Balaji Ramakrishnan

        I saw this below good video on youtube that spoke about the need to stop searching for passion.         In reality, it is still believed that one has to have passion to succeed in life. I believed it and I was really hard on myself for not having one. It was difficult for me. On one moment something would make make me feel, "Yes, this is it!!! I've found my passion", the next moment the same will start getting boring. I was going through such a rapid cycles of identifying my passion and getting clarity that I was no longer passionate about it.         Lord Sri Krishna, in Bhagavat Gita has said about doing our duties dispassionately when explaining Karma Yoga. In my understanding, it is a highly elevated and mature state where I have understood that the whole world is His play and I am a spark of the same Him . Can I go against myself? If I am the winner as manager who successfully denied hike, I am also a loser as an employee under the manager. On

Dude, How did you come to the conclusion that Lord Ram is imaginary? Ramayana has been told by people for ages. All cultural and folk dramas in deep remote villages in all states, enact various versions of Ramayana. I don't see any reason why you should believe that Lord Ram was mythical. Yes, there is no proof that Lord Ram lived. There is no proof that Jesus lived either. If the excavation had been successful in Babri Masjid, we could have come to know about the truth. Simple logic, Vedas and other scriptures really do exist. How did we know? It was through the oral traditions in Gurukuls and later on recorded in texts. Valmiki Ramayana too had been one of people's favorites that it had been told (kind of oral tradition) and enacted in plays in nook and corners of India and in other parts of the world too. I want believe and will continue to believe that Lord Rama was not a mythical character and I will also continue to believe that Ramayana is not a fi

God Siva! In Tamil Nadu and must be in many other parts of India too (I haven't crossed South India in my life yet, so little unsure), God Siva is worshiped in the form of Linga. In Tamil Nadu, we call IT SIVA LINGAM. Source: File:A depiction of Sivalingam with Peedam.JPG I recently read about the concept behind this "linga" form, though I couldn't recollect the source. In tamil, uru vam = form full (having form). E.g. Man-like deities aru vam = formless. E.g. Asariri, idol less, without any body   aru-uru vam = somewhere between form and formless. "Linga/Lingam" comes in this category. So the concept goes like this: Ideally, if possible, we should conceive God as omnipotent, formless, quality less, etc. But because of our mental limitations (i.e. our inability to conceive the formless, quality less, inconceivable Paramatman / Brahman / Atman as god), we imagine God in the form of man-like deities. The "linga" form

Your conception is not totally false. At the same time, the conceptions also don't map to a majority. //Tamil people don't have much appreciation for the North Indians.// This is only a minority. Tamil people may not be able to speak hindi. Please don't mistake that they didn't learn because of hatred. Hindi is not a compulsory language here. It was only optional. Many students didn't choose it because their parents didn't know Hindi. Parents felt that they would not be able to help if their son/daughter strugles to score in Hindi, whereas they can in the case of Tamil. They also felt that hindi teachers are scarce and going to a Hindi tution would be waste of time because, languages are given less priority when compared to Maths and science subjects. We also hate the enforcement of Hindi and Sanskrit. //Why do Tamil people have names such as Ramanujan, Ramaswami, Krishnan etc// Hinduism thrived here gloriously. We used to know Sanskrit. When the Brit

Spiritually, yes and no. When you enter into a deep sleep mode, it is called shushupthi , dreamless sleep, where you shed your body-mind complex and become totally unconscious. This state is almost like being dead. This is the state of calmness, as calm as the death. But this blissful state of ultimate calmness ceases and we get back to consciousness (mind starts working - starts dreaming) and later we wake up. When we regain our consciousness, we are with the same mind and body. On the other hand, on death, you land into an other body, but with the same mind. Just that you don't realize that you possess the same mind as your previous birth. Scientifically, I don't know. I heard the above one in one of the spiritual lectures by someone. I feel it is true. Source: https://www.quora.com/Is-sleep-equal-to-death/answer/Balaji-Ramakrishnan-4