Hare Krsna Dear Friends,
Please join me in praying for the well-being of Chennai residents.
Please allow me to enter your heart in identifying the need for
transforming our collective consciousness. The relief efforts IIT
did in the wake of Chennai floods, a man-made disaster, is good.
However, we should influence the society positively so that man-made
disasters can be avoided. Our role in the society should be that of
Guru of the society; not just emergency relief efforts. That makes it
possible to avoid this and other future disasters altogether.
The floods in Chennai are very unfortunate and bear semblance to
Katrina disaster in America in 2004. In both the cases, heavy rains
and breaching of lakes resulted in water flowing into the city. In
Chennai case, there is rampant building on water bodies and water
pathways, resulting in the blocking of natural river ways that would
drain water into the sea. For example, the Buckingham canal is
clogged due to it being used as a waste dump due to which the water
could not drain in the sea. In addition, due to the rampant
deforestation the speed of rain water runoff is not slowed down.
Unlike Katrina, it was nice to see that the social structure and
culture of Chennai being intact in this calamity. There was no
looting. This is India's real strength: people's happiness is not
dependent on economic indicators.
The storm water drainage problems were foreseen by a few people. All
over India, this it is quite well known that we have no proper urban
planning. But why were the right steps not taken to take the society
in a positive direction? That is because the hearts and minds of
people in right places are disconnected. The heart wants to do the
right thing, but the mind finds an excuse to postpone doing the right
thing to next year, next decade or next generation.
Heart loses; mind wins. This is the public policy crisis Chennai,
India and the world faces. People know what is the right thing to do.
But our heart is not strong enough to make the right decision. The
mind concocts its own own reason as to why short-term profit taking is
more important that strategic decision making.
We have a cancer of the blood, of our collective consciousness. This
cancer is corroding our societal skeleton. Applying a bandage on a
boil on skin is not sufficient. Unless we clean the blood, the boils
will keep appearing. In that sense, our efforts to provide emergency
disaster relief, while important, is a short-term adhoc fix. We need
to follow up with a fix for our collective consciousness to do the
right things (respect mother earth, respect civil rights of humans,
animals and plants, adequate city planning etc).
IIT alumni and other leaders of the society should lead the way in
cleaning our collective consciousness. The way to do it is that each
of us spends certain time connecting with our inner self, and when
possible motivates our friends to connect with our inner self. As
each individual connect with their inner self, one would realize that
the energy of all human beings is interlinked. Nay, the energy of all
living beings is interlinked. What goes around comes back.
We are all pleasure seekers. As we dig into our inner self, one would
realize that our true essence is bliss. The happiness within our self
far exceed the happiness from external things.
Leading thinkers such as Decartes, Poincare, Mozhart, Bethoven have
hypothesized that this inner self is what gives our thoughts,
remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness. Thus, I request each of you
to connect internally with our inner-self, for say ten minutes a day.
We need improve our collective consciousness and motivate each other
to make the right decisions to avoid catastrophes like man-made
floods.
India is actually the world leader, Guru, in the technology to connect
the heart and mind; its called devotion. The Indian understanding of
the mind, and subconscious self is super-excellent. We live in a
world dragged by sectarianism, nuclear war risks and catastrophic
environmental damage.
West Asia (Syria, Iraq, Turkey) is on the boil. Recently we have seen
a fighter jet confrontation between Russia, and NATO; the first time
in 55 years. We are on the cusp of the next cold war or world war. The
duty of any Indian ought to be take the knowledge and cutlure of India
to the whole world for the sake of world peace.
About fifty years ago, knowledge and wisdom were the ornaments of an
individual. Today, money is considered the ornament. This model is
ridiculous as no amount of money or things can satisfy the self. Only
selfless service and love satisfy the service. Unfortunately the
modern educational system does not understands this and instead
perpuates unrestricted greed. This bound to result in a catastrophe.
We need to arrest this trend. Please connect with your inner self for
ten minutes a day.
Sincerely,
Sudhakar
We must know the present need of human society. And what is that need?
Human society is no longer bounded by geographical limits to
particular countries or communities. Human society is broader than in
the Middle Ages, and the world tendency is toward one state or one
human society. The ideals of spiritual communism, according to Yoga,
are based more or less on the oneness of the entire human society,
nay, of the entire energy of living beings. The need is felt by great
thinkers to make this a successful ideology. Yoga will fill this need
in human society.
Human society, at the present moment, is not in the darkness of
oblivion. It has made rapid progress in the fields of material
comforts, education and economic development throughout the entire
world. But there is a pinprick somewhere in the social body at large,
and therefore there are large-scale quarrels, even over less important
issues. There is need of a clue as to how humanity can become one in
peace, friendship and prosperity with a common cause. Yoga will fill
this need, for it is a cultural presentation for the
respiritualization of the entire human society.
Please join me in praying for the well-being of Chennai residents.
Please allow me to enter your heart in identifying the need for
transforming our collective consciousness. The relief efforts IIT
did in the wake of Chennai floods, a man-made disaster, is good.
However, we should influence the society positively so that man-made
disasters can be avoided. Our role in the society should be that of
Guru of the society; not just emergency relief efforts. That makes it
possible to avoid this and other future disasters altogether.
The floods in Chennai are very unfortunate and bear semblance to
Katrina disaster in America in 2004. In both the cases, heavy rains
and breaching of lakes resulted in water flowing into the city. In
Chennai case, there is rampant building on water bodies and water
pathways, resulting in the blocking of natural river ways that would
drain water into the sea. For example, the Buckingham canal is
clogged due to it being used as a waste dump due to which the water
could not drain in the sea. In addition, due to the rampant
deforestation the speed of rain water runoff is not slowed down.
Unlike Katrina, it was nice to see that the social structure and
culture of Chennai being intact in this calamity. There was no
looting. This is India's real strength: people's happiness is not
dependent on economic indicators.
The storm water drainage problems were foreseen by a few people. All
over India, this it is quite well known that we have no proper urban
planning. But why were the right steps not taken to take the society
in a positive direction? That is because the hearts and minds of
people in right places are disconnected. The heart wants to do the
right thing, but the mind finds an excuse to postpone doing the right
thing to next year, next decade or next generation.
Heart loses; mind wins. This is the public policy crisis Chennai,
India and the world faces. People know what is the right thing to do.
But our heart is not strong enough to make the right decision. The
mind concocts its own own reason as to why short-term profit taking is
more important that strategic decision making.
We have a cancer of the blood, of our collective consciousness. This
cancer is corroding our societal skeleton. Applying a bandage on a
boil on skin is not sufficient. Unless we clean the blood, the boils
will keep appearing. In that sense, our efforts to provide emergency
disaster relief, while important, is a short-term adhoc fix. We need
to follow up with a fix for our collective consciousness to do the
right things (respect mother earth, respect civil rights of humans,
animals and plants, adequate city planning etc).
IIT alumni and other leaders of the society should lead the way in
cleaning our collective consciousness. The way to do it is that each
of us spends certain time connecting with our inner self, and when
possible motivates our friends to connect with our inner self. As
each individual connect with their inner self, one would realize that
the energy of all human beings is interlinked. Nay, the energy of all
living beings is interlinked. What goes around comes back.
We are all pleasure seekers. As we dig into our inner self, one would
realize that our true essence is bliss. The happiness within our self
far exceed the happiness from external things.
Leading thinkers such as Decartes, Poincare, Mozhart, Bethoven have
hypothesized that this inner self is what gives our thoughts,
remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness. Thus, I request each of you
to connect internally with our inner-self, for say ten minutes a day.
We need improve our collective consciousness and motivate each other
to make the right decisions to avoid catastrophes like man-made
floods.
India is actually the world leader, Guru, in the technology to connect
the heart and mind; its called devotion. The Indian understanding of
the mind, and subconscious self is super-excellent. We live in a
world dragged by sectarianism, nuclear war risks and catastrophic
environmental damage.
West Asia (Syria, Iraq, Turkey) is on the boil. Recently we have seen
a fighter jet confrontation between Russia, and NATO; the first time
in 55 years. We are on the cusp of the next cold war or world war. The
duty of any Indian ought to be take the knowledge and cutlure of India
to the whole world for the sake of world peace.
About fifty years ago, knowledge and wisdom were the ornaments of an
individual. Today, money is considered the ornament. This model is
ridiculous as no amount of money or things can satisfy the self. Only
selfless service and love satisfy the service. Unfortunately the
modern educational system does not understands this and instead
perpuates unrestricted greed. This bound to result in a catastrophe.
We need to arrest this trend. Please connect with your inner self for
ten minutes a day.
Sincerely,
Sudhakar
We must know the present need of human society. And what is that need?
Human society is no longer bounded by geographical limits to
particular countries or communities. Human society is broader than in
the Middle Ages, and the world tendency is toward one state or one
human society. The ideals of spiritual communism, according to Yoga,
are based more or less on the oneness of the entire human society,
nay, of the entire energy of living beings. The need is felt by great
thinkers to make this a successful ideology. Yoga will fill this need
in human society.
Human society, at the present moment, is not in the darkness of
oblivion. It has made rapid progress in the fields of material
comforts, education and economic development throughout the entire
world. But there is a pinprick somewhere in the social body at large,
and therefore there are large-scale quarrels, even over less important
issues. There is need of a clue as to how humanity can become one in
peace, friendship and prosperity with a common cause. Yoga will fill
this need, for it is a cultural presentation for the
respiritualization of the entire human society.
