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Hi Friends. I am Saravanan and I am having a lot to say about my interests and something About Me.

I have avoided filling the pages full of links and tried my best to write my own thoughts , however silly or naïve.

But there are a few good links to some good pages. Links external to my site was marked by this logo . But Click those links only after seeing all of my pages :-).

My primary aim of this site is to make you happy by sharing whatever aspects in the world that influenced me.

This page contains my feelings about four great persons who have influenced me a lot. I am not an expert in these people, but the fascination I have about them is always fresh and genuine.

I am agnostic and non-nationalistic but this site will not pretend to persuade you to that.

All the things contained in this site about Science is by the means of limited knowledge of Popular Science Books rather than academic books. So if you think anything might be wrong feel free to give me a feedback.

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Albert Einstein

When I finished my last school exams I accidentally read a book called Cosmic code which deals about Relativity and Quantum Mechanics unto Quantum Chromo Dynamics.(I really forgot the author name). This book really sparked my interests in Physics. I got a mystic affinity towards Albert Einstein. As a human being his feat is so marvelous, that he is able to predict about how objects behave exactly, which is of size millions and millions of times bigger than him. The laws he uncovered about nature controls the world from Nuclear Fission to the current Atom Smasher.

So from then on Scientists were my heroes who has a gift to perceive the working of nature with the language of mathematics. I don't know the beauty of the working of the nature at mathematical level, but the analogies with which those laws were conveyed to me by Popular Science books were so convincing. Because it's predictions based on those laws were true which we see in our daily lives so those laws must be true.

Also Science don't have space for dogma or superstition. It requires full scepticism and strict verification. Science is a quest to understand things and to feel about the beauty of the whole universe.

But what if a Scientific quest is not to understand things but to feel proud of a country or a group?. My answer to that is then it is not a scientific quest. It is a mean quest for pride by the means of science. For more about this check this out here

J Krishnamurti

Before I enter into the college I happened to read one small book Sri Lanka Talks by J.Krishnamurti . But as to its size the reflections we can have with that was really earthshaking. JK is not preaching anything. He is not asking us to follow anything. But he is pointing us the falsity of lot of things we do. Understanding false as false can come only when we look in ourselves completely. Looking here means seeing the truth in its truest form without any prejudice or any calculations. Because whenever we see something we see it only with a background of our anxiety, fear, nationalism, religion or race.

If we see it without trying to judge them or condemn them then our seeing will be in different dimension. We also see all objects as something to be utilised or something to be identified as nationalistic or religious.

So everyone is trying to exploit everyone else. No heroes ,no priests solved our daily problems. Even after all material well being still we feel empty in ourselves. Still we are miserable and unhappy.

Why?.

There is no answer for that. But each one of us must look into ourselves not for an answer but for a total understanding of the total human misery

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

In the end of second year in my college I casually bought a Mozart's cassette. ( Mozart Greatest Hits by BMG Crescendo). That night is a scintilating night for me. I heard the cassette over and over because the music is classic in that sense.

The imaginations provoked by that music was so extraordinary and full of variety. I felt like I was in places like ice sheets, forests, fast trains , water falls, wild animal lands, serene gardens etc. I have transcended to somewhere. I have relived my whole life in 3 music pieces in that cassette on that day.

Music has much power to influence our unconscious mood, Usually I will take very important decisions of my life while listening to music.I am doing this till now.

I bought lot of cassettes by Mozart and amazed to see that most familiar tunes I hear in my daily life were actually his music pieces.

My favourite of all his music is Symphony 40 and 38. Both were majestic and vibrant.

I am also a fan of Beethoven and Ilaiyaraaja.And here is my Favourite Music Pieces .

Bertrand Russell

In my third year I read Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell. I thought Russell was a person who wrote great books on "feel-good " attitude. But he was not only that. He was a philosopher and also a great Mathematician . His philosophy was also mathematical.

Two of his articles uplifted me twice in my life.

In the above book one chapter called "Byronic Unhappiness" changed my whole life.

The other article was "Retreat from Pyhtagoras" from My philosophical Development. This is my own interpretation of what I felt about this article.

He is saying that our life is always a second best, which is true and we all know this very well. Whenever we feel we achieved something we feel happy for some time. But after a moment we will start to compare and somehow frame ourselves as a second best and we will start to feel bad again. So the Best is always "to be attained ". We never ever feel good about what we have .

We will try to escape in so many physical ways but we have never felt so satisfied with anything. So we are always in a state of despair.

But our thinking is not limited by anything. Pure thought can reach anything he means - Anything . As mathematical thinking is not physical so all the truths in Mathematics can be reached by Pure Thought. This is the idea Greeks used to have, mainly by Pythagoras (so the article name " Retreat from Pythagoras").

And we can see the whole palaces built strongly by other mathematicians through ages which were pure and beautiful. We are now completely at our own liberty. No one can stop us in our thinking. No physical barriers exist between us and the mathematical palaces. We will really be stunned to see that we touch the truth which is incorruptible by human malady.

It goes on like this. For every line I read, my mind felt like someone turned on a light in my head. This article definitely made Mathematics as my favourite subject of all time and Russell as one of my Favourite heroes.