Fight for truth ..

The truth is already dead when either of the parties fight for "truth", coz truth is truth. I'm sure one of them would know the truth, and it is foolish if he fights for it knowing that it is true, and more foolish would be the other person who fights for the sake of just his own ego while his self knows that it is false.

I just realize these things when people try to proove themselves for petty things in this world by domination, shouting, harrassing, pulling the legs when they get chance just to proove themselves as right!!

As a spiritualist we can only learn to be detached from this world, else the progress on what the spiritualist would like to do will be hampered. The best way is to just listen to one's consciousness and move on. My Guru would say that, whenever any disturbing thoughts arise from inside or outside, the thoughts is to be treated as "barking dogs while the elephant move on". (This should not be taken in a negaitve way) .

The Baghvat-Gita says, to see people as Pure Self, which are eventually surrounded by egos which are actually talking. Otherwise it is the same God which has exposed in you is present in him too, except that he is blurred by this ego.

My personal experience would be to keep loving, it will easen both the parties .. :-). It's hard but this practice gives lots of happiness. I think this is called as a Child's heart ..

It's really a struggle to see someone as pure self when he is harrasing you from the other end, but this saintly journey is awesome, coz if this is not achieved, the fight would continue till the end of life, to proove correctness of oneself for lifeless things.

Coming to multitude of mishappenings in this world, where conventions are designed to selfish means, its perfectly not possible to set the world in the correct path, but one can correct himself and thats the highest duty/worship one can do to himself.

A peaceful progression towards truth, where others will learn from the correctitude of the truth will be the fruit of truth. The person who journies towards 'any' truth should maintain utmost silence, patience and prayers for the -ve'vity to nullify itself. A force taken in any form of verbal, action, or at the thought level against a -ve'vity is also violence, and will reflect the same.

hmm... striking hard to get not hurt by anyone around ..
Saravanan.

On 'Industrialization'

On Industrialization - An article by Amit Bhaduri, Professor of Economics, and Medha Patka, social activist. Got the link to this article from here. Some hard questions on industrialization and development. What is the actual cost of it and who are the real beneficiaries? To what extent do industrialists and governments go to realize industrialization? Is this the only way to go about it or is there a better way? Read the article to understand more about such questions.

Last days on earth

Last days on earth - A documentary aired on ABC news sometime ago on the top 7 reasons that scientists think could lead to our extinction or atleast to the destruction of civilization as we know it today. Pretty riveting and informative. Watch it when you find the time.

An interesting line from the documentary by a scientist featured in it - 'Its very ironical to think that we today possess the technology and intellect that could possibly save us from a killer asteroid but we do not seem to possess the same to save us from ourselves.' Truly ironical.

Al gore is also featured in it. He is asked a question that even if US reduces it emissions, unchecked growth in India and China will easily nullify the loss in emissions due to reductions in US. He says that by first reducing its emissions, the US can demonstrate leadership and will have the moral authority to require the rest of the world to reduce its emissions. Interesting comment.

அலுவலகம்

நான்கு மரச்சுவர்கலின் நடுவே
மின் அணு இயந்திரங்கள் சூழ
முடிவில்லாமல் பொருளைத்தேட
பொருலில்லாமல் வாழ்வை வாழ
வந்துள்ளேன் அலுவலகத்திற்கு

Every century starts with a single

I should attribute the first run to my room mates in Atlanta, Sundar, Naveen, Chetan and Mukund for joining the bandwagon to reduce the consumption of energy in daily life, to think about a practical solutions to take forward this to people. As a part of this measure, we are going to reduce the usage of plastics by reducing/recycling the plastics, reduce the consumption of electric energy by using energy efficient bulbs, public transports, limiting the usage of lifts/escalators and otherwise possible means of sharing resources.

I have no words but happiness for the energy shown by these guys. We are planning to write articles in GSU Signal, a weekly journal in our University, and also put posters in future.

Realizations are more than enough. It will take us in right path automatically.

-Saravanan mathialagan

What am I gonna do?

Natures response to growth and development

What am I gonna do about this? Crib about this, feel sad and then go and think about how selfish agents in a network coded multicast scenario can be coaxed not to lie.
Hahahahahaahahahahahaahahaha.

After all, what can I do. I myself am an infinitesimally small agent in the vast cosmos. It is perfectly fair (in fact they use the term rational for this) for me to think about my own future, my own career, my own family, my own whatnot. A future and career in a watery grave.

So, what am I gonna do. What else? Learn underwater swimming.

சிந்தித்தால் சிரிப்பு வரும்

Saranam

Came across Saranam in an article in rediff. Its a site that lets you perform pujas and homams (besides many other services) in temple of ur choice in ur absence. My first impression - the world could do with little less madness.

Another idea for madness - Wishes. Create a website which for a payment will send someone (of your choice of caste / creed / religion / sex / height / etc..) to convey your birthday / anniversary / seasons / whatever greetings to a person of your choice anywhere across the globe. This could guarantee the personal touch of ones wishes. I am sure we can think of many more. If you cant, let me know and Ill do that job for you (or atleast find someone who can do it) for a fee.

PS: This is NOT a critic of the website but of its customers who have been sustaining the site for about 7-8 years now.

It was a casual chat as usual with one my friend in london. I was repenting for the wrongs I had committed in my life and my friend was adivcing me from the other end. I was brave enough to accept my bad self, if at all it was all mine only. After the discussion, my heart craved for forgiveness, yet ready to accept anything in return.

I then went into deep thoughts into myself while I came across some good feelings, probably the best feelings ever had in my life. I would like to share with you all in this post. Just click the image file below.

I would like to name this post as "Cry.. here is the chance".





- Saravanan Mathialagan

எண்ணங்கள் - 2
A sequel to an earlier post

தீப்பந்து அல்ல ஆதவன்
சான்றோர்க்கு அவனே உயிரின் மூலாதாரம்

வெரும் நெருப்பென கூருவான் ஆதவனை
ஈன்றெடுத்தவளை இரசாயனங்கலின் கலவை எனக்கூருபவன்

குருதி இறைக்கும் இயந்திரம் அல்ல அது
அதுவே உயிர் இருக்கும் ஆலையம்

அறியாமல் செய்தால் தவறு
அறிந்து செய்தால் தப்பு
அறிய மறுத்தால் அது என்ன?

உயிரானது இயந்திரமாய் உயிரியலில்
இயற்கையானது பொருலாய் பெளதிகவியலில்
அன்பானது இரசாயனமாய் இரசாயனவியலில்
நாம் ஆனோம் எண்களாய் வர்த்தக கணிதத்தில்

பஞ்ச பூதங்கள் அன்று
பணம் சுரக்கும் பொருள் இன்று
தேவைகளை தீர்க்கும் தாய் அன்று
ஆசைகளை தீர்க்கும் மென்தோளாள் இன்று

உயிரை மறைக்கும் இயந்திரப்பார்வை
உயிரில் மறையும் இயந்திரப்பார்வை
அன்பை மறைக்கும் நான் எனும் எண்ணம்
அன்பில் மறையும நான் எனும் எண்ணம


PS:
1.) Some thoughts inspired by the book 'Turning point' by Fritjof Capra and the movie 'Mindwalk' which was based on the same book
2.) Obviously, the last one is heavily inspired from some other famous quadruplet :)

"Vazhvae thavam, Anbe Sivam"

Vazhvae Thavam

Every time I sit for morning meditation, I would feel very peaceful to detach myself from normal work and I would feel like doing a wonderful thing which alleviates me to higher planes. Nowadays I realize that neither spirituality stops in 1 hour meditation nor religion stops in a temple, it’s the life, a boon given to us itself is spirituality or religion or call whatever you want to call that.

Anbe Sivam

This is a life driven by love and this life according to me is given to achieve love. The biggest ever you will achieve in this life is love, which is nothing but God himself. For a period of time I felt 'Anbe Sivam' as an abstract statement but later realized that this is how life is interconnected,

when there is pure love there is always truth,

when there is truth there is always happiness,

when there is happiness there is always satisfaction,

when there is satisfaction there is always peace.

It boils down to "Vazhvae thavam, Anbe Sivam".

The real achievement is the search for love, anything other than that is all temporary. I can prove this by asking you to sit silently for 10 minutes and mull over this statement. Well coming to the point which I would like to express in this column, life should have been a platform of spirituality, over which a material platform (any work) should have been constructed. I feel it’s totally reverse now. We search life completely outside and not inside, and this imbalance results in destruction. You can see that currently.

Coming again to the discussions we had previously over technology and its bad results. I’m sure if scientist or politicians or capitalist if they had a spiritual platform would have definitely produced a product realizing its after effects and so that they would have not produced only.

The so called 'great achivement' of Nuclear Energy, plastics would be very appealing to the above statement. Its not the scientist alone to blame. Neither would we have satisfied with this life would have not kept on searching for technology and outside development till this life ends. We search money till 50 years and try to live a peaceful life for 10 years. I can’t accept this atleast.

This all makes me think and redefine life from what I'm currently doing. I'm still searching from where it is lost. I hope I find it.

-Saravanan Mathialagan

Events in Chennai

Exhibition, 9th to 21st April:
1000 Bhopal -
The photo exhibition primarily focuses on chemical pollution and its impact on human and environmental health and aims at raising awareness of the general public about the consumption of chemicals and its impact on the future generations and on people who share their backyards with facilities that make such chemicals. Though the exhibit displays images of Endosulphan poisoning in Kasargod, Kerala and chemical pollution from the Golden Corridor in Gujarat, the main focus is on Tamilnadu where places like Cuddalore, Mettur, Manali and Chengelpattu are severely impacted by industrial pollution.

Documentary Films
9/4/07:
Hunting for Warren Anderson, By Dateline : 22 years after the world's worst industrial disaster, survivors o the Bhopal gas tragedy are still trying to bring the person and the corporation responsible for this disaster to justice.

Neer Nilam Katru (Water land and air), by: S. Divyanathan: This 15 minutes film takes you to the depths of the petroleum refinery hub of Manali located in the north of Chennai.

10/4/07:
Darwin's Nightmare, H. Sauper : Fishermen, politicians, Russian pilots, prostitutes and manufacturers all caught up in an incredible drama. The shores of the world's largest tropical lake are now the scene of globalization's worst nightmare.

11/4/07:
The right to survive, Rita Banerji & Shilpi Sharma : each year, the eastern coast of India witnesses a truly spectacular occurrence of nature, the arrival en masse of hundreds of thousands of Olive Ridley turtles in the coastal region of the State of Orissa. This film offers some insights into the dilemmas facing the various stakeholders and attempts to provide a solution for tomorrow.


Some excellent documentaries being shown at the Alliance Franchaise, Chennai in the following few days. Do drop by if you live in Chennai. It is important to be aware of the things that happen around us. Check out the news letter here.

One who is free from ego, is absolutely free!

I have something to correct in my first post "Where will I go to find peace?" posted on 3/31/07. I had said “But eventually I loose peace when I come across any fellow human beings, or anything that he has built around in this world.” Actually I realized that I did not loose peace because of some one else but myself. This is actually a reflection of my own egos, and not others. Anger, pressure, selfishness etc are inside my self which has left me without peace.

To make oneself perfect, one have to admit and surrender his built-in ego, and then change will be automatic.

Thanks,
Saravanan

Dow in India

Agent Orange - A funky looking nickname that masquerades as the name of an agent in the Matrix is in reality a deadly chemical that has caused tremendous pain to generations of Vietnamese. Read 'The Vietnam syndrome' on vanityfair, see some accompanying pcitures here and read about agent orange on wikipedia.

Warning: The pictures are not for the weak of heart.

Dow chemicals is the maker of agent orange and has a long history of such atrocious accomplishments that include the Bhopal disaster in our own backyard (the plant responsible was that of Union carbide but Union Carbide has now been bought by Dow). The nice heart warming thing is that it is the same Dow chemicals that Ratan Tata & Buddhadeb are trying to bring to India. Kudos to Indias political and industrial leaders.

A very interesting article

Living simply - on sahajmarg

-- originally posted by Sarav... minor edits in formatting by Partha

Enough is enough

There is no enough concept in this economy. If you say enough, you will be rejected by your manager, you will be told as less efficient. You have to keep on running for making this economy powerful. Each and every day I'm asked to contribute something new to this economy. I'm asked to write a paper in web caching, and god forsaken I got 10,000 papers which are already posted in web caching, yet this world is asking me to contribute a 10,001 paper. I'm feeling I'm getting lost somewhere, or either what I'm doing now will be lost somewhere. The growth here, abundance, enormousness is making me mad.

Does anyone have ever thought that growth is enough? I'm thinking growth at this pace will exploit few things,

1) Natural resources
2) Human mental condition
3) Peace

Growth will increase only one thing,
1) Your bank account showing glozzy figures

Shall we stop working for economic growth and do something useful? If you think what would we do for employement if we stop growing, my answer would be that we can employ as many people as today for maintaining what we have grown so far. The infinite growth will consume this nature to the fullest. There will be only money to eat tomorrow for which we are struggling hard now. I pray this should not happen.

In the system of "Enough" a person's need become bare minimum, and will get more time to think about lot of other things, towards love, nature, religion, culture etc. and all these things doesnt develops greed like money. Eventually you will find only happiness. I have experienced happiness when I was poor. I used to have 100 Rs as pocket money during my bachelors. Now I have 200$ to spend, but I don't find that happiness. Luxury kills me.

All the above are my feelings towards this current system. Coming out of the system is as difficult for me as an insect coming out from a spiders web. The spiders web in the real sense is only capitalism, money, money and money. Even if I had to be in the system, I will reduce my needs to bare minimum, and will do this current work totally un-attached, coz I know I'm working for destruction.

-Saravanan Mathialagan.

Hi Guys,

This is my first blog, and happy to write for this column "Manathirkku varuvethellam" created by partha. Sincerely I felt bad when this column showed me as one of the contributors, and even asked Partha to remove my name, as I havent done anything to it. Partha only asked me to contribute and so this is the start.

Hope you guys enjoy. I will start writing some funny columns too in future. Sorry for bothering you guys too much in my first blog.

cyaa,
Saravanan.

Where will I go to find peace?

Sometime I do think while walking in the morning breeze, or when seeing flock of birds that nature is so beautiful, and relishing. It is peaceful, it is smiling, it is gentle and it is massaging my heart and turning it to tender child’s heart. I loose the ego Saravanan Mathialagan has built around himself and I touch the purest “nature” inside me, which people call as soul. But eventually I loose the same when I come across any fellow human beings, or anything that he has built around in this world. I see people starving, fighting, and harassing each other. I don’t see smiling faces around. I see people building computers and struggling hard to give more powers to a computer. We spend 1 million dollar for a computer project, but not 1 dollar to give a burger meal for a hungry person? To whom are we building this system, to make machines live, or to make humans live?

This is what making me go out of peace? Why? Aren’t we a figment of this nature? Are we building a system where getting peace become a costly affair? I would think if we have built a proper system there wouldn’t be hunger, there wouldn’t be fights for petrol, food and land.

I have a partial answer to my own questions though? Peace is possible with nature coz Nature is always giving, and peace is not possible with human beings coz humans are always keeping, utilizing and there is no giving. I can call that as selfishness. Unfortunately I got to be selfish in this system to live a white color life.

Where will I go to find peace? Should I change this system? Should I accept the same and live? Should I go to forest where I don’t see any human built system?

Regards,
Saravanan Mathialagan.