Sunday, January 28, 2007
Friday, January 19, 2007
hmmm...it's all in the name of God...My God...your God
yeah...this was something i had been avoiding for a long time.....religion is afterall so personal to everyone...but this post has a background to it....:)...there's actually another post that i have finished today morning after around 3 days....i'll hold it for some time.....before posting it....i don't know what am i trying to hide....but yeah I'm hurt....
hmm....when i look back in history...and as little knowledge as i have of it.....we evolved from monkeys...to apes...to whatever we are today....and there never was any religion for a long long time...comeon animals are still not hindus, muslims or the lot...it has to be understood or atleast i believe so...Religion came into being only after Human consciousness....God got a name and a face then...before that the unknown power existed and still does and would probably continue to exist after humanity..the key word is unknown..maybethe better word could be unexplained.....and i am very sure that this unknown is very different from the idea of God/energy that any religion in the world proclaims to define.... a small example...lightning was considered evil and was in some way attached to divinity...and was feared....when science explained it, the unknown/unexplained became a logical happening and somehow divinity was taken away from the phenomenon...comeon think last time you thought of god when you heard thunder....i maybe rush for my camera at times...:)
so how was that religions developed???...i have a feeling it was more regional than anything else...people scared of common enemies...and bound by same habits...started living a certain lifestyle...this lifestyle also had to have space for the unknown power making everything tick...the idea of God formed and a face was developed for it in every region....with conquests regions lost boundaries and the winners' "religion" or more correctly their lifestyle spread...GOD essentially was the name for the unknown/unexplained power....religions do claim to explain this unknown...but if every religion has an explanation is it possible to believe one and reject the other....comeon rationality has to have a space...and rationality says that everyone has a right to express and it is accepted that all religions and definitions of God ultimately are to bind humankind together....the basics all remain the same...so there is a case for all religions to co-exist...and they are co-existing....else we would have had only one religion in the world...ahh!!! wudn't then the world be a beautiful place...but knowing the fertile human mind...i am sure we would find differences to fight over....
Somehow, over time the lifestyle has come to be defined more so by the definition of GOD rather than the other way round....this to me was all because of human intervention in a somewhat normal evolutionary process....i mean how is it possible that two different lifestyles meet and they find differences rather than the so apparent similarities....man by nature is not hostile....that is how we could reach the population levels we have... all wars in the world were the desire for power of a few men....we would be fooling ourselves if we believe it was anything else...and if differences surface because of religion...can we call it anything but a desire for power...maybe the apostles...the earlier leaders did not desire power but the very fact the religion stops a few interactions in modern times shows it is again a quest for influence....who would need a pandit...if all hindus became muslims...and who would need a maulvi if all muslims became hindus......or better still....who would need a godman if all humans became spiritual....:)...so i never expect any godman to encourage interaction with followers of any other religion....but in a small way... isn't it hollow...
so what's the way to live life...with all these "differences"...well we could choose to help people live their lifestyle to the best of our abilities with all freedom....giveup a few things if needed to make things go through....but not really expecting the other to change for us....yeah it sounds bookish....but then is there another way....the other way is to impose urself on others...criticise their lifestyle and prove urs to be better...and stop all interaction....in short "breed hostility"....at whatever small a level...hostility is hostility....and this probably goes against the basic teachings of all religions...
if god willed all life to eat the same things....he wouldn't have created so many beings...tell a lion and a deer to have the same food....one would not be able to survive ...but both do...in the same world....under the same sun...drinking the same water...under the same "GOD"(irrespective of the religion of the observer) means God did not build restrictions for anyone...
so God is not the one prohibiting different lifestyles....so different lifestyles can meet???...i believe with a few adjustments they can....and a few sacrifices here and there...life can become so beautiful...humans after all are not living to just eat....and the human will to explore is the paramount....if it were not for the will to explore and adapt...we would still have been living on trees....and the exploration is not limited to just lands....the more basic is the exploration of other humans....i do it..
yeah i write this because i am hurt....deeply hurt....My god...is goodness...the goodness i see in myself every day...the goodness i see in others every day....and how i live life is so small a part of it...which can change so easily.....and my god...my nameless/faceless buddy is more interested in what i do with people....
they say adapting could be tough....hmmm...tough???...what is easy any ways....and what is GOD for...if he can't even let you live in slightly different circumstances....is that belief really strong enough???....nah this question is not meant for anyone...:)
hmm....when i look back in history...and as little knowledge as i have of it.....we evolved from monkeys...to apes...to whatever we are today....and there never was any religion for a long long time...comeon animals are still not hindus, muslims or the lot...it has to be understood or atleast i believe so...Religion came into being only after Human consciousness....God got a name and a face then...before that the unknown power existed and still does and would probably continue to exist after humanity..the key word is unknown..maybethe better word could be unexplained.....and i am very sure that this unknown is very different from the idea of God/energy that any religion in the world proclaims to define.... a small example...lightning was considered evil and was in some way attached to divinity...and was feared....when science explained it, the unknown/unexplained became a logical happening and somehow divinity was taken away from the phenomenon...comeon think last time you thought of god when you heard thunder....i maybe rush for my camera at times...:)
so how was that religions developed???...i have a feeling it was more regional than anything else...people scared of common enemies...and bound by same habits...started living a certain lifestyle...this lifestyle also had to have space for the unknown power making everything tick...the idea of God formed and a face was developed for it in every region....with conquests regions lost boundaries and the winners' "religion" or more correctly their lifestyle spread...GOD essentially was the name for the unknown/unexplained power....religions do claim to explain this unknown...but if every religion has an explanation is it possible to believe one and reject the other....comeon rationality has to have a space...and rationality says that everyone has a right to express and it is accepted that all religions and definitions of God ultimately are to bind humankind together....the basics all remain the same...so there is a case for all religions to co-exist...and they are co-existing....else we would have had only one religion in the world...ahh!!! wudn't then the world be a beautiful place...but knowing the fertile human mind...i am sure we would find differences to fight over....
Somehow, over time the lifestyle has come to be defined more so by the definition of GOD rather than the other way round....this to me was all because of human intervention in a somewhat normal evolutionary process....i mean how is it possible that two different lifestyles meet and they find differences rather than the so apparent similarities....man by nature is not hostile....that is how we could reach the population levels we have... all wars in the world were the desire for power of a few men....we would be fooling ourselves if we believe it was anything else...and if differences surface because of religion...can we call it anything but a desire for power...maybe the apostles...the earlier leaders did not desire power but the very fact the religion stops a few interactions in modern times shows it is again a quest for influence....who would need a pandit...if all hindus became muslims...and who would need a maulvi if all muslims became hindus......or better still....who would need a godman if all humans became spiritual....:)...so i never expect any godman to encourage interaction with followers of any other religion....but in a small way... isn't it hollow...
so what's the way to live life...with all these "differences"...well we could choose to help people live their lifestyle to the best of our abilities with all freedom....giveup a few things if needed to make things go through....but not really expecting the other to change for us....yeah it sounds bookish....but then is there another way....the other way is to impose urself on others...criticise their lifestyle and prove urs to be better...and stop all interaction....in short "breed hostility"....at whatever small a level...hostility is hostility....and this probably goes against the basic teachings of all religions...
if god willed all life to eat the same things....he wouldn't have created so many beings...tell a lion and a deer to have the same food....one would not be able to survive ...but both do...in the same world....under the same sun...drinking the same water...under the same "GOD"(irrespective of the religion of the observer) means God did not build restrictions for anyone...
so God is not the one prohibiting different lifestyles....so different lifestyles can meet???...i believe with a few adjustments they can....and a few sacrifices here and there...life can become so beautiful...humans after all are not living to just eat....and the human will to explore is the paramount....if it were not for the will to explore and adapt...we would still have been living on trees....and the exploration is not limited to just lands....the more basic is the exploration of other humans....i do it..
yeah i write this because i am hurt....deeply hurt....My god...is goodness...the goodness i see in myself every day...the goodness i see in others every day....and how i live life is so small a part of it...which can change so easily.....and my god...my nameless/faceless buddy is more interested in what i do with people....
they say adapting could be tough....hmmm...tough???...what is easy any ways....and what is GOD for...if he can't even let you live in slightly different circumstances....is that belief really strong enough???....nah this question is not meant for anyone...:)
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
well...i'll miss the dilemma i wud have loved to have had...
bloody fools.....i can't really help their bad luck....yeah...the CAT results are out....last year they told me i didn't know maths....this year they say i don't know english...yeah two years in arow...one section screws me.......are these buggers nuts...all these coaching sites gave me 2-3 calls....but alas...i'll have none....
yeah it would have been tough to decide between IIMA & ISB....:-))....but thankfully this dilemma would not appear....but this is something i wud have loved to have had....so ISB...here I come....and IIMs...u lost the last chance i gave you....pity you cudn't even talk to me...:)
yeah this failure wud rankle for some time......but i guess....thats the way it'd be...:)
yeah it would have been tough to decide between IIMA & ISB....:-))....but thankfully this dilemma would not appear....but this is something i wud have loved to have had....so ISB...here I come....and IIMs...u lost the last chance i gave you....pity you cudn't even talk to me...:)
yeah this failure wud rankle for some time......but i guess....thats the way it'd be...:)
Monday, January 01, 2007
the cold and cloudy new year...and the bucket of hot water....
well the new year is here....Happy New Year!!!!....its cold..and cloudy.....howzzat it was so wonderfully sunny yesterday and i was planning to sit in the delhi sunshine (which may not be possible for a few days now....i move to Ahmedabad today evening....and to Hyderabad in three months...)....and continue my lazy...oblivious to the world reading....but the weather had other ideas.....
no-one's home...everyone's out to some work....i have filled a bucket of hot water about one third.....soaking my feet in it....and surfing the net....maan life is beautiful.....
it'll be back to work from tomorrow....i have to hand over charge....to whom...i don't know.....i have to train someone to take from me...."knowledge transfer" is the better term i believe.... The current job has been good....i have learnt a lot in the last one year...i have acted as HOD for IT...technical knowledge apart....there've been learnings in general professional life as well...handling different bosses...handling a budget of a few hundred lacs...showing authority....getting approvals....playing games....yeah its been good...can i teach to it anyone...nah..they'll learn it themselves....
ping-pong...its a beautiful game....a beautiful concept actually....there are many things in life that can be compared to it....maybe all...yeah maybe there's a ping pong game somewhere.....
what else...this visit to delhi was the laziest i have had...moved out of home only twice...thrice maybe.....enjoyed the sunshine....a novel....met a few...very few friends....the last of them is getting married in two months..had few drinks...lesser discussions....am quite looking forward to going back to....god knows where.....
it's a funny feeling when home town starts feeling different...a stranger at times...Delhi has always been home...in times good & bad....but it seemed a stranger this time...as if i didn't know it at all...resist as i may i am being alienated to delhi...i hope not for long....i wanna move back to this crazy....extreme weathered..rude....inhuman ....lively...city again...very very soon....but i guess it is still one and a half year away...atleast....hmmm...le's see.....
Ahmedabad's been nice to me.....though i have had a few of my scariest...most lonely moments there....the memories are happy and sad....more good than bad....the city's good...the pace is just what you need for a comfortable life...small enough to have single shops selling specialities....there's one famous shop for almost all delicacies....the girls were..well not up there...but then i went there with a different mindset and a different purpose.....and the festivities....the joint families....made you fell happy but with that feeling of being lonely at the most inappropriate time....but it was good....enjoyed my stay there....guess would enjoy it even more in my last (well...apparaently...though i sincerely hope not...) three months there...
well some things look better without a conclusion......
no-one's home...everyone's out to some work....i have filled a bucket of hot water about one third.....soaking my feet in it....and surfing the net....maan life is beautiful.....
it'll be back to work from tomorrow....i have to hand over charge....to whom...i don't know.....i have to train someone to take from me...."knowledge transfer" is the better term i believe.... The current job has been good....i have learnt a lot in the last one year...i have acted as HOD for IT...technical knowledge apart....there've been learnings in general professional life as well...handling different bosses...handling a budget of a few hundred lacs...showing authority....getting approvals....playing games....yeah its been good...can i teach to it anyone...nah..they'll learn it themselves....
ping-pong...its a beautiful game....a beautiful concept actually....there are many things in life that can be compared to it....maybe all...yeah maybe there's a ping pong game somewhere.....
what else...this visit to delhi was the laziest i have had...moved out of home only twice...thrice maybe.....enjoyed the sunshine....a novel....met a few...very few friends....the last of them is getting married in two months..had few drinks...lesser discussions....am quite looking forward to going back to....god knows where.....
it's a funny feeling when home town starts feeling different...a stranger at times...Delhi has always been home...in times good & bad....but it seemed a stranger this time...as if i didn't know it at all...resist as i may i am being alienated to delhi...i hope not for long....i wanna move back to this crazy....extreme weathered..rude....inhuman ....lively...city again...very very soon....but i guess it is still one and a half year away...atleast....hmmm...le's see.....
Ahmedabad's been nice to me.....though i have had a few of my scariest...most lonely moments there....the memories are happy and sad....more good than bad....the city's good...the pace is just what you need for a comfortable life...small enough to have single shops selling specialities....there's one famous shop for almost all delicacies....the girls were..well not up there...but then i went there with a different mindset and a different purpose.....and the festivities....the joint families....made you fell happy but with that feeling of being lonely at the most inappropriate time....but it was good....enjoyed my stay there....guess would enjoy it even more in my last (well...apparaently...though i sincerely hope not...) three months there...
well some things look better without a conclusion......
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