Economic Crisis

Today somehow the topic of 'economic crisis' came up during the lunch hour in my office.Topics like how so many peoples have lost their jobs,so many peoples are committing suicides, salaries have been cut to half, people are heading back home, recruitment have slowed down etc etc etc.
Every one had their own point of views and a story of their relative or friend or an acquaintance who had suffered badly due to the crisis.There was a kind of sorrowful atmosphere.
As I'm not very good with these thing so I kept quite.
Back home I started analyzing, I looked around and hardly found anyone who has suffered for bread and butter due to recession!!! May be, I have a small social circle or may be, Bhubaneswar is a small place or may be the reason is that I belong to the Middle class society.............
then a question arises which section of the society is really affected and how & why???
To understand properly I went by the division of the society as Upper class, middle class and lower class even though there are many sub divisions but for now lets go with the major ones. Which section is affected more, how and why.Lets start with,
Lower class, people who sleep empty stomach or half filled stomach, with or without basic needs, compromising with life for everything might be food or roof or anything.They either die out of hunger or diseases. As such price of everything is rising every day do you think they are really affected by economic crisis?
Middle class,people with basic needs trying, hard for a better future to cope up with the race with the upper class, this section try to maintain status.
If at all this section is affected I think it is not with their basic need, some degree of compromise is imaginable but the actual challenge is with future savings, statue etc........
Upper class,this section is truly affected by economic crisis not with their needs but badly with status.They live such a materialistic life that a small compromise is unbearable.
On the second thought if at all I'm wrong......lets think that due to economic crisis they were forced to die out of...........hunger?illness?natural calamities?

India Celebrates 60th Republic Day

Today India celebrates its 60th Republic day but I am waiting for the day when the whole world would be free from geographical boundaries.

Countries,Religions,Castes,Racism,Creeds,Class etc etc are created by human beings and the consequences are not unknown.

I wonder how life must have been before the existence of countries, religion,caste,class etc..
Were people the same as they are now or were they FREE.........Free from hatred,competition,comparisons,differences.

Cannot say, but standing at this point of time I know one thing for sure, that these differences have done no good to me, my family(the world) and to my home(the earth).

The man who walked from INDIA to U.S.A

A few months ago I came to know about a man named Satish kumar who walked from INDIA to U.S.A for PEACE.
It made me wonder how come I've never read or heard of him. It looks ridiculous how our mainstream media neglects these personalities and focuses on the Tendulkars and Bachans.

Global warming

Lying on my bed, half asleep I was thinking about the topic of my next post..........either I was dreaming or thinking seriously when this thought that tomorrow I will open my eyes in the lap of nature.. I opened my eyes, well its not impossible.
No drinking water, no electricity, no phone,nothing nothing at all.....
Only Man and NATURE!!!

If you think its impossible watch this video by Al Gore, Former Vice President, Co founder and Chairman of Generation Investment Management

An Inconvenient Truth - Al Gore @ Yahoo! Video

The Lost Innocence

My experience with YOGA.

Since a very early age are taught to respect elders, surrender ourselves to God, worship him, recite slokas, watch our actions....

On the other hand our modern education and the influence of western culture makes all this appear superstitious and baseless.

A fight between the heart and the mind starts.

I always believed, that there things are not just an activity, that this beautiful creation is not just a co-incidence but my education will open up my eyes now and then to the facts.

I was going through a very tough time of my life both emotionally and physically. Then I decided to take up my long pending desire to practice Yoga and I joined Shivananda Yoga Kendra.

Yoga practice starts with a Prayer followed by Ashanas and Pranayam. Saturdays are meant for internal cleaning, (Kunjal & Neti) and sundays are for Meditation.

Swamiji always said Ashanas will give you 40% benefit, Pranayam-60% and Meditation-80%.

Practice of Ashanas is very challenging as well as fun and after Suryanamaskar, Sava-ashan is a privilage. Mostly people fall asleep during Sava-ashan.

The aim of Pranayam is to concentrate on our breaths-the source of our lives. And this takes us deep within.
Because today we are in a state where we are well informed about things happening around us or things that interests us but never take notice of things within us. Otherwise how could we missed on the relationship between two non living things which gives birth to LIFE.

As time passed by, I realized the more I got connected with myself the better I felt.
Today I can say that the solutions to our problems is not outside. No person, no material possession, no government, no country can stop problems from entering into our lives, Problems will find their ways.....

So, if you are tired of blaming others, tired of fighting then its time to look Within.

As far as health problems are concerned, let me tell you, my doctor was surprised to see my blood test report which was absolutely normal .......for Hyper Thyroid(in less than one year)