gripped humans and Asuras made this to happen deliberately for their own selfish motives. Lets see how it helps them.

Today if we closely observe many people, infact many countries are under the grip of this inertia. Mother Nature has showered everything in every part of world. I mean all types of resources are available but people do not want to do anything. You can see this across many countries. See some examples…

• • Many parts where it rains in really good amount, they do not have clean potable water or water for irrigation. People are absolutely doing nothing to create more water reservoirs etc. They are waiting for some government scheme or some officer or leader to do something for them. Just imagine even few hundreds if join hands can dig one lake for themselves.

• • Many people are homeless today. Nature has given everything, wood, stones, sand etc. Such homeless people can come together and build their own homes with whatever resources they can collect from their surroundings. Educated people can also help them but we see very less time such thing happening

• • Farmers have their good arable farm lands but rather than learning better natural way of producing multiple crops, they run behind quick money making things, sow things which require less effort (like sugarcane). I have seen many of them do not even prepare their own seeds, own plants. They buy everything from outside and keep on increasing their input costs. Just little effort and they can make huge money but very few actually do it. Infact in many parts of the world people wait for special financial packages for governments to announce and they are happy to get such benefits. Infact it is becoming yearly norm to receive such benefits. People are not realizing that they are being paralyzed. In few parts of Africa they think that it is their birth right to receive these packages. This trend is emerging in India and other parts of world as well.

• • Many people in Europe do not take jobs, they live and enjoy the benefits provided by council or governments. Once in UK, I came across this news – one couple was living in council house with 5 or 6 children and each one of them was receiving per week monetary benefits. Reason he gave was, he lost his job and his wife is suffering from chronic depression! This is not good, this way almost half of the Europe is going towards bankruptcy and people are becoming paralyzed without learning any skills and work.

• • Another tactic used by few politicians is putting in place some public welfare schemes with corruption engulfed in it such as some rural employment schemes etc. Honestly speaking such schemes do more harm than any help. For Ex – In India Govt launched a scheme called MANREGA. If you are jobless then you register your name then you will be allocated some work and you will get some daily wages. People say most of the people do not do any work, they register their names and get benefits. Huge money of country is being wasted. Another harm it is causing is to farmers. They don’t get any labor for farm work as laborers are refusing to work as they are getting free money elsewhere.

• • In many parts of the world, if you tell people to learn good skills and start their own work such as plumbing, painting, and electrical work or start their own little business, they simply refuse to do anything. In fact many of them simply say give us some safe government job where I can retire without much headache.

• • Most of the people want good vegetables, fruits, grains to eat but none of them want to grow. Can’t we grow our own organic vegetables! So much land, water is available. We can easily do it. People prefer to buy from market which may have hazardous chemicals responsible for diseases like Cancer!

• • If you ask many organization managements, they say we are in need of good employees. Mind it good employees who have real knowledge and ready to work. There are more than 6 billion people and organizations are short of skilled people! This itself speaks a lot.

• • Rather than relying on hard work for making money, out of their inertia to do hard work and urge to become rich very early, people invest in many Ponzi schemes, take route of gambling and lose all their money or greedily buy shares, properties and lose everything at the end.

• • Nature has given so many herbs which are freely available around us. We can prepare our own medicines, tooth pastes, soaps, shampoos and many more such things. People say “who the hell will do this”. Things are readily available in market and buy from there. This is how big corporate houses are becoming bigger and bigger and on top of it their products have so many hazardous chemicals as well. Can’t we learn and prepare many things on our own?

• • Buying ready to eat, ready to cook or eating in restaurants and hotels is new trend. People do not even check what quality of food they are eating and how much money they are spending on it. If you visit rural India, everything is prepared in home. Right from pickle, sweets, lunch, dinner, various delicious food verities, everything is prepared at home. Extremely hygienic, nutritious, healthy food and on top of that you save huge money! If we don’t know then can’t we learn from the people who know and make our lives better?

• • You will observe when you are involved in some creative work then you will not have any sexual thoughts and when you are engulfed with sexual thoughts you will not be able to do nay creative work. We need to be aware of this. Excess of anything is bad. People who are involved in more sex, you will see them more lethargic, dull and inertia takes over them. Surprisingly if you look around, business houses are operating on tagline’ SEX sells’. Women are being used as sex symbols in movies or to sell products. Even pornography has become industry which is destroying many people’s lives.

There could be many such examples and this list can go on. Question is from our inertia who are benefitting? Many of the above examples are self-explaining – Politicians, big corporate houses, big money lenders such as bankers etc. Few are explained in detail

• • Our inertia to work and earn on our own leads to enjoying free perks from council/Govts which in turn is leading your country to Bankruptcy. So lenders and their associated politicians will take over your country.

• • Due to our inertia many corporate houses are becoming bigger and bigger as we are not preparing on our many things and buying from them. In this process, we are losing big money and money is getting accumulated in few hands.

• • Out of our inertia we do not do hard work, our farming goes in loss and then farmers sell their land which again bought by these politicians and big corporate houses or few rich people. If you observe, thousands of people are leaving farming every day.

• • Out of our inertia, every time we demand relief packages and paralyze ourselves. It is so easy for politicians to come in power buy throwing some money in front of people.

Then how to overcome this inertia and how it has engulfed us? How mother Goddess is related to it. Mother Goddess is symbol of energy. Our motherland is giving us food, water which we consume and get energy. If we have energy in us then we can walk, work or do any activity else we will not be able to do it. IF we have good energy created in us then inertia simply vanishes.

• • First thing we need to do is to be aware of the tactics used by politicians which make us paralyzed. Once we are aware then we remain alert and do not fall in that trap.

• • Next is good sleep. Right amount of sleep gives right amount of energy. If you sleep too much or too little then it is not going to help. Have 7-8 hours of sleep.

• • Next is food. Food creates energy in us. Kind of food you eat, same kind of energy it will create. If you eat quickly digestive food items then you will have very good energy created in you and you will overcome this inertia. If you have sedentary lifestyle and you eat food which takes lot of time to digest like meat, fish, etc then most of your energy will be used to digest that food only and you will feel sluggish, lethargic and this becomes your norm and inertia takes you over. Even if you stuff yourself with too much food then also lot of your energy is wasted in digesting that food and you become lethargic.

• • Next is avoid drinking buffalo milk. Prefer cow milk and that too of natural breeds. Buffalo milk has high fat content and takes time to digest compared to cow’s milk. Once again remember that what you eat or drink you become like that. You want to be lethargic like buffalo or active like cow?

• • Next is lack of physical activity – you will observe many times if lethargic people are forced to do some physical work, initially they are slow & resist but slowly their inertia goes down and they work very well. We all need some exercise daily to overcome this inertia. Yoga, Pranayama some exercises will help in this. Pranayama gives lot of energy to body. Every breath we take energizes our body and every breath we release relaxes our body so little bit of pranayama will help, if you do not know then quickly learn it as many teachers are available.

Transformation from Inertia to blissful activeness happen in three stages. As per food we eat, physical activity we do and purity we have in our thoughts and heart, our body remains in three Gunas (Guna means quality or Type) – Sattoguna or Rajoguna or Tamoguna. Each of these three Gunas have impact on you and are as below

Tamoguna – If you have Tamoguna then body has lot of laziness, lethargy, you do not want to work, lot of inertia and this is demon Mahishasura!

Rajoguna – If you have lot of Rajoguna then you will show symptoms like – You want to work to achieve something. You are too ambitious. Plans are going on in your mind like what are you going to do one after another. Your mind is running very fast and so you are. You want to be rich, want land, want to expand your kingdom. Many a times feverishness sets in to achieve those things and many times too much ambitious people land up in depression as well.

Satoguna – If you have Satoguna then you are working but with content in your heart and mind. You are in bliss, centered in you and not running behind things. Nothing can shake you. You will keep walking in your life with smile on your face. You work in blissful lstate but without constantly wondering or focusing on end result.

Ensure that you transform yourself from Tamoguna to Rajoguna and from Rajoguna to Satoguna! Correct food, correct exercise, meditations, yoga, pranayama will for surely transform this and pray to Mother Goddess to help you defeat this demon with her energy in you! Prayers do Work!

DON’T CONVERT PEOPLE YET SPREAD YOUR RELIGION!

In today’s world, we have so many religions, cultures, languages, music, costumes, food etc. Instead of seeing the beauty in this diversity and celebrating it, people are busy in converting people into their religion (for whatever reason), environment of distrust growing and people end up seeing only bad thing in others and end up separating from each other.

Whenever we speak of religions it becomes very sensitive issue and many times people boast that only my way is the way, only my religion is true, only my religion’s followers will get heaven, my religion’s followers are highest etc. In this whole process main crux of our faith is lost, ego sets in and then whole list of issues arise including riots and terrorism.

Lets look at it in simple terms our religions and what we can take from all in simple way. I am not any religious head but fortunate enough to be born in India and have visited many religious places, I felt let me put my feelings & thoughts in simple way. There could be many more things about every religion. Lets look at few of them

HINDUISM – Oldest religion followed by many on this planet. It is so vast that you cannot confine it into fixed set of ideas, methods or procedures. If you go and try to strictly find a Hindu in India then you will be stunned to see that every 200 kilometers everything changes, language, costumes, food, style of rituals etc. Hinduism is encompassing all ways. It has freedom for all, to worship type of GOD you want, the way you want to worship. You will find people worship rivers, mountains, trees infact whole nature. Whole nature is given respect and worshipped. You can worship it in Aakar (form) or Nirakaar (formless). If you want to go to temple then fine, if you want to meditate then that is also fine. You need to travel across India to understand its vastness which fills us with wonder. I don’t think we confine this way of life even in the boundaries of religion. Because of this freedom, Hinduism has survived till far and so many other religions also flourished in India. You don’t need to convert people to make them Hindu. One who is on his path and not distracting others from their path is Hindu. One who is respecting nature, one who is respecting all creatures is Hindu. If you respect your motherland and live for it then you are Hindu. I feel this is the time when all people understand this freedom of Hinduism which is true secularism.

Look around you, in greed for money, people are destroying nature, polluting motherland (by pesticides, plastic), polluting air & water. Corruption is spreading, people are fighting over religions, wars are destroying countries. This is the time when teachings of Hinduism need to spread.

ISLAM : – Saints say real meaning of Islam is surrender and peace. Surrender to divinity and peace within yourself and surrounding. If you are not peaceful then how will you spread peace. If you yourself are agitated, irritated, unhappy then you are going to spread same thing. Today is era where people really understand its true meaning and become peaceful and happy. True surrender happens when one is helpless. When you have tried all your options, put all your efforts but nothing is working then helplessness comes. In this helplessness you pray and for prayer to emerge you need to surrender. Such prayers get answered and fulfilled. So one who is peaceful and surrendered to divinity is already Islamic. You don’t need to convert him/her; infact you need to spread peace and happiness & automatically Islam will spread.

Few years back, I visited Jerusalem first time, I was walking innocently towards Al-Aqsa mosque and but at entrance itself I was stopped and told that you cannot enter. I asked why? Got answer that you are not muslim. I got stunned and shocked. In India I had never experienced this as we can go inside mosques and offer our prayers. I prayed from outside but thought of what is Muslim or Musalmaan? I have come to conclusion that it is nothing but Musallam- Iman . Musallam meaning very strong and Iman means Character/faith/honesty -one who is faithful for his/her motherland, duties.

Look around and today we see that corruption is spreading like cancer and trying to be omnipresent. It is spreading because people are becoming characterless and they are not honest in their duties. So it is need of time that you make Iman of people Musallam and wipe out corruption from this planet and create peace & happiness. You don’t need to convert people as whoever on this planet has his/her Iman musallam, he/she is Musalmaan.

CHRISTIANITY: – If we say Jesus then you don’t need to say Love and If you say Love then you don’t need to say Jesus. Love and Jesus are so synonyms. Just see how beautiful is this. If someone tells you that ‘Jesus is only way’ then tell them ‘Yes, it is true. Jesus is love and love is the only way’. Spread this love and automatically you spread Jesus and Christianity. If you think only followers of Jesus will be in heaven then it is wrong. Whoever is filled with love and spreading love is already on his path.

Infact this is the time when you need to spread love. Look around, so many people are in sorrow. Wars, corruption, poverty, diseases, loot, fear, disbelief, illiteracy, unemployment, depression are taking over society. This is the most important time when people need touch of love and they will get healed. Without any expectation and returns from others, work towards bringing genuine smile on others faces. Spread love, serve people and no need to convert people.

SIKHISM: – Whenever we say Sikhism, image of robust, happy and always ready to serve community appears in front of us. I am lucky as I got a chance to visit few Gurudwaras and got blessings there. If you visit Gurudwara then you will realize the meaning of selfless service. Everyone is ready to help each other. Selflessly lunger is run and food is served to all. I was stunned to see same level of service maintained even in London, in such an expensive place every one is offered food.

Robustness and fearlessness of Sikhs saved India for many centuries. Each mother dedicated her elder son for country’s cause. We need to spread this robustness, fearlessness and attitude of service. I feel every town, village, city must adopt this and start lunger. Out of poverty, no one shall remain hungry and shall not sleep empty stomach on this planet. Every household must contribute towards his country, city, village, society.

One para of Guru Gobind Singhji is stunning and tells about valor and removes any fear if we have

“Chirian to mein baaz tudaun
Gidran to mein sher banaun
Sawa lakh se ek ladaun
Tabe Gobind Singh Naam kahaun”

Meaning “It is when I make sparrows beat eagle, I turn jackals into lions, when I make 1 capable of fighting with 125000 alone then I am called Gobind Singh”. One must surrender to such Guru and get this valor & serve people.

BUDDHISM: – There is no bigger manifestation of Silence & peace like Buddha. He was born in the era when there was huge prosperity in India and when there were huge number of intellectuals. He himself was born in royal family but he left everything in conquest of truth and got enlighten in deeper silence.

He showed path to many and many got liberated along with him. His message of peace got spread almost across Asia. This is the most appropriate time to spread Buddha when earth is filled with so much violence, decreasing moral values, corruption , greed & endless desires of people which are leading them nowhere. For this purpose as well we don’t need to convert people.

We can observe similar things in all other religions take it Jainism, Judaism etc. If we observe basic teachings of all religions are same and they are of Love, peace. It is we in our Ego started converting people, infact since last few decades conversions are happening for the greed of power. Particular religions people will vote only to their religions leader so convert people and capture power. Instead of choosing leaders at looking at their honesty, valor, knowledge & service oriented attitude, people choose leaders looking at their religion! This is not good, people are cheating themselves!

We need to know and see that all religions are like beautiful rivers which are finally meeting same ocean. Various saints, messengers, Avatars came on this planet, showered their knowledge, love on humanity and uplifted humanity. Converting people from one religion to other is like trying to convert water into water so pls stop this & spread love to fill this planet with happiness!

SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF BAKRA EID AS WELL AS BAKRA BALI INFRONT OF DEVI (MOTHER GODDESS)…ITS IMPORTANCE IN CURRENT TIMES

I feel lucky to have grown up into multi-cultural and multi religious environment as it has taught me many things and many times I see many similarities in basic intention of many rituals but many times we are not aware, do not pay attention to or put our ego ahead of everything and miss the main crux of the entire thing. Many times people do not take interest or even fear sometimes to look at other religions rituals and what good we can take from them.

Since childhood I am seeing these two rituals of giving bali (sacrificing) of bakra (male goat) infront of Devi (Mother Goddess) and Bakra Eid. Though I am not any religious head or follower of both these rituals, I feel there is a great spiritual side behind both these rituals and lets see what it is (There are and coud be man religious reasons for celebrating this but I am focusing on spiritual side)

Our ancestors were very wise and they just didn’t start any rituals just for the sake of starting, I find that they have considered upto great extent how human mind works, what kind of situations they face in their life, various natural cycles and how all can come together and celebrate this journey called life.

Just think why ancestors thought of giving sacrifice of Bakra only. There are so many animals on planet, why this particular animal is chosen? If you see, goats move in a herd. They are always in group and if you see most of the times they are moving in direction where herd is moving. Basically it is this herd mentality and you will never see that a goat or sheep separates from group and decides to move ahead alone. They become fearful under little bit of stress or threat and finally they may fall pray to predator. They cannot roar like a lion and face difficult situations. Little bit of adverse situation and you will see that all will start running around and they will chose the path which others have chosen, without thinking. Just observe and you will see this fact. In fact look at the ones which are in the middle of herd. They have absolutely no clue where they are heading and what is in store for them. I am trying to stress this herd mentality and fear of this animal as both these attitudes go hand in hand.

Both these herd mentality and fear are there in humans as well and I feel this is the most appropriate time to highlight how it is working and people are succumbing to it and bringing great harm/loss to themselves, society and nation. Herd mentality of humans is nothing but without courage, out of fear they do what others are doing. Just copy or move along with masses while taking decisions of your life and look at the few situations how it has harmed and is actually harming, infact from childhood many of us are doing this…

• • Just because media/builders creates environment that all are buying flats, houses and rates are going to go up, many of us rushed to buy bought & invested in many flats. Many have taken big loans and now scratching heads for its repayment….herd mentality…

• • Look at students….if 4-5 of them are studying together then while studying many times they look at each others progress…If somebody had progressed more then they become fearful and panic, then they understand or not they try to finish at the same speed as others…herd mentality..

• • While taking admissions to various graduation, post-graduation courses, students look at others. what others are doing, in which direction others are moving. If mob is moving towards engineering then take it, Information technology then move there. Without thinking ones own capability, practical situation, they move in this herd mentality…

• • Just because stock markets are moving up, others are investing in it and if you don’t then you will be left behind, without knowledge, without thinking, many start investing. Listening to any crap recommendation people put any amount of money and lose it! Stock market crash of 2008-09 is simple of example of this and I have seen many who were just rushing to make money…herd mentality…

• • These days if you read news on websites of these news papers or news channels then many times you will see news like this “So and so Photo of so and so actress or Video has went viral”. Now many click on it just because it has gone viral and with these clicks it actually goes viral!…herd mentality…these news people know this and deliberately they put news as “So and so thing has gone viral…”

• • Somebody comes and tells people that I will double your money in next 1 or 2 years or you create chain of members and you will get so and so money. They give examples of other people who have invested, who are making money. Many feel secure sighting others investment and they also invest in it. Later on when it turns out to be a Ponzi scheme, all people lose money!…herd mentality…

• • Another simple example, if you are going to buy vegetables, fruits in market and if there are 10 people sitting there, you will observe that shop where there is little rush people first go there and buy there..

• • Many are succumbing to anxiety created & marketing done for new launches of cellular phones, people rush to buy as whole world is running to buy those and people end up spending huge amount of money. Just check, these phone companies are now having such big valuation that they can buy some country!…its due to this herd mentality…

• • Just because some movie shows some new style of clothing, many run to buy them. Infact you will be amazed to see how few underwear brands got popularity. Lead actor used to show elastic of his brand above his jeans and many started using that… Imagine movies which are mostly based on fake, hypothetical stories and are largely based on imagination of some director or based on propaganda of producer, are ruling life of people…

• • Some advertisement on TV shows that most of dentists recommend our toothpaste and many start buying that…herd mentality…rather than driven by one’s own intellect, knowledge, experience, how these advertisements are driving people. If you want to see how people succumb to advertisements & marketing, visit their bathroom once and you will see 2-3 types of shampoos, 2-3 types of conditioners, faces wash, hair creams, sun creams, cold creams, various soaps and what not…Check once on how many people these products have actually worked, you will find none and people are wasting lot of money. Infact they are filled with so many harmful chemicals which are going inside your body through your skin.

• • Private universities publish their various research and people believe it and start following/behaving like that as many times their finding are presented in percentages Ex- Research suggest if people don’t use ground nut oil then heart attack % reduces by 50%. Now without checking facts many started using palm oil. Now many scientists tell that ground nut oil is best. In this process many farmers lost money making crop called groundnut and few greedy ones made money. One ridiculous research I came across – “If husband and wife together drink liquor then they are more happy”. You will see many such stupid researches in media around you. These are driven purely for increasing demand of particular products and flourishing few businesses.

• • Propaganda was driven that chemical pesticides help in producing more crop. Many farmers succumbed to this so called green revolution. Without checking facts many have used these and polluted their land. These pesticides are resulting in so many severe diseases to humans and many times I feel more than green revolution, it is cancer revolution.

• • Media is making people fearful and coward by showing only negative news. Rarely we see any positive or good news in newspapers or news channels. This is creating fear psychosis in people and people fear to raise their voice against injustice.

• • If news channels show that, any saint has done some wrong thing then without verifying real facts just because all are blaming saint, people also start blaming them. In India one saint was accused of murder and media people showed that news for more than 2000 hours and people immediately made him demon and people forgot that it was accusation and not verdict of court. He was harassed for nine years but finally it got proved that he did nothing and he is innocent. This news media showed for hardly for eight minutes. Despite of this example, people still get driven by herd mentality. Even today some accusation on any saint and you will see tsunami of reactions. Many are just cursing because others are cursing.

• • Just because actor/hero & actress is drinking liquor or smoking, many yougnsters start doing same thinking it is cool thing to do. If few friends are doing party and few of them are drinking alcohol or smoking then you will observe that many non-drinkers and non-smokers succumb into it and they also begin, very few stand out and say I will not!

There are many more such examples and basic intention of highlighting these is to portray harm which we are causing in this herd mentality. We need to sacrifice this herd mentality and emerge as true lion in our life. Even today in rural parts of india, if some child becomes very fearful then people say “once sacrifice bakra in front of mother goddess”. Mother goddess symbolizes fearlessness, energy & activism. You sacrifice your fear & herd mentality to her and emerge fearless, filled with energy. Henceforth lets sacrifice our herd mentality, fear & emerge as lion to serve our country. This Bakra Eid sacrifice these two things and emerge as lion to serve your  family, society and country. Many people debate whether to give bali of actual animal in rituals – then sentiments of people are attached to it since many years people are following it. My personal opinion and heart tells that not to kill animal physically for rituals (for eating meat is different and for rituals different) but various religious heads can sit together, ponder and decide with people what is best for all but know one thing for sure that country is waiting for many lions!

 

GOD TESTS YOU OR YOU TEST GOD…KNOW WHAT YOU PRAY…PRAYERS DO GET ANSWERED..

In our life, we all do pray to GOD/Nature or we pray to whatever we revere to. Have you observed your prayers? Have you ever noticed what are you asking? What are your demands? Do we pay attention to our words and its effects? Sometimes ‘yes’, we are aware and sometimes not.

When you just blabber something without any deep rooted intention, without any feelings then it is not prayer, it just becomes chattering of mind. Such things will never get answered. When something arises from deep within, something really you want or when you become complete helpless in your situations then finally you surrender yourself and what comes out of you becomes Prayer. It has energy behind it, it has meaning and it gets really fulfilled. If you observe, most of our prayers are answered but problem is when we are enjoying fruits of our prayers we do not remember that we had prayed for this and it has been answered.

When people land up in difficult situations, facing adverse situations they simply say to others “GOD is testing me”. Many times they forget that all are fruits of their karma (actions). They simply put it on GOD and blame him. When they face good situations, success then most of the people say, it is because of me, my hardwork. At this time handful of them say it is because of God’s blessings. Infact many of people end up testing GOD only…Simple story can explain this..

“Once upon a time there was a Village and all the people, families in that village were happy, rich and living in blissful knowledge. In that village there was a very rich man, richest among all and pious as well. One day he thought I must do good to others and prayed to GOD for blessings. He prayed ‘O GOD I want to utilize my wealth in serving all the poor people of our village. Bless me so that I can achieve this. He was very pious and he had prayed with deepest feelings. GOD started wondering as this man had put him in difficult situation. He want to serve poor people of Village but nobody in that village was poor. To fulfill his prayer, either GOD had to turn other rich people of village into poor or migrate some other poor people to this village so that this man can serve them.” See the situation in which this man had put GOD into.

See, how people put GOD into so many difficult situations. Imagine if an oncologist prays to GOD for more patients so that he can be rich and successful then what shall GOD do? Shall GOD create more Cancer patients? Imagine a lawyer prays, give me more cases. Now shall GOD create more conflicts so that people sue each other and land up in court with the help of this lawyer?

Another example – “Once upon a time, there was a very pious lady. Once she asked GOD ‘O GOD give me everything in my life’. Later on she got lot of happiness, success but she got sorrow, failures and she had to face difficult situations as well. She then went back to GOD and asked that I asked you to give me everything and see what you did and what you gave. GOD answered “You only asked, give me everything. Now happiness, sorrow, success, failures all come under everything. Word everything encompasses everything.”

This is the reason, we must be aware of our prayers, we must be aware of our words which we choose. We need to be very specific while praying and whatever we asking for.

Remember, if you pray for bad of others then know that it will begin with you first and if you pray for good of others then that also will begin with yourself! Prayers which you do for all are higher than you do for yourself. It encompasses good for all and they are above personal demands.

Good way to begin and end your prayers is with this statement “Loka Samasta Sukhino Bhawantu” means “Let all people be happy, prosperous and blissful” and then proceed with your personal demands if you have any but ensure that you are aware of your words as once GOD says “Tathastu”/”So be it” then you cannot go reverse, as your prayers will for sure manifest!

TWO BIG LAWS/SECRETS OF MOTHER NATURE

Our mother nature loves us so unconditionally that despite of our religion, country, cast, language, gender etc it loves us equally and most importantly unconditionally. When our mother who conceived us in her womb at that time also whatever nutrients needed for us to survive and grow were given by Mother Nature (through food and water etc). In a way Mother Nature has first right on us.

Nature grows food in farmland, gives water and gives air to breath. Imagine what will happen if this motherland says that I will grow food this year only in the farmlands of Hindus or Muslims or Christians or Buddhist or I will grow it only in India or In America or In South Africa. No, she does not do it that way. Unconditionally she keeps on growing for all of us. Imagine if water given by nature decides that it will quench the thirst of only Muslims today or only of Europeans or of Men or of rich. No, water given by Nature satiates thirst of all and that too unconditionally. Imagine air given by Nature decides that it will enter nostrils of only Christians today or Australians or Asians. Does it happen like that; never will it happen like that. In fact we need to remember that what we breathed out will be breathed in by somebody else and vice versa. We all are so deeply connected.

Mother Nature has given us so many types of Flowers, so many types of vegetables, so many types of trees, so many different rivers, so many different types of Mountains, So many types of stones, different types of metals, so many types of cultures, so many types of food, so many types of religions, so many types of animals, so many types of birds, different types of music, even clouds have different shape. If you see there are 7 billion people on planet but you can distinctly identify them (exceptions are of twins). Imagine if nature stops it diversity and decides to produce only eggplant, will you be able to eat eggplant for 365 days? Suppose nature decides to produce only roses for 1 year, we all will soon become sick of roses. Imagine if only 1 type of bird, suppose only Crows, how it will be seeing only crows on this planet. Imagine if we have only one size & shape of mountains, go anywhere on the planet and you will see same size, same shape of mountain everywhere. Imagine if only guitars start producing music and no other instrument is able to produce; you will soon break your head with same guitar. Same way mother has given so many cultures, costumes, languages, religions, rituals, various types of foods. In fact our survival depends on this diversity.

In this unconditional love, Nature has certain laws and its our duty to follow those. This nature has 2 big secrets. Have you ever thought what nature really wants? Below are 2 things and 2 secrets
1) Nature will give you back what you give and in fact Nature gives with interest
2) Mother Nature wants to see smile on your face.

Lets see how these 2 principals work
What you will give that will come back and with interest: – If today you are sowing one seed of corn then tomorrow nature will give you entire Corn. If today you plant one small mango plant then after few years you will have thousands of mangoes. Today if you plant Neem plant or Coconut plant then tomorrow you will have hundreds of coconuts, medicinal Neem leaves. If today you are planting more trees then tomorrow you will have more good air and more water conserved under earth which will be useful for you.

In your greed and ignorance if today you are cutting your mountains, polluting your rivers and cutting your trees then you be ready for tomorrow’s disaster. Your own home, body will be polluted in same way. If today you are polluting motherland by putting chemical pesticides and throwing plastic garbage then tomorrow same thing will pollute your body and you will have deadly diseases like cancer.

If you are ethical and honest then more and more ethical and honest people will come in your life. If you are cheating someone, looting someone then be ready to meet bigger and bigger thugs. You will be robbed of whatever you have. If you are killing animals to eat or in the name of sacrifice then such situations will arise that you will have to face disaster/persecution. If today you are destroying other culture, other’s religion then same thing will return to you as well.

Today if your country is looted and you remain silent then tomorrow you also will be robbed. Today if your neighbor is harassed and you keep mum then tomorrow same problem will knock your door. If today injustice is happening on others (farmers, women, poor) and you keep mum then same injustice will return you in very subtle way.

You may have billions of dollars but if you do not use it for needy or you earn it through unethical way then tomorrow same money will become useless for you or reason for your downfall. There are ample examples of millionaires who have lost everything with a blink of eye. If today you are earning money by doing corruption then tomorrow same money will put you in jail and destroy you.

If you are spreading love then same will come back to you in abundance. If today you are taking care of others, tomorrow you will be taken care of. If today you are helping others in their need of time then tomorrow all your needs will be fulfilled.

Mother Nature wants to see smile on your face: If we see this planet, it’s the gift to mankind from nature. All that in the nature that is there, final aim of it is to bring a smile on your face. Such a beautiful ranges of mountains, rivers, flowers, birds, animals, various foods, and various costumes everything it created so that you can smile. Mind it no other species on this planet has this gift of smile. Can animals smile? Just see around, can birds smile, can donkeys smile, can horses smile or can dogs smile? Answer is big NO. Your smile and this entire creation is gift to you.

This is very interesting! If others pain, others sorrow bring pain & sorrow to you then Nature will never make happen such things with you as it wants to make you smile. See, politicians set somebody for failure or laugh and be happy at their rival’s downfall and soon they find themselves in same situation. Look at their faces, many of them are so serious that even stones look beautiful. If somebody’s bad situation is brining smile on your face then same situation soon will appear in front of you.

However bad may be situation, whatever difficulties you face know that Nature loves you, put little effort with smile and you will be out of it. This knowledge itself will give you strength and you will be able to face any difficult situation. Now don’t say that I will create trouble to others and Nature must maintain smile on my face then answer is No, pls remember law no 1 as well ‘It will give back what you gave’.

If you have billions of dollars but you have long face and unable to smile then see, what is use of your money. If you can’t smile then you have wasted your biggest gift and wasted your life. If you have tremendous power, you are at top position of your country but if you can’t smile then are you really successful? Students are working so hard to get into IITs or premier institutes and they are under so much pressure that they are committing suicides. Is this the reason for which we want to study. Are we making really successful? There are many such examples.

Be content and smile and with whatever you have and keep walking & moving ahead. People who are content with smile, they are given more and people who always cry and feel lack, whatever they have is taken away!

I feel we all must take few moments to think what we are doing and where we are heading. Lets be ethical and celebrate diversity of our Mother Nature and take care of it, spread love and bring smile on as many faces as we can! Lets smile from bottom of our heart and enjoy this beautiful gift called Smile and Life!

SELLING YOUR COUNTRY IS CALLED AS DISINVESTMENT/PRIVATISATION

You must have heard this word multiple times ‘Disinvestment’ or ‘Privatization’. To explain it in simple way, companies/entities which are owned 100% by government are sold. Government sells its stake in entities/companies to private operators or offers shares of such companies in equity market (or generally called as share market). In share market % of shares are reserved for high networth individuals, various fund houses and small portion is allocated for retail investors. These retail investors are many times even unaware of such developments. Many times governments even sell all stakes to some private operators or appoint them to run the show by signing extremely unfavorable contracts and these private operators end up sucking only money and making people’s lives more and more miserable. This is becoming worldwide phenomena and our country is no more isolated to this.

Consider this simple example – IPO (Initial Public Offering) of Coal India came just 4-5 years back. Government listed this company on stock market’s bourses and sold some of its holding. Govt had offloaded 10% of its equity. That means out of 100% which was owned by govt, 10% out of that got sold. This is the company which has largest coal reserves in the world. It has so much coal that if I am not wrong it would be sufficient for generation of electricity of our entire country. We will not need even any nuclear deal as we have sufficient amount of coal in our country itself. Mind it many of electricity generation plants in developed countries are coal based.

I subscribed and applied to this IPO and got few shares…but when I studied in detail then I realized that whatever shares govt had offloaded out of that 90% are owned by foreign banks, insurance companies and various fund houses. Major chunk of those shares were reserved for them. So bottom line is your country’s asset is now owned by these foreign banks/fund houses and wealthy individuals and they are getting rich dividends every year. Government could have offered 100% to retail investors and only to Indian citizens and could have created awareness among entire country for its subscription. They did not do this or they will never do this because their intention itself is not to help people of country but to help big private groups/ banks to grab your country as these people help them to win elections and allow them to keep their illegal money in their banks or offer them % shares through various different subsidiaries.

For sure you cannot beat money of rich groups, banks and insurance companies and they end up owning one by one all the good big organizations of your country. This way one by one almost everything is being put on sell. Common people who are struggling with their monthly budgets, jobs etc are not even aware of these things.

Question arises how they systematically bring it to the situation of selling. First they do is corruption or spend recklessly anywhere and then bring these institutions in losses. They deliberately manage it so badly that actually these organizations are set for failure. Then they tell us that now solution is privatization or disinvestment. Government does not have money and we have to sell it. They sell it and then begin the money sucking game and year by year people start losing whatever they have.
Below are some examples where privatization is going on and people are going through great suffering and you will realize the gist of saying “Disease is different and medicine given is different”

Electricity: – Go to Europe and you will understand pain of this. Electricity is in hands of all private operators and rates which are already astonishingly high suddenly go up exactly before winter. This is really pathetic. Same thing has begun in India and private operators are having fun with exorbitant light bills which are big burden on lower middle income groups and poor people.

Water: – Most of the water in Europe if provided by private companies and people pay for every mug they use. Same trend is coming in India. First they pollute water resources and then tell us to buy filtered water or have water filters. If water is impure then cleaning its resources is solution and buying from private people is not. “Disease is different and medicine given is different”

Gas: – Almost all gas companies are private in Europe. People pay big money and same has started in India. Piped gas of private operators etc

Trains: – I do not think any other country in the world has such complex train network like india, so many stations, so many people. By any means it cannot go in loss. If you look at the corruption and mismanagement done in it then one feels enraged and pathetic. Politicians are talking about privatizing it or privatizing stations or few routes or few coaches. So many vultures are sitting on the fence to grab this opportunity and I tell you this will be disaster. Europe has good trains with good speed but look at the money which is needed to travel. Again “Diseases is different and medicine given is different”.

Buses: – I think India is the country where gap between private and govt run buses is so blatant. Anybody can recognize it and if you do little fact finding then you will get to know that many of the private bus operators are big politicians or big corporate houses. Again make your govt’s organization sick and medicine for it is privatization and controlled by whom? People will end up paying more and more as each year passes.

Roads:- Isn’t it funny that roads are also privatized. You must pay toll if you pass by these roads which are constructed by private operators. I know of one toll which people are paying from the time when I used to go to school. Now my children are going to school but still that toll gets renewed under various circumstances. I call these tolls as legal extortion which keeps on increasing every few months!

Airports:- Well airports are also privatized and you pay for everything through air tickets. Only thing is we do not know and every airport levy different charges to airlines.
Mines: – As pointed earlier biggest asset of nay country are being sold and common people are not even aware of it or they are helpless.

This way so many things are privatized like Education, Banks, Post Offices, Govt run telecommunication, Govt run oil Companies etc..
Finally question runs in mind “What do government do with taxes collected from us?”. Aren’t they supposed to provide all the above things for free or with minimum charges from these taxes? Awaken yourself now and stop this in whatever way you can and save your country!

Demon Hiranyaksha and its relevance in current times – PART III

In continuation of my series on Hiranyaksha this is third part which is focusing on corruption and destruction of spirituality

When human values, ethics, spirituality goes down then corruption starts. People with good ethics and high values will not do corruption which is as good as selling yourself. Today if we see around, we find that spirituality is at very low level or rather it is systematically brought down through print or electronic media, through corruption, law and order is destroyed at many places and many people are deprived of even basic things which are required to live normal life. More the spirituality of people goes down more they will remain divided, more corruption will happen and so on.

When people don’t think or don’t know that this world is one family, we are all connected, we all belong to each other then corruption starts. You can’t do corruption with those to whom you think you belong to. In this divide and rule politics people are so much divided that you will see fight between countries, fight between religions, between castes etc. even there are intra religion fights, intra caste fights. Today people are being divided on the basis of Caste, religion, language, State in which they live, Gender, Country, Leaders they follow/Admire. Money is being seen above everything by many people. They feel if you have money you have everything. In fact few people think they are big pundits and say “Sabhi puchenge aap kaise hai jabtak aapke pass paise hai” (All people will be good with you only till the time you have money with you). Money has its own importance but it is not above human values.

Today you can see almost every country is experiencing one or the other form of corruption. Politicians, business people are doing corruption hoarding money and they are not even aware for what reason they are garnering so much money. On one end billions of people on this planet are suffering because they do not have enough resources (result of corruption) and on another hand these corrupt people are just hoarding wealth which is not helping to anyone. Look at the wealth garnered by corrupt people – They have billions and billions of dollars, thousands of hectares of land and yet there hunger is insatiable. They are making corruption spread everywhere so that if tomorrow you raise voice then they can tell you ‘SHUT UP, you are no different, you are also corrupt’. Corruption is trying to be Omnipresent and trying to be GOD.

In his greed Hiranyaksh took entire planet spiritually so low that it was compared to bottom of ocean. Just look at some of the examples of lowness of spirituality/ethics

• Human trafficking is spread across world and like animals people are traded and that too for money
• Not only women but children are also not spared from sexual abuse
• Girl which would have brought good fortune is being killed in mother’s womb itself
• Media which is supposed to work transparently infact doing opposite of it. Today people say that by taking money they can run any propaganda
• In many countries around the world millions of people, even children are dying as they do not have food to eat. Many countries despite of having lot of food grains throw that in sea because they want to create shortage so that prices go up and they get more profits
• Unfortunately pornography has become big money making industry and destroying social moral balance among people. People who will not like to see their own mother/sister/ wife/daughter in such act, they do watch such things.
• Under the influence of various lobbies’, religion has been used as a tool to capture power. Today there are people ready to convert your religion by offering money or various things and there are helpless/poor/weak people who get converted as well!
• Today farmer who produces grains and fulfills our stomach, is going bankrupt and committing suicide. In order to capture his land various conspiracies are hatched
• Countries where once river of milk used to flow has been replaced by alcohol. Millions and millions people die because of consumption of alcohol. Same is the case with tobacco
• Billions of people are unable to get right education which must be a birthright. Whoever are getting they also lack holistic approach and most important missing things in education are Human Values, economics, basic laws of country, knowledge about one’s own body and health.
• Today on small issues people are getting divorced and despite of changing many partners they are unhappy, in stress and ultimately along with them their children suffer
• Out of millions, few get opportunity to serve people by joining politics. Unfortunately they waste this opportunity by doing corruption and create trouble for everyone
• People say terrorism has been created and sponsored by big lobbies for their own economic interest and innocent people keep dying in it every year. Unfortunately religion is being linked to terrorism despite of knowing that no religion is saying so.
• In order to make more and more profits, weapon’s industry lobby is creating wars and tensions. For their profits so many people suffer and die.
• Few decades back doctors were considered as form of GOD as they take care of you and save your life but now after looking at doctor’s bill you may get heart attack (of course there are exceptions)
• People say pharma companies spread diseases and they only bring medicine for these diseases so that their business flourishes and they can make more profits
• Once upon a time COWs which were backbone of countries economy, today people eat them
• People say judiciary is also getting corrupt and common people simply avoid getting into any type of litigation as it is as good as inviting your bankruptcy as lawsuits run for years and years and you keep losing money
• Saints are being put in jail and thugs are roaming around
• People put their all emotions, energy, and time behind sports they like but sports people do match fixing for mere money!

See around and you will find many such examples. Time has come and Nature has left us with only one choice now and that is of Unity. We need to drop all our inhibitions, prejudices, barriers and we must unite now beyond race, culture, religions, and countries and save this planet. We must move from Bhog to Yog and restore back all spiritual and human values into our society!