Funny words.

What about House wife to describe a married woman who is not employed?
Is there an Office wife?(I am not talking about the the office wife).
Only now, in India Home maker is being used instead.Are there Home breakers as well?

Corporate Spiritual Gurus INC.

It is sickening to find many self styled Gurus who offer you right from Health,Wealth,Self Realisation,Yoga Mukti,Solution for World Problems.These gentlemen offer all this, with a fee ,of course.An International Company is coming ONLINE with Spiritual Solutions!
Some of them say they Teach Art of Living as if the Vedas teach the Science of Death.Hobnobbing with industrial bigwigs, politicians,addressing international forums who probably may not know what it is all about.They comment on Politics , international relations!
The concept of Guru is very high and very noble and He/She is held in high esteem.
There are vaious levels.
Upadhyayay is one who teaches the scriptures and performs regular rituals.
Acharya is one who initiates you in a particular Chapter,Shaka of Veads.
Guru is one who knows your spiritual needs and guides you through out.
A Guru never advertises for Shisyas(Disciples/followers)
They get attracted to him.If a seeker wants a Guru desperately, he will find him.Similarly a Guru shall find a disciple.
Guru does not charge.Vidya/Knowledge must not be sold , according to Scriptures .( so are Medicine, Food and Water)
He shall gladly accept what disciple offers him as a token of love as it were from his son.Even in cases where the Guru asked for Dakshina or fees, it is to demonstrate to the world the Greatness of his disciple.
Do the present Gurus hold a candle to this definition?
Ramana Maharishi, A realized Soul , when asked to initiate a disciple, replied”I can not eat for you;if you want to realize, you have to strive for it”
Bhagwan Sri Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita ‘You( Atman) is your only fiend and He is your only enemy’
Realization must be attained by individual effort, not by book knowledge or by paying Gurus.It calls for Practice(Sadhana) and Vairagya(determination)- Bhagavad Gita.
Guru is essential to your Spiritual need, but not these type of peddlers(imagine if Vedas and Yoga were to have been patented these guys would have been paupers long ago!).Vedas declare ‘If you sincerely seek a Guru, He shall come to you”
An example is Sir Arthur Osboune,who revered Ramana Maharishi as his Guru( though Ramana did not say so)
after desperate search for Guru in India.He even contacted Paramachaya of Kanchi.He told him” I am not your Guru;your Guru is Ramana,you will see him now, but you will not approve of him and go back; you shall return and accept him as your GURU’.It was so.
Where are these Great Souls and where are these jet setting charlatans?

Caste System-Part II

Caste system does not permit people to mistreat others. People often confuse Caste with Varna, which means group that has a particular disposition and vocation. What people are talking now is about caste, which is a distorted view of Varna, which has no sanction of Sastras, the Holy Writs. Most of the great sages and Gods worshipped do not belong to Brahmin community, supposedly higher in echelon. In the Holy Trinity of Brahma, Vishnu and Siva,Brahma and Vishnu are Kshatriyas while Siva is a Brahmin. Brahma and Vishnu are classified as above because one is originator (Brahma) of Life and Vishnu is a Protector, both functions are that of Kshatriyas while Siva liberates from the world through Knowledge and hence called a Brahmana. Society has been divided into four parts based on dispositions and profession. They are-Brahmanas-Education (both spiritual and Temporal) Kshatriyas-Rulers and Protectors Vaisyaas-Commerce people Sudras-People who support all the other three. Inter caste marriage was allowed then. Other castes are all man made, especially Dalits and there is no evidence in Shastras that a community of Dalits have been in existence on the lines explained above. A group of people were named as Panchamas, the fifth who were born of intercaste marriages whose disposition and profession was not very clear. They were the flotsam who did not specifically do a particular job and were doing jobs of all kinds; hence they could not be classified. Over a period of time, people, instead of assigning them a particular role in the Society, started using them for all jobs and they also complied with it. Thus were formed the Panchama Varna.Slowly as they belonged to no specific class, the were treated differently and they were left from the mainstream. This is the origin of Dalits. You will be surprised to know in the caste system, there is a group called Karai(Bund) Velalar, whose job is to maintain Tanks and bunds during rainy seasons,Kar Velalars who supervise the functions of the other group. Similarly every group/sub group has definitive function and they were treated with equal respect. People have distorted it with out understanding the concept and core idea and have misused it. It needs correction by educating people on this effective tool of Social control.. To conclude, the Sage who is worshiped as the Revealer of the Great, Core Hindu Prayer, which is regarded as Mother of all Prayers, The Gayathri Mantra is Viswamitra, a Kshatriya.