Hardware & Software

What do we have in common with computers? The basic design. Like the personal computer we interact with everyday, we have two parts to our self: the hardware, or the body, and the software, or spirit.

To deny the spirit, to reject spirituality as nonsense, is analogous to bringing home computer hardware, and dispensing with the software as unwanted.

You may set such a system upon your desk — it will look good. You may clean it everyday, meticulously, but what is all your effort worth? You are labouring over a useless box. So it is if you tend your body and neglect the spirit.

You render your existence worthless. You are only adding to the crowd in the world, just as the useless system would be crowding your desk.

What is the essence of spirituality? It is to appreciate the interdependence of all beings and non-beings in creation. It is to understand the common denominator, non-duality, or advaita.

Such understanding marks the culmination of knowledge: it is Vedanta. The force that suffuses all beings and objects alike is also the substratum of creation.

Call it by whatever name you will. The Upanishads call it Bramhn. Freedom from mundane existence requires that you be logged on to Bramhn always.

You — like everybody and everything in creation — are, in fact, always logged on to Bramhn.

The need is to be conscious that you are so logged on. This helps attune your mind to the cosmic rhythm. This quickens in you powers you never suspected you possessed.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee is one of the most important leaders in Indian politics . 

Vajpayee Krishna Devi and Krishna Bihari Vajpayee were born on December 25, 1924 at Gwalior. His grandfather Pandit Shyam Lal Vajpayee settled in Gwalior from his native village, Pateshwar, Uttar Pradesh. 

Father, Krishna Bihari Vajpayee, is a poet and school teacher in her home town. Vajpayee completed his primary schooling at Gwalior. Gwalior graduated from the current Laxmi Boy College in Hindi, English and Sanskrit. DAA at Kanpur He earned a degree in Political Science at College. 

In 1942 he was sentenced to 23 days imprisonment for participating in the Quit India Movement. Arya Kumar Sobha, a youth wing of Arya Samaj, served as general secretary in 1944. In 1939 he joined the RSS. Due to his involvement in Baba Saheb Opti, he went to the RSS training camps in 1940-44. Full time RSS in 1947 Became a propagator. At that time, his law was interrupted by the riots that broke out between India and Pakistan.

Following the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948, Movement blocked. He joined the Hindu nationalist right-wing party Bharatiya Jana Sangh, which started with Diyya Prasad Mukherjee in 1951 by Dindhya Upadhyaya. He was appointed as the Northern Secretary of the Northern Province. Vajpayee, who had transformed himself as a follow-up to Siyama Prasad Mookerjee, was accompanied by an indefinite hunger strike against the oppression of Kashmir in Kashmir in 1953. After Mukherjee's death in the battle, Dindhyaal Upadhyaya was responsible for directing the Jana Sangh. 

In the 1957 election, he won the Balarampur constituency in Uttar Pradesh and became a Lok Sabha member. After the demise of Dindhya Upadhyaya, the Vajpayee was given the responsibility of the Jana Sangh leader in 1968. With him Advani, Nanaji Deshmukh and Balraj Madhok were also the main leaders of the Jana Sangh. 

Morarji Desai became Prime Minister when the Janata Party won the election in 1977. Vajpayee became the foreign minister. This rule only survived until July 28, 1979. 

In 1980, his colleagues LK Advani and Baron Singh Shekhawat join the Jan Sangh and RSS. Vajpayee created the Bharatiya Janata Party by integrating volunteers. He became the first chairman. Thus, Vajpayee became the strongest critic of the Congress government. 

Vajpayee was declared the BJP prime ministerial candidate in the 1996 Prime Ministerial Election. But the then BJP leader LK Advani Advani. Vajpayee became the 10th Prime Minister of India on May 16, 1996 after the election results were announced. His tenure lasted just 13 days. 

He won again in the 1998 election. But this time only 13 months in office. The coup that fell from the vote on April 17, 1999 with a single vote defeat. This 13-month rule was conducted on May 11 and 13, 1998 at the Pokhran desert in Rajasthan, where five atomic explosions were conducted. It was in this place that India conducted its first nuclear explosion experiment in the name of 'Smiling Buddha' in 1974, 24 years ago. 

Vajpayee also gave importance to the peace talks between India and Pakistan. He started the first bus service between Lahore and Delhi. Also in 1999, the two countries signed a contract at a meeting in Lahore. This historic treaty, known as the Lahore Agreement, was aimed at negotiating further negotiations with India and Pakistan to improve trade relations and to strengthen bilateral relations. In 1998, Pakistan and other South Asian countries were welcomed by the disastrous bombs in Pokhran. 

In 1999, the party general secretary Jayalalithaa declared that the AIADMK's party was withdrawing support for the Vajpayee-led United Democratic Alliance. Thus, the Vajpayee regime fell. The election was announced in October. Vajpayee built the strong United Nations coalition to coordinate many of these parties and held the prime minister's office for the third time. This time he has completed five years of full power and he is the first Prime Minister of India to be the Prime Minister of India to complete his tenure as prime minister. 

The Indian Army planned a Operation Vijay attack on Pakistani Army in the Kargil war between India and Pakistan in June 1999. The Pakistani army attacked the army by causing great damage. The Pakistani Forces withdrew; The Kargil War ended with India's victory. 

In December 1999, when the Indian Airlines flight was kidnapped in December 1999, the terrorists were involved in the Parliament building in December 2001, killing about a thousand Hindu and Muslim civilians in the 2002 Gujarat riots. Notable projects, such as the National Highway Project and Education Movement for everyone, were implemented. Improved international relations, private sector and foreign investment promotion. 

Vajpayee did not get married. But she adopted Namitha. He has a special interest in nature. Manali in Himachal Pradesh is one of the favorite places of his choice. He is interested in music and dance. She has a trademark involvement in the school since her schooling. He worked as a teacher in Punjabi Raja and Rashtrasarma in the monthly magazines and Arjun and Swethesh. He wrote many poems and autobiographies. Vajpayee poetry has also been published in Tamil in his poetry. 

Since 2001, he has done 10 surgeries for various reasons. A kidney has been removed. Stroke has not been able to speak properly. Diabetes has suffered from many years of hard work. He left the public life after 2005 and struggled with his body. 

Vajpayee, who served as a Member of Parliament for over 50 years, has not been in the minds of everyone. In 1962, he was elected as a member of the Rajya Sabha. Later, he was elected 7 times Lok Sabha member and 2 member Rajya Sabha member. Morarji Desai was also the Minister of State in 1977-79. The then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru praised the Vajpayee's speech at the youngest Parliament. Nehru released his prediction: "This young man named Vajpayee will one day become Prime Minister of India." Vajpayee made Nehru's prediction by his performance.