Mumbai

I hate to say this... Im very much maharashtrian to go against the spitit of samyukta maharashtra. but I love Mumbai as much, I stay here and face the problems that every avarage Mumbaikar faces.
and I think about it, the way politicians are indifferent to the prolems of normal peolpe, how politicians from all over the state just neglect Mumbai's problem, they dont understand the problem nor do they care to think abt it, understand it, and solving is ofcourse a faraway thing.
I think why Delhi is able to solve a few of its problems and add value to its infrastructure is that there it has its own political structure, different from anything in this country.
Delhi is not a state still it has a CM. its independant but its not a centraly goverened state either, like lets stay pondicherry or Diu & daman which are union territories, and they havnt done anything remarkable where development is concerned. I think we should develop a similar kind of system in mumbai. Mumbai shouldnt be made an union territory as was cry some years back which was opposed fiercely. lets make Mumbai independant entity like NCR we can call it NFR national financial region or something close on line. Mumbai can have a CM and elections for its own, and spend them to make itself better and more livable, eather than sharing all its taxes and revenues with the rest of maharashtra. (I dont hav problem with that, but when Mumbai is in dire need of fund we cant give all its resources to surrounding areas)

Steps pf progression

Many times when you are walking on a spiritual path, you tend to judge other people. Judgement about if they are ahead of you in this path or are they behind, or even where you stand in comparison to someone else.
Actualy this kind of thinking is very treacherous, as steps in spiritual path are often confusing. first thing is that we are not here to judge, to judge someone we have to be above that person, and here we are all same, god has not given us any right to judge other human beings, only god can judge.
The second thing is, when it comes to this path, the steps are often so similar to each other. The path is like- you start walking towards a goal and at the end you reach the place where you started from and you see that place in a different light for the first time. We can never tell on what stage a person is, if he has just started his journey or if he has completed his journey and arrived at the same place again. We may be somewhere inbetween on the road.

So our judgment can so easily be wrong. the alternate steps in the path, any path for that matter are so similar that you can never fathom if the person is a step below you or above you.

The only thing you have to do is concentrate on your own path, even without worrying where you stand.

because it does not matter where you are or where others are, when the road practicaly is endless. the only task you have is walk and learn the lessons life is trying to teach you.