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Articles are from my book on philosophical inquiry also previously given as talks between me and my earthly father

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.

The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan".. All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A.... (substituting grades for dollars - something closer to home and more readily understood by all).

After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.

The second test average was a D! No one was happy.
When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.

As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.

To their great surprise, ALL FAILED and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed. Could not be any simpler than that. (Please pass this on) These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read and all applicable to this experiment:

1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.

2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!

5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.

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  Vajramukti Yoga Foundations Dear Brian I agree with you about nations building to some extent but i have a different thought process to put forth like if all people who have account in certain bank and all of them go to bank for taking their money . Bank will go bankrupt since the money is only in numbers.It is being played by speculation by smarter peoples or organization or conventionally called as countries. My father asked me a question regarding Gandhian way and modern way and its effect which i am giving here. Father is termed as Pitaji in Hindu terms this is the extract from my book on philosophical inquiry as Upanishads here it goes ...Pitaji you have asked me how Gandhijis philosophy is related with modern way.Its saving the world from the advertisement of the so called advancement it’s a form of check for innovators.
  
  The Gandhian philosophy was a very basis of ecofriendliness. He advocated every individual to make or weave his own cloth, which helps the nature to grow in its mutual aid taken from Russian philosopher Krpotkin.
  Gandhiji philosophy of sarvodaya and antyodaya was remarkable. He got this idea from Ruskin’s book unto this Last, which brought an instantaneous and practical transformation in life. The basis of the book is mystical incidence taken from Biblical story. Mystics come to give us logical perspective not to take us out from one illusion & put into another, so says present Perfect Master Gurinder Singhji, we must have logical conclusions of whatever we do in our lives.
  The Biblical story unto which it is based is very human ... “The kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a vineyard who went out early in the morning to hire some men to work in his vineyard. He agreed to pay them the regular wage, a silver coin a day, and sent them to work in his vineyard. He went to the market place at nine o’clock and saw some men standing there doing nothing. So he told them, ‘You also go to work in the vineyard, and I will pay you a fair wage, so they went. Then at twelve O clock and again at three O clock, he went to the market place and saw some other men still standing there, Why are you wasting the whole day here doing nothing?, he asked them. ‘It is because no one hired us’, they answered, ‘well, then. You also go to work in the vineyard, he told them.
  When evening came, the owner told the foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, starting with those who were hired last and ending with those who were hired first’. The men who had begun to work at five o’ clock were paid a silver coin each. So when the men who were first, to be hired thought they would get more; but they too were given one silver coin each. They took their money and started grumbling against the employer.’ These men who were hired last worked only one hour they said, “while we put up with a whole day’s work in the hot sun yet you paid them the same as you paid us! ‘ ‘Listen friend, the owner answered, I have not cheated you. After all you agreed to do a day’s work for a silver coin. Now, take your pay and go home. I will give unto this last, even as unto thee. Don’t I have the right to do so as I wish with my own money? Or are you jealous because I am generous? And Jesus concluded. “So those who are last will be first, and those who are first will be last’.
  Gandhiji advocated making our own cloth to help nature and humans to grow in mutual aid, in reference to ecology. Kropotkin disputed the very basis of Darwinism, the survival of the fittest and said that on the contrary nature’s first principle is mutual aid. Relationships between and within species are not primarily aggressive but co-operative; it is not so much a struggle as of symbiosis.
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Dr Chandra shekhar sitting at the feet’s on right side of Martial arts legend Dr Ram Bhosle the descendent of Shri Chattrapati Shiwaji Raja Bhosle student of Sir Herbert Barker of United Kingdom seated in between. On left side of Dr Ram is Michael Trembath who wrote a book on Dr Ram “The hand that heals” inspired by Dr Chandra shekhar and Pradeep kamat.Dr Ram was very keen for the work on self inquiry and way of electricity to be published.He used to say chandrashekhar actually first aeroplane was tested at this land of Marathas on the basis of viman shastra of Bharadvaja muni but the man who did had disappeared.

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Wishing all a happy English New year sitting at the foot hills of Himalayas and enjoying tea thoughts coming are Your mind is scattered. Worldly learning scatters the mind.Simple minded folks go in easily.the hill people in this country are such, and in several cases their souls went in at once as so on as the secret of concentration was imparted to them. Therefore, what is required on the path is simplicity of mind.faith and love.Any one interested to keep charity workshop or training around Globe can contact us at vajramuktiyogafoundation@yahoo.com

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF KUNG FU YOGA Yoga has captured the attention of the West as the latest fashion. Celebrities such as Sting, Woody Harrelson and the Grateful Dead have made it part of their practice.Even Madonna attributes her latest incarnation (albeit sacrilegiously) to yoga. And just the aerobics craze found new life by fusing with martial arts and jazz dance, martial arts have also begun making some similar trendy fusions to yoga. Not only are many martial artists practicing Yoga as cross training, new hybrids are being born out of the imaginations of both savvy salespeople and sloppy translators. Taoist Yoga, even Shaolin Yoga, have begun to emerge as the new thing on the health scene and in the martial circles. But what is Yoga exactly and how does it relate to martial arts? Most Westerners only think of Yoga as extreme contortionist-like stretching in truth, it is a much more profound discpline than most of those fad followers believe. Yoga is a time- honoured method of self-realisation than may even be the very root of martial arts The word 'Yoga' comes from the same root as the word 'yoke' and it is documented as early as 2000 BCE. What most people envision to be Yoga, those contortionist postures, is really only one small aspect of a much larger field of practices. Those postures are called 'Asana' which translates as 'seat'. According to the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, the fundamental text of Yoga by the 'father' of Yoga. Asana is the third 'limb' of an eightfold path known as 'Ashtanga'. The other seven limbs are Yama (observance of morals), Niyama (self-restraint), Pranayama (breath control), Pratyahara (sense inhibition), Dharana (concentration), Dhyana (meditation) and Samadhi (ecstasy). Beyond this, there are many other forms of Yoga, such as Karma Yoga, which is sort of like a discpline devoted to doing good deeds. Essentially, Yoga embodies a wide variety of discplines that are vehicles for spiritual transformation. Generalizing Yoga to Asana alone is just as shallow as generalizing all martial arts to breaking boards alone. However this generalization persists in the West for the same reason breaking boards persists- it is spectacular media image of these ancient arts. This misconception muddles the creation myths of our own beloved martial arts. According to popular legend, Boddhidharma brought the direct lineage of Buddhism to China from India in 526 BCE. He arrived at Shaolin Temple in Honan, and founded Shaolin Kung Fu and Zen Buddhism (known as Chan in Chinese). This is the most common creation myth in martial arts, since Shaolin Kung Fu is also the root of main Japenese and Korean styles. Only three forms comprised Bodhidharma's Shaolin Kung Fu muscle tendon change (Yijinging), bone marrow washing (Xisuijing) and the 18 Arhats palm (Luohanshibazhang), Only the third form was martial the first two were Qigong forms. Since Bodhidharma was Indian, many sources postulate that he based his Shaolin Kung Fu upon Yoga. The postures of Yoga Asana do bear a striking resemblance to posturs of Qigong, so much so, that one cannot help but wonder. Was there a connection between Yoga and KungFu? The answer is very confusing. As previously mentioned. Yoga Asana, is only one aspect of Yoga. Many martial scholars make common mistake of inferring Bodhidharma's teachings were based on Yoga because Yoga Asana resembles Qigong. This is a little misleading. Some Yoga scholars do not believe that many Asana (at least those postures that resemble Qigong) were even around at the time of Bodhidharma. The only Asana that can be confirmed archeologically is padmasana, or 'seated lotus' position. This pose is fundamental in many meditation practices. Indeed, Bodhidharma was most famous for his practice of sitting meditation. According to legend he sat meditating on a rock for nine years. Sitting meditation is the cornerstone of his innovation of Buddhism, Zen. In fact, he invented Shaolin Kung Fu because he felt that the monks of Shaolin who were too weak to endure the hardship of prolonged meditation, So if lotus was the only asana of Bodhidharma's time and if he did incorporate it into his new Kung Fu practice, it might be said that Shaolin Kung Fu was based on Yoga Asana.This is still based on a lot of assumptions, but at least the terminology is more accurate. A more intriguing theory is that Bodhidharma based Shaolin Kung Fu Pranayama. Pranayama is the fourth limb of Patanjali's Yoga. Like Qigong, Pranayama refers to the exercises that cultivate the life force that resides in the breath. This concept alienates most Western post- Descartean thinkers; our worldview separates mind and body. A life force that resides in the breath has no place here. Breath is body and life force is mind. The idea of something that is both upsets our dominent paradigm. However, the ancient Greeks had shared this breath life-force philosophy of the Indians and the Chinese. They called it Pneuma. This is the same root word from where we get 'pneumonia'. Lanuage fossils of this idea are more evident from the Latin root word 'spirare'. This is where we get the words 'spirit' and 'respiration'. The link between breath and life force is clearly seen in words like 'inspiration', 'expiration', and 'aspiration'. More subtle examples exists in terms like'conspiracy', which can be interpreted as both 'to breathe together' as well as 'to share the same spirit.' By embracing these ancient philosophies, mind and body can be reunited and Qi (or Prana or Pneuma) becomes more comprehensible. Ironically, some translators have chosen to call Qigong 'Taost Yoga'. English has its limitation. We have no words for Qigong or Yoga in English. The advantage of English is that we can just adopt these words from their original language. While 'Taoist Yoga' might appeal to some new age marketers, it is kind of like calling instant ramen noodles-'Buddhist spaghetti', It is confusing enough without scrambling terms. Qigong in China predates Bodhidharma by several centuries. Even if he added Yoga Pranayama to his two forms of Qigong, the results are undistinguishable. While Bodhidharma's Qigong methods are elegant, Qigong has long standing precedents that surpass his contributions. So if neither the physical poses of Asana, nor the breath control method of Pranayama which contribute to the movements of Bodhidharma's Qigong, can we still say that KungFu find its roots in Yoga? The answer lies in the seventh limb of Patanjali's eightfold path- Dhyana (meditation) Both of the terms Zen (short for Zenna) and Chan (short for Channa) were phonetic translation of Dhyana. This was the soul of Bodhidharma's contributions. He infused meditation into martial practice. Common sense, backed with archaelogical evidence, clearly show that martial practices existed in China previous to Bodhidharma. So why is Bodhidharma even credited as the founder of Kung Fu? It was his introduction of meditation to martial arts that revealed the heart of Yoga spiritual transformation. Bodhidharma elevated martial skills into a vehicle for spiritual transformation. He put the 'art' into martial arts. On this level, martial arts became just as B.K.S Iyengar says, 'It is like Yoga' Before Bodhidharma, martial arts were just a means of self-defence. Today, in his wake, it can become a method of self-realization. Today,it is easy to loose sight of the spiritual aspecially in the martial arts. Each day brings another deluge of information overload, stressing our attention to its breaking point, and jamming our ability to focus on the clear pursuit of the way. We get defensive. We forget Bodhidharma's teachings. Right now, many new practitioners completely disregard any notion of spirituality. Eager to ride coattails of the latest fashion trends, Kung Fu and Yoga have become strange bedfellows in today's health clubs. It is a strange twist, perhaps another repercussion of our mind-body worldview, which has placed these two venerated vehicles for spiritual transformation in our gymnasiums of physical transformation. From out of China's Wushu Guan and India's Yoga Ashrams and the shimmering silks and diaphanous cottons of the master of old. Now it's all spandex and logos. No more burning incense to honour our ancestors Bodhidharma and Patanjali. In fact, a few healyh club practitioners even know who these seminal figures are. Instead it is the latest exercise machines and boon boxes. The health clubs tend to greatly simplify the disciplines to give them the wildest appeal. Yoga is often reduced to the Asana alone just as martial arts are often reduced to only aerobic kicking and punching. The deeper meanings beneath the underlying philosophies are usually lost. While many of today's instructors struggle to maintain an air of tradition in their health club classrooms, the main marketing motivation for many of those clubs is the vain pursuit of a higher butt. While this might be a supplementary bonus, imagine Bodhidharma's reaction. This is most evident in cross training. Yoga is said to compliment martial arts and vice versa. In its actuality, both Yoga and martial arts are complete systems. Study either one thoroughly and there is no need of anythimg else. The concept of complimentry training implies that there is a deficit. But after a thousands of years of research and development, neither Yoga nor Kung Fu has any gaps to be filled. Both disciplines offer a fullfilling lifetime quest; all that need be done is that you pursue it for a lifetime. It is only our MTV- driven attention span that makes us move to the next thing before truly engaging the previous one. There have been some hybrids of Kung Fu and Yoga like 'Shaolin Yoga' designed to catch our attention with the promise of filling the two 'needs' at once. For the most part, these mongrel schools are really marketing ploys, not actual innovation. Both compound the issue. As a matter of fact, there is ALREADY AN EASTERN FUSION OF YOGA TO MARTIAL ARTS THAT COMPLETELY OMITS BODHIDHARMA. THE MODERN INDIAN MASTER CHANDRA SHEKHAR BHATT IS AN EXPONENT OF A HYBRID OF MARTIAL ARTS AND YOGA KNOWN AS V A J R A M U K T I HE HAS HAD ENOUGH OF A FOLLOWING TO PUBLISH BOOKS, BUT YOU WOULD HAVE TO GO ALL THE WAY TO BOMBAY TO TRAIN WITH HIM. Despite these criticisms, this new popularity actually reflects upon both discpline, because now they are availiable to a greater population. While health clubs are far from ideal settings to study either Kung Fu orYoga, they are better than not studying at all. And many of those new converts may eventually seek to fill the spiritual vacuum by pursuing the arts on a deeper level. The next generation of traditional practitioners. When the fact die down, a fraction of those followers will undoubtedly remain to join our martial community more seriously. Growth, expansion. empowerment- we are all seeking some sort of transformation. Whether it is the elusive feeling of security of crime ridden streets, or the shedding of a few unwamted pounds, or even the pursuit of spiritual ecstasy, we are all on our own personal quest. We choose the ancient paths as a means os transformation to these transformations. And yet, these ancient paths are modern incarnations that must grapple with modern misconceptions. Martial arts are built on the insecurity and paranoia of violence. We can easily slide into a combat mode; after all, it is hard to be spiritual when someone is kicking you in the head. But that spiritual aspect remains for those who wish to pursue it. Yoga is unencumbered with the burden of violence, so its means misconceptions too, they are not as pronounced as ours are. Almost 15 centuries ago, Yoga offered the martial arts to self-realization. The door is still open. but leave your boom box behind

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