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My writings are an attempt to revive this "lost world", a world where peace has become an alien word.

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A PIECE OF PEACE

The fast changing world of today has made modern man quite difficult to keep pace with it. Instant work with instant result has become the catchword of today’s world, a world where time is seen from a commercial point of view. Even to understand himself proves to be time consuming. And this very notion has prevented him to understand the meaning of life. But this doesn’t point to the fact that he is blind to the reality of life. He has seen life, passed through all the turmoils, but still feigns ignorance. He tends to forget that the more we divide our interests, our allegiances, our activities the less time we have for living. He is guided by the word ‘hurry’ which again leads to tension, insecurity, inefficiency and superficial living. But slowness should not be confused with sloth, which again breeds carelessness and general

inefficiency. Even rest and spiritual practices are conceived by him as deterrent in his success story. But seen from a realistic point of view, spiritual life is not divorced from day-to-day life every individual leads in this world. To live life gracefully so that a person can be in tune with any situation it is necessary that a person should know oneself fully well, his inner urge, his limitation etc. When one looks at oneself there is always some kind of seeking within. It expresses itself as a quest for fame, power, love, pleasure etc. But as soon as his cravings are fulfilled he either wants more or his seeking takes some other form. It becomes imperative to understand what is that driving force that constantly pushes man to seek something or the other. But what is basic to this is the innate desire to expand and it doesn’t want to see any limitation in its way. Every person has the natural urge to go beyond the limitation in which he is placed in life that is to remain unbounded. This is a spiritual process. When this seeking is not a conscious act on one’s part it takes the material form that makes man totally engrossed in this materialistic world. But at the same time if he is fully conscious of his urge it takes him on a spiritual dimension. Life’s situation becomes easier to handle when one becomes fully conscious of his natural urge within- that is his spiritual seekings, in this all are on the same footings.

Family, relations, power, money are actually the tools of self -imprisonment from which it is very difficult to come out. It makes man forget the hard reality that in the midst of life we are in death. The cells of the body we identify with are in a constant state of change, but limits of our vision keep us from seeing it. Those few who are sensitive to this reality of life have tremendous motivation to take to the spiritual path. Spirituality is the way to transcend the limitations that obstruct us from knowing the reality of life. As we begin to connect ourselves with reality we find deeper sources of strength, energy, power and happiness.

We all know that we have some dark hidden desires of our blood to tantalize us with impossible satisfaction endlessly withheld .Again there are potentialities within us to be good as well as evil .What we have to do is to ever create more ethical personalities in the course of living .We do so if we are devoted to enhancing the lives of others instead of feeding on them. Again happiness is not the end of life. Growth to fulfillment is the end. Growth includes moments of struggle as well as pain. But man at some times of their life, may be in their deepest needs or in the hours of estrangement will surely find themselves blessed by the gift of ‘Grace’.

THE REGION OF REASON

"What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty?”. The question arises whether this remark is still applicable to man .As 'reason ' no longer seems to dominate the actions of man as obvious from his actions. There is a great transformation in the mindset of man, not for the good but for the worst .It is because man's mind is no longer within his domain, his actions have no co-relation with his thought process. The catastrophe which menaces man results from his own thoughts and ideals. If he passively submits to the forces that have raised, he is calling for his own destruction at his own hands. If there is one power that man possesses is his power to alter his own way of life. He should at best try to recover his creative powers. Self destruction 'is the result of human criminality so outrageous that even the highest art cannot do justice to it. Man can decide his own future and can make or mar his own fortune. He should at best feel that he has a responsibility to the whole of mankind and merely to his own adherents. The natural reason of man seems at first to shine brightly but it is in fact 'a torch in a misty night’, 'while the inner light' of right reasoning seems to burn perennially and 'shall grow up from a fair hope, to modest assurance, and that, that light shall never go out, and neither the works of darkness nor the prince of darkness can ever prevail upon it. It is said that people have sufficient knowledge to create a great civilization but not sufficient 'wisdom 'to protect it from being ruined. Can we not become its protector too?

RUIN REIGNS

The world as we know is marching ahead towards a dangerous future. A future ,which seems somewhat unstable. We are aware of living in a tragic age where evil forces reign supreme and one conflict clears the way for another.Irrational feelings, sufferings, intrigues, plots and counterplots make of them a seething mass mysterious and unpredictable. Not a single day can pass without violence and bloodshed . Man is called a 'civilised' human being but is he civilised or has simply become a MAN-EATER in the real sense. ooh what man has made of man!

UNDERSTANDING RELIGION

“The cosmic religious experience is the strongest and noblest mainspring of scientific research. My religion consists of a humble admiration of illimitable superior spirit who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe forms my idea of God.”(Albert Einstein).

Religious experience has been expressed in a variety of ways by people down the ages. Some believe, in religion there is a tendency to believe in the existence of a Absolute Being in which all reality, hence all truth is embodied. It is also thought to be system of dogmas and rites a few infallible principles of symbols and rituals. The religious person in this sense is one who has an implicit faith in life no matter what situation he encounters but handles life situations with an aim to improve them. Even a man who is antagonistic to formal religions and to all cultic connotations may in him a quality which can be termed as religious.

Again religion seen from a social point of view is that, it works to bring about social resurgence. The individual’s relation to God is found in his relation to the social group. The religious advocates who profess the concept of “Universality of Religions,” suggest that the fundamental varieties common to all religions should be inculcated and the universal religious sentiment of reverence and dependence on God cultivated.

In recent years the world is witnessing a great change in the very nature and mindset of man, a change not for the good but for the worse, not that he is worse morally or religiously but because he is ceasing to be an individual. His individual reality is at a standstill owing to the excessive power which the mechanized world has endowed him. Again the future will remain at a standstill unless the mechanized world is under spiritual control.

For a civilization to sustain free and disinterested spirit of enquiry is a must and any religion which never encourages has no chance of survival. Modern man feels, he is rootless as he is unaware of his real self. He is completely occupied in the changes and chances of mere existence. Reality can be encountered in the real sense only by those who have attained integration and harmony by overcoming the conflict within themselves. Religion is the great remaking of oneself. Man has to undergo a great change- an inward change in order to free himself from the sleeping forces of the enslaved spirit. Religion awakens the real in man and recreates the being itself.

He is said to be a reborn soul. He sees the Divine Spirit permeating the whole universe. The soul that has received emancipation is free from the bonds binding one to the world, and is raised above the three qualities of ‘Serenity’, ‘Passion’ and ‘Inertia’. He is devoted to the all round development in the world, renounces all interest in the fruits of work is lifted above the distinction of good and evil, renounces even the scriptures, and is always lost in God.

When a state of perfect harmony is established the self is said to be born. It is the spirit which is immortal, and which was lying hidden manifests itself. It is to realize the totality of self without the loss of ego consciousness. Prof. W.E. Hocking says,” The great prophets reveal to us the new being, who bases his hope for the coming world civilization on a partnership of the great religions, on the growing unity of their unlosable essences, the understanding acceptance of variety, and the quite convergence of purpose in the identity of a historic task.”

A study of all major religions is essential for the understanding of one’s own. But no one can indeed master al the scriptures of the world. The sense of deep spiritual unrest and dissatisfaction will at once cease if we work for a new spiritual reconciliation and outlook which should be in the light of recent development with the aim of living together in harmony for times to come….

NATURE vs MAN

"This far and not beyond". The actions of nature become sometimes unpredictable like that of man. Man’s life is nothing but an accumulation of actions. But his acts sometimes turn so gruesome that nature is left with no other alternative but to intervene in the form of natural disasters (hurricane, earthquake, volcanic eruption, etc etc), just to give a hint to man that his actions are of a limited nature and can be thwarted at any time. In this world of terrorism, anger, hatred, hostility it is wrong to presume that, man with his evil designs can execute his formulated plan and spread 'war' on earth. No! No! Nature always stands as a wise reminder.

Nature's call

Nature cannot be personified as a man. It is just a process. Nature knows no discrimination. But man is not a process, he has full intelligence. There has been constant tunneling of earth's crust in the name of transportation, digging of earth's basin in the name of fuel, erecting of skyscrapers etc, etc which lead to the cause of tsunami, earthquakes, rita, katrina etc ....So will man realise the omnipotence of nature and the wrath that it can incur upon man, if he brings no limit to his actions. What do you think nature is a philosopher or an educator?