Change

Everything in this physical world undergoes change. There is nothing which is static. The only permanent thing is change itself!

What is a change? There can be a change when actually the molecular properties change like in age!as we all know. There can also be a change which involves dimension or perceiving. For instance your friend feels that you have changed though there might be no base to this apparent feeling. This involves a perception. So a change can be uni-directional or multidimensional.

A change can be tangible or intangible. The subject may be constant but the attribute of time and place vary and its veracity thus bringing about a change in its status. This applies even to great truths and dictum and even commandments! For instance during the thretha, Dwaparaa and the Kali yuga the commandment and practices vary drastically. So even great spiritual practices undergoes change. This is evident in fundamentalist relegions who insist on sticking to the word on a dogma dictated by a scripture aeons ago. This can not be valid. Of course there are certain fundamentals which are sanathana-eternal but if you analyse them they are broad spectrum dictates like being good,seeing good and doing good. They dont change under any circumstances.

This is the reason I advocate a value based system be it Relegion or education. The rest are hocus pocus. Today you find more and more relegionist than spiritualists. People think that by flashing relegious insignias on themselves and branding themselves like cattle they are holier than others. Nothing can be farther from the truth! By saying this i am not decrying the whole creed. Yes there are some who don these but dwell depper in the ultimate reality. Blessed are these people and twice blessed are those who have even given up these external symbolisms and dwell on the eternal reality ever. There are now many tigers garbed in sheep skin. The instance of the missionary who kidnapped people in Haiti and the numerous blood sucking pseudo sanyasins in India who take gullible people for a ride are just the tip of the iceberg. The real hypocrats and sycophants are those who attend relegiously their respective churches,mosques and temples but are aethists at heart as they wilfully do precisely what their relegion prohibits them from doing. I will be happier in the company of a true aethist than with these charlatans.
I am sure this will be a very hard truth to swallow for many of my relegious friends but it is time we turn spiritual in the true sense rather than felling warm in the cocoons of relegion and its roto.

Krishnamachari Santhanam

Communication

Communication advances ??

With the advances in communication and so many messengers available-Msn,Google,yahoo, the need for unifying platforms have arisen-Nimbuzz,orion etc., But have these really bridged the gap or built a gap? I have a friend who keeps excusing himself- Oh i was trying to reach you all day!!
Me-I was on messenger the whole day
Him- Oh! I was on google.

Me- I slept with my Mobile next to my pillow.
Him- OOps! i had forgotten my mobile in the car/My Mob was out of charge(incidentally i never understood if he meant the green currency he uses to recharge or the Battery)

Him- I kept calling you-could not get through!
Me- Surprising I have a call logger.
Him- Give me your number Let me check if it is the same.
Me- We spoke last month- The number has not changed.

Anyhow I truly beleive if there is a will to bond- avenues will open by itself. But modern man prefers to correspond through emails and chats than talk in person. Under such circumstances the following story touched my heart.

This is a true story that happened in Japan.In order to renovate the house, someone in Japan tears open the wall.Japanese houses normally have a hollow space between the wooden walls.When tearing down the walls, he found that there was a lizard stuck therebecause a nail from outside hammered into one of its feet. He sees this,feels pity, and at the same time curious, as when he checked the nail, itwas nailed 10 years ago when the house was first built.What happened?The lizard has survived in such position for 10 years! In a dark wallpartition for 10 years without moving, it is impossible and mind boggling.Then he wondered how this lizard could have survived for 10 years withoutmoving a single step--since its foot was nailed!So he stopped his work and observed the lizard, what it has been doing, andwhat and how it has been eating. Later, not knowing from where it came,appears another lizard, with food in its mouth.Ahh! He was stunned and deeply touched. For the lizard that was stuck bynail, another lizard has been feeding it for the past 10 years...Such love, such beautiful love! Such love happened even with these tinycreatures ... What can love do? It can do wonders! Love can performmiracles!Imagine! it has been doing that untiringly for 10 long years, withoutgiving up hope on its partner.Imagine what a small creature can do that a creature blessed with abrilliant mind can't.I was touched when I heard this story and started wondering aboutrelationships between family members, friends, spouses, brothers, sisters.As information and communication technology advances, our access toinformation becomes faster and faster. But the distance between human beings. . . is it getting closer as well?