Some questions are best unanswered..

Kanishka Kumar is studying medicine.This being the prefinal yr of his MBBS degree.He has not just been a great buddy since school days but also a person with great wisdom and my all time spiritual adviser(...am i right Kanishka?).As ever he has helped to resolve another query that hassles me every now and then.I feel its not just for me but many like me who waste the precious moments of life in a futile quest.So...over to you Kanishka...


I think i can answer some of the questions relating to our purpose in life.
Why do we make such a fuss of things and work so hard if all one has to do in this world is to live a routine life, procreate and go to hell?
So here i go.........
These are questions which have the following characteristics:

a) They come to you when you are just past your adolescent age and into young adulthood because you have somewhat formed an identity of yourself. It is then that you try coming out of your ego and try connecting with the world. It is then that you try and fit your established sense of self with the world.
In a word you try and find the meaning and purpose of your life on this planet.

b)These questions come to most of us but we ignore them in pursuit of more pleasurable things in life like friends, frolic , fun and like. Therefore i believe they come back to haunt when one is:
1) alone
2) heart broken
3) pissed off with his life
4) looking for more avenues and meaning of life

c)Youth is the time when these questions are more prominent because:
1) our spirits are high
2) not burdened by the chores life brings with it
3) there is fresh enthusiasm and belief of doing exemplary things and turning the world on its head.
4) one believes that the world should cry, laugh, enjoy and live with us.

d) They come to people of two strata:
1) those who are good at there work and well placed in life as they tend to find more meaning in life and analyze things to a greater extent.
2) those who are not so successful. They try and locate a reason in the external environment for their failure or try and rationalize that the aim they were striving for was immaterial.

let me tell you what i believe.....
I have come across these questions and have had some memorable experiences in looking for the answers.Sometime back i found them.

These are the questions that are the whole crux of our religions, spirituality and search for the knowledge that great people have spent years and years on finding. They have not done so after a lifetime of dedicated efforts.

It is an enigma as to why do we live the way we do??
To tell the truth i have stopped asking myself these questions.
But i have certain tools which help me and can help you tackle the doubts.
first i believe the answers are not attainable with such ease.These questions should be answered rhetorically.
Blast off questions like," can you imagine the universe without human beings?", "why is that some people have all the good things in life and some none?", "why do wrongs get punished late?","why do we love?","why is sex such an urge?" etc

It will make the person asking the questions feel better as he then finds one more confused person or rather one more "human being."

It also depends on your present state of mind. If you like,these discussions can go on and on.If not,you can label the person as weird.
As to the answer i believe one has to reconcile to the fact that they are there but they need one hell of a search.

On a personal level i now just live and try understanding life in bits and pieces.
deep down we all know our purposes and life will take us there if we have our basics right.

Remember the heart is on the left side but is always right!

One should never get overwhelmed by the thought and look for reasons for everything. they are so many things in this world which cannot be explained.
Come to think of it ,ones life, joys , sorrows, memories, the world, humanity and everything is miniscule when we take the scale of the universe.It is just a blip in eternity. It may be a part of a much larger canvas.

So enjoy yourself and live life the way it is!

Science Vs Religion or Science and Religion??

Reading does help to explore new avenues.Here is an instant example...A random reading prooved to be a real eye-opener..i was a non-believer of religion(not an atheist but a believer of one and only one supreme being,the sacred figure ,the guiding light..)So,being a technologist-in-making,relating religion with science was out of question..but after coming across this piece i found even science and religion have lots in common.This is how i would like to go about science and religion now...........

Science and Religion.Two terms that evolved from two starkly contrast schools of thought.One would wonder if science and religion have things to share!On the contrary,superficially ,one belies the other!Science is based on testable hypothesis while religion is mere faith.In science,a healthy sceptism is a necessity while when religion is concerned belief without evidence is a virtue! So similarity in science and religion is seemingly out of discussion....Hold on...baffling as it may sound,but both have much in common.....Remember what the great scientist Einstein once said?That, the more he studied universe(which is based on phenomenas that pivot on science),the more he believed in the existence of the higher power(the existence of the supreme being,the aura of ideal human values,which is the essence of every religion).Weren't both science and religion founded on belief in the existence of something outside the universe?As in,unexplained set of physical law and unexplained God.And dont neither of the two succeed in giving a complete account for physical existence??If religion or God is supposedly holding the natural order from beyond the universe ,the physical universe is governed by external laws(i.e Meta-laws).Physicists think of the Meta-laws as laws inhabiting an abstract realm of perfect mathematical
relationships.Shouldn't the laws of physics have an explanation from within the universe not involving appealing to an external agency ,if science brags on testable hypothesis being its sole basis??And if specifics of such explanations of science are a matter of future research,its claim to be free from faith is dubious until it comes up with testable theory of laws of universe.
Going by that which is more apparent on taking a broader view on the laws of science,don't both religion and science seem to flourish on the same side of the shore?The crux of both science and religion come down to the very similar mantra of 'faith'!!

Life's puzzles!!...huh..

I thought it was all over..i mean,trying to answer those questions that life takes unbound pleasure in posing before a 'poor child'(no, not a child actually ..couple of years back i even crossed my 'prized' teenage, though still nostalgically entangled in the time that i must learn is passe) or a 'poor human being'(sounds more apt?) every now and then.Alas! ..There was an entire questionnaire waiting to grab the slightest chance to help me sweat my brain.The ones that had always lingered in my head.And today they are back and adament on not letting me escape this time..So,the big questions are....Why are we here for?What is expected out of us as quintessential human beings?Why is it sometning baffeling if we prefer to remain ordinary?Why is it that the 'should' factor is abashedly intimidating?Why do we 'have' to be 'practical'?(the word seems to me still as puzzling as ever)..Why cant we live life on life's own?Why cant we be like the stars that keep twinkling and never fail to charm the onlooker no matter each is just like a speck in the face of sky(here the optimist in me reminds me of the words of one of my great teachers ,'Cmon girls,make something of yourself before it is too late because its only here that you can make something of yourself.Outside this collage campus you are nothing more than a speck of dirt..')Aaah... those inspiring words ..they keep haunting me ..... in the midst of all the talk i cant afford to put down the last but the most dreary one..where can i find an answer to at least some of them???
The optimist in me is not happy with such troublesome thoughts and would not let the poor pessimist take over.For,it does not want to embroil in the futile battle of intrigues.It asserts that though she too hasnt found an answer to any of them,she is nonchalant and better off with things to look up to....and she gave me this super mantra to disentangle myself...which says ,'dont bother ,Just bear in your mind the words of a wise man who once said:the three essentials of happiness are,to have something to do,to have something to love and to have something to hope for'.