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5 signs that you are following a wrong course

5 signs that you are following a wrong course

When you are young you feel like you are doing everything right. Even in the field of education you do the same. Having a university degree is becoming a status. When you get into the universities you want to do a course that would bring you to a bright future. You may consider it as your passion, ambition etc. After spending thousands of euros, you realize that the course you did, do not add anything into your life. Then your passion and ambition attached to a course will slowly disappear. You start thinking of a new approach to life. This happens because of the changing world. 

The advancement of technology that modifies the life every day cannot stop but move on with increasing the comfort of hard work. As a result, "robotization" take its roots in all the fields. The world of robots created a large number of job cuts. Robots function as a replacement for anything and everything in this world. Even to have a loving companion you can depend on the robots nowadays. They are programmed in such a way that they react even better than some of the human beings.

Some of the very profound professions like doctors, engineers, architects, IT, etc. are in the top list when it comes to the university studies.  A medical student would be thinking that once he or she has completed the Masters in the chosen field he or she would directly get into a job. But in reality, it does not happen. Because the need for real doctors and medical practitioners are getting less and less due to the replacement of robots which have the capacity to scan better and deduct the exact reason for an ailment.  In the near future you wouldn’t be surprised if there are scanning robots available at the entrances of  hospitals or even at a shopping mall where you pay a certain amount of money, and walk in and out, and get the printed result of your health situation. So where would be the future of the medical students? Wrong course!  They would have better followed a course that would give them enough strength to lead a happy and healthy life. Medical education should be oriented towards one’s own better health and happy life and that should be the aim of future medical education.

Are you an IT student? Then, you should be smarter than modern computers. Otherwise you are just a gamer who plays with digits and data. Your chance of winning the game depends on your skills and experience. Just having some diplomas in the IT section do not make you a better gamer. That need full dedication and full commitment to really out-smart the computers. In this modern world of fun, music, parties and enjoyments, we miss those dedication and commitment very often. So, nine out of ten who completed a Masters, in the IT sector, end up nowhere. Because they just fulfilled the targets of an institution and have the degrees. Science and technology is something that evolves and it is an ongoing process, so your understanding about the IT will be outdated at the moment you have your diploma or masters. Wrong course again! IT education should be future life oriented and not for performing the already existing situations. It would be okay if we have agreed together that we stop scientific developments and live with what we have.  But that is not a viable possibility.

Almost every day there are a few new apps appearing on the net. Most of them are just repetitions. Everyone thinks that they made something new and fantastic. But in reality, they are all copies of the same with a slight retouch. There are many IT companies already reducing the intake of their new staffs. It is mainly because most of the functions are automated and robotized. Now what are those IT specialists just out of the universities going to do with their Masters?  Now the only possibility is to spend some time in the artificial intelligence. It is still an unrealized concept. You see some signs of development here and there. And everyone is interested in the study of artificial intelligence. How many of those who do their masters in AI would come up with something? May be none. Because it is still in its developmental stage. Every year hundreds of research papers are out. Half of the time, energy, money that spent on such researches were diverted to create a value oriented life, it would have been benefiting humanity much more.

IT specialization is good but we still have to wait for a very long time for another Einstein or Isaac Newton to come up with a clear and distinct theory that would fit with the modern science. Even the theories of Einstein and Newton from the past are not acceptable anymore completely with the development of the modern science. So, if you think you can just become an Einstein or Newton with your University studies you are wrong. It is life that teaches you more theories, it is life that gives you more experience. The commitment and dedication, may be time to time a change in it, would result in bringing out something new. And most of the inventions and discoveries are accidental. There were not many important inventions that deliberately meant to be so. It all came out as some bi-products of other experiments.

Are you an engineering student? Of course, you would think you have a better scope than a medical or IT student. Yes, that is true. But you are placed with the most challenging task. A task to make others happy and comfortable. People are getting bored with the same structures, they are all looking for something new and more nature friendly. The designs and structures you learned in the universities may not really match with the needs of the modern world. Comfort, convenience and eco-friendly creations are your task. But you are still playing with the same boxes when it comes to the structures. And as a human being you are incapable of making a bigger change. If you really want to make a change, then you have to think out of the boxes. And that is a challenge. That will happen only if you are prioritizing the life values. Your engineering skills should adapt to the needs of the humanity and that should be in tune with the movement of the universe.

Are you a business student? Then what is your plan for the future?  Are you going to go with the same business patterns of the recent past? Most of them are already running short of breath. You have to find your own ways to create new businesses. And all those businesses should be in tune with the universe. If you think that you just run a business just for profit and money and you becoming a millionaire, is the success in your life, then you are wrong. Humanity is looking for real human beings who cherish real human values like empathy, compassion, kindness, and love. If your business does not bring any of these human values or if your business is a stumbling block in the building up those values, then you are doing a wrong business and you did a wrong course!

So, it is time to think of a different educational system, that would really benefit the lives of individual. An education system that represents humanity. Every educational institution, when they prefer to prioritize themselves with their specializations, humanity is deprived of their life values. There was a time when teachers aimed at the holistic development of their students.  In the course of time when specializations creeped into the education system, teachers became the slaves of the institutions and they have no choice other than what is asked them to do. An integral development of the person is not the priority of the institution, rather it is completion of the target which is demanded by the institution to supply their certifications. Most of the institutions are just running by the following regular patterns: application, selection, agreement, money transfer, target fulfillment, and certification. The guarantees for a job promised by most institutions remain as a utopia because the job market is not just looking for certifications. They give priority for experience. So, a fresh graduate may not reach the neighborhood of a job market after their graduation.  

It is time to come up with a challenge that makes a change in the education systems. There was a time when acquiring knowledge was a passion and part of life. Now sharing of knowledge became a business.  The more customers you have the more profit you make. And business is successful depending on the marketing and advertisements. 

Let us go with the Cosmic Speed

JOEMON THEKKAEKURIKATTUKUNNAL

Life is a mystery. And every one is in the pursuit of finding the secrets about it. And we are in a hurry to explore those secrets. Are we able to know those secrets by speeding up? May be not! It took millions of years to reach up to the stage where we are now. And at this stage we become slightly arrogant and claim to know more of it. But in reality, we are far away from the truth.  We only have a few sparks of those truths. And we achieved those truths either accidentally or by being persistent with patience in the course of time. It was not just offered to anyone while in the speed of conquering the truth. It had been a process. A long waiting and a very slow process.

When we travel to the space we think we are fast. But compared to the cosmic speed we are standing still, may be even in a negative speed. Human speed is optical. But the cosmic speed is not optical, you can only just feel, you can only just know. And that is a truth, a truth faster than your intellectual analytical understanding. 

The Sun, the Moon, and all the planets and galaxies are on the move, and their movements are not optical. You can look at them, you don’t see them moving just like that. But you know that they are moving. They are not in the same place always. But they are moving and in an enormous speed beyond human understanding. That is the cosmic speed.

Every object in the universe is placed in the right rhythm and speed to fulfill the binding force of togetherness in the universe. They all move in their respective speeds and that create the universal energy, the supreme binding force. And we as human beings are trying to establish a new speed to that rhythmic cosmic speed.  And our mechanized speed is not in line with the speed of the cosmos. Ours is a pure mechanical speed, a speed that is extracted from the inventions in the course of time. It is not natural.

Human beings have to slow down and go with the flow of the natural speed of the universe. The more you are tuned to the natural speed the more you are relaxed. The more you break the tempo of this natural speed, the more your life become restless.   You can’t make the Sun rise earlier than it should or set it later than it would. Then why would you struggle unnecessarily more than what you are designed to be for your own life. Human beings’ desire to be fast is in their head. The human body has its own natural speed and tempo. Sometimes we break down that tempo by unnatural eating habits or by over taxing our body by unsuitable working conditions. 

Sometimes we forget that we don’t even have enough life savers when extreme circumstance occurs.  And we sink into the depths of uncertainty.  The chance of flotation is possible only if you have the skills to be above the danger zone and to breathe the life energy. There, speed and struggle won’t help much, but rather that will only increase the panic. 

But if you have the skills to float along with the speed of the universe calmly, there is a higher rate of survival.   The more you slow down the longer you could float, otherwise you will be exhausted shortly and begin to loose the strength. Slow and steady breathing and calm flotation towards the shore will bring you to a second life. 

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It is time to change the stubbornness of bureaucracy

The freedom and abundance of the greenery on the other side of this stubborn wall is a common property, but one who has created the stubborn stumbling blocks made it difficult to access that greenery. Sometimes subtle human beings are placed in front of such stubborn blocks. The so called well organized bureaucracy with its fine cuttings and shapes represents themselves as the strongest protector of your life.  The internal structure is unknown to the public. The face is maintained and kept strong for the people to see. They stand in front of you with zero flexibility as real stumbling blocks of your life. And you know that if you have the possibility to cross that barrier, the life will find its greenery in abundance on the other side. You only see the glimpse of it from one side and the access passages are made so narrow and rigid that you don’t really even make it to that greenery. If you want to reach the other side you start walking passing by all those stubborn stones and at the end you may find a way, but you may need a life time to make it happen. By the time, you reach there, you wouldn’t be able to enjoy it anymore.  If the stubbornness is softened and the narrow gates are a bit more widely opened for a better and easy access, more and more people will have the chance to that greenery of abundance and will live their life in peace and joy.

The blocks of system are concretized, and the blocks itself has lost its naturality and charm, this man-made structure just gets older and older without having much changes and at the same time thousands of people on the other side slowly deprived of their little chance to be in the freedom of abundance and to have at least a little bit of that greenery. Instead, people are provided with the filters that supports the stubborn concrete system.  All those who do not pass through the filters, will never get even the opportunity to have the glimpse of the greenery on the other side. If the filtering is well accepted, then through the narrow gate the rays of the abundance of the green pasture arrives you in a regular manner. But then you are made inflexible thereafter, your so-called freedom of life is gone forever. You are regularly going through filters of those stubbornness.  And thus, you will be slowly chained to the system and become the slaves who furnishes the demands of the system.

The moment you make a different move, you loose your view of the green pasture and you don’t get the rays of abundance anymore and you are doomed and even punished. You are obliged to stay in the same position, as long as you want to receive that rays from the abundance of the green pastures. You can overlook but sometimes you are not tall enough to see the deep-down greenery, you see only the vague blue skies and the tips of the greenery and you can’t really make a choice or you don’t have a choice at all other than just take the offered rays of abundance as a result of going through the filters. You can’t make any decisions because you don’t really don’t know what is at the bottom of the stubborn walls on the other side.

So, it is time to make a change in the stubbornness and to create more happy people around by providing them the freedom and easy access to the greenery and thus they too enjoy living in this society. 

WHY RELIGIONS ARE DYING

It is time to be out of religions

World Religions
Christianity			31.5%
Islam			23.2%
Unaffiliated			16.3%
Hinduism			15.0%
Buddhism			7.1%
Folk			5.9%
Other			0.8%
Judaism			0.2%

This chart was available in the Wikipedia to show the division of the population of the world according to their beliefs at the time of uploading this blog. Percentages may be changing day by day. 

What is the meaning of this chart? Does it mean that you are happy because you are part of such and such religions, or does it guarantee that you have a golden seat reserved in heaven after your death? 

No. It just means that you are not free. You don’t have the freedom to live a peaceful life here on earth without being part of any of these religions.  

1. Peace exists when there is proper freedom and freedom exists when there are no strings attached to it. If you think that your dog need to be chained in order to keep it in control or to keep other people safe from your animal, then it is okay to have a small string attached to the dog. But for our general understanding nobody put a 50kg chain on a 10kg sweet dog!  

A large part of the humanity is experiencing this situation at this moment. A heavy load of strings by various religions are put on soft, caring, loving, kind and compassionate human beings. And asking them to move on with their life. And if they succeed, at the end, they will get a cookie, a cookie of imaginary eternal life! Is your life worth only for a cookie? Then you are making a huge mistake or you are having a slavish mentality and you are happy with it.

There are 31.5% of the world population believe in Christianity and 23.3% believe in Islam. And a big group of world population believes in various other religions. What is in these percentages? Does it mean anything to anyone? Does it make any god more powerful than the other to save the entire humanity? No. Do you think that you can make any change in the modern world if you believe in any of these religions? In reality not. In the modern world religion is just a brain washed business model that successfully run with an age-old documentation, tradition and rituals which require no updates because of the uncertainty of the life after death.

2. Human gene is evolved to a certain stage that it looks for survival, pleasure and happiness. Therefore, it will cling on to anything that promises an afterlife with never ending pleasure and happiness! In reality, afterlife is a byproduct of survival, even to survive after the death. There is no love, care, kindness and compassion in life after death.  If it exists, it is not because you believed in any religion, but because of your ability you achieved by living a good life, caring for others, with love, kindness and compassion. No religion can claim it as their merit if a person if good. The care, love, kindness and compassion that religions preach is always attached with a string to a god that is external. It is time to break those strings to find the true who you are. 

Find the goodness within you, find the god within you, find the divine within you. And when every human being is able to achieve that, the result is peace.  And peace can never come into existence unless and until the religions cease to exist.  No religion is capable of practicing their belief in this world without the promise of an afterlife. Because afterlife itself is an unrealized imagination of brainwashed religions. That is the reason they are incapable of bringing peace into the real world. 

3. No religion will be able to send people into the space and to different planets with their beliefs. It will happen only by the advancement of science and technology. So it is a waste of energy and money if you want to preserve religion and protect its gods in this modern world because you are promised an eternal life.

If the science can prove and convince what is there after the death of a person, people will start believing in it. And the religions will cease to exist. Unfortunately, religions jumped into execute that business of making people believe in uncertainties, from a very early stage of human development, it will take time to think differently. And when science take over that task with proofs and evidences the belief systems will have no prevalence. And science is slowly taking its roots. 

There was a time when all the natural calamities are considered to be a curse from gods of different religions. But in the modern world, when people get to know more about the nature, universe and its functioning they start to understand that it is not a curse from god but rather it is part of the universal happenings. There is no god that sits in the sky and throw meteorites to the earth to destroy earth and the living beings in it. It is the universal motion that makes it happen. And we already know a little bit how all these things are happening in the universe. We just needed to know more about this universal motion that causes all these things to happen in the course of time. 

We will be faster in thinking and doing better to know more about the universe if only we get out of the brainwashed religious teachings. Take religions as a hobby, just like going for a walk for exercise, or take it as a reading material, just like a novel that gives you some pleasure and relaxation. Don’t take it as part of your life!

4. Let us think out of the box. According to the above chart 68.5% (100-31.5=68.5) of the world population is not believing in Christianity and they are not following any rituals of Christianity. In the same way 76.8% (100-23.2=76.8) of the world population are non-believers in the eyes of Islam. And 85% (100-15=85) of the world population simply don’t have anything to do with Hinduism. If that is the case with these three major religions in the world what about all the other religions? That is pointing towards the fact that from the view of any religions, major part of the world population are non-believers and they still live and die just like any of the believers, may be in a better state of mind.  

If we talk about belief, even the major religions are a minority compared to the world population and they are a failure. That is to say, if you are a believer in Christianity and you think Christian religion is everything for your life, 68.5% of the world population has nothing to do with Christianity and still their life is just as normal as others and they also die just like any other human person. And there are thousands of people in that 68.5% world population who are creative people, artists, singers, writers, scientists etc. And they just believe in their innate talents. And there are 16.3% of the world population that don’t believe in any religion and still they live and die without having any real troubles in their life, other than the troubles created by believers of other religions. There are also religions with a few thousand members in it. And they just ignore all the other major religions and still their life is fine and they also die just as any other human beings here on earth.

5. So my question is: then what is the use of having all these religions that fight for their beliefs and create chaos in the world. And what is the use of creating this chaos for the people who live here peacefully. The trouble makers live in this world and die after a while, in reality they achieved nothing, and none of them returned to life after their death to tell us that what they fought for was worth. Belief is like an atomic chain reaction, it goes on exploding, leaving so much of damage. But the effect gets less and less in the course of time. But when the goodness of humanity saw the damage of atomic reactions, made a decision not to use it anymore for destruction. And that was for the good of the humanity.  Unfortunately, that didn’t happen with religions.  

The same kind of atomic reactions are happening with many religions even today in this advanced and developed society. Brainwashed people brainwashes others and it still continues to spread and create more and more damages to the humanity. But as we see, the effect is getting less and less, but the damage it created will continue for a while. And the victims of those damages will survive in the world for a short while. But it is not going to be that long that we see a new light in the world. 

The humanity of goodness that will emerge from the ruins of these damages. The goodness of humanity is getting fed up with all religions. A good person remains good, and in every person, there is some goodness. It is time to cherish that basic goodness of each and every person and create a world full with people of goodness.

Let the people live by themselves with a nice and beautiful social system with love and care for each other which is the basis of human life. 

So why not we make a change in the world by thinking out of the box of belief systems based on religions. All the religions in the world failed one way or other to spread the love, kindness and compassion. It is time to get out of this box of belief systems and trust in goodness of the humanity. The “goodness” is innate to the genes of every living organism with the exception of human beings having much more, because, as we understand, they are “intelligently good”.

In short, I would say, it is time to get out of the darkness of religions and find light in yourself. It is time to get out of the untruth of the religions to the truth of yourself. It is time to get out of the dead beliefs of religions and to see the beauty of your own life and the people around.

Joemon Thekkaekurikattukunnal

Healthy life through relaxation

The “Speed Culture” 

takes away 

your moments of relaxation

Joemon Thekkaekurikattukunnal

Sometimes we speed up in our life for nothing! And we know it from the daily journey of our life. We want to keep moving always. And to reach the destination as early as possible. I still remember the sign board where it was written: “It is better to be late than to be Mr.Late.” Yes, sometimes our over speed can take away our normal speed forever. And we won’t be alive to enjoy our speed again anymore.  So, it is good to take a break from this constant moving regularly. Or in other words slow down a bit so that we have more time to enjoy our normal speed. And also, we need to learn to stop for a while sometimes. The moments we try to stop will serve us to really slow down in our life for a better purpose.

I will try to explain this aspect with an example.  You are riding on a bicycle. In front of you a taxi car is stopped to pick up somebody. And you see there is not much space left for you to continue your ride easily with the same speed. But you don’t want to break the speed of your journey. Your speed culture brain washed mind is telling you not to wait and waste time behind the taxi car until it is moving. You get out from the bicycle and started pushing it by the side of the taxi car squeezing through, just to get in front of the taxi. Yes, you succeeded and you are in front of the taxi and you continue your ride.  But the next moment the taxi car is leaving the spot and in a few seconds time you are being overtaken by the same taxi car.

Now let me ask you a question. What was the benefit of you overtaking that taxi with so much struggle? Did you save any moment in your life by that action? You could have just waited a moment, you would be still behind the taxi.  If you had stopped, you would have had a moment to take a deep breath in a relaxed manner, a break from the exhaustion you had from the ride. A moment of relaxation which will give you more energy to freshen up your journey. But nothing of that sort would come to your mind other than the need for keeping up the speed. That is the effect of living in a speed culture. 

The speed culture is teaching you to be fast and keep moving. The imposed speed culture slowly stealing your moments of relaxation without you being aware of it. Slowing Down in your life is a conscious decision, it cannot come into your life automatically. You will have to create a new mindset in order to enjoy those little moments to slow down. Otherwise you will move with the flow just like a piece of floating wood in a running stream.  And your health can be in a critical position.

If you don’t consciously slowdown in your life, you will be worn out earlier than you would expect. And once you are worn out you will be really slowing down, but that is not for the benefit of your life but rather that is the result of the exhaustion you had in your past! And you will never reach a stage where you are back to the cosmic speed, the speed of the universe. So be aware of the moments you get to slow down and make use of it. 

Life on earth is a wonderful thing. But the chances of living on the Earth is very limited. Your life can be just like a bug's life, routines and then death, so insignificant. 

Joemon Thekkaekurikattukunnal

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BELONGING

I have a very long surname, may be one of the longest in the world that belongs to me. Thekkaekurikattukunnal.

But the question is Where do I belong? It is a question consciously or subconsciously sometimes we all ask ourselves. And it takes time to answer that question.

There was a time when I was taught by my teachers that belonging means, being part of something. In other words, belonging means “longing to be” part of something, like, to be part of a family, to be part of a group, to be part of a political party and so on. And I believed in it for a long time.  Yes, that was my basic understanding when I hear about the word belonging. 

But in reality, we are simplifying and limiting a huge concept. Because the sense of belonging is natural and it is a human need, just like the need for air, the need for water and food, the need for shelter and clothing.

And therefore, belonging for me is something universal. Everyone have the need for it. So, the sense of belonging we cannot just limit to a family, or to a particular group, or even to a religion. 

For me belonging is part of an internal search that will lead me to  bigger spectrum, it is a journey, it is a journey towards a larger entity. And it is a journey towards an unlimited source of energy. So, we need to find in ourselves first, the source of energy. And we should connect it to the universal energy where our belongingness is unlimited.

I would say it is better if I can belong to this universe and its unlimited energy which is still expanding endlessly every moment, to belong to it, to be part of that universal energy. Yes, that should be my goal. And that should be the goal of everyone.

And for me, belonging to the universal energy is a higher level of belonging. And I am sure it will be all inclusive. And there are no boundaries, and there are no strings attached to it. And there is an absolute freedom. The freedom of limitlessness. My belonging should make me free.

To reach that level of belonging is not an easy task.  But there is an entry point, that is meditation, where you reach out with your inner self and get reconnected to that universal energy where you are not alone and where you actually belong. That is belonging for me. In that belonging you too are there and everyone is there !!!