FAMILY

FAMILY

I ran into a stranger as he passed by,
"Oh excuse me please" was my reply.

He said, "Please excuse me too;
I wasn't watching for you."



We were very polite, this stranger and I.
We went on our way and we said goodbye.

But at home a different story is told,
How we treat our loved ones, young and old.

Later that day, cooking the evening meal,
My son stood beside me very still..

When I turned, I nearly knocked him down.
"Move out of the way," I said with a frown.

He walked away, his little heart broken.
I didn't realize how harshly I'd spoken.

While I lay awake in bed,
God's still small voice came to me and said,

"While dealing with a stranger,
common courtesy you use,
but the family you love, you seem to abuse.

Go and look on the kitchen floor,
You'll find some flowers there by the door.

Those are the flowers he brought for you.
He picked them himself: pink, yellow and blue.

He stood very quietly not to spoil the surprise,
you never saw the tears that filled his little eyes."

By this time, I felt very small,
And now my tears began to fall.

I quietly went and knelt by his bed;
"Wake up, little one, wake up," I said.

"Are these the flowers you picked for me?"
He smiled, "I found 'em, out by the tree.

I picked 'em because they're pretty like you.
I knew you'd like 'em, especially the blue."

I said, "Son, I'm very sorry for the way I acted today;
I shouldn't have yelled at you that way."
He said, "Oh, Mom, that's okay.
I love you anyway."

I said, "Son, I love you too,
and I do like the flowers, especially the blue."
Are you aware that if we died tomorrow, the company
that we are working for could easily replace us in
a matter of days.
But the family we left behind will feel the loss
for the rest of their lives.

And come to think of it, we pour ourselves more
into work than into our own family,
an unwise investment indeed,
don't you think?
So what is behind the story?

Do you know what the word FAMILY means?
FAMILY = (F)ATHER (A)ND (M)OTHER (I) (L)OVE (Y)OU


LOVE THY FAMILY

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GLOBAL WARMING

ARE WE DOOMED

Professor James Lovelock , on tuesday 28/11/2006 at 5th John Collier lecture to Institute of Chemical Engineers in London declares that world population which is about 6.5 billion may come down to as load as 500 million, as the earth hots up and makes human survival difficult.



a polar bear walking on ground devoid of ice

He also replaced the term Global Warming by Global Heating
Prof. james is the expert who has proposed the Gaia theory and is working on the theory of Global Warming for quite some time.
graph depicting an exponential rise in temperature

He said that the delicate balance of atmosphere that has been drastically changed by the industrial revolution will reach its break-point this century.
As the carbon dioxide emission reaches its peak ; the world will heat up , causing water shortage ,destroying life in planets ocean and making it impossible for plants to grow.
graph showing the rise of carbon dioxide emission

He added , "There have been at least seven of these major climate changes before and we have to adapt . It is going to be tough and there will be some evolution of humans during it

oen of the 27 named tropical storms of 2005


He said that ," There is a very good evidence of what happened 55 millin tears ago when as much carbon dioxide was put into the atmosphere by the geology as is been done by us now . Temperature zoomed up and stayed there for 200,000 years then become normal.
a dry lake!!!!

"If it happens the only survivors will be those humans that can make there way to refuges or the polar areas . i think a awful lot of people will die but i dont see the human species dying out . i would think a hot earth would not support much over 500 million of us ."
He said attempts to tackle climate change will not solve the problem , but merely buy us some time . He warned there are no simple solutions and there is nothing
"We can do now to save this earth
ever increasing pollutions in the urban areas.


Are we Doomed ???
how much should we panic ?
And above all it is irreversible like a slow poisen that is definate to kill about 90% of mankind this very century, what can we possibly do ????

GLOBAL WARMING A GLOBAL WARNING

INSPIRATIONAL UPANISADS

INSPIRATIONAL UPANISADS


These are ancient indian texts that contain the most spectacular pieces
of philosophical jigsaw Most of these belong to the period prior to
advent of buddha in 7th century before christ
There are over 200 upanisads many of them sectarian
in caharacter an palpably post buddhistic and even post sankaracharya.


Principle upanisads those whish are accepted and commented upon by sankaracharya [AD 788-820]. These include
ISA
KENA
KATHA
PRASNA
MUNDAKA
MANDUKYA
TAITTIRIYA
AITAREYA
CHANDOGA
BRHADARANYAKA




Without understanding the upanisads it is impossible to get
an insight into indian history and culture . Every philosophical
and relegious development in indians is inspired by
this timeless knowedge banks

BHAKTI - path of devotion to a personal god

KARMA - an undetached action

AND spiritual insights of GITA are all inspired by tyhese great texts







In words of Bloomfield "There is no important form of hindu thought ,hetrodox buddhism included, that is not rooted in upanisads."

From Gita ., Buddha ,sankara , ramkrishna , gandhi , osho ,

swami vivekananda ,all have heavy impact of this

vedantic inspiration. It is the energy of this strengthening

and purifying philosophy of vedanta coupled with

energy of modern science and technology that swami vivekananda

has released for recreating India in the mordern age .

This energy has flowed at first to the west ,then to the east ,

to reacitivate the life of mordern man globally .


To the upanisads India owes almost all the brighter side of her life and culture.

To them she owes her impressive record of active toleration within her border and the uniformaly peaceful and benevolent nature of her foreign relations in the field of religion

To them she owes the singular absense of aggresive political and military policies and programmes on her part towards other nations during her millenia of history

To them she owes the periodical renewal of her national springs of insights , when they seem all but choked and about to dry up

To them also she owes the absence of heavy hand of all

powerful church and the tentackles of an inescapable

dogma on national life and mind ,allowing for the

emergence and unhampered functioning, in

suceeding periods, of free ,creative and universal spirits

who came to purify and reactivate

the dormant spirit of people. These where received

by the indian people and given divine honours ,

unlike the hostility an persecution , with which th
e
spiritual innovators were and still are received in

all sematic religions,in absence of the impersona

l background which the upanisads had provided for

the indian religion and whose possesion over ages

is an impressive feature of India;s long history.




In times that we live in , when we say chaos is prevalent , we fail to recognise o religious renaaissance that is taking place all over the planet



In past the religion was in the hands of a chosen few or
a body of priest , it was in the churches ,temples , books,
dogma , ceremonial form and ritual ,but now
this revolution is happening in which the relegious
ideas have become universal , vast and infinite and this
power is available to all of us . It is sometimes said the
religions are drying out , that spiritual ideas are
dying out of the world . I think on the contrary
these have begun to grow and reach out like the nutrints
of the roots reach each and every leaf and soon this tree
will be full of blosswoms and flowers .
As a human mind broadens , its spiritual steps broadens too.
The time has already come when a man cannot record a
thought without it reaching to all corners of the earth;
by merely physical means , we have come in touch with
the whole world so the future of religion has to become
as universal ,as wide and upanisads are going to
play a major role in this as they have always done
in the long history of religions

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INSPIRATIONAL GANDHI

INSPIRATIONAL GANDHI

MOHANDAS KARAMCHAND GANDHI was born on October 2, 1869, at Porbandar, a small town on the western coast of India He was is and will be one of the legendary figures to walk on earth.But the most striking thing was his humbleness , his devotion to divine and his dream for freedom of his country without bloodshed. Below i present one of the best speeches that talks about Gandhian philosophy most clearly .


The Quit India speech by Mahatma Gandhi
August 8th 1942

Before you discuss the resolution, let me place before you one or two things, I want you to

understand two things very clearly and to consider them from the same point of view from

which I am placing them before you. I ask you to consider it from my point of view, because if

you approve of it, you will be enjoined to carry out all I say. It will be a great responsibility.

There are people who ask me whether I am the same man that I was in 1920, or whether there

has been any change in me. You are right in asking that question.


Let me, however, hasten to assure that I am the same Gandhi as I was in 1920. I have not

changed in any fundamental respect. I attach the same importance to non-violence that I did

then. If at all, my emphasis on it has grown stronger. There is no real contradiction between the

present resolution and my previous writings and utterances.


Occasions like the present do not occur in everybody’s and but rarely in anybody’s life. I want

you to know and feel that there is nothing but purest Ahimsa1 in all that I am saying and doing

today. The draft resolution of the Working Committee is based on Ahimsa, the contemplated

struggle similarly has its roots in Ahimsa. If, therefore, there is any among you who has lost faith

in Ahimsa or is wearied of it, let him not vote for this resolution.







Let me explain my position clearly. God has vouchsafed to me a priceless gift in the weapon of

Ahimsa. I and my Ahimsa are on our trail today. If in the present crisis, when the earth is being

scorched by the flames of Himsa2 and crying for deliverance, I failed to make use of the God

given talent, God will not forgive me and I shall be judged un-wrongly of the great gift. I must

act now. I may not hesitate and merely look on, when Russia and China are threatened.
Ours is not a drive for power, but purely a non-violent fight for India’s independence. In a

violent struggle, a successful general has been often known to effect a military coup and to set

up a dictatorship. But under the Congress scheme of things, essentially non-violent as it is,

there can be no room for dictatorship. A non-violent soldier of freedom will covet nothing for

himself, he fights only for the freedom of his country. The Congress is unconcerned as to who

will rule, when freedom is attained. The power, when it comes, will belong to the people of India,

and it will be for them to decide to whom it placed in the entrusted. May be that the reins will

be placed in the hands of the Parsis, for instance-as I would love to see happen-or they may be

handed to some others whose names are not heard in the Congress today. It will not be for you

then to object saying, “This community is microscopic. That party did not play its due part in

the freedom’s struggle; why should it have all the power?” Ever since its inception the Congress

has kept itself meticulously free of the communal taint. It has thought always in terms of the

whole nation and has acted accordingly. . .






I know how imperfect our Ahimsa is and how far away we are still from the ideal, but in Ahimsa

there is no final failure or defeat. I have faith, therefore, that if, in spite of our shortcomings, the

big thing does happen, it will be because God wanted to help us by crowning with success our

silent, unremitting Sadhana1 for the last twenty-two years.

I believe that in the history of the world, there has not been a more genuinely democratic

struggle for freedom than ours. I read Carlyle’s French Resolution while I was in prison, and

Pandit Jawaharlal has told me something about the Russian revolution. But it is my conviction

that inasmuch as these struggles were fought with the weapon of violence they failed to realize

the democratic ideal. In the democracy which I have envisaged, a democracy established by

non-violence, there will be equal freedom for all. Everybody will be his own master. It is to join

a struggle for such democracy that I invite you today. Once you realize this you will forget the

differences between the Hindus and Muslims, and think of yourselves as Indians only, engaged

in the common struggle for independence.



Then, there is the question of your attitude towards the British. I have noticed that there is

hatred towards the British among the people. The people say they are disgusted with their

behaviour. The people make no distinction between British imperialism and the British people.

To them, the two are one This hatred would even make them welcome the Japanese. It is most

dangerous. It means that they will exchange one slavery for another. We must get rid of this

feeling. Our quarrel is not with the British people, we fight their imperialism. The proposal for

the withdrawal of British power did not come out of anger. It came to enable India to play its

due part at the present critical juncture It is not a happy position for a big country like India to

be merely helping with money and material obtained willy-nilly from her while the United

Nations are conducting the war. We cannot evoke the true spirit of sacrifice and velour, so long

as we are not free. I know the British Government will not be able to withhold freedom from us,

when we have made enough self-sacrifice. We must, therefore, purge ourselves of hatred.

Speaking for myself, I can say that I have never felt any hatred. As a matter of fact, I feel

myself to be a greater friend of the British now than ever before. One reason is that they are

today in distress. My very friendship, therefore, demands that I should try to save them from

their mistakes. As I view the situation, they are on the brink of an abyss. It, therefore, becomes

my duty to warn them of their danger even though it may, for the time being, anger them to

the point of cutting off the friendly hand that is stretched out to help them. People may laugh,

nevertheless that is my claim. At a time when I may have to launch the biggest struggle of my

life, I may not harbour hatred against anybody.


HAIL TO THE GREAT MAHATMA GANDHI