Saturday, September 19, 2020

START A BETTER LIFE - 13 - LESSON 2 PART (IV) - THREE EXERCISES FOR THREE TYPES

 

1.     Mental makeup - Rationalists and Atheists.  – This is the most difficult exercise. It requires intent to walk the thought. For half an hour think about ‘Origin of Universe’ how it must have happened. Give a deep thought. Apply all laws of physics and science. Ask oneself where we humans stand in the whole universe. Think about the origin of energy. We say that energy cannot be created nor can be destroyed. If this was to be true there had to be energy prior to Big Bang. If there was something prior to big bang then that something must have come to an end prior to the big bang or must have got converted into the big bang. If there was something else then bigbang cannot become the start. There had to be something else prior to big bang. What was that something else. How did the energy transform into the matter? Is there any intelligence to the energy? What is consciousness? Is it a form of energy? Many questions. Try to answer them by applying all the intelligence that one has. Take each question to logical conclusion. Form such questions and enquire yourself till your self is satisfied. Read a philosophical book. Every alternate day spend the morning hour in this manner. Once started, questions will keep coming and the thought process would become more and more organized sharp. Alternate exercise would bring in fresh thoughts and also place oneself in the correct perspective vis a vis the Universe. The outlook towards life will undergo a shift and will change towards higher conscience and higher goals.

 

2.     Mental makeup – Service oriented – Start with a small prayer.  The prayer should be in the language which one understands. The attributes of the prayer are described in the next paragraph on Mental makeup – Devotional Minded. For next half an hour, list the short term and long-term work one has to perform. It should cover the work which one undertakes to earn money, and the work which should be undertaken for the society and for the larger good of the society. Call it service towards larger goal of society or simply social service. Try to list the work that  one has to accomplish in terms of one’s profession, service or business. While doing this try to think about a work which is a service to the society and devote some time to carryout that service. Be it financially, or be it in physical effort for carrying out the work. Through some NGO or directly by self. The work so chosen be carried out without any attachment or expectation in term of return, reward or recognition. For example, if one wants to help a poor family. Help the family but don’t get attached to the thought that since the family was helped it should return the help in some way or other in future. This is a difficult exercise. Difficult because, one can think that they can do it easily, in everyday life it is difficult to achieve and it requires resolve to execute the plan. Once it is achieved, gradually expand the circle of this service as a practice and develop it in such a way that there is no attachment towards the results or the benefits. When one plans and work to earn money or recognition, it will be always associated with happy and sad moments as there is an attachment and expectation for the results, but if one plans and work for betterment of society or for a larger goal then one derives only and only joy out of that. This is a learning for the individual. Slowly when the goal shifts from earning to non-attachment the bliss surrounds.

 

3.     Mental makeup – Devotional minded - Keep eyes closed. Call out a prayer. Prayer should be in the language which one understands. Preferably in the mother tongue, or in the language which the person understands well. It should be short and simple. Made up of small statements. The statements should be positive, holistic and should cover noble goals. The prayer should never contain any negative statements or aimed at hatred at someone or wishing bad things for somebody. The statements of prayer should be such that they give positive conditioning to the mind. Preferably prayer should be recited everyday at the same time in same sequence and should be uttered in the same language. If regularly recited with conviction it has the power to energize whole body and mind system. It has the power to condition the mind. It has the power to make the reciter have positive thoughts, make the outlook positive and optimistic. Prayer has the power to have firm conviction on the things and ideas which we have conceived as thoughts. This conviction becomes the driver for the things which the person does. It is said that our action is driven by thoughts. Prayer makes the thoughts positive and therefore our actions become more constructive, positive and synchronous with nature.  After the prayer, chant in a comfortable rhythm. Chant for fifteen minutes. It should be loud. Not very loud to disturb others but loud enough to be heard by our own ears like a side tone. The next fifteen minutes chant in mind. There is no need of counting the chants. In counting, the focus shifts in counting rather than the chants. The effect of chanting is therapeutic and it changes the outlook towards life and others. This is the easiest of all three mental makeups on the road to bliss. It requires nothing special; it can be carried out anywhere and only requires unrequited trust in God. 

 

These exercises are for uninitiated or curious persons who wish to mitigate their daily worries, anxiety and other such problems. These exercises are for those who want to start the day to day life based on teachings of Bhagwat Gita. Those who want to derive therapeutic guidance may also try these exercises. Those who are in search of happiness should also try these exercises. These exercises pave the way to joy and subsequently to bliss.  

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Thursday, September 10, 2020

BENGALURU RIOTS 2020

On August 11, Naveen, nephew of Congress leader and a present MLA, R Akhanda Srinivasa Murthy, posted an “offensive post” about Prophet Mohammed, which hurt the religious sentiments of the Islamic community. Soon after the post went viral, hundreds of ‘peaceful’ people went on a rampage. The mob attacked DJ Halli police station, set ablaze vehicles, and destroyed the furniture. Within an hour, protestors set ablaze around 200 - 250 police and private vehicles, smashed the belongings of MLA Murthy and his relatives. An ATM was smashed into pieces. The protestors blocked fire brigade to enter the area. It is obvious that this cannot happen without prior planning. It requires high coordination. Protestors tried to lodge an FIR against Naveen but were reportedly denied. They then started shouting slogans, pelting stones and torching vehicles near the KG Halli police station.

Two hours after the protest, local police authorities resorted to lathi-charge, lobbed tear gas shells, and later opened fire to control the violent protest.There were 3 deaths reported in aftermath of the riots. Naveen, the accused, removed the post from his Facebook account and claimed that his account was hacked.

The police were later given a “freehand” to control the ‘peaceful’ of violent attacks that lasted till early morning. The case has been handed over to a magisterial investigation into the riots by a sitting judge.  On the lines of UP government, this govt has taken a stand of making the protestors pay for the destruction of govt property. Many protesters were from poor background, peaceful and were from outside Bengaluru. The citizens’ forum consisted of eminent personalities conducted an independent enquiry and found that the riots were preplanned. Many of the rioters were local and targeted those Hindu houses which were in ‘peaceful’ majority area.

Fingers are getting raised at Progressive Front of India (PFI) as a force behind these riots. PFI was started in Kerala from National Development Front in 2006. Thereafter many fronts from other states merged in it - Karnataka Forum for Dignity of Karnataka some other fronts and forums from Tamil Nadu, Manipur, Andhra Pradesh, Goa Rajasthan and West Bengal to name a few. PFI actively advocates Muslim reservations, personal law courts for Muslims, cause of Dalits, Muslims and tribals, and scholarships to deprived Muslim students. The slogan of PFI is Naya Karavan: Naya Hindustan. It has found embroiled many controversies including murders of RSS, ABVP activists and and CPI (M) activists (as claimed by CPI (M)) and has connections with Students Islamic Movement of India which is now banned. PFI is the mother body of Social Democratic Party of India. SDPI is a political party founded in 2009 at New Delhi. This party is against CAA, wanted to built babri mashid in 2016 was on the forefront of stir against Mathrubhoomi media.

Naveen is a 34 year nephew of Congress MLA R Akhanda Srinivas Murthy and trying to become popular. He is ambitious and placing himself as prospective MLA candidate in the next Karnataka Assy elections. He had distributed sweets after Bhumi poojan of Ayodhya Ram temple on 05th Aug and also rejoiced when Rahat Indori expired.

 

Tailpiece – For last 6 yrs India has witnessed almost nil terror attacks but has witnessed concerted planned violent protests allegedly fanned by urban naxals, left leaning intelligentsia and persons having close affinity with Congress and some regional parties. Be it CAA, anti NEET and JEE exams in Septermber 2020, NRC, lynchings, creating stir out of nothing like Vemula suicide case or riots in Jamia, JNU and left leaning institutions. Nation loving citizens should be vigilant enough to see through orchestrations of these people and should be able to thwart and restrict their design to destroy the fabric of India and to bring bad name to the government. Take the case of Delhi riots 2020 it seems that the riots were pre planned and the perpetrators used Mr Kapil Mishra so that the ir conspiracy remains hidden and people blame Mr Mishra (a hindu) for the riots, likewise here also the riots were preplanned and used the act of Mr Naveen so that people again blame Naveen (a hindu) and the real planners get shielded from the public eye.  They are more dangerous than terrorists, as they indulge in antinational activities from within the fabric of our Nation donning civil clothes and feigning as intellectuals writers professors and activists.

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