shyam's cafe

A place to hang out ,spend time;just time, in the company of friends or with that special someone; a place where you dont have to be bothered about what the person sitting in the next table thinks;where the service does not push you to order, pay the bill or vacate.welcome to SHYAM's CAFE, opening in the near future.a place about twice as large as atmos ;in a serene corner of the city;elegant, uncluttered,where time stands still and cheer fills the air.my place will not have walls of concrete-seen enuf of those already.neon lighting and flashiness is a strict no no.you walk in to see ferns and shrubs on either side of a stone pathway.a tiny waterfall and a few tables for those who love the night air.walk a bit further and you see walls of bamboo like in a forest resort.in you come to find a huge ornamental fern tree in the centre surrounded by creepers and vines.a dash of soft lighting at the bottom to complete the picture.the place is diamond shaped with 8*8 feet cabins surrouding the centre.each cabin is detached from the world with a small window to peer outside at the greenery.soft leather sofas,a polished rosewood table with red napkins on it ,a lamp hanging from the top.the customer can adjust the lighting to his wish.each cabin has a small shelf with a few novels,magazines and few cofee table books.another shelf has scrabble chess and cards.you have an intercom to call service as and when you wish.a dash of soft music maybe.john denver in the afternoon ,soft rock in the evening and lionel ritchie at night.the volume is low enough to allow easy conversations but high enough for poeple to enjoy.it melts as a part of the ambience.the menu is mostly juices ,latte's ,shakes ,mocktails and cofees with salads and snacks for good measure.the pricing is on the higher side but so is the experience.to those who share my idea of a great time with friends or with a special someone,with no one staring at what you do,no worries of the outside world,where time together is worth more than fast music and noise of chattering crowds i say "Welcome to SHYAM'S CAFE"

belief??

what is religion exactly ??and where does it figure in terms of individual or in terms of society?and who defines a re;religion like Hinduism??
religion you can say is belief in god.but does it mean that we have to forget rationalism and blindly believe?does religion teach us to be blind believing fools of what a person says without even seeing the person who said it?[like a Buddha?]so obviously when rationalism comes into play you can only believe something for which proof exists.how do you prove something which exists on the spiritual plane and not on the material?the answer sages give is that the proof is in the seeing and experiencing .Vivekananda as young naren was curious about spirituality and he went to different men and women who preached and listened to their discourese.then at the end of each discourse he asked the person concerned "have you seen god?'.the natural reply was no.he walked away dissappointed because he felt that only those who had seen god can lead him to god.when he met ramakrishna paramahamsa and asked the same question ramakrishna replied"my child i see him just as i see you only in a much intenser state".vivekananda asked him if it was possible for him to see god too.ramakrishna repliesd that "i will teach you".history records what vivekananda achieved . science has a proof for every conclusion it draws.itsays that we move from an established fixed principle and logically derive results which serve as proof to a new theory.the other way is performing an experiment according to steps given will give proof for a theory.religion emplyoys the same methods.either they rationally start by saying why the body cannot function on its ownand lead it to the logical conclusion of a god and a soul or they ask a person to follow certain instructions to the letter for a certain period to get the proof i.e realisation.
as to where religion figures in a society tommorrow ppl

i read a blog today which went on about India's abject caste religious and communal divides.this forces me to write one of my rare textual posts .i just could not disagree more with the tone which most people take saying "where is the hope for our nation if we are so hopelessly divided?"i say even if so called rational and balanced people like you dont have hope ,then who else will??and hoe dare you criticise someone when you have the same hopeless attitude yourself??and this is what i say as an indian who believes in the destiny and future of india.!yeah all these exist no doubt but the very fact that we have been able to survive as a nation shows that we still have a something which rides across all caste barriers, a something which transcends religion ,which overpowers racism and forces us to remain united ...call it the destiny of the nation ,or the collective soul of a billion ,india does exist and stands untied at times of national crisis .when chaos and destruction beckon, we stand up as one with spine straight and head held high....case in point kargil and the recent terror attacks....yes we do have bigotry but that is only on the surface ..unravel the veil and u find a collective united soul of a nation....this may be overtly optimistic but that is the way i see it....[sorry to my friend whose blog i happened to read today]

i got this article in times of india newspaper.....mind blowing stuff...the possibilities

THE UNIVERSE IN YOU

MOST of us think of a hologram — the little thingies on credit cards, product packaging tags, etc — as just a high tech-three-dimensional image which is very difficult to tamper with. However, there’s another extremely interesting property of holograms too: their entirety can be reconstructed from an arbitrarily small part. That is, if a hologram of a face is cut in half, each half contains all the information to make another — though smaller — image of the complete face. The same holds true even if the face is cut into a thousand pieces. In fact, a hologram is like a window with hundreds of panes; one can look at the same outside scene when it’s fully open or through any one of its panes when it’s closed. Every part of it contains all the information possessed by the whole.
Michael Talbot puts this in a different perspective in his book The Holographic Universe: The “whole in every part” nature of a hologram, he says, provides us with an entirely new way of understanding organisation and order. For most of its history, western science has laboured under the bias that the best way to understand a physical phenomenon, whether a frog or an atom, is to dissect it and study its respective parts. A hologram teaches us that some things in the universe may not lend themselves to this approach. If we try to take apart something constructed holographically, we will not get the pieces of which it is made, we will only get smaller wholes.
Some people have used this argument to explain the curious quantum physics observation that under certain circumstances, so-called “entangled” subatomic particles which were once together at some point of time, are able to remain in intimate and instant contact with each other even if they happen to be light years apart later. The reason is not that they’re sending some sort of faster than light signals back and forth between them but because their separateness is in itself a false impression. At a fundamental level each is only an extension of everything it’s embedded or immersed in — or vice versa.
This leads to a startling but staring-us-in-the-face conclusion that in reality there are no pieces that make up a whole because nothing exists which is not comprehensive by itself. Parts of things — like carburettors of cars or pancreas of people — are not unfinished business. Meaning, just like the universe harbours every one, each of us harbours a universe within ourselves too.