Why we wake up

The most easiest thing one could do is to sleep for longer period. But, after that what happens.. One has to wake up from the sleep. The reason: the karmas of our past lives propel us to the waking stage. Can we declare that I'll go to sleep for three months. Not more than 8 hours you can lie on your bed.

There are three stages one has to pass through dreaming stage waking stage and deep sleep stage.

Once you are in a deep sleep stage you'll not realize whether you are alive or dead. After coming to waking stage then you'll say " that I had a nice sleep". Now, quesion yourself with that "I" used in your declaration. chant the mantra Who am I? something will dawn on you. This is called self-realization.

A Zen poem

There is a pond
A frog jumped into it
plop!
Ha!

Indian pugilists : creates history

Virender Singh created history by winning a bronze medal in the world Boxing Championship . This is the first time that an Indian have won a medal at the competition of this level. Instead of concenrating on big cities the sports authorities should move to hinterland to harness the talent. This pugilist, Virender singh, comes from a village in Haryana.

All these years India's hope rested on hockey team .Currently, the state of the game is absymal low . Still, hockey is our national game our performance in that game has diminished rather, we lost our space to power hockey of the western nations. We didn't pick the changes in the game rapidly as a result, we are in this position.

India should concenrate on individual's game to win medals at the international games. Boxing proves to be a beacon for india's medal hopes in the next olympic games.

Recently, International Olympic Association has included women boxing events in the next olympic games. Already our women boxers have proved their mettle in this region.Hence, our women boxers do not lag behind their male counterparts.

TAILPIECE: This author has the penchant of watching two women fighting inside the ring or otherwise. If that battle happened to be a gladiatoral battle then there is no way to measure the author's joy. It's called NO QUANTUM OF JOY.

9/11: three different years, three different events

FIRST: Historical speech made by swami vivekananda at Chicago on this date 1893


SECOND: Mohammed Ali Jinnah , Father of Pakistan , died on this date in 1948.The man held responsible for partition of India on religious ground.



Third: America tasted the poison of religious fanaticism.

Tighten your purse

The global meltdown has forced a change in lifestyle . Even deities are not spared. some temples in India have cut down their expenses on alankaram (decoration expenses). In some other temples, the size of the prasadan(divine gift) has reduced drastically.

The government has announced austere steps to prevent the flight of public money. It has asked the MP's to travel by economy class. The MP's are entitled to 34 air travel pass that alone costs Rs.54Cr for the government. By this the exchequer could save public money.Several business meetings have been cancelled they are conducted through video conferencing.

No abbreviation plz.....

Thirumuruga kripananda varriar swamigal once said" we lavishly spend on wedding parties but, when it comes to printing wedding invitation card we show our stinginess. The salutations used for bride is Sowbhagyavathi(a woman blessed with (all forms) of luck)and the groom is addressed as chiranjivi (a man who remains immortal). However, if one read through the wedding invitation card one could see abridged version of their salutations as "sow" "chi" prefixing their names.

The word "sow" has various meanings one of them is ---an adult female pig. And when you mention "chi" in tamil it is something disgusting or detesting in nature. The most auspicious happening is marriage in one's life just because of the stinginess the very meaning of marriage gets degraded can't we rectify it?".

Power respects power

Here is a neighbor who has scant regard for any conventions. All he wants to do is to dictate his own terms. He has charted his growth path in late 70's. He had analyzed our strength much before we analyzed it. As a result,In the mid-80's,He had helped another "rogue" neighbor in developing lethal weaponry clandestinely.

Currently, he is throwing his weight to botch our chances in becoming an economic super power. Since he was concentrating rather focusing on his growth he had "outsourced" the destabilizing projects (which are inimical to our interests)to our "rogue" neighbor. Now, he has laid an encirclement strategy to keep us trapped in a closet. The other powers in the locality would only use as a counterweight they too, follow self interest policy when it comes to us. We can only have self-pity what else can we do?

How do we defeat the nefarious designs of evil neighbor?

We should accelerate our economic growth to 10% for the next 10 years. We should strengthen our defense mechanisms . No other power could help us out from this current quagmire.

Right now, we do not have the guts to speak about our problems loudly.

It is time for our policymakers to read Kautilya's ardha sasthra again and again in order to know how to deal with the powerful adversary.
The neighbor will not respect us because of our "weak" apparatus. Unless, otherwise, we gird up our loins we cannot tide over the situation.

In this world, only power respects power.