Here we are not interested in Tawba,repentance, the act of seeking God's forgiveness.
Earlier we had a Tawba culture.We account for our wrong actions and seek Tawba of God Almighty.We clean our mind and heart with Tawba and resolve that the errors will not be repeated.
We used to pray five times a day;chant God's attributes after every salath, namaz, and say asthagufirullahal adheem ,forgive Allah, praise Allahu subhanawa talla for the blessings of Allah,Subhanallah,thank Allah for all favours received,
alhamdulillah,and acknowledge that all powers are from God, only from God, God is great,Allahu Akbar.
We used to say this each 33 times after every prayer and finally declare God's Unity, La ilaha illallah, that there is no one to be worshipped, except God Almighty, the creator of all universe.
After every salath we pray for right guidance-right guidance comes only from God- we pray for parents, for our children, family and for all. We pray for good and useful knowledge, right guidance, and for food earned from our hard work and halal.
When Salath or prayer is done, we are happy, energised,and renewed.We find the purpose of our life, here and hereafter.There is 'noor' or light in every cell of our body-Allah nooru samavathi val ardhu, God, the light of heavens and earth-.We have our full life, happy life, every day.
Now asking God's forgiveness is considered bad. science is our religion now. We say there is no wrong nor good. You are the judge. You did it in your full conviction, isn't it? So, don't ask for pardon. Asking pardon increases the guilt in you and it lowers your self-esteem. You did it right. Thumps Up!
No guilt. No pardon. No Tawba.
But our wrong actions haunt us. Our soul knows what is wrong and right.Even before the origin of religions, prophets, men had morals and ethics. There is an innate quality in every human being to differentiate good and bad. That is a gift of God.Our wrong actions had always made us guilty.
Now we do not pray. No Tawba.
Like Lizzie, we lose our sleeps, develops anxiety, go downward spiral and begins to abuse drugs and alcohol. We are depressed . Anxiety mounts in us everyday. Our silent moments are really fierce. We cannot be with us even for a moment.
After a few tries of drugs, our depression only worsens. We lash out against anything, internally. We assume anything as our enemies- boss,neighbours,friends-and call them abusive words and act hitting them in the privacy of our bed rooms.
Finally, somebody drops us at a phychiatric center to begin our Prozac Life.
They refer us to counsellors. Before counsellors we release everything for a set amount of time and for a fixed charges. Talk and talk. After one hour or so , the counsellor takes money and we get up for the next patients.
Psychotherapists or counsellors do not condemn our actions nor do they offer solutions. The counsellor ends his dialogue after the patient's time and
leave the person alone with his grief, anxiety and misery.
This is the modern way, the scientific way!
We are the lost people.
We are Prozac Nation.
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Monday, February 27, 2012
February Heart Attack Month
ഫെബ്രുവരി ഹാ൪ട്ടറ്റാക് മാസം.
പാവം ഫെബ്രുവരി.
വലന്റൈന് ചുംബനത്തിനും പ്രണയത്തിനും
ഒരു ദിവസം അതിനു കിട്ടിയപ്പോള്
29 ദിവസവും ഹാ൪ട്ട് അറ്റാക് ചുമക്കേണ്ടി വന്നു.
പാവം ഫെബ്രുവരി.
വലന്റൈന് ചുംബനത്തിനും പ്രണയത്തിനും
ഒരു ദിവസം അതിനു കിട്ടിയപ്പോള്
29 ദിവസവും ഹാ൪ട്ട് അറ്റാക് ചുമക്കേണ്ടി വന്നു.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
ആരുമില്ല സ്വന്തം നിലയ്ക്ക് ധനികനായത്.ആരുമില്ല.
തടിയന് പൂച്ചകളേ ശ്രദ്ധിക്കൂ.
ആരുമില്ല ഈ രാജ്യത്ത്
സ്വന്തം നിലയ്ക്ക് ധനികനായത്
ആരുമില്ല.
നീ പറയുന്നു ഞാനവിടെ ഒരു ഫാക്റ്ററി പണിതില്ലേ
നിനക്ക് നല്ലത്.
പക്ഷേ ഞാന് വ്യക്തമാക്കട്ടെ:
ഞങ്ങളുടെ ചുങ്കം പിടിച്ച് കെട്ടിയ റോഡിലൂടെയാണ്
നീ ചരക്ക് നീക്കിയത്
ഞങ്ങളുടെ പുഴയാണ് നീ വറ്റിച്ചത്
ഞങ്ങളുടെ ശരീരമാണ് നീ വൈദ്യുതിക്കായി കത്തിച്ചത്
ഞങ്ങളുടെ വിയ൪പ്പുപാടങ്ങളിലാണ്
നിന്റെ കോണ്ക്രീറ്റുകള് ഉയ൪ന്നത്
നിനക്കു വേണ്ടി ഞങ്ങളുടെ കുന്നുകളാണ്
ഇറങ്ങിപ്പോയത്
ഞങ്ങളുടെ കാടുകളാണ് നിനക്കുവേണ്ടി അരച്ചുതന്നത്
രക്തം കൊടുത്ത് ഞങ്ങള് പഠിപ്പിച്ച മക്കളെയാണ്
എട്ടണത്തുട്ടിന് നീ വിലക്കെടുത്തത്
നിന്റെ മിച്ചമുണ്ടല്ലോ
നിന്റെ മിച്ചമൂല്യമുണ്ടല്ലോ
അത് ഞങ്ങളുടെ പ്രാണന്റെ പ്രാണന്റെ വിലയാണ്
തടിയന് പൂച്ചകളേ.
ആരുമില്ല ഈ രാജ്യത്ത്
സ്വന്തം നിലയ്ക്ക് ധനികനായത്
ആരുമില്ല.
നീ പറയുന്നു ഞാനവിടെ ഒരു ഫാക്റ്ററി പണിതില്ലേ
നിനക്ക് നല്ലത്.
പക്ഷേ ഞാന് വ്യക്തമാക്കട്ടെ:
ഞങ്ങളുടെ ചുങ്കം പിടിച്ച് കെട്ടിയ റോഡിലൂടെയാണ്
നീ ചരക്ക് നീക്കിയത്
ഞങ്ങളുടെ പുഴയാണ് നീ വറ്റിച്ചത്
ഞങ്ങളുടെ ശരീരമാണ് നീ വൈദ്യുതിക്കായി കത്തിച്ചത്
ഞങ്ങളുടെ വിയ൪പ്പുപാടങ്ങളിലാണ്
നിന്റെ കോണ്ക്രീറ്റുകള് ഉയ൪ന്നത്
നിനക്കു വേണ്ടി ഞങ്ങളുടെ കുന്നുകളാണ്
ഇറങ്ങിപ്പോയത്
ഞങ്ങളുടെ കാടുകളാണ് നിനക്കുവേണ്ടി അരച്ചുതന്നത്
രക്തം കൊടുത്ത് ഞങ്ങള് പഠിപ്പിച്ച മക്കളെയാണ്
എട്ടണത്തുട്ടിന് നീ വിലക്കെടുത്തത്
നിന്റെ മിച്ചമുണ്ടല്ലോ
നിന്റെ മിച്ചമൂല്യമുണ്ടല്ലോ
അത് ഞങ്ങളുടെ പ്രാണന്റെ പ്രാണന്റെ വിലയാണ്
തടിയന് പൂച്ചകളേ.
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Why the West is preying on Iran?
Israel has 150 nuclear bombs. 80 % of israel's GDP is from armament manufacture, including drone missiles which America buy and use in all oil producing countries including Iraq, Libya and now in Pakistan. What right yankee has to curb Iran to stop nuclearisation if America supports Israel to make all war arsenals? What is the justice? Is America the only country licenced to kill people across the world?
We are against nuclear wars, we are against nuclear armaments. That doesn't mean America and Israel can possess them and threaten the world, while the rest of the world watching them?
We are against nuclear wars, we are against nuclear armaments. That doesn't mean America and Israel can possess them and threaten the world, while the rest of the world watching them?
Kanthapuram's dangerous play
Kanthapuram is communalising hair issue. He was sleeping in Marxist tent for so many years for political gains. If Kanthapuram musaliyar can use Islam for political gains , politicians like Pinarayi can have a say about Islam too.
Who is Kanthapuram to speak for all Muslims? AP Sunnis, once known as Arival Sunnis, are thankless people. They now tie with UDF. Musaliyar is trying to market his brand of Islam. We Muslims are not your slaves. May be some Sakhafis and Karanthuris, not all Muslims.
Musaliyar wants to make people forget about the hair he got from Bombay barber shop.
Allah has not offered to preserve the physical remains of the prophet. That was not his mu'jisath.
If keratin-protein eating bacteria is present in the soil it may take a few years for hair, which is a fibrous protein, to decompose. But nature has preserved some people, like Pharoah, with bone , teeth and hair not decomposing. Prophet Muhammad is not among them.
Muslims do not believe that prophet Muhammad is a God. He is a messenger who advised Dharma. He is not Holy. He is not born as a son of God, like Christians believe about Jesus. He is born to Amina and Abdulla.He was an ordinary man, who was known among the Arabs as Alameen, the trustworthy, who lived among the Arabs working as trader in a caravan until the age of forty when he received Godly message while meditating at the cave Hira.
He never asked people to use his hair for curing diseases. When he himself was sick he went to a Jew for taking traditional medicines.
Holy Quran says, "Kulluman alaiha fan wa yabka wajhu rabbikka dul jalali wal ikram," that there is a destruction for everything in this universe, for everything, except the Divine Presence of God Almighty. Muslims believe this.
Who is Kanthapuram to speak for all Muslims? AP Sunnis, once known as Arival Sunnis, are thankless people. They now tie with UDF. Musaliyar is trying to market his brand of Islam. We Muslims are not your slaves. May be some Sakhafis and Karanthuris, not all Muslims.
Musaliyar wants to make people forget about the hair he got from Bombay barber shop.
Allah has not offered to preserve the physical remains of the prophet. That was not his mu'jisath.
If keratin-protein eating bacteria is present in the soil it may take a few years for hair, which is a fibrous protein, to decompose. But nature has preserved some people, like Pharoah, with bone , teeth and hair not decomposing. Prophet Muhammad is not among them.
Muslims do not believe that prophet Muhammad is a God. He is a messenger who advised Dharma. He is not Holy. He is not born as a son of God, like Christians believe about Jesus. He is born to Amina and Abdulla.He was an ordinary man, who was known among the Arabs as Alameen, the trustworthy, who lived among the Arabs working as trader in a caravan until the age of forty when he received Godly message while meditating at the cave Hira.
He never asked people to use his hair for curing diseases. When he himself was sick he went to a Jew for taking traditional medicines.
Holy Quran says, "Kulluman alaiha fan wa yabka wajhu rabbikka dul jalali wal ikram," that there is a destruction for everything in this universe, for everything, except the Divine Presence of God Almighty. Muslims believe this.
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Meditation
Meditation is a simple act.
It has nothing to with sixth sense.It is not an explosion happening at some point of time in one's life.This claim is against the teachings of Patanjali Maharshi.
It is accessible to great swamis as well as poor- illiterate- lay men.
Just be with your breath. Just be with your body. Just be with your thoughts. Just be an ordinary human being.Find a quite place. Sit some time . Don't try to eliminate your ordinary thoughts. Just be with that. Thoughts pass through your mind. Be with the thought.
After some days of practice you may notice that you are losing the presence of physical body. You are losing your thoughts and you feel quietness, you feel stillness.
That stillness happens in a meditation.Concentration is not meditation. What people say as meditation is just pratyahara ( the withdrawal of senses) and dharana ( one pointedness of the mind). Meditation happens after this. Then we don't know our thoughts. We don't know our body. What people tell about meditation is only after effects,like we describe a good sleep.
When our mother sits at home and do nama japa or dhikr, she gets the same feeling of happiness and coolness. When a hindu mother does mala of 108 beads, when a sufi chants dhikr/ thasbeeh she/ he gets the same feeling.
After meditaiton we get a happy mind, get a peace of mind, get a coolness. We don't need any great people to take us to meditation. Nobody can take us to. We are finding our own way. Depending on the life of the person each person has a unique feeling. I have heard some people marketing this pure knowledge. They claim that they can make you fly through meditation.They can enable you to read others mind. They can make you this and that. Many many things. All are tall claims. May be true for those swamis, not for all.
The purpose of meditation is samadhi to make you jeevanmuktha.There are 8 limbs of Ashtanga yoga or Raja yoga. It starts with yama which contains ahimsa, not- stealing, honest words,compassion etc etc.Yama is only one those eight limbs. There are many things like observances called niyama. Observances are "Dos" , yama is " Don't Dos".Patanjali Maharshi insits us to practise these basic things before meditation.How can one practice meditation without cleanliness, how can one reach samadhi with himsa, how can you steal , cheat , harm and still do meditation. If you can , then Patanjali may be wrong.
Meditation is a fancy marketing word now, to make people a better CEO of a company, a better HR manager. This is not the way of Ashtanga yoga. This is a money making way.
Pranayama, prathyahara, dharana come after this. We do asanas for awareness of physical body. We do pranayama for control of breath.Without awareness of physical body and awareness of breath how one can have awareness of subtle feelings inside our mind and body?
Meditation or dhyana is only the seventh one. This are all meant for eternal bliss called samadhi. Samadhi is not a one time happening. We have a notion that after samadhi there is nothing. No. After attaining samadhi. we wake up and lead the normal life. we go to farm and do farming, we do our ordinary business of life. But again,we do meditation and reach samadhi. It is easy then. ditaion is a happy state.My request is we don't have to complicate this simple meditation.
It has nothing to with sixth sense.It is not an explosion happening at some point of time in one's life.This claim is against the teachings of Patanjali Maharshi.
It is accessible to great swamis as well as poor- illiterate- lay men.
Just be with your breath. Just be with your body. Just be with your thoughts. Just be an ordinary human being.Find a quite place. Sit some time . Don't try to eliminate your ordinary thoughts. Just be with that. Thoughts pass through your mind. Be with the thought.
After some days of practice you may notice that you are losing the presence of physical body. You are losing your thoughts and you feel quietness, you feel stillness.
That stillness happens in a meditation.Concentration is not meditation. What people say as meditation is just pratyahara ( the withdrawal of senses) and dharana ( one pointedness of the mind). Meditation happens after this. Then we don't know our thoughts. We don't know our body. What people tell about meditation is only after effects,like we describe a good sleep.
When our mother sits at home and do nama japa or dhikr, she gets the same feeling of happiness and coolness. When a hindu mother does mala of 108 beads, when a sufi chants dhikr/ thasbeeh she/ he gets the same feeling.
After meditaiton we get a happy mind, get a peace of mind, get a coolness. We don't need any great people to take us to meditation. Nobody can take us to. We are finding our own way. Depending on the life of the person each person has a unique feeling. I have heard some people marketing this pure knowledge. They claim that they can make you fly through meditation.They can enable you to read others mind. They can make you this and that. Many many things. All are tall claims. May be true for those swamis, not for all.
The purpose of meditation is samadhi to make you jeevanmuktha.There are 8 limbs of Ashtanga yoga or Raja yoga. It starts with yama which contains ahimsa, not- stealing, honest words,compassion etc etc.Yama is only one those eight limbs. There are many things like observances called niyama. Observances are "Dos" , yama is " Don't Dos".Patanjali Maharshi insits us to practise these basic things before meditation.How can one practice meditation without cleanliness, how can one reach samadhi with himsa, how can you steal , cheat , harm and still do meditation. If you can , then Patanjali may be wrong.
Meditation is a fancy marketing word now, to make people a better CEO of a company, a better HR manager. This is not the way of Ashtanga yoga. This is a money making way.
Pranayama, prathyahara, dharana come after this. We do asanas for awareness of physical body. We do pranayama for control of breath.Without awareness of physical body and awareness of breath how one can have awareness of subtle feelings inside our mind and body?
Meditation or dhyana is only the seventh one. This are all meant for eternal bliss called samadhi. Samadhi is not a one time happening. We have a notion that after samadhi there is nothing. No. After attaining samadhi. we wake up and lead the normal life. we go to farm and do farming, we do our ordinary business of life. But again,we do meditation and reach samadhi. It is easy then. ditaion is a happy state.My request is we don't have to complicate this simple meditation.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Acharya Lakshmana Sharma, father of nature cure in India , in his book, the Practical Nature Cure lists different methods of healing blindness using, mainly, the sunlight. He explains hydrotherapy, gazing the sun through green leaf, mud pack,eye exercises and other methods.
I lived in an asram for some months and I was fortunate to have practical experiences of Sharma's nature cure therapies.Sun light is very important.
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