Silence Of A Lamb

If you expect a spine chilling info ahead, I regret this one doesn’t deal with Cannibals. It is not even nearby what portrayed in Anthony Hopkins’s brilliance in the early 90’s movie. It’s about silence and it is also about a Lamb. Lamb!!! Yup an herbivore’s week out to live in silence, not his experiences but my suppositions

No doubt by now many of you crossing the fingers to read further or not. Never mind, I am proceeding.

Our Lamb is a unique creature but a harmless one. Among the chosen few, this one derived his pleasure by feeding not only his friends but uninvited guests who pop up often at his premises without prior notice.

If you had a plan to slaughter our Lamb for your next supper, I warn you… he will show his other side, which u don’t want to see.

Recently our Lamb travelled 4500 kilo meters to the southern part of India in quest for his inner self. In the process of his search, he remained in silence for 7 days and meditating almost 16 hours every day.

I feel pity on many dumb parrot heads, can’t cease their vision and concentrate for 10 minutes.

24 x 7 x (1) in silence, how it will be… I could imagine to some extent. Lamb would have gathered enough information from few who attempted and succeeded in the past. I think, he also had much insight on… what will happen in the first place after the journey from his anarchic outdated city.

May be the 0^th hour approaching for the Lamb to start his silence…

10 seconds more, 9… 8… 7… 6… 5… 4… 3… 2… 1… 0

Quite a vibe, leading to stillness

Quite tranquil, imbibing tenderness

Quite stable, imbuing silence

Quite bright, diffuse to destiny

Quite nothing, yet everything

Quite quiet, quite quiet

APOCALYPTO – Hats off to Mel Gibson but…

I couldn’t pay attention anywhere else for 2 hrs & 15 minutes, even though it was not an English movie. Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto met the expectations. He also maintained the high standard set with Brave Heart. This movie is about the Mayan Civilization of Mexico and Central America. Note down, it’s a full length feature film in Yucatan Mayan language with English subtitle, like Passion of Christ in Latin and Aramaic.

The first fifteen minutes was amazing and made me to expect an absolute brilliance in the later stage. The same pace was maintained till the end. Yet, I am hesitating to recommend to any of my friends. I don’t know why.

The guy who played the lead role Jaguar Paw was outstanding in his job, I don’t remember his name but he definitely resembles Lewis Hamilton a bit.

There was 1 disappointment; there is no depiction of Mayan’s brilliance in Science, Engineering and Mathematics.

This movie triggered a question within me… Is it possible to outrun the destiny?

Briton Is Not A Secular State... my ordinary approach

It was surprising news to know Britain is not a secular state. In the early days, Church united 7 sovereign kingdoms of Angles and Saxons. Even now, Coronation of queen is performed by the Arch Bishop taking an oath to maintain the protestant established law across the United Kingdom.

There is quite an amount of pressure from various individuals and organizations these days for a shift to secularism. It may change the constitutional laws considering Her Majesty’s nation’s multicultural qualities.

I believe there is no need for secularism at all. It may seed another instance for a communal disturbances to an extent at constitutional level, which India is facing for the last two decades.

Anyway, that is not my concern, I will be much happier if the Monarchy declares national holiday for Diwali, Ramzan and much more.

Al-Jab’r W’al-Muqabala

In the earliest age of the gods, existence was born from non-existence.
The Rig Veda.

8th Century AD: The rulers of Islam conquered nearly half of the Europe and Asia. Their boundaries are drawn from China in the east to Spain in the west. The Indian subcontinent succumbed to never ending bloody battles resulted in ruthless killings and gruesome murders.

Baghdad being the heart of the empire and the cultural crossroad, the region flourished because of massive wealth and enormous quest for knowledge. The scholars of Baghdad in the House of Wisdom learned Indian Vedas, Upanishads, Western philosophy, Aristotelian doctrines etc.

Nothing can be created from nothing
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 99-55 BCE

Mathematics was one of the important subjects they dealt. The Islam and the west followed Aristotle’s theory of mathematics which never had Zero. In fact Aristotle was feared about the concepts zero, void, and nothingness. Since he never knows Zero, he never understood Infinity. There was a chaos among the Aristotelians while subtracting a number by itself. No one dared to discover the answer.

Where there is the Infinite there is joy, there is no joy in the finite.
The Chandogya Upanishad

Zero was deeply rooted in the Indian culture and it had an enormous importance with a spiritual meaning. Even the Hindu god Shiva had an incarnation called Nishkala, whom he is shapeless, formless and attribute less. Being nothing is everything is the scenario even today in Indian spirituality.

Does man forget that we created him out of the void?
The Koran

Even though Islamic scholars followed Aristotelians, they were not quite satisfied. The problem of zero always exists in their mind but Prophet Mohammad being the messiah was aware of the reality. One among those scholars was Al’ Khwarizmi, the renowned mathematician of medieval world and the hero of modern day mathematics who paved way for the birth of zero through his book al-Kitāb al-mukhtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-jabr wa-l-muqābala. Means “The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing”, the modern world got the words Algebra from Al’Jabr and Algorithm from Al’Khwarizmi.

Punch of 11^th Century AD: Interestingly the debate on Aristotle or Al’Khwarizmi continued until the Muslim philosopher Abu Hamid al-Ghazali declared adhering Aristotelian doctrine should be punishable by death.

Being omnipotent, god can create vacuum. There exists void!!!

Gowri Shankar 1978 - 20... AD

It is unfortunate; I wasn't there to explain Aristotle. He would have accepted my theory without hesitation.