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 First principles say that God is defined in the dictionary in different ways. There are broadly two  main connotations of the word. GOD spelt always in capital is a supreme power or entity mainly abstract and even if concrete an entity all powerful, all knowing but which does not have an actual face. The second concept is one of ruler, an all pervading entity and a director who is in charge with an actual face.  This concept evolved in human history over many ages and based on the ability of the human mind to comprehend, anything large, incomprehensible, unexplainable became akin to God. The nomadic prehistoric man objectified God as in whatever helped him survive and overcome his adversaries.So a large tree, rocks, walls and dense forests or even storms, rivers, lightering and thunder which created a favourable outcome with respect to survival against animals enemies became God. As he got domesticated and started keeping animals and made agriculture and food production ...

  Reading the scriptures and getting inspired by some passages is the journey of transformation where man brings into his consciousness the divinity as expressed by the Lord in this case Jesus Christ who spoke these words. Many of the words after some days of repetition become rote chanting light with very little going by transformation. Yet in the last few days certain words are ringing so clearly and loudly that this passage is now becoming a common central scripture. I will take the whole passage and try to contextually explain how the difficult situations can be overcome by this lovely passage. As I started writing this blog last night I heard the news of the demise of Dr. Manmohan Singh who also could take comfort from this scripture. Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. . Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousne...

  As I transformed from Academic Orthopedics to Administration, my attendance in Orthopedic meetings reduced but I kept up with the knowledge required to treat patients through peer interaction and doing cases within my limitations. The last two days have seen me attending the prestigious Western India Regional Orthopedic Conference which for those who are not in the field of Orthopedics has evolved to become the premier conference in India. The President of Bombay Orthopedic Society and Conference Chairman Dr. Mohan Desai was my houseman at Bhagwati Hospital Borivili in 1986-87. A nervous boy from a simple middle class Maharashtrian family, has grown to reach heights far beyond our dreams in those years. I am glad that I may have had a small part to play in this evolution. Before getting into the topic, I must talk about WIROC in general and how WIROC 24 has got its present form and format.                      ...

 In the very beginning when I started blogging I was looking for shortcuts and solutions to the problems of life. There was a tendency to look for and find men of wisdom and see weather following a few of them would give solutions to life. So one of my first blogs was on the topic of Guru. https://vhjokhi.blogspot.com/2005/02/guru.html   We find that there were so many such Gurus who could preach with mesmeric skill and excellent oratory powers sway millions of human beings into actions and literally blind faith in the spoken word. Many such persons have touched my life and the gullible trusting me was willing to give them a long rope, but invariably I found that they hung themselves.  The usual ways in which I found them was word of mouth especially of friends who were educated, men or women with a scientific temper, so called radical intelligentsia. While I have revered and accepted a few relatively good persons who are almost infallible and hard to not accept, the...

  A.U.M. silence & Waking.Dreaming.Deep Sleep. Turiya. I have been listening to a podcast Vedanta Talks and trying to decipher this concept of states of consciousness.  The beauty of Vedanta and monotheism  is the elegance of reasoning and how it seems to tie up so many loose ends and provide answers to seemingly vexed questions with neat logical solutions. While they seem reasonably easy to understand they are incredibly difficult to actually understand and be aware about. Living life based on the only permanent reality which is one and the only permanent state which truly exists, seems well nigh impossible. While even as the one permanent Self is the only thing which exists the fact is that we in our ignorance mistake everything which we experience as the real thing is the obstacle to Self realisation. When we are in one of the three states that is waking,dreaming and deep sleep we accept that as real to the exclusion of the other two. What are these three states? W...