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And then one fine day…

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They ask me not to share my vibes, but I choose to. My intention is to make someone draw what is beneficial from this source, that’s all. Its not boasting. Plus I want a record of my vibes. I keep forgetting a lot.

For instance, I remembered after decades, the nightmare I had had as a six year old. In that, a huge demon comes and take away my mother. I never shared it with her then but it was in my mind for a few years. I don’t know why it popped up now after over 40+ years in my memory. It was forgotten in the intervening period. That nightmare did come true in my school years and my mother indeed was taken away forever.

Anyway, I am into meditation for a few years now.

Last week was special. As I was chanting Ganapathi’s nama, I found that I was involuntarily pulled into something within my closed eyes. Not bodily. My attention got pulled. I knew it was not a dream, I was not hallucinating, I was not imagining. Something was unfolding – in my mind’s eye perhaps. That much was clear even in those 30 to 45 sec it lasted. I saw a large eye and the eye dilated and drew me inside deeper. There in darkness strangely I saw a tv playing but not even the tv edges were visible. Cartoon characters were playing in the show. At that moment I forced myself to open my eyes and I lost it all.

But after talking to some spiritually elevated souls, I reckon now something indeed remarkable has happened that day. Over that, I don’t want to share anything in this space. Whether I shall get a repeat or whether I shall progress further – I have absolutely no idea about. Can aver this much: meditation is a powerful tool that can transport you to other realms. For a moment I had gotten a clue as to what wonders await you if you train your mind.

The purpose of my post is only to encourage those who chance upon this space, to take to meditation if you have not already.

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When Saner Voices Go Silent

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Shocked more by the deafening silence of the world nations to Delhi blasts. Evidence is unearthed even for a bio warfare. That is okay. A time may come when these same nations that side with violent elements would find themselves in the very spot. We all know what is happening to the Brit girls who have become the white meat to some communities. For me an Indian citizen and that too, a Hindu, the face of the butcher is even more shocking. Who we have here is WHITE COLOUR MEDICOS involved in heinous blood chilling crimes. Sociopaths who you cannot even imagine about. The lady doc cloaked head to foot for modesty spooks you completely. Just which one of them would you ever trust again. Would you ever go to their shops? Get treated by them? Have them even as friends? Clearly we can see that the chief target is our beloved Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. The prayers of millions of Hindus hopefully won’t go waste. May our PM return to another term. I say Hindus, because I SIMPLY DO NOT TRUST THE NON HINDUS OF INDIA. Every single one of them could be cancerous to our nation as these recent blasts have proved. Nobody can love and be loyal to our ancient Hindu land that us Hindus. At the same time, wouldn’t rule out the infamous ‘foreign hand’ in the blasts. They will be getting a fitting reply no doubt. The time and date will be decided by India. As for the internal hand (symbol), you don’t need introduction to the desh drohis.

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If you are Hindu by birth….

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If you are Hindu by birth, you have to definitely read ‘Garuda Purana’ before it is your time. If you are Hindu by birth, Karma binds you by 200%. In Skanda Shashti Kavacham, there is a line that goes as ‘ பெண்களை தொடரும் பிரம்மா ராக்ஷதரும்’ – and even if I have not yet read the Garuda Purana, I am kind of the same 200% sure that எண்ணெய் கொப்பரை that too one boiling at over 100 C awaits this category of lecherous men. Never mind even if a woman desired you once upon a time. Once she makes it clear SHE WANTS TO SEE ONLY THE BACK OF YOU, you have to respect her choices and vacate your spot. And if she never gave you any wrong signal, then its all the more reason for you to stay away, step back. There is one word for that: CONSENT. I think only incapable men who cannot compete with fellow men, who harbour inferiority complex in the company of competent self made men – target vulnerable women who they can harass online and derive sadistic pleasure from their discomfort. Hurting women’s dignity gives them a feeling of superiority that they cannot have in the all-man’s world. Anyway why waste time on this GARBAGE. Lets leave this to Karma on the lines of Garuda Purana.

Karma and Dharma are relative terms. Practise dharam to reduce your karma quotient. Afterlife is not going to be a SONG for indecent men.

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‘India leads the world in the metaphysical?’

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To understand the Hindu soul and India better, I recommend the book, ‘The autobiography of a Yogi’ by Shri Paramahamsa Yogananda – that I am still reading! A must for Americans, Europeans and Chinese. Unmissable. Its not of learning about India. Its to know WHO YOU ARE ACTUALLY!

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Read this comment in one of the You tube videos posted on India-China scholarly meet or whatever. I didn’t watch the video. Browsed the comments section. Thought of catching up later, but forgot. Now cannot trace it back.

Interesting to note that. We think they are our adversaries. But they clearly have understood India and what it means to be this ancient Hindu dharmic land. Probably it is because, we both are world’s oldest civilizations.

Frankly that is why I never compare India with America or China. America is the greatest country on earth – yet in last 300 years, not a single saint-philosopher has emerged from the States, who reportedly attained enlightenment. Same is true of entire middle east. Also China. India never ceases to produce Mahaan after Mahaan – string of enlightened beings who break the glass ceilings and traverse the cosmos, returning to their physical bodies by the end of the day. What is the point in going to the Mars and Jupiter when you cannot train your mind to achieve what Indian Yogis have been doing for centuries. Who says deities don’t exist. Even in this 21st century we have thousands in India who can manifest their Ishta Devta, deities, who can appear before their eyes. Having said that, it is for us to manifest God in whichever form we please. Of course formless as well. That kind of mental discipline and advanced spiritual training is attainable only through intense meditation or Japa that is the hallmark of Sanatana Dharm (Hinduism) and Buddhism, offshoot of Hindu Dharma. No hallucination, no dope, no mind tricks, no exaggeration, no lies. You attain your high ONLY through mental discipline when the Maya or the Illusion shall fade and you become God and God is you (Advaita). You look inward. You see yourself as god in the inner altar of your heart. That is when you break the birth cycle and attain liberation or Nirvana. You become god, you realize the god in you, you become a beam, a ray of the Light. For some people, this profound wisdom of Hindu Dharma may sound blasphemous. (Heard an online guru explain the difference between Hinduism and Buddhism – where we diverge: Hindus become part of the light. Buddhists dissolve without atma. Without a trace. Become nothingness on enlightenment, never to be reborn ever again. Up until the point of rebirth, Buddhism converges with the mother religion Sanatana (hinduism).

Hindus believe in reincarnations. You are living one of your 1000+ births right now that’s all. To get to this point, you must have been in 84000 wombs of lesser life – from the millipedes and centipedes to the avian, bovines and canines besides other wild life and even mosses and fungi. Whether you progress or regress with each birth depends on what you do with your freewill that is out of scope for even the deities when it comes to direction or control. Every birth is a correction until you evolve into the highest being. So where do massacres, brutality, rape, injustice leave one. This is why Hindu Dharma does not sanction any of these including religious conversion against one’s will. To evolve into the highest state of being, you have to LOVE and NOT KILL. Where violence is promoted, GOD CEASES TO DWELL. As simple as that. This is no rocket science.

Ritualistic worship (with idols) is symbolistic in Hindu Dharma, nothing more. Its like having national flag to salute at but the nation is not just the flag flying at the end of the pole. Idol worship is just that. The west dubbed what they could not understand as ‘paganistic.’ For one thing, they cannot believe that Hindu philosophy is so advanced and that no other single religion is scientific enough or comes a close second to ours (except perhaps Buddhism that inherited the core Hindu beliefs). By the way, even the cross and the statue of the virgin are paganistic, aren’t they.

The more materialist you become immersing yourself in the fathomless pit of Maya, the more distance you put between God and yourself. I have seen that when shopping is on my mind, even my Japa (meditation) suffers. Focus shifts. The vibes/experiences that would be rare occurances, stop forthwith. I have to tune myself mentally and focus with intention to gain my foothold back into the world of Mantras and Japas of the Divine. With just a foot inside (?) I reckon therefore what it takes to make even a little progress once you find your path. You have to be relentlessly non materialistic, developing a sense of detachment and selflessness at the same time. You become more neutral. You are still human so you may be prone to slight weaknesses of emotion and skewed sense of judgment. Its okay. With time, you iron out these wrinkles.

My homestate Tamil Nadu alone has produced so many enlightened beings even in last 100 years. Over centuries, there have been thousands literally and thanks to Sangam Tamil Literature, we have concrete evidences for how advanced Tamil Hindu society was even 1000-2000 years ago. Throughout India, the statistics is staggering. And many Yogis don’t even announce their existences. Some come to light that’s all. America is the land of the bhogis – the most materialistic people. India is the land of Yogis. Our prime minister himself is a yogi. And before him we had Atal ji who was also a bachelor. Our ex president Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, even if muslim by birth, was ascetic by nature. Hindu by culture. India is blessed to have had this kind of leadership in last two decades. Even Hindu gods aver that, in order to DEFEAT ADHARMA, one can resort to adharmic means. Sama, beda, dhana, dhanda – the principle explained by Chanakya in the Arthashastra.

For me, achievement is this. Advancement is this. Of course , like any normal human being, I enjoy the materialistic comforts. In fact I cannot live without aircon and certain creature comforts. Yet, I know the purpose of my life is NOT this. I acknowledge, this is one of my thousand births. It is for us to discharge our duties entirely without omission in this birth of ours, following dharmic ways and means. And for some reason, I believe too that I could be in the last few cycles of my births . If it does not happen in this lifetime for me, I shall definitely attain Mukthi (liberation) in a few more,. That is my strongest belief.

Americans and Chinese want to build the tallest skyscrapers and nuke powered submarines and fly out to Jupiter and Uranus. Average Hindu aspires for his/her present birth to be the last and be free of the birth cycle, attaining Moksha (enlightenment) forever. NOT ANOTHER GARBHA VAASAL FOR ME PLEASE. Not another mother’s womb please Oh, Universal Mother.

We all strive for different motives. Part of the reason for poverty in India is this strong Hindu faith. May the Chinese and Americans witness the Ganga Aarthi at Varanasi and funeral pyres burning through 24 hours. May they step into our most ancient temples and attend our grand temple festivals from Puri to Kedharnath, from Tirupathi to Shringeri, from Guruvayur to Dakshineshwar. You will know what it is to be a Hindu, an Indian and why we just don’t bother what America is doing or China is doing or even middle east is doing.

Still we have a stomach to feed. Family to take care of. Materialism matters but materialism need not have to become excessive greed. Once the family is settled, it is time to focus on your next voyage – next birth, that’s all.

I find everything else empty sorry. Everything seems so fake – from branded accessories to the designer clothes to even jewelry and sedans. Only one thing keeps popping up in my mind: of the urge to become enlightened – even if I don’t have substance for it in this janam. Knowing, by how many leagues you fall short HURTS.

This is why the Hindu tribe has to keep up. For the sake of the world. For the sake of humanity. May we uphold the dharam and may we aspire over anything and everything – for only one thing, that is the upliftment/liberation of the soul.

From India, young men and women go to America seeking economic prosperity. From the same America, there are even Hollywood actors and others who come to India seeking spiritual gurus and their guidance for attaining enlightenment.

For even this profound truth to sink in your mind, you got to be on a different plane of reality that has got least to do with materialistic aspects of life. There is more to the soul than pandering to one’s whims and fancies. Pleasures vs Happiness or Pure Bliss. Temporary vs Permanent. Mirage vs Reality.

Once you are 50, you know you have covered over half of your journey already. What lies ahead is less, compared to the distance you covered in the first half of the century. Its time therefore to prepare your mind for the next jaunt – your reincarnation, rebirth. From the summit, you could plunge into the abyss. From the landlord and the commanding businessman, you could be reborn a pauper with his begging bowl out. Rebirths are humbling experiences for those who fail to learn their lessons in their current births. Compassion is for OUR OWN SAKE. Be gentle with others. Everyone is on their soul journey, with a specific assignment. The poorest and the most miserable are on their toughest assignments working through their karma, learning their life lessons. The high and the mighty are going to learn theirs in their rebirths.

Whatever you are today, whatever you have today, you must have craved for in a previous birth or many births. So never misuse the gift. You choose your looks, your geographical area of birth, your faith, your parents everything for specific lessons. Let us make the best use of our own choices in life. Doesn’t matter if you are a Hindu on non Hindu. Irrespective of whoever you are, rebirth awaits all of us. Cycle after cycle after cycle is what is to follow – unless otherwise we train our mind with intention and determination (yes shradhdha and saboori) to attain liberation from this vicious cycle of birth.

BE GOOD, DO GOOD. NOBODY IS GOING TO BE HERE FOREVER.

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Only those who sold their soul will vote for DMK after this.

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Instagram shocker.

Mostly the DMK supporters if you see will never have humanity. Business-minded, receiving favours without ethics, recommendations etc., that might help them grow, placing them well. And may be benami as well? How fast one’s business grows if you are in their loop. From nobody to somebody. Haven’t we seen quite a few profiteers.

Other than that, the BPL families such as the auto walas, house maids etc., vote for DMK because the party has bribed and brainwashed these to the extent that they cannot manage to live without the freebies and subsidies. Widows receive pension, free rations/provisions, free bus travel for women, etc., etc. The DMK started the freebies trend with distributing free tv as election sop for the first time. But nobody can take their spot in KILLING YOUNG TAMIL MEN IN THE AGE BAND 15-40 with widespread distribution of state owned liquor brand TASMAC. Free flow of ganja/dope and cheap liquor in the state and crimes go unchecked. DMK destroyed the productivity and ‘aanmai’ (masculinity) in the lower middle class Tamils and forever made them beggars at the mercy of the government flashing their bowls out shamelessly for more and more. Whatever happened to the so-called Tamil pride. No Tamil wants to work now. And this includes even the farming community who Sonia Gandhi killed in one stroke with her MNREGA assuring 90 days wages whether you worked your fields or not. Italian mafia destroyed rural Indian livelihood and work ethics forever. This is the story of not only the Tamil farmers but of most agricultural workers throughout India. Lower middle class wives become housemaids in Tamil Nadu. Men queue up at TASMAC and get their livers toxic so that they pass away before turning 40. Through out the day they booze. Nonstop. Dope addiction in 15-25 age group like I have never seen before in my life. Young boys lay sprawled in the city footpaths totally in inebriated condition with overdose of dope and/or TASMAC liquor. Wow Super Stalin. The man who discriminates against Sridhar Vembu in home state who is behind Zoho, wants Sundar Pichchai’s Google now from Hyderabad! Tamil Nadu’s development has got nothing to do with DMK. It is all by software corporations and multinationals. Center sanctions huge projects. Even the Chennai metro is from center basically. DMK’s single big contribution to the state welfare is TASMAC nothing more. Stalin and Udayanidhi personally responsible for making many young women widows in the state and for orphaning thousands of children.

No Tamil history without Kamba Ramayanam, Nayanmars and their Thevarams, Azhwars and their Naalaayira Dhivya Prabandham you fools. Tamil thulukkanukku idhu theriyum. No Tamil history without Tanjai Periya Kovil and Paadal petral sthalams. Sivan sothu kula naasam daa. Nadakkum.

We all know well Vijay manaadu stampede was executed to perfection, don’t we Stalin. You think Tamil masses are fools? Yah may be, which is why you are in power.

How the central government is keeping quiet after damaging statements on Hindu Dharam by some ‘peacefuls.’ If you want to wipe kumkum from your face Stalin, why don’t you erase the kumkum from your wife Durga’s forehead. If you don’t believe in Sanatana, why be a Hindu. Wipe Durga Stalin’s kumkum and cover her with burqa. I dare you to break the Puja room in your house. DO IT. Demolish your house puja first. Also do the same ritual to Kanimozhi. Why is she going around with bindi in sari. Ditch both. Don the burqa. Then you are truly secular. These shameless people stinking with corruption however will not stop from touching Hindu temple Hundi donations. If it is possible to remove them from Hinduism, PLEASE DO IT LEGALLY MODI JI. I think its time we have legal clause to remove unwanted anti-Hindus from Hinduism LEGALLY. Publish in the gazette the ex-communicated list. Officially announce in media, these are no longer Hindus. I think we do need some legislation here. Is Yogi ji listening. For the statement on Ram and Sita, the bloody fellow must be immediately booked under non bailable warrant. I don’t know how old is this video. PMO has to act swift.

Stalin could not wag his tail until Jayalalitha was around. Coward who could not compete against the strong woman who had to wait for her to pass away before coming to power.

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Fresh Fruit Juice Kings

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Nobody can make fresh fruit juice like us Indians. In Maharashtra, after Shirdi, on way to Shani Shingnapur, came across one whole village having sugarcane juice huts with the sugarcane being pulped by oxen, in one side of the highway, in mini grinding mills. Such a rustic setting it was as we relaxed in the hammock like cot (typical in Indian countryside) sipping the sugarcane juice filtered, with no additives added, and handed over to us. No ice cubes either. It was heaven really.

This week I was walking through a street near the famous Kapaleeshwar temple in Mylapore. Forgot my water bottle. Little apprehensive, dared to go for fruit juice in a shop to quench my thirst. I fear contamination in juice shops that’s why. The girl who was there said, they added no water or sugar. Instead with any fruit over there, they added freshly pulped sugarcane’s extract.

I chose orange juice from the menu. The girl did not pulp the entire sugarcane. The long cane was already in the mill. She ran it just for a minute and showed me the blender jar where she collected the necessary volume of sugarcane extract/juice. Probably the sugarcane is to serve a number of customers that day! To this sugarcane juice, she added two peeled whole oranges big size. Then she gave a pulse of 30 sec in the blender before filtering the juice concoction. What a taste that was! Imagine orange juice blended with natural sugarcane, sans water and sugar and no ice cubes. Never had anything like that in my life before this! It was served in a tall glass to the brim. Sugarcane normally gives me soar throat so I was a little worried. Also the place was only so-so. One whole night I waited for cough or cold to set in! Thank god, no infection I caught on. No wonder. The girl did not even use a glove. But she put the entire two oranges peeling them in front of me into the blender jar. The sugarcane extraction was also direct in front of my eyes. I needn’t have feared. This power packed and yummiest freshest juice cost me sixty rupees that’s all.

Then I wished I could have gone for pomegranate (90 rs)or apple or sweetlime or mosambi. All these I am reserving for future dates!

Mylapore with its congested streets is a heaven for vegetarian cuisine. If I have to have residence there in present times, I don’t have to cook at all! Cheap and best!

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Bharat (India): land of cheetahs and tigers

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Wildlife enthusiast, it gives me adrenaline rush to learn of how well our big cats are doing. Here are two updates. Cheetahs in India were hunted to extinction by the British (who have also done to extinction many native tribes in Australia and America). PM Modiji, conceding to the wishes of a billion Indians, finally brought home some cheetahs from Africa a couple of years ago. Cheetahs that rarely drank from waterholes in Africa are now superbly adapting to Indian environments that now we say, ‘cheetah bhi peetha he!’

I am yet to watch this you tube video on our national animal the tiger. India boasts of the largest population of tigers on earth.

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India shifting to Zoho from Microsoft?

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MOVE OUT WHATSAPP. ARATTAI IS HERE. From Zoho, India.

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Govt of India is already moving to Zoho, the local desi software, from Microsoft in an attempt to push MIGA (Make India Great Again because we were great for straight 10,000 years not 300). Already our central IT minister Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw switched over to Zoho office suite and set the trend. Slowly but steadily the nation is to follow.

https://www.zoho.com/blog/workplace/workplace-for-goi.html

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/new-updates/it-minister-ashwini-vaishnaw-switches-to-zoho-urges-indians-to-go-swadeshi-founder-sridhar-vembu-responds/articleshow/124053360.cms?from=mdr

Who is running the silicon valley in America. Without H1b no Elon Musk, no Sundar Pichchai, no Satya Nadella, nobody out there in America. Imagine retaining such a talent in India not doing charity to America. Indian parents sell property/pledge property to send their kids to the US for their masters or research programme. Fees could be over 100,000 $ already leave alone the living expenses. Not everyone can find in-campus jobs to sustain themselves. It is illegal to take up out-of-campus jobs. One US$ = nearly 90 INR . So imagine what a sacrifice Indian parents are doing to send their children to the US. Finally when the children get their H1b, they are going to buy house in the US not in India. They are going to invest in the US not India. Indian children are well bred, disciplined kids. Not spoilt like the regular American. So why should Indian kids now go to the US at all. Japan is inviting Indian kids for their masters. Germany offers tuition waiver 100%. UK, Australia, everyone is throwing red carpet to have Indian kids for masters and give them PR (equal to green card). If there is no job guarantee , there is no need for Indian kids to invest so many thousands of dollars in the US. Next year will see 90% drop in Indian kids going to the US for higher studies that some American universities or departments would have to close permanently.

Thank you President Trump for making India realize our potential. Slowly we want to ease out Google, Microsoft, Amazon everything from India and replace everything american with homegrown Indian. Already we had Flipkart, Jabong, Myntra etc., before Amazon came to us. I am still an Amazon customer – for the only reason that my future generations are going to be American. I care for America but my friends have forsaken the American brands already. People stay away from Mcdonald and don’t get Pepsi or Coke anymore. I have never seen such a public anger in India before, for America. But this is all for good. It will help India become more self sufficient and self reliant.

If America levies 100% tariff on medicine imports from India, again loss is theirs. Already I have seen how medication is unbelievably expensive in the US. My heart goes out to the middle class families who will have to go through tough times in near future.

As for me, I use only the free Excel and Word versions of Microsoft that come with ad. I was planning to buy later the package this year, but I will now buy Zoho, the Indian version instead. Thank you Trump ji for helping me make up my mind.

But I will continue to buy American products because of family connection. Other Indians have no such a binding reason to shop for anything American.

Not yet moved over to Arattai from Whatsapp. But looking forward to. Arattai in Tamil literally means ‘banter.’ Arattai is seeing thousands of downloads already and is replacing Whatsapp by gusto. Many of us have moved out of Facebook already. Facebook is out of fashion!

President Trump is the reason we Indians got GST cut from 18% to 5%. I shopped well this Navratri/Diwali season thanks to the price drop. Trump ji is the reason India is looking forward to MIGA. ‘Atmana Nirbhar Bharat’ ‘self reliant India’ is the election motto of BJP/PM Modiji for last 15 years. Nothing new. Finally it is truly implemented now. Thanks to President Trump India has diversified trade and is NOT suffering the tariff impositions. Even H1b fee hike is a blessing in disguise, the best gift from Trump ji to India. Thank you Donald Trump Ji, you are giving bitter pill to India to cure our malaise and make us strongest. You are the best. If not for you, we would never be adapting to Zoho this way. We would never have had the GST cut that has gone down well with the masses. Already BJP could be winning half the next elections. You made it easy and simple for us.

I wish the Indian enterprises all the success in future. Let us do it one step at a time. Let all of us prosper. Even American farmers hurting is bad. Humanity is one. Nobody should suffer that’s all.

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Difference between Hindu Dharma and Islam.

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Why should religions evolve. If a religion is evolving, there will be enlightened beings after enlightened beings churned out of such a faithful following. That is what is happening in the case of Sanatan Dharam or Hindu Dharma. For millennia now, century after century, India never ceases to produce enlightened beings who forsake materialism and who transcend the cosmic lines or laws. Islam never saw another enlightened being after their prophet. I am not a follower of Osho but he sure seems to plainly lie down the difference between world’s oldest way of life Hindu dharam and the newest, Islam. This i share without disrespect or prejudice. See, even America that is supposedly No.1 country in the world and the most progressive and advanced scientifically, has FAILED TO PRODUCE A SINGLE ENLIGHTENED BEING IN LAST 3 CENTURIES. Everything about America is ACQUISITION, ACQUISITION AND MORE MATERIAL ACQUISITION. This is their national motto. What for? To what end? What is development really. I am proudly a sanatani, a Hindu. Ours is such an evolved culture and unbroken civilization of over 10,000 years. Deeply entrenched and unimaginable, unfathomable cultural base India has, deeply entrenched for eons. Not in a million years can America or Arabia ever evolve the way the Hindu society has evolved. Even today in India, Hinduism is way of life, 24 hours a day for us, all 365 days an year. It is this social cultural fabric of ours the Abrahamics/Mohammedans of the west want to tear apart. I am too late to be reading ‘the Autobiography of a Yogi’, but please all read this real life account to understand the essence of India, and why trying to contain India shall always fail or even destroy you. Bharathiya’s power and strength lies in our spirituality. Even today India boasts quietly of thousands of evolved yogis and siddhas who easily astro travel leaving their physical bodies, returning at their whim after their space voyages. This is why we can never become another China ever. Our life purpose/goal is different. Hindus are not the staple broiler chicken like the chinese. Finally every society must evolve into an enlightened one. Our goal/purpose in life is to attain Moksha/Nirvana, escaping the birth cycle and become the part of the light. Material aspects are for the first few decades of life. You never build your world destroying others.’ Buddhism is offshoot from Hindu Dharma. There were no demarcations between Bharat (India) and Nepal until a hundred years ago. Seetha is the daughter of Nepal. Pakistan/Af will never prosper as this territory is cursed. Unless and until this region reverts to Dharma, whatever you sink here will be wiped out.

Even Jesus Christ spent 18 years in Bharat (India) learning Hindu scriptures. For us Hindus, he is one more yogi or guru that’s all. Guru is an enlightened being but is not God Himself or Herself. Prophets or Gurus lead us to The Penultimate, the Para. They are the first step. But we should never stop with them. From Hindu ‘om’ came the ‘amen.’ From Hindu ‘Brahman’ came the word Abraham. Krishna was the first cow herder who thousands of gopikas (like nuns) married (out of bhakthi/faith). Jesus was conveniently a shepherd after that to who the christian nuns got betrothed to. Even Noah’s ark is lifted out of ancient Hindu history. Nothing told by abrahamics is new but already told in Hinduism many millennia earlier in history. Since religious conversion is never a Hindu’s agenda, nothing was popularized.

Unlike christianity or islam, you have to choose being a Hindu. Until a century ago, you needed to be born a Hindu. Hindu by blood only. Now many Hindus practise sanatanic ways around the world. That is their conscious choice, not forced or bribed. Hindu gods are discreet. You need to choose them consciously. We call our Divine Mother, Rahasiya Priya, Guhya priya. She hates being forced upon others or even being told about/talked about.

You don’t have to be born a Hindu to have rebirths. YOU WILL HAVE REBIRTH. YOUR NEXT BIRTH WILL BE A LESSON ALWAYS FROM YOUR PREVIOUS ONE. Its therefore important to be kind for our own sake. Save your soul.

Imagine the kind of conversion by the Christian missionary mafia happening in India and the love jehad by the muslims targeting Hindu girls. In many cases, the muslim boys pretended to be Hindu boys and revealed the truth to the girls after impregnating them. Wait till the last drop of oil evaporates in the middle east. A new world order we shall have after this because, economics too play a part in spreading religions. Earlier, conquests and payoffs from conquests spread some religions. Kind of economics too.

Rounding off this post with this: Do you know this temple history. Tamil Hindu history itself reveals innumerable evolved saints over centuries. If Gods are on your side, the first sign is that, they will make you kind and compassionate and reasonable and least judging. You don’t go out of the way damaging others. In Tamil we say, ‘avan arulaale avan thaal vanangi’ which means, even to believe in God, you have to be blessed. If you are evil personification or not wanted, you will be ruthless in nature and cruel and inconsiderate. Racist and religious bigot. Even Hindu gods say that to rout out adharam, it is fine to follow adharmic ways sometimes. Adharma has to be quelled with adharma if our dharma makes us hesitate. It takes millennia after millennia to evolve into such a fine and cultured society as Hindu. The Portuguese gauged out the Hindu eyes and nailed our ancestors to the cross to convert them to christianity. Some Hindus relented to save their children and save their lives. The islamic invaders razed our temples and took our women and tried to sever the very roots of Hindu culture. Tipu Sultan hung 300 hindu men on Diwali day in front of their families for refusing to embrace islam. This is just 0.00000001 percent of cruelty and barbarity inflicted upon by islamists on native Hindus. We even paid taxes to continue to live as Hindus for centuries to these muslim barbarians in Hindu India. That is the kind of sacrifice our ancestors made to save our ancient faith and dharm. This is what India has survived for 10 centuries at the hands of christians and muslims.

Dharma is the only balancing faith and factor on earth. Without Dharma, the world will crash in no time.

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I got a small surgery done for $100 in Chennai

Posted on by veeskitchen

So much of India bashing that I wanted to blog about this. Of course India Medical Tourism is now world renowned. Chennai, my hometown, especially is one of the chief medical tourist centers in India.

Three years back I found a lump in my right back shoulder. It turned out to be a harmless lipoma on ultra sound scan that my doc ruled out even the necessity for a biopsy. I left it at that. But wearing straps proved to be painful for me ever since. The lump also seemed to grow in size. Latest, it crossed 8 cm diameter, so I decided to go in for a surgery.

The surgeon decided to give me local anaesthesia. He said he was making diamond shaped pricks as the dimension of the lump was too big. I felt only less than a dozen pricks. He said, the number of pricks was a bit more because of the extensive size of the lump. Then I lost all sensation. The preparation was for about 15 min and the procedure itself lasted 45 min. After that I was asked to lie and rest for 30 more min. Then I was back home, but not before stopping somewhere on the way for errands. The surgeon fee was 10,000 rs and the antibiotics, plasters, the anaesthetics etc., cost me 1500 rs. Which means, this surgery was done on me for $100 or perhaps less. This was on sunday last. Yesterday I got my dressing changed. Now that is the biggest difference between America and India. There are blessings in India that you cannot even dream of in America. This small procedure itself could have cost one 10,000 US$ (or more – definitely more). Since the sum was minimal, I decided to swipe my card and not tap into my medical insurance. (I have adequate medical cover).

Every country has ups and downs, pluses and minuses.

My 80 plus aunt had valvoplasty last week. She had other complications. She is a cancer survivor, has had double mastectomy in the past. She had a relapse some years back in her throat for which she had a stent placed. She has had double knee replacement. She broke her neck and was in bed for an year in her 60s. She got covid twice. Still doctors in a local hospital thought she could survive the surgery. They cut open the sides in her hip and got the vein. My aunt weighs 100 kg. Before surgery my aunt was having breathing difficulties and her lungs were drowning in fluid retention. Now she is free of the issues on surgery but it recuperating slowly. Its just a week since the procedure. This gift of her life is possible only because she is operated upon in India by skilful hands. Entire procedure cost her 20,00,000 rupees which may be $20,000/-. Along with hospital stay, physio therapy etc., the bill may come to $21,000/-. For her age, she did not get any insurance cover. We were merely told that the procedure is very advanced and rarest.

Further more, you don’t have to wait long for your medical procedures in India. I decided on my surgery only on saturday. I got appointment for sunday. My aunt waited for three days for her procedure because she was on Aspirin.

So yesterday someone also got bitten by a housepet (vaccinated dog only) near my home. She still had to go to a clinic for some shots. She opted to go to a govt clinic. EVerything was free for her. She spent not a single paisa for the shots and she would have to go back after a month for another shot.

My regular cabbie got his spleen, liver etc., torn in an accident. Everything was repaired in government hospital. He had the PM Modi insurance cover. Last year his condition was critical. But he has survived. He did not have to shell out a single rupee for treatment. For the poorest and most vulnerable among us, from dialysis to cardiac bypass everything in this country of mine is free. And they call us a poor nation. What’s more, you don’t have to wait for long in queue. You name it, you got it. From cataract procedures to even delivery/maternity, family planning procedures, if you are in the BPL level, Indian government offers you everything for free. The ESI hospitals run by the central government and the PHCs run by the state governments are also very clean and hygienic. I am saying this because, years back I got a family planning procedure done for free in a PHC. Though I don’t have a good word to say about the state managed government hospitals. However I am told, the government hospitals in the neighbouring state Kerala are the best. Family planning is free for all in PHCs. I decided to utilize the govt concession and at that time before 30 years, saved a few hundreds of rupees chargeable by private clinics. At that time, I was surprised to find hygienic rooms and washrooms in PHCs and efficient sisters (nurses). The govt doctors are much more experienced and quick. Delivery is free in these centres for all women irrespective of your social status. I still wonder who we middle class women opt to waste money at private maternity homes.

The previous prime ministers of India had schemes and airports named after them. MNREGA was Rajiv Gandhi’s. Indira Gandhi national airport for instance. Jawahar lal Nehru stadium. Even our chief ministers have airports named after them. Anna International of Chennai. Shri Narendra Modi ji could be on his way to become the longest serving prime minister of India but his name is in NONE OF THE GRAND SCHEMES. What we have is Pradhan Mantri Yojanas, Pradhan Mantri health insurance etc.

There is nothing lacking in India. We love our dear Mother India that sustains a billion and more lives. So many foreign nationals come here for cardiac procedures and for knee/hip replacement, spine surgery etc.

This country is lived in for over 10,000 years and has strong cultural roots. All the moslem and christian invasions could not erase our roots completely. We are survivors at the end of the day. They looted our nation, stripped us bare: what you see in India today is redevelopment only. We are merely trying to catch up to our previous lost glory.

This is Navrathri week. This time Navrathri is for 10 days and its on the 11th day we have the Vijayadasami or the Dushshera. This women centric Hindu festival is all about the sacred feminine. Our PM Shri Narendra Modi usually fasts for Navrathri and has only lemon juice in this period. We have a very devout Hindu PM who fasts for the nation, who locks up his entire official residence and uses only a room or so, is a vegetarian from birth, a teetotaler, a yogi who has come up in life from selling tea in railway stations to this level without any help or recommendation. He is totally self made and extremely disciplined. No family member benefitted because of his high office. His family back in Gujarat remains poor without drawing attention to themselves. Nobody knows them. Someone who meditates everyday, Modiji’s devotion for Ma Durga will take India to further heights. The Pranapradishta he did in Ayodhya for Lord Ram will go down in history, no doubt. He will be best known not as PM of India, but as the one who gave us back our Ram Lalla.

For me therefore, it doesn’t matter whether a country is rich or powerful. How you take care of your poor and weak and defenceless and vulnerable is what is important. The top brass of the nation must be incorruptible and must lead an honourable, respectable life. The heads of the states must be selfless and must not favour family businesses over national interests. I think we are having the best prime minister in the world right now for who, only India is the agenda and nothing else is.

The poorest should get the benefits. The weakest must feel thankful. The most vulnerable must feel safe and know that they are not being left out. If a president or prime minister of any nation cannot do it, then I don’t think he can be great.

Why India is not like China or America, precisely for this reason. Can you imagine them being humanitarian like us. This is not communism. This is humanity that’s all.