Guilt Free Society

Is there a "Rule Book" which tells us about What is Right and What is Wrong? Or we all work under some "equation"? Both of these Presumptions dont seem to be true. So how do we know about the righteousness of our path? 

This answer can be found only deep within. As we came-in with an installed Programme in our Subconscious Mind that tells us about our wrongdoings. So, Can we generalise the ideologies on which man should work?

Despite of the infinite complexity of the brain, people start to find the answer to their problems in Books and Other People's Opinion. Great Scriptures like Bhagwat Geeta and Ramayana are so advanced that they actually guide you to the best level. But depending your life on someone else's thought is like Navigating a Ship without a Compass; for it every wind is the right wind. Are these the right way of solving the problem or do we have more alternatives? Dont confuse me with any spiritual guru, who is about to give you any "Moralistic Gyaan", because I truly believe in Logics.

So the next question I get in mind is - What is guilt ? Being a truly internet savvy person; The Wikipedia results say:

Guilt is a Cognitive or an Emotional experience that occurs when a person realises or believes- accurately or not- that he or she has Compromised his or her own Standards of Conduct or has Violated a moral standard, and bears significant responsibility for that violation. It is closely related to the concept of Remorse.

Although I couldn't understand half of it. The thing I could get, is that its a Feeling that we get when we do Something Wrong. It all comes down to realising- What is Right and What is Wrong. So why is it that I consider something Moral and for someone else that is a Sin. Is it some sort of Subconscious Negligence on my part or an over analysis of Idealism on someone else's part. Who cares !!! Right

But the point is, why do we tend to have guilt at all if there are no rules made by the Almighty. Is it "Guilt" that is eating away our brains and stopping us from absolute productivity or may be we were sent to purposefully think on these lines and create a Self Guided System.

We generally tend to do those things which we are deprived of. Thousands of illustrations may be popping up in your mind, so I don't need to expand on those lines. But our initial childhood period plays a very crucial role in setting up our guidance system for our life. 

But that is not in our control, so the only option we have with us it to feel free like a bird, breaking away the Myths and enter into the Realm of Absolute Bliss. The day we all stop having guilt is the day we start committing mistakes again and hence start learning.

According to a very famous futurologist named Alvin Toffler-

The literate of the 21st century are not those who can Read and Write, but those who can Learn, Unlearn and Re-learn. So we need to Reboot our Conceptual understanding about Life and Resolve the Mahabharat going in our mind between Ideality and Practicality.

May be that would be a day, we either head towards Communism or I would stop writing blog; Confusing other minds ;) 

MultiBrand Education

Globalisation led to a market full of brands from across the Globe and the consumer had more options thereby more competitiveness between companies, leading to a better product value. As time passed, man Capitalised on everything even Education.

So why is our education system so rigid? Its like we can wear only one brand-clothing, If education sector is such a serious business, Why is it so rigid and not up to the market ? Why dont we have a market of competitive teachers ? Why is there such a stagnation in this ever growing business ? Although more development and innovative techniques are needed in this sector rather than the automobile, clothing and other goods sector, as all these sectors are by product of an efficient education system.

Having said that, what change do we really want ? Do we want our teachers to treat us like customers and say the customer is always right ??? No, thats not quite what I am saying. What I am trying to say is that whenever there is a competition, we tend to perform better. But our education system has become outdated and our respectable teachers have become a prey to it.

Again, I am not suggesting to start some teacher training programs. They are already equipped with adequate knowledge. What I am trying to say is to just bring competition into the market by allowing the consumers i.e. the students to permute and choose their teacher that best suits them through online as well as classroom programs.

An immediate thought comes, Why cant we do that ? May be because we are institutionalised. If we can choose our teachers all over the country by their Video Lecture Programme accompanied by Doubt Session, Personal Lectures then we can bring in more creativity and learn from those, whose words hammer our brain.

The idea seems to be a bit impractical and eliminating human touch, but then what about the distance learning courses; How have they become so successful ? The idea they bank upon is the value of time. If we students are offered a curriculum whereby we can plan our own session, we would realise our value of time and money and utilise it to the fullest. Instead of totally depending on the institute for our Intellectual Development just because we have paid full fees in lump-sum.

What if teachers have a market cap value like our Bollywood industry and they are individual entities whose rights, the Institution has to purchase in order to provide good facility to their customers. And the best democratic part being we have the right to choose.

Dont you now think, this was a Right curtailed from us a consumer ?

Jago Grahak Jago !!!

Facebook Psychology

We all know about the facts that Facebook has become an excellent communication medium and it helped many friends to reunite despite of long distances. But have you ever wondered the principle which fb depends upon and what part of our Brain is leading us to log in again and again, uploading more photos with friends and family thereby increasing the data load on Facebook servers, which they happily welcome.

10 - 15 years ago when the communication mediums were not so subtle, Parents used to tell their Daughters not to even have a .jpeg format of their own photographs. As someone could morph it and malign their family's name. But today we have broken all Psychological Barriers into becoming a more open minded society. These days we click pics only for Facebook and it has become an indispensable part of our lives

As the mixed economy of India boomed, brought in more jobs thereby more money into the pockets; many superstitions were eroded as Westernization started capturing the minds of people. Today every american product and service has become such an integral part of our life that we cannot live without it.

Coming back to Facebook, where we seem to have a lot of friends and a great social life, some people like to portray their absolute happiness and some project their sadness. Everyone uses it according to their needs and personality traits. It is such an open platform that we can choose what to show.

Hence again we get drowned in a Quantified Ocean of likes and dislikes, share and promote totally forgetting the present moment by shifting our psyche entirely into the cyber world.

No wonder George Orwell was right about the Big Brother, but even if Edward Snowden would have not told us about the PRISM project, we all must have volunteered to keep each and everything online making NSO's work done at the footstep itself.

Previously we used to have 30- 40 people in our lives who we really cared about and they reciprocated similarly. But with the evolving e-newspaper of 1000 other friends or acquaintances of ours who we rarely cared about; now we deliberately log in to read what is happening in their lives. Feelings of absolute happiness, sadness, jealousy, greed have been captured online and the posts on Facebook have started controlling our lives.

There are people who come on, log in and see some news about what they like, log out and get back to work and there are some people who log in browse browse and browse, log out and log in again. I have not conducted a survey or peeped into some other balconies to gather this information but even you know this truth as we have been part of each of the two types at some point in our lives.

Facebook seems to have captured this tendency of ours to know "what is going on with other peoples lives". Although nothing seems to be wrong with it, we are totally within the frame of our Constitutional Freedom. But we forgot one most important thing which is "Self Analysis" i.e. the time that some of us used to spend in Analyzing our mistakes and thinking about our future, planning and most importantly dreaming.

This crucial time has been taken from us because of "Bhed Chaal" tendencies to first of all make a Facebook account and then the continuous need to maintain standards of Extrovertness by either writing funny or sarcastic status updates or uploading "had a great time" photographs.

That is why sometimes I feel Twitter is a much better platform, its like cricket match were only 22 players play, but we still have a good time and we also get the to raise our placards.

Don't worry I am not getting paid from Twitter, neither I have any malice against Mark Zukerberg.

The only thing I can suggest you finally is just follow me on twitter @mathuranshuman

No wonder I am smart  ;)

The High Of Happiness

While the rest of the world is busy with their external affairs, working their butt off to earn more Money or spending their Time Socialising. I am left with an Interesting question: To Attain Happiness, of which the easiest way I find is to get a High, not alone but with the best of my buddies.

Every time, there is a tremendous secretion of Dopamine which makes me happier than those who seek happiness in this utter Materialistic World, buying things they dont even need or buttering people who pull off the Ethical part in you. I am not boasting myself about the quality Friends and Siblings I have, but it is about the Expression of that Ultimate Truth which has become an absolute Cliché. If you know what I mean.

Although, I may not have a specific topic in my mind to write an article, well if u want to read that kind of stuff read The Hindu and The Economist with such prominent "The" standards of greatness. But as of now I am left with a very unusual, publicly unacceptable question in my mind which is -

Is getting High in any form equivalent to Meditation ?

There is a fine possibility that just after asking this question, some of you might realise that "This guy doesn't know what Meditation is at all" or may be I know something you don't. The facts that I've realised over the years of experiencing (a proud owner of a single prominent grey hair) is that anything that gives you Happiness Meditation.

With the emerging questions in mind that what Happiness is exactly about, we can go on researching, reading spiritual books etc; which gives us a great thought to memorise and show off our Intellectual skills in front of everyone. Its only with time that you realise the clichéd part of it that, Self Realisation is a very long process and -Knowing Something and Understanding Something are two very different things. Which should not be confused with either greying of hairs or natural ageing.

So now that my Dopamine levels go down over the week, I am left with another question: Whether I have fallen into a Vicious Cycle of Addictions living a life of practicality or Am I at a higher understanding of Darwin's theory of Survival of The Fittest. But the only thing that drags me again into the cycle is the Pursuit of the Ultimate High thereby secreting more and more Serotonin in my body.

As the urge for Happiness increases I am left with another question: Can we double our happiness by meditating when we are happy ? i.e. Meditating when we are High. Although I have never experienced such things, but theoretically it seems a mind boggling concept which I seek to achieve soon.

Being a Typical "Type A" personality, I would keep on getting such thoughts but the point is 

Have you found your Happiness ?

Do Not Read This !!

As I am requesting you kindly not to read this henceforth you must not read further.

But you seem to be a little different. You are not at all listening to me. I’m requesting you not to read this but you are still reading further. 

However my request was only because of the fact that you are not going to find any substance in this article that is why I thought, why should you waste your precious time in reading indiscreet stuff like this. But you seem to be a totally free creature who has no pending work to do and is still interested to read this useless article further.

I’m really amazed with your tenacity about finding things till the end , you are not paying attention to what I am saying at all. Despite of knowing the fact that the country is not progressing and our GDP is abominably low, you still continue to read. Please don’t waste your time further as this is not going to give any piece of advice to your life nor is going to resolve the conflicts of your mind.

Now as you may have seen that this article is about to end, so you must have understood that I was actually true in advising you  that you should not have actually read this, well the article finishes here however you have failed to listen to my advice but as you have wasted so much of time and energy to read up till here so I would like to draw your  attention to the article heading which was Do "Not" read this.

At this stage I can only suggest you that if you still have more time and nothing interesting left to do in your life you may go on reading this passage again and increase my page-views, no wonder if I start getting paid for my blog in some time. 

Cerebrum - Bangalored

Today when we go to a KFC restaurant, we never care what their "Secret Recipe" is, we just order our Large Popcorn and move out, well no offence to the Pious Vegetarians.

Meanwhile Europe has been executing their "Apprenticeship Model" since the middle ages wherein they train the youth rigorously according to their field of interest and later on they take over their businesses and train the next generations.

This system was happening even in our country from a long time ago but was quite Individualistic and Unorganised but with the onset of "The Youth Ego", i.e when the Youngsters of India thought that I would do something on my own. So he/she left the huge platform of their Parents Success to serve into the mighty Corporate World. 

The only thing we forgot (by this time you may have figured out that I am one of you) was that we didn't have any skills required to do a Corporate Job. The Global Labour Arbitrage brought tremendous job opportunities and  we got a White Collared job in a "Call Centre", where we were supposed to speak in an American accent and call United States as "The United States" by simply faking our accent which we became pretty good at.

Due to reducing arbitrage India had to move up on the value chains, hence we got ourselves an executive M.B.A from a Premier Institute. Market capitalisation, Finance, Equity, Working Capital kind of terms enhanced our Persona.

But the only thing we forgot was that the man sitting in US was holding the Reins of our Career and we practically had no control over it. Our overprotective parents never wanted us to face the kind of difficulties and struggle they had  faced. They just wanted their child to live an honest upright life. But as they Spared The Rod It Spoiled The Country's Economy.

I am not saying that we all should join our Family Business or stop doing Corporate Jobs. My point of view is that we should not become a Country skilled in Clerical Jobs. Rather we should bring in new innovation technologies to either our family business/profession or even explore new Entrepreneurship fields by developing skills required to enter into the Global Market.

Now Probably You Might Be Thinking, What is the KFC's Secret Recipe ??

Indori Midas

Well I should first of all filter the readers as they may not expect some good English here nor some 'vocab' words so, the students appearing for CAT, GMAT, GRE, TOEFL and likewise highly intellectuals may skip reading this.

In English Literature there is a very famous quote that

“To Err Is Human” but it is modified in Indori Shtyle as

“To Aeeeeein Is To Indori”

This accent mixed with a multiplicity of tone variations has many features which Indori people use as their shield in many situations, like

when they are Surprised, when they are Confused, when they Agree deeply and this Aeeeein is also used as a replacement for “Pardon Me”, I couldn’t hear you or “Come Again”.

So you see how expressive and multitalented Indoris are. Well for our non-lndori readers, you can easily qualify to get into this category as there is no eligibility criteria or qualification required to get into this bracket.

Probably the only one you need is to alter your accent with some add-on special words like “Aur Kya Bhiya”, “Knee Ho Payega” and many other slangs. Most Importantly you will have to develop a complete love for street food.

Well talking about food, there are some things that you will find only here. I am not talking about the Sophisticated 5 stars in vogue, they don’t represent the true spirit of Indore, I am talking about our Birthright Food- Sev, Poha, Jalebi, Samosa, Kachori. I can imagine the Saliva revolving around your Spice loving Palettes. This is what makes Indore different from other cities. We may not be the Commercial Capital of India or officially recognised as a Metropolitan city, but in the food industry no one can beat us. If you eat the same food in any other part of the country you may realise that the "Midas Touch" is missing.

Despite the Auto-Correct feature continuously retaliating me with my illegitimate slangs, I couldn't control myself for expressing the non-communistic love for my city.