Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Monday, March 14, 2011

2 Quotes By Me

" The joy of visualising turns into luxury when we start observing Reality "

" The mind is a fireplace, the more wood you put in harder & longer it burns "

A Poem On Love

Its sunshine, not sunlight
It’s a flash not a shadow
We love it, when it’s white
We can’t bear it, if it’s black


We are plain and simple humans
Love is very important to us
Without love we lose our civic sense.
Fortunately love is immense on our planet….


Loving a wife or a girlfriend is a different feeling
But the actual feeling of love is like feeling of ‘great friendship’.
When we fall in love……
Emotional mixture in mind & above….


People differentiate in expressing feelings to whom in what amount & quality
Hesitation to show love is a weakness
On the other hand, it’s not an act of humanity but it is selfishness.
Living a good life, a healthy mind & body cannot be obtained by television products.
But just by the simple act of love, and no aggression.


Ojas Johri
1/3/2011

Imagination

Imagination

Just put on some tender music, close your eyes. And then, it’s your imagination. Practice yourself in harmony with the song playing in the background. Create visions in your mind. And that’s exactly what I do when I listen to a very soft song or when I do any task with complete concentration. I play as one of the characters in the song inside my mind, and it gives such a beautiful feeling of harmony and love within me, which I cannot explain. I can take any song which guides my mind. It could be ‘You needed me’ from Boyzone in which I create a duplicate human being just like myself who sings and narrates the song to me. He also dances with the band and does that i imagine from my memory. It can also be the soundtrack of the film ‘chariots of fire ‘in which I would (visualize & imagine so clearly just as if it’s a HDTv) be the Jew or the devout Christian and compete for the 1924 Olympics.

Now this is some true imagination. Most people suffer from some disease of imagination. They cannot properly imagine. And most of them imagine something poor.

Imagination when, least can positively imagine then, I can say a very few will be able to visualize.
I personally believe that all my friends have this magical ability, and I’d want them to work on it, as it is good for perception of reality and many others …..

Ojus johri
28/2/2011

A bit on ...

Just for a while think that from where did mankind actually arrive on earth? The book of Genesis in the Bible clearly mentions that someone supreme created all the things on Earth and at last created Man. Now days that someone supreme is referred to as god and is worshiped each day. Nearly every tradition on Earth claims that everything has been created by someone supreme or by someone beyond our present knowledge and understanding. This is called ‘CREATIONISM’, where man believes in creation of everything by someone.
When Copernicus found that the earth was actually round and not flat, he was the only man to support his argument. That was the beginning of the scientific era. Much later a young man named Charles Darwin was about to write the biggest discovery until now. It was, the Theory of Evolution. This theory was shocking as it directly challenged the concept of God & the Roman Catholic Church. Many religious denominations grew against it at that time as scientific thought among people was very low. Darwin explained that how the entire ecology of the earth had been working for millions of years. He explained that why some species go extinct, even when there is nothing wrong with the food they eat. This is science; it is when man does not believe in, without fact& evidence.

Now, by the way of science we know that we have evolved. Our ancestors were cavemen and had no civic sense. There were different species. Some were strong. Some had bigheads. Some could stand on their hind legs. This was when man had just arrived and knew nothing; he was yet to evolve as homo-sapiens. Chimpanzees are our closest relatives; their DNA is of a similar kind, but entirely different than ours. Let’s turn the time back & imagine chimpanzees with their DNA at that time when they were not so evolved, meaning; when they were just a twig in the great ape family. One now can for instance take that this was the time when man would have started evolving rapidly. Started hunting, made very sharp tools and much more to tell. He also invented fire. All this was due to the evolution of the DNA.
Man became a social animal and invented farming. Man was day by day becoming a more complex creature. The size of his brain is large if compared to another species & it contains 100 billion neurons. Where, each neuron fires electric pulses logically at one another. Just like inside the Intel-Microprocessor. This firecracker & lighting scene happens in each individual’s head every time and can be observed with the help of EEG medical devices.

Psychology is just pure philosophy, it is neither correct or it is wrong, same is in the case with decision making; one never knows that which decision is perfect. However we now have a discipline called decision sciences whose aim is to invent methods that will yield the best decisions in the decision making process. Since, old time’s man has been evolving psychologically also. Living in groups indicates a high social sense, and for this a high degree of psychological harmony among the group members is required. Human psychology depends on its environment. It can be any type of environment. Ex. War. Or another example could be a five star lavish party. Another very important factor is ego in human beings. This is what decides the mood, the attitude and the personality of a person.
- Ojus Johri …26/2/2011

Technology

We are all at a time when a great technological shift is currently underway on our planet. I read stories about the latest achievements in micro-biology, astronomy, social sciences so on and so forth. Technology is derived from a scientific fact proven method where there is 100 % objectivity & accuracy. To me the prime purpose of technology will be to organize things, so as to make living easy and happy. Until now, it has been quite successful. If we look at the world map, we can see how technology is distributed throughout the world. People in Africa still lust for a cell phone, while in India a 15 year old can manage it. One other major contribution of technology to us is Transport System. Just imagine what will happen to a city like New York if its Transport fails for an hour. I would imagine very long traffic jams, a lot of sound of horn from cars, taxi rates fire up 10 times, public places full of crowd, a crowd which has no public means to travel. So, it is quite perceivable how technology organizes each and every one of us in current times. Even organizes our lives for us. And have you noticed that on average every 4th year a new nation takes birth somewhere in the world. It’s just how amazing & yet a shame to see that people are splitting up. Is it our present technology that is organizing the entire world? Technology is used for trade; trade is an essential human activity that takes place among each nation. Personally, I feel whenever there is a misunderstanding on the grounds of technology between a two nations, a conflict occurs.


This interference of technology in natural ecology of earth and in natural routine of humans, even I do not know that what will be its good effects after some decades. And I can even not imagine the bad condition if it happens to our ecology after some time. I have two points of view. One is that technology is very useful and harmless to people, earth and to the system of humanity. The other is, that it is detrimental to every other thing in our ecology
On the other hand it must also be noted that it can cause immense harm, if misused. It has always been misused when man has acted like a chimp and been greedy. A good example is the Last Industrial Revolution. At that time industrial concept was brand new. And people used the concept based on least amount of technological knowledge. Without having proper understanding that which substance is poisonous and which one is acidic?


Technology is a very precious gift to mankind. It can be used for good and for the bad. Technology often shows its ill effects when there is no proper knowledge or when science is taken for granted. By technology, science, art & creativity I am very optimistic that heaven can be created here on Earth.

Ojus Johri
25/2/2011

Role of Religion in Society

Role of Religion in Society

On earth 7 billion people co-exist with allot of 'diversity'. Black, Indian, American, Latin so on and so forth. Surprisingly all of them have their own customs, traditions, languages & Religion. Let us take an example of the most complex and diverse society in the world, India. Each person in this society has grown up in a mixed culture, which is to say that there is no or at least no objectivity in this society. Objectivity is required for proper human development, but in a case where everything is just a crowd of customs & religions; it is hard to attain efficient & a peaceful social environment.

When we talk about religion, the first thing that comes to our mind is ‘god’ or ‘fear of hell’. But it is not so, as the true purpose of religion is to bind people socially so that they live happily and share common traditions and customs and values. Many thinkers believed in such a way that religion is just nothing but a delusion, but from another point of view it also maintains social order.

Knowledge, I mean spiritual, metaphysical or superstitious all generate from one common source, which is Religion. But it is not bad to believe or have an obsession of them, as they can also tend to luminate a life path of a person who is helpless or in search for hope from somewhere. It could be from anywhere. The only way is to incline toward Religion. This happens daily, people are inclined toward religion, someone wants a better job, and another is depending on preist who blesses a young man that he will get married to a beautiful bride. Such practices only give hope to people, so that they live and carry on with their lives from 9 am till 10 pm. So? Is this the plan of religion itself or it’s a real superpower over each and every one of us?

There are so many different religions on earth. Each of them with their own philosophy. Some believe their gods are from stars and some believe their god is earth. So when so many different religious groups are present, each in its unique form and identity, is conflict avoidable? Yes, it is avoidable, by unification of all of them. And that will be the true meaning of the concept of religion in human society. People do not understand that why is religion in our world? It is there to bind each and every individual in harmony and peace.

- Ojas Johri
- 22.2.2011

History, Religion, Human Intelligence

To me it seems that at the time of Karl Marx, religion did act as sedative. But even now, you can see thousands of people worshiping different kinds of gods and animals; they even worship totems more than they love their children. Christians still believe that one day Jesus Christ will come down to Earth and save the people who believe in him. Is this statement rational? Is it justified? From an orthodox point of view it may be correct as nothing can subdue an orthodox’s vision and belief. For example, the Hindu Cow, it is a totem in form of an animal, with which people associate themselves as it is a useful animal. But in Benares you find thousands of them roaming freely, why? Just, because people unnecessarily feel too much attached to them, cows are useless, but people are still sentimental towards them. Is this not a primitive attitude? Indeed if these animals were taken care of, then i have a very strong beleif that it would have been beneficial not only for the humans but also for the animal. We know by science that it is just an animal, that’s all it is.


In Anthropology and in social sciences when we study Human Beings, we do not include their biases, their personal attachments, and their beliefs and sometimes their perspectives are also ignored. But we actually investigate that what is the root which is causing them. Once we identify, our policy makers take actions based on the research to shape a rational-legal policy, so that everyone could benefit from it; weather he is a poor man a farmer or a wallet filled I.A.S.


Now please let me take you back in time, we will travel through time and reach the year 10,000 B.C. When you were in school you were taught in history and sciences that man actually was an ape and has evolved by the process of evolution. At that time man was a primate, it had many other competitors of alike and there was a rigorous competition among each ape like species. You were basically taught that man lived in caves. But this Cave scenario came much later when man had grown a sense that living inside something like a Cave or on top of a high Tree can provide shelter to its infants and women. When this sense had grown prominence in homo-sapiens, formation of a very primate civil society at that time was unavoidable.

Let me tell you about what happened to other apes that were of the great ape family. They became extinct as they could not develop tools and their physical structure could not compete, (Ex. They had very small thumbs and thumbs are required to peel, hold something and eat)…it was less mobile as compared to us; in all at that time we were progressing far more rapidly than our relatives.


Let us now arrive at the time when primitive men of earth entered the era of civil society. It was 6,000 years ago from now in the land of SUMER near ‘Euphrates’ that is the oldest known civilization according to archeological & anthropological findings. However there are two more of them which again are associated to religion known as SODOM & GOMORRAH, about which nothing is known, and I believe nothing can be known unless we have a Time Machine. People of Sumer and others who lived close to other naïve societies were basically traders, this shows that intelligence was prevailing at that time. They also engaged in war, this again shows a civil sense, however negative it may be, but still when it comes to food and fodder war is the only option for people who are primitive with least civic acumen.


Let us now arrive at Indus Valley Civilization…..Heard of it? Those people only had two rivers ‘Saraswati ‘and the other was ‘Indus ‘. River Saraswati dried long time back. Indus people were highly scientific people, not as mythical as we are today; they had a proper drainage system, a swimming pool and what you may call a ‘Civic Sense’. This civilization lasted for nearly 1500 years. Hindu Goddess Saraswati originated from Indus Valley Civilization. Now it is a prominent figure as a goddess in 2011.

Now regarding Hinduism I classify it into three. One is ancient, second is Medieval and the third is Post-Modern. Hinduism has been deteriorating since ancient times. Some say that Albert Einstein read Bhagvad Geeta, if he read it; he did it because Geeta says good things. And if you know Albert Einstein’s aim was to UNIFY the universe into just one simple equation Ex:E = mc2, he tried and tried to UNIFY the whole cosmos, but unfortunately he died in sleep, not reading Geeta, but continuing with his ambition of unification.


The world is a very big place ……I will like to comment that “science never originated from religion”. You tell me one thing. Did Sir, Michael Faraday invented electromagnetism by studying religion? Did Sir Isaac Newton discover Gravity by religion? And one other fantastic example is that ‘Copernicus’ claimed Earth was round not flat; was it due to religion or human intelligence? …


Since ages human beings on planet earth have been evolving, evolving socially, evolving technologically and information technology is the latest example of the intelligence which human’s posses at the present time. We at the present times have reached the nuclear age. Our Sun is also a nuclear reactor; I can say that human intelligence, human intellect, human creativity & human consciousness are super. Religion is something which was invented, by our own genius abilities, and has evolved as something Invisile.

“Believing in self; is better than beleiving a delusion”
Ojas Johri
21/2/2011

Religion......

Religion......

In the view of the Philosopher Karl Marx Religion acts as a sedative on the minds of the masses/crowd. Personally i beleive that religion is something which is not really there, but still has a pinaccle importance in the society. In almost all the societies..Ex. hindu....i find by my observation that each and almost every activity is influenced somehow by lord Krishna or lord Ram. But from a rationalist point of view , it is not atually required, or is it so? Rationality enters a society when humans are capable of understanding the world with reason ,logic and most impotant of all in a 'PEACEFULL' manner in all dimensions of human thought . But Religion as we see it today is 'nothing' as compared to rationality and offcourse science. So how? much we think? , how much should i brain-strorm my head? There is no comparision between the two.

People think its the act of worship which gives them that divine effect which they experience when they worship. But from another point of view they are wrong, It is they who do it, so they feel it. And they actually fool themselves, as it is not the religion nor the god but only their act of worship and that psychological inclination, which makes them feel that way.

Not only they fool themselves but everyother person in touch with them. Personally i feel if these people stop their mythological beleif in these myths & primitive religions . I am sure the world will be a better place.

-Ojus Johri
20th February, 2011

Darwin

Root of 'Evolution' leads to 1 common ancestor of all life on Earth, which is Bacterium or Cellular Life/nano-life-forms. Concerning beauty in Mammals, Amphibians, Reptiles and so on; I think and partly agree with Dr. Richard Dawkins's(English Evolutionary Biologist * Ethnologist) genius explanation of 'DESIGN-OID' Objects Ex: 'Homo-Sapiens', Camouflage'd Animals as 'Sea-Weed' etc. which are not designed as none knows who designed in the first place(Considering Ladder of Infinity) nor crafted by MAN, Neither by Nature(as it will be rubbish to say, that nature only exists on Earth? and no where else?) and my personal belief - Neither by Random Selection(Darwin, 1780 A.D), as they all so closely appear to be Artistic/Logical/Intelligent; Ex: Birds , Parasite Plants as 'The Pitcher', it will seriously take a genius Mind to do so. We have just started to reason on such un-avoidable questions and serious doubts concerning our own existence.

My belief is true to an extent because if 'Random Selection' were really true, then it is also true that DRAKE's(Frank Drake-S.E.T.I ) Equation is 'Perfect', in calculating Intelligent Civilizations within 10 x 10 light yrs. which somewhere equals to more than 200K Intelligent Life spread throughout anywhere we look into space. But, Non-Believers and Believers are every where in Science as well as in Religion or in age Old Traditions Ex: Hindu, Aztec, Chinese .... etc...

It is you !!

Ok, lets be human-beings....again, where there is no money;instead Trust is the currency. It still is; but we are so adamant and rude; that now ignorance shines brightly in every head.Let go the Mad-earned Dollar routine away, and accept you are a tiny creature with a tiny mind which is attempting to destroy itself by printing more and more $$ everyday. Human life is not made of PAPER, from birth till death all one plans is to get money. But sadly this mad-mans' money later creates BEGGARS, HUMILITY,SOCIAL IN-EQUALITY,PROBLEM OF 'OBJECTIVITY', POVERTY,CORRUPTION, LACK OF HUMANITY,FAKE N.G.O's, well now too solve this, again money is required; required due to lack of vision.

How long will all this last?? It gained momentum during industrial revolution (1878). Where as the FRENCH REVOLUTION preached " FRATERNITY ", can we see FRATERNITY anywhere in 2010; except in the societies who study it? Instead it turned into bureaucratization......desk system.