My Country, People & Culture : Fish, thirsty in water

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Underlining Question: What made me dropout the Permanent Residency of Europe?
          When I took ticket back for Nepal, every one was surprised, shocked, amazed, and were asking ; what made me leave this land ? They were murmuring " every one dies to be here, people pay huge sum of money just to appear in this land, and stupid you, what happened to you? are you ok ?" And I answered " I am missing the dust of Kathmandu, chaos, strikes, and beautiful sunshine that would wake up Mt. Everest, worlds fast running rivers, streams, and plane tarai.  My peoples who are fighting in name of race, cast, religion: I miss them. Though its chaotic but its my land and my people. A conscious being like us who have seen the world and are aware and act like universal citizen, we are the one who needs to be there and act to make a change. I have not much to do here, my people need me". And I kissed that beautiful land of Sweden, tore the paper of permanent residency and silently left for Nepal. As Osho Says "Home is where the heart is, and my heart is with you".  Here I'd share the insight that enlightened me and made me come back home, where I belong.

           Candle enlightens the world but can't delete the darkness beneath it, as if fish remaining thirsty in the water. I had the same feeling for my country, people and culture, when I went far-far away from my land. Until we are in the land of origin we think the world out side is more better then ours. Money is flying in the air, just here where I am is not perfect, rest of the world is perfect. And that reminds me of many tragedy out there : When I saw a children leaving home after being 18 and feeling ashamed to live with parents, when I saw peoples living just alone with cat and dog, begging and putting pamphlet in street asking  for some one to come and celebrate Christmas with them, when I saw old peoples given full care by government but not out of love but just as a job without compassion, when I meet hundreds of friends having breakups more then 15 times and still not satisfied and in search of new one, when I saw people in Europe can only farm and grow for 3 to 5 months, when I saw whole country being dark and gloomy for more then 7 months, covered with snow and reaching the peak of development, that reminded my warm and bright country with great culture, And that was moment I got an Epiphany of me as fish thirsty in water.  

When I saw the whole generation of Europe and America chanting hare Krishna mantra and more then 71% of college graduates doing yoga & meditating, when I saw tear rolling down when they heard I was from the country of Himalaya, Shiva, Krishna, Rama & Buddha and saw the dyeing passion to touch this secret land where river is praised as mother ganga, stone are worshiped as Shaligram, Pipal & Tulsi plant are worshiped, monkey are worshiped as lord Hanuman, cow are worshiped as mother Laxmi, birds are worshiped as Garuda, where every thing is just holy, life to death and hence have a great mystery and science behind it. And that was moment I got an Epiphany of me as fish thirsty in water.

In one hand I heard the song "Imagine" by John Lennon to unite world and stop war, discrimination, and hatred rather create a Utopian society of love, harmony & compassion which resembles the Vedic mantra "Vashudhaiva Kutumbakam" meaning the world is one family. Having this feeling underneath in my heart I felt to heal the wound of my peoples and society where more then 40 thousand energetic youth leave this country per month and is growing by huge amount. I was wondering can I heal this big wound of our society being empty without any youth and left aside with old and sick generation without any new thought and ideas. And inspired my self with a feeling of Is it right to run far-far away saying there is no opportunity and political instability to the comfort zone of abroad? That would be wrong decision rather being in this panic zone of instability in every sector and instead of blaming other uniting together and sharing the knowledge of entrepreneurship would enlighten us. One can feed, cloth, shelter but will it be enough for whole life? But by educating how to create food, cloth and shelter many can grow above. And collectively we make a change.

When I am reminded that the last structure build in Patan Durbar Squire was on 1618 A.D. when there was no such country called USA, and pitiful thing is that now to repair this Squire we are asking grant from USA, in 1924 Nepal abolished 62 thousand slaves were abolished using fund from Pashupatinath Temple, at that time, there was no such UNDP (1950)  in existence. In business we learn that for a success first thing is location, and just when I looked at the map of Nepal a country of 1.38 billion people in north whose economy is growing 11% per annum and of 1.31 billion people in south whose economy is growing 9% per annum, and I wonder is that a bad location to be for success? If we place two glass of hot water and put a small glass of cold water in middle how long will small glass remain cold? Whether we like it or not three glasses will reach the same temperature in a while. How long will Nepal claim to be a poor country. Its not possible to surround by growth and remain not growing . One small candle can show the path of mile, there is no need of light to show hundred miles at a time, small-small tiny steps will make change gradually, by sharing knowledge one can't be small rather will grow more wise and will create the great collective consciousness of awareness.  Until and unless we stop blaming          other will never solve the problem, As Anil Chitrakar says "rather stepping in Panic Zone from Comfort Zone will lead us to Magic Zone". We must not try to fallow other rather find new ways matching our own nature and circumstances. As Einstein quotes "Everyone is a genius, but if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid". We can abolish the poverty, develop country, but to do so only one essential thing is we should unite and from individuality to collectivity  and do things collectively. And this wisdom made me come home. Home is where the heart is my heart is with Nepal. 

Thought can change the world positively :

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      Thought appears to be only one thing repeatedly revolving in our mind. When that thought takes positive or negative side, it swipes away all our existence towards that side. To understand it more deeply we shall dig more how thought shapes our life, what can be done, and by going through it's scientific evidences. Then we know thought can change our life. Just by twisting the intention of our thought life can take a U-turn . 

      Thought effects each and every aspects of life. Just by thinking about lemon juice our mouth starts creating saliva, just by thinking about a cute baby or a puppy our heart fills will love and compassion, and just by thinking about a cruel man our heart starts beating fast and our whole being get disturbed immediately. Here we must ask our self, what is that which makes our being changed with the blink of different affaires : that definitely refers to thought. That thought plays as a key element to create such feelings when we change the channel of feeling and thinking through thought.

      Thought changes surrounding, heal the body, attract the riches, attract the love of our life, and what not. These days so many scientists, philosophers, life-coach are talking and sharing this term called "The Law of Attraction". Which says: what ever we have in our life is the result of our thought. Accident, faller, break-up, loss, sickness all are the by-product of our negative thought of continues feeling of not wanting to be in that particular situation. But by not wanting to be in that situation we continuously create the energy and vibration as if we are asking the nature to bring that state in our life. On the contrary, if we focus our intention on what we already have and just by being thankful for all the gifts of life, we attract more glorious gifts we never know about. And by being in this continuous feeling of gratitude life starts surprising us in every new steps by offering so many new horizons of possibilities.

      Thought can change the molecule of our body and things around. Dr. Masaru Imoto a Japanese scientist researched in water which demonstrates that human vibrational energy, thoughts, words, ideas, and music effect the molecular structure of water. The very same water that comprises over 75% of a mature human body and covers the same amount of our planet. He takes clean water puts it in many different jar, labels it with different words like love, gratitude, hate, sickness, compassion and let it stay for few hour, frizzes it and checks the molecule of crystalized water through special microscope. He even checked the water from polluted river and clean stream , played music in front of jar with dirty polluted water and the result was miraculous . Here we can see the picture of different water sample that Dr. Imoto took from his special microscope. 

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      This ground-breaking  research proved that water can absorb the feeling, music and thought. That also proved that Hindu believe of drinking holy water from river beside the temple had a great science behind. That river water would absorb all the prayer that have been offered through the ages, even praying before having food also was scientific act so that mantra would created a good vibration so that food becomes healing diet. This research also excavates the reason behind why the main stream media is forced to speak in the favor of government and the powerful one's so that  news will become the believable thought for peoples and they believe and create the bias collective consciousness against other cast, creed, group, and nation and go for war or act in the favor of their wish as we saw in the history many times. I wonder if this water can absorb such a great message and make change in its molecule then what worse have we done with us and this planet earth as we both hold more then 75% of water within. With these many evidence we come to this understanding that thought can create change in our life and surrounding. As Buddha quotes " All that we are is the result of what we have thought." Hence, we can change the world by changing our thought focusing the brightest side of life as much as possible.

विचार नै हो हाम्रो सुख-दु:खको कारण

“बोल्दा विचार गर्नु किन भने तिमी आफैंले पनि सुनिरहेका छौ .” यो कुरा जब गुरुको मुखारविन्दबाट सुनें एक पलको लागि म अवाक भएको थिएँ . जीवन पर्यन्त मात्र यहि सुनेको थिएँ कि अरुलाई रिझाउनु, अरुको मन नदुखाउनु, अरुसँग राम्रो व्यवहार गर्नु, अरुलाई माया र सम्मान गर्नु, अरु, अरु अरु . स्वयमलाई केन्द्रमा राखेर भनिएको यो भनाईले म उभिएको जमिन हल्लिएको थियो . एक महान भूइंचालो गएको थियो, मभित्र जब ‘म’, ‘म’ सँग पनि त्यति सचेत हुनु पर्छ भन्ने कुरा थाहा पाएँ . गुरु र प्रकृतिको कृपाले बुझ्ने अवसर पाएँ कि मैले नै मलाई निर्माण गरिरहेको रहेछु . त्यसैले मैले म भित्रको ‘म’ लाई राम्रोसँग राख्न जरुरी रहेछ . र म भित्रको ‘म’ को पहिलो र निकटतम साथी “म” नै भएकोले म आफैंदेखि नै यती धेरै ख्याल राख्नुपर्ने रहेछ . यहाँ यो प्रसंगमा कुरा गर्दा ख्याल गर्नु पर्ने कुरा के हो भन्दा, के हो त त्यो तत्व जसले मेरो मलाई राम्रो र नराम्रो असर गर्न सक्छ ? त्यो तत्वको नाम हो “विचार” “Thought”.

हामी र हाम्रो सम्पूर्ण जीवन, यो जगत र समस्त अस्तित्व नै विचारमा अडीएको छ र यो समस्त अस्तित्वले विचार प्रति प्रतिक्रिया जनाउदछ . हामीले फेर्ने हर एक स्वाससँगै बाहिर जाने र भित्र आउने विचारले हामी र हाम्रो वरिपरी र धेरै धेरै परसम्मका तारा, नक्षत्रसम्म असर गर्दछ .

नेपाली भाषामा रहेको भनाई “जस्तो खायो अन्न उस्तै हुन्छ मन, जस्तो खायो पानी उस्तै हुन्छ बानी” भित्र धेरै रहस्य लुकेको छ . हाम्रो शरीर पानी र अन्नले नै बाँच्दछ . त त्यो पानी र अन्नले यो अस्तित्वबाट लिएका कुराले नै हामीलाई सो अनुसार बनाउदा रहेछन .

हामीले जीवनभर नै विचारलाई बेवास्ता गरेर बाँचिरहेका छौं . त्यसैले त हामी बाँचेको परिवेश कस्तो छ मैले भनिराख्नु पर्दैन . हामीले हाम्रा नयाँ पिढीलाई दिइरहेको शिक्षा र संस्कारले पनि हामी ‘विचार’ प्रति कति बेवास्ता गरिरहेका छौं भन्ने कुरा प्रस्ट हुन्छ .

“विचार विशुद्ध ऊर्जा हो .” र सबैलाई थाहा छ, “ऊर्जालाई सिर्जना गर्न वा नष्ट गर्न  सकिंदैन बरु यल्लाई रुपान्तरण गर्न मात्र सकिन्छ .” हामीले खाएको खानाबाट शरीरले ऊर्जा सिर्जना गर्छ . त्यो ऊर्जाको सबैभन्दा धेरै मात्रा हामी सबैभन्दा छिटो विचारमा परिणत गर्दछौं . दु:खको कुरा हामीले सिर्जना गर्ने अधिकांश विचार निन्दा, चर्चा, चियो, डाहा लगायतका नकारात्मक नै हुन्छन . तर यहि बीचमा केहि यस्ता व्यक्ति पनि छन् जो त्यो ऊर्जालाई सकारात्मक र सृजनात्मक कार्यहरु जस्तै: कलाका विविध रुपहरु, संगीत, गीत, नृत्य, कविता, कथा, लेख, रचना साहित्य या व्यवसायिक कौशलतामा खर्चिरहेका छन् .

रमाइलो कुरा के भने ऊर्जा सकारात्मक दिशा तिर गए सोहि गुण ( Multiply ) हुन्छ र अझै अझै राम्रा काम गर्न प्रेरणा, हौसला मिलिरहन्छ अनि नकारात्मक दिशामा गए अझ छिटो सकिने (Subtractions) हुन्छ र थालेको एउटा काम पनि राम्रोसँग सफल हुदैन . बरु झन् नकारात्मक काम तर्फ मन भने Multiply चाहीं भइनै रहन्छ . छोटकरीमा भन्दा ऊर्जा सकारात्मक काम गरे बढ्छ र नकारात्मक काम गरे घट्छ . तर यी दुवै प्रवृत्ति मध्ये जुन प्रवृत्तिमा लागे पनि मनले लगाव चाहिँ जता पनि राखिदिई रहन्छ . किनकि यो अस्तित्व तपाईंलाई यती प्रेम गर्छ कि तपाईं जुन दिशामा जान्छु र जे गर्छु भने पनि स्वतन्त्रता दिन्छ र बुद्ध बन्छु भने पनि सहयोग गर्छ र राक्षस बन्छु भने पनि सहयोग गर्छ .

मैले अस्तित्व भन्ने शब्द, प्रकृति या भगवान या त्यस्तो भगवत, ईश्वरीय सत्तालाई इंकित गरिरहेको छु . सद्गुरु ओशो भन्नु हुन्छ “यो मानवको सबैभन्दा ठूलो गरिमा हो कि मानवलाई जुन दिशामा जान्छु र जे बन्छु भने पनि प्रकृतिले सहयोग गर्छ,  अब चाबी हाम्रो हातमा छ कि हाम्रो जीवन ऊर्जाको गाडी कुन दिशामा लैजाने .”

विचार कति ऊर्जावान हुन्छ र विचारले के साँच्चै हाम्रो जीवनमा असर पार्छ त भन्ने कुरा बुझ्न हामी संसारका तमाम सफल र असफल मान्छेका दृष्टान्त हेर्न, पढ्न, सुन्न सक्छौं . यहाँ विचारमा कति शक्ति छ भन्ने कुरा प्रष्ट्याउन म जापानका वैज्ञानिक अनुसन्धानकर्ता डा. इमोटो मासारुले सन् १९९४ देखि २००८ सम्म गरेको विभिन्न परिक्षणले दिएका अचम्म लाग्दा तथ्य अघि सार्न चाहन्छु .

एक अध्ययनमा डा. इमोटोले हाम्रो संसारमा ७५% ले र हाम्रो शरीरलाई ६५% ले ढाक्ने तत्व जललाई लिएर प्रयोग गरे . यस प्रयोगमा विभिन्न गिलासमा सामान्य पानीलाई राखेर विभिन्न सन्देश लेखिएका कागज ती गिलास बाहिरबाट टाँसियो र लामो समयसम्म त्यसै अवस्थामा रहन दिइयो . पछि सोहि पानीलाई जमाएर जमेको पानीको सानो एकाइलाई शुक्ष्म दर्शक यन्त्र (Microscope) बाट हेर्दा अद्भूत परिणाम देखियो . जुन गिलासमा प्रेम, शान्ति, सद्भाव, मदर टेरेसा, अनुग्रह लगायतका सकारात्मक सन्देश लेखिएको थियो त्यस गिलासको पानीको सानो कणले पनि अत्यन्तै सुन्दर आकारहरु देखाए र नकारात्मक सन्देश जस्तै: घृणा, आक्रोश, हिटलर आदि लेखिएका गिलासको पानीको सानो कणले अत्यन्तै कुरूप र भद्दा स्वरूप देखाए .

फेरी अर्को प्रयोग सहरका पानीका बोतल र फोहोर नदी र तलाउका पानीमा गरियो . यी सबै पानीका कणले अत्यन्तै कुरूप र भद्दा स्वरूप देखाए भने पछि तिनै पानी साना बालकलाई खेलाउन दिंदा र बौद्ध भिक्षुले प्रार्थना गरे पश्चात् या सुन्दर संगीत बजाए पश्चात् त्यहि पानीलाई जमाएर पहिले जस्तै गरी शुक्ष्म दर्शक यन्त्रबाट हेर्दा अत्यन्त सुन्दर र सफा आकृति देखिए . त्यस्तै मस्जीद, मन्दिर, गुम्बा या चर्चमा राखिएका पानीको पनि अत्यन्तै सुन्दर र सफा आकृति देखिए .

यसरी सामान्य पानीले सकारात्मक र नकारात्मक सन्देश लेखिएको कागज टाँसेकै आधारमा या संगीतको ध्वनीको प्रयोगले तेस्तो आमूल फरक आकृति देखाउनु र फोहोर पानी पनि प्रार्थना पश्चात् परिवर्तन भएको पाइनुले त हाम्रो वैद्धिक परम्परामा तीर्थ जानु र तीर्थमा रहेका नदीको पानी घर ल्याउनु, घरमा छर्नु र अरुलाई पनि जल वितरण गर्नुमा कत्रो ठूलो विज्ञान रहेछ भन्ने कुरा प्रष्ट हुन्छ .

चाहे पूजाआजा आदि अनुष्ठानमा घन्किएका मन्त्र र शंख घण्टाको सकारात्मक ध्वनी पिएर बसेका फलफूल आदिलाई पूजाको अन्त्यमा प्रसाद भनेर खानु होस् वा  पूजा सकेपछी मात्रै भोजन गर्नु, जस्ता प्रचलनमा पनि धेरै ठूलो वैज्ञानिकता रहेको कुरा यो प्रयोगले प्रष्ट्याएको छ .

डा. इमोटोको यो प्रयोगले उठाएको सबैभन्दा ठूलो प्रश्न, ‘गिलासमा भएको पानीमा बाहिर लेखिएको सन्देशले त्यस्तो प्रभाव पार्दछ भने हाम्रो शरीरमा ६५% पानी छ . अतः सोचौं त हाम्रो सकारात्मक या नकारात्मक विचारले हाम्रो शरीर र यो जीवनलाई कति असर गर्छ होला ?’

सकारात्मक विचारले हामीले आफ्नो मात्रै हैन कि आफूसँग सम्बन्धित सबैको जीवनमा सकारात्मकताको वर्षा गराई रहेका हुन्छौं भने नकारात्मक विचार गरेर हामीले आफ्नो जीवन त बर्वाद गर्छौँ गर्छौं, आफूसँग सम्बन्धित श्रीमान, श्रीमती, छोरा, छोरी, आफन्त सबैको जीवनमा नर्क जस्तै विषको बाढी र सुनामी ल्याइदिन्छौं . नकारात्मक सोचकै कारण हामीलाई शारीरिक, मानसिक, सामाजिक समस्या आइरहन्छन् . त्यस्तै सकारात्मक सोचले शारीरिक, मानसिक स्वस्थता रहन्छ भने समाजमा सबै तपाईंको सकारात्मक सोचले सिर्जना गरेको तपाईंको ऊर्जाको आभा र​ औरा Aura का कारण तपाईं तिर आकर्षित हुन्छन् र तपाईं सामाजिक रुपमा सम्मानित र प्रिय पात्र बन्नु हुन्छ .

सकारात्मक सोचको उर्जाले नै जीवनमा केहि अर्थपूर्ण कर्म गर्ने प्रेरणा र त्यो प्रेरणालाई मूर्त गराउने संकल्प प्राप्त हुन्छ . कक्षाकोठामा अत्यन्तै कमजोर भनी हेपिएका अल्बर्ट आइन्स्टाइन संसारकै महान वैज्ञानिक (युग पुरुष), म पनि केहि गर्न सक्छु भन्ने सकारात्मक सोच र संकल्पले नै भएका हुन् . घरमा उज्यालो नभएर सडकको बत्तिको उज्यालोमा पढ्ने अब्राहम लिंकन यहि सकारात्मक सोचकै कारण अमेरिकाका राष्ट्रपति बन्न सफल भए . सकारात्मक सोच र दृढ संकल्पका कारण नै घरेलु हिंसाले पीडित आनी छोइङ्ग डोल्मा संसार प्रसिद्ध गायिका बनिन् र बोल्न, सुन्न नसक्ने झमक कुमारी घिमिरे मदन पुरस्कार विजेता लेखक बन्न सफल भइन् .

भनिन्छ, मोक्ष प्राप्त गर्न देवता पनि मानव चोलामा आउनु पर्ने हुन्छ . हामी मानव बन्नका लागि जन्मिनु अघि नै खरबौं शुक्रकिट मध्ये उत्कृष्ठ भएको कारण नै पाठेघरमा प्रवेश पाएका हौँ . यसरी यो जीवनको प्राप्ति नै हाम्रो सफलता प्राप्तिको पहिलो र विशिष्ट उदाहरण हो . जीवनका दु:ख हामीलाई निखारेर, पखालेर स्वच्छ बनाउन आउछन, जति नै दु:ख र कष्ट आइपरे पनि जति नै कालो बादल भए पनि छेउछाउका सेता सेता चाँदी जस्ता रेसा देख्न सके यो जीवन सुमधुर गीत बन्दछ .

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