When you saw god very close.....

I literally felt him and saw him too. He was wearing specs. Slim well maintained physique. He spoke in Telugu to me, a language I cherish talking in eventhough I am a Tamilian. He walked with a smile always and an easy manner which is comforting.

I am talking about Dr. A.V.Ganesh Kumar, of Hiranandani Hospital, Mumbai who established the Cardiac Department 6 years ago in Mumbai.

My mother had this peculiar issue of a Diabetic combined with a very high Blood Pressure. She is 72. She was panting whenever she took even a short walks. Dr. Vishal Chopra a fine young man who was treating her for Diabetics felt she should undergo 2D echo and ECG tests which showed certain abonormality.

The real topic is - my mother went through Coronery Angiography and while the process was on we have to carry on with Angioplasty as well. At first, it was scary. Anything to do with heart is always scary. The comfort we felt dealing with Dr. Ganesh Kumar is amazing.

His process of handholding a patient is simple. He talks straight.

When I saw my mother getting discharged the next day I felt a sigh of relief.

I realised I saw god in him ... that too very close.

Can there be an alternative to Value based systems

I am not a puritan. So don't get me wrong. I am not a preacher either. So do not look for words of wisdom in my writing.

I am not what you think I am and I am what I am and what I want to be. So a question I want to pose to the learned minds, friends, family and the likes of such people who hold a very high and esteemed positions as a heads of family, heads of places of worship, heads of institutions, law makers, politicians and mostly to those narrow minded politicians who sees an opportunity to molest a woman in a Pub in Karnataka in the name of up keeping the social standards of our society. What do you think should we do about the so called deminishing value systems in our society. Whom will you make responsible.

Twenty year olds from Mumbai and Jumrithaliya co exists in the same society which marvels the reel divas like Deepika Padukone (She was particularly gyrating to Rakhi Sawant like standards in the IPL opening ceremony is a different issue) and these youth who are of the same age group, graduate in commerce, look at Deepika like divas with different eyes. And they are the same gender, youth who will be responsible to drive this country to the next level of growth. One will own the changing mindset of the youth in Inid and the other will defend the values. I dont know. Its clearly a demarkated social standards. In values. In systems. In outlook.

2025 will see India as the leading nations dominating the eligible workforce in the world. Every 6th human being on earth is said to be an Indian. Where are we heading?

I pariticularly enjoyed going through some of the works of Jk and more specifically the one which I reproducing below:-

"Can love be divided into the sacred and the profane, the human and the divine, or is there only love? Is love of the one and not of the many? If I say,`I love you', does that exclude the love of the other? Is love personal or impersonal? Moral or immoral? Family or non-family? If you love mankind can you love the particular? Is love sentiment? Is love emotion? Is love pleasure and desire? All these questions indicate, don't they, that we have ideas about love, ideas about what it should or should not be, a pattern or a code developed by the culture in which we live.
So to go into the question of what love is we must first ideals and ideologies of what it should or should not be. To divide anything into what should be and what is, is the most deceptive way of dealing with life"

I am involved with his work in a sense, it appeals to me more than anyting else appealed to me. I felt compelled to read it again and reproduce it again in my blog after watching a disastorous commercial of a mobile phone service provider in India.

Typical story of a grown up boy ( I refuse to call him man) with a average looking girl ( I dont want to recognise her as woman as well) making out in a restaurant and suddenly the boys sets his eyes on a seductive girl who is alone in the bar( sexy and inviting looks could be the right looks, however worried about those puritans who is celeberating their victory over 33% woman's bill might crucify me) and says to his girl

" You don't love me anymore" She responds after a initial shock " yes".

They they shake hand " Friends" " Friends". There comes the Indianised movie making. The boy moves to the seductive girl and while exiting turns and looks at his ex - and the commercial shows her busy already with another boy.

And this commercial is done in the interest of promoting a mobile telephony services. I am sure the ones who created it clearly targetted those uncertain young minds and advocated to opt for changing tariff plans.

I watched this commercial along with my thirteen year old daughter. It amused her. She was laughing. My wife didnt react. I was to laugh at it too. But could'nt.

Do I consider this. When you are in love and wake up the next day morning and realise you are actually not in love - should you walk out. I suppose thats the standards we are advocating isnt it. Do I need to worry about it. Not really I guess.

Is it changing times? I suppose not? Its probably perversion. We are getting conditioned to the idea of try it if not give it up. Fine by me. You might find something better.

Are'nt we progressing. Freedom of speach. Expression. Whatever it is.

When I tried talk about it some one around me summarised it with one sentence:-

" You are stuck with middle age syndrom. Keep moving"

I am. What about you.

Quote of the day..

Its easy to live life if your creative skills are sharpened...

When people work together, such as in businesses, organizations or families, they are more productive and successful when they are clear about their intentions or goals, and can manifest positive attitudes and communicate well.

Inadequate communication skills and poor relationships are costly to businesses and are personally detrimental. They waste time and energy, reduce connection, cooperation, collaboration and commitment, and hence impair creativity, productivity, happiness and satisfaction.

Most of us can benefit from revisiting or further developing the mindset and the skills that facilitate successful communication and collaboration. I suggest a step is find a coach.

I am of the opinion the best coach a parent can get ( few are lucky like me) is to watch their little ones very closely. The attention they give for each detailing they pick up on their way to growing up - for we grown ups might sound amusing and sometime hilarious.

Don't to do that. There is a message for we grown ups here. They leverage the knowledge around them when they grow up. Watch out for their body language, usage of verbal tones, subtle softness they force on you by constantly approaching you for a pat, how panicky they get when you disapprove anything what they do or achieve - the lesson is my dear grown ups they are treating you as their coach through which they develop themselves. By sheer observation one learns. By continued interaction one sharpens. When the toddlers step out of the coziness of home they learn things from the external environments. They learn few things which you would have never taught them. But they learn.

With children you communicate, coach and be there always when they need them. With fellow human beings its easier. You show a little gesture, watch out for the pay outs. Its amazing.

Don't restrict yourself just because you are a grown up and you need to wear that cap of forced "I am suppose to know it all" attitude. Never you will learn everything in one life time. Engage and communicate at least you will get branded as stupid. But you will never be less creative.

Cheers,

Probably yes..

"The Conception of chance enters into the very first steps of scientific activity in virtue of the fact that no observation is absolutely correct. I think chance is a more fundamental conception than causality; for whether in a concrete case, a cuase - effect relation holds or not can only be judged by applying the laws of chance to the observation."
MAX Born

In ordinary speech we have large number of words and phrases that attempt to express our opinion of our degrees of confidence. We say on the law of large numbers, we realize now that intimate and significant relation between the probabilities of events and the frequency with which such events occur in long runs of trials. The undeniable existence of such a relation has led mathematician to attempt to develop theories which start out with the frequency of definition of probabilities, rather than with a necessarily artificial " equally probably" definition. But this turns out to be rough going also. You cannot speak accurately of the experimental value of a long run frequency, for in mathematics the phrase long run implies going on forever; and no one has ever, or can ever, perform a actual experiment which goes on forever. Therefore, some dodge must be introduced which in essence asks you to accept the "theoretical" long range frequencies. But if you are going to swallow that, perhaps you would as soon swallow "equally probably events.".

Confusing--- then you are probably on the right track. Is it stimulating then you are confused. Is it assertive then you are probably intelligent. If it sounds outright rubbish - you are probably right.

Cheers.

Sometimes looking deeper into out past is better than anything else

Off late - to be precise ever since I started reading Dan Brown's latest novel ( I actually bought it in September 09 but started reading in the flight returning from Hongkong only yesterday is a different story) my mind is racing back and forth admiring so many things which India has offered and forgotten - by the very own guardians of the so called culture beyond the dilapidated believes and values. The spectrum of universe is so deep - its proven every decade an invention by human kind is beaten in the coming decade by the same race which claimed that the inventions of human race see no end for its quest of invention. If I am sounding confused or confusing, that's the way it has to be presented and no other manner it can be presented.

Noetic theory or noëtics is a branch of metaphysical philosophy concerned with the study of mind and intuition, and its relationship with the divine intellect. Among its principal purposes is to study the effects of perceptions, beliefs, and intention with respect to human consciousness.

The theory of noetics centers around the idea that the human mind is capable of affecting or even doing work to the physical world. It is suggested that thought and spirit are not in fact imaginary, but Bose or photon based. Meaning essentially that the mind can be quantified by formulae which describe quantum materials such as light. This is a radical conclusion where many people think thoughts are weightless. Just as gravity affects all matter, so do thoughts to an apparent lesser degree. Psychokinesis, more often called telekinesis, is concerned with the direct influence of mind on matter.

Noetics is often viewed as a completely unscientific field, based on nothing more than misguided spirituality and philosophical hand-waving.

Many people believe in and study the effect of thoughts on the physical world, from health effects to throwing dice. Though skepticism surrounds this field of science, ground-breaking research aims to both quantify and make known the power of the human mind. It won a special highlight in the Dan Brown book, The Lost Symbol, where noetics were a central theme.

I urge every Indian to read this book.

The power of thinking....

The mind is very powerful. it creates 'reality' in a sense, because what we think determines what we can and can't see or do. If we 'put our minds to it' we can overcome many obstacles, including physical ones. It is the belief that the mind is more powerful than the body. Specifically, mind over matter refers to controlling pain that you may or may not be experiencing, such as holding your hand under extremely hot water and feeling no pain. Science investigates the sending and receiving messages without the usual human senses and the manipulation of random events by sheer will.For the human sense of race is so strong that it convinces us of reality even ...... secure floating buns without trouble—an instance of sheer intelligence. ...Among the most marvelous, most frightening and certainly most unbelievable possibilities suggested by psychic folklore is that human beings may be able to exert an observable influence upon the physical world -- simply through the power of conscious intention; or unconscious intention, or; by some accounts, through the assistance of spiritual intelligences; or as a result of a mysterious principle known as synchronicity.

Man appears as created, that is, as the one who, in the midst of the "world," received the other man as a gift. Later we will have to make precisely this dimension of the gift the subject of a deep analysis in order to understand also the meaning of the human body in its rightful extent.