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Nothing wrong with the bike

Nothing wrong with Bajaj Discover 150F bike.  I had severe back pain when I was riding that bike.  I tried this and that to resolve the back pain.  But nothing worked.  Without having any clue as why that bike gave me back pain, I sold that bike for cheap price.

Then I purchased Honda Shine.  No back pain with honda shine.  I am riding Honda shine for the last three years.  Everything went well.

Last six months, I am riding Shine for 50 kms up and down per day for commuting.  Saligramam to Okkiyam Duraibakkam.  I started having back pain nowdays.  I am not blaming Honda Shine for back pain.  The same bike I used ride for three years without any problem.

50 KMS ride – 5 days a week, irregular sitting posture in office, restless weekend, latenight or till midnight mobile addiction, job stress – all causing back pain.  Nothing to do with Honda Shine.

In the same way, something wrong with me, my life style, triggered back pain, when riding Discover 150F.  But, I mistaken as bike was the problem.  It was a good bike with strong bottom and midrange speed, gave 70+ km/ltr mileage in highway if ridden around 60+ km/hr speed.  I was using the bike in both city and highway. Only problem I noticed was, bike was not stable and not confidence inspiring beyond 60 km/hr speed.  I sold Discover 150F without knowing why I had back pain.

Honda shine is a good city bike, but it struggles in highway, engine feel stressed above 50 km/hr speed.  We should not push honda shine beyond 50 km/hr speed.

Now, I am looking for second bike to ride in highway.  When I searched Discover 150F in quikr, olx, I hardly see it.  Even listed but overpriced.

Today I saw an ad for Discover 150F in OLX for 18500 rupees – six year old bike. Suddenly I noticed another ad for pulsar 220F for the same price – 18500 rupees.  It is a 10 year old bike.

Pulsar 220F is a far better bike than Discover 150F.  I oscillate.  My quench for riding a bike in highway is not satisfied yet.  The crush for highway machine is still burning.  My speed is not 100 or above 100 km/hr.  My speed is around 60 to 70 km/hr.  But I want a stable machine in highway against cross or head winds.  Engine should not stressed.  It should be relaxed at those speeds.

Discover 150 F engine is not stressed at 70 km/hr speed, but not stable and confidence inspiring at those speed.

I could push Honda Shine for 70+ km/hr speed, but engine is stressed, bike is not stable and shaky in winds.

Since, I already ridden Discover 150F, I know it was stable in 60+ speeds, engine relaxed.  It matches my speed and expectation.  But, it is hardly sold in used bike market,  that too not in affordable price.  15000 to 20000 is my budget, 50 to 10 years old, spare parts should be available. Any mechanic can maintain it.  I prefer the highway machine with kick starter.

Discover 150F, pulsar 220F, pulsar 180 are my choices now.  Budget less than 20000 rupees.  I will keep my honda shine for city usage, agile, nimble, and light weight bike.

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Buying a Car

I am planning to by a car for a while.  Today I visited three show rooms – maruthi, renault, nexa.  Cars enquired are swift, expresso, kwid, triber, baleno.  On road price will come from 5 to 7 lakhs.  I have to pay down payment and remaining will be paid in EMI for several years.

My car usuage is simple.  Daily commute to office, monthly once or twice city outting with my family – total four members.  Yearly once or twice travelling to native place – to Trichy from Chennai, That’s it.

Challenges in having big car is parking, driving in city traffic, highway cruising will be a bliss.

Challenges in having a small car is congested and cramped travel when driving with five passengers – three in back seat. Riding in hills too is challenge.  Highway cruising will be boring, we have to maintain 60 to 80 km/hr speed.  Parking and driving in city will be blissful.

I have a craze for Tata Nano.  Many times, I felt I missed purchasing tata nano.  The thought of buying second hand used tata nano car instead of buying new premium hatch bag car, haunting me often.

I could usily buy a old nano within one lakh rupees and without committing big long EMIs.  But reliability of used car is a question – especially Nano, which is discontinued.

I postponding buying a car.  It is a decision paralysis now.  I do not have eperience and knowledge to take a decision in buying a car.  I am not ready to go for big EMIs now.  I have a craze for Nano.

Commuting by bike gives pain to my hip and back.  Switching to four wheeler for office commuting is a must now.

So, Let me take the risk of buying old nano.  Low risk, low gain, low loss too.  It is like a upront decision.

If my experiment with used nano goes well, after six month or one year, I could buy a new nano by exchanging the old car.  If the experiment does not go well, sell it.  Either case loss will be less.

We do not know, what is right decision.  State of decision will change from time to time.  Sometime our decision looks good and other time it looks bad and vice versa.

So, I will follow my will, buy a old nano within my budget, no need to avail loan. Due to my simple usecase with car, I don’t want spend too much and commit EMIs for years.

Spare parts availability is another challenge for tata nano.  Because of this spare parts fear I missed Suzuki GS150R bike, but it is still running on roads.

Even If I get finance for my second hand Nano, then I could keep my lumpsum money with me.  EMI will be around 3000 rupees and tenure would be 3 years.  I could keep my one lakh with me for safer side.

I am stuck by decision paralysis many times.  Henceforth, I have to follow my will or fear to move on from decision paralysis.

I followed my fear in buying a used car, and I did not buy used Tata Nano.

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Eleven years of blogging what I Learnt

Eleven years of blogging since 2006. Started with dream of becoming rich from blogging.

I did not earn from blogging a bit. Frustration and depression after seeing page views, no visitors at all. I am the only visitor to my blog. Writing emotionally charged posting did not bring single visitor. Great deal of energy and time wasted. I did not renew the domain name in 2016 with frustration. Domain lost. Domain name registered by somebody else.

Instinctively motivated contents did not bring visitors. Content i liked did not bring traffic. I too had interim good time, had good time, received few adsense checks in 2010 when my realty pages yield traffic. Real estate boom was its peak in my city during 2010. Boom bursted, no visitors further.

Contents of early bird in emerging market with low competition yielded traffic for a while. But nothing permanent.

Instinctively charged, emotionally motivated, compulsive writing are utter flap in bringing traffic.

I resumed my blog for pure fun. Earlier i ran the blog with Drupal. I learnt drupal and got two job offers in my career. Now i run my site using wordpress, i want to learn wordpress like drupal.

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What I want to feel?

I don’t want to feel God

I don’t want to feel Universe

I don’t want to feel Soul

I don’t want to feel Life energy

I don’t want to feel me.

I don’t want to feel true me, after clearing crust of I or delusions.

I don’t want to feel past lives

I don’t want to feel Karma

I don’t want to feel enlightened

I don’t want to feel the ecstacy during meditation.

I don’t want to feel the ecstacy from doing various Kryas

I don’t want to feel Blissful

I don’t want to feel nature.

What I want to feel from spirituality? I don’t want to feel anything from spirituality.

What I want to feel exactly?

I don’t know what I want to feel.

I feel void. I feel null.

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Beyond Logic

Beyond Logic Discussions – Here is my beyond logical discussions, free to read. If YOU don’t accept them, just ignore it, no offence.

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Inventions Leading to Addicted Life

Inventions leading to improvements in life or need for improvements leading to inventions.

Inventions leading to improvements in life and addicted to invented products.

Did any one dream about Smart Phone twenty years back. Did any one write functional specification of what smart phone has to do twenty years back. No one thought about smart phone twenty years ago. Once smart phone was invented , promoted then people started using it and got addicted to it. Now smart phone is one of basic needs of life.

Did any one dream about Bus or Train thousand years ago? People lived with the facilities available during their era. No one wrote the functional specification of bus or train even 300 years ago. Once bus and train were invented, then people started using them and addicted to it.

Business owners investing money in research and innovations to improve their business and make more money. Scientists receiving fund from business people, doing research, innovate something, and the innovated thing or product promoted to sales by highlighting it’s usage/benefits.

Something is innovated, then it’s benefits are identified, then it is marketed and sold, then people get addicted to it, once became habitual to it.

There are some targeted medical inventions, but they are exceptions. Most cases, something is invented then marketed.

99% of inventions are made to make investors rich and make profits.

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Science and Spirituality

I am writing about the similarities of science and spirituality, not the differences.

Science is a single word, but if you get into science, it has countless branches, divisions. Major branches we know are Physics, Chemistry, Biology. In biology, we divide as zoology and botany, and they are branching further. A botany scientist who is researching how cow dung is helping plants to grow, may not be interested in Quantum Computing. An astronaut may not be interested in pesticides.

But all branches of science exist and serve. One can not deny other. One may not be interested or not aware of other branches of science, but all come under science.

A scientist have fundamental knowledge of science and then focusing on specific area of interest or opportunity given. Scientist pursue his research in the interested field or opportunity provided. A scientist can not venture out in all the branches/divisions of science, one life span is not enough for that. A semi-conductor scientist can not be interested in molecular biology, but he/she can not reject molecular biology as fake or dump it. Molecular biology is true as same as semi-conductor.

At the same time, a botanist may have interest in chemistry, how? botanist will use pesticides/chemicals to grow plants.

A scientist can specialize in one division of science, or he/she can specialize in more than one divisions depending upon interest, time, resource, energy available to him/her.

But all branches of science is true, nothing is better or lower than other. All have same importance and serve the humanity on its own way.

And the more important thing is Science is still evolving.

Let us come to Spirituality now.

Spirituality is a single word, but branches out into may divisions, many religions, many practices, many visions. All are come under spirituality, but all are not same.

Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Islam, Christianity , Judaism, Sikhism, Saivam, Vainavam, Tantric worship, Siddhar practices, different school of thinking, different philosophies all come under one roof called Spirituality. Each serves it’s sect of people. One cannot deny other, one cannot reject other.

Like branches of science co-exists and continue to evolve, these branches of Spirituality have to co-exists and continue to evolve.

Like science, spirituality is evolving. Spirituality is not a thing of past. It is present and continue to evolve. As on date (year 2024) our contemporary spiritual leaders/gurus from various branches of spirituality are torch bearers of spiritual legacy evolved thousands of years ago. After their demise, some leader will born or evolve and carry forward the spiritual torch.

You can follow Abrahamic monotheism religions. You can follow naturally evolved paganism religions. All serve it’s people on its own way. Nothing is fake or false path. All comes under Spirituality, but all are not same.

Three people are living in India, Japan, and America. They are fat, they want to reduce the weight. They have to follow diet to reduce weight. American has to follow American food diet, Japanese has to follow Japanese food diet, Indian has to follow Indian food diet. Geographically where they are located, Geographically what foods available to them, in those foods, they have to follow diet. We cannot say Japanese diet is better or lower than Indian or American diet. We cannot say only American diet will reduce weight, other’s diet will fail. This is wrong. If each one is sincerely follow what diet is prescribed to them based what foods available to them geographically, that will reduce weight, and they will be able to achieve weight loss.

In the same way, what is the spiritual path is available to you depending on your living space, your parents, your geography, your interest, you can follow that. You cannot claim yours is best, and other are false. What is “prescribed” to you will work for you, and what is “prescribed” to others, will work them. Right or Wrong is false attachment.

Paganist religions worship angels, divine forces, small gods, and God. Monotheist religions worship only God, but they don’t deny the existence of angels, divine forces, small gods.

Both paganism and monotheism are valid. You can follow what is interested, appealing, or provided to you. Whatever you follow, don’t deny other. All are valid.

Like science, the branches of Spirituality serve humanity in it’s own way. All are valid, but all may not please everybody. Human will follow either what is accessible or interested or opportunity given to him/her and pursue his/her efforts in the specialized branch.

There are 800+ crore people are living in earth as on date. Not all are scientist. Not all are spiritual seekers. Out of 800 crores people, few are scientist, and few are spiritual seekers, Not All.

Not all can become a scientist, not all can become a Spiritual person. Only few, only few who are blessed to have interest in spirituality or blessed to have interest in science, blessed to practice spirituality, blessed to practice science.

Science is Objective reality, works out for all.

Spirituality is Subjective reality, works out for few, not all.

Life is mixture of both Objective and Subjective reality. Human needs both Objective and Subjective truths.

Humans evolved science.

Humans evolved spirituality.

Science is nothing but logic. Spirituality is nothing but belief.

Logic makes wonders to humanity. Belief makes wonders to humanity.

Both science and spirituality offer many benefits to humanity.

But, both science and spirituality cannot grow hair in bald head as on date.

Period.

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மனிதனுக்கு எப்போது கடவுள் தேவை? எப்போது கடவுள் தேவையில்லை?

தனக்கு நல்லது நடக்க வேண்டும் என்று எதிர்பாக்கும் பொழுது, மனிதன் கடவுளிடம் பிரார்த்திக்கிறான், கடவுளை நினைவுகூர்கின்றான் , கடவுள் இருப்பதாக நம்புகின்றான்.

பிறரிடம் கோவப்படும்போது , பிறரை திட்டும்பொழுது, பிறரை ஏமாற்றும்பொழுது, பிறரை பயன்படுத்திக்கொள்ளும்பொழுது, பிறரை மட்டப்படுத்தும்பொழுது, அகங்காரமும் ஆணவமும் பொறாமையும் தலைவிரித்து ஆடும்பொழுது, மனிதன் கடவுளை மறந்துவிடுகின்றான். பிறரை ஏமாற்றும் பொழுது, சுரண்டும் பொழுது, அதிகாரம் செய்யும்பொழுது, அடக்குமுறை செய்யும்பொழுது, பிறரை குறை சொல்லும்பொழுது , பிறர்மீது குற்றம் சுமத்தும்பொழுது, மனிதனுக்கு கடவுள் தேவையில்லை.