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"The Hanuman Effect" = Cultivating & Carving our Minds

Our body and mind is ever evolving. While our body grows older, our mind grows younger. At least, that’s how it is supposed to be. How come our minds grow younger? Well, the more you learn, the more you understand simple facts of life, the more your mind can process information and channelize it through right sources. The same statement you read a year back might mean entirely different when it is read today. This is why we have to give special attention to our mental growth. None of us want to go backwards. The first step in order to grow is to understand oneself. Now understanding oneself is easier said than done. But if a person has enough time to notice himself, retrospect his thoughts and actions, and have the humility to learn from others, and accept the beauty in differences, that is when he start being self aware. Ego is the enemy of self awareness. Why is that so? Ego makes you look through a tainted glass, and reality of you and the people you look at, is stained resp

Knowledge

The purpose of this blog is to make myself aware of my thought process, to jot down my thoughts... I asked myself this question…How valid is, “what I know about what I think I know?” What is knowledge? Knowledge is the outcome of energy reaction on human brain. Knowledge is removing maya (ignorance, delusion, and sensory illusion) from the truth. I know that, it is not fair from my side to define one of the most disputed theories in the philosophical world in just few words. Epistemologists define their versions of “Knowledge” based on several theories, they believe holds true. Plato in his dialogue Theaetetus, describes Socrates's belief of what knowledge is. According to his theory, knowledge is justified as a true belief. In order to know that a given proposition is true one should believe in the "true proposition" and also have a good reasoning for this belief. I personally do not agree with this theory. I believe that beliefs change from person to person and so d