I was reading Plato and allegory of the cave for the second time. And wonder what went through the mind of Plato when he realized, the simple method of arriving at a truth. So, here I will summaries the method, but this does not claim that I am giving you any truth, or even evidence of such truth exists. It is just a method, a road that you may or may not have seen before or taken. Acorns and Oaks The question starts by looking at an Acorn. Which has the potential to become a

Coal Miners I was thinking about this statement today. And it seems a paradoxical statement at first glance. If money cannot buy happiness why an average human spend a lifetime doing some work for wages. It reminds me a coal miner in the era of industrial revolution. With dirty ragged clothes and faces covered with coal dust, I have seen many of those nameless individuals who sacrificed their short time on earth for nothing but to dig up a tunnel in deep underground. I have s

About Discoveries - The SUV One of our older collogues at work had bought a land rover - A discovery. It was expensive to ride such a vehicle in this part of the country, as the vehicle itself had to travel miles and miles in the sea, just to see the tropical beach. But fact that he bought it made it clear to everyone that he is a big shot in the gang. I am sure he was moved by an enormous urge to buy that vehicle and made him happy. I am not going to spoil his fun by saying

Definition of a second. One second is the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine energy levels of the ground state of the cesium-133 atom. If you need to understand the world. You need to understand the change. Time is just another word for change. I posted this online and received with variable responses from the philosophical community. Some argued it is not. Some agreed it is giving evidence. After all It ap

Yesterday. Yesterday I spent whole day inside, reading books, watching films. Dancing around with kids. There were no big fancy restaurants that we visited. No big events that we participated. We did not go deep into the serene senescent Forest, to be connected with nature. Breakfast, lunch and dinner, pretty ordinary stuff. Yet, at the end of the day I felt fulfilled. I am sure kids, although they went through several cry and laugh cycles, they might have felt accomplished t

Why are you relaxed at the hotel? Being in a hotel is expensive. I am sure you can spend two weeks at home leisurely for the cost of a one night at a decent hotel. Often the destinations we seek are far away from home. If you are at the beach you would want to be on a top of a mountain cabin for your vacation. If you are at the mountain top, you would want to be on beach. If you are in Europe maybe you wish to go to USA. If you are in USA you may want to be in Japan, watching

Internet is a strange place, where I come across some random things which gives profound understanding of life. Consider following saying by Dr Kapil Gupta. "The best marketing is not selling" It seems a paradoxical quote. After all the objective of marketing is to sell. He did not provide any explanation to the quote in the original podcast. He just asked the moderator to contemplate about it. As the listener I did contemplate about it and these are my reflections on the sub