My Religion

I was born as Hindu to parents who believes in God more than God believe in himself. I grew up listening  and reading lot of religious stories. I went to a Christian convent run by Nuns who taught us Jesus is the only God in my kinder garden. My Dad , though very religious is secular and listed to Quran versus at Television.It was so confusing at first for my tiny brain. But it helped me understand and respect other's belief system.

The reason for this little disclaimer is to prepare you for some confusions ahead.
Hinduism and  Science is always a debatable topic and widely discussed enough everywhere including world wide web. I wanted to add my side of story as well.Moreover Navarathri is the right time to  talk about Hnduism and science.

if a religion is just a set of rules to live a happy and peaceful life in harmony with other people, then I will accept Hinduism as religion. Otherwise it is not.. Why because..
Noone knows exactly
1. who started it (??)
2. When (10000 years ago?, Any evidence?)
3. Holy book (Gita?, Veda?, Mahabharth?, Ramayan?)
4. The God ? (Ganesh?,,Muruga?,Shiva?,Vedas?,Vishnu?)
5. Idol workship allowed or not (Shivling/Murthi/Fire?)

For a normal person like me , None of these things are clear. But one thing clear is the fact that this religion has been followed in India for a very long time and all Indians were once Hindus. In fact the name Hindus was from the Indus river where one of the oldest civilization started (Indus valley civilization). So to me, Hinduism is the long tradition which was followed by people starting from Indus valley until now and Those people somehow figured out the best way to most things. Irony is  we neglect most brilliance nowadays as Scifi and superstitions.
They were aware of in their stories/books/epics/superstions

• The power of fitness - Yoga
• The power of mind- Meditation
• The power of herbs/ Natural Antibiotics - Tulsi and Neem
• The power of women - Sakthi
• The power of marriage - Artharnaarishwar
• The importance of Animals - Vahana of Gods
• the concept of vimana (during Ramayana time)
• Nine planets as navagrahas. (May not be accurate but they guessed it right)
• We talk a lot about artificial intelligence nowadays. A part of it ,neural networks is more or less like predicting the future from past data.Being said that, Astrology(Tamil horoscope) which is nothing but a lot of calculations and pattern matching algorithms to get the result of prediction of future.
• Evolution

Navarathiri Golu is kept in the order of Aquatic animals, grass, worms, Animals, humans, Scholars and then God. I have seen people of other religious beliefs often oppose evolution and vaccines because of the contradiction between their belief system and modern science. Hindus never cared about it because they were taught about it.  I have always wondered if hanuman is human neanderthal(the proposed ancester of human beings)

• Agathi Keerai->Cows => punniyam + Calcium-> Humans

Recently On a conversation I was asked how cow gets Calcium if it eats only grass. First few results of google search told me that, Our digestive system is not so efficient in absorbing Calcium directly from greens. But Cows(All Cattles) and colobine monkeys independently developed the power to digest cellulose(Plant materials) effectively. When I read this, I remembered this incident back in my school days. People used to come to my house during Amavasai to feed our cows with agathi keerai.  Feeding agathi keerai to cows was considered as an auspicious thing for Hindus. But why to Cows?? I connected these two incidents and was surprised by our ancesters wisdom. Cows give Milk. We cannot absorb calcium directly. Cows get calcium from greens they eat. Agathi keerai has 120mg Calcium higher than Kale even. got it?!

They might not have gotten everything right. There were huge flaws such as sati, untouchability, etc that could possibly be inserted in the medieval times.But it has always appeared to me flawless most of the time I study Science. These facts above neither summarize nor prove anything. If I can relate just by hearing stories how much should be there if we study veda without thinking everything as superstitions.
By God's grace..
Someday.. I wish.. I only wish... I read and tell the world that there are few more awesomeness in science to reveal according to Hinduism.

As Steve Jobs mentioned once in Stanford Commencement Cermony, Connecting the dots between the recent tamil movie I watched and my work.

Existence!

Once in a conversation with 5 year old, I was asked why we are called living beings. I was trying to explain in her language because we move , we breathe, we do things on your own.  The conversation went on with more and more questions about life of plants and animals. After a series of my answers, She looked convinced now and started playing with her Ipad. She switched to a toy that looked like a barbie but was called Amala. There was a small opening on its back for battery. The eyes were sparkling with the help of LEDs and some art work. It did have electronic ears and mouth hidden behind the beautifully shaped and colored lips and ears. It was made so realistic with silicone skin and dressed gorgeously in pink. The Kid was so proud to possess the toy. The little one said that her little amala can dance, walk,throw a small ball. I was listening to her and remembered how her mom exclaimed about the things, her 5 yr old can do.

 Then she opened her cute little tent and kept this toy. Then she played something on her IPad, kept the IPad and  Amala inside it. The amala started dancing on listening to her Ipad. It was her own recording of some instructions that was loud enough just for the toy. I was comparing the little me  playing with mud and water  with this smart kid with smart toys.
Her mom shouted "Battery poga poguthu paaru;ippadi thaan ellathayum vinadikra" (Translates to "Battery will die; she is spoiling everything").

 I was puzzled on seeing this sweet little life inside the cute little tent.
Am I correct? Did i tell her properly what living means?
Now In the era of artificial intelligence, robots can do what we can and cannot do.They can feel, they can make a copy of themselves,etc,etc,etc.....
Of course we designed them , we gave them the power to do all these .

But...

What if we are chemically powered robots automated enough to think on our own , make ourself on our own, feel,power and protect ourselves on our own for a limited period and die? 

It is been years since I posted last. Change is the only constant.  Everything changed a lot around and in me.  But its kinda funny that I was more philosophical person when I was young than now. I stopped writing because noone was really interested in reading my stories. Something said that I should keep up. So from now on you can see some more boring good stuff coming..

Keep smiling

QUESTIONS

Questions are not just the lingual expression to interrogate or to get information from people.It has its own significance.
There is no PHYSICS without the question "Why had the apple fallen down?Why not is it going upwards?"
There is no technology without the question "How can we make it better?".
In fact "Thinking" is nothing but interrogating ourselves.YES!!When we question us we will start looking everything differently.For example if our mom shout at us,instead of asking her "Why aren't you understanding me?"try asking yourself "What made her angry?Did i do anything wrong?if not,then what is it?"same thing applies for all situations.When you are afraid of something ask yourself "Why are you afraid?What is going to happen if you do it?"similarly when you are reading ask yourself "WHY is it so?".If we start questioning ourselves,we will be knowing ,we don't have answers but only the questions.
It remembers me of a story.once a king went to a saint.the saint was meditating and asked him "WHO ARE YOU?" without even opening his eyes.The king who was thinking that he was at the next position to God replied angrily "I m the king here".Saint again asked "that is your position,Tell me Who are you?"The king then said his name. The saint again asked "That is just a noun your parents gave exclusively for you.Tell me who are you ?"The king replied "I'm the son of so and so.now at least can you recognize me swami?"Again the saint laughed and asked "that is your parents name.I am asking who are you?and you are telling something else.you don't even know Who you are but you came straight way to see me with the thought you know everything!". :)

If we ask the same set of questions to ourselves, we too don't know the answer right?.Though the questions are stupid at times finding the answer is very important.It looked funny when scientists said you can sit in your room and can talk to your brother at America.but it is true nowadays.
So dont neglect any question in you.Try to find answer for it.

FRAGMENTATION

This post i read from a book and i want to share in my blog.
FRAGMENTATION:

Fragmentation is one of the main causes of internal conflicts, indecision, change of
opinions, un-kept promises, mental and emotional imbalance and instability. I could
go on with the list of effects that fragmentation causes but in essence it is the
reason that we are inconsistent. As the joke goes, ‘The devil made me do it!’ In
reality it was fragmentation in action.
As your fingers are individual and different parts of one unit, the hand, our mind is
fragmented and separated in our psyche. Each aspect of our being thinks itself the
whole and complete being while it really is only a part of the whole.
Imagine your mind in this way. There is you, the main personality, your central ‘I’.
As you grow up and develop your own personality in a natural way, you are told that
there are things you should and shouldn’t do. Your mother says something is good
and your father tells you the same thing is bad. Some of those things make sense
and some don’t, many contradict what you would like to do. Time passes in this
way and you develop into a teenager. Now there are many more things that interest
you and you build more desires, likes and dislikes, more things you want to but are
told you shouldn’t do. You get a bit older and see different things, your interests
and values change. Some youthful desires remain while adult responsibilities
contradict them.
You now have many conflicting desires and thoughts. Each thought and belief is a
fragment, a complete you with one slight difference based on the particular thought
at the moment in which it was formed. That is briefly a partial cause of
fragmentation and how it develops.
the above article made me to think so long.yeah,the author is right!None of us can tell,i dont have fragments.You might have agreed to do a work yesterday.but in the same work you might not be having interest today.that what fragments are.it was YOU who agreed to do,but today also it is same YOU who don't want to do.
SO UNDERSTAND YOUR FRAGMENTS,UNDERSTAND YOURSELF AND GET SUCCESS.

ANGER

Anger is an emotion but it matters even life when it hurts others.Anger will make you look ugly.
it is something which we cannot avoid,because it comes out due to many reasons.it is a disease like common cold which every human being will get easily.but if it persists throughout our life , it is dangerous and dreadful .
Why?
our ego is crushed/being insulted by others.
things didn't go as we expected.
being cheated by someone.
when our staff ,didn't complete their assigned work.
when someone refuses our obligation.
it goes on like this......

HOW to conquer anger?
when you read the above reasons two three times ,it will look silly.
patience is the only tool you can use.
1.)Ask your closed one to take video when you are angry ,when you see it again i am sure you will not be angry again. 
2.)keep your eyes closed for a minute and think about the problem.your anger will vanish.
3.)tell this to yourself "to err is human,to forgive is divine".and think about your mistakes.in front of your mistakes,other's mistakes will look small.
4.)whatever it is ,be in the other person's side and think about the problem for a second.
HOW to handle an Angry person?
if it is your
BOSS,be silent,
TEACHER,listen,
PARENTS,understand,
SIBLINGS,convince,
LIFE PARTNER,feel it.
so whenever a person is in ANGER,don't speak against them.try to cool them first,and then express your ideas.
MAKE YOUR ANGER SO EXPENSIVE,SO THAT PEOPLE WILL FEEL THE VALUE IN IT.when you are angry often,people will not lend their ears to you.but occasional anger always gains its importance.
so..........
DON'T SPEAK WHEN YOU ARE ANGRY;
DONT TAKE THE WORDS SERIOUSLY WHEN IT IS SPOKEN IN ANGER :)