Monday, December 27, 2010

My Drawings

I was very interested in drawings while studying 11th and 12th grades in school. I used to draw many pencil arts. The interest suddenly caught me and suddenly left me or i didn't mind to continue it. Here are few of my drawings done during my 12th grade. I am not mentioning the name of the person/celebrity in the drawings and leaving it to your guesses.














Dreams - Revisualization

Dreams are a succession of images, sounds or emotions that pass through the mind during sleep.The content and purpose of dreams are not fully understood, though they have been a topic of speculation and interest throughout recorded history. The scientific study of dreams is known as oneirology. For more information about dreams please visit this Wikipedia page about dream.

Many (almost all) would experience dream. Dreams are visual sequence of related or unrelated events which are recently or deeply stored in our brain. Normally people who are in dream can be identified with the REM (Rapid Eye Movement), that occurs in sleep. Some will take it serious and analyze it's cause and effect while some will leave it. I sometimes do write the events that happen in my dream.

Dream 1:

Note: I had this dream on 24th Sept 2006 early morning. I can now make a slow run after my bike accident on 8th Jul 2006. I also got a new friend but haven't met her yet.
Visual Events:
I am visiting my dad's friend's new house which is still under construction. He is an astrologer. Looks like am not alone there. I am getting out a car on the road side. The car continues to the new house while I take some short route to the same place (not sure why I got down and started running when the car too going to same place?). A few yards of running on the road, then over a steep and down the steep now I am reaching the house. There she comes to introduce me her friend's new house that is being constructed. I have a feeling that I already visited this place earlier and used the same short route which I used now (is it a different dream I had earlier or a projection of same dream?). She is lean, slim and dressed in black. She is about to say that this is her friend's house and before she does I am saying to her that this is my dad's friend's house and also I said that his daughter is my friend. She turns looking at me and quickly running off to the place next to the house. I am following her the way she ran and reaching a room (may be her home?). I see her crying in the next room which is directly straight to me and the entrance I came by is left to me. She sees me and started shouting at me to get out off her and leave that place. There is someone in the room apart from us. I am with a smile leaving the place.

Dream 2: Exam fear
This dream I don't remember exact date and time, but the year may be 2008. It goes like this. I am preparing for my 12th exam but finds difficult to study or having some hindrance in writing the exam. I am too worried about the exam. I didn't write the exam well or I didn't attend the exam, I don't remember exactly which one. Then am thinking that let it be if I don't write exam as I already wrote the exam and passed so no need to worry for now.

I had this kind of dream a couple of times. My friend/colleague Anand also had discussed with me that he is too having the same kind of dreams very frequently. This exam fever is chasing many of us in dreams even after completing the graduation and while in Job. Sad!

Dream 3: Assorted
This dream contains different unrelated events, though I had this dream in a continuous sleep on 1st of Feb, 2007.
Note: The Ripon building which I had in the dream is few meters walk from my home where I was residing. Also few days before I with my brother Vignesh visted an orphanage in Velachery, Chennai organised by a group of people called Chennai Social Workers (CSW). The previous day I saw few logo designs for CSW in my PC and asked my brother whether I can design one. He said they already assigned the work to some person, so not required.

Visual Event 1:
I am standing next to the medical shop near Ripon building signal, Chennai. The sky looks like it is an early morning or evening, neither dark nor bright. There is some war going against India by some country. The place I am standing is going to be bombed. There are many people standing with me (not sure whether they are my relatives and family) and all are aware about the attack that is going to happen. In a few while I see the war flights coming in some distance. When nearing my place, the flights have released 4 or 5 atomic bombs.The bombs quickly hit the ground few hundred meters from where I stand. I am facing towards the medical shop and watching the flights leaving that place. A sudden explosion happened from the bombs that hit the ground and the buildings around started collapsing. All are running around me, trying to escape from that place.

Visual Event 2:
I am at my home with my brother Vignesh near me, though the room we are standing does not belong to my real home. In that room there is a big hole or box which is covered with many small boxes and other materials. My brother saying to me that there is some evil or zombie inside there and if you remove those small boxes and you can see it. I am carefully removing those small boxes one by one. After few boxes removed, I heard that voice something like a zombie. I don't remember what happened there but a couple of conversations happened.

Visual Event 3:
My brother Vignesh's friends from Chennai Social Workers (CSW) coming to my home. There is about 6 to 7 people total out of which 2 girls, where none of there faces recognised as people from actual CSW. One or two in the group seems to be Vignesh's school friends. They are coming to create some designs for the group CSW. They all seated near the PC and designing something like a banner of logo (I don't remember exactly). I am going near them and thinking whether I should do that design. Then they are having a few conversations and me too in the group. A girl from the actual CSW also there at this time. She is saying about the conversation they were having. I am not sure whether I participated in the conversation.

More dreams to follow...

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Da Vinci Code

After mentioning Angels and Demons in one of my previous posts, I could not stop writing about the Dan Brown, author of the best selling novels. Da Vince Code is the first novel I read of all Dan Brown's novels.

Initially I started reading the novel with what my friend had said earlier about the novel in my mind that the book deals with secrets of Leonardo da Vinci's paintings. The reading initiated slowly but soon it geared up speed with the speed of the novel and with the secrets of the novel getting revealed one by one. The way the script written, controversial storyline, revealing of the secrets one by one slowly, the facts and information described and the plot twists, surely the novel impressed me a lot. Inspired by the novel Da Vinci Code, I started searching about the works of Dan Brown and started reading his other novels Angels and Demons, Deception Point and then Digital Fortress.

How I got introduced with the Da Vinci Code is interesting. It was few years before, after my college, I with my friends was on a trip. While we are discussing about so many things, my friend John started about the novel knowing well that I am very much interested in the field of science. "You should try the book Da Vinci Code. It deals with secrets and hidden messages in the paintings of Leonardo Da Vinci" said John. He didn't mention it was a novel and so I thought it is some book explaining historical artworks. Few months later, one day I went to landmark with my friend where I saw this book in the novel section. This time I thought of giving a try and bought the book. Initial my slow reading of the novel geared up with the speed of the novel. I must say the movie Da Vinci Code is missing something from the novel.

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Ambigram

An ambigram is a word written in such a way that it is legible both rightside-up and upside-down. Ambigrams are a kind of ancient artform using words.

Ambi means "both"
Gram means "word"

First i've came to know about ambigrams is when reading Angels and Demons, bestselling mystery-thriller novel written by Dan Brown. The novel contains several ambigrams created by real-life typographer John Langdon. I liked all the ambigrams in the novel and visited the creator's website. The site contains so many ambigrams including his name (john langdon) itself. The website (http://www.johnlangdon.net) is worth a visit for the one who is interested in word art.

After seeing and inspired by those ambigrams, i decided to create one myself for my name. I tried a few times and succeeded in creating an ambigram for my name. Bad thing is i haven't tried to create anymore ambigrams after this. Now I am thinking to re-initiate the interest again.

Meaning of my Name?

Have you ever thought 'What actually the meaning of your name and where does it originated?'.

Of course most of us would have thought about it at some point of time and searched the meaning of our name. After all we live with this name from our birth then why shouldn't we take few moments to think and search its meaning.

When i thought about this and searched through Internet, I found the origin of my name is from Sanskrit. So what exactly does it mean? Pranam, in Sanskrit means 'Life' and Pranesh signifies something like 'Lord of Life'. Nice isn't it?

In my mid teen age, i haven't heard anyone with my name and found my name something different and unique. After my schooling, once reading a novel i found a character in that novel with my name. It was a kind of happiness that seeing my name in a novel. I hope most of the people had this same kind of feeling and experience in life especially at their adolescent or childhood days.

Later i found through orkut community that there are thousands of Pranesh around me :)

Ok, thinking enough blogging about my name. Hope you all enjoyed (at least not bored) reading this post.

What is Memory? Explained

This is my article on the section 'Memories' in 'Souls and Memories'. This article explains the relation between the souls and our memories. In my previous post, I have briefed about the birth, souls and memories. Hope it will be of some interest to you all. Comments are welcome.

What is Memory?
 
Memory is the storage of all information that we get from our environment. The sources of information are our five organs that is all the information we see, hear, feel, taste, and smell. But where does this information stored. It is in our brain? Yes, scientifically speaking, our brain stores all the data we perceive from our environment. The process of storage and retrieval of data in brain is under research. This fact is clear as per now. But when we are speaking apart from the science, closer to spiritual, it's getting more complex.

There are some news even now, around the world, says about persons getting their past memories. The thoughts relating to their past life, the person, things, and place are said to strike in their thoughts. Is it true? How could this be possible? OK for now let us hope that the past memories are only rumors.

Now, what about the persons who have the capability to think the future, scientifically called as Extra Sensory Perception (ESP)? ESP is the perception of any incident which is happening or going to happen in the future. There are many people lived and living with this ESP. Nostradamus is also a person with this power. Even though it is not proven scientifically and lacks practical proofs, it is evident that perception of future is possible in many cases like the writings of Nostradamus. If it is true that Nostradamus wrote about the future incidence, how could he do this? How could a person perceive the incidence which is going to happen 500 years after? Is this also a rumor? Or are they are the person with intellectual memory gifted by GOD or are they the real GOD? People believe in superstition praise them as if they are senders of GOD.

If we believe that the writings of Nostradamus and many others Super power persons then why couldn't we believe the past memories? Let us hope that perception of future and past is true. How could a person perceive it? Why some could do this while many others cannot? We'll find a solution for this question sooner!
Now we believe that the memories of past and perception of future are true. How one could get these memories? Scientifically speaking all information are stored in the brain and retrieved from the brain. Then past and future memories must also be residing in the brain. Is it possible? The body, brain, eyes, ears and everything which we have are all born only when were born. So how this brain could can get the information from outside its own environment. The environment not only differs in distance but also in time, a perception of the information, by our brain, in the 4th dimension.

This is where our souls come into the play. Shakespeare told that this world is a drama and we are mere actors. That is true. This world plays a drama which is already scripted. We play as per the scripts. Actually this brain does not really store all the information. It temporarily processes the data and information and sends to the environment and gets from the environment. The real memories are our Souls. It is the one which stores the information of past, present and future. Actually it does not get its input very frequently because as I already mentioned; our life is a preprogrammed play. For more details about the souls refer to the chapter Purpose of Birth and Death.

So the souls store the complete information and this brain temporarily stores and processes that information for our present life. There is always a communication between the brain and the souls at all stages and all levels. Through deep meditation we can increase our communication bandwidth between our brain and the soul. The more bandwidth implies the increased communication between the brain and the soul or present world and the spiritual world. Yes, the communication to the soul is the communication to the spiritual world. Souls are not physical thing which we could feel and touch. It can only be felt. It is not materialistic. Ultimate deep meditation results in an open connection with the brain and the soul that is between us and the spiritual world. There are many human being has attained this stage. Gautama Buddha is one of them who have attained this. That is why we call him gnyani, yogi. Also some can get a small connection between the brain and the spiritual world, makes them to perceive the memories of the soul, it's past, and/or future. This happens erroneously or purposefully due to their karma and punya.

Spiritual World
 
Few words about the spiritual world: Spiritual world is not a materialistic world what we live; it cannot be seen or felt. It is full of telepathic world. It is not a world separated from us. It is not a place where aliens live. It is the unseen paradise in our world. It is the world combined with the materialistic world. Every soul belongs to this spiritual world and there must a mother of all souls which plays this complete drama. It is this mother soul (Paramatma) which programmed each and every living creature's life and allows its child souls to pick the body which it chooses to live. The knowledge is a open environment for these souls. These souls have open access to the knowledge. The power of brain to communicate with it soul makes it to get the some information from the knowledge database which is fully accessible to the souls. One who has attained gnyana means that he has open communication with his souls. As the spiritual world is telepathic and every soul can communicate fully with others, one who has open communication with his soul is also able to communicate with other souls too and with the open knowledge database. This makes him to tell about past and future accurately. One who opened to the spiritual world also reached up to the feet of mother soul.

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Souls and Memories

This post is about something which had created a deep thinking in me during my early college days. My thoughts transformed into a form after I started having so many discussions with my friend Suriya, who used to speak more about science and spirituality. I had planned to write this article in detail as a book relating the souls and our memories and the way the communication happens. This article was written after my graduation.


Purpose of Life
 
"What is the purpose of life on earth? What is the reason of my birth here? Is there anything special in it? Every people born, lives and then dies, but they wish to live a happy life while they live. Few able to succeed in that while few faces the failure. The same applies for me too. So is this the purpose of my birth? Or are there any other reasons for every living thing born?" These are few question and thoughts aroused in my mind when I was 19. These thoughts started floating through my minds after my schooling.

No living beings can survive and live the whole life without any help from other livings. Hence everyone at some point of time would need any help from others. I would like to quote the following words which I have read somewhere by some unknown author.

"No matter how much you have, no matter how much you have accomplished, you need help too. No matter how little you have, no matter how loaded you are with problems, even without money or a place to sleep, you can give help. Even if it's just a compliment, you can give that.

You never know when you may see someone that appears to have it all. They are waiting on you to give them what they don't have. A different perspective on life, a glimpse at something beautiful, a respite from daily chaos, that only you through a torn world can see".

The above words explain that every being are loaded with problems and need help to solve it. Also every being has the capability to help others, but the range of help differs.

This gave a solution for my previous questions. The purpose of my life here is to help someone, so that they can have a peaceful and happiest life. The purpose of life on earth is to help others and so they can/will help other and this cycle continues. If this is the purpose of our life then why should we hesitate to help other for solving/minimize their problems? Hence we should try our level best to solve the problems of others so that our problems will also be solved (by the cycle of help). If anyone hesitates to help others then, according to me, they are violating the purpose of their birth.

These thoughts directed me to another interesting thesis about knowledge, yogis and rebirth of athma.


What is Memory?

The data and information which we get from our birth is stored in our brain. Some person gets their previous birth memories. If it is true, then how and from where do they get those memories as this birth is completely independent of our previous birth? Though it seems to be independent, it is not completely independent. There is one common thing present in both the births, the soul, which is the real thing which chooses the body for its rebirth, to attain its goal. If some person can retrieve their pre-birth memories then where those information are stored? It is nowhere, but within ourself. Our soul contains all those pre-birth memories. If it has all pre-birth memories, then why not this birth's entire memories? Then, the real information which we get from the surrounding environment from our very birth or even from when we are in the early stage of fetus, are really stored somewhere else which only our soul can able to recognize and get. Then what is stored in our brain? What type of information our brain has? Might be the brain is storing only the information which are currently needed. To be clear with this, let us take the soul as similar to a permanent storage medium such as a Hard disk which stores all information from all births permanently. Our brain acts like a RAM in a CPU, which keeps the information needed for current running program, our present birth, as a temporary memory. On death the temporary memory may be lost from the brain, but the permanent data are stored somewhere else which can be interpreted and retrieved by our soul.

The ultimate goal of the soul might be to reach a birth less and deathless state.
 
Purpose of birth and rebirth
 
Why birth and rebirth happens? What this soul expecting, why it is taking new births again and again? The reason may be to know the TRUTH and to get into a state of birth less and deathless. To submerge itself within the mother soul (the mother of all the souls, PARAMATMA), who is the creator of all. He is the programmer, who programmed the life of each and every soul. All the souls behave in a preprogrammed fashion*. The soul chooses a body for its new life. The new present birth's life is preprogrammed and the hints are coded in every birth's body itself**. These hints reveal the secrets such as the life of the birth and also the life cycle of the soul.

* Every person's life is preprogrammed before his/her birth. This program fashion acts in a regular path with very slight deviations. These deviations are happened as a result of the type of activities we perform in our life. That is it is somewhat similar to a switch case program. According to the type of activities performed, the result is changed. However the final destination point of the birth may not be altered, which is a predefined climax. But only the life may find some deviations from its regular path.

** The hints are coded in the body reveals the secret of the life and soul. These hints are coded in palms, forehead, hands and fingers, and more. The positions of the planets during the birth time are also a type of code which reveals some secrets of the life.

Whatever happens, happens for a reason. We are incapable of perceiving the truth behind every event (or most events). What is the truth? The truth that, Gautama Buddha found under the tree Bothi. His life is destined to find the truth, but not others. May be there someone who is alive or already died or going to born who may have realized or will realize the truth. We are destined to do some other work (is it our duty?) while the truth will someday, eventually reach us.


Encoded Secrets
 
The nature plays an interesting role in creating the world. The nature (the mother soul/paramatma) has destined every Humans (is it only Humans?) life at the time of their birth (or may be before their birth) itself. Their destiny is not only known to the creator but also encoded in the materialistic world itself. If we are capable of deciphering these hidden information of life from the sources, then we can understand what exactly life is and what for it is destined for. Through thorough study, we can be able to modify the life path. It is like reprogramming the preprogrammed life. But there are many entities which hold every persons destiny from changing which is preprogrammed on his birth. To overcome all the hindrance, these entities also has to be identified and modified. It is like doing some parigaram to overcome some difficulties in life.

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Thanks for visiting my blog. Since out of interest I created this blog but don't want to disappoint my visitors without any content. So what do you find in this blog? You will find my thoughts, ideas and events that inspired and interested me. As an initiate, I'm posting my articles on the topic Souls and Memories. This blog is the first publish of my articles on spirituality. Soon I will be flooding with my posts, so don't forget to check frequently.

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