Ten essential points of communist menifesto.

Those who are unaware about communism will find some answers here. I have seen that many people do not understand the philosophy of communism. I will try to put it in very simple manner. It is upto you to decide wheather to support the communists or not.

According to The Communist Manifesto, Communism has ten essential planks:

  • Abolition of Private Property.

  • Heavy Progressive Income Tax.

  • Abolition of Rights of Inheritance.

  • Confiscation of Property Rights.

  • Central Bank and managed currency.

  • Government Ownership of Communication and Transportation.

  • Government Ownership of Factories and Agriculture.

  • Government Control of Labor.

  • Corporate Farms and Regional Planning.

  • Government Control of Education.

Communism - Atheism and Amorality
Communism doesn’t end with economic and political reform. By definition, it further demands the abolition of both Religion and the Absolute Morality founded upon Religion. The irony is that Communism supposedly attempts to enhance civility within society, but removes all notions of Absolute Morality, the very cornerstone of civility. Furthermore, after Communism is instituted by the people, the system becomes Totalitarian, resulting in greater oppression of the people it was designed to “serve.” This fact is well documented throughout the history of Communist nations.

The practical results of Communism have been horror and atrocity for those under communist rule. So much so, advocates of Marxism have made every attempt to point out where communist leaders have strayed from the fundamental teachings of Karl Marx, in an attempt to absolve Communism. Nevertheless, it cannot be denied that Marxist influence brought about many of these horrors. The irony is, Marxism renounces religion, not because of religious doctrine, but because of the actions of “religious” men. No one could accuse a religion such as Christianity of evil doctrine. However, it seems that men are intrinsically evil and need only an opportunity to express this inherent reality. One must look at the overall outcome of a philosophical doctrine on society, both good and bad, not specific instances of abuse. Christianity, or Islam or Hinduism’s underlying doctrine has been the cause of much good in the world. Communism, on the other hand, has brought only atrocity into the world. Communism has not brought relief to the majority as promised, nor has it ended oppression as purposed.

Once you opt for communism, you will be in virtual prison of the party with no liberty, and at least in this life time you will not be able to come out of their clutches. Our neighbor across the border has already started to export it to India. We have to decide now about our future, and the future of the coming generation of India.

Posted on May 31st, 2008 by Ashok Chavda
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Aum and Mandukya Upnishad.

Mandukya Upanishad is one of the shortest Upanishads that form the revealed, so called metaphysical, parts of the Vedas. It belongs to the Atharva Veda. It devotes itself entirely to the explanation of the spiritual - mystic - syllable Aum. It is in prose, consisting of only twelve sentences.

There are three matras in the word aum : ‘a’ as the ‘u’ in ‘but’; ‘u’ as the ‘u’ in ‘put’; and the ‘m’ in ‘balm’. The term matra is used for the upper limb of Nagari characters and a syllabic instant in prosody. Esoterically, the ‘a’ stands for the first stage of wakefulness, where we experience in our gross body the totality of external experiences through our mind and sense organs. The ‘u’ stands for the dream state of sleep in which mental experiences are available, though erratically, by the mind which is the only thing which is then awake, without the help of the external sense organs or the presence of the rationalising intellect.

The two kinds of experience, namely those of the waking state and those of the dream state, contradict each other, in the sense that a man may experience hunger in a dream though he has eaten in the waking state a few minutes earlier.

In the state of deep sleep, represented by the sound ‘m’, there is no consciousness of any experience; even the mind has gone to sleep. But still there is an awareness after the deep sleep is over that one has been sleeping. Mandukya Upanishad says that in the state of deep sleep, the Atman which is always present, has been the witness to the sleep of the body and it is this source from which issues the memory of sleep.It is the Atman which is also present beyond the three states of experience. The fourth state (turiya avastha) corresponds to the silence that ensues after one has steadily pronounced aum. It is the state of no matra (amatra). In that silence Consciousness alone is present; there is nothing else. Therefore there is nothing to be cognized or be conscious of. This is the substratum of even the other three states of experience. During the silence that follows the recitation of aum, one is advised to merge in that Consciousness, in fact, be that Consciousness. That Consciousness is the Atman. That is Brahman. To underscore the point that the ‘fourth state’ is not another ‘state’ of consciousness, but consciousness itself, turiya avastha is simply called turiya (the fourth).

The mind is not simply withdrawn from the objects but becomes one with Brahman, who is free from fear and who is all-round illumination. In both deep sleep and transcendental consciousness there is no consciousness of objects. But this objective consciousness is present in an unmanifested ’seed’ form in deep sleep while it is completely transcended in the turiya. Specifically, if one identifies the amatra state of silence with the turiya and meditates on it without intermission, one realizes one’s self and ‘there is no return for him to the sphere of empirical life’.

Posted on May 31st, 2008 by Ashok Chavda
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આંખો વિશે વેણીભાઈ પુરોહિત

વેણીભાઈ પુરોહિત ની એક અદ્ભૂત રચના છે.
ઊનારે પાણીનાં અદ્ભૂત માછલાં,
એમાં આસમાની ભેજ,
એમાં આત્માના તેજ,
સાચા તોયે કાચા જાણે કાચનાં બે કાચલા.
ઊનારે પાણીનાં અદ્ભૂત માછલાં.

સાતેરે સમંદર એનાં પેટમાં,
છાની વડવાનલની આગ.
અને પોતે છીછરા અતાગ,
સપનાં આળોટે એમાં છોરુ થઈને ચાગલા,
ઊનાં્રે પાણીનાં ……

જલનાં દીવા ને જલમાં ઝળહળે,
કોઈ દિન રંગને વિલાસ,
કોઈ દિન પ્રભુ તારી પ્યાસ,
ઝેર ને અમરત એમાં આગલાને પાછલા.
ઊનારે પાણીનાં અદ્ભૂત માછલાં

Posted on May 31st, 2008 by Ashok Chavda
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The Miracle at Speedy Motors:Alexander McCall Smith

Born in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, Alexander McCall Smith was educated at CBC Bulawayo before moving to Scotland to study law. After returning to southern Africa to teach law at the University of Botswana, he returned once more to Edinburgh, where he lives today with his wife, Elizabeth (an Edinburgh doctor), and their two daughters Lucy and Emily. He was sometime Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh and is now Emeritus Professor at its School of Law. He retains a further involvement with the University of Edinburgh in relation to the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

He is the former chairman of the British Medical Journal Ethics Committee (until 2002), the former vice-chairman of the Human Genetics Commission of the United Kingdom, and a former member of the International Bioethics Commission of UNESCO. Due to his late success as a writer these other commitments could not be continued.

He is an amateur bassoonist, and co-founder of The Really Terrible Orchestra. He is also the author of a testimonial in The Future of the NHS (2006) (ISBN 1-85811-369-5) edited by Dr Michelle Tempest.

He was appointed a CBE in the December 2006 New Year’s Honours List. In June 2007 he was awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws at a ceremony celebrating the tercentenary of Edinburgh University’s School of Law.

His latest book is The Miracle at Speedy Motors.

Here Precious Ramotswe is doing what she does best–helping people with their problems and enjoying the simple pleasuire of life. Mma Ramotswe is busy investigating her latest case; a woman who is looking for her family. The problem is the woman doesn’t know her real name of whether any members of her family are now living.

after many twists and turns the problem is resolved and that is to everyone’s shock.

A good book to read and also is a best seller right now.

Ashok Chavda

Posted on May 30th, 2008 by Ashok Chavda
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Let me commit suicide.

To understand the plight of a poor farmer who is about to commit suicide, one has to take birth from a farmer mother’s womb. No one else can understand about his sufferings and his phase through which he is passing.

Farming in India is a loss making profession basically, but it is a traditional business, and if you do not work in your field and do not plough, entire village will talk about it and will say thu thu. hence, out of fear one has to farm. You get a good “fasal” i.e. yield after 4 to 5 months. Not only the farmer, but his entire family works hard in the field, and if he has larger field, then he will have to bring outside workforce on daily wages of Rs.70/- per person for man and Rs.35/- per woman. These back breaking costs, wages, seed , fertilizert, humus, pesticides, medicines etc. . Above these, consider the cost of electricity bill and water charges. at times, you have to order a water tanker to water your produce. Oh God…..

Now, after occurring all these costs, consider this, Many time you get duplicate i.e dubious seeds so you are never sure about proper crop, after putting in all those back and neck breaking efforts, whatever you get is God’s blessings. and if there is unseasonal rain, then you are screwed. your entire effort will go down the drain, what will you call this? God’s curse?

(We have lost all our wheat crop and green chana crop on the holi day this year, because of unseasonal rains in Satara, Maharashtra)

Now the second part,

if there is good crop you sell your produce in the open market, here starts your mis-fortune. You meet dalals i.e. agents of businessmen, hoarders or corrupt government officials who demand money in order to certify the quality of your crop. You never get proper value of your crop. and “Jagat ka Tat, Desh ka Annadata” remains a bagger and middle man and govt. officials make all the money. only if our agriculture minister pay attention to this facts and not cricket and cheer girls.

If a farmer has less land, then he works in his farm early in the morning and in night, and during the day time he works in other’s field, earning 70/- per day, and his wife also works earning Rs.35/- per day, totalling 105/- per day, (NOT EVERY DAY) he has five to seven mouth to feed. two to three kids are school going. that expense is separate. if someone in the family falls ill in this condition, the medical bill will go upto 10 to 15000 rupees.

It is during such hard times, the farmer takes a loan from Shylock or moneylender. at only 5% to 6% interest, per month i.e. 60% to 72% per Annum. If he fails to generate such loan, he asks some close relative to stand as his guarantor.

The tragedy starts now,

In order to pay back the moneylender and in order to save his dignity and relation with the guarantor, he mortgages his house to some village financial institute or some small co-operative bank, and then in order to pay EMI, the dreaded EMI (early mrityu ka inam) every month, at a pre-determined date, he mortgages his “saat baara” his beloved field, his 7/12, to village credit society, because there he will get loan at a lesser interest rate, and may get government subsidy too if he is lucky, but if he does not belong to that particular political party which runs the patpedhi or credit society then it will be difficult for him to get desired loan. He will be given bogus reasons like, your land mass is too small, you will get only 3500 for it under the new reserve bank rule, etc. now he thinks that, for 3500 why should I lick the feet of these bastards. Again he approaches one close friend or relative and takes loan of Rs.25000/- to 30000/- from some bigger co-operative bank, where he actually gets only Rs.22000 against 25000 loan after some un-explainable deductions and bribe to the branch agent.

Sooner then later, at one point of time, he fails to pay the dreaded EMI, and lives in constant fear that the bank officials will come and grab his land, to overcome the situation he goes back and approaches the original money lander who is there, very much there, to help him and wait patiently for his meat.

The government tells him to not pay the money lenders, but here comes our culture, the person who is hardly educated, hardly studied up to 4th std. thinks that how can he do so, he must pay back what he has taken. and if I can not pay back then…it is better to die.

…and he becomes a small figure in state and central government statistics.

Has anybody got the solution.

Posted on May 30th, 2008 by Ashok Chavda
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I have a premonition, about China.

I clearly see the future. very near future. A second Sino-Indian war is on card, and that too, very soon.

No, I am not a Jyotish, but a political analyst. uptill now, China was supporting Pakistan to keep it equipped so that Indian ambition to become a super power is curtailed effectively. and right from 1965 China has succeded in their aim. Their policy of supporting Pakistan in every way has paid off till recently, but now, with a democratic government in Pakistan, unwilling to pressurise India on severel aspects, China has started mounting pressure technic on India. Let our government tell us that everything is control, we know how many intrusion have taken place on the borders of Arunachal Pradesh and elsewhere.

very recently, i.e. on May 7th 2007, Bharatiya Janata Party members of Parliament from Arunachal Pradesh has demanded that a joint delegation of parliamentarians and journalists should visit the state to verify reports of intrusions by Chinese troops into 20 km of Indian territory. “I am astonished to hear External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee’s statement on this issue. Instead of saying that not an inch of Indian territory would be allowed to be annexed by China, here is a minister who goes on record saying ‘…border is on land and not in the sky — when you finally arrive at it, some adjustments will take place here and there’. This is a loaded statement and a preparation to give Indian land to China,” Kiren Rijiju and Tapir Gao of BJP, Arunachal Pradesh said.

For Beijing, an unresolved territorial dispute with India provides an effective way of putting pressure on India. If Beijing wishes to demonstrate solidarity with Pakistan, or express anger over Indian policies towards Tibet, PLA (people’s liberation army) moves threatening Arunachal Pradesh could be very effective.

In effect, the unresolved nature of the territorial dispute — China’s standing claim to the area of Arunachal Pradesh — multiplies the effect of China’s coercive threats.

This makes me very sure, we will face this threat, probably immediately after the olympics.

Ashok Chavda.

Posted on May 30th, 2008 by Ashok Chavda
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Unaccustomed Earth, by Jhumpa Lahiri.

Jhumpa Lahiri’s writing is characterized by her “plain” language and her characters, often Indian immigrants to America who must navigate between the cultural values of their birthplace and their adopted home.

Lahiri’s second collection of short stories, , was released on April 1, 2008. Upon its publication, Unaccustomed Earth achieved the rare distinction of debuting on The New York Times best seller list in the number 1 slot.[12] New York Times Book Review editor Dwight Garner stated, “It’s hard to remember the last genuinely serious, well-written work of fiction — particularly a book of stories — that leapt straight to No. 1; it’s a powerful demonstration of Lahiri’s newfound commercial clout.

Everyone has their secrets. In her stunning new collection of stories, Jhumpa Lahiri gently lifts the veil to reveal how even the most ordinary lives have their dramas and tragedies and then, as gently, lets it fall back down again. A middle-aged man discovers that the death of his wife opens up his world in unexpected ways, his daughter worries that she will now have to look after him but finds that the tables, in fact, have turned; a housewife falls in love with a family friend, her child ascertains her secret years on; a young man and woman whose lives cross over the years, finally and fatedly fall in love. Unaccustomed Earth returns to the terrain - the heart of family life and the immigrant experience - that Jhumpa Lahiri has made utterly hers, but her themes, this time around, have darkened and deepened. Poised, nuanced, deeply moving, this is a superb book.

Jhumpa rocks.

Ashok Chavda.

Posted on May 30th, 2008 by Ashok Chavda
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