Buddha and Buddhism
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                                                          It is reported that Hong Kong  and South Korea  had observed National Holiday on the Birth Day of Buddha on 17 Th May 2013.  It is surprising that India where Buddha was born and spreaded his message is not observing it as Holiday. Even the exact Birthday of Buddha is  also mystery.  However one thing is certain that Buddha was born(i.e.About 2500 Years Before) in the month of May at Lambini, Kapilvasthu. He also got realization at Buddha Gaya , Bihar.
                                                           Buddha message has some background of Hindu philosophy i.e. It preaches renunciation instead of severer asceticism. It was a time when Indian people were more attracted towards Buddhism and most of them were observing Buddhism including all kings. Adi Shankracharya took the challenge to convince the Indian people that there is not much new in Buddhism than Hinduism. He had discussion  for several days on the important religious topics with  then top Buddhist Monks at Kashi.  He defeated them in the discussion and that  is how Hinduism survived in India. In short Adi Shankeracharya was savior of Hindu religion as he established four pith from north to south and east to west  for propagating Hindu philosophy.
                                                            Which factors had attracted Buddhism? Buddhism had  invited Noble to Sweeper including Outcast  People to join it when Hinduism was suffering with acute Cast War. Besides that Buddhism was for  Karuna/Sympathy , Love, and Tolerance.
                                                             Buddha believed that silence is the best weapons to deal with your enemies.  He had sympathy for fallen people. One of the beautiful prostitutes was in love with him but he ignored her.  However he personally went to her and looked after her when she was old and suffering from deadly disease. Once he was asked what did he achieved  out of  all penance and suffering that he had  gone through? He replied with smiling face " I have achieved nothing but  have Peace and pleasure." It shows he was humble who had crushed his ego completely.
                                               Buddha's message is clear-
                                              -The suffering is  an ingrained part of existence
                                              - To have right intention
                                              - To have right way of  speech
                                              - To have right action
                                              - To make right efforts
                                              - To have right mindfulness
                                              - To have concentration at right place.
                                              - To carry right view
                                                           However he cautioned against Kama, Maya(Attachment), Thirst/Hunger, Craving, Fear, Doubt, and  Rigidity.
                                                           The Buddhism is spreaded very well in South East Asia including China,Japan Korea and  carried the message of Indian philosophy. We can find the family System, and Moral/Religious values, are high on those countries. It has also helped to strengthen the fiber of those countries. They are grateful to the great son of India( i.e. \Buddha) who has shown them a path of happy life.
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Rape- The hot topic

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                                                             There were lots of protest all over India for the bus gang rape at   New  Delhi. Thereafter media has become more active and now  they are reporting regarding other  gang rapes or minor girl rapes very prominently.

                                                           . Rape is very controversial subject and  it is also being seen with very much contempt. However it is very difficult to prove Rape unless there are enough specific evidence. One of the recent cases in ‘UK’  it was proved that  it was not rape but it was case of consent by both the parties. The accused was  acquitted. It was case where defence used its all tricks to get out of Rape case.

                                                            Besides that it is usually understood that Rape is done by men only. It may not be so in all the cases. There are cases where women had seduced the man and compelling him to perform inappropriate things. In Indian ancient story wherein Rishi Vishwamitra was seduced by Menka.

                                                           It is not that Rapes are taking place more now than in the past.i.e. The every war brought  thousands and lac of Rapes in the world. It can be also described  that women are treated very badly by men folk in their weak moments. However Rapes cases were not reported much in the past because of lack of communication system. We have now Radio, TV, and Newspapers which reports the cases very fast.

                                                           It is also not fact that it happens only in uneducated countries and uncultured societies. It is reported that in India every 22 minutes one Rape case takes  place while in educated and advance country like America it takes place one Rape Case at every two minutes.

                                                          Besides that if,  there is lots of sex starving people, than such incidents are going to happen more and more.  The  incidents are more exposed if moral sense is high in the society. This is because in advance country sometime  even minor girls are giving birth to child which are orphans. Some cases it may be out of Rapes during the unguarded moments. It is unfortunate but state has to make arrangements for ‘Day Care Center’ in order that those mothers get ahead in life.  The proved cases only culprit are punished otherwise it is liabilities for state and society.

                                                         It is absolutely necessary to punished the guilty with deterrent punishment  who forcibly plan Rape. However  Rapes cases can be  reduced considerably with the collective efforts of State, Society and People. i.e. Including Men and Women.

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My  Mother- Mother Day '12 Th May 2013'
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                                                                 My mother died long back  but still  miss her. In the time of stress and strain and pain always remind me her and unconsciously in loud voice I shout 'Oh Mom'. I do not not know why it happens as she is no more? It is just like a child psychology calling for sympathy from mother. This shows  mother and her children relations are always same through out life i.e. whether you are grown up or child.
                                                                 My mother was fountain of love and was always sympathetic to me in the time of  suffering.  I was very mischievous in childhood and use to make lots fun of my younger brother / sisters. However apparently was very calm and peaceful and doing every thing secretly without knowledge of others. She knew my nature very well and use to punish me for doing the same. However in process her heart was crying as I was physically very weak then.
                                                                She was not much educated but use to speak few sentences of English very fluently i.e. 'I do not like your habit' or 'You will face the consequences. ' We brothers/ sisters use to enjoy those rare English utterances.
                                                                My father was very strict in discipline, and money matters. However my mother was  considerate in certain matters towards us . My father believed that children are spoiled by giving  money.  Therefore my father was very strict on money matters but mother use to be  lenient. We use to move around father to get pocket money but he use to make it difficult. It was mother only who was our savior in such difficult situation. She use to watch every thing minutely around her even though she was very much busy with her routine work. She use to see that father pass on  reasonable pocket money smoothly.
                                                               She never spend anything for her but use to spend for us in order that we are not deprived of the best of the things. She was river of sacrifice from where all  pleasures of our life came.
                                                              We had very big family and father use to be very busy with his work but mother us to look after our educational progress. I can say that father use to look at our annual result but mother was guardian of our day to day progress. We had Several Doctors, Engineers, Banker and Business Management consultant  in our family because of her lots of efforts and sacrifice.
                                                               She was very self respecting woman and never bow down before anybody. She lived her life according to her own way. She died also according to her will. She was traditional mother and came to stay with me in her last days. She shared her all life experiences with me in order to enriched me.
                                                               My mother is gone. She is no more with me. However she still lives in my Heart.
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Where We are Heading?
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                                                                     The movement of same Sex marriage had divided the society vertically  It has made the position of Churches and religions very much  compromising. The British government is on the verge of recognizing the Gay marriages which has also divided conservative party of Britain  The American President Barack Obama has also endorsed the Gay Marriage. It may be political compulsion for vote bank but it is going to create lot of division in the society.The church is the greatest protester of legalizing the Gay marriages. The legalizing the Gay marriages will also create judicial problems for churches in case they refuse to perform their marriages. The ten states in America have already legalized the Gay marriages. Even three native Indian Tribes in America have  recognized Gay marriages  It covers the 16 1/2% population of America. It is going to bring the  changes in the society  and  do not know where it will end.
                                   Similarly even the Drug war is creating lot of violence and  is becoming very expensive. The influential and Entertainment industry is also pleading for legalizing soft Drugs i.e. Marijuana. Besides that there is good profit in marketing such drugs. The pharmaceutical Industries can also produce such soft Entertaining Drugs under different names.The 19 American states have legalized the Marijuana. The such Drug may also increase the violence and  crime.
                                    The legal approval of such drugs will take society to travel in Horror.
It is to be seen now that what Heritage we are going to leave for our future Generation? i.e. Horror and Violence.
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Ever Going Violence in America- The Gun Culture
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Every day we hear about shootings at different places  in America.  It also causes the death of innocent people. The such shootings had  taken places in Mall, Theater, School, University and in  Gurudwara ( Sikh Temple). It is unabated violence going on the name of Insanity or Personal Grudge or in the Name of Fundamentalism.  However it is taking the life of Children,  Youth and Old  people with out any reason.
                                                          It is a constitutional right to have Gun for self defense.  But now the time is changed along with the color of America. We can not go with the uncontrollable Gun Culture. Twenty young children were killed in the Connecticut and Five Indian American were killed in Gurudwara, Oak Creek,Wisconsin. Besides that twelve persons were shoot down in theater at Denver, Colorado and very recently Three persons were killed in Bombing/Shooting during the Marathon race at Boston, Massachusetts.
                                                          However it is surprising that the membership of American Rifle Association is increasing which is the strongest organization in the favor of free Gun,  The Anti Gun Control lobby is also trying to propagate its cause by showing the picture of President Barack Obama in Gun Shooting Game. However there is a positive sign that the President Barack Obama is giving more importance to 'Gun Control Law'.
                                                         More people are injured and have became disabled in such shooting incidents then number of people who were killed. The lives of those victims are also going to become miserable that too for without any reason. Therefore it is necessary that strict Gun Control law with the provisions of Screening the Background of Gun Holder along with reducing the capacity of Gun. Besides that Gun holder should be held responsible for the misuse of his Gun i.e.Gun should be in lock and key so that no unauthorized person can have excess to it.
                                                         Besides that Gun culture has not erupted in America overnight.  We have systematically introduced in the the generation to generation. Our Medias,  Movies, Video Game, including Children Games also reflects aggressively the said ' Violent Culture'. The Aggressive and Collective efforts have to be made to reform and educate our Media, Movie, Video Game Industries. That can only save our generation to come from such violence.
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The Great Countries of the World and its People
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                                                                           The poor and prosperous country  does not depends on its natural resources. Races and Color of the people also does not make difference. Even intellect difference also does not make difference. But it does make difference if there is a lack of  Ethics, Attitude, Responsibility and  Punctuality. It does make difference if there is no respect for majority and no respect for law. It does affect the county if there is no efforts to save and invest.  The high  productivity rate with quality goods does makes effect.The negative aspect faced by country also does not make much difference. However education is a good mold for progress. Chanakya, an ancient  Indian expert , who is considered  authority on the political and social science had said 'An educated person is respected everywhere. The education can beats the beauty and youth.'
                                                                              Japan  is covered with 80% mountainous region without much natural resources  However they import all rawmatirail and manufactures the quality goods for export . Japan is worlds second biggest Economy.
                                             

                                                                    Switzerland does not produce any coco but it manufactures the best chokletes. They do not have much economic resources but they have world class big banks. It is due to perfect security. Even the small country like Newzeland is also making progress.

                                     
                                                                  Germany is a country which can stand with high head among the nations. They are proud of their race and country. They believes that their race has pure Aryan blood  They have studied the sanskrit language very well which is considered to be Aryan spoken language. They are having the best library of all ancient books and scripture of sanskrit.They accepted the swastika as their State logo during Nazi Regime.  It is highly industrialized county and consider to be one of the big economic power. They fought second world war to establish their supremacy. However they were ruined completely in the last world war.  Germany was also divided in East and West Germany after the war. The German  infrastructure was also destroyed .  The end of second world war inflation rate was  very high in the Germany.  The German people had very bad time due high prices. However they had strong will to unit again and they were united.  The unified Germany is now once again economical power and helping all developing countries including Europian Countries.
                                                                           

                                                                             Japan was  defeated and ruined in the second world war. The Hiroshima and Nagasaki cities were completely  destroyed  due to Atom Bombs i.e.Thrown by America. However Japan came up very fast after those distructions  It is mainly due to the Japanese people's positive attitude towards hard work and their love for country   Japan love its religious belief and they have prohibited  conversion in the Japan . The sincerity of work, and high moral have reestablished the Japan as one of the top economy of the work.
                                         

                                                                          Chines a yellow race has been always considered very aggressive  They have civilization of thousands of year. Besides that they were inventors of explosive, and paper currency  The china was once upon a time completely colonized  by western countries and chines people were made addict to drugs etc. In this colonial powers followed the rule that 'Let Dragon Sleep. The waken up Dragon may be very Dangerous . However Maotse Tung liberated china from all the evils and now it has become very powerful country. it has now become one of the biggest economies of the world. Chines people are very hard working , Intelligent and very aggressive.
                                     

                                                                           England is one of the most important nations in the world. Its people are very loyal to the Crown. They are intelligent, and adventurous people. They were  a navel power in the past. It had helped them to colonized half of the world. Once upon time it was said that 'Sun never Set in the British Empire.'
                                       

                                                                             Israel is a Jew State which was established in some of the the Palestine territory. It  is a country which is surrounded by all hostile Muslim States. It is also situated  in deserted area. However with modern scientific technic it has been converted into Green State. Jews moral  is very high and they are ready to sacrifice any thing  for their country. They have small army but armed with highly sophisticated arms. Its intelligent agency against terrorism  is also highly skilled. There expertise is being used by many countries including India  The skilled of Israel intelligence agency was found when  Juval Avive, a Israelite intelligent agent informed USA one month before the 9/11 attack on world trade center, New York. He was very specific that attack  will be on high profile building or historical building. Besides that he also stated one week before in Bill O 'Reilly show that  London subway bomb  attack will take place in near future. The question is why suitable actions are not taken on such information?  Besides that it also shows  how Israel is surviving against all hostile countries around  This is because of high moral of the Jews citizens.
                                       

                                                                          Why India with so much resources, vast population, and intelligent people is still declining stage?  It is because we lack of patriotism  sincerity towards work, lack of attitude, and no respect for rule and regulations. Our records in punctuality is also vary poor. Besides that very recently it is reported that out of total population in India about One crore is Begging, One crore is in Hospital, One crores are Politicians who use it as means to earn money, instead of serving people, Seven crores Retired, Ten crores Unemployed, Thirty one crores are Govt Employees, and 21 crores are Women who are doing nothing and remains in the house. It is very disheartening figures because we do not see any hope.
                                                                        We can only pray to God to save  India and make some way to  lift it prestige among the Nations.
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The Influence of Hinduism over the world
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                                                                    We are well aware that Swami Vivekananda visited  America one hundred years ago and addressed the 'World Religion Conference' at Chicago  He was taken to visit Slaughter House of cattle where they use to pack meat for eating purpose. It was  fully mechanized processing plant. Swamiji must have been moved by ruthlessly killing animals by some Human being. However at the end of said visit Swamiji was asked by host  ' what do you think about it?' He smiled and replied 'You may be creating animal out of human beings but  we makes  human out of animal. This is because the message of Hinduism spreaded in the Ancient time from Asia to Europe and America was forgotten by the time.
                                                                   

                                                                      The recent discovery of Hindu idols and temples in mexico and south America shows that Indian have reached the America before even Columbus put his first steps on America. There is Siva temple in mexico.  The book published by maxican foreign office states that ' Bird name 'Catamaran' comes from Tamil Language. Maya civilization resembles the Indian civilization. It has spreaded in many Latin American countries including in Peru.  The 32000 year old idol of Narsinha is found in Germany.  The idol of Vishnu found in the Volga region of Russia.  The Hindu Temple was also found in Azerbaijan in the central Asia  The Sun Temple in Bulgaria is 8000 year old which is similar to Sun temples in India.
                                                                     

                                                                       The Hindu empires  was in existence in Bali, Java, Sumatra, Burnio,(i.e. Indonesia)  Cambodia  Philpines  Siam  even before Columbus reached  to America. There is the world largest group of Hindu temples at Angkor Wat, Cambodia.  The Khmer Temple Architect also reflects Hindu culture in Vietnam.  All these shows that Hinduism was well spreaded all over the world.
                                                                       The great religions Buddism, Jainism  Sikhism which were  born in India have roots in Hindu philosophy. Even in the capital of  philpines grand idol of Ganesha is installed before its civic Body.
                                                                       Bali with population of 4.22 million is a part of Indonesia which is Muslim country.  However  93% of its population is still Hindu.  Indonesia became Muslim because Hindu Empire of Majapahit was defeated. However Bali  still remembers the great Hindu Rishis Agastya, Markendya, Bharadwaj. They still remember Rigved and its history. It is being still tought in the schools of Bali. They also ware dhoti when they go to temple. The whole culture of Bali is based on  the three main Hindu principles i.e.The duty and relationship with God, The relationship with all human beings and the relationship with nature. They practice Trikal Sandhya Three times a day and Gayatri Mantra is recited in every school. We cannot imagine to do it in India which claim the great Hindu civilization.
                                                                      This is only to show that our forefathers have done enough spread work in the world. We have to only revive it. The ancient prosperity of culture, knowledge, wealth will automatically follow the same. But where are those great leaders of caliber to lead us?
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