My journey through COSMOS!!!

 I had been a space enthusiast since small. No big deal. All of our journey starts with moon watching from age of 4, it was like today's YT cartoon channels for grandmothers to make us eat!!

I have carried this interest till date and now started connecting the dots between latest findings in this area of knowledge into ancient mythologies, Vedic hymns and Hindu astrology. I am able to connect abstractly. My readers may consider that my thought process is superstitiously unreal :) and I am unable to do away with this. 

For someone who is not having anything to do with NASA or ISRO locally, my interest started catching from Dec 25 2021 when JWST launched. This revolves around the sun and sends the pictures of distant galaxies. Till the we had Hubble Space telescope which only revolved around the earth. Ever since, inter stellar discoveries and theories and studies have been going on extremely rapid level. Every day, we read news of new galaxies or dwarfs or black holes or cosmos cloud getting discovered like never before. Our existence as earth dwellers is so trivial that we live in an outside periphery of a medium size galaxy we call as milkyway. Most of the galaxy's have SPIRAL shape. 

I always believed that every celestial object like comet, planet, star, meteor have a non 3-D existence and both of these existences (3 D and no D) are integrated. Universe is so big that each objects are light years away from end of one to another periphery and it is so dynamic that every second there is either one star forming or being destroyed or being collided with something or whose revolutions are changing or mass is being altered, this is mindboggling as any celestial object has at least million years of life cycle. The physics we study in school is only local to Solar System and may not even apply to our own galaxy outside of it!!!

My baseless (something I cant prove empirically) belief is that every living being on earth or any other planet has also a celestial existence such as a planet, star, comet or dust (cosmic gas). This is the reason we have cycle of life and we are differently powered based on our celestial mass or power existing somewhere in this universe.

Now coming to "Vishwaroopa" explanation of Lord Vishnu in Bhagavadgita. What Arjun saw was countless, Vasus, Indras, Adithyas, Maruths, all Godly powers and planets and finally himself inside lord Vishnu. So Lord Vishnu's celestial existence is 'entire universe' itself. Adithyas means stars, Vasu means planet, Maruths means cosmic dusts/gases, Indras means clusters of stars and planet system  (galaxy?). Lord Vishnu's non celestial existence is in his various 'avatars'. Same thing with each one of us. We HAVE a celestial existence. We are all either a heated star, or muddy/rocky/merky planet or some dust somewhere in this cosmos at the same time while we exist here in this time-space.!!! Well, what you can not prove with limited tools, you can analyse with logic and experience. Just close your eyes and feel if something inside is too older than your age, then that energy is as old as a planet may be. 

Now coming to shapes. We learn shapes at Kinder Garten. Circle, Square, Triangle, Rectangle and done with it. Shapes are reflecting from Cosmic to locally at a planets natural formations. Shapes are related and they are symbols and they are there for a reason. Everything on a planet is a miniature of something gigantic within the cosmic. Dont understand? The angle of a real pyramid and drawing of real pyramid in a small paper should be the same, in order to make it look like it!! Right? So, apply same thing to earth. We see so many things SPIRAL. Now connect the dots.....

Where do you see spirals on earth? water whirlpools, whirlwinds, tornedos, snails, conch shells?

For spirals to exist there has to be a center point and the center point should have an extreme pressure point due to space and congestion from outside. Congestion is formed because of the existence outside. In whirlpool, the element causing congestion is water, whirl wind it is wind. But why galaxies are Spiral? So many galaxies have Spiral shape!!! What is the element that connects the stars and planet system with galaxies that is necessary to give it a spiral shape? So space is empty and there is no element in it how it creates a pressure to give a galaxy a spiral shape? If Spiral shape on earth needs an element like water or air, what needs for a galaxy to have spiral shape which has stars and planets scattered across it forming in such an orderly manner? So nothing is not really 'nothing' and empty spaced is not really 'empty' right?

... Journey Continues..

Indian Jugaad

 They say Indian children are uncontrolled, unsupervised, over curious. Go to any international airports in Europe or USA, take a look at small children. White kids are with pacifiers inside mouth, silent and Desi kids looking around, checking the chargers, touching the display boards if nothing pulling moms clothes and nagging for some toffees and noisy. Yes, they are frowned upon. 

But as they grow, they are less noisy, less confident or self-managed compared to westerners, but this curiosity stays. The same curiosity helps us in Jugaad. Yes. this is good one. Give a mixer grinder to a housewife and she uses it also as curry leave drier, milk churner, vegetable cutter, cake mixer and biggest jugaad is 'kitchen towel washing tool'. A pressure cooker becomes a makeshift oven and during COVID time it became a steam inhaler provider also!!! Again, Jugaad.

Jugaad in Hindi or Panjabi, I guess comes from Sanskrit's Yukthi to Jukath or Jukth to Jugath to Jugad to Jugaad. Now, we do jugaad in corporate offices and high end manufacturing set up to smallest village workshop!!

After 3-day Indo-Pak war, many theories came in. Every person in the south west Asia became a defence expert and claimed the victory of one country that his heart was fond of. But once again there was a topic on S-400 from Russia said to be unsuccessful in Russia -Ukraine war but successful in the hands of Indians!!!

Now I am happy that till now only Indian housewives' world in their kitchen where they use every tool and gadget for a different purpose than what it is used for, reached the war rooms!! So, hopefully henceforth they are taken seriously!!! :)

But, why is it in Indian DNA? Is it right? Not always. It makes us successful and losers at different occasions.

Using any tool or situation other than its purpose it a serious process lapse as per Western or Japanese world. If anyone does this in factories they are fired. But by-birth who is into Jugaad mindset, it is genetically difficult. So, we Indians get frowned if we use an airport lounge glossy magazine to use as a support to write something on a piece of paper that we carry. We are seen as offenders. 

Culturally, being from joint families in the olden days, had we not recycled things in every way life was hard and unless someone did it, he or she was not appreciated or labelled 'smart'. This was another reason, from Kashmir to Kanyakumari and Dwarka to Meghalaya we are the same.

I came to conclude that 'right way' or 'wrong way' are not absolute. But for us, Indians it came from our oldest philosophy of Vedas. During olden school days we were made to recite few Vedic quotes which made no sense then, but now I tressure them. Amongst many of those, one fits the JUGAAD, check it out below: -

"Kriyaa Siddhihi Sathve Bhavathi Mahathannopakarane"

(From Sanskrit: Meaning "accomplishment of work or deed happens by virtues or values and not by extra ordinary tools")

Stoicism

Like we have Chanakya Neethi, Karma Siddhantha from The Gita or Vedic wisdom, Stoicism is for Romans!!!

I am quite interested in the schools of thoughts for philosophical logics and wisdom. So, Stoicism is my natural interest.

Roman Empire shaped the western world. After colonisations, western world shaped entire globe with few exceptions. So Romans somewhere influenced all of us. Romans were not so good people. They were evil, they used slavery for their empire quite extensively. They were cruel and sly in everyday life either directly or in subtle.

They are also credited with so many things which are part of our lifestyle. Running water supply in the stone canals or ducts, Roads across empire to connect every town, Pebbled roads with maps and symbols that lasted 2000 years (still exist), modern masonry (not modern for now), trained army with professional combat gears and weapons, advanced war strategies, economies, export and import and perhaps many more. The ruins of Pompei appear like any old town in Europe is all the living proof that other than consumerism and technology, nothing has really changed.

A lot has been written about Stoicism, but in an organized society like Romans it was like a manifesto for formal interactions and personal mental make-up. Like many things relevant and practiced from Roman times to todays date, stoic wisdom convinces you if you apply to context. 

Well, for each point of stoic wisdom, just browse or ask AI. Contents in social media platforms are flooded..

Parenting tips for NRIs

 Elli manakalukirado ಎಲ್ಲಿ ಮನಕಳುಕಿರದೊ( M N Kamath, translation from Geetanjali) (youtube.com)

The song “Elli Manakalukirado” is a translation from Rabindranath Tagore’s “Geetanjali.” It was translated by M. N. Kamath

The above is just a copy - paste and I dont know the lyrics of Tagore. But the translated song in Kannada is also so beautiful and perhaps better than original. My sincere thanks to the translator and singers for the melodious rendition.

This song in its first line or in the entirety talks about what is the ideal situation for confidence, creativity and progress of human beings. NRI friends or fellow Indians in India please get to awakening.

"Elli Manakalukirado" meaning where mind is not having inhibitions (fears)

"Elli Tale Bagirado" meaning where head is not down or submissive (meaning no suppression  or being in freedom)

"Elli Tilivige todaku toradihudu alli" meaning where knowledge is not hindered (where learning / skills or knowledge is not blocked for learning or available for those who seek. ex:education)

These 3 are birth rights for any child to grow in confidence. This comes only when the children learn things from their family and surroundings of the same tribe at least in the early stages of life. Please do not prevent your children from learning at least one Indian language thoroughly, allow them mingle with speakers, enable them to understand India through an Indian language and not in English. Make them read Indian books in Indian language (at least 1 we have 17 +) from Indian authors. Self pity and inferiority complex is fatal for any 0 to 15 years old. 

Just take a statistics of how many second generation NRIs are as successful as their 1st generation? less than 100%? Reason is lack of identity and self consciousness (as I may be less equal amongst natives).

Confused Desis in other countries (PIOs) struggle in various ways. They want to be white they are not, they dont want to be brown, but it cant genetically happen. (they are not arabs in gulf, do not look asians in Japan/Korea and so on..)

They are smarter than many, they dont know how to establish it, they are privileged to be from a rich heritage - they simply dont know and did not have opportunity to experience the positive side of it, all because of parents who dont teach them anything Indian - language, values or etiquette. One can be in mainstream culturally or otherwise, also being aware of his/her own roots.

sad sad sad  :(  :(   :( 

Butterfly effect and assassination attempt of Donald Trump

 There was an assassination attempt of Trump last week and immediately I received several video clips in my whatsap groups that showed the slow motion of Trumps speech - Head Movement - Gun shot events. Well.. this writing can be boring unless you heard of butterfly effect theory and how it is related here.

My pastime for any lazy day is to run through contents of personal finances and I was watching Americal rappers' riches to rags story on YT. One rapper was saying he never regretted anything out of loss of money because it was butterfly effect that gave him and his family a lot of learning. I had picked 'butterfly' from there.

Back to the assassination attempt video, while Trump was talking about statistics of illegal immigrants, he just turned his head, the very moment the bullet hit his right ear instead of passing through is skull and ending him for ever. The ban on illegal immigrants is one of his election manifestos he worked for or rather tried to implement during his first term. Needless to say, that cause just saved his life for that moment whether it saved any Americal citizen from unlawful illegal immigrant or not. So, it is always good to do things that you are convinced that it is good for long run, no matter how many oppose it. If it doesnt save others, it definitely saves you. I quote this example. A small manifesto line saving a glorious life of Trump..is like a butterfly tapping its wings creating a tornedo elsewhere!!

I admire Trump as a politician for the reason that reportedly he is one POTUS who had more assets before he became the POTUS than after his 1st term. Also, for another reason for his prophetic clarity of his political view and what he would do being in a prime position - from an interview of his younger days. When money or personal ambitions are not the motive for a one's action or words, you can trust the person on face value!!

One word on the assassin - Assassin, a 20-year-old, visibly with golden hair looked like a White American, named like a White American is so short sighted like a tiger in Indian Reserved Forest that attacks the forest officer who tries to protect him from poachers just of a small fear or for his instant hunger. White Americans will lose their identify, culture and livelihood (freedom) if the liberal policy to illegal immigrants does not stop in few years. It would eventually with legal immigrants also, because demography changes anyway. But this young man is anyway a tiger of the reserved forest for sure.

We have similar such voters in India who are just so shortsighted of their lifetime and quick gains from Congress and left oriented governments that practice minority appeasement. So, there was attempt of assassination for Modi also. 

This short sighted, instant gratification motive for quick gain either in India or US will act as those trivial causes like a small butterfly wing tapped now, eventually creating totally un-expected (or uncalled for) eventualities in near to distant future. 

When future becomes history and only leftists write the history, we will have (or now have) no lessons to learn from the facts.

Namah Ayodhyaadheesha Shree Ramachandra Dasharatha Kakustha!

 

Naasadiya Sooktha

Srushti se pehle kuch nahi tha..

sath bhi nahi .. asath bhi nahi

Antariksh Bhi nahi.. tha Aakash bhi nahi tha..

...When I was growing up my passtime was Doordarshan.. Today I am hooked to YouTube, so choices are more. Since choices are more, I dont remember what I binge watched. Those days are like, every show that you watch, lasts as long as the grey cells do.

My quest to find truth is never ending. Dont think I am searching for purpose of life kind of stuff.. It is simple things like day to day issues and truth - lie aspects in interpersonal issues, people around me and such trivial level only. But it matters a lot for the moment. That is required to keep us going.

This world is a stage of evolution from nothingness. From nothingness to creation, from creation to beauty and bounties, from beauty and bounties it created desire and greed, from desire and greed created truth and un-truth. When the creation ends- entire evolution goes back to nothingness... like it says in Naasadiya Suuktha.

How creation goes back to nothingness? May be because of natural calamities, extinction of food, extreme weather due to our own mistakes with eco, or may be any other natural causes. If nothingness is a permanent change, then rest of the stages of evolution is temporary. Therefore next invention in spiritual world should be to find out our form or identity in nothingness. 

Now search this song in Youtube.. if you understand Hindi, it is an intriguingly melodious and philosophically stimulating song!!!

Srshti se pehle kuch nahi tha..Sath bhi nahi Asath bhi nahi..