TO BE( LIEVE) OR NOT TO BE (LIEVE)

The decision by the TN Chief Min Karunanidhi to scrap ' astrology ' programmes in the Universities under his command is indeed laudable. A staunch rationalist that he is , he just doesn't mince words. He meant whatever he said about the 'Ram Sethu' aka 'Adam's bridge and it goes to prove his conviction in what he says. Astrology, numerology, palmistry from a proper perspective create employment opportunities to multitude of unemployds and that's it. Nothing more - say the rationalists. They should be right because they are not mere believers in theories. Prove your theory in the lab - they say and they are right in saying so. So was Dr. Kovoor - the absolute rationalist who did all the good things in his life on the most inauspicious days, dates and times that he lived his full life !

But, Einstein as he is so well known for his theory on ' relativity' detours from his rational mindset to the occult side of human thinking in making a satement on Mahatma Gandhi, for posterity, that the future generations will not believe that man like Gandhi really walked on the planet Earth with flesh and blood. He did talk about God and goldliness which perhaps is unpalatable to the sea of rationalists.

Cut to the Japanese !

The philosophisers of Managemworld, Japanese practise/ed differently from the Western principles of management. Their penchant for people development and family concept in true perspective was devoid of absolute vested interest of 'Organisation development' in terms of wealth orientaion from the western world of management, which the West called as theory Z, which was way away from the theory X and theory Y of McGregor. The Human element in management which was negligible like froth in the oceans had the power of the Pacific in catapulting many companies in Japan to be the market leaders in terms of quality and global competitiveness. Their absolute concern for the individuals ( employees nay family members) is bereft of wealth orientation but abundantly welfare oriented. Yet these companies who lay before the world 150 years masterplan when the companies will be buying the patents and relesing them to the public freely for their use! ( So stupid and self -sacrificing ).Highly irrational they are, instead of cost cutting and laying off employees in millions and boosting their profits in their balance sheets, they think very irrationally - unlike rest of the Americanised world where money, profits and self comforts over-ride all other irrationalities like seeing god in an indivildual, helping/feeding others, enhansing the comfort levels and quality of life of others, through self -sacrifice ( call it suicide) .

Cut to India.

Sri Ram is a concept - never a reality. Ram is a role model so are rest of the characters in the epic. The values enshrined in it are the bench mark values which is impossible to achieve , but one should emulate, say the irrationalist believers. To the rationalists the earth is mere mud whch can be used, disfigured, and misused in every which way possible, because it expresses no hurt. But look at the 'Mad' irrationalists or the so called believers : they consider earth as Godly mother and in the morning when they step on the mother earth, seek forgiveness; before ploughing the land for agriculture perform Pooja and seek forgiveness from this imaginary mother earth, because they see the scar on the face of the imaginary mother earth ! One believes that one should believe in what is seen and only lunatics believe in what is not seen.
Non-believer is a rationalist who sees and believes in what is around and in the lab demonstrations and the irrationalist is a blind believer in the meaningless antiquated values and concepts which are passed down through many generations and don't ask for proofs and demonstrations. They are blind and in the ever dynamic world they are stagnant and rotting in the old value systems. Gandhi was an irrationalist; he believed in antiquated values and impractical belief systems and in God !. It's only a few including Einstein say that this person won freedom for India through non-violence. Truth is that the British left India on their own because they could no longer bear the torture by the pests ( Indians). If this is not true , how could an irrational person ( Gandhi believed in God and if what is writen is true he uttered Hey Ram when he was shot by the bullets) using antiquated weapons like non-violence, self sacrifice and peace, hunger-strike etc achieve a huge task as freedom for India.

In a finite world of finite greedy beings who believe in 'here and now' making the most of the present living moment without bothering about the dead past (however big, great or small) and without trusting in the unborn future and saving for the future the mother earth and today's values, which will be dead values for the future generations ; making merry and seeking happiness through material things in the present moment is indeed sensible and saving the earth and upholding and prescribing dead old values to the finite beasts of the future, whom we are designing so digitally and practically today, is senseless. Betterment of the world is betterment of riches and 'wealth' is a misnomer used by economists and philosophers.

In the scheme of things here I am unable to choose from the finite, dynamic , materialistic sefish rationalistic principles ( reality) and infinite, idealistic, stagnant, spiriltual selfless irrationalistic concepts, and thoughts ( unreality).