Achievement?

I have always been bothered by this concept. Never understood the purpose of it! Everywhere I see, there is always talk about 'doing something', or 'setting and achieving goals' or some such objective. Yet I have only seen this concept fail both in personal life and in my role models!

For the seeker
Service, not achievement, should be the central purpose of life. The key question you should ask both of yourself and others is - how much have you done for others and at what cost.

Service should be selfless, i.e. without expectation of returns. This helps reduce the ego and sets one free from the result.

I do have my doubt about whether service should be for profit OR not for profit. I believe that a for profit service, with the genuine intent of benefiting your customer is the best way to do service. It ensures optimal use of innovation and resources to maximize the customer benefit. It would also be a great philosophy to run a company by. You can read 'Henry Ford - My Life and Work' for understanding how this concept can be put to reality.

Role models of the 'Life for service' philosophy would be Steve Jobs, HH Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Warren Buffet, Mother Teresa etc.

For the non-seeker
The biggest question I have for the non-seeker is 'What happens after you achieve something great?'. There is no joy in repeating the achievement, so why does the original achievement provide you joy? Examples I have for this concept are:

• Michael Jordan quit basket ball after winning 3 years in a row
• Michael Jackson after he became famous
• Gary Kasparov after winning a little too much

You can counter with examples like Sachin Tendulkar and Roger Federer, who seem to enjoy achievement, but were they really achievers? Federer on clay court, Sachin and his match winning are not the same as facing Michael Jordan on the basket ball court!

In short, 'Does it make sense to live your life to 'achieve' a purpose?' OR 'Does it make sense to live your life to follow a philosophy you believe in?'

Justice is a failed human concept

Humans have tried to artificially apply the concept of justice to create a society. That will never work.

For the seeker

1. Justice is a human concept created by the Buddhi and must be rejected. It requires acceptance of duality for its existence.
2. Justice is actually in-built in the universe through Karma. If I slap you, the Karma of slapping you binds to me. So I have to work to undo its binding. The interesting thing is that I may have to undo the bad Karma of slapping you by doing good instead to compensate for it.
3. If in the mistaken name of justice, you slap me back, then you are also binding the Karma to yourself and you also have to undo it. So, it is better for you to ignore the slap. The notion of doing something bad to me, to return the bad I have done, does not make sense!

For the non-seeker

1. Be very clear whether this is a one life deal or a multiple life deal. The last thing you want is to assume that you have only one life, live like crazy for 70 years, die, and find that you have to spend 10,000 years undoing the crap you just did! Very few people have had the grace of a Guru, to guide them through this problem. Very very few people have been able to use reason to figure out this answer! Without this answer, be very scared to make a mistake.
2. Think about what is the purpose of justice. Is it to deter others in society from committing the crime? Is it to hurt the perpetrator as much as the victim suffers? Is it to punish the perpetrator in proportion to the mistake he has committed? Is it to prevent the perpetrator from repeating the crime? What?
3. Think about the complexity of delivering Justice. Is it ok to only deliver punishment for cases that are reported and proved? Can any judge or jury know 'for sure' what occurred and what the intentions were? If for a particular case, one type of behaviour and judgement was delivered, is it fair to demand the same thing for another case?

I know of a case which went on for over 40 years, after which both parties died! Is it fair for me to demand that every case go on till both parties die? Is it not unfair if a judgement is delivered before death of both parties?

6 men raped and killed a girl in Delhi. This case got a hell of a lot of media attention. Should media be forced to give similar attention to all cases? If you find out that the girl who was raped was heading a WWII concentration camp in her previous life and the 6 men were victims she killed then, does that change your picture of what their punishment should be?


Overall the concept of justice is incorrectly designed and will always fail. The court can only deliver a Judgement, not Justice. The only tangible measure of success of this concept is how comfortable it allows people to be in a functioning society.

Failed Education causes rape

When excess energy in the body leaves through the genitals, it causes Lust. Rape is just one way to release Lust. If people are not taught how to handle it, they commit rape through loss of control. Here are some techniques for it.

For the seeker
1. Do Pranayama. By streamlining the flow of prana, you prevent energy from collecting in one place
2. Do Meditation. This allows your mind to resist the effects of collected Energy
3. Concentrate your mind on the energy block and dissipate it (Read this in some blog)

For the non-seeker
1. Live an active life to burn / re-channel the excess energy
2. Engage your mind into other activities - get a hobby
3. Reduce control inhibitors like alcohol
and of course, the default approach once in 2 days!

Anatomy dictates that men are bigger victims of Lust than women. So, men are generally the bigger perpetrators.

Welcome!

I have setup this blog to share my learning about life! Being the first post, this obviously should serve as an introduction to the blog, so here goes...

For over 23 years I have analyzed questions about life. Tough questions such as 'What is life?', 'What is our purpose on Earth?' etc. Over time I have used various approaches to answer the same. I started with Religion, then moved on to Science, finally ended with Spirituality.

At this point, I feel that I have satisfied my search for knowledge. Now I have started the process of living my life according to the knowledge I have gained, but thought I would create this blog to share some of the ideas I have come across along the way.

In each blog post, I plan to take a topic and provide 2 views of that topic:

• For the Seeker: These are point-of-views for spiritual seekers like myself. For these comments, I would appreciate alternate views, comments and further knowledge I may be missing. I hope to inspire seekers to continue along the path or give them different views they may not have considered
• For the Non-Seeker: These are point-of-views for non-seekers who just want to live a good life. I hope that these views would be interesting points to consider and may provide some alternate solutions to difficulties / issues being faced

Only time will tell how this endeavor goes!