Understanding and Earning Greatness

Every great person is virtuous but every virtuous person is not great. Having virtues is a personalised trait but being great is a social trait which is held by fewer persons with virtues. Thus, greatness of a person is measured by his/her contribution to social causes of upgrading humanity. Thus, a great person has a wider influence than a virtuous person.

In simple words, a great person does something appreciable to help improve human society by teaching ways the people must live as social elements. It is best teached through inspiring others by one's own lifestyle and deeds, following the proverb 'deeds are better than the words'. Thus, to earn greatness, one has to first regulate his/her own conduct in the society. This may be called 'investing in oneself' to be able to inspire the people.

A great person always looks at the future, because the yesterday is gone and nothing can be done to change it, today is running and shall pass away in te process of improvements in the society. So, the great persons works in present time to build a brighter future for the humanity.

Third trait of a great person is that he knows how the things actually work. Mere philosophical preachings may help a society but in the long run. So, the great person does what works in te present circumstances. For this the person has to be optimistic, however, this may not be possible under all circumstances.

Although, pioneers of society have always been single individuals, but even they need help of some like-minded persons, who work as precious resources for improvements. Wider influence is no individual's work, the pioneer has to branch out through like-minded persons.

Future is not merely the time. It is always constituted of persons, or the future generations. So an important task of a great person is to build up future generations as better components of human society.

The Right Side of Influenza

Ionosphere of Earth carries a large number of life species in micro forms. Many of these, called bacteria or microbes (micro-bacteria), are injurious to health of humans, animals and birds, etc. These enter bodies of the victims through breathing air in a polluted environment. Within the body, these microbes keep on their life-cycles, causing inconvenience in breathing and other routines of the body. This disease is generally called flu (abbreviated form of influenza).

In humans, this disease has been known since scriptural times, but its occurrences in animals and birds are recent findings. In humans, influenza primarily causes increased flow of mucus through nose. Some of this mucus also flows in to the abdomen and lungs of the patient, causing severe breathing problems. For these reasons, influenza is considered as a disease and is cured through medication.

In fact, influenza is not a disease in itself, but an indication of existence of harmful microbes in the environment, the patient is breathing in. In human body, mucus is generated in the brain and keep on flowing downwards to every organ of the body to keep them moist and lubricated for actions. When the body senses presence of harmful microbes in the breath-in air, it sends signal to the brain to produce excessive mucus to the nose. This mucus gets deposited on the inner walls of nose and may even be flowing out of it. The purpose of this excessive mucus in the nose is to capture the harmful microbes present in the breath-in air and not allowing them to move to inner parts.

Sneezing is an essential part of this preventive process wherein the nose and throat areas are flushed out of microbes reaching these areas through fierce gusts of air. This is an indication that harmful microbes are existing not only in the environment but some of these have succeeded in entering the body and reaching the throat area. In conventional Indian medicines, sneezing is even artificially induced to flush out the nose and throat area of the body of harmful microbes entered through breathing.

Thus, influenza is not only an indication of presence of harmful microbes in the environment but also a natural way of arresting those trying to enter the body through breathing and ejecting them out. Therefore, treatments to occurrence of influenza is not desirable before treating the environment for cleansing it of harmful microbes, and before making the body immune to attacks of these microbes through providing some suitable antibiotic drugs to it.

So, next time you suffer from influenza, take care of your environment and immune your body before getting a cure for influenza.

Inhuman Relationships

Basic purpose of life is to keep the continuity of life on Earth. So, any relationship between two humans which works against this basic purpose is inhuman. Continuity of life is possible through procreation resulted by male-female sexual relationships only.

Due to sexual perversions and distortions in personalities, male-male and female-female sexual relationships have been in practice since the Alexandrian times. These are, respectively, called gay-relationships and lesbian relationships. Alexander himself was a gay. Both these relationships are inhuman because no procreation is possible out of these illicit relationships.

In a gay-relationship, anal sex is practised - one male working as active and the other as passive. This is a dirty game and against basic principles of nature. It is not found in any other species of creatures on the Earth. Human anus is not designed for insertion of anything, it is purely for exiting the garbage of digested food in the intestines. Therefore, inserting penis or any other thing in it causes irritation and other infections in the anal duct.

In childhood, anus is formed of soft tissues, and insertion of penis is easier which is practised by sexually frustrated male adults. With some practice, the abused child becomes habitual of it and not only starts enjoying it but also develops a desire for such insertions. This produces a passive gay for the whole life.

Another instance of development of a gay is by a senior adult male having some sort of anal infection. To satisfy his desire for itching inside, he often entices a boy and pleases him to force his penis inside his anus. After some practice, the boy starts enjoying it and becomes an active gay for the rest of his life.

Thus, in both ways, gays are made through perverted relationships and the disease spreads initially due to innocence of the children or the boys. No matured adult ever enters this dirty field intentionally.

A third type of illicit sexual relationship is between a male and a female habitual of anal sex. She also enters this field in her childhood due to exploitation of her innocence by some adult male when her vagina was not fit for an entry of the penis of the adult.

Lesbianism is not a sexual relationship in true sense of it because females have no sexual organ for entry into the other's vagina. Often fingers or artificial organs are used for sexual satisfaction. This is also as nasty a relationship as that of gays.

Relationship of Different Faith Followers

Having and keeping a relationship with a person with a different faith is not only a challenge for the happiness of the two but also for the raring and caring of the children. Some important issues related to interfaith relationships are following religious rituals and guidance to the children.

Rituals :

Every faith has its rituals which are often not recognized by other faiths. So the first itch in a relationship with different faiths is about following the rituals. When one follows his/her rituals, the other feels that his/her faith is being ignored just because the ritual is not a recognized practice in his/her faith.

Children

Traditionally, parents guide their offsprings to follow the faith of they are following. When the followed faiths of the two parents are different, it becomes difficult for both to guide the children. Even the children have a natural leaning towards any of the faiths.

The Solution

Humanity all over the world has developed two types of societies for itself which we may call as traditional and liberal. In traditional societies, the offsprings even after they have their own families, continue their close relationships with the parents and mostly remain under control of them. In liberal societies, offsprings once on their own feet, have no or bare minimum relationship and dependence on their parents.

In liberal societies, the two of different faiths in a relationship have to take care of each other only for maintaining the relationship. So, they can easily get rid of their religious bindings and need not follow rituals of any of the faiths.

This solution has one problem. When the couple does not follow rituals of any of their faiths, they get isolated from the social contacts of the two sides particularly on the occasions of traditional festivals. Since, we humans are social animals, isolations from the societies of which we have been part of since our childhood may be painful at least in the beginning. This pain is less when the couple starts living far from the two families. So, an interfaith relationship is recommended only when the couple has a natural demand of settling at a place far from their native places.

Another solution is jointly following the rituals of both the faiths to take care of the feelings of each other. Although, it looks simple but difficult to follow in practice.

Thirdly, it is not important what religion is followed by the family of your birth. It is also not important what religion you believe in. The thing of paramount importance is what you live. For example a Hindu boy may not be a real Hindu from the point of view of orthodox Hindus because he may not be following all the rituals of Hinduism. So, when you are on the verge of a decision with a person belonging to a different faith system, don't just look the two faiths and their rituals, but the lifestyles of the two persons. Matching of the faiths of the families becomes less important when the two in a relationship have openness of minds - free from bondages of religions and faiths.

Just weigh - how much the religions of the two are important for the two. If these are important for the two, it is far better to part company. Tied in a relationship and then pulling their own faiths with them individually is no wisdom.

Planning for the Day

Working according to a preset plan is always better than haphazard working. Since, today is the most important time-frame in a person’s life-time, planning for the day is the most important element of planning for a life-time.

Every day, we perform three types of activities – developmental leading to new frontiers in life, essential routines which have to be performed under all circumstances, and formal routines.which may be left out if time and other resources do not permit.

From a general observation of the tasks to be performed, it looks appropriate to finish essential routines first. With this, it often happens that we spend the whole day in these routines only leaving nothing to developmental activities. As we perform essential routines, more and more activities, may be from the formal routines, keep on entering this arena which keep us engaged. This make the strategy undesirable.

Since, developmental activities are important for progress, we must pay our utmost attention to these. But these can not be undertaken leaving behind the essential routines. To solve this problem, we must devote some time to estimate, based on our resources, the time needed for performing essential routines. Now subtract this time from the total available time, and thus get the time we may devote for developmental activities.

After this estimate, start your day with developmental activities but limit your involvement for the period estimated above for these activities. After that, go on for your essential routines. This strategy ensures that you keep yourself limited to what is really essential and don’t allow yourself to drift to formal routines performing as essential routines.

This strategy ignores your formal routines. To compensate for this, fix a day in every week when you will devote some of your time to these formalities at the cost of developmental activities.

For example, I have three types of activities for every day of mine on Internet –

Essential Routine – Replying to email messages.

Developmental Activities – Reading other Blogs and Writing on my Blogs.

Formal Routines – Social Networking.

Everyday, I devote myself to my Internet activities for a period of 6 hours. My email messages take 2 hours of my time. With this, I must start my day with reading other blogs and writing on mine and keep busy with these activities for 4 hours. Then, I must take up replying my email messages for the balanced 2 hours. To limit myself to two hours, I have to limit myself to important messages only ignoring others looking like spams. Every Sunday, I devote 3 hours to social networking so that my developmental activities are there for 3 hours only. Thus, my two hours time remains intact for replying my email messages.