Showing posts with label ideas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ideas. Show all posts

Monday, October 5, 2015

Attaining Eternal Peace... Man and Nature

5th Oct, 2015, Monday
Ashwin Krishna Saptami,   Vikram Samvat 2072, Somvaar


Such a thing is being revealed to you, whereby,  Divinity (Essence) is realized,  and on realizing it,  it becomes firmly rooted.   This is absolutely everyone’s experience.  The insentient Nature is ever changing,  and the sentient Supreme Essence (Paramatma-tattva),  never undergoes any changes whatsoever.  It remains as-is eternally.   We have experienced both ‒  That which is unchanging and that which is constantly changing.  From childhood to now.  I am that same one ‒ in this the ‘I am the same one’, this is the experience of the unchanging.   The world, the body, the mental tendencies, the feelings-sentiments,  incidents,  situations-circumstances,  state-condition etc.  are all the kind to change.   This is everyone’s experience.   But we,  that knower of the changing, are unchanging.   When we remain established in the changing,  then we experience pleasure and pain ‒
‘पुरुषः सुखदुःखानां भोक्तृत्वे हेतुरुच्यते ।’ (गीता १३ । २०)
"Purushah sukhdukhaanaam bhoktrutve heturuchyate" (Gita 13/20 )
Meaning:   In the experience of pleasure and pain, the Purusha is said to be the cause.  (Gita 13/20)

‘पुरुषः प्रकृतिस्थो हि’ (गीता १३ । २१)
"Purushah prakritistho hi" (Gita 13/21)
Purusha (Self) seated in Prakriti (Nature)
Meaning :  it is the man who is situated in Nature,  that becomes occupier and experiencer of pleasure and pain (bhokta).  

Our mental tendencies keep changing,  our states keep changing,  our condition keeps changing,  our feelings keep changing,  our actions keep changing,  our situation-circumstance keeps changing ‒  when we become situated in the changing,  then we are established in ‘Prakriti’ (Nature).   When we become situated in desires-anger, elation-dejection,  attraction-aversion and various mind-intellect tendencies that arise, then we become dependent and we become the enjoyer-sufferer of pleasure and pain.   

In fact,  the name sorrow (dukha) has two names - pleasure (sukha) and pain (dukha).    Just as herpes infection though one illness, but it has two names -  itching and burning.   Itching and scratching gives the person relief and feels good,  whereas the burning sensation makes one feel bad.   In this the portion that makes one feel good is also an illness, and the part that makes one feel bad,  is also an illness.    In the same way,  when we become happy and sad, while blending with the changing,  that too is an illness.    The meaning of an illness is,  one is not established (swasth) in the self (swaroop).  One is situated in Prakruti (nature).  When we are not situated in the changing tendencies, feelings, actions etc,  when we remain separate from them,  then, we remain ‘swasth’ (in the self).  Then we remain even in both pleasure and pain.   ‒

‘समदुःखसुखः स्वस्थः’ (गीता १४ । २४)
Samadhukhahsukhah Swasthah” (Gita 14 / 24 )
“Remain balanced in pleasure and pain, established in the self” (Gita 14 / 24 ).

It is our experience,  that we remain in all states, conditions, circumstances,  and incidents.   If it weren’t so, then how would we have the knowledge of all states, condition,  etc.  ?   We are aware of this,  from this it is proven that we remain.   We have knowledge of waking, dream, dormancy, deep trance,  unconscious,  states.   We are also aware of pain and pleasure.   We are also aware of affliction,  attachments, worries, attraction,  aversion etc.    Therefore we are devoid of affliction, attachments, worries, fear,  fright etc.   If it were not so,  then we would experience joy,  we would not experience any suffering.   Day and night we would be in remorse,  then we would not experience any joy.  But it is not so. We have awareness of both good and bad,  based on favorable and unfavorable situations.  Therefore in fact we are beyond the good and not so good.   Let us become established in this non-duality, then we will be liberated very easily   ‒

‘निर्द्वन्द्वो हि महाबाहो सुखं बन्धात्प्रमुच्यते ॥’ (गीता ५ । ३) ।
`Nirdwandwo hi mahaabaaho sukham bandhaatpramuchyate' (5/3).
"Only he who has transcended the pairs of opposites is easily set free from bondage".

Thursday, September 3, 2015

The BBC and an anti Hindu History


I feel uneasy whenever the BBC decides to broadcast programs on Ancient India, two recent broadcasts reflect the general anti Hindu bias built into the BBC. Firstly  "Genius of the Ancient World by Bettany Hughes on the Buddha and "Treasures of the Indus" with Dr Sona Datta on the History of Pakistan. Both avoid talking of the influence of the Sarasvati civilization which dates some 9000 years ago. I would use the term Aryan but that has problems with Europeans since WWII. Bettany does a whole episode on the Buddha without discussing the Hindu culture which produced the Buddha, though plenty Hindu imagery was used. Dr Datta goes on to extol the virtues of the Buddha (him again) Greece and Islam in the 5000 year history of "Pakistan". No mention of the Mahabharat Vedas Sarawati or Aryans (Hindus). I made a similar point to Dr Miles Russell, Senior Lecturer In Archaeology at Bournemouth University, on his article about the Swastika for the BBC Magazine, he replied, he wasn't given the space, and suggested that I write to the BBC myself. I am very tempted to do just that

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Decolonising Maths education remove Church ideology

A cocktail of practical value and religious propaganda can have obnoxious consequences. Post-colonisation, Maths teaching in India blindly apes Western practices — a pity because most of that school Maths actually originated in India. Europeans also imported it for its practical value. However, contrary to popular belief, the understanding of Maths is not universal. Indian ganita accepted empirical proofs. This differed from the European understanding of Maths as metaphysics. Hence, over centuries, the West adapted the imported Indian Maths to fit their metaphysics, which was linked to church theology. During colonisation, the West exported back this religiously coated mathematics, which is now taught globally.
"Maths was considered especially suited to arouse the eternal soul since it was believed that it contains eternal truths."
Maths was considered especially suited to arouse the eternal soul since it was believed that it contains eternal truths. The belief in eternal truths in turn led to the Western belief that Maths is “perfect.” It was further thought that this perfection could be achieved only through metaphysics and not empirically. Today, Maths is 100 per cent metaphysics.
Imperfect Maths

The belief that Maths is perfect is certainly not universal. Indian tradition accepted Maths as non-eternal and imperfect. Most practical applications of Maths today, such as sending a spacecraft to Mars, are done using computers which do Maths “imperfectly.”
Teaching Western metaphysics spreads other biases. All systems of Indian philosophy, without any exception, accept the pratyaksa, or empirically manifest, as the first means of proof. This also applies toganita. Science and engineering too prefer empirical proofs to metaphysics. So if Maths is done for its practical applications, it is better to accept empirical proofs in the subject. But present-day Maths teaches such proofs, hence all Indian philosophy, is “inferior.”
Does any of this make a difference to 2+2=4? Yes. Why is 2+2=4? Putting together two pairs of apples to show four apples is erroneous on formalism which disallows reference to the empirical. Formalism posits that 2+2=4 can be “rigorously” deduced only metaphysically from, say, Peano’s axioms. Most people don’t know how to do that or even what Peano’s axioms are. Thus, most Western educated never even properly learn 2+2=4. Since they are taught alongside that all other systems are inferior, they are compelled to rely blindly on Western authority for everything. This is by design. To put an end to this mental enslavement through indoctrination, education must be decolonised. The new government ought to focus on that.

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Maths the New Religion


We all have heard from the west about Einstein, Hawking, Newton, Galileo and others and many  accept readily what ever they say as the truth, science is about testing the truth and validating observations, and not many can argue with that, so why is western science in particular maths the new religion. The simple truth is mathematics was invented in ancient India as a practical tool for agriculture and navigation, (both used astronomy) it arrived in the west in 1202 via   famous book by an Italian Islamic scholar Fibonacci called "Liber Abaci". Medieval Europe was under the iron fist of the Catholic church, the language of learning was Latin,  the early "universities" where run by monks, the likes of Oxford and Cambridge, they still have that look today that of grand churches. These where strictly Christian institutions where all new knowledge had to be theologically justified as God's Law before it was taught.
The monks toiled to discover the creators perfect grand designs and mathematics was made fit this picture. They turned the purely practical Indian maths, into a complicated but theologically correct version. Ideas of Gods perfect creation, and his eternal laws is how maths is taught today, because maths  holds his eternal truths. Newton even proclaimed himself a prophet when he proposed his  "Laws of motion" . Today Hawkings writes on the origin of creation in a language (maths) ordinary people do not understand, we have to accept believe and have faith in the new edicts from the pulpit of Cambridge for they are the new eternal universal truths.

Monday, July 11, 2011

Ideas for a Hindu Raj

remove this govt urgently by hindu unity force. hindus must prsuade some borderline desh drohi party to divorce this govt n topple it on this very serious hindu killer issue.
get hindus all their religious rights
1- hindu men woman should get arms to carry like thier devi devtacarried.
2-some hindus must be given devi devta status by hindu dharma sansad . they will hv killer weapons and atuority to kill the veil on the spot.
this will make the bharat crime free.
3- hindus must get free shiksha to any level in gurukul paddhatti. hindu girls n boys must stay not in malls but in gurukuls up to minimum 25 years of age in brham charya ashram
4-hindus must get yog shalas, dhyan yog shala , dharm shala n gaushala free of cost.
5- hindus must get free sanskaar service . pundits must be paid by govt n should get all havan samgri from govt expenses n other facilities such as bhajn mandli , decoration , furniture , prasad distribution etc
6- garbhdan , nam karan sanskar to antyeshti sanskaar is hindu relious right n it should be given to each hindu fom govt.
7- hindus must be given free ayurvedic treatment for all kinds of sickness.
8 hindus must get gau milk free or low cost at least half liter per person per day other religions must be banned from these facilities because these are not in their religions.
vhp n all hindu organisations must unite hindus and get all these n more religious rights of hindus.
otherwise topple this govts n bring a full majority national govt which can restore hindu religious rights straight away.
foreign religions must get only those rights in india which hindus get in foreign religion coutry. for example muslims sgoud get only those rights which hindus get saudi arabia
n christians only those rights which hinuds get in rome. i.e at par