India, the spiritual capital

10 years from now India is sure to be a superpower, but what use will it be of, if it loses its virtue towards its long-run tradition and spirituality. Our mistake is that, like the western scientists, we too think that spiritual researches have nothing to do with materialization. But we must remember that our ancestors lived more happily than us and they were more cultured than us. Here, I mean those ancestors who lived some 2000 years and ago. Innovations in science and technology come only after inner spiritual intuition. We should remember that Einstein used his mind as his lab.

We have discovered many mysteries about human brain, but, still we have not mastered to use it to its full potential. Unlike other countries, India has rich amount wisdom in its Vedas. Have we understood the complete meaning of all Vedic verses? They contain infinite wisdom hidden in metaphors and symbols. If we could analyse them scientifically we can solutions to many problems of this world.

For example, consider the Yoga treatment, which cures many diseases without any medicine. We have started researches on yoga, Indian medicines and many other Indian practices. But, a massive revolution is needed now by which each developed country should start a University for spiritual studies.

We know that India is the home of greatest Yogis of the world. Their writings have revealed that we have they treasure box, but, have not opened it. Sri Paramahansa Yoganandha, the author of Autobiography of a Yogi, said that India has lost the knowledge of balancing material and spiritual life. The West knows how to triumph materially and the East knows how to be spiritually successful, both having ignored the other side. But India had known that balancing art long ago and it is the right time to make her remember of her past knowledge with help of advancement in science.

Swami Yukteshwar (guru of Sri Paramahansa Yoganandha) calculated the cyclic pattern of Yugas. We know that there are four Yugas and we know only that. Many of us have been thinking that, we are now in Kali Yuga, the worse among the four. Though scriptures specify the period of Kali Yuga as 1200 years, some scholars say that they meant “years of gods”, where each year has 360 ordinary years. That concludes the length of Kali Yuga as 432,000 years, which is wrong.

According to the correct calculations of Swami Yukteshwar, the period of each Yuga is:

Kali à1200 years

Dwapara à2400 years

Treta à3600 years

Satya à4800 years

By his calculations we are now living in Dwapara Yuga, the electrical age as quoted by Sri Paramahansa Yoganandha. In the collection of his talks, The Divine Romance, he says: “…..we are about 240 years into Dwapara Yuga, the second age, which consists of 2400 years. Now in its ascendancy, this is the electrical age, even though it may yet seem materialistic……In this age, man will make great headway in the electrical or electromagnetic field of science.

As Dwapara Yuga progresses, diseases will be treated and healed more and more by rays. Vibratory energy can reach the electronic factors of the atoms, the building blocks of matter, where gross chemicals cannot penetrate. After this war, you will see a great surge of development in electrical science. Aviation will develop tremendously also.”(This talk was given during World War II.)

From this we can realize that we have the keys of wisdom with us, without using them. Vedas are not just soothsayers, but, they are solutions to practical problems of this world. So, creating research centres to study them in relation with modern practices of technology will surely unveil advanced technologies ahead of our age.

Imagine a world were people could live healthy and wealthy, just by changing their thought pattern. By changing the thought pattern and by scientific approach to our ancient Vedic literature, we can achieve this. But, I am sure that this idea is purely scientific and not irrelevant to materialistic approach. Until we are sure about something, we do not accept into scientific category. Consider the simple example of flooring with cow dung. Scientists have now accepted the microbiological thinking of our ancestors. I do not mean that we should go back to such extent, but, we should realize that there is a way which would make us lead a satisfied, successful, advanced life at a very low cost. We have ignored it so far.

To brief, I think that research on unleashing the mysteries of human brain and his psychic, physiological nature based on Vedas will lead to an advanced life of our people in this world.

Its raining outside. But I’m not in a mood to enjoy the climate. My academics needs a great boost-up. The needed boost-up is so great that I have to derive an excellent plan and work very rigorously. My inner restlessness must be cured. I know I can do all these things and even greater, but, there is slight vex because of having lost many good opportunities. Not once or twice, but innumerous times I was pardoned by God and given the next chance. I was given a plenty of time too. Its O.K. I still have time. I will continue to play this exciting game.

The other side

Einstein once said, “fifty-five minutes defining the problem and only five minutes finding the solution”. Yes, many of us find problem in finding what the problem actually is. By an example, I think I can help you solve it. Suppose that you’ve got low marks in your semester. Just think of what you did at the exam hall, the day just before the exam or what image you’ve been having in your mind about that subject in which you got low marks. The following might have happened:

Ø You were having a wrong image of the subject or its tutor/lecturer. Sol: I’ve been so for many times until I realized that it’s only the mind’s perception—if you think it’s difficult it is and if you think its not then it is never going to be.
The same case is with the lecturer-phobia also. I’ll tell you an incident that happened this very day, on how I got out of lecturer-phobia. Our lecturer for ICT( Information Coding Techniques), Ms.Bharathi, told us today to just give an intro’ of ourselves. We used think worse about her because she used to get free hours like Seminar hours, to lecture and also she used to take classes for 2hours, even at some afternoons. After finishing telling about ourselves we asked her to tell about herself. She had told us to tell about our schooling, hobbies, life’s good and bad experiences. She told us about a bad experience of her life: “ I stayed home for 1 year because my mother was ill that time. So I lost 1 year of experience due to my mother’s sickness.” She lost her words. Tears came up and filled her eyeballs and she was about to let them flow. And then she controlled herself. I’ve never seen any lecturer showing her face in such a situation like this. How much love she must’ve been having for her mother that, at the very spell of her mother’s sickness, she came down to cry. I salute her(do you?). And, she had thought that we’re worth of her sharing of feelings. Great.
I had thought she is a stubborn woman. I didn’t expect to see the kind-most other side of her. I thought that I should not have asked her to tell about herself, but, only because of her we have come to know really about her. All the students of our class were deeply moved when she was talking and the whole class was silent. Everyone ( yes, every human) has a very touching side that we often care not to see. Ask one of your lecturers this question. I definitely say—you will surely get at least one different answer ( as I ‘ve got). If you would like to send my mam, any wishes( or for her mother) mail me and I’ll convey her. Tell me your experiences regarding this, please. And, about the remaining, I’ll tell later.

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Everywhere around the world, people talk about ecological issues and fight against companies that destroy the environment. Also, we should think of helping the companies that help the Green Movements. For example, the TNPL is a wonderful government company that produces quality paper products from non-conventional resources like baggase (sugar-cane waste). There are many advantages in using TNPL papers:
· It is a government organization.
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· You can take part in boosting up the nation’s economy, because, it is an Indian Company ( a Tamil Nadu enterprise)
· TNPL does not make any compromises with the quality of its product. The papers are really nice.

There are also other paper-makers who make same kind of excellent notebooks, but, they don’t save forests, instead, they destroy them. I am not a TNPL worker, but still, I want to spread the use of TNPL papers, especially notebooks, just because they save forests. So, I request you to buy TNPL notes and also to tell your friends, relatives and others about this issue and encourage them to buy the TNPL products.