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Today's topics: * AIIMS issue : 20 point failure of Dr P Venugopal. - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/7c1b3ee6d2dcae5 * Look how Arun Shourie decimated Reservation Arguments; Vote for him - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/114193031a19bcd1 * Task Force : Last Date July 17,2006! - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/e93eb19255411b12 * Members Of Information Team! - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/b3b474aea915c07d * Become Thermostats] - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/7bea4c6e6e97137a * R^igvedic Prayer for establishing Unity] - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/f8cdbe1fb9719716 ============================================================================== TOPIC: AIIMS issue : 20 point failure of Dr P Venugopal. http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/7c1b3ee6d2dcae5 ============================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Tues, Jul 11 2006 4:57 am From: Jagannath Chatterjee Dear Sirs, Many of you are up in arms that I have supported Dr Ramadoss in the tussle between him and Dr P Venugopal. My mailbox is full of mails critcising my views. I am not in favour of the medical community in general as they are criminally silent regarding the many glaring shortcomings that the fraternity is facing today. Can anyone please let me know what steps Dr Venugopal has taken to address the following problems plaguing the industry? 1. The doctor-drug industry nexus. 2. Lack of continuous education for doctors. 3. Lack of exposure to and knowledge of other healing methods. 4. Over medicating purely to achieve industry targets. 5. Overusing the surgery room for increased profits. 6. Prescribing unnecessary diagnostic tests. 7. Lack of concern for the patients, treating them like commodities and exploiting them mercilessly. 8. Not raising voice against dubious and dangerous medical practices like vaccinations, body scans, x-rays, radiation, ultrasound, chemotherapy, ART in case of AIDS, GE drugs etc. 9. Refusing to see the emerging evidence that bacteria and viruses cannot be the cause of disease. 10.Not educating the public on healthy living. 11.Not speaking out against the junk food and drinks industry. 12.Not speaking out against pollution and environmental dangers and related matters that affect health. 13.Not revising the current health policy of the country which does not put adequate emphasis on hygiene, nutrition, prevention of illnesses and is woefully out of tune with ground realities. 14.Not informing the patient about side effects of various medicines and medical procedures and obtaining informed consent before administering them. 15.Complete failure in curbing chronic diseases, let alone cure them. 16.Treating the condition without hunting for the cause. 17.The rising incidence of iatrogenic (medicine caused) diseases and deaths. 18.Creating unnecessary panic and fear of disease in patients. 19.Unnecessarily criticising proven holistic healing systems and trying to convey that they are "dangerous" for health. 20.Retaining critical patients who they cannot cure instead of referring them to other medical systems. Now please tell me why I should support Dr Venugopal in his bid to retain the Chairmanship of our country's premier medical institution? I believe Dr Venugopal should be stripped of all his degrees and awards for keeping silent on the above issues, which are more important than the issue of who scores over whom in the present tussle over power. Regards, Jagannath Chatterjee Health Reform Activist. - In [EMAIL PROTECTED], R.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Listing negative aspects of Dr. Venugopal does not automatically become > any form of "defence" for Ramadoss' actions. > > If anything, Dr. Venugopal should have been removed a long time ago, > if his conduct has been wrong. Anything negative about him will no > longer be seen in isolation. > > That Ramadoss has an agenda here can not be denied! > > regards, > R....... > "Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life but the conquest of life by the power of the spirit." - Aurobindo. --------------------------------- Want to be your own boss? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. ============================================================================== TOPIC: Look how Arun Shourie decimated Reservation Arguments; Vote for him http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/114193031a19bcd1 ============================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Tues, Jul 11 2006 5:51 pm From: "Sumit K. Gupta" Quota is not the way: Arun Shourie HARD TALK: Arun Shourie says reservations are not a compensation for a historic wrong. <http://www.ibnlive.com/videos/fullbvideo.php?id=13851&name=shourie_devils_seg1.wmv> <http://www.ibnlive.com/videos/fullbvideo.php?id=13851&name=shourie_devils_seg2.wmv> CNN-IBN Posted Sunday , June 25, 2006 at 21:00 *Karan Thapar:* *Hello and Welcome to Devil's Advocate. My guest today is one of the sharpest critics of India's reservation policy. In a book published this month *Falling Over Backward, *he exposes its intellectual hollowness and its moral two-facedness. But is he against reservation specifically for the Scheduled Castes? And if he answers this as yes, then how does he think India should respond to the centuries of discrimination they have suffered? Those are the two key questions that I would put today to Arun Shourie. * *Mr Shourie, let me start with a simple question to establish your position. When you say you are against reservation per say, are you also including reservation for the Scheduled Caste? * *Arun Shourie:* Yes, I think so. Because reservations are not meant to compensate for historic wrongs. They are meant for helping people at the moment. *Karan Thapar:* *Well, that's what I want to put to you. The Scheduled Castes have been treated as untouchables for centuries. In fact, even their shadow was considered to be polluting. Their dignity has been trampled upon. Their individuality and humanity has been questioned. Why do you believe that reservation is not an appropriate way of giving them confidence and status? * *Arun Shourie:* Firstly, these are clichés without particular examination of historical records. Because a passage occurs in something called Manu's doctrine or Manu's compilation, I mean I have not met a person who realises or who acknowledges the fact that this compilation was done over 700 years. *Karan Thapar:* *Let's leave* Manu Smriti *out. * *Arun Shourie:* No. *Karan Thapar:* *When you are saying these are clichés, are you saying that in fact the untouchables have not been treated in the way that history acknowledges? * *Arun Shourie:* No. They have been in parts of India. Let's say in some districts of the South. And the real remedy to that has been in modernisation. In overcrowded trains... Indians make five billion railway journeys every year. Five times of our population. In overcrowded buses, are you first verifying what is the caste of the person standing next to you? *Karan Thapar:* *But what happens when you get off the bus? It's an argument in your book. * *Arun Shourie:* No. No. *Karan Thapar:* *Equality may be forced upon you in a bus, because you have no choice. But when you get off the bus, inequality reigns supreme. It is that inequality that I am talking about. * *Arun Shourie:* It doesn't. That's not the argument in my book at all. *Karan Thapar:* *I am not saying it is the argument in your book. I am countering your position that reservations are not justified for Scheduled Castes. I am asking you why you believe that centuries of discrimination should not be countered by reservations? * *Arun Shourie:* *You asked me that and I gave you the answer that reservations were and are not meant in the Constituent Assembly as a compensation for historic wrong. * *Karan Thapar:* *They can be used for that?* *Arun Shourie:* But My friend, let me answer. Because there are better ways to lift people. Poor must be helped, they must be lifted. That's the duty of society, but reservation is not the way and that's why I argued. *Karan Thapar:* *Let's come to the better ways in a moment's time, I very much want to talk about them. But for most people listening to this interview, it will come as supreme shock that you believe reservations for the Scheduled Castes, who have suffered centuries of discrimination, are unjustified. Let me put to you why people disagree. Even today, Valmiki graduates are unable to get proper jobs and have to scavenge because they are considered untouchables. Even today, the Mushahars of Bihar are forced to eat rats and mice because they are too poor to access proper meal. Are you saying to me that reservations for such people are wrong? * *Arun Shourie: *Yes. Because the way to help them is to give them jobs and to give them access to education so that they don't eat the damned mice. And the very fact that after 50 years of reservations, they are still eating mice is a conclusive argument against the compassion that you are showing. *Karan Thapar:* *Except for the fact that they don't get jobs because they are untouchables.* *Arun Shourie:* Absolutely bunk. It is the other way round. *Karan Thapar:* *Why then are there Valmiki graduates scavenging for a living?* *Arun Shourie:* But there are Brahmin graduates who are doing it because of inadequacy of jobs. *Karan Thapar:* *But there is a difference. In one case, there is discrimination and in the other it is the inadequacy of jobs. * *Arun Shourie:* No. No. You just don't let me speak. In China, people are scavenging and eating rats. Not because of caste, but because of 110 million of floating population who have lost their jobs. *Karan Thapar:* *Chinese eat snails, they eat eels, they eat snakes. There is a different culture and cuisine. * *Arun Shourie:* No. Just one second. I am talking of the 110 million Chinese who have been dislocated by modernisation. You read any Chinese text and you will find that. The point there is that I am all for the stopping of eating mice and elimination of poverty and giving people jobs, but it is wrong to presume *Karan Thapar:* *Aren't you missing the point here? There is difference. * *Arun Shourie:* No, I am not missing the point. You are not letting me make the point here. But when they are being discriminated against, the persons who are doing that most, who are beating them, who are responsible for the massacres as reported by Mandal himself are the so-called OBCs, who own land. *Karan Thapar:* *But that's not the question I asked you. * *Arun Shourie:* But that's the question. *Karan Thapar:* *No, that is not the question. The question is this. There is a difference in dislocation because of modernisation that affects people of all classes, of all castes. I am talking about discrimination due to untouchability, due to a wall of prejudice, which has affected people for centuries. Surely, today modern India has a moral obligation to atone and to recompense for the way it has treated the Scheduled Castes. You are denying that? * *Arun Shourie:* Karan, I completely would put aside this moral outrage that many of you put on. *Karan Thapar:** It's not put on, it is a reality for the people who are affected. * *Arun Shourie:* Just a second. Yes, but the so-called modern people do put on this compassion. The fact of the matter is that great progress has been made by our social reformers. That is the real way for dealing with this. Swami Dayanand, Swami Shraddhanand, Sri Narayan Guru in the South *Karan Thapar:* *I am afraid it hasn't changed the situation at the ground. * *Arun Shourie:* You are absolutely How do you know the situation? Will you please just let me speak? *Karan Thapar:* *Can I just answer that?* *Arun Shourie:* No. First let me speak. Let me first answer your question when you assert that the situation has not changed, that is what I call a cliché. You have to listen. *Karan Thapar:* *Can I justify that? * *Arun Shourie:* No. Just one second, let me complete it. I will give you the documentary evidence. You see what Sri Narayan Guru reported in Kerala at the turn of the century. You see what Gandhiji found in the 1920s and you compare that with things today. *Karan Thapar:* *Compare it with 2006. Name one village out of India's 6,00,000 villages where the Dalits are permitted to stay in the centre of the village. Not only are they banished to the outskirts, but in most cases, they are required to live in the south side so that the wind that blows over them doesn't pollute the village. That is the extent of discrimination they still suffer. * *Arun Shourie:* And the wind in all of South India comes from the south my friend. I don't know where you get this nonsense from? *Karan Thapar:* *Chandrabhan Prasad, perhaps one of the few Dalit intellectual scholars, who can easily confirm the facts to you. * *Arun Shourie:* Well, maybe. We have all got impressions about India. India is a large country. Almost every statement about India must be true, but the south business is quite silly because if you come to Goa my friend, you see the wind coming form the south. You come to Kerala, you see the wind coming from the south. *Karan Thapar:* *Ok. Let's approach this matter differently. Let's not talk about it in terms of moral obligation or recompense and atonement. Let me put it like this. Do you believe that reservations are intrinsically wrong because they lower standards, because they sacrifice merit as a way of giving people access for the wrong reasons? * *Arun Shourie:* Yes, they are for all these reasons and many more. For instance, especially when they are caste-based, then they reinforce caste as they have done in South as they are now doing in the North. *Karan Thapar:* *That's disputable. You can only fight caste discrimination in terms of caste. Leave the caste basis aside. Your concern is that it affects merit. * *Arun Shourie:* But why it is caste-based? All reservations in India are caste-based. How can you just put it aside? *Karan Thapar:* *Because you are correcting caste prejudice. If the Dalits have been discriminated against as untouchables, you have to be given reservation on that very basis to make up for it. * *Arun Shourie:* That was the argument my friend. That is how things were rationalised in the end when the Constitution specifically forbade caste-based reservations. Then there has been discrimination on the basis of residence. There has been discrimination in India, it has been alleged, on the basis of language as in every other society. On the colour of one's skin. *Karan Thapar:* *Quite right. * *Arun Shourie:* Just one second. So why not have reservations on the basis of the colour of one's skin? *Karan Thapar:* *Well let's not talk about hypotheticals. I am trying to understand your concern about reservations. * *Arun Shourie:* I am not talking about hypotheticals. You said that there is discrimination on the basis of caste. *Karan Thapar:* *It's a fact. * *Arun Shourie:* So I said there is discrimination on the basis of the colour of one's skin. Why not have reservations for that? You are not answering it. *Karan Thapar:* *Because I am saying to you that the level of discrimination that has been practised on the basis of caste and because of untouchability is infinitely and incomparably greater. The comparison doesn't arise. * *Arun Shourie:* How do you say that, my friend? Where is the basis? *Karan Thapar:* *Let's come back to the question that I began with. The real reason, if you are not accepting the moral obligation, that you find reservations wrong because they undermine merit, that they sacrifice standards? * *Arun Shourie:* Yes. That is one of the reasons. *Karan Thapar:* *But can I then point out to you that special concessions on the grounds that we are talking about have been granted to Indians since at least the 1850s, upper castes were beneficiaries. Let me give you an example. When the first college was set up in Madras in the late 1850s, British records show that the pass marks had to be reduced form 40 per cent to 33 per cent and a whole new concept of third division was introduced to help the sons of Tamil Brahmins. If it can be done for them in the 1850s, why can't the same concession be given to the Dalits today? * *Arun Shourie:* Firstly, we are in 2006. The demand for proficiency is much greater. You look at the range of jobs at that time and the skills required for those jobs and *Karan Thapar:* *But the problem is the same? * *Arun Shourie:* No. Firstly if that was the case, it was wrong. Second, if I have to learn typing and you give me a concession on that as in the case of N M Thomas vs. State of Kerala, then it is one thing. But if the job that is required is a highly skilled job in a medical institution and you lower the standards, the consequences are much greater. It's not typing that you are lowering the standards for. *Karan Thapar:* *But talking about lowering standards to give them admissions and entrance, we are not talking about lowering standards of graduation. What we are talking about is just creating an opening field. * *Arun Shourie:* My friend, you have just not studied the Constitution in which it has now been provided that standards will be lowered even for promotions and standards have been lowered for post-graduate courses for reservations. *Karan Thapar:* *No, I am not questioning the extent * *Arun Shourie:* You are. You just said this and then you run away. *Karan Thapar:* *No, I am not. I am not questioning the extent to which reservations have been taken. I am questioning the position you began with which is that reservations at the very outset for Dalits and Scheduled Castes is wrong. I am putting to you that similar concessions were given to Tamil Brahmins. Let me add. As the Indian University's Commission says they were even given in 1935. * *Arun Shourie:* To hell with Tamil Brahmins, man. I am not defending. *Dekho Tum baat hi nahin karne detein*. Tamil Brahmins be damned. I wouldn't care two hoots of what the British did. My whole argument is that the British sowed many of these things like separate electorates to divide Indian society. *Karan Thapar:* *All right. Let me give you a modern example. Yogendra Yadav did a study this month (in June) of 315 key positions in journalistic organisations and he chose 37 national journalistic organisations -- both television and print -- and he discovered that not one of the top 315 positions is manned by a Dalit. That is an example surely of the manner in which discrimination keeps out people of talent only on caste. * *Arun Shourie:* Absolute bunk. I cannot believe that Karan Thapar is not going to employ a proficient person whether it is for camera or for assisting him just because of caste. Karan Thapar is not like that. *Karan Thapar:* *Then how do you explain 315 top organisations and 37 media houses, including the papers you have worked for? * *Arun Shourie:* Because it takes time for that kind of competence to be acquired. Journalism is one of the freest professions as sports are, as entertainment industry is. *Karan Thapar:* *So, you are saying to the Dalits wait a century? Wait two centuries? Do you think time is on their side? You don't think they need a helping hand? * *Arun Shourie:* Of course they do. But you don't let me tell you what the helping hand has to be. Not reservations. *Karan Thapar:* *Why? * *Arun Shourie:* Because I have answered it 10 times and you keep going back to the same question. Repeating the very words. Just look at your own recording Karan, you are just repeating. You are taking up time. *Karan Thapar:* *You have answered it in terms of the moral obligation. Let me point out to you the efficacy between '47 and '97. In those 50 years alone, the number of Dalits who as a result of reservations went to schools and colleges grew from 1.74 million to 27.92 million. During the same period, the number of Dalit graduates jumped from 50,000 to over 5.5million. That's an example of how reservations have helped and you are denying this to them. * *Arun Shourie:* You have just picked up a few statistics. *Karan Thapar:* *Very meaningful ones. * *Arun Shourie:* Just one second. For the total number of persons going to school, what is the statistics from 1947 to 2006? *Karan Thapar:* *What do you mean the total number? * *Arun Shourie:* Irrespective of Dalits. The total number of school-going population in India from 1947 and now. Tell me. *Karan Thapar:* *I don't know the answer, but the point that I am making is that the percentage of both has increased. I am saying the percentage of Dalits has increased because of reservations. Otherwise the system would have kept them out. * *Arun Shourie:* How do you say the last sentence? *Karan Thapar:* *I will illustrate it by taking government employment.* *Arun Shourie:* No. But firstly, you did not know what was the total growth. *Karan Thapar:* *Do you know it? * *Arun Shourie:* No. *Karan Thapar:* *You don't either. You are simply trying to question whether the two have increased equivalently. I am saying that in fact the reason why the Dalits have increased. It's because of reservations and not because of general improvement in society. * *Arun Shourie:* That is just an assertion of yours. *Karan Thapar:* *It is a fairly valid one that most people would accept. * *Arun Shourie:* How do you say this? Then we have two contradictory assertions. *Karan Thapar:* *So you neither accept the logic in terms of morality or in terms of efficacy? * *Arun Shourie:* Yes. *Karan Thapar:* *On both grounds, you think reservations are wrong? * *Arun Shourie:* Absolutely. *Karan Thapar:* Arun Shourie, since you are implacably opposed to reservations for the Scheduled Castes, what is your preferred way of tackling the discrimination they have suffered for centuries? *Arun Shourie:* Firstly, I am not against reservations only for the Scheduled Castes, but for everybody. Second point is yes, if they have suffered that kind of discrimination and we have got good records of this kind of thing happening in the South, for instance in many parts of Tamil Nadu, then the best way is social reform and these great reformers who have made an enormous difference to India in the last 200 years as testified to by the Christian missionaries themselves. *Karan Thapar:* *Is there a second way beyond social reforms? * *Arun Shourie:* Yes, there is. Second is economic growth and modernisation. *Karan Thapar:* *Third? * *Arun Shourie:* Third is to find out what is the real reason for the poor performance of the child. For instance, he cannot retain what he learns in class because of poor nutrition, give him four free meals a day. *Karan Thapar:* *Individual attention? * *Arun Shourie:* Yes, absolutely. *Karan Thapar:* *Is there a fourth? * *Arun Shourie:* Yes. There are many things. He doesn't have a place to study, make free dormitories. He needs free textbooks, he needs training and education. *Karan Thapar:* *That's all part of individual attention. But is there yet another measure you would like to implement to help the Dalit? Because let me tell you why I am asking you all the things you have talked about -- social reform, economic growth, individual attention, they are very slow. They are unenforceable, they are difficult to monitor, they are certainly not transparent and in most cases, they are voluntary. The reason why people prefer reservations is because they are transparent, they are enforceable, and they are monitorable. * *Arun Shourie:* And for 50 years you have not monitored them? Even the government. *Karan Thapar:* *But that's not the failure of reservations? That is the failure of the administration. * *Arun Shourie:* No. No. You don't understand. Reservations are going to be implemented by whom? By the Americans in India? *Karan Thapar:* *Reservations have been implemented badly. That's not an argument against reservations per se? * *Arun Shourie:* That is the usual argument of Five-Year Plans. Plan was good, but was not implemented properly. *Karan Thapar:* *But in this case, it is the truth? * *Arun Shourie:* It is not the truth. It is an assertion that you keep making. The fact of the matter is that these free lunch programmes, midday meals have helped a great deal in reducing dropout rates, in retention of what is learnt. We should do that. That is what requires painstaking work and the very fact that things are not being monitored I will give you an example if you please permit me. Recently in the Standing Committee of the Parliament on Social Welfare, there was a report available in May, in which the Secretary of Social Welfare was asked: "You have a backward classes of financial corporation, how do you distribute the money between he states?" He said: "Madam, we distribute it according to the proportion of OBC population in different states." She said: "How do you know the number?" He said: "We don't know the number." She said: "What is the total number of OBCs in India?" He said: "We don't know." "What is the total number of Scheduled Caste people?" He said: "We don't know." If we don't know the number, we don't know the distribution, we are not monitoring who is getting what. *Karan Thapar:* *It is a little facile to knock down reservations on the ground that the administrators who are responsible for administrating them are fools. That's what you are proving. You are proving the administration, not the policy of reservations, is wrong. * *Arun Shourie:* I am saying more. Many commentators are just assertives. I will not listen to *Karan Thapar:* *The assertion could be on fact? * *Arun Shourie:* What is the fact? *Karan Thapar:* *I can argue that your refusal to accept this is based on prejudice. * *Arun Shourie:* No. The caste people *Karan Thapar:* *I being the asserter, you could be the prejudiced. * *Arun Shourie:* Could be. The Scheduled Caste people are saying that the benefits of reservations are being hogged by a Creamy Layer within Scheduled Caste. *Karan Thapar:* *But at least they are getting it. The Creamy Layer didn't have it 50 years ago.* *Arun Shourie:* It is impossible to argue with that. *Karan Thapar:* *Why? It is a fact. * *Arun Shourie:* What is the Creamy Layer? *Karan Thapar:* *Once the Creamy Layer has benefited, you can remove them, but let them benefit before you remove them. * *Arun Shourie:* But you can benefit the people by having an economic criterion for identifying the individual. Why not? *Karan Thapar:* *You know that each time milk boils, it forms a Creamy Layer. You just remove it. Each boiling brings a fresh layer to the top. * *Arun Shourie:* Milk could be made to boil many time over, provided you identify the state policy by the unit of the individual and you identify the beneficiary individual by economic criteria. You would then not be fortifying precisely the types of regressive institutions within Indian society like caste, which you want to get rid off. *Karan Thapar:* *Except that the people who are untouchables were not created untouchables because of their individual character but because of the group. That's why the group is being focused upon. * *Arun Shourie:* It reinforces the kind of group. This was Panditji's view. I believe that this has been vindicated by time that we have reinforced that group identity to the great evil of society, to the ill results of society. *Karan Thapar:* *This will unfortunately have to be my last question. That many Dalits listening to you will say that 'he may be a liberal in many matters, but he is a hard-hearted, callous man who simply doesn't understand what it's like to be oppressed under centuries of discrimination.' * *Arun Shourie:* They said that to me when I wrote about Bhindrawala. He is a Hindu, Arya Samaji, does not *Karan Thapar:* *The two situations don't equate. * *Arun Shourie:* They do. When I wrote about the Shariat and the consequences of Shah Bano, everybody said he is communal, he is Hindu. And now? So wait for time. *Karan Thapar:* *So the verdict of your peers or the verdict of the majority of society is water off a duck's back as far as Arun Shourie is concerned. * *Arun Shourie:* I don't know what the majority of the society. Karan Thapar doesn't speak for them either. *Karan Thapar:* *Arun Shourie, a pleasure talking to you.* *Arun Shourie:* Thank you. 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I am forwarding one of the post by our senior member of BM USA. He has done some good work in understanding Vedas in light og modern science and technologies. hope! we shall be benefited by his writings. jai hind with truth... Ravi ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [bm_usa] Become Thermostats From: "ymoharir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, June 25, 2006 12:18 pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear List: Looking at the current situation on BM_USA's inability to participate directly toward the objectives of BM in India, I would like to suggest the Members of BM_USA to become thermostats. We often fail to get the real knowledge from our vedic ancestor's. Often they gave analogies that may be useful within the perimeters of our every day lives. It is up to us to understand what they were trying to say rather than limiting us to embracing and attaching ourselves to ancient texts, so much so that we forget to recognize the knowledge they were trying to impart to us. At the same token neither should we discard the ancient texts as being obsolete. That is probably why our Nirukta sys: naiSha sthaNoraparaadho yadenamandho na pashyati | puruShaaparaadhaH sa bhavati || nirukta 1.16 || Meaning - If a blind man does not see the pillar in his path then it is not the fault of the pillar but the fault lies with the blind person. Now looking at the current situation of BM I would like to recommend to us to become thermostats. You may ask what does thermostats may to do with Veda or BM objectives? We all know that our ancestors stressed the importance of not go do anything in excess "sarvatra ati varjayeta". If we look at this statement objectively the we can immediately see it's profound application to the current situation as well. I think that following the example of thermostat which tells the heating furnace or the air conditioner unit (via feed back signal) that we are excessively tipping over within the permitted confinements of the operations. These way members who share the objectives of BM can still contribute by becoming the driving force that can bring about the changes in India. Thus I interpret "sarvtra ati varjayeta" as giving us the directive of becoming a "Theromostat". Vedic ancestors did not know what "Thermostat" was !, however, they surely understood the principles involved because it is the individual thermostat that is takes the lead to bring about the changes. Unfortunately we even limit the scope of Veda by confining "The Knowledge" into R^igveda, yajurveda, saamaveda and atheyvaveda. We all know that the word veda is derived from the root verb "vid" means "to Know", therefore the word veda means a compilation of knowledge and it is up to us to acknowledge it, recognize it and practice it in our lives to the best of our ability. This has been elegantly expressed in our manushR^iti. aj~nebhyo granthinaH shreShThaa\, granthibhyo dhaariNo varaaH | dhaaribhyo j~naaninaH shreShThaa\, j~naanibhyo vyavasaayinaH || manusmR^iti 12-103|| Meaning: Someone who has studied a little is better than totally ignorant. Someone who has memorized them are better than someone who knows a little. One who knows the meaning is superior to those who memories. However, one who practices it definitely the most superior. Just my $0.02 Dr. Yadu PS: If group thinks that this type of posting may be helpful then I will try to write significance (time permitting) as documented by our vedic seers and how those principles are still applicable to us in our personal, professional as well as civic confinements regardless whether someone is in India or not because the knowledge expressed therein is beyond the confinements of time and is often call as "tri-kaala-abaadhita satya" Dear List: Looking at the current situation on BM_USA's inability to participate directly toward the objectives of BM in India, I would like to suggest the Members of BM_USA to become thermostats. We often fail to get the real knowledge from our vedic ancestor's. Often they gave analogies that may be useful within the perimeters of our every day lives. It is up to us to understand what they were trying to say rather than limiting us to embracing and attaching ourselves to ancient texts, so much so that we forget to recognize the knowledge they were trying to impart to us. At the same token neither should we discard the ancient texts as being obsolete. That is probably why our Nirukta sys: naiSha sthaNoraparaadho yadenamandho na pashyati | puruShaaparaadhaH sa bhavati || nirukta 1.16 || Meaning - If a blind man does not see the pillar in his path then it is not the fault of the pillar but the fault lies with the blind person. Now looking at the current situation of BM I would like to recommend to us to become thermostats. You may ask what does thermostats may to do with Veda or BM objectives? We all know that our ancestors stressed the importance of not go do anything in excess "sarvatra ati varjayeta". If we look at this statement objectively the we can immediately see it's profound application to the current situation as well. I think that following the example of thermostat which tells the heating furnace or the air conditioner unit (via feed back signal) that we are excessively tipping over within the permitted confinements of the operations. These way members who share the objectives of BM can still contribute by becoming the driving force that can bring about the changes in India. Thus I interpret "sarvtra ati varjayeta" as giving us the directive of becoming a "Theromostat". Vedic ancestors did not know what "Thermostat" was !, however, they surely understood the principles involved because it is the individual thermostat that is takes the lead to bring about the changes. Unfortunately we even limit the scope of Veda by confining "The Knowledge" into R^igveda, yajurveda, saamaveda and atheyvaveda. We all know that the word veda is derived from the root verb "vid" means "to Know", therefore the word veda means a compilation of knowledge and it is up to us to acknowledge it, recognize it and practice it in our lives to the best of our ability. This has been elegantly expressed in our manushR^iti. aj~nebhyo granthinaH shreShThaa\, granthibhyo dhaariNo varaaH | dhaaribhyo j~naaninaH shreShThaa\, j~naanibhyo vyavasaayinaH || manusmR^iti 12-103|| Meaning: Someone who has studied a little is better than totally ignorant. Someone who has memorized them are better than someone who knows a little. One who knows the meaning is superior to those who memories. However, one who practices it definitely the most superior. 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Dear Brother and sisters, Vandemaatram! I am forwarding one of the posts by our senior member of BM USA. He has done some good work in understanding Vedas in light of modern science and technologies. hope! we shall be benefited by his writings. jai hind with truth... Ravi ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [bm_usa] R^igvedic Prayer for establishing Unity From: "ymoharir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, July 10, 2006 6:20 pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear List: I would like to share a wonderful prayer that is found in R^igveda and I believe it still applies and can function well if we try to understand the significance behind it. This especially applies to BM, which being a young organization, sometimes, ego's, objectives, priorities (personal, local, National,....etc., pet projects often do not get visibility. As per aitareya brahmaNa (23.1) this prayer is invoked in order to bring about unity within a group for the abhyudayaa of the country. Associated story in taittariya samhitaa (2.1.11) helps us understand the purpose of this prayer. This particular vidhi is known as "sa.nj~naanii iSHTii". Now the story: When Gods and asuraa were at war, there was a division and debate between Gods for who should take the leadership role? Everybody wanted to be the leader, which was creating a rift amongst them. Agni separated with vasu; rudra & soma formed savataa subhaa. indra sided with marutgaNa and expected all the God's to recognize him as the leader. He then goes to prajaapati to ask for a possible solution. That is when prajaapati performed "sa.nj~naanii iSHTii" which dissolved the jalousies between various Gods as they realized the importance of indraa's role for confronting asuura. This resulted in acceptance of indra as the leader of Gods. In this yaj~naa four oblations are combined into one and then offered to agni, soma, indra and varuNa respectively. || sa.nj~naana suukta || R^iShii - sa.mvanana a.ngirasa\, devataa - agni saM\-sam id yuvase vR^iShann agne vishvaany arya aa | iLas pade sam idhyase sa no vasuuny aa bhara || 10.191.1|| sa.n gachchhadhvaM sa.n vadadhvaM sa.n vo manaa.nsi jaanataam.h . devaa bhaaga.n yathaa puurve sa.njaanaanaa upaasate || 10.191.2 || Meaning: Dear assembled worshippers, let your thoughts become alike, united with one voice and knowledge; just like ancient Gods (ancestors) accepted their portions of sacrifices and performed their work unanimously. samaano mantraH samitiH samaanii samaanaM manaH saha chittameshhaam.h . samaanaM mantramabhimantraye vaH samaanena vo havishhaa juhomi || 10.191.3 || Meaning - Dear assembled worshippers, let our desires be one, for a common purpose with common objectives by oblation this common payer. When say vande maataram to a person then we automatically recognize the common connection to the mother-land of that individual. With best wishes for the unity. Dr. Yadu Dear List: I would like to share a wonderful prayer that is found in R^igveda and I believe it still applies and can function well if we try to understand the significance behind it. This especially applies to BM, which being a young organization, sometimes, ego's, objectives, priorities (personal, local, National,....etc., pet projects often do not get visibility. As per aitareya brahmaNa (23.1) this prayer is invoked in order to bring about unity within a group for the abhyudayaa of the country. Associated story in taittariya samhitaa (2.1.11) helps us understand the purpose of this prayer. This particular vidhi is known as "sa.nj~naanii iSHTii". Now the story: When Gods and asuraa were at war, there was a division and debate between Gods for who should take the leadership role? Everybody wanted to be the leader, which was creating a rift amongst them. Agni separated with vasu; rudra & soma formed savataa subhaa. indra sided with marutgaNa and expected all the God's to recognize him as the leader. He then goes to prajaapati to ask for a possible solution. That is when prajaapati performed "sa.nj~naanii iSHTii" which dissolved the jalousies between various Gods as they realized the importance of indraa's role for confronting asuura. This resulted in acceptance of indra as the leader of Gods. In this yaj~naa four oblations are combined into one and then offered to agni, soma, indra and varuNa respectively. || sa.nj~naana suukta || R^iShii - sa.mvanana a.ngirasa\, devataa - agni saM\-sam id yuvase vR^iShann agne vishvaany arya aa | iLas pade sam idhyase sa no vasuuny aa bhara || 10.191.1|| sa.n gachchhadhvaM sa.n vadadhvaM sa.n vo manaa.nsi jaanataam.h . devaa bhaaga.n yathaa puurve sa.njaanaanaa upaasate || 10.191.2 || Meaning: Dear assembled worshippers, let your thoughts become alike, united with one voice and knowledge; just like ancient Gods (ancestors) accepted their portions of sacrifices and performed their work unanimously. samaano mantraH samitiH samaanii samaanaM manaH saha chittameshhaam.h . samaanaM mantramabhimantraye vaH samaanena vo havishhaa juhomi || 10.191.3 || Meaning - Dear assembled worshippers, let our desires be one, for a common purpose with common objectives by oblation this common payer. 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