TECHNO CRAZY?

A HEART THEORY ?

Allah is compassionate and loves compassion in all things.
- The Prophet Muhammad
A very interesting dialogue or conversation that I had yesterday with one of my dearest friend led me to propose something I claimed to be a Heart theory. He insisted to tell me what it actually is and if I can direct him to some website, book or a video that he can analyse what I was talking about. I so dearly wished to tell him that he knows about it and it is everywhere but just that I knew he would't take it for its face value. Most of the times, grand things when presented in a simple manner aren't welcomed. So I thought of presenting it to my friend in the grandest of manner that he would think is sufficient to believe in and give a similar welcome to his heart.The very point is that I am sure my friend would believe/believes in what I would say, he actually didn't want to hear it, the various aspects which I now present.

Now what kind of theory was/am I talking about? Is it something alien? And to introduce such a philosophy I would quote the lines of a wonderful ophthalmologist(surgeon) Dr. Aravind at ted.com, "When we grow in spiritual consciousness,there is no exploitation ...It is ourselves we are helping,it is ourselves we are healing."


It was told to me by the dear friend that there is a website called www.ted.com and that it brings in some great work, speeches and technological innovations on one platform for free. So, I went to the website and I was amazed to see invaluable stuffs lined up at one place and then I started watching some videos. The first video that I came up was about an Indian genius Pavan Mistry who was talking about the sixth sense that he had developed in the form of a gadget/device that can help us relate our physical world with that of the digital one. Now as I was watching, it somehow came to my mind that are we really using our five senses to think about having a sixth or do we really need such a thing? it was just an innocent query that i had. What I would stress at this point is that I love technology and am too engrossed to say that I do not and I know i will fail if I say so. So why do I say that do we need such technologies? why did my heart at the very first place query about it?

As Dr. Aravinda rightly says that when one does it for others it is one's own self that gets benefitted. But such a circumstance or thought process that leads to such spiritual awakening is not limited to an innovation or a technological development. Such developments acts as a tool or an enabling medium but are not 'THE ONLY SOLUTION' or 'THE ONLY THING at the least! It is very important to note that for Life to exist on this planet there exists an infinite number of balanced circumstances. And even with all these circumstances available we see Lives that are not ready to live or exist, lives that are either destroyed by their own self or by the other external factors.
So what is 'THE THING' or 'THE NECESSITY' ?It is but the WILL to live , the WILL to let others live and the WILL to provide equal opportunity to everyone around. It is also termed as the Golden rule of confucius "Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself" and The Charter of Compassion followed by ted.com adopts the same.Now if there is a will to treat every other being as EQUAL then the mean or the methodology involved to create such a situation can be many with multitude of possibilities. But when we tend to over depend on the means and forget that it is the very WILL that is important to initiate anything or let any change occur, then we are certainly led astray. And now If I agree that technology is important and that the HEART theory is adopted by the people at ted.com, then what is the reason for such skepticism?

That is the next important question that my friend might ask me after reading the above. Now, when we look into the history of mankind we have seen that kingdoms, republics and democracies have all in their pursuit of power crushed the weak and somber. Such an injustice led to a revolution and such revolution toppled the authoritative rule to create another republic or democracy so that it can rule and crush the poor and the tiny through its policies and doctrines. Amidst all this what is seen to SHINE is not the means or methods that led to revolution, political or technological, but the WIll of the people and the NEED of the day.


The question series will come with what is the NEED of the day? The need of the day is quite universal all across the globe; it is to provide equal opportunities of food, clothing, shelter, housing and all basic amenities needed for a healthy and prosperous life to all. But, until the Capitalist tendency of amassing and concentrating the wealth in the hands of greedy by fooling the needy exists such equality will cease to exist. And all such wonderful technological innovation will and cannot reach the needy to accomplish their desired purposes.
I would quote Mr. Hope Mr. Change Mr. We Can Mr. Barack Obama "
You know, there's a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit -- the ability to put ourselves in someone else's shoes; to see the world through the eyes of those who are different from us -- the child who's hungry, the steelworker who's been laid-off, the family who lost the entire life they built together when the storm came to town. When you think like this -- when you choose to broaden your ambit of concern and empathize with the plight of others, whether they are close friends or distant strangers -- it becomes harder not to act; harder not to help."


Another take on this. To really understand what my heart's query is, I again queried about the usefulness of such developments in the past and their effectiveness to us the users. I see that with technological developments our tasks have become easier and less burdensome. It has made the world a much smaller place and has allowed me to connect with my family members residing on a very distant point from my dwelling point in the geographical map with quite an ease. I am no technology hater , I stress again! But I do see my young friends getting lost into these technologically advanced gadgets, i do see my young kids getting older in a much young age. I can see the kids losing on their innocence and getting smarter with their blogs and xbox or nintendo games. I see my friends glued all long on their laptops and ignore the beautiful sunshine or the cool evening breeze. I do see my friends ignoring their culture, their religious ethos, their basic discipline as all of them at once would say IMPATIENCE is the word of the day. From where I see Impatience it leads to anger which leads to grief and it in turns leads to misery and gradually it leads to the FALL!

So to conclude:
1) It is the Golden rule that is important; means can vary.
2)If one is led by point 1 then one can do wonders, the opposite leads to the FALL.
3) Technology is wonderful only if we know its USAGE, its disadvantage and its availability to the masses.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.- Martin Luther King Jr.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair - Abraham joshua

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. - Albert Einstein


PS: i have not written anything new and that i am sure that poeple at ted.com would agree with it. I just wanted to re emphasize what my HEART spoke to me and thats my HEART theory.