We all ask questions, do we always ask for answers? May be Yes, may be No.

We don’t like to be questioned, whether its a History class, or where the stapler is when we are busy watching the movie, or about our attitude towards other people which includes our parents, dear ones and enemies, or even the intricate questions about life and existence, or going further we don’t even like to be questioned about our very own actions.

But, when someone asks a generic abstract question whose answer is non-existent or is trivial or tickles human perception and mind, he feels he is being intelligent to put up such a question in front of other people. May be his motive was innocent or he is just at awe when he wonders about the lopsided nature of questions and answers.

In our life, we ask more questions than we ever answer, It is either in a process of gathering information, or in a process of having a discussion or providing information to others in a thought provoking manner.

So, Thinking about answers, are there answers ? something in me tells that there is answer to every question possible.(For sensible qns). But sometimes certain questions which are not sensible may be sensible at a future point of time. How do we find an answer to a question? That is a prudent question.

How did Aryabhatta find the value of Pi? How did he find Zero?

How did Kekule find the structure of Benzene?

How did Einstein propound Relativity..?

These are works of great personalities of various times, On a common scale, How did you find the answers to simple questions you face everyday?

Like, the amount of salt, direction to your office, your thirst level, your sub-conscious driving..!

Its in you.. The answer is within you..! Whenever you hear an answer, until and unless you believe it with faith and conviction, that is not an answer for you.

So the answer is within you..! For how much you see, smell, taste, hear and feel, the mind inside you, need to comprehend and digest to make it truth for yourself. No matter whether its engraved in gold or rock, Its your conviction in the end that matters, may be that is why we have so many religions, gods, rituals and superstitions....

As I told, you can find answer to anything, any situation, any question, any problem, any challenge, any hurdle…all you need is a clear thoughtful mind…

Stop Googling, Start searching within you..!!

-Santhosh K Ramachandran (keep probing)

In your life, you always make choices, everyday, every moment you make choices out of your experiences, your education, from the training you have got, the instinct feeling you carry. You remember very few choices you have made, those important ones especially related to your career, love life, relationships, etc. On a spiritual, meta-physical level, what makes you take that choice or decision.

Is it the fate?

Is it your karma? based on your past and present life.

Is it really written? just like in the  “The alchemist”

Is it based on planetary positions?

or is it really your very own logical choice out of your mind? which you have no idea where it came from…!

Or even worse, is it based on emotions designed specifically to overwhelm logic and reason?

On an ironical note, you don’t have the choice of your color or physical appearance, no matter what the plastic surgeon or dermatologist claims.

You don’t have the choice to what race you are going to be born, you don’t have the choice where you want to be born, you don’t have the choice of caste or religion of your parents which you are most probably going to follow.

Even you don’t make the choice of your very own name, by which the entire world is going  to know you by.

Most of the violence and homicide of 20th century is based on the first two statements, which is not even your own choice.

If you have a political or philosophical belief, fight for it, no problem !!! (still, No Violence plz) Its your very own goddamn choice.

I normally ask people an “OR” question, so as to see how they make the choice…! Try it, and lets find the answers.

Since you have made the choice of reading this completely, Thank you and congrats.

"You're not here to find out what your choice is. You have already made the choice. You're here to find out why you made that choice."

-Oracle in Matrix

-Santhosh K Ramachandran

“I’ve always believed in cause and effect, or more formal way of expressing it by the terms causality, action and reaction. Sometimes it is too literal. For example, consider the sequential events of work and fatigue. That kind of events which are literal and more physical are easier to understand, follow, plan and execute because of the logic supporting it.”

But what about deeds? what about all those meta-physical things which are only supported by the reasoning put forward by the philosophers from time immemorial. That kind of causality makes it more intriguing,  and quite questionable! No matter how many examples are put forward to prove that, it can be disproved with the help of stating it as mere coincidence.

So is it just coincidence, Nope. The world and all its beings, the entire cosmos, the life, the human mind, its actions and thoughts are not just mere coincidence. Those who believe it as coincidence are just lazy enough to find the truth.

Now listen, The entire system is not here because of Genesis, those who have read Genesis( The first part in Bible) will acknowledge what is written below.

“God creates light and separates light from darkness, and day from night, on the first day. Yet he didn't make the light producing objects (the sun and the stars) until the fourth day” (1:14-19), (1:3-5)

See, If you follow Bible for answers, you will be following these illogical reasoning which any educated person will call as absurdity. check the link

But there can be stupid logic as well, For example.

“The Holy Religion of the Invisible Pink Unicorn is based upon both Logic and Faith. We have Faith that She is Pink; and we Logically know that She is Invisible, because we can't see Her.”

Isn’t every religion based on something like that. The above statement about that holy religion cannot be disproved, If someone argues about it, what can you answer rather than scream or laugh over it.

But good deeds will give you fruitful results, after all there is no harm in doing something good. Every religion thankfully support it. In Hinduism it speaks about moksha, nirvana and escaping from the continuous birth cycles. It also says that the actions performed in this birth will result in the status of your next life.

But what is promising is the statement in Gita which tells that good deeds will help you in this life as well. This statement was made famous by the father of atomic bomb Oppenheimer.

The quote says:

“In battle, in the forest, at the precipice in the mountains, On the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows, In sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame, The good deeds a man has done before defend him “

-Gita

So even if you escape the laws of the constitution created by mortals, you can’t escape the laws of nature.

P.S. Let there be peace..!

What is life..?

A gift, a coincidence, a planned purposeful element in a larger scheme of things,  an effect of subsequent actions during the course of billion years..

No one knows its purpose, no one is even sure that the purpose of life is to find the purpose and perform it.

The question of destiny, salvation, the sciences, the intricacies, the complexities, the human illusions, the creator, the dimensions, the god, the right, the wrong, light, sound, warmth, cold, the meaning of time, the outer space, the inner mind, happiness, sadness, anger, passion, lust, and all those numerous emotions, nothing has been explained to full amount of satisfaction.

Why..why is that not possible..?

Is it because the human mind is hard to satisfy..?

Or isn’t the language capable of explaining those things..!

OR is it that the truth is already out there, and the problem being that everyone is not capable of comprehending and accepting the truth.

OR is it following the theory that the universe will change to something more bizarre once it is fully comprehended, and that one such understanding of the universe had already occurred in the past.

Or is it that the design of the whole system also involves an element of incomprehensibility…

As one can see..The situation is so complex and out of the world that the problem itself is so complex and invites many possibilities that one even can’t imagine about the solution..!

So..what am I going to do now, Rush to finish my take home exam..!

Hope- "it is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength and your greatest weakness."
We call ourselves rational beings, but 'to hope' is neither rational nor logical. May be that's what makes us human beings. "What an Irony..!"
Hope, Its the topmost thing in anyone's survival kit, even surpassing swiss army knife and a bottle of pure water.

What is hope?

It is one of the three theological virtues(in Christianity) along with LOVE and FAITH.
It is the human involvement on the future(on a time scale) emotionally.
Hope is not optimism, that is why I preferred to say emotionally, because optimism is a rational thing.
Hope is a beautiful "maya" to keep one going.
Many people find hope in a variety of things.
In god, In a poster, In nature, In the clouds in sky, In medicine, In food, In music, In People(parents, friends, teachers, students, colleagues, strangers, Sachin tendulkar), In words, In eyes, In a metaphysical force, And above all in the future.

Since Hope is more of a human thought,emotion... It is meant to affect or at least try to affect the events so as to bring the future to one's wish, demand or request. May be that is hope.

It sometimes seem to take the 4th dimension(time) into its hands. Which is not quite possible empirically. But I am not sure how it is influenced or affected; Through prayers, controlling cosmological elements and/or worldly factors. But it sometimes does get affected, few people call it coincidence(and they proudly calls themselves realists); few call it divine intervention; few call it the power of sub-conscious mind.

Whatever it is, We continue to hope.. The last resort of any wounded phoenix (before rising from the ashes)

When I was asked, what is the most valuable thing in one's life. I could come up with three answers, the first one was Freedom, the second one was Hope and the third one was Change..!

Freedom..!

It is the most important thing in the world for the one who is deprived of it, So if it is considered pretty significant, does that mean that a large chunk of world population doesn't own it. Sadly the answer is 99.99% doesn't own it, to varying levels.

So the question arise, what is actually freedom, what is independence, what has that to do with greed, what are limitations, what has the society done to it. The entire analysis of that particular word can take the entire human history as the reference!

Freedom or birth rights, The freedom of the press( does that include paparazzi,gossiping), freedom of the country(does that overlap with terrorism?) freedom from limitations imposed by parents, freedom to hold a gal's hand without inviting second look, freedom to choose, freedom from your spouse(sometimes), freedom to smoke, freedom to hunt, freedom to kill people, freedom to kill oneself, freedom to blaspheme, freedom to mug, lie, rob and rape...!

You could see people at one point in their life, may or may not accept to each of this "freedom" to do these things.

It doesn't look good, doesn't it?

So the rules and laws came into place, Ruling came into place, Constitution came into the world, Democracy came into the world.


Whatever it is, my urge to write on this topic came long back, when I was a teenager, when I was given limitations and most importantly when I started to think of my marriage(another law in the society) is going to be with a gal chosen by my parents.(Another freedom stolen)

As  you have noticed, the percentage I had given in the beginning was 99.99%, so what about the rest 0.01%, They are those lucky ppl who have found meaning to their life on a transcendental state, controlling their senses against lust, money and anger. Leading a life outside this material world, free from bondage, renounced from bodily comforts, Detached..That is freedom,

They are on their path to supreme abode on whatever path they have chosen, Either through Jnana(Knoweldge), Karma(Action), Bhakti(Devotion).

So let me take small small steps on that regard, by controlling my anger..! That is easier and beneficial.

P.S: Posting on the eve of finishing "Gita" for the second time, (I am at awe, every time I read it)