Life is an illusion

 Pardom my bad Hindi - it is not my first language. अगर तुम सच्चे दिल से कुछ चाहोगे तो भगवान ही तुम्हारा साथ देगा.  You might have heard this saying too many times. But I have so many questions regarding this. 1) What is the meaning of sache dil? Does it mean that you keep thinking about it non-stop- obsessing about it? Or it means that you go to a mountain, sit in a lotus pose and start meditating on it? Or does it mean that  as is the latest trend - you keep creating viral posts about it ? 2) Isn't God little too busy to notice whether you are wishing something with sache dil ? Isn't he already flooded with millions of requests by billions of people, in the form of pujas, mannats in very many different dialects?  3) What if you want something bad with your sache dil - e.g. you wish that your enemy will get hurt badly. Or you wish that your opposing cricket/football team lose every match it plays. Or worst of all, you wish that your nation is filled with only your people. Wil

I finally did finish the book "American Pastoral". Was surprised that it was over. Felt it was abrupt ending. But since the story is told in a kind of flash back, it was not abrupt. But I did not see it coming Anyways....  In another topic, you English speakers, or mostly Europeans who read, write and study the same language, may think that, these colonized people (by you) who are always bilingual or sometimes tri-lingual are so smart, so lucky, so sharp etc.  May be, we may have developed few extra neurons while learning by-rote 'English' which is completely unrelated to our native tongues.  And by God, do we need this 'foreign' tongue! In our own city Bengaluru, where the official language and the state language is Kannada, half the people don't know Kannada. But almost all of us can at least understand English. I presume similar is the case in all other metros. And here comes the third language - Hindi. Many shop keepers and their sales girls/boys don&