There is a certain kind of
'vulnerability' that comes with certain stages of life... People
usually call it as 'that-age' of a person, instead of looking at it
as a 'stage of that person, where the age could fluctuate, waiting
for that stage! Where the 'stage' is badly overlooked, the
possibility of that person 'surprising' the onlookers with an
expression “At this age(even)???...!!!!” ... such possibility is
more!
In some rare cases, this
'stage' is all mixed up (there are even 'mystic-like' reasons, where
we find that 'old head on young shoulders), etc...
When I found myself
surrounded by those who were at a certain age, and also the
'stage-managed' freedom could not be curtailed, there was an offer :
“Hey, are you interested to see the 'other-type' of films... those
'prohibited' ones?”.. and I said, “No thank you! I finished
that long ago and have seen it 'live'!” And they asked me, “Arey
baap re! So 'forward'?”... Now, they are asking for
that...'trouble' ! (Left alone, I usually don't try to induce others
into my-kind-of-thought-process!)..
I explained, “ I got to
hear this phrase... 'Even dogs have a season!'.... That set me
thinking.. I started with 'what are they talking about?... season
for dogs?' Now I made up my mind, (at that kid-age!), to start
observing dogs... Fortunately for me (rather, my
experimentation-now-undertaken)... stray dogs were in plenty... and
right on the roads... All that was needed was my own focus on them!
They try to smell, before they try to mate! The curiosity about
using this data-input-device... the sensory organ... persuaded me
to focus a little deeper! They are usually driven by
basic-instincts, unlike us, who are 'usually driven by a quixotic
mind'.. So, the faults or the plus-points... if any, accrues to
the 'natural way they are'... So, with that open mind, I can see
their limitations (decided/designed by nature ofcourse), and their
capabilities... I extended this 'observation' to other animals (and
the field of survey.. was obviously constrained to remain confined
to observing only domesticated animals, like cows, bulls, he and she
buffaloes.. The pattern was with striking-similarities, and a few
subtle distinctions! What baffled me was the 'absence of any gynecologist !' And nature .. also, their own nature.. actually
'befriended' them, guided them... even prior to conceivement! The
right time to carry out that conception was decided prior to the
act... Their antenna was 'deployed' towards fulfilling the nature's
wishes! (I had to wait for my right-age, not even the 'stage' to ...
later on observe, how we humans end up abusing/misusing this
'technique'! Why and where did we go wrong? Was the immediate-next
question... That entailed that... the next observation needs to be
towards, how we handle this 'self-awareness', from which evolves that
'conscious-choice-making' faculty! The rest of it becomes quite
clear, when we find out where we took a 'wrong road' at the very
first cross-roads!). It is not that 'none of the humans' ever did
anything ... about right time to effect conception.. In fact they
went way beyond the animals even when planning a healthy conception..
The ritual of deciding about a Muhurat for that too, is indicative
enough when they tried to take help of astronomy, and deploy it via
astrology, to tame the influences of gravity, etc... Science has
explored enough to guess, that gravity is not just about earth...
through subtle magnetism, far off celestial bodies too have their
subtle-but-strong influences... (now we find such observations only
while 'launching a space-rocket! The season, weather and climate has
to be optimum!. The ancients look at 'launching a baby' ... It is a
matter of choice, whether to sophisticate the raw materials, or the
best product available out of same-raw-materials!!!.. If we
'unanimously' decide to award a same-side-goal.. we simply rewrite
the rules of the game, not just shift the goal-posts.. that is
perhaps, our-true-meaning of democracy and freedom.. we simply make
it 'now-legal' about same gender relationships! A way of
're-defining' that emotional satisfaction!... Anyway emotions are
unavailable to logic! )
Responding in an erroneous
manner to some biological phenomenon, did not really seem to matter
too much, for a spiritual evolvement (when there was an epic story to
symbolise this, where a lady tells the husband “If only you had
turned towards the 'supreme' with even half-the-intensity with which
you came chasing me,..... misconstruing a corpse to be a wooden
log, to cross that swollen hazarduous river, ..... misconstruing
huge long snake to be a rope to climb down the tall overhanging
branch of the tree, when the gates were not going to be opened at the
dead of this night... if only half that intensity which caused so
much 'blindness of vision towards sensory perceptions', perhaps, your
other vision would have opened, to 'see' the supreme!”)....!!!
Then, what else to do?..
All I could do is to be 'available' where life was happening so
intensely! Well, that simplified the matters... life , for me...
has to happen only where I am situated now! It is my mind that often
renders me oblivious to life happening so intensely with me.. The
clue is now perhaps, into making myself more and more receptive to
life's happening to me, with me! The needless insulations ought to
be removed (when we buy gadgets, sensitive parts, like data ports,
etc are well packed, to ensure its full functionalities, when
unpacked, assembled, and made operational).. Sleep insulates me
from 'experience of life' (at that age, that was the observation!)..
So do everything to keep that sleep-duration to optimum needed
levels! Food pattern decides the body's rest and recuperation
dependence on sleep (when food fails to provided the needed energy,
the body turns to seek it 'through sleep', to whatever possible
extent... That feast, heavy lunch, loaded with junk-items... makes
us drowsy too soon! That food, for which nature designed this body
for, makes the body more alert after an intake of food! As an
incidental benefit the sleep quota reduces, does not become zero or
near zero!.... Much-much later, the same inquisitiveness and
intensity of that 'search' led me to the techniques where the same
'sleep' quota can be reduced further, apart from the help received
from food-pattern to reduce it... We may call that technique as
'meditative-process', though it is not a mandated thing that a
'process' is needed to become meditative... it can creep in
naturally too (by itself), once the mind gets tamed (by whatever
means, due to what ever reasons.. natural or otherwise too!).. the
benefits, the easily tangible and noticeable ones are at .... even
the physical level... the sleep quota gets reduced to such a level,
that if an equanimous mind of a medical expert would observe, they
would grasp the subtlety in the anatomy too! (The person himself, on
the other hand is blessed with an experience itself, which he would
struggle to express!)...
Oh! The length of the blog
reminds me here that it is going to now test the patience of the
reader!
Here and now yours,
psn(2nd September, 2014)
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