Monday, March 31, 2008

Life is a festival!

Like Chilly winter and hot summer,
like sweet down and puring rain,
life has so much to celebrate,
In happiness and even in pain.

You don't get everything in life,
but it's fun to miss something,
it's great to see yourself ,
Being someone from nothing.

When you get what you want,
Nothing remains to win,
When you play with your own rules,
life becomes beautiful and clean.

Thousands of colors to pick up from,
thousands of things to dream on,
think about present,
future is yet to come and past is gone.

It's all about the way you look at it,
life can be as dead as skull,
But if you know the real meaning of it,
Life is a festival.....



-Mayur

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Swami Mayur's talks on love!

Love......this four letters have been the biggest phenomenon in the history of mankind. There have been lot of views and debates over this topic and the same will continue till the judgment day.

I always think about why people talk so much about a thing that they feel is immensely personal? Why this topic is getting hotter when we are preferring personal life over open one? Why love is becoming a social topic when other things are actually going in reverse way?

No one knows whats love. It might be the combination of thoughts of 6 billion people living on this planet.

I feel love is nothing but just a special connection of two hearts. Love doesn't come alone, It needs companions such as trust, understanding, support, companionship, lust, friendship and a whole lotta things to happen. In short, love is close friendship+lust(I know it's a matter of debate but IN MY OWN WAY I feel so)

I have thousands of as weird ideas as I'm about love. Sometimes I think of unconditional love, sometimes I turn bit practical and think about future and sometimes I don't think of love at all.

We talk a lot about ideal match and stuff. What exactly it is? Can't two really close friends with a strong affection and trust be companions for life? This world is hell confusing...Science is far more simpler than this

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Needs, wants , development, demands, growth, GDP ....

"What is development?" I always ask the question to myself looking at the flourishing malls and other so called development signs when I pass by.
The question is bugging me from last many days and I'm not really able to find a justifiable answer to the same.
We often compare India with developed countries and keep talking about how things can be done better here. From last few years we are really experiencing the superficial growth symbols which has touched only 28% of population. We always talk about a great deals of plans to improve infrastructure and quality of life but India has greatly failed to bring smiles on the faces of most, if not all, citizens.
I'm not here to give lecture on farmers and their suicides because I don't have time to keep chewing the gum. My point is why are we happy when our economy is being holed because of virtual happinesses?
We often talk about billion dollar acquisition deals by indian companies, number of Indians in forbes list and many other things which doesn't make sense to our lives but do we really take care to improve the way things are going on? Do we really analyze the long term impacts of this short-lived relationship with virtual development?
I'm sure most of us(I was in the same list a while back) are so much into our comfort zones that we don't think what would be prices of grains when there would be no-one to farm here. Farming, the backbone of Indian economy and the gonna-be hot sector due to population explosion has no-one to look after as everybody is running behind ipods and malls. This is really going to be crucial within next few years when oil supply will go down and basic needs(food,shelter, clothing) would come in forth.
We Indians are so much into 9% GDP growth thing that we are patting our own back and dreaming about our glossy future as a global power. Lots of studies have predicted India as the 2nd biggest economy after China somewhere around 2050. What the hell are we going to do with the crown in 2050? And is it really going to happen with diminishing oil supply and the growing gap between social layers?
It's really easy and feel-good thing to see glossy pictures about red-carpets but the reality is quite harsh. We were evaded and robbed by many and we started off from a scratch just since 1950s. We always wish to be like EU nations which put centuries in development process. We are trying to reduce the social imbalance by the means of reservation but have we ever though of minimizing the economical as well as the skill gap which is still there? What if the next generation of farmers give up farming considering the flashy atmosphere in cities? What if there would be no means to fulfill our basic needs? I'm not an economist nor a anthropologist. It's just that I care about my own future!