A cynic has a place in the world, but being a cynic he may not find it.
Friendship transcends ideologies
and economics (not friend in need) and is soul to soul stringless connect.
Faith is discerning, not blinding; liberating, not binding.
Advaita mediates, as it were, between atheism and implicit faith.
Our dreams and our progeny as toddlers hold
a mirror to who we are.
Nov
23, 2006
We
need God for here and now, for transacting business in this world.
God’s guidance comes. It is palpable, though subtle.
Dec 10, 2000
We
can manage only simple things. Complex things are either involuntary or
evolutionary.
Accept what IS. That is PEACE.
God is in the seen, but unseen.
15/10/2000
Man
is not a rational animal, but a rationalising one. He clutches at reason when
reason is on his side.
Oct
12, 2000
Let
us understand life. After-life will take care of itself.
Our
life is incomplete as long as we believe in miracles. Dependence is the basis
of life- its pleasures and sorrows. Freedom is the basis of ananda.
Life
is meant for idle pursuits. We struggle unnecessarily.
God is intelligible to
the innocent, not to the intelligent.
20/9/2000
This
world is imitative and reciprocative. The good we do comes back redoubled.
The
hurt we send round comes back to us well nourished and grown up.
Sep
9, 2000
All
our problems arise when we look at others. We get justice, happiness when we
look at ourselves.
*
Life is neither a race nor a business.
*
29/7/2001
Life
is more chemistry than mathematics or physics. It is more emotional than
rational. It has more to do with trial and error than planning and perfection.
*
Religious experience is as valid as any other to the experiencer.
The world may be perfect; what is imperfect may be the way we look at it with wishful expectation from an anthropocentric perspective.
That faith is inferior, which claims to be superior.
Soul is like electron. It is elusive if you try to fix it.
Nothing is a miracle; many tings are beyond human comprehension.
Any truth is alloyed when it comes through human mind.
August 6, 2014 ·
5/7/18
December 26, 2015 ·
*Not only the intelligence of a genius, but also the stupidity of an idiot is the creation of god and with his grace.
*Wisdom is in silence, in the silence of the wise not of the fool.
*Science and religion have both sprung from the same human minds. There is no way to tell that science can tell us all the answers we are looking for. There is no way even to tell that the answers we have got are final.
*We lead our life by instinct and on impulse, seldom in accordance with reason. Economists also have realized that their basic assumption of rational human behaviour is at the root of economic theory going haywire!
*Life is a lot of fun one way or another. We must be who we are and at what we are doing. That is the only lesson worth learning and giving if asked.
Excessive concern for future may undermine it by endangering the present.
Love creates a bonding, marriage creates a bond and often married life boils down to a bondage. Many think that our using English is a token of bondage to colonialism.
GOD!
No wonder that he is ever in hiding.
November 25, 2015
Each life is a miniature universe.
(13.1.2007)
Jan 13
Millions of bacteria live in our gut. – Economist.
Maybe they think that God has created such a fortified and cozy shelter for their living.
December 25, 2015
god
September 12, 2015
Age
April 06, 2015
God's language
March 11, 2015
October 16, 2014
* It must be possible to relate with Reality, but not to relate It.
July 04, 2014
diary 2007
உடம்பை ஜாக்ரதையாகப் பார்த்துக்கொள் என்று உற்றாரும் மற்றாரும் சொன்னார்.
'You are not the body' said realised gnaanis.
'Take care of your body,' said relatives and friends.
News: 'Millions of bacteria live in our gut..in human encasing.'
Maybe, they think that God has created such a fortified and cosy structure for their living.
May 29, 2014
God and belief
To believe in God requires just faith. To assert that there is no god requires प्राज्ञता (total knowledge).
Diary 8.4.2008
March 31, 2014
Bacteria in our gut
News: 'Millions of bacteria live in our gut..in human encasing.'
Maybe, they think that God has created such a fortified and cosy structure for their living.
13/9/2002
Oct, 2004
June 26, 2005
We lead life not on evidence,
reason and proof, but on hope, trust and faith.
All that supports life is sacred.
My life is adequate to believe in god, I do not need any evidence from outside.
Mistakes make the world possible.
The due process of law leads to
undue delay, even denial, of justice.
Faith and family act as anchor to life.
A perfect state is where no action is needed. It is an idle state.
13/9/2000
Freeing
oneself from responsibilities is different from fleeing from them.
15/4/2001
Face the
world, do not flee from it. There is nowhere to flee.
20/9/2000
This
world is imitative and reciprocative. The good we do comes back redoubled.
21/9/2000
Association
often produces an attachment which may not be explained by values and virtues.
God is
love and love is God. A person full of love is love and hence God.
25/9/2000
To be
able to create is the best; not being able, to enjoy another’s creation is the
best.
3/10/2000
We are
ethically disturbed. Not that we do not have enough, but that others appear to
have more than they deserve. We apply ethics to others which we ourselves do
not follow.
7/10/2000
I must
be clever. I write down thoughts that are likely to put me in good light in one
way or the other. Do I write down all my thoughts- if it is possible?
15/10/2000
Man is
not a rational animal, but a rationalising one. He clutches at reason when
reason is on his side.
29/7/2001
Some
people appear to be in command of their actions and destiny; some others appear
content to be part of a current.
Life is
more chemistry than mathematics or physics. It is more emotional than rational.
It has more to do with trial and error than planning and perfection.
31/8/2001
We learn when we teach.
We learn a lesson when we try to teach a lesson.
2000
Aug 19
Why look at a man what he lacks unless to fill his needs? Why not look at him what he has that is pleasing to share without his ever wincing a bit?
The
flower in the shrub, the shrub in the woods and the woods in their isolation
give greater joy than when man in his selfishness wants to possess it as his
exclusive property.
Dec 26
There is no greater purpose of life than living it. Or, more aptly, there is no other purpose of life than living it.
The
only use of wealth is ability to promote welfare of those who wield it but also
many others. Otherwise it is canker.
Certain
things can be understood but can never be proved. How do we prove the intention
of a person?
1/11/2000
Science
has knocked the bottom out of science.
Religion
has knocked the bottom out of religion.
Language
has knocked the bottom out of language.
15/4/2001
It is
the artist, the poet who grasps Truth, not the philosopher. The philosopher
destroys truth by dissecting it.
17/9/2001
A secret has no charm when you can’t say it to another person; it ceases to be a secret when you tell it.
7/2/2003
Virtue and worship only can lead to God realisation.23/9/2001
We sacrifice our future by trying to defend our past.
The easiest way to Truth is to forget altogether the consequences of finding it or living it.
The best way to help others is to help yourself and act fearlessly.
Hurt is
caused by hurt and ego.
13/5/2003
Our desire to live permanently is killing most of us.
We try
to live through our children.
1998
1. Life may become extinct if
everyone follows a policy of no killing.
2. At a fully rational level
there will be no justification for life as we live it normally.
3. Life is a journey on the
wheels of emotion. Ego, ambition and desires provide the motives for action.
29.3.99
To see others happy is the best way to be happy.
12.1.2000
A decision is not ‘yes’ or
‘no’. It is a commitment.
May 31
Conviction leads to action. Sometimes action may lead to conviction.
Jun 30
We are
marked by the choices we make not by the results.
Oct 12, 2004
Let us understand life. After-life will take care of itself.
Our life is incomplete as long as we believe in miracles. Dependence is the basis of life- its pleasures and sorrows. Freedom is the basis of ananda.
Life is
meant for idle pursuits. We struggle unnecessarily.
Aug 5, 2004
Many of us stick at nothing. We are not focused. We are not sure of ourselves. The winners are focused and do not run away with every leaning of the mind.
Trust but not blindly, and check at random unobtrusively.
Give benefit of doubt if there is doubt.
Take a total view in a calm moment.
Let not the past as a drag. No one or nothing is the same for ever.
A robust seed when planted and nurtured yields multiple seeds. Life is a robust seed. If fortified with faith and nurtured with effort, it will blossom forth and yield multiple fruits.
Everything is in movement about
itself and in its sphere. This movement follows a rhythm and is life.
Biological life is an offshoot of it.
Listen to others, but follow your judgment.
Whatever idea you get, you will find that it had been stolen by someone or other before you were born!
Whatever idea you get, you will find that it had been stolen by someone or other before you were born!
One is not wise by what he says, but by what he is. Actually, a wise one seldom speaks.
Putting the loved one before self is love; not putting before all others in public space.
Life is rich. One is rich not by possessions
but by attitude to life.
Comfort of existence is not the
same as vibrancy of life.
Dreams and our progeny hold a
mirror to our personality.
* Expansionism is bad, be it in
territory, religion or language.
We are here by choice favoured by
chance. Life is about choice and chance.
Sanctity of
liberty is subordinate to sanctity of nation. If nation is considered a notion,
so is liberty.
To live with a pure conscience is
dharmam.
To live in (/as) pure consciousness
is satyam.
All are capable of arriving at
truth, but lies are charming and seductive.
Neither is Hinduism a religion nor India a nation. Both are loose conglomerates.
When two civilisations clash can either of them be called a civilisation?
I exist.
I know that I exist.
That is bliss.
(sat-chit-anandam)
Individuality is a myth. We are part of a system like family, nation, and are tethered to their poles.
* We strive in
vain to preserve a past that is gone for good
* There are no final answers to
basic questions.
*Head, like father, sends
instructions and controls all limbs including heart. Heart, like mother, sends
oxygen and nourishment to all limbs including head, and protects.
* Hinduism
and Samskrtam have been intertwined with Tamizh and Tamizh culture for all
known history.
*
Mixing faith and business lowers
the sanctity of faith.
*
God, a much bandied word
* I have reason to believe in god. I
have no sense of mission to convince others about it, or the need for others to
approve it
* I am a Hindu. I am proud to
say that. I believe in God as being, knowing and wanting nothing, not even our
glorification and prayer.
* Miracles deny a straightforward
and reasonable god.
* All evidence needed for life is
before us. We should not look for evidence, message or revelation secretly
delivered to others, or divine incarnations unknown to us. God is broadminded
and would deal directly with us. He has no sole or multiple selling agents.
* This life is the only and one-off
gift of god.
* Grace, restraint, memory of the
good, and cheerful good wishes to all - are unmistakable signs of maturity.
* Most of us are literate, many
numerate, a few educated.
Spirituality
* It is satisfying to think that I
am a fresh mistake rather than a carry-over mistake.
* Individual soul is an illusion.
It does not make sense to think of eternity for an illusion.
* Separateness from the world
is an illusion.
*People pay heed to biological
needs rather than to scriptural injunctions.
* SUBJECT
INCOME OF ALL GODMEN OF WHATEVER HUE TO SOME PUBLIC AUDIT. THERE IS NOTHING
HOLY IN MONEY.
* Politicking on rapes is as great a
crime; so is media competition for visibility.
*We are one with what looks to
be outside us. Caring for what looks to be outside is caring for ourselves.
*We should not harm any being
or thing as far as possible.
*
Life is a mystery.
Science tries to find it out.
Religion pretends to have found
it out.
*
It is important to be right
rather than try to prove to be right. In conventions, beliefs and etiquettes,
ususally it is a matter of conformity as they are arbitrary.
*
Atheists are more bigoted than
believers and more intensely desirous of converting believers to atheists.
*
A good answer
is often one that is shorter than the question. The more detailed the answer,
the more questions it raises.
* It is not
only the most brilliant, but also the most stupid, that receive god’s grace.
Like sunshine it is availbale to all.
*Liberalism loses face when it discountenances an opposite opinion.
*
Wisdom
is not a function of age, but of sensible and consistent experience.
*
The
biggest disease is the constant feeling of lack of something.
ABC law
is for choosing what to do. All chosen things need the same intensity of
attention.
செய்வன திருந்த செய் (Do well what you do).
Peace will prevail if the abrahamic
faiths accept each other and stop propaganda for conversion.
*
The whole universe throbs with life, biological
life being a differentiation.
*
All hatred is bad including brahmin
hatred and modi hatred,
*
Civilisation is glorified
exploitation, the privileged exploiting the poor as slaves or cheap labour.
This life is sadgathi.
I feel no need for, or possibility
of, any other.
Nov 10, 2006
When you take the attitude of being content with what comes your way, you cannot complain of what comes.
Jul 29, 2006
Speech and literacy are the bane of humanity.
Aug 11, 2006
There is a tussle between what is and what should be. Life is what is, but has to be lived on a practical ‘what should be’.
Sep 4, 2006
We have to find meaning in life, not away from it.
All known facts and experience should accord with our beliefs.
Sep 6, 2006
The hurt we send round comes back to us well nourished and grown up.
Oct 2.
1006
You may
be in abundant company while alone; you may be lonely in a crowd.
Oct 5,
1006
NOTHINGNESS:
it stares you in the face. That is nothing, this is nothing, everything is
nothing.
Sep 6,
2006
The
hurt we send round comes back to us well nourished and grown up.
.. knows a lot to talk; it requires further
knowledge, nay, wisdom, to be pithy.
Sep 9,
2006
All our problems arise when we look at others. We get justice, happiness when we look at ourselves.
Oct 2,
2006
You may be in abundant company while alone; you may be lonely in a crowd.
Oct 5,
2006
NOTHINGNESS: it stares you in the face. That is nothing, this is nothing, everything is nothing.
Love is
wanting a person, not counting his or her abilities or idiosyncracies.
We all tend to share our misery. That is why the world is so full of misery. If we share our happiness, it will be full of happiness.
Nov 10,
2006
When
you take the attitude of being content with what comes your way, you cannot
complain of what comes.
Jan 2,
2006
Life is
not as simple as it appears, nor is it as complicated as we make it to be.
V : It
is a fancy statement, but does not make sense.
Truth
is lost in words. The more elaborate we set it out, the more entangled or
mangled it becomes.
Truth
is lost in any attachment. Attachment to God- Bhakthi- is no exception.
Mar 2,
2006
Our
belief does not affect the reality out there.
Does
there exist anything out there beyond our belief?
Mar 31,
2006
If we
can establish continuity, soul and God will make sense.
Jan 13,
2006
Millions
of bacteria live in our gut. – Economist.
Maybe
they think that God has created such a fortified and cozy shelter for their
living.
Jun 4, 2006
We have so much but not what we want.
Dec 22, 2006
My faith varies with my fortunes.
Oct 25, 2006
It is not wise to learn from your mistakes if you can learn
from others’ mistakes.
Oct 28, 2006
There are two ways of going out of business. One is by doing
business and the other is by not doing. The former is preferable.
I will have nothing to do with a religion which claims to have done the thinking for me.
24.2.2000
There is one absolute truth; there is no absolute truth.
Apl 11, 2005
Nobody owes a duty to keep me at ease or happy. I have to earn it!
Apl 19, 2005
We act from several disjointed moods. Our actions do not conform to a pattern. Great people act from an internal integrity and a steady state.
Apl 27, 2005
It is total effulgence hidden in the dark.
2005
Space and time are infinite, but are limited in their availability to us. Efficient use of both is therefore necessary.
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