Life of a Soldier

I am not very much a believer in a religion by name of Hinduism, but I am like in concurrence with almost all of the things related to life and death mentioned in Hinduism. In my opinion, Hinduism word was never devised by our founding forefathers. From Sindhu (The Indus River) , Hindustan came and from Hindustan, Hindu came. Labelling a religion made it specific to certain group of people who agreed to most of the things preached by the religion, and if some thing mentioned in the religion did not appear agreeable to the mind, they would abide by the thing mentioned in the labelled religion.

I believe everything is as it is. Nothing (thought or action etc) is right or wrong, but everything has its outcome. Outcome would be pleasant or unpleasant.

I have a firm belief in Varna system mentioned in mythology texts. But I do not believe that the varna system is having any rigidity in terms of birth. Varna should be by action, as it was made on the basis of actions only. So by this thought, you can say that a so called brahmin family can have a Shudra as well, or a Sudra family may have a Brahmin in it  as well. But how the lives of the family members turn out later will determine their Varna. Brahmin was defined in textures as someone who has great knowledge about the universe and has or aspires to have true knowledge of anything that happens in the world. I can not imagine that I am surrounded by such great minds in this era. Most of the people I live around with either focus on their jobs or about family. The standards set in mind by the definition of Brahmin  are so high that I do not see many people fit. May be this is also true because of a limited circle of my own life. It only surrounds family and job, and all matters associated with these two. Four varnas, I believe, are made in hierarchy. Lowermost is the one which depends on other three. The one above the lowermost is the one which sustains the life of the other three. The one above this one is the one which protects the other three and the top most one is the one which guides the other three.

True, I do aspire to have a life of knowledge, but it is to me a puzzle that I do not know how to solve. Also I am not having time to solve either. Like a soldier, have promises to keep, and some distance, if not miles, before I sleep.

Wish things would change some day! :)

Long Long lives

We humans live a long life, long enough to correct most of our mistakes before we depart from the world. Yet, it is not generally the trend. Many leave the world as if they wanted to live more and had some more things to do.

Comfort in Darkness

Songs, love, intimacy... I believe life having abundance of such parameters is a factor of luck and effort.
Some times the combinations do not match. Then love gets shattered, intimacy dies out, cacophony echoes. Loneliness suddenly becomes more comfortable than otherwise.

Dreams do come true, but in such a relationship, the ego tussles kill away even the feeble essence of dreaming to live happily ever after. Luck plays such an important role to guide our lives. Lives of partners become a heavy burden when they are bound only by strings of responsibility. No one is asked to love on marriage. That is implicit. What is asked of the couple is to be responsible and live together while keeping in mind vows of partnership.

Sometimes non-compatible personalities strung together are struck for life. Love tries to blossom but does not survive for long. Discontentment persists longer. Attempt to bring fun into the relationship is tried first, ignored often, hesitated sometimes later and discarded eventually.

Loneliness becomes a comfortable zone to stay in. Concepts like God, spirituality are hard to hold on to in such dark situations.

Said so, there are always better things to do in life than cling on to the sad part, even it it is related to someone who will be with you for whole of your life. Life will go on. Better focus on good things and make things better.

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Some exerpts from Ashtavakra Gita

I have already absorbed Bhagavad Gita (BG) in my blood, right since I first read in after 12th class. So majority of my decisions were based on the methods suggested in Gita. Its a good book for reading from everyone's perspective, from person of any religion, including atheists, provided that they assume that the things which they consider unbelievable or false can be true or right for someone else. Anyways, that was not the focus of my post here.

I was told about Ashtavakra Gita by Veni, my senior in Samsung. He accidentally met me in Andamans where I and my wife had gone to celebrate our new marriage. He told me that Gita is told by Krishna who was a 'Kushal Rajnitigya...Kushal Kutil Rajnitigya" (Expert Politician, Expert, cunning politician". So Whatever he says is interpreted by the readesr in their own ways, and while reading,  the readers find the solution in their own ways for themselves. Then Gita becomes a very relativistic book, meaning to say that the content of the book are likely to be interpreted differently by different people. So if I want to read an unwavering content that is expected from Bhagvad Gita, I should read Ashtavakra Gita(AG). Ashtavakra was Janak's Guru. Janak was Sita's father. Whatever Ashtavakra told Janak about the Truth, has been mentioned in Ashtavkra Gita.

The content of the AG is almost the same as what I remember in Gita, though the scientific and moral part mentioned in Bhagvad Gita are not mentioned in AG version of what I read.

In AG, the state of a free man has been mentioned. More or less it is the same, except that it does not mention about God. It says that even the God is nothing. And whatever God is, it is in everyone, so when nothing is there, an enlightened man does not go to anywhere in seeking God. He is content in himself. It mentions that even the mind is not a person's. It changes with the environment, and so does the nature of a person. An enlightened man is least interested in all these variations but remains peaceful with all these fluctuations going on around him.

The thing about mind, and the thing about God is what primarily looked to me different from Gita. May be because these two entities are not physically observable, hence in Gita, Krishna did not give any definition about them. Though he said that the mind has to be controlled, and that focus on God is necessary for enlightenment. So they were  open to interpretations, the definitions.

Overall, the new thought that I gained about God, that he does not have to be looked outside, something which many teachings already do, this thought has brought peace. I think it is a matter of time and age that this thought struck me at this point of time.

I would suggest that for a quick extract of BG, AG can be useful. But TO be in that state of mind so that one could understand AG, he has to read BG. :) ;)

तेरे जग का आभारी

नमामि नमामि अहम्

न ते देखा ना हि सुन पाया
पर मन से न तु निकल पाया

बाद में खुद से मिल लीजो
मैं तेरा घर न जान पया

या ते खुद से रसता बता दे
इंतज़ार रहेगा तब तक तेरा

कि भरोसा खो गया हूं
तेरा घर पाने का 

Supernatural powers

I am always attracted by them. Powers which are more than our physical beings. The very idea about them excites me immensely, though I am yet to see any power without body. in this page, a dead friend appears in a metaphysical realm to gift his friend something needed by him.  Pretty exciting!

I wish I come across such powers some time in my life. It's not an unrealistic wish, is it, God ?