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What is a waste of time ?

• Listening to 'motivational speakers' for 'motivation' is a waste of time. • Watching Bollywood movies to know what's true love, is a waste of time. • Reading Swara Bhaskar's tweets is a total waste of time. • Searching for jio network at random places to get those few msgs is a waste of time. • Arguing with a fanatic, telling 'yoga is not about religion' , is a waste of time. • Watching Salman's movies to get some new perspective of life is a total waste of time. • Listening to Rahul Gandhi's opinions on certain things is a waste of time. • Uploading a meme/joke & waiting for reactions throughout the day is a total waste of time. • Reading Amar Gupta / Deepa in pursuit to learn Physics is a waste of time. • Waiting for a relatively cool day in Churu is a waste of time. • Reading Schrödinger's biography to get some moralities is a total waste of time. • Looking for 'IISc’s new discovery on superconductivity a...

My visit to the only rat temple, maa Karni of Deshnok, Bikaner

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It was thrilling to the core. It was my first visit to any magnificent temple like this. I got this opportunity as part of  Abhivyakti evam Pratibha shivir  ( camp) organized for 10th-12th state merit students by RBSE board, Ajmer. Fortunately they selected Deshnok ( Abode of maa karni) for their camp for students of Bikaner division . The thing about the temple is , no matter where are you standing , walking or sitting, there is at least one black rat ( big one ) near your feet. Rat population is like that here, u won't believe but u can't take feet off the floor if you feel too unpleasant to be touched by those big black rats. So you will be walking in the funniest way for the first time in life. & Common public belief says ,  you must offer an artificial rat to mother Karni if you accidentally kill a rat while walking. Also if you see a white rat ( called 'kaba' with love) then u r super fortunate to visit Deshnok, You are free now , maa Karni will make...

Top 10 things that Indians want Americans to know :

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• Yoga was not invented by Madonna. Well before u guys discovered India , this land had witnessed countless no. of yogis & siddhas. Adiyogi made this science available for masses for the first time it seems. You guys came to know about it only after Vivekananda & Paramhansa Yogananda visited your place. • PETA doesn't know a thing about Jallikattu. They don't know how deeply Indians are linked to the soil and cattle. • Bollywood is not the only film & tv industry we have. Every Indian state has its own film industry. • Krishna didn't have 16000 wives. Shook off your head my friend. That's one wrong thing with free internet. • The rape rate in India is far less than you , France and UK. With evidence ↓ (Watch Karolina Goswami s video on the same.) • Modi does sleep (but far less than Trump). • Every Indian street doesn't have serpents. • Hindi is not the only language we speak, Bharat has 22 official languages and over 550...

What am I proud of ?

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That I am a citizen of the land which provided the longest peaceful coexistence to all major religions of this planet . That I walk on the land of the largest democracy on the planet. That I am citizen of most ancient & continuously inhebited civilization That I born on a land where people never went outside to inavade other societies & colonize them . That I consume the water & food from a land which still welcomes the people who colonized this land 71 years ago. That I popped up from a land where creatures of all skin colors, cultures , dresses, ideologies, belief systems are coexisting without any major problem. That I walk on the land which never hid its dark sides from the larger world unlike China hiding its slums & UK hiding its colonizing rule from their school children. That I walk on a land that produced millions of mystic s, yogis, sages, seers, saints, singers,dancers, poets,mathematicians and even surgeons when nobody imagined it. Yes I ...

Pointless traditions still existing in my region

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I shall be talking about the ones existing in my region i.e. rural northern Rajasthan & western Haryana ( i.e.  baagar ). (All the mathematics & economics written here lies in lower middle class context.)  (For ladies) You must put on your veils ( have  ghoonghat ) in presence of all men & senior women at your  sasural  . By  sasural  I mean the entire village. It's considered a sign of respect. But in your  maayka , it's not needed. They have known your respect since your birth. It's a bit difficult to understand how men can always  ghoonghat lessly express respect towards others. Pic: from  Google  )  Everytime you visit your daughter /granddaughter in her sasural, you must give 50 or 100 rupees to her, her  saas ( सास),  kaaker   saas, taayer saas, maamer saas, buaaer saas,  all  saas ', her  nanads  and other married/unmarried girls around. If you r a boy yet & hap...

One of 'Most indian thing ever'

"   She is my real sister.” This won't make sense to a westerner. Because for them a sister is real sister only. All others can't be sisters. Cousin at most. In Bharat, we have chacheri, mameri & fuferi sisters and then the real sisters. English is such a poor language , they don't have words for all my other lovely sisters . For all my lovely chachi, taai, bua, maami & maasi they don't have words.. everyone is an ‘aunt' & this word is feelingless…and dry. You are sitting with eyes closed , they say u r meditating. But you can do so many things with eyes closed : japa, thapa, shoonya, Dhyana, dharana, samadhi or may be u r trying sleep with spine erect. People have spent their life beautifully with eyes closed , just chanting “ ram -ram” within. English..Ufff. I feel, we must bring these words in English dictionary before my children come on this planet.

What am I not afraid to admit?

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That I am anti -party ( for the so called parties : full of smoke, intoxication, unconscious hookups, irresponsible - compulsive behavior of people, and the amount of money they waste…) . Someone asked me , “ then what do u do to enjoy the moments, to throw away the stress of work”. : Dhyana, yes it's much more efficient & sensible way of experiencing pleasantness ( u can call it madness or a very different kind of intoxication : see the portraits of typical yogis, u will always find them ecstatic or take a walk in Himalayan caves) . And my work is never a STRESS for me, cause I only do what I really care to do. Namaskaram

Small things but matter a lot.........

• Putting your trash in the bin… and not throwing it on road / floor / ground / under bus-seats . ..as far as possible. • Not taking the amount of food that u can't consume at a time & ending up throwing it into bin. • A smile on you face when someone familiar passes by you. You have no right to spread your misery in public places. • Keeping your humanity full on & doing what is needed at the moment when you are out in the world & throwing your concrete ideas of morality, immorality , sins ..bla bla…into the bin. • Standing up on national anthem. You must understand it's about 30 % of your people who are not eating 2 times a day. Without that national integrity, we can never pull them out of that socio economic pit. • Supporting the govt for 5 years in nation making once the majority of your country elect them as nation's representatives. Even if you don't like them , you need to respect the decision of the nation. • Acknowledging the success o...