25 June 2020

Whatever good is ours and whatever bad is Gods'.

Life is like that.  We propose one thing and move quite oppositely.  We say that we propose and God disposes of.  Where is God?  God is in you.. with you.. you are the God.  If you accept it then you are the proposer and disposer.  Then you are responsible for good and bad!

I thought that every day I should write something on this blog.  But I failed.  If I succeed I used to say that I am very regular and punctual, hence I succeed.  Now I may say that I have failed because God does not cooperate with me.  I had to travel... my health was deteriorated... I had to engage in an unavoidable work...  and so on.

All successes are ours and all failures are God's.

In this case, it is proved that we have created God to tie our faults, misconducts, and failures to his head.  We will take credit for all our successes.

At the time of our independence, India's population was around 33 crores.  At that time Gods were also 33 crores.  It shows that each of us is God.  Not only human beings all other things in this world are like Gods.

The word GOD consists of three alphabets.
 G represents the generator.
 O represents the organizer.
 D represents the destroyer.
   
We all of us including animals and plants do all the three things.  We gave birth to our children, help to grow them, and try to destroy their bad habits and unwanted things they develop.

There are 3 supreme Gods in our scriptures.  They are Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva.  They have been given 3 separate tasks.  We, single-handedly do all those 3 tasks as 3 Gods do.

Who has created us?  Without thinking, we say that God has created everything.  It may not be so.  We have created Gods and say that God has created us.  Mainly because we wanted to transfer our faults to Gods.

Whatever good is ours and whatever bad is Gods'.     

23 May 2020

Cross the tricks of the M^IN^D

Recently I have heard a story.  It is very short but very meaningful.  You might have heard the name of Mulla Nasruddin.  He is a very strange fellow.  People laugh at his views and acts.

He uses to wear shoes, which do not fit his feet.  Always he selects one number less than his feet size.  Whenever he walks, shoes pinch his feet.  Because of that, he walks like a lame.  Whenever he returns home, he removes his shoes and threw them away.  At that time he enjoys a big relief.  For that relief he uses smaller shoes.  If he uses the right sized-shoes, he has to give up an experience of big and unusual relief after removing the shoes.

Most of us think that, Mulla’s act was an act of foolishness.  At least some of us may support him and try such foolishness to get extra-ordinary experiences.

In the hot summer, a man can enjoy the coolness of the air-conditioned room.  If another man comes from the hot outside summer into an AC room, certainly, he enjoys coolness more then the man who is already in the AC room.  The only sweet eater cannot taste more than the eater of other tastes like sour, pungent, salt, etc. 

           

In this vivid world, a number of tastes, experiences are scattered unlimitedly.  Why should we restrict ourselves to a limited area?

Some are not eating some fruits, some dishes, and some foods.  Some of them even do not like to see them.  They feel utter irritation in the presence of their dislikes.

Do you know, likes and dislikes are your mind games?  How do you like or dislike without tasting or experiencing them?  Break the barriers of your mind and cross them.  You will find and enjoy the maximum possible treasure of the world.

You need not run behind the worldly pleasures.  Just enjoy whatever is available to you. Most of the people forget their own treasure and hanker for far away unreachable things.  That is the real cause of misery.   

21 May 2020

Happiness and Peace

After reading my blog, one of my best friends Mr.P.S.Kanamadi asked me a question.  How do you say happiness and peace are two different things?

Sometimes we feel that, different things are not different and similar things are not similar.  It depends upon our views and how best we could grasp the things.

We had been taught, in our school days, about opposite and similar words.  Male is opposite to female, the husband is opposite to wife, black is opposite to white.. and so on.  We should think that are they really opposites?  In a harmonious family all male and female, husband and wife support each other.  At the same, in the unharmonious family each member, irrespective of their relations and sex fight each other on a very silly and simple cause.

Grammatically, we learn some rules.  They are needed to learn a language.  Life is totally different from our words.  We should learn the language of life as well.  That will help us sail smoothly in our life.  Some of the most read and qualified persons failed in their life.  Most illiterate persons sailed very nicely and reached their destiny.  

Whereas, happiness and unhappiness are the states of our minds.  Peace is absent from both of the states. In the water, some ripples create a beautiful scene.  We enjoy them.  If the hight of ripples goes on increasing, they create a ferocious situation.  In the sea those ripples swallow big ships and small boats.  The state of ripple-less calm water is called peace.  There is a beauty of peace but it may be different from the beauty of mild ripples.

Ripples are on the outer surface of the sea.  If you enter deep into the water, you do not find ripples.  Ther is only peace.  That cannot be disturbed by the wind or any other outer activities.

Happiness and unhappiness are momentary.  They come and go.  They will not live for a long period.  They are on the outer surface of the water.  We must know all those things thoroughly.  Our mind is also like water.  When we dip into its depth, we experience peace.  Otherwise, we play on the outer surface with its ups and downs.  Certainly, they will give us an experience of either happiness or unhappiness.  We do not feel the taste of peace.  Most of us will satisfy within this outer transactions.  Even We do not want to move in.

We do not go to the thickness of the profound peace.  Even we do not think about it.                   

19 May 2020

Dear Friends,

Due to some problems, I could not write the blog.  Life is not a straightway.  It took so many turns and curves.  Some are pleasant ones, some are unpleasant.

Man always looks for a happy journey.  The journey is a journey.  If there are no ups and no downs, then it would be a dry journey.  Dry means tasteless and juiceless.  We need sweet, sour, pungent like tastes.  They add more taste to our dishes.  Though we like one taste more, other tastes add more flavor to it.  If we put all the tastes away except sweet, then sweet loose its real taste.  If we like pungent more, the sweet makes it more enjoyable.  

One thing we should remember that, whatever our likes maybe we should limit our intake.  A particular food item, which we like more, is sweeter when we do not consume it.  The first bite is more enjoyable than after bites.  When we take more we enjoy less.  At last, we start to hate that item which we craze to get more and more.

Happiness and unhappiness are the two faces of one coin.  They are not different things.  To get happiness, unhappiness is essentially required.  More happiness caused unhappiness in our mind and body

If we want to enjoy a particular day, we should sleep properly on the previous night.  Likewise, if we want to enjoy a deep sound sleep, we should work very hard during the day.  If we enjoy the day work, we enjoy the night's sleep as well. 

Peace and happiness are not related.  They are quite different.  More happiness disturbs peace like unhappiness.  Limited intake of food nourished the body and mind.  More intake causes indigestion.  It also creates inactiveness.  More eater needs to sleep more time.  His alertness hampers.  He lives in dizziness.  An unalert man grasps less, lives less, and achieves less.  Though he lived for more years, his time is wasted in wasteful things. 

We should try to live more in a limited life.  For that, we should live every moment with utter alertness.  Some moments we do not like, but we do not reject them.  Rejection creates unhappiness. Accept whatever it may be, and tries to find good things at every moment.  There are no useless things or moments in this world. But, it is important that what we will catch and use it for a better life.   

I know it very well, you will get some acceptable and nonacceptable things are here in this blog letter.  But I am eagerly waiting for your sincere comments.

Good buy!  Again we will meet soon.

Yours truly,
Subhas Yadawad   

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14 May 2020

ಬದಲಾವಣೆಯೇ ಜಗತ್ತಿನ ಬದಲಾಗದ ನಿಯಮ!
ಜಗತ್ತು ಎಂದರೇನೇ ಬದಲಾಗುವಂತಹುದು.  ಯಾವದು ಬದಲಾಗುವದಿಲ್ಲವೋ ಅದು ಹೆಚ್ಚು ಕಾಲ ಉಳಿಯದು.  ಸೊಸೆ ಮುಂದೊಮ್ಮೆ ಅತ್ತೆಯಾಗುತ್ತಾಳೆ.  ಅವಳು ತನ್ನ ಅತ್ತೆಯಂತೆಯೇ ಆಗುತ್ತಾಳೇನು? ಅವಳು ಬಯಸಿದರೂ ಹಾಗೆ ಆಗಲು ಸಾಧ್ಯವಿಲ್ಲ.  ಆವಳಿಗೆ ದೊರೆಯುವ ಸೊಸೆ ಹೇಗಿರುತ್ತಾಳೋ ಏನೋ?!  ತನ್ನ ಅತ್ತೆಯ ಕಾಲ ಮುಗಿದು ಹೋಗಿದೆ.  ಹೊಸ ಅತ್ತೆಯ ಕಾಲ ಶುರವಾಗಿದೆ.  ಹೊಸ ಕಾಲದ ಅತ್ತೆ-ಸೊಸೆಯರು ಇಬ್ಬರೂ ಹೊಸದಾಗಿರಲೇಬೇಕು.  ಹಳೆಯದನ್ನು ನೆನಸಿದರೆ ಮತ್ತೆ ಬರುವದೇನು?  ಬಾರದ್ದನ್ನು ಬಯಸುವದು ದುಃಖಕ್ಕೆ ಕಾರಣ.  ಅತ್ತೆ-ಸೊಸೆ ಕಾಲಕ್ಕೆ ತಕ್ಕಂತೆ ಬದಲಾವಣೆಗೊಂಡರೆ ಬದುಕು ಬಂಗಾರ.  ಸಕಾರಾತ್ಮಕ ಬದಲಾವಣೆಗಳು ಬದುಕನ್ನು ಸುಂದರಗೊಳಿಸುತ್ತವೆ.  ವರ್ಣಮಯಗೊಳಿಸುತ್ತವೆ.
ಕೆಟ್ಟದ್ದಿರಲಿ, ಒಳ್ಳೆಯದಿರಲಿ; ಕಾಲ ಎಲ್ಲವನ್ನೂ ಕಬಳಿಸಿಬಿಡುತ್ತದೆ.  ಯಾವದೂ ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಖಾಯಂ ಇರುವದಿಲ್ಲ.  ಕೆಲವು ಸಂಗತಿಗಳು ತೀರ ನಿಧಾನವಾಗಿ ಬದಲಾಗುತ್ತ ಇರಬಹುದು. ಅವುಗಳ ನಿಧಾನ ಗತಿಯಿಂದಾಗಿ ಅವುಗಳಲ್ಲಿನ ಬದಲಾವಣೆಯನ್ನು ನಾವು ಗುರುತಿಸದಿರಬಹುದು. ಕೆಲವು ಬೇಗನೇ ನಶಿಸಿಹೋಗಬಹುದು.  ಮನುಷ್ಯ ಜೀವಿತಾವಧಿ ನೂರು ವರ್ಷ ಎನ್ನಬಹುದಾದರೂ; ಹೆಚ್ಚು ಕಮ್ಮಿ ನೂರರ ಸುತ್ತಮುತ್ತ ಎಲ್ಲರೂ ಸಾಯುತ್ತಾರೆ.  ವಯಸ್ಸು ಎಷ್ಟೇ ಆಗಲಿ ಸಾವು ನಿಶ್ಚಿತ.  ಸಾವು ಎಂದರೆ ಬದಲಾಣೆಗೆ ನಾವು ಕೊಟ್ಟ ಇನ್ನೊಂದು ಹೆಸರು.
ಶರಣರು ಸ್ಥಾವರಕ್ಕಳಿವುಂಟು ಜಂಗಮಕ್ಕಳಿವಿಲ್ಲ ಎಂದಿದ್ದಾರೆ.  ಜಂಗಮ ಎಂದರೂ ಬದಲಾಣೆಯೇ!  ಯಾವದು ಬದಲಾಗಲು ಸಿದ್ಧವೋ ಅದು ಹೆಚ್ಚು ಕಾಲ ಉಳಿಯುತ್ತದೆ.  ಗುಡಿಗಳಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಲಿಂಗಗಳನ್ನು ಸ್ಥಾವರಲಿಂಗ ಎನ್ನುತ್ತಾರೆ.  ಅವು ಚಲಿಸುವದಿಲ್ಲ.  ಬದಲಾಗುವದಿಲ್ಲ.  ಹಾಗೆಂದು ಅವೇನೂ ಖಾಯಂ ಅಲ್ಲ.  ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ಮುಕ್ಕಾದರೂ ಸಾಕು ಅವು ದೇವರಾಗಿ ಉಳಿಯವದಿಲ್ಲ.  ಅವೇ ಮುಕ್ಕಾಗಬೇಕೆಂದೇನೂ ಇಲ್ಲ. ಅವುಗಳ ಬಗೆಗಿನ ಭಕ್ತರ ಭಾವನೆಗಳು ಮುಕ್ಕಾದರೂ ಸಾಕು.  ಭಕ್ತರ ಕೊರಳಲ್ಲಿರು ಇಷ್ಟಲಿಂಗಗಳೂ ಅಷ್ಟೇ.  ಅವು ಭಕ್ತರೊಂದಿಗೆ ಚಲಿಸುತ್ತವೆ.  ಅವು ಕಡಿಮೆ ಸ್ಥಾವರ, ಹೆಚ್ಚು ಜಂಗಮ ಎನ್ನಬಹುದೇನೋ?!
ಜಗತ್ತಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಯಾವದೂ ಖಾಯಂ ಇಲ್ಲ.  ಎಲ್ಲವೂ ಜಂಗಮವೇ.  ಜಂಗಮ ಎಂದರೆ ಚಲಿಸಿ-ಚಲಿಸಿ ಮರೆಯಾಗಿ ಹೋಗಿ ಬಿಡುವದು.  ಎಲ್ಲವೂ ಹೋದಮೇಲೆ ಉಳಿಯುವದಾದರೂ ಏನು?  ಅದನ್ನೇ ಶೂನ್ಯ ಎನ್ನುವರು.  ಶೂನ್ಯವು ಸ್ಥಾವರವೇ?  ಅಲ್ಲ, ಅದನ್ನೂ ಬೇರೆ ವಸ್ತುಗಳು ಆಕ್ರಮಿಸಿ ಅಲ್ಲಿನ ಖಾಲಿತನವನ್ನು ಕಡಿಮೆ ಮಾಡುತ್ತವೆ.  ಈ ನಿರಂತರ ಬದಲಾವಣೆಗೆ ಅಳಿವಿಲ್ಲ.  ಉಳಿದದ್ದೆಲ್ಲ ಅಳಿವಿನ ಅಂಚಿಗೆ ಸರಿಯುತ್ತಲೇ ಇರುತ್ತವೆ.
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13 May 2020

ಪಾನನಿರೋಧ ಮತ್ತು ಕುಡುಕರು

ಸಂಪೂರ್ಣ ಪಾನ ಪ್ರತಿಬಂಧ, ಮಹಾತ್ಮಾ ಗಾಂಧಿ ಕಂಡ ಕನಸು.  ಸ್ವಾತಂತ್ರ್ಯ ಬಂದು 72 ವರ್ಷ ಗತಿಸಿದರೂ ಆ ಕನಸು ನನಸಾಗಿರಲಿಲ್ಲ.  ಕೊರೊನಾ ಎಂಬ ವಿಷಾಣು ಬಂದು ಎಲ್ಲವೂ ಬಂದಾಯಿತು.  ಸಂತೋಷದ ಸಂಗತಿ ಎಂದರೆ ಕುಡಿತವೂ ಕೂಡ!  ಕುಡುಕರು 'ನಾವು ಸೆರೆ ಇಲ್ಲದೇ ಬದುಕಬಲ್ಲೆವು' ಎಂದುಕೊಳ್ಳುವ ಹೊತ್ತಿಗೆ ಸೆರೆ ಅಂಗಡಿಗಳು ಮತ್ತೆ ತೆರದುಕೊಂಡವು.  ಲಾಕ್ಡೌನ ಅವಧಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಚಡಪಡಿಸಿದ ಕುಡುಕರು, ತಮ್ಮ ಚಡಪಡಿಕೆಯನ್ನು ಗೆಲ್ಲುವ ಹೊತ್ತಿಗೆ ಹೀಗಾಗಬಾರದಿತ್ತು ಎಂದು ಅವರ ಮನೆಯವರು ಅಂದುಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದರೋ ಏನೋ?!

ಆದರೆ, ಒಂದು ಮಾತಂತೂ ಸತ್ಯ.  ಸೆರೆ ಇಲ್ಲದೇ ಕುಡುಕರು ಬದುಕಬಹುದು; ಸರಕಾರಗಳು ಬದುಕಬಹುದೇ? ಇಲ್ಲ-ಇಲ್ಲ, ಸಾಧ್ಯವಿಲ್ಲ ಎಂದು ಕೆಲವರು ಉತ್ತರಸಬಹುದಾದರೂ; ಪ್ರಜೆಗಳ ಬದುಕಿಗೆ ಬರೆ ಹಾಕಿ ಸರಕಾರ ಯಾಕಾದರೂ ಬದುಕಬೇಕು ಎಂದು ಮತ್ತೆ ಕೆಲವರು ಕೇಳಬಹುದು.

72 ವರ್ಷಗಳಿಂದ ಸಿಗದ ಪಾನನಿರೋಧ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆಗೆ ಕೊರೊನಾ ಒಂದು ಚಿಕ್ಕ ಬೆಳಕನ್ನು ತೋರಿಸಿದೆ.  ಅದರ ಪ್ರಕಾಶದಲ್ಲಿ ಒಂದು ಸೂತ್ರವನ್ನು ಹೊಸೆಯಬಹುದಲ್ಲವೇ?  ಆ ದಿಸೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಸರಕಾರ, ಸಮಾಜ, ನಾಗರಿಕರು, ಪ್ರಯತ್ನಿಸಬೇಕು.  ಅದರಲ್ಲಿ ಕುಡುಕರ ಪಾಲೂ ಬಹು ದೊಡ್ಡದಿದೆ.  ಯಾವದೇ ಅಂಗಡಿ ಇರಲಿ ಅದರ ಯಶಸ್ಸುಗೆ ಗಿರಾಕಿಗಳೇ ಕಾರಣ.  ಗಿರಾಕಿಗಳಿಲ್ಲದ ಅಂಗಡಿಗಳು ಬಹಳ ದಿನ ತೆರೆದಿರುವದಿಲ್ಲ.  ಕುಡುಕರು ಮನಸ್ಸು ಮಾಡಿದರೆ ಸೆರೆ ಅಂಗಡಿಗಳನ್ನು ಮುಚ್ಚುವದು ಅತಿ ಸುಲಭ.  ಕುಡುಕರು ಮನಸ್ಸು ಮಾಡಬೇಕಷ್ಟೇ!     
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English Translation

Drinking and drunkard

Mahatma Gandhi dreamed of a total prohibition. Even though independence came 72 years ago, that dream never came true. The virus called Corona came and something of this dream was visualized. All alcohol shops were closed.  By the time the drunkards felt that  'We could live without alcohol' At that crucial time again the alcohol shops were opened.

But, one thing is true. Drunkards can live without drinks; Can governments survive? Although some may answer that no-no; Again, some may ask that the government should work for the benefits of the citizens.

Corona has shed a little light on the problem of non-alcoholic beverages. Can a formula be updated in its radiance? The government, the society, the citizens, should try. Drunkards' part is huge. The success of any store depends upon its customers. The alcohol stores will not survive for a long time if drunkards do not visit there. Drunkards Mind, You could bring a great change and fulfill the dream of Mahatma Gandhiji!

11 May 2020

Mothers' Day

We have celebrated one more mothers' day yesterday.  Every year 10th of May we observe the Day.  Is it sufficient to pay our respect for her sacrifice and service to us?  No one says yes.  Then what would be done?

Answers may be different.  But no answer or no action would be sufficient to pay for her service.  After 9 months of protection in her womb, she delivers us to the earth.  Man is the weakest animal on the earth.  She made us the strongest in the world.  There is no way to refund her sacrifice-service, she has made us.

Our mothers look after us up to our teens.  Then the whole life is nourished by Mother Earth.  Along with these two mothers, our father, teachers, society, nature... everything cares us selflessly.  We are highly indebted to them.  We should think about how shall we be free from those debts.  Definitely, it is not possible.  But the sense of indebtedness made us humble.  No person can give as much as he takes from the others.

The mother's contribution is very great.  Because she does everything and does not expect anything from us.  We may call this whole living world is mother's world.

Where mothers are loved and revered that will be the world of humanity.  Without humanity, there are no human beings.  The color, caste, class, personality, status do not represent humanity.  Only reverence, concern, kindness, love, a sense of indebtedness, etc are the forms of humanity.  We should develop them in all our thinking and acting.  That is the real celebration of mothers' day.  Otherwise, it would be a mockery like any other celebration.

My mother is mother of five children in four deliveries; 4 males and one female.  The female breathed its last at the time of delivery.  We 4 bothers remained like her male and female children.  We did everything, not discriminating against the work of males and females.  She never expected anything from us.  She gave and gave, at last she gave her life.  She was very healthy.  Until her death, she never admitted to any hospital.  Some minor ailments would be cured at home.  The kitchen stock will be her medical shop.  Her experiences were her doctors.  Many times she cures our ailments.  Now she is no more but her way of treatment cures our day to day health problems.

How shall we pay her debt?  It is highly impossible.  If we do not pay our mother's debt, how shall we pay the debt of others?  Always we are indebted.  We will not be freed from that.  It is our responsibility to be grateful for our creditors.