Saturday, October 13, 2007

sufism

Hi friends
Today I m going to have a say on a very a divine topic "Sufism".By the term Sufism we mean to say that it is a type of devotion to god and leaving the all desire of this world.In other word we can say substance of Sufism is the truth and the meaning of Sufism is the selfless experiencing and actualization of the truth.The practice of Sufism is the intention to go toward the truth ,by means of love and devotion.This is called the tariqat,the spiritual path or way towards god.The sufi is one who is lover of truth,who by means of love and devotion moves towards the truth,towards the perfection which all are truly seeking .As necessitated by Love's jealousy,the Sufi is taken away from all except the truth.
Sufism is a school for the actualisation of divine ethics.It involves an enlightened inner being ,not intellectual proof;revelation and witnessing ,not logic .By divine ethics we are referring to ethics that transcend mere social convention ,a way of being that is the actualization of the attributes of god.To explain the truth is indeed a difficult task.Words being limited ,can never really express the perfection of the absolute,the unbound.Thus for those who are imperfect,words create doubt and misunderstanding.Yet philosophers have written volumes and spoken endlessly of the truth,but somehow their effort have always fallen short.For the Sufi, philosophers are those who are those who view the perfection of the Absolute from a limited perspective ;so all they see is a part of the Absolute,not the infinite in its entirety.It is indeed true what philosophers see is incorrect;nevertheless it is only a part of whole .
One is reminded of rumi's well-known story of a group of men in India who had never seen an elephant.One day they came to a place where an elephant was.In complete darkness they approached the animal,each man feeling it.Afterwards, they describe what they thought they had perceived .Of course their description were different.The one who felt a leg imagined the elephant to be a pillar.The one who felt the animal's ear,described the elephant as a fan and so on.Each one of their description with respect to the various parts they had experienced was true.However as far as accurately describing the whole ,their conception had all fallen short.If they had a candle,the difference of opinion would not have come about.The candle's light would have revealed the elephant as a whole.
Only by the light of the spiritual path and the mystic way can the truth be discovered.In order for the one to truly witness the perfection of the Absolute ,one must see with one's inner being ,which perceives the whole reality.This witnessing happens when one becomes perfect,losing one's(partial) existence in the whole.
If the whole is likened to the ocean and the part to drop ,the Sufi says that witnessing the ocean with the eye of a drop is impossible.However ,when the drop becomes one with the oceans ,it sees the ocean with the eyes of the ocean

Friday, October 12, 2007

Indian team losing its way(II)

So continuing my previous blog I would like to add the remaining match results so far.So after the third ODI there come the fourth ODI.In this match the Bengal tiger was and was ready to fire from all cylinder.In this match India team batted first and got to a good start Sachin and Ganguly provided the ideal start of approx 100 runs at a decent rate and after that Yuvraj come and join the party and had a good partnership with sachin and took india to good position and was out .After that then came the axe man "Dhoni".He was in a different mood right from the word go.He was looking like he is going to fire the spectator .They were having a great fun watching dhoni batting so beautifully .In the mean time Dravid was out and then came the man in form Uthappa.He is in tremendous touch .He and Dhoni then saluted the mighty looking Australians and were a treat to watch.They score all around the ground and the last over was the over of the day.Uthappa hit a six then dhoni hits a four and on the last ball of the inning he hit six.What a finish for the fans.The last over conceded 20 runs. The Indians posted 291 on the scorecard.
Then came the Australian's reply .They got a quick start but not a very long partnership
but then they got a got stand at a good rate and were looking in good condition to win the match but suddenly couple of wicket fell and they were in little bit of trouble but still maintain a good run rate .After that they got wicket falling at regular interval and still were very much in the game.After that then comes the dramatic climax.They needed 24 from the last three overs and were suppose to win that but the Indian held there nerves.The Indians conceded only 3 runs in that over and now the Australians needed 19 of the last two over.In the penultimate over Singh bowled very well and gave away only 4 runs.So now they need 15 of the last over.Zaheer khan was given the ball .He held his nerves and bowled superbly by just giving 7 runs and as a result
of all that brilliant stuff we won the match by 8 runs and were able to defeat them in first time 3yrs.
Now came the fifth match the worst of all the matches.In this match the Indian's won the toss and decided to bat.Australians captain ponting had earlier said that he would play this match as the final and everybody knows how well he plays in the final.So electing to bat Indians got to a disastrous start.We lost the wicket of our opener in the very first over of the match. Ganguly was gone without scoring .Then Dravid was gone without troubling the scorer.Then yuvraj Dhoni and uthappa also back to pavilion. Half of our team was out and not even 50 on the board.Then sachin and pathan take India to around 100 and after that sachin and pathan were also out. Finally after having a contribution from 10 an d11th batsman we manage to get around 150 which was a shame for us.
Then came the Australians reply they played at their own will and were very dangerous looking .They got to a flying start and have a fifty partnership.Then we got a joy of moment by getting a wicket but that was the last joy.Then finally they went on to win that match by 9 wicket and ponting had done what he had said earlier.So now the score is 3-1 and from this position they can't loose the series.Now the situation is that we cant win the series on our home soil.How hurting is that for everybody.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Indian team losing its way(I)

Hi friend
Today I m going to have a say about the recent failure of Indian cricket team against the Australians.In the T20 world cup Indian defeated the Australians but they are not able to maintain that streak.In the first match Australia batted first we got a good start removing couple of wicket very early but did not capitalise that they still maintain there rate at 5 an over But after few overs we got couple of wicket and they have not reached 100.At that point it appeared that we will be able to get them restricted within 250 but that's not happened.Clarke and Haddin put up a good partnership and put them in a commanding position .Later on Clarke went on to hit the century and took his team beyond 300.Clarke is of the future star of the modern cricket which he showed in this match.Now that total was always going to be a cakewalk for the Indian.Half of the match was over.The Indians come to chase the target and right from the word go Australian were on the attack. Indian managed to handle the first over but in the next over there come the shock the master blaster Sachin was plumb LBW to johnson and more badly on "0".That was going to be a disaster for the Indian.After couple of over the rain god gave there mercy to the Indians and there comes the rains and continued for the whole night and which saves them.Hard luck for the Australians and good luck for the Indian
Now comes the second ODI the Australian were frustrated with rain and by the defeat in T2o world cup.They were not in a mood to be relax.In this match we got a good start removing danger man gilchrist on "0".After couple of more overs we got another wicket but that was the last good thing because from there the Australians played tremendous cricket and hayden,Symond and Haddin got good knock and got 306 on the scoreboard.As per the history of Indian team it was next to impossible but still there was a hope that we will win.When we came to chase the target we lost the opener very early and were put on the back foot.Our rate was good but we were losing the wicket at regular interval and going away from the target.Our captain batted very well but it was not enough and in the end we lost the match by a huge margin of 84 runs.We were now 1-0 in the series .Similar sort of thing happened in the third ODI The Australian here got the good start and every batsman contributed and more importantly at a good rate and they got a total of 290.This time there were some bright chances of winning the match still not very bright.Indian got very poor start they lost the opener very early and after couple of more over the Indians were tottering at 11/3 but sachin and yuvraj were still at the crease .Slowly and slowly they steady the ship and build a partnership of around 100 runs but at that point sachin was out and lost the way but yuvraj was playing brilliantly but nobody give resistance from the other end.Finally he got century but due to lack of support his team felt 47 runs short of the target and were 2-0 in the series.

Sunday, October 7, 2007

journey of MGPA(II)

Now the second half of my MGPA journey which started from the 6th.This was supposed to be of tree .Tree was not an easy topic but i prepared it .I tried every type of problem which was very dificult task.In the end Igot srtuck in the deletion part of the tree.I did all the work but still was not able to solve it.But in the end got to know that the deletion is not going to come in the mgpa because it was very long and takes long time.But finally I was able to solve the deletion problem.But my main focus was on the insertion,find and traversal which i did very well and was quite confident of doing that.On the day of mgpa I got the problem of tree in which I was just required to insert the nodes and print the inorder.I was quite happy but I was having some problem in reading the input.As i got inside the lab implementing the code it happened of which I was fearing i.e. unable to read input going in infinite loop.After 40 minute of debugging I got to know where was the problem.After that everything was alright input was comoing and also the desired output .When I submitted I got all "Y".So now the score is 3 out of 6.
After that my next mgpa was based on oopj which was of counting change in bits of two succesive numbers in a given range.I developed the code and was quite sure that i will clear.But when I implemented that I did the smallest of the small mistake i.e.I started the loop from "0" which I was suppose to start from the starting point of the range and I looked all the but not go up and wasted all the time and that mgpa was lost.When I got my code back I debugged still was not able to detect that and my friend detect it.I was so anooyed with myself that I can't explain it in words.
After that my next mgpa was from dsal(sorting).I did all the sorting except the shell sort and was knowing that shell and merge is going to come.In mgpa I got the problem to do sorting
of names on the basis of sur name and using any sorting .I prepared the code but get struck on how to arrange surname.Finally I manage to do that.I went to lab and started doing implementation .After implementation I got to know it was not doing the sorting correctly.I was able to get the problem,remove that but still was not able to get the right output.I tried evry possible thing but did not got the desired output.All the time was gone and now the score was 3 out of 8.When I got my code back I get to know that error was just again the minor.I was suppose to increment the loop by 2 but I was incrementing it by 1 and was thinking that the loop is incrementing 2 times.It was the height of mistake.But the next mgpa was from assignment I prepared almost every assignment and when get the prob in mgpa I was happy because I have done that.When implemented I got everything right and got all"Y".Now the score was 4 out of 9 and I have cross the boundary limit of 4.Similar to that my next mgpa was from the assignment but was not able to do that because it was the only assignment I did not touched.So my score remains at 4 out of 9 which could have been very easily be 7.

Friday, October 5, 2007

jouney of MGPA (I)

Hi friends
Now i m going to describe you about the thing for which i was doing all the studies "the MGPA"(Machine Graded Programing Asessment) .During the past two month I have given 10 mgpa .Giving the first mgpa was very bad experience untill i didn't have given it.Before giving it i was uncertain whether i will be able to clear it or not.At last i was convinced that i will not be able to clear as everybody made it like a very tough paper .I entered the hall with nervousness and curiosity.I started praying and after that i was provided the paper as soon as i got the paper i was little surprised because thats seem to me that i will be able to solve that one.I started solving that and after applying some logic i got a code which i think will run.The question was to find that a given figure is rectangle ,square,or line.I did it using arrays and went to implement it in the lab .I started doing coding as this was my first mgpa i got 43 errors and i was quite sure that i will not going to get,because at that time i was not a good debugger.But slowly and slowly i started to remove error and in half an hour i remove all the error and when i give my input it was working .After that i tried another input but it didn't work i got frustrated and got my mistake and remove that .Actually it was showing every square or rectangle a line so after manipulation i got it correct.After that i submitted that program and got all the "Y".I was very happy as i got cleared the first mgpa.But that was just the begining .After that i give the second mgpa which was from DSAL(queue&stack).I was not prepared for that so i was not confident that i will clear that.For taht mgpa i prepared stack queue and left circular queue and my bad luck the question came from that i was not able to solve that mgpa.After that mgpa I started preparing for the third mgpa .The third one was related to numerology we were given a value to each alphabet than the alphabet which come in a name we have sum up and print that.I developed that logic and up to my knowledge it was working fine.But when i implemented it was not printing the sum.I was little frustrated and started searching that error but was not able to solve that.After mgpa when i got my code back i saw it again and got the mistake .The mistake was that i was doing the division operation and then modulous operation but i was supposed to do the reverse of that .I was so much annoyed with myself that because only 14 people clear that problem and very easily i could i have been one of them.But thats the way the life goes on.
Simlar thing happen in my next mgpa .That mgpa was of DSAL(linklist).I was quite sure that i will clear that. I did all the hard work and got the problem in mgpa and developed the logic but similar to previous one i made a small mistake and lost that mgpa.So one out of four was my result.I was not able to decide whether i will clear that or not .I was given the hint that my next mgpa will of character counting some what like that.From that day i started doing problem of various type related to character and i was sure that now i can crack the problem .On the mgpa day i got the problem which was the problem from where i started doing charactrer problem.Since i had done much tougher than that I prepared in 10 min hardly.In lab I also just write it and when compiled it there was no error when i submitted I got all "Y"in 10 minutes there also.So that was the most satisfying of the two.So now the score is 2 out of 5.

Friday, September 28, 2007

should there be censorship on media

Media is plural of "medium" which is a carrier of something .Common thing carreid by media include information ,art,or physical object .A medium may provide transmission or storage of information or both.
The industries which produce news and entertainment content for the mass media are often called "the media "(in much the same way the newspaper industry is called press).In the late 20th century it became commonplace for this usage to be construed as singular rather than plural.
There job is to mainly give right information to the people .But that is what which they are doing nowdays.This is so because that today is world of glamour and glitter and most of us want to be on frame and the best possible way is to take help of media and people believe media.
Today media do, what will be beneficial for them rather than telling the truth.This might be due to pressure or money.They are not doing what they are suppose to do. We can say that so because if a politician is caught in some offence or any other high profile man then his case will not be shown but if a normal man is caught it will be shown again and again.But there should be limit that can be shown i.e.they should not invade the privacy of individual which they do.So there should be a tradeoff between whta to show and what to not show such as if a hindu mob
killed a muslim or vice versa then it should not be shown as it will invogue the communal riots.So there should be a governing body which should put this tradeoff .If media is allowed to do whatever they do i agree that they will reveal some scandal but problem arises that they willshow only one and hide most of them.
We can have a more example in which there was a women who was an IPS officer and was harrased by her in laws and she show some evidence which the nedia showed and you will be convinced that she was innocent and and her inlaws were in guilty but on the next day the media person showed strong evidences and statement that the woman was guilty and her in laws were innocent .This was so because her in laws were hi profile politicians and they give money or forced them to said in favour of them which they did and i was confused that who was right and who was wrong .But the problem is that people are misguided because if you dont have enough evidence how you blame anyone and showed it on news. It effects that person who is right and portraited as wrong .Thats the time when censor comes into play and need to put a law that if you dont have a strong evidence dont call anyone culprit or innocent.
So finally i would like to say it would be possible that a time may come that censor may become itself culprit and will not allow them to do right work but if that happen then nobody can save country except spiderman and superman etc.

we r world champions

There was much joy ,hype,finger-pointing and attention seeking ,niether of which was unexpected.as India's cricketer returned to mumbai.As kipling had hoped we treat those two impostors ,truimph and disaster ,the same ;with melodrama!And so much people waited in the rain in stiffing humidity in crowds with not an inch to move and they could no thave been too diffrent from the people who abused and heckled the cricketers six month ago .May be our much abused movies with no subtle shades of character with only black or white ,know India better than the others!
The awards were welcome for tis genuinely outstanding achievement but i m a little uncomfortable with singling out individual within a team for great honour.Good team seek to m inimize,indeed to destroy.the cult of the individual.It has been a problem with our cricketer and it is a touch dangerous to fan those fires.And you have to have sympathy for out hockey who work hard.
Sympathy is the word that often been often used with Misbah ul haq ,a fine player who twice brought pakistan to the brink of victory .He even picked a good short but found joginder sharma didn't have the pace on teh ball to take it beyond the edge of the circle .Misbah will know more than anyone in world sport at the moment that the ability to finish the game seperates the great player from the good.A lot of team can bring a ball to within three yard of the goal butit reuires a great striker to put it at the back of net.Strikers are valued because they finish moves,great golf player are those that plays the 18th as well as the previous 17th,even teh boxer who dominates a bout needs a finishing punch.Misbah didn't have that punch.
It was good to see though that in the end good bowler took wicket and good batsman scored runs .In course of time ,this game will evolve its own grammar but whtever it turns out to be .it will be breft of skills .As long as bowler has a chance of getting batsman out to be ,it and the game isn't tinkered with too much to prevent that from happening ,you will have to skillful to play it at the highest level .Remember batsman are taking chances and that always represent hope for the bowler and one of the happiest conclusion of this tournament is that taking wickets count .If pakistan had been six down instead of nine ,they would had a better chance of wining it.
However i dread the day they start bringing the boundary ropes in and making flatter pitches .A six must still represent an achievement and if the batsmen hit it at will ,it makes the game boring .The only match at the twenty 20 that left me cold was Sri lanka vs Kenya .I switched off because there was no contest.A little bit in the pitch for the bowlers and a boundary rope far enough to allow a batsman to be caught and you really have everything you need.