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Life Sucks!

Life sucks, she said to me.  My 24 year old son beats me up and so does his father.  I asked her what do they both do?  She told me her husband was an electrical contractor till last year. Then he met with an accident and now just lies in bed. He doesn't do anything at all, not that he cannot move! He doesn't want to because he believes he is hurt badly.  What about your son, I asked?  She said that she had put her two daughters and one son through the same boarding school after paying a huge sum of money. Both the daughters studied till post graduation and are well settled. They are both married and have taken up jobs.  As for her son, she said that, he left school and took up bad company. He used to do some part time jobs and drank away the money that he earned. Later, he lost the job and used to come to her and demand money. When she refused to give, he trashed her badly.  She said it is the same story with the grand parents and their children. Her father too bashed up his p

Scriptures In Simple Language

Can we not have scriptures in simple languages? Do we have to learn stuff only by old techniques using coded languages passed down in a secretive method? Can we not learn simply? Patanjali came much later than SriRam or Shree Krsna. Maybe he wrote multiple treatises on yoga and grammar or whatnot. But today everywhere people follow all kinds of yoga. It has become a craze and there are so many branches of it that it is difficult to recognize the original.  It's exactly like the martial arts which were exported to China from India in ancient times. Today we have so many branches of martial arts like Kung fu, Taichi, Shaolin and so on. Which one is original and which one is derived? It is impossible to recognize the ancient one. Every exponent says that his or her art is original and ancient.  Likewise is our language and words. The English cannot own the language since it has morphed into so many different types. The American version of English is also concocted. Can someone say wha