SAVE CBI

CBI: Undoubtedly it is supreme investigation agency in India. Though we have many allegations on it's working in the hands of central govt, it is still having it's part in maintaining integrity of one nation. The recent internal issues and allegations in CBI at the helm of it's affairs is not only internal to one supreme agency, it is very much concerned about public trust on these agencies. It is once again proved and every time getting repeated in the form of different issues and keep telling us that the vigilance on supreme positions of Indian agencies and constitutional and executive heads/authorities is so weak. We need a strong ombudsman institution to curtail it at least to possible extent without giving it a free hand. The demand for Lokpal as supreme ombudsman of India has taken it's highs during Anna Hazare movement few years back and the then union govt promised to materialize it soon. But, we don't see any appreciable progress in Lokpal authority build and Lokpal is still remained as a necessity and yet to realize. Wake up India and tell strong NO to political misuse and corrupt practices in our supreme bodies, it is a great threat to constitutional objectives and it's philosophy.

KUDOS TO AIR NEWS

KUDOS TO AIR NEWS: Years back I was a regular listener of AIR news at daily 9-9:30 PM. Initially I started listening to it to improve my English speaking skill and later addicted to the social content of it. It is just a voice with no visual, still most effective presenter of social situations. The spot light program with eminent people from different strata of the society is designed in such a way it helps to give comprehensive picture on the topic of discussion to the listener. Now, we have many visual news channels are available, but I don't find a good reason to praise them. In All India Radio news content I never felt about something that should not be presented to the public. In our visual channels it is more futile content than useful. I don't have intention of pointing wrong finger to our media people because most of the public is not interested in watching what is relevant to society and social benefits. So media is running towards chasing the minds of public for their TRP ratings.Every society has great impact on it's social conduct by news and entertainment media. Here we can't think of entertainment media to be responsible on it's content towards the society, it has already ruined the best flavors our culture and tradition. But, the news media which should act as informative agent is also moving towards entertainment area. Media has the great ability of changing the society either towards constructive patch or towards destructive patch. Media should act like a strong pillar to the society to ensure the strength of good conduct. If the pillar compromises with negative interests then the evil effects are obvious to prevail. People should derive inspiration and confidence from the media. The ratification of each and every presentation is more important for social validity. It should act as front runner towards building a great culture.


***A BEST MEDIA IS TO BUILD A BETTER SOCIETY***

SELF-REALIZATION

A country/person with incorrect priorities never give any fruits to it's civilization. Statistical outcomes may give economic dominance over it's previous years and also over it's neighboring countries. Perhaps this dominance is a temporary phenomenon and a real myth. The longevity always exists in self-realization. Our main problem in today's world for majority of countries and majority of people is living a life without having this self-realization. We need many material and immaterial things in life beyond our basic and self-esteem needs. This unwanted extra stuff creating all sorts of nonsense to us and diverting our priorities to unhygienic and naturally-unlawful though these are constitutionally lawful in many geographical parts.

This world has seen many historical events which have created all sorts of brutal destruction. For me all these could be traced their origins into the failure of self-realization. Yes, Alexander realized on his death bed that he failed to understand the meaning of life and wasted his life in wars and became a cause of so much civil unrest around the globe. The story of Mongol warrior Genghis Khan moves in the same way created blood bath in the then societies. And Hitler, we all know what this world has paid for his activities. All sorts of evils took place on this earth only due to failure of self-realization. Throughout the history we have crossed many stages from nomadic life style to permanent settlements and from monarchy rule to democratic rule. Only change I can see in todays so called democratic society from other previous societies is the change in the form of slavery. Earlier people had to struggle for food in some periods and had to live in slavery under different reigns. Now we are same slaves of our life. We became slaves to technological innovations without realizing what we are getting at the cost of what we are losing. The whole world is being driven by currency and material relations. We want money and money and more money to build future of our family/country. But non of us realizing ourselves money is not the replacement to what we are actually missing. A country wants to dominate the other by showing economic statistics and military spending. A family wants to show their power showing their assets and income and by luxury unwanted spending. So, in both cases we try to feel happy ourselves by exposing something we have that others don't have. If others too had what you have then certainly that won't become a source of satisfaction. We always need something special day after day till the death leaving no meaning behind. For our selfish wants we are destroying our nature more than ever before making it a hell to future generations.

Self realization is that which enlighten us to lead peaceful life with whatever we have hurting none. After all the activities we are certainly leave this world. So, everyone should keep this in mind, most importantly when they are young. Self-realization is the motivating force that drives our activities to help others and to live with nature in harmony. It unites our soul with eternal joy by joining in every good aspect of society. It is our responsibility to give the best to our future generations. I always like to dream a group of small kids playing in green pastures breathing pure air drinking clean river water. These kids are very very rich than the kids playing in costly video games.

What are Hindus and Muslims in India

I feel proud to speak about my Muslim brothers in India. I am really fortunate enough to have good friends and colleagues from Muslim community starts from my academics to employment. Yes they really worth enough in my life as dearest friends. Infact, I love Ramdan and Bakrid a lot on par with any Hindu festivals. It was really a quite wonderful memories for me to be invited by my friend to join the happy moments of their family during the festival of Ramdan and other.

The real beauty of Islam that I should mention without missing is their kind heart towards charity. During Eid, it is cultural practice for everyone who can afford it to donate a sum of money or material. so that the poor will also be able to eat their fill during the festival. These donations are often made via the mosque. Helping people who are less well-off is a key and core feature of Islam. Infact, this compulsory alms-giving is one of the 'Five Pillars of Islam'. The other four are the profession of faith, ritual prayer, fasting during Ramadan, and the pilgrimage to Mecca.

I am fortunate enough to read the stories of prophets, to be told by some stories related to Islamic culture and some basic beliefs of Islam. As born in Hindu family, when I compare the practices and core beliefs of Hinduism with Islamic practices and core belies, both have many commonalities and shares the same spirit of faith and living for good cause. For this point all the religions in this world are always shows only one same destination. To put the nature of this destination in my simple and understandable words is 'LIVE WITH SACREDNESS AND LOVE & HELP ALL IRRESPECTIVE OF CASTE COMMUNITY AND CREED. I don't know anything bigger more than this simple line after seeing different religions in my society.

I believe that because of these common faiths in doctrines of different religions India would able to sustain unity and integrity with different diversified customs. It is the land where a Muslim guy can participate in Hindu temple Pujas and where a Hindu person can happily go and attend the prayer of Mosque and Church. I am proud to say in my country all holy places like temples, mosques, Gurudwaras and Churches are open to all human beings.

Do you also feel proud to have friends from other communities,. Yes, feel proud of it if you have. If you don't have, I am sure you are missing something in life.

India shares great bondage among different communities.But, some idiots from almost every community trying to destroy this bond which it was happened during British raj era for their selfis benefits.

Let us be firm and strong enough and don't let some bigot destroy this bond.

Marriage - An unavoidable bondage

It's very funny for me to write an article on the subject matter of marriage without being married. As a person who is leading bachelor life, I may not give you the comprehensive feelings on this subject, but still wanted to discuss some of my observations that I have derived from the relationship of my parents, married friends, colleagues and relatives.

Marriage is a sacred bondage that carries many new responsibilities, new struggles and joyful movements. It exposes you, all of a sudden, to a new environment where you got to meet different new people with different attitudes having different relations. You are expected by everyone to manage all these relations and to cope up with new responsibilities. Both partners are responsible to nourish new relation and make it long lasting with shared responsibility.

The journey of this beautiful voyage starts with marriage and ends with death. Everyone excited of his/her life partner and it is more or less a wonderful feeling to have found their life mate. The initial days of married life goes with exploring each other in different angles provided by different opportunities, this period of time is absolutely equal to moon light dinner for many couples as the couples relation is tightly intertwined with romance.At this juncture, every couple experience an overwhelming certainty that they will love their partner forever.But, the biggest question here is how long this love lasts?. We have practical examples of many couples who ended their relation in different stages of their marriage.we can divide these stages into three categories.

1.Very soon after the couple got married.
2.After moon light dinner period is over.
3.Till the death of any one.
4.Till the death of both.

The first category people end up their relation very soon after their marriage even before to their romantic life. The breakup here are mainly driven by materialistic causes of money, ego clashes in marriage process and also a psychological cause of immaturity of couple and their families. This I have red in news papers in many cases, the problem being the dowry factor and ego clashes.

The second category people end up their relation because of immature excitement of marriage. This category people enjoy their relation as long as the romantic life continues. Once the romantic component of life starts retreating to normalcy, the couple misunderstands that the component of love is coming down. This problem arises only when couple miss-associates love with romance. In-fact, in many cases true love emerges little later the honey moon nights of the couple is over. By the time the love flourishes between them the materialistic components poses many challenges to the couple and that challenges leads to break up of relation. It would be very difficult to find out root causes of break up as many times the claimed causes are not real causes. The real cause is always failure in development of true love.

The third category people end up their relation with the death of his/her partner. These people are matured enough and practical in sense of maintaining relations. They share love each other and this love flourishes out of struggle driven periods of couple than the romance and joy driven periods. The love that the couple have already developed would be further strengthened by strong binding force of children. Children makes the bond of couple more strong and opens a sudden new door for a different joy of them. Children too would bring some extra burden to couple, but still couple wanted to bear it and enjoy the sweet burden. Once one of the partner meets with death, then the other partner becomes alone in-spite of  many people around him including his/her children. This loneliness becomes unbearable and sometimes provokes him/her for remarriage provided with sufficient age and pressure from family. This is mostly possible for men than to women. Indian culture restricts women remarriage up-to considerable level and it is further difficult if she has children from first marriage.

The fourth category people end up their bond only with the death of both partners. This is possible only in case of highly matured couple. For these couples the love flourishes as it happened in third category people. But, the love here is not possession, it is an emotional devotion. Love cherishes emotional bondage to it's zenith and sustains the certainty with eternal values. In this case even if one of the partner meets with death, the other partner would lead his/her rest of the life with sweet memories that they have shared in their relation. This relation shall make no noise and do no dance on the faces of couple. It silently sits inside of couple's deep heart. The feelings that waves in the bottom of their heart is inexpressible to poetic sense, it only sensible to meditative mind. The couple feel the same sense of residence from the place of paradise to the guest house of graveyard.

All the above categories, except fourth category, are subjected to material impacts with varying level of degree. Today's world is showing up most of cosmetic love to us than pure love, people want to expose their love to external world than nourishing it themselves to make it further deepen. It is better not to expose our love always to outside environment of our family. Our love doesn't require of others attention. 

The subject matter of marriage is too complex and it is very difficult for people like me to discuss it with holistic view without any experience. It contains physiological needs, psychological balances, philosophical impacts, cultural guidance and above all the need of loved one. Whether your partner turn as loved one or not is totally depends on how you patronage your relation with all these components from day one on-wards.

We are so happy being Indians because our culture had great many required parameters for the building of strong marital relation. Our marriage system joins successfully two unknown persons together and slowly indoctrinates them with the essence of love and lasts forever as a sign of sacrality till the last breath of them.

-- I wish all married people a wonderful journey and unmarried people to get marry soon--

                ---- Opinion is subjected to change after my marriage :) :) :) 

నాకు తెలిసిన ప్రేమ...

ధేహన్ని ఆరాధిస్తే కామం అవుతుంది.మనసుని ఆరాధిస్తే ప్రేమ అవుతుంది. ఈ శ్రుష్టిలొ ఏసంబంధం అయీనా కామాన్ని తప్ఫుపడుతుంది కాని ప్రేమను కాదు. మంచి మనసుకి జరిగే అభిషేకం ఎదుటి మనిషిచేత పొందబడిన స్వచ్చమైన ప్రేమ. ప్రతి మనిషి యుక్క ప్రేమను పొందగలిగిన హ్రుదయం వర్ణనాతీతమైన సౌందర్యం. సౌందర్యవంతమైన ఎన్నో రూపాలకు జన్మనిచ్చిన నా భరతభూమి యెక్క చరిత్ర తనివితీరని మాదూర్యం. మదురమైన అనుభవాల నడుమ సాగే ప్రతి జీవితం దన్యం.

Why Karthika Masam is such a special for me.

I have a great respect over three characters from Hindu mythology.One being the Siva and second one is SriRam and the other one is Bhishma. I like these characters not because they are super natural powers, for that point presently I am against to believe the concept of super natural power.I came from a family with certain level of orthodox values as any common and typical family that we see in India.So, I was exposed to different gods and their ritual processes all these years in my society.I was also taught with the epics of Ramayana and Mahabharata by my grandfather and also by some elder neighbors.My parents made me to run over all kind of Hindu rituals in the name of different festivals and other sacrifices. With these kind of background I was motivated myself to strongly believe in god and used to chant 'Vishnumurthy Asthotram' on every day early morning till recent past.Over the last four or five years I have exposed to a different world along with same world that I have seen previously.This different world developed many internal conflicts in my mind and the new things to which I am being exposed to read and learn are totally contradicting to my previous values what I had practiced and believed. As a new born in the lap of my mother I was with no knowledge on this society and social customs. Whatever I have practiced in past and practicing now is all totally impacted by my parents, gurus and social circumstances.As these impacting components are getting diversified in it's nature my internal rationalities also started their work on practice of my social customs.After going through the basics of many different famous religions and their core values on this world, I have realized at least myself how to practice a religion. My approach towards practice of religion taken some scientific orientation and started getting rid of superstitious belief on gods and ghosts.I have totally stopped chanting of Vishnu mantras.You may misunderstand that I have become atheist.No, I can not accept myself as an atheist because I am not opposing any religion and it's faiths.I am only against to the uncommon attitude of the religion which was introduced into almost all religions and described in a miraculous manner to attract people in order to exploit them.These uncommon attitude was latter encroachments into original doctrines of any religion.So, I am not an atheist, I love to practice any religion with it's core values which are always noble to lead our life in a harmonious way.With this kind of attitude also I am still continuing to love my favorite personalities of  Siva, Sri Ram and Bhishma. But, the essence behind loving these personalities is totally different from my childhood days to today. So, in this 'Karthika Masam' the month of celebrations for Siva devotees, I would like to share with you why I love Siva character.

I feel one should love Siva with a scientific spiritual approach instead of superstitious spiritual approach.What is scientific and what is superstitious?.Let me give you my version of explanation to it. If we go to temple and ask lord Siva to fulfill our dreams and aspirations then we are nothing but running on the path of superstitious spiritualism which I prefer to call it as materialistic spirituality. With this kind of materialistic spirituality there is absolutely no use to you and also to our society. Instead it promotes exploitation of people with different means which were well known to us through priestly class dominant society after the end of vedic society. Now let us see what is scientific spirituality. The scientific spirituality is the one which promotes it's principles to regulate your code of conduct to keep you in harmony with society. This scientific spirituality is not available in society as separate religion, but it is available as an internal core part of every religion.This core was covered with so much of mud and waste. So we should try to remove this mud in order to reach the core of the religion. The mud is nothing but what is being practiced as we discussed earlier in the name of materialistic spirituality.So, try to get rid of this materialistic values in your spiritual practice then what is left over is scientific spirituality. How to get rid of this materialistic spirituality in order to practice scientific spiritualism?. For me it is so simple to practice, the only thing that we have to follow is not expecting anything from god.We should realize that the god has no power to give us whatever we expect. Then why should we visit temples and other holy places if god has no power to offer you something. Temples doesn't have super natural or extra natural powers to offer us something, but temples have certain common natural powers which can help us a lot to build our personality development.

The physical posture and appearance of certain gods has great significance to impact our attitude if we succeeds to observe it. The concept of god varies from religion to religion. Some religions preaches practice of idolatry and some rejects it. Even with in the Hindu religion there are different sects which preaches to worship lord Siva in idol form and in non idol form as well. Many temples worship him in linga form.As per history Siva was so primitive god and he was worshiped by Indus valley civilization people also. Indus valley people worshiped him in the name of Pasupati and in the form of linga.The same god appeared in vedic culture also which was basically the culture of Indo-Aryans. Starts from that age to this age he had been worshiped by Indian people as their beloved god. We do not have any kind historical proofs for Vishnu and other gods to be practiced by Indus valley people.This primitive society of Indus valley had worshiped only Pasupati and Mother goddess. So, this way Siva has great significance in our customs starts from initial ages of Indian culture when compared with any other gods.

The main thing that I really appreciate and love to have as an integral part of Hindu religion is the process of paying our respect to Siva in temples or at different places. Let me explain some peculiar characteristics of Siva which is why I love the philosophy of Siva.

Siva was represented to us by our ancestors in the following way: His representation in pictures has great philosophy to teach us in order to lead a simple life.

1.He was made god of all......promotes equality among all people.
If you visit any 'jyothirlingas' in India , you would be straight away  allowed to enter sanctum sanctorum (Garbha Gudi) and touch the linga. There is no discrimination on the base of religion,caste or community.This feature is promoting equality among all people.

2.His life style was depicted in most simplified way.
He wears no jewels as like other gods and his physical appearance promotes very simple life style to lead.So this feature helps us to avoid unnecessary luxury in search of beauty and status.It tells us to understand that beauty is not all about the uppermost layer of our skin. If all of us removed of this outer layer then all we looks same in physical appearance.Beauty means a simple life style and it always dwells in inner most values of a person.

3.representation of poison in his throat.
This tells us to hold and sustain the evil effects of dangerous poison with in ourselves if it serves the purpose of distributing nectar to the society.This means take little pain which will not kill you but helps something good to others.

4.Ganga on his head.
Understand that your god himself had given such a top priority to ganga as it is the essential element for any animal survival.So, we should get it in a right sense and utilize water resources in a legitimized way.If Ganga gets polluted then it would put a big question mark for our offspring survival in future.

5.Very simple pooja process.
There is a belief that Siva could be pleased just by offering some bael leaves(Maredu Akulu) and Abhisekham with water.This pooja process is accessible to all people ranging from rich to poor, even a beggar can afford it. So, this process is informing us that anything supreme in society should be equally accessible and affordable to all people irrespective of their economical status.

6.Regarded as ArdhaNriswarudu.
Siva has given half of his body to his wife Parvati devi. This means we should learn from him how to look-after our wife or husband.This posture of ArdhaNariswara represents that both husband and wife should be united by their hearts with each other with no differences.Also, this bondage should last forever till the couple hugs their death.

7. Implementation of Karthika Masam.
This is the month dedicated to Siva and a kind of festival season to Siva devotees.I had a strong nexus with this month in my life.I like this moth a lot than any other month of the year.The people activities during this month is very much recommended as these practices makes all people to get rid of laziness at the time of onset of winter season. Also, it promotes a great harmony among people of village with activities like collective river bathing on early morning, collective inter dining in the name of Vanabojanas. Even the dietary habits of non-vegetarian people would take sudden shift into vegetables which is good for health.It is good for us in many aspects at least to have vegetarian food for one month out of a year.

Coming to the beauty and aesthetic view of Karthika Masam, a person is not sufficient enough with two eyes to feel the beauty of Karthika Dipam glow on the banks of rivers. Also, this river bathing is a kind of play for all village children and most healthy exercise to all. I have personal experience with this environment during my childhood and the kind of joy that I had with this season is inexpressible in my words. A small river canal of my village used to be crowded with most of villagers before the sunrise. It is so pleasant and heart touching to memorize those days.

8. The concept of Trinetra.
This concept of third eye on the forehead of Siva is really a significant one as it has great nexus with the practice of meditation which is a proven practice to have peace of mind. If you close your eyes and start meditating yourself then you will feel as if all your senses concentrated on your forehead. So, we should understand this third eye concept as source of enlightenment or knowledge.

So, I continue to like Siva with above spirit. Siva is not a god for me, but the philosophy of Siva is more greater than a god concept. It is the 'Shiva tatva' which we have to follow but not the Shiva. Historically he was not existed as a person and also mythological teachings have no strong grounds to believe him as super natural power. Instead of struggling between theistic and atheistic feelings,I feel it is better to accept anything from any religion which is giving some good message to society to regulate our code of conduct in a harmonious way.

One can not get rid of of religious practices because the concept of religion is as primitive as the human evolution.But, it is our responsibility to clean up mud covered on top of core values of religion.I recommend all my family members, friends and other people to get rid of superstitious spiritualism and to live in scientific spiritualism.


  -- I request you to please excuse me if I hurt your religious sentiments on any grounds --