BEING AND BECOMING

जज़्बात में अक़्सर उलझ कर रह जाते हैं लोग, एक बादल के टुकड़े में आशियाना तलाशते रह जाते हैं लोग। उलझन को सुलझाने में पूरा वक़्त निकल जाता है, ख्वाहिशों की गुलिस्ता सजाने में जीवन व्यर्थ हो जाता है। पत्ते तोड़ शज़र को सजाने में लग जाते हैं लोग। एक बादल के टुकड़े में आशियाना तलाशते रह जाते हैं लोग।। ख़ुद को ढ़क कर कीचड़ उछाला जाता है, अपने दाग से रिश्तों की तस्वीर उकेरा जाता है। जज़्बात में ख़ुद को घायल कर जाते हैं लोग। एक बादल के टुकड़े में आशियाना तलाशते रह जाते हैं लोग।। बाज़ार में हर ओर इल्ज़ाम परोसा जाता है, ख़रीद-फरोख्त को सौदागर भी मिल जाता है। सच्चाई से कुछ इस क़दर बच के निकल जाते हैं लोग। एक बादल के टुकड़े में आशियाना तलाशते रह जाते हैं लोग।।

Desire is usually understood as a psychic phenomenon, produced by individual. In modern period, desire is produced like any other goods, which have innumerable buyers and sellers. It's like American dreams, which are bought and sold in spite of the fact that they have larger social and psychic implications. "Desire production" (Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, 1972) is a deleuzean construct, who visualised the "production mentality" from the perspective of desire, which is not a psychic-lack in Freudian sense rather it is a socially produced material, having commercial value in the terrain of market. Like Buddha visualised mind as a social construct, which has no substratum of its own, likewise desire as an individual's fantasy is unreal without territorializing it in context of society and social production. The terrain of market alongwith financial institutions flourish as an imaginary world produced by society...

आज बहुत घड़ी बाद लिखने की तमन्ना मुझे खिंच लाया उस पथ पे जहाँ जानने वालों की भीड़ तो है पर समझने वाले शायद ही मिलते हैं ऐसे पथ पे जहाँ चारो और शोर शराबे में इंसान अपने खामोशी को ढूढ़ रहा है खामोशी की क़ीमत हर उस शख्स को पता है जो शोरगुल से सने वीराने में रहता है हर जगह भीड़ हो जाने की जल्दी है मानो हर एक शख्स को ख़ुद से दूर भाग जाने की बेचैनी हो अकेलपन की बेबसी में गाँव के बुजुर्ग राह देख रहे हैं कि जिसे बचपन के मासूमियत में बढ़ते देखा था  वो पेड़ कब बूढ़े सर का छाया बनेगा

A good friend is potentially a worst enemy. Artificial Intelligence may be a best tool to create ease in our life but it is also a double sword weapon. It may turn out to be lethal enough to change the information into "information warfare" as suggested by former security advisor M.K. Narayanan. Pegasus demonstrates the human's capabilities to intrude privacy at will. It challenges the traditional apparatus of security and asks new questions whose answers must not be given in haste. It requires long term meditation to find out the ramifications and its solutions so as to secure the lives of people. Pegasus allows to transform democratic set up into a "disciplinary society", which is inversely proportional to the choice based democratic moores. Information has stimulating influence over everyone and everything in our epoch. This is a megastructure built upon the edifice of human's Psyche to intrude into the lives of others and to know about the secrecy one wa...

Reading Napoleon Hill's book Think, Grow, and Rich one may realize the beauty of positive mental attitude for the success in worldly life. Success here means whatever you want or have desire is not far way from your reach. It's a positive attitude to see things correctly or at least practicing self hypnosis is key to change the course of life. The basic premise behind the relationship of mind and matter is similar to what Buddha once imagined or the physicist in modern age think about.  Thinking is key to any attitude. It has a significant role in shaping the reality in which we are in. Though, premise is the same but conclusion of a Buddhist monk and a success enthusiast is quite opposite. A Buddhist monk will preach to understand the limitation of thought or desire so that to achieve equanimity in thought and action. For him, being enmeshed in the drama of the world is a root cause of suffering. More you desire the craving for pleasure will increase. And pleasure is an unquen...

History cannot be changed though the discourses which compile the histories in words are changed  strategically to achieve certain objectives. Indian nationalism found its expression against the British colony under its legacy. The transformation of colony into democratic and republic nation happened subject to caveat that its historical legacy remained unimpeded and intact. We may find mismatch in the aspirations of Indian republic with the means adopted by us to achieve that. The aspirations of Indian republic were expressed in the preamble of Indian Constitution. And the means to achieve them is the law we inherited from the British. The burdensome inheritance of British Juridical culture has made the governance lethargic and inefficient, adjudication complex and too technical to be fathomed by mind of ordinary prudence, and development "one dimensional" to refer a book title of Herbert Marcuse; be it urbanization, ghettoization, and "marketization of social goods and...

Who was the first philosopher? Perhaps one who had the first question about life and death. Question is the necessary condition for astonishment we feel hidden behind the miraculous presence of consciousness in matter and substance. Is there any universe without mind and matter? Buddha deconstructed life as five aggregates, consisting of four subtle mental elements and one gross element in nature of matter. Mind is predominant factor, if we rely on Buddha or quantum physicians, in shaping the reality of life. In ordinary consciousness, the question of mind and matter is presupossed as obvious fact. But for a philosopher like Buddha or Ervin Schroedinger, the obviousness of fact is questioned so as to unravel the beauty of truth behind phenomenon. Philosophy is an art of astonishment, a science of truth, and a possibility of unsettlement. It makes the world strange or demystify the strangeness quite often.  Birth of sciences didn't hamper the growth of philosophy rather enriched thi...