Escapism - Greatest Illusion

This is a phenomenon that I observed in almost all people I have come in contact with. And I see it even in me sometimes, the proclivity to just throw away responsibilities and not to face reality. This phase must have hit everyone at one point of time or other.

Habits like drinking, smoking or even watching tv (my confession) are a result of this tendency. We want to experince another world or an alternate reality, since we are not happy with what is happening in our life or maybe just we are bored of the daily routine. People have different ways of dealing with this, but some dont even their whole life.

But the best thing as I have found is to face your demons and overcome them, believe it or not it is better than the few moments of relief and bliss we find in escaping reality. This will tranform the way you think about life and about even yourself.

I have a strong belief that we become what we project ourself in our minds. What our mind says the body obeys and this is the ultimate battle you will ever fight. The expedition into the unknown is starts from journey into self thats where the key to all questions is hidden.

The best place to hide the answers is the place where we would look the last that is ourself, I believe that god sent us with all the knowledge we just forgot because we didnt respect it and what you dont respect will never respect you.

I remind myself everyday so that I dont fall into the vortex of escapism, so that I keep fighting my battle and keep marching towards my goal.

Religion "or" Faith

People seem to use religion and faith synonymously but in fact I feel the former is the consequence of the latter. Whenever I want to trace back the origins of a religion or the cause of why religion came into existence, it seems to converge at one basic factor "a strong need for faith".
At the very beginning when man was like any other animal, he would hunt and gather food and live in caves, undoubtably for me he never even thought of god at that point of time. But at the time of need or at a crucial juncture there had to be one person who could be relied upon this could have been the leader of the group. They soon realised that even their leader can falter and couldnt be completely relied upon, hence there was a need to look elsewhere for such faith and source of strength.

As human brain and his perception became complex and his understanding of the environment grew he realised that there are too many things that seem out of control and hazardous. He knew to survive he needed a lot of skills and a lot of "luck". And these were the seeds that were sown to create the conception of god. At some point this concept of all powerful and all knowing being whom he contrived maybe even thought existed in some place, as he must have seen that different people exhibit different levels of skills and knowledge.

Even this myth might have been taken a blow as he never found that person, but since it was always a source of strength and inspiration he couldnt possibly give up on the belief or the search that such an absolute individual never existed.
Even in relatively recent times when kings used to rule a nation and the entire responsibility from the well being of his subjects to their security needs was upto the him. But at times when the king would turn out to be incompetent or a tyrant, He would turn to god for help and comfort.

Somehow I strongly believe this is the way religion could have come into existence, and hence the essence of it is an undying faith, unending repository of inspiration. And it also gave man a sense of security that someone out there knows everything there is to know.

Mind of a Genius

Genius is it a overrated word or really genius exist naturally, then how about Einstein, he was not the sharpest person in his class as a matter of fact he was sort of a dullard. And ultimately he came up with the theory of relativity which is widely regarded as the most important asset of our species. But how did this genius come about, did he "work" his way towards it or he was born with it. Is it an anomaly of that person or can a genius can be "built". I would appreciate a professional opinion, since people seem to be influenced by the movies and a fantasy that people associate with genius, ofcourse even I have been touched by it.

Believe in yourself.

Metamorphosis

The curiosity to know why we have come into existence, the whole purpose and direction of our growth as a species as a form of life... ZAP suddenly today I just thought of something... a word... It suddenly made sense... Why a species become extinct when the sole purpose of life "seems" survival, even a technologically advanced species like us cannot help but run towards extinction..
we know it in our heart we cannot survive for long but still do the very things that will ultimately lead us to our destruction... Its like we have pressed this auto-destruct button long ago and we are helpless cant stop it... But why... Metamorphosis... yah that seems the most logical explanation for the eventual direction we are taking... We or rather I take human species into perspective rather than taking life into perspective.. We cannot help it I guess.. But like the dinosaurs that once crawled the earth and eventually became extinct.. A similar fate awaits us... All this is a process of creating a species which can survive through all situations... Across space and time... SO conclusion we are just a phase just like a caterpillar that will become a butterfly one day.. We are a part of that metamorphosis..

Concept of Right and Wrong

This is one of the fallacies of human race, it is the greatest hindrance to growth of the human mind. This concept is a legacy of few who saw that if we need to have order and control of life, we need certain boundaries to be drawn based on conscience and morals. But this control is a false pretence that we carry inside each one of us there is that instinct that wants us to break free. Life was never meant to be bound to anything, it was meant to be by itself.. free.. Free to live or die, to feel joy and pain.

People try to control others or even themselves in vain, cause we don't have control over situations. We are flowing in the stream of possibilities that is created by the situations, we are nothing but that stick floating in the river, the river of time and space.

Believe in yourself.

WHO AM I...

I think every one of you must have asked this question at some point in your life, who am I? I am referring to the personality that you call "I" How did it come about?
This question has both philosophical and scientific importance, I am not much of a philosopher so I am going to present my pseudo scientific analysis of this single-most important aspect of out lives – our personality.
For me it’s the amalgamation of the influences that are catered through our senses that our mind could make sense or accepts becomes our personality. What is a personality, it’s the unique way in which you perceive and react to a situation. The perception is governed by the concepts of right and wrong, good and bad etc that were conceived due to the influences. So what are these “influences” that we are talking about?
It is the geographical location, the people around you, the events in your lifetime, socio-economic forces, not to forget your own experiences and a number of other things that you come across in your life.
Lets try not to digress from the primary objective of this discussion, determining whom you are to describe in a phrase it is everything and everybody around you, but how did they acquire their personality! Seems like a dead end.
To picture this I would like to illustrate an example, people with science background will be able to relate to this easily. Take a air-tight box filled with gas molecules. It is common knowledge that the molecules are in motion but the momentum exhibited by each of the molecule is not its own but its neighbor’s in the limited perspective of the molecule itself but for an entity observing from outside it is the container which is giving the molecules their momentum.
So what I like to conclude is it is not the people around but a greater purpose that governs the personality of a person its not event the people who are around you, I think that most people would conclude that the purpose is “survival” which has led us to become what we are, But then the big question is why? Why are we so inclined to survive? What is the purpose of this survival, what is so important which is driving us to survive? These are the questions I arrived at after much musing.
I hope these questions are answered some day not for my sake but for the sake of our species and life itself.

Dare to dream
Did you ever dream of something very big (seemingly impossible) and then you realized that you cannot fulfill it since people around you said so and it made sense, so you let go of it. Is it futile then to dream or to want something which is out of our reach because anyway it is not achievable?

If that were the case we wouldn't be where we are today, would we? If the Wright brothers had thought that flying was out of the question for a human being, if Edison thought that he would use candles and forget about inventing light bulb and give up on the quest. I could cite zillion examples and still think of some more, so why is it that they succeeded in doing something extraordinary even though everybody else thought they wouldn't. There's not much difference but just one quality that stands out for me in those few men who could achieve and people who gave up, is that they dare to dream and struggled to fulfill it, nothing could come between their goals they even laid down their lives for it.
There are people who couldn't realize their dreams when they were alive but that did deter them because they leave a legacy behind which is carried on by the next generation, So if you dare to dream then you should do everything and anything to reach it. That's the way to live.. live forever.

Believe in yourself.

A very Happy and a Prosperous 2004 to all

Life Cycle Of a STAR
You see stars in the sky billions and billions of them, but did u ever wonder how they came into existence. Just like anything else in this universe everything has a life cycle and today I would like to share with you the birth and death of a star.

Believe it or not the stars are formed from nothing but gases that mostly hydrogen and helium, these gases can be called the building blocks of all stars (of course we know that quarks and leptons are the building blocks of matter). These clouds of gases when come together it generates a lot of heat and friction which eventually results in a gravitational pull towards the centre of the cloud. This force becomes so enormous and the energy produced from it so great that it starts taking a solid form and after few hundreds of years results in a star. This star is burning hot and the temperatures are so high if some object were to come even remotely close to it would turn to ashes.

The size of the star depends on the volume of clouds that were involved in its making, and you know our sun is one such star and smaller by comparison. The surface of stars are very dense if a mm cube piece were to be brought to earth it would weigh in thousands of tonnes.

When a star is burning the fuel consummated is hydrogen for half of its life and then this hydrogen converts into helium which again acts as fuel for the remainder of its life. The star has two distinct components the core and its surface. At the end of its life the outer core expands and the inner core contracts.
If the star is big enough it results in a huge explosion producing great amounts of energy and also hydrogen and helium gases. This cosmic spectacle is called supernova, this lights up the space for days together and it is for me the most beautiful sights the universe can offer.

Black holes are formed after the star explodes and the core continues to contract and collapse in its own gravity at one point where the gravity becomes so powerful that it even pulls in the light particles coming towards it. Since there is no light reflected from this dense ball(core) it cannot be seen hence the term black hole.The phenomenon of black hole is one of the greatest mysteries that we are still trying to figure out and when we do it might open a new dimension to our knowledge.

So next time you look up at stars I hope it will change your perspective towards it. This is an effort to show to you people there is more to life than just living it for the sole purpose of living, there are things to be seen, new frontiers to be explored it just requires some effort from you. I hope this inspires a few from the rise from the stale existence and do something exciting not for anybody else but for themselves.

Believe in yourself.