Philosophic Governance

Chapter 1

We need Philosophers as rulers in every healthy Democracy -

why because ‘Nothing is Certain’ on this earth?

Guru  Balakrishnan

Jeremy Bentham’s utilitarian philosophy, rightly says:

‘Moral, Social and Politics as often  should be directed torward of showing greatest good for the largest number  of people.’ if it is combined in the philosopher then governance may be meaningful, else he might face what ‘Dara Shikov’ faced between 1615 and 1659 CE, being the ‘heir apparent’ to Shah Jehan the Magnificent, for this Emperor failed in good governace; people governed always looked for ‘some great help for them’. That ought to be borne in mind in any governance plan else doom is always close by as it happened in 1947 India when partition of India took place, one need to remember.

Jinnah failed as architect of Pakistan, in a matter of twety five years further got divided into Pakistan and Bangladesh , Why ,just because of governance failure.

History throws several lights and arc lights on the doctrine of ‘governance’;    

Read on….  

Else, one lands on - like:

Comey is right; true he is to be ‘loyal to the Nation’, not to any man that is why FBI is founded. Besides these days politics is murky ; lot of deceptions ;

besides politicians, always  fall a prey to their own ‘self deception syndrome’(SDS), when one reads his book - my book How we misinterpret our energy talks on by its 52 essays of 70 yrs experience of india, besides citing other advanced countries, like US  too, for their own failures; see how ‘currencies’ is falling into a ‘self deception’ for economy; see IMF is concerned today, just because Trump imposed tariff on Chinese products, indeed his ‘idea’ is obvious immaturity, - the fact is politics being utter falsehood perception, should not interfere with natural resources; but these politicians only misuse falibility power of the ‘defacto control’ mechanism on their factual ‘dejure citizenry’; - so vitally Trump need to know, quite a lot from Mrs Bush’s views, who passed away at 92 yesterday, ‘why even all present day republicans too.

If they were basically ‘sensible’ persons, just to be in power, the route is not to give power to any more so called people like some  ‘immature persons’, more so, people like Mr Trump that means politics creates and wobbles in Democracy - inequality wealth ‘rule’ gets control; not based on the 'Equality' idea, what Jefferson wanted in politics,in the U S, not on the Adam Smith idea of Capitalism.

That is obvious ‘inequality’, based thought; yet true, you have to live with the  ‘certain’ rustic contradictions;

that does not mean ‘political power sharing should ever be with ‘sensible people’ who are well known in 'equality' doctrines or dictums;

That led to the thought of Institutional paradigms conceived by Montesquieu under ‘Separation of powers’, for Montesquieu felt ‘never things move absolutely in power, for ‘power corrupts mind’ of any man, when ‘absolute power is present in one’s hands, it obviouly corrupts the ‘Mind’ ‘Absolutely’;

So conceived the Institutions with ‘absolutely’ autonomy with ‘checks and balances based thoughts: that way Federal Reserve was conceived too:

 - Fed is there to ‘control the Economy’ reasonably, not necessarily perfectly, the president is expected and need to ‘high light’ the importance of 'equality' always; that is the  ‘robust’, for any advanced democracy’ to please the citizenry, with ‘No Malice’ on any, the honorable president need to think once he takes over as the president.

Nothing works,tolerably, without ‘tolerance paradigm’ in any sphere of activity; that is what Ashoka says of his own experience in Kalinga war even though,  his own succession led him, where he killed his own blood ‘elder brother’ sinces he was favored by his father, Emperor Bindusara, at his own death bed;

if tolerane was there why Ashoka being a second son should rush for his own accession for thrown. Obvious ‘greed’ for ‘absolute power’ self deception syndrome ; he even burnt down, his own some extralegal ‘wives’ in the harem, that shows he really fell a prey to absolutism and that  wanted to treat these women, ‘worse than’ very slaves;

why then you have many women in harem?, he never questioned himself; but ‘all these things’ are kinds of ‘absolutism’ power based ideas;

once you realize the defects, you change; that way he modified Buddhist thought to his own reasons; but that good thought, at his senility based old age confirms his character- for ‘character is fixed in one when he repeatedly do things again  and again, that still holds on him, that ‘syndrome’ still faltered and prevailed, like in his youth;

he desecrated very Buddist monasteries, he built - ‘man suffers’, from all kinds of self deceptions, is proved time and again.

When once you are sober, you modify  into that sobriety is vital. But you don’t is the fact of living experiences;

You could have seen in Indians Mahabharat war, even ‘Bhishma’ succuumed to the Kauravan pressure, that led him under his own self prescription, ‘you be faithful to the salt you ate’, so he, when he was asked to mediate and, arbiter, when Pandavs were saved from being burnt down by Kauravs in making the ‘lac’ built palace was in flames, by Kauvravs, but Pandavs were saved by Vidhura another grand father - to avoid unnecessary destruction, Bhima was clalled to mediate, in the mediation, Pandavs own territory was divided between Kauravs and Pandavs, unconscious view of bestowing ‘fertile parts to Kauravs’ while ‘not so fertile parts were given to Pandavs’ - so, in the name some irresponsible ‘Ethicality’ conceived in the doctrine that you shall have to be faithful to one who feeds you,’ - as you forget, your service to the Kavravs are natural compensation very Bhishma gave to Kavravs, when so, why so called ‘Salt theory’ came into being none questions; obvious impartiality is ‘dead is the factum’.   

If we read Ashokan rock edicts: XII - it is   a call - for religious tolerance and civility in public life  - or as he puts it:

‘Restraint in Speech’:

‘..that is , not  praising one’s own religion or condemning  the religion of others without good cause….Whoever  praises his own , due to excessive devotion , and condemns other with the thought , “Let me  glorify my own religion” only harms  his own religion. Therefore, contact  between religions is good . One should  listen to and respect  the ‘doctrines’ professed  by others. Beloved-of- the- Gods, King Priyadassi, desires that  all should be well learned in the good doctrines of other religions.’

When we saw in 1947 parition of India, by the British,  Md. Ali Jinnah claimed, per se, an Oxford historian, of India -  ‘Faizal Devji’, calls ‘In social background, and cultural (bias of)  habits, ‘multipley marginal’ [British India’s 70 million Muslims, spread over, NWFP,  to Assam, from Kashmir to Kerala, were the world’s most diverse group of Muslims.They encompassed  all thec major theological schools (of thought) and Sects, from ‘sunthetic’ Sufis to the ‘purist’ Wahabbis. They ranged from the big landowners of the northern United Provinces ( undivided UP) to landless  in (then) Bengal, from highly literate to uneducated. (Jinna’s family was from Ismaili Khojas, a sect of Shia Islam , for its liberal and pagmatic views, considered a little better than ‘heretics’ by many Indian sub continent ‘s dominant Sunni Muslims - Jinnah was  well known for his own western beliefs of British constitutionalism, that led him become a Barrister in London as also in Bombay - [Raj’s decenniel census in 1871 surveyed towns and villages, frequently encountering people who thought of themselves as simply elonging to  ‘local sects’ or others who were ‘comfortable’ with worshipping at temples( of hindus) and shrines (of muslims), as well as Mosques. The instrumentalities of the modern state have , a low tolerance  for ‘ambiguity’, though.  For the purpose of ennumeration , the ‘Census’ asked  individuals, to ‘caption’, themselves, more ‘abstractly’,: Hindus,  Christian, Sikh, or Muslim. So plural identities narrowed  and began  to have a sense of themselves as belonging,  to either political majorities or minorities….

Jinnnah,  grew up far from  the heart of British coalescing  Muslim politics, which lay with the Urdu speaking  landowners in United provinces…...Drama alone can never help, in working out ‘governance ‘ in a polity; politics not well honed might land in disaster, that way his drama really killed a million in the massacre that followed due to partition - immature politics would irrepairably damage...

Drama alone can never helps any:

Lord Buddha rightly said ‘enlightenment’ means you have to ‘doubt everything’, so be slow for any fast moves  not reliable, is his warning;  ‘doubt everything find your own light’;

Meditation is very slow process to understand, yet most desirable path followed by any great philosopher; so too any enlightenment of any man takes very long time.

Without verifying, like Buddha left his wife and son safe custody of his parents, left to forests to appreciate and understand the world, that way, till he cleared himself  ‘you clear your’ his own doubts, - ‘you shall not accept anything, once accepted stand by it’, whatever, once accepted, it is is the doctrine of Governance’ he realized; else governance fails.

Always work for ‘win win’ situation, obvious very long course, yet, then ‘warring thoughts’ will not arise in you yourself;

that was the idea of law and Balakrishnn

‘No intelligent  man believes that  anybody ever willingly   errs or willingly does base  and evil deeds; they are all well  aware that all who do base and evil  things, do them ‘unwillingly’. There are two sides  to every question’ said Protagorus [c. 490/481 - 420 BCE]

Many nations are not developing nations; but obviously,  a set of highly developed in - ‘advanced state of decaying nations’, in fact for they work - ‘on dogmatic religious ideas’; of late as they have  lost their track on what is a ‘meaningful governance’, just because lost touch with history, as we have ‘No Philosopher is our  Ruler today’!

Our problem is  a product of what we misread and misunderstand all  kinds of Histories !

Just because we don’t know ‘how to read our own mind’s predilections’; so we make bad mistakes!

Wherever we go, we do not go with our ‘heart’ (as if it is missing in us!),  so we fail;

so we make Confucius feel bad!

‘A man should practise  what he preaches, but a man should also  preach what he practices’.

Fact is:

‘The life which is unexamined is not worth living’ said Socrates - was he wrong? - No we are wrong for not appreciating words of wisdom  of the ages, for we live in delusion that we know all better - a definite deadly fall we will face is for sure.

By Guru Balakrishnan Pandipeddhi

[See what president Abraham Lincoln on his first inaugural speech to Nation on March 4, 1841, said. ‘The political hostilities of a generation were now face to face with  weapons instead of words.’ as quoted by P.G.T. Beauguard, general CSA in November 1884, as reported Manassary, for Century Magazine], a philosophical thought of Lincoln.

It is like, ‘if you get a good wife, you will be happy. If you get bad one, you’ll become  a philosopher and that is good for any man.’ ( even a ‘bad wife’ contributes for your mental maturity!), said Socrates. Every married man never understands, this fact,![ I know my own nephew is in that syndrome. You love a person and marry, soon you say ‘not compatible after a few years married life, how you could say incompatible, just because you suffer from some halucination syndrome. ]

Philosophy is found behind a designed thought due to intellectual instinct is one view. That way you develop a philosophy that is based upon your own ‘desire’, a contradiction;

- ‘Desire is the root cause of evil, that is what Lord Buddha said in his last hours, said better get into Nirvana stage he said, that  Schopenheur has said Christianity cannot overcome Buddhism for Buddhism is indeed superb in its perceptions, so no easterner would be convinced by christian erhics - See Pythogorus said, why he described himself as a philosopher, he said, ‘say in a festval  at Olympus, so many people converge , say businessman, some come to enjoy themselves; some others are ‘spectators’ and the spectators are the philosophers. They keep themselves free from the urgencies of immediate problems and practical necessities.[ Man must be delivered from  the clutches of practical interests, bound up with exterior  and material life, that leads to Dyana Yoga per se ‘Yoga’  ]. He compared  ‘human life’, with the festival at Olympia, meaning ‘every thing is seen in a festival the on looker without any concern(unattached condition), just enjoys as a spectator, that he is also a spectator in this festival of Life Olympia .[ Samkara points out, that the ‘essential qualifications of a ‘Seeker of Wisdom’ are a capacity to  to discriminate between the ‘eternal’ and the ‘non-eternal’, detachment from the enjoyment of the fruits of ‘action’, terrestial and celestial, self control and an ardent ‘desire’ for ‘spiritual freedom’.[ ...  ] [Plato, aim of all knowledge, is to raise us to the ‘contemplation’ of the ‘idea of Good’ - ‘the source alike of being and knowing’, and the ‘ideal philosopher ‘ is one, whose goal, at the end of life, ‘lived to the FULL, is always a ‘life of quiet, of undrawn stillness, of solitude, and aloofness, in which the world forgetting, by the world forgot,  he finds his heaven in lonely contemplation of the Good. That and that alone is really ‘life’. - ‘Blessed are the ‘pure’ in heart , for they shall see the ‘God’ [celestial bliss]. The purification of the heart - ‘chittasuddhi’, is a matter of ‘(mental) discipline’. Platonus tell us that ‘wisdom is a condition of rest’.[230].

    

If you do not know to ‘make hay while the sun shines’ ;

it is like, ‘when a soldier returns from the wars, even thoug he has  white hair, he very soon finds a young wife. But if a woman has only one summer; if she does not make  hay while the ‘sun shines’, no one  will afterwards have  anything to say to her, and she  spends her days consulting  Oracles that never send her a husband’. [means every governance ought to know  how to hay while sun shines’ very effectively*, if not there can never be any great ‘Economic Growth as such, so that way  Alexander Solzhenitsyn rightly said - ‘Economic growth is not only unnecessary, but [it is] ruinous., ‘if you do not timely use the economy reasonably well’.

• *Politicians use the time for self financial growth under all corrupt means!

‘Man is the measure of all things: of things  which are, that they are so, and of things which are not , that they are not.’ - Protagorus.

So it is said, ‘No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death’ - ‘so if progress is slow, ‘Never discorage anyone….who continuously makes progress. No matter how slow’. All men are by nature  equal, made all of the same earth by one workmsan; however, we deceive ourselves , as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince’.

Why I embarked on this idea, just because Gita says what? See below:

‘Renunciation  is to be practised  ‘not towards ‘work’ but  in its ‘Fruits of work’.

‘kamyanam karmanam nyasam

  samnyasam kavayo  viduh

 sarvakarmaphalayagam

  Prahustyagam vicaksanah.’ Ch.XVIII, 2.

Means,

‘The wise  understand by ‘renunciation’ the giving up works prompted by ‘desire’: the abandonment of the fruits of all works, the learned  declare, is the ‘relinquishment’. [This  thought - ‘inertia or non action’ is not the ideal. Action without any ‘selfish desire’ or expectation or gain, performed in the spirit that,  -(‘I am not the doer, I am surrendering  myself to the ‘Universal self’), is the ideal set before us.

The Gita does not  teach, the ‘complete’ renunciation of works; - but the conversion  of all ‘works’ into ‘niskama’ karma or ‘desireless action.

-  Samkara  contends, however, that ‘tyaga’(sacrifice) as taught  here is applicable to ‘karmayogins’ [qualifies] ( special ‘workers’), while for jnanins (knowlegeable), - ‘complete  abandonment of works is imperative’. Lord holds  that knowledge is incomparable with work.  

One day in 2009 in the month of May on 29th may be at about 9 am., Myself and my wife Nirmala at Nerul (New Bombay) (India) were discussing on ‘Saibaba’ of Shirdi, she suddenly became  overwhelmed with the idea of bhakti, just blind bhakti -devotion to God, I rationally said, blind bhakti alone cannot help, but you should have to reason it out;

else ‘devotion’ is just blind and it would you nowhere , but she was very vehiment by her thoughts, after so heated discussion,followed; Lord Krishna says same thing  in the Gita if you see the chapters, ...slokas...

I went to do my court work on my computer,  as I am an Advocate of Bombay High Court, at Mumbai , in Maharashtra; and was preparing to leave for the honorable Court;

she gave me my BP tablet, mild one, as I swallowed, as I have a  history of blood pressure;

And, I started fast working on my desktop,  suddenly I ‘felt dizzy and fell down from my chair’, and soon I tried to get up, but not to able to get up, I crawled to my bed.

Then summoned a nearby doctor, a cardiologist, he came and told me i should go to hospital as my BP shot up uncontrollably;  so I told my wife call my daughter in law to help my move to hospital; but she was to come from Thane where she was working.

She came some hours later, then  we went to hospital, in fact my building watchman had to lift me physically from my 3rd floor apartment down to auto rickshaw and thus, I was removed  to a nursing home; duty doctor laid me on rest on a bed till cardiologist and neurologist came;

[Where till the relevant  doctors came in the evening;] but, they gave immediately attention, by  resident medical attendants, who kept me on a nursing home bed;

the doctors came, a cardiologist and a neurologist , he tested my legs by his ‘usual hammer’, whether my leg gets sensation of hammer hits, when he realized,  he said paralysis is progressing and he gave some drips through my wrists;

then i was asked to get MRI scanning reports by midnight itself, it  helped to note I had a slight ‘blood clot’, on my right brain.. Treatment continued for 5 days and then I was discharged.

Soon , I was on  my recovering spree.

But i lost speech. Without speech how could I argue the cases, I asked my  juniors to speak in the court, while I wrote arguments, after all my clients rely on me.

This helped to realize the ‘my energies’; that only worked, that learning I could get from this ‘holistic’ paralytic attack;

but to realize it, it took for me,  again, some seven years latter, that way when I read ‘Gita’, I got several answers; not very easily, but several reads of the work of several commentators, but only Sarvepalli Dr Radhakrishnan’s works  gave me a reasonable understanding and clarity; philosophy is being ‘abstract ‘ perception, all cannot easily explain like Dr.S. Radhakrishnan who also became the second president in Indian democracy, that was the great idea of Indians then.

You need to read the slokas again and again with Sankara’s Ramanja’s  commentaries besides several others, but I did not get clues from several PhD’s thesis presented by modern scholars  on philosophy, but only Swami Vivekananda’s Chicago speeches in 1893 in the world parliament of Religions that assembled there.

What I was able to understand I summarize below:

Indeed,  the happiness,  everybody, wants, but they do not know what is the path, no doubt path is within yiour reach only.

Let me cite an example : Indians run for H1 B Visa to go to the U.S, for some outsourcing jobs, as if ‘India does not have any jobs that are relevant to India-

I wrote on the Times of India network when I saw, USIS is to take a lottery of 20000 jobs out several lacs of Indian applicants on 6 April 2018 for jobs in 2019

'it is high time indians need to be sensible not to be in body shopping business; if the governments do not know how to govern the country better resign but better politicians who can think some sensible business approach need to take over , just trash all existing political parties that are absolutely ran ran out of ideas of business and meaningful domestic manufacturing and like other allied activities...without sense no need to cause some prostitution of body shopping that is clearly indicating indians work on some old worn out ideas, every decade things change you need to change with times, else you are gone for ever, indians were creative community originally but now instead of showing to the world some sensible things, indians day by day turning out to be some kind of beggars, very very bad indeed.'

‘why people of India need to be angry with Modi is just because he does not know how the world works , after all no one is pilanthrophic, to provide you jobs, see Mr Trump says, he wants his 'white software workers' need to be employed in the US, he is not concerned of immigrant indians first they come as NRIs after a few years they settle down there, that he despises, as Indians in maharashtra talked about sons of the soil and rejected indians from other states entering in Maharashtra just because Maharashtra had jobs - that idea should have taught these politicians, how other nations will for ever tolerate indians flocking to the US, Australia etc this could for some time only till ;local availability of workers is scarce, not otherwise - such situation can come anytime why these 'senseless' politicians did not realize is the question any sensible Indian would ask these political worthies - the ordinary man is indeed having robust common sense unlike these lazy bums as politicians.’   

So it is indeed universal demand. That is not met instantaneously. Aim of life  in a society is based on some happy state . But for it , no society can survive, for it makes clear in search of so called happiness, everyone runs after in that pursuit only a lot of wars, murders and all crimes take place in this world.

In the pursuit of happiness passion only Duryodhana, Shakuni led Kauravas to their own destruction. Happiness does not lie in any possessions, lands, annexations, and any kind of wealth. That is is the secret of happiness.

World never been in any happy state by wars,crimes, murders, killings.

Only patience can lead said Lord Krishna in gita upanishad. Happiness cannot be achieved  as it is a different kind of modes that dominate the nature. Nature is absolutely Svabhava kind of  thought.

If man is ‘dull’ or ‘lazy’ that is ‘Tamas’ in Sanskrit language.  It helps nothing but creates more and more problems for group living that is Societal living. We mostly suffer from ‘dull’ state always. We are satisfied with ‘violence and inertia, blind approach to things, and  over and over again.’

When you read chapter VIII.sloka.44 read with  the thought of Mr. Gerard Herald’s perception in his work ‘Man the Master’(1948) , it emphasis,  the need for ba ‘Quadrite’ type of Organized Society. He writes: ‘It would seem then, that there have always been  present in human comunity four types or strata of consciousness (that only created a family if you look into any family    there is need of people to handle division of workloads - women look to handle the essentials of living needs, food, proper  nutrition management, of the family, and the women carried the food to their consort working on fields tending the crop and crop management, watering, domestic animals to be properly looked after to use in the ‘fields’ relevant. That way the same even now continues in rural families, not in urban families for ‘urbans’ think ‘top hat’, they change wife just because the man loses his cool with her son too she today, that way ‘divorces’ are rampant even in agriculturist kind of countries like India, for most men behave like Duryodana (durbuddhi man - meaning unwise foolhardy man) of modern times in a most modern ways.)  

The fact is, ‘you  need, a ‘priest’ in home, a  ‘warrior’ kind man, an agriculturist kind man - a ‘trader’, and one takes the burden  of services of home, a ‘servant’ kind; same is applicable to every Society, if you need a vibrant society as such.

‘We spoke of first level,  These are the eyes or antennae, the emergent seers and sensitives…… Below the eyes, are the ‘hands’ , behind the ‘forebrain’ are the motor centres. The  two mental classes below the ‘seers’, upper and lower middle classes, ‘the politician’ and the ‘technician’ - it is to them  that is mainly due  ‘our present crisis’ . The one by  the ‘great advances’, in administration, in social instruments, has made it possible for the monster states (big states) to exist - and so,  for their unresolved ‘crisis’- internal stresses to become ‘more acutely’ active.

The other,  by its even greater  ‘technical advances’ , in plant, in power machinery, in material ‘instruments’  has made our societies ‘hypertrophies’ - ‘Organisms’ of unbalanced internal structure and mutually ‘deadly’. Besides, ‘the two middle classes’, already made ‘unstable and disruptive’ , by their becoming ‘individualized’, there remained two basic ‘unspecialized, unquestioning’ class or mass - the ‘coherers’. This  class is not  only capable of faith, it will not hold together, it will not live without it (pp.133-7).

Mr. Heard  reminds us, that the ‘Aryan-Sanskrit- Sociological  thought, which first defined and named this four fold structure  of society, is as much  our India’s(page 145).[Indian Reservation ideas of today, obvious just a futile exercise, politically motivated, not meaningful, after all, anyone can be in any of the four classification of duties - priest, warrior. Merchantman , in service class, that cannot be determined by birth or heredity’ even Gita upanishad says Sloka 41 in Chapter VIII of Gita -

‘brahmanaksatriyavisam

  sudrananca  paranta

karmani pravibhaktani

 svabhavaprabhavairgunaih’

  

Meaning:(by translation)

‘(41) Of Brahmins, or Kshatriyas, and Vaishyas as also  of Sudras,

O conqueror of the foe (Arjuna), the activities are (only)

Distinguished, in accordance with the Qualities  born in their

(individual) nature ( Svabhava)’.

English meaning

‘The four fold order is not ‘peculiar’ to Hindu society (alone). It

Is  of universal application (in every society, if closely

studied).  This classification depends on types of ‘human nature’

(svabhava culture).  Each of the four classes has certain  well

Defined characteristics  though they are not regarded as

Exclusive.  They are not determined  always by ‘heredity’.

Explanation:

If passion (‘Rajas’) predetermines - ‘Wealth, and power and glory (if you presume, they bestow on you ‘happiness’, obvious foolery you indulge in - in fact, ‘True happiness of human beings cannot be mistaken as ‘Bliss’, for Bliss is not contained  in ‘outward possessions of ‘things’ - wealth, power, glory ; but in fulfilment of the ; ‘higher mind’ and ‘Spirit’ highly well developed; in the development of ‘what is most ‘inward’ in us.

This means, ‘pain and restraint’ but it will lead us to - ‘Joy and Freedom’(from any or all ‘bondages of wealth’ etc) - ‘we can pass  from the so called ‘happiness’ to real ‘knowledge’ (jnana) and ‘virtues’; then we become one with the highest (supreme) ‘Self’ and one with all ‘Beings’ (creations).    

There is No creature  either on Earth or ‘among Gods’ (divine) in

Heaven (mental conception by man, as heaven is on very earth, you    

can make it if you really  do things ‘unattached’ human being; if you  

are some attached naturally ‘your Hell’ very much is there on the very  

earth itself  Gita Upanishad says in clear certain terms only.   

Gita well defines in sloka 41, as cited above ; Gita asserts ‘You have to   

        support the well researched ‘Social Order’ by volition, not goaded by  

        Politicians for they might gosad you for their own ‘selfish ends’    

        obviously failing to appreciate they fall into very Hell  called their

        own’ desire syndrome for they mentally ‘lower class’ humans, they    

        certify themselves by their own ‘Selfish acts’;

Societal irrational thoughts today lead by selfish political class, obviously suffering from ‘Greed’ for everything, not realizing ‘Nothing goes with you when you leave the earth by clear imminent death’ not even the cloth you had on you just before you died.

[See today Film actress SriDevi died, by a heart attack but her body is subjected to post mortem, did she  get her own body in full shape after post mortem - autopsy - so man needs to realize why he has to corner wealth and so on, nothing will follow him if he is buried or if he is ‘cremated’ everything turns into ‘ashes’ in no time - that is every war every time  certifies, but, could man realize? ]

No. None realize is the greatest truth.

Each individual needs to realize and ‘focus’ on ‘Supreme Energy’ that is very close to everyone of us and yet we don’t realize.

Destiny is the destination of every being that is renewal, time and again. In fact, Divine is close to you but yet cannot realize, for you are surrounded by ‘illusion’ and you live in ‘illusory life’ not realistic reasonable rational perception, for you are surrounded by every kind of selfish irrational politicians, for they  are mentally sick fellows you elect them to power and as you are also is such ‘syndrome like them’; so ‘you elect what you deserve’ otherwise your democracy you only trash, none else, you need to realize.

You defeat your own ‘self’.

The one Spirit of the Universe  has produced the ‘multiplicity’ of ‘souls’ in the world.

‘Spirit’, is all pervading so it covers every soul after all every soul is something like ‘atom’ formation, if you treat Spirit is Supreme energy, if spirit represents some universe(s).

If each individual does , what is appropriate to him, if he follows the ‘law of his creation or beings’ (svadharma); then God divine energy - super power  would express himself, in free volition to these human beings; if at all that is vital; for the world, is to be done is some good deeds, by him, then there shall be no conflict as such, due to this man’s as (individual)  ignorance and ‘egotistical tendencies’ = the pride of power called some wealth(may be billions of cash= Nothing), and any glory (say as PM or President =Nothing); but yet these ‘possessions only cause meaningless’ ‘ego’ that endangers him, like it did for Duryodhana =  an evil force = he was killed, not to enjoy ‘the fruits’ of his efforts ), lost his ‘true bliss’ that was or is lost to such individuals, for ever is the principle.

No power however great cannot save such persons is said by Gita.

Men need to learn  the ‘torments’, if he is guided by egocentric tendencies, naturally he gains nothing in his life on earth except misery - ‘Attar ‘ quotes,  a saying, of Ibrahim Adham, ‘three veils must be

        

     

We say Colonial rulers - British robbed India - did they?

Look closely you will realise but for them you could not have got ‘Cricket’ in India ; that Cricket  helped India made history in sports field, that only got India CCI at Bombay, then BCCI, that only enriched lot  of Cricketeer stars ; in fact India positioned itself as England for Indians only simply robbed Cricket from England, thanks to Englishmen gave away their great Cricket to Indians , is it not?

Cricket alone earned for India all the new spirit that is any one is sportive he will make the country positively grow very fast just because he is sportive and so healthy in mind.  You need health, ‘healthy body has healthy mind’.

See we had Rabindranath Tagore, then Swami Vivekananda,then now we have amongst us Amartya Sen - ‘immortal Sen ,he thinks much better than any economist for a public policy is to be guided by a healthy politician; healthy politician can be only a reasonable  philosopher kind, who can think without desire probably for his selfish ends (but politicians are really selfish animals unfortunately), so Plato rightly recommended for a good ‘philosopher-King’!

Invariably, philosopher is one with a ‘healthy body and with healthy mind’; so he never wants anything on ‘selfish basis’ so he is to be like Sri Ram, Lord Krishna, Lord Buddha, Alexander, Ashoka, Akbar, Vikramaditya, Thomas Jefferson, Mahatma Gandhi, to name a few, for all these men really nurtured, and willing to nurture  ‘all poor persons-citizens’ to be brought up in a healthy surroundings in their own life time, in these sensible kings’ own life time.

See native Americans wanted , when their representative is not upto mark in public policy, that person ought to be ‘recalled’ under ‘Recall’ principle and recalling him is by a ‘Referendum process’; that process only rightly values and evaluates the value of public policy that is or  is to be followed.

‘Democracy’, why great  the beneficiary to people just because people themselves decide only, what is right for the people generally , people will not allow some the representative  take the citizen for granted.

‘Right representative’ is one not like present day spineless representatives like MPs or MLAs in India or Congressmen or senators in the U S, or anywhere else, who if one ‘rightly represents’ he needs to look for the interests of ‘the all persons impartially’ then he has the right to represent; but not to ‘usurp’ away of the citizen’s interests;

So exemplary persons in History, were   Shri Ram, Yudhisthira, Lord Krishna, Alexander, Ashoka, Akbar, Vikramaditya, Shibi Chakravarthy, Thomas Jefferson (USA), Mahatma Gandhi  and the like that is why they were loved by people, in all ‘confederacies’; so ‘Confederacies survived’, once if the - representative King or Ruler failed, in his ordained ‘duties to people’.  Simply making Art 51A in Part IV A , in the Constitution of India has no meaning unless it is valued and used every time to test whether executive orv representatives fall within the ‘ambits’ of the Article.

So too in the U S,  if Articles 1 to 27 if not used meaningfully then there is obviously  no democracy is there, any can decide; in fact, American too fail to enforce discipline in their representatives , and legal community, as every wherelse.       

In fact,  Indians misread History, after all historical determination is indeed vital, so Dr. Radhakrishnan says ‘Historical determination’ really created India and Indians being a cult of multicultural people, has to follow: - which fact ‘Hindutva’ really ‘fail to understand’, being ruled by ignorance, how a fool really talk ‘sense’, after all ‘fools’ or ignorant men behave  like one who has lost his basic mind!, I have to say, for unfortunately, I do not find any ‘reasonable’ men, for which we created Judiciary with Advocacy but there too we find more ignorance or personal interest rules, unfortunately, just because Man is ruled by ‘extraordinary’ personal interest, and overwhelming self interest.

See Economics Nobel Prize is awarded by Sweden Central bank, obviously led by politics of banking  industry as also politics of ‘politico crazy’ what sense the Award can make - it in fact tries to get some winners just to toe its line of thinking, just because his or her work supports their line, if not , they are influenced by giving that prize, that means, politicalization things would hypnotize the men from Academies is the objective. Hence we see, when this prize is given to ‘others’, other than Economists means, ‘many  meaningful economists’ either withdraw from writing in favor of politician’s so called, ‘political public policy’ statements or the writers do not want to go with politics is obvious.

Professor Amartya Sen , a Nobel Laureate in Economics says, ‘I am not, I am happy to say, an ‘Economist’. I being an economist thinker agree with him.

But he got Nobel prize in Economics, normally any may get any prize dedicated for anything, so ‘nothing wrong’.  I can visualize.

He rightly says, ‘I  have tended to keep from the ‘dismal science’, whose practitioners,  were once described as people who “knew the prize of everything but value of Nothing”.

Economists as a group were  widely seen as people obsessed  with ‘arcane theories’ and  endless disputations’:

so George Bernard Shaw rightly said, ‘If all the economists in the world were laid  end to end, they would Never reach a conclusion.’,  is ‘No exaggeration’ based statement.

What great ‘economics’ we all talk about? It talks ‘all senseless’ ideas, when it forgets natural resources only relevant for economists - else these men are some just ‘mystical men’  of mists only. Just joined money making politicians out of ignorance of poor man.

There is indeed always ‘the famous disconnection’ of most economists, from every day realities, has even spawned a ‘series  of jokes’.

His work, ‘Collective Choice and Social welfare’, a work on, ‘economic inequality and development’, Sen firmly established himself,  at the pinnacle of academic mainstream  of the discipline - ‘Economics’ . (His theoretical work formed  the basis for one of the few negative articles  on his ‘Nobel’, a panickety piece by Gene  Epstein in the New York investment weekly  ‘Barron’s which faulted Sen’s ‘fetish for ‘math-as-method’.)

Sen , as an Economist, does reach a conclusions, :

powerful and compelling ones:

1. Enhanced his scholarly standing [but  have direct, relevance for ‘public policy’, in the real word;

2. One ‘on famine’ he brought out  an ‘insight and wisdom’ to the ‘world’s  understanding of the recurrent tragedy.

3. He recounts his own ‘shattering experience’ as a nine year old kid  during 1943 Great Bengal Famine - three million people died, [while precious food rotted  in ‘hoarder’s warehouses’ or ‘diverted’ (where is governance gone) to British war efforts!

4. He says , ‘ I  would remember the harrowing experience (scenes) vividly, when more than three decades  later I tried to do an economic analysis of the causal antecedents and process es  of famines”.

 

Famines  are nearly  always avoidable;  they result  not from lack of  access to food; they are result of distribution failure for distribution is based on governance failures ; ‘democracy’  is one system of government  that can enable food to be distributed widely and fairly. It also of late fails, like recently, when Sharad pawar allowed food grains rot in godowns not protected from rains in FCI godowns in India  when he was some so called Agricultural minister in UPA government in india.

Wasting food grains  is something like ‘scorched policy’  when Russians adopted in a World war. That is ‘No Economics’, but some so called ‘War strategy’ so it is obvious ‘self deception syndrome’- like idea.

No democracy with  a free press (Art 19 read with 21 can assure in Indian circumstances)  is not to suffer a famine, whereas tyrannies and colonial systems have failed for obvious reasons.

‘I believe  Economic analysis  has has something to contribute to substantiate ethics in the world  in which we live.’ says Shashi Tharoor; One can add, Sen’s writings and lectures (obviously, economic analysis,  by going beyond into fields that have nothing to do with economics as such) on Tagore and Ray , on indian secularism , on Human Rights and ‘Asian Values’ have all testified  to the breadth of vision and the depth of humanity of this remarkable chess play. One expects politicians of 21st century need to learn - that is intellectual eclecticism of his  intellectual range in his work - ‘The Argumentative Indian’; Indeed, he is one of the foremost public intellectuals of this period of time. Yea he was born in 1933.

Indeed he is a sociologist, a historian, a Sanskritist, a political analyst and obvious moral philosopher, but no politician likes , for his perceptions cross the crass politics.

Nobel committee  cited, His technical economist  and social choice theory (How his wishes of a society can be aggregated  from the diverse views of its members). He is indeed better known by his works  on famine, expanded him to a very wider audience - his proposition that there has never to be  in any healthy functional democracy, the chances of famines if distribution is well managed had attracted a lot of intelligentia -  the ‘Development of Freedom’ he feels, compels that it is to be more important to be be a ‘free the man’ more than the rich and that  difference is achieved politically, economically, and socially it will enrich and reinforce each other common man ; he feels women education is important , I add more than men folk, every nation can become wiser, an idea Gita says when Lord Krishna takes Draupadi's cause when she was disrobed by providing her the cloth instantaneously then thus protecting her from being ashamed , obvious gender issues in development  Sen worked , though some called somewhat eccentricity of Sen , while his concern is for the undernourished, and marginalised especially women all over the world that he well expressed by his thought provoking essays. He funded his Nobel prize funds to fund in India and Bangladesh to fund education and health care there for the poor and uncared for persons. He is a pilonthophist of very high order. He does not get interested in Economic philosophy  or philosophy of economics , but a pragmatist.

He likes to see in vedic verses that speculate  skeptically about creation and sciences, rationality, plural discourses and he wants the world to look in  to be benefitted - his views ‘My view of India, is of a vast broad civilization, which I’ve seen being miniaturised  by sectarians, alluding to the Hindutva movements in India he feels it is very bad concept of these so called narrow minded protagonists of the so called movement with their ignorance based interpretation, while he affirms  his own idea of India , as authentically plural and obvious tolerant civilization, as such, with a tradition of intellectual heterodoxy

Ashoka’s views simply followed by Akbar  1800 years gap between them his edicts promote the very same human rights, Aristotelian views on women and slaves Akbar did not buy, he exclusively promoted women and slaves rights in progressive society  what Ashoka promoted by sending his ambassadors in Sangamitra and Mahendra like to promote Buddhist ideals

Akbar declared ‘Delhi’ ‘No man should be interfered with on account of religion, and anyone is to be  allowed to go over to a religion that pleases him’, enunciating tolerance, as vital for anyone’s growth and perception, for tolerance of  a multitude of religions of regions , none of which enjoyed most favored state but all are to be equally treated alike - but Hindutva movement entered into confrontation with  the very idea of India itself of all embracing one.

The teaching of Gita is Let Yoga and the Teacher  is Yogeshwara.

One example:

[I find how Gita chapter IV. stanza 34 is relevant here - True, we do not know  the name of the real author of Gita till today - almost all books belonging to the  early literature of India are anonymous like all Upanishads - Gita is also a Upanishad  called Krishna Upanishad - ' though we say Vyasa is considered to be the compiler of the Gita   - Gita is both a metaphysics, and ethics - Brahmavidya and yogasastra, the science of reality and  the art of union and reality - 'truths of spirit can be apprehended only by those who prepare themselves  for their reception by rigorous discipline , for example like Mueller probe in the US, - the stanza says:

  'tad viddhi  pranipatena

    patripurasena sevaya

  upadeksyanti  te jananam

    jananinastatvadarsinah' (sanskrit)

Means : Learn that  by humble reverence, by inquiry and by  service. The men of wisdom who have seen  the 'truth' will instruct thee in knowledge - Wise men  teach us, if we approach them in a spirit of service and reverent  inquiry. Until, we realize the God within, we must act according to  the advice who have had the experience of God. If we accept, in 'Sastras', or taught by the teacher in 'unthinking trust' that will  not do. Reason must be satisfied. 'He who has no personal knowledge but only heard of many things cannot understand the meaning of scriptures even  as spoon has no no idea of taste of the soup. You need the right free examination and inquiry. Blind obedience to an external authority is repudiated. Today there are teachers or leaders  who require of their followers 'unthinking obedience and dictates' like Mr Trump seeks. They seem to believe that the death of intellect is the condition of the life of spirit. Many credulous  and simple minded people are drawn to them -web- not so much by their spiritual powers as by the publicity of their agents and human weakness for novelty, curiosity, and excitement. This is against,  'jijnasa or inquiry , manana or reflection or pariprasana in the words of Gita. But mere intellectual apprehension will not do. Intellect can only give fragmentary views, glimpses,of the Beyond., but it does not  give 'consciousness' of the Beyond. We must open the whole of our inner being to establish personal contact. The disciple has to tread the interior path. The ultimate authority is inner light which is not to be  confused with the promptings of 'desire'. By the quality of service and self effacement we knock down the obstructing prejudices and let the wisdom in us shine. Truth achieved is different from truth imparted. Ultimately,  what is revealed in the scriptures, (pranipata- sravana) , what is thought out by the mind (pariprasna -manana) what is realized by the spirit through service (what Mueller does now) and meditation (seva- nididhyasana ) must agree  what plato says: 'A man should persevere till he has achieved one of two things, either he should discover the 'truth' about them for himself or learn it from someone else (that is now happening) or if it is impossible, he should take  the best and most irrefragable of human theories and make it the raft on which he sails through life experience.' (Phaedo, 85). Plotinus says - 'out of discussion we call to vision, to those desiring to see we point the path,our guiding in the way, the seeing,  must be the very act of him who has made the choice.' '(Enneads', VI,9,4). what is here is do a thing without any attachment - whatsoever, then , great minds of the past, reason about them, and intuitively apprehend what is enduring value in them. In spiritual life- that is Mueller is in now -  with faith coming first then knowledge and then the experience ,obvious the truth is expected to be revealed and guide him further to the attainment of illumination which he may reach...after all it is said self control discovers it to the man at last - so there is nothing on earth equal in purity to wisdom (stanza 38) He who becomes  perfected by Yoga finds this of himself,in his self in the course of time dimension. Further it is said 'by ‘atmavantam’ (sanskrit) - who possess himself in the eager pursuit of the  good for others but here -  for Trump & Co, his lawyer should not have lost his hold on his own self, but he worked for client with no respect his professional ethics,  ‘so it is obvious no professional shall cross his 'lakshmana rekha' called ‘self limitation’ is the fact Gita conveys since several centuries, before how great and  true it is one needs to admire - that ‘lore’ really revealed to humans in those remote ages- see the kings of pandavas and kauravas just got misguided by Shakuni being the maternal uncle of kauravas misled them into the dangerous path of destruction for both families, as he misused Yudhishthira's excess love for ‘dice’ - why excess he could put his Queen Draupadi as a ‘pawn’ in the play - see can learn if one is addicted he could do all wrongs unconsciously, see Narendra Modi as PM in India attempted ‘demonetization’ that promoted the recent PNB accounting for swift losses of a billion via Swift - so you need Kings who ought to be ‘philosopher kings’ (desireless), not led by ‘rent seeking persons’ like modis, trumps. etc, if they indulge soon they themselves get buried by their own actions, is no exaggeration in any democratic governance if falls into trap of ‘Demockery’; for in that great age of Mahabharata, there were confederacies’ heads were elected by people, like that lord Krishna himself, a legendary figure elected by his Dwarakha people, to lead them, how greatly he led and accounted to them in those periods, is indeed a great astonishing feat, so Aldous Huxley rightly says Gita is not only for indians but for all humanity. Kudos to Mueller for his steadfast  work at his advanced age to track down frauds in US electioneering, how people were misled like in pied Piper of Hamelin. [ Fact is today people are caught in the web of ‘plutocrats’ like Putin, and his clan all over! ,]

You all know Sri Ram is like Lord Krishna, a nimitha purusha meaning, they are some Avatars or incarnation of Lord Mahavishnu - a preserver deity- means they are not born and they are never dead - after all preservers obviously always there on earth in every life irrespective of religions or philosophies one follows - the dialogue goes on - Ramanuja develops in his commentary on  the ‘Gita’, a type of ‘personal mysticism. [‘Gita’  is not presented generally as some ‘metaphysical’ system of science based thought out by any ‘individual thinker or some school of thinkers’. Gita is set out  as a tradition that has ‘emerged’ from the religious life of mankind (of that specific period of time). It is articulated,  by a profound ‘seer’ who sees ‘truth’ in its many sidedness (manifestations) and believes it its extraordinary prowess of its ‘saving power’. Gita represents not any sect of Hinduism but Hinduism as a whole, not merely Hinduism  but religion as such (a perception), in its universality , without ‘limits’ of time or space,

[So Aldous Huxley  views - ‘The Gita  is one of the cleanest  and most comprehensive summaries  of the ‘Personal philosophy ever  to have been made    .  Hence, its enduring  value (importance), not only for Indians but all the mankind...The Bhagavad Gita is perhaps the most  systematic spiritual statement of the perennial philosophy.’ (Introduction to the Bhagavad Gita by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher  Isherwood (1945)]

embracing within its synthesis  the whole gamut of the human (race) spirit, from  the ‘crude fetism’ of the ‘savage to the creative affirmations of the saint. The suggestions  set forth in the ‘Gita’,  about the meaning  and value of the ‘eternal’ values  and the ‘value of existence, the sense of  eternal values and the eternal values and the way in which  the ultimate mysteries are illumined by the light of Reason and Moral Intuition provide  the basis for agreement in mind and spirit so essential for keeping together the ‘World’  which has become ‘materially (oriented) one by the universal acceptance of the externals of Civilization.’(3).  

 

In the ‘secret places  of human soul God dwells, but He is unrecognized, by it ‘so long  as’, the ‘soul’ does not acquire the redeeming knowledge . We acquire this knowledge by serving God with ‘our  whole heart and soul’. Perfect trust is possible only for those who are ‘elected’ by divine grace (of God). Ramanuja admits,  that the ‘paths of knowledge’ - ‘devotion’ and ‘action’ are mentioned in the ‘Gita’, but he holds, that its main emphasis is on ‘Devotion’. The wretchedness  of ‘Sin’ (what is far away from ‘Dharma’) the deep longing for the Divine, the ‘intense’ feeling of ‘trust’ and ‘faith’ in God’s all ‘embracing and conquering’ love, the experience  of being ‘divinely elected’ are stressed by him.

[That way only he elected to invite all kinds of people into the fold of brahminism, when he asked them to come to Tiruvengattan - Lord Balaji or Venkateshwara or Varadan at Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh in India, and he converted all of the new brahmins in his fold called ‘Iyengars’ -(both Vadakalai (from North India) and Thenkalai (from South India)  Iyengars and identified them by U and Y kind of triple markings by keeping red line between two side white vertical drawings on the foreheads indicating - red one is the bloodline is the unifying life while two white lines representing one birth and another death channels, like triple lines you see on other Shaivites representing similarly except bloodline is also indicated by the white central horizontal -line on foreheads of the  followers - may be brahmins or others could have similar identity as Hindus]

The Supreme is Vishnu ( the central line represent on the foreheads of Hindus) , as preserver between natural birth and  natural death phenomena), for Ramanuja, Vishnu is the true God (as only birth and death only period a body survives under order of birth and death) who will not share  His divine honors with others - Brammah - creator and Shiva (Destroyer/Liberation). ‘Liberation’ is ‘service of and fellowship with’ God in Vaikuntha (Heaven - Bliss) .

Here we can understand ‘None is authorized to kill each other on one’s own volition but for natural calamities , like floods, earthquakes and like obvious earth  balancing phenomenon.

So, it is right to ask the question to BJP/VHP etc or Taliban like forces, which God allowed you to take your own hands on the basis of your own mental aberrations or disagreements with each other, against every other follower of every other faith? You have ‘No answer’ obviously; if you do decide to kill fellow humans, obviously you commit ‘abominable sin’ is well explained by Gita - anointment is only by unnatural violent death for your violent actions, as in battles; so BJP/VHP  & so on need to realize when you indulged in Babri Masjid demolition, you killed, fellow muslims in whom also Lord Vishnu as God particle dwell, per se Vishnu tattva (principle) of preservation besides in every human being - ‘in secret places of the ‘soul’, for soul has no religion or faith but it is just soul, faith and religion is some addition when one is born on earth only , else there is no such thing otherwise at all, - so you indulge in trying to kill the God in another body only. So the conversation between Sri Ram (never dying force at all) as he is very God Himself, eternally present in every ‘soul’ as Lord Vishnu - so Lord Krishna rightly say ‘You never kill any souls’ in the war or otherwise but you live in delusion (your irresponsible illusive imagination)  only when Lord Krishna responds to Arjuna when he tell him, how can I kill my great grandfather and other kins, when he was to shoot arrows against Bhishma on the battlefield, so too when Karna is killed unarmed when he was trying to lift the wheels of the chariot stuck in the mud - besides his protecting ‘kavacha kundalas’ were taken away by Demi god Indra?

From the reads it is clear, BJP/RSS and so on their cohorts destroyed Babri Masjid, indulged  in killing spree in Samjhota Express or at Ahmedabad took to siege the buildings where muslims lived, so too in Bombay when Shiv Sainiks  killed muslims - after all all souls though cannot be killed but these men simply removed the life from bodies of people who followed different faiths, so too Talibans or or any killing spree forces, for soul or life is some energy packed in some bodies, [after all ‘No energy can be killed’ at all but you just  hit other bodies and remove the ‘life giving energy’ called God particle or scientifically the 12th particle - Nuclear Physics ‘Boson..experiment at ‘CERN’ LH Collider in Switzerland in 2012].

That means the Saffron party just misled the ‘ignorant people’ and caused some kind of Holocaust in 1992, 2002 in india, so too other ISIS indulges besides other splinter groups groping in darkness, perpetually like in 9/11 in the US in New York that brought  down World Towers - all these destructions are never supported by Godly forces by supported by ‘Ignorants’ ignorant of their own tenets of their own religious sectarian dictates, one can say with all certainty, for No Divine forces support these dastardly or cowardly forces, as such, but foolhardy ignorant men lead ignorants by selling their foolish ideas, time and again. The foolishness will cause retribution on the very same men sooner or later.

Consciousness  presupposes a subject  and an object which is different from ‘consciousness’ which is regarded  by Ramanuja as a dependant substance (dharmabhutadravya) capable of steaming out.

The ‘ego’ (jiva)  is not unreal  and is not extinguished  in the state of Liberation. The Upanishad  passage ‘tat tvam asi’ - ‘that art thou’ means ‘God is myself’, even as ‘my  soul is the ‘Self’ of my body. God is the supporting ,controlling principle of the soul even as the soul is supporting principle of the body. God and Soul are ‘One’, not  because the two are identical but because God indwells and penetrates the soul. He is the inner guide ‘antaryamin’. He(God)(antaryamin)(who dwells  deep within the soul and as such is the principle of its life. Immanence, however, is ‘NOT IDENTITY’. In time as well as in eternity, the ‘creature remains distinct from the creator.

For the question, if so God (as soul) forces one to commit crime. No the fact is some Satanic forces interfere and makes one do all wrong things - that way only BJP/RSS etc men indulged in satanic activities when the attacked Babri Masjid etc….

When can human soul can become ‘Enlightened’ and ‘United’ with  the Divine, Fortune, and Victory, Welfare and Morality are assured, if we have  amongst us some ‘Yogeshwara’.

 Gita Upanishad calls upon us,  to ‘unite vision’ (Yoga) and energy (Dhanuh), and not allow  the former to degenerate into ‘madness’ or the latter savagery.

The great centralities of ‘religion’ as Baron Von Hugel loved to call them, the ‘tremendous’ facts  of life are ‘Divine’ yoga (vision), the realization of God through worship and entire submission to His will and Dhanuh (energy), or the active participation  in the furtherance of the ‘Cosmic plan’. Spiritual vision (Divine Vision) and Social service should need go together ‘in hand and hand. The double purpose of human life , personal perfection and Social  efficiency is indicated - [Cp. ‘The holy word I fain would  know , wherein the ‘priesthood and the kingship’ (democratic governance in a parliamentary democracy if not a ‘mockery’ ) move together, in one accord’ -’Vajasaneyi Samhita’]  

When plato prophesied  that there would be ‘good (governance) government in the world until ‘philosophers’ become Kings, he meant that ‘human perfection’ was a sort of (gran) marriage between ‘high thoughts and ‘just action. This according to Gita  must be, forever, the aim of Man’.

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‘Moksha Sanyasa Yogo nama stadaso ‘dhyaya

Iti srimabhagavagita upanishad samapta’] (Sanskrit)  

Would it happen in a world we see the present day political class surging for Plutocratic positioning at the cost of common man?

If we can understand what Confucius says, ‘Wherever you go, go with all your heart’, naturally we are not human beings at all if we have lost contact with our own heart! Is the theme I speak out here in this essay.

Your heart has no expectations as Lord Krishna says in Gita, heart means just ‘love’, never  looks for any result you look for, see Bhishma fought without looking for fruits of any results, so he died very peacefully finally.

Ramanuja divides ‘relinquishment’ (giving up)  into three stages - 1. Relinquishment of ‘fruit’; 2. Relinquishment of  the idea that ‘Self’  is the  ‘agent’ and  so of attachment also also, and 3. Relinquishment  of all idea of ‘agency’  with the realization that Lord  is the author of all ‘action’, when he interprets stanza (4) :

‘Nischayam srnu me tatra

 tyaga bharathi sattama

tygo hi  purusha vyaghra

 trividha samprakritiah’;

So, he lot a lot of people into his sampradhaya - thenkalai ‘iyengars’ in south India and made them into ‘Brahmins’ community in his time - so he made clear, there is ‘No caste as such’ and he said anyone can walk into ‘brahmanism’ and he proved in the temple entry at Tirupati Venkatnarayana temple, while Annamaiah said why to convert into brahmanism just allow anyone and everyone enter the temple as long as he or she loves ‘Tiruvenkata Pati’ at Tirupati. Many yet to know. That ignorance only created even today so many caste divisions, and so many castes , and caste distinctions followed by ‘reservations’ mindlessly that such kind of activity is the thing today undermining real education as such since Reservation led to downgrading very education by these political scoundrels practiced by politicians and politics, so we have to say, ‘India is one country or Nation has set itself  to be a highly developed in ‘advanced state of decaying country’ , so any nation which really down grades its quality of education automatically leads the country or nation into reverse direction in knowledge development, called ‘retrogression’ in education means you make men more ignorant class of individuals, democracy is not that so today Indian ‘Democracy’ is Indian ‘Demockery’! - you allow politicians mock your democratic ideals and ideas - so Plato is right Rulers should be ‘Philosophers’ non others , he proclaimed .

You see why 25% of people vote in India, just because, 75% realized Indian democracy is just some  kind of ‘Demockery!’, when Judiciary in India failed to understand its role as real custodian of constitution - so it really shows however your Constitution might be greatly crafted but practitioners if fail the democratic constitutions are bound to fail and become some ‘Demokery’.     

R. K.Laxman a famous Cartoonist at The Times of India had rightly crafted ‘Common Man’ and he is mocked by all politicians, for politics took common man as a great mockery, for his votes are misused by the political scoundralism time and again, all  over in India in a graded manner since 1950s.

Even  in the US  presidential election only about 23% voted, means in U S too democracy is super ‘Demockery’ - why you know, only poor man is a class of persons could be taken for granted for anything, even telling them all stupid things by political class, that phenomena works in all democracies

All over the world, see Ann Su of Myanmar  as president allowed Rohingyas (muslims) to run away from Myanmar, (erstwhile Burma), Nobel committee rightly withdrew their Nobel prize award the committee granted  Anm Su earlier as a great fighter for human rights.

‘We are what we repeatedly do’ How right is Aristotle!

We repeatedly ‘misread history’,  so our perceptions just get muddled and fall into such muddled thinking, ‘that is  why’ the way live in the way we like, that is the issue, the essay talks about and will run...read you, you will note……….. we suffer from muddled mind, and so we indulge in ‘muddled understanding’; so we go away farther and farther every day as we think in the way we misread our history and we are glad to be in ‘muddle thoughts’ of every kind.

Life is a ‘great game’,  to play well, we need play ‘sensibly’ with wisdom; for playing sensibly only, we developed philosophy; but we fail to know the real meaning of philosophy; so we indulge in ‘all wrong things’, like if we look at things if we do look irrationally, from wrong direction, then our moves are directionless.

‘You have too much history to talk about, but you are not correctly interpreting, that is leading  you to suffer from ‘self delusions’ based on your own illusions, for you float ‘on all kinds of dreams of the past’; as you imagined.

Imagining is not  always need not necessarily lead you by sensible directions, as you are inclined to ‘pander your own perceptions’.

So, the imagination if, based upon your own illusions, that always ‘lead’ you to ‘all misreads of this world’, that way Lord Krishna says, you shall not look for your own perception of what is right of what is wrong but never look for results but just do perform your actions as you are ordained without any kind of ‘attachments’ or ‘desires’, then bliss is there, else you face Hell every second of living on earth, for your heaven is  very earth only.

It is said, ‘many think about after death would he get heaven?’

Such idea is indeed  futile, some ‘desire’ based, but that ‘you shall not desire’ says Gita Upanishad, else,  you will always live in Hell, anywhere, if you have not become ‘desireless’ but desire is pestering you, if you give in ‘desires’ you cannot disentangle from ‘Hell’ wherever you go.

  Far more, than anything else that you shall ensure   ‘your present life to live peacefully’ else, is at stake your own present life.

If you are a ‘full’ man of wisdom you shall not desire anything on selfish ideas, says Gita Updesh in Gita Upanishad.

See, Mr. Trump talks about  six million illegal immigrants Mexican immigrants and rants on them and he wants to build useless wasteful wall between US and Mexico;

In fact Mr Trump’s life is some kind of ‘daily hell to him’ more the suffering he inflicts on others, being unfunded by real wisdom in him he is in the trap of ‘self deluding’ deluge of hellish misery but he fails to extricate, when you see every moment when he reacts , obvious, he is in his own ‘living hell’ just like ‘Ravana’ had or ‘Hiranyaksha’ had then, why even Hitler suffered but they all thought they were wise but in fact failed, Hitler committed suicide we all know why.

see in India BJP and RSS talk about so called Ram Janmabhoomi (not really knowing what they were doing!) ; when it was built? and when and where real Sri Ram was born? none ever know? but yet raking on meaningless and stupid assumptions, fooling themselves, these fellows just destroyed Babri Masjid, for no meaningful reason; - you end up with  a foolish perception based imaginary history; and you wield a ‘battle ax’ thanks to your super ‘ignorance’ based on imagined historical perceptions!

  

Therefore, Vivekananda said in 1893 at  Chicago’s world parliament of Religions:

‘I am proud  to belong to a religion - (Hinduism) which  has taught the world both ‘patience and universal acceptance . We believe,  not only in ‘Universal toleration’ but we accept, ‘all religions as true’. I am  proud to belong to a country which has sheltered the ‘persecuted’ and the refugees of ‘all’ religions  all ‘all’ countries - [don’t we feel obliged to be ashamed on 1992 and 2002 events - Babri Masjid and Sabarmati Express and massacre at Ahmedabad,, think a while my readers . Do we feel proud  of RSS or BJP or VHP or BD? Think a while when you are born in a country where Vivekananda lived, so too Sri Ram (did Sri Ram tell these great BJP/RSS.. ‘Look after my cause, my legendary birthplace where I never was born? But ‘I am born so in their-BJP/RSS etc men’s imagination, i feel very sad - as they always live in imagining ‘on what is not true’; - see. all of you may agree, I am  an incarnation of Lord Mahavishnu including  in all Dasavatharam (ten forms to tell you people . How you all get misguided ? I feel bad Ram might say.

And how you need to change, if you don’t know; but  I am sorry none can help you. ‘You need to change, but you remain stubborn, ‘as old nomadic’ in illogical perceptions still continue in you all.

Since when your forefathers were born and lived, you really do not know correctly when so, sorry , Ram might feel;

Ram says  ‘I feel I wasted my time with people, ‘in your imagination’ of this kind of  -BJP/RSS/VHP... ],

of the earth. I am proud  to tell you, that we have gathered  in our bosom the purest remnant of the Israelites, who came  to southern India -[why they came there wherein, because the ‘Buddhism’ based thoughts duly created by Hinduism  highly cultured views based on Dashavatar enunciated doctrines of living in peaceful coexistence only can preserve man from unnatural deaths, including suicides   prevailed  ] and took refuge  with us - (for we were just ‘real’ humans just belied in humanistic thoughts , that all of us, from wherever we may come, we are all of one class that is we all are ‘immigrants anywhere on the earth, as we are just born to our immigrant parents only’  whatever religious practices anyone follows as Indian as Hindus believed and live],  in the  very year in which  their holy temple was shattered to pieces by Roman tyranny. I am proud  to belong to a religion which has sheltered and is still fostering the remnant of grand Zoroastrian  nation. I remember having repeated a hymn from my earliest boyhood, which is everyday repeated by millions of human beings: “As the  different streams having their sources in different places, all mingle their water in the sea so, O Lord, the different paths which men take  through different tendencies, various though they appear , crooked or straight, all lead to Thee”..... The wonderful doctrine preached in the Gita [says] “ Whosoever comes to Me, through  whatsoever form, I reach them: all men are struggling through paths which in the end lead to me.’[this clearly does not differentiate any other religious followers, so we are all One clan of one great family of people]

In  fact, Swami Vivekananda is some very highly developed

Brain  so too his mindset like that of very Lord Krishna himself cannot be said, as great ‘exaggeration’, from the readings of his Chicago discourse in 1893.

[When in 1893, we had such developed minds. But how come in late 20th and 21st century the so called BJP men has become so narrow minded men!]

 “Renunciation  is to be practised Not towards Work  but to the fruits of work:

‘The wise understand by ‘renunciation’ - not unwise like BJP /RSS men or their ilk - the ‘giving up’,  of works prompted by desire: the abandonment of the fruits of all works, the learned declare , is relinquishment.’ Ch XVIII, stanza. 2  :sanskrit version -

Sri Bhagavan uvacha

‘Kamyanam karmanyam nyasam

 Samyasam kavayo  visuh

Sarvakarmaphalatyagam

 Prahutstyagam vicaksanah’     

Inertia  or non-action is not the ideal.  Action without selfish desire or expectation or gain, performed in the spirit of   that ‘I am not the ‘Doer’, I am surrendering myself to the ‘Universal Self’ is the ideal  set before us. The Gita does not teach to Complete renunciation of works but the conversion  of all works inti ‘niskama’ karma or ‘desireless action’.

[Sankara  however contends,  that [‘yoga’ (discipline) - tyaga (sacrifice) as taught  here is is applicable only to ‘karmayogins’ (workers), while  for ‘janains’ (knowledgeable) complete ‘abandonment’ of work is imperative. He holds that knowledge is incompatible with work.]

In stanza 3,  

‘tyajyam dosavadityeta

 karma  prahurmanisinah

yajnadanatapahkarma

na tyajyamiticcare’

Means

‘action  should be given up as an evil’ , say some learned men: others  declare that, ‘acts of sacrifice, gift and penance are not to be given up’

From this reading - ‘one can interpret 1992 Babri Masjid demolition being an ‘action based desecration’ by BJP/RSS/VHP/BD men, should have been given up as an evil’;

Like in Christian ethics, ‘Treat thy neighbor as thyself’ is a commandment - may be the idea borrowed by Jesus Christ from Lord Krishna as Jesus was born in the East like an Eastern Star, if not contested by Christians the word ‘borrowed’, they can say  Jesus mindset is like that of Lord Krishna in other words. [Fact is all seers and saints have more or less similar perception.]

Others declare, :

‘Acts of sacrifice - [if BJP etc men gave up the idea of demolition of Babri Masjid  in 1992 would be treated as ‘an act of sacrifice, gift’; and penance are not to be given up (sacrificed) - if you have some misgivings you just do penance  - old parents if not attended by their children , they just give up for they feel ‘No point to cause ‘retribution’ but just sacrifice your right on children, after all ‘all men are children of God]

Swami Vivekananda rightly denounced, in 1893 at Chicago parliament of Religions , “the sectarianism, bigotry and its  ‘horrible’ descendants [like fanatical ‘fascist’ movement that sprang up under shadow of Anti Semitic movements in the Holocaust  in Germany in 1940s,] have long possessed  beautiful earth”.

His confident belief that ‘death knell  had sounded not to be borne out . But his ‘vision’ of ‘Sarva Dharma Sambhava’ - a credo of Hinduism [‘all religions are equally worthy of respect], and be respected, any civilized Hindu would say, any civilized man] - is the kind of Hinduism  practised by the vast [majority of Indian Hindus anywhere in India besides anywhere in the world Hindu movement,] [not by conversion practices - after  all any desires can follow not necessarily being a Hindu is the basic thought dimension of Hinduism doctrine, if interpreted without any kind of dogmas ]   majority of Hindus, whose ‘instinctive’ acceptance of other ‘faiths and forms of worship [none can appropriate any religion for one’s oneself is the basic principle of any religion, more particularly of Hinduism, so it says it is a ‘culture’ ] has long been the vital  ‘Hallmark of Indianness’ well projected by no less an authority than very Swami Vivekananda in 1893 at Chicago, in the US.

Vivekananda rightly made ‘No distinction whatsoever’ between  the ‘actions of Hindu as a people who gave asylum  wholeheartedly to anyone -[so recently INC men accepted a lot of ‘Bangladesh refugees (mostly  muslims) and even gave them voting rights is no exaggeration on facts, in late 1990s and early 21st century, though objected vociferously by BJP and ‘Shiv-sena’ and its slinters like MNS - maharashtra Navnirman Samiti  in Maharashtra] that shows Hindus are still remain an ‘Open society’, but for, some of the closed groups like BJP or shiv sena men and their splinters;

Indeed Vivekananda rightly shown a path of ‘religious community called Hindus’ indeed is some ‘Oasis’, on a desert of mindlessness, like, when it accepts to view, the view of ‘tolerance of other faiths’;

without tolerance ‘how can you know new religious philosophy of tolerance’?

For him,  that the distinction is irrelevant, obviously,  [but for ‘distinction’ if being very accommodative  of any human race in its own ‘forms’ that they need to follow or  to be followed] because Hinduism was and is and will be as much a civilization, as a set of religious beliefs based on philosophy  of accommodation in your big heart, as Confucius said - ‘wherever you go , go with your heart’ then you can be real human being:

 - Hinduism is such kind of Confucianism not confused philosophy; that   being so, Hinduism is such a belief (faith) there can never be any place for any kind of ‘doctrinaire dogmatism’ at all, for anyone and everyone practicing Hinduism; he  needs to accept the view propounded by Vivekananda why ever so many seers since ages developed the idea of absorbing culture;

only absorbing culture only can save humans and humanity from any massacres or holocausts from the hands of rank ignorance many suffer from in any religion or faith,  is the principle rightly brought out by Swami Vivekananda in his speeches in 1893, at the parliament of religions ;

Why that conference is called parliament if religions , for religion itself founded on the principle of democratic fundamental rights - ‘think sensibly, think for the welfare of all, Welfare of all humans, welfare of animals, welfare of ecology and environment, welfare of all stakeholders whether animate or inanimate, for all living peacefully will bring a state of peace lovingness, never any will attack any other forms of living non living beings, for  Religious philosophy based thought is the holistic philosophy for philosophy knows ‘No violence;’ at all;

Parliaments are places, one can think freely but holistically without harming any but working things allowing ‘free thoughts’ to experience bliss on the earth too as in heaven; but that is not happening because ‘narrow mindedness takes over but that ought to be desisted is the thought rightly said in the discourse of Swami Vivekananda, that only made a standing ovation from all representatives of all religions or faiths all over the world assembled there at Chicago, that way Chicago became a cynosure of all the world around in the forms of all kinds of faiths - beliefs - after all beliefs only reinforce sensible things, so irrational beliefs or thoughts ought to be nipped in the bud, else harm will be worse than Nuclear attack on human race as such - so keep control on your irrational  ‘anger’ that anger only makes you a ‘psychopath’ you see such situations in Taliban, fundamentalists of any faith, for they are the promoters of all kinds of irrational senseless destructions;

Creative destruction is to be carried out by very Nature like earthquakes, floods, natural deaths of humans, creation and destruction is called dualism, that is what Hindu thought says ‘Dvaitham’ in Sanskrit - nothing need  be forced

Religion is always based on philosophical perception driven idea only, not settled by any battle ax.

 Hinduism says, ‘doctrinaire view of Hinduism’ based on ignorance based  ‘false’ knowledge on Hinduism would harm very man himself - just because ‘man several times’ follow some perceptions that makes, one a minority and other fall in majority that so called majoritarianism very badly affects the peaceful living of ‘minority men’, thanks to delving deep on irrelevant historical perceptions so too perceptions on perceptions of dubious ideas on natural resources and we end up disturbing badly very ecology and environment, that renews like an arithmetical growth but  man works on it under ‘geometrical’ growth - how irrelevant he works more on ‘irrelevancies’ - see ‘Lobbying in America is an irrelevant attempts by American business to rob the man on the street by influencing irreverently the very perception on ‘democracy’ as this businessman simply wants to rob the man on the street under so called his own dubious perceptions he sells under lobbying in the US with the Congress, that way we end up everywhere with ‘rent seekers’ and ‘rent seeking economy’ - that way taxes are just misused by bailing outs as it had been done in the US in 2007-08 sub-prime crisis caused by so called dubious ideas of ‘derivatives’ created by very business of banking and economics.

In fact, there is great openness and diversity the range, the  lofty metaphysical aspirations of the very Vedanta itself - so ‘it is anthyam (end) of (Veda)( doctrines enunciated in principles of Veda (ritualism invariably recited again and again ) reciting again and again means to grasp the ideas you need to recite and understand every time you recite the stanzas.

In fact to understand Hinduism you need to experience meaning again and again as ‘no language is adequate or complete, ‘unless’ one understands ‘the inner meanings’,  ‘without any doubts’; so the idea of recitation was the prescription - it is like when you read a passage to understand sensibly and meaningfully, we read read again and again  may be several times, to interpret correctly or reasonably well, what is in the ‘content of the passage’ that is to be rightly understood, before application -

for example -

The honorable Supreme Court  has to understand any section when it has to do (but  what I find is honorable courts seem to have either not understood or rejected Montesquieu idea of separation of powers!:

appreciate, it has to test every statutory section when referred to it, in any petition,  with the Constitutional interpretation of, with relevant very articles, and it means that it has to appreciate the section of the law made by law makers; whenever the Court has to appreciate the doctrine enunciated of in the Article, and  balance it along with the section, to see and ensure - whether that section is rightly falls within the ambit, of the ‘article’; if not the section falls under ‘ultra  vires’ umbrella status, of the constitutional principle of the very ‘article’;

- so the Montesquieu idea of ‘separation of powers’ came into being, as an essential component of governance, as the ‘day to day’ functions of Executive or any other organ like ‘Congress’ or ‘Senate’ ‘do not have time’, to really and meaningfully appreciate, the real ‘inner meaning’, ‘sensitiveness’ of the very ‘article’ of the constitution; as Constitution is like some ‘Vedic’ doctrine-like or a Biblical principle like or any such comparable  principles;

     

So it has become  ‘right reality’ of the very need of ‘Separation of Powers’, every advanced Constitutions of the World duly have to  appreciate; lest justice delivery system does not have to fail, that is the essence of any ‘democratic institution’ as the stakeholders are the citizens like in religious doctrines, the followers of the very religion and its practices.’, depend upon the saints or seers or preachers.

Why there is a need of courts? ;

Why there is need of temples, churches, Synagogues, mosques,..?

Why saints, seers, priests, mullahs, why priests, Rabbis, monasteries and so on ...gets   reasonably answered automatically?

Swami Vivekananda at  at Chicago convention set out  his philosophy in simple terms; and really made simple but i still  wonder did the people present there understood him. If understood they ought to have further simplified in their teachings in their preachings, i do not have any clear evidence, on these aspects for ‘I wonder’, so just because every religious follower talks most ignorant way on the very ‘principles  and practices’ of their own Religions, evidence is, every follower has turned mostly belligerent more than to be patient.

‘Unity  in diversity is indeed a variety’ and  this is the plan of the Nature, and the Hindus has recognized  it.

Every  other religion lays down  certain ‘fixed dogmas’ and tries to force  society to (accept) adopt (or adapt ) them.

It  places   before the society  ‘only one coat’ which [is like] Jack and John and Henry, all alike.

If it does not fit John, or Henry,  he must go without a ‘coat’ to cover his body.

This Hindus  have ‘discovered’,  that ‘the absolute’ can only be realized , or thought of or stated,  through the relative, and the images, ‘crosses’, and ‘crescents’, are ‘simply so many symbols’ - so many ‘pegs’ to hang  spiritual ideas on.

It is  not that this help  is necessary for everyone, but those that do not  need it, have ‘no right to say’,  that this is wrong.

Nor is it compulsory in  Hinduism….The Hindus have their faults (lacunae) too , but mark this. There are always for punishing their (own) bodies, and never for cutting the throats of their neighbors.If the Hindu  fanatic ‘burns himself on the pyre’, he never lights the fire of  Inquisition.’

This assertion, of Swami Vivekananda’s is being  contradicted in the streets of Calcutta by those in 1947 by those,  who claim to be reviving his faith in his name, is indeed preposterous one can say with assertion.

What this tells us is ‘we should never assume that, (as every function is obviously  ‘restricted to one power’, that is what we call as ‘Separation of Power’ what Montesquieu propounded); even when religion is used to  mobilizing ‘identity’ [kind of] politics mean ‘religion’ enters into politicking activities; but in fact [‘no religion’ can enter politicking or politics of polymics] ,

all those  so mobilized act in accordance or tune  with their ‘tenets’ (principles) (many times I wonder whether religious leaders do know to formulate principles),  (indeed it is doubtful whether ‘tenets’ really  gave them such ‘power of authority’ - see Asaram Bapu forced young girls in sexual surrender to him, from which tenet he got? So in Gita Ch.IV stanza 4 Gita rightly clarifies - ‘you shall not blindly follow any teacher if it fails in your own reasoning), of their religion.

[Nevertheless, it is  all those kinds of men who call themselves as ‘guardians’, (who made them   ‘guardians’) of religion’; (in fact, ‘dubious representation of fact’), in fact,  just ‘because they failed to realize what they can do what they cannot, that way they just took over a role not allotted to them , like today the other day  Indian PM Modi wanted the Judiciary need to cooperate with his PMO kind thought, while he has no right to seek from judiciary that ‘leverage’ for he is obviously prohibited  by very Constitution of India, for he went on misreading the constitution like all ‘Sangh’ parivar’ (their party and fellow RSS). Similarly, nonetheless,, it is ‘ , ironic’, that  even the Maratha warrior -king Shivaji, after whom the some ‘bigoted’ ‘Shiv Sena’,

(appropriated to iself a position of custodianship of very Hinduism - perfect palsgraph v Long Island  Rail Road company 248 N.Y. 339,162 N.E. 99 (1928)* usurpation like in an intentional ‘reckless conduct’ as in  [illegally and immorally usurped religious perceptions of tenets] is named, exemplified by the ignorant people out of their ignorance knowledge  of very religion - Hinduism - Francis Bacon said rightly, ‘where knowledge is sin , ignorance is bliss’, mean here, - when you lack knowledge of religion better not talk  on religion or matters connected with religion, for no political party can ever assume it knows ‘religion’ for it is just some kind of political group, groping in the dark definitely of religion and religious matters, so the idea of ‘Secularism’ emanated where there  is obvious ignorance of religion and religious issues, it is always ‘out of bounds’ for politics and politicians as a class, every politician ought to realize - for politician is no right authority as soon as one becomes a politician, he is ought to be basically ‘Secular’ for he just represents some constituency of people in which many from many religions are there in every constituency, the politician just represents general  public like any King for the King can never take sides with one religion or the other, if he takes sides, obvious he loses his ‘credibility ‘ as some ‘King’, when James I interfered with religion by his so called ‘......... Sports’ (* Benjamin Cardozo said as there is ‘no such thing called as “negligence in the air’  and that it is impossible even to think of negligence except in relational terms - The same is  true for ‘intentional’ or ‘reckless’ conduct in the case , ‘Palsgraf v Long Island Railroad co, (RR) 248 N.Y. 339, 162 N.E. 99 (1928)- that created too many problems, world knows]

Is named, exemplified for ‘tolerance of Hinduism’. In  the account of a critic , the Mughal historian, Khafi Khan, ‘Shivaji  made it a rule that his followers should not  harm to mosques, the Koran or to the women. “Whenever  a copy of sacred  Koran came into his hands, KK writes, Shivaji ‘treated  it with (utmost) respect and gave it to some of his Mussalman followers.’, when so how these stupid politicians of 20th and  21st century in India could indulge in demolition of Babri Masjid in 1992 - obvious ‘recklessness’ of something like ‘ stupid ‘negligence in air’ what Coke said in the  case (1928) .

Indian politicians as a class of crass negligent community whom all Indian voters just never vote them to power is my considered view.

Mr. Theodor Herzel, a Zionist visionary, wrote, ‘A nation  is a historical group of men recognizable cohesion ,held, together by a common enemy.”

The common   enemy of Indians, is obviously ‘Internal one’ - mental degradation of people obviously ignorance infested politician but not  like the one identified as Togadia and his ilk.

The problem is in ‘Sectarianism forces’ in any community divides men  and their ‘harmonious life is consistently kept in disarray and constant battle fit, with nothing meaningful or sensible at all.

If governance fail to check these sectarian forces, this alone would tear the country worse than 1947 episode at Navkali or elsewhere in India.

That would mean Hinduism is just ‘buried ‘ forever, so too  every religion that thrived in India would get buried forever.

It would be a right  thought ‘No self respecting man following  any religion in India would recognize such crass sectarianism of BJP/RSS/BD/VHP.

Fact is RSS is not acceptable in Hinduism for it advocates conversion under Arya Samaj - meaning  other Dravidian hindus are not covered - Dravidians also do not accept Aryans but Hinduism is there in all communities in India : So BJP may be a political party it cannot play any role in religious matters of Hindus, it needs to understand, if it play, it might not be any recognized political party too for the necessary numbers of voters all over India would diminish, for Indian nationalism is better described by the Indian flag covering saffron /white embossed with Ashoka chakra/ green - representing Hindus and Muslims are major communities white covers all other communities, without any exception  whatsoever meaning India is just global as India is a subcontinent representing all vegetations, all climates and so on , as it is mini continent covering all kinds of people, not belonging to one religion or community but india is a nation for all living in India, as a rule that way its Constitution is Secular and is not only for Hindus alone unlike any other country if there is a state religion while India never flirts with any single religion so political governance is not religion based, everyone need note; India belongs to one and all residing there as citizens or aliens too; RSS or BJP cannot appropriate India for its so called Hinduism it is professing for what these entities just some sectarian only, not Hinduism for /hinduism far above these political parties, for Hinduism  is just a secular culture and a secular civilization as such for Hindu dharma represents what an IPS officer in BJK Tampi says, ‘Hindu dharma means ‘faith’ (covers all faiths - beliefs exiting in India, and all religions) religions - covering, ‘dharma, artha, kama, and moksha’; per se sanskrit language, Hinduism is essentially and pre eminently conveys secular -meaning, of social ethics, covering law abiding (law falling within the ambit of the Constitution of India and law makers statutes provided the statutes fall within the Constitutional Articles only if not might be declared ‘ultra vires’ the constitution, for Part III of the Constitution essentially representing the fundamental rights of every citizen irrespective of whatever religion , sects or denominations he or she follows, that way law abiding  conduct falls within.

P.Lal says,  while defining hinduism  it is a ‘code of good-conduct’, [as prescribed  by secular ideals as shown under the Constitution of India need to taken to be understood as ‘good’ conduct, pattern of noble living (not hurting anyone for any reason, as long as harmonious life is assured for everyone)], pattern of noble living, sensible ‘religious rule’, observing with enormous freedom in following the  ‘religious rules’ , (no restrictions can be imposed impairing a sensible living, should be read in), and observance;

Late Mr. Ansar Hussain ( friend of Mr. Shashi Tharoor,  formerly UN then minister in Dr Manmohan singh’s government) - viewed ‘dharma  that by which we live ‘yes’ - and ‘that’ brings closer to Mr. Thampi’s right perception. as shown  in Tharoor’s book ‘Reflections on India- the Emerging 21st century Power’.

Islam in rural India is ‘more Indian than Islamic’, for it shall be that ‘Indianized Islam what  is seen in a subcontinent -India- is more sustainable for centuries to come’. Muslim anthropologists and sociologists feel so. They are obviously correct.

Asgar Engineer, reformist scholar feels, ‘..rural islam…(is) almost indistinguishable from  Hinduism [(for they just migled well with all the locals everywhere -(who are you politicians to divide them  - if you attempt, you are the one is going to lose by your own game of strategy of divide and rule - your kind of men only faced guillotine in 14th century Europe more so in France along with Louis IVth of France for his reason of squandering wealth of the people , by Robert Spier who really made guillotine fall on heads of such ‘rent seekers’ -  now you as politicians are being ‘rent seekers’ sucking the economy in India would face worse fate - guillotine is one stroke effect but you fellows will just get just dismembered like in Holocaust in Germany on the ‘Jews’, in 1940s might be you fellows might be put in goods wagons as parcels and denying fresh air, remember you stupid idiots.)] except in the form of worship...The degree  may vary from one area to the another; but cultural integration  between Hindus and Muslims is a fact, (see how many inter religion marriages Hindu boy  marries a muslim girl so too vice versa is happening today- a day is  not too far off, for offshoots -children might soon forget both religions, but follow their own way of cultural ‘life and living’.) which no one , except  victims of misinformation, can deny.’

All you need nationalism among all people not divisions among yourselves then there is no nationalism , that way only the indian History  just became ‘History’ (hit and run away became a reality) not history;

Amartya Sen an economist of eminence writes, ‘Not for the sophistication of the Upanishads or Gita,or Brahmagupta or Sankara  or of Kalidasa or Sudraka; they prefer the adoration of Rama’s idol or Hanuman’s image. Their nationalism also ignores the rationalist  tradition of India (why even today in india rationalist (secular approach) is much more than these kinds of idle gossiping politicians), a country  in which some of the earliest steps in algebra, geometry, and astronomy were taken, where the decimal system emerged, where early philosophy -  secular as well as religious -achieved exceptional sophistication, where the people invented games like chess, pioneered sexx education, and began the first systematic study of political economy (a bane) . The  Hindu militant (obvious stupidity of idiots ) chooses instead to present India - explicitly or implicitly - as a country of unquestionable ‘idolaters’ (obvious paganism), delirious fanatics , belligerent devotees (obviously doubtful fact) and religious murderers ( worst fools).’

He  is rightly saying  Hinduism is not Ayodhya or Gujarat : left to  all Indians a religious , philosophical spiritual (tonners), and a historical  legacy not ideosy , that legacy give meaning to the civilizational content of secularist Indian nationalism. In building,  an Indian Nation, it takes into account, of the country’s true Hindu heritage - not dubious ideas proffered by these stupid militant hindu group -  we have to return to the pluralism of national movement - India is facing what Europe faced medieval renaissance in the 14th century -

This shall involve  turning away of the strident  calls of Hindutva that might privilege  a (irrelevant kind) doctrinaire view of hinduism    at the expense of of the minorities (obvious irrational approach) (might hit back very severely), because such calls are a ‘denial of the essence of  Vivekanandan vivekam (wisdom) based hinduism.

Secularist does not say there is no God as such - but he calls a super energy more superior to known Super energies ;there is no secularist with belief in superhuman force - God - but mortified hindus  at their own faith -religion since high-jack(ed) by these new traders in religion and dogma, just to make money, a non intrinsic factor of life and living but some kind of helicopter money idea called ‘paper currency’ - that causes ‘greed’ in man among religious groups too like , one causality  - that is falling into trap of ‘rent seeking economy’. Bigotry -usually petty minded petty men, knew nothing about ‘traditions in whose defense, they try to survive. Soon graves for these people is very close by!.

Salman Rushdie says, in much misunderstood work ‘Satanic verses’, “the eclectic, hybridized nature of the Indian artistic tradition” - Indian Mughals, artists thrived from across the whole country called India for arts or paintings.

India has abt 22000 dialects (including  some spoken than Danish or Norwegian) , by a billion  individuals of every ethnic origin or extraction known to humanity,  with 23 major languages, says Shashi Tharoor in his book, ‘The elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell phone’ - a reflections on India - the Emerging power - 40% still ‘illiterate’ but which has educated the world’s second largest pool of scientists and engineers, with teeming millions in cities overflow while two out of  three Indians still scratch a living soil - what is the clue to understanding a country rife with despair and disrepair, that nonetheless moved Mughal emperor to declaim, ‘If on earth there be a paradise of bliss, it is this, it is this,”? How does one gauge a ‘culture’ that elevated ‘non violence’(since Buddha’s  and Ashoka’s Kanishka’s and ever so many potentates’ days - kings in India days) - that is called ‘Satyameva jayate’ thought that sprinkles truth of hard realities - it is like ‘E Pluribus Pluribum’ - ‘Everything exists everywhere’, so Thomas Jefferson rightly gave to Americans the thought, ‘freedom of speech’ as speech emanates from thousands of dialects, as ‘no language’ can ever be interpreted as one universal language like ‘gestures’;

Democracy will never have, single standard , fixed stereotype perceptions in so many variants. Pluralism is in India  arranges its own affairs, but for democratic ideals, these can never happen as would suppress the other but that was not an ideal democratic perception so, democracy reincarnates time and again from day one   humans came on earth, however subdues time and again several times by aristocrats, and various other kind of dictatorships and monarchies - reason man is a unique animal just throws away sany ‘forces’ that might hit him but out it to run away, at all costs;

That way civilizations did surface with several unique cultures for every situation is an experiment by this unique man, though united by a  shared history in all groups, faiths, tastes, and ideologies (idea bouquets ); like every flower bouquets just wither and just disappear so too all such things are just  incessant and continuous experiments like ocean ways that hit the shores and cause denudation and reshapes continuously, so too human oceans do also denudate and goes on experimenting for democracy is vital for any being to reinvent itself or reorient itself again and again is seen by man in all kinds of waves that are produced by rivers, rivulets, lakes,seas oceans daily on a daily basis, perhaps telling the human race -’never rest but retlesly modify again and again.  

See music it changes every time its rhythm of new waves of tunes called ‘ragas’ surging in one new mental comforts.

More the men more the merrier for men alone are some ‘movers and shakers’ for men with billions of years history yet not found some standards as such in anything he touches why his continuous search is some kind if innovative reinventions and thus he reinvents perceptionaly and why innovatively and yet he is not satisfied and he will not in future several billions of years, for he is never any satisfied animal, fr he believes in reinventing.

You have seen - a politician PM IN HD Deve Gowda or Musicologist Yesudas not really understanding Hindi yet by his own language based scripts these men like ever so many spoke any language that shows how a man tries to reinvent one can see.        

India obviously a land of diversity right from climate, vegetation, physical geography, so too its people, if so how can you discount the diversity in the name of one religion or one philosophy, and culture or anything else? You cannot but you shall know the art of living in such a diversity is mandatory thought for every politician, or any religious guru, there shall be temples, mosques, churches synagogues, monasteries and what not…

Perhaps that only Indus valley culture taught but it seems the people today very narrow minded compared to highly broad minded Indus valley people i sometimes used to think, as we are such a variety entertainment like  hybrid or hybridized culture as Salman Rushdie thinks in his book ‘the Satanic verses’ , so he was rightly considered most tolerant man of the 21st century too, as all religions are nothing but short sighted self righteous kind of Satans in living form, I am driven to think several times.

Man needs to be as broad minded as possible. Never be caught in the philosophy of that every man is an island, after all man thinks in groups the group itself some great ‘island’ that thought only drove man to kill and attack each other, like Hitler did  with Jewish community as some anti Semitic and like that, that way Hitler just meaninglessly killed six million Jews in the so called Holocaust then, in early 1940s.

That effect caused further killings by Allied forces the very non anti semitic races too, under the  term called World war II.

More broad minded you are the more you are near godliness. Why man fails to understand the concept - there is no need one needs to be a great Scholar as such! Godliness in man itself is a ‘paradise of Bliss, it is it is’.

Every truism is contradicted by any other truism,  is obvious.

See in India no single language can qualify to be single national language, as no single language can be spoken if not written by people - when so why these stupid politicians talk ‘Hindi ‘ is the only National language to be spoken and followed  by all when its literature is just negligible compared to Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, even Sanskrit.. Hindi is some kind of useless idea that is touted as some great language, when really majority of indians cannot speak or understand, I several times think why politics in India is so Stupid, that no one can appreciate, but the so called ;arty called the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) now led by the RSS wing as also stupid BJP polif]ticians, and so called PM Mr Modi.

In Indian Constitution we or you have Article 19, that is like the  First Amendment of the American Constitution, why Indian Judiciary is failing to understand in spite of modern education, so we say, Indian education is very badly failing its role in the life of Indian, i am driven to think  since last 68 years! When I could think why not every other Indian I used to wonder, that way i am planning to write a book on the First Amendment of American constitution - how that First Amendment is relevant all over the world where ever we have ‘men’, as  human beings. Indeed, Thomas Jefferson is a great foreseer of the validity of human rights so he reversed several convictions as the president of America then when he was a president of America, he was great thinker unlike modern presidents anywhere, why present president of U S Mr President who thinks whites are the people unlike immigrants but FDR rightly said ‘everyone in the America is an immigrant except the Native indians - reason is even if inroads of people on earth to different landscapes are just immigrants since man is really ‘alien’ to earth when so how stupid is the political class all over the world, obvious ‘Stupidity’ rules the mind of politics and politicians, I used to wonder.

Stupidity rules over the mind, and rakes human’s mind into idea-syncrocies. Obvious no synchronisation of sense and sensibility of mind and thinking process in him.

   

How  T.S. Eliot was a great thinker can be seen if you see, when he really admonished,  the fledgling young poet to bring discipline, to his ‘creativity’ by steeping himself  in English poetry so as to develop, ‘The historical sense’ - a perception, not only of the pastness of the ‘past’, but  of its presence’- any American who wishes to understand the first amendment must be willing to relive the history of the ‘hard fought’ battles  through which freedom of conscience and expression have been purchased.

William Faulkner,  put is , ‘ The past is never dead, It isn’t  even past’ - look from that angle your Indus valley civilization as such, so too civilization of Mesopotamia, Mayan civilization, Egyptian & so on…

When so why so called present day hindus just overnight became super ‘Stupid’ generation of people more so the  political party called BJP or its promoter RSS!, does it mean they lost touch with what Sri Ram stood for, if they fail to understand Sri Ram, obviously they lost credence to claim Sri Ram, as their God, I used to think several times.

Credibility is based on real meaningful research on ‘one’s own perception based  analysis.

History reveals,  that, as often as not,  the great FA battles have been fought  our ‘cultural rejects and misfits’, by our  communist -agitators, our civil activists, our Ku Klux Klanners, our Jehovah’s witnesses.  

Its history, in America, in the history of the moral development, of the race - ‘The most  powerful assaults on freedom of speech in America have always come not from ‘bad people’ but  have always came from ‘good people’ (just because good thinks they are some godly men!), people who would ‘sanitize’  our speech to make it less sexist or sexual , less racist, less vulgar, less Stinging, some kind of ‘self glorifying men’ as if they represent real Lord of God (like the ‘self glorifying BJP or RSS’, in India - really massacred people in Babri masjid incident on futile presumption that it was built on some so called Ram Mandir at Ayodhya  in Indian state called Uttar pradesh ) .

Oliver Wendell Holmes  once wrote, that , “ The law  is the witness and external deposit  of our moral life’. It’s history is the moral development of the race.” [Obvious self imposed rule becomes your moral life’ is further confirmed by Holmes].

USSC decision, must symbolize  an ‘accelerating integration’ of our moral life, the moral regression, not development of the race. In this ideal Indian SC judgement to be on Ayodhya like some land property case if decided that ought to be accepted by all and sundry, besides BJP and RSS, s my considered thinking, else the case will be simply perpetual for years to come as none can understand the real fact whether there was Sri Ram Mandir at the site before Babri Mandir sri Ram came into being some 400 years or so, while fact remains funny ‘you  say Sri Ram was existing in Krita yuga and that yuga ought to have been some thousands of years before, when so why one need to build the temple some 400 years back - ‘nothing meaningful seem exits - except some vendetta of RSS or BJP men only are simply the root cause of creating wedges between communities, by some ‘fanciful claims’, these fanciful thoughts has no place in rational domain of man.

USSC entirely misses,  Chief justice Mr Rehnquist’s point  in the case . More than that, it misses,  the central point of America’s constitutional experience - the freedom  enshrined in the Constitution are not reducible to neatly organized abstract legal doctrines.   They are more human, more emotional, more fluid, and dynamic , more sensitive, and sentient than that.  

Our constitutional freedoms  are part of an ongoing evolution of the living tradition as each generation  engages in a continuing dialogue over what it means to American . What endures  is not so much the collection of answers supplied by each generation as the dialogue itself.  

In the case chief justice Rehnquist’s opinion - appears to invite  the lower courts to embark on a more complex analysis in private figure cases:

The universe of Tort recovery  for emotional distress might be  schematically arranged according to  according to five variables:

1. Whether the underlying tortious  conduct is expressive (relating

to communication of thoughts orb emotions  using language or

symbols) or non expressive.

2. Whether , if the conduct is expressive, the plaintiff  is the public

          Figure, or official or a private figure;

3. Whether,  if the conduct is expressive, the communication  

         Involves matters of public interest;

4. Whether,  the victim’s  emotional distress is coupled  with

         injury, other than emotional distress; and,

5. Whether, the actor’s conduct may be fairly characterized  as

        Satisfying all  of the elements of some tort other than  emotional

        Distress or, instead, , must be  challenged exclusively under

        ‘Rubric’ of  emotional distress.

Chief Justice Rehnquist establishes,  ‘absolute immunity’ at the high

End,  of the scale suggested by these variables, when public  plaintiffs

Sue to ‘recover  for injuries’ caused by  ‘expressive conduct’ (can we

add ‘lobbying at congress for favor of some special group? Need to be

examined), involving public concern and when  the only (‘actual

injury’ ,  or legal interest implicated is emotional distress) . When,

Public plaintiffs  sue to recover for injuries caused by ‘public speech’

to capacity  of the speech to cause ‘emotional disturbance is ‘never

Enough’, stand alone, to justify  its abridgement.

While lobbying is subject to extensive and often complex rules which, if not followed, can lead to penalties including jail, the activity of lobbying has been interpreted by court rulings as constitutionally protected free speech and a way to petition the government for the redress of grievances, two of the freedoms protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution. Since the 1970s, lobbying activity has grown immensely in the United States in terms of the numbers of lobbyists and the size of lobbying budgets, and has become the focus of much criticism of American governance

UNITED STATES v. RUMELY, (1953)

No. 87

Argued:     Decided: March 9, 1953

he courts will consistently seek an interpretation which supports the constitutionality of Congressional legislation.

- in Zenith Radio Corp. v. Matsushita Elec. Ind. Co., Ltd., 1975

the Court construed "lobbying"—undefined in the Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act of 1946—to mean "representations made directly to the Congress, its members, or its committees."

- in Kimbell v. Hooper, 1995

[Properly resourced, organized, and motivated, the institutions of government can develop the knowledge to think independently, and the resources to push back against the claims of the mobilized and wealthy in the name of the immobilized. Government cannot do this if its capacity to collect and process information has been systematically dismantled. Yet this decimating is exactly what has happened to the institutions of the United States in the last few decades. With few exceptions, our policymaking institutions are losing the ability to think for themselves. In some cases, it’s already gone .

Then sometime around 1980, government capacity just flatlined. Congress stopped hiring, then began cutting. Today, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the Congressional Research Service (CRS), which provide nonpartisan policy and program analysis to lawmakers, employ 20 percent fewer staffers than they did in 1979. The same pattern of diminished in-house expertise is true throughout government. As the University of Pennsylvania political scientist John DiIulio has noted, the number of federal bureaucrats declined about 10 percent between 1984 and 2012. At the same time, business lobbying, political polarization, and wealth inequality all started their steady and unmitigated increases. Put simply, the pressures have increased. The ability of the government to deal with them has not.

To change existing law, one must understand existing law. The more expansive and complex the law, the more specialized knowledge it takes to become an expert. Government can invest in resources that would allow it to acquire this specialized knowledge, or it can rely on externally provided experts with a material stake to help it draft and enact laws. For decades, we have chosen the second.

All three types of complexity are only going to keep growing. (What intervention could possibly stop them?) If we continue on our current path of not giving the government adequate policy capacity, the gap between what our policymakers need to know to effectively govern and what they actually know will only increase. Corporate lobbyists and the most ideological of “the people” will continue to be happy to tell our government what to do, and how to do it. Lacking their own capacity, government will have no other choice but to increasingly turn to them for help. And lacking their own knowledge, policymakers will have an even harder time evaluating these analyses and suggestions on anything other than quantity and volume

Imagine that you are a rank-and-file member of the House. Your small office of at most three or four policy staff is already stretched thin. The policy staff are also likely to predominantly be in their twenties or maybe thirties, something that shocks observers from abroad. In the 2009 movie In the Loop, a senior British civil servant, upon meeting an American twenty-something in a suit, trenchantly observes, “He’s probably running something relatively major …They’re all kids in Washington. It’s like Bugsy Malone but with real guns.” If your constituents knew just how much you delegated to your fresh-faced staff, they too might be shocked. Your staff may be bright and energetic and have genuine power (because you are too busy fund-raising or smiling before cameras somewhere, and therefore must delegate). But they don’t have the serious policy chops that can only come with years of experience.

The federal government across all its branches has experienced a deterioration in its ability to acquire, process, and analyze information. But the problem is especially urgent in Congress, which is at the center of America’s current governing crisis.

How bad is the staff pay gap between Congress and K Street? Even those in the top 90 percent of salaries in personal congressional offices are barely at $100,000. Median salaries in member offices are consistently below $50,000. Committee staff earn more, but even those in the top 90 percent are only earning about $160,000, which is what a first-year associate at a Washington law firm earns. A Sunlight Foundation analysis done by one of us (Drutman) found that the median lobbying revenue a former government staffer generated in 2012 was $300,000. This is a good proxy for salary, since lobbyists tend to be compensated based on the business they bring in. Those with solid committee experience, however, should expect to earn well above this median.

As a corporate lobbyist told one of us (Drutman), “It’s tough to live off the government paycheck. You make so little money. One of the big things that’s wrong with the system is that somebody finally learns their job and then they have to move on, so you have a bunch of young folks who turn to lobbyists to figure out their jobs.”

The primary way that campaign contributions and lobbying may dampen economic growth is via a practice known as rent-seeking—the process of seeking income through special government favors rather than through productive economic activity. When firms and individuals engage in rent-seeking behavior, it has several negative effects on economic growth. Not only do people spend more time and money trying to get a bigger piece of the economic pie for themselves rather than trying to enlarge the pie, but the policies they seek are often wasteful, inefficient, or even harmful. If rent-seeking is a successful strategy for businesses or individuals, it can impose great harm on society by slowing or even stopping economic growth. As Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz explains, rent-seeking not only wastes tax dollars on unnecessary or inefficient projects—redistributing money from one part of society to the rent-seekers—but it is a “centripetal force” that hollows out the economy because “the rewards of rent seeking become so outsize that more and more energy is directed toward it, at the expense of everything else.”

While it is impossible to quantify the economic harm done by rent-seeking to the American economy, this issue brief reviews the literature and finds that the harm is likely quite significant.

Certainly, not all money in politics is spent for the purpose of capturing private favors, but there is evidence that at least a significant percentage of it is. Most Americans do not make campaign contributions or lobby politicians. Rather, the vast majority of money spent on these activities comes from wealthy citizens and business interest groups. Moreover, studies find that businesses with the most to gain from favorable public policy engage in the most political activity.

Even worse, research indicates that campaign contributions and lobbying often help shape policy outcomes, which suggests that rent-seeking efforts are often successful. While disagreement exists about how much influence campaign contributions and lobbying have, money in politics seems to be most effective in shaping the outcomes of issues that are less visible and less ideological, exactly the type of special favors one would expect rent-seeking to target. Furthermore, there have been several findings that show a clear relationship between specific instances of lobbying or campaign contributions and government favors. To take just a few examples:

• One study found that increasing lobbying reduces a corporation’s effective tax rate, with an increase of 1 percent in lobbying expenditures expected to reduce a corporation’s next-year tax rate between 0.5 percentage points and 1.6 percentage points.
• Another study based on data from 48 different states found that a $1 corporate campaign contribution is worth $6.65 in lower state corporate taxes.
• Finally, federal contracts were more likely to be awarded to firms that have given federal campaigns higher contributions, even after controlling for previous contract awards.

These findings are deeply troubling for our democracy and our economy. And, unless actions are taken, the damage is likely to grow worse in the future. With recent court rulings knocking down important restrictions on money in politics, rent-seekers will have even greater opportunity to seek special favors, doing further harm to the economy.

Rent-seeking

Most economists agree that rent-seeking causes a net societal loss that harms the economy. Rent-seeking involves spending resources to influence a division of profits, instead of creating a good or service that other businesses or individuals are willing to pay an amount that exceeds the cost of producing said good or service. While rent-seeking exists in both private and public forms, the scope of this paper is the discussion public rent-seeking and specifically two public rent-seeking activities—lobbying and campaign funding.

When engaging in rent-seeking from public institutions, businesses and individuals may seek favors from the government through both legal activities—lobbying and contributing to political campaigns—and illegal strategies—bribery and corruption. What identifies rent-seeking behavior is that resources are spent in an attempt to influence policy in order to obtain a greater share of benefits. The benefits targeted by rent-seeking vary but include: profits from state-created monopolies, favorable government contracts, beneficial regulations, tariffs that dampen foreign competition, and tax preferences and subsidies.

The major economic concerns of rent-seeking can be categorized into three types of inefficiencies:

1. Resources are wasted engaging in rent-seeking.
2. Policies sought by rent-seeking result in an inefficient use of resources.
3. Rent-seeking policies may prove so destructive that they cause resources to sit idle.

The first inefficiency created by rent-seeking is that private resources are intentionally wasted on pursuing and competing for rents rather than producing economic gain. An important caveat of this waste is that it is irrelevant whether or not the rent-seeker achieves the sought-after policy goal. What triggers this waste is the fact that time, effort, and resources were diverted away from producing goods or rendering services that others are willing to pay for and instead used to influence policy for private gain.

The second economic concern of rent-seeking behavior is that the policy positions sought and protected create a misallocation of government or private resources. In the case of government resources, it may be that scarce government revenue is used to create a special interest tax subsidy instead of investing in research or infrastructure that would be more beneficial to society as a whole. Private resources may also be misallocated. Without proper regulations, for example, banks may overleveraged themselves if they believe that the federal government will bail them out.

Finally, rent-seeking could prove so harmful to the economy that not only are resources not used in the most efficient manner possible, but they are actually idle. During a recession or its aftermath, for instance, workers are unemployed and significant capital remains on the sidelines. Indeed, some argue that the 2008 financial crisis—the effects of which we are still suffering from—was fueled by rent-seeking behavior.

Chapter .2

‘American Girls perceptions are very different, no eastern Girls really understand, so too men in both hemispheres of the Globe’   

New American women is, as Carrol Smith -Rosenberg has described,  ‘Single, highly educated, economically autonomous (independent)’, usually children small-town America’ are products of the ‘New Women’s colleges, drawn to urban centers, and work in settlement houses, in rebellion  against their ‘mothers and marriages’. (CarrolSmith-Rosenberg, ‘ Disorderly conduct: Visions  of Gender in Victorian America (New York, 1985,245-57) .

What she meant was and is that ‘’None can save you you better save yourself.

It is like Dr. Man Mohan Singh as PM in India like Nehru had the ability  to take long term view in 2005, he pursued, the most contentious issue in India then, on ‘most conterious ‘nuclear deal’(123 agreement)  with the US, realizing it offered India, extraordinary, and possibly unique opportunity. Like that New American women took the task most intelligently, in the very 20th century.

It is like, ‘Politics in India’ that tends, to be seen  in close focus. If one watches Indian parliamentary debates on a television screen , with ‘ cheerful shouting’, ‘cross talking’, references to ‘the creamy layer’ ( privileged people from minority  communities who benefit from so called ‘affimitive action’ (obviously not tenable under Article 14 of the Indian Constitution, as right to equality is just equality with other person only - Nothing more Nothing Less’)  with its so called ‘ frequent acronyms’, (that might  be left unaware , ‘what might be the subject under discussion’), - Indian politicians love ‘intrigue’ and detail, and like to turn debates  about ‘so called policy’ intio philosophical discussions, but they tend to avoid  drawing back from the ‘close focus’ to look at the wider picture. This is the problem of the world, but in India, ‘it can be acute’ like American men in collusion with  the ‘intriguing politicians’, who denied women’s rights’ , at every point of time, (but had to be tenaciously faught like American women),

Obviously politics in the U S the men even today, never like women to hold power - if you look at very Mr. Donald Trump who vociferously attacked Ms. Hillary Clinton when she contested president election in 2016, but Mr Trump is accused of using Russian Putin’s adinistration to torpedow the ‘votes’ by rigging by all kinds of means, mean , American man does not like woma to rule over, as if ruling is masculine birth right, not realizing there were people like Cleopatra, Queen  Bloody Mary, Mary Queen of Scots, Queen Elizabeth Ist , Queen victoria, now Queen Elizabeth II in the UK...to name a few, (but American man would not like  a Margaret Tatcher, May now.. What freedom Americans talk about any might question)      Obvious American man is self centered even today, when you see when he talks on Nancy Pelosy, a senator, and others

In fact, American women from 1850 on fought well by their own writings, that

way new women are birn today in America. [Freedom is not complete in the US today even, new American women need to fight their way further down the line..

Problem is the ‘human minds are funny’, to grasp things very fast, though assume they can. In fact ‘Not’.

It is right Elizabeth Robbins rightly suggested in the face of what George  Eliot and Margaret Fuller failed to further the cause they advocated because they tries  to ‘to do alone’ what can only be ‘accomplished’ if women writers work together’.(Elizabethe Robbins, ‘Way-Stations’, (NY .Dodd , Mead, 1913,), 73 -

  

Ralph  Bourne said, or aptly described the Village bohemians of  the period to a friend thinking of moving there:

‘They are all social workers, Magazine writers in a small way. They  are

Decidedly ‘emancipated and advanced’  and so, thoroughly healthy and

Zestful, or at least so  it seems, to my unsophisticated  masculine sense.

They shock you constantly… They have  an amazing combination of

Wisdom, and youthfulness, of humor and ability, and innocence  and self

reliance, whch  absolutely belies  everything  you will read  in the story

- books or any other  description of womenkind.  Theyare, of course, all

self-supporting  and independent; and enjoy  the adventure of life.’(7)      

Women who wanted to work together  including ‘feminists’, socialists, suffragists, bohemians,  and pacifists

In mid nineteenth century, feminist writers like Christine Warner’s ideal  believes, that ‘If girls  could only be brought up  like boys, with the idea that, when at a suitable age, it was their duty to earn their living, how much more self respect  they would feel.’

She also felt, ‘all reform movements are slow in their beginnings’. They resemble like Avalanche moves in the beginning, which creeps on so gently at first, that it ‘onward course is almost ‘imperceptible’; but gathers  strength strength nand velocity as it proceeds, it rushes on, bearing before it all that men have deemed most stable and movable’.

That way all women movements occurred everywhere, but depends on countries of origin.

As a women’s right speaker, she feels, ‘She would enter upon this great work , and she  thanked God for giving her so ‘noble’ a task, one that would require all her powers - all  her ‘soul’. In a Bronteish twist, ‘her father and her aunt ‘Julia’, feeling disgraced by ‘her actions’, conspire  to have her committed to a lunatic asylum, where she ‘stays imprisoned’ ,  under a ‘false’ name for almost a year.

The reformed  and contrite Philip  and Mrs, Warner get her out. She marries

Philip  and they establish  a home for ‘Single Women’,  both ‘the poor and friendless’ and,  the professionals - ‘engaged in every trade that was open to women….students of law,  theology, and medicine.’

If you were to read the poem of Howe. which is -

               ‘Mind Versus Mill-stream’ in

‘Passion-Flowers’ in March 1854’

Just it was a great gossip and shock in Male literary circles then - that led reviewers  guess, the poet was a woman, as the poem was published ‘Annonymous’, but they were startled,  and impressed by the ‘apparent autobiographical nature and intellectual range of the book, ‘Passion-Flowers’ - Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote, ‘The devil  must be in the woman to publish them’,[though literary insiders  identified ‘Howe’, as the author], to William Ticknor , his mutual publisher - the poem ‘seemed to let out, a whole history of  domestic unhappiness. -  In the New York Tribune,  Gregory Ripley called Passion-Flowers, a product  wrung with tears and prayer from the deepest soul of the writer….’We should not  have suspected these pioems to be the production of a woman. They form an entirely  ‘unique class in whole range of female literature’.(Williams, Hungry Heart’  136)

In fact Howe was well respected by Horace Wallace, with whom  she spent a great deal of time visiting monuments and discussing  from philosophy to their similar traits as ‘redheads’.Indeed, he treated Howe as an intellectual  equal and urged her develop ‘Literary genius’.

‘If you would marry happily

On the shady side of life,

Choose out  the some quitely-disposed

And placid tempered wife,

To share the length of sober days,

And dimly  slumberous nights,

But well beware  those fitful souls

Fate wings for wilder  fights!

For men will woo tempest,

And  wed it, to their cost,

Then swear  they took it for summer dew,

Anh ah! Their peace is lost.

Women ‘no where’, is  inferior to man proved time and again.

Whitman rightly said, ‘Man in the Open air’, so he is also a part of ‘Nature, rugged,’ as any he wanted to say.

See when you hear Paul Krugman now says on India why the world, that artificial intelligence if man is to depend, he cannot escape the arificial intelligence would just monopolize all outsourcing ‘services’ man will be left with nothing to earn his bread, he has to depend upon real manufacturing activities, spo man is also in the Opnen Air this way too.

Similarly man found some regularities in the celestial sphere that led to ‘astronomical ‘ perceptions that led this Man in the Open air to deduce, if suchsimilarities happen again and again in a rhythmic manner systematically, such phenomenon and man’s nature fitted into it in some regularity some happenings in his life that led to the development of astrological perceptions and some connotations regularity if sequenced with the birth of beings, Man conceived that if particular things do happen in some systemic manner, he deduced, some celestial phenomenon can help you predict what could happen for that particular person in the nature of things on the earth, for  earth orbit is also subject to some regularity , that way astronomy led to astrology and horoscope constructions, thanks to his (Man’s) ability of creativity. Man includes all sexes of mankind which might face in the day to day ‘occurrences’ of things, after all all occurances are based upon some regularity principles, that regularity doctrine only made artificial inteeligence to overtake very Man himself though man only constructed the very ‘artificial intelligence’; that idea only led to internet what we daily see in our daily lives, so ‘Man in the Open Air’ is obviously a fsactual surmise, both mentally (intellectually) and physically.

All these do happen and continue to happen if you observe every possible phenomenon, if you  capture, with your ability of creativity on the basis of your own thinking.

See, American history of Literature is  based upon historical determinism only, see  Lierary Historian Matthiessen observed, and acknowledged when there is a market for anything that depends on the repeat consumer behavior, that led American Women realize, there is a consumer behavior for ‘Slavery’, ‘anti-slavery’ like one needs regular ‘sex’ or sadistic sex depending on the creative perception of ver ‘man’ himself just because he has one thing called ‘creative philosophy’ - that led American women write on the basis of sufferings encountered by women, as slaves, under slavery, when Man started using the ‘slavishness’ of man for his own ‘nefarious’ activities, for nefarious activities are just based on human attitude for ‘lazy life and living ‘ he sought to make use of, so man himself became a victim for his own reasons, initially; when that slavishness attacked him beyond a level he could cope with he became angry and raised objections, under the umbrella of ‘victimization’ by another man, both are men only but more stronger by any reason he started  misusing the other, when that person becomes ‘helpless’ he is taken for granted, that way only politics surfaced today.

When you see in the US, you find Mr Trump once in power as president of U>S, he is manipulating things in his own way, and if anything obstructs his ways, he tries to nip that is his strategy of victimizing , see he removes, an FBI guy, at his time of retirement, he fires him to ensure that he shall not get his ‘pensionary’ benefits,  for Trump’s own advantage, not Mr Trump saves tax payers moneys, but he misuses his obsession of power that had gone to his head uncontrollably, how we can’t call him a slave of his mentality of making others ‘slaves’, for his own purposes, if one rejects Trump’s ideas for his own betterment at the cost of others , here he just puts the whole Nation as his own ‘slaves’!

Therefore, ‘Man in the Open Air’, misuses ‘things’, for his own purposes, as very Whitman saw when his books could not sell, he need  to create some market for his own books for that, he wrote his own ‘book reviews’ on his own books, in so many different names by very  Whitman himself; we also saw how someone helped him by moneys when he needed for day to day living, he took it but he never returned the moneys he borrowed, that way he converted that benefactor into his own slave, for that lender has to face unnecessary strain for having helped this very man in Whitman!

1850s taught Americans all kinds of creativities, that we call , ‘Man in the ‘open Air’. No man is a good human being, once when he chooses the circumstances for his own self advantages, caring least for the ‘rule of law’.

In the same manner Mr. Ramsay MacDonald as British PM misused British Indian Colony in 1919s, he devised, ‘ divide and rule’ the very Indians in India, you could have noted, the views of John Maynard Keynes  when he was in India House in London, Britain, that all statistics generated in India is not statistics but some weird material in 1920s for self interests of the rulers whatever they ruled, but that very same attitude of King John in 1215, made him to sign ‘Magna Carta proposed by his own Nobles then; similarly, VP Singh as some PM of India after gaining independence from the British, he used Mandal Commission report on ‘Backward classes’ of India, under the so called manufactured statistics of British to divide and rule the then Indians in 1920s, he used to give reservation for his own reasons of ‘divide and rule’ as his party could not get the required numbers for him to become the PM of India, he manipulated the so called  the ‘British manufactured statistics of 1919s’ , which he used to sabotage the Constitution of India ‘Basic tenets’ (Basic structure doctrine) , by his so called ‘Constitutional amendment’ to facilitate him to go ahead with his so called ‘Backward classes’ reservation’, by his subterfuge to convert the idea ‘Amendment’ as some as if ‘Constitutional Abrogation’ indeed an illegality when one reads the Indian Constitution and his so called ‘Constitutional Amendment’, this trend happened when Dr. B R Ambedkar brought the idea of SC/ST reservation in 1950s, In fact, ‘Man in the Open Air’ airs his own way of making or unmaking things; obviously, very ‘reservation’ idea is another kind of fostering ‘Slavery Of the very ‘Backward classes’ or the SC/ST Reservations, followed by so called ‘Creamy layer’ new idea of Slavery; so too in the name of Consumerism we develop new kind of ‘Slavery’  that, consumerism in America fosters ‘credit card’ slavery, that caught up the world; that way, man just became a slave of his own ‘irrational and unreasonable ideas’ to foster salary of one kind or the other, that way ‘inflation’ caught up, so your own cash loses its credibility for you do not know what value your $ bill tomorrow would be, so penury persists in one form or the other.

Political and philosophical

    

Chapter 3

Quote, misquote, ridicule quotes, yet  quote is born from the thought of ‘Nothing from nothing  ever yet was born’!

Titus Lucretius Carus [c.99 - c.55 BCE] said in his poem, ‘De Recum Natura’ of about 200 pages; indeed he was agreat Roman philosopher worthy of his name but who had huge difficulties in translating  the language of Greek concepts into Latin.

See, all the politicians world over suffer similar difficulties, when they try to read their own countries constitutions !

See in India there are ever so many Constitutional amendments, can you say if they are some useful why always people do question that means people are not convinced by the ideas of lawmakers; and judicial reviews are on so many are there.

You could have seen even statute like SC/ST Atrocities Act 1987 was not conceived by very Dr.B.R. Ambedkar in 1950s, so it is obvious later generations of Dalits as ‘law makers’, forced such ‘funny Acts’, that means,

What Horace (65-8 BCE) said in his odes - how correct one can interpret -

‘What do the ravages of time  not injure?

Our father's’ age was worse than our grandfathers’

We their sons are more worthless than they:

So in our turn we shall give the world

Our children yet more corrupt.’

When you see today obviously new generation is yet to grasp quite a lot, but yet they represent you as your representatives , like if you employ an advocate if he is less knowledgeable than you what use you can get of him  if you follow the Gita Upanishadic thought -’Knowledge and action -

‘Jnanam jneyam parijnata

trivida  karmacodana

karam  karma karte  ‘ti

Trividhah karmasamgrahah.’ (Ch.XVIII.  18)

Meaning, ‘Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knowing  subject, are the threefold incitement to action: the instrument , the ‘action’,  and the agent are the threefold composite of action . this is further explained in chapter XIII, 20 -

‘Karmacodana refers to the  ‘mental planning’ and ‘karmasamgraha’ to the actual execution of the action and each  has three aspects. i.e.,

‘karya karana kartartve

hetuh prakrtir ucyate

purusha  sukhadukhanam

bhoktrtve  heturucyate.’

[Meaning

‘Nature  is said to be  the cause of effect, instrument and agent (ness) and the ‘soul’ is said to be  the cause, in regard to the experience of ‘pleasure and pain.’ [ ‘Karyakaranakartrive’, there is another reading too - ‘karyakaranakartrtve’ = (see Franklin Edgerton: Bhagavad Gita, vol I, p, 187, note - ‘The body and the senses  are produced by ‘prakrit’ and experience of pleasure and pain is by the ‘purusa’ subject to certain limitations. The blissful nature of the ‘self’ is stained by joy and sorrow on account of its identification with the objects of nature.’ ]   

that way,

‘19, ‘jnanam karma  ca karta ca

tridhaiva gunabhedatva

procyte gunasamkhyane

yathvacchrnu tanyapi.’

[Knowledge , action and the agent are said , in the science of modes, to be  of ‘three’ kinds only, according to difference in the ‘modes’. Hear thou dyly of these also Lord Krishna tells Partha (Arjuna) - ‘The Samkhya system is referred to and  it is ‘authoritative’ in some matters though not in regard to the highest truth.] (425)

We always suffer from mediocrity in us, that is what ‘Gita’ high lights. This assumes due to several reasons mostly out of anger, that way ‘crimes’ are committed.

See anywhere in the world most of the crimes follow on account of sexual reasons. Same reason is highlighted in Gita too. Duryodhana wanted to have a forced sex on Draupadi, Pandavas wife, obvious cousins’ wife. For that, he sees an opportunity, when one of her husbands, puts her as a pawn in his dice play, he too acts in haste, as he was overpowered by the desire to play ‘dice’, so he proves, ‘desire’ if uncontrolled, that is the beginning of misery is stated by Lord Buddha, not without reason.

Desire is the root cause of all kinds of crimes. We see everywhere on the globe.

See, Modi as PM of India, wanted to have a bullet train to run between Ahmedabad and Mumbai, so he entered into an agreement with Japan when he was  on a visit to Japan, with an idea to develop trade; not with the intention of getting a contract for establishing a fastest railway service between Ahmedabad and Mumbai, for there is already very super fast train services are already in existence, if so why he need, a ‘bullet train’ at such a prohibitive costs, that is tying up for a repayment plan,  from tax payers’ moneys that revenue could generated over decades only, obvious, ‘desire’ syndrome. So, he lost his balance asa PM of India.

Similarly, Hitler in Germany wanted to build its economy very fast, so he wanted to make Germany as the police force of the whole world. With what result. He made Germany to get divided by the Allied forces under its commander General Eisenhower of the U.S. Why, allied forces was touted, Hitler was ruthlessly attacking whole Europe, besides killing ruthlessly the jews, by calling them as anti-Semitic origin, therefore. You may get an idea that might give you enormous ‘energy’ to put up ruthless fights, that way he killed about 6 million jews it is said. The very destructive ideas would kill you, that if one cannot fight individually, naturally, affected nations or countries would group up to fight any force meaning, any powerful destruction by  men could be countered is the statement of thought. That way Europe roped in the USA to take on destructive Hitler, that turned to be the Allied Forces under General command of the U.S, led by General Eisenhower. That way Germany got defeated. One can visualize how ‘Desire’ drive you mad, that had happened in Germany in 1940s, Germany was routed by 1946 once and for all; it got divided as ‘West Germany’ and ‘East Germany’ , as world never trusted then Germans for world thought ‘Germans’ as the most unreliable race, as in Mahabharatha war how Kauravas were treated by whole of India then.

Why ‘Kauravas’ just because they suffered from insatiable  desire to take over the territory under Pandavas,(and) as Kauravas nurtured hatred over very cousins, just  because people loved Pandavas. The root cause was ‘desire’ engined by ‘hatred’; while in Germany by the desire to rule the world by all means enfined by a person, just a painter who served in the German Military , who somehow other pushed up the ‘passion’ for Germans, to rule the world, like Duryodhana’s maternal uncle drove in the passion to take over Pandav piece of territory, though Pandavas’ most fertile territory was taken over by an arbitration sponsored by  their very great grand father Bhishmacharya to ensure peaceful existence among cousins; did it work, No, just because ‘desire’ devoured the Kaurav cousins - the ‘desire’ made the Kauravas to strategize a plan to lure Pandav King in Yudhisthira for a play of ‘dice’ knowing his vulnerability for play of ‘dice’ - that shows any ‘vulnerability’ might land you in over expectation syndrome ‘psyche’, that ‘psyche’ did not bend the Kauravas even by Lord Krishna’s ‘diplomacy’ ideas of just asking the Kauravas to grant just five villages, once Pandavas came from Agyatvas, as they were prescribed to undergo to get back very lost territory; that way very idea of ‘contract’ just  breached thanks to Kauravas insatiable ‘desire’ to destroy ‘Pandavs’ - this shows, any ‘inordinate’ desires would make you break with impunity, very contractual understanding is, verily highlighted in Mahabharat war.

Today, in India, when once  India got independence from the  British Suzerainty, did the ‘desire syndrome’ that   gained momentum in 1947, that led to partition of India, by causing innumerable massacres, just due to desire of the fellow citizens - Muslims and Hindus - for centuries - not to live together for each suspected each other’s intentions of harmonious neighbourliness.  Similar effects Indians pursue by so called ‘divide and rule syndrome’ we suffer from.

Vote bank politics is meant for survival of the parties, obviously; not for the harmonious living of people, that way, V P Singh brought the backward classes idea from a document of Mondal which document relies on a most unreliable statistics of 1919 british government of India. Even, John Maynard Keynes said at India House in London the statistics generated on indian population  and census not really reliable so he wanted the Britain to examine the documents and appoint right statisticians.

If you read  Gita. Ch XVIII, 20;

‘Sarvabhuteshu yenaikam

 bhavamavyayamiksate

avbhaktam vibhaktesu

 taj jnanam vidhi sattvikam’

Means

‘The knowledge  by which the one Imperishable Being is seen in all existences (substances) , undivided,  know that, knowledge is of ‘goodness’.

Ch. XVIII, 21:

‘Prthaktvena tu  yaj jnanam

 nanabhavan  prthagvidhan

vetti  sarveshu  bhuteshu

 taj jnanam viddhi rajasam’

Means

‘The knowledge  which sees multiplicity of beings in the different  creatures, by reason of their separateness, know that,  the knowledge is of the nature of ‘Passion’.[Passion is not reliable but will lead to innumerable problems - that way Lord Krishna tells Kauravas , ‘Be sensible’ not be taken over by passion based senses.’]

Ch.XVIII, 22:

‘yat tu  krtsnavadekasmin

   karye  saktamahetukam

 atattvathavada

   Tat tama samudahrtam’

Means

take charge of your mind and of thoughts and reshape yourself.

                                        

                                     

‘But that  which clings  to one single effect ‘as if’, it were  the ‘whole’,

without  grasping ‘the real’, and narrow is declared to be of the nature of ‘dullness’.

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