Monday, December 17, 2018

Anonymous Quotes

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.

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Life is neither a race nor a business.

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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.

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There are two mysteries still: LIFE and CONSCIOUSNESS.
We have both. Let us celebrate. 

Religious experience is as valid as any other to the experiencer.
Mythology is more useful than history to mind.




Suffering is the price for being virtuous. (A variant of 'virtue is its own reward!)

 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 ·
I am not the body, but I am nobody without the body.

 5/7/18
Struggle is not just inevitable, but necessary for life.
July 3, 2014 ·
Everyone, howsoever high, has a right to stupidity. Under this rule, everyone has a right to question others' stupidity.
June 11, 2014 ·
You are rich not by what you have but by what you spend.

June 7, 2014 ·
I met God and asked him, 'Who is your authentic representative on earth?'
He said, 'I have not appointed any.'
June 3, 2014 ·
All our vital functions (breathing, blood circulation, digestion, response to stimulus, etc.) are involuntary. We exercise choice and express opinions on what is not vital to biological living or the onward march of the world and life. That is the level of our importance.
May 29, 2014 ·
God is not the unknown, but the truth and substance behind the known. 

May 29, 2014 ·
To believe in God requires just faith. To assert that there is no God requires प्राज्ञता (total knowledge).
April 27, 2014 ·
Ultimately, we do not matter. But, that does not matter now.

April 14, 2014 ·
The wisdom of life appears to be:
Just be.
Be yourself.

April 5, 2014 
Creation seems to be a split second affair. Big Bang took a tiny fraction of a second. Evolution thereafter took ages. So with reproduction.
March 15, 2014 ·
"Go beyond language to meaning, and beyond meaning into life."
February 2, 2014 ·
Disorder is the order of the world.
- Second Law of Thermodynamics.

January 27, 2014 ·
Hospitals charge for treatment, but give infections free.

 December 26, 2015 ·
If you want to know god, do not read books, much less scripture. Look at nature and life. If you can lose yourself in its immediacy and intimate connection, you have realized god.
December 3, 2015 ·
We must know what we know; more importantly, we must know what we do not know.
September 12, 2015 ·
One day I was thinking about having the toilet inside the house. Then it occurred to me that anyway we carry it in our body all the time.
September 6, 2015 ·
Life is not a puzzle to solve; it is an opportunity to experience.

September 11, 2015 ·
If religion is 'pleasant illusion' (Russell), agnosticism is intellectual pleasure. Neither may matter for living.

 *Not only the intelligence of a genius, but also the stupidity of an idiot is the creation of god and with his grace.
June 6, 2015 ·
Often we trade others’ knowledge, not our own. If, for instance, I read Vedanta and parade what I read, I am simply acting as a conduit. That knowledge is still not mine because I have read, not experienced, it.
June 6, 2015 ·
I wonder whether life is not possible without questions (I do not say ‘shut out curiosity’), morals (I do not say, ‘be immoral’) and judgment (I do not deny the need for values).
May 3, 2015 ·
Marriage is a human institution. Heaven is in no way concerned with it. (Unfortunately, pun intrudes into my writing).
March 4, 2015 ·
We have an opinion on almost anything as we have an infinite stock of ignorance.

February 26, 2015 ·
Some people have a deep sense of mission about what other people should do.

 *Wisdom is in silence, in the silence of the wise not of the fool.
November 26, 2015 ·
Life evolves to preserve itself.
The justification why we live is we want to live. Any other reason is unnatural.
November 6, 2015 ·
Spirituality is not about continuity into the future, but contentment in the present.
October 10, 2015 ·
Frankness is not uttering what comes to mind. It may be rubbish and may not be of interest to others. Frankness is being honest in what we have to say. The golden rule is silence and not outspokenness.

October 10, 2015 ·
The highest superstition is that rationalists live a rational life. The biggest fraud is self-proclaimed godmen.
April 16, 2015 ·
Inequality is the driving force of life.

April 15, 2015 ·
Vedanta: To overcome शोकं one should come to grip with सोऽहं.

April 7, 2015 ·
Nature is god’s language and the only devabhasha. God is neutral to the languages human beings have developed for communication among themselves.
"God is beyond the senses, not beyond sense."

13/5/2003
Our desire to live permanently is killing most of us.

August 20, 2016 ·
There is no intention in nature that man should know everything.
July 7, 2016 ·
Peace is being at ease with what is.
June 10, 2016 ·
Nature does not follow reason. It chooses convenience. Human beings are part of nature and behave like nature does. The only difference is that they invent reason for what they do.

June 9, 2016 ·
To a samsari, god appears as the world. To a sanyasi, the world appears as god. The key word is 'appear.'

June 7, 2016 ·


A man may cook and do many things a woman does at home, he can break a home, but he can never make a home.
January 25, 2016 ·
My experience is real, but not sacrosanct. It is contextual, conditioned and passing. So it is for others. If I develop this good sense, I will enrich my life sharing from others' experience.
April 27, 2016 ·
Tradition is like a moving average. It is not fixed at a distant past.

April 25, 2016 ·
Truth is everywhere.
April 14, 2016 ·
We form opinions faster than we accumulate knowledge.

April 14, 2016 ·
In a world where everything passes, let not our mind stay fixed. When the mind moves on to take the new experience, life is rewarding.

April 1, 2016 ·
Each life is a miniature universe.
January 4, 2016 ·
Action is not necessarily the result of knowledge, but of the want of body and mind.
October 23, 2017 ·
Just as our senses are outward looking, our action is future oriented.

October 22, 2017 ·
As I see it, there are just two ways of coping with life. The first is to pray for and hope that that which is good happens to us. The second is taking all that has happened as for the good.
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We must know what we know; more importantly, we must know what we do not know. 


January 26, 2017 ·
16/8/2003
The whole truth is beyond us though within us.
3/12/18

Life is not about logic, law or contract.
4/11/18

A few stray observations.
*I feel that there is a whole that appears to human intellect and mind in several ways like space-time, mass-energy, matter-spirit continuums. It does not care for insignificant things like human beings which are a flash in the pan.

*Religion and rituals are creation of man, and can help genuinely, like so many other ideas of man enrich his life.

*We have no means of verifying another’s experience as each of us live in a world of our own though we share a common stock (subjectively, i.e. our genes are inter-related, and objectively, i.e. there is one and the same reality out there.)

*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.
30/9/18

We should never argue with the wise or the foolish. If we argue, the wise will think that we already know, and stop sharing their wisdom. If we argue with the foolish, they will think that we do not know, and will start sharing more of their foolishness. I have made it clear where I belong!
26/9/18

Diligence matters more than intelligence.
20/8/18 
We must give up the idea of god’s curse. One who curses cannot be god.
5/7/18
Struggle is not just inevitable, but necessary for life.
28/6/18
Excessive concern for future may undermine it by endangering the present.
22/5/18

 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.
8/5/18
Who is the most unenviable scapegoat?
GOD!
No wonder that he is ever in hiding.
September 25 ·
Each one of us is unique and one-off.
September 9 ·
Life is about experience or reminiscing it.
What about dreams? They are the best experience.

September 4, 2018
The mind doesn’t understand the limitations of the body.
July 14, 2018 ·
A human being has the opposites in him as the world has the opposites in it.
June 27, 2018 ·
It is strange that people invent god to justify morality and then believe that god will pardon their immorality if prayed to!
August 4, 2018 ·
No matter how good a life one has led, at the end it is declared as some failure.

August 2, 2018 ·
We should not fob off socially undesirable things as divinely sanctioned.

November 25, 2015


Life evolves to preserve itself.
The justification why we live is we want to live. Any other reason is unnatural.

Stories are written in third person and sometimes in first person. Both are stories.

Each life is a miniature universe.


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17/5/2010

Dating, mating and parting seems to be the crux of life and novels in USA.
3/10/2000

This life appears to be complete in itself.

 (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

If you want to know god, do not read books, much less scripture. Look at nature and life. If you can lose yourself in its immediacy and intimate connection, you have realized god.

September 12, 2015


Age

Age is a question of control. Youth knows no control. Maturity is in control. Old age is when control is lost involuntarily.

23/8/2003
It is difficult to find a man not ruled and overruled by a woman.

25/10/2003
Wisdom helps in coming to the right conclusion.

Wisdom is in not coming to a conclusion.

 April 06, 2015



God's language


Nature is god’s language and the only devabhasha. God is neutral to the languages human beings have developed for communication among themselves.

March 11, 2015

May 1983
Theism

An atheist is emphatic that God does not exist, for, that which he does not understand is non-existent.  A theist believes in God for the same reason. What we cannot understand ought not only to exist but also should be infinitely wiser and more powerful than we are. Agnostics think they are the cleverest because they claim that they do not know. 

October 16, 2014



* The idea to pair is imbedded in us since the time a pair got that idea.

* It must be possible to relate with Reality, but not to relate It.

5th Oct. 2010
There arise from time to time men who make us believe in the importance of virtue, avoidability of sin and advantage of faith. We are drawn to them and we respect them and we even canonize them, do anything but follow them.



Apl 2010
Not that I know to talk less but I know less to talk.

Life is one per cent sense and ninety-nine per cent nonsense and fools stick to one per cent.

Jul 2010
To be sure, the cynic has a place in the world. But being a cynic, he may not find it.

24/3/2011
Gossip…Hear it, but do not act on it or form an opinion based on it. All of us are prone to uttering a comment or two here and there, which rather reflects an opinion carried to us than our own.
13/10/2011
The past is not relevant except to the extent it is already imbedded in the present.


Success can never be the basis of life. In our adult life, our journey is a search for truth in all that we are engaged in.
17/12/2012

We must stop reasoning if we want to understand God.

July 04, 2014



diary 2007


நீ உடம்பு இல்லை என்று உற்று உணர்ந்த ஞானியர் சொன்னார்.
உடம்பை ஜாக்ரதையாகப் பார்த்துக்கொள் என்று உற்றாரும் மற்றாரும் சொன்னார்.
'You are not the body' said realised gnaanis.
'Take care of your body,' said relatives and friends.

From my diary (2007)
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

God is not the unknown, but the truth and substance behind the known.

To believe in God requires just faith. To assert that there is no god requires प्राज्ञता (total knowledge).

Diary 8.4.2008

Before retirement, work used to come in between worrying. I am now free to worry without hindrance.

March 31, 2014



Bacteria in our gut

From my diary (2007)
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.

31/8/2001
We learn when we teach.
We learn a lesson when we try to teach a lesson.


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.

13/9/2002

Nothing has validity beyond the axioms and first principles from which 
they are derived and built. It all boils down to : Is anything true in 
absolute sense?
‘Yes’ says religion, ‘can’t say’ says science and ignoramuses claim ‘no’.

7/2/2003
Renunciation is misunderstood. We do not renounce the world. How is it possible? We are here. We renounce desire, and action 
based on desire.



13/5/2003
Our desire to live permanently is killing most of us.

We try to live through our children. 

Tradition serves a purpose; it imparts stability and continuity. 
Beyond that, to be rooted in the past entirely will be a grave error. 
The modern man is a vastly improved and revised edition of his 
early ancestors and it will be suicidal to revert to a primitive stage.


Jun 30, 2004
We are marked by the choices we make not by the results.

A Bhaktha identifies God with what he does not understand, 
Gnani by what he understands or rather by the simple experience of 
understanding. A fool does neither.

Let us not go to God as escapism or for wish fulfilment. 

Oct, 2004

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.


Dec 25, 2004 Tsunami

Neither nature nor God can be called kind. There is no explanation for 
the havoc. One sufferer goes about visiting shrines (Velankanni) in gratitude 
for getting a son only to lose him to the waves. Nature is neutral across 
religions. 


Jan 28, 2005
I consider all scriptures as products of human origin and as evolved over time 
rather than as revealed at a time. They contain both grand and silly ideas. 

June 26, 2005 

Mere existence and awareness is joy.

Truth, strangely, is like a thief. It does not give out itself easily, whether in worldly matters like crime and responsibility, or in esoteric matters like what reality is.
If we keep seeking truth in whatever we are engaged in, it is joy and makes us free. 

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.

 10/9/2000

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.

Skill depends on attention and retention. Attitude depends on culture and upbringing. 

Putting the loved one before self is love; not putting before all others in public space.

We should not fall into the false notion that we should grow out of being a child. A child enjoys simple things and is spontaneous, unreserved, innocent and non-discriminating. 

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.

 

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Mixing faith and business lowers the sanctity of faith.

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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. 

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Life is a mystery.

Science tries to find it out.

Religion pretends to have found it out.

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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.

 

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Atheists are more bigoted than believers and more intensely desirous of converting believers to atheists.

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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.

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Wisdom is not a function of age, but of sensible and consistent experience.

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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.

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The whole universe throbs with life, biological life being a differentiation.

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All hatred is bad including brahmin hatred and modi hatred,

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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. 

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