East vs West - Religion vs Science

Religion helped societies to stay civil and well behaved. Now Science  and survey or studies are proving some of the theories which were put together as religious rituals.

Good Habits like getting up and cleaning oneself  and getting ready before starting the day. Then offer prayers to GOD (sets you in a positive mindset).Having  meals at fixed time brings predictability for everyone ,including the cook and helps use the time effectively.Have freshly cooked food  after offering it to GODs (so cooked  in the most clean  and hygenic way).

There are some people who take advantage of people's faith hence Religion got a bad rap. Following Religion is a good thing as it

Life in small villages where people follow religion religiously.
1. More discipline
2. More organisation
3. More sharing and caring
4. More freshly cooked food
5. More satisfaction and more love.

Best of the east and west

West - Open outlook - treat every human as human  and ready to learn new things. Fight for oneself and in the process help others. Satisified with less. Focused on Beauty and Materialism to feel good.
East - follow daily rituals and have faith in GOD . Work/Fight for others and in the process help themselves.Never Satisfied and keep inventing and moving fwd. Focused on  Functionality/Utility and Spritualism.

Revival

Hi,

Its been a really long and crazy hiatus, but it feels good to be back agan. It has been quite a learning for me. Nothing is good or bad in this world.  I have been unexpectedly bad (as per the naive old me),but then you cannot be good always. Life begins when we stop expecting anything from life and are open to whatever is in store for us. It is so much easier for me to say this now but when I was going through my rough patch ,it  was really tough but then the Almight gave me the strength and support needed and helped me pull through that time too.

At this point all I can say for sure are .

1. Life is ephemeral.
2. Never say never
3. Believe in the GOD with you, the GOD who can never do any harm to anyone, the everloving,forgiving  and benevolent GOD.
4. Parents are next closest to GOD.
5. Your Gurus help you pull through the toughest time.
6. No one has and no one can figure out life,so take it easy and live in the moment.
7. Try to be kind to everyone .
8. Living on this earth is living in heaven and hell both at differnet times.
9. Cleanliness is next to GODLINESS.
10. LOVE is GOD.

WWW - a boon or a bane

The world wide web is so wonderful. I can find anything at the tip of my fingers. It is so convenient to sit all day and surf for various things or watch movies or episodes or go to facebook. Oh,so much fun and that too so convenient.

There is a price to pay for all this convenience. We tend to get drawn to our laptop/pc/ipod/iphone which gives us the power to tap the internet.We tend to to forget our near and dear ones who are close to us in person in our pursuit to have cyber friends. We forget to step out and enjoy the nature. We forget to exercise,dance,bike or run /walk outside in our eagerness to access the world wide web. We get so absorbed in this cyber world that we forget to live in this real world.

Science is as good as its usage. We should use the internet only for information/knowledge like a library, not for entertainment. The emergence of entertainment on the internet is scary,dangerous and lethal. We need to refrain from it.

Convenience is expensive in terms of health ,wealth and family!!

It is so easy to get pulled in this materialistic life and use retail therapy to feel better and to avoid one's ownself. We shop and watch TV to avoid facing our own reality. The truth about oursleves is bitter,so we try to run away from it.

When things are going good,this materialsitic life can seem to be perfect, but when there is a rough patch we need emotional support from our own self besides our friends and family. At that time we realise that in becoming so materialistically selfish ,we have not been there for our near and dear ones and now no one is there for us. I really do not like to meditate even for 5 minutes ,not becoz it is is hard to avoid thoughts ,but also becoz I might have to face the real me,from whom I am running away all the time by being so bz in office work,home ,dropping kids etc.

I need to face the truth and take a decision to improve the real me ,the one that does not need acceptance from others or tries to please others,but make my real me happy and satisfied.
I have wasted enough time in my life trying to get approval from others,now it is time to do what my inner self tells me to do. Wishing good luck to myself,I signoff for now.

Money as a means

Its been long since I wrote something,but today I felt like writing since it just dawned on me that Money is just a tool /means of doing whatever you want to do. It makes it easier to achieve ur goals with right tools.

Money can buy temporary happiness by giving us a respite from facing the real life,the real issues but does'nt it buy more egos,issues,conflicts than the real happiness.We donate money for charities and feel good about it,but in truth we are just trying to buy some happiness ,some self value by doing a charitable act.

We can do a lot by spreading a cheer instead of donating lots of money in this country since the number of sad and depressed people in this country is much more than the poor and needy.

Money is important to enjoy life but not to live life ..Money can make your life if used well as well as it can spoil  your life if it controls you.

home buying experience

Hi,

If you are a middle class person like me you can relate to me going through varied emotions while going through the home buying experience.It is a roller coaster ride giving you the feelings of elation and tension and suspense.
You feel high that you are going to have your dream come true.There is tension related to being able to fund the deal in time and also a feeling of confusion ,that is this the right decision (money wise you put everything at stake). There is suspense as you assume a lot about future when taking this decision and do not know how much of it will come true.

I also learnt a lot during this process. Many times I felt that we were used by our agents but then this thought gives me a little comfort.
"It is destined for me ". When something is destined for you, things just start falling into place and you are somehow driven in that direction automatically.
I do believe in that superior power and feel whatever happens, happens for the best.

I would love to hear from other people who would like to share their emotions while going through this process.

I believe 'Happiness is the nucleus of our emotions'.!!!!!

nature

Hi,

I wanted to share some of my thoughts.Recently, I watched 'The inconvenient truth' which talks about the damage to earth and its beings due to 'global warming'.That set my mind rolling? Isnt the danger becoz of us messing with Mother Nature. Nature is the creation of the SuperPower/God in which everything is perfect.The seasons,the night and day ,the flowers and the animals and then we the human beings.

We have found scientific explanation to most of the nature but do we know it totally to be able to change it ?

While, we are still worrying about the catastrophic effect of industrialisation,the cyber world is taking over.I am sure the next generation will be more and more tech savy but would they even have the bountiful and beautiful nature which existed a couple of generations back. Probably, not becoz of the era of industrialisation.Will people still have emotions and compassion?

Think about your own childhood and observe if the natural beauty around you is decreasing over the years.It may be just our perception since our minds get bogged by other things that we cannot enjoy nature as we did as a child or it could be that nature is now no longer in its natural form but as man made garden.

We can discover the planets and the mysteries of nature but cannot create them. Science is trying to find a rational explanation for most of the nature and its mysteries but there are some things which no one can explain even today.I feel that each day we are moving towards a more and more synthetic world which is so popular becoz of convenience. We do have a world of more conveniences,but do we have a happier and healthier world than what it was 50-100 years back??

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