LOVE and WORSHIP

What is love and what is worship? Most common word of english and probably most spoken and heard and least described. Every poet and ohilosopher tried to describe it in his own way yet undescribed as it is not a word to describe; love is to do and feel. Until and unless one is not in love he can’t understand it.

According to psycologist it is not normal or can say it is abnormal. When they describe it in context of Majnu they say it was a defect. According to philosophers it is eternal. It can’t be created and can’t be destroyed. It is a t5hing which happens. It is developed automatically.

According to me love is most eternal and this earth can’t have taken place with out love. No progress can be made with out love. So many poets have described it and found it the most beautiful thing of the world.

We all love to some one and can’t live without love. If a person ceases to have love he can’t live or survive.

Our love starts withour birth. Our first exposure to this world is through our mother and she is the person whom we see again and again. When ever we are hungry she feeds us and makes us satisfied. She releaves us from the pain of hunger. A faith is created in our unconsciousness that she is our and till she is with us nothing can trouble us.

this faith or trust created in us towards her creates love for her. This is the first introduction of love and faith in us. This is for this reason Mother is called Just after god by all saints in all religions. In no religion any person is given more importance than mother.

For generating love faith is compulsory. Faith is the key to love.

Saint Tulsidas has written in his great Holy book Ramcharitmanas:-

‘Binu parteeti hoi nahi preetee, preetee bina nahi bhakti dradhai.

With out faith there can’t be love and without love cant be Bhakti; dedication towards the god. So faith is the base of worship or dedication or Bhakti.

He says at another place:-

‘Binu vishvash bhakti nahi, tehi binu dravahi na Ram;’

With out faith there can’t be bhakti or dedication and without dedication Lord (Ram) wont be happy. Here he says directly faith is the base of Bhakti.

अज्ञानता की बंजर जमीं पर लगे तर्कों के झाड़ पर विश्वाश के फूल नहीं लगते; प्यार के फल नहीं लगते 

प्यार का वटवृक्ष  तो विश्वाश की जमीं पर लगता है . 

प्यार का बीज जब ज्ञान की जमीं पर परता है ,फूटता है तब समर्पण का फूल लगता है भक्ति का फल लगता है.

On the infertile land of ignorance tree of logic grows and that never with love andgave fruit of Bhakti.

The seed of love germinates and grows on the land of knowledge and dedication flowers on it and grow in to the fruit of dedication.

It is the faith which grows in to love and than turns in to dedication

GOD Made This Earth and Universe

THIS is a book describing how nature played an important role in bringing human beings to earth and also the universe was planned to come along with the solar system and earth. it was not all accidental, but a preplanned and well thought. We define nature as all the living things and nonliving things combined which are not made by men. There is a hand of nature we may call god in it. i studied various factors and forces of nature in the book.

INTRODUCTION

We all have heard the words Nature Life and Consciousness and understand their meaning in general .Nature as all the things living or nonliving surrounding us and occur naturally. Consciousness as alertness or awareness .Life as well understand being ourselves; which live and produce young ones .But if there is any link between the three we never bother to think. If each affects others yes nature as weather as natural calamities affect our life and existence. Why this happens how this happens we never think. But what about science and philosophy what it thinks about this. Nature is least defined in philosophy. It is the field of naturists. For the other two: consciousness is taken as the property of mind and hence of life so related with each other as object and property.

So before going into the topic nature consciousness and life let us take another sequence as life mind and consciousness which is accepted by scientists and philosophers jointly. Sequence clarifies itself what we think about the topic. We consider life as fundamental and mind developed later on as its property and consciousness as its property or characteristic. Up to the level of mind it is right. Mind is needed and is there only in living beings. Consciousness at last level shows it as property of mind, byproduct of mind. So by taking mind in between life and consciousness we say that mind is necessary for consciousness. If no mind, no consciousness. This title and sequence has served so many purposes for us.

1. All the non living things discarded from the study.

2. By taking consciousness as byproduct of mind, all plants and animals not having brain were rejected / discarded from the list.

3. Even the animals having brain were also discarded from study on the account they don’t have mind which is believed to be in human beings only.

4. Science better to say scientists discard mind and consciousness both on the account that these both are properties of brain and so give a very clear definition i.e. alertness or awareness. As per Oxford / Webster’s dictionary it is state of being mentally awake to ones surroundings and automatically rejects all animals from the list.

5. Philosophy takes consciousness as the property of mind that too developed mind or brain better to say human mind and gives definition as awareness, thinking, memory, knowledge and logic and discards animals lesser developed than human beings. So all the stress was to prove that we are the best. Which is the result of I, (ego). Ego is a basic property of development of creatures or nature itself so ego was granted to human beings. Even the animals close to human beings (pets) have ego which flows into them as induction effect. So ego is a fundamental quality / characteristic.

6. Here philosophers and scientists joined hands and both saying human is the best. Science at brain level is satisfied and philosophers at the level of mind or consciousness say we are the best so as target was wrong, the decision is also wrong. There was nothing to have ego or to prove we are the best, we are and beyond any doubt we are the best.

7. When we talk spiritually, we talk of pure consciousness, we consider it as atman. All saints’ holy men and all religions say that every living being irrespective of brain / mind has ataman (soul) with no distinction or difference. Ataman is there in all living beings as accepted by all religions (Hindu, Jainism etc) and is same with out any difference as it has no physical properties of brain and mind. So consciousness can be either linked with brain (having property like awareness) or to soul which has no property of brain or mind and just can’t be seen or felt.( I am interested in this definition)

8. Scientists link it with brain and to avoid conflict philosophers also joined hands with scientists and accepted consciousness as property of brain / mind. Then a conflict rose with in philosophy as what is mind. What is difference between mind and consciousness? What is difference between mind and brain? There becomes a mesh of things because of making coordination between various theories. It was just difference of words or difference of seeing the same fact from different angles. Some properties were judged by some persons and some by different persons and different names were given. Ataman was studied by saints with the meditation and consciousness name was given by science / philosophers. It was linked more with outer world and brain. So from scientific point of view it is much related with brain and outer world where as ataman is purely heavenly and out of world experience, something which never die and take birth. In the forthcoming chapters it will be discussed.

9. Saints gone even a step farther and linked ataman with parmantaman (god) and told that parmantaman (GOD) is every where in living or nonliving i.e. matter and even with out matter there is existence of parmantaman. Parmantaman linked every living with nonliving. It is same undivided singular identity. It is same in hunter and prey, same in killer and the killed. Killer has same god as killed so they never differentiated in humen or animal or stone. When general people known this who has no feeling / experience of God they got confused, disturbed. (To me it is right, absolute and true in regard of nature. I reached to this definition in the middle of the book when writing the chapter of Ecological Balance. There I felt and wrote Nature doesn’t differentiate between lion and goat, both are equally lovable to it and so does to the GOD) It sounded very odd to them. They can’t believe God can kill or hate. So these people created shaitan (devil). Who is doing all evils and people doing good deeds are associated with God and worshiper of God. But they never explained who created devil? Where it lives and what are its functions? It is only our mind, our lust, our desire for money which pushes us it to evils. But to Nature it is all natural rather essential for growth Nature while gifting doesn’t differentiate between lion and goat. It is fundamental law of nature LAW OF COMPETENCY. All the progress in nature was a result of competency for survival, for food, and certainly sexual lust or sexual competency.

10. I very much believe as discussed in the book that consciousness as some thing different from mind and resembling to ataman and linked to GOD or Nature we can say. Ataman is old and obsolete word and consciousness is modern scientific word but the consciousness I am discussing in the book is something more near to ataman then simple awareness.

11. Consciousness and conscious both words are away from meditation which means in deep thoughts and least aware. Consciousness is more near to meditation then simple alertness. M Meditation to me is a state of mind when you are so deep in thoughts or so thoughtless so senseless that you are cut from outer world and body. To me this state is achieved by immersing in one thought to the depth that nothing reaches to you that is a state of semi unconscious and you become thoughtless in the process. Thought not necessarily be of GOD, it may be of love or science or any fiction or any thing of ultimate interest. ANY THING WHICH CUTS YOU FROM OUTER WORLD IS MEDITATION OR CONCENTRATION.CONSCIOUSNESS TO ME RESEMBLES MORE WITH CONCENTRATION AND MEDITATION THAN AWARENESS. Awareness resembles consciousness at one point when you are totally aware i.e. aware to the extent that no thought comes to you. If we are standing on a stool with three legs and if we loose the balance we are going to fall to death then we are so alert that no thought comes to us. WHEN WE ARE SO DEEP IN A THOUGHT THAT ALL OTHER THOUGHTS ARE LOST THEN WE WILL SEE MAIN THOUGHT IS ALSO LOST. THIS IS MEDITATION. Maximum scientists observed this state of mind and maximum important inventions / discoveries are done in this state of mind. Here my interest is not to discuss spirituality but my aim is to discuss LOVE a major force which nature used in creation and development.

So in nutshell we can say that series life, mind and consciousness is wrong and it should be Nature Consciousness and life the title of the book. My main emphasis in the book is to study various laws of nature and to study how it works and have impact on human beings. What I found is that consciousness was always present even before the earth or solar system or even universe. Previously it was as nature later on as the life came into existence individual consciousness came in to existence.

Before discussing the present theories and their shortcomings let’s first understand what is Nature? What is Consciousness? And what is life? I never got a true definition of nature while I was studying. All I got is natural world surrounding us not created by man is nature. The meaning of nature or translation in Hindi is prakriti. Hindu religion gives its definition as: Prakriti is the mother and God is father, which also comes in" geeta ji". When I was in tenth class and studied Darwin Theory I got the image of nature as a woman and God as a purusha which was supported and might be brought by my spiritual background as also established by Christianity. According to which humanity was brought in to existence by Adam and Eve. So nature was something related to God and its part or power only and works as magic not as per law.

Now while I was writing this book or even earlier when I studied Darwin I tried to find out the definition of nature and its properties, to my despise I couldn’t found any proper definition. Darwin wrote so many laws of nature but never explained nature or gave its definition. He only emphasized its laws as Law of Evolution, Law of Natural Selection but no where tried to give exactly what is nature and how it operates. Karl marks studied so many forces of society and their effects on human being and society but he also never gave any definition. He emphasized that a man is impressed by the environment physical social and religious and human beliefs but never considered any impact of nature or consciousness on human beings. So a proper definition of nature must be there before going in to the chapters.

NATURE

 The definition available is

Nature in broadest sense is equivalent to natural world, physical world or material world. Nature refers to the phenomena of physical world and also to life in general. It ranges in scale from subatomic to cosmic.

The word nature is derived from Latin word natura, which meant birth. So definition of nature from origin is: Nature is that what gives birth which is very much same as in Indian philosophy. Natura was a Latin translation of word physis which originally related to the intrinsic characteristics that plants and animals other features of the world developed on their own accord.

The word nature is used today as the general realm of various types of living beings i.e. plants and animals and in some cases to the processes associated with inanimate objects- the way that particular types of things exists and change of their own accord, such as weather and geology of the earth and the matter and energy of which all the things are composed of. It is often taken to mean as the natural environment or wilderness-wild animals, rocks, forest, beaches and in general those things that have not been made by or altered by human intervention or which persists even after human intervention. The term natural is distinguished from super natural and artificial
The definition doesn’t give as how nature selects. To me nature is super consciousness which is aggregate of all individual consciousness of living and nonliving (matter). This way all individuals or individual consciousness is linked with nature and nature as being aggregate acts on the group as a whole not on individual. The main fundamental aim of nature is to progress consciousness as is clear in the book. For obtaining its goal nature has some principles called laws of nature. To understand nature fully we must have definition of consciousness.

CONSCIOUSNESS

Consciousness is the unifying force between individuals of a specie and between the species of the same type( herbivorous or carnivorous) where when one specie reduce in no or force the other specie of the group increases in strength so as to maintain the equilibrium or balance and is the unifying force between the species of different group or between different groups (herbivorous and carnivorous) which are linked with food chain reaction i.e. all the living being as a whole are linked with each other. We can say in nut shell that all the living beings and nonliving are linked with each other and maintain ecological balance. Consciousness is the force of development and evolution.

LIFE
Definition of life is very much clear- Any thing which consumes and reproduces energy and reproduce or replicate to increase its population.

So nature, consciousness and life are all interrelated with each other, by evolution and progress. All individuals is an identity and linked with each other through conscious force and sum of total is nature. So all are inter linked and nature comes at first place and controls individual consciousness under some laws called laws of nature. Although laws are same for all but there are set of controversial laws and nature will act according to which law depends upon ecological balance. My effort in this book is to study these laws which gave birth to humanity, life and created situation for that. By studying these laws we can know so much about nature.

HINDU RELIGIOUS BOOKS 2

 List of 18 puranas

There are 18 puranas in hindu Religion and they are considered after vedas most important Hindu Religious Books. These Puranas are dedicated to Lord Vishnu, Lord Brahama and Lord Shiva. In first 6Puranas Lord Vishnu is predominating and next 6 are dedicated to Lord Brahama and in the last 6 Puranas Lord Shiva is dominating.

Puranas for Lord Vishnu (Sattva Guna):

Lord Vishnu

1. Vishnu Purana –,Vishnu Purana contains description about the varnasrama, description about the angas of the Veda  Vishnu Purana contains totally 23,000 verses.

2. Naradiya Purana – This Purana explans about various places and description about Jagannatha Puri, Dwaraka, Badrinatha and various other Places will be given. Naradiya Purana contains totally 25,000 verses.

3. Padma Purana – This Purana contains the story of Rama, Ekadasi, Bhrgu, Matsys etc.
Padma Purana contains totally 55,000 verses

4. Garuda Purana – This Garuda Purana is the one that contains the Bhagavath gita subjects and also the reincarnation. Along with this it also contains the Vishnu Sahasra Nama.
Garuda Purana contains totally 19,000 verses.

5. Varaha Purana – The Varaha Purana explains about the glory of the Lord Vishnu. Varaha Purana also describes different Vratas.
Varaha Purana contains totally 24,000 verses.

6. Bhagavata Purana – Bhagavata Purana also explains about Lord Vishnu.
Bhagavata Purana contains totally 18,000 verses.

Puranas of Lord Brahma (Rajo Guna):

Lord Brahama

7. Brahmanda Purana – This Brahmanda Purana provides description about Adi Kalpa. Description about Vedangas is also given in Brahmanda Purana.
Brahmanda Purana contains totally 12,000 verses.

8. Brahmavaivarta Purana – It contains the pastimes of Radha and Krishna and also the glories of the Radha and Krishna.
Brahmavaivarta Purana contains totally 18,000 verses.

9. Markandeya Purana – It contains the stories of Rama and Krishna together.
Markandeya Purana contains totally 9,000 verses

10. Bhavisya Purana – It contains the devotional service along with the glories and prediction of Lord Chaitanya.
Bhavisya Purana contains totally 14,500 verses.

11. Vamana Purana – It Contains the story of Lord Trivikrama.
Vamana Purana contains totally 10,000 verses.

12. Brahma Purana – It contains the details about the Purushottama Tirtha in the second part and the details about the life and deeds of Rama and Krishna in the first part.
Brahma Purana contains totally 10,000 verses.

Puranas of Lord Shiva (Tamo Guna)

Lord Shiva

13. Matsya Purana – This Purana provides details about the construction of the temples and provides description about the Vamana and Varaha kalpas.
Matsya Purana contains totally 14,000 verses.

14. Kurma Purana – This Purana contains the conversation between the Lord Krishna and the Sun God as mentioned in the Bhagvad Gita. Kurma Purana contains totally 17,000 verses.

15. Linga Purana – This Purana contains the glory of Gayatri and also stories of Ambarisa. The Purana explains  Lord Nrismhadeva.
Linga Purana contains totally 10,000 verses.

16. Shiva Purana – Shiva Purana is the one that describes the greatness and dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva.
Shiva Purana contains totally 24,000 verses.

17. Skanda Purana – Skanda Purana is devoted to the Lord Muruga explaining about the life and deed of karthikeya. It also contains the greatness of Lord Shiva. Skanda Purana is the largest Purana among all the 18 Puranas.
Skanda Purana contains totally 81,000 verses.

18. Agni Purana – It provides the description about Isana Kalpa. It also contains the description about the Salagrama.

All the Puranas are described and created in such a way to give descriptions on five different subjects.

HINDU RELIGIOUS BOOKS

Hindu Religious Books

Hindu religion is a very vast religion and was not started by any prophet. It is considered as eternal religion. So unlike so many other religions there is not one major religious book as Bible in Christianity ‘Guru Granth Sahib’ in Sikh religion or Koran in Islam.

Our oldest religious and most holy books are Vedas These Vedas are called APAURUSAYA which means not from any human and are directly heard and so also called sruti means heard. These were collected by Rishies and restored in any convenient form. The oldest samhitas is Rigveda and believed to be around 1500-1000 BCE old.

Four Vedas are:-

Rigveda

Yajurveda

Samveda

Atharvveda

There are four Upaveda also which name:-

Ayurveda --(Related with medical science and body ailments. Linked with Rigveda)

Dhanurveda- (Linked with archery and associated with yajurveda)

Gandharvaveda – (Linked with Music and associated with samveda)

Shastrashastra Veda – (Linked with art of fighting or military, associated with Atharvaveda.)

Aisde from Vedas there are Puranas which are 18 in numbers.

NATUREand RELIGION

Nature as mother

NATURE AND RELIGION

There is a close relationship between nature and religion. For understanding this we have to understand the meaning of nature. In general as per scientific definition NATURE in broadest sense is equivalent to natural world around us. It refers to the phenomena of physical world or rules of nature and ranges from subatomic to cosmic.

Nature also means habits or properties of the body or creature.

This thing or nature is best explained in Hindi or Sanskrit language. Here there are three meanings of Nature: Prakriti; swabhave and sahaj. Prakriti means everything surrounding us and has same meaning as nature has in science and considered as the force creating life and maintaining the whole system of universe along with earth. Sawbhav means habit or properties. Third one sahaj is very peculiar which means anything or act in which one feels comfortable and one apt to do the act when not under some influence. In Hindu religion Nature is considered as mother and called Prakriti. Mother means who gives birth. In Bhagwad Geeta Lord Krishna says_____

Mum yoni mahat brahm, tasmin garbham dadhamayaham;

Sambhava sarve bhutanam tato bhavti bharat

Which means nature is mother and God is father who creates the life. He places the seed in nature of life and thus the whole cycle goes on.

Once god created the life on the earth and then it goes on. If we look in details in Veda; Manu and Satrupa were the first to born on the earth and then the cycle of nature went on further. In Christianity they consider Adam and Eve as the originator of the world.

To run this world smoothly nature has fixed some laws and these laws are called as natural dharma or nature of the creature. In science it is called natural laws. Trees make their food from Sun earth (soil) water and air with the help of chlorophyll present in them; which gives food for all the living beings on the earth.

Similarly the nature or natural dharma of lion or Carnivorous animals is to kill the Herbivorous animals. If lion or carnivorous animals leave their culture of eating flesh; will it be beneficial? No! The whole of the Nature will smash. Whole of the cycle will ruin and life of herbivorous will also be in danger or they will also extinct.

To run nature smoothly everyone has to follow the natural rules or natural dharma. Human being the best creature of the nature is gifted with the power of thinking and analysis, so they can question and have some doubts. There is so much development in human that their religion is multi dimensional, or we can say the dharma of men is subdivided. There are different duties assigned to group of human beings as per their capacity.

It was first done in Hindu religion as they divided the whole humanity in four varnas as Brahmin; kshatriya; vaisaya and shudra according to their capabilities.

In Shrimad Bhagavad Geeta Jee Lord Krishna says

Shreyan swav dharama viguna; pardharmat swanu thisthat;

Sawabhav niyatam karam kuravanapnoti kilbisham.

Our own religion or dharma is better than other dharma whether that is proved better than our own dharma and they does much better than our dharma, as men did not get papa (sin) following his own religion.

Here a question arises why a man should not change his dharma when it has some faults?

He says further:-  sahajam karma kauntay sadoshmapi na tyajet,

sarvarambha hi doshen dumenagni giri vavarta.

Sabhi karmo mein dosh hai hai isiliye apne dharam ko nahi tayagna chahiye.

Every dharma has some faults; no one is perfect. So one must not leave his dharma, or change it. Here He means natural Dharma of men or we can say simply nature (habits)

IMPROVE YOUR THINKING WITH YOUR BELIEFS

        

As discussed in first article we think as per our beliefs and till our beliefs are not improved our thinking pattern can’t be improved. To improve our thinking and our action plan we have to improve our belief pattern. As discussed in first article out beliefs are given to us by birth from our parents and the environment prevailing at the time of our birth. Then what we must do.

We must improve our thinking style. Our thinking style also impacts our belief pattern to some extent. Actually what happens we think according to our beliefs and as per our thinking our belief pattern goes on strengthening and after some time we get so used to it that we can think only in one way. We became typed. Generally this happens with so much force in the illiterate persons.

They have a fix routine and little knowledge. Generally they don’t communicate much and are not acquainted with the society and as they can’t read also they are least conversant with the things going on in the society. They live in their own world comprising of themselves and their family. Thinking pattern of all the family members are the same and they all think in the same way and go on strengthening the beliefs.

Beliefs are generally not made with thinking only they are made with the working and the results. Our outcomes are the main factors which make our beliefs and strengthen them. It is a vicious cycle; we think as per our beliefs and we work with the force of our thoughts and beliefs. And our force of work brings us the results which in turn strengthen our beliefs. This goes on endlessly and we are in a cycle which never breaks with out some external force.

This is not wrong till our direction is right and we work to progress. Problem occurs when they gets negative and feel that they are useless and born to fail. This belief takes away all the energy from them and they work half heartedly and fail, which again strengthens their belief. They are now trapped in a cycle from which they can never come out.

I have read a proverb some where in my childhood that, “All who were great they were so because they thought so.” I was so impressed with this that my direction of life changed. Here I remembered the incidence of my childhood.

I was an average student in study and get just passing marks. My father was math professor in the college, so he used to guide us and check our math paper. In my sixth standard it so happened that my math paper was ok and when I came to home he checked the question paper and found it was all right and no mistake was done anywhere in the paper. As he was proceeding he was becoming happier as all the questions were getting right. No one in the family after him had ever got more than 50%.

Till he checked 2/3^rd paper and it was right he was praising me, but now he started praising himself. Oh you are my son you have to be like this. When he checked the full paper and it was all right he virtually danced and hugged me first time in his tight embrace and kissed my head. It was the first time and last time also as he is so reserve and balance headed that he takes all the failures and success very calmly. But that happiness and faith of him in me turned my life. I also got a faith that I can do better and my faith in myself became high. There after I became a brilliant student of the class and scored always above 70% and came first or second in the class. I passed my tenth from Haryana board where marks at my time were very low. I came in the merit list of the board in tenth and 12^th. I also got selected in engineering. Now I am an engineer and working as president since last 12 years.

Nothing came in my life so dashing like that remarks of my father. Those were the remarks which changed my life.

This proves results can change your belief and life. A continous success or failure can change your way of thinking and your beliefs and direction of your life. It is your belief or even more important beliefs of other in your self which can change your life.

The still more important thing is how you express and celebrate your success. We people generally take the success lightly and guaranteed. We take this as our right. This creates a problem. If we succeed it is k but if we fail then we are depressed but on the other hand on success we are not very happy.

We must always celebrate our success and should always take every success as a new one and should celebrate it with the vigor. This celebration of the success and joining of people in our success makes it special. It is the tool to change our belief. The belief of others in us is more important than the belief of ourselves on us.

For failure we must always remember it is always 50% possible. Failure and success is always comparative. It doesn’t depend solely on us. If we fail it is always in comparison. So don’t loose faith if you fail as there can always be some one more intelligent than you. All the times you can’t do your best. There is every reason to be happy on the success and no reason to weep on failure. A man can’t succeed in every field and all the day; and all the times.