Escape to Eternity

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Nature was my 1^st love .trip to badrachalam temple was more to take a break from routine slug that has set in life rather than any spiritual connotation. Train upto district and from district to town by bus and to from village to badrachalam by car through the forest, rivulets .Badrachalam temple was built by Ramdas on bank of godavari.

The fun in temple was not many were near sanctorum. But most of them were near exhibition that displays jewels of Lord Ram .If there is 1 man ..there are 100 women .Hasn’t Marylyn Monroe said Diamonds are women best friends. How true. All women thronged the jewel exhibition. they weren’t just viewing .but analyising like gemologists .

My birthday is on march 20 ie ., cusp of Aries n Pisces. But dominant element is water in my zodiac and no wonder , water bodies is always my favourite hangouts I was childhood champion in officers club in swimming. I used to dive from highest board and swim underwater fer quite a long time .but after 10 years step[ping to water I recived the shock of century .i was not able to float in Godavari.i was drowning. gasping to keep myself afloat. Entire energy being drained in those currents. hydrostatic pressure crushing my ribs and as if heart is elevated to throat. oh my ..i just stepped into shallow waters but this is quite embarrassing to be

Now what I write is specifically for someone who shares my enthusiasm and love for everything that’s wonderful and natural. Starting back from temple we cruised leisurely back home through forest roads. The farms…village atmosphere…..calmness…serenity really filled every fissure in my heart with great joy . Sensitiveness has its own advantageous. One can see things in its pristine form.

As we returned dusk has set in. and starts started making their appearances. After some moments I witnessed something that 99% not possible in metropolis due to clouds of pollution. Car was cruising at over 100 and I was not complaining as I was totally engrossed at gust of wind that seems to relish dashing at my face as my tresses danced in synchrony. I felt adrenaline rush as we zipped past dark n deep woods. Perhaps my primate connections from our homosapian ancestors woke up in midst woods ,I felt like screaming at top of my voice till it penetrates every critter in forest.

Now we were passing through fields and vast landscape lie in front of us. Entire universe came into view. Wow ..what an awesome cosmic display??...as of Lord Nataraja has danced through stars and nebular activity. No amount of description can explain the beauty of view. Zillions of shining stars spread over the vast endless space. How come we fail to observe the wonders of nature but worry more over flat tyre ?

All the languages of the world would not help in explaining this cosmic art(wish I can shake hands with Artist who is responsible for this ) My limited vocabulary does no justice to explain this stunning phenomenon.

Ever since 1^st satellite sputnik of Russia penetrated into space hundreds followed the suit. More sophisticated and more penetrating .yet with all the world research we hardly scratched the surface. More humans try to unravel mystery called space..more seems to appear and more galaxy seems to have become mysterious. Imagine this sun takes 8 minutes to bathe the world with its scorching rays and moon within a second …how about these stars over my head now ??...It takes 4 years .Gasping isn’t it ?

Pause and ponder!!!!

Ask yourself , when was the last time we actually consciously wondered about nature around us which we have taken it so granted? when was the last time we marveled of universe ?when was the last time you have relished the beauties of nature with all your heart and soul? Like everyone I was totally lost in daily humdrum of life till I managed this getaway .Now iam able to take a sip at cosmic ecstasy into my soul. I was thoroughly intoxicated by sheer unlimited joy that has over whelmed every cell in my body. I was totally drunk with ecstasy. In one word the experience can be summed as BLISS!!!!

The stars like priceless diamonds sparkling in backdrop of pitch back sky is phenomenon something worth tons of happiness combined. These stars were all over not like in clusters as we see in metros. all types of stars ..big …small ..Dying stars ..pulsars..lunar activity ..red stars …constellations ..all were visible with naked eye .

I became philosophical. I tried to penetrate the unlimited universe with my limited mind. Comprehending the incomprehensible!!!i wonder where it begins and where it ends. Can we touch the ends of universe? is there any end in the 1^st place? if there I an end there would be beginning..

Who could have created all this. wow the creator must have been awesome mathematician .otherwise how could he managed to set so many variables like stars and planets and those tons of permutations that life takes up to exist to brilliantly fit into this sudoko like synchrony ? and work in 100% perfect tandem with zero scope to mistake!!!!

What could be be those wonderful forces that are holding all the planets stars and meteors, asteroids , comets and all other cosmic entities to i function in such a perfect synchrony? What could be those hidden forces or energy that has designed such a magnificent piece of art at mind boggling sophistication?

Now fundamental question arose.

Is this

Creation or evolution

Science or spirituality

Physics or Meta physics ?????????

So many question pounding like shooting tars n comets into my mind screen. but no answers seem to emanate. Is this what Chandogya Upanishads say “ Tat Tvam Asi” “That Art Thou”…

Am I trying to unravel impossible ?

Am I touching the realm of forbidden?

Am I decoding Code Called God?

Happy Republic Day

Gentlemen ..as we celebrate our 60 year of Indian republic .ponder over few things ...

1) why does world still view India as poor ...poverty ridden ...ugly ...villagefilled ...uneducated ...elephants ...maharajahs..land of sadhus and snake charmers .. and .white mans burden ...????

2) How come they dont want to believe that India is now TRILLION DOLLAR ECONOMY ..that too we have reached that stage in record of 17 years (no country ..not even out imperial gora phoren usa/uk has done that feat)....maximum they think we are colonies of call centres eating chicken tikka ,praying snakes and driving elephants to work....

3) How come slum dog millionaire which made it to oscars ...but movies like Rang de basanti ...or guru ...or chak de ..etc cubdt make it ..?...It looks like judges of oscars are still addicted to old India where poverty and philosphy is vogue ...slumdog shows them what they wud like to belive ...India is land of slums .....oh my ..looks like they are making mockery of Indian progress..

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4)...Why did david milibind ...the britains(not capital B..they dont deserve respect) foreign secretary visted village hut in amethi to get feel of India?...why not see world class infrastructural wonders if infosys or .Technological temples like ISRO ..or witness some of awesome missiles we build at balasore ....delhi-gurgaon corridor.??

Yeah ..In India we still have many maladies ..i agree ..corruption ..casteism ..traffic chaos .....paritsanism...terrorism ..nepotism ...etc etc many more etcs ....but friends ..these are something that are every where ...in every country.Every country has its share of problems based on its history, culture , and circumstances .But like any suucesfful country ,, they over come them....Every country on this planet has gone through it .Overcome it.Became successfull and developed..

Let us compare with most powerful and richest country on the planet United States of America......

If you say Castism is biggest headache.Remeber America had Class problem.Black and White racist wars and Alabama chain gangs prisons

If you say Corruption such as bribery and poliltics based on money and seat purchase...let us not ferget the sale of obama seat after his exit to presidency.You can say laws should be tough like in arabia.Remeber Saudi Arabia took bribe of 1 billion dollars from birtish military industry.Saudi arabia pays millions of dollars to religious terrorists to keep them at bay.Laws are tough on commoners but not on elite who can flout rules at will.If worls speaks of satyam scandal, we ca point to enron of usa and not forgetting all those tranatlantic corporations like lehmenn brothers,freddie mac ..fannie mae etc ....

If you say Reservation.Trust me ., even harvard university has reservation system so does developed countries like paris Ecole universities.If depressed classes are not helped , on longer run entire country gets affected.Forget not american affirmative action was reservation system created fer  for blacks.Maybe not the name is same but essence is the same .

If africa is not rescued from its poverty , entire world gets affected sooner or later.It already started ...see how somalian pirates are keeping entire world on tender hooks by attacking every ship passing through gulf of aden..Entire world is connected and all our destines are interlinked .We all have to move at equal pace .

People say Govt reservation should not be there.People who say, are the people who belive that its affects their lives.Ok.Fine.Then why should Govt give billions of ruppees as loans to private industry.why should govt bailout banks that fail by injecting hard earned tax payer money ?.You can use word "Economic Stimulus" for this act ...once again ..all word are symbolic ..but substance of Reservation and Stimulus are same .That is provide crutch to enable to things keep going...

Terrorism/secularism/corruption : Which country hasnt faced it ...?USA, to Russia ...to Afrcian to even Pakistan .Tell me which country has given so much freedom to minorities?Only in India can we find minorities have equal footing with majority.Tell me in chich country does a State has guts to arrest dominants religons leader like we had done to Swami of Shankaracharya few years back???Every country is characterieed by its dominant religion .In usa caption is In "God we trust"..We all know what that God means.Christainity.Japanese is shinto buddhism...saudi is hard core islamic country .. .But whats Indias caption ?Satyama jayaete!!!!Truth Triumphs!!!.100% secularism..yeah there might be few cases ..But they are mere aberration ..

every country has its own share of problems.Remeber we are just 60 years old .Maybe from human age point of view 60 is very big number but from nations point of view , we are not even adolscents.Remember americas freedom came in year of 1766. and britain is far more old .From 1766 .it slolwy evolved at its own sweet time before becoming wolrds stringest country.

India has developed on super fast scale that is totally unknown on this planet.Its just in 1990 we had opened up to the world and finally within 18 years we have have come this far.Thats amazing. Imagine this ..we are not japan which has never been colonised ..nor is britain where everyone speaks one language ..nor we are china where there is dictatorship nor we are saudi arabia there is single religion ...

We are Indians ..where everything and every aspect changes with every 50 kilometres.Everything ..language...culture ...history ...etc.So governing such a vast country with mind boggling diversities is just very difficult ...and thats the main reason for our slow pace ..

Believe like i believe in India .Have faith in India and its future.We are bound to be World Leaders long before you shut your eyes eternally..........JaiHind!!!