2. How can we defend Lord Krishna having many wives?

3. How can we defend Lord Krishna to have affair with Radha who was already married?

4. How can we defend Ram taking Agni-pariksha for Sita and not taking it himself ?

5. How can we say “No” to a child begging for a rupee at the cross roads?

6. How can we say “We have to bribe in India”, if we believe in Dharma?

7. Where is Atma? What is it? Who has it? How to find it? And what is Parmatma and Jeev?

8. We are going to have rebirths? Where? Why? Who decides?

9. Ramayana and Mahabharata has actually happened? Why such big wars which sacrificed many-many innocent soldiers for resolving disputes of respective Royal families?

10. How come planets orbiting thousands and millions kms away affect us?

11. Are there ghosts? Why cannot they join our society and we give them voting rights – at least to good ones?

12. Why a person with money is respected very much, at least in person, regardless of means of earning it in our religious society (and poor guys never get real respect)?

13. We thank god in our prayers. Why do not we thank (at least few prominent ones) scientists, researchers, doctors, engineers etc in our prayers?

Extravagance:
The quality of exceeding appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth
Lust:
Excessive sexual desire
Gluttony:
Excessive Eating
Greed:
Unsatisfiable desire for wealth, power or status
Acedia:
Lacking enthusiasm for things generally and inactivity in practice of virtue
Despair:
The feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well
Sloth:
Laziness and indifference
Rage:
Excessive uncontrolled feelings of hatred and/or anger
Envy:
Sorrow for another’s good and desire to have something that is possessed by another
Superbia:
Unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem
Vainglory:
Feelings of excessive pride or unjustified boasting

You want to buy a car. At the same time, you do not want to spend too much money. Your old car is still good enough, though just reaching a point where you should sell it off. No new car is good enough is your budget and you are scared that you may end up buying accident-damaged second hand car. You end up in a situation where all options have some negatives for your context and you think too much over it which keeps you away from making decision.

To get you out of this dilemma, think if following statements are true.

* All non-trivial decisions have +ve and -ve possibilities.
* All non-trivial decisions have impact (good, bad, etc) when actually taken. Impact may not have been seen as possibility before.
* You can learn from impact.
* Only you are responsible for impact of decision supposed to be taken by you, even if you take ‘advice(s) or guarantee(s)’ from no-matter-whom.
* Nobody can guarantee success, though somebody can help/influence/guide/opine etc. Note that anybody can guide you towards good or bad decision based on their own incentive.
* Anybody can do only this : Make sure to try hard enough, in reasonable time frame, that decision is ‘good’ in a context, in any case.

All in all, here is golden rule.

Take a conscious decision and take responsibility for impact.

Note that keeping decision pending is also a decision!

1. Microwave Oven
2. Pacemaker
3. Velcro
4. Slinky (Spring like toy)
5. Saran Wrap
6. Safety Glass
7. Urea Synthesis
8. Teflon
9. Super Glue
10. Scotch Guard
11. Helium
12. Iodine
13. Polycarbonates
14. Celluloid
15. Rayon
16. Indigo
17. Saccharin, Aspartame, Acesulfame – sweeteners
18. Penicillin
19. LSD
20. Viagra
21. Laughing Gas
22. Oral contraceptive
23. Vaccination
24. Uranus
25. Superconductivity
26. X Rays
27. Inkjet printer’s working principle
28. Rubber Vulcanization
29. Corn Flakes
30. Ice Cream Candy Bar
31. Post-It Notes
32. Potato Chips
33. Frisbee
34. Sandwich
35. Coca-cola
36. Champagne