Iam reading three books at a time .They are Grisham's " The Broker",Amartya Sen's "The Argumentative Indian",and' Minor Upanishads"published by Ramakrishna Math.
Grisham is telling the story well in this drama of a Presidential pardon and the story is interesting. I usually judge my interest in the book when I am not inclined to look at the end.
The Argumentative Indian is very absorbing to the say the least.It needs a sustained and intellectually alert reading mind.Definitely not boring and Iam surprised that Amartya Sen has taken so much pain in telling his views about the psyche of the Indian.Since Iam one and I do follow what he is trying to tell us I find the reading quite enlightening.I used to think that amongst the public figures who were also writers it was Nehru who was thinking when he was trying to tell us something relevant.Now here is definitely one more person who is trying to tell us why we are so in our dealings and thinking.Everyone should read this book and it should be prescribed for if not schools at least to college students.
Next ofcourse I need not say what the Upanishads are!.I found many of the concepts well explained and some like the explanation of the dhyana on the Pranava Mantra and the Atman easy to understand.Many of my doubts are cleared and Iam now definite that though many spiritual leaders including my Master ask us to follow a certain method the Upanishads have already told them to us.The advise by the spiritual followers are directed towards asking everyone to concentrate on one method as the Upanishads are explaining all the methods.It is like covering all the syllabus in the schools and then asking students to study the most relevant so that the scoring will be better.
My conflict of yesterday is resolved by the reading of the upanishad especially the chapter on "Yoga Thatwopanishad', the 43 rd Upanishad.There ,it is said that 'Ajgyana' is 'Samsara".And Gyana is moksha.So though Iam aware of the agyana of my desire and consider it as my' maya ',and am not taking any action to come out of that,still when reading this aspect of our lives ,the pain I felt waiting and still in not conquering myself is lessened as I know now that there are no two ways for resolution of the conflict.I must leave the desire.I must accept this loneliness in me and dig deep within me to escape.The way to Mukthi is this testing of my 'Maya'veil.
Iam as a result feeling fine today.here are no way that I feel I like.The way that is painless is the right way and it cannot be compromised.
Blogs That I Follow.
- http://navallanga.blogspot.com
- News Item That touched Me ....There was one article in this month's Reader's Digest about Kamalbhai Parmar who is running a fabricating unit and who runsa school,rather a tution school for the poor students in Ahmedabad.It takes a large heart to start something like this.I do wish I can do something like that too.Atleast be able to teach in such effort .
- Books That I am reading now.....I am reading "Under Orders" by Dick Francis.Just started.Seems to be about issues in racing sport.
- News Items That Touched Me Today----The bicyc;e scores over train and car in a survey conducted for two wheeler travel ina congested metro like New York as the fastest transport..
- Movies That I Liked.....I watched a Malayalam Movie called'Vastu Hara' in Kairali T.V.yesterday.The story touches about losers who migrate abandoning their personal properties during divison of countries and realtes to the creation of East Pakistan called East Bengal dividing Bengalis .Also running underneath the main issue is the personal loss of property which gets rejected by the Mother in the story who is offered the same back by her Husband's relatives.
- Books That Are My Favorites----Somerset Maughm's short stories,Arthur Conan Doyle's 'sherlock Holm mysteries',All of Shakespearian dramas,The Bronte sister's writings,Poems by Mathew Arnold and Tagore's 'gitanjali'.This list is not exahaustive.
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