INCREDIBLE INDIA

1. For majority of Indians, life is in the hands of God, not in theirs. They believe in their Karma.

2. Most of Indian youth act smart roles to attract the creatures of opposite gender.

3.  Indians marry one for society but maintain immoral relationships with many casually.

4. Majority of Indians beautify their CVs with attractive lies about themselves to get a job faster.

5. Indians worry more about one after one’s death than when one is alive and when seeking their love.

6. Most of Indians are in agriculture, not because it is profitable but because they are accustomed to it for ages.

7. For Indians, education is meant for getting employment but not to improve their attitude and character.

8. For majority of Indians religion is a source of solace but not a means of self-reformation or self-denial.

9. Indians crave inaccessible and unaffordable beauty more than available and affordable beauty.

10. Indians love those with extraordinary knowledge but never try to improve their knowledge passionately.

11. Majority of Indians think a lot often about other unrelated things rather than their own lives.

12. Majority of Indians still don’t believe that love marriages are as reliable as arranged marriages.

13. Majority of Indians compromise more in finalizing their life partner than anything else in their life.

14. Most of Indian parents prefer those with jobs, for their daughters, as life partners, while searching for one.

15. Majority of Indians are scared of their death because they are closely related to many people around them.

16. Most of Indian farmers do not depend on books and experts for farming but on their common sense.

17. One of the worst sectors in India is education. Most of it is lengthy, irrational, immoral and unreliable.

18. Indians knowingly commit mistakes, blunders and sins even after visiting many temples regularly.

19. Majority Indian females still wish to attract others with their beauty than their knowledge and goodness.

20. The last choice for Indians against everything else available in this world is knowledge.

21. Indians like those who tell beautiful lies rather than bitter realities to educate or entertain them.

22. Majority of modern Indian girls and boys feel depressed and forsaken if they don’t have a sweetheart.

23. The happiest occasion in the life of a sensible and sensitive Indian is still his or her marriage.

24. Majority Indians choose courses of study based on what jobs they can get but not because they like them.

25. In India, one can earn more money after one’s death through government or employer than when one is alive.

26. Indian farmers grow any crop if they get profit from it. They are not as pious and ideal as we all think.

27. Now Indian education is in the hands of those who are not much educated or who have no values at all.

28. Indians wish to impress others talking about the greatness of their religions but not their religious values.

29. Even highly educated and influential Indians use quite nasty products to improve their beauty somehow.

30. Indians value those with exceptional beauty, wealth and power more than those with great knowledge.

31. Majority Indians admire such celebrities who contributed almost nothing to their welfare or happiness.

32. We find love as the theme in 98% of Indian films, directly or indirectly, because in real life Indians miss it.

33. Majority Indians believe that marriage offers a sense of fulfillment, security and safety to their lives forever.

34. Fools, idiots and rogues often interview and fail intelligent and ideal candidates in Indian firms in India.

35. Majority Indians cannot express their pain in words and so they remain calm and voiceless in such contexts.

36. Majority of Indian farmers are idealists because they grow vital crops despite losses every year.

37. Most of Indians read dailies and books for formality sake but not because they like the content in it.

38. Most of the religiously inclined people in India commit more crimes and sins than atheists.

39. Majority of Indians like the presence and company of a beauty but not ideal marriage with one of them.

40. Indians spend the least amount of money and time on acts for acquisition and retention of knowledge.

41. Indians wish to live happily depending on the sacrifices and goodness of others but not theirs.

42. Almost every Indian that knows basic English is aware of the spelling and meaning of the word ‘love’.

43. Majority of Indian girls and boys perceive marriage as a vicious web of burdens but they enter it anyway.

44. 96% of Indians don’t know how to prepare their CV with logically ordered details and flawless English.

45. Helpless dependents mourn the death of a person in India more than anybody else around or far away.

46. The most vulnerable and dangerous sector in India is agriculture but governments neglect it continuously.

47. Most Indians choose government teaching job, not because they love or deserve it; it is riskless and workless.

48. As far as religion is concerned, 98% Indians don’t follow logic or common sense.

49. Most of rich Indian females waste 30% of their time and money on things and acts related to beauty.

50. In India, a beggar can live happily than an ideal scientist, investigative journalist or active social activist.

51. Most of Indians, who talk about nonviolence in public places, actually indulge in violence quite often.

52. Many innocent Indian girls and boys often commit suicides for the sake of their love.

53. In India, who are bad boys before marriage, act smart roles as good boys before all important folks.

54. In India, majority do jobs to satisfy their family members and society but not because they like that work.

55. In India, any medicine that avoids death forever can be sold better than gold and platinum do.

56. Majority Indian farmers focus on quantity of produce rather than its quality and demand in the open market.

57. The most horrible experience for an Indian child now is his or her time at a mediocre private school.

58. Majority Indians go to temples for formality sake but not because they really love or fear God there.

59. In India, beauties are desired and admired as prostitutes more than ideal housewives or otherwise.

60. Most of ordinary Indians consider a highly knowledgeable, pious and selfless person as a brainless idiot.

61. 95% of Indians cannot describe their lives logically and concisely in 100 words, spoken or written.

62. 98% of Indians cannot imagine the concept and practice of love beyond the idea of sex.

63. 99% of Indian females wish to marry such males only, who are older than them considerably.

64. If one crore rupees is paid ideally to every employee, 98% of Indians quit their jobs within two days.

65. Natural and peaceful death is the ambition of all Indians.

66. Majority of Indian bosses like loyal and ignorant subordinates than inquisitive and intelligent ones.

67. In India, many value others based on their qualifications but not actual and useful knowledge possessed by one.

68. Indians accord more value to invisible deities and temples than visible people with virtues and pain.

69. Indians wish to spend with any number of beauties if their acts are not seen or known to others.

70. Indians value the words of people with power than achievers and dreamers without authority.

71. Majority of Indians believe that life before death is more important than the one after death.

72. Love is the most interesting and binding factor for majority of youth in India now.

73. Majority of Indians finalize a match considering benefits out of it rather than happiness in the long run.

74. Most of Indian males are struggling for and doing jobs just to satisfy their egoistic and selfish wives.

75. Indians are sad about the deaths of unrelated rich ones than related poor ones.

76. In India, anybody can become a politician because people accord the least value to them in their real lives.

77. Indians pursue different courses of study with a purpose but not out of passion for it.

78. Indians choose religion casually like they buy potatoes and onions in market; no deeper analysis.

79. Indians do most of the things to attract and impress others somehow but not because they like it.

80. Indians do not gain much knowledge in their lives because they have no time or interest for it.

81. Most of Indians don’t aim at perfection in many things they do but just do them casually.

82. 90% of professionals and celebrities in India cannot use any foreign language with 50% accuracy also.

83. Indians are good at saving money and growing assets but not using them intelligently and strategically.

84. Indians are experts in criticizing others regularly because they seldom focus on their development.

85. In any part of India, you can see a church, a coca cola bottle and a corrupt person.

86. Indians believe in the words of cheats and magicians more than pioneers and social reformers.

87. Indians are very good in following others rather than questioning and enquiring into things.

88. Indians buy many things fast if there are ‘discount’ ‘free’ tags.

89. In India, there is excessive freedom to all but not opportunities to grow and celebrate fairly.

90. Majority Indians believe that one can do anything in India with power of money and authority.

91. The first-rate criminals and fraudsters in India are government employees.

92. In India, 30% of people celebrate their lives when 70% of them are suffering just before them.

93. In India, condoms and alcohol have more demand than books and medicines.

94. 95% of Indian parents sacrifice many comforts in their lives for their good or bad children.

95. In India, majority of educated people behave like slaves before those with money and authority.

96. 90% of Indians do not have even basic knowledge about their body, society and nation.

97. Most of Indians like making fun of others but they cannot bear if others do it towards them.

98. In India, we cannot find even one politician who never told or tells lies to people.

99. 90% of Indians don’t know how to receive and treat an unfamiliar person or foreigner.

100. Most of Indians buy costly gadgets out of false prestige but not because they need them.

101. Indians are more inclined towards imitation and gossip than originality and intellectual dialogue.

102. 90% of Indians expect their governments to do a lot for them without expecting anything from them.

103. Indians tell lies to many even when the situation does not demand it at all.

104. Indians deface anything if nobody is watching and if it is not their property.

105. Majority Indians don’t know what is good for them nor practice if somebody advises them.

106. In India, 90% undisciplined and selfish people regularly torture 10% disciplined and selfless people.

107. We can’t find punctuality and logical order in 90% of the things happening in India regularly.

108. Most of the hospitals and doctors in India are unhygienic and unreliable for poor ones.

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This creative expression is a cumulative result of my logical imaginations and reliable experiences.

2015 SRIJANA BIRTHDAY MEMENTO

SC ST RESERVATIONS IN INDIA

I think the idea of reservations to select communities in India was initiated by Dr. B R Ambedkar through the constitution of India soon after independence to India from the British rulers. Those days, the people belonging to those communities, who are labeled as SC and ST classes of Indian society, were treated inhumanly by most of the communities labeled as Other Communities. I believe Ambedkar desired these reservations to be implemented for SC and ST Communities for a period of 10 years only believing that a considerable change can be brought in the lives of these people during that time. However, this system of reservations is still in effect in India. The following are the reasons for its extension year after year.

1. SC and ST communities got accustomed to the culture of reservations for some years. If they are dropped down from that cradle of comfort and happiness, by any political party, contesting elections, during any period of time, it partly contributes to their defeat ultimately. So, because political power and related privileges are more important for any political party in any country like India, Indian politicians never thought of banning reservation system in India during the last 50 years.

2. SC and ST communities developed a sense of unity and collective struggle for their comforts and happiness over a period of time largely because of their education and financial growth. They formed into associations and unions across places in India. Doing something against any policy meant for their comfort is like directly fighting with fire and mire. So, nobody is interested in indulging in their affairs.

These SC and ST reservations are causing a lot of unrest and disappointment in India. The following are some of these problems briefly.

1. Since there are reservations for the communities of SC and ST in India, many people belonging to these social categories almost stopped taking their lives or professions seriously. From birth to death, they are like adopted children of the Government of India. They can study freely, get any job easily, get promotions comfortably and do anything very easily in comparison to those of other communities. Resultantly they lacked competitive spirit. Hundreds of teachers are working in Indian schools, colleges and universities without much knowledge related to their chosen subjects. Dullards are there even from other communities but the percentage of dullards arising from these communities is always high. This phenomenon of low quality human resources is not prevalent just in teaching profession but any other imaginable profession in India. When inefficient and incompetent staff members abound a department or professional field, naturally the development of that region or the nation concerned gets deeply affected. This is what is happening in India now. I observed such retrograde occurrences in many fields.

2. Since SC and ST community members are being identified and promoted extensively due to the various policies and programs of governments at state and central level, intelligent, hard-working and visionary human resources from other communities are getting disappointed to that extent. An SC or ST candidate is able to reach a prestigious status of job or profession within five years whereas a member of other communities takes at least 20 years to reach the same position or status. This wide difference in the path of development of human resources in India is largely because of reservations to SC and ST. As such, SC and ST community members assumed the status of ‘authorized beggars’ in India when considered from the perspectives of disappointed members of other communities. If I struggle for one hour to have meal in a prestigious hotel, an SC or ST candidate can have it within a minute. T      he government authorized him to have anything before others because they are psychologically, financially and socially backward classes by virtue of their genes or Karma. In this hypothesis, the prestigious hotel is a rare opportunity provided by government. I get it late because the government expects me to await it for any length of time whereas it authorizes ‘the other weaker person’ to have it readily. There is no struggle in his life to get anything but I have to struggle like anything to achieve in this nation. I call him a beggar because he is depending on ‘national income’ for his comforts and happiness, to which I am also contributing largely every financial year, in different kinds of taxes and other ways. There are millions of donors in India contributing to ‘tax income’ directly or indirectly. Governments are spending most of that money to the development and happiness of SC and ST communities because their vote banks must not be disturbed.

3. Once there was untouchability in India based on the theory of Chaathur Varna professed by Manu. Ambedkar thought of avoiding it altogether blessing those communities with the boon of reservations. Now there is no such kind of untouchability in many regions of India but a different one. Now Indians have this tendency towards folks of SC and ST, “It is better if I don’t talk with or touch them in any context because they apply atrocity case against me if I do so”. It does not mean that folks of other communities are not maintaining relations with those of SC and ST but they are always alert on the consequences of their association. SC and ST communities are the children of God (Hari Jan) once as believed and called by Mahatma Gandhi. They despised that title for various reasons. The title they use and prefer now is ‘Dalit’. They like to change their fates and images in contemporary Indian societies changing their ‘identity titles’ but not their attitudes and culture. If they have self-respect, they should not depend on alms thrown by others (the people of India) in the form of reservations. They should compete with others, applying their brains, which are uniformly energized by God. Leaving this universal truth, they are always focusing their energies and movements on the idea of further strengthening reservations exclusively for their communities. Since they penetrated government agencies and departments like cancer during the last 60 years, now they are fighting for reservations in private sector also. It means they chose to live as shameless beggars and insensitive parasites in India forever. They don’t like to improve themselves applying the powers and strengths of their physical and mental qualities. Such perpetual dependence on income and facilities earned by others brought them an ugly image in India during the last few years. Other community members are taking them as detestable and avoidable untouchables now for these valid reasons. If one is living due to my kindness and support, I naturally call him my servant.

4. I wonder to observe the scenario of ‘SC and ST atrocity cases’ in India. In Andhra Pradesh, the Maala and Maadhiga community members are the highest numbers of SC social class. They can have titles for their unions with these community names. They can stage protests anywhere using these public identities. But, I or anybody belonging to other community is not supposed to address them using this community name, publicly or privately. If I do so in any context, it results in “atrocity case against me” because I insulted them. If anybody addresses me as “Kshatriya” or “Raju” or “Raja” or “Varma”, I feel happy and proud about it because it is my community name known to all. This is the case with other communities also. They don’t mind being addressed using their community names. Only SC and ST community members do not like the folks of other communities addressing them using their community names. What does it mean? They think their community names symbolize poverty, backwardness, pain, loss, guilt and so on. So, they remember those notions only when folks of other communities address them so but not if folks of their community do so. What kind of attitude is this? What kind of courts, lawyers and judges do we have in India? All the judges and lawyers in this nation should hang themselves publicly for the kind of felony they introduced in India in the form of “SC and ST atrocity case”. They are there to punish voiceless and helpless Indians but not themselves or the influential ones. They are like dead bodies in Indian judicial system. So, let’s not discuss much about their existence in this corrupt and spoiled nation. I know about many false and fake cases of this order being shot at innocent folks of other communities and the kind of loss and suffering they underwent because of this heinous legal system in India.

5. I wonder to note the kind of reverence and devotion the folks of SC and ST communities have towards Ambedkar in India. You can see the statues of and community buildings named after Ambedkar almost in every SC community area in Andhra Pradesh. They worship him as God because he introduced the shelter of reservations to them in the constitution of India. They can live happily under that category and related privileges. Ambedkar stamped them as ‘permanently disabled social parasites’. Governments treat them as physically and mentally impaired ones by birth and so they look after them with more care and concern than others. Worshipping Ambedkar is like accepting their virtual death publicly as far as SC and ST communities are concerned in India. Ambedkar considered them helpless for some time only but they chose to be so forever accepting reservations for them continuously. Alluri Sita Rama Raju is a member of Kshatriya community but I am not worshipping him. I like to be identified and respected by others based on what I represent as an individual. My strengths and merits should attract others towards me but not my association to the community of that of Alluri Sita Rama Raju, who had been a ferocious and patriotic freedom fighter some years ago. I am not a parasite. I am not depending on government for everything in my life or profession. I am trying to improve myself. I am working to live with self-respect even when I am in a pit of problems and loss. It must be the spirit of every Indian. It must be the spirit of those of SC and ST communities also. When can I see such India where the worth of an individual is identified and appreciated but not their social, regional, linguistic, financial or religious status?

6. There are intellectuals and idealists in SC and ST communities also but they are not appreciated by folks of other communities in India as much as they deserve because the members of other communities stopped thinking about them beyond ‘reservations’. So, my idea would be ‘he achieved all that because of reservations and there is no any actual worth in him as an individual’. This is the curse against all those of SC and ST communities in India now. They have no identity of their own beyond ‘reservations’ tag!

7. I noticed the frustrated girls of other communities marrying SC and ST candidates mostly in Andhra Pradesh during the last few years. They are adopted children of India with strong government protection. Nobody can touch an SC or ST candidate considering their status accorded by Indian courts now. I don’t know whether I should take it as an achievement of these communities or otherwise.

8. The constitution of India is the guide of Indian democracy. Even the syllabus of schoolbooks and related guides published by private business agencies change frequently. There is a lot of change in India compared to the times of Ambedkar. He was right in thinking so about SC and ST communities based on the prevailing social conditions of those days. But, we are wrong in not rewriting many outdated and useless laws and doctrines stated in our constitution even after so many years after independence to India. Reservations are just one outdated concept in our constitution. There are hundreds of such avoidable acts and principles in our big book of democracy. Who changes it outright in tune to the influences of contemporary times, honestly and ideally? When every organ of the governments is corrupt and infested with ministers of dirty characters and stinking political background, when can we see India progressing towards a holy milestone where virtues are respected and vice is punished strictly within days? SC and ST reservations is undoubtedly one of the major factors causing a gamut of problems and unrest in India. It is like a fatal cancer, spreading across India, with dangerous consequences to be faced by all of us. 

As an Indian, dreaming of a stage of evolution of Indians, whereby equal opportunities are provided to all without the biases of caste, religion, region, language or nationality, I think the following ideas and measures help us march towards a brighter future. If we work ideally, we can realize our ideals one day.

1. Reservations of all kinds must be banned in India. Those with potential to learn and improve on their own to reach any position in their lives or professions must be encouraged substantially by governments at all levels honestly. Merit must be the ultimate criterion to respect and promote anybody. If one fails to achieve merit through continuous struggle and passion for it, one remains backwards. That’s it.

2. Reservations can be continued for those who are born with physical or psychological abnormalities or disabilities because we should protect and serve those more, who are not as comfortable as we are in all respects. Old people, widows, victims of natural calamities and wars, and all those suffering from an inevitable disorder or pain, caused by external forces or by an accident, should be cared and looked after by all societies and nations since it is an expression of our humanity towards those, who need it the most. Unfortunately real victims are not getting such solace and relief in India much but cheats and criminals.

3. SC and ST community members should think and work hard to grow psychologically. They should try to get recognition and appreciation based on the knowledge and skills they possess instead of a social image accorded to them by Ambedkar, constitution of India or governments at various levels. They can feel proud only when they achieve something investing their intelligence and hard work in a field.

4. There are many problems in India like poverty, corruption, terrorism and separatism. We should address these problems understanding their root causes as idealists and thinkers but not as businessmen. A businessman solves problems on a temporary basis. We never get rid of them. The present governments are responding and reacting to burning issues like opportunistic businesspersons.

5. All Indians are not alike as far as their financial status is concerned. So, subsidies and other privileges should not be provided to all alike. Most of the budgetary allocations in India are being directed towards institutional and individual thieves. Their objective is to grab huge public money somehow. It can be avoided only when the wrongdoers would be identified immediately and punished very strictly fast.

6. India should not remain as a land of lazy and crazy idiots who do something following the trends created by loafers and cheats. Their knowledge and questioning attitude must be activated to understand who they are and how they should change to improve their lives and this nation ultimately. Such facilities and opportunities must be provided by governments and philanthropists extensively across places.

7. Rulers are daily misguiding people in different ways. As long as politicians and policy makers remain indifferent towards the sustainable progress of their people, a nation does not develop. Corrupt politicians and businesspersons must be killed by radical thinkers and revolutionaries rapidly. Anybody should be scared to indulge in acts of corruption and immorality. We need such extremists in India now very badly.

8. The policies of the governments should not make people into drunkards, smokers, hypocrites, thieves, fraudsters and terrorists but thinkers and idealists. Those with intelligence and self-esteem seldom accept others to guide them out of sympathy. Proud Indians should not expect sympathy and alms from others but opportunities to prove their abilities. Every good Indian should look for such environment in India. As long as Indians think, respond and react like beggars or parasites to persons, challenges and circumstances around them; India does not become a happy and peaceful country.

SAINT AND SANATANA

While I was strolling through the valleys of Jaimini Hills recently during late midnight hours out of my spiritual interest to feel intangible conversations of invisible creatures possessing material sensibilities partly but using supernatural signs completely, I came across a heavenly talk between a young and highly attractive saint and an equally beautiful and inspiring Indian beauty near Himachal Pradesh. The following is the text version of their short talk decoded and typed by me using my extrasensory powers prevalent exclusively during those hours sanctified by me applying my sublime energy suitable to such contexts.

Sanatana: I have been waiting for long to talk with you for a few minutes. I am deeply impressed by your bodily attraction and spiritual growth, a rare combination of physical and mental brilliance to be found in this material world. Your body is shining with beauty. Your mind is filled with spiritual thoughts.

Saint: Ordinary human beings cannot see me with their material eyes. Let me know why and from where you came to this hilly region? When millions of ordinary Indian girls are craving material joys and comforts, what brought you here? I have no passion for this material world but compassion for you.

Sanatana: Thank you for your nominal interest in my material existence. I was born in 1990 at a village in Maharashtra to very rich parents as only daughter. I was educated and brought up very comfortably. Slowly I realized that I cannot rely on anybody or anything in this world though everything seems easily accessible to me. Especially pain and death all around me transformed my attitude towards life in this world a lot. One may be a billionaire or a magician with extraordinary skills and capacity to do many things but one is unable to bring happiness and comforts into the lives of even those closely associated to one. It means nobody has control on his life or on those of others. Everybody is playing a helpless role imposed by somebody else. Many things in this world are happening according to a perfect order. I consider him God. I think He is managing the occurrences in this world. Based on my study of many religious and spiritual books, I realized that bliss associated with God is permanent unlike the one we see in this material world. One day I left my house and came to this place after many enquiries about a serene and holy place where saints can be seen after a thorough spiritual struggle inside. I meditated God for about two years sitting silently in a cave, consuming fruits, nuts and leaves available in my surroundings. Slowly I started sensing the presence of holy beings like you. That’s how I came to feel your presence and get attracted towards your achievements. I am feeling blissful in your presence.

Saint: It’s wonder to know that a splendid beauty like you with so much of wealth and loving parents behind chose this difficult path while very young. Everybody that takes a birth in this material world possesses the qualities of similar creatures. A monkey behaves like other monkeys. A hunter thinks like another hunter. We generally find uniformity in characteristics of creatures in this material world. However, very few, who realize the power of God on many things occurring in this world, struggle to come out of this painful and transient sphere of human life. I am happy to know that you chose this path.

Sanatana: My spiritual growth is less compared to yours. I often feel lonely and lost recalling my association with my possessive parents and close friends. I somehow managed to suppress those feelings and focus deeply on God. Unless I get some of my doubts clarified by you, I cannot avoid my passion for the attractions in this world. One may fall off this spiritual process at any time, even after many years of meditation and realization of God, because the evil attractions here are so powerful and misguiding. Once I know the brilliance of this path, I cannot be tempted to fall back into that mire of human relationships and bonds. My awareness and passion for God must always guide me towards Him.

Saint: Many take fast decisions being compelled by some adverse conditions around them but withdraw themselves from those resolutions because transformation is not as easy and simple as we imagine before entering that critical process. We should despise what we have loved the most till that time. We must be ready to taste bitter foods leaving all tasty ones around. We should lose passion for this body. So many changes should happen within us and our behavior once we decide to transform completely. Many cannot withstand the ordeals on this tough path. So, they drop off it at any time just like that. I am glad that you achieved a degree of spiritual growth whereby you are able to feel my presence and talk to me. Every great soul should help other souls to transform from material bondage to divine realization. Considering your passion for realization of God, I would answer many of your questions. Remember that spiritual progress occurs slowly. There are stages of evolution in this journey also. I may not be able to answer all your questions. I have been meditating for the last 20 years. I achieved moderate spiritual status only. Still there is a long process ahead of me to be faced and achieved bravely and patiently.

Sanatana: God must be kind to all. He is like a kind father to all the creatures in this world but some are suffering with difficulties and inevitable pains and some are celebrating their lives with much wealth and happiness. Why these many differences among the creatures made by God? I am confused.

Saint: This material world is like a huge playground prepared by God. We call it universe in our terms as ordinary human beings. Earth planet is a little bit in His creation of wonders and mysteries. He creates various souls initially and leaves them in this playground. Thereafter He simply watches the game of their lives and struggles in that playground like a neutral observer. Based on what those souls are doing with various body forms in a series of lifetimes, they accumulate an account of their own, which they must spend lifetime after lifetime. It is what we call Karma. Initially all souls have merits only. In course of time, due to the impact of God’s magic on various souls, they get into evil and remain there taking it as real wealth and happiness. God allows every soul to pass through millions of lifetimes to get astray unbelievably. It is like an innocent hero in a feature film committing many mistakes or doing wonders taking himself as an extraordinary person with exceptional qualities and ultimately realizing that he is almost nothing compared to God. We call it climax. A soul takes hundreds of years to search for its originator; that is God. Various players play differently in this longest game of spiritual journey planned and executed by God. If you are suffering, it’s because of what you did once and if you are happy now, it is also because of what you did once. God remains active much during the origin of a soul and its immersion in Him ultimately. He allows each soul to accumulate Karma of its own and live it until it reaches its destination towards the end of that long journey. We are all objects of game in His playground. He is the intelligent director and curious spectator of that longest drama in this creation. A father can cause birth to a creature but how it lives and dies is not in his hands in our familiar material world also. God also likes to play such nominal role while watching the game of various souls created by Him. He knows that every soul comes back to Him one day after being completely vexed with what’s happening around it in His sphere of pains and joys. You cannot blame Him if you are sad because you are responsible for it. You need not appreciate him if you are happy because you are responsible for it also. He treats both alike but we fail to understand it applying our narrow mindsets as humans. What everybody is supposed to do is to constantly remember Him and be grateful to Him feeling something like, “God! I am a helpless and hopeless creature in your big world. Thanks for creating my soul. Thank you for making me a player in your longest game of fun and pain. I played it more than enough. I committed many crimes and sins in this game thinking that it cannot bind me. The related Karma, attached to my soul, is making me take birth after birth in different life forms. I would not indulge in sins any more. From this birth onwards, I exclusively focus on clearing the results of my good and bad Karma alike because both make me take another series of births again. If I start this journey of reformation now, I may reach you in about 1000 years or so based on how much I could achieve. Till then, enable me to realize you gradually. I cannot play this painful game anymore. Help me reach you fast”. How many humans are entering this path of brilliance in the material world you saw once? They are talking a lot of nonsense and indulging in a variety of misdeeds and crimes neglecting God, their creator. What does a father do if his children are misbehaving? He allows them to their lot? He cares for them only when they realize about his kindness and affection? He guides them again towards a good path of happiness and comforts only when they earnestly seek his help. God allows you to play the game in this world as long as you like. You may go back to Him only when you want it. He has more patience and vision than you.

Sanatana: Why so much of attraction between females and males in all kinds of species on this earth? That temptation is so enticing and inevitable that millions of creatures are struggling in that mire of bodily attractions and related reproduction process across the world. They know that bringing up children is almost similar to hell but knowingly they are getting into that ditch repeatedly. Sex gives pleasure for a few moments but it leads to a series of attractions, bonds and related burdens one after one. Why are creatures unable to come out of this trap? What is making them so mad and foolish?

Saint: I think you must have watched cockfights somewhere. It is just one kind of bloody games conducted and enjoyed by thousands of evil rogues in this material world. They celebrate the pain of other creatures subjecting them to fights and races. Cocks know that they are being subjected to pain by humans but still they fight among themselves when others are watching. It is their inherent tendency to fight. Similarly God also desires to see how humans struggle and suffer if they are connected to one another with a strong bodily force. It is the inherent drive for sex. As long as there is that instinct in a creature, it continues to attach itself with a variety of creatures based on its passion for the entity of other gender. It is the source of pains and attachments. When there is no element of intense pain in the characterization of roles, no drama or film looks very interesting to viewers. We love and remember tragedies longer than comedies. Similarly, God also infuses pain into our lives through the medium of sex instincts. Until you realize that you are not the body but soul wearing various bodies according to the Karma accumulated by it because of what it has been doing over a series of lifetimes, you cannot resist temptation for sexual pleasures. You would reach that stage of realization only after you are unbearably disappointed with everything related to sex and what it entails in the lifetime of a creature. 

Sanatana: Can we consider doctors, teachers, inventors and scientists better creatures than laborers, peasant farmers, thieves and dullards? They are contributing substantially towards the awareness of masses and development of nation. They are working hard for the welfare and happiness of others.

Saint: Karma does not attach itself to a soul based on what you are doing but the purpose behind doing it knowingly. If a doctor serves the poor and the helpless selflessly, sacrificing many comforts in his personal life, he accumulates good kind of Karma. If a teacher is teaching just for the sake of salary and other benefits, he accumulates bad kind of Karma. If an inventor is creating something out of magnanimity, he is accumulating good Karma and if he does it to earn a lot of money, he accumulates bad Karma. Similarly, if scientists are making anything for the happiness of mankind and other creatures, they certainly accumulate good Karma. God scans our spirit of thoughts and true intentions but not our outward appearance and casual acts. If you smile at a baby out of pure love, it shows you as a good creature to God. If you pretend goodness towards a set of old and helpless people, and talk a few lies only to impress them somehow, God allows you to experience similar Karma. God knows many things about you which you also do not know about you because He is your creator and director. So, never consider one kind of living or profession superior or inferior to the other. It is your true intention that matters more than your acting skills. Anybody should not try to impress God through acting and lying.

Sanatana: Space research agencies like ISRO and NASA have been struggling hard for years to know more about unknown and inaccessible wonders in this universe. Can they completely understand the secrets and mysteries of this universe even after 1000 years from now?  

Saint: All those scientists and technicians are also characters in the game of God. To arouse a lot of curiosity and suspense in viewers, a director creates a multitude of characters and series of mesmerizing events in a feature film or drama. Likewise, God also encourages some of His creatures to explore His gigantic world, applying their material intelligence and capabilities. It’s like a physical trainer teaching his students to practice different kinds of exercises to keep themselves fit. If humans, the players in the game of God, are not active and enthusiastic to play different roles, ultimately the beauty of drama gets affected. So, God intentionally forces those scientists towards trying such space games also. They can never understand the phenomena and occurrences in this universe completely. Can an actor ever assess the true intelligence and creativity of his director just by acting in some of the films directed by him? Director is always more intelligent and powerful than those acting in creative pieces of expression made by him. Scientists may be able to understand one percent of this universe in another 1000 years or so.

Sanatana: Poets, idealists and saints take nature as a blessing of God because they always seek divine pleasure from the effects of nature everywhere. On the other hand, those living depending on forests, lakes, mountains and seas consider those entities of nature just as sources of their livelihood. What is the true purpose of nature in this world as planned by God?

Saint: Just like a beautician decorates a bride before her marriage and a gardener keeps his garden green and beautiful always, God also likes to keep His playground beautiful and pleasant mostly. What does a beautician do if that bride criticizes her irrationally out of excessive pride and the owner of a garden insults and beats that gardener for no particular reason. They know how to deface a bride or a garden because they are professionals. If various kinds of creatures, for the comfort and joy of which God created nature spectacularly, fail to keep it in that order only, God expresses His anger through the exhibition of concealed negative qualities of nature. Natural calamities are just an example of this nature of God. Man knows what is good or bad for him, others or nature but he does quite avoidable things to satisfy his ego and false prestige. When man misbehaves, God teaches him lessons. Moreover, nature plays a unique role towards various creatures depending on their Karma. A poet may also die in a forest through the bite of a snake if his Karma subjects him to that treatment. A peasant farmer may find a treasure of valuable items in his barren farm also if his good Karma leads him to that moment of bliss in his troublesome life. How nature looks, responds or reacts depends on what a creature in relation to it deserves at that particular moment. Nature also plays a definitive role in allowing various creatures in this world to live their Karma. You and I are using this forest to meditate God. A hunter searches for and kills birds and animals in it. A poet scribbles poetry being impressed by the beauty of this nature. All these creatures are being directed towards this forest to fulfill their Karmas differently.

Sanatana: How can one attain salvation? When does one start journey in this direction?

Saint: Can we assess when each of 1000 children stop playing when left absolutely free in a large playground? How long each of them plays in that playground largely depends on their spirit of energy, enthusiasm, climatic conditions and so many other factors. Similarly, God sends all equally talented and energized players into His huge playground at a time with equal love for all of them. Some desire to come out of it earlier than others. Many play there for millions of years because God wants them to be so passionate and attached to His beautifully made playground of wonders and mysteries. When He wants to end that phase of creation and drama, He creates conducive atmosphere for all souls to realize Him fast and get back. It may be heavenly or hellish. Realization is possible both ways. After closing one phase of drama, He starts another. It runs for another millions of years. One can attain salvation when one realizes that one’s blissful destination is God, his creator, but nothing else around him here. When one starts journey towards this direction depends on the amount of one’s accumulated good or bad Karma. One should clear both kinds of Karma attached to one’s soul to move back to God.

Sanatana: Is human life superior to all other kinds of life forms in this material world?

Saint: Just like a few enthusiastic children wear different masks to play the roles of different animals, birds and creatures in a huge resort meant for it, various souls take different kinds of life forms in their long journey as individual souls. Compared to all other life forms, human life form is more suited to realization of God. It’s like the last game by those children in an amusement park. If they are not interested to come out of it, even before it gets dark, they stay back in it and suffer playing at night also. Those that step out of it before dusk reach their homes safely and rest there happily under the kind guidance of their parents. Since God is our father, we should utilize the human life form to understand the greatness of our father and try strongly to reach His abode early, without lingering with those shadows and evil attractions in this painful world of creatures. Human life is an opportunity given to us by God to reach Him earlier than His scheduled longest game. Many play there till the last hour set by God for a phase of game because He beautifies His playground so enticingly and enchantingly.

Sanatana: Why does spiritual life look very difficult to those entering it initially? I am finding every day and night like an ordeal to continue here despite my best efforts. Why is the route to God so tough?

Saint: I would explain you this point through a short story, “Mobi was the son of a rich and kind father. His mother died when he was four. His father brought him up affectionately ever since the death of her. When Mobi was 20, he fell in love with a foreign girl. He asked his father to get him married with her. His father enquired a lot about her and knew that it would be 15^th marriage for her if she would marry his son. She got accustomed to multiple marriages and torturing each of her husbands until they would leave her on their own. So, he did not approve his marriage with her as a kind and visionary father. Mobi thought that his father became a villain in his life. He married her against his wishes. His father gave all his money and assets to his son with the hope that he would be happy somehow. He told him that he was going away to a hilly region to live peacefully among tribes working hard as one of them. Soon Mobi realized that his wife was just like a sadist. Within two years, he got separated from her voluntarily. He started understanding the greatness and importance of his father in his life. He had no money on him to search for his father. He could reach his father after 10 years. He struggled and suffered a lot in this search for him. If he had obeyed the instructions of his kind father years ago, he would not have faced that many difficulties in his short life. His father welcomed him warmly and looked after him carefully”. In this story, Mobi is like an ordinary creature. His father is like God. The girl, whom he married and because of whom he suffered a lot, is like the evil attractions in this material world. God installs conscience in each creature He creates. It is a force of ideal guidance inherent in us. When we ignore its commands and go astray being misled by various evil forces, we miss our father, the God. We fail to recognize Him even if He is just beside us when we are entrapped by the shadows in this world. When we realize His greatness, we voluntarily struggle a lot to reach Him somehow. It is difficult to get a lost treasure back. It is very difficult to reach God after getting ourselves drenched in a number of pits of filth out of our ignorance caused by our accumulated Karma. God tests us extensively when we are thoroughly spoiled in many lifetimes. It’s like a teacher explaining a difficult lesson to his innocent student minding his happiness in future. We take a lot of time to wash a muddy cloth rather than a plain cloth. God does not allow our soul of desires and passions to reach Him with so many impurities. He subjects us to a variety of ablutions to cleanse our soul and make it suitable to access Him. This material world is like a circus. Anybody can live like anything here. The abode of God is like a temple. Only those entirely sanctified to enter and stay there can reach it after many struggles and pains. It is a tough path.

Sanatana: How can we get rid of our account of accumulated Karma?

Saint: We can get rid of Karma without indulging in any kind of Karma at all. If you are born rich, you should shun all your wealth and assets and seek God. If you are born poor, you should not try to become rich somehow struggling hard but search for God and strive to reach Him. If your goal is reaching God, you should shun all your desires and passions for anything or anybody appearing in this material world. A soul, which has been accustomed to a variety of desires and passions and related life forms, cannot resort towards God that easily. So, it is a vicious web around us in which one kind of Karma forces us towards another kind of extending or withdrawing from it. If you give 100 rupees to a person, you should go back to him sometime to take it back. If you borrow 1000 rupees from another person, you should go to him and repay it someday. Both ways, you are subject to the effects of your good or bad Karma. Both keep you back attached to this material world. Coming out of this net is a very difficult process. This is why millions of souls take a multitude of births and rebirths to live their Karma for thousands of years. God invites those souls back, faster, which request Him honestly for long.

Sanatana: Is there any use in one going to a number of temples regularly as we see here much?

Saint: God does not like acting skills of His devotees at all. What are they doing at temples? They are offering some gifts to God thinking that He blesses them irrationally and illogically. God sends all creatures into this world expecting all of them to be good and happy always. When they fail to be so, He loses compassion for them. He cannot bless them as long as they do not change to His expectations. Temples are manmade abodes of worship. They cannot be made holy unless those frequenting them are sacred. A rich and undisciplined student cannot impress his righteous teacher through his gimmicks and lies but a poor and obedient student can easily impress such teacher within days. God is like that teacher. We are all like His students. We need not visit any temple, church or mosque, as long as we are in the process of delivering ourselves from the webs we are creating around us continuously. Getting rid of our accumulated Karma allows us to reach God fast. So, we should focus more on this aspect of our lifetime instead of other acts. When our Karma is pulling us back from God, we cannot move ahead in that path. We created our Karma for long. We should rid it struggling hard for long.

Sanatana: Does our knowledge of and familiarity with saints help us reach God faster?

Saint: Saints are practitioners of the principles and practices required to reach God earlier than other ordinary creatures. Just like an experienced doctor can guide an inexperienced doctor in understanding the nature of medicines and the pursuit of surgeries, a saint can advise an ordinary person on how to understand and reach God. Just as an experienced and famous doctor does not have much time and patience to guide an ordinary doctor, most of the saints, who are intensely engaged in the pursuit of God through rigorous meditation, mostly do not guide ordinary people in a spiritual path. They do not like to add more Karma to their souls mingling with sinful rogues again, a mistake they committed once. It is an ordeal to win the heart of a great saint. He has no time for anything in this world except to try to reach God fast. He has been thoroughly vexed with everything and everybody in this world through taking a series of life forms. Their urge to reach God is so intense that they subject their bodies to many tests and atonements in that process. They treat their bodies just like worthless objects thrown into this material world unkindly by God. They don’t rest until they reach their destination. So, if you are finding many folks with beards and saffron pieces in public places and other abodes with special decoration, it means they are dropouts from the path of God or they are not even at the entrance gate of that pursuit. Many pretend as saints to impress others and make an ordinary or comfortable living. A real saint does not crave human company and comforts but moves away from them. He renounces all that.

Sanatana: Why should God create this longest game at all and subject all of us to so many pains?

Saint: I too asked this question some of my familiar saints here but nobody could answer it. It’s like asking a doctor why he pursued medicine and treating patients when he clearly knows that he cannot avoid death despite his best efforts. It’s like asking an old man why he is growing so many plants and trees beside public roads despite knowing that nobody is appreciating his vision and efforts. It’s like asking a mother why she is carrying an infant in her for nine months and suffering for her lifetime observing the life of her daughter or son. These are all testing and painful efforts. I too don’t understand why God is creating so many souls for each phase of His game and watching His tragic dramas one after another. Perhaps activity is his interest. He does not like to be idle always. Just as we are creating dolls for our babies, He is creating us to entertain His guests somewhere. I too don’t know where all these souls stay when He ends each phase of His longest drama. I think I can get answers to such highly difficult questions when I attain salvation and reach God. Unfortunately, those that attain salvation are not coming back into this material world to clarify many spiritual doubts of some ordinary human beings. Perhaps they are so averse to visiting this enticing and misleading playground that they are forgetting us altogether after reaching there after years of struggle and pains in that spiritual path.

Sanatana: There are many religions and spiritual paths in this world professed by various beings. Who is real God; Jesus Christ, Allah or Lord Krishna? Why so many beliefs and practices when there is one God only?  The followers of one religion are fighting with those of other religions and faiths. How can we understand who real God is and where He is? Why should not real God appear to us physically?

Saint: Let’s hope that Sun is a God. He is appearing in the same form in different countries at different times. He is called differently by different people according to their languages and faiths. He is a small round object to ordinary humans on earth. It is a huge entity of burning fire filled with gases and cosmic reactions to those scientists who are able to see it using their utilities of high capacity. I don’t know if there are creatures in other planets revolving around Sun. What might be their perception about Sun? Such many questions and doubts arise when we try to assess the true nature of God from our perspectives which are limited to a great extent. It’s like a kindergarten kid preparing a performance appraisal report about a scientist with extraordinary intelligence and inventions to his credit. Perhaps we must progress a lot in our spiritual journey to understand the true form and nature of God. Also, God is not appearing to us physically like the director of a feature film. We are able to see characters, events, dialogues, fights, duets and climax only in many films. Probably the director does not like to appear to his viewers in a film made by him. Similarly, God, the director of this huge drama and playground, does not like to make a showy appearance in His cosmic presentation. Perhaps we are not able to see Him with our ordinary eyes. He just wants us to be characters in His drama. We are helpless. Those that reached Him after years of spiritual struggle must have seen Him and chose to stay back with Him.

Sanatana: May I know why you entered this spiritual path at such a tender age?

Saint: Again, it is a matter of my Karma. My spiritual efforts in a series of my previous births blocked me from entering material life deeply in this birth. When I was four years old, one night, I had a dream. It awakened me from my ignorance and innocence as a child. I developed deep aversion for this material world within days after that subconscious experience. I told my parents that I had decided to go far away to meditate God. They are also spiritually oriented to much extent. They agreed after a few days of hesitation. Our souls decide where to take a birth and what course of life to be led based on our accumulated Karma in our previous life forms. God kindly facilitates such souls to reach His path of brilliance and divinity earlier than others. It is like a coach teaching the skills of a game more intensely to his highly devoted and disciplined student than those who are not interested in him or that game much. This credit goes to my accumulated Karma over my previous births and the kindness of God. Human willpower plays very nominal role only in this process of transformation from a materialist to a saint.

Sanatana: I love you. I miss you a lot if you go away from me leaving alone in this thick forest. Would you allow me to sit somewhere near you and meditate? I like this spiritual path but I am feeling forsaken.

Saint: You were an actress in your previous birth. You were an exceptional beauty as well. You used to tell ‘I love you’ to many actors in many dramas and films in that birth as part of your profession. Despite your meditation for two years and your ability to perceive my spiritual form, your soul is exerting the impulses of your most recent life form on you. You loved many in films and dramas in that life but failed to feel genuine love from any of those actors or your husband. That void of lovesickness and pain is still attached to your soul’s account of Karma. In this life also, you are born with the beauty of an angel. Even after years of rigorous meditation and attainment of many spiritual powers, I am feeling attracted towards you. This is how our Karma pulls us back into those evil material attractions. Bodily desires bind us if we meditate sitting closely in two caves. I request you to stay here. I go to my actual place of meditation, which is about one kilometer from here in this forest. Very soon, I am going to achieve a level of spiritual progress whereby I cannot be tempted by any material entity. Then I come to you and take you with me to allow you to sit somewhere near me and meditate God. I help you in this process. I save and keep you out of your material tendencies till then applying my spiritual power. I will be your spiritual guide hereafter. God would be kind with those that help others reach Him fast.