The Significance of Kojagiri Purnima

The common believe as per the Hindu Mythology about Kojagiri Purnima or Sharad Purnima is that moon

showers Amrit or Elixir of life towards Earth.

It's a Full Moon night in the Autumn season. This night has both cultural & scientific significance and it is celebrated differently in different cultures.

Cultural Significance -

As per the popular Hindu believes this night, Goddess Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth and fulfilment come to earth to visit her devotees and bless them with abundance of wealth and fortune. 

So this night is celebrated by staying up late. 

Kojagiri means "who is awake" and we Hindus believe that it is important for us to stay up late this night drinking milk, singing or watching the beauty of moon or chanting or dancing.

In some Indian cultures, this day people celebrate the eldest daughter at home.

Some play Dandiya whole night.

This day is also known by Kumar Purnima or Kartikeya Purnima is some regions of India.

The believe behind this is that unmarried girls should pray to the moon or sun for better life partner by worshipping Lord Kartikeya. the eldest son of Mahadev and Devi Parvati.

Lord Karikeya is known for his bravery and beauty.

Scientific Significance -

This day Moon and the Earth are closet to each other than any other day.

Scientifically, the light of Moon has some healing properties, just like the light of the sun.

So keep eatables and offering for Moon whole night, along with spending time under the Moonlight.

                                                        Happy Kojagiri All !!!

A Crazy Little Thing Called LOVE

 Someday...

I don't know how long been I been keeping everything and hiding all the truth inside my heart.

Every single time we bump into each other, or every time you turn to me.

You know how hard it is to act if nothing happened.

Do you hear something?

My heart is saying that I Love You so.

But I can't let it out, or let anyone know.

Do you hear something?

My heart still says right there waiting for you to open it up.

And I hope you would know... Someday.

Even if I love, even if I have a feeling for you. But deep inside my heart dares not. 

Every single time we bump into each other, or every time you turn to me.

You know how hard it is to pretend as if nothing happened.

Can you hear it?

My heart is saying that 'I do love you.'

But I can't let it out or even let anyone know

Do hear my heart?

It's right there waiting to be open.

And I hope that you would know... someday.

Nobel Prize 2023

 1. Nobel Peace Prize 2023 - 

Narges Mohammadi for her fight against women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all.

2. Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 -

Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L'Huillier for exceptional methods that generate attosecond pulses for light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.

3. Nobel Prize in Medicine 2023 -

 Ketalin Kariko and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.

4. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 -

Moungi G. Bawndi, Louis E. Brus and Alexi I. Ekimov for the discoveries and synthesis of quantum dots.

5. Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 -

Jon Foss for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.

6. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel -

Claudia Goldin for having advanced our understanding of women's labour market outcomes.

The Dreamseller

 "We all need to buy a Coma, a second chance to rewrite our story" - The Dreamseller.

The Dreamseller is 2016 Brazilian movie based on the best selling book "The Dreamseller" written by world renown Brazilian psychiatrist and psychotherapist Augusto Cury. The movie begins with a famous psychologist tries to jump from the 21st floor of the building. And his saviour teaches some most beautiful life lessons, I came across. 

Dreamseller is a famous businessman of his time - the Mellon Lincoln, who had a fortune of 50 billion dollars, third richest man in the Forbes 2013, and he had a life that many of us could only dream of.

But he lost his daughter and wife in a private helicopter crash. And there after he goes missing on roads for years. Since then he starts living on streets and teaching people how life is important and tries to help them with Stoicism based philosophy. He asked people questions and answers of these questions made them to introspect about themselves and to find the way of life. And that's how he helps our psychologist, who had bad relationship with his beloved son. In the end, he sort his relationship with his son.

Mellon Lincoln's story best signifies that in the end it doesn't even matter! Having all wealth in the world and after losing his wife and daughter, he became a beggar on the street. And that signifies the value of people whom we love the most and their value in our life. 

As a 27 year old girl being thrusted into an unforgiving world and a "every man for himself " economy, this movie reminded me to stay humbled and rooted as a happy human being amidst life's obstacles. 

Dreamseller in this movie sounds a lot philosophical at first, this movie is filled with scenes that make the reader to reflect on his/her life and bring light to what truly matters to one; their loved ones and dreams. I found the movie very fast paced yet straight to the point in the meaning of certain events; which is amazing. The audience is taken on an ambiguous a roller coaster from the beginning.

Our Dreamseller truly sells dreams to others. Hope is a last thing to lose and hope is not a strategy.

This movie is full of optimism and hope, definitely recommended to all those who feel lost in life.

We all need such Dreamsellers in our society and in our real life who can bring the good change.

 

  

Anata no Soba ni

 You are the prize beyond my reach

That's why

I am just...

I don't think

I'm suitable for you

But why does it seem like I cannot let go

Does the Cinderella story even exist?

This happiness

Can I believe in it?

Is it all right to love you?

Even in this bubble-like dream,

Before I met you, I closed my eyes and gave up

I was drawn to you

For the first time

I ended up wishing

To be happy with you

Can I stay here forever?

I want to be by your side

Can I be next to you?

I don't want to give you up to anyone else

You're the first to make me feel this way

I was never able to get anything

I'm doing this

For the first time

This is special

So, I don't want to let go

I don't want to plan for our next meeting

I want to plan right away

I want you to rely on me during tough times

I don't want to regret anything

Even in this bubble-like dream,

Before I met you, I'd closed my eyes and give up

I was drawn to you

For the first time

I ended up wishing 

To be happy with you

When what I have disappear,

or I lose them

I always thought, "This is Fine",

But you

And my time with you

I want it to last forever

This is what I feel, so

Can I stay here forever?

I want to be your side

So I can suit being next to you,

I will do my best,

For you, who first made me feel this way.

My favorite quote - Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react.

When I was thinking about the quote that inspired me the most or the one which can make life easy just by remembering it. The quote, "Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it", came on the top. This quote reminded how one should look at life, instead of getting stuck in depression or something. Sometimes in our life, we get stuck in any situation which is not in our favor or sometimes we get stuck with any person which can affect our life beyond our control. This is only because of the way we reacted in that situation. 

We can always choose how to react in a particular situation or with a particular person. We cannot control many things, but we can control how we respond to them.

These lines are written by Charles Swindoll, an author whose book was sold 65 million times across the entire globe. So next time, when you feel stuck in any situation or with something which is not in your control, just remember you can control how you can respond in that situation!!!  

Human Brain

Ever wonder how our brain functions? Or how we remember something and forget about something.

Human brain itself is a wonderful thing and still there is a lot to discover.

We are not the most intelligent species on this planet, but due to our brain we have that functionality to be the smartest on this planet. Our brain is made up of neurons, and our brain believes the most what you tell it most. What we repeatedly tell ourselves makes it happen. Neurons that fiber together, wire together.

Neuroplasticity is an incredible phenomenon of our brain, and it gives us the ability to change the brain's behavior in response to external factors. Whatever we tell our brain, becomes our reality and it's not science fiction, it's a scientific fact. There is one law, Hebb's law which explains the plasticity of our brain. It explains how neurons club together to become engrams. The law states that any two cells or system of cells that are repeatedly active at the same time will tend to become together at a same time, so that activity in one facilitate the activity in another.

16 Sanskaras in Hinduism

 Hinduism is one of the oldest religion in the world and third most followed religion in the world by almost 1.2 billion hindus across the globe.

There are total 16 Sanskaras in Hinduism and each has huge significance from the birth to the end of the life. Each one has it's own importance and carries great significance and value. It is believed that these Sanskaras help to clean the sins of individual. Different stage of life has different sanskar and have huge impact on one's life. 

Below are 16 Sanskaras listed - 

A) PRE-NATAL SANSKARAS

1. Garbhadhana - Ceremony of conception

2. Pumsavana - Secure the birth of the child

3.Seemantonnayana / Simantonnayana - Parting the hair

B) CHILDHOOD SANSKARAS

1. Jatakarma - Natal rites

2. Namakarana - Ceremony for naming the child

3. Nishkramana - First outing for showing the sun

4. Annaprasana - First feeding with boiled rice in 6 months

5. Chudakarana - Arrangement of the hair tuft

6. Karnavedha - Piercing the earlobes

C) EDUCATIONAL SANSKARAS

1. Vidyarambha - Learning the Alphabet

2. Upanayana - Holy thread ceremony

3. Praishartha - First study of the Vedas

4. Keshanta / Ritusuddhi - Cutting the hair

5. Samavartana - Graduation ceremony

        

D) MARRIAGE SANSKARA

1. Vivaha - Marriage 

E) DEATH SANSKARA

1. Antyeshti - Funeral

ChatGPT

 ChatGPT is a large language model developed by OpenAI that uses state-of-the-art artificial intelligence techniques to understand and generate human-like responses to a wide range of questions and prompts. It is popular because it can engage in conversations with people on a wide range of topics, and its responses are often informative, entertaining, and engaging.

The first thing that came to mind when I heard about ChatGPT was Aladdin's Genie, and the second was The Mirror of Erised from Harry Potter.

Okay, I related it to two magical and fictional characters.

But isn't ChatGPT less than magic?

ChatGPT is an artificial-intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by OpenAI and launched in November 2022. It is built on top of OpenAI's GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 families of large language models (LLMs) and has been fine-tuned (an approach to transfer learning) using both supervised and reinforcement learning techniques.

Elon Musk is among the co-founders of OpenAI, and it is no wonder that ChatGPT is booming at such a high level.

OpenAI was launched in 2015, and Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT.

So is ChatGPT the first chatbot or the first AI?

No, there were many chatbots that came before ChatGPT, but none gained popularity like ChatGPT did.

There is a huge discussion going on about whether ChatGPT is going to take human jobs.

I think there is a long way to go for that!

And I somewhere felt that there is a lot of scope for improvement in ChatGPT.