Sunday, March 8, 2009

Thought 1: We are all driven by our thoughts

Nothing is more potent than a thought to mould human life. Our life is nothing but an outer manifestation of our inner thoughts. They say that you are what you think (“Yad Bhaavam Tad Bhavati”). The use or abuse of this thought force determines the destiny of man. (Swami Paramananda).

An idea is nothing but a thought in the mind. The idea (thought) is known to change your life in ways never anticipated by you. Ideas change the entire technology and this, in turn, has a great impact on our lives and culture.

Ideas leading to technological innovations make our lives more comfortable, in general. The IC (integrated circuit) technology, for instance, has led to the miniaturization in electronics, which in turn, has changed our lives in ways that we could not have imagined earlier. Now we cannot imagine our lives without the ICs. The ubiquitous IC is contained in over 50 devices that we use daily at home and at the place of work - such as ovens, microwave ovens, food mixers and hand blenders, coffee machines, printers, copiers, cameras, TVs and DVDs, rice cookers, electric kettles and irons, ordinary telephones and mobile telephones, computers, clocks and watches, audio devices, refrigerators and Air conditioners, automobiles (of various types), trains and railway signaling, controls of various types including automation, etc. We can never live comfortably any more without these devices.

Ideas (thoughts) change the culture. In fact, every change in our lives, culture, technology, education, architecture, politics, Defense strategies and tactics, etc is ushered in by ideas (thoughts) only.

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