Tuesday 16 October, 2007

A developing city:

Tall skyscrapers well arched roadways, trees implanted in a pattern & fine cut green carpets covering all that once was a desert stretch. Over all, it is said to be a well-planned developing city. It is growing at a pace speedier than any thing comparable.

Be it one of our buildings of pride, the tallest building in the world. 160 stories! Or the city itself that is onto becoming central-piece - a new world capital & a global attraction, in the period of mere 30 years.

So how is the mental growth coming along while the awestruck physical growth of the city makes itself a globally recognized phenomenon? And, is it right to call a city ‘developed and progressing’ solely on visible-structural developments?

Mental growth of a city is defined by its people who sponge-in its riches of art, culture, knowledge and hence develop a style of their own, further giving a style to the city unlike any other. It’s well known fact that ‘rich minds make a rich society’. And inwards richness reflects and transforms into outward beauty. That would be nothing but a natural process for an over-all growth with everything and anything that exists.

What happens to this natural possibility of over-all growth during a fast growth of physical body of a city? Or say, what happens to the soul when we make a clone?

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'Soul Secret' in brief:

Know your SOUL (Atma) as riding in a chariot,
The BODY as the chariot,
Know thou the INTELLECT (Buddhi) as a chariot-driver,
And the MIND (manas) as the rein.

The SENSES (Indriya), they say, are the horses,
The OBJECTS OF SENSE, what they range over,
The SELF combined with SENSES and MIND…
Wise-men call it the ENJOY-ER ( Bhoktri).

Higher than the SENSES are the OBJECTS OF SENSE,
Higher than the OBJECTS OF SENSES is the MIND (Manas),
And higher than MIND is INTELLECT (Buddhi),
Higher than INTELLECT is the SELF (Atma).

-- Katha Upanishad