Laws of the Land

Take any law for instance, does it apply uniformly to all and at all times ? No. Every law has a caveat or a provision or an exemption. For example driving over the speed of 100 Kmph is considered an offence but not for the ambulance. Thus it is becomes necessary to understand that to make laws cannot be made applicable in uniformity to the entire population at all times.

Any society or state is a set of individuals living together and they agree to the common benefit of all (the society) that they woudl follow certain rules / regulations which would make life easier to the entire group i.e driving on the left meant that you could drive your car without fear of someone coming straight at you. Every law that makes life easier for the society at large means a personal sacrifice of freedom ( for those who likes to ride on the right hand side).

To frame a law, two separate factors has to be considered the society at large (macro) and the personal freedom (micro) of choice. The balance of micro and macro factor has to be balanced such a way that there is less disruption at both levels for the law to survive. If we were to analyze any country as to how to laws are framed and policies are made then it is ideal to classify the masses into the four levels at the macro stage

MACRO FACTORS
1. The Producers -Farmers - policies relating to agriculture and separate taxation and subsidy schemes
2. The Distributors - Business men - taxation policies of business are different from that of agriculture and different treatment with respect to schemes and incentives.
3. The Protectors -Military - the policies relating to army, navy, air-force and bureaucrats are different from that of ordinary men (a soldier shooting another human at the border is rewarded whereas a common man doing so is put behind bars)
4. The Scholars - academician & scientist and learned scholars - The scientist / learned scholars are completely supported by government and all their needs taken care of i.e all their material needs are taken care so that they focus on their research and innovations for the betterment of the entire population.

MICRO FACTORS
Now coming to the micro level, the stages of an individual can be classified into
1. Education - Till 20 years - The student life- where one learns the basics of all disciplines so that he seamlessly fits into the society at the end of the course and finds his calling.

2. The middle age ( 21-50) - where one gets married and has kids, the stage where one focuses his energy on specializing what he has learnt and for the betterment of his family

3. The retired life -(51-80) - Where one is relieved off his duties and passed the baton the next generation and starts to leads a stress free life.

4. The dependent (81 plus) - the period of self realization.

The above classification would hold good at most point of time and for most societies.I am reminded of GB Shaw's quote from "Why law is indispensable "where shall we find a land where the thinking and moralizing can be done without division of labor?" When someone is a non confirmst to the laws of land it is ideal that he is taken out of the system rather than changing the society at large and that s the reason why hermits who had attained self realization went to the forest to live the life they wanted without disturbing the order of the society for the less privileged beings


When the world is still struggling to find a perfect method to classify the society for the purpose of law i cannot stop admiring the wisdom and prudence of my ancestors who some 10,000 years ago framed a law system to govern the society which in time was mis-interpreted and mis-construed to be based on birth and being labelled as regressive.


Varnasharma Dharma

Varna comes from the root word "vri" which means choice and asharma means shelter or a resting place and in the context of vedas it means a stage of human life. Varna - Macro factors that encompasses the society and Asharma the factors that govern the individual laws.

Varnas

1. the Brahmins: priests, scholars and teachers
2. the Kshatriyas: rulers, warriors and administrators.
3. the Vaishyas: artisans and merchants.
4. the Shudras: agriculturalist and workers.


Ashrama

1. Bramacharya - The student life - basic knowledge.
2. Grihastha - The middle age - worldly knowledge.
3. Vanaprastha - the retired life - higher knowledge.
4. Sanyasa - the hermit life - self knowledge.


There are separate rules put forward for each phase of human life and each varnas. The shudras were considered the working class who provided the food security to the society and Vaishyas were the traders who ensured distribution of shudra produced products. To ensure that the strong does not exploit the weak the society nominated a group of strong individuals who are called the Kshatriyas ( the ruling class - bureaucrats). The society cannot be stagnant and needs to progress and needs research and development in agriculture, business and management and the class of people who were engaged in such activities were called Brahmins. (Brahmnan = Bramam + anavugiravan - the one who searches for the end ) The other name for brahmin is "andhanan" - (Andham + anavugiravan = the one searching for the end). Therefore it was a profession by choice and not by birth.


The meaning of Varnas had been mis quoted in our history books which was influenced by the Macualay and the modern historians. The Varna was based on one's choice of occupation and ashrama was based on his age. There was a conversation a few days ago where someone pointed out how dignity of labour is upheld in the developed countries but not in here. But unfortunately they have not understood that our ancestors were the first to upheld dignity of labour.


Next the question that arises how can a system that treats a section of a society as untouchables to be best example of society and this is the most common mis understanding of the varna system. Shudhras are the producers / agriculturalist/ workers and they are the basis of the society.


Yajur Veda 26:2 The way I gave this knowledge of Vedas for benefit of all humans, similarly you all also propagate the same for benefit of Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Shudras, Vaishyas, Women and even most downtrodden. The scholars and the wealthy people should ensure that they not deviate from this message of mine.


YajurVeda 20:17
Whatever crime we have committed against my village, forest or committee; whatever crime we have committed through our organs, whatever crime we have committed against Shudras and Vaishyas, whatever crime we have done in matters of Dharma, kindly forgive us relieve us from the tendency of the same.


Atharvaved 19.32.8:
O Lord! May I be loved by everyone – Brahmin, Kshatriya, Shudra or Vaishya. May I be admired by everyone.


If you would notice that shudras are merely a classification of society which does physical labour and in the verses of vedas it is to be noted that Shudras comes before Vaishyas. Therefore there is no basis to consider shudras as lower in the classification. May be the dignity of labour was founded here before moving to the developed nation.

Kambaramayanam

1. Tamil - அடக்கம்- Politeness

Its a irony that in a country of more than 1200 regional languages it s English that bind us together. I am not implying in any way that a language is better than other but being an avid Kannadasan fan i shall document my thoughts on தமிழ் language. All the errors including translations are mine.

Let us talk about differnet topics in each blog and the theme for today is "Politeness"

Politeness - அடக்கம்

திருவள்ளுவர்

அடக்கம் அமரருள் உய்க்கும் அடங்காமை
ஆரிருள் உய்த்து விடும்.

அடக்கம் ஒருவனைப் பிற்காலத்தில் தேவர் உலகிற்குக் கொண்டு சேர்க்கும்; அடங்காமல் வாழ்வதோ அவனை நிறைந்த இருளுக்குக் கொண்டு போகும். தேவர் உலகம் - இன்பம் - கற்றோறுடன் தொடர்பு வைத்தல் இன்பத்தை தரும். அடக்கமின்மை அறியாமையை தரும்

English Translation

Politeness for a being leads to heaven
Otherwise destined to darkness

Being polite ( self control) will take a man to heaven. Heaven here means a life filled with peace and surrounded by well learned people. If someone is surrounded by wise men, he or she would always be guided in the right direction which would lead to success and happiness which is nothing but heaven. If someone becomes self centered he would not listen to others and thereby become ignorant ( darkness)

கம்பர்

பால காண்டம்

ஓசை பெற்று உயர் பாற்கடல் உற்று, ஒரு
பூசை, முற்றவும் நக்குபு புக்கென,
ஆசை பற்றி அறையலுற்றேன்-மற்று, இக்
காசு இல் கொற்றத்து இராமன் கதைஅரோ

The sea of milk where the lord resides
To lick and drink empty; a cat desires
Similar is my wish to sing all virtues
Of King Rama's never ending glory

Kamabar says singing rama's glory can never be complete as His glory can never be quantified What he has written is like a cat that desires to drink the par kadal ( milk sea) where lord Vishnu resides. How pityful is the cat's desire and how ignorant it is and his efforts are very similar to that of the cat


கண்ணதாசன்

ஆண்டவன் கட்டளை - Movie

நிலை உயரும் போது பணிவு கொண்டால் உயிர்கள் உன்னை வணங்கும்உண்மை என்பது அன்பாகும் பெரும்பணிவு என்பது பண்பாகும்

If you are polite when your go up your life, lives around you will respect you. Truth is love and extreme politeness is a virtue
Interpretation

Thiruvalluvar says one should be polite otherwise his life would be filled with darkness

Kambar's virtue is seen when he compares himself with the cat the desires to do the impossible

Kannadasan has not stated that you have to be polite. He says it is essential to be polite when you go up in life. It implies that you have to be polite at all times but it is of utmost importance when your stature grows. Because it is when you move up in life you acquire wealth, power, stature in the society that you tend to become self centered. So he stresses that it is during those times that one has to be polite and if one is able to be polite at that time he or she will definitely be polite at other times.

Teago - Personalities

He checks out the bat and not the hot chicks
Treadmill he does; Standing first slip
When zero for one, The he is our man
3 hours he takes, to run from slip to third man

He plays the drive and drives a grey car
He bought a bat but never used it so far
Sun Glasses and Zinc, still a nice chap
Essays he writes, On groups and whats app

About"Blog without blow"- You cannot a deal a blow to G

Whenever the pronunciation warrants "ji","jee","Gëe"or "g" in this blog it would be written as G.
You cannot question me because it is G

I switched on the TV and there was a song from Kailash Kher -
Tere naam se "G"lu
And i realized highest form of respect is G.
Thats why everthinG ends with G.
Also nothinG is beyond G

All knowledge ends with G - BioloG, AstroloG,etc
All development happens only because of G - TechnoloG.
Once someone put G in the end - he became doG
Then he put G in the front - he became God

Once G jumped with bun in his hand
It came to be called as bunG jumping.
If you want fame you got to have G in your name
No wonder RaGini origninal name was sivaG.

ISRO succeded in Mars mission cuz Rocket was named Gslv
If they wanted to land on pluto they should have namded GGslv
If they wanted to reach the end of the universe
they should have named it GGG..Oops no Just G. one G is enough

If calls are to be made without switching on your phone
You got to have more G's 2G. 3G, 4G .. then what its GG.
Huh.. I need a break - I need a maggi -2 minutes
Oh no MaGGi can be made in two minutes only cuz ??
Guess what.. it has got 2G's in it

No wonder all these thouGths came to me walking on MG road
Show mercy.. G sent those thoughts to me
I have to stop.
Oh my God.. Oh Sorry
Oh my G..
Huh nothing can be before G -
G my G
ah nothing can be in between G - GGG
Alas G is infinity - one G is enough G. Ah How can G be followed by a full stop
Sorry its just G

To write it right

I reached home late after a long day’s work and I switched on my system to check my mails. There were plethora of mails as usual and I promptly dumped into the trash folder. The boring day was about to end until I saw an envelope with my name in a hand writing I recognized was from my pen friend. I jumped with joy and I tore open the envelope and glanced through the letter. The best of all gifts you can give someone is your time and no feeling can match the joy when you know that someone had taken time to pen their emotions for you.

I was worried whether the culture of writing would go out of fashion with advent of technology. Technology is a peculiar gift to mankind that he had given himself for it has enabled him to set foot on the moon but not to care about his neighbor’s name. To write is an art. To write is a science. To be artistic is essential for art without science is beautiful but science without art is unscientific. To write is easy but to write well and to make an easy reading out of it requires damn hard writing.

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.” What has inspired me to write is “ The picture of Dorian Grey” by a gentleman who would be arrested on Indian soil had he been alive in India and also happened to be the one I quoted above.

To be drunk is to be spiritual for you transcend reality and be with peace with yourself. And you must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. When we are given a piece of paper to read no matter how short the paragraph is we tend to skip certain lines and read the ones which we would find would be interesting. Man has become devoid of patience and without patience there cannot be romance as being romantic with words requires something more than an acquaintance. If you can leave out the parts people would skip you would become an overnight hit.

When you try to put down your thoughts on paper you would pause not for want of words but to decide on what emotions to let go and what to hold back. This in turn would encourage profound thought process otherwise what would have been a mundane exercise of existence. It has been said that never use the same word in two sentences of the same paragraph as it would make you look amateurish but if you can use the same word twice in a same sentence you would considered genius and I have used the same word five times and it makes me something more than a genius. This reminds me of William White. “Never use the word, 'very.' It is the weakest word in the English language; doesn't mean anything. If you feel the urge of 'very' coming on, just write the word, 'damn,' in the place of 'very.' The editor will strike out the word, 'damn,' and you will have a good sentence.”

A piece of art would leave you wanting for more and precisely so that anything that is worth read should leave you insatiate. To be a writer you have to breathe in and out, breath in prose and breath out poetry and the difference between a prose and poetry is that of a skirt and mini skirt with mini skirt being longer by a couple of syllable.

The battle against silence is the toughest battle of all and now that I fought my way out of it I must confess that the reason for this inartistic piece of penning my thoughts is to wrap and throw it “down under” the bin and hoping it would be found by someone who is artistic to the extent I am otherwise.

A song for the past princess

The golden sun settled beneath the sky;
as I sat down to write
The gentle breeze and the distant stars
joining hands for the night.
In the symphony of the rustling leaves,
memories sprang back to life
Stranger, strange, I see the crescent moon
spreading its silver light.

The cookies gone, times spent
In the wilderness of the fortnight
Crushed and blossomed, who could guess?
Where the rain would fall?
Quietness made from the beat,
to face the desire of the heart
Time flies but not the thoughts
Destined to meet in the centre

City of joy, into the darkness of the eye
Obnoxious without the obvious
Café of masala right before the eyes
Double edged sword and the pun
Up the hill figuring out the wall
You too, me and tom the Brutus way
Unique in its own way, corner of the roads
The ride through the life’s journey

The day came when I was called
Line to be logged in the conversation
The new broom sweeps well
As the saying goes from the past
The more of the time it took
The better it got, as against the word
Dusk merges seamlessly into the night
Crushed but bud blossoms into the flower.

The evening of the Italy’s night, the prince
And the princess hand in hand
Upset what was sang, I am left behind
Promise of tomorrow kept in mind
The crowded streets soon deserted
On the couch of double solitude
The touch of Greek god left his mark
The Cat buried into the honey’s dew

The bell, a bell was there to see you
Fate decides, the second day unlucky
Further to the north the food was served
Too high for the standards set
At nine with thirty and four at sixty
The road took through the old and the east
Again and again, the snow melting down the peak
Ended in the history of Alexander square

The end of the routine, deaf dumb and signs
Held again, again in the company
The later the night became cold and dark
Contrast talks in the hours of sleep
Joy last for a while, and so does burst of rain
Love’s burst interchanged for the prince
The princess though was more pristine
As the first drops of dew on the leaves

Clandestine thoughts, the heart will beat
But to the world cannot be uttered
The day dawns, one fine day the in decisiveness
The firmness of the mind s heart
After the showers, the drizzle still to cease
That concludes the conclusion to be made
That the gentle and a woman’s promise
Will be kept by the prince for his life