ब्रह्मज्ञान

You must have received such messages in your message box. Different languages are used to make people forward such messages. Some of these messages ask you to forward it to at least 10 people. People usually don't know why they read such messages and why they forward them. Some of these messages utilize the greed in the mind of reader, while some of them use the "fear of God" to make people forward them. Why do people write and send such messages ? To popularize a religion. To make people fearful of God. Both of the above motives can be easily understood but the truth is that the sender of such messages neither know the religion properly nor the God. According to me, originator of such messages needs some kind of treatment from a psychiatrist. Why you should not forward such messages ? You should not forward such messages because it shows that either you are greedy or fearful. Being greedy is not a bad thing, as long as it gives you motivation to do something go...

You must have seen people proudly telling about their forefathers or their ancestors. Feeling proud of who you are is a good thing but the wrong part about this feeling is that it can become ego very soon if you don't handle that proud correctly. Proud can be used to fuel your ego or it can be utilized as motivation to do something better yourselves. If you don't choose the correct part, you will end up as a shame for your ancestors. Why do people tell about their ancestors ? When we tell people about our ancestors, we are basically telling them that we belong to an elite class. Some people tell about knowledge level of their forefathers as they belong to a community where education was given highest priority, some tell about the fighting skills of their ancestors as they were serving armed forces of country from several generations, some tell about their wealth that they have acquired since generations, some tell about how much agricultural land they have from ages. There...

Ego is the cause behind most of the problems in world. It is also corrupting the good politics in many countries. You might be thinking that we are going to talk about ego of political leaders who sometimes get so much obsessed with power that they forget that they are chosen to serve the country and the people. Instead of being a representative they start being a dictator of their constituency with all administration under their control. But here we are not going to talk about ego of a common man, who choose such representatives only due to their own ego and then blame governments for being good for nothing. How does our Ego and our Political Approach Works ? Whenever we support or oppose a political party, we give fuel to our own ego. Instead of choosing a party after checking it on certain specific traits, we choose our party on the basis of our preconceived notions and then we try to find some good points to keep supporting them. We start ignoring the bad works of the part...

India is known as the second largest English Speaking country after United States. 10%  of Indian population can speak English compared to just 45% who can speak Hindi, which is not a national language of India but official language. Actual percentage of English speaking people is just 2% as remaining 8% can't do it up to the mark. Most of them speak just few words of English or speak broken English with grammatical errors. Almost every school in India teaches English as a language, but still this percentage is very low. Why ? English means Success in India ! At least in North India, people believe that good command over English can make you successful in life. Up to some level this thinking is correct. Even if a person have no other technical skills, the English speaking skill can get him/her a job in International BPOs, Customer Service, Tourism Industry and Hospitality. Today English in India is not just a passport to white collar jobs, but it is also linked to your personalit...

It will not be wrong to say that craziness about Cricket has made it a religion in India. British brought Cricket to India; they have gone but left cricket here. In England Cricket was a royal game in those days. Cricket-mania spread in Indian mind after national team won Cricket World cup in 1984 in the leadership of Kapil Dev. Television and communication revolution made this game more popular among Indians. After watching it on television children started playing it in streets and villages. As Cricket became famous, people started recognizing cricketers. They started judging their batting, bowling and fielding. They started discussing on them. In this way people became crazy and mad about Cricket. Every village made its team which used to play with another team of other village. Tournament started being held on local city level. In this way many youths copied national Cricket and choose their ideals. Cricket became religion of Cricket-lovers. Cricketers became as famous as a...

Cinema is the mirror which reflects past, present and future of the society. But at many times it imagines its own fantasies and when society observes it, it inherits many colors of attitude from it. So it is not only the society which modify cinema but cinema too changes society for example a boy f street copies the style of his favorite hero and girl that of an actress. When a culture is projected on the screen which is a utopia for our collective consciousness we rush towards that. For example the theme of nuclear was first invented by cinema but now it is n reality. Cinema although reflects our culture, our religion but it also adds certain values to them. For example films of ninety’s sing the romantic theme “ chhod do baiyan jamana kya kahega ” and now it sings “ touch me touch me touch me ”. So as society changes, cinema changes and as cinema changes it changes cinema too. This change goes simultaneously in both dimensions. Impact of Bollywood on Social Life in India ...

Politics influences our daily life in many ways. Many people begin their day with gossips on politics with mourning tea or coffee. People start their day by reading political headlines in news paper. Some fellows read the every word of the news and discuss it with their friends for hours. If people like leader ‘x’ then they will abuse leader ‘y’. People start fighting many times in discussion. In India everyone tries to be a politician. Today women are also interested in politics and they also talk for hour on many issues. In modern world people chat and share their ideas on social sites like Face book and Twitter. They read latest news on these social sites and remain updated so that they can fight with a friend on these issues. Mostly people speaks in favor of winning party, if someone utters a sentence in favor of opposition, they make it burning issue and laughs wholeheartedly on that person and his views. People use the photo of a political leader and flag of party as the symbols...

Smoking in India has started at least 5000 thousand years ago. Lord Shiva a Hindu mythological figure used Chillum, a pipe filled with some addictive substance for smoking, made by a bone of Yak. Some information about smoking in Indian history is given in Atharv-veda. Fumigation (Dhupa) and fire offerings (Homa) are given in Ayurveda for health purposes. Beedi a type of herbal cigarette made by betel nut and less amount of tobacco was also known by Indians while tobacco came in 1600s. Smoking on public places was banned from 2 October 2008 under prohibition of smoking in public places rule 2008 and COTPA. Someone caught smoking he will be charged 200 rupees. There are 12 crore smokers in India. According to W.H.O. 12% of world smokers live in India and 10 million die every year due to smoking. Supreme Court of India said,  " Tobacco is universally regarded as one of the major public health hazards and is responsible directly or indirectly for an estimated eight la...

Since India has got Independence we have made a lot of national things such as national flag, national symbol, national bird, national animal but no national language. Most of the north Indians live with a wrong belief that Hindi is national language of India, while it is not. However Hindi and English are two official languages used by central government. Hindi is used as primary official language in states like Uttar Pradesh, but there are some genuine reasons behind not declaring Hindi as national language. In 2010 Gujarat High Court observed that it is not mentioned in our constitution to consider Hindi as a national language. It was observed when a person filed a PIL to print ingredients, price and other manufacturing details on different products in Hindi. If you take a look at languages spoken in India, you will find that there are more than 1600 languages, out of them there are more than 100 major languages, 22 officially recognized languages of different states, but no na...

Castes are a part of Indian social system which is usually misunderstood and followed in the same way. In vedic times castes were not decided by birth, but by the qualities and work that a person do. But during past 1000 years it changed from quality-based to birth-based and discrimination of lower castes begun. This discrimination was fully utilized by Mughals and Britishers to further divide the society. In the end RESERVATION was introduced in our constitution with a positive objective of bringing the lower castes into the main stream and create some equality in society. But what happened next is something which was never observed keenly by our politicians. The Differences between SC/ST and General has Widened Some people of SC/ST community might have flourished due to reservation, but communication between SC/ST and General has stopped. General population think that their deserving candidates don't get jobs due to SC/ST, and SC/ST think that General people are not happy to ...

People are afraid that the war between science and religion will remove religion totally in future. Due to this fear Church hanged Galileo because he declared that earth is revolving around the sun which was against what was written in Bible. Religion was wrong at that time. In fact science will make religion more pure and technology will give it more tools. It is clear that no one can stop the victory of science and technology over the future of mankind. Science will remove all the blind beliefs and superstitions from the religious mind and then only real religion will be left. Nitsze a western philosopher declared in previous century that God is dead. But the God which is dead was never alive and it is good news that he is no more. Also he should have died long before because he was false and no God is better then fake God. The death of fake God is the greatest achievement of our rational mind which gives birth to science and technology. Science will remove the falsity which i...

India's caste system is a very old phenomena. Some say that it was created by Hindu deity "Brahma", some held "Brahmin" caste responsible for it, while some say that "Aryans" created caste system. Here we will try to analyse that which of these theories can be considered true. Are Brahmins really the root cause of caste system or it was created by whole society. A number of researchers have gone through history of civilizations that existed in Indian Sub-Continent and also read the ancient texts to understand the caste system. Did Aryans create Caste System in India ? In 19th century Max Muller, a German scholar, created the theory of Aryan invasion. According to him Aryans came from Central Asia and European region to the South Asia around 1700 BC. Aryan language influenced the vocabulary of languages of these regions. Aryans created the caste system to control the local population and assign them a particular tasks to do. But some historians of ...

Slavery in India had begun in ancient times, and it explored with invasions of India in 8th century, and especially after the 12th century. The term dāsa and dāsyu in Vedic and in many other ancient Indian religious literatures has been translated as slave. But many Indian scholars have translated it as servant, religious devotee. Kautilya's Arthasastra dedicated a chapter to dasa and granted them legal rights and declared abusing, hurting and raping a dasa as a social and moral crime. Passages of Arthasastra, Smritis and the Epic Mahabharata suggest that the social institution of slavery existed in India by 1st AD, likely by the lifetime of the Buddha. Historical consensus indicates towards the escalation of slavery in India with the military campaign of Muslim armies in India. There was extensive slavery in India's Islamic period from 8th century AD through the 18th century in a total period of almost 1000 years. Slaves were also bought from India and exported to Islami...

India is the most religious country. It is the mother of three biggest religions of world Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. Hinduism and Buddhism originated from India and spread to all over the world while Jainism remained confined to a minor sect only. Our life is a sum total of religious rituals. In fact in India religion is present in everyday life. The role of religion in human life and spirituality is same as the role of science in the field of matter. In other words we can say that religion is the science of spirituality while the science is the religion of the matter. Religion and religious rituals bind us to God. In other words it is a way for people to be connected with God. Religion is very important for us as it provides emotional support to us in hard circumstances of our life. In ancient days or Vedic age religion was the synonym of science. It was a tool for the search of ultimate truth. Still it is the only way to seek the ultimate truth. Upanishads say that Atman or t...

Modern India is the totality of its long historical events. Its long history has a great influence on its image at present; we can see those elements clearly in the form of political, religious, social and administrative structures. As change is the only truth of this world, personality of a person is the total of his past changes, so is the country like India. Today the democratic India we see in front our eyes is not a sudden happening, actually it is after a long historical process which transformed India in all its religious, cultural, political aspects. The many races of foreigners like Aryans, Mohammadens, British and other Europeans came in India and brought new culture and ideas. There is no doubt that some of the ideas were against our culture and we are still carrying them. India initially was inhibited by Dravidians; they used to speak the language of south India. The script of their language was Brahmi. The civilization of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro was built by Dravidi...

Poverty is the state of poor people. Poverty can be defined as the lack of basic needs for survival for human being such as food, shelter, healthcare and education. According to World bank India is among the poor countries. Industrial revolution which happened in Europe in 18th century came much later in India hence we remained far behind then world. Poverty is everywhere in the world especially in Developing countries. Before 1820, 80% of world population used to survive below a USA dollar per day. After the Industrial revolution poverty started disappearing from the world. In 2001 only 20% of world population survives below one USA dollar per day. In India recently government has declared those families below poverty line (BPL), which have monthly income below 1200 INR in villages and below 1500 Rupees in cities. Maximum economy of India is based on agriculture. Here we are discussing the ideas to reduce poverty in India. Increase Technology and Communication Lack of techno...