Governance and Indian Nationalism (GAIN)

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare. Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare. Krishna took birth in Dwapar Yuga to destroy the evil forces and to start a new chapter in Hinduism's history. Krishna had a dark complexion which later changed to sky blue. This happened when Krishna dived into the Yamuna river to teach Kalia (Kaliya) naag  a lesson. The naag  was poisoning the entire river due to which many innocents were getting killed. Initially, the naag threw venom on Krishna in order to kill him; however, it didn't impact Krishna (just changed his complexion). Not just Kaliya Naag , Krishna   also killed many other powerful demons, such as Trunavarta, Keshi, Aristhasur, Bakasur, Pralambasur and others.  While eliminating such negative personalities, Krishna was eventually preparing to dethrone Kansa (the evil king); however, this was not the main objective of his birth. Kaaliya finally accepted defeat and left Yamuna so that people of Gokul and others who we

Lord Ganesh, the son of Lord Shiva  and Goddess Parvati, is one of the most popular Gods in Hinduism. He holds a  prominent place amongst all Hindu Gods as he is one of the five main Hindu  deities (other than Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva and Durga) who are worshipped in the  panchayatana  puja . Worshipping Ganesh is considered essential for new beginnings, removing obstacles, attaining education, knowledge, wisdom and wealth. Many Hindus seek blessings of Ganesh before starting any ceremonies & rituals or before venturing into a new business. Also, Ganesh is very popular among students and kids because he helps them to attain knowledge and education. Ganesh is easily recognized because of his distinct physical features such as elephant face, big belly and broken tusk. The physical attributes are indicative of Ganesh’s various qualities because of which he is worshipped among Hindus. The elephant face signifies wisdom, understanding and a sharp intellect whereas; the big belly signif

In the Part-2 of this article, we will focus on Luck which is a highly overused word. A lot of times, people blame the results of their karmas on luck; however, such a blame is not justified because everything is a result of your Karamas. Even your Luck is an outcome of your Karmas.   Now, the main point of contention is if LUCK is more significant than KARMA. In this post, I will actually prove that Luck is nothing but a result of your good Karmas. Consequently, we can safely say that a person who works hard eventually gets luckier. Given the above points, a more potent question is How Luck is an outcome of Karmas? I am sure most of you guys have heard or read the following sayings somewhere: "The harder you work, the Luckier you get". OR "Luck is when preparation meets opportunity". Most of us love these statements; however, we don't study our own culture, identity and its roots to understand how Luck was viewed in the Hindu culture. I think the most o

Lord Ganesh is the God of new beginnings, education, knowledge, wisdom, wealth and advancement. In Hinduism, Ganesh holds a significant place because Ganesh puja is mandatory before any religious function, ritual or activity. Students and businessmen worship Ganesh for education and wealth respectively. Ganesh's Family and some interesting stories Lord Ganesh is the son of Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati. Kartikeya (God of War) is Ganesh’s younger brother. Ganesh loves to eat Modak and Ladoo. When Ganesh grew up, he married Prajapati’s two daughters namely Siddhi and Riddhi. Anyone, who worships Ganesh gets the blessing of his wives.  Ganesh is well known for his wisdom, knowledge and sacrifice. The wise one Once, Shiva asked his sons to make three rounds of universe to assess their wisdom. While Kartikeya rode his peacock around the universe, Ganesh simply took three rounds of Shiva and Parvati (and stated that Shiva and Parvati are his universe ). Ganesh won the race due to his wi

Karma, Luck and Destiny  These three words have shaped the past, present and future of the mankind. And will continue to do so. However, it is important to understand each of these words distinctly and their inherent correlation. As, each word is quite vast in its nature, we will discuss each of these words in different posts and then conclude in the last post. Karma Simply put, Karma is action. As Lord Krishna says that each human being is bound to perform some action whether he/she likes it or not OR whether the Karma is under his control or not. For example, your senses, that is, eyes, nose, skin, tongue and ears will perform their duties. If a person walks in a park, he will naturally smell the fragrance of the flowers and he cannot stop his nose from smelling. Similarly, each human being is bound to do Karmas and his senses are his horses which need to be regulated according to the wishes of his Soul.  Considering the practicality of the matter as on today, it is indeed quite diff

Oh My GOD! -- Akshay Kumar's home-production that tried to highlight the so-called evils that exist in our religious life (especially HINDUISM). The entire movie revolves around one Kanji Lal (Trader) who runs a business of selling IDOLS to devotees. I did not like the movie due to the following reasons: While Kanji Lal created false stories on Idols to increase his sales and rip the pocket of innocent devotees; He had no qualms about disbelieving and openly challenging GOD.  The irony is that Kanji uses GOD to make money but does not believe in him because he cannot see it. If he doesn't believe in GOD, it is fine but he has no right to claim that devotees worship a stone which has no power. The movie portrays that doing good for the needy is most important but why does it need to connect with the religious beliefs of a particular community. We can obviously focus on SOCIAL SERVICE. Kanji Lal kept a record of each and every donation that he made to GOD and then asked for retur

The path through which we can completely understand our reality is tedious. Most of us take several births before realizing the truth of our existence. For most of us one life is just not enough. We take several births before reaching the state of actual realization. It is a slow process of evolution for all of us. However, we can speed up the process and understand the truth only if we are willing to bring positive changes in our lives. Lot of us think that Truth has no value in today's world, however it is Truth which can help us in freeing ourselves from any pain, anxiety, disease or any other form of suffering. The evolution process will be faster if we are consistently focused on improving ourselves. Initially, the process of improvement will be linked with near term personal desires of each one of us, however as we accomplish our near term personal goals of improvement, we will move on to much larger or macro level changes in our selves. Such changes will motivate us to do

Ever thought what pain is? When you are too much attached with an elusive dream and your repeated attempts to pursue your dream only bring failure to you, it is pain. When you are hanging on a cliff in the wild and getting smashed over on your head by a beast and you know that you have no choice but to take the beating, it is pain. If you don’t want to get smashed, you have to leave the cliff and once you leave the cliff you fall forever. You have only two choices i.e. to bear the pain or die. So just bear the pain. Pain is the feeling to end your life but you can’t end it, because you have your parents, wife and children to think about. So what if this life is a punishment, you got to live it and live it with pain. You got to turn this pain into a feeling of pleasure and then you become an alchemist. The inability to turn pain into pleasure is also pain. This continuous string of failures makes you depressed and you know that you don’t want to live in this world, but you can’t do anyt