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Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Sharing Some Pieces of Wisdom Thoughts That I Received Today With My Readers !

My friend Prof.Ujjager Singh Kooner has a very appreciable habit of sharing many pieces of humour, wisdom thoughts and interesting information to his friends by e-mail. No doubt there are many such good people in this world who take pains to create such thoughts and ideas in to pleasing visuals and keep sharing these with their friends and followers. 

While many writers and bloggers do things for some material returns and personal benefits, there are a big community of people who do such things without expecting anything in return. 

Whether done for some benefits or not, their services are to be appreciated. Kudos to all of them. 

Let me  share some of those visuals that I received today from Prof. Kooner. I am in full agreement with the wisdom thoughts reflected in these visuals.

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[Courtsey: All those unknown creators and publishers!]

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

The Twenty Eight Supreme Philosophical Statements Over Which You May Think Over for Acceptance !

Some time ago, in one of my blogs I shared with my readers about some concepts of human progress that I learnt from my favorite book. In that blog I had reproduced the twenty eight highest concepts of human philosophy that advanced human minds could appreciate well. Let me reproduce it once again:

1. A display of specialized skill does not signify possession of spiritual capacity. Cleverness is not a substitute for true character.

2. Few persons live up to the faith which they really have. Unreasoned fear is a master intellectual fraud practiced upon the evolving mortal soul. 

3. Inherent capacities cannot be exceeded; a pint can never hold a quart. The spirit concept cannot be mechanically forced into the material memory mold.

4. Few mortals ever dare to draw anything like the sum of personality credits established by the combined ministries of nature and grace. The majority of impoverished souls are truly rich, but they refuse to believe it.

5. Difficulties may challenge mediocrity and defeat the fearful, but they only stimulate the true children of the Most Highs.

6. To enjoy privilege without abuse, to have liberty without license, to possess power and steadfastly refuse to use it for self-aggrandizement—these are the marks of high civilization.

7. Blind and unforeseen accidents do not occur in the cosmos. Neither do the celestial beings assist the lower being who refuses to act upon his light of truth.

8. Effort does not always produce joy, but there is no happiness without intelligent effort.

9. Action achieves strength; moderation eventuates in charm.

10. Righteousness strikes the harmony chords of truth, and the melody vibrates throughout the cosmos, even to the recognition of the Infinite.

11. The weak indulge in resolutions, but the strong act. Life is but a day’s work—do it well. The act is ours; the consequences God's.

12. The greatest affliction of the cosmos is never to have been afflicted. Mortals only learn wisdom by experiencing tribulation.

13. Stars are best discerned from the lonely isolation of experiential depths, not from the illuminated and ecstatic mountain tops.

14. Whet the appetites of your associates for truth; give advice only when it is asked for.

15. Affectation is the ridiculous effort of the ignorant to appear wise, the attempt of the barren soul to appear rich.

16. You cannot perceive spiritual truth until you feelingly experience it, and many truths are not really felt except in adversity.

17. Ambition is dangerous until it is fully socialized. You have not truly acquired any virtue until your acts make you worthy of it.

18. Impatience is a spirit poison; anger is like a stone hurled into a hornet’s nest.

19. Anxiety must be abandoned. The disappointments hardest to bear are those which never come.

20. Only a poet can discern poetry in the commonplace prose of routine existence.

21. The high mission of any art is, by its illusions, to foreshadow a higher universe reality, to crystallize the emotions of time into the thought of eternity.

22. The evolving soul is not made divine by what it does, but by what it strives to do.

23.  Death added nothing to the intellectual possession or to the spiritual endowment, but it did add to the experiential status the consciousness of survival.

24. The destiny of eternity is determined moment by moment by the achievements of the day by day living. The acts of today are the destiny of tomorrow.

25. Greatness lies not so much in possessing strength as in making a wise and divine use of such strength.

26. Knowledge is possessed only by sharing; it is safeguarded by wisdom and socialized by love.

27. Progress demands development of individuality; mediocrity seeks perpetuation in standardization.

28. The argumentative defense of any proposition is inversely proportional to the truth contained.

In the coming days, I propose to write a few explanatory blogs on a few of the above philosophical statements that I consider very important for everyone.[Please click the statement above if it is hyper-linked! Else you may use the blog search facility on the left column top to find blogs that contain an idea or key word, instantly.]

By the way, think it over. If you find success in finding its deeper meanings it would be nice.

If those meanings are fully acceptable to your mind, then it would be nicer.

Read and try yourself !

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INTERPRETATION OF THE MATURITY SELF TEST SCORE
[CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE TEST PAGE!]

1. YOUR TOTAL SCORE IS EITHER 0 OR 100 : 

YOU ARE A CONFUSED PERSON. YOU HAVE DIFFICULTY TO REALIZE TRUTHS FROM UNTRUTHS OR FALSE HOODS.

2. YOUR BLUE SCORE IS BETWEEN 32 AND 60 :

YOU HAVE ACHIEVED CONSIDERABLE PHYSICAL MATURITY IS PERHAPS STILL DEVELOPING PHYSICALLY. 

3. YOUR GREEN SCORE IS BETWEEN 32 AND 40:

YOU HAVE ACHIEVED SOME SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT AND THERE IS STILL MUCH SCOPE FOR IMPROVEMENT.

4. YOUR GREEN SCORE AND BLUE SCORE BOTH LESS THAN 32:

YOUR ARE IN THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPMENT AND HAVE NOT YET ACHIEVED WORTHWHILE PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL MATURITY LEVELS.

5. YOUR BLUE SCORE IS 60 AND TOTAL SCORE IS ABOVE 60 :

YOU ARE PHYSICALLY MATURE BUT SPIRITUALLY NOT. 

6. YOUR BLUE SCORE IS 0 OR NEGATIVE: 

YOU HAVE ACHIEVED SOME MATURITY ONLY TO BE NEGATED BY SOME IMMATURITY FACTORS.

7. YOUR BLUE SCORE IS 60 AND TOTAL SCORE IS ALSO 60. 

CONGRATULATIONS! YOU SEEM TO HAVE ACHIEVED ALMOST FULL MATURITY, BOTH PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL.


Friday, September 13, 2013

Water Flows Only to Lower Fields !

During school days, we used to learn our mother tongue Malayalam as a language. The Malayalam language teachers used to teach us the higher levels of the language and its grammatical rules that the ordinary folks never understood or needed for normal verbal interactions.

One of the things that the teachers tried hard to drive home was the use of metaphors, a phrase or a sentence which literally meant something but conveyed some deeper meanings for those who could understand it.

One of these used to be pronounced in Malayalam like this : Thana nilatthe' neerodoo ! [ താണ നിലത്തേ നീരോടൂ !} Literally translated it meant the title of this blog above.

While we were learning these in the lower classes, it appeared as a difficult thing to understand. We were required to write a page or so to explain its hidden meanings in an explicit manner.

Water flows to low lying fields. It is a universal truth observed by humans over the centuries. One can check its scientific validity by conducting experiments.

But the metaphor conveyed a deeper meaning that cannot be so easily proved by experimentation or casual observation.

So this metaphor has some thing more to understand, we were told. Only those who are low in their egos (self importance) can learn new knowledge from those who have already acquired it. In other words, only humble fellows desirous to know more only can enhance their knowledge. Here water is equated to knowledge and lower fields are equated to the ego-less minds.

My life observations for the last many years have made me to realize this much better.

The biggest self realization is the realization of one's own ignorance. If we do not feel the emptiness of some knowledge in our minds, then we are not going to feel the desire to fill that void with additional knowledge.

When our stomachs are full, we do not feel hungry to eat further.

When our mind is full, we cease to have the curiosity and desire to learn more. Our minds then get bloated with the so called high feeling or ego.

Such a situation sets in when a person completes some so-called high qualification degrees or gets in to some higher posts of authority.

At that juncture the mind gets saturated to accept further knowledge due to a self induced mind limit switch.

This kind of a situation not only happens to those of high formal education and those so called high achievers, but also to ordinary beings, students, housewives, workers and just any one.

Then such persons land into the I-know-all syndrome.

When the majority of people are inflicted with this mind disorder the society suffers. This society cannot be taught to discard its foolish preconceived ideas. It ceases to learn from the history and the experiences of others.

The progressive nature of society ceases.

Are we Indians developing such a syndrome ?


Tuesday, March 27, 2012

This is how we progress in form and mind !

When I read my favorite revelatory guide book, quite often I am awestruck by the sheer magnanimous gracefulness through which the superior revelators of each of the subject paper present the matter to readers like me.  Each and every stanza of the book is a wonderful and graceful presentation of some information that human beings should grasp if they have the capacity to do so.

Paper-48 of the book gives us the information regarding our first stage existence after death in a higher form of life defined as Morontia Life. There is no english equivalent of this word morontia. The definition of this word is given by the authors of the book.

Morontia is a type of material which is different from the materials that we see on earth. The earth materials are made up of about 100 odd elements which are again made of some 3 odd fundamental particles. Morontia is a material that is composed of certain fundamental particles with a different structure and internal energy levels that a morontia material can penetrate an earth material without the latter offering any resistance for that penetration.

But morontia is a material and not a form that we otherwise have known as 'spiritual'. Spiritual existence is also a real existence and it is a form higher in existence than morontia. A spiritual entity can therefore pass through both morontia material and earth material with the latters ever offering any resistance.

Just as there are material life forms as human beings, there exist morontia and spirit life forms in our universe. Majority of the material life forms exist in planets like earth which are evolved through a process involving controlled evolution. [In fact the first original life that existed must be that of God, the Universal Father God or the First Source and Centre of Everything and God existed and is existing in the Spirit Life form of the absolute original type.]

On the contrary, morontia and spirit life forms normally reside on enormous spheres that are specially designed and made by a totally planned process. The former ones are called evolutionary worlds and the latter are called architectural worlds.

There are trillions of evolutionary worlds and billions of architectural worlds in this great universe of ours.

Our material existence in our evolutionary world is our first life form. We develop our initial personality as human beings of this evolutionary world called earth.

Our next stage of existence is destined to be in an architectural world which is situated some light years away.

By our own scientist Mr Einstein, there is no chance of any one of us to visit such a distant world during our short life span with our material body because travel in light speed is impossible for anything that is material.
That is the limitation that we have with our material body forms.
We need to dematerialize to some form which would make it possible for us to travel by speeds much exceeding that of light to reach the next stage of our progressive existence which is in an architectural world light years away.

For that we have to leave our material body here in this world while our personality essence is taken out intact in some other form suitable for interplanetary transportation.

The process by which we leave the body here is our death here in this world.

And there exists a process by which our personality essence is preserved and taken out at the time of our material death here in this world.

There also exists a process by which our personality essence is transported to the next stage.

In the first architectural world then, we get a new body made of morontia material called the morontia body 'loaded' with the essential aspects of our earth personality.

Then our life proceeds for some years in the first stage morontia body in architectural world one.

Here our mind matures and learns more things after refreshing our memories and learnings from our first stage existence. We experience life in our second stage of existence. We are required to learn those things we somehow missed while on material life on earth plus additional things commensurate with our new morontia body capacity.
Then we proceed to our third stage of life which is in architectural world two after leaving our first morontia body to gain our second level morontia body.

We learn more things and gets more capacity to understand and perform more advanced things.

Thus we proceeds to morontia form seven and completes it to get spiritual body stage one.

This way we proceed covering several architectural worlds and perhaps study tours to other material worlds. At every stage we progress in our mind capacities with respect to knowledge, experience and much more that I am incapable of explaining with my present mind capacity.

Ultimately we reach the centre of every thing in the great universe. That is Paradise. There we will be in the presence of Universal Father God. By that time we will be highly advanced and experienced spirit beings capable of doing advanced functions that will be required to manage the affairs of this great universe during that time. Such of us who ultimately reaches the presence of God as experienced spirit beings of human origin in the distant future are going to be important functionaries of the universe affairs thereafter.
Is it not a great adventure ?

If so, why to worry much about this short life experience here in this world ?

There is no need.

But we have to pass successfully gaining certain essential learnings and experiences to be eligible to move forward.

Some essential progress in mind is needed to advance to the next advanced life form.

All those details are given in the book that I mentioned in the beginning.

I am skipping those here.

But I am intrigued to find some thing that is written in Paper-48 of this book which gives us some insight into what is called morontia mota.

Morontia mota is explained as the equivalent of human philosophy in Morontia Life. The lowest concepts of morontia mota equate with the highest concepts of human philosophy.

Now I will reproduce below those twenty eight statements of highest human philosophical concepts:

1. A display of specialized skill does not signify possession of spiritual capacity. Cleverness is not a substitute for true character.

2. Few persons live up to the faith which they really have. Unreasoned fear is a master intellectual fraud practiced upon the evolving mortal soul. 

3. Inherent capacities cannot be exceeded; a pint can never hold a quart. The spirit concept cannot be mechanically forced into the material memory mold.

4. Few mortals ever dare to draw anything like the sum of personality credits established by the combined ministries of nature and grace. The majority of impoverished souls are truly rich, but they refuse to believe it.

5. Difficulties may challenge mediocrity and defeat the fearful, but they only stimulate the true children of the Most Highs.

6. To enjoy privilege without abuse, to have liberty without license, to possess power and steadfastly refuse to use it for self-aggrandizement—these are the marks of high civilization.

7. Blind and unforeseen accidents do not occur in the cosmos. Neither do the celestial beings assist the lower being who refuses to act upon his light of truth.

8. Effort does not always produce joy, but there is no happiness without intelligent effort.

9. Action achieves strength; moderation eventuates in charm.

10. Righteousness strikes the harmony chords of truth, and the melody vibrates throughout the cosmos, even to the recognition of the Infinite.

11. The weak indulge in resolutions, but the strong act. Life is but a day’s work—do it well. The act is ours; the consequences God's.

12. The greatest affliction of the cosmos is never to have been afflicted. Mortals only learn wisdom by experiencing tribulation.

13. Stars are best discerned from the lonely isolation of experiential depths, not from the illuminated and ecstatic mountain tops.

14. Whet the appetites of your associates for truth; give advice only when it is asked for.

15. Affectation is the ridiculous effort of the ignorant to appear wise, the attempt of the barren soul to appear rich.

16. You cannot perceive spiritual truth until you feelingly experience it, and many truths are not really felt except in adversity.

17. Ambition is dangerous until it is fully socialized. You have not truly acquired any virtue until your acts make you worthy of it.

18. Impatience is a spirit poison; anger is like a stone hurled into a hornet’s nest.

19. Anxiety must be abandoned. The disappointments hardest to bear are those which never come.

20. Only a poet can discern poetry in the commonplace prose of routine existence.

21. The high mission of any art is, by its illusions, to foreshadow a higher universe reality, to crystallize the emotions of time into the thought of eternity.

22. The evolving soul is not made divine by what it does, but by what it strives to do.

23.  Death added nothing to the intellectual possession or to the spiritual endowment, but it did add to the experiential status the consciousness of survival.

24. The destiny of eternity is determined moment by moment by the achievements of the day by day living. The acts of today are the destiny of tomorrow.

25. Greatness lies not so much in possessing strength as in making a wise and divine use of such strength.

26. Knowledge is possessed only by sharing; it is safeguarded by wisdom and socialized by love.

27. Progress demands development of individuality; mediocrity seeks perpetuation in standardization.

28. The argumentative defense of any proposition is inversely proportional to the truth contained.

I am not sure how much of the above concepts are appreciated by you if at all you ventured reading these.

But if you are able to appreciate the meanings of at least half of these, you are indeed in a path of mind progress.

Perhaps you are a personality who is going to advance further in form and mind !

Use some fraction of your mind to think about it !

Best Wishes !

[Do you feel curious to know more about my favorite book that I mentioned above? Click Here ! You will get the links here to read the book online. If you are eager to read Paper-48 of the book right away Click Here !]

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Reasons for Marital Discords : Understand these if you want to live in the heaven on earth !

A man is physically and psychologically different from a woman, though both belong to the same species of homo sapiens. Though there is an instintive natural attraction between the two, that attraction is for the purpose of ensuring the continuity of the species, and that alone cannot guarantee a cordial relation between the two kinds.

A man wants the company of a woman and vice versa. Without that they are ruined and feel lonely and desparate.

Yet when they are together for a long time, most of them cannot live in peace !

When separated for long, they want to be together and when together they want to be separated !

Is it not something difficult to understand ?

If the husband and the wife keep on living the way they loved and cared each other during the initial days of their courtship or marriage, all through out their earthly lives, how wonderful it would have been?

But why these two initially loving creatures become furious and annoyed at each other on some occassions even to the extent of killing or damaging each other and their near and dear ones including their own children?

They are intelligent, wise, caring, educated, respected, spiritual and what not.

But when they start the fight, they are none of the above !

Why do such a thing happen between the human couples ?

When they fight, they are least bothered about their reputation and self respect.

They are worse than those who have lost their consciousness to intoxicants.

Sometimes they do patch up after some time and regain the previous status of love and care, only to be retrograded to the state of fight and discord later !

Why such a thing happen in human species ?

Remember, they are intelligent and wise. Still this happens !

They don't even feel the shame at that mood !

Their blood pressure rise to such hights that if things are not okay, their vessels might burst !

When this happens, they keep thinking of killing the other or self. The same self or the mate who is so dear at other times !

It has happened with me too. I am not hesitant to admit.

I kept pondering over this issue for quite a long time.

Then I found that it is me who is at fault, and not my wife.

Because, my views on certain things are naturally different than hers.

We cannot agree on those because it is naturally in built in our system.

That is why I am a male and she is a female !

If we have to live in peace always, I have to train my male ego to adapt to her female ego.

For a male it is easier, than for a female.

Because, the Creator of these species had put up some genetic codes in that manner.

But once learnt the trick of adapting my male ego to the tune of my female companion, these discords seldom take shape.

That is what I have learnt.

But if both the male and female have learnt the trick, then I tell you, they should be the happiest pair on earth.

For the female is complement to the male and vice versa.

They are like the molecules of the active gases, like oxygen or hydrogen !


Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Beware of Modern Era Frauds !

In this world of ours, there will always be present a group of cunning and clever fraudsters who keep planning and executing their techniques of cheating innocent and gullible people in several ways.

A good number of people are aware of such nefarious schemes of twisted fellows, but more and more people keep falling preys to them even now.

So, it is necessary that those who are users of the Internet should know about such things in order to safeguard them from getting themselves victimized by such groups.

Let me tell you about my own personal experience in this, which happened to me a few years ago when such things were not very common.

In the first incident, I got a genuinely looking and neatly printed letter in the letter head of an organization introducing them as a very reputed Non-Governmental Organization (NGO).

A person introducing himself as the Secretary General of the organization had written the letter.

They had my name and address obviously collected from some source !

The letter stated that I had been selected for a prestigious award for the contributions that I did in my professional field. The selected awardees are to be honoured in a function to be held later in the year in the capital where top dignitaries of the nation would all be attending.

The letter had other documents as attachments. One leaflet described in detail about the activities of the NGO with a few photographs of events held in the past. Another one described the details of some awardees from the previous years.

But the awardees were all known who is who of the country. That made me suspicious as I was no such a great person to be included in such an elite list.

At the same time, I was thrilled. Who knows, I could indeed be a 'great' person to be 'spotted' by this NGO !

The introductory letter just wanted me to reply back with my willingness to accept their invitation and a brief write up and photograph to be included in a Souvenir that would be published during the award distribution ceremony.

That was not difficult. So I decided to comply with the requirements. I replied back.

Shortly I got another beautiful envelope from the said NGO by post.

Again a very decently phrased letter. This time the letter politely informed me to sent them a substantial amount as part of the costs towards printing , publishing and organizing the event. For such a grand event and such a great honour, the amount was just peanuts. They reminded me.

Then this innocent and decent looking fraud scheme got clear to me. I refused to be their game any more ! Later I had seen news coverage of  some people receiving the same awards from the same NGO. 

After all they are awarding people who are willing to bear the costs ! What is the degree of this fraud ?

I leave it for your own assessment.

Some time later, I got a decently worded e-mail. It said that my e-mail was included in an international level lottery and I had won a few million British Pounds as the prize money !

To claim the prize money in foreign exchange I should sent my details including bank account to the organization.

The letter looked so genuine with names, addresses, telephone numbers, organizational logos, website addresses and the like. For an ordinary person, there was nothing to be suspicious.

Now this fraud is very common. But at that time it was not. Yet I decided to find out the truth. I forwarded the letter to a fraud investigating wing of the FBI.

They replied me with the details of the modus-operandi of this international fraudsters who operate from Nigeria.

The Internet is the arena of clever and intelligent fraud masters of modern era.

More and more clever ways of fooling the gullible people are devised every now and then.

I earnestly advice my readers to use their God given wisdom and intelligence to ward off such deceitful human minds taking them for a ride.

There is a website called hoax-slayer which is a good effort of one Mr Brett M.Christensen for providing information about frauds and hoaxes that pervade the world wide web. Those interested more on this may consider improving their knowledge by going through the information that this site provides. 




Monday, November 1, 2010

Urantia-India : The Urantia Book Site for Indians

An introduction to the first Indian website dedicated to the Urantia Book

The Urantia Book got printed in the year 1955 in the USA. I was born in India a few months later! Though I became a chemical engineer by learning many books printed in the USA and got chances to read many other books not connected with my profession, this book never came to my notice till 2008.

But fortunately for me, it came to my notice at last ! First it was on line free reading, but then I got my printed personal copy delivered from the USA at my home in India within a few months. Right from my childhood, I have been a book worm. I have been a voracious reader and lover of books for most part of my life. I used to admire the gift of wrting of many renowned authors. Initially it used to be more of fiction or science fiction or fiction made out of historical events. Science and engineering books and periodicals also were there. Later I started giving attention to religious and philosophical books. But in all these, I started getting bored as the element of human wisdom was not making my inner self enthused to the extent it used to be earlier.

Then came the Urantia Book. My God ! It was different. I saluted the wisdom of the author who wrote it after reading a few pages online!

Then came the greatest surprise and the fact that made me to take this book more seriously. That was the finding that this book has no human author. It has many authors and that they were not humans.

It was difficult to believe !

But the initial skepticism changed to admiration and later to the subtle realization of God's love to his lowly intelligent creations like me.

My views on my life changed.

Now I find a purpose  to my life and the realization that God and His administration is not an imagination of humans but a reality as my existence here.

Every  reading of this book's writings makes my mind rejuvinated. And that's the wonder of the Urantia Book! No other book could give that to me.

Yet, to understand the Urantia Book better, knowledge of other religious books, like the Bible, Science, History and Philosophy makes some positive difference.

While getting some treasure of a thing like the Urantia Book, I can possibly do either of the two things- keep the knowledge only to me without sharing it with any one, just as any common man do with treasure he had found. Or, cry out 'Eureka!' just as Archemedes had done!

I wanted to adopt the latter. I wanted to tell all about this treasure. I thought people would share my enthusiasm in knowing this great knowledge!

To my surprise, it was not to be like that. I found the majority just didnot care. They have much more 'important' things to keep their minds engaged!

Even those who chance to come across it with the necessary background keep considering it a book of curse from Satan. Because it is the imprinted fear that dominate the minds of the majority people as far as spirituality is concerned. For most of them, it is almost impossible to come out of such fears!

They just do not want to know or even touch this book!

Then, a great truth struck my mind. The 'religiously' oriented people, the well-connected people and those who were the so-called wealthy afflent class, mostly rejected Jesus Christ and made him crucified for the gospel of God's love he taught. Later, when the majority started believing Jesus as God, the clever affluent jumped in to take the leadership and made the many fold christian religions (denominations).

That's how the minds of the majority people work. There is nothing surprising in this kind of behaviour ! The Urantia Book explains the reasons behind this psychology of the common people.

For those from India, inclined to read this book, I have a website dedicated to the Urantia Book and to India: http://www.urantia-india.faithweb.com/ (Click this hyperlink to visit this website!)

But unfortunately as of now, my country men and women may not be curious or inclined to read and explore this wonderful book of revealed truths. That too is a truth based on my experience!