After thoughts on Shree Mdbhaagwat Geeta

I was under one of those influences of mental ideas of the soul mate thing, when I found a website regarding yoga. I browsed it with half heart out of curiosity, as the good part was not there to be found :-P(kidding).

Though I have been into meditations since long but didn't have good idea about the yoga (coffee yoga) , and used to look down at it as I believed that the Raja yoga is the one which is best and is practically suited to person like me, when walking, talking, and gesture is part of evolution of the consciousness and not some session limited to 30 minutes or so.

Now I was browsing the site (tell you what! I liked what all was written there, some of the things were very impressive, but I am tough to come so...) when I landed on an electronic copy of SMB Geeta, I had read it once during 1993 and had forgotten most of it except one part where the lord talks about keeping faith and firm belief and about centering on the third center.

So I downloaded it to refresh the section I remembered so clearly.As soon as I started reading from 7th chapter onwards I realized its deeper than I thought so I started from page one and kept on going till end of it.

It was an enlightening experience, By the time I finished it I bowed to lord Krishna and saluted the great mind (?) and person(s) behind it, considering it dates back to as far as there is history.

Visit a village and the most smart of the human who are 100 years or so behind won't come to 0.001% of the intelligence and clarity exhibited in it ,let alone someone who is 3000 years behind, yet how come its so superior ?

Krishna did exist and so did Mahabharata , but the whole story behind origin of SMBG was something I cold never believe, as its being seen by someone and being written by some else (Vyas rishi) .But then there are things like para-sensing being documented now so I have to believe that it did happen.

No matter what, the words are eye opener and would definitely bring anyone home as it did to me.

Highly recommended for anyone who wants to get the real taste of NOW, and who wants to learn the secret of sacred living from the master of the masters.

Eternally grateful to the lord Krishna and very thankful to the people who made it available.Please click on the link below for Shree madBhagwat Gita.

Click Here , Many thanks to Robyn for making it available.

Frustrated tax payers ---pay pay pay , don't expect.

-----A middle class tax payer's thought process --

When will my government treat me like human for gods sake? if I pay for service I receive it, If I pay my god-damn taxes I want it count. It's my money and noone provided any help in my education, my job and my upbringing . I never lived on ration food, Never went to public school, don't go to government hospital for fear of getting some other infection.I pay the road tax, pay electricity bill, pay water bill, pay house tax which I own , pay sale tax, pay service tax, pay education cess, pay tax for everything except breathing and yet have to pay income tax as if my income process is somehow supported by the government.And yet my life is in gods hands, police man will not teat me with respect though I pay for his salary, some other refer to me "Bloody civilian" while drinking subsidised wine brought from my earnings.If I am going to some urgent work i might be stopped for an hour becasue some representative of the public is passing and is having z class security. Oh yes I have a new budget coming lets hope there is something for me in there, after all I pay some good taxs, the government must atleast be as honest as a business or service provider and render. >>

With imputs from some frustrated tax payers. Borrowed article.

The milch cow story

A group of milch cows are entertaining in a hotel after a days hard work and some "Anal polyps" (Borrowed term) pop up and pump some armour piercing rounds in their bodies.
Poor ones ran here and there but no one came to help, they couldn't help themselves as the law had made provisions such, that in case of an attack like this, the milch cow couldn't help but die a sorry death.
Some were trapped inside the hotel for days. Animal farm media and news papers were abalaze with the story but then every one is busy chewing the fodder again, noone give a heed to the long gone Milch Cows ,for, there are plenty more to bank upon and collect the precious milk (Tax).
Every one in the Animal farm is important except the Milch cow breed, new taxes are planned based on how good the milch cow is making milk so that she can be milked more, new schemes are launched to cut her fodder a bit more, and surprisingly no grant, nothing comes to the poor milch cow, though it goes for industries, irrigation,fertilizers, and god knows what other things.
The Milch cow is step child, does the best to get the worst.
End of Milch cow story - Borrowed from a friend.

Working class a Third grade citizen : We pay the taxes and pay more taxes

I live in India and we proudly try to sing "Saare jahan se accha", though whenever I think about taxes, VAT, service tax it turns out that its the service class who pays tax on income and then also pays VAT to buy things from already tax paid money, on top of that service providers deduct service tax from the consumer only, I hardly can sing that anymore.

I was looking out to buy a decent car for commuting to office, and the options I have are far more expensive then they are in Europe and yet the quality is not upto the mark ,they are expensive because they are highly taxed.
On the other hand agricultural instruments have relaxed taxation , there are subsidies, there are provision for owing a gun license for protection of crop and fields (protection of means of earning and life) but for service class there is no such provision as if ours life is not in danger.There are terrorists in and around cities aint they city based animals from whom we need to defend ourselves ?
We the service class are there to provide necessary money to run the system, keep toiling hard and live under burden of taxes, deprived of basics ,for, this is a country of farmers and soldiers long live soldier and love live farmer.
We are struck in between somewhere as er bees, collecting the honey and supporting the colony.
Why there is not a urban and city regulation and a relaxed policy for better vehicles , service taxes so that one can have a fair share of what others are having in similar amount of money in other parts of world ?

Below are the cars I would like to own, I have the money they are worth, but I can't muster the amount they are taxed for.

2009 Mitsubishi Outlander Price Range: $19,990 - $25,780

2009 Ford Escape Price Range: $19,140 - $27,670

If only 10% of the victims of Mumbai massacre had weapons.

Why can't I get a new firearm, instead of cheap quality FGF

Mahatma Gandhi on Gun ownership law

"Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India,history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest." : Mahatma Gandhi.

Why won't they let us have freedom of owing guns ?

some other opinions on mumbai attacks ?

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-luttwak5-2008dec05,0,7905913.story

Rewarding brevery and Recognising a Martyr : Heros of the Gamdevi Police station.

I was wondering what is the scale for measuring bravery in the minds of our leaders who happen to represent us (?).
This is in reference to the Gamdevi station police team which intercepted and killed one terrorist and managed to capture one other who was firing with his automatic assault weapon near Girgaum chowpatti area.
The police team from Gamdevi police station lost Asst Police inspector Tukaram Umbale in the action, did we see his name in the list of three martyrs which was relayed umpteen times on the national news in various TV channels?
Whom do we consider a martyr ? someone who was shot at while driving past a group of terrorists (no offense to the event intended) or someone who pro actively intercepted and fought with exceedingly dangerous and armed opponent and had courage to face such an enemy in open?
We should also keep in our mind that had it not been the prompt action of the team from Gamdevi police station, we would still be groping in dark about the unfolding of events and the origin of the terrorists.

Do we require people to die before we start to honor them ? Why can't we have living heroes ?
I strongly feel that now is the time when the age old tradition of 'worshiping the dead' should be done away with and we should also decorate and award people who exhibited extreme courage in the line of duty with only handguns and bamboo staff against highly armed opponents.

Hope the extremely courageous police officers and team members from Gamdevi police station get their due reward and appreciation.

Later.

Summary of Mumbai attacks.

Terrorists didn't have extreme training, just that we were anarmed and our politicians are stupid and old, else any terrorist stands no chance against wrath of an average Indian.

Mumbai under attack

It was a very sad event and even sadder is the way it was treated.I have been thinking on some points these two days and I thought to share the same with you as follows.

Since when we need bamboos to remove curtains off the windows ? Couldn't they be burnt with flares ?

Since when we need the commandos to simply wait and watch on the rooftop while the oepration needs the quick action to aid element of surprise?

How come we celebrate the so called victory over the terrorists when lives of about 200 people were lost and about 40 times more man power was required to overcome the threat ?

Where was the hostage situation at Taj and the Trident which forced the forces to act slow? most of the causualities occured during first few hours of the attack while we were planning and getting armed forces to the site.

Does it take a lot of training for killing helpless people with sophisticated weaposn which can fire at the rate of 10 shots a seconds ? May be we are putting much hype to training to hide our failure in counteracting and removing the menace.

Could the terrorists feel as free in their action as they felt had there been even 10% people armed with concealed weapons of those whom they killed ? The cruel facts remains that they were succesfull not becasue of their training but becasue of our helplesness, we were shot at and killed as and when they pleased and some say that small things like this keep happeing in big cities like mubai.

Sound skeptical ? It is may be, I can't help but grieve the situation and feel angry at what happend and has been happening to our people since so many years. This needs to stop here and now.