Saturday, August 15, 2009

Satisfaction is the reason

Me,religious? Interesting subject. Its tuff to believe in god & follow religious virtues, at least for me. Life is to enjoy to the fullest,so its a little tough for me to follow religious path.How often a person breaks his religious rules to try out things he is not suppose to(as per his religious framework)?
I would say quite often. Then why live a life following & breaking rules to discomfort the self to take pleasure in something restricted. Or is it the secret science for a human to break open all the chains tied on him & free him/her self to be a free spirit.And please tell me,each & every religion I know has a number of regulation,not all but most of them do directly or indirectly go against the modern society. And why are we still living or trying to live a life based on things that were written few thousands of years ago,are they relevent for us, in this time frame? Can we still believe those details to find peace in our life?While I write these lines, I am not sure about existance of god or devine being.But I am enjoying the rain this night here in Bangalore (it did not rain for quite a few days till tonight,pretty dry month) & this night is quite special, its Janmashtami.Janmashtami or krishnashtami is considered the night when God Krishna had taken birth in a dungeon where his mother was jailed by her brother. Then later that night the mother had given the new born baby to her husband & asked him to get the child to a safer destination before her brother King Kamshan finds out the birth of a baby boy,then this boring story goes on to say, the baby was taken across the land & forest,it started pouring heavy that night,just like tonight.And here comes the 5 headed surpant who spreads herself to protect the baby boy from the heavy rain as he is taken to a safer land far far away, quite a helpful five headed surpant,I should say. Now should I say its a coincidence that it has been raining every Janmashtami night that I have be observing? Or is it something above my understanding which is trying to show its power through such events?Ya, I agree,every janmashtami night it rains heavy, jus like it rained on the day of Krishna's birth (as per Hindu mythology).Now I need to reconsider my stand on religion & God.May be there are things that are too complex for an ordinary human like me to make meaning of.Why are we always trying to make meaning of things or reason out things.Trying to be rational?Has modern science or education system taught us this pattern of life?or is it the way we humans are destined to live in a modern science oriented society.I would not accept on that for a reason,I need something concrete to believe in,Oops, here I go again,not ready to accept or believe in things without a satisfactory explanation.So the word is satisfaction.Satisfaction is the answer for most deeds a human performs.Satisfaction is the reason.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

How to change?

I am a true believer in attitude change or behavior change in human beings. I just feel humans do not react positively if asked to change by statement made directly upon them (like a one on one session or a group discuss), instead I have seen & experienced positive change in humans when he/she observes some other's action in real life situation thus impacting their own psyche to change the self. So change in human is easily possible if he or she is subject to observe certain situation that would relate with themselves & thus get the result (change in behavior) which is expected. To give a simple example to support the above statement: A noisy or rude person would not generally suppress his noise or rudeness if asked to be calm, by another human or group or human.But if the noisy or rude human is let to go his way, while all others around him behave in a polite manner among themselves & with him,which he will observe at certain point of time & this observation by itself will impact him/her to calm his/her noisy or rude nature, as this behavior is not out of some others ask, but out of self realization by him/herself, the same could be seen in a very calm & polite human when he/she is subject to a noisy & rude environment, he/she would start enjoying the noise & rudeness and will involve & contribute to the same (example: a first timer in a crowded disc floor). As the fact goes, human behavior is molded by the inputs (to his/her mind) from various sense organs in the human body.These sense organs can perceive the details of the environment surrounding the human body, thus impacting his/her sense of vision,taste,touch,hearing & to smell. All the senses a human could perceive do impact his observation skill as they form the source of observation. This 'observation' is the simple constant that is always varying which impacts a person's behavior to change from within,although it is induced outside him/her.