DISQUS

Interesting and Intriguing article :)
The word Demon is derived from the da_n of Sanskrit as opposed to Dae which simply means naturally arising, and letting things be and the other being forcing ones way, intruding into, arising uncalled, etcetera...from these two definition are derived swara and aswara or asura.
The word Ghost comes from Bhoot, which means past, or unwanted, or uncalled intrusion of the past into the otherwise natural unfolding of the present.

In this sense, we are invaded by ghost every day, hour, literally.

I think an Atheist can go this far, but he can also push little bit further, for example the self is something that extends out and spreads around arranging the surrounding into its own image and feelings. A house is arranged in a particular pattern, and patterns are after all like genes, a living and intelligent imprint of pure information, we are well aware how surrounding can attune us to its own moods.

Ok this far maybe ^_^
-rajiv

HI Naren, thats a pretty knotty problem you have raised here. Though I think (and this is just my personal feeling) I think that an atheist, kafir, nastik etc. are just words, and words that exist and shows up meaning something only in and within a theist vocabulary. And there lies our essential problem; and I mean “essential” in capital, that is as in essence, and essential-ism, that is to think and see only through and within the vocabulary of essences.
The question I often ask myself these days, is whether one can, if ever, start to see the deeper relations of language by banging our head into the wall.

The problem as I see is that in-spite of all the great religions, including the communist (I mean if being religious after all means to hold tightly to your beliefs and claims), the fact remains that our tendency to group, to rage wars, to be a bully in-spite of all the great prophets and their disciplinary regimes remain fundamentally unchanged. And this goes hand in hand with our failure to recognize that there is something terribly wrong at the very fundamental core of our beings.

Instead of facing up we seem to, or want to distinguish the true from the false, the right from the wrong, but, this ability, this access 'to and into' a knowing (as 'I know', 'we know', a typical religious trait) is simply nothing more then pre-informed reduction of what ever authorities have said and done, and in this sense we live a ghostly life, unable to see and think beyond what ever is informing us, thinking us, framing us.

To sound a bit silly, :) I feel that 'they all, the Saints, the Marxist, the Apostles, the Buddhist, The Sadus and Sad Guru's including Mr Bush, Blair and all are in some sense caught within proselytizing ghostly voices that claim them and these tongues/voices of the dead (bhoot after all means the past, the dead, the gone by) and they seem to be doing all the thinking and speaking for us and in some sense are the beings who are fundamentally determining our world. What we need in this hour of doom is a harry potter with his bhoot vidya :) Aaabra ka daaabra sort... Jokes apart, I think that the Marxist and Maoist are not even dealing with it, and in this sense they are worse.

And still, our future today depends upon whether man will ever be able to see all this and deal with it without pretence, deceit and self deception.
Or maybe, as a species we have already written ourselves off.


Comments aside: your site is really looking good.

I use Fedora as my Office front end (For Graphics and Animation) and Ubuntu on my home system for all and every other thing..and m loving it!

I also like to remaster my own Ubuntu clone called 'Pingu" which has lots of games (for my kids). Its a complete distro. I use Remastersys to achieve this.

o lay:) so we are after all birds of same feather ;)

Hi Naren Welcome to the world of Ubuntu :)
It a Vista killer 'I am using superlatives ;)' (no I dont wat to seduce you as it has its own problems)
All I can say is that I am using Linux for years now, no virus, no bloat-ware, I compile my own optimized software which runs 50 to 70 times faster then pre-compiled ones.

My laptop battery runs 30 to 40 percent more than XP-Home on Ubuntu because of better CPU scaling and multitasking.
Vista home is also fast but not optimized at the core level Cpu scaling, multitasking etc. and I think high power usage is due to NTFS limitations. Linux ext3 is a very advanced file system, very fast, I think second fastest (after ReiserFS) and at the same time is quite reliable and never fragments, so you never need to use a defrager.
It also holds the record of second longest running server after Unix.
There is an good comparison on wiki

nice read.
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