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That was a nice mail and i like to share that with all of you.

Its not about a religion but its about set of  beliefs and practices.

Here is that e-mail…

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WHY I AM A HINDU?

Four years ago, I was flying from JFK NY Airport to SFO to attend a meeting at Monterey , CA An American girl was sitting on the right side, near window seat. It indeed was a long journey - it would take nearly seven hours.

I was surprised to see the young girl reading a Bible unusual of young Americans. After some time she smiled and we had few acquaintances talk. I told her that I am from India

Then suddenly the girl asked: ‘What’s your faith?’ ‘What?’ I didn’t understand the question.

‘I mean, what’s your religion? Are you a Christian? Or a Muslim?’

‘No!’ I replied, ‘I am neither Christian nor Muslim’.

Apparently she appeared shocked to listen to that. ‘Then who are you?’ ‘I am a Hindu’, I said.

She looked at me as if she was seeing a caged animal. She could not understand what I was talking about.

A common man in Europe or US knows about Christianity and Islam, as they are the leading religions of the world today. But a Hindu, what?

I explained to her - I am born to a Hindu father and Hindu mother. Therefore, I am a Hindu by birth.

‘Who is your prophet?’ she asked.

‘We don’t have a prophet,’ I replied.

‘What’s your Holy Book?’

‘We don’t have a single Holy Book, but we have hundreds and thousands of philosophical and sacred scriptures,’ I replied.

‘Oh, come on at least tell me who is your God?’

‘What do you mean by that?’

‘Like we have Jesus and Muslims have Allah - don’t you have a God?’

I thought for a moment. Muslims and Christians believe one God (Male God) who created the world and takes an interest in the humans who inhabit it. Her mind is conditioned with that kind of belief.

According to her (or anybody who doesn’t know about Hinduism), a religion needs to have one Prophet, one Holy book and one God. The mind is so conditioned and rigidly narrowed down to such a notion that anything else is not acceptable. I understood her perception and concept about faith. You can’t compare Hinduism with any of the present leading religions where you have to believe in one concept of god.

I tried to explain to her: ‘You can believe in one god and he can be a Hindu. You may believe in multiple deities and still you can be a Hindu. What’s more - you may not believe in god at all, still you can be a Hindu. An atheist can also be a Hindu.’

This sounded very crazy to her. She couldn’t imagine a religion so unorganized, still surviving for thousands of years, even after onslaught from foreign forces.

‘I don’t understand but it seems very interesting. Are you religious?’
What can I tell to this American girl?

I said: ‘I do not go to temple regularly. I do not make any regular rituals. I have learned some of the rituals in my younger days. I still enjoy doing it sometimes.’

‘Enjoy? Are you not afraid of God?’

‘God is a friend. No- I am not afraid of God. Nobody has made any compulsions on me to perform these rituals regularly.’

She thought for a while and then asked: ‘Have you ever thought of converting to any other religion?’

‘Why should I? Even if I challenge some of the rituals and faith in Hinduism, nobody can convert me from Hinduism. Because, being a Hindu allows me to think independently and objectively, without conditioning. I remain as a Hindu never by force, but choice.’ I told her that Hinduism is not a religion, but a set of beliefs and practices. It is not a religion like Christianity or Islam because it is not founded by any one person or does not have an organized controlling body like the Church or the Order, I added. There is no institution or authority.

‘So, you don’t believe in God?’ she wanted everything in black and white.

‘I didn’t say that. I do not discard the divine reality. Our scripture, or Sruthis or Smrithis - Vedas and Upanishads or the Gita - say God might be there or he might not be there. But we pray to that supreme abstract authority (Para Brahma) that is the creator of this universe.’

‘Why can’t you believe in one personal God?’

‘We have a concept - abstract - not a personal god. The concept or notion of a personal God, hiding behind the clouds of secrecy, telling us irrational stories through few men whom he sends as messengers, demanding us to worship him or punish us, does not make sense. I don’t think that God is as silly as an autocratic emperor who wants others to respect him or fear him.’ I told her that such notions are just fancies of less educated human imagination and fallacies, adding that generally ethnic religious practitioners in Hinduism believe in personal gods. The entry level Hinduism has over-whelming superstitions too. The philosophical side of Hinduism negates all superstitions.

‘Good that you agree God might exist. You told that you pray. What is your prayer then?’

‘Loka Samastha Sukino Bhavantu. Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti,’

‘Funny,’ she laughed, ‘What does it mean?’

‘May all the beings in all the worlds be happy. Om Peace, Peace, Peace.’

‘Hmm ..very interesting. I want to learn more about this religion. It is so democratic, broad-minded and free’ she exclaimed.

‘The fact is Hinduism is a religion of the individual, for the individual and by the individual with its roots in the Vedas and the Bhagavad-Gita. It is all about an individual approaching a personal God in an individual way according to his temperament and inner evolution - it is as simple as that.’

‘How does anybody convert to Hinduism?’

‘Nobody can convert you to Hinduism, because it is not a religion, but a set of beliefs and practices. Everything is acceptable in Hinduism because there is no single authority or organization either to accept it or to reject it or to oppose it on behalf of Hinduism.’

I told her - if you look for meaning in life, don’t look for it in religions; don’t go from one cult to another or from one guru to the next.

For a real seeker, I told her, the Bible itself gives guidelines when it says ‘ Kingdom of God is within you.’ I reminded her of Christ’s teaching about the love that we have for each other. That is where you can find the meaning of life.

Loving each and every creation of the God is absolute and real. ‘Isavasyam idam sarvam’ Isam (the God) is present (inhabits) here everywhere - nothing exists separate from the God, because God is present everywhere. Respect every living being and non-living things as God. That’s what Hinduism teaches you.

Hinduism is referred to as Sanathana Dharma, the eternal faith. It is based on the practice of Dharma, the code of life. The most important aspect of Hinduism is being truthful to oneself. Hinduism has no monopoly on ideas.- It is open to all. Hindus believe in one God (not a personal one) expressed in different forms. For them, God is timeless and formless entity.

Ancestors of today’s Hindus believe in eternal truths and cosmic laws and these truths are opened to anyone who seeks them. But there is a section of Hindus who are either superstitious or turned fanatic to make this an organized religion like others. The British coin the word ‘Hindu’ and considered it as a religion.

I said: ‘Religions have become an MLM (multi-level- marketing) industry that has been trying to expand the market share by conversion. The biggest business in today’s world is Spirituality. Hinduism is no exception’

I am a Hindu primarily because it professes Non-violence- ‘Ahimsa Paramo Dharma’ - Non violence is the highest duty. I am a Hindu because it doesn’t conditions my mind with any faith system.

As You all know that I have done my Redhat Certification and MCA. Now, i need to do Industrial Training on Linux so that i can give my services to the companies.

If anybody out there can help me to get good training on Linux (Administration) then please reply here or drop me a mail at sudeep333@gmail.com . I’ll get back to you.

Thank you in anticipation.

I was always attracted to the Linux and RedHat inspired me a lot then i have decided to be Redhat Certified and finally got the certification in first attempt.

So, now proudly i can say that i am RHCE and apart this one more good news is that i have got 100% marks in RHCE exam. The version was RHEL5 (Redhat Enterprise Linux 5) .

So, now i am on my way for Linux Admin. Lets see whats in the future.

when i made this toolbar 2 years back, i didn’t realise that i am making a new term for the search engines. I was doing experiments on the toolbar and and adding more and more features everyday. One day i thought lets give it to everyone for FREE.

Then i made one blog for FmTvINDIA toolbar and started promoting it. Very soon i was getting results and that was the happy moment for me…. daily 20-30 downloads of the toolbar and users started sending me the problems which helped me to make it better and better….

More promotions more downloads and today it has around 70,000+ downloads around the world

Look at the screenshot. FmTvINDIA users are everywhere.

Actually i made FmTvINDIA toolbar for my Girlfriend(Love). At that time this toolbar was having only FM channels so that she can listen music everytime. She is a beautiful singer.

FmTvINDIA is growing everyday and now i have a team to manage it ( Although they are spending lesser time on it but useful time for it)

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• Bhagvad Gita, Ved Puran. Ramayan(watch all episodes)
• Business section (BSE Sensex LIVE Ticker, Analysed Reports)
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MOst of the users are aware of windows environment and with the virtual memory, the same thing is here in linux with the name SWAP…….

When there is no space in Physical memory (RAM) then Operating System like Linux starts using hard disk for its memory need and the space in hard disk that provide functionality similar to the RAM is known as SWAP (linux) or virtual memory (windows)

Normally we keep size of SWAP double to the RAM, but what if you have installed additional RAM and require more swap space. Lets see how we can increase the SWAP space without restarting the system assuming that there is some free space in the hard disk.

Open linux terminal and log in with root.

1) fdisk -l ( this will tell about the partitions in the Hard disk)

Assuming there are partitions upto sda7

2) fdisk /dev/sda

Press m for all the help options at this point.

3) Press n for the new partition.

it will ask for first cylinder - press enter (no need to give anything there)

it will ask for last cylinder TYPE : +1G ( it means that additionaly SWAP space will be of 1GB)

4) (1-8) press 8 (its for the new sda8)

5) Press l and then 82 ( 82 is hex number for SWAP)

6) Press p (to print the details)

7)press w (to write the configuration in the partition table)

but the work is not finished yet because still Linux system is using old partition table…. so we need to force it to read the new partition table and the command is

partprobe (used to read new partition table)

9) mkswap /dev/sda8 (this will make the swap space to be used)

Note: if we restart Linux then the new swap partition will get lost so we need to make it permanent by making an entry in /etc/fstab

10) vi /etc/fstab (press i to go in insert mode)

In the last line make this entry

/dev/sda8 swap swap defaults 0 0

save the file with :wq

11) mount -a

12) swapon -a

13) swapon -s (to see the status)

Thats all you have to do to add some more swap space to your LINUX for better functionality.