We are what we are !!

 Minimalism is an old concept but is gaining ground these days when Covid 19 pandemic is trying to devour the entire world. Minimalism is all about living with less. This is not a fad but a way of life of renunciation and deep withdrawal from worldly pleasures, which has a profound effect on the psychology of humans. In India, many of our Saints and philosophers have talked about leading life of penance ,sacrifice and total detachment. Even wealthy persons of yester years led a life like that of a Trustees of their wealth. Gandhiji also said this in his seven sins of life: "Wealth without work; Pleasure without Conscience;Science without humanity;Knowledge without character; Politics without principle; Commerce without Morality; Worship without sacrifice" It is said that Gandhiji also laid lot of stress on wealthy businessmen and persons to remember that they are Trustees not owners of their wealth which provide them an opportunity to serve the people at large and for social ...

Ram temple has been the dream of millions of Indians who are Hindus, Sikhs,Buddhists, Jains and even some Muslims if not Christians,Jews etc. Why I said some Muslims, is because some of them regard and pay respect to Lord Ram as one of their ancestors. I learnt that some Muslim women of Varanasi have been performing "Shri Ram Aarti" for the past 14 years every day and sing Ram dhun. Maryada Purushottam Ram has a special place in the ethos, culture, literature,traditions and whatnot of this country from Himalayas to Kanyakumari.He is a symbol of love and compassion and is celebrated that way in all Asian countries of Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Indonesia and Phillipines ,as I know of. Even Thailand's Royal Kings use the name of Ram in their titles. Ram has been a symbol of Unity and Gandhiji in modern days extensively used Ram for uniting the people of India under the banner of Purna Swaraj for Bharat. Gandhi in his Autobiography says that Ramayana and ...

காந்திஜிக்கு  சமர்ப்பணம்  எங்கனையோ மூலையில சின்னவலி எங்கிட்டு வந்தது இந்தயிடி? கீளவிழ அடித்த அந்தக்கோளைகள் கீறிவிட்ட மனசில இந்தவலியோ? கூறுகெட்ட மனுசங்க எந்நெஞ்சை  கூறுபோட நினைச்சாத்தான் முடியுமா ? பாதையில  கல்லுமுள்ளு  போட்டாநானு  பாதைக்கு பயந்து ஓடுவனா? கைவிளக்கை ஒடச்சி எறிஞ்சிட்டா  பைய எம் மனசும் இருளுமா ? அடக்கி முடக்கி உதைச்சா அடங்கிப் போயி அழுவனா? குரல்வளைய  மிதிச்சாநானு குரலெழுப்ப மறப்பனா? கால முறிச்சி போட்டாநானு  கோல ஊனி போகமாட்டன் ? என்னயவிட எங்குருதிய விட நான் போகும் பாட்டை பெரிசுல்ல ? when the whole world is raising slogans on BLM( Black Lives Matter) , I rededicate my above poem once again to the ideals of Gandhiji who famously said "Means justify the Ends".Difficult for us to digest this and follow in our lives, it is based on the universal rule of Dharma.According to him All Lives Matter!!

Humans are students of life with the ability to help others in every possible way, however small may it be, day in and day out and go up in the ladder of evolvement of their individual souls. In this process they realise that they are preprogrammed machines with same set of Operating Systems  of mind and senses ,but with a discerning intellect guided by the Paramatman from deep inside. Some may agree that the "inner voice" of conscience, as Gandhiji would put it,  is God speaking to you or through you and many may disagree with this. Let us not digress into that.Let us keep it aside as this is a black box about which discussion can go on endlessly. But the elephant in the room is that we have limited cognition of both our external  universe i.e physical outer world as well as, of the inner mind space world. We are only tuned into certain frequencies or preset softwares, for the purpose of our existence in this earth. We are daily shaped by our observations cum exp...