Save Earth

Tips to Save Earth:

1. Copy and print on both sides of paper.

2.Reuse items like envelopes, folders and paper clips.

3.Use Emails more to communicate...send e-wishes instead of cards.

4.Use recycled paper.

5.Use discarded paper for scrap paper.

6.Use a ceramic coffee mug instead of a disposable cup.

7.Use water bottles instead of "Packaged Water ".

8.Drink water instead of aerated water.

9.Shut off lights,fans and computer in the evening when you leave from work.

10. shut off lights, fans, tv

Three books on India I should read

1. Everybody loves a good draught - P.Sainath

2.In the name of democracy -Bipan Chandra

3.Tamas -Bhisham Sahni

Politics and Religion

Today in every newspaper the headlines some how relate to the brutual tension , which prevails between various religious groups.It seems religion and politics have been tightly interwined and their separation tantamounts to the separation of blood and body. It was due to this notion that Gandhiji called politics without religion a dirty game. Swami Vivekananda had also considered religion as the core of politics. All the religion whether Hinduism , Islam , Sikhism, Christianity or Bhudhism, all of these prove that some wheere or other religion and politics are tightly coupled.
But religion is a personal affair that should not have anything to do with public matters including politics. Man has made religion in order to develop discipline and also to satiate his spiritual needs. Any religion that gives birth to riots and violence cannot be a religion. Religion cannot exist without people. But ironically, man has been exploiting religion to reap political harvest to inject venom and to divide the people. The religion-politics relationship poses no threat to a country's polity as long as politics does not use religion and vice versa. Unfortunately our country witnesses both of them. Today, politics has been religionised and religion has been politicised. Thus a religion-politics collusion is taking place.
What can be done to segregate these two , so that both religion and politics exist rightly together but not harming any innocent civilian. At this moment of time I can't think of any way.
The only way according to me is 'lets bury all the mishaps which happened earlier , lets erase all the hatred from our minds and lets start a new phase ,a new society which will have only one thing to share, love. Only one thing to distribute love. A totally new society where no religious group can enter into politics.
Can we create such a society anytime?It still remains a Herculean task. It requires statesmanship, unbending moral stand, dynamic leadership and above all indomitable will to take up all the communal bulls by their horns. Let us all strive to maintain a balance between religion and politics and help in the progress of our country.

Starts the course of Mega Living

From today I am keeping myself on a 30 days megaliving program:
I am influenced by Robin Sharma and trying this megaliving from Today.
Today's Lesson:
1. Don't discuss personal, health related and finance related matters with all.
2. Keep smiling , be humurous , talk less , listen more , and don't be over reactive.
From last one week I am reacting to things very strongly.I am not sure why.
Let me take this exercise and see.

Right Mate - A Psychological Perception

Generally when I am coming in the bus to office I read some books, but today I was quite late and caught the bus in nick of the moment. When I got in the bus, I opened my bag only to find that I have forgot my book on my reading table at home.'Oops what should I do now!' , I looked out of window sun was shinning bright. I closed my eyes...but couldn't get sleep. I looked out again...I saw a young couple on a bike, the lady almost 26/27 wearing a sleeveless T-shirt and a tight jeans...and the guy , having a helmet on this head driving the bike. The bike was going in the same direction as our bus, and somehow I couldn't stop myself gazing at the couple. After a few minutes the bus stopped in a signal, the bike also stopped.Eventhough it was 7:30 in the morning, there were quite a number of people in the signal. I don't know why, but somehow I couldn't stop myself looking at the couple on the bike. I was looking at them and suddenly I noticed that, the lady planted a big kiss at the gentleman's shoulder. 'Ohhh....it’s all too private, Archita.You shouldn't look at them anymore.' I thought to myself and closed my eyes. Closing my eyes, from somewhere a thought came to my mind...'Did the girl do the right thing? Kissing a guy in a big crowd. Is this the right thing to do? They might be married, but is this the right thing to do?' I was questioning myself and then what I found was really nice. Let me share those feelings with you now.

Human beings strive for basically three types of happiness: physical, mental and spiritual.What kind of happiness satisfies a particular person differs from one individual to another. For some people physical happiness is the sole source of happiness. Such people get turned on by physical attraction. For them mental and spiritual happiness has negligible meaning. They are happy as long as their physical needs are satisfied. Almost 60-75% of the population looks out for physical happiness. But this kind of happiness is a temporary one. Lasts for a short while. Often people take it as love, but what I refer this to is Infatuation. I feel this kind of happiness is short lived and might result in a disaster after a few years, once the physical beauty is fades out.

The second type which I call is mental happiness, I won't say most but a group of people may be 10-15 % are turned on by intelligence. They are not very much concerned about the physical looks and beauty, but look out for similar mentality in their mates. I can site a few examples, where I have seen such kind of mental attraction. The best one I can say is the example of Dr. N.R.Narayan Murthy and Mrs.Sudha Murthy. What I have found is such couples live a very happy and balanced life for a long period of time. Turbulence is normally not seen in such kind of people and they indulge in a very happy family life.

Third kind, which I call, spiritual happiness is rarest and is found 1 in 100. The best example I can site is the relationship of Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa and Ma Sharda Devi. Both complemented each other spiritually and their love is the rarest among all. Such kind of love/ happiness is the rarest and most long lasting. In today's material world such kind of happiness is almost not found.

At times happiness goes through phases; it starts with physical attraction and ends with mental or spiritual happiness. The best example I can give for this is Mahatma Gandhi. If you read 'My Experiment with truth' you can get to know why!The perfect mate, in my view will be one who has all the three kinds balanced.

Let me see, if I get my Mr. Perfect. ;)

* Note: These are my own views, if anyone doesn't agree with my views, I respect their feelings also.