Hindu Mythology and their Lessons..!!!

Some of best epic stories which we have studied during our childhood in the history books and a lot we have heard from our granny and grandpa. These stories are still around us in some different format.

Holy books Ramayana and Mahabharata are some the best written stories in the world. Some says its real and some says it’s totally mythology. Let's not go into the discussion about the reality of their existence or maybe we are not supposed to. However, the essence of these stories is much deeper and very helpful to many of us.

Ram's character of being "maryaada purushottama" - supreme glory of mankind, whereas on the other side the supreme politician Krishna's Character are truly create affection in you to read more about the situation they were passed through and the life they have lived. These mythological stories are vast source of lessons if you understand comprehensively and relate them with the current situation of our life and corporate culture.

As a part of my reading material, I used to read “management mythos” in Corporate Dossier supplement of Economic times on every Friday. They have these mythological stories and relate them with the office environment, corporate culture and even our life’s principals. They are worth reading and we all should imbibe them in our life.

These days, i am not able to catch-up with ET paper, so found the e-link of the "Management Mythos" author “Devdutt Pattanaik”. He is great mythologist and his articles are available here.

An Old Belief and Today's Scientific World..

Interesting old beliefs which we easily pass on to the next generation without questioning them in today’s modern world reality, such is the incident I am briefing hereby.

Few days back, in the night, I was cutting my nails using nail cutter. My mom saw it and she started screaming on me. She didn’t like that I was cutting the nails in the night. I asked with curiosity, "why?”. She didn’t have a proper answer, but she said “Don’t cut the nails in the night; it’s not good for your fortune/planets and not even good for our house’s fortune”. I was surprised that “Cutting nails is such a dangerous activity”.

My curiosity didn’t stop there. I have searched on the internet and found that, it’s a myth. The actual reality is different. In earlier days, neither there was electricity available in home nor was nail-cutter invented. At that time, they usually use kerosene lamp for the light inside the house and the blade instead of nail-cutter. So there was a high chance that the person who was cutting his/her nails may hurt fingers because of the usage of blade. Before the Thomas Alva Edison invented the electric bulb, this belief was very true and needed to stop ones from cutting their nails in the night. But now, it is not holding any weightage.

When I explained this to my mom, she just started laughing on her old belief and accepted the new reality.

I found that with every new invention and innovations we need to brush up once again on all those old beliefs which we have and remove if they are not applicable in this modern world. So that, these wrong believes shall not pass to the next generation.

I am sure there are many such old beliefs still pass on to the next generation without questioning them in today's world reality. Would like to know such beliefs and investigate them in detail..... :) :) :)

A best usage of Wish for Reincarnation..!!!

Global Warming – a catastrophically event – which is taking place across the world with a very slow speed unlike the other disasters – they usually happen in fraction of second. There are many sceptical views about its effects and its results caused by human activities. There are many parameters which are contributing – rising temperature, deforestation, animals- birds’ species extinction, melting glaciers and many more things. They are all connected with each other directly or indirectly with human activities. On the other side, if you see human population is growing with very rapid pace. Lot of other Species are getting extinct in the same pace. (Assume that number living beings on planet earth are constant)

Reincarnation – the word we must come across in many places - in novels, movies and in our Shastras/Puranas. There is a famous mythological story says that after we die, the soul will be placed into another living being and will born again in this world according to their karma. I have also heard or read that before transforming them into another living being, they have to appear against the GOD and GOD will ask about their wish “What they want to become in this new upcoming life?” This is true, not only for human but it is applicable to each and every living being on the Planet earth.

Two different thought processes when they combine the circuit completes and lights a bulb. We have tendency to always complete our deficit from the place where supply is in abundance. It is all about the Economy- supply and demand. Based on this theory, my thinking has shown some conclusion.

As growing facilities and extra ordinary usage of science innovation, human life has improved to such a great extent that the living being other than human wants to become Human. “How that is possible? Only One way...!” They can put their wishes against GOD when reincarnation is taking place. Because of this, human are growing day by day and animals are getting extinct.

But in Human also, there are few intelligent folks do care about the Planet Earth. They know that if all the animal or species will get extinct with time, the human will not be survived. So they started lot of activities to stop this extinction of animals. But they are not getting success. The only way they can reduce the effect is by using that wish for reincarnation which GOD has given to every living being. They have to make sure that when they will die, they must ask that they don’t want to born has human being again, but they want born as one of the extinct species on planet Earth. That way we can keep the count in control for every living being on planet earth.

I have decided, I just want to born as a Tiger in my next life..!!!

Those who supports the fight for Global Warming, they need to find out about the extinct species and choose their next life reincarnation. !!!

Is that a Dignified farewell to Lord Ganesha ..?

Mumbai's most popular festival, Ganesh Chathurthi came to an end onThursday. Several thousands of Ganesh idols were immersed in various beaches in Mumbai. We all are in the celebration mood and worship lord Ganesha with so much devotion but when it comes to bid farewell to the lord, we do all kinds of activity which must be really hurting to the lord.

A pray to lord- we do for peace, prosperity and what not but when it comes to take care of his world we don't even think twice to destroy it. The aftereffect of this festival could be seen in various beaches with piled up Plaster of Paris (POP) idols flowers, cardboards, materials used for puja,plastic bags and litters.

It is here that we like minded people came together to give a helping hand for a dignified farewell to our lord by doing our bit in keeping the Mother Nature clean.

More than 150 enthusiastic employees of my office joined hands with BMC in cleaning Juhu Beach during the morning hours of 4th Sept2009 on working day. Ganesha Idols, non-biodegradable materials, cardboards etc were removed in large quantities by the Volunteers to clean the JUHU beach and contributed our bit under "Save our Beach" campaign.

Things are changing in a year. Last year, i was just putting comments on someone's blog that we shouldn't support Ganpati Visargan activity(or support Eco-friendly Ganpati) and don't not allow anybody to pollute our natural resources. This year, I got a chance to do a bit of action(rather just to comment) to save our beaches. Thank you GOD...!!!

Imagine unique religion...

Why do people deduce that their own religion is more superior and prosperious than others? Who has created a religion? -- questions arised because of some incident...

Someone has thought that if these sets of dogma and rituals are followed by people than it helps in creating community, brings people together and help in betterment of human life. But why they have created so many religions..? May be during humanity evolvement,Inhabitants from different regions or areas were not in contact with each others. So,they created dogmas for inhabitants in that regions.


But they never knew that after eons, their decedents are going to use religions as their own materialistic purpose, showing superiority and divide regions on basis of religions. Using a little envisagement, if they could have created only one religion across the world, might not lead us into troubles now. Might be absurd, but could be possible that Gurus or Gods of all the religions could have meet somewhere and finalize on unique religion. Also, they could have finalized the commandments and rituals that considered and followed under that unique religion.

Lets comeback in reality, because when things are already in placed than you can't demurred their instantiations rather put efforts to ameliorate it। Thinking that if every religion has same fundamentals than why people still wrestle on religion? How do we make them reliaze that only humanity is the biggest religion? शायद हमें कुछ ऐसा करना होगा जो उन्हें जड़ से हिला दे.

Exploring more on it.