Emoji

Emoji…Happyji

Hi folks, good to connect with you again. After the smartphone revolution, there is a lot of evolution in our communication process, definitely there is a change the way we connect with community. Completely a new transition for sure. There were days where we used to say “can you SMS me your…”, now please “waatsap me your….”

In fact, mobile has taken over our mobility and made us as “Inability” infants. Because of our Inability to meet our friends, Inability to meet our relatives, to connect with the banks, to connect street groceries, to say hello to neighbors, to say hello grandpas, grandmas; surprisingly we also started offering Aarti, lighting of lamps and candle lighting to our Gods and goddesses through mobile.

Now, thanks to WhatsApp (other message platforms) which is connecting the world through WiFi (2, 3,4Gs) and now slowly it is making an attempt to replace the Wifeee’;) WhatsApp is also helping in reducing the bandwidth of Husbands too. The speed of connecting and disconnecting boyfriend-girlfriend relations are too scary ;). I remember my mother asking repeatedly whether I am hungry or not looking at my face, but today most of mothers has to see their children facebook's wall posts about their children's appetite   

     

When I started using these apps like you (not you), like any other person ;), I have realized the reason behind this constant use of apps has new set-up (culture) called Waatsup instead of Catchup :)  with smiles, Namaskaars, winks, blushing, confused, surprised, claps, love and broken heart, punch etc are something which constantly pressing in our minds & hands. We use these emoticons so much on day-to-day, when we see same person suddenly, our actual emotions are underplaying due to these emotions. In other words, the receiver perceives us as personality of less emotions or no emotions; which is again a disastrous conclusions. For human being to survive and sustain, these emotions play a very major role not just from the professional perspectives but also mostly into their personal spaces. Of course, I might scoreless in this argument but definitely has a possibility of hindrances at later point of time.

       

I think there is a need to develop new ways and technologies that increase actual human contact and physical communication? Few days back I was in a function and saw 50 faces buried into small glowing screens instead of talking, smiling and interconnecting. Thanks to smartphone apps, how we communicate and express emotion might be faster and to a wider audience today, but it's also simultaneously disconnecting us just as fast with our fellow humans. 

No longer are we catching up for coffee and laughs, caroms for tea-break etc. WhatsApps, FBs, Twitters are bringing us closer but as humans, we are running far from the personal touch with bunch of people in this small world called you and me 

I am sure, time will have an answer to it…at the moment enjoy with Emoji and be happy ji. Do write your emos while having MoMos….Happy Times ahead :)

Happy Teachers' Day

Happy Teachers' Day
Coming Soon on Adoption...

Every year whenever calendar shows "September 5" as teachers' day, it gives me a sense of satisfaction that I am a foster-son of Prof S C Sarma /Sita Sarma).  This particular post is dedicated to both Sarma & Sarma; I may be breathing because of my bio-parents, but if am living/experiencing the life it certainly because of Sarmas. Both of them have made a significant impact among the students, their next generations and many who associated with them.

It reminds me a statement made by Chairman of NCERT during an event at Delhi, especially after Father's speech & his felicitation; "Prof Sarma, you are a son of Saraswati", my father has replied with a wit by saying "Dr Rajasekharan Pillai ji, I am not sure, whether  am I Saraswati putra or not, but certainly not Lakshmi Putra", the complete auditorium was spellbound and applauded for his contribution to teacher education

Will miss them ever, especially when there is a vacuum of affection (edited Jan 14,2020)

Echo of Happiness

Just listen to this music: https://soundcloud.com/talktokill/echo-happiness while you read this blog

Nothingness is the Echo of Happiness

Hello folks,

New Year greetings to you and your family members!

The other day I have heard a voice called “you are not my happiness” which has been echoing for a very long time and continuing to do so. I tried to ignore but it has been gone deeply into me. For the reasons unknown, my situations compiled me to feel like dejected, Lot of vacuum in it, unfulfilled and not so clear. I know it is just a frame of mind and body of emotions, nothing else! Probably these are the echo of the emergence of material existence which occurred to man (woman) fourteen billion years ago, and the roadmap to its ultimate destination is nothingness

However educated we are, whatever exposure we get, however devoted we are, however spiritual we are, the ultimate destination is to derive happiness out of our own actions. Where this happiness does sit? When thinking went beyond my tears, I realized it occupies at the helm of Nothingness. Now the question stuck to me to know more about Nothingness. In the process of knowing the beauty of nothingness, I also happened to understand the something-ness.

After glancing through the concept of Nothingness, it is just infinite and some-thingness is finite. For example, take numbers from 1-9, it has finite values on its own and whereas ZERO has no value (nothing). But it is nothingness which makes a number into an infinite number. i.e (99+1 = 100, 999+1=1000 etc). The most incredible thing in mathematics is the zero, and this did not come by accident. It is from a certain realization. When people looked inward and fell into the void of nothingness, the zero was born.

Similarly, the finite characters like love, affection, care, intimacy have always seen with a distinct eye. Eye of physicality, eye of economics; these “eyes” ingrained in our minds. Whereas mind is always accumulative, accumulative of knowledge, accumulation of people etc, and accumulation of unfulfilled desires. It means if my mind has some vacuum in it or aspires for more, it desires for those finite love, affection, money etc., If I empty it without any numbers but just keep adding zeros (nothing about it), then it is just an echo of happiness around us.

To the best of my understanding, nothingness can be achieved only if I add zero to my physical desires (even if I counter / encounter or no counter with it) and add value of zero to the accumulative wealth irrespective of priorities. When you practice the Nothingness, then only emptiness arises, Grace descends upon you. Without Grace, no one really gets anywhere. If you need to experience Grace, your somethingness has to become totally empty. Happiness evolves organically

Yours - Ravi Kiran