Sunday evening.
Free thoughts flowing in my head.
Peace while walking.
It was a great evening, while I was returning from my office.
Suddenly some message flashed before my eyes.
I thought it was an imagination, for the message and the location it was placed were so contradicting each other.
But then I realized that I did read the message. I went back a few steps and re-checked my observation. Yes, it was indeed true.
It read "The world has enough for every man's need but not for any man's greed.".
And the place was the entrance of one of the lavish star hotels in the city.
So many thoughts struck my head as what would have led to post that message there.
A bit of research provided me partial answers.
That it was one of the quotes of the Mahatma. So obviously it would qualify to be placed in such places with utmost priority. National pride.
The other reasons, well, I can only guess.
One being that it was part of the long chain of quotes by the Mahatma spread all over the place. The next guess would be it has a meaning that applies to the place.
That, such lavish hotels are part of some person's 'needs' and so here is a place that provides the 'needs' for such persons.
Hard to imagine such needs.
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Monday, September 19, 2005
smoke-free thoughts
I have been reading 'Atlas Shrugged' by Ayn Rand lately and this conversation in the book caught my attention.
"I like cigarettes. I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips.
I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone, watching the smoke of a cigarette, thinking. I wonder what great things have come from such hours.
When a man thinks, there is a spot of fire alive in his mind-and it is proper that he should have the burning point of a cigarette as his one expression."
From times I have known, smoking has been a symbol of deep thinking.
Be it Sherlock Holmes, who would always get a mystery-solving brilliant idea after consuming good amounts of tobacco.
Or the innumerous novelists/writers depicted in movies. Everywhere smoking is associated with creative thinking.
As if something great would always be born out of the smoker's mind.
How true is it? Out of the whole smoking community how many of them will be thinking creative while smoking?
Or may be whatever smokers think while smoking is in one way or the other creative.
However, the analogy of the spot of fire in the smoker's mind and the fire held in his hand impressed me.
Really a good expression.
"I like cigarettes. I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips.
I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone, watching the smoke of a cigarette, thinking. I wonder what great things have come from such hours.
When a man thinks, there is a spot of fire alive in his mind-and it is proper that he should have the burning point of a cigarette as his one expression."
From times I have known, smoking has been a symbol of deep thinking.
Be it Sherlock Holmes, who would always get a mystery-solving brilliant idea after consuming good amounts of tobacco.
Or the innumerous novelists/writers depicted in movies. Everywhere smoking is associated with creative thinking.
As if something great would always be born out of the smoker's mind.
How true is it? Out of the whole smoking community how many of them will be thinking creative while smoking?
Or may be whatever smokers think while smoking is in one way or the other creative.
However, the analogy of the spot of fire in the smoker's mind and the fire held in his hand impressed me.
Really a good expression.
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
a brief pause . . .
Before Aristotle, with his sheer brilliance, came up with the idea that Earth is in fact round, people believed that earth was flat.
And then Ptolemy came up with the idea that Earth is the centre of the universe.
Then it was the turn of Copernicus to state that the Sun is at the centre and planets revolve round the sun, shattering all the earlier theories to pieces.
Then followed Galileo and Newton, each one of them proving a new theory, thereby confuting all prior beliefs.
What if someday in the future, some intelligent scientist comes up with a new theory disproving all the facts we believe to be true?
Then, there won't be anything called the gravitational force or quantum mechanics.
Bodies don't attract each other. Neither is the Big Bang true. Space time correlation does not apply.
Sure there is going to be someday, when the basic thing we believe to be true is going to be proved false.
So, is it better not to believe in any theories that currently exist?
May be we can prove more facts if we don't believe in already proven facts.
If Aristotle believed that earth was flat, he would never have discovered that Earth is in fact round.
And then Ptolemy came up with the idea that Earth is the centre of the universe.
Then it was the turn of Copernicus to state that the Sun is at the centre and planets revolve round the sun, shattering all the earlier theories to pieces.
Then followed Galileo and Newton, each one of them proving a new theory, thereby confuting all prior beliefs.
What if someday in the future, some intelligent scientist comes up with a new theory disproving all the facts we believe to be true?
Then, there won't be anything called the gravitational force or quantum mechanics.
Bodies don't attract each other. Neither is the Big Bang true. Space time correlation does not apply.
Sure there is going to be someday, when the basic thing we believe to be true is going to be proved false.
So, is it better not to believe in any theories that currently exist?
May be we can prove more facts if we don't believe in already proven facts.
If Aristotle believed that earth was flat, he would never have discovered that Earth is in fact round.
Monday, September 05, 2005
teachers day
A tribute :
Gurur brahmaa gurur vishnuh
gurur devo maheshvarah
gurur saakshaat parabrahma
tasmai shree gurave namah.
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