Contrary to my usual style, I decided this time to start off without a heading. Did'nt feel that a heading would make any difference. Some time has gone by since my last post. Its not intentional. After spending 8-9 hours in front of a stupid computer screen and trying to solve the world's electrical engineering problems, the last thing you would want to do when you return is to get back online and "Oh yeah, I need to update my blog". Moreover, there was not much to talk about either. Life is still the same. An everyday race to make ends meet. The paychecks come only for me to find out that my lovely creditors have taken their due share. So then it comes down to a survival mode for the next 10 odd days until my next paycheck. A vicious cycle. No complaints though. However I would do just about anything to get out of that cycle.

Anyways, I have been thinking a lot lately about things happening around me, and in my life. I have always believed in the fact that you suffer consequences for your wrongdoings. I myself am going through some as I write this. But I look around and I see people from all walks of society doing things with absolutely no regard whatsoever for their consequences. It is almost as if they are completely immune to any sort of consequence. I see sports professionals achieve break records on performance enhancement drugs (euphemism for "anabolic steroids"). I see politicians accept sums of money to favour a private party to protect their business interests. I see people exploit the poor for peanut salaries. I see people getting more and more greedy. Television shows kind of tell you "it is ok to cheat on your spouse. It is ok to be promiscuous and have a lot of partners. It is ok to lie to get a monetary price." The list goes on. In all these cases, there has been an outright denial of all these actions, although there is strong evidence to prove it all.

Has humanity forgotten the way of moral values? Are we being more and more inhumane everyday? It is a real downer to see all this happen around one, and to note that there is no concept of a consequence. Its like what my high school teacher used to say "this world is going to the dogs".

I would like to sign off by quoting the verses 7 and 8 from Chapter 4 of the Bhagavat Gita.

yada yada hi dharmasya glanir bhavati bharata abhyutthanam adharmasya tadatmanam srjamy aham	Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, O descendant of Bharata, and a predominant rise of irreligion--at that time I descend Myself.
paritranaya sadhunam vinasaya ca duskrtam dharma-samsthapanarthaya sambhavami yuge yuge	In order to deliver the pious and to annihilate the miscreants, as well as to reestablish the principles of religion, I advent Myself millennium after millennium.

~ciao....peace and love