Jan Lokpal

There is a big support for Anna Hazare especially in his second protest. But there are also critics who speak against Anna. Baba Ramdev moved out of the scene when there was question and cases against his trust and its administrator Balakrishna. But Anna still continues his protest though there were some accuse against his way of earning fame in celebrating his birthday. Even for protesting for a noble cause we need support of media, and some advertisement is needed. So, he advertised himself. This is not a mistake.

The Lokpal bill will not eradicate corruption from the country. But it is a weapon against corruption. It is a step against corruption in our country. Only in 18 states we have lokyuktha and in some states it is not so powerful. The existing system is not successful in avoiding corruption. It is mainly because they are not independent. We are quite aware of the independence of CBI since Congress came to power.

Though Lokpal is expected to come as an independent body, like election commission, the power depends on who is the chief of the Lokpal. Its efficiency and success also depends on the same. For example, the power of election commission is fully exercised and everyone came to know about it when T N Seshan was the chief election commissioner. In Gopalswami's period also it was good. But we saw the commission's weakness during Naveen Chawla's period. Similarly if Lokpall Bill was passed, its power also depends on who will be the chief of it.

The demands of Anna are not something which are unacceptable. His demand for not taking the bill to standing committee is also acceptable as the committee which was made by the government before was just some negotiation between Congress and Anna team. It does not consist of another party member or anyone other than the government and Anna team. So, it will not be useful in discussion of the bill in the committee. Anna team also compromised with judicial accountability which is also correct. Bringing lower bureaucrats under Lokpal is also possible and necessary as people suffer at their hands most of the time. Citizen's charter and grievances also help the work to be done on time in government offices. At present only few of the employees in government offices, especially state government are actually working. Most of the government employees do not know what work is going on in their office currently, and even their responsibilities.

More than 300 lakh crores of Indian money are in foreign banks. Corruption for these many years is the main cause for such huge amount. We can reduce that at least to some extent in the coming years through the Lokpal and there are also possibilities to recover those amount rather the action by government after many years when all those who have the money  convert them to some other form of investments.

All of us know about this serious problem in our country. We did not dare to take any step against it. We just kept talking and at the most writing about that. This also created more awareness also among the public showed that a common man also can do something useful against corruption. Anna tried something more than us and we wish him all the best to succeed in his effort. We support him too.

Unite to fight against corruption

One of the most attention required problem in our country is corruption. All of us have grudge over those who are involved in that. But the initiative is taken by a person who is receiveing a warm support across the nation. This is a protest for a noble cause which requires support of people from all class. Though the government tries to distract the goal we need to aim at our goal. Everyone must support this regardless of diversity of caste, religion, etc.

Ahmed Bukhari, Shahi Imam of Delhi's Jama Masjid has advised Muslims to stay away from Anna's movement. He states that Islam does not condone the worship of nation or land. How is this related to supporting to Anna Hazare's fight against corruption? Unless Islam objects loyalty towards the nation, Muslims can support Anna. We could see a lot of muslims supporting Anna despite his advice.

I feel Congress is using its last weapon against Lokpal. They are diverting the issue with caste, and religion. Corruption has affected nation-wide across all types of people. We all have to join hands to fight against it. It makes no sense in looking for culture or tradition in supporting Anna. Nation and people's welfare is more important.

The food inflation has risen to 9.03% last week. It was even more in previous months. the government is looking way to reduce that by increasing interset rates by the Reserve Bank. At present there are about 300 lakh crores of Indian money invested in foreign banks. if it were brought to India, it would be the best way to help people. But government is not taking action so slowly that those who have accounts in foreign banks will transfer that amounts to othet investments like shares, hotels, etc and move to safer side. This also a form of freedom in this secular state.

Ramayana and Psychology

Dasaratha announced his wish to anoint Rama as the King of Kosala. Rama was asked to do some poojas and austerity for the previous night of his crown. People were also rejoicing after the announcement. It was like a festival in the kingdom, especially in Ayodhya.

Manthara came to Kaikeyi's palace and informed her the news. Kaikeyi presented her a necklace for the good news she had brought. Manthara threw it away and said, "Woe to you, stupid woman. All is lost
and stupidly you laugh with joy. How can you be blind to the misfortune that is coming to you? Am I to laugh or cry at this folly?"

Manthara started changing the mind of Kaikeyi. Psychology, especially of a married woman is shown here exactly in Ramayana. "Bharatha ids not in the city. The King has choosen the right time to cheat you and your son by crowning Rama", she added. Kaikeyi thought Manthara, "Like any other officious personal attendant, was ingratiatingly jealous in her mistress's interests. How could this woman understand the goodness of Rama, or affairs of State?"

"If Rama is crowned, Kausalya will get all respect. You need to depend on her even for offering to a beggar at your door." Dasaratha's rule is praised as there was no beggar in the kingdom. But Manthara means to say that Rama's rule will be such that people start begging to others. If one wish to say evil about others he can go to any extent and say which can never happen. But Kaikeyi was not moved by those words. Manthara added a lot to convince. "Once Rama is crowned there is danger for Bharatha's life."

Kaikeyi was intelligent and a she was a good warrior. She cannot accept all irrational speech by Manthara. then Manthara used a last chance to convince kaikeyi psychologically. Kaikeyi belongs to the kingdom of Kekaya. Her father is the king of Kekaya kingdom. A married woman can easily be convinced if she gets a fear that something happens to her parents, or the place she was born and brought up. In that case she cannot think and differentiate good and bad.

Manthara said, "Do you remember once Janaka attacked Kekaya? Janaka was defeated as Dasaratha was supporting your father. But if Rama is crowned, then in case if Janaka wages a war on Kekaya, Rama would be supporting his father-in-law as your husband did. Your father would be defeated. Do you want your father to lose his kingdom?" Kaikeyi now has onlty thought of saving her father's kingdom. Manthara added, "There is a way to save from this danger.", and reminded her about the two boons Dasartha promised kaikeyi long back.

The way Manthara convinced Kaikeyi shows the psychology of a woman, and how it is handled by Manthara in evil manner. The epics shows such characters and  incidents to teach us not to fall into the traps of such people. Learning from the lives of our ancestors is the main aim of such histories, which are told to us in form of stories.

Congress supports...

The Congress governemnt supports Raja who is accused in 2G spectrum scam. Kapil Sibal said no loss to government in 2G scam. Congress supports Kalmadi in CWG scam. But they are against Ramdev who fights against corruption. Congress is against BJP who tried to hoist national flag in Kashmir.

With no evidence, Dhik Vijay Singh abused Ramdev. Man Mohan Singh, the Prime Minister, changes his stand every day. When Sushma Swaraj said that there was a discussion on a case of Ex-CVC Thomas, Man Mohan denied saying that issue was not brought to him. But when Chidambaram accepted it, he also accepted to have discussed.

The government got details about account holders in foreign banks. Yet they are not ready to reveal, though the foreign banks had no restriction over it.

But this time, they did a great mistake by moving Ramdev from Delhi at mid night. This is not good both for the country and the Congress government. This has got a lot of condemn from almost everyone other than Congress.

Already Congress government has got a lot of criticisms in these years which made sure that it cannot win the next time. This action of Congress adds to those. Moreover Congress is not having media under its control as DMK did. So, all media are competing in tearing the mask of Congress. There are more chances for Congress to lose worser than how DMK lost in the state as the awareness of these corruption and terrorism is more among the people.

The bottom line of all the actions of Congress is:
Congress government is against those who are against terrorism or corruption.

Self Lineage

For kids, what we first teach is to call his/her mother and father, and other relatives. Then they are taught his/her mother's name, father's name, etc. This is for the child to know about his family, to be more specific, the ancestors, or lineage. Normally we know maximum upto our grand father or  great grand father's name. In Hinduism the Veda is divided into 4 branches called Saakha, and each of us follow any one of those. They are Rik, Yajus, Saama, and Atharva. For each of the braanch, there are some rules, which we call Sutra.

Yajus saakha is further divide into Krishna and Sukla.

The sutras are:
Rik - Saankalaayana and Aaswalaayana
Krishna Yajus - Aapasthambha, Hiranyakesi, Bodhaayana, Bhaaradwaaja, Maanava, Vaikhaanasa.
Sukla Yajus - Kaathyaayana
Saama - Masaka or Aarsheya, Laatyaayana, Draahyaayana
Atharva – Vaithaana, Kaushitaki

To identify an individual's lineage we use Gotra. Pravara refers to the rishi's who belong to that Gotra. Some rishis who belong to a Gotra, started new lineage, leading to new Gotra. Hence a rishi's name can appear in more than one Gotra. For each Gotra, the pravara rishis may vary from two to five. So, once a person knows about his lineage, he needs to tell that to elders when wishing them. It starts as "Abhivaadaye...".

It is a sort of self-introduction while wishing our elders. In return they will bless us, which is called Pratyaabivaadanam. It will be like, Aayushmaan Bhava, or Dirgaayushmaan Bhava. In our introduction, we mention our Pravara, Gotra, Sutra, Saakha, Naama. Naama refers to name, which is the leaf of the tree.

Abhivaadaye looks like:

"Abhivaadaye <Rishi's names> [dva | triya | chatur | pancha]Rishiya <Gotra name> Gotrah <Sutra name> Sutrah <Saakha name> saakhadhyaayee <Naama> sarmaanaam aham asmi Bhoh"

Rishi's for a few Gotra's:

Naitruva Kasyapa Gotra: Kasyapa, Avatsara, Naitruva
Kowsika Gotra: Vishwamitra, Agamarshana, Kowsika
Bharadwaja Gotra: Aangirasa, Brahaspatya, Bharadwaja, Upreti
Srivatsa Gotra: Bhargava, Chyavana, Aapnavana, Aurva, Jamadagni
Vadoola Gotra: Bhargava, Vaitavya, Saveedasa

and so, on.

Depending on number of rishi's name, we have, dva, triya, chatur, pancha, which means two, three, four, and five respectively.

An example Abhivaadaye is,

Abhivaadaye Kasyapa, Avatsara, Naitruva triyaarishiya Naitruva Kasyapa Gotrah aapatsamba Sutrah Yajusaakhadhyaayee Neelamega sarmaanaam aham asmi bhoh

I, Neelamegam belonging to Naitruva Kasyapa Gotra, of three rishi's Kasyapa, Avatsara, Naitruva, following aapatsamba Sutra of Yajusaakha of Veda saluting you Your Honour.

Our culture and its importance must be taken to our next generation.

Upper Caste

Since independence people are divided into communities and benefits are given to people those who do not belong to Forward Community. I'm not sure on what basis this system is formed and on what basis they say Backward, Scheduled, etc.

If it was formed based on economic status, they could have given monetory help to those who are financially weak. In case they would have formed based on economic status of majority of people in a particular caste, we find people of so called upper caste are below poverty line till now.

Brahmins are called upper caste, and they are the people who are affected by reservation, etc. TN government gave monetary help to students of backward community. But in reality, most of the Brahmins are below poverty line, and have their livelihood from all sorts of menial jobs. Towards north, Brahmins can be easily found cleaning public toilets, a menial job that the government projects as if it is being done only by Dalits since ages. Fifty per cent of rickshaw-pullers in Delhi’s Patel Nagar are Brahmins.

They argue that Pandits are most rich people. The fact is that now, Pandits are living as refugees in their own land. So, on what basis the government is still giving benefits to dalits, and backward community? The answer is Vote Banks. This is what all political parties look for and support to.

Jayalalitha in her previous term said that she will provide subsidies to Christians for their trip to Jerusalem, as government does for Muslim's Haj. Many of the 108 Divyadesams are not having proper road facility too. But she has no care about those.

At Tamil Nadu's Ranganathaswamy Temple, a priest's monthly salary is Rs 300 (Census Department studies) and a daily allowance of one measure of rice. The government staff at the same temple receive Rs 2,500 plus per month. But all priests in temples belong to upper caste. They have no benefits from the government. But government spends Rs 1,000 crores for salaries of imams in mosques and Rs 200 crores as Haj subsidies. They have a large vote banks while in upper caste it is negligible.

This is called secularism. Jaihind.

Conversion

Recently, I happened to see this video on internet.

When we think rationally, we can understand the truth. It is said that there is no evidence to prove that Elam ko is a follower of Jainism, or the idealogies are exclusive to Jainism. There is also no proof that they are exclusive to Christianity too. All religions lead people over the right path of life. No religion preaches adharma. So, the ideologies will be similar. It is absurd to jump into such conclusions with these arguments.

As of I know there is no God of Pardon in Silappadhikaaram. After king dies she comes out to streets, and burns Madurai and that only the righteous, old, children are spared. She did not give excuse to anyone. There is no reference to any Christian Gods or people like Thomas in Silappadhikaaram. Even Dhurva followed austerity and penance to sit on the lap of Lord Vishnu. Can we link that with Lazarus in lap of Abraham?

1+1=2 in England. The same in India too. Can we jump into conclusion that Indians learnt mathematics from British?

Spreading Christianity and converting people to Christianity is considered sacred and there are missions working on it. Funds too come from foreign countries for this. I'm not blaming the religion. I say that such activities should not be encouraged especially in our country.

Spreading their religion by brainwashing the people or attracting them with money should not be encouraged. Against this ADMK government brought Anti-Forcible conversion law. All Christian missionaries opposed it, saying it is unnecessary as no one does that. If so, what concerns them? How minorities are affected by that law? Yet, it was removed to safeguard the vote banks.

In future they may say, Solomon Paapaiyah explained Thirukkural in Sun TV, and so Thiruvalluvar belongs to Christianity. As a common man, I can understand these things to be absurd. It will be so for others too. But such things may brainwash some people. This is a threat to our culture. But the government will never take any action against such things. An Italian lady ruling our country will help her country, and her people like Kwatrochi, and her religion.

Beware of such missions. Think rationally. Jaihind