Values...

HUMAN VALUES have always been and continues to play a slave to Adam Smith's ubiquitous MARKETS.

What helplessness!

-Varun
13 May 2009

PS: It is amazing how the rule of demand and supply control most stuff around us rather than values, principles or fairness....

Jaago...

Jaago Bansiwale lalna... Jaago mere pyaare

It is been long since I have been hearing this melodious song which Yashoda sings to wake up the flute-player Kanha every morning, in the literal sense. The picture painted by this song takes me into the blissful land of Krishna instantaneously.

For ages, the same song has depicted the metaphoric meaning where we cry to God to wake up and care of the world which, at any snapshot, is filled up with misery. It is to also remind Krishna of the promise he made in the Gita... in the theological sense. It is also a complain, rather a taunt ;)!

The other day when I heard this song, maybe for the hundredth time, a new meaning emerged. It was now a cry to the Krishna within to wake up...

O' the Krishna inside me, wake up...
O' the Krishna inside everyone wake up...
And once it happens, the world will be the blissful abode of Krishna

From Brute to Man, from Man to God... (The Great Vivekananda)

PS: The second and the third interpretation are the same from a Vedantic perspective, the third one being more fundamental.

-Varun
Dec 19, 2008

Atheism

Vedanta does not recognize Atheism whose basis is Compassion for the world, for the poor, the exploited, for the one with unequal opportunity.

Such an individual is just ignorant of the fact that he/she is a believer, a believer of a much larger intensity than all the so-called believers in the world. This is so because his ignorance stems out of compassion and honesty. Whereas others' ignorance stems out of selfishness.

Most ignorant are those who consider these people as non-believers and criticise them for the same. The status of such people as a believer is under question!

Compassion & Honesty is God!

PS: Bhagat, I hope you are listening.

-Varun
Oct 09, 2008

When I met him...

There was some random corporate prize ceremony going on. There was one medal which my name was written. I was expecting to be one of the recipients... but my name never got announced. With an off-hand attitude, i went over to some cabinets containing books, situated at one corner ( and started browsing through the books.

Some one approached me from the side and ... it was the mahatma! he came and started talking to me, asking me which books i had read and advising me on the books i should read. I had the most casual conversation with him. He just told me he is going to lunch with the other folks and if i needed any more advice on books, i can come to him.

I bid him good bye and casually started browsing through the books again. I was thinking, so thats how he actually looks, i had seen imitations in movies. And thats how his real voice sounds....

It did not hit me till the morning, when I woke up, that I had met the Mahatma! Yes, the Mahatma, and he had come to visit me! There are actually three more days before he actually comes.

PS: It made sense that he came in when I was near to books, would be shocked to see him in a corporate event.

PPS: Looking forward to at least a few more visits of his. I need more advice!

Varun
30th September 2008

Just 4...

There are just four kind of people in this world

One who understands Evolution...

One who understands Vedanta...

One who understands Vedanta and Evolution...

And the one who understands none.


I do not know who is the luckiest!

-Varun
6th September 2008

PS: There is a 5th kind too, but there isn't enough evidence not to believe that it is fictional....

Prayer

Prayer is but a complain...

... at a personal level, a humane level or a metaphysical level.

-Varun
Sept 01, 2008
In an attempt to solve the mystery of prayers

Gandhi is not just about Gandhi...

Gandhi is not just about Gandhi, but Gandhi is about India...

It goes to the credit of the Indians to idealize and choose a 'Mahatma' as their political leader & ahimsa as a political weapon against the British.

-Varun
June 24, 2007
A thought which gave me one of those 'aha' moments...