My passions, interests and thoughts

       India is considered by many in the world to be a country of many cultures, religions, ethnicities, languages and ways of life and this is true. While many look at this myriad of diversity and point to the same for what it truly is - a blessing, there is a dark side which, in particular, is related to the Varna System associated with Hinduism which even many great Hindu reformers like Raja Ram Mohan Roy or the great Tamil poet Subrahmani Bharathiar tried to reform but to what extent has the labour of love of these great reformers borne fruit in our modern epoch?. While the older evils of child marriage, Sati, Jawahar, human sacrifices and so on have largely been wiped out in India thanks to the progressive ideals advocated by these great men's reforms ushering in a new age of intellectual and social progress and development in our great country of India, Bharathiar believed that love marriages, in particular, across religious lines is what would quell and ultim...

      Ex mea sententia, qui aut quae discipulus discipulave linguarum est usque ad finem discipulus discipulave linguarum. Ubiubi finis doctrinae est, iter doctrinae pergere non possumus. Nemo ergo magister omnium rerum vel certarum rerum fieri potest quia brevissima est vita ad omnia discenda.  Postquam anglice ut linguam europeam meam didici, in ludo francogallice etiam ut lingua secunda didici, amor linguae gallicae mihi admodum cepit. Deinde ob francogallice latine etiam didici quod sunt permulta verba gallica quae radices latinae habent.      Erat in programmate francogallico canalis TV5monde professor praeclarus linguae francogallicae qui saepe de verbis gallicis originis latinitatis loqui solebat cuius nomen Bernardus Cerquiglinus nominatur. Dum posthac hac de re super verbis francogallicis in articulis interretialibus legi, demum intellexi verba gallica permulta originem latinam habere qua de causa latine discere incepi. Primo praeceptores mult...

             The human mind is very complicated and in the context of the Christian, most battles originate from the mind and battles are won or lost in the natural only after they are lost in the mind and thoughts eventually originate in the heart, this is why the Bible tells us to guard our hearts (Proverbs 4:23). We all have our vices, this applies to all men beyond just Christians and almost everyday, we are engaged in a battle with the enemy - an enemy greater than the devil himself which is our flesh. This is why the Bible lays out certain values that we are to seek and ask God to inculcate in us and bring into us as Christians, values like love, meekness, temperance, kindness, gentleness etc. By the end of this article we will see the single enemy that closes off the door to all of these positive values that can destroy our purpose as worshippers of the Lord. However, what are the states of our heart that God is pleased with? i) A broken and a c...