Death – an act of black magic where time is witch

          Time is both a protagonist and antagonist. It introduce new people, instills new memories to one’s life and at the same time takes from our life ruthlessly. Time doesn’t haggle with anyone. The last act time performs is make disappear someone you know for long or even a short time. We come across meeting many strangers in our day-to-day life. When we may spend time with them even for few minutes and when you hear the person you met is no more it seems hard to contemplate with reality. Deep in your memory you know met the person, talked and even shake hands. You can still feel the touch. But that person is no more.  You can’t reach the person in both time and distant. Vanished in sands of time.

Memories with the person are struck between dream and reality. Death is a boon to human kind and doom to people who are attached to the lost ones.

Farther we connect, closer we lose.

Most of us are familiar with a story of a boy who is in pursuit of happiness meeting an intellectual king. The story goes with boy asking king "how can I find unbridled happiness all through my life?" King rather answering directly gives him a demo. He gives boy a spoon with oil in it and asks him to see the city. Boy concentrating on spoon and oil in it, doesn't observe the beauty surrounding him. When boy returns, king asks "what did you see?" Boy replies, " I didn't see anything as I was concentrating on oil in spoon". Now king takes back his condition of not spilling oil and once again asks boy to surround the city. This time boy explains the beauty of what he saw. But when king asks about oil in spoon, there will be nothing left in it. Then king with slight smile enlightens boy by saying "happiness lies around you when you observe it and unite with it, at the same time protecting what you have"

Similar to the boy who has been given spoon with oil in it, we got our mobiles and tablets in our hands. Their only strategy is divide and rule. They have become an appendage to us. We all are succumbed to it and became blind towards nature's beauty, deaf against its sounds, dumb to express feelings. We stopped talking with friends in a group, family during dinner, relatives in functions instead created groups in mobiles and social sites by common names. This addiction even made us to develop a new psychological disorders like "Nomophobia" which is fear of being without our mobile. According to few empirical evidence about 90% of people are suffering with "phantom vibration syndrome", "ringxiety or fauxcellarm", hallucinations of vibrations and phone rings. This new psychological pandemic is slowly spreading without our conscious. In long terms people with more usage of cell phones may get associated with risk of glioma (brain tumor) in long term. There isn't enough proof to support the amount of exposure and length of duration toward mobiles. Cell which we discovered for our needs is damaging the cells which we have been gifted.

If by chance we have been given an extra hand, eye and ear in evolution we might have been used for an extra mobile. If this continues, in future we might become cyborgs. Inception of new evolution. Take preventive measures like using headset, keeping it far from you. If possible live a day every week without carrying it. For every discovery there will be a red flag rising at some point of time. Everyone should be aware and beware of that. Technology should only suffice our needs, not our greed's.

Ubiquity of Safety

An ode to our protectors

Yudhistar, or more evocative moniker – Dharmaraju, quoted a famous line: ‘the most interesting thing in the world is “people die every day yet rest live as if they are immortal”’.

Whenever I evoke this beautiful sentence, it feels different. Feeling which I couldn’t pen down. We may list many reasons which make us unaware for ‘fear of death’. But the only reason for having reasons for this unawareness is feeling of safety and secure is YOU. Your presence at borders securing through land, air and water. The hope you give to us by seeing sunrise, walking through roads and streets, having lunch with family and friends, late night parties, sound sleep in colorful dreams. It’s like a Groundhog Day, happy and living the dream.

                You fighting with days, nights, seasons, enemies and emotions of your families oxygenates our lives. Everything you does is not like a duty our government officials does inside the country. You take it as a responsibility protecting family of 1.25 billion. How can we make ourselves worth protected?

                We didn’t met each other. We haven’t seen each other faces. We are from different areas, ethnicity, culture, religion. We speak of different languages. Yet you care for us without expecting anything in return. You fight for the nation, nation that calls under the same name, pins our heart with same flag. What can we give you?

                I dint think of you until my friend suggested to write something about you. I know you are there all the time watching over us. When I am writing this article, my thoughts struck for sometimes. In all lines I referred you as “YOU”. This article can also be read in perspective of GOD. Wait a minute, I didn’t see GOD, we didn’t see GOD, and we didn’t see YOU too. All we need from GOD is safety and protection. Unlike us and like HIM, you too don’t see the barriers between us. In return, what can we show you?

                This writing has to end somewhere with a dot, but not our love towards you and you caring for us. Thank-you seems to be the least word to repay you. The only way we can show ourselves worth protecting is by living far from intolerances and chaos our politicians create. WE STAY UNITED.

Change is essence of system

Rules need to be reformed. Laws have to be reshaped. They must be transient.

Our mythology itself says that. What king “Ram” did in his stint is good at that time. “Bhishma” and “Vidhur” did the same during their term, but it didn't help them in preventing “Kurukshetra”. “Krishna” was right in his period.

Water in liquid form only can satisfy our thirst. We provide necessary changes to keep water free from vaporizing and freezing in hot and cold areas. We provide storage facilities during rainy seasons forecasting future needs. Everyone creates their own boundaries for necessity of living. In the same way system should also create and impose rules and laws for necessity of living in a society. But these have to flexible, tough and resilient in their respective times and environment.

In China, which adopted “one-child policy” to bring control of surging population was right at that time. Now they back stepped from the policy, which is mandatory and right now.

No system should be made of static laws.

Suicide is not an option in democratic jungle

In a forest there was a time where deer’s are at extinction. They feared the future and decided to revolt against their predators. One amongst them was so sensitive; it sacrificed its life attempting suicide. The rest of the deer’s empathized its death and in grief they started revolting in rage. Hearing this lion came to express its consolidation. Frightened by their unity and rage, the lion left from there. After a few days, tigers came there to support their revolt. Deer’s showed their rage against them. Despite fearing their unity, they came forward in support. Seeing this few deer’s escaped from there for their lives. Others offered the carcass of dead deer to tigers. Satisfying their hunger on that deer, they started supporting them in protest.

What the remaining deer’s didn't think of is “tigers hunger was satisfied temporarily, they start feeding on them once they feel hunger again”.

Dead deer couldn't forecast that “its mere sacrifice is not going to bring any change in their lives; rather it is used as bait for its predators”.

Lions are the kings of jungle with power, tigers may not be kings but they are powerful.

Lion = politicians in power, tiger = opposition, deer’s = people who are suffering in different areas under different situations. Dead deer = people who sacrifice their lives for change.

Your death doesn't bring change you expected. You leave an intractable pain in your parents, friends and beloved ones.

FIGHT IS RIGHT; FIGHT FOR RIGHT; RIGHT IS MIGHT

Within finite there is infinite

Within finite there is infinite. You have to just accept without barriers.

God is of many forms. He/she/it is/are "nirgun niraakaar". Nothingness. Everything. Infinite. If you see avatars closely, you will notice something intriguing. God is making different forms to reach you. Finally it is you. "Aham Brahmasmi" I am Brahma, "tatvam asi" So are you.

The avatars of GOD is reaching you and finally becoming you goes in an order:

Matsya - reaches water
Kurma - both water and land
Varaha - land
Narasimha - half human
Vamana - child
Parashurama - human with immortality
Rama - perfect human with mortality "Maryada purushothama
Krishna - imperfect intriguing human with dharma.

one plus one

An Indian standing on roads in hot mid-day to keep the hopes of families alive.

After satisfying our hunger, I and my friend headed back to home. As many other people I was also careless for my safety in driving. I didn't strap my helmet. Not everyone would be lucky like me;when I stopped at a traffic signal, this Indian from somewhere came to me holding a placard saying “strap your helmet” written in “red”. I thanked him with big heart who is so generous in reminding once safety.Strapped my helmet and resumed my journey as green reflected. My bike kept its motion, but not my heart. I wanted to know about this person who is standing alone under hot sun directing everyone their own safety. He is not related with anyone except by “humanity” which most of us forget. I took an U-turn (remember life isn't a U-turn) and met him. 

His name was Ganesh presently working for Cognizant, Chennai. He met with an accident near Shilparamam, Hyderabad. He broke his collar bone but was saved because of his safety steps “Wear Helmet and Strap it”. He then started by taking a bold decision “I will make sure everyone follows safety”. As Sirivennala once said “Someone Somewhere should take a step forward for good cause”. He is doing it whenever he finds time irrespective of places. I couldn't just thank him but I promise from now I too will take initiative in any good cause.

“DRIVE SAFE AND MAKE ROADS SAFER AND YOUR LIFE SAFEST."