THE MAGIC BEHIND "OM" WORD!

Whenever you do Yoga, you use to enchant a word “OM”. You have chanted OM, thousands of times, and the symbol is, well present everywhere. However, have you ever thought what it is about “OM” that makes a yogi to chant its splendor and live in the symbolic presence of it?

Here I am going to tell you 5 facts that you may not know, and which will help you to increase your knowledge about Hinduism & the deep science behind it.

1. The sound of OM covers all words, all sounds in human language:

OM is a milieu of all sounds, when in its diversified figure gives rise to all words used in language spoken by human beings. Linguistically, all perceptible sounds are produced in the space within the mouth beginning at the root of the tongue and ending at the lips. The throat sound is A, and M is the sound of lips; and the sound U depicts the rolling forward of speech expression which initiates at the root of the tongue, ongoing until it ends in the lips. To say OM correctly, remember, the sound shaking is pronounced “oom” as in home.
 
2. AUM and OM

In Sanskrit langauge, the sound “O” is a diphthong spelled “AU”. A diphthong is the amalgamation of two vowel sounds where both are normally heard and make a gliding sound. As a result, the difference between OM and AUM is simply one of transliteration.

3. AUM presents the 3 side Division of Time

  A –   is the waking state
  U –   is the dream state
  M – is the state of deep sleep

At the end of AUM is a pause, a silence. This represents the state known as Infinite Consciousness.

4. The visual symbol represents the meaning of AUM

The symbol OM visibly consists of three curves, one semicircle, and a dot. The large bottom curve symbolizes the waking state, A. The middle curve signifies the dream state, U. The upper curve denotes the state of deep sleep, M. The dot signifies the fourth state of consciousness, Turiya/infinite consciousness. The semi circle at the top represents Maya and separates the dot from the other three curves. It signals to us that it is the illusion of Maya that is an obstacle to realization of the Highest. 

5. OM is associated with Ganesha 

The physical form of Lord Ganesha is said to be that of OM.  The upper curve, of OM, is identified with the head or the face of Ganesha. The Lower curve his belly. The twisted curve, on the right side of OM is the trunk.

OM Shanti Shanti Shanti

MY EXPECTATION FROM "GAME OF THRONES-SEASON 5"

Game of Thrones – Season V is going to air on Television on 12 April. This is one of the most addictive shows in the Television History more than Breaking Bad, Prison Break, and How I Met Your Mother etc. Believe me! I have not seen a single individual of my generation who does not like this show. The story plot – The Characters – Effects – Twists – WTF moments everything is planned in this series - so well that you cannot find any error. I have recently written one article on the “Relationship between GoT and Life” you can read it also here. However, this article is about my expectations related to season V. We cannot predict what David Benioff & D.B. Weiss are going to serve us in this series, Fans may add a number of theories, but trust me they all will be useless and totally opposite we see on the TV. You can’t expect what we will see in the next episode. Hence, let us start what I am expecting from this season-

·         STARK CHILDREN

Well Starks are the most vital characters in the series. Let’s talk about Arya and Sansa – In the last episode of season – 4 we saw Arya heading for the bravos – the free city. From the trailers of season – V we can conclude that Arya will be a badass from now. No mercy - an assassin - a killer, well, I am excited for her role, which will be completely different from the previous seasons. Sansa will play from her mind, she is not like Arya – She can’t carry sword but she will be a “player among pawns”– we will see a version of Lord Baelish in her - who is callous and brainy. Jon Snow is a major character and we cannot think anything wrong against him, he is a warrior and somehow stands apart from the rest of the characters and yes “He still knows nothing”. Brandon & Rickon, we have not seen much Rickon from season -3 so cannot expect him in this season as well. Also, as per the rumors we won’t see Brandon as well, but if we see him – I expect him to fly! Remember something? #BloodRaven

EXPECTATION- Expecting Arya to be a ruthless warrior & Sansa the gamer. Jon must win the trust of Stannis & Brandon must learn to fly!

·         LANNISTERS

Well, one of the most hated characters ever in any TV show. Except Tyrion, people won’t like any Lannister either its Tywin, Cersei, Jaime, or Jeoffery. Tyrion is the backbone of this show and 9 out of 10 people watch this show due to his wittiness. He is a great person not a pawn do not underestimate him due to his size, he has the ability to outplay any of his opponent. However, his family doesn’t like him except Jaime, his father & his sister – Cersei tried a number of times to kill him. His bonding with Lord Varys will be a fun to watch – two “birds of same feathers will flock together”. Let’s talk about Cersei – as per my knowledge she will face a tough time in King’s Landing. People don’t like her at all and believe me we will witness a number of WTF moments about Cersei, perhaps nude as well. Jaime will have a new crush apart from his relationship with his sister. He is important, but this time Cersei will be in the hub of everyone. This is my expectation & it may be wrong.

EXPECTATION- The Lannisters must pay their debts; Cersei must pay for her sins, perhaps some blood on the side of the Lannisters.

·         TARGARYEN

After Starks & Lannisters – the house of Targaryen is very popular and powerful in Westeros. Daenerys is the last dragon and she is uniting a big army of slaves as the iron – throne belongs to her. However, this time she will face a big rebellion from the people of Meeren. A big revolt from the side of people and perhaps she will survive due to her dragon, the big black one! She may have the support of Tyrion-Varys in the later episodes, and perhaps both will lead her to the throne as she deserves to be there! She has the right claim of the iron - throne.

EXPECTATION- Stormburn will face a hard time in this season, but her collaboration with Varys-Tyrion will be beneficial.

·         STANNIS BARATHEON

Stannis, one of the most powerful characters in the series. Stannis has a claim on the Iron Throne – he is ambitious, he is experienced & he has the royal blood. However, one thing is still suspicious – Lady Melisandre. I don’t know what she is planning – what is the aim of this “red woman” & her “Lord of light”. I think she will sacrifice each & every one closer to Stannis, as per the trend my guess is correct till now. He was in the “Castle Black” – He & Jon Snow will pair up, but don’t know where he will use Jon. Regarding “the red woman” don’t know what she is planning!

EXPECTATION- totally unexpected character – can’t predict what he will do!

·         OTHER CHARACTERS

Let’s talk about some other characters. I want “Walder Frey” & “Lord Bolton” to die asap, Remember “Rains of Castamere”? However, Bolton is important & witty, his role is important to run the story. Ser Davos may die as per the sacrifice-ritual of Lady Melisandre, I said “may”. Gendry – don’t know where he is! And will we see him or not, not sure. Ser Alliser – “with me now – now with me” lol – Lady Stoneheart – Oops the North remembers! Need this character asap, want Frey dead.

HOW TO BECOME A CHIEF MINISTER IN 10-STEPS!!!

You want to be a Chief Minister in India? Say Yes! I know you will say yes, and you want to achieve it, whether you are a politician or not. I observed some people for the last 5-6 months in India and in this article I will give you a 10-point agenda by which you can surely be a Chief Minister in the upcoming elections. Okay! So let’s start it:

·         First of all associate yourself with some NGO, if you do not want it; start your own. Now the job of an NGO in India is not what you are thinking – the role of NGOs is highly suspicious, you have to manipulate some data and make it original. You have to prove that you’re working! Now, what you need is foreign funding, as you have to bear the expense of the upcoming events. You have to make a group and you need to fund them as well.

·         The next step is to get media attention and how can you obtain it? By organizing some gripe against some big MNC or some politician. You need to perform a scripted outrage and you need some media to highlight you on the television. Now media attention means some participation in debates, reports and in documentary.

·         You must have links in Government like with clerks, bureaucrats etc. Your relative can play a good role in this. Who can leak information for you! You need some information related to corruption like something done wrong by some bureaucrats or politicians.

·         Now you have got foreign funding and you know some information in Government. You have media support as well! What do you need to do??....Think…..Yes, you are right another protest in the streets, get some media friends who can capture your events all day and create anarchy in the streets.

·         If you can construct it - make this protest even bigger. When you do protest some anti-national groups fund you even more and you can create a phony crowd by this money on a hiring basis. Now you will get support from some good & famous people, use them for your purpose. They will introduce you to other people as well and who can have more influence than the previous people. Use them!

·         Now you should have social media accounts like on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ etc. and you must post once in 30 minutes about the things. People, especially illiterates & sycophants will follow you; you have to attract more people and must spoil their thinking by providing unnecessary & fake information. You must talk about poor people & how they are suffering so that emotions can gain you more sympathy.

·          Now you need to finish the movement and smash the movement and its idea. You need to gather few people who have little experience in politics and who have some knowledge about administration. Start your political party, name it anything you want, and start your movement as a political party. Remember, you will have support from the media (propagandist) & some people who are disillusioned by your speeches.

·         Now contest the upcoming election but before that you need to malign the image of some existing politicians and portray yourself as superior & honest than them. You need more press briefings, media highlights & social media support to create a referendum for you. Therefore, contest the election on the basis of this fake hype & believe me people are really dumb that whatever they see they believe! They will be trapped in your agenda and you may win the election or at least you will stand second in the list.

·         If you could not win, then you need to accuse the winner every time that they are doing “Horse-Trading” and planning to create a social division. If the winner could not form a Government (as they have no required number) then you can be a CHIEF MINISTER. You have achieved your agenda now do whatever you want, if you are able to provide justice to people then good, start your protest and movements in the streets, create anarchy as you have expertise in this.

Now if you want full control on your party throw the people out of your party who are more learned that you and who have expertise in this field than you. After sometime you will be one man show and you are the boss now!

WHY IS IT IMPORTANT FOR INDIA TO HAVE GOOD RELATIONS WITH SMALL NATIONS?

According to Kautilaya – If you don’t have good relations with the neighbors, your kingdom cannot sustain longer and in the long term your people will suffer heavily.

In the modern era, if you have good relations with neighbors, especially in international politics, you have a better and secure future. When I am talking about neighbors it means, I am talking about bigger and smaller nations. I live in India, and we have many neighbors, some are loyal to us, some are our rivals, some are our competitors and some are “two-faced”. We need to have good relations with each and every neighbor country. Today I will discuss how the present foreign strategy of India will strengthen our relations with our neighbors, who were ignored in the last decade. 

In the last two decades, the one thing India lacked was the “sweet relationships” with smaller nations around us. Relationship with nations like Bhutan, Seychelles, Mauritius, Nepal and Sri Lanka were not on the right track. We had affection for the USA, and we gave too much priority for USA but we had not much contact with these small nations. We gave importance for “super-powers” of the world and we unnoticed these nations. It compensated us heavily in defense and security sector, as their Government was not helping us and intruders as well as spies were entering our nation. Now, who are these spies? From which nation they belong? We had not much idea. A nation like China was making influence in these nations and was developing them as per their requirement. Always remember, China and India have a bitter history, and in Asia both nations are struggling to be a super power in this region. The race is for the spot no. 1, a supreme force in this province. India believes in competition, but China believes in monopoly. India believes that small nations (that I mentioned above) should rise above in every sector, but China wants its development more than any others. And that is why China was making good bonds with small nations in the Asian continent, so that it can manipulate them whenever it want and India was scarce this department. Every nation was becoming Pro-China & Anti-India, and believe me we were facing a typical situation as the USA was playing a twofold game with us. On one hand, they were helping our rivals, especially Pakistan and on the other hand they were showing themselves as our “friend”. We paid really heavily in terms of investment, security, foreign policy and else. The neighbor did not believe and invested in us and did not provide us the support which we were expecting from them. You can say we were in the tight path!

However, now we have a new leader named as Narendra Modi and a foreign minister Sushma Swaraj, who are working day and night on making “fruitful” relationship with our neighbors. Prime Minister Modi visited Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Mauritius & Seychelles, and each and every nation got something from us, it might be financial help or technology. Now believe me our neighbors either its big shot like Japan or Russia or small nations like Bangladesh, Bhutan etc. are with us and helping us in many platforms. This is what we want, we want to have good relations even with China, we do not need war, and we want peace and prosperity in Asia and all over the world. This is what was missing from our nation and present Government is successful in achieving that. I want more and more success in foreign policy and better relations with our neighbor and other foreign nations. As foreign policy is the factor of raising investment & trust in one nation. That is why relations are important with small nations as well, so that we can avoid a war and increase our trade. We should weigh both developed & developing nations equally. Every nation should be our friend & accomplice.