Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Human and sub-human worlds coexist in our own time!

What I find is humans are basically caught intheir own world of making, where greed and pelf and power rule. We ultimately become sub-humans. Recently after commenting on the way we govern ourselves, I realised, I have not understood their world. In their own world of value systems, they think and revel that they are doing fine. may be happy that way. How can you deny that the worm must be enjoying its own world of mud and filth.

Different worlds co-exist even at this time as we can see-in the same space and time, and it is ultimately a matter of choice where we want to be. Taking judgmental views, hence, seems to be pointless.

The karma phala chases and the consequences of actions inexorably drives the events. Certain kinds of joys one gets are so instantaneous and it is followed by deep depression. Again a matter of choice. Some keep doing the same thing to have that instantaneous gratification, suffer the depression and again hanker for the same state of instant bliss.

Best is to choose your world of karma, where you do not get instant gratification, but gain equanimity when you neither get such instantaneous joy followed by depression, but a steady state of appreciating the forces working behind the events occurring around and remain mere observer, and be filled with wonder at the interplay of these forces in creating the different worlds around us.

May be the only action worth an evolved person is to work for uplifting sub-humans to realise true potential of being real humans.



Saturday, December 18, 2010

Former Governor of RBI Sri YV Reddy and I

Former RBI Governor : "PPP in the infrastructure area is private profit at the cost of public expenses"

[News Reports]

Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010

In a one to one discussion almost 6 years ago when he was in Reserve bank, I argued the same thing and he agreed with me. Same thing about derivatives, and when Government allowed PSUs to also to indulge in interest rate swaps, I was unhappy and he too cautioned me. But dynamism in finance officers to realise the initial cash flow benefits to present a better balance sheet was difficult to rein in. With all precautions, after 4 years of such swaps, we found the going tough, but on longterm it all evened out and I sighed with relief.

Reddy is one single person in the Government, who can be credited to have kept our finance system from a bankruptcy, even when he was goaded to become more relaxed and allow the unbridled derivative market to flourish.

The current PPP projects actually are means to inflate capital costs and benefit to a large extent the private parties with public funding. But the argument is that we get a nice shiny metros etc but the hidden costs are like the scam of telecom; some make undue profits. The telecom revolution in India brought cell phone to every vegetable vendor and auto-ricksha driver and villagers are well connected. So what if Raja or Radia or Tata made some extra bucks?

Similarly the contractors in roadways, power sector and metro construction, within 3 to 5 years rose from turn overs of Rs 10 to 50 cr levels to the Rs 2000 cr and Rs 5000 cr turnover. It is a matter verifiable record.

Wealth and confidence of these individuals is some thing to be seen. They have become so powerful that now a days they just tick off the very officers who made them so rich, with immense arrogance. They offer employment to these officers and throw crumbs, while for their Project Heads, they recruit either an Australian or Malaysian!!!

But why not? Some even shifted from real estate in to advanced telecom 2G license auction and sell off the same at huge profits.

PPP is not bad if you do not worry about the minor irritant of public money getting laundered back to political bosses and the facilitators of the process.

Reddy belongs to old guard and I recollect fondly the time I used to spend with him in Reserve Bank, when I was in Mumbai.

Well time passes and greed now rules. Then rules follow greed!

B Rajaram

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

What a great sense of fulfillment I have and am grateful for the same to all those who helped me!

Last fortnight was very hectic moving from one place to another every second day. Covered Kadapa, Mantralayam, Tirumala twice, Bengaluru, Hole Narsipur visiting relatives, friends, powerful soothing sacred divine presence, revered learned and highly respected Gurugalu, Moola Sri Rama Devaru, just to mention a few. It gave me great happiness to see the second generation youngsters taking life in stride and managing the tough competition of modern world with aplomb, cool and collected.

It was so wonderful to meet the noble souls who are proactively promoting the new experiment in education by founding Poornapramathi School to give an allround developmental education, starting from lower KG. The tiny tots in the school look so cheerful and are devoid of fear. We pray for success of this novel experiment where spiritual, emotional development factoring in our ancient wisdom along with modern educational requirements are seamlessly getting integrated.

I and my wife were happy to be taken care of by them. Experienced many a divine grace and some events are truly emotionally redefining my attitude to life and people. Suddenly one starts seeing the world in a different power spectrum of vibrations and colours with an inner understanding so different from what one normally experiences the jagat.

At the same time I kept on typing out my manuscript for submission to APM 2011 Paris Conference, who approved my abstract earlier and invited me to personally present the Gravity Powered Transportation systems for Rail, Road, water and air modes, on May 26th and 28th 2011. I had to meet he dead line of submission on line by 15th Dec 2010.

We returned to Hyderabad only on 13th Dec, and finally today 14th Dec 2010, I successfully uploaded the manuscript for inclusion in the Conference Proceedings.

Well the writing has been an inspired one written in all our holy places.

My earnest prayer is this effort of mine, has some purpose to serve the needs of humanity. This is the first step in reaching the international community and open the forum for discussion and debate. The power and merit of the concept will have to stand the scrutiny and meet the verification and validation requirements.

Yes my four years of hard work will be put to the litmus test of international scrutiny and acceptance.

During this period of delivering the paper, I had to ruthlessly empty my inbox of all mail received and could not devote any time to friends too! Hope they bear with me!

Yes I do have a sense of good feeling one gets, after finishing an intense mentally challenging task having a serious purpose and where you have to defend your work in the harsh uncompromising glare of professional scrutiny of experts in the field of auto mated transportation systems.

It is exciting to pit yourself in professional debate with the best of minds in the world.

Preparation time for me till I face the honoured community in May 2011.