Basics & fundamentals

 Quite similar looking terms, words. ( not as easy as difference between "achievement" & "accomplishment"😜)

The difference being too subtle, we pick an easy route. Treat both as same. Consequence is 'not my problem. ( some day, all our items of 'not mine' list will become "our problem". Later "our problems" become ìnevitable, irreparable,  un-solvable, etc, when mutual trust turns unreachable! 

We became oblivious to the "basics" of life! 

A new born baby actually reminds us of the neglected "basics". But, we are too busy to "observe" keenly and learn from a "fresh and new" life! 

Is not "interdependence" basic to life?

To maintain life, the fundamentals need to be strong. Premature babies are with weak fundamentals.... it may need additional-support ( incubator, protection from climate, from tough to digest intakes, from negative treatments if emotionally weak.... etc).

It is this "deeper" understanding of basics and fundamentals that enabled ancients to "transcend" even nature! 

Trust and love are "viewed" in exclusivity.  It is okay to use "love" as basic to bonding, since "trust" eludes a thorough grasp😂😜 ( can we mistrust somebody, and still love him? Vive-versa?)

Moksha, liberation is tough only due to our inability to understand and then also_accept the basics and fundamentals of life at the required_level🙏...  who within us has_to_understand? Body, which is dependent on mind and the being? ( "being", is too subtle for a mind to identify it! ). Mind is dependent on the "being". When our dependents 'enslave' us too much, where is the question of freedom?( moksha, liberation).  

Where do we start? ( if it makes 'sense' to live as-best-as possible?)

Why should I bother about basics and fundamentals? ( anyway, when these 2 start shaking badly, the "why" gets dissolved! Eternity can wait, longer than we can👍.... so, finish all our games and then say "and now....yoga"--- 1st line of Patanjali's book---.... Or, attend to basics, strengthen the "related fundamentals"  enjoy eternity throughout,  with a free_being....being_free internally +experientially 🙏... Choice is ours.  A drama artist can enjoy-plus-perform his role well only when he is aware-throughout, that it is only 'a role'. An artist "stuck" into his role misses retirement 😉. He refuses to "come out of that role". Misery is the only outcome, whether that "role" was a hero's, villain's, comedian's or anything! )

Did I get the fundamentals right, about the basics of our lives? 

Basically yours,

psn(3 April,  2025)

A teaser 😍 

If you think you are not enslaved to your body, then look at this link 🙏 ( I dont know how long this link will be available on YouTube)

https://youtu.be/f05QeUJbmiI?feature=shared

( can we "walk out of our body like this, at will?. Right now, we all can walk out of a car, at will, not waiting for its breakdown 😜)

Insight

 An elusive concept.

Only when our normal sight starts fading, we try to think of 'accommodating' that in-sight.

Mind is like an overcrowded bus. We are already in a tight corner, at the mercy of people tightly pressing us 360° around us, and mind says, "why should I try to accommodate this new-passenger called insight? Stupid to squeeze further in, and say 'Mr insight, sit/here"' and offer him a strip of seat 3 inches wide, to park his bottom😜" 

Kids have insights, in a good working condition. They "learn" quickly, "this animating creature called mom, responds better, if I cry aloud"👍...  thus, we nurture a negative trait in that baby "keep crying, to get better attention in your life!"...  kids learn by example, not words, because their insight into words is too fragile. They are not M.A. in literature 😜

A fellow went to visit a lady, famous for charity! Very rich lady. Never refuses anything asked. He asked for "the" most precious thing she owned. A huge jewel. A precious shining stone. She gave it away, without hesitation ( that 'pause' absent). A few days later, he came back to her and said "please take it back.... and instead, give me that..... which made you donate such a precious stone so_effortlessly!!!" ( was he asking for her "insight" into spirituality?  Dunno!🙄😳)

Tools to deepen our insight? 

Obviously..... intelligence 🙏

How to access intelligence,  if our own intellect is not mention_worthy?

Get a fellow of proven intelligence,  to plant that damn thing called intelligence into us👍...  this gives birth to another problem. Trust!

Right now, we "use" trust very loosely . We tell a total stranger at a railway platform " I trust you 😊.  Keep an eye on my luggage, till I come back from the toilet in 2 minutes" ( even he knows, this "trust" is due to my bursting bladder, waiting to be emptied urgently😜)

Cellular intelligence?  

It behaves each moment, very unpredictable! The response to each type of intake----- through 5 sensory organs, each breath, each drink, each bite of food, evokes a very different response. Ancients thought, best "campus" to get trained into deepening our insight! Keep watching our inwards, by inducing a pattern of breath, muscular movements,  activating voluntary and later involuntary ones. mind gives up, trying to offer its prejudiced-preconclusions about what to expect from inside of our physiology. Slowly that_dexterity( of insight, unhindered by our over-crowded mind) spreads  while focusing onto our outside situation.  Hopefully,  our insight-into-outside deepens slowly😜

Not that insight is too uncommon. That humble fellow selling "curios" at a tourist site, has enough insight to know "how much he can cheat his customer?"! 👍. He learns from experience,  tourists never visit that site again. Nor can they "afford" to come back to quarrel with him😜. He can exploit overcharging his goods, sell substandard fakes etc!  The grocer in my street is not so_priviledged like that boy, fooling a tourist. Grocer depends solely on repeat_customers daily. He needs to guarantee even the stupid potato, looking good, but rotting inside😭. Divergent type of "insight".

Insight into concept-about-concepts?  

Worse than that is concept about 'spirits? ( the 'base' for SpiritUal concept? ( dunno!🙏😳)

ExSightfully yours( insight, became "ex" like ex-staff, ex-wife, etc)

psn(1 april, 2025...not a trust_worthy "day" ---all fools day😜)

Compatibility & perception

 Compatibility decides our perception. 

Our primitive versions of earlier SIMs inside our mobile handsets were compatible with lower bandwidth. Hence, it won't "sense/perceive" the Tower in a western country. And we said, "this mobile doesn't work there" Problem was with SIM and handset took the blame 😂

When we fail to "perceive" something,  will it not be wise to check Compatibility-issues also? 

A true incident 'educated' me about consequences of inadequate literacy 😜. My younger brother on a very busy morning suddenly screamed "my belt is stinging me". I was a kid of 10 and he was around just 4. My dad said, "don't start your tantrums now. We all are busy, getting ready to go for work, school etc. Just get dressed f-a-s-t ..."  Due to increased pain, the crescendo of his voice increased! Dad got angry and smacked him. The half-trowsers, yet to be buttoned, fell down with its loosely-inserted "belt".  A scorpion jumped out of the belt-loops.  My dad stared jaw_dropped! I could read dad's expression "what did I do? I punished this kid, instead of protecting him from that scorpion! (Obviously,  at his age, he wouldn't be literate enough to convey exactly, in a language which I am compatible with)!"  Rest of the story is irrelevant here🙏

Humans can be flexible by choice, to adjust their bandwidth to become compatible with their dependants who are yet to acquire few more bandwidths🙏  ( successful teachers of 6 types in ancient  Bharat were dexterous at this flexibility 😜).

School teachers, team leaders, family heads, politicians, union leaders....etc are the ones to become flexible to "sense" their dependants 🙏

My defect :  I am unable to write blogs that can be comprehended by all readers alike. 🙏😰😭 (I fare slightly better, on one_one basis, when the other decides to trust me "a little") 

 My rewards : one reader in a lakh (google statistics says so😜. A lakh views), happened to reach one of the "coveted states of samadhis" reading that stuff, testing this phenomenon several times! He fulfilled the scientific requirement of "element_of_repetitiousness" to be certain about the corelation of something "mystic" happening inside him & reading my nonsense,  each time!😜....  other-than this stray incident,  incompatibility is what abounds, with my blogs😂.... ( at least, I set an example in myself,  about "what a reader should_not_be", while expressing themselves to others!🙏)

I draw consolation from several authors of ancient scriptures, proverbs, adages, sayings etc! ( they didn't compromise with values, merely because their audiences were stubbornly refusing to evolve!).   Text books in maths, gave ridiculously easy examples and I had "issues" only with 'excercises' at the end of each chapter! I even_used to wonder, "may be, that chap/author too, found those sums too tough, and therefore passed_on his burden to my maths_teacher! Kid_age thoughts are not compatible with wisdom😜

Incompatibly yours,

psn(29 March, 2025)

Tail_bit teaser (😜):  nature's software is hack-proof! Programmers can neither conceive, not copypaste it from nature, to make their A.I. machines, robots compatible enough to “sense/perceive” human emotions! 🤣

To my WhatsApp group: 

 Not that,

I do not attempt at all,

To solve my incompatibility issues 🙏

A humorous incident!

I learnt the concept of "dispersion of light" in my physics lab at school! ( 🙂.... that prism, cardboard.... VIBGYOR? remember? 😳🙏)

I became curious.

Can I convey this concept to toddlers, kids in my school?

Yeps!  👍 I devised a trick! 

I stood near water tank( drinking water from 3 dozen taps at the base). Kids gathered. I filled my mouth with as much water as I can. Cheeks pained, puffed out like a water balloon. I sprayed out the water in a fine-mist, using tight-lipped pressure,

And the kids witnessed a temporary "faint coloured rainbow" in that mist, with morning-rays of sun inclined at about 45° through that water-mist,....🤣

( whether those kids would-remember this, was not my concern at my teenage then, because  it didn’t even occur to me)

Co-relating concepts we know

 Interesting concept, of why/how to co-relate the concepts known to us!

I learnt "siphon" in physics. Tried it to draw water from the tap 1½ ft. higher than ground level to my water tank 8 feet deep. 'Airtight' it should be--- was the concept in "siphon".  It didn't work! Air bubbles get in, even into the "main pipe" 3 feet below ground.

I had to revisit physics. Then I kept adding other chapters( co-relating them "wisely". This wisdom took 3 decades). I added "viscosity,  molecular affinity, capillary action" etc!🙏😰  I "wished" if-only my physics teacher had seeded the idea(concept of "seminars") that in real life, we might need to corelate these allied concepts! Anyway, I solved the 'water problem' staying within rules of municipality,  despite very low pressure of supply.

Kids learn "gravity" and avoid stepping on a banana peel. It is "centre of Gravity"( one step deeper). Then, one day a girl child is thrilled when the outer-edge of her long petticoat defies-gravity, when she played spinning fast till her head feels giddy!  That "wonder" of the heavy petticoat defying gravity while speeding around, didn't get a chance to "stay" longer. Or else, a bicycle would have been born long ago, alongside the birth of petticoats😜

4 wheels are better stable, but speed can cause loss of control on a slippery surface like hardened snow or oil spill on roads, for a speeding car🤣.  Why not try becoming unavailable to road-contact? Yes, fly! ( aeroplanes). Spacecraft, obviating displacement of air😜. 

Spiritual concepts need ability to co-relate them, when symbolism is resorted to, to represent concepts subtler than a minds ability to comprehend them 🙏.  Adamancy in viewing them in isolation or in exclusivity of other correlated concepts can only-breed dis-trust in these concepts. "Religions" resorted to compelling their followers to "believe" with "faith". Now, grasp became a matter of rare-chance for religious people( any blind-belief foreclosed the opportunity to look, see, behold, observe and then perceive the original, made available via symbolism 🙏)

Desi ancients were good at "debugging" their software called "way of life", renamed by invaders as Hinduism. Simply "live" in a particular way, and we evolve. Simply keep chanting a few words in a language, which is in conformity with quantum physics, and experiences will dawn😜🙏🙏🙏

It is the distortion of the prescriptions alongside the tools suggested as way of life, which forced the extinction of ancient "wisdom". That-wisdom, which elevated a human into his highest-human-possibility! ( a doctor "prescribes the dosage, duration and conditions alongside the name of pills he writes on the paper in an illegible handwriting 😜... focus "more" for deciphering it, and we remember it better👍🙏

My "silly" questions were "partly" aimed at provoking out minds to revisit our abilities to conceptualize oddities that we seldom care to even notice! I "wished" to have peepals/people wiser than me around👍, so that I can "afford" being silly, throughout my_life😜. Dat's my idea/concept of carefree living🤣...  

( a few samples of my silly koschans/questions.   https://selfseekers.blogspot.com/2024/09/silly-questions.html )

Oddly yours,

psn(26 March, 2025)

My defect

 Among many defects, this one irritates my readers most!

I am not even sure that it's my_defect. ( until a few readers point it out, how am I to be sure of my assumption? )

Defect :  I load too many concepts in my sentences😭

Result : readers feel "it is so difficult to understand, what is it, that this fool is trying to convey?"🤔

Source : my mind's  way_of_thinking. I love concepts🙏😭 ( trouble started only when I decided to share my ideas🙏...  when ideas were just_echoing within me_only, others are spared 😜)

Broadly, 2 types of concepts----timeless & time/situation bound.

The concept called "Gravity",  is relevant for our body only on earth. ( Madam Sunita Williams, was taken in a wheelchair, after exiting the landing capsule! Her body might have "forgotten" temporarily, "how to deal with earth's gravity, while walking"😜...  Eleven months in space! Got used to "effortlessness" in physical_living😳. Hence time&space bound!

Spiritual related concepts are irrelevant for our physical existence! ( maybe, if our spirit evolves, as a result of abiding by those concepts, the "result/consequences" might make out living effortless! There are stories about Spiritual giants moving on earth, being UNAVAILABLE  to earth's gravity😜....  even when we are too_joyous, body feels a "little" lighter! Sadness makes us feel the gravity more!🙏).

Spirit is timeless. Obviously,  it's concepts too ride on it, likewise😜....  timeless concepts.

Concept of concepts? ( mind_bound? Dunno! Objectivist epistemology deals with it)

Defectively yours,

psn(25 march, 2025)

Rare kind of health checkup

 This kind of personal experiences,  I wouldn't have thought of blogging. But at 70+  "am I going to take it beyond my grave? Damn it! 😡... let somebody in posterity explore it as a possibility! " said my stupid mind 🙏

Prologue: Naadi vaidya is unique among 6 types of medical sciences, in one aspect atleast,  when it evades granting a passmark to an aspirant, in its entrance eggjam/exam itself 😜 ("sensing" the 3 naadis is too subtle for an aspirant, compared to sensing a "pulse" with finger tips! Human_level touch_sensitivity is challenged 🙏)

Body of blog :

A naadi doctor holding my wrist, feeling my naadis, said " his Guru naadi" won't be available to sense_it, for another 2 hours."(1992 yr)

When asked "why so?" .... he explained " this fellow must have been at_meditation a while ago!"

Others, felt satisfied.

I felt "deep gratitude 🙏"  ...  rarest of rare kinds of 'health check up' to assess the level of meditaShun, as a practice for me. 

( the whole drama had lot more details,  but I am focusing on only value_addition portions!)

Epilogue:  if and when Guru-naadi can be "sensed" by a gifted expert in naadi-shashtra( a science), the life-energy is assessed better than an MBBS doctor. We find rare instances of a "corpse" waking up(😜) to life, on the way to burial/cremation, on a bier, after that medico writes out a death_certificate. He certifies only "clinical" death. Guru nadi is the subtlest of life-energies, waiting a bit longer to "revive" even after the heart has stopped🙏

( it was indecent to 'touch' the wrist of a female, to "test" her meditation 😰...  so I went in for a tougher option. Just watch! It took a decade, to get some proficiency🙏...   I won't spoil the livelihood of half-baked 'teachers' advertising "Learn meditation from me". रोजी रोटी का सवाल है,  उनका 😔. I don't need to commercialize spirituality for my daily_bread!)

Testily-yours,

psn(24 march, 2025)

Roar of silence

 Should I keep quiet?

I sometimes ask even_myself this! ( seldom, a response to my blabber 🤣)

A tourist_guide even staked his job, requesting a group "if you too can keep quiet for a moment...."

It happened thus:

This tourist was showing the roaring Niagra-Falls to a group of Madams....standing as close as they were allowed at the railings( fine mist rising from the waterfall was moistening their faces)

The guide said " this is the famous Niagara. Its roar can be heard several miles away. If you too can keep quiet for a moment,  even you can hear it 🙏"

Am I muting the roar_of_silence, with my incessant blabber? 😭🙏

Nuisansically  yours,

psn(23rd March, 2025

Affordability

 A luxury, I can ill-afford ( dunno about rich peepals/people)

A family doctor who is healthy_himself😜

Affordably yours,

psn(23 march 2025)

Miserliness

 Miserliness 

Those few who try to be frugal in exhausting resources that belong to the society, are at times a bit unfortunate,  when even_the close ones around him brand him as a miser !

Examples of society's resources are like water, air, fuel, electricity, staple food grains etc ( very essential for life to happen). When these and such items become scarce, money loses its intrinsic value! People compete to pay a little extra for these. Negative inflation happens!  Deficit financing, within control is positive_inflation, and  autocorrects itself over a period of time).

Other life forms are naturally frugal. A honeybee saves, so also an ant. But a lion can't refrigerate his meat_food. Lion doesn't indulge in fun_killing . We humans are beings of “Volitional consciousness“( as per objectivist epistemology). We can choose sadism to exploit. We can choose to be greedy. 

If greed to accumulate something,  is the fuel for hesitation to spend_for need, it is miserliness!

Ideally, a choice to become “inclusive”( treat entire universe as my_family, as said in sanskrit as VasudaivaKutumbakam), then….very naturally, we look at our “needs” and then, create a want/desire for it. Other than our needs, we naturally become a custodian/caretaker, of whatever possessions that happen to come within our control.

(My personal experience: when I got a job, I am supposed to take care my needs, all by myself. That salary was my sole_source of inflow! It barely sufficed “my needs” which was a little beyond food, shelter and clothing. Over decades, my needs seldom expanded, except for another “life” which happened through me-- not by_me🙏. 

Post retirement,  the wants started shrinking a little more than that of needs! This is an oddity, exceptional to rare few  like me. Among those few I am the worst type of idiot. But, a side_benefit was, I was constrained to “wonder + ponder” over sources of “wants & desires”!  Like, i ask myself “i really need this damn thing. But, unless I want_or_desire it, how am I going to try_to_get_it?”)

A small consolation creeper in when, slogans like “save water/LPG/electricity…. do not waste food” etc became Viral( thanks to information technology). Now, only my savings can cause an eye_sore to those spendthrifts around me, whose incomes were similar to me. Richer and poorer ones spare me😜

Lavishly yours,

psn(23 March, 2025)

PostScript: 

Funny side of miserliness. 

Not easy to be_miserly, in use of water. We can be lavish, though a decent_name for such lavishness is "wasteage".

( suez, supplying 24/7 in coimbatore is capitalizing on the constricted_grasp of water_miserliness, to mint money😜.  My storage tank of 2000 litres becomes their storage tank of 2 lakh litres . Simple.  24/7 was from my tank. Now it is their tank😜, and for which, they depend on my lavishness to charge me "extra" beyond 15000 litres per month. This 15000 litres is parallel to minimum charges😜

Once that 24/7 is not from my tank, I "tend" to become lavish🤣🤣🤣)

Whereas,

Air.... 

If I turn miserly in breathing ( not really easy😜), 

then, I become healthy.

Heart works longer! Life span increases along side sensibleness( mere aging is useless, if senility accompanies🙏😰).

Anger reduces, tension reduces,  anxiety reduces....etc....if, I consciously decide to become miserly in consuming oxygenated_air 😜

😰

Since I am unable to afford
'the'  lavishness of copypastes/forwards( pun intended),
I resort to the_miserliness
'of' resorting to writing by_myself, often 🙏