Arun's Corner

According to the Srimad Bhagavat Gita, prayers are of the types: 1. Satvik 2. Rajsik, and 3. Tamasic Satvik is when you pray to God and God only, accepting Him in your actions. Rajasik is when you pray to yakshas and demi gods. Tamasik is when you pray to ancestors and ghosts. The same Bhagvad Gita says that whomsoever you pray, God is the recipient of the prayers and the Providence thereof. Some people are so bound by their desires that they go visit graves of people. For example Ajmer Sharif, Nizamuddin Dargah, etc are graves. Basically, the people going there to get their wishes fulfilled are praying to ghosts/spirits. There were people in Chunar who went to a hilltop grave of some unknown person saying he fulfills the wishes of people who go there and light diyaa at his mazaar (grave). Mom used to go there and as usual, I had to accompany her. At that time, I hadn't read the Gita so I didn't know it was wrong according to the Hindu philosophy. I later asked G...

Are desires as bad as they are made up to be in any religion? Don't you need at least one desire to keep you going? Where would you be without any desire to live? That'd lead to depression. I am not saying that you should be bound by desires, but there are good and bad desires. You should be able to discard the bad ones. Again, there is no clear distinction between good and bad. It is up to you to decide what is good and what is not. There should be a balance. Giving up all your desires will make you a piece of meat. You'd want to end life itself. Are you supposed to give up all your desires? I thought about the above again and concluded that it is wrong, though not in its entirety. There are two states of being without desires. One is existence without a purpose. It means people without any aim because they are not happy with life. Such people are of tamasic nature - dull, full of lethargy, and having no desires. They feel life is a waste of time and wait for deat...

Twitter was created in 2007 as a microblogging platform. The initial character limit on Twitter was just 140 characters. It was fun until politicians and news agencies took over the platform. Obama was the first politician to bring politics to Twitter. He used it for his presidential campaign. News agencies followed and started providing news via the social media platform. It was now called a news aggregation platform, but the other things remained unchanged. Soon the fringe elements started using Twitter to spread their agendas. It became toxic due to these fringe elements and politicians. Modi was the first Indian politician to make use of the social media platform to gain votes. Last year, Elon Musk bought the platform saying he wants the Twitter Bird free. However, he changed things to make profits. Twitter started charging 900 rs to verify accounts and to provide them the premium facilities like better engagement and increased character count. With a 10000-character limi...