My Inner Voice

I have mentioned this in my some of previous posts. We need better regulation and control over private education institutes. We need to get these education mafias under scanner.  Education is a basic right of people. However, if we see today, it has become business of its own kind. Higher education is hardly in the means for poor and even lower middle class. Even in USA, the situation of higher education is not that different. Is it a conspiracy to keep the costs ridiculously high? If not, what can be done to address the issue? How can we curb the costs to bring it in common man's reach? I feel pity and aghast for the parents and children both when I hear the school tuition fees in urban private schools. For nursery and KG, which does not even qualify as education on records, the tuition fees ranges from 25 thousand to 2 lac. That's ridiculous, outrageous, disgusting and what not. There are too many questions in my mind and too many problems to solve. We need to rejuvenate t...

The knowledge that we acquire in this world and the educational degrees we collect to decorate our name plates are the real barriers in knowing who you are and what you are. Unlearning whatever you have learnt is the only way to know the truth. However, unlearning is the most difficult thing for humans - The Wise Species. It is harder than the toughest examination you have faced to learn something. Try unlearning the smallest/easiest thing you think you have learnt. Note that learning here does not mean studying subjects, because you can very easily forget whatever you studied or mugged up to clear the exam. Learning means developing the perceptions, developing the skills to survive, developing the believes. Can you unlearn riding a bike, can you unlearn swimming? The obvious answer is no. The acquired knowledge creates barrier between you and truth and make you think that you are different than others in world, that you are greater/superior than others. You are not. You ar...

When someone asks a question, what is the value of environment in our LIFE, the value of question itself varies based on whom are we asking. For some people the question would not be even worth answering. Some may take a stab at it by answering it in 3-4 lines and get away. However for some people it is a topic at heart which they would like to be asked again and again so that they can create the awareness about the seriousness of this question. It is a very vast topic to discuss and hundreds of books are written on the same issue. I will say issue because we human being had reached to the point where the word environment is always followed by issue. When mighty lord awarded us with this beautiful earth, it was with the same love and affection as a father who provides his son a valuable gift. Now this gift has to be treasured and the joy to be shared. But as the son grows old and grows knowledgeable (what an irony), he would expect more, demand more and demands never ...

Many people do not believe that there is something like a heart inside us. They think that whenever a heart is mentioned, it is physical organ only. But then no one can deny existence of mind. Mind is not brain. Mind is also an abstract entity, like heart, which exists\work only till we are conscious. The moment we die, faint or sleep, they go dormant. Brain-Heart\Brain-Mind connection is broken. However brain remains intact. When someone pricks you in sleep, the nervous system sends signals to brain which then send signals to body to wake up and fight. This is a survival mechanism. However you won't feel the pain until you are awake. If brain was the one responsible for feeling, we would have felt it all in sleep and unconscious state too. We sometimes have dreams and some dreams may be lucid enough to engage back your mind and heart and that's when you sometime wake up screaming and perspiring. With only brain at work this wouldn't and shouldn't happen becau...

We often and grossly confuse love as a relationship. Wrong and hackneyed usage of the word love  has complicated the affairs for us humans. We also confuse love as an emotion.  Love is neither a kind of relationship nor an emotion. Love is a feeling and can go on to become a state of the heart. It is little confusing, so let's try to sort it out.  There has always been confusion between brain and heart and who controls what. Heart starts its work in the womb of mother. Brain works on acquired data. To feel is heart's business Feelings are realm of the heart. Our body gathers data from world using sensory organs. All the information is sent to brain. Our brain then process the information. To perceive or feel the received information is heart's job. Note that here we are referring to the abstract and not the physical organ heart. Apart from processing information, brain stores memories about the actions, incidents and everything including feelings...