Spirituality is a part of entire human life from womb to tomb...to become CEOs or top guns in job, or to live a peaceful and successful family and social life you need to live a spiritual life...so, students, if you read the mail below, you will understand these words!
Our human life is connected by thousands of invisible threads. The places where we live, the situations we meet in life are all continuously and consistently shaping us and getting shaped by us.
The situations we meet creates a good number of possibilities for us to behave. It is very interesting to study and understand how we influence as well as get influenced by one another.
so, even when we are alone we are thinking about others...i.e social thinking...this study about social thinking, social influence and social relations is very interesting!...it is important for us as engineers, managers, leaders, HR professionals, scientists and of course, as adaptable human beings for peaceful living.
It is interesting to discover how a social situation leads a very different people to act very similarly. As well as how very similar people act very differently. we need to understand the nature of social behavior and social thought of people around us.
Few years back ganesh chathurthi was celebrated inside the homes and at temples with bhakthi. Now many political parties approach police and conduct celebrations, poojas, processions and what not. The result is seen as photos now in news papers...all thousands of ganesh idols are floating in gutters, dirty ponds, blocking the passage of water. Do they get immersed?...are they soluble?...The belief in god earlier took only a turn of superstition. You can see now what all turns it is taking!...will this stop with just ganesh or will spread to other gods too?
Let god bless the gods here!
All these things are happening, not because of lack of education...it is because of our culture of 'emotionally and blindly following' without using our brains. For us 'following rituals' is 'being spiritual'!...we don't ask ourselves 'will doing this ritual result in what we want?'...so, leads to 'everything is there but nothing is there' situation...ie everything is there but the result is not there!...e.g the famous sweet shop near PSG Tech is recently renovated with shining granite flooring!...but the outside cemented corridor gets painted with the 'cow dung' water every friday or auspicious days...all customers step on the wet cow dung and spoil the granite floor. Why to waste so much of money and change cement flooring to granite flooring if our head is full of cow dung?...on festival days my street stinks with cow dung as every house front is washed with thick layer of cow dung!
peacefully yours
rams-psychologist and sociologist
Our human life is connected by thousands of invisible threads. The places where we live, the situations we meet in life are all continuously and consistently shaping us and getting shaped by us.
The situations we meet creates a good number of possibilities for us to behave. It is very interesting to study and understand how we influence as well as get influenced by one another.
so, even when we are alone we are thinking about others...i.e social thinking...this study about social thinking, social influence and social relations is very interesting!...it is important for us as engineers, managers, leaders, HR professionals, scientists and of course, as adaptable human beings for peaceful living.
It is interesting to discover how a social situation leads a very different people to act very similarly. As well as how very similar people act very differently. we need to understand the nature of social behavior and social thought of people around us.
Few years back ganesh chathurthi was celebrated inside the homes and at temples with bhakthi. Now many political parties approach police and conduct celebrations, poojas, processions and what not. The result is seen as photos now in news papers...all thousands of ganesh idols are floating in gutters, dirty ponds, blocking the passage of water. Do they get immersed?...are they soluble?...The belief in god earlier took only a turn of superstition. You can see now what all turns it is taking!...will this stop with just ganesh or will spread to other gods too?
Let god bless the gods here!
All these things are happening, not because of lack of education...it is because of our culture of 'emotionally and blindly following' without using our brains. For us 'following rituals' is 'being spiritual'!...we don't ask ourselves 'will doing this ritual result in what we want?'...so, leads to 'everything is there but nothing is there' situation...ie everything is there but the result is not there!...e.g the famous sweet shop near PSG Tech is recently renovated with shining granite flooring!...but the outside cemented corridor gets painted with the 'cow dung' water every friday or auspicious days...all customers step on the wet cow dung and spoil the granite floor. Why to waste so much of money and change cement flooring to granite flooring if our head is full of cow dung?...on festival days my street stinks with cow dung as every house front is washed with thick layer of cow dung!
peacefully yours
rams-psychologist and sociologist
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