Realized Souls

The other day I watched a Rajni movie - Shri Raghavendra. There were a couple of questions that came to mind. The foremost being that why should a realized soul lose material things rather than give it up. Isn't renunciation all about giving everything up? I am not questioning the greatness of the saint. He did give up his wife and son. That is my other question. Why should great souls neglect the resposibility they undertake. The movie justified it as the saint's previous birth karma. Shri Raghavendra is considered to be an incarnation of Prahalada. But doesn't the unwritten law of karma say for every action there is a result? So what is the result of abandoning resposibility?

Are these great souls born again after they take samadhi? May be.... Prahalada was one of the greatest devotees of the Lord. He was reborn! Even God takes birth in every yuga, then what for us insignificant parts of the whole?

Why is it that most of the great souls end up in the body of a man? Why not a woman? May be it is more difficult for men to give up all that they have. For women, they give up something at every stage of life. That sounds feminist. But that is the only explanation I can come up with.

Anyway I am yet to meet a realized soul in this life...may be he/she would be able to answer these questions....

The First One

I thought and thought and thought even more....but did not see the sense in starting a blog. Why should I start one? Because everyone has one? Well that stopped me for a while. And then the other thing that stopped me was the face of my dear 10th grade English Language Teacher Mrs. Biswas. She never gave me a score greater than 40% (thats just the "naiyya paar" type of score). But then my little brain thought again (its going to burn one day!) , I need a place where few of my golden thoughts ( out of the too many I have) will be saved for a time long after I am gone.... also a place I can safely store some of my recepies and finally a place I can practise my AW for GMAT.