Mithila Society

Before, I write about Mithila in particular, lets first understand MY understandings about the society. Society is a strange word. Perhaps, in my previous post I mentioned that society can be treated like a living being. Whole society is one being. So far, we have only thought that human is one being. That is true. But society can also be treated like a being. A big human at the abstract level of which we are part of that bigger being. So, just like us, society takes birth, it grows like a child, then it becomes adult and mature more, then it becomes old and finally it dies. Because, every human being dies, so one day society will also die. Because, society is made of those humans. On an average a human dies in 100 years. But society won't die in 100 years. It can die in 100 generations, each generation of 100 years so almost 10000 years. It can die in thousands of years, in million and billions of years. Society has unknown ways of survival. At some point of time society may not want to survive. This happens particularly if the society has seen it's apex. It's very difficult to remain at the apex for a very long time. More on the society later...

Mithila is a very old society. Very old. From Ramayan days. Ramayan happend millions of years back. King Janak was from Mithila. His daughter name was Sita the wife of Lord Ram. So, mithila is a very old culture. So, it appears to me that this culture is old being now (the society as a being concept I described above). Mithila already has seen it's apex. King Janak was the apex of Mithila. And some more like Mandan Mishra, Vidyapati etc. I don't consider Gonu Jha as the apex of Mithila. He was just a slightly more clever person. Infact Mathils has instinct of cleverness. I consider Maithils as the most clever homosapience after Jews. I am not saying intelligent. Cleverness and intelligence is totally different. Somehow I feel the Maithil culture is drowing now...If you look at the state of the brahmins of Mithila. Pathetic I would say. All are meat eaters. It's very very difficult to find a vegetarian maithil. Infact eating fish is considered as holy in the Mithila. If you are going on a journey then a fish-meal can make your journey better is what is followed in mithila. When the society doesn't want to survive such type of rules are made. At least, Brahmins of mithila should not eat non-veg. Brahmins are supposed to cater the dharma. I have grown up in the villages so I got opportunity to look at the maithil culture with close proximity. My whole village is non-vegetarian. Except few pious people.

If you want to preserve your society even though society doesn't want to survive then protect your kids and woman. Because, both are delicate. If woman of a society starts marrying into another society then former society won't survive longer. This has also started happening in Mithila. Mithila already lost so many values. The paintings we lost, the art of making toys from sand we lost, making Gharonda we lost, hundreds of things we lost. Now you can't expect the girls of mithila to make Gharonda, particularly the city girls. Now they care more for Valentine-day than Gharonda. And there were many more things which I could not see, becuase those were lost. My dad would have seen those. Generations by generations mithila is loosing it's core value. And will loose more. I suspect 2-3 generation is enough to loose all the maithil values except the language - maithili/Angika. Language will survive more. Slightly more. Few months back I met a maithil girl and I thought we would talk in Maithili but she was speaking in American accent english (not even in Hindi). This is how the culture is lost. In nutshell - we have lost more maithil values, we will continue to loose more, if thing doesn't improve.

शब्द और सत्य

मैंने अबतक सत्य के बारे मे जो कुछ भी लिखा, वो सत्य नही था। वो सत्य के बारे मे जानकारी थी। सत्य को नही लिखा जा सकता है, कभी नही लिखा गया, कभी किसी ने नही लिखा। पर हाँ सत्य के बारे मे लिखा जा सकता है। सत्य को नही लिखा गया है, सत्य के बारे मे थोरा बहोत लिखा गया है। पर हम समझ लेते हैं की सत्य ही लिखा गया है। शब्द सत्य को नही व्यक्त कर सकता है। अगर सत्य शब्द मे व्यक्त हो जाए तो शब्द सत्य हो जाएगा। फिर सत्य, सत्य na रहेगा। शब्द की सीमा होती है, सत्य की कोई सीमा नही। शब्द की उत्पत्ति होती है। सत्य की कभी उत्पत्ति होती नही। शब्द का कारण है। सत्य का कोई करना नही है। बस है। मनुष्य जाती के इतिहास मे सत्य के बारे मे जो कुछ भी लिखा गया है और जो लिखा जाएगा वो पूर्ण सत्य के सापेक्ष कुछ भी नही है। रत्ती भर भी सत्य नही लिख गया है। सत्य शब्द मे उतरता नही। क्योंकि, सत्य की अनुभूति अपूर्व है। बहोत कम लोगों ने वैसी अनुभूति की है और उनलोगों ने उस अनुभूति को व्यक्त करने के लिए नए शब्द का निर्माण नही किया। क्योंकि निर्माण करने के लिए इच्छा टी होनी चाहिए। पूर्ण सत्य के समय साड़ी इच्छाएं विसर्जित हो जाती हैं। इसलिए सत्य को ठीक ठीक व्यक्त करने वाले शब्द के निर्माण न हो सका। क्योनी जिनको सत्य मिला we सत्य मे ही लीं रहे। तो जिनको सत्य मिला वे सत्य के लिए शब्द नही बना सके। और जिन्होंने शब्द को बनाया उनको सत्य तो मिला नही, तो वे भी सत्य के लिए शब्द न बना सके। दोनों ही न बना सके। न सत्यदर्शी न शब्ददर्शी। सत्य मे शब्द के लिए जगह नही है। इतनी जगह नही है की शब्द wahan ठहरे। इसलिए बुद्ध भी सत्य के बारे मे जादा कुछ बोले नही। बुद्ध बोलें तो कैसे। सत्य शब्द मे उतरता नही है। अगर तुम बद्ध से पूछो की सत्य क्या है। तो वो कुछ नही बोलेंगे। मौन रहेंगे वो। क्योंकि शब्द का प्रोयाग करते ही सत्य सत्य न रहेगा। किसी भी शब्द मे, किसी भी वाक्य मे इतना सामर्थ्य नही है की वो सत्य का निरूपण कर सके। हमारे पास जीवन की हर एक अनुभूति के लिए शब्द नही हैं। कुछ अनुभूति ऐसी हैं जो बहोत कम लोगों को हुआ है। किसी बुद्ध किसी महावीर किसी जीसस को हुआ। तो उन्होंने शब्द तो बनाया नही। वो कोई कवि या लेखक तो थे नही की शब्द मे उनकी रूचि हो। थोरा बहोत बताये। पूर्ण तो वो भी नही बता सके। बताने की भी एक सीमा होती है। जितना उनसे बन सका वो बताये। हम माने या न माने, पर वो बताये। घूम घूम के बताये। अस्तांगिक मार्ग बताये। शब्द उतना महत्वपूर्ण नही है. शब्द धूल की तरह है। जब घोर्रे दौरते हैं तो धूल उरने लगती हैं। वैसे ही जब सत्य किसी के ह्रदय मे प्रकट होता है तो शब्द बनने लगते है, फिर वेदा, उपनिषद बनने लगते हैं। फिर धर्म बनने लगते हैं।

Lost in chess

After long time I played chess with Nagaskaki and lost the gmae:(((( I resigned in 38th move. Started the game in sicilian style. Had nice pawn structure. But black was very strategic. Click here to follow the game.

Gvim vs Emacs

The holy war of text editor - Gvim vs Emacs. Which one is better? Difficult to say. Depends on your requirement. Vim is small and great. Emacs is large an great. Both are great. One is small in the size, other is large in the size. Gvim is GUI version of vim. If you want to quickly edit a file and mostly want to remain in the command mode - vim is the better choice. It's real fast. Default vim is much easier to use then default Emacs for programmers. If you do elisp programming in Emacs then you can do an anything you want. Because, elisp is kind of programming language. You can write functions in elips and bind to any suitable key you want. That is where Emacs becomes extremely powerful. However, if your job requires mostly to edit existing code vim would be better choice. Emacs is huge. Very huge. It's not only designed just as a text editor. Vim is purely text editor. Emacs can act like operating system. Lol. Emacs has everything. The main idea behind Emacs was to put everything into one editor so that user will never have to exit from it. You can send receive email through Emacs. You can read news inside Emacs. etc. So, Emacs is not just a text editor. It's much more than that. One thing I didn't like about Emacs is ctrl key. To type any command you have to press ctrl key. This is too much. However, you can always map them to functional keys but there exist only 12 functional keys. Hitting control keys always, it bugs(to me). Things I don't like with vim is every time switching between command and insert mode. Indent capability if vim is poor. Emacs is smart in indenting. Only problem I see with Emacs is the control key. In vim if you are in command mode you don't have to hold control key. Then any key can act like a command. That's not the case with Emacs. In Emacs to invoke a command you have to hold control key always. There is no way out except mapping (up to 12 functional keys). That is why Vim is great when you work in command mode. Working in Emacs is too slow as compared with command mode in vim. From undo point of view both are same. Both provide unlimited undoes and redoes. From block editing point of view Vim is slightly better than Emacs. When you select a block in vim it clearly highlights, whereas in Emacs you have to imagine the block. Goshhh! From shell point of view emacs is better. Working with Emacs can be enjoyable provided you write lots of elisp function in your .emacs file (which I don't have). Emacs has a viper mode which can act like vim. It can emulate vim. I used it once. Was fun using vim inside Emacs. Other way round possible? Emacs inside Vim? I think it would be good idea to make an editor which combines the properties of Emacs and vim.

About the creation of the universe, Hadron

Since, very beginning the humanity is trying to find how the universe was created and how big it is? And if created then why? What is the purpose behind it? Lots of scientist are spending their whole life to understand big bang, black holes etc. Making hardon collider to simulate it. But, unfortunately these scientists don't know the very nature of the existence. I myself am a student of science. I agree that one day science can find everything, every possible cause but except one thing - that's the existence itself. Except existence science can know everything. Science will never know the cause of the existence. No possibility. It's just there. No matter how intelligent scientists are working to find it. If billions of scientists trillion times more intelligent than Einstien are working to find the cause of existence for trillions of years still they will never know even the small trace of the existence. Only thing they can know is that it's causeless. Existence is causeless. Except existence everything has a cause. That science will find out. If earth exists it has cause - the Sun. If the Sun exists it has a cause - the galaxy. If galaxies exist it has a cause - the clusters. If clusters exist it has a cause - the cluster of clusters and so on... The phrase "so on..." is very important. It's approaching to infinite. So, the universe is actually infinite. Scientists say the size of the universe is the length travelled by the light since big bang till today. This is full bullshhhhh-it. A holy bullshhhhh-it. The length of the universe has to be infinite. If it is finite then what is there just after where universe ends? No space there? There is. Our consciousness may not go there but it exists. Yes there is a practical limit of the universe. And that's the distance travelled by the light since big bang happened.

One thing I can certainly state - Something like big bang had definitely hap pend - an explosion. A massive explosion in a random manner. If you look at the formation of the earth it's random. Random, rocks, random stones, random sands random lands. I don't see an symmetry in the mountains. It looks like it was broken, it was exploded. Otherwise you would see the symmetry everywhere. So, definitely the earth is created out of an explosion. Only an explosion can create such a random terrain. But if you look at the atoms and molecules it's very symmetrical. Anything symmetrical was created in a planned manner. Electrons move in a symmetric path. Therefore it's planned. Someone planned it. But the rocks are random. So, it came out of explosion. But the atoms within the rocks are symmetrical. So, someone planned. Planned thing will be symmetrical. Unplanned thing will be explosive. But again solar system looks symmetrical. So, there is a possibility that a random explosion can create symmetrical systems - such as solar system. So, it's certain that some explosion had definitely happened. But, can an explosion create anything useful? Lol. Ususally, explosions are always disastrous. So, big bang explosion was useful? Think on it...

Destiny

You know what is destiny? It was a beautiful word, almost as beautiful as the word God. But, unfortunately this word has been deprecated by the society. Infact, society deprecated anything which can inadvertently open the doorway to super-consciousness. Since, very beginning, from day 1, the society is against of anything which enables the access to super-consciousness. Jesus was crucified, such a lovely person was crucified. Socrates was poisoned. Society has sent pain to every extraordinary human. The core of the meaning of destiny is - Everything is happening by itself and you just have to observer it. We have not created the sun, the moon, the bird, the tree but, all these exist. So, who created all these? These are all created by the destiny. We should not have much take towards the creation of destiny - except observing it. Practical meaning of destiny is to observe what's happening around. We don't have to do anything and sun rises in the east automatically. These are all fixed by the destiny. We don't have to put an effort to make the sun rising in the east. It rises in the east automatically. It never forgets to rise. Lol. It's a miracle. Since it happens daily we think it's an ordinary activity, we don't acknolwdge it but, actually it's not. It's miracle. Look around you and everything is a miracle. Suppose, a blind man of age 70 years suddenly gets the power to see into his eyes. What will he see? He will see so many colors which he had never seen. The green grass, the blue sky, these birds flying. He won't believe it at first glace. He may become mad to see all these colorful diversification. We don't acknowledge these as a miracle because we see them daily. But, these are actually miracle. Which no magician or scientist can perform. Destiny doesn't mean palmistry or astrology. But, yes there is a correlation to some extent. Palmistry and astrology was invented so that people understand the real meaning of destiny which I described above. But, unfortunately they couldn't understand the real meaning of destiny instead they became heavily dependent on destiny. Destiny frees you, from the bondage of karma. Because, it's happening by itself. Childhood came and went. We never wanted to leave childhood and we left it. Everything has happened which we never wanted to happen. Nobody wants to die and everybody dies. This is fixed by destiny.

Philosophy and Practical

You do anything and it will become frustrating one day. I tried it. Enlightenment is the only thing which will never become frustrating or boring. Because, at the time of enlightenment "I" doesn't exist. Remember one thing- Either you exist or Truth exists. Both cannot exist together. No possibility. At a time only one will exist. Either you or truth. And mostly you exist. Because, truth is so subtle that even the slightest perturbation can wrap the truth. Can hide the truth. That's why society could alter the truth. You never know whose fault it is - it's a truth's fault or it's society's fault. Sometimes, in spite of so much knowledge and understanding about life you still don't know what's happening. I have become bored of knowing the things. Society taught us that the more you know the better you are. According to me the less you know the better you will be which society won't like. Some of the professors didn't like me for the reason I refused to know more. But when I was knowing more, topped in the school they liked me. But their liking was conditional. Anything conditional is ephemeral. Because, that condition can vanish one day.

Coming to practical...

The one very fundamental thing I wanted to state out here is - see, if you understand then you don't have to do anything. You are done. You don't have to do Pranayaam and meditation provided you understand. This called Gyan Yoga. No need to meditate on the Agya Chakra if you understood. And it's so easy to understand that you can't understand. Because, society has always prepared you to understand difficult subject. So, our ability to understand easy thing is lost. Look at the Ramanna Maharshi. He was not a Yogi but still his knowledge was of very high order. However, it's always recommended to meditate and pranayaam. There is no harm in that.

In Hinduism they talk about 7 chakra energy centers. Muladhar, Swadhisthan, Manipur, Anahaat, Vishuddha, Agya and Sahasrar. Eeach center has it's attributes. Meditation on these centers are very helpful. It's said if your Sahasrar is open then you are almost God. These centers are described in the ancient Yoga scriptures. However, as I said - you may not have to know all these once you understand the core of the existence. Because, these are just expansion of the existence. Existence is root. Rest are just details. So, I don't give much stress on Chakra meditation rather I have stresss on the existence. Know the root of the roots. Rest will all follow...