Food for Thought

1)We need to distinguish between a slash which divides and a hyphen which unites even when it divides.

2)A bird does not sing a song because it has an answer.It sings because it has a song.

3)There are two perfect men,one dead the other unborn.

4)The reason most people fail instead of succeed is because they trade what they really want most for what they want most at the moment.

5)Heart has its reasons which reasons don't understand.

6)It is easy to open a business but it is difficult to keep it open.

7)Life is a disease and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

Tamso ma jyotir gamaya

Asato ma sat gamaya

Tamso ma jyotir gamaya

Mrityor ma amritam gamaya

The lines have been taken from Brhadaranayaka Upanishad, the first time i came across them were on my school emblem and it has fascinated me ever since.Thats the simple reason why i chose it for my blog's name.

'sat' means truth and 'asat' therefore means false; 'gamaya' means 'to go' or 'to lead'; 'tamaso' is darkness; 'jyoti' means light; 'mrityu' means death; 'amrit' means immortality.So the lines basically mean:

Lead me from the false to the real

From darkness to light

And from stagnation to the ever vibrant action and living.

Recently i was reading this book named Argumentative India which had this lovely poem by Rabindranath Tagore .

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high

Where knowledge is free

Where the world has not been broken up into fragments

By narrow domestic walls

Where words come out from the depth of truth

Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection

Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way

Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit

Where the mind is led forward by thee

Into ever-widening thought and action

Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

This too echoes the very same concept of moving from darkness towards light.

In the same vein we also have a song from Kishore Kumar target="_blank" rel="nofollow">"Aa Chal Ke Tujhe Mein Lai Ke Chalu ..."

Science VS Religion

I was coming out of the pathology lab after giving my blood samples when i came across this man worshipping a model of clay, with a baby by its side crying aloud .The child looked famished and was crying for food .The man in tattered clothes offered a banana to the clay model and chanted some hymns .Once he was done with his prayers i approached him and asked why he did not feed the child and apt came the reply, " Sir i am poor and i don’t have any money to feed the child." I was still wondering could he not have given that banana to that child instead of offering it to GOD.

Ever since then i have been wondering about the conflict between Religion and Science .It has been an age old debate with both the sides vehemently pushing their case .Now lets look at the Hindu Religious system and try to decipher if we can get some message out of it .Hinduism is one religion which has number of Gods and Goddesses all equally worshipped and respected .Also one GOD too can have many different avatars Lord Krishna being a case in point.

How does this fare in scientific light? Science says we have different forms of energy sun, wind ,mechanical ,chemical etc . Also energy can neither be created nor destroyed and the various forms can be transferred and transformed from one form to another. Is then not this energy similar to our Gods? They too can’t be created or destroyed and there are various forms of them too. Also is not the divine form manifestation of energy itself?

So science and religion are trying to point to the same thing but in different ways .One may call it energy someone else may call it GOD.