Wednesday, October 13, 2004

Karma

Karma is an action performed. It is neither bad nor good because all karmas are usually performed by the individual in good faith. Every individual thinks prior to action and justifies his intention to translate the thought into action.

It is only when the action performed gets fructified.
We realize whether the action performed was good or bad. Some actions performed get immediate reactions and some take a long time to fructify. If the reaction is immediate and bad in taste, the person think it a bad action and sits to ponder, over to know the reason of failure but when it takes a long time to fructify, the action performed goes out of memory. All such actions which fructify at a later dates do bring some immediate reactions which are usually favorable and the performer accepts the immediate results in good taste and forget it.
For example: we sow a seed for a mango tree. The seed shall germinate and appear in the form of a small seedling and shoot out to be a tree, which shall take a long time to yield the fruit. The gestation period of this is very long. When it fructifies and the fruits are not to your liking, you will say “god knows why it failed. I have not performed any wrong act; how it happened.” and we blame the destiny or take it as a result of bad karmas performed in previous life. We at that time do not dwell to look into our past and try to find our mistake that we implanted the seed unknowingly. If we had got the seed tested for its qualities, and its other requirements, we would have been successful. As i said all action performed by individuals are usually in good faith and good-faith actions are performed in emotional sway. The reason for this is that in every eventuality, the person is confronted with two or more choices to select at every stage of life and decision to select is motivated by desires that are heavily influenced by emotions. The decisions influenced by emotions are usually wrong but exceptions may be there, i do accept. All successful persons say “let not emotions overrun you, have a rational approach if you want to succeed.”

Tuesday, October 12, 2004

Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it's queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there's some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

-Robert Frost

Gandhi's Seven Sin

Ø Wealth without Work

Ø Pleasure without Conscience

Ø Science without Humanity

Ø Knowledge without Character

Ø Politics without Principle

Ø Commerce without Morality

Ø Worship without Sacrifice


Sunday, October 10, 2004

Modernity

I think modernity is a reference to a cultural style, an intellectual climate, a reversion to the past or the sway of a particular monarch. All periods are Modern, but not all of them live their experience in this mode. Indeed, the classical is a way of living one’s current experience as though it were simply a reprise of the past, so that only those bits of it which bear the legitimating seal of Tradition can be regarded as authentic.

The air, water, soil, nature and life of different forms around us-all in their totality-constitute the environment. This environmental alcohol affect the way of thinking, thinking which may be radical or rational and process of development of intellectual echelon of society, society which constitute gamut of thought processing machines. And because of hangover, the inbuilt hungriness of an individual or a community demands for social transform or change, change which is dynamic and full of élan, change which is bounded by some socio-cultural limits. Change (as a still born child) as social cultural conditions which have tangible effects on life of an individual or community in a positive era.
This whole transform is a result of a force. Force which comprises own perception, perception of community or an individual and interpretation of West (West as a synonym of imperialism), perception which inevitably were linked with or rebounded on modes of self understanding and self definition to preserve own identity. Concerned force materializes in form of Modernization, which builds upon newly perceived foundation.

So today you are modern. And one’s instinct is to preserve it. So in that process custom is too handed down it (process of being modernize) to one generation to another in a chronological framework. Custom pronounced as Tradition. So there is a curious disposition of information through contemporary generation to the next one. But this moderate process corrupt with information garbage, reason is lack of evidences.

Having close look traditions are weavers of web of modernity, as if you (tradition) try to do something to the web, after effect will be on you (tradition), not on the web (modernity). For e.g. Modernization generate a new dynamism, dynamism prone to break upon congealed or ossified ‘Tradition’, on the other hand members of indigenous life worlds are prone to defend these same Traditions. So ‘modernization is a gripping, monumental drama with promises and risk.’