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Love & Economics!

In this industrial age finding anything true & natural is like finding a star in any of the urban skies. Humans have a tendency to mess up with natural things. One of the significant things that they have messed up is love. Contamination of love began mostly since the advent of industrialization in sync with air pollution.  Ancient Greek philosophers identified five forms of love: essentially, familial love, friendly love or platonic love, romantic love, guest love, and divine love. Modern authors have distinguished further varieties of love: unrequited love, infatuated love, self-love, and courtly love. But for the topic of discussion, these classifications may not suffice. This love is limited to the horizon of humans and quintessentially love is spread over all living beings and almost all species have shown akin course of action when it comes to love. The important question here is whether there is any relation between economics and love. What special is to be human, econo...

Is India a Communist nation ?

I always wonder how come the regulation related to wealthy individuals are passed and executed overnight without too much resistance. On the contrary, when a bill is to be drafted for the service of poor, deprived people it faces tonnes of hindrance. And if they do get passed, the policy files bite the dust on the racks of the Indian Parliament. Judicial cases related to rich and influential shorted out overnight with jovial conclusions as if we live in a mutually amicable society letting the criminals go. Most of the time wealthy culprits for heinous crimes find favors reading in between the lines of Indian Laws. Long live Adam Smith and his views that this world is better made into a marketplace to attain efficiency and development. India is not a communist country. It is a democratic republic with a mixed economy that combines elements of socialism and capitalism. The country's political system is based on democratic principles, where the government is elected by the people and ...

Making Sense of Nirvana!!!!

The Buddha's death was not like the death of unenlightened beings, for whom it is only one more stage in the cycle of rebirth and suffering. Having, after innumerable existences in divine, human, and animal form, attained Enlightenment, he was released from that cycle. What happens to an enlightened person after death is a question the Buddha refused to answer. None of the categories of human thought apply to the Tathagata, the `Perfect One', and therefore this question makes no sense. The recorded sayings of early monks and nuns unmistakably show that Nirvana is experienced as a state of ineffable calm, a joyous tranquillity. The Buddha said: `There is a sphere which is neither earth, nor water, nor fire, nor air, which is not the sphere of the infinity of space, nor the sphere of the infinity of consciousness, the sphere of nothingness, the sphere of neither perception nor non-perception, which is neither this world nor the other world, neither sun nor moon. I deny that it ...