Reading of Bgagvad-Geeta even without knowing Sanskrit

Its said that what is use of reading or learning the things which we can't understand because these things are of no use for us as we will not be able to use them without understanding them but the reality is not the same. In India a Hindi saying goes like "Rasari aavat javat sil par hot nishan" meaning the continuously on going and out coming rope is certain to leave marks even on the stones. Have you ever thought it is possible to create mark on stones? but this is the reality and need not any proof. The rope we use to dig the water from well, leaves its marks on the stones with time. The same thing happens with us, when we read any of our religious holly book or book of knowledge, though at the time of reading we might not understand it or even unable to say a single word about it as soon as we close it. My view point will be supported and illustrated with the following short story.


An old Farmer lived on a farm in the mountains with his young grandson. Each morning Grandpa was up early sitting at the kitchen table reading his Bhagavad Geeta. His grandson wanted to be just like him and tried to imitate him in every way he could. One day the grandson asked, "Grandpa! I try to read the Bhagavad Geeta just like you but I don't understand it, and what I do understand I forget as soon as I close the book. What good does reading the Bhagavad Geeta do?"

The Grandfather quietly turned from putting coal in the stove and replied, "Take this coal basket down to the river and bring me back a basket of water."

The boy did as he was told, but all the water leaked out before he got back to the house. The grandfather laughed and said, "You'll have to move a little faster next time” and sent him back to the river with the basket to try again. This time the boy ran faster, but again the basket was empty before he returned home. Out of breath, he told his grandfather that it was impossible to carry water in a basket, and he went to get a bucket instead.

The old man said, "I don't want a bucket of water; I want a basket of water. You're just not trying hard enough," and he went out the door to watch the boy try again.

At this point, the boy knew it was impossible, but he wanted to show his grandfather that even if he ran as fast as he could, the water would leak out before he got back to the house. The boy again dipped the basket into river and ran hard, but when he reached his grandfather the basket was again empty. Out of breath, he said, “See Grandpa, it's useless!"

"So you think it is useless?" The old man said, "Look at the basket."
The boy looked at the basket and for the first time realized that the basket was different. It had been transformed from a dirty old coal basket and was now clean, inside and out.

"Son, that's what happens when you read the Bhagavad Geeta. You might not understand or remember everything, but when you read it, you will be changed, inside and out. That is the work of Lord Krishna in our lives."

Inspiration

A few days back I read a comment on one of my blog post "Tell me about your inspiration" and since the day I was in real wonder , searching myself with my inner self and trying to find a few words that can work as answer for my question. Does we need inspiration ? Are we able to perform our work in the absence of inspiration?

Let us start it systematic and in a definite order with "What is inspiration?" all the chemistry students are well versed that for a reaction or for the production of something new we need reactants which can participate in reaction, and substituting their existing properties with altogether new one, produce a product which is different from the reactants. There are some reaction which needs presence of something called catalyst [which doesn't involve in the reaction] for the vigorous rate of reaction or some times even to start the reaction. In the human life this stimulant is an inspiration.

Unlike the chemical reactions human creations doesn't need reactants to be collected at a place because they are already present at the place of reaction in the nervous system and brain of the human and these are the knowledge and experience. Human creations are also unique from the chemical reactions in the sense that from these only two reactants a variety of creations can be resulted. Uniqueness and unpredictability of human mind, which varies from person to person, underlines the importance of inspiration in the human life and makes it hard to guess what will work as inspiration?

A few words of Swami Ramakrishna Paramhans has inspired and changed the life of Narendra by making him Swami Vivekanand, who had given the most inspiring words "My brothers and sisters" to the wold. Who knows what word, action, situation can work as inspiration, the unforgettable thing is that inspiration is just a stimulant not a reactant so even its presence can't make you creative, you need to have the knowledge for feeling presence of it , you need the experience of utilising it.

We are here on the earth because Adam was inspired by Eves suggestion of tasting the restricted fruit. You are reading all this as your knowledge is inspired for expansion and I am writing all this because you inspired me to write. So Friends keep increasing your knowledge and experience and wait for the inspiration to make yourself a creative, the true follower of inspiration.

Blogging : A New Vision

What is blogging

Human beings are with desire of sharing, this desire has forced them to formulate language, even World's oldest knowledge books Veda are also written under the influence of this desire only, as human beings are also with a tendency of listing appreciation for self . In the olden golden days people were used to share their knowledge in the form of books, but with the inclusion of technology in the day to day life, modern human beings were forced to face sever problem of shortage of time, which slowly and gradually resulted in the lack of book readers. As correctly said that " Necessity is the mother of Invention" and very interestingly the technology that created the problem, came forward to solve it with the concept of blogging. Blogging is nothing but is the replacement of books.

What are the Blogs

Blog is the piece of information that works as interacting bridge between writer and reader, this what can be said about definition of the blog in nut shell, but in fact blogs are not meagerly piece of information, in fact blog is window of reader to look in the thought process of the writer and this is the basis which works as the foundation stone of the interaction building of the writer and reader. A blog may be your reaction to your day to day life, it may also be the your views about a current affair, You can express your thoughts about the historical facts in the blog format, You can also put your theories and hypothesis in the form of blog, or even you can write a blog on your personal, social, national and international problems.

Qualities of A Good Blog

There are many ways, which can help you to insure quality blogging, with the experience of writing and increased interaction with readers blogger learn to choose appropriate topics for the blog, not only this but this also prove a great help in choosing proper words and language. In fact if we consider blog a food stuff, we can make it delicious, easily digestible and good for health just by altering a little proportion of ingredients and changing a bit of preparation and presentation. Essential ingredients of a blog are :

A Good mass appealing topic

Facts

Easy Language

Creating a communication bridge

Utility of information in general

You can make your blog more effective with inclusion of an image, after all human beings have shown higher remembrance ratio for what they saw over what they read. Your Style of presentation of facts, choosing of words and language are the other area which requires your higher attention and priority.