Graffiti of The Thinking Mind

The awakening

2010-07-05T12:27:00.019+05:30

In the round of current philosophical probings, a read through from the site Anand Marga is presented here. Readings, which i have been contemplating since some time now.

"There is in the living being a thirst for limitlessness"
The following sections present main topics with links and few extracts from them.

Social Philosophy
All should be afforded equal opportunity for their development

Progressive Utilization Theory
All long for the Supreme, either knowingly or unknowingly. All want infinite happiness; perfect peace.

Neohumanism
Neohumanism is the practice of love for all created beings of the universe, animate and inanimate. It is the spirit of humanism extended to all: the elevation of humanism to universalism.

As human beings we have intellect as well as instinct. Intellect can either be used sentimentally or rationally. If it is used sentimentally it leads to dogma. If it is used rationally it leads to devotion.

Sentiment is intellect minus rationality. It allows the mind to be attracted to whatever it wants, without any regard for the consequences. It is based on selfish pleasure, and therefore is dangerous to oneself as well as to the society.

Sentiment leads to dogma. A dogma is an irrationally established idea devoid of logic. It is a preconceived idea which "stifles the spontaneous growth of human intellect." As such it gives rise to superstition, oppression and pseudo-spirituality. "With dogma, even 10-20 percent of human intellect cannot be properly utilized… The human intellect has got to be liberated from all sorts of bondages, from all kinds of dogma."

Rationality, on the other hand, is the ability to discriminate between right and wrong, between what should and should not be done. Rationality is a great asset, and it is only found in humans.

Rationality gives rise to devotion. Devotional sentiment is the highest and most valuable treasure of humanity. It makes the heart sweet and strong, and leads to expansion of mind because it is not a limiting sentiment. As such it transforms the sense of worldly existence into the supreme spiritual stance.

Education

Three fundamentals of education are:

1. It must be based on factuality,
2. It must awaken a thirst for knowledge, and
3. Students and teachers must both have a balanced mind.

Spiritual philosophy
"The Supreme Entity is the vastest entity;
the ultimate source of all cosmic emanations.
The Supreme Entity, which is difficult to conceive,
is the subtlest of the subtle.
He is farther away than any other entity,
but again He is nearer than the nearest.
Only the one who looks into the innermost recesses
of himself can realize the Supreme Entity."

Realms of the mind (kosas)
"The mind is composed of five layers, just like the banana flower."

Service to Humanity
In synch with the prevalent mindset of our present-day society, we tend to think of life in terms of sensual gratification and spend a good deal of our time going about acquiring the objects we believe will give us that gratification. When we fail to get lasting satisfaction from those material objects and the sensual pleasures they give us, we automatically believe it's because we didn't get enough of them, or that we need to try something new.
That's the illusion. The reality is something quite different. We need to go the other way; to give instead of take; to think about the well-being of others as much as of our own . It should not mean that we deprive ourselves (or allow ourselves to be deprived) of our basic necessities. But for our mental and spiritual wellbeing we need to move away from the tendency of getting more for ourselves, and move towards giving more to others, without expecting anything in return. That's why service is a big part of spirituality.

Go Green, Save the Environment

2010-01-03T11:09:00.002+05:30

Since 4 years in Bangalore, i have observed a steady rise in temperature, decrease in number of trees. One can feel it when you ride around in corners of inner ring road, where the open area has a good temperature drop. Pollution and cutting down of Trees is changing the climate here drastically. We all liked the climate of Bangalore didn't we? So why not care for it? Last year, inception of cycling has led me to go green and care for the environment. It is this rise in consciousness in each one of us can help save a lot.

All of us would definitely agree with John Muir,
"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world"
( source: http://www.quotegarden.com/environment.html).

When it comes to conservation, it started simple with less printing, less use of AC, electricity conservation, less use of plastics and no littering around of plastics. Now I am contemplating on buying some indoor plants for my home.

Green Places in Bangalore:
1. Parks - Cubbon Park, Lalbagh and may other Parks present in your locality
2. Art of Living Ashram in Kanakpura Road
3. Indian Institure of Horticultural Research, Hasseraghatta (http://www.iihr.res.in/)
4. Butterfly Park in Bannerghatta National Park.

Cycling and Go-Green Club (http://www.gogreengocycling.org/)
This club encourages you to take cycling to work and support the cause of "go green".
The usually organize a Sunday morning ride to Cubbon Park from Jayanagar.

Here are some pics from last year, taken at Butterfly Park, Bannerghatta National Park

Let all of us do our little bit, and it will definitely help the environment remain green.

Want more? Watch the video

Wilderness in the City of Joy

2010-01-03T00:59:00.001+05:30

This Travelogue is the account of two wanderers one that returned to the place of birth after a long time and the other of a person who has never traveled this far before.

I and ADY went to Kolkata for KC's Marriage and we had 2 days to ourselves we thought among the rituals.

Day 1: Flight at 10 to Kolkata. We take a cab to airport (No... we didn’t take Meru and don’t ask me why).

At the Airport you pay double the price for a six inch sub and cappuccino (No... we couldn’t bargain...Hell). The flight we took and a window seat just above the wings. ADY wouldn’t stop clicking everything one could see out of the small window. Hyper bored in a 2 hour flight, I ventured into entertainment with "Adventures of bounce" in ADY's mobile. Suddenly the mike screeched and captain croaked and we are cruising at 800 km/hour over Bhubaneswar. In half an hour we reach Kolkata. Both our luggage bags were eagerly circulating the ramp (shouting 'pick me up'). We come out of airport and are warmly welcomed by Arijeet (local guy who never went local) and off we go in an OMNI to KC's place. It was quite hot out there. When we reach there, it felt like home and I felt like sleeping but something better was waiting ... lunch!

After a wholesome Vegetarian Bengali meal, we were escorted to the Guest House were we met friend and our Yoga Teacher and her family. We had no time to rest but get ready for the Marriage "Baraat". I wore the traditional dress "Kurta" with much difficulty and I was ready for the show. At 5 we are waiting down KC's house lined up for our ride to Bride's place. (A place called Kakinada which was 42 kms from Dum Dum in North Kolkata). The ride was a rocky ride combined with heavy traffic. Gave us all a headache! Eventually we reached the place and off we go to cruise right over the show. We were served snacks at 8 and dinner at 9. The Dinner had all Non veg delicacies which none of us could have. After dinner we were exhausted. We returned to Guest house and crashed into our beds for a good night's sleep.

Day 2: Windy Day, so we venture out in the morning to KC's place for a homemade breakfast and home-stay's feel. With a set of "Luchi" and "Alu curry" and some sweets we were more than full. We asked every helpful soul - perhaps where could one roam around in Kolkata? ADY did manage to write some places on a piece of paper.

And off we were to Science City. 4 years of Software work experience did leave the quest of science in us. As we cruised in a black and yellow ambassador ( aka Taxi) through the Eastern Bypass Road towards the City of Science, ADY thought to herself, how could one see so much traffic the day before and none the next morning?

The weather was sunny and awesome. As we dropped out of cruiser, we were greeted by the mighty Green Dinosaur which stood tall in front. With much excitement we go in to begin the day. And we see a Cable-car designed to tour you through science city. ADY compared it to Singapore's system and I all I had to say was "Wake up".

Then we go to entrance and take tickets to "Space theater - Life of the Corals" well sounded good to me. But before its show time, we saw time machine, mirror maze and models of PSLV and GSLV rockets and we took our share of pictures with it. After the advent of space theatre, it’s time to munch some food, so we hop over to find the "vood court" eh sorry "food court". The misspelled could go as far as this that the menu read "Vonda" for Bonda and "Boda for Vada". After much disagreement we converged to eating the one and the only "egg roll" and guess what ADY didn't like it (Grrr ... Q: how could anyone not like egg roll? A: she is a woman and hence she is unpredictable)

The we are out of science city to our next destination - the famous "Victory Memorial" and before one enters, there is an array of hawkers selling all a hungry soul needs. (Wait, that’s what I thought before the ADY tried it). We ate "Bhel puri" and barged into the Victoria Memorial. Off into the pebbles we walked, the eyes went blink-blink and the cam went click-click. The splendid Monument did seem to attract us for that time! When we enter, there are artifacts in glass houses (lots of them) and slowly we climb the stairs towards a royal balcony. The view of the garden from there is spectacular. Felt like having a nice ginger tea there (there was no selling there but ...) It was dusk already and we had more places to cover. So we head out a see a circular dome shaped building. This is the "Birla Planetarium". Of Course we didn’t enter there (we already had our dose of science for the day) but instead strolled over to the "St Paul's Cathedral", the famous and elegant church. After a dose of silence and prayer, we come out and its photo time.

Click each other in different angles. Then we must eat something. What will it be this time? As you would have guessed it was “Pani Puri"(aka puchhka) and you are right again, ADY didn’t quite like this one as well. Divide of the north and south I thought and moved on.

It was getting darker and I was getting scared (reason: The next destination was "shopping"). To add to the scare, ADY declares that today one should see all available items and tomorrow the buying will be done. With much guts I support ADY in the noble cause and we head towards the market. On the way was the not to miss cake-shop "Kookie Jar" where we munched on chocolate pastries and mixed fruit pudding (yum!). Then we walk and we walk ... crowded streets and tired feet. I happened to realize my school was right over the next lane. The famous "Birla High School" was right there but ADY showed no interest, so we skip the sitting and move towards the first market "The Vardaan Market". I tell her about the variety and splendor of clothing one gets there in so much less prices. ADY is excited as the market approaches. Suddenly we realize it is closed on the day (on account of weekly holiday... what the?). To kill the disappointment we go over to the hawker next door and buy the famous "Ghoogni". After so much of eating, it was time to drink some water (but you wouldn’t get one when you need it). After receiving some considerable threats of thirst from ADY I rolled over and agreed to buy a bottle.

Ahead we go and reach "Park Street" and over the lanes to "Esplanade" and "New Market". A 2 hour round terminated my legs with pain and rust and nothing quite happened to ADY (The "Women" being). It was 8 and we must return... but wait what about dinner... yeah Chinese dinner! "Peiping" one place where I have been many times only caused me more disappointment with the food we order - tomato soup, red-sauce chopseuy and red-sauce gravy baby corn (yikes!). Somehow finished it and went ahead to catch "Kolkata Metro". From Esplanade to Dum Dum we had to stand as there was no place. Once Again ADY compared it to Singapore and I was quite irked!

Finally we reach Dum Dum Station and we roll out with a gush of other passengers and we walk and walk to realize that we don’t know the way back home (A little Columbus was born in us ...); with some experimentation we reached back where we started from. End of Day 2 (whew!)

Day 3: The sun was shining when I woke up, ADY was almost ready and I was still lazing around. Found my feet still in place and so I decided to get up and get ready. Off we went to KC's house for another round of exquisite breakfast. After which the day begun. In Metro we rolled went over to Esplanade and caught a cab to en-circle "2nd Howrah Bridge" where the famous movie "Yuva's" fighting scene was shot. We were right there measuring us against the bridge.

The Second Howrah Bridge and The First Howrah Bridge

Done with it we came to visit the "1st Howrah Bridge" and this time's transport was through Hooghly River in a cruiser. So walk over through many ferry stations crossing stations like "Eden Gardens" and we reach Babu Ghat and we wait for the cruise to arrive. It sure did arrive in shackles but the ride was good. We glimpse the Howrah station in red before coming back to the ghat. From there we do a lot of walking, we crossed Millennium Park and come across many government buildings (don’t ask me what they were). We were also surprised to find a Restaurant that said "Permanent Restaurant" (wonder what that means?)

Then we scroll over by Netaji Indoor Stadium and Eden Gardens. This fills ADY with joy from her childhood. For the love of cricket, we stare at the stadium where lot of renovation is going on. Finally we walk back to Park Street. Long walk and it was time for Revenge (Yeah! payback time to ADY), before she got tired of walking and started cursing me, luckily we reached the place. We also sighted "The Tram" which disappeared over the bushes (In theory Trams are slowest moving vehicles in Kolkata but this one was different ... so I will call it "The Unicorn Tram"). Lunch time and we are selecting restaurants in Park Street. We barge into "Kwality" and order a wholesome north Indian meal - butter nan, kulchas and panner butter masala and tutti-frutti (aka fruits salad with ice-cream) for desert. After finishing it, we caught a cab to "Agro and Horticultural Garden" which was supposed to have great flowers.

Apparently it didn’t and neither did we get a return cab. With much effort stopped a cab running in opposite direction and made him go over to our next destination "The Birla Mandir". We reach there and at 4 and it are yet to open. I wanted coffee and so we go over to Haldiram's 3 floor restaurant. After crossing every item on the ground floor from one end to another, at the last counter I ask for coffee and he tells me it’s in first floor. We had to come back all the way back through other menus to reach first floor for coffee. I had cold coffee and ADY picked up a strawberry shake. To our amazement both weren’t good and very sweet (by this time we both had developed our affinity towards non-sweet items due to over eating of sweets in Kolkata). We came out at 4 30 and stood in line to get darshan of "God" in Birla Mandir. After waiting in the queue for 15 minutes, the guard at entrance tells cameras not allowed. I lost patience and came out and asked ADY to continue. ADY with her skills at negotiation convinced the guard that we couldn’t afford to go back after coming this far (I was quite surprised that the guard believed her lies!), so I got a permit inside and we went inside. After darshan of all Gods, we came out, a free tram passed by us which ADY clicked. (ADY somehow was fascinated by trams but never rode it ... next time maybe).

It was again getting dark and I was scared to take ADY back to shopping but I did. This time Vardaan marked was open but ADY didn’t like anything (nothing changes overnight I told myself!) and then went ahead to new market. Surprisingly all the items that we tagged yesterday was not to be found today (where did it all go... where did they all disappear?). The answer is we were on the wrong end of the market. Finally we found shops and ADY bought lot of stuff with a single swipe of her card. After that we returned the same way back home and oh boy tired we were! After a long chat we dozed off.

Day 4: Woke up, got ready, finished breakfast, went to the famous astro guy and wrote our predictions (wait for my next post to know more on Astrology). I was the interpreter to ADY, and I translated whatever came to my mind. The astro guy wouldn’t know Hindi and ADY wouldn’t know Bengali. After that we went to best sweet shop around the corner where ADY packed up sweets for back home. Back at the airport, ADY was ready to go home. Nice trip we had we told ourselves before breaking into barriers.

I head back to the Guest house for KC's marriage reception. Yoga teacher and family off to Sunderbans couldn’t make it in time back for KC's Wedding reception. So at reception I clicked away moments while watching India-Sri Lanka 20-20. Then I go off to my Uncle's place from Dum Dum to Garia (The entire distance of the newly extended Kolkata Metro ... and boy it was good). Back to Uncle's it was home. After some talking and drinking, I and Rohit (Uncle’s Son) roll over to play-station 2 and I played need for speed split screen. Under effect of Vodka, couldn’t quite see where I was driving though! And after that WWE- world wrestling and it was fun. Before going to bed... long day I thought.

Day 5: Day of my departure, 4 hrs to go before I can start for airport and I have to meet my friends and relatives back near my home in Kolkata. Rush hour as I rush through old streets kicking up old memories. After spending time with friends, I rushed back to Uncle's place for an exquisitely prepared lunch from my Mami "Pulao, paneer and Gajar ka halwa". After hogging I rushed to a cab and reach the airport. Boredom starts here (perhaps if you have pulled through this longer reading then you have pulled through well!). After a boring flight journey I return back to Bangalore.

Day 6: office day and routine life... (But a cycling tour was coming up the next weekend! Tour report to be posted soon)

At Last, The Characters:

KC - Kritadhi, the groom

I - Sashi ( wanderer 1 )

ADY - Dhivya ( wanderer 2 )

Yoga Teacher - Laxmi

Metaphysics

2009-10-11T18:23:00.001+05:30

After a tour of Sacred Geometry ( Space and Shape formations in Nature),
i stumbled upon this on the topic "Determinism and Free Will".

As the Explanation Goes, one has limited free will, one's action that one can control, not go against gravity.
It also notes out Universe to be deterministic and one within it cannot predict any outcome accurately due to the wave nature of matter.

Keeping aside predictability of future and actions of past, limited free will is one's consciousness to align with the universe, to resonate into bliss!

Dual Booting your System with Windows XP and Fedora

2009-06-15T14:21:00.004+05:30

Intro

The article provides help on Dual booting your system with Windows XP and Fedora Code (6 and above).
Much of the information present in the article was taken from different context helps and forums on the Internet and I thank the people who have contributed there.

The article aims to put in one place the general set of procedure/issues/problems faced with Dual Booting systems. In The last section, I have compiled lists some utilities that can be used in Fedora as compared to programs in windows

What you will need

1. Boot CD/DVD ( Windows) and Drives CDs
2. Boot CD/DVD ( Fedora )
Also, I recommend getting a copy of UBCD (Ultimate Boot CD) from the below link:
www.ultimatebootcd.com
Download and burn it to a CD, before you can get to your system.

What is UBCD

1. UBCD is a set of Boot Utilities
2. It will run without any OS in your system
3. It has partitioning and clean-up utilities
Please refer to the website for more information.

Partition your HDD

If you have more than one HDD Logical partitioning may not be needed from OS perspective, but remember that you need to configure the HDD as primary master
(Not slave) to install Windows on the drive.

If you a have single HDD using UBCD or equivalent tools, create logical partitions of your Drive.

For example, if you have a 160 GB HDD, you can create 4 partitions like:

1st partition = 20 GB for Windows
2nd partition = 60 GB for your data
3rd partition = 60 GB for your data
4th partition = 20 GB for Linux

You can vary the number of partitions and their size as per your requirements. What you need is at least 2 one for Windows and one for Linux. I recommend having more to keep your data like music, movies etc shared between your windows and Linux and to keep it safe from OS related issues (corruption, virus etc)

Install Windows

Through your Boot CD for windows, install windows on the 1st Partition.

Once done, in your windows explorer, do not format the logical drive intended for Linux in NTS format, leave it for Linux.

I recommend install windows first because, the windows boot CD does not work properly once Linux gets installed in the system. The problem arises in the Boot Manager Record which windows are unable to determine from the boot CD. You can do some research on this on the net, i couldn’t find a way out as it turned out to be a limitation of DOS/Windows itself.

Install Fedora

Through your Fedora DVD, install fedora. Remember, Fedora gives you an option of Overwriting Other OS but do not select them. Instead select the logical drive which was intended for Linux.

Grub Options

Grub is the boot loader for Fedora, here you can change first boot OS. After you install your fedora it will boot to fedora and windows be designated as 'other'.

Boot into Linux, Open the file /etc/grub.conf and change the default "0" to default "1"
The list of OS installed will be listed below in the same file. The numbering starts with 0 onwards. You should be able to find 'Other' with 1 below.

Save the file and restart the system, and you can see windows boot first

Backup and Recovery

What if Windows gets corrupted?

Once you have dual booted your OS, if windows gets corrupted by a virus etc, you cannot simply re-install Windows as mentioned above. You have to keep going with Linux, backup all your data. If you try to simply re-install Windows, the Boot CD wont work, gets hung after hardware check as already mentioned above.

You can use wine to run your windows based programs in Linux. Check www.winehq.org for more information. Remember not to share the original windows C-Drive you had. Wine will create its own within the Linux file system.

Wine can be used to run simple windows exe's. If you want to run graphic based games, then you may encounter porting issues. Another alternative to wine for playing windows games in Linux is cedega (www.cedega.com).
I tried to run Halo Combat Evolved In both Wine and Cedega but it did not work properly for me though.

To access Windows drives use command line utility ntfs-3g (comes by default in Fedora 10). See 'man ntfs-3g' for more information.

If Windows is still needed, then do a fresh install of both windows and Linux. Before you do so, do format and data in the drives using UBCD utilities or equivalent. This is necessary to remove the virus if it has manifested to other drives.

On the other hand, Linux can be upgraded anytime with a appropriate boot DVD without effecting the windows drive in any way.

Working in Fedora

Listed below are a set of utilities to work with fedora while you migrate from windows to Linux. More information about the utilities can be found on google or related websites given below.

Download Manager - yum

yum is the download manager for fedora. It picks up packages from the web and automatically resolves dependencies and installs it on your system

yum needs to have correct repository information to look-up the packages. Apart from the default repositories, you need to add few to get packages not distributed by fedora directly. You can find the latest yum repositories and how to install them on google.

Playing Music and Videos

By Default, Fedora does not come with mp3 and avi file formats support due to licensing and patenting issues. But you can get all of them here

Download and install mplayer/gmplayer from http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html

Accessing Windows (NTFS) drives

Use the command:
ntfs-3g

For example : ntfs-3d /dev/sda1 /mnt/windowsC/

Will mount /dev/sda1 (logical drive) onto the mount point /mnt/windowC/.
You should create the directory windowsC in your /mnt directory.

WinAmp like Music player

If you are used to winamp, you can try 'xmms' which is the winamp-like player for linux. For more information check-out:

www.xmms.org

iTunes like Music Player

If you dependent on iTunes, then try 'songbird':

http://getsongbird.com/

Saving Websites with wget

If you want to save websites then use command line utility 'wget' see 'man wget' for more information. There are many options available that will help to filter the type of information you want to save.

Photoshop like image editor

Use 'gimp' which comes by default with fedora

Microsoft Office suite in Fedora

OpenOffice comes by default with fedora which is capable of opening/editing doc, word and xls formats.

Other Utilities

Other utilities like flash-player, vlc-player etc are available on the internet for fedora

Was Darwin Wrong?

2006-05-31T19:39:00.001+05:30

Was Charles Darwin Wrong on his theory of evolution? There have been many articles and a sudden spring of news about this. A few to mention would be a recent National Geographic Magazine issue and a Newspaper –‘Times of India’ article about the same. The latter mentions that there cannot be an "intellectual one" behind the scene and our world cannot be automated because we see evolution everywhere.

The world's diverse life forms are a result of evolution whose evidence dates back to the first living species. True enough the life forms of the world are going through evolution. We see it in every life form in different degrees. But that really put an end to the concept of an “intellectual one” who’s pre-programmed everything? Well, the answer is No. As mentioned in my previous posts, the one that talks about a probabilistic world is the key to the answer. If a program can be based on probability in order to make an output random yet ordered then there can be an Algorithm which governs the evolution of different species over time.

Genetic Algorithms: An algorithm designed to evolve the ‘fittest’ from a given set of data. This algorithm takes a set of data and evaluates them based on a fitness parameters
And after each cycle the winner replaces the weak ones. The algorithm is a part of A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) and is in wide use in various applications.

Now if this algorithm was implemented with appropriate parameters in this probabilistic world, what we would have today is a world of Evolution which is exactly what Charles Darwin has discovered.

So Charles Darwin was not wrong , but at the same time the concept of evolution does not rule out the possibility of an ‘Intelligent Being’ designing a probabilistic world with genetic algorithm as an integral part of it.

As you would have noticed this is just another connection to the Grand Unification Theory. This puzzle does make more sense now. Isn’t it?

Grand Unification Theory (GUT)

2006-05-03T10:37:00.001+05:30

The famous book "A Brief history of time" by Stephen Hawkins mentions About the Grand Unification Theory. It is the theory which aims to unite all the formed postulates, theories, corollaries and inferences of various scientific experiments formed so far in the history of the World. This theory aims to give a common reason for all the discoveries made so far thus aiming at a one big theory that can explain to us Why and How the Universe was born, its purpose and some possible explanations of its future. As you would notice as you go deeper into science of space, there is gap beyond which you don’t have observations (illustrated deeply in my first post imagination and limitation.This gap gives birth to philosophy where the key element to our inferences is imagination. GUT aims at discovery of the reason for our existence. It tries to encompass the Newtonian laws and the Quantum world. It is that theory which will create the bridge between the macroscopic world and the Microscopic world.

So far we have failed to create such a theory but the search for it never ends. If you study the happenings of the world and correlate them to such a theory, you would be surprised to find that each event might give clue to the existence of such a theory. You may find patterns all round this history which lead to some possible explanation or the other. Now to look at the GUT my other post Probabilistic World is just another way. In terms of Computer Science Testing I can describe the former approach (scientific one) as the White Box testing and the philosophical approach (read the post "Probabilistic World") as the Block Box testing. People have formulated different approaches to the same but still the common point or the exact term in science "The missing link" (one of the archaeopteryx style) is yet to be found.

In my forthcoming posts I will be writing about the certain clues that seem to be leading to the GUT.
Some examples are cited below:

Mathematical Approach (Number Theory)-Golden Ratio, Phi, Fibonacci Series

Geometrical Approach-Sacred Geometry

Religionist Approach -The lessons from each religion.

Scientific Approach -Era of theories and corollaries.

GUT now is approachable from many directions by mankind.

"Vivid and flawless Life" but headed by probability.

"Brilliance” yet abstracted from us its complexity.

The reason that we see and the reasons we don’t,
Randomness we see and yet there are patterns.
Hence the name "randomness is almighty".

And wondering from this point if view, we have the GUT itself. GUT is thus aimed in different ways and each way is given a different name. Do you see the pattern of diversity born from it self right here?

(Keep reading for some interesting stuff that I will be posting and that will give you further insight into the GUT.)

God's Theory

2006-04-09T20:56:00.001+05:30

The world is going round and round and there are many reasons for that.
One of the most controversial issues is the existence of God. In many ways it is proved that he really exists and in many ways not. Religion is one way in which the rules of heaven are explained to us. Though history proves that there have been many wars, conflicts, riots for religion, it’s very difficult to find the reasons behind this because human faith has reached a point of no turning back in this respect.

Let’s go back to the times of man's first existence, and assume that we don't know anything. Imagine yourself in a situation where you never knew what life was meant to be.
We prowled about like animals into the vast sea of knowledge and such has been the case of fear and survival.
As humans dived into the deep sea of faiths and beliefs, he discovered so many things. There wasn't a soul which couldn't be influenced by these beliefs. No one did question destiny. We all dived together in the sea of blindness. The very question of a difference in thought separated us from each other. From a man of unknown existence we turned into Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, Jains, Jews, Christians and so on.

And down the memory lane just ask ourselves the question, what is all this leading to? Are we living our life or are we living a lie? There's no time to react or to think because we are so busy in our activities.
We have wandered far from our thoughts. We exist today as none other than puppets moved by thoughts and expressions not ours. We have been doing what we are told to, never ever do we raise a question about all that is happening around us. We are afraid of god, but there was never a god who wanted us to be like this. We believe what we never knew and we support things and thoughts that we never thought about. If all this activity is for good, then everything would be running smooth as you would say. But misery exists as a carcinogenic cell in everyone's mind.
You give it a chance and it will multiply to death. It was for us to discover that unless we practice what we believe we will never realize what we have been up to.

Coming to our Indian society and its principles, there is a lot to tell, a lot to believe and a lot not to. When we constrain ourselves in the social sphere, we reduce our thoughts to accept just what we are given, and live and die in this sphere. And the one, who wanders out is given a bad name. He is sort of a criminal in Indian society.

Come out of your shells and take a look at the real world. There’s much to discover than just visiting a temple every weekend. In a place where religion matters so much, it’s been made a survival guide, place where the hard text rules and your mind is hibernating in wondrous worlds. If you really know something, know it to the best of your knowledge. And in the field of existence there is a lot to discover and there is a lot to discard.

Do your self a favor and get to the originals. Leave behind all that u learned form those who never knew what they learnt. It’s really difficult when the world turns you down and you got nothing but your faith and beliefs. Believe in god and have faith. But ever let your faith be practiced in human kind, because god's grace should be always in his hand.

There are some things that you never wanted and some things you wanted to take. Life is a lesson and you will learn it when you are through. Spirituality is a reason for thought, it is an impetus to another world, where illusions rule and not your old desires. You really need it when you are an affected soul, and you need it to live life the way you have been living, its cold and its hard but if you have the courage to face it all then you are welcome to the world of truth, where you will be a child listening to the same old lullaby but this time it will really mean to you and you will get the essence of life away from pride and away from hard earned facts of life. You will feel like never before. The look in your eyes, the glory of your soul, which God always wanted to see that is the prayer, that really holds on. Remember there's a light in every soul that come out to discover the child in us and have your faith in god enhanced and hear the sweetest lullaby of your life! It’s very easy to criticize a thing but it’s really hard to appreciate the same thing. It’s easy to make a promise but very hard to keep it. It’s very easy to say yes to whatever you have but it is very difficult to accept it. It’s easy to fall in love but it’s very difficult to keep it.

And the last remark- it’s very easy to think what you have in mind but it is very difficult to communicate to others.

Black Rain

2006-04-04T15:29:00.001+05:30

Black Rain

Burning oil got over
the lights that escaped
never to return bright..

stars shine deceived
obscured by clouds of the night sky

a few hearts scattered
a few more on list

drops rushing down in gravity
a wall comming down in uncertainty

a reaction is the skies
the effect on the ground.

a few men marvel their creations
and make a lot more suffer

a few sleeping people wake up,
watch the rain,
and they carry their belongings inside ,trying to protect
and soon they give up...
the property,the humanity.

everything in fall and people upside down,
blown away by the river.

created by skies,as the water falls
down blend in human color.

rips apart the bonds,
spills over the limits,
and cracks the surface,

while the earth sleeps,
its raining all clouds...BLACK RAIN.

(now let me see ur inferences...)

Probabilistic World

2006-03-24T16:54:00.001+05:30

Alas the sailor said if only I waited. I could have avoided the storm.

If only he was aware of the choice at any near higher level, would he have the ability to know what he was thinking was already thought.The coin has 2 choices, heads and tails. You toss them many times but you cant be sure of 100 % predictability.Further the coin has only 2 chances, imagine what other events in our life can have.

One of the interesting things to note from that astrology refering to sun-sign is that it was written that I have management skills not programming skills.
Its sad, how this world visions skills at such lower levels, it further an irony that the judgment of prediction is also based on such levels.

So the real thing is a probabilistic network game, programmed on a network, our world.The boundaries exactly set and its not possible to see beyond it unless we ourselves are outside.This feels much like the Matrix Quote by Oracle-"we can never see past the choices we don’t understand".

Such an Oracle ,a probabilistic gambler exists in each one of us, differences occur in the form we rate our ratings for probable events. This gives birth to "Belief" and its extreme form is BLINDNESS which is closely linked to 'love'.

We don’t really need implementation details here as to which part of the brain, which hormone secretes this(its hard coded-meaning no freedom of choice there)our area of concern is the control which orders the secretion of such hormones and cause the events. This exactly is controlled by the above stated probability.

Philosophy is prediction, it is thinking out of the world, because our basic notion itself is to know what's happening outside this boundaries.ALL this can be wrong game ,Everyone plays some game, lets play this one.So basic requirement is to understand the probabilistic network,to understand you have to first find out patterns that exist in the real world.Many researchers, scholars and writers have burned their life out and have given us the most important verdict-

"There are patterns but the reoccurrence is not a pattern"

Which means there are patterns in life but how they occur,when the occur and when next they will occur is random and difficult to predict.Now, here's the catch-that exactly is the point which I want to make. This verdict gives the hard proof of the probabilistic network around us.

The question that eventually arises in our mind is if its probabilistic and random how can boundaries exist?

Good Questions-but there lies the solution. Here comes the concept of the program that spawns this probabilistic network, one that assigns the probability chances to each events. For example-

In our numeric system, our probability sum is always 1.lets take the coin again and say heads has p(0.5) and tails p(0.5) which when summed up leads to 1.

Thus you can see the boundary and hence the events can never cross this limit. The spawning program also has checking functions to check this.The elements input to spawner program would be events,probabilities,boundaries-Once started we have certain targets to be achieved and rules encoded to get there, now the network needs to run over several runs to converge to that desired target.

The output-
Inside what we have is a living world, a world streaming with life!

Tribute to Life

2006-03-24T16:35:00.001+05:30

i dont know...i dont know

there are so many things i dont know
yet there are so many more things i dont know
and there will be so many things i will never know
and yet there will be so many things i would want to know

till this land cracks
and this earth blasts
i will try to know

every drop becomes an ocean
everything that was clear becomes a confusion.
today tht is present tomm its past.
the sun is in erosion

i dont know...i dont know

there are so many things i dont know
yet there are so many more things i dont know
and there will be so many things i will never know
and yet there will be so many things i would want to know

solar systems,quatum molecules
computer systems,molecular biology
so much more..u never know!

the 'degree' in time
the winner always rhymes

where do you want to be?
you dont have much of a choice
yet there are so many choices
what we see is not always what we get

what we make out of it ..
what our eyes see..
could be wrong..
but the sight and destination arent..

knowledge and us,inseperable life

there are so many things i dont know
yet there are so many more things i dont know
and there will be so many things i will never know
and yet there will be so many things i would want to know

and yet again...
i dont know...i dont know

2006-03-24T15:37:00.003+05:30

Imagination and limitation

(Times have changed and so has my blog,but not to forget my past because of which i am here today!)

The wonder of imagination is seen everywhere, in out work and the results.mankind and his innovative activities list the vastness of work and imagination.Imagination is the power to think and equally the power to create the very features that we inherit from our creator.About the last book i read "probabilities of the quantum world" by daniel danin explains the very nature of imagination,the human development with the time.The book aslo speaks of the limitations that one percieves.

Imagination leads us to new world of thoughts,new ideas and probably a way to conceive the ideas into our work.The wonders of research of scientists was emulated in that book starting from the macroscopic world begins the observations.Observations are governed by the imagination,in some way or the other,our imagination leads us to the observation.The observation leads us to research and the research to our work.The book talks about the macrospopic observations lead to new discoveries and the quest for the microscopic developments and research.The path between classical mechanics and birth of the quantum theory.The probablity of the quantum mechanics were based on conflicting ideas,rejected at first and became unavoidable with time.But again the world has new ways,the limitations and imagination alternate at every phase of life.

However imagination has limits -that they say is the end of the road.Like every thought that flowers and blooms into a beautiful idea,we humans like the thoughts of the creator bloom here.Bright and beautiful but there is an end,the limitation.No thoughts will ever die and no imagination ever ends.the limitations that they say is the road to a new thought a new world, a new area of observation and research and so based is the history of mortals,us in every time and space,our resplendent ideas flower and end of imagination and limitations there is no end,there is imagination and limitations.Their connections and implications however lead us to a new world of imagination again has no end.Inevitable as every thing connected to our world.

(This was my only article posted on my previous blog ,wel a fresh start now and a promising world tommorow)