Factory of The Mind

Why do I feel irked with the 24 year old upper class, affluent ladies traveling alongside? Why do I find myself smirking at their conversations I overheard about how dirty the station is, or their disbelief at how someone can travel for 2000 km in sleeper class? I have reasons. They've hardly matured into being ladies, They're still girls. I'm irked at their upbringing, at their sense of entitlement at their loathsome judgements. Hmm. Is the problem out there, or is it inside of me? Them being the way they are is just an effect of certain causes. Where is my annoyance targeted and why? If I so wish for a different effect, I ought to alter the cause. One would let it pass. "To each his own. You can't h elp." But, what if I try? What if I try to alter the cause in order to alter the effect? If they're exposed to a perspective of the truth, which is new to them, it might help? So, I tried. I understood, that it isn't the exposure that is the bottl...

A very beautiful explanation of the verse...Important to note that Krishna is within each of us, not some Messiah outside. यदा यदा ही धर्मस्य, ग्लानिर्भवति भारत | अभ्युत्थानम् धर्मस्य, तदात्मनं सृजाम्यहम् || गीता 4/7   अर्थ : हे अर्जुन ! जब-जब धर्म की हानि और अधर्म की वृद्धि होती...

There is a lot of insecurity amongst the powerful and influential people today, as always, perhaps? Insecurity breeds insecurity. When the powerful are insecure, they inevitably exploit the powerless. Students graduating out of the leading educational institutions, who are expected to lead, begin with, or rather, are equipped with this sense of insecurity. If this assessment seems thoroughly incorrect, read no further. But if there appears to be truth in it, let us explore more of the truth. Businesses today seem to have more adversaries than stakeholders. In other words, those who were stakeholders have become adversaries. Consumer, regulator and the peripheral society have since long become adversaries. They put pressure on profitability. Off late, channel partners, vendors and even employees are treated as outsiders . It wouldn’t be surprising that the board of a company considers public shareholders too as outsiders, rather than owners of the business. Who, then, is the insi...