Realizations exists in the realm of thoughts?

I was reading the blog of my roomie(room 501c ,bldg 27, spjimr mumbai), prem which is freakin-god.blogspot.com.. God is a freaking guy..;) !

He has some weird ideas about some things. For example, he believes everybody lives up to their name. At the end, the nature of a person is that of what his name means.
Beacuse he is called Premankur, he espouses the idea that he not only brings love to eveybody, but also teaches others to love. Is there any sense in this nonsense? There are lot of 'Smiths' in US. But they don't collectively turn to be blacksmiths or goldsmiths or whatever.

Prem is one the very few guys in the institute with some philosophical bent - the only one i have yet found. He is now reading Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. He reads and discusses with me. And he says he has benefitted a lot from those discussions. He said he started hating some people, because they are impure in the sense they fake themselves. The protogonaist in the novel also do the same. I told him this is just an initial stage of your philosophical growth. There lies a very long way to journey where you will be full with compassion towards the universe.

He had written of a realization which happened to him recently. He claims he got connected to a greater purpose of life from the divine and has been called to move on.

i wrote in his blog which mentioned his experience of realization -
In some level of your existence , u realize something.. You feel great and in top of the world.
The next moment you turn into a worm..You are nobody. A descent has happened.
The ascent was not permanent. You have to know that everything is temporary..Nothing exists to be eternal.
Are you sure your realization is eternal?
Sometimes its the thoughts that disguises into realizations..

And clearly thoughts are not realizations..
Thoughts imprisons us in its illusions..We need to be free from thoughts.. And vicious circle is that it our thought again that we need to come out of the thoughts.
We need to make sure that the realization is not a thought.. - ( These are some ideas i got from speeches of J.Krishnamurthy).

Thats why true realization can't be penned down, as said by buddha, osho and other numerous zen masters. The moment you try to describe the realization, it disappears..because realization happens above the level of thoughts..

If its not realization, it is a piece of art, it is a literature, it is a philosophy..

jo

I am not a marketing guy, I am a finance guy.

I am not at all a marketing guy. I had applied a lot to many B-schools for marketing specialisation. I didn't get through even a single one. I had thought that interviews and Group discussions are meant to all specialisation. I had thought they won't evaluate you on the basis of the specialisation i have applied for. That was a foolish thing from my side. No B-school found the 'marketing stuff' in me. But somehow ,fortunately, I reached in a blessed institution called SPJIMR and in Finance specialisation.

I remember the day I filled the Online Application Form of S.P.Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai. First among the stuffs to be filled was Finance. In a single page, specialisation opting for was being asked, and a submit sign! I don't know what happened, consciously or subconsciously I selected 'Finance' and pressed the 'Submit' Button! Whoosh! I realised in that split second, there's something unusual going on. I had always opted for Marketing in all the other B-schools and now i had just opted finance. I checked for all ways in the website to change the specialisation already submitted. It went to a wasted attempt. But i didn't bother about it. I felt i will be fine with whatever specialisation i would be taking.

All this happened after that filling of application form in spjimr.org. I got selected in the first list itself for Finance specialisation in SPJIMR. And no other Big institutes selected me. K.J Somaiyya Mumbai, IFMR Chennai, SIBM Bangalore etc didn't take me. A momentary sadness prevailed then. Last among the colleges who aired out the results were SPJIMR. Last week of April 2009. In night I was not getting sleep. i waked up at around 2.30- 3.00 am and checked the SPJIMR website. And..the last moment of striving to get into a reputed B-school. I didn't prepare for interview, I didn't enjoy the interview so as to receive positive vibes from the Panel. And now i am here in SPJIMR.

When I was in Trimester 1, for the purpose of an assignment in 'Organisational behaviour' a.k.a 'People and Performance' course, I had asked many friends about myself. Name of the assignment was 'Reflected Best Self' or RBS. It was for finding out how the people around you, with whom you lived with, you studied with, you worked with, etc. are thinking about me. How is the process 'me' occurs to others. One of my friends who was my classmate in Mechanical Engineering batch of 2002-06, George K Perekkat or simply 'Pera' responded to me in a very precise and deep manner. He wrote back to me and among the list was this line 'An introvert but trying to be extrovert'.

Now I know myself better. I was deluded by extrovertish people being lauded by others for possessing so-called heroic qulaities like eloquency, courage, public speaking, communication skill,etc. I am basically an introvert. I am not good in communication skills. I am not a spontaneous person. I am a thinking person. I am not a doing person. I am an analytical detail oriented person. I am not basically an intuitive person. I am a mathematical person. I am not a histroy/social-studies/english/extracurricular-activities person. So I am realising myself right here and now. I am a finance guy.

I really felt in the wee hours of the morning, i was destined to be here in this institute in this specialisation...

jo

immunity on its happy stroll

I had always thought about it. Also my dad used to tell frequently.
Human beings, having evolved from forest-dwelling monkeys, are able to protect themselves from great ailments.

We ate apples without washing it. We ate rabbits' meat without cooking it. We were perfectly fine. No grave ailments touched us. And we were inherently strong enough to ward off silly diseases like indigestion, cold, head ache, coughs, stomach ache, loose motion, nausea etc...

SPJIMR is a very good institute with the worst infrastructure facilities in this country. This is a popularly known fact, atleast among alumnis, students and faculties.
Infrastructure development so as to have a sprawling campus in a large area is not in question, only because we are in the middle of a city in the largest populous city of the world, mumbai.

Interesting thing is that even little amenitites are in the verge of great peril.
Hygiene is not even a word to be included in the college dictionary. Water is never good for drinking. But they find it ecstatic in proclaiming that samples of water from water coolers were taken and sent to Indian water Sample testing Institute, Central government and found that totally fit for drinking. No body seems to realize the fact that, water smells like rotten egg.

Mess is a very small hall. The basin for washing hands is decorated with last weeks food items. All the employees working in the mess sleep over dining tables and brush their teeth in the basins. I donno whether they take bath in the same basin. I have seen buckets around the place.

Food is not hygienic. People get different kind of ailments from cerebral malaria, chicken pox to viral fever, sore throat, general unwellness etc. I donno whether we have taken patents over diseases which we discovered in SPJIMR. Recently we have appointed a resident doctor which had never been there even after it was ranked one among the top ten collges in business education.

2 things are sure.
1. We are made strong business leaders from inside by improving our power of immunity by constantly contributing challenging situations.
2. The moment we are out of the institute, we wont find ourselvess feeling good without doing something great for the infrastructure development part of the economy for this yet-to-be-superpower nation.

jo

My QM Professor is very funny

My Quantitative Methods(qm) prof is a funny guy. He used to take exams for us in this subject. For those exams he carefully designs the questions so as to make us laugh in the exam hall with the question sheet in the hand.

Most of his questions will be having an intro-story. The stories are most probably related to real events in the college or its current trends. Or he will be discussing terrorist organisations. These are his favourite areas of research.

I really appreciate his sense of humour and creativity and observation skills.
Some examples of his intro-stories are worth cherishing forever. These examples are from a recent test. One more speciality is that this is the first test in SPjimr in which i got full marks.

Here it goes:
1)
1. An interesting syndrome, called the ESYS (End-session Yawning Syndrome) has been recently discovered in PGP – I. The symptoms emerge only if a session exceeds its time limit by more than 3 minutes. As this is a highly infectious disease, participants who want to be in the good books of faculty are scared. Last week, one such participant invented a test called Apalascopy (named after the inventor) that can detect ESYS at early stage.

2. Requests have been coming to Admin for change of hostel rooms because of snoring roommates. Being sympathetic to the requests, the Admin conducted a survey to find out whether snoring is related to blockage of nostrils or high stress level during the day. Snorers were divided into two categories: (i) irritating snorers and (ii) soothing snorers. The study was limited to the GH only as it was impossible to locate a soothing snorer in BH.

3. Due to acute water shortage, many participants are developing a habit of not taking bath (except on Thursdays and Sundays) before coming to class. However, they do not want to be caught red-handed. Hence, they sprinkle water on their head and apply lot of body spray to create an impression that they take bath everyday, come what may. The SPJIMR Admin and BMC are happy as this saves water, money and time.

4. For most programs at SPJIMR the PG Lab concept is applicable. Apart from serving other academic purposes, participants unanimously agree that it brings the batch closer. Fortunately or unfortunately, every PG lab ends up bringing a few participants (without gender-bias) so close that they start sharing one soul. Hence, quite a few spare souls hang around as unidentified ghostly objects or UGOs without finding a body to enter for quite some time. An empirical data of such UGOs from the current PGP Batch over the next 100 hours of their PG Lab is as given below.

5. Participants are trying to finish their Abhyudaya visits before afternoons to avoid mosquito bites. Others, who do not have any choice, apply Odomos on themselves and their laptops, before the visits. Despite taking precautionary steps, there are cases of mosquito bites, as the mosquito community has developed an antidote for Odomos. The mosquito bites in slums are expected to follow a Poisson distribution with an average of 3.5. The statistics of mosquito bites on last Sunday is as follows.

Orkut's Today's fortune for today: Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Jo

enjoy panicking..its fun

I didn't mind the Swine flu pandemic at first.
I didn't know what it was and how its spreading.
Then I had a seminar on Swine Flu. Then I started panicking.

Schools and Colleges became the amusement park for the H1N1 Virus.

Yesterday I saw a School girl walking behind me. She had no masks.
She was within 6 feet to me.(A sneeze will spread the virus 6 feet).
She had no hanky(Sneeze and cough in hanky to avoid spreading).

I had to take charge of the situation. I walked fast and got escaped from the clutches of swine flu virus. I got really relieved. I resolved not to skip food and take bath and proper sleep.

Later I set my Status message in Gmail and SPJIMR mail :
"Fight Swine Flu: Eat something better than what pigs do.."
The message was highly appreciated.

Jo

I became Jo

I was never Jo. I was called Freejo.. Freejo Jose.

When I joined NITC for my Engineering, north indians called me Freezo...
When I joined Infosys as software engineer, she told she would like to call me Jo...
When I joined SPJIMR for my MBA, i was called many names - 'Hosae', Mr. Jose, Freezo, FreeShow etc.

Two weeks ago, I adopted a girl-child(Sonal) of 8th standard for mentoring which is part of my MBA program(called Abhyudaya). To the marathi-speaking girl, I introduced myself as Jo. She called me Jo dada.

Last Sunday, I went to Kondana Buddhist Caves with TISS College Students for Waterfall Rappelling and other adventure sports. I asked them to call me Jo.

Call it fate, I became Jo.

Jo