Brahmsutras- The Chatuha-Sutri

Brahma-Sutras: The Chatuha Sutri

The following four opening verses of the Brahma Sutras

Convey the gist of the entire Vedanta 

Hence lauded as 

The Chatuha-Sutri

Athato Brahma Jijnaasa

Now and therefore (i.e. since the need has been felt and of-course since human life can not be lived or find its fulfilment without it, there is nothing more necessary than this) 

let us (the shaastras) discuss (quench your thirst) The Knowledge of Brahman.. (The one and Only God or Allaha) 

Janmaadi Asya Yataha

The birth etc (creation preservation and dissolution) 

everything comes about from Whom (Him) alone (and exists in Him and merges back into Him alone) and

Shaastra Yonitwaat

The shaastras (scriptures of all the lands and religions) are born out of He Himself 

(by His Will, because of His mercy and as His grace; for the sake of the entire mankind) and 

He can be understood only and only through the agency of The Shaastras... so do have faith in the shaastras, revere them, don't approach them with a view to disprove their authenticity or a vain attempt to prove your mastery over them. 

(Brahman is simply unknowable and unreachable 

even if the entire humanity with all the human faculties put together 

tries to know Him, from the beginning to the end of time
it is only through reverence and faith in the scriptures that one can just about approach the hem of His robe, even for that one requires an immense grace of His Own)

Tatt Tu Samanvayaat

He is the One and Only, 

harmonising glue of love between 

all that is (everything, everyone, every religion etc etc etc.)

He is to be understood as harmony or Yoga itself.. (for want of a better parallel lets say the gravitational force) 

(He alone is keeping all this existence held together, from microcosm to the macrocosm,

from the beginning to the end of time

and when understood and adored 

(indeed with the help of the Shaaastras coupled with His explicit grace), 

He alone brings about peace and harmony)

Om Purnam Aadaaha- "Aham Brahmaasmi"..

Om Pooranam aadaaha Poornam idam, 
Poornaat Poornam udachyate,

Poornasya Poornam aadaaya, 
Poornam eva avashishyate..

The meaning of this Shanti Mantra from the Isha upanishad is as simple as this
That is full, This is full
Fullness is born out of Fullness
When fullness is added or subtracted out of fullness
What remains is fullness indeed

In-fact it is no different than declaring
Aham Brahmaasmi
I am Brahma.

If one were to utter this statement as it is, uninitiated, unprepared; it appears as innocuous and as useless, if not silly, as the declaration made by a gentleman lying prostrate in his living room that he is standing atop the Mount Everest. It is indeed meaningless and crazy but however if
A man who has actually scaled the Mount Everest and is standing atop there with a flag of victory, when he declares that he is there, the scene is entirely different..

So one needs to understand that these Maha-Vaakyaas are the voice of the sages who are there.. and these words merely serve to stimulate the fellow human beings who are down there in the planes that there is a place called Mount Everest and it can verily be scaled, it is no imagination..

This Maha Vaakya is the voice of the realised one who has attained to Self Consciousness..
After the Atmic Reality wakes up it addresses itself as "this" and the worldly state and all else from which it rises is addressed as "that". and so does it declare that the Fullness that is Me has indeed arisen, not from any hollowness but from the Fullness which I hitherto mistook to be the world..
Only after one has tasted ones own fullness can one make a declaration such as this.. an ignorant suffering mind can not to be talking about fullness and fulfilment everywhere, all over..
It is the deathless eternal Atma alone who sees the deathless eternal Param-atma everywhere.

After one is established in Ones Own Absolute Fulfilment or The Self or Atma one says..

Poornaat Poornam Udachyate

Infinite Absolute Fullness has come out of The Infinite absolute Fullness

Shaashwat can not have arisen out of the (imaginary) Nashwar.
The Truth which is Me can not have risen out of the Untruth- the imaginary world..

It is infinite alone which gives rise to the infinite, 

and what remains is still infinite alone..

When gold ornament is made out of gold

What remains is gold only..

This wholeness which is Me has indeed come out of the Wholeness which is all around..

Gold and Gold ornament are one and the same, what is the distinction.

Do you have to dismantle the ornament to know that it is gold.

When a gold ornament is made out of gold

still it continues to be as much gold.
and it is Me (the Gold) alone who knows that it is Me (the Gold) alone all over.

It was My own illusionary momentariness called mind, which was seeing Myself (gold) to be the mere transitory ornament instead of seeing it as Me Myself (Gold itself).
It was the ignorant mind which hitherto saw Wholeness to be some imaginary Hollowness..

This Creation is the Creator Himself indeed, and
This is the first-hand experience of The (Realised) Soul..

Sanyasa vs. Karma

Sanyaasa vs Karma

Naa karmanaa na prajayaa dhanena

Tyaagena Ekena Amrutatwam aanasuha

(Sanyaas Suktam Maha-Narayan upanishad)

The Sutra clearly states that Sanyaasa is the Samaadhaan, not Karma (in itself).

The question but remains, as to what Sanyaasa denotes, and does Sanyaasa really indicate giving up of Karma ?

In fact the truth is that it is Karma alone which fructifies itself into Sanyaasa..

and Sanyaasa (Jnana or Bodh) is nothing but giving up of the body consciousness and getting established in Spirit Consciousness or Sacch Khand

and further still, even when the awareness of Sanaasa gets firmly established the body still continues to perform its Karma as per the dictates..

Karma and Sanyaasa are not at all opposed to each other, they are truly mutually supportive.

So we see that the only problem lies in understanding the true purport of Sanyaasa and Karma and not in comparing their relative merits..  

However but, whatever be said about Karma and Sanyaasa, the Samaadhaan is and will always be Love and reverence or Bhakti..

because it is Bhakti alone which puts the mind on the track of righteous deeds (Karma) culminating in the consciousness of Spirit Self (Sanyaasa)..

Yes, where Karma is the suprastructure or scaffolding and Sanyaasa the taste of spiritual  existence.. Bhakti is the foundation of all that is…..

Yes where Karma is the necessary training essential for the health of the mind and 

Sanyaasa denotes that otherworldly existence which is beyond this mind rendered healthy by Karma, 

Bhakti is the constant impulse and nourishment which feeds the very roots of both Karma as well as Sanyaasa..

Naa karmanaa na prajayaa dhanena

(not by karma, nor by fame and following nor through earning of riches and properties)

(can one attain the intended result of freedom from sorrow, suffering and death) so to say

all that one does as a part of religious practices or follows as dictates in the form of nitt nem (niyama) or rituals

the crux of which of-course is the development of a blemish-less personal character;  

the japa tapa dhyana keertan prayers etc.

the visiting or the upkeep and building of places of worship etc and 

provisioning of food and shelter etc. to the poor n forlorn

and earning thereby, of the riches, prowess, honour and fame of being a master of all masters

all this will not redeeem you

all this will not give the intended result

didn’t you say, you dont just want to ‘Do well' anymore but 

you would rather want to ‘Be well’ instead

so none of these things are really going to see you to your intended wellness in-fact….

Tyaagena Ekena Amrutatwam aanasuha

it is the tyaga alone, which ensures salvation from suffering and death

tyaga of what ? shruti refers to the tyaga of illusion….

the illusion, the imagination that you have imposed upon yourself since the past so many births, that you are the body,

yes it is the tyaaga of the illusionary body consciousness, 

which will finally give you your wellness and

but let me also show you glimpses of the road ahead...

the moment you loose body consciousness (of course as a reward of your religious practices)  

you will almost immediately get the glimpse of your true consciousness or 

let us put it this way

the moment you get back a glimpse of your atmic or true consciousness 

you will loose body consciousness and also

the moment you see ur truth distinct from the body 

you will know that the uni-verse is truly one uniform single whole

there is you alone all around, your God alone all around,

you will have no idea of what is body and what is not body

and of-course all the distinctions between different bodies too will, kind of disappear..

furthermore if however this experience happens to dawn upon you before the time is really ripe,

which in-fact happens rather far too often,

your mind, thus freed from the bondage of illusion, 

in every likelihood, will bounce back into its old untrained animal habits 

which you so painstakingly avoided, during your years of saadhana, and 

thus as a result of these fallen ways

you will not only loose this experience of your truth

but you may seriously go off track, plumb deeper, back into the hell-fire of lust and lucre..

though it is besides the point that this distraction, this dereliction of the divine directives

will surely equip you with a first hand experience of 

what constitutes sin and what is merit..

and when you again choose to set your feet on the path of religious rites and rituals

this time you will be more careful about avoiding sin i.e the inevitable falls on the path..

Bhagawan Sri Aadi Shankaraachaarya, in his Viveka Choodamani states, 

“Baarambaar dosh drishti karne se (that is to say by repeatedly doing the sin of looking at the creator as the creation, energy as matter- and suffering thereof)

vishaya samooha se virakt ho kar (dissociating from material consciousness),

chitta ka apne lakshya mein (the consciousness getting established in its goal i.e truth) sthir ho jaana, hee Sham hai..

Sham, damm, uparati, titiksha, shradha, samaadhaan are considered to be the sum of six virtues which make a blemish-less character..  

Sin and Merit

although sin is nothing but a symbolic term used to denote endless suffering 

and the original sin really is singularly one and that is the very tendency to forget ones reality, 

to loose ones true consciousness and reduce oneself to body consciousness but  

in day today practice, there is no doubt that sin constitutes 

all those evil thoughts words and deeds which make one forget ones relaity

and keeps one bound to untruth and thus suffering.. 

merit on the other hand constitutes those guided thoughts words and deeds enjoined by one and all religions

which helps one to become aware of ones reality

and stay ever established in it, wedded to it..

thus we see

(karmanaa prajayaa and dhanena) ie. 

all that one does as a part of religious practices or follows as dictates in the form of nitt nem (niyama) or rituals

the crux of which of-course is the development of a blemish-less personal character;  

the japa tapa dhyana keertan prayers etc.

the visiting or the upkeep and building of places of worship etc and 

provisioning of food and shelter etc. to the poor n forlorn

and earning thereby, of the riches, prowess, honour and fame of being a master of all masters

yes all this helps us to dissociate from and transcend the illusionary mind state

realise another facet of ourselves which is beyond the illusion called mind and is far more real than it

these practices help get rid of the illusion that all that is around, is the ever changing ephemeral world

yes all this helps us to get permanently associated or wedded to the awareness that 

all that is around is Me and My Blemishless Eteranal lord only…

Ahamatma sarvam idam and

Sarvam Vishnumayam idam

Iyaahni baalli kyaa kare

Jaa dhann kantt na bhaawai

(what can the soul do, when the mind does not love The Beloved Husband)

Karanpalaah kare bahutere

Sa dhann mehal naa paawai

(howsoever much she tries, she can not reach His abode)

Bin Karmaa kichhu paayeeai naahin

Je bahuteraa dhaawai

(without a dhaarmic way of life, nothing can be achieved indeed, howsoever much you may want it to)

Lab lobh ahankaar ki maati

Maaya ma samaani

(when the mind is steeped in the worldly ways)

Inni baati sahu paayeeai naahin

Bhayee kaamman iyaahni

(you can not reach The Beloved, the ignorant one doesn’t know this)

thus does the religion i.e the dos and donts prescribed therein, redeeem me

thus does karma finally give me the intended result

the result of 'feeling well’ and ‘being well’, rather than the childish dream of merely 'doing well’.

Eh jag sachhe ki hai kothari, sachhe ka vich vaas

Iknaa hukam samaaye laye, ikna hukme kare vinaas

ikna bhaanae kadd laye, ikna maaya vich nivaas

Ev bhi aakh na jaapayee,  ji kissae aane raas

Nanak Gurmukh jaaniye jaa koe aap kare pargaas..

and I truly see that

this world is nothing but 

My imperishable Lord Himself

indeed it is His almighty Will that 

some souls get established in the truth- which is Him

some stay drowned in the suffering of illusion- that it is the perishable, good for nothing, toiling struggling world. and

even this can not be said or understood as to who will listen to these words

Yes He alone is Gurmukh 

Who is the chosen one…

Naanak sachh dhiyaayan sachh

Jo mar jamme, so kachhan kachh

the one who starts seeing the truth (becomes) is the truth (as per the Will or Ordnance of the Almighty Lord)

the one who sees untruth (continues to be ) is untruth (again in strict accordance to The Almighty Will)

God, if you see, god you are; dust, if you see, dust you are..

Om Pooranam adaha (that) Poornam idam (this), Poornaat Poornam udachyate (created out of),

Poornasya Poornam aadaaya (added or subtracted), Poornam eva avashishyate (remains)..

this is what one utters after one is established in The Self or Atma

Poornaat Poornam udachyate

Infinite Absolute Fullness has come out of The Infinite absolute Fullness

Shaashwat can not have arisen out of nashwar 

it is infinite alone which comes out of infinite 

and what remains too is infinite alone..

when gold ornament is made out of gold

what remains is gold alone)

Me, this whole has come out of the whole

gold and gold ornament are one and the same, what is the distinction

do you have to dismantle the ornament to know that it is gold

when a gold ornament is made out of gold

still it continues to be as much gold

it was my own illusionary momentariness called mind which was seeing gold to be the mere transitory ornament instead of seeing it as gold itself

this creation is the creator himself indeed

Eh vish sansaar jo tu dekhadaa, 

eh Hari ka roop hai, Hari roop nadri aaya

it is by His grace and will alone that 

i reach my own true consciousness from where i see that 

its all my beloved lord alone and nothing else

Eh kutumba jo tun dekhda, challe naahin tere naale

Saath tere challe naahin, tis naal kyon chitta laayiye

Aisa kamm moole naa keeche, jitt anta pachhtaayiyae.

(why even begin on this road to perdition and persecution)

Sattgur ka upadesha sun toon howai tere naale

(why dont you listen to the redeeming advice of the guru which is going stay ever with you)

Kaho Nanak mann pyaare toon sadaa sach samaale

(establish yourself in the Truth- the ik omkaar)

here in these verses

my sadd guru reminds the mind to train itself to see only the imperishable truth all around

he reminds the mind to refrain from making temporal material associations

which are the perpetual source of all suffering… he reminds the mind that

it is only the untrained mind which sees distinctions 

it is this illusion of mind (the illusory mind) which needs be trained along the path of spiritual sadhana or enquiry

so that the illusory mind disappears...

hence it is thus, that the necessity, relevance and basis of religion is stressed to be quintessential..

without training or religion i.e the rehat maryada, man is a helpless animal indeed

one may say that

the religious one is the one, who practices the dos and donts which are imposed upon him, according to the wisdom of an evolved being

where as 

the evolved being is the one who lives those self same dos and donts as His own true nature

but the fact remains that the 

dos and donts continue to be sacrosanct

sin and merit is not an illusion, 

it is the hukam and

Hukam razaai chalna

Nanak likhaya naal and

Bikhyan seyo kaahe racheyo, nimakh na hohe udaas

Kaho Nanak Bhaj Hari Manaa, Parae na jam ki phaas

(how and why are you so stuck to the material body consciousness

remember Hari, fall in love with Him, He is a symbol of Truth, of Spirit; 

once you are associated with Him you will go beyond sorrow suffering and death)

Gun Gobind gaayo nahin,  janam akaarath keenh

Kaho Nanak Hari bhaj manaa, jeha bidh jal ko meen..

(untill you fall in love with Govind, the omni-spirit, you are wasting this precious human life

love Him, be with Him, just like the fish loves water and cannot survive without Him even for a moment)

Dhann daara, sampath sagal; jinn appni kar jaan

Ina mein kachhu sangi nahin, Naanak saachi maan..

(if you form relationship with riches, family and material consciousness, 

you have indeed wasted the precious human birth

know the truth from me, even if you cling to material consciousness like a fool, it is not going to stay with you for long) 

Patit udhaaran, bhai haran, Hari anaath ko Naath

kaho Naanak teha jaaniyai, Sadaa basat tum saath..

(know that Hari, your beloved lord is the only one who can raise your mean worldly consciousness and give you back your own consciousness 

and that He is always by your side, but ask yourself if you love Him enough to see only Him around and avoid the distractions of matter) 

so fall in such blind love with Him my beloved self that you see nothing other than Him..  

(Bhakti leads the mind to Karma and Karma in turn attracts Grace which gives the Taste and Awareness of Self Consciousness or Jnana)

Amrat vela, sachh naaon, vadiyaayi veechaar

Karmi aavai kapra nadri mokha dwaar

Shake off all sleep, sloth and laziness my beloved mind, 

start lusting for the beloved right from the beginning of the day, rather early before sunrise, every morning, life after life

Know that its your meritorious thoughts words and deeds alone which will not only ensure worldly bliss  but it will finally entitle you to His Grace which

will bestow upon you — salvation.. 

salvation from the very illusion called mind, which alone is responsible for  

reducing eternity into ever dying momentariness

transformation of the almighty creator into a helpless creation..

transmigration of energy into matter…

Jo sukh ko chaahe sadaa, sharan Raam ki leha

Kaho Nanak sun re manaa, durlabh manukh deha..

anyone who desries eternal bliss, should stay all the time under the shelter of Sri Raam

and Naanak sahb reminds man that it is a rare privilege to be born as a man.. it should not be wasted.

(Raam is of course Sri Ram, the meritorious son of King Dadhratha but He is as much the  embodiment of Almighty Spirit

So as long as you are the ignorant mind in the form of a body, remember SriRam, the son of King Dashratha,

When, by His grace, you attain to the realm of formless Self, stay ever in communion with the formless nameless Ik Omkaar).

Kicks and Pats

When i donn the robe of this body mind ego complex,
neither can i avoid the pats nor the kicks.. 
Both go together, and both form the staple diet of body consciousness..
Both lead to specific reactions, 
be it neuro-hormonal or be it the psychic counterpart thereof..

While experiencing the pleasures and pains of the two opposites,
there is a Me, the real Me who is always watching this yo-yo happenings to the psychic me.

With the passage of time, living on the diet of kicks and pats,
the two of us i.e the yo-yo me, and the real me, become two distinct entities..

Yes, the real me becomes more and more noticeable and thus more and more real.
This real me is The Truth who, alone, can see Truth and vibe with Truth 

God or Param-atma is that Truth who can be seen only by Truth or Atma...
Self alone sees The Highest Self..
Eternal is seen only by the Eternal..

Blessed is the body consciousness, blessed are the kicks and pats..
Blessed is Me who watches it all...

Spirituality vs Morality

Morality stands on the very platform of spirituality and 

Spirituality verily grows in the soil enriched with morality..

To approach one at the exclusion of the other is mere ignorant prattle..

The Five levels of Consciousness

There are essentially five levels of consciousness which man can live in.

1. The first or the lowest of these is the tamasik state of mind where the thinking is limited chiefly to grabbing sensual gratification and bodily comforts;
2. The second is the rajasik or the ego based thinking which spends itself in scheming plottin planning about attaining power and pelf so that finally the lower needs can be fulfilled unencumbered;
3. Then there is this saatwik state of mind which is a surrendered worshipful state where one keeps oneself busy in the pleasure one gets in prayers and in lookin after and serving the society and world at large; in this state of mind one is an embodiment of a characterful being who has transcended the need for carnal pleasures and street smart shortcuts to material success;
4. Still further deeper or higher is the gunaateeta aatmik cosciousness which has been referred to as Chetna by the philosophers and is in-fact beyond the body mind intellect consciousness hence been referred to as the other worldly consciousness; and
5. The final state is the Eternal Chaitanya Consciousness.

Untill man raises his consciousness to the highest state he continues to suffer the discontent, inherent in the day to day living.
Life is thus nothing but a journey from the ever struggling ever suffering taamasik state of mind to the state of ever present bliss consciousness.

Judging others

Judgement of a thing or a person

Entirely depends upon the height from which you look at it, so

While seriously resisting all temptations about making firm opinions about others

When one does choose to indulge in this avoidable exercise

One must do it from ones very own personal pedestal, at that point of time..
We always find our own judgements about the same person, vary every other time.
Why and how can we believe in someone else's evaluation.. of someone ?
As we ascend our own ladder of evolution we find everyone following suit..

Metamorphosis

From the childhood dream of 
Wanting 'to do well’ 
To the adulthood realisation of 
Wanting 'to be well’..
Is that essential perceptive shift 
Which brings about 'the metamorphosis'..

Shri Narendra Modi and The Renaissance of India

I hope, every Indian is feeling the same warmth and pride..today, as me. 

A Sardar Patel, A true Indian, has finally taken over.. the reigns.

Om NaMo Shivaya 

In my view 

With her reigns in the hands of Modi Bhai, India gets her independence today… 

Way back, it was Aug ’47, when The Britishers relented to vacate India in the face of an unrelenting Mahatma Gandhi; but I understand that they agreed to leave India only as A British ‘Dominion’ and that too with the pre-condition that the reigns of the Dominion will be in the hands of their confidante, Pt Jawahar Lal Nehru, and not Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel who enjoyed a clear undisputed mandate in his favour. Nehru ji was a prototype Macaulay protege, hence the British rulers had found him reliable enough to ensure that the country remains a Dominion even after they officially allow her the status of a Republic later. Don’t we see that The Macaulay spell continues even after more than six decades of the so called independence, under the able control of Nehru family (most surprisingly known by one and all of us to be The Gandhi family). 

26 May 2014, Shri Narendra Modi  takes over the reigns of the country as the Prime Minister of India, with an unprecedented mandate.. It is the first time that the populace of India have unanimously brought a truly Indian leader to the seat of power from where he can steer the country out of her English domination, to the pedestal she truly deserves..

In my view, it has to be a Vivekananda, a Mahatma Gandhi, a Sardar Patel; it has to be a True Indian steeped in Indian culture, an Indian who takes real pride in being an Indian; who can bring India back her lost glory.. India’s strength lies in its originality, its own culture.. It has to be an Indian after-all who leads Indians back to what truly is India.. 

Isn’t it unfortunate that we the ancient most, highly evolved Vedic race, the ‘Aarya' Shreshtha, believe ourselves to be the so called ‘Aryans'- the middle eastern invaders, the likes of the Turks, the Moghuls and the Britishers.. This is nothing but the deep rooted Macaulay effect.

There was an urgent need for a truly evolved leader whose heart was burning with the singular desire to get India back the glory due to her, and yes the populace of India has almost unanimously reposed faith in Shri Narendra Modi as the one such one. He, in my view, has come to wipe off the chronic illness caused by the The Macaulay Effect, from the very hearts of Indians.. and show them the way to their own inner strength.. their character, their own culture..

The climate of a country or an organisation, after-all depends largely on its leader, his personal character, his dynamism. When the leader means business everything else falls into shape automatically… 

Of-course I can not deny the progress the country has made during the British rule as well as in the post independence decades gone by.. but this, in my view has been at an unacceptable price. It is our self pride, which is the price we have paid in our continuing fervour in aping English.. can one deny that the very need to ape someone denotes hollowness and personal emptiness. After-all China is China because it is China, so is it true about Japan. It is only here in India that we see the very roots of Indians, infested with Macaulay virus thus, that every Indian yearns to be nothing but English; every Indian seem to enjoy an uncanny pride in talking English, walking English, being English.. Given a choice we would want to see India turn into England.. Of-course I have nothing against English, but the very concept of mutual respect is a mere farce if I don’t respect myself, if I lack self pride..

In my view, the self pride of an individual and thus of-course a Nation is based essentially on three facets; first and foremost, it is the pride in ones own culture, and then it is the economic independence and last but not the least it is the pride in ones military power; the three of them are not only closely inter-woven but they are interdependent. Can we deny that all the three of these are at there lowest ebb at the end of these six decades of Nehruvian leadership. 

I think, Shri Narendra Modi has won the hearts of the Indian populace not just by his charismatic persona alone but by visible proofs of his ability to restore and foster the lost self pride of the citizens of the state he ruled for the last one decade. He is grounded in Indian culture and hence is verily an exemplar of Indian-ness, he has created ample job opportunities for the Gujaratis thereby giving them economic independence and lastly the law and order situation in Gujarat too is no less enviable than its infrastructure… 

Now, the only thing that the opponents of Shri Modi hold against him is that he is partisan and that he is going to prove himself to be a religious fanatic and thus a disaster for the country which owes its strength essentially to its secular governance. I would feign want to share my personal views on the subject as nebulous as secularism but before I go on to do that, I beg to state that right from joining a primary school to taking up a job, seeking a licence or for that matter a permission to do just about anything in this country, I must first declare my religion so as to have my eligibility for the same assessed, which is essentially based on varying privileges reserved for different religious denominations- now is this the kind of secularism which we Indians are proud of ?? In fact I would like to ask myself, “Can we call this state of affairs, secularism by any stretch of our imagination ??” However, rather interestingly, we all seem to prefer the mystic spell cast by the able governance hitherto, that this alone is secularism and this verily is our very strength. 

Let us see what in our view is non secular or partisan? The PM visiting a temple or doing Ganga Arti becomes non secular!!. Here I think we seem to be confusing atheism or agnosticism with secularism.. I would beg to differ. I would rather define secularism as an ideology which promotes mutual respect, equality and harmonious living for all religious denominations and I don’t think a man who is an atheist, that is to say the one practices no religion and who has no respect for his own religion, can be expected to respect all religions. Similarly how can an agnostic, that is to say the one who prefers to stay away from anything and everything religious, be expected to have respect for all religions.

I submit here, that it is an evolved human being only, who can show us what true secularism is and I personally have no doubts that Shri Narendra Modi is one such evolved one specially endowed with the charisma necessary for a dynamic leader.

Respected friends, I have no doubts that by adherence to our own ancient culture and by demonstrating a sterling personal character, under the leadership of this truly Indian Leader who not only exudes confidence and character in his very persona but has truly demonstrated all of it in his Gujarat leadership..we certainly can redeem our true glory back again,  and .. and 

do ourselves proud.

Satyam Eva Jaya Te 

Good days are here again, indeed.

Dr (Prof) R Talwar

A proud Indian

Mangalacharan

Sree Harim Paramaanandam Upadeshtaaram Eeshwaram

Vyaapakam Sarvaloka Kaaranam Tam Namaamyaham

my very own (Sree) Hari, you are the paramananda, you are my personal beloved god (eeshwaram), lord n master and saviour indeed, 

by holding my hand most gracefully (upadeshtaaram) You deign to take me along to the innermost precincts..and prepare Me to be worthy of Yourself

You alone are manifest all over and You alone are the substratum, source and cause of all that is, 

i bow before you  permanently, for ever ever and ever..

Sarva Vedaanta Sidhaanta Gocharam, Tam Agocharam

Govindam Paramaanandam Sadgurum, Pranato Asmi Aham

Oh my unknowable One and only One, By Your very Grace You have deigned to become knowable 

through the principles and end result of all seeking and knowledge, 

which is nothing but surrender or love, a love-fully silent eternal existence

Oh caretaker husband, my one and only one, you are the wish fulfilling Paramaanadam, you are the guru of gurus, the ultimate

i am at your lotus feet, give me my permanent shelter here.. back again.