The overview effect..!!

From last few weeks there was a lot of news on force transformation of religion change, and I happened to read a lot of stuff related to that. So I am just sharing some of my thoughts on that.

I was just wondering, if I asked someone who is enjoying his middle class lifestyle and very normal life, what is religion to him/her? And you expect answer is to offer prayer in the morning, worshiping God, going to the temple often, and do the rituals whenever required like on festivals and big occasions. But than If you ask them  “does he/she know exactly what religion is?” or “Is it really matter that you should know that deep about religion?” I think hardly anybody knows that much in detail or they have spent time doing detail study. So, It seems to me more like passing the parcel. One will tell to others and those others will tell to many others without knowing what’s exactly right or wrong? There is no listed 10 points agenda that for do's and don'ts for any religion from the origin of religion. But with time, individual's interpretation has created hundred’s of points for dos and don’ts.

 So if we don’t know that much details about religion, than why there is religion change and religion transformation? In doing so, what are we achieving with this? The person who has agreed to change, they don’t know any religion and don’t want to know. They just want to look after the immediate benefits they are getting from this transformation. Also, their sole purpose is trying to beat their biggest problem i.e. poverty using this. Also, those who are offering transformation, just trying to solve their selfish motive of increasing strength of their religion. It is more like selfish motive for both the parties, which got mutual agreement. Of course, this is just naïve argument to those who are busy doing transformation and for those who are accepting religion change.

        Just want to take conversation in different direction; there are some individuals whose minds are free from all of this. So the point is at what level or condition your mind that goes beyond all such limitation?  Earlier, I used to believe that education or money (which open many sources) can bring awareness, but it has proved me wrong, as I have seen many examples. May be than if the person’s basic necessity has been satisfied, it will avoid such religion related trap, but even that was turned out to be wrong. It was so hard to tell that any particular events/feelings, which can push your mind out of such thinking paradigm. 

      But when I watched this video (click here to watch video), I believe that this is something can help to open up individual’s mindset free from such religion oriented trap. This video about astronaut’s feelings while looking at earth from space, it was totally mesmerising and eye opener for everyone, when you listen to their feelings and experiences from the space. They called this feelings or effect as “the overview effect”. Also In ancient literature they described it as Savikalpa Samadhi – “That means that you see things as you see them with your eyes, but you experience them emotionally and viscerally, as with ecstasy, and a sense of total unity and oneness.” From the space, while looking at earth, there are no religion boundaries which differentiate people or earth based on religion. Those individuals who has reached to such feelings and mindset on earth, they are free from such religion trap.  I think if every individual can understand such feelings and experiences, they can come out of such unnecessary forcing dogmas of religions and be unite towards only one religion called humanity. Our life span is very limited and we all need to spend it after something that is more worthy.

PS: views are very much personal.!!

machines are gaining our creativity and experience

If you keep an eye on the revolution, you will realize that many things actually we are outsourcing to machine. As a part of this machine era, everything today is driven from machine. Day by day, machines are gaining more power and even started taking decisions in predefined environment.

We have started this with replacing immense manpower who does repetitive job with machine – there after human is keep on adding intelligence in machine. Now what is left with human is just an “Experience and Creativity”.

Experience is something which human has earned it over the years from mistakes, trials and errors and situations we have faced during our life time. With this technological revolution, experience is also digitized and fed to machines so that they take an advantage of it for decision making and doing their job efficiently.

So leftover is only creativity. If you define creativity than it means one of the outcomes out of millions of possible combination, like composing music. This might take little more time but eventually with such a high speed data processing and permutation/combination can possible within fraction of seconds it is achievable, there is no doubt about it.

Those days are not far where machines are going to surpass us(humans) - an Interesting article on this “the Infinite Monkey theorem” 

Necessity and act of adapting new Technology

Its Saturday afternoon, I visited the most popular telecom operator’s gallery to change my mobile billing plan. It’s heavily crowded. There are people come with their application forms and supporting documents for the new connection happily standing in a queue and on the other corner there are customers shouting on the representative as it’s complain handling desk. It seems to me a very balance atmosphere out there…!!!

In this chaos, I happened to observe that an old age uncle was chit-chatting with customer care representative in very annoying way. He was fighting for the extra amount added in his mobile bill for some unwanted service. I get to know from the conversation that they have activated some service by mistake on their touch screen mobile (which they are not so familiar) and because of that the amount was added in their bill. Customer care representative was trying to convince them and making them understand that this has been activated from the customer side, so they were helpless and couldn’t revert it.

This was just one observation, there are ample such observations you can find in our daily life. Such incidents make me think, these new technologies are boon or curse for the people? In a way it’s solve the problem or some time crates problem for the people who are not so good at adapting new technology.

As and when the new Technology is introduced to the market, people become crazy in buying such new stuff. They just bought it for the sake of keeping themselves with pace of new technology or may be some time they are just do show offs. They hardly know about the technology or its actual usage or even their own need. Being into telecom technology, I have observed many times that people are buying new flunky mobiles by spending many thousands, but they hardly know how to feed the contact of the person into address book of mobile. I have seen they keep the additional telephone pocket diary for just noting down the numbers.

Ahhh..!!! Look at this race for newer and newer technology..!!! Where and when it will end or what direction it is taking? Is there any one to guide this or question them that “Do we really need all such high end technologies?” It’s surely debatable.

Innovations are happening due to requirements and problems face by certain category of people or due to some situation. Those categories of people or situations have actual requirements of such technology and innovations, as it solves their problems. There is no mandate that everybody must use all technologies available in the market just because those gadgets are falling in their buying capacity even if they don’t have any hardcore requirement.

Bored with own character-behavior-personality

Thought provoked me during the morning meditation session and made me write on this.

We easily get bored with our work, life, people/relatives/friends, hobbies and activities in few days or may be in few years. Is that any time happened that we have bored now with our personality or behavior? “Just want to clarify that getting bore does not mean you started disliking our own self, but just want to try different stuff. It is also not that we are not happy what we are.” So, it means that any time it has happened that I have just bored now being so rude with others, I have bored now being angry all the time or sad all the time. I have bored now being so kind all the time, I have bored now being so emotional all the time, I have just got bored now being follower all the time, I have bored now being so caring person all the time, I have bored being so perfect and meticulous all the time, etc, etc...And the list goes on.

Other side, I think we never get bored with our personality or we never get a chance to get bore with it. Because surrounding environment do not allow us to change it. It keeps reminding us about the older things and we keep on retaining it for life long, years on years. Of course, the passing time and a shift in responsibilities will definitely change our character/behavior/personality, but this is not just because of we have bored now and you changed it. It’s a gradual, necessary and situational change.

May be its difficult or may be its just impossible to change it when you bored with it?

I think , I should experiment such things someday, because I felt really bored now.

Snoring of My Roommate

Does anyone think that how he/she can generate or make sound while he/she is sleeping? Isn't it very interesting to know and sometime very irritating to handle? Yes, specially when your roomate is snoring while you are sleeping.

The most important part is that person who is snoring, not even aware about his snoring activity. Very unlikely that snoring is not even disturbing his sleep. He/she will be in a very peaceful sleep. When you inform them next day, they are in a shock and not even ready to accept their noisy and non-human activity. For such cases, our very much realtime handy and helping tool - mobile - captured the video/sound of the person who was snoring and we showed it to him. Caught you..!!! :) :)

Jokes apart, but It really make me curious that what does make us to snore while we are sleeping and I end finding below details and stats from my favourite search engine.

"what causes snoring is simple. While asleep, the tissues of the throat and nose vibrate because of the air flowing through them. The volume of the snoring sound can therefore be largely dictated by the turbulence of the air flowing through the throat and nose. The more turbulent the airflow, the louder is the snoring and vice-versa; the lesser the turbulence, the more likely that the sound would be more tolerable for a bedmate or roommate."

"Statistics on snoring are often contradictory, but at least 30% of adults are snoring. 60% of men and 40% of women aged 60 to 65 years are snoring. this suggests an increased susceptibility to snoring as age increases."

And unfortunately, my roommate is a part of this snoring community. :)

Thanks to medical science that there are many such solutions like nasal sprays, nasal strips or nose clips are available in the market for snoring treatment which helps you to reduce snoring. So, my roommate do not have to worry much about, as he is getting married in few months.

This post of my blog is actually dedicated to him. Because of his snoring ,I couldn't sleep many nights and end up reading many good books (after giving him so much galis). Today, as he is leaving our room, I will wish him all the best for his future endeavors on his last day and wish to myself a very happy and peaceful sleep now onwards.