Corona 21 day lockdown

The vishva vyapi mahamar/yi(pandemic aka godess of pandemic mariamman) is doing her gora thandava(going viral pun unintended but ironic)....everything is teethu. Every one is teethu(possibly infected). The whole world has to now follow madi(austrate social distancing) to and bow down to her with Shraddha(sincere ritualistic act) to to bringn her udayashanti(early paciflication of her) and make her leave....thats what our PM told today.....

The difference from sars mers nipah birdflu dengue chikangunya etc is that the human being is the vector which spreads the virus(especially healthy ones with good immunity are pure vectors). We can clear garbage kill mosquitoes cull birds pigs birds but not us. But we can isolate us for a few weeks.
Lets stake the sankalp to not go out of our house and minimally only one person risking goes out only for very essential needs or better call the local shops for home delivery at gate.

Mahamari mahamarlyi corona amman

The humble fever and cold has again brought down the human world to its knees and we still believe we are the masters of the universe... Mahamari(amman) Nature is reminding us we are just a spec in the solar system, which is a spec in milky way which is a spec in the known universe which is a spec in a possible multiverse and so on and this virus ,  just a spec on a human is threatning humanity which has existed for a blip of a second on earths time which has existed hardly 1/3 of the solar system which is a small part of the 15 billion years of this known universe's known dimension. Feel humbled....ehh miniscule ...ehh irrelevant...as human existance... And we are talking about the latest gadgets and trends and targets and aspirations.. and so on to catch up with in this dream which lasts for a few seconds of this universe..

Philosophy apart...just to add nevertheless if those billions of specs on a human being can bring one down and scare a billion, we made of a few million cells much larger than those viruses, if we get together, as a few billion people and fight/coerce/negotiate this mahamari by bowing down and isolating ourselves and slowing down our greed to conquer the universe....we can bring this anger of mahamari down...thoughts from the mooladhara chakra...the fundamental survival skill.

This is the only country where the conservatives are open minded and the so called liberals are bigoted

If something is considered liberal in the west it has to be aped religiously as is here without any thought or knowledge/history or vision. Half baked myopic liberal wannabe slavishly worshiping the (colonial?) masters culture and without a clue of their own, are a great danger to humanity. I guess this is exactly how we lost 1/3 of India to 5% of the population in a raw deal during partition and nothing in return but death and destruction.



Liberalism has become a religion just as atheism has and converts are being made the same way some other organised religions harvest minds. and just as those converts who are lured by incentives lifestyles and income, these converts as well become so for the same reason. social acceptance in higher/aspirational society rather than any philosophical reasons though this might be a myth and a brainwashing done by the controlling masters of the world aka cultural imperialism.



This is also the only country where the conservatives are open minded and the so called liberals are bigoted zealots who will go to any extent of violence to get their way religiously. (oxy)morons.




In a way liberalism has become the most conservative religion just like atheism has the most zealous followers of all religions. its my way or the highway, by belief or the lack of it is the only correct way as I am morally higher than you, a social elite and this is my entitlement given by my parents/society.

state of the nation 2020

Spent a different new years this time away from the madness, chaos and loud music in the city in the name of celebrations, spending time in the hinder lands and the remotest hamlets of TN and Andhra to understand the life there firsthand and oh boy what an experience and revelation.

All the lies about slump and joblessness by news and politicians lie exposed the country side is busting at seams with greenery allover thanks to the bountiful rains this year and people prosperous and well off. 

The normal rural scene of bullock carts  walking peasants and tatched and tiled houses are no more. The new scene is bikes ridden with one hand and mobile on the other clad is lungi/jeans and pompedore hairstyles booze and cigarette in the mouth all being used simultaneously.  beautiful traditional tiled houses are replaced with tastelessly build architecture-less boxy houses painted with florescent colours.

I cant believe the number of motorbikes that buzz about like swarms of bees all over the hamlets all with their lungies and mobiles on their ears all the time. Not 1 or 2 every one from the farm worker to the ladies who plant and trash paddy or their 10 year old kids underage riding and never put their foot down always buzzing about on bikes and scooters with mobiles in their ears even on those single lane country roads which are better quality roads than in bangalore. The paddy fields are lined with motorbikes parked along the border of farm workers. They even use bikes to reach the pumpset and kammakarai to relieve themselves. Add to that the tractors trailers, share autos and force10 jeeps used for the more elderly between hamlets. 

Not to mention the infrastructure with ring roads and concrete roads for every town and village and smooth highways mostly(strangely the National Highways are in taters at places but state highways and countru roads are butter smooth) albeit with dangerous speed bumps all over making them  painful to use . Even the remotest hamlets with no human presence for 10s of kilometers in between, near belum caves in Andhra have bike showrooms....

As in the cities noise pollution with loud speakers all over any time of the day with no sense of disturbance of peoples personal space is another national problem.

Only issue with this culture is with absolutely no education and rules and modernity before basic civilization or culture(thanks to the stupid gangster movies there are no more innocent looking simpleton peasants but thugs all over) its chaos of the highest order with no basic road rules and vehicles being ridden and parked in  all possible directions on the road with no safety or age restrictions and muscle, might and locals ganging up being the only rule of jungle. On the TN side it was just a little better when it comes to chaos. I am wondering where this populist democracy of appeasement and chaos heading. A dystopian madmax anarchy....?

intution vs instinct

What is instinct and what is intution. Instinct is a preprogrammed function in us like a bios/firmware function which works even without an OS(but still needs a system software (hence conscious intelligence) to trigger it). Intution is similar in that its a un/subconcious function but just that its not pre-programmed but subconciously and recently analysed in the background by your brain/intelect based on directly or indirectly gained knowledge.

Instinct is common to all animals while intution is perhaps unique to humans or atleast intelligent beings. it increases with intellect in the being and can reach a peak as ESP/Psychic knowledge of future events.
Being social is again an animal instinct and not an intellectual process unique to humans as many assume. Living in societies and social behavior is common to all animals and certainly to all mamals where the social level is as developed as humans.

so humans should strive to be more intutive than instinctive which makes us regressive. instinct is action without thinking. thinking before acting consciously improves intuitiveness.

the fifth dimension

What would be the fifth dimention like? There are various concepts and perceptions about this like the one in the movie interstellar as a space between this universe and another thru a wormhole or like sadhguru jaggi vasudev says the focusing on the innerself actually opens another dimension its not just looking inword as direction. i.e., inward is not a direction but a dimension.

Both these and some other thoghts made me get a perspecive of what the 5th dimension could be(the other 4 being 3 physical dimentions height, depth, length + time being forth all of which we can percive.). Its really hard to express the vision or perception I got but let me put it this way.

The microcosm and the macrocosm are the same. i.e., the universe is you and you are the universe. Say the universe is made up of stars and galaxies (the cosmos the macrocosm) which is made up of solarsystems and planets on which we live. we make up the planet along with everythign else in it. i.e. we are part of the earth, we are made of earth. the earth is made of stars/stardust and so are we.

we are made up at a microcosmic level of tissues, cells etc which are inturn made of atoms electrons and subatomic particles, positrons, strings, huggs boson what ever we keep discovering and keep getting deeper into the microcosm as we reasearch more. My feeling is that the microcosm is going to be made up to an infinite level just as we discover more universes and they making up even bigger entities made up of multiple universes and so on.

My simple of the 5th dimension is this. that the microcosm and macrocosm are the same. i.e., every entity in the universe is a microcosm and macrocosm of itself. it is just a view and point from which it is viewed that we perceive it as different entities.

or perhaps this is just another limitation of the human mind which simply warps when our thoughts get to extremes. I have seen this view in both theoritical physics and in metaphysics especially indian spiritual sphere. i.e. the theory of everything and bigbang and quantum mechanics say particles behave the same at macro and micro level. that the universe came from a big bang, keeps expanding until another gravity like a blackhole pulls all back into a singularity, i.e., the one uber small ultimate gravity particle which again explodes into a bigbang and so on.

In meta physics and indian spiritual thought like in nyaya visheshika etc its the same world view. that the universe goes thru infinite creation and distruction and we are part of this universe(the brahman) as an atom or element of it. i.e., the aham and tat are the same. the prabrahman and the atman are the same. like a cup of water from the sea which is still the sea.

I take this one step further in my view of the fifth dimention. if you see what I mean. i.e., the atman and the parabrahman are the same all the time. i.e., the cup is a virtual cup sunk in sea. its not separate anytime. and its just a view. the sea is the cup of water and the cup of water is the sea. the universe is always us and we are always the universe. i.e., say from a top view we are the universe, while from a side view we feel we are us. a human being. but the whole universe is within us. all the stars galaxies including. just that from this view we seem like we are in a planet in soem star while the universe seems above us.

but see from the top view and we see that universe is inside us. each atom in us is a view of the whole universe. see my perspective, see the fifth dimension? you are the universe and the universe is you. each one of us are the same universe. everything is just perspective.

Analogy between Hinduism (Sanathana Dharma) and OpenSource community (ala Linux)

I believe the best way to explain Sanathana Dharma will be to take an analogy of Opensource and vice versa. This is not just a simple analogy but the whole ideologies behind are the same. This doesn't mean I can compare Proprietary systems with other religions but Opensource Philosophy is very analogous with the Hindu or Indian(or for that matter any natural faith from anywhere in the world e.g, the pagan and pre abrahamic faiths in most parts of the world) religious philosophy and the Sanathana Dharma and Linux community are best examples of this.



Here are some of the common aspects of both which depict the fact that they have common underlying principles.

Hinduism is not a religion(see my other blogs) but an umbrella term used to term all faiths and beliefs from India. this includes all kinds of beliefs, sects, religions, philosophies, etc many times even those opposed to/competing with each other to offer choice and bring out the best options, but there is one common undercurrent to these. i.e., the pluralistic Indian society and accepting that there are many ways for achieving a particular goal and that each has a right to choose his/her path to achieve the goal.

Similarly in the opensource world, it is not a single company or product like microsoft/windows etc. it is an umbrella term used to term all companies/products which are open and free. its includes all kinds of software, services, products, philosophies, sects, groups etc many times opposed to/competing with each other to offer choice and bring out the best options, but there is one common undercurrent to these, i.e, the opensource principles and freedom to do anything with code and accepting that there are many ways for achieving particular goal and that each has a right to choose his/her path to achieve the goal.

In Hinduism no philosophy is considered the only right way only true god or there is no monopoly over ideas, principles etc. its eternal and open. you don't need to be converted but just start following it(though some sects can offer the option to have conversion and membership, again a choice). Ultimately the best philosophies win and its based on law of natural selection. let the best options survive.


Similarly in the open source world no product or method is considered the only rightway or no developer is considered the only greatest(god) developer and is always right etc. its open and subject to review by every one., there is no monopoly of ideas or companies or products. one can just start using/contributing to the products and doesnot need to pay/get membership or accept the only license (although some projects/products may offer membership, paid support, licensing terms etc, again a choice). Ultimately the best products and practices win and its based on law of natural selection. survival of the fittest.



Many aspects/philosophies/practices of Hinduism are subject to continuous change or rather Hinduism itself is continuously evolving and never fixed by the rules of (a set of )book (s) though there are many guiding books some eternal and some written for a particular time. The underlying principles remain the same the implementation keeps evolving and adapting to times. If some aspects have not have changed over time or adopted to change and were forcefully kept alive by an interest group, they die a natural death by rebellion or reform and the interest group looses.

Similarly in opensource world products/processes/projects are are subject to continuous change, no single method or process or a rule book defines the OSS world but there are many guiding books which depict the attitude of the opensource mindset. again similar to Hindu books these can have contradicting views, or complement or derive from one another but the underlying principles remain the same.i.e, open and free systems. the implementation keeps evolving and adapting to times. if some project remains unchanged or have not adopted and were forcefully kept alive by an interest group, they die a natural death by rebellion or reform and the interest group looses.

there are no prophets or a particular god but there have been 100s and 1000s of gurus, rishis, seers, (demi) gods, dieties(devetas like shiva, vishnu, indra, varuna, mithra etc), leaders, reformers and different schools of thought(vedic, vedantha, advaitha, dwaitha, yoga, shunyavada, nyaya visheshika , mimamsa etc), the concept of reality which may or may not represent a theistic god. A Hindu may have allegiance to any one or more of these leaders and/or schools etc but also respects the others and accepts them and does not war with them but may intellectually debate them. some may even accept or reject exclusive religions but most of them are against such concept with restrict freedom of thought.

similarly there are no ultimate leader/CEO/Chief mentor etc but 100s of 1000s of gurus, thought leaders, demigods(like RMS, Linus, ESR, Tanenbaum, Theo de raadt etc), reformers, various schools of thought/licenses (BSD, GNU GPL, apache, mozilla, Xfree, collective commons etc), development model etc and the concept of collective ownership and contribution. An opensource follower may have allegiance to any one or more of these hackers/leaders and/or licenses/schools/development models etc but also respects the others and accepts them and does not war with them but may intellectually debate. they may even accept or reject closed proprietary models though most of them are at intellectual war with closed software models which restrict freedom of code/thought.


these are just some of the good aspects but such open ways of life also have negative aspects which are also common between the two. lack of a formal hirearchy/order, possibility of being misguided due to lack of knowledge, misunderstanding, exploitation by individuals due to these, following some aspects just for ego gratification, creating groups based on ideologies etc are some of these. Splitting of groups unnecessarily due to political reasons and forgetting the underlying goal, reinventing the wheel, repeating efforts, and many many more. I will write more on the negative aspects more later.



I can go on adding many such aspects but will stop here due to lack of time and patience. I will add more if I notice some particular similarities which will be interesting to note.
so we can see that the underlying principles of both the opensource world in virtual world and basic principles of Sanathana Dharma aka the eternal way of life/righteousness aka Hinduism are the same. i.e., openness, freedom, choice, no monopoly, no patenting ideas, no single and only right way, natural selection, the best wins, no forcing ideas, open debates, best logic wins, it worked for me but your mileage may vary, the smarter you are the better it works for you, Do it yourself, if you cant you can seek open support or buy it and so on.

The Nomad

I am just another adventurous traveler with no real destination, exploring the noosphere (search this term, its my fav to explain the world) alone. I do take breaks(recharge time) but keep coming back into this human universe. I intend to explore as much of this world before my rechargeable battery dies out(replacement batteries someone? :P).

I meet a lot of ppl en route who are co-travelers, hosts, guests and locals who keep me company during the journey. some come along and leave when the route changes but I keep going on (hoping to see them enroute again sometime). but the journey never stops to settle for a nomad.

you are welcome to join the journey if we meet en route . I do need company socializing and help on food, acco, routing (gps doesn't work all the time :P) etc and I do know a lot of routes (m a well experienced traveler :>) so may be I can help/route u on ur journey. and if our destinations are the same may be we can trek along and help recharge our batteries for the next journey ahead.

what ever be the destination or even if u believe in destiny, its the journey thats the real destination. keep traveling and share and flaunt the experience and adventure. lets party and celebrate this journey called life when we meet. ;)
I am the nomad.

Who am I?

I am a product of various forms of energy acting in equilibrium on a complex piece of matter called my body, based on a formula, manifesting itself as thought, life energies, consciousness, action, emotion, senses etc randomly and yet by finite rules of nature. I am me until this equilibrium is maintained, after which the energies and matter drain back into their source system, the infinite universal energy and matter, and comeback in other forms of matter and energy, but this will not be me anymore. not even my rebirth or reincarnation. (Just like _a_ cup of water taken out of the sea becomes _the_ cup of water until it is in the container and when pored back into the sea becomes the sea again and taking _another_ cup does not make it _the_ cup of water again.) So neither the energies nor the matter nor the space and time used by it is me. They are all part of the one. the only one that is true, real and absolute. everything else is a manifestation of it, imaginary and relative.

Some say the absolute one is sat-chit-ananda in sanskrit which means _absolute _ truth-consciousness-bliss. Since absolute thinking is beyond the capability of humans, I can only know about my self in relative terms. Relative to this maya called the world which we created and evolved. In relative terms I just my _chit_. i.e., 'I' am only my relative(to this world) consciousness which will exist as long as there will be the equilibrium of the energies and matter in me. (like an _instance_ of a program created and running in memory of a computer, which once killed cannot be that instance again, though another instance of the same program can be created. Here the computer is the universe, memory contains the worlds(collective conciousness/space&time), program a particular world and instance an individual) once this synergy is lost my consciousness merges with the absolute consciousness of the one which is null and void and I will remain only in the consciousness of others inside the same worlds as I had been in and who knew me until their consciousness remains in the respective worlds(like the data left by the instance of that program until the program is over/data purged).

This is the truth about me. Everything else is false. so never trust what others say about me. never trust what opinion u made about me. its all false. :P