To Know God

Sacred space in Times of India on most of the days is thought provoking. Today there is an assertion from Kena Upanishad. "The ignorant think that the Brahma (the supreme entity) is known, but the wise know Brahma to be beyond knowledge." - What does it mean to know? Most of us understand, data --> Information --> with ability to interpret and reason --> knowledge --> and then wisdom.

Is the assertion true? Does anybody know how does the supreme look, behave, or its attributes? Is it bounded by the dimesions that human mind can comprehend? Or is it just the experience? As none of us know what is supreme is like, even if we find it in dimensions that we can comprehend, we will never know it as the supreme entity. So it is simply unknowable as Brahma. It may be known by some other name, but we will never realize that it is the Brahma or whatever you or I may call. Thus the supposition that Brahma is unknowable is right.

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ನನ್ನ ಮೊದಲನೆಯ ಕನ್ನಡ ಪುಟ

ತುಂಬಾ ದಿನಗಳಾದ ಮೇಲೆ kanndadalli ಬರೀತಾ ಇದ್ದೇನೆ. ಸಂತೋಷ ಆಗ್ತಾ ಇದೆ. ಇದೆಲ್ಲ ಸಾಧ್ಯ ಆಗ್ತಾ ಇರೋದು ಗಣಕ ಯಂತ್ರ ಮತ್ತು ಅದನ್ನು ಹೊಸ ಹೊಸ ರೀತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಉಪಯೋಗಿಸೋದನ್ನ ಸಾಧ್ಯ ಮಾಡೋ ತಂತ್ರಜ್ನ್ಯರ ಕೃಪೆಯಿಂದ. ಸಂಕೀರ್ಣವಾದ ಶಬ್ದಗಳನ್ನ ಕೂಡ ತೊಂದರೆ ಇಲ್ಲದೆ ಕನ್ನದಲ್ಲಿ ತರ್ಜುಮೆ ಮಾಡೋ ಇದರ ಶಕ್ತಿಗೆ ನಾನು ಮರಳು ಆಗ್ತ ಇದ್ದೇನೆ.

ಮಹಿಳಾ ದಿವಸದಂದು ನನಗೆ ಈ ಹೊಸ ವಿಷಯ ಸಾಧ್ಯವದದ್ದು , ಮಾತೃ ಭಾಷೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಬರೀತಾ ಇದ್ದದ್ದು ತುಂಬ ಖುಷಿ. ನಾನು ನನ್ನ ಜೀವನವನ್ನ ಇಲ್ಲಿಯವರೆಗೆ ರೂಪಿಸೋದ್ರಲ್ಲಿ ನನ್ನ ಜೀವನದಲ್ಲಿ ಬಂದ ಮಹಿಳೆಯರು, ಹುದುಗಿಯರು ಇವರ ಪಾತ್ರವನ್ನ ಯೋಚಿಸ್ತಾ ಇದ್ದೆ. ಅನಿಸಿದ್ದು ಏನೆಂದರೆ ಇಲ್ಲಿಯವರೆಗಿನ "achievements" ಎಲ್ಲದಕ್ಕೂ ಕಾರಣ ಅಥವಾ ಗುರಿ ಕೊಟ್ಟದ್ದು ಅವರೇ ಅಂತ. ನನ್ನ ಆಯಿಯ ಸ್ಥೈರ್ಯ, ನನ್ನ ತಂಗಿಯ ಸಹನಶೀಲತೆ, ನನಗೆ ಕಳಿಸಿದ ಅಧ್ಯಾಪಕಿಯರ ಪ್ರೋತ್ಸಾಹನೆ, ಮೊದಲು ಕೆಲಸಕ್ಕೆ ಸೇರಿದಾಗಿನ ಬಾಸ್ ನ ಭರವಸೆ, ಉಳಿದವದರ ನಿಸ್ವಾರ್ಥ ಪ್ರೀತಿ ಎಲ್ಲಾನೂ ನನ್ನ ಈ ವರೆಗಿನ ಜೀವನವನ್ನ ತುಂಬಿವೆ. ಇವರೆಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ ನನ್ನ ಮನಹ್ಪೂರ್ವಕ ಅಭಾರಗಳನ್ನ ತಿಳಿಸಬೇಕು.

Being Human

There was a strange thing that I viewed on TV. There was a guy named Raghav Bahl who was interviewing the finance minister of India - P. Chidambaram after the budget for 2008-2009. The temerity of this Mr. Raghav Bahl unfazed me. He was obnoxious to say the least. Why have we started becoming more of animals in the way we behave than humans. His behavior contrasted so much with the 2 stories that I read from the two of our great epics - Ramayana and Mahabharata. After mortally wounding Ravana, Rama knowing that Ravana is one of the greatest statesmen and a scholar, goes to him and stands at Ravana's feet with folded hands & requests Ravana for his knowledge. Similarly in Mahabharata Arjuna and Duryodhana end up at Krishna's place to ask for his help in the great war that is about to ensue. Duryodhana sits on a chair that is near the head of the Krishna and Arjuna stands near Krishna's feet. Arjuna gets the chance to present his request before that of Krishna. Why have we started forgetting "Vidya vinayena shobhate"?

Why small time thugs and terrorits get more attention in our news channels than people like Baba Amte - who really made difference in the lives of the people?

Only explanation is the human civilization as such has had its peak in being "human". Now the only way is to deteriorate.