Women should not enter Temple during mensuration!

The statement sounds like a parody in a country like India where we worship the feminine as a Goddess. Is it really discrimination that women must not enter the temple during their mensuration? The answers are already there but let us first understand the situation:

As in my previous write-up “An atheist, a fool!”, I would like to reinstate that what foolish men speak should not be taken as a commandment of their religion itself. Firstly, Hinduism is the most carefully documented way of life that is bestowed to its followers. If men say that a woman is impure during her mensuration and that’s why she should not enter a temple; it is only a half understood truth! It is very easy to misinterpret facts when fools are at the helm and teachers are teachers by mistake.

In Hinduism, Goddess Durga is worshipped as the one who eliminates all the impurities in form of demons from the society. Even if other religions don’t worship females, they must appreciate the fact that it is women who are given the power to bring life on earth! This in itself is god like power. Now as science goes, a woman accumulates these energies every month and if pregnancy is not achieved, she has the power to cleanse herself each month by way of mensuration. She does this each month because her god-like powers of procreation require her to be pure and divine always. Our hindu mythology correlates this with the waxing and waning phase of the moon where one fine night we observe Amavasya or no Moon hence the cycle is for a month.

During the mensuration, a woman absorbs energies of her surrounding so as to clean herself and hence attains the status of Goddess Durga with all that energy. Ideally as a goddess she should not worship other demigods and if she will enter the temple, she will have the power to even absorb the energy of the idol making it lifeless. At this time this woman should be worshipped rather than she worshipping others. This was the reason why in ancient India women stayed away from others during this period so as prevent absorption of negative energies; they ate specific types of foods that helped them cleanse themselves and observed many other restrictions and discipline. This practice in itself was divine, however, owing to a fools’ prerogative it became oppression. They started using the word “barred” rather than “to worship”, both men and women.

During worship we need to absorb and accumulate, during menstruation she needs to get rid of or release, so biologically it will interfere with the process itself. Worship is the process of accumulation of positive energies or channelizing our energies towards a positive direction. Our only trouble is people go to temple not to worship but either to beg, or for fashion or for superstition or for ego.

Reservation is Necessary!

Yea you heard it right, it is necessary! Let me tell you that firstly I am not a beneficiary of the same and secondly if you feel the system of reservation is bad then probably you are amongst those thousands who are oblivious beings grazing this planet. Also, if you are a beneficiary of the reservation system and you are exploiting this system because a stupid administrator cannot keep a check on you, then you are the worst thing that can happen to this planet. Take time and read this before making a judgement.

India has been a hub of reservation stir ever since, whether it is minority reservation, the Jat reservation, SC/ST reservation etc. Unfortunately for our country the system is ridiculed by dubious intentions of power hungry perverts. Let us understand what this system is in the first place:

A baby is born in the family; this baby in all probability receives special attention and care of all. At this instance other members should not feel animosity towards the baby for getting more attention since this baby is incapable of surviving on his own. When this baby grows up to be a man or woman and has been educated enough to survive on his own then these special privileges have to be withdrawn.  This is simply the meaning of reservation! Now consider a case where the parents don’t teach this baby the basics of life and keep pampering him/her beyond the necessary, this baby grows up to become a nuisance to the society and exploits the resources in every possible way.

Similarly, reservation to people in govt jobs, schools etc were provided to economically lower placed people so as to uplift them, but when capable people start exploiting these facilities for self-profit, we go wrong. We go further wrong when well -to-do leaders start manipulating masses to keep their power position intact. And the system is finally doomed resulting in chaos and overexploitation of all resources when people who are capable start looking at easy way out for personal gratification.

The problem with the implementation of this beautiful system lies in the corruption and dirty game play of few. The reservation is divided basis cast and creed rather than need and all the more there are no limits or withdrawal points. Once provided, the facilities become a taken for granted right to live for generations of this person.

We must understand that the meaning of reservation is not grant, whether it for a seat in bus or in a college. Moreover, reservations in jobs must be withdrawn if the society is to do good for itself. Reservation in case of scarcity of resources should be limited to the level of colleges. Once a person is capable enough, he or she should compete with others for the position. Reservations should also be limited for his/her future generations.

If we need to establish a prospering society, system implementation is the most important part. Reservation is necessary to check on weaker links in the society and strengthen them. Rationing is important and checks have to be there to ensure that corrupt are not unnecessarily facilitated.

An Atheist, a FOOL!?

I have come across many people who deduce religion as fake and misleading and consider it wiser to stay atheists. It leads me to wonder about the grotesqueries of human nature that prompt people of our race to act in this way, to go against the system that designs their wellbeing. It may be inferred that glued to the innermost atom of our subconscious is the inherent desire to disobey any system and consider one to be above all. “Free will”, thats what you call it! It is the supreme emotional energy that bestows us strength to survive simultaneously causes our destruction, making us a rebel to the discipline that keeps us alive.

Before diving to the depth of this issue and understanding the underlying causes let us consider a practical example. If you walk by a place and observe garbage and foul smell, your opinion can come in 2 different proportions; first: “the place is dirty!”, second: “the place has been ‘made’ dirty!”. Both statements imply the same meaning but underlying the statement there is an absolute difference in the narrative. One can sight the difference between a believer and a non-believer through the approach one adopts. A non-believer considers the situation hopeless and disregards the situation in totality reducing chances of any improvisation thereon, whereas a believer takes the onus on himself. This applies to not just religion but on all systems in existence for the benefit of mankind.

Religion is a path, a way of life and each one should have the right to adopt and practice one’s religion. Mostly it is gifted to us by way of our family. Anyone who has not delved deep into his/her religion does not have the right to comment whether the religion is good or bad. Its’ like the example given above, we will attribute the deeds of humans to their religion itself. If a thief wears a stole of a sadhu and commits a crime, it doesn’t imply that Hinduism is criminal. If a Muslim in the name of Allah does wrong, it doesn’t imply that Islam is bad. A criminal is a criminal no matter where and it is a shame they hide behind their religion. A protagonist follower/believer must open his/her mind and try to focus on religion itself rather than criminals and fraudsters hiding behind a religion. Religion is the path to solace for anyone who is forthright in understanding it.

Let us also agree to the inherent fact that fraudsters will always be there hiding in cloths meant for the saints and identifying them has become an almost impossible task. It is the narrowness of our minds that that has multiplied such individuals over time, and unknowingly we can be one of them. It is the teachings fathers and mothers gave to secure own petty interests that multiply the plague in our society. One has to understand the smallest of the deeds done today no matter how miniscule to the universe it may be, will have an impact on the future. Somewhere these energies will accumulate and multiply like a fission reaction.

We all wish to survive and be competitive at the same time and we have become slaves of our own free will. This is the inherent anomaly in our system which makes machines and robots better than humans at all times. We need to program ourselves in the right direction; hence, we need to follow our religion as it is and not as it is interpreted or translated!

Will you Go with the Flow?

Try me on this; how many of us have a habit of peeping inside the refrigerator? and sometimes for no reason, or sometimes trying to find options to eat; I am sure we’ll have a majority! Its our natural attraction towards food that brings the refrigerator close to our hearts. As kids however we enjoyed refrigerators much more during summers. It wasn’t just the food, there was also that invigorating gush of cool breeze taking us straight to the Arctic away from belabour of the scorching sun. It used to be fascinating to me, not to mention my amusement was supplemented further due to scarcity of air conditioners in that era in our country. Don’t know about the rich kids, perhaps they never get to enjoy the pleasures of the unintellectual divertissements of childhood & adolescence. There was however another component of the refrigerator that used to amuse me. Well I refer to it as a component of the refrigerator as that was the only useful application of it I knew. It was the refrigerator that helped me get to it and understand an undiluted yet ignored truth of life. It were the magnets we stuck on it! Now tell me you have never done that as a kid.

Well for me, refrigerator is primarily where I learnt of the Magnets, physics text book came in second. Magnets are charming objects in themselves and they definitely resemble humans a lot. The term he/she is “magnetic” is just apt, but what I mean here is something different in terms of correlation. Once I bought two rectangular magnets similar in dimension; I tried to join them together only to realize that I can only join them from a particular side whereas the other sides just didn’t get along. I forced, initially enjoying the play and later getting frustrated trying to join those ends which simply weren’t ready to combine! God, they behaved like those quivering girls who just won’t compromise at all with each other in event of a fight.. please no offence, I love girls! Let me put it this way; it was happening on both sides, so, the other two similar sides were like men duelling with each other with no sign of giving up either. I hated war even then! However, when I joined the magnet’s personified male side to the female one, they stuck with an inseparable impulsion. Aah! there you go; I understood what love as an instinct was! Later at school, physics classes helped me understand it technically! Don’t be appalled, we’ll talk about my admirations later and also I won’t read out magnetism to you as thats not the topic. It is however important to understand the movement of force in relation to human instincts. The way a magnet behaves is “Nature”, and honestly, I haven’t seen a more lively non-living object similar to the magnet. It helps me look at the way humans behave with others and I don’t mean the relation with opposite sex; we like some, dislike some! so what gives us this attraction & repulsion? what groups us and at the same time separates us? Was this instinct the foundation of different religions, regionalism, casteism,  and several other forms of differentiation? Well, maybe not!

Apparently we must condone that we are living magnets and our overvalued intelligence only acts to deface our instincts trying hard to differentiate us from others. Our magnitudes are different but we fail to acknowledge the fact that our "magnetic charges" i.e. the thoughts, flow in the same direction under different sobriquets.

There is a corollary to this, what happens when similar forces of equal magnitudes relentlessly strike against one another? Answer is simple, they kill each other! On the contrary opposite forces of similar magnitude neutralise each other and co-exist. BINGO! Now we know that the force always moves towards co-existence and that is the nature of it exhibited everywhere. It is however our “Free-Will” that contraindicates and deviates from the natural flow prompting us to experiment joining like poles of magnets; take that as a metaphor! This is what defines the grotesquenesses in us where we are thankfully rescued by our survival instinct.

We can replicate this corollary in various situations in our day to day life. We need to understand the need to discipline our free-will to be able to determine which pole of the magnet are we at vis a vis the other and to be able to mix and co-exist. This doesn’t mean we bear with the other or sacrifice for the other, it simply acknowledges the fact that we need to be together, we need to respect each other for being a part of a balanced system. As the nature of the force is, we are instinctual of balance, yet our imagination and free will does everything to disrupt it. We cause war, rather than development. The religion we created to understand the force works to segregate us from one another. We can’t bear the fact that one form of thought which may be different from ours can be correct as well and exists to promote balance. We disregard the force at every level and countless of our lives suffer everyday because of a simple misunderstanding that we are not above what we are made off!

There is an interesting term called harmony used by some of us who overcame this headlock. Do we really understand what this means? Would a magnet be a magnet if electrons refused to flow alongside each other in one common direction owing to some misplaced notion of self righteousness (physics aside)? As humans, we’ll possess more attraction if we learn to be in harmony because we are the ones with some genuine IQ aren’t we? Harmony not just between species of the same kind but with the entire biosphere & universe.

Let us learn to be in harmony with the force that created us, let us learn to attract; after all, being attractive is a gift from the divine! So I ask, will you Go with the Flow?

Humanity: I got it all Wrong!

School is the temple of learning and its also the place where we make gross blunders and gather an experience of life. It particularly displeases to the core if those blunders are inspired ones; you know, “I did it because of them!!” kind. My lineage was very humble, my parents always taught me to be kind to others, be sharing, spread happiness etc etc. They told me, this is how I can make more friends, this is how people will love me. Yea, why won’t they! Today I stand and tell you, I was grossly misled that too by my own parents. My movement in this regard was like a slap on the face each time.

Christianity today stands strong with over 2 billion followers. Its more than 2000 years of foundation! I won’t fail to mention but facebookers are about 1.1 billion in 10 years surely making them next in the race of forming a religion! Not to diverge from the topic but I confront the issue that Christianity and similar religions teach us the true form of humanity and self sacrifice. People say Jesus loves you, he saves you, he takes away all your sins if you love him back. Worst part of the scenario is that everyone wants a Jesus for them but no one will ever stand up to be like a Jesus. Thats where the definition of humanity goes all wrong and religion is misunderstood. Why won’t I love a person who has just done a sacrifice for me! But am I up for it, can I sacrifice for someone? I am not asking this question to myself, I am speaking for you if you know what I mean. Facebook has no sacrifice story for humanity but still more followers everyday. Thats the truth of life!

Coming to my sacrifices at school, the first one ever I did was that of my lunch box. I was terribly hungry and there was a delicious brunch my mother had packed for me. A friend came to me with curiosity, I knew he hadn’t bought any of his own and wanted something to eat. I opened my doors.. full wide open for this hungry beast to feed on; and then there was that remark..”look fellas, his tiffin is really awesome!”; before I could react, hungry wolves masquerading as humans were on my tiffin within a flash, and all that was left for me was an empty tiffin box. Nobody loved me for it, like they love Jesus. Hey I just did a Jesus act!!!

There are several such instances, sometimes giving your seat to a fellow passenger in bus and standing all along the route, working hard with homework all night and letting your lazy friend copy it within 10 minutes and so on.

I always realized that the more I sacrificed, the more of it society wanted off me and I was never given a mention either. Now come on, you want me to put nails in my body for you to give me name and fame? I deserve to be famous for all that I have done and I am not even in anyones good books? What I feel is, Jesus did what he did because he wanted to do, it gave him pleasure sacrificing; to me, no it doesn’t! Each time I sacrificed my comfort for someone, I was sacrificing my comfort! I was a big contradiction. What was programmed in me and what I really wanted were different things! I wanted to tell the society that “BEING HUMAN” doesn’t mean giving, but it entails taking as well. They confuse “being human” with “Being God” and in their teachings they expect the same from us. Crime, violations etc increase because give and take are not taught properly, in other words humanity is never understood properly. Some people keep taking and deprived ones are either left to live deprived or their ego forces them to snatch from the other. It becomes a practice thereafter. This is where religion is grounded as it shows pseudo examples to follow. Jesus sacrificed, why should I? I am not being ingenuine; I want to give and take, and that leaves no ground for the evil to exist at all. You can feel the heartlessness in this but I suggest you stop being over emotional. You’ll falter at every step of being human if you don’t agree with me, whereas I won’t!

Religion and Science drive this world and religion is always considered supreme. Lets revamp those notions and correctly understand those examples set before us so religion can show us the correct path to the eternal purpose. Lets be humans as humans should be. Trying to be God is an open Invitation to Evil as they are different faces of the same coin.

People who don’t like the Admin.. Say AAYYYE!

School was an interesting place always... a home of learning, understanding, growing and evolution of a purpose. Remember “PURPOSE” from my last post?? but how I remember school more was through my numerous infatuations. Gaauud those girls were like fairies! Yea, I wasn’t much focussed on my grades; thats what I kept hearing. It is an inherent part of our society; teachers, parents & whoever has lived more than you, will try to plunge you into the rabbit-hole of purpose they have sorted. It was rather funny as my contemporaries started speaking similar language in form of advices as if like parrots who repeat what has been told to them. There was an ardent effort with different levels of creativity seen everywhere to drive all thoughts in one direction. Levels of acceptance were different per individual and hence grew the anomaly in the system which is inherent in our society as well. Its an interesting thought; suppose we were magnetized, all at once over a common purpose; how would the world be? Of course we would achieve the purpose! and may be sooner than we can imagine. What is more interesting is….what happens after the achievement? Not to debilitate the concept of purpose, but I feel, we’ll be lost again! Wasn’t that the whole point of achievement? once its over, we have to forget and reinvent so we can live on, be busy with something before death takes over. Or let us just say we don’t have a purpose which leads to a complete full stop, which does not have a vicious circle attached to it, where there are no closed ends and where the will of man and mother earth ceases the existence altogether. What in the universe can that be!! Even stars die and take rebirth in form of other stars.

Anyways coming back to those beautiful fairies at school, i’d say that feeling was really something special to me. Where just a glimpse could numb the senses and prompt a 100% attendance. And tell you what, I even won a prize for taking no leave of absence! Maybe I was made that way.. to get hyper attracted to the opposite sex. Whatever it was, I liked it! What I didn’t like was the mathematics which never got me close enough to either one. At the end of each year we used to have a class reshuffle amongst the section. We also used to have group houses where everyone was assigned a particular color for which they needed to perform. Their idea was competitive environment of growth for us, but really thats where they were sowing seeds of corruption, bias, regionalism, discrimination and whatever negativities you see in our society. I would have still loved that idea if I could have got more fairies and less devils in the group I was in, but maths never favoured me. At the end of each year I used to do a lot of calculation while seated in the common hall just before the reshuffle so as to get as close as possible to the fairy of choice, maybe get a seat next to her; but everytime the formula was changed by the admin. Oh, I hated that bugger. As we grew older, I had become more perfect at the calculation, I knew all formulas the admin would apply, I knew where the fairy/fairies of my choice were headed and I was able to secure a place as close as possible only to realize they had been booked by other devils who had taken places close to them before me. Bang.. Bang ...Boom!

There came the thought…. many of us are happy, but not always; and many of us are not happy at all with the way things are going around us. Who does the shuffles? Who puts us at the right place at the right time and at the wrong place at the time we can get screwed. They say we always have an option, but really, do we?? I feel choices are made for us. Let it hit your ego as hard as possible, let it derive a proud, strong anti-reaction out of you, maybe that’ll help.

I went to a certain part of my country where there was a common sentiment against a particular religion. The sentiment was passed on over generations, and actions time and again, were driven more by perception than fact. Sure I felt uncomfortable, but at the same time I wondered why? who taught or rather magnetised them this way? I spoke to a child old enough to express his hatred against the other religion but young enough to be deceived. I asked him why he hated the other guy from another religion? Trust me, he had loads to say as like the parrot who had mugged up those lines taught by its masters. With a big sigh, I told him what nobody had told him before, something that left him aghast! I told him his true parentage was from another religion, the same one he hated. Hell yea!! this was a perjury similar to what my elder brother always used to perform on me as a child. He used to tell me my real parents aren’t my real parents and that I should shut the hell up wherever he is concerned and stand humble to his whims & fancies. Guess what it did work to some extent with this kid. For a moment he didn’t know what to say, all his beliefs which were instilled in him all these years were shattered in an instant. To me it was like a new beginning for him, his walls of confinement had been compromised by a single sentence. It didn’t last long though, he ran to his house and I knew it was time for me to run as well!

The issue of religious equality is important and respect of each others religious beliefs is indispensable. I said in the beginning that science and religion are the only two streams of focus trying to go after the issue of existence, and religion at some point of time was definitely ahead in race; but where it went terrible wrong was the corruption which is instilled in the roots of our nature. We need sentences to break those walls for us forever. We need to derive from each others understandings to get back in the race towards knowing the ultimate purpose. We need to understand that together we can eliminate this shuffle we do with our beliefs and beliefs of our generations. We need to understand that our children may stand deprived, will develop bias and all related evil emotions when we group them under a banner.

I had an interesting dream and it applies to all the preachers. It was scenic..there was one common building where everyone goes to pray. As we enter, we encounter an admin who re-directs everyone to different rooms where prayer happens in different ways. I used to go to room number 1, but due to over congestion, I was redirected to room number 2 this time. In room number 2, I realized there was a different way of praying and it had its own plus and minus but the exercise was interesting. Next time I requested the admin to send me to room number 3 where I learnt something new and it was overwhelming as something as simple as a prayer could be performed in 3 different styles. There was an adjoining room number 4 where there was no single style of praying. There was a line written on the walls which I’d never forget ...“We don’t know if God is fashionable, let not your antics spoil your prayer..Just keep it simple”!

It was a dream worth recounting!

Here it Starts

 This is my first piece so there are a many I’d like to thank for giving me an inspiration to write it… Amongst a few worth mentioning are Extreme Depression, Invisible unemployment, Narcissism & the fact that I believe I know more than you all so I need to educate as a part of my social responsibility, a will to be famous and many more. Now don’t be taken aback by the bluntness, I am just too good at creating humour; Thats why they say.. “hey you’re so funny”! Could never understand what that meant anyway.

 Well frankly, who cares what inspired me to write my thoughts; whether it was Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela or some self-obsessed notion of mine. It won’t stop you from reading nor can it compel you to read. But hey! we are all social creatures, we like seeing what goes around us, we like interacting, participating, adding and in turn evolving. The outcome can be anything, and by all means it isn’t important because somewhere down it is lost, re-invented, corrected and again forgotten. What is important is the activity in all this; thats what keeps us busy, living!

 A fine man once said “we are all 95% alike, but we spend 95% of our time trying to justify the 5% difference in us”! and I wonder if thats what makes our life as it is to us. What's really intriguing is the question WHY ARE WE ALIVE? I feel thats where the buck starts and ends unfortunately. All our life we find reasons for our life, we justify it to ourselves, others. Our entire life we do things which chemically please us, numb our senses, block our logic by prompting anti-logics, giving us reasons to exist. We expand issues in our mind to make them our purpose for life, then we work hard to achieve our purpose, and then comes that pleasure of achievement, the applause & appreciation or in other words a release of chemicals like dopamine in the brain. For some there is risk of losing, actual loss, infamy, fear etc. For some there is happiness, others uncertainty, for some there are gains, for others losses, smiles, sorrows and so on. All because of that inflated bloody purpose that justifies our lives to us and to others. There is also the crab effect, if one has a purpose which one feels is strong enough vis-a-vis the other, there is a pull exerted and psychology magnetized.

 I used to spend a lot of my time looking at ants, believe me, as humans we have much in common! I was unemployed, not to mention! In Fact, ants, termites and humans are three forms of life that have predominantly infested earth. Well I used the word infested because I want to show some equality towards other social creatures, if they have infested, so have we! I was keen to dig deep down the purpose of existence for this creature. A lot many argue that ants clean up earth, they are consumed in certain parts of our world and they do have some scientific significance of their own. But I argue, do the ants know of the reasons they exist for? or are they just busy with building their colonies and having a purpose of their own! So its like, for me ants have a different purpose, for themselves they will have a different purpose and here comes the Relativity Theory! This narrows us down to the fact that for each existence on this plant we have a purpose. I am a human, I can look into the work of an ant, its life. i can analyse it, derive its purpose, but who is above me? Who does that for/on me? Let us assume that the earth as a larger mass is over me! It lets me live, do my work, laugh, cry, but may step on me and kill me if I come in its way. But question remains why does the planet Earth need us/ any of us creatures?

 Our science lessons advised us that with a very unique combination life emerged here on earth and yes we can be called fortunate/unfortunate; suit yourself. We study the Big Bang, the Higgs Boson etc and try to reach the start point, and ever since I saw the Star Wars Jedi Knight I have had a particular interest in the so called “Force” which runs us. Then may the Force be with me!.

 Religion and Science are the only two streams of focus making some headway towards answering the question of our existence. Although I belong to both, but I would still like to focus my attention on religion as this was a community which had answers to everything! Yea, that's how they put it. God Damn you scientists, wasting your time and taxpayers money over the Higgs Boson!

So this is where we start…continuing this journey of words we would try to evolve and thus rediscover the truth of existence. Lets join hands and delimit ourselves from this journey towards the eternal achievement.