Life After Death

teek--taak---teek--taak-- . . . . Pendulum goes on. Which precedes what . . . pendulum goes on.
Hen--egg--hen--egg-- . . . .cycle goes on. Which is original, which is product. . . Cycle goes on.
death--birth--death--birth-- … life goes on. Which is later, which is first. . . Life goes round.

WAIT ! ! ! Life does NOT go round like this. I KNOW, I EXPERIENCE that life does NOT go round like this. There is birth and there is death, and that is the end. I can see things travelling from birth to death. But I have not ever seen anything from death to birth. I have not seen, I have not felt, I have not experienced.

Some people say that only thing certain is death. Anything that is born must die. Some scientists say that the only certainty is vibrations, everything else is uncertainty. Vibrations, periodics, cycles go on and on. Anything that goes up comes down, up-and-down, expansion-and-compression, life-and-death! It goes on and on


If anything that is born dies, then what happens to that which dies. We are not getting buried under dead rubble. So everything that dies must be getting born again. Anything that dies is born and anything that is born dies again. Life goes on, and death goes on. What is it that dies and what is it that is born from it. Is it same or are those different? We feel that when something is born that thing goes ahead and dies. If the one that’s born and the one that dies are one and the same, wouldn’t it be same for the one that dies. The one that dies should be the same as the one that gets born. But we don't experience this. We experience that life changes, life forms change, things change when they die. Experiences of life before death and the one after death are fundamentally different. But don’t experience anything before its born. So the experiences of death before birth and after birth are different.

China And India

Economically, militarily, politically China is growing much faster than India. Its become a fashion in India to point at China and say, "What progress!"
Before I go further let me honestly state that I have a strong bias against China. I feel the political system, social hierarchy strongly exploitative. I can not call a revolution a 'social revolution' when it is rises and survives on the lives of multitude of common citizens, however noble the goal may be. I fail to call it a 'developed' or 'progressed' nation where battle tanks are rolled over young men lying on the road, protesting silently. I thank God that I dont have to feel proud of such a country as 'My Nation'. I surely wouldn't want even my enemy to have to lead a horrendous life of a chinese miner. I am sure I dont even want to be the cruel owner of such mines.
I can not count the number of time I have felt grateful to God for sending Mahatma Gandhi to my country at the time. Had he not carved and guided the philosophy and ethics of Independent India, I dont know what path we would have walked.
It surprises me no end that people and the countries preaching morality and claiming moral superiority are so silent towards the state of humanity in China. The same people are vociferous about the plight of muslim women, but dont have even a drop of tear or a bit of voice about the state of miners and industrial workers in China. Maybe they are afraid that if they speak up it may cause the wages in China to go up. That would mean rise in prices of chinese goods. If prices go up people may buy less and if people buy less then what would happen to 'economy'?
LONG LIVE ECONOMY ! ! !
Somebody noted that its probably the first time that Nobel prize for Economics has been given to a non-quanitative work. The critic went on to say that the time has come for economics to learn from its closed realtives - psychology and sociology.
I COULDN'T AGRESS LESS ! ! !

Overcapacity

As a student I would finish my studies in short time and would keep on wondering what to do for the rest of the period, how to fill the time. Later I realised that I wasn't alone. Many, rather most, people frequently feel this problem of how to fill time. Animals spend lot of their time in sleeping, searching for food, digesting food, and be wary of own safety and on lookout for threats. Remaining small time they can spend idleing, but always alert. Man has evolved much beyond that. He need to work small part of his time to make sure of his basic needs, not only in the present but for the rest of his life. He has evolved in such a way that he no longer needs to feel physically insecure, need not constantly spend his time and energy in being alert. He can afford to sleep like a log and still wake up to see light next morning.

This huge amount of idleness brings in emptiness. Earlier times religion and religious rituals etc took up quite amount of time. Even after that a lot of time remained empty. This emptiness, this hollowness, this feeling petty, worthless was countered by quest for external power. Power, control over things, animals and even fellow humans. In quest of power and control men went in fights and wars. Women spent their times in caring for families, looking better and attracting men-of-power.

In modern world today this basic human psychology is manifested differently. Religious power have weakened and corporates have taken over the reins. Men feel this power in using, consuming wildly and in wild things. This is power of money. A roaring car, designed by somebody and manufactured by somebody else, but the owner feels the pride by having spending the money to own it. This perception of power, of control, of esteem, of goodness only through monetary terms has spread so deeply into our psychology that we can not even imagine a state of well-being devoid of money. (Actually the word wealth has its roots in the word well-being. See how what it means today!)
Many of the problems individuals and societies face today may be resolved we can find ways to deal our own overcapacity.
One of the ways may be to shift our focus from doing to being. Instead of constantly looking for things to do, if we can find enjoyment or peace in whatever wherever we are then probably we can see more meaning inside, rather than futilely searching it outside