कृष्ण संवाद

दृश्य : इन्द्र पूजा के विरोध से पहले का संवाद
राधा: कृष्ण तुम हर समय लोगो के विरोध में क्यों कार्य करते हो| क्या तुम्हारा लोगो के द्वारा चाही हुई चीजों से विरोध है? क्या तुम्हे पहेले से चले आ रहे रीती रिवाजो का विरोध करने में मजा आता है क्या?
कृष्ण: राधा ऐसी बात नहीं है| मैं इन रिवाजो का विरोध नहीं करता| परन्तु उनका मैं बिना किसी कारण के विश्वास भी नहीं करता| मेरी ललक चाही हुई से अनचाही की ओर अधिक होती है, क्योंकि चाही हुई तो जानी पहचानी हुई होती है| कल्पना में उसे हम थोड़ा भोग भी लेते हैं, पर अनचाही स्थिति में एक अप्र्त्याशितात्ता है| अचानक से उत्पन्न हुआ एक विषमय का भावः है |

और मेरे लिए इष्ट और अनिष्ट में कोई विशेष अन्तर नही है राधा| एक चाही हुई स्थिति है और दूसरी अनचाही हुई|

नोट: यहाँ आखिरी में राधा शब्द का प्रयोग प्रेम दर्शाने का बहुत अच्छा उदाहरण है|

How to understand the person

There are many ways people have said to understand a person. There must be a thousands of ways to understand a person and his traits... Here is something written by AMISH which I found very relevant for any situation, very simplistic approach but I feel very effective
"If you want to understand a persons character, look closely at there interpersonal behaviour and transactions" 

"It is attachments that make a person blind. It makes people forget their moral and even make them forget themselves, what they are and what they are capable of " 

If you believe in hindu philosophy then to add to this, it is one's attachment which keeps the soul looping through the cycles of birth and death until his all attachments are untangled and burnt ... 

Bell and Krishna

This is one of the mischievous acts of Krishna and his all implicit greatness.

Krishna was famous for his mischievous act of stealing butter from GOPIYAN. So as a precautionary measure Gopiyan started to tie bell with the pot of butter. So that whenever krishna and his buddy attacks those pot these bell will ring and they can catch Krishna them butter handed (just for fun didn't use red handed).

But since Krishna was lord and he controls the whole world (as we all hindu believe). He used to give order to bells.

Krishna: Hey Ghantika (bell)! Until we all are done eating donot starting making sounds.

After that everybody Krishna's friend, other of his animals etc, except him. Once everybody was satisfied, Krishna himself took one portion of butter. Then Gopi's caught him butter handed. They took him to Radha (mother of Krishna). And he was punished which itself is a fun story.

But lets move to this story.

After he finished his task/punishment. He came back to Ghantika. Asked her

Krishna: Kyon re Ghatika (Why bell?), why did u started ringing when I started eating. what grudge do you have against me. What have I done to you. You didn't ring when all my friends were eating. But just when I started eating you started ringing????

Ghantika: Hey Lord! I couldn't do anything. I have to follow my task without failing, which is guided by the scriptures. And scriptures says that when ever Lord gets the first portion, Bell should ring.

Learning: There are few rules which are made for us to follow. which should be followed without failing. Even if the lord who wrote it orders it to change for a while.

I think whatever is changed in such a small time and for small time is not worth. Gradual changes are more beneficial and effective and reasonable. Me and my friend were trying to analyse changes in human. We figured it out quick changes have put the person in some very bad situations.

Note: Excerpts from Ritambhara Devi's lecture.

Excerpts from Fountain Head

Few Excerpts from Fountain Head.

• " It is strange to be unconscious of another person 's existence, to feel it as a close, urgent necessity, a necessity without qualifications, neither pleasant nor painful. Merely final like ultimatum. "
• "Argument is one of things that has neither use nor charm. "
• "The desire to choose the hardest might be the confession of weakness itself."

Indulgence Vs Austerity

Few days back I was talking to my friends, and they were teasing me for interest in general talk about girls, about attracting them, making girl friends and at the same time I talk about attainment of ultimate truth, about austerity. So here is my answer in terms of conversation between Arjun and Krishna. The story goes like this;

Scenario: After 13 yrs of exile in jungles he arrived to Dwarka, the land of Yadavas. He was welcomed warm-heartedly and was given his due respect as the best Archer and the Prince of Indraprasth. To show the respect and the love Krishna organized a big festival, where all the yadavas were invited for the hindu rituals as well as to enjoy the day. Meanwhile, when Arjun and Krishna were enjoying the festival, Arjun saw an un-controlled chariot coming to them. But to his suprise, the chariot was skillfully controlled by the girl riding it. He was amazed by her skills and also with her beauty. This was noticed by Krishna and he tripped on Arjun. arjun felt really bad as it was not a good behavioral conduct by a guest to ogle the girls of the state who welcomed him so generously. So he asked Keshav to go out of the place, so that he will have less distraction and less probability of such a slip. When they were alone, he asked to keshav

Arjun: Hey (a word to address) Keshav (aka Lord Krishna)! I feel that my mind struggles between two different phenomenon. When I go to some temple , or some religious place, my mind enters the state of elation and then I feel that all the materialistic indulgence are like specs of dust, which doesn't have any value. I feel like I have no desire of such materialistic things. I become very restless to break the bound of this material world and rise to know the ultimate truth, which is eternal and the base of life. I feel hatred for the all the materialistic things, my physical desires and all my achievements seems worthless. My mind eagerly wants to quit all these.
BUT suddenly my inner-self changes to the other extreme. All my desires roars back with much more intensity. Pleasures and ease of life attracts me. I cannot see anything wrong with it. I reason I give is God has made all this world for pleasure and enjoy, not to forfeit all those worldly pleasures. The force of desire is so irresistible that I fall short to stop it, and start flowing with it.

Krishna: Yogi's neither eat more than required nor eat less the its is required for their body.

Arjun: But I am not talking about my desire for food. But about other worldly pleasures.

Krishna: I know your dilemma between pleasure and sacrifice. I am referring excessive food with excessive indulgence in pleasure and less food with forfeiting worldly pleasure.

Arjun: Then one should not do Tapasya (path of austerity)?

Krishna: One has to live the life naturally. Put oneself to austerity, give unnecessary pain to oneself is just useless. You followed the path of abstinence. That was forceful suppression of you desires. As soon as that force was weakened, all your desires, like a stretched rubber, came with twice the force. Thats the reason I say donot run away from the materialistic world, neither over indulge in materialistic pleasure. Try to lead a life naturally. Flow with nature.

Arjun: But this the squandering, its the human nature isn't it? So your supporting squandering?

Krishna: No I am not. If you want to get rid of them then, you need not kill the desires. You have to detach yourself from them. Thats why I always propose to do things without any attachment to it. Eventually you will see that you will not be bounded by your desires.

Note: Taken from 'Dharma' by Narendra Kohli.

Today I just saw one post on orkut status update
"it's all abt timing chotta sa chand bhi Suraj ko grahan laga sakta hai"
English translation for the above is
"Its all the matter of time that, the small moon also can hide the big SUN at the time of eclipse".
Being a Hindu religion follower, I see eclipse as a sign of bad luck, and I wanted to write a pessimistic criticism for the above message and now I landed up writing this blog.
But I would like to give the brighter interpretation of this first. I hope who ever posted this must have the intention of saying this:
"Its just the matter of time, if you think you are small, insignificant, and worthless in front of a Mightier's and famous. Its not your day or something which is making you low. Then you should look at the brighter side that, you will surely get a chance to show your talent and at least once in life you would be able to overshadow the mightiest and if you are lucky enough the world will be curious to see more of such actions from you in future, just like the astrologist see every eclipse as a chance to get more information about moon and sun. And you should be always prepare for those times, and make your best attempt to overshadow them, so that the world can see you".

Well I wrote a lot in favor of the message. Now my mind set is also has changed and now I don't feel like writing my pessimistic view of about this but for the sake of mentioning the other side of it I will write a sentence or two about it
"I see this as there are the times where you see the betrayal of the one who is closest to you and the seeker of help from you. As in the case of moon, who is from the same family of SUN, as we most of the time acknowledge SUN and MOON for giving light in day and night. But you can see the irony of betrayal to SUN by MOON, who takes the credit of providing light in nights, which he always borrowed from SUN. I would say his existence is because of SUN. But you can see SUN has a time where he is betrayed by his closest buddy MOON, where MOOON tries to overshadow the light of sun. And rest of the story can be built up from this point"

प्रभु के दर्शन के प्रश्न और कुछ विचार

लोग प्रश्न करतें है कि साधक को किस रूप में प्रभु की आराधना करनी चाहिए?
इसका उत्तर महर्षि अंगिरस कुछ इस तरह से देते हैं :
पुत्र तुम जिस सरलता से अन्य जीवो के साथ तादात्म्य कर सकते हो, उनमें ईश्वर को देखते हो, वैसे ही अपने अन्दर भी देख सकते हो| यदि आत्मा में स्थित हो कर, आत्मस्थ होकर देखोगे तो प्रतेयेक जीव में वाही दीखाई देगा, और वह तुम से भिन्न नही होगा| यह सृष्टि तो उसी का विराट रूप है| सारा उसी का प्रपंच है| वह हमारे भीतर है, और हम उसके भीतर हैं|

अब प्रश्न ये उठा है की ये जानना काफी है क्या? ये तो सभी जानते हैं अथवा भनक है - फ़िर ?

नारी के रूप

" एक शरीर में रहते हुए नारी माँ नहीं होती| माँ की दृष्टि में छमा होती है, मन में वात्सल्य होता हैऔर दान में हाथ उठा है; नारी की दृष्टि में निषेद और आलोचना, मन में कामना और हाथ याचना में फैला होता है| माँ का समर्पण का सात्विक जीवन जीती है; नारी समर्पित नहीं बल्कि समर्पण मांगती है| सरलता का कोई तत्व उसके निर्माण में होता ही नहीं है|"

उधृत: 'कर्म" - लेखक नरेन्द्र कोहली

भावना

भावुकता एक अच्छा गुन है| लेकिन इसका एक भुत बड़ा दोष है की भवुकता की वृद्धि के साथ इन्द्रियों का कार्य भी बाधित होना शुरू हो जाता है| इन्द्रियां व्याकुल होने लगती हैं, और मन विचलित होने लगता है| इससे हम कुछ करने लायक नहीं रह जाते , बस क़तर हो कर रो सकते हैं |

The English verison of the same:
Being emotional is a good trait. Though it has a very big disadvantage, as it increases ones Senses ( touch, listening, viewing, thinking, ...) starts malfunctioning. They get excited, the thought process starts feeling up-lows. These effects makes us idle and the only thing one can do in this situation is to cry.


Note: I think i have not used the proper words to convey the gist, but one can assume that this is more or less the word to word description of the above Hindi verse.

Introduction to 106 W Dodridge, Columbus Ohio

Dear all, this post and the later series is dedicated to the stories and happenings of Apt 106, W Dodridge, Columbus, Ohio.
Let me introduce the characters of this "Mela".


Jack Of All Trades (JOT): He is a physicist, geek, player and one of the committed in our group. You can ask all sorts of funde from him, I am sure he will persuade you to much of your satisfaction with his logical reasoning. He is good player, kinda sports person, a cook, (he really cooks well, so madam X , you are lucky, got a free International Chef, at your service). Well over all he is kinda of Jack of all trades, what ever thing you ask, discuss, or let him do, surely will be one with best outputs. But here is the twist with all this goody goody stuff, he has a lot of stories of his mischievous deeds, which I'll gonna post here soon...... So enjoy the escapades of JOT, with me.


Chief Chef (CC): He is an acrobat confined in his miniature structure doing his master's in structural mechanics in Mech Dept. By nature a sports person, but there are twist in this too which will gradually be revealed to the readers. Well apart from his acrobatic stunts we are lucky enough to eat a lot of good food. Thanks to his experimenting nature and hence is our Official Chief Chef (there is a story of this too, will be published soon). He really makes good food though it is non-repeatable ones. He is the second committed guy in our group. Sometimes he feels bad for that his Girl friend is not here. You know why; he wants to share many small moments of his new social experiments in US. So request to everybody, pray that she comes to OSU, this fall. His composing skills are really good. If any body wants to write a good article contact CC for the proof reading, I am sure he'll add spice to your writeups.
Ohh!!! I forgot to mention most important trait of CC, he is the experimentalist in social life too. We have a lot of stories of his experiment, which We'll present to you in our way [:)].


So I introduced the most active characters of our MELA. Now its time to introduce the inactive, or lazy memebers of our MELA, in decreasing order of Laziness.

The Entertainer (E alias BB): We voted him the laziest person among us, I should admit that I compete with him, for this award. He is the most entertaing personality among us. He knowingly or unknowingly creates the situations in which you can not resist to laugh. He is a biologist traped in a body who is forced work in Chemistry. Yes he is by profession a chemist, who some how has developed a good chemistry with Chinese co-students at OSU. He has a niche over making Chinese freinds. One of the most significant trait of him is he has addiction for the food. What addiction to food? Well, in a sense, he has a block of months where he shows a pattern of food habits, started with noodles, switched to egg and Dal, and right now he is surviving on Choco Chips. and what will be the further we will update you.


Now there are three more peoples whom I haven't mentioned them yet.
It me, Mr. Hot Property, and the biologist. Will update about them soon.

Hinduism and Art of Mechanical Maintainence

This is the first few paragraphs I studied from the chaos theory book. Liked the idea of interconnection of Chaos and Order linked with Hinduism

The Hindus ascribe to chaos a subtle role than mere formless confusion and recognize the underlying unity of order and disorder. In classical Hindu mythology the cosmos passes through three major phases 'creation',' maintenance' and destruction mirroring birth, life and death. Brahma the god of creation, Vishnu god of maintenance, and Shiva god of destruction (Disorder). But Shiva's personality is multifaceted. He who walks on wild side, lone hunter, dancer, the yogi who withdraws from human society, ascetic covered in ash. 'The Untamed'.
' The distinction between order and disorder is not between the god and evil. It represents instead two different ways in which divinity makes itself manifest. Benevolance and wrath; harmony and discord.'

Excerpts from 'Does God Plays Dice' by Ian Stewart.

कोई दीवाना कहता है ,

कोई दीवाना कहता है, कोई पागल समझता है
मगर धरती की बेचैनी की बस बादल समझाता है ,
मैं तुझ से दूर कैसा हूँ, तू मुझ से दूर कैसी है,
ये मेरा दिल समझता है, या तेरा दिल समझता है !

मुहब्बत एक एहसानों की पावन सी कहानी है,
कभी कबीरा दीवाना था, कभी मीरा दीवानी है,
मेरी चाहत को तू दुल्हन तू बना लेना मगर सुन ले,
जो मेरा हो नहीं पाया, वो तेरा हो नहीं सकता|

समन्दर पीर का अन्दर , है लेकिन रो नहीं सकता,
ये आंसू प्यार का मोती है, इसको खो नही सकता,
यहाँ सब लोग कहते हैं, मेरी आँखों में आंसू है,
जो तू समझे तो मोती हैं, न समझे तो पानी है !

भ्रमर कोई कुमुदनी पर मचल बैठा तो हंगामा,
हमारे दिल में कोई ख्वाब पल बैठा तो हंगामा,
अभी तक डूब के सुनते थे किस्सा मुहब्बत का,
मैं किस्से को हकीकत में बदल बैठा तो हंगामा|

कवि- अरुण

jeevan ek avsar

जीवन एक अवसर है, जहाँ सब उपलब्ध है| वह सब उपलब्ध है जिससे हम आप्तकाम हो जायें|
जीवन में आनंद आता नहीं, लाना पड़ता है| जीवन में आनंद मिलता नहीं अर्जित करना पड़ता है| आनंद प्रयत्न है, संकल्प है, श्रम है| आनंद साधना है|

सूत्र: जन्म को सब कुछ नहीं मन लेना चाहिए|
सूत्र: जीवन को मनुष्य इस भांति स्वीकार करता है कि उस स्वीकृति के कारण ही जीवन से आनंद पैदा होने कि सारी गुंजाईश टूट जाती हैं| सारे द्वार बंद हो जाते हैं|

उधृत: "समुंद सामना बूँद में" लेखक ओशो

ग्रहणशील होने के लिए तीन बातें

१) हर पल में जीने की कोशिश करें| सहजता से करें|

२) अति गंभीरता से जीवन को न लें| बड़ी सरलता से लें, जैसे खेल को लेंते हैं| वैसे ही जीवन को लें|

३) कोई अधैर्य, कोई जल्दी ना करें| जितनी जल्दी करेंगे उतनी ही देर हो जाती है| और जो जितने धीरता से खड़ा रहताहै, वो उतने ही जल्दी ग्रहण कर लेता है|

उधृत "साक्षी की साधना" द्वारा ओशो

Relationship Vs Time graph an Example

There is always a dark movie theater and two people lost to world, their hands clasped together - but hands do perspire when held for long...
Still it is beautiful to be in love.....

Excerpts from Fountain Head by Ayn Rand.

I would say that its 100% true. Even though the probability of end result is 0.9999. People do fall in love. And I think that given the end result, and the surety of the occurrence of former event by arrangement or of by self decision, why not enjoy the moment of holding each other before it perspires. When it perspires give room to some air and you will be alright again to enjoy.

So cheers and do fall in love :)

कथा धैर्य की

कथा है,
नारद वैकुण्ठ जा रहे हैं| मार्ग में उन्हें एक वृद्ध साधु मिला, वृक्ष के नीचे|
उस साधु से कहा की तुम प्रभु से पूछ लेना कि मेरी मुक्ति को अभी कितनी देर और है| मुझे मोक्ष कब मिलेगा?
नारद ने कहा: ठीक है लौटते में जरूर पूछ लूँगा|

पास में उसी दिन दीक्षित हुआ एक फ़कीर अपना तम्बूरा ले के नाच रहा था| नारद ने मजाक में उससे भी कहा: तुम्हे भी पूछना है क्या?
वह फ़कीर कुछ ना बोला|
नारद वापस लौटे, उस वृद्ध साधुके पास जा कर कहा: मैंने पूछा था ईश्वर से| उन्होंने कहा कि अभी तीन जन्म और है|
उस साधु ने अपनी माला नीचे फेंक दी और कहा अन्याय है| कितना धीरज रखूं?

नारद आगे बढ़ गए| अभी भी उस वृक्ष के नीचे नया नया दीक्षित हुआ फ़कीर नाचता था|
नारद ने कहा: सुनते हो। तुम्हारे सम्बन्ध में भी पूछा मैंने| प्रभु ने कहा है कि वह जिस वृक्ष के नीचे नाच रहा है, उसमे जितने पत्ते हैं, उतने जन्म उसे साधना में लगेंगे| उसके बाद ही उसे मुक्ति प्राप्त हो सकेगी|

वह फ़कीर बोला: बस इतने ही पत्ते| "तब तो जीत लिया"| जगत में कितने पत्ते हैं| इस वृक्ष पर तो बहुत कम हैं|
वह फिर से नाचने लगा| और कथा कहती है, वह उसी क्षनद मुक्त हो गया|

सीख: धैर्य ही मुक्ति का साधन है| अधैर्य लम्बा करता है| अधैर्य समय मेहनत व साधना का नाश करता है|

ये कथा "साक्षी की साधना " लेखक -ओशो से उधृत है|