WELCOME 2010

1. Sparsha: What is the formula for one to be happy in India?

Raja Yogi: Being an active citizen and an admirable individual. Civic sense is important for everybody in this nation. We should not do anything that disturbs peace or beauty in any part of this nation. We must mind others’ interests and priorities while enjoying our liberty in this democracy. Being an admirable individual is not difficult. Be kind toward others. Discourage evil and crime being perpetrated by others around you. Help everybody you can. It can be even a one-rupee water packet to a beggar on road in summer or a blanket in winter. Serve your parents, siblings, friends, well-wishers and everybody that is contributing to your or others’ comfort or happiness. Be grateful to all those scientists, inventors, human rights activists, environmentalists, celebrities and every other known and visible creature, partly or fully, thinking and working for your happiness and comfort to a large extent. Admire and appreciate all those you like for your great reasons. Express your heart to them. Reaching our anger or happiness to them is important. Your anger corrects wrongdoers. Your appreciation inspires artists and other noble personalities of this nation to better this nation. Above all, always know about what is happening around you and play constructive role in it. Express your choice actively participating in democracy in this nation. Be scared of committing crimes and sins as you know and feel them. Avoid bad foods and drinks. Sleep well. Listen to any music that soothes you and takes you into an elevated world of peace and balance. Read inspiring books. Watch great films. Don’t talk bad about good people. Ask others not to discuss unwanted stuff with you (which harms you or society around, now or in future). Know what is best for you and the society around you and do it only. Realize that money is just a little part of your life. Don’t turn a machine in its pursuit. Be honest, sensitive and ideal in your thoughts and acts always. Frequently appreciate yourself if you are doing something good to yourself or anybody or anything else in this nation or world. Always honestly answer one question to yourself “Why should anybody love me, talk to me or spend with me honestly and decently?” If your sincere answer to this question is not satisfactory to you, you must change your thoughts, pursuits and plans for your or others’ future dependant upon you. Know that you have no authority to end your life. It is gifted by God. Only He takes it back one day silently or violently based on your karma. Don’t stop that delightful or tragic journey in the middle only. Don’t die as an escapist or achiever. Hope is the fuel of humanity. Retain it always. There are many good people around you to solace you. Meet them. Talk to them. If you found 90 bad people in your search for good people, still move ahead. The good person might be the 100th one just waiting for a person like you to help and guide kindly. Great achievements in this world seldom take place in one day. Struggle to survive. Strive to succeed. Practice unconditional love toward many. Apply your collected insights while embarking on quite unknown and challenging tasks which may risk your life also. Be a patriot of this nation at your level. Be a decent and sensitive host and guest always. Don’t copy. Invent after struggle and strain.

2. Sparsha: When the entire nation is after cricket, what is wrong with you?

Raja Yogi: When millions of poor people in our nation are leading pathetic lives in slums and other dirty areas, which we hate even to stay in for one day, why should millions of privileged ones in this nation misuse or disuse their time and energy watching, discussing and playing cricket. We are thus promoting idiots and rogues in this nation who encourage us to buy bad products and inculcate unhealthy habits. 80% of idiots in this nation aged between 10 and 100 are engaged in cricket. To that extent, they are not playing their roles well as individuals or citizens of this nation. If you don’t mind others’ issues today, tomorrow they don’t mind yours also. You need to die helplessly in one neglected corner of this world even after years of career as a celebrity or other important person known to you only. It happens when you are living among actors and actresses around you, those that do anything for you out of formality or courtesy, not because they liked your character, acts, thoughts or dreams. It is an artificial and hypocritical society created by you around you, minding those things which you should not have cared for at all. Cricket is one of such crimes and sins being committed publicly in this nation today. No unproductive and pervert activity in this nation should make a large section of the people useless, brainless and crazy after nonsense and rubbish. Play at your home or school playground if you enjoy sports and games and the related exercise to your body and mind. You need not make it a nationally important pursuit which misguides millions of Indians. Instead of focusing your attention on cricket and the related celebrity criminals like Tendulkar and Kapil Dev, read a good book, spend with your good friends, go to a hill station, help your mother in her chores, thank your father for his care and concern for you, think on how to develop your community or colony, region or nation. Do something constructive which improves you as an individual, not something which further makes you a lazy rogue and a mad dog or bitch on the road. Millions of criminals in this nation have time to watch cricket and go to clubs for liquor, smoking, and debauchery but not to vote during elections to choose good leaders or thrash corrupt and sinful politicians and bureaucrats in public places. Cricket is a highly hazardous infection in India today. It further ruins our people and their ability to think and react to the contemporary issues. My two nephews, who are at school, daily discuss cricket and play it quite frequently. My eldest brother is growing two sick boys in his family. I did not shoot those idiots because I should do it after shooting matchless criminals like Manmohan Singh, Sachin Tendulkar and such other rogues of this nation. I can’t blame a single rogue in my family when there are millions of even worse criminals and sinners in this nation. Our government is encouraging rogues, criminals and idiots in every family, society and region. They take everything casually. They leave their sisters as prostitutes in red light areas, their mothers to sleep with the rich to earn money, their actresses to sleep with any rogue for chances to entertain them in cinemas, and they encourage the helpless victims of this nation to turn into naxalites, killers, rapists and victims of unrest and frustration. When the entire nation is disorderly and polluted, the sensitive and the poor die silently, leaving such a nation like “hell”. We are living in a hell today and a big contributor to this hell is cricket. We Indians celebrate our artificial and hypocritical lives on the decorated graveyards of those that died due to values and standards in their lives, including poverty, innocence and self-pity.

3. Sparsha: If cricket is waste of time, then films, music, books and related creative and entertainment pursuits are also to be avoided and banned in this nation…

Raja Yogi: Art is a creation and reflection of our tangible and intangible facets of life. Cricket does not demand our creativity or idealism meant for educating or entertaining others in a constructive way. Cricket kills our time, which we should spend to better our mindsets and lifestyles. Films, music and books are produced by artists and technicians, those trained or born experts in their fields of creative expression. Everybody can’t do it. How many Indians can write moving and revitalizing books, create healing music or produce great films. You can count them. Nature produces very few artists only in any age because they are the special personalities of that age deployed to enrich the huge drama of God, involving innumerable mysteries, twists and wonders. Count the number of scientists, social reformers and philanthropists that changed our history from the worst to good as we are experiencing it today. They were all creative and ideal personalities in their respective fields and brought our barbaric and uncivilized lives to the present stage through their hard work and unconditional love for the humanity. Comparing cricket and cricket players with writers, musicians and worthy film personalities is like comparing magicians and hypocrites with saints and visionaries. Art is like Oxygen. Every healthy creature needs to breathe it to live happily. Cricket is like Carbon Dioxide. It may not kill you immediately but eats you slowly obstructing your mental growth as an admirable individual in your society and a shrewd citizen of this nation. Every great artist in this world struggles hard to create the best to entertain all in a healthy and constructive manner. They are the silent and neglected assets of our world. They lead you when you are in darkness. They console you when you are suffering. Now compare the personalities, pursuits, thoughts and vision of your favorite cricket players with the characters and achievements of any great artist you admire in this world. Art enhances our health in body and mind. Cricket does the opposite when you make it a national phenomenon as it is presently happening in our nation. No sensitive and sensible Indian should ever play, watch or discuss cricket or cricket players in this nation as long as there are burning issues in this nation threatening our security and peace of mind at large.

4. Sparsha: India developed much now. I think a born pessimist and incurable Indian patient like you can’t accept it!

Raja Yogi: India does not mean 1% global billionaires and 10% Indian millionaires but 50% poor Indians that still live simply and honestly in Indian villages and on pavements in the cities, depending on unreliable, boring and simple sources of livelihood, when millions of others around them are looking them down upon as dogs on streets and cultureless brutes in villages. 95% of the billionaires in India reached those positions exploiting the intelligence and hard work of their helpless employees, innocent victims of globalization, voiceless sufferers created by the central and state governments and their policies aimed at benefitting the influential in our nation. Pepsi and Coca Cola companies are earning billions and paying in millions to rogues like Sania and Dhoni to further ruin this nation selling poisonous drinks and foods. 80% of the foods our children are eating being encouraged by ads are either harmful or useless to them from any perspective. We are earning billions to fill our deficit budges selling liquor, cigarettes, gutkas, coffee, tea, pizzas, burgers, medicines, and such many other harmful foods and drinks. Criminals and sinners are running our democracy. A criminal indulges in public and easily detectable crimes. A sinner involves himself in quite unethical and corrupt thoughts and practices which harm or kill others in the long run, directly or indirectly. 90% of our people’s representatives belong to this group of villains. They misuse our public money and natural resources in the worst ways and we simply keep watching them live. 90% Indian males are ready to sleep with a call girl or a beauty in their neighborhood, access and familiarity if nobody watches it or talks badly about it later. 70% of poor female home makers in this nation spend 90% of their conscious lives serving their husband, children and dependants, attending cooking, house keeping and other chores of organized slavery. 95% of students today are going to school, college or university to pursue such courses which bring them great jobs and handsome salaries or suitability to go abroad to earn even more and settle there forever. It is pure business and nothing to do with one’s interests or dreams meant for one’s real happiness or fulfillment in the short or long run. 98% of Indians today are uncompromising hypocrites and liars because we created such environment working hard for years. No single female aged between 8 and 80 can venture alone to any public place during night even to this date. Anybody might rape her or rob her of her valuable possessions, kill her and leave burn the dead body. Police arrive. Lawyers join. Courts interfere. Justice is delivered after centuries. Bribery is our short-cut to reach famous positions in a minute. Beauties are our gifts to officers, MLAs, MPs, Ministers and other influential people to get things done. Beauty is a commodity here. We can buy it or grab it. Ask any poor and sensitive Indian girl today in any part of India if she feels secure to live among unfamiliar Indians in any part of India. She is scared of police, lawyers and judges when she is alone. We see many businessmen in India today, not unique individuals or admirable citizens. Everybody is interested in one question, “How much do I benefit if I act or live that way?” Our presentations, plans, policies and diplomacy are concentrated on cheating others with sweet words and strategic moves, not doing anything with honesty or idealism. Our entrepreneurs and industrialists are interested in “profit-making” unethical ventures, not “nation-building” healthy products and constructive services. Our educated youth are automated machines at the BPOs in night shifts serving the interests of the US and the UK. We aim at IITs, UPSC and NDA for better prospects, not out of love to develop or beautify this nation. Our collectors do what our corrupt and immoral politicians dictate them, not what they consider rational or constructive. Their goals are more money and fame while in position, not correcting their superiors in democracy or improving the lots of the people in their regions. Honest officers are either transferred or killed publicly. Laloo teaches management lessons to our future money makers. Our thoughts and acts are only after earning more and more money and spending it whatever way we like. We frequent religious places for show business. We choose our life partners based on their assets, community, language, region, language; not character or virtues as an individual. We talk about virtues in elocution competitions or on public stages to impress others, not to follow them in our lives for our benefit or others’ happiness. We greet others mechanically. We turn emotional at the characters and events in films and books, not real victims in the society around us. Our media promotes anything for sensationalism or profit, not for keeping the society in the right order of living and helping others. Our development and success are being achieved applying the principles of beautified immorality and misconduct. An optimist with ideals and convictions to develop this nation turns out a helpless pessimist in this environment in India today because the wrong people are noticed and admired here and simple and really worthy ones are either neglected or discouraged. We are making and polishing opportunists here to further exploit us publicly.

5. Sparsha: What is the biggest demerit of India today after cricket!

Raja Yogi: Lack of patriotism. Jawaharlal Nehru did many things aiming at the development of India in the long run. Our great patriots like Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel laid foundations to the sustainable economy and agriculture of this nation. Their efforts, plans and dreams were concentrated on “sustainable development and peace in India”. Today our politicians and industrialists do anything only if something benefits them now or in future, not the nation as a whole. Sonia Gandhi aims at strategic acquisition of political power in majority states of India, promoting her son as the next Prime Minister of India. For her, her family politics and the power of Congress party across the nation are primary goals. Nation’s development is not an issue for her. If India further perishes, she flies to Italy along with her family baggage. Our remaining politicians sell India to some US or China and leave us in this hell. Our NRIs don’t worry about it because they moved to safer and comfortable places years ago in their pursuits of jobs and business. 90% of Indians today, living in India and abroad, lack the kind of great patriotism we observed in our forefathers around 1947. Many belong to their respective regions, languages and cultures, not to India as great Indians today. In such poisonous and confusing environment, created and being sustained by us, anything may happen at any time and everybody must be ready to benefit or lose from such eventuality. Chance dictates our lives and professions, not our vision or idealism. We are seeing automated humans around us. They don’t talk with us if we are not in their chosen circle. They don’t believe in others. We built walls around us. We are scared of the unknown. We are disgusted with the familiar people and surroundings also. We wish to go to Kashmir to see and enjoy that beauty but we remember the terrorists there and withdraw from that venture of harmony with natural beauty of this nation. We like the beauty of a veiled Muslim girl but move away fearing their fundamentalist observations. We can’t appreciate her beauty. She can’t receive our appreciation like a film heroine. Sikhs wear long beards and turbans. I want to see them without that observation. We imposed others’ rules upon us for formality sake. We don’t question them or change from that mode of existence. We like to contact our favorite celebrity in politics or cinema but they are not accessible to us. They talk with people of money and fame only. They want us to remain in the clapping and noise-making lot of innocence and madness always. Our reporters put very cool and carefully finalized questions only to corrupt politicians and celebrities, not to hurt their evil and sinful minds in public places. When we can’t love the beauty of our nation and dream of its prosperity with our honest contribution, we lose eligibility to live in such a nation. Our priorities and choices are narrow-minded. The result is a big nation of many people with small thoughts and selfish pursuits. We are acting roles expected and appreciated by the core interest groups around us in our families, societies and regions but not living our lives to the fullest honestly and decently doing the best as we think and dream of. When we live as individuals, we would be happy. Individuals strengthen a nation, not actors.

6. Sparsha: Why so many disorders and demerits in this world? Can’t we make up a brighter, peaceful and happy world where all can live happily?

Raja Yogi: I believe there is certainly God somewhere in us or outside. He writes very long stories, highly absorbing screenplays and shoots his film in the locales of this world on a daily basis for fun. I wonder at the vision, hard work and unconditional love of a select few scientists, visionaries, social reformers, thinkers, dreamers and such other historical figures who transformed our years of collective journeys across regions in this world from pain to relief, from depression to happiness, from darkness to brightness, from ugliness to beauty, from brutality to sensitivity, from chaos to order, from unrest to rest and from ignorance to wisdom; swimming against the strong currents of cruelty, suppression, exploitation, immorality, illegality, irrationality and gloom, devised and imposed by some other criminals and sinners of the same time; be it fundamentalists, businessmen, kings, queens, emperors, dictators, monarchs of the past or the terrorists and other large segments of anti-social elements we are witnessing today in many parts of the world. A constant friction is at work between evil and virtue. Each individual soul, taking a series of births in visible and invisible parts of this cosmos, is undergoing different kinds of pains and joys, based on what it accumulated in the past and perhaps it can’t be erased or influenced by external forces or organisms. Sometimes our beautiful imaginations and irrational and illogical hypotheses solace us more than our thoughts or acts of science and wisdom. If there is no solution at all to a set of questions, we have to project a set of absolute lies as solution to such enigma of questions and challenges in this world. Speculation is our last resort. Dreams are our resorts of relief and solace. Don’t question anything. Don’t answer anything. Remain yourself an enigma when many issues confront you. Time heals our wounds if we can’t understand or cure them on our own, again a blind guess!

7. Sparsha: Strong currents of attraction work between a girl and a boy or a man and a woman, always, because it is the order of creatures. How can we withstand that temptation of evil and sin, and remain morally sound?

Raja Yogi: When man and woman turned sensitive and responsive to the choices or interests of others in the same family or society, perhaps the concepts and practices of culture and civilization came into effect. It means one imposing certain codes of conduct upon oneself to respect and attract others in a decent and mutually acceptable and appreciable manner. If I smoke and if my roommate can’t withstand it, I would go out and do it to honor his choice. Similarly he goes out and drinks to reciprocate the same kind of civility and discipline toward me which I proved by example earlier. Morality means not doing something toward others which we don’t like others doing toward us or our dear ones, secretly or publicly. The most influencing force between a female and male is undoubtedly sex, unless they are real saints, who are little attracted toward the beauty of this material world. Though we don’t express all our related thoughts to others, they keep influencing our mindset and pursuits, publicly or privately. In the present times, for one highly exposed to explicit literature, films, Internet, media and private and secret discussions related to limitless or limited and decent sex, it is impossible not to be influenced by such thoughts and imaginations. Fortunately our innermost thoughts and imaginations are invisible to others. God saved us to this extent even in this age. Celebrate it. Others’ thoughts do not disturb or hurt us as their words and acts do. So, avoid acts, and bear with thoughts. Further, thoughts are a result of what you saw, heard or discussed, by choice or by force from others. Avoid listening to such talk, reading such books and seeing such films and any such other avoidable force which drags you toward what you consider immoral in terms of your thoughts or acts toward the creatures of opposite gender in your familiarity or those far away. Self-tuning is the best medicine to keep ourselves in our chosen path of self-reformation and reorientation. Then, primarily humans are of two types; those that mind morality and those that do not. For some, life is a great opportunity and one can enjoy it madly. They sleep with anybody. Body is a commodity for them. They can share it with anybody. The other lot imposes certain rules of morality upon it and it expects others also to conform to them when they are interacting with them. They can’t bear the thoughts and presence of immoral lot. They express their aversion implicitly and don’t harm others. The lot of immorality harms the lot of morality in many parts of the world. The latter suffer silently in majority of the cases. Millions of rich and pervert rogues in this world belong to the lot of immorality. They victimize the helpless lot of morality in their known ways. Since two sections of different orientations are in friction in this scenario, unrest and suffering is borne by the lot of morality here because the other segment is inflicting its evil force on this section of the society. Purity is perceived as a great asset and phenomenon by many in this world even to this day. You can love your mother but consider eating or drinking something she left for you. If you can’t find even the food of your mother’s touch acceptable, consider the question of chastity and morality in terms of sex between two partners of marriage or love. Imaginary or realistic purity does matter in our sensible and vulnerable lives. Explicitly choose the creatures of your orientation when you wish to satiate your carnal desires in unregulated and unquestioned manner but do not exploit the people of other orientation. What you think quite common and acceptable is not acceptable and bearable to others. Unfortunately misguided humanity started focusing more on carnal desires when it should have concentrated more on the other aspects of human life like exploration of natural beauty, mysteries of the world, creative expression of one’s innermost self, investigation into life after death, space, dreams, love, admiration, art and collective endeavors to make this world more beautiful and enjoyable. Morality is a self-regulating mechanism. Immorality is an unfair and artificial lifestyle of expecting more from others and sacrificing little from our end. 80% of Indians today belong to the lot of immorality; men in particular. Beware of them if you are in the other lot. Listen to classical music frequently to balance your mind. When you are listening to songs, your mind tends to decode the meanings of those words, the setting in which the song was set or your imaginary world enjoyed while experiencing that song. Music has no meaning in it but a deep and soothing effect in it. Your mind can be regulated to reach an elevated state of being and living through melodious and moving music. Meditation can help you be good only when you are trying hard to build up your character with virtues and inspiring imaginations. Think and react like an innocent child in appreciating others when you consider them the best based on your yardstick of virtues. Be like a careless dropout when others criticize you for no reason or out of their jealousy or hatred for you for reasons which you consider futile or meaningless. Many can’t bear your presence also and nobody in this world can ever explain it. A mad man should never make you mad. You can observe morality in your life only when you want it than others imposing it upon you. Prostitution in any part of this nation is acceptable as long as one is choosing it as a profession, knowing every aspect of it, and it is a crime when one is forcing others into it. Then, in a nation, if many girls and women are choosing to live by prostitution, that nation is in the hands of rogues and criminals. For an automated materialist with blind scientific and rational thinking, his or her body is like a sharing vehicle on a long drive in wilderness. He can invite others voluntarily or others can take the initiative observing his signs or face. For a spiritualist, human body is holy and sharable with only those scheduled by destiny’s choice and personal restrictions. When we divide all the living creatures in this world into these two groups and tag them accordingly, everybody can live happily. Liberal creatures share joys without boundaries. Self-regulated entities live in their chosen circles. One can move to the other lot at any time but the tag must be changed immediately. Who allows me into a camp of naturists, if I go there always with clothes on my body? A monkey should know how to look and act while entering a setup of highly liberal creatures of this world! We must recruit another Nandan Nilekani to get this tagging process implemented. Imagine the looks of “immorality lot” while standing in queues for this national tagging pilot project. Morality lot feels proud and elevated when getting this tag. I feel morality is a paradigm of human thoughts and activities which you can talk about happily even before a million people. Immorality is the expression of human heart’s innermost feelings and aspirations of raw and primitive nature. Many have to blindly suppress it to be considered normal now.

8. Sparsha: Have you any friend of you who is against your thoughts and beliefs. If yes, why did you accept such people as your friends?

Raja Yogi: I have 30% of such friends. One of such friends often used to tell me about his carefree enjoyment with girls. He told me much about the characters of females in the television and film industry. They showcase their fabricated aspect of morality on screen to earn money as celebrities. They live their immoral side of lives behind the screen. They are worse than prostitutes. He told me that there is no the word “chastity” in the dictionary of film personalities. Drink, Dinner and Devilish flesh joy are the facets of their limitless celebration. They advise us to buy some products in ads. Now think who is guiding whom? Wise shepherds are managing foolish and brainless sheep in India. When I find such friends of me talking about the creatures of immorality exploiting victims of morality, I feel like killing them but I can’t kill 80% of Indians. We must cure unhealthy network of hospitals and doctors, not one or two patients. I use their feedback about my partial understanding of the contemporary immoral society. I don’t blindly believe whatever they say. I can differentiate between truth and untruth. If I hear something very bad about a creature whom I admired a lot, I pity her later, believing “Millions of dogs and bitches would have made her so! Poor creature!” I need to maintain even friends of immorality because they are majority in this world. If I build walls around me, I cease to be a contemporary Indian. Saints and followers of certain spiritual organizations in this world play this useless game. They say meditation helps them achieve peace of mind. I believe you can’t keep yourself cool for long on a volcano. We are living in a society of immorality and illegality. It would ruin you one day if you keep meditating in a park or in the gathering of Ravi Shankar. When there are burning issues in your home or office, settle them as a rational and sensitive materialist does and then meditate in your personal room for your peace of mind. Others do not allow you to enjoy peace of mind when they were disturbed and exploited by many around you because of your meditation and carelessness toward their issues. Meditation and yoga are the activities of absolute hypocrites in disguise. If Hinduism dictates that nobody can erase the karma of one creature, no saint can take our sins and crimes to his lot. Perhaps he can guide you toward God, getting yourself relieved of your burden of ages. Here also the obligation of self-reformation is 99% upon you. Jesus Christ does not cleanse your sins with His blood. These are sweet words Christians say to attract innocent creatures of India. Nobody changes you or helps you if you are not prepared or eligible for it. Do you feel satisfied if I eat food when you are hungry? Wake up from ignorance of ages! Better late than never!

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Sparsha is an imaginary character in love with me. Raja Yogi represents one aspect of my individuality.