LOVE

Budding purely in infant’s face for his mother,

Boiling that boy’s heart for her tender care,

Building bond between hubby and his partner,

Bidding farewell to thy journey in old age forever.

Artist paints thy beauty in his works,

Singer infuses thy spell in her voice,

Writer describes thy moods and shades,

Dreamer rests in thy abodes.

Bees are after flowers, rivers are after seas,

Dramas, books, films survive with thy romance,

Births and deaths melt in the well of thy furnace,

Years passed, nobody assessed thy essence.

I am a student in thy primary school,

I can’t buy thee in a shopping mall,

I enjoy thy history and mystery reel after reel,

I envy thy tonic of thrill and zeal for all.

-Datla Chiranjeevi Raju

INTERVIEW

What did you first read? How did you begin to write? Who were the first to read what you wrote?

I think it was books in Telugu medium that I first read in my government school. They were interesting and inspiring. I began writing in Telugu when I was in my seventh standard or so. I do not consider them worthwhile writing today when I recollect it today. It was my classmates that read them casually. They appreciated me a little. I was not much concentrated on writing then, as it is now.

What is your favorite genre? Can you provide a link to a site where we can read some of your work or learn something about it?

Short stories and novels are my favorite genre though I am yet to get into writing novels. I write blogs also on my blog site. Blog helps one reach and influence people in a fearless and liberal manner, not being restrained by the rules and regulations of the mainstream print or electronic media. I think blogging is a powerful medium of communication today. You can read my blogs on my blog site at http://virahini.blogspot.com/

What is your creative process like? What happens before sitting down to write?

It is generally a burning issue in the contemporary society familiar or interesting to me. I am a dreamer and idealist. I expect everybody in this world to live sensibly, not hurting others. Unfortunately it is not happening. Ninety percent of innocent and good people are being disturbed by 10% bad and influential people in this world. Evil attracts many within seconds. It is the role of writers to educate and entertain people in a healthy and constructive way. When something irritates me a lot, and which can be changed by collective human endeavor for the happiness and benefit of all, I feel like writing on it intuitively. I can't write well when somebody asks me to write on a given theme or issue. I should like or dislike a subject and I must be inspired on my own to write something on it. I mostly write on human character, love, beauty, morals and the way of the world which we need to discuss and change to the better. Constant evolution from the bad to the good is important. It happens when the intellectuals, visionaries, social reformers and other great personalities in the world, known or unknown to others, come out and practice their arts of creative expression to change this world. I contribute to this end at my level because the change needs to start from me first.

I sit down to write without any preparation. I write about something good or bad that happened and why and how it should have been avoided or encouraged. It may run from one hour to 10 hours. The intensity of my feelings and suffering for the world outside decide how much and how fast I write on an issue or theme. Situation configures my output.

What type of reading inspires you to write?

Reading newspapers often inspires me to write because they reflect the contemporary society. They comment on the merits and demerits of the society and what happened because of it and what needs to happen. Responding to those issues and discussions makes me a considerable and active participant of the bigger world around me.

What do you think are the basic ingredients of a story?

Characters, events, twists and climax. They may look rational or irrational to others but it is good if they educate and entertain readers to some extent. Social reformation and healthy entertainment must be the primary purpose of stories.

What voice do you find most to your liking: first person or third person?

I like first person narratives. There is much diversity in this world. I don't know when my ideas and beliefs change. I do not have a perfectly and permanently fixed individuality or stand on anything appearing or happening in this world because living means constant evolution in our thoughts and treatment of the familiar world. When we don't know much about ourselves, we can't assess others' thoughts and ideas effectively. Third person narratives means we are dictating their lives and expecting them to think and behave like we want it to happen. It is a kind of colonialism for me. I have more rights on my body and its thoughts and imaginations. First person narratives help me explore and present something from my perspective. I also believe first person narratives make our readers more engaged into the narrative because they directly connect with a single narrator who is the first authority of the narrative at hand.

What well-known writers do you admire most?

I read very little and I do not place much importance on any particular writer. If there are 10% world-famous writers who achieved great sales of their works and got known to the outer world, there are 90% writers who might have written better than these writers but remaining little known to the world. Every famous writer might not be a good writer and all good and extraordinary writers might not have got the recognition they deserve. Publicity is playing a big role these days in promoting creative works. A bad work publicized extensively might reach millions but a good work not marketed well might not reach many. So, admiring a few writers means neglecting or humiliating many other unknown but great writers. I do not admire any well-known writer in particular even if I like their works specially. I mostly keep it personal and do not express.

What is required for a character to be believable? How do you create yours?

It might be either realistic or imaginative. Readers enjoy reading both kinds of works. All they want is engaging writing presenting reality or imagination in a great manner. I don't think readers always expect characters in creative works to be believable and admirable because nothing is permanent and always dependable in this world. Anything might happen at any time. Chance is the guiding force. Nature is the source of influence and beauty. I create my characters based on reality or my imaginations, depending on the kind of information or entertainment I intend to reach to my readers. Healthy entertainment and constant social reformation are my primary goals as a writer. Most of what I write meets these criteria.

Are you equally good at telling stories orally?

I am not good at telling stories orally. Many things distract us from our concentration centered on our character/s, events, twists and reaching climax when we are narrating an original story to others. It does not happen when we are writing a story. It is our world created by ourselves in tune to the kind of work, elevation and intensity required. A writer needs active mood, inspiring environment and moving subject matter at hand to write something effectively. It is not much possible in oral story telling. However, it is a matter of practice. If one is interested in it, one can do it with a little practice in that direction.

Deep down inside, who do you write for?

For sensitive boys and girls, men and women of this world! They must know what is right and wrong for them and others. Great individuals make a better society. Admirable citizens make a great nation. I write for everybody who wants to make this world better with his or her constructive and ideal participation as a sensible and sensitive human being. However, being an admirer of beauty, I write on beauty, girls and women, more than on other issues and themes.

Is writing a form of personal therapy? Are internal conflicts a creative force?

Writing is certainly a form of personal therapy. A writer suffers a lot inside thinking and worrying about many things taking place around him. Expressing his powerful thoughts and imaginations through writing, useful or useless to others, he cures his mental diseases personally. A writer wants to see everything in order and when it is not happening, he wants to achieve that order. Internal conflicts are also a creative force. A writer argues much within himself on a wide range of topics. He is an unkind advocate and merciless doctor. He is stuffed with so many questions and struggles always to find perfect answers to them. He believes he is the honorary observer, commentator, reformer and guide of this human world with all its other elements and phenomena.

Does reader feedback help you?

Reader feedback is like oxygen for me. I write something for them. I want to know what they think about what I wrote. A writer does not know much about everything he is writing on. Others can blame or appreciate him after reading his works. It helps him change himself and better serve the society through his creative force of writing.

Do you participate in competitions? Have you received any awards?

I participated in very few competitions. I received one or two considerable awards. I do not place much importance on competitions and awards. They are of an artificial world. Artists can produce the best in a free world when they are allowed to write when they get inspired to write on something. Others should not dictate them on what to write and how to write. Writers are next to God. They are dictators and dreamers. Let them showcase their thoughts and imaginations according to their choices and interests. Do not force them or hurt them imposing your expectations or demands. Art does not flourish in a restricted environment. One can become a great writer even if he never participates in competitions and wins awards. The mystery of this world is that anybody can become anybody in course of time. We don't know why and how one becomes a writer. It is the work of nature. It creates writers and dreamers to live in it singing about its beauty and influence on others silently.

Do you share rough drafts of your writings with someone whose opinion you trust?

For me, I am the absolute dictator of what I write and how I should write it. I do not share it with others. Others should read my opinions in what I write, not others'. A writer dies when others interfere in his works. Let him write a bad or good work. There is time for others to comment on it when it comes out. Until then, I must be the absolute controller and presenter of my work. I do not allow others to scan my work before it is finalized. A beautified baby looks better. A writer decorates his child considerably before sending her into others' houses for their look and comments.

Do you believe you have already found "your voice" or is that something one is always searching for?

I did not really understand this question. I should not give a bad answer to a good question. I have still to grow a lot in understanding questions and answers related to the world of writing and creativity as it is practiced by others around me. I am still a child in writing field. There is a long journey ahead.

What discipline do you impose on yourself regarding schedules, goals, etc.?

I allow time and demands of the contemporary society to dictate the nature of my writings and the speed at which they must be created and sent out. I meet my goals when others read what I think they should read. A writer can't reach his goals when others are against his opinions, imaginations and ideals. A good writer can't be influenced by bad readers and a bad writer that changes his course of work in tune to the demands of bad readers, desiring to earn more money and fame on the way, can rarely live for long even after his death as a writer. Writers must be uncompromising dictators in the choice of their writings to remain considerable in the long run, as good writers or bad writers.

What do you surround yourself with in your work area in order to help your concentrate?

Absolute silence, classic music, thick night, inspiring weather and the presence of beloved ones or inspiring nature...I can't predict what best suits me though I am presently happy and comfortable with the above settings. The film music of Ilayaraja, a South Indian music director, inspires me much to write well.

Do you write on a computer? Do you print frequently? Do you correct on paper? What is your process?

I write on a computer only because I learnt typing and I can type fast meeting the speed of my thoughts and imaginations to some extent. It is not possible on paper. I do not print frequently. I correct on my computer itself. It is easy and can be done faster compared to the work on a paper. It saves a lot of time and energy for me. I use computer in the best way possible to write something fast, process it fast and email or post it where required or demanded. Computer and Internet eased the work of writers.

What sites do you frequent on-line to share experiences or information?

I visit Wikipedia frequently if I want to know something. It is a reliable source of information for me. It is an extraordinary online source of ideal social work. I visit other websites and blogs also now and then. What I need to know decides which site I visit. My blog site is the only place where I share my views and experiences on many issues today, apart from my pesonal diaries, which I publish when time demands.

What has been your experience with publishers?

Famous publishers run after famous writers. It is an ugly and undesirable world for me. Penguin publishers in India need six months' time even to write back something to us about our manuscript, after its submission through post. They do not entertain phone or email communication in between at all. I hate such policies of any publisher in this world. You need to change along with the time. You can't sit in a royal chair and announce that others have to wait for years for your kind glance at them. Great writers never go to famous publishers because they do not allow others to dictate how to do things. From this perspective, I consider Penguin a nasty setup in India. Those that run after the word 'fame' can hardly contribute to the betterment of this world. They can earn money and be known to many. Many know about Hitler and it does not mean he helped better this world. Idiots admire idiots only. Only fake writers can wait at the gates of buildings of famous publishers. Great writers want their works to be published by any publisher, not only by famous publishers. They depend on the worth of their works, not on the fame and marketing efficiency of their publishers. I am getting my first book published by a publishing house in Mumbai. It is also being run by a humanitarian and idealist like me, not a hard-core businessman in the publishing industry.

What are you working on now?

I am working on my second book now. I sent about 64 emails to a girl in 1995. I wrote great stories to send her and make her believe that I really loved her. It is in fact a set of love stories. She never responded to me. I did not stop sending emails to her. It is a love story involving the stories I narrated to her linking our previous births with the present one.

What do you recommend I do with all those things I wrote years ago but have never been able to bring myself to show anyone?

Create work. Show it to a 1000 people. Great things happen only when you share what you wrote with others. There is somebody in this world to appreciate what you did if you really wrote something worthy. It is your duty to reach them and promote your work today. There are above six billion people in this world. All of them do not search for you and your unknown work if you sit silently in your home expecting others to explore you on their own. Keep your works accessible to those that love creative pieces. Be in touch with people, bad or good. Learn lessons. Gather insights. Move forward with intelligence, discretion and vision.

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These are my fragments of response to a given set of questions. Comprehensive answers can be traced in future by those that read me and my works.

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.