Senthikumar weds Malathi

20th August 2017 between 0600 hrs and 0725 hrs
at Surendhara Mahal Thirumana Mandappam
Muthandikuppam, Tamil Nadu 607805
099525 33878

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Inner peace

What is inner peace? When will one achieve it?

Recently I'm noticing that my pulse is constantly high. I'm always in a hurry, but that is not any medical condition. It has become my habit. And I'm sure I'm not alone. There are a lot of people of my age going through the same high pulse thing. Reason being laziness. And laziness leads to worse time management and in turn that leads to  hurrying up things that were normally meant to be done relaxedly.

Interestingly, I do not see this ending any time sooner. As we know any problem if need to be solved, needs its root pulled out. And when I tried tracing the root, I found out my everyday schedule makes me tired beyond normal recovery and that makes me lazy. I started postponing things and I've lost track of things that I've to do, a long time ago. As an add-on, I've become unorganized too.

Now that I've realised what's going on, I want to act. Act to solve things, rewrite the wrongs and hope that I'll be successful.

I've been hearing about this term "inner peace" now. I've not understood though. I wish understanding this term might inspire me to attain it. I'm not sure if it even makes sense.

Will continue upon understanding the term, "Inner Peace"

10000 days and counting

Well, I've crossed 10000 days recently. I cannot call my life a typical South Indian kind. To be continued..

Elan E

Atrocities we face everyday, having born an Indian - Part 1

It was a tiresome day, I had already traveled 300 odd kms in TN public transport system. The bus was good and so was the road with a either a newly laid or properly maintained black top. Yet, the tiredness of sitting on a moving loco never seemed ending. Coupled with hunger, the mood was so bad and to my short lived happiness, the driver felt the same and had our bus parked in front of a road side motel, typically characterized by high decibel sound systems and filthy food. But you always have an option of choosing packed foods over the cooked-in-wherever food. So did I. That is where I completely lost my already fading smile.

All I wanted to buy was a biscuit packet and a bottle of some refreshing drink. My bill based on MRP was INR 27. But I was billed INR 40. When I thought the keeper had done his math wrong and asked him to recheck. Prompt came the reply "this is the price here"

I went red, this is a 48% price hike, atrocious!

Sadly I had no other option being famished. Besides all  these I was noticing a co-passenger trying to buy something but he didn't have the correct change and he was simply denied of what he wanted, even though he was ready to pay the extra 50% on the MRP.

I bought what I wished and entered the bus and the only thing my mind was processing was how could these roadside shops sell things for such elevated prices and how could these things be tolerated? Is there no one to regulate? There are thousands of people forced to buy from these shops by the bus drivers every single trip they make.

One co-passenger revolted against the driver and the reply was more atrocious "if you don't want to buy for such a price, shut up and sit inside the bus" there was no one to support that poor fellow, not even me.

Once the bus was on its normal pace, my mind relaxed and I could think of what just happened in an analytic mode. Questions that I have no answer for are,

Is there no value for human emotions?

Why do these shops pump out people's money?

By selling at such high price, they do not sell much products but if the prices are nominal, they will sell many yet they could have made the same profit. It would have been symbiotic! A more civilized way!

Is there a a tie up between the drivers and the shop keepers? 

Well, May be, but I don't have a proof!

To be continued...

Human Culture – An outlook!

All the fauna only become distinct individuals through the process called learning. This could be said because if one animal learns something, the adaptation of perception will be unique and restricted to the individual, which means, the learning is not passed on to its fellow mates thereby completely annihilating the opportunity for a research and enhancement. There may be substantial physical or biological changes over time. But the flowering of a new phenomenon called “Culture” was not achievable in animals.

What about man? He is an animal too. The Sixth Sense is the Factor X, the magic ingredient of culture—the aspect that took humans out of the common run of animals and other highly social organisms.

Sixth sense gave learning; learning gave self-awareness and that awareness stood as the first step towards the blossoming of culture. But there never was a universal culture. It was diversified over the geographical expanse.

Cultural Evolution is the fruition of ideas, knowledge, morals, minds and technology within a society. All things grow with time and must be primarily understood by their record, their evolution.

As far as humans are concerned, we cannot deny the fact that Biological and Cultural processes have evolved together interdependently, which by now has been fused with human survival doubtful without such cultural products’ abet as clothing, cooked food and proper sheltering.

What after these three basic needs? There came the new term “Society”!

Society crafted laws and conventions to prevent us from following our natural inclination of self-preservation and survival of the fittest.  Inter human competition for the basic needs were diluted. This made human survival and progress possible in an effective conduct.

On learning, our grand fathers passed on their knowledge to their near and dear ones. Which evolved with days and now we have a more civilized way of living. As Aristotle said, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit”. By, doing things we learned repeatedly, we are now progressing towards excellence!

The Cockroach Theory for Self-development

At a restaurant, a cockroach suddenly flew from somewhere and sat on a lady. She started screaming out of fear. With a panic stricken face and trembling voice, she started jumping, with both her hands desperately trying to get rid of the cockroach.

Her reaction was contagious, as everyone in her group also got panicky. The lady finally managed to push the cockroach away but it landed on another lady in the group. Now, it was the turn of the other lady in the group to continue the drama.

The waiter rushed forward to their rescue. In the relay of throwing, the cockroach next fell upon the waiter. The waiter stood firm, composed himself and observed the behaviour of the cockroach on his shirt. When he was confident enough, he grabbed it with his fingers and threw it out of the restaurant.

Sipping my coffee and watching the amusement, the antenna of my mind picked up a few thoughts and started wondering, was the cockroach responsible for their histrionic behavior?

If so, then why was the waiter not disturbed? He handled it near to perfection, without any chaos.

It is not the cockroach, but the inability of the ladies to handle the disturbance caused by the cockroach that disturbed the ladies. I realized that, it is not the shouting of my father or my boss or my wife that disturbs me, but it's my inability to handle the disturbances caused by their shouting that disturbs me. It's not the traffic jams on the road that disturbs me, but my inability to handle the disturbance caused by the traffic jam that disturbs me. More than the problem, it's my reaction to the problem that creates chaos in my life.

Lessons learnt from the story:

I understood, I should not react in life. I should always respond. The women reacted, whereas the waiter responded.

Reactions are always instinctive whereas responses are always well thought of, just and right to save a situation from going out of hands, to avoid cracks in relationship, to avoid taking decisions in anger, anxiety, stress or hurry.