Bobby Fischer

Bobby Fischer - the chess legend. It was a shock for me that he is no more. He died on 17Th Jan 2008. He was perhaps the best player in the history. And he was definitely the one in his prime. When you play with bobby you don't think to win or loose you just think to survive. Most of the grandmaster learn to play chess by watching his game. When it comes to sacrifice the queen(The strongest piece on the board) and then converting it to win - there comes fischer. None of the grandmaster has that much dare. I saw a game in which Morphey did the same, anyway.

His IQ was more than even Einstein. If Einstein and Fischer play chess, Fischer will beat him in less than 30 moves. But Fischer cannot think about atoms and quantum physics and maths. IQ has different use. Most of grandmaster play the game then they forget the moves. That's not the case with Fischer. Fischer was able to recollect the game move by move played 15 years back. He was the first American to win the world chess championship beating Boris Spassky in 1972. After becoming world champion Fischer vanished and denied to play with Karpov and lost his title. We missed the match between Garry Kasparov and Bobby. This match would have been the match of the century. Kasparov is good in Initial openings where as bobby is excellent in the middle game. Bobby doesn't use open book moves. He didn't have any formal chess training etc. He had natural talent of chess. Other grandmaster learn, train and then play.

Click here to know about "The Game of the Century" played when Fischer was just 13 year old.

Settling in India or USA

For we techie this is always an open question where to work? India or USA? Both has it's pros and cons. In USA where you get rich dollars but that keeps you busy life and keeps you away from family. In India, money may not be that much, but at least you enjoy to stay in your homeland. However from business perspective, in spite of so much slowdown in the finance sector, USA is still an undisputed land of limitless opportunity. One of my business partner in NJ is forcing me hard to come to NJ. Me being from VLSI background is difficult to get a job in NJ. As to my knowledge there is no or not so good VLSI companies in NJ. Getting a job in silicon valley should not be a big deal. What I wanted to do was, incorporate in USA. And start with consultancy first. Then to service based. Then to product based. Consultancy is easier. Everybody can be a consultant. Get paid project from USA and do it at low cost in India.

As of today, I am not feeling to work in USA. My job is such that if I get high-speed Internet and electricity in my village, I can peacefully work from there. Provided my manager allows me to work from home. What it needs is just a VPN access to company's network.

बुद्धत्व

बुद्धत्व मानव जाती की पराकाष्ठा है. इसके आगे कुछ भी नही है. बुद्धत्व अन्तिम घटना है. इसके आगे कभी कोई नही गया. बुद्ध भी नही गए. बुद्धत्व पूर्णतः पारमार्थिक है. संसार अपारमार्थिक है. संसार मे जीवन कटता है किसी तरह कट जाता hai. एक दिन मौत आती है, और सब कुछ खत्म हो जाता है. सब छीन जाता है. सारा बुने हुए सपने टूट जाते हैं. यही तो संसार है. मैंने आजतक जितने भी लोगों से मिला उनका जीवन किसी तरह से चल रहा है. ज़िंदगी को घसीट रहे हैं. उनको कुछ मिल जाता है करने को. कुछ भी करेंगे पर करेंगे. करना इतना आवश्यक हो गया की मनुष्य अपने अस्तित्व को ही भूल गया. भौतिकवाद बुद्धत्व से ऊपर हो गया. मैं भौतिकवाद का विरोधी नही हूँ. मैं भौतिकवाद को बुद्धत्व का ही एक हिस्सा मानता हूँ। बुद्धत्व का मतलब पूर्णता से है. बुद्धत्व मे सबकुछ समाया हुआ है. इसके बाहर कुछ भी नही है. अस्तित्व पहली घटना है. अस्तित्व अकेला है. अस्तित्व केन्द्र है. संसार उसकी परिधि है. मनुष्यता हमेशा परिधि पर ही रही है. मैंने आजतक किसी भी ऐसे व्यक्ति से नही मिला जो केन्द्र पर हों. अस्तित्व से चैतन्य का आविर्भाव होता है. वही चैतन्य घटघट मे विद्यमान है अस्तित्व और चैतन्य से संकर्षण से उर्जा का निर्माण होता है. उसे उर्जा से हमरी ज़िंदगी चलती है. अव्यक्त व्यक्त हुआ है. अव्यक्त से व्यक्त की घटना संकर्षण की घटना है. अव्यक्त व्यक्त को स्थायित्व प्रदान करता है. अव्यक्त के बिना व्यक्त का होना असंभव है. व्यक्त संसार है. अव्यक्त ब्रह्मं है. चैतन्य व्यक्त और अव्यक्त के बीच के कड़ी है. चैतन्य व्यक्त और अव्यक्त को जोरती है. चैतन्य का दूसरा नाम प्राण भी है. इसलिए तो कहा गया - "इदम प्रान्मयम जगतम". इस श्लोक मे प्राण की गत्यावस्था के बारे मे कहा गया है. प्राण की गत्यावस्था संसार है. दूसरे श्लोक मे प्राण की निस्चालावास्था के बारे मे कहा गया है. "निस्चालम ब्रह्मं उच्यते". प्राण की निश्चअल अवस्था ब्रह्मं है. ये दो श्लोक काफ़ी हैं. पहले श्लोक मे संसार के बरे मे कहाँ गया है. दूसरे श्लोक मे ब्रह्मं के बरे मे कहाँ गया है. दो चीज ही तो है. पहला संसार और दूसरा ब्रह्मं. वस्तुतः है एक ही - ब्रह्मं. लेकिन तात्कालिक रूप से समझने के लिए दो भागो मे बाँट दिया गया है. संसार और ब्रह्मं. अगर कोई इस दो श्लोक को आत्मसात कर ले तो उसके लिए और कुछ करने को नही बचता. मैं किताब पढने की बात मे जादा यकीन नही करता हूँ. किताब पढने से किसी विषय वस्तु के सम्बन्ध मे मात्र जानकारी प्राप्त होती है. उससे आत्मसात नही होता. मान लो की तुमने किसी किताब मे किसी उपकरण के बारे मे पढ़ा. तुम थोड़े जानकर हो गए. तुम्हारी जानकारी बढ़ी. इस से जादा तो सामान्यतः कुछ होता नही है. लेकिन हो सकता है अगर तुम ठीक से पढो. अगर तुम ठीक से आत्मसात करो. अगर तुम उस उपकरण के अस्तित्व का पता लगाओ. लेकिन हम सामान्यतः ऐसा करते नही. हम ऊपर ऊपर पढ़ लेते हैं. थोरा आईडिया ले लेते हैं. कम पढो लेकिन ठीक से पढो. लेकिन हम थिक उल्टा करते हैं. हम पढ़ते तो बहोत हैं, पुरी ग्रंथालय पढ़ जाते हैं पर आत्मसात नही हो पाटा. वस्तुतः हम अपने अस्तित्व को पूर्णतः भूल चुके हैं. हम भूल ही गए की हम एक मात्र साक्षी हैं. अपने अस्तित्व का साक्षी होओं और बुद्धत्व को प्राप्त करो

मैं कोई साधू या कोई महात्मा नही हूँ। क्या हूँ पता नही. जानना भी नही चाहता. बस मैं हूँ इतना काफी है. एक दिन मेरा मैं विसर्जित हो जाएगा और सिर्फ़ हूँ बचेगा. ब्रह्मं का इस से जादा आविर्भाव हुआ भी नही था. इसलिए तो जादातार पर्वत, मिटटी और धूल hain is samsar मे. कंकर पत्थर ही जादा पैदा हुए. हीरे तो काफी कम हैं. इसलिए मुझे कभी कभी लगता है की अव्यक्त से व्यक्त की घटना मे थोरी कमी रह गई होगी नही तो हीरों के पहार हो सकते थे. अरबों खरबों बुद्ध जैसे आदमी पैदा हो सकते थे. सर्वत्र ब्रह्मं का सुन्दरतम रूप दिखाई पर सकता था. देखने वाले देख लेते हैं। बद्ध देख लेंगे. तुम न देख पाओगे. तुम्हे अच्छा बुरा दिखाई देगा. दोष तुम्हारा नही है. दोष मान्यता है. मान्यता छोर दो सब साफ दिखाई देगा

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Annie - You are the girl

So happend to stop at this video. Annie, wish you were a maithil brahmin girl. What to say more...Lol

Holiday Over

This I am posting from my residence at Bangalore. 25 days holiday is over. In Muzaffarpur I was accessing net by Airtel GPRS. Very Slow. 128 Kbps. Earlier was staying with mummy. Now have to stay alone. Don't know who will cook for me? Fasting?? Lol

Vaishali visit was the best part. Holi was so so. Evening cricket was enjoyable too. Roaming in the city with Prasoon on the bike was even more enjoyable. Especially, roaming in the old Muzaffarpur. I have many memories associated with old Muzaffarpur viz. Purani Bazar, Sahoo Pokhar, Chhata Bajar etc. In the childhood days, we used to go there to buy Kites. These places are soul of Muzaffarpur. If you want to understand Muzaffarpur visit these places.

One day a saffron clad monk came to beg alms at our home. I asked him - Have you gained the knowledge? Why are you wandering? He was a wandering monk. He said - "No, not yet. I am going to Simaria ghat then to Kamakhya. Folks at Kamakhya will teach me later. For now I just have to wander". I told him - "Truth has nothing to do with you wandering. A normal people also wanders. He wanders for money, fame and prestige. You are also wandering for the truth. You and he both are wandering. So why you will get knowledge and he will not?" He didn't answer anything. My mom gave him 2 rupees and he went. Lots of innocent monks are fooled that way. Wandering saffron clad monks are everywhere in India. To my surprise - why there is no female wandering monk? Never saw a female wandering monks. I wanted to talk more with him. But he appeared to be in hurry. Society is always in hurry. Society goes, but it goes nowhere. Society has no destination, but it has a path. It will show you a path, but not the destination.

I am thinking why we don't have 1 billion people like Buddha. अरबों खरबों मे कोई एक बुद्धत्व को उपलब्ध होता है। Why this number is so less?

Draw with GnuChess

It was a draw with GnuChess. Click here to see the game
Game Analysis
In the initial game it was a defensive game from both side. I tried to capture F7 square but GnuChess defence strategy was fantastic. So my strategy to capture F7 square failed. In the middle gain I had 2 more pawn on the cost of one horse. The end game was such that either GnuChess loses or draw. GnuChess choosed to draw the game.

My Vaishali Visit

Got a chance to visit Vaishali. Vaishali is an adjacent district of Muzaffarpur. Vaishali has many historical importances. Lichhavi republic in Vaishali was the first republic state of the world. Even the city of Nazareth is not as glorious as Vaishali. Vaishali is blessed by two superhuman – Mahavir and Buddha. Nazareth only has Jesus. According to me 500 BC to 0 BC was the golden era of human civilization. This era produced three known superhuman – Mahavir, Buddha and Jesus. The word known is important here. There were many superhuman about them we have no idea. Coz, they didn’t come forward. They kept the knowledge with themselves. We know only those who came forward. Many of the saints remained in the forest. But some of them came to society like Jesus, Buddha and Mahavir.

I had pre-planned to visit Vaishali. I reached my friend Prasoon’s house at 7:30am. We left for Vaishali at 8:00am. Since it was first time visit to Vaishali, we didn’t have idea of all the routes. So, we decided to take default route that is via Hajipur. From Hajipur took auto to reach LalGanj. Then from LalGanj took a mini bus to reach Vaishali village where Vishwa Shanti Stupa is located. We also hired a rikshaw. Rikshaw puller told us many things about Vaishali and Buddha etc. There are four golden statue of Buddha depecting his four states of life. Like enlightenment, sermon, mahaparinirvana etc. Buddha used to stay at this place in rainy season and used to give his sermon. I meditated for approx 20 mins in front of the statue depecting his enlightenment. This was a fine meditation. Meditation at such place is very effective. I wanted to meditate more but my friend was feeling hungry. Lol. So we left and had and had Samosa being sold at a small shop outside Shanti Stupa. There is also a big pond beside Shanti Stupa. In certain season you can also enjoy boating. There were not much people yesterday. There is a huge crowd in Buddha Purnima. There are also Baudh-Math made by Sri Lanka and Vietnam there.

Then we hired same Riskshaw puller to go Kalhua. In Kalhua there is Ashok – Stambh where Lord Buddha gave his last sermon. It is 3 KM from Shanti Stupa. Now this place is fine. I would recommend you to visit this place. Worth visitable. The stambh is almost 18 m high made of single stone. On the top of that there is a lion. This was made by Emperor Ashoka. There is also a small pond in the south of the pillar. There is also a stupa in which Anand’s ash is kept. Many foreigners come here to worship it. Initially we had no idea so we started walking on the stupa. Then one person said us not to walk on it. Lol. In fact I wanted to ride on the top of stupa. Lol There are any excavated brick structures which I suspected was kind of Math. Garden there is well maintained.

We had become tired of journey so took some rest just at the root of Ashoka Piller. I was thinking this is the place where Buddha kept his lotus feet. How lucky I am to visit this place. One interesting thing was Kalhua is part of Muzaffarpur. But people know it as part of Vaishali. Because, Vishwa Shanti Stupa is in Viahsali. And both places have immense importance in Buddhism.

Across the day, we couldn’t have any formal lunch. This time we took the shorter route and reached Muzaffarpur by 7pm.

This was a memorable visit. My next tour will be city of Nazareth, Jerusalem, Galilee, and Jordan River.