I start feeling consistent again...

I see people around me who have some or the other way some itch for physics. ..every designer some point of his life wanted to make his career in physics... although theoretical physics is tucked away nicely in the mysteries of advanced mathematics... it always eludes one when he sets out make career choices that are at that time of life look pragmatic and worldly. But the quest for philosophical foundation is always on...in some form...some call it spiritual or some knowledge, some search for completeness...

I grew up in a school where a day used to start with recitation of 16th adhyay of Bhagvadgita.. for reasons beyond my understanding even today.. they say it explains so many things, mostly behaviral dos and donts but I still pick my choices on my own on every cross-roads and those codes of conduct fails to come to my mind. Later in the day we were taught physics which tries to define the world view of space, time, object, matter, cause and effect.. separate isolated belief systems were under constructions ... I am sure folks from school wanted us to learn Upanishads but with no broader framework as to why it is good to know these ancient scriptures... so the answers are now getting clearer. Its when Fritjof Kapra runs you through the simplistic understandings of philosophical basis and limits reached by western way of critical inquiry into things, lets call it quantum physics deep downward and relativistic model upward. In his book "Tao of physics" he draws parallels from Hinduisms and other eastern mysticisms and I feel my both ends somewhere meeting. I start feeling consistent again.

Music that connects

Music is integral part of our lives, and when me and my friend hang out inevitably topics shifts to things he liked and things I liked listening to in these days, ...its like a co-discovery.... he was telling me, incidences around some songs - Once the legendary S D Burman was composing a song and R D of course had his itch to introduce a fleet of instruments at every sam-n-taal. Now S D allowed him to do so and when the song finally came out; RD was aghast as none of it was there in the final cut. SD took care at the time of sound mixing!!
Our thought train such kept crossing lines, finally Pink Floyd and their insistence of perfection. ..in one of the song they wanted a pig's squelching sound, they brought a pig right in the recording studio.
Ek vo din tha aur ek ye din hain...
Now we live in the world of fakes of the likes of pritam who plagiarizes each one of his song from World music and in a way render social service to the ignorant people pf India. Some of the originals are from Korean movies even some from TV serials ..and are worth listening to as you would like them even without understanding the lyrics.