Anti Intellect

“You muff..!!!”

My maths teacher at school used to chide kids who seemed like they are 'refusing' to grasp what he was trying to hint at....

It was not that they were 'really' refusing to grasp.... There was something about their attentiveness, which failed to open the doors of a 'grasp'.. and the teacher grew restless!

Theirs was the kind of appeal for : 'Hey! Why not tell me an easier way out?'....
So it is the 'conflict of interests' that bring out the negative emotions as formidable weapons against each other....

This 'drama'(the conflict of interests) ... we get to see quite often in our adult life, when ever a situation arises which offers no solutions under the category of a 'standard-protocol' :)

Just once, he decided to use an opposite of that muff... He called me 'genius'...
My immediate concern was 'why did he choose to call me so?'... My marks (the usual yardstick used by the adults around) had never given any hint towards it even by a stray chance (not even some freak scores!... It was a 'steady' average!)...

Simultaneously, I became inquisitive about what makes a person a 'genius'?...
Certainly not that hectic practise which only improves the dexterity, or an expertise...
So, an expert need not be a genius, and... a genius need not be an expert too!

It has to do with that 'intellect' , I presumed...

I kept it 'pending'... (I had to... because, even the botany/biology never made a conspicuous mention of 'intellect' as yet!.... )

Spiritual path dealt ( only-with).... at being intelligent (again my guess work only! When mind, its logic and even emotions, do not interfere, the perception).... Just that while at work, the intellect needs to find itself becoming more subtle to a point where it 'happens' to even transcend the sensory perceptions ! The teacher seldom speaks about being 'intelligent' !... Maybe he 'knows'... that anyway, that is what it is going to boil-down-to :) Otherwise, the instructions to 'maintain' alertness during the 'seemingly-stupid' activity of breath-watching, doesn't seem to really take us anywhere at all... especially so, during early stages... ! It is only a tenacious persistence that makes us aware of even the 'conflict' between the mind (its memory, imagination, via logic and emotions), trying to almost-dissuade us from the 'futility' of an activity like 'watching' the breath, when body is already/sufficiently intelligent enough to do that job quite efficiently :)

It was during the hectic years of volunteering that I could start noticing the 'denouncing' aspect of innocent aspirants towards their own intellect!

Society, when it is driven by its materialistic pursuits-only, also seems to actually-compete towards who does it better, when asking people not to be intelligent!

The gadgets which are 'meant' to make our lives quite easy, seem to actually ask us to go-easy... a little-more(little and more ?)... on our intellect, than the physiology-related-stressful tasks...

Most of the medical innovations seem to work at our cellular level intelligence almost in the same way! (and we are 'told' that micro organisms are becoming more-intelligent than our anti-biotics!). Are we not trying to get rid of 'pain' at the drop of the hat?... Then why is a pain-sensation being tested to look for a presence of 'life' ? Dunno...
The swelling at some insect bite, with some 'heat' around it, ..... and the pain to draw our attention for additional help... is met with a 'putting-down' of the symptom related to all of it... the very symptom of any pain ... at once reminds us of pain relievers!.. and we just forget about ...what could be its 'source'! Now the source of trouble remains safe within, to do its own multiplication quite silently, clandestinely, and then manifest in some other form at a time which suits it most... and the suitability being the ease of gulping our own physiology, its ready-structure, which is the most sophisticated of manifest-life-forms... If this is true/correct... then, obviously, we are giving-ourselves-in, to lesser 'intelligence' of life-forms :)..;...!

When the mind becomes incisive, it turns beautiful... and the 'women' behind every successful mind is the intellect.. at subtle levels, intellect is resplendent with a feminine grace, I guess!

I even wonder if the 'famous' I.Q. tests are really a conclusive or comprehensive tool to measure its liveliness!

Foolishly yours,

psn (25th October, 2015)

Education System

(The entire approach is purely my guess work... and hence heavily speculative... At best, the benefit ... any... is only likely to be about the 'methodology' of approach... A thing, a concept, often ignored)...

The base of it , reasonably 'ought' to navigate around handling 'life' and aiming at evolving further.

The 'need' to revamp is felt, when it does not seem to 'equip' the 'educated' ones to handle life well...

Strangely enough,

this 'education'... was not 'isolated' from life itself... in the ancient days...
The 'structure' called a school today... was a little smaller in the ancient days, and not everybody was sent to it (Gurukulam)...

A look at the 'classes' (varna system)... seems to offer some clues...

One class used the 'intellect'.... more often..... to handle life (and obviously therefore, appreciated the interdependence with other classes better!).. the 'system' was incorporated (seamlessly interwoven) into the life-style prescribed to this class... (when intellect is 'addressed'... the activities prescribed, might transcend perception at logical/emotional levels... most 'rituals' seem to indicate this much!)...

The next class uses the 'mind' more often.... logic for material aspect of life... Emotions for maintaining the social harmony... Imbalance in basic-needs might upset the social harmony (emotional trust, the worst of susceptibilities)... The training thus involves an imparting, structured well enough, to suit the evolving social network... Concepts therefore needs to be transmitted with a little bit of 'practicability'... and yet, basic concepts ought to get handed down to generations, simultaneously+ parallelly too! The need to grasp the society's needs envisages a balanced emotional mind, to ensure an accurate grasp...

The next class uses the physiology more often... and in a very dexterous manner... The training is also therefore... more of physical nature ... they lean to handle their body well, and with a well-maintained physique, the emotions being capable of shifting very consciously (not oscillating too-loosely), between compassion and a sense of 'natural-justice' , dispensed judiciously... This class takes up the responsibility of administration, and defence...

The rest of the residual people happen to also constitute into a class, which keeps the 'training' aspect to its barest minimum... Even this class happens to transcend the animal level 'excellence' when we look at how the offsprings of animals happen to learn their way-to-livelihood all-by-themselves!

The classifications were never like a 'water-tight-compartment'... though the formal pronouncement of any upgradation rested with the intellectual class, while the down-grading was by almost a consensus, not waiting for the immediate availability of an intelligent/wise one in the vicinity!

Since the ancient 'classification' , has taken very ugly turns into political proportions in the present day, I had to heavily restrain a liberal use of those labels which makes a grasp quite easy!
But yes, I had to trim the 'observations' based on which I made this guess work, just because the readers do not manage the focus for too long! (Ironically, that... the observations.... constitute the most fascinating part of the analogy... it is too voluminous.... and unless a mind is really eager, the very exercise of reading/listening might become enervating... apart from the fatiguing to a mind!... Spiritual path, I find, leaves me with no options/choices about observing these traditional methods of imparting education, of which literacy was confined only on 'need-based-tutoring'... ).

Learningly yours,

psn (24th October, 2015)

Control

“Is it a-Madurai or a-Chidambaram, at your home?”

It is a very polite way of asking a very blunt-question, to ask somebody who is close enough..
The answer decides the level of freedom the asker has, as a possible-guest... (These towns-names used to at once remind others, of the deities of the famous temples which made the towns famous for it... and the stories around the deities seemed to talk more about 'control' on people and things around, and therefore the 'natural-choice' of using these names ! Now, 'nature' is obviously not under anyone's control :)...)

“Try to have some control over your life!” , is another piece of advice, which seems to leave the choice of how-to-do-it, to the listener.. ...

Controller of examinations (even senior students might find it difficult to explain this concept, except that they might give details of the functional aspect, which is too-visible, not the underlying theme!)

Chief controller of trains... (I had a 'distant' relative of mine, who retired even before I got to meet him as a kid, and hence never did I discover as to how he managed this-control!... But he never seemed like a person who like to control even his own kids!)

I keep wondering about the 'need to control' anything at all!

If everybody decides to adhere to 'nature', why would there be a need to control at all?... Only humans look at this aspect of controlling... The vast universe works so-flawlessly on its own!

We exercise a 'choice' in a particular way, and then we find that choice to be flawed, needing a control. When the flaw takes too long a time to be discovered, the control gains its urgency, and now a control-over-control finds its birth place! The 'control' over the Judiciary is sought to be retained into the hands of erstwhile judges themselves, while the executive seeks to take over the controls (obviously, the control is effective only with the control over appointment of Judges themselves!... The net result would be an effective control over judgements, and therefore the 'Justice' sought to be dispensed .... with or thereof, ..... we don't know !).

The control over gadgets, vehicles etc gets complicated as these things get sophisticated, and remote-controlled!

Whichever way, the people try to group themselves, by whatever name, its concept, purpose etc... control becomes inevitable. (Media controls the minds, its way of thinking, while media is controlled by financial giants... countries which control their economy well, prosper, and then find their well-being controlled by poor countries, whose poverty becomes a threat to the prosperous ones, and therefore the doles, not out of any sympathy, kindness etc!.. At places of rampant corruption, like offices of government departments, police, road transport, etc... which are 'given the controls over people's freedom... the controller is bribe power, and only courageous ones manage to declare their honesty... ). And while 'grouping' together(trade unions, consumer associations, tax-payers associations, pensioner's associations... etc) seems to offer a solace from individual controls by vested-authorities, .... over a period of time, they find themselves ending up into yet another form of control...

The modern man finds himself surrounded by 'controls' of several kinds, and now the innocent traffic signal when it turns red, seems to 'control' his freedom-of-movement, instead of that reassurance of a safe travel on the road, for which it was supposed to be installed! Obviously the absence of a policeman in-sight, tempts him to regain his lost-freedom, and he jumps-signals! A jump, even when it is figurative, leads into a leap... and a leap is usually something out-of-control... from a frying pan into the fire!... CCTV's are in place to control the situation, when the pair of eyes of a policeman cannot manage to record jumps too-well :)

The mind, when it is surrounded by so many controls from all around, skips the 'possibility-even', about a control on itself!... And thus, we find psychosomatic disorders to be 'quite-natural', now-a-days!

That leaves me to wonder and also to figure out, how the ancients managed to control the urge for a technological-advancement, despite having evolved intellectually to amazing/stupefying/whatever levels! Probably they understood better, about what “choices-really-are”... not bothering about what are-the-choices!... Their sense of choosing started with good-controls, and that must/might be clue about minimum controls around them, their society etc... Even the “religion” did not find a 'need', when individuals found their controls into safe hands of their very source of being!

That, reminded me of ... what I was asked to take control over ... by my teacher with-whom/into-whom, I had entrusted my controls... He had asked me to attempt a control over my praana (the “life” itself, ticking 'live' within me!)... and therefore my Praanayams! And what was amazing about it was, all other controls do not control me thereafter... it is just my mind and the body, that can be controlled, if at all...

Mind being a little subtler, doesn't yield to controls, once the 'life' , or the 'being' takes over! That meant to be 'freedom'... not the laws that controls others, in the name of offering 'freedoms', nor the constitution, its draft... which binds-together, a free-democracy through its control over freedom!(I met a girl of about 13 yrs of age, who found herself controlled by the need to inject herself with insulin, at least twice a day!... Her parents could not find a way to offer any consolation, when other kids were not controlled-thus... I told her, “Imagine, a girl from a distant planet visiting us, and commenting, 'oh! You earthlings need to breath some few times every minute?... So, the air, its oxygen controls your life?... Poor things... your freedom is only-a-dream'... That idea cheered her... she smiled... the parents experienced their girl-child,s freedom ! I felt rather controlled that, I could not find her 'grown-up' enough to grasp those spiritual tools where the unique secretion from pituitary glands would end the control of oxygen-via-air that we breathe to live!... That's where I felt the 'remote' control to be still with air!... Yes it was 'still' too!)

Freely yours,

psn(18th October, 2015)

Situation Management

While most of us keep struggling throughout our lives, to just manage the situation “delivered” before us (like a baby 'delivered' from a mother's womb, and then the kid becomes an unmanageable situation often!)...

I came across the video clip of a person who 'delivers' himself, into a tiny 'situation' and the eyes of the audience pops out! (link of video clip got removed)

This is what impressed me, (what was said about him): “For over four decades he continues to teach yoga to encourage awareness of how powerful our minds can be over our bodies by using techniques that will lead to long term health and mastery of self.”
http://www.annoyatorium.com/tm.aspx?m=195507

Not all of us need to get into such 'gimmicks' to be able to assign a meaning to our lives!

Nor do we need-to-end-up (while thinking about 'what we did with our lives this far', at our final episodes of the serial-of-life), discovering that ...... all we did was just trying to manage an 'outside-situation' (and obviously, we do know-well, we could have always done better !)....

Situation management,

if it 'betters' on the outside,

as a consequence of our better-management of our-own-inside,

leaves us with an immense sense of 'satisfaction' to the extent that.....

it 'now-does-not-matter' when we go! (yes, towards the inner management, we do need to also-manage ourselves in good health too... good health , mental and physical, are our only-means of connectivity with the outside, .... until... or till,... we manage the merger of inside and outside to a point of 'unity', an unification... in that 'spiritual-sense').

This is what has been the pursuit of ancients throughout their lives, as we can see 'how they lived', from what we get to see out of the residual records of their lives! It is for us to sift what they demonstrated on the outside situation (usually the siddhis), to be able to rivet our focus on the higher-thing, greater-priority.... that of managing the inside-situation... !

Mind happens to be the main fulcrum of whatever else we do about our inside! (....”continues to teach yoga to encourage awareness of how powerful our minds can be”.....)....

And when it is 'about-our-mind'... why are we looking at any kind of deformities, limitations, scope, etc ? :) ... Do we not see of an 'unlimited' choice?

Situationally yours,

psn (11th October, 2015)

Social isolation

The cultural 'unison' (not an 'unity' via a concerted effort,... to form a union-like or so...)...

that was there in ancient times.... had one amazing tool....

'isolating' a wrong-doer from the social-cambric (the inter-weave) of the society (society includes all classes of that society 4-varnas)...

this tool was used with utmost sense of discretion, by people well-known for their potential at discerning judiciously ! (usually ... a group of 'elders'! Elder by wisdom, not necessarily by age!)

The purpose was simple.... (for deploying this 'tool')..
Laws are of two kinds, broadly (while law itself is for 'some-kind-of' social order.. when people live as-a-society.. hence , spiritual seekers relocate to a recluse, to keep others insulated from their own 'inadvertent-non-adherence' to these laws!... as one of the objectives of such solitude-dwelling)..

Codified laws, where implementation can be by reference to a clear , unambiguous codes, written down, after a 'general-consensus'...

Non-codified laws, which are 'moral/ethical' by nature, usually, and which are of greater importance than the codified ones, when mutual-trust is 'really' a priority for that society :)

Now, implementation of non-codified laws would be a great task, and formidable one too...
apart from the complexity of its 'justification' since each situation needs a fresh-perspective too!

So, the way-out was... just-isolate the 'fellow' who in the opinion of 'group-of-elders' who enjoy the unquestioned-trust of that-society, has caused a social harm due to an act of commission/omission, consciously!

Today, we find
corruption,

scams,

rape,

abuse (of child, women, etc)...

violence (including fanaticism fanned by religious sentiments)
and all such acts...

going 'scott-free' (it is the honest-idiot who feels isolated :-)) instead of a wrong-doer)

only due to absence of a tool of a social boycott !

Yet 'nature' takes its own course...
when a religious sect fails to isolate its own wrong-doers, the other around (even globally), start isolating that very-sect/community, even without a concerted-unification-program or so...

nations sponsoring violence are slowly 'sought-to-be' isolated, with huge diplomatic efforts...
Yes, the phenomenon is painfully-slow, when allowed to take its-natural-course, but when it snowballs, the impact is beyond anyone's imagination... it takes proportions of a natural-calamity..!

During ancient days, spiritual concepts could be 'interwoven' so effortlessly into the way-of-life, when this tool of isolation was 'in-place' .... Yet the very same 'weave' became the main factor of eroding this very tool, when experience failed to impress a blind-adherence to spiritual-oriented prescriptions, being inter-woven into routine life! (so called 'religious-rituals' are just that !!!)

exclusively yours,

psn (9th October, 2015)

Global warming

Oh!
So-sorry...!
I am not even competent to talk 'sensibly' about the factors causing global-warming (other than what I as a lay person happen to gather out of tons-of-Jargon that our scientists say, and then politicians 'pick' to publicize what suits them out of it...)...

There is a whole-world happening right within us!
In fact, the whole universe is happening right within us.... !

So why not think of a 'global-sized' warming within us ? I felt... :)

We face contradictions.. When actually, there are none! (everything is a process of cause and effect, in a perfect unison, as far as its 'phenomenon' is concerned)... We look at it as 'contradictions', when it happens contrary to our expectations, and therefore a 'conflict' within us , with an image we see on the outside too!

I noticed a 'warming' up effect, as we grow into adulthood...
The 'graph' of our 'show of happiness' slides downward... Kids are joyous for 'no-apparent-reason'.. while elders are brooding-type, again... for no-apparent reason!

In large cities, people come out for a 'morning' walk... That's when we can really-expect a little cheer in their faces (a good night's sleep, and body a little refreshed... enough to feel cheerful for a while at least!)... But in direct proportion to age, the long faces walk alongside them ... The face carries a 'worry' along with it.. The subtle smile is missing... If it is a 'routine' face that they meet, even the 'good-morning' is heavily coated with the same worry...

It is the accumulated heat of contradictions that we faced all along , thus-far.. which seems to hang around our mind... and occupies the next layer of attitude towards the 'outside' all the time.. The thin layer barely manages to give 'appropriate' responses to the outside...
Yes, when a situation on the outside gets a little intense, it does pierce this 'next' layer and finds the depth of our emotions 'invoked' accordingly... Be it a great joke, a sudden sad-event, a surprise, ... why even a 'wonder'... But after a while, the skin closes in... and we are back to that 'burdensome worry-layer'...

It is this 'layer' of worry, that causes a 'warming' like the one that affects our ecology, environment etc, adversely!...
When there is nothing else around to cause an immediate-anxiety or a joy... this layer even surfaces a little...

By itself, this layer of 'worries' seems quite harmless...
But 'effectively'... it is like a piece of ammunition just waiting for a muzzle to be loaded into, for a direction and then the trigger-effect to jettison-off!

In a subtle way,

when we try to become a little focused, we also become a little intense....

and when intense.. this layer seeks a 'resolve' by surfacing along the subject we tried to focus..

now the focus becomes blurred!

We find it so-convenient to blame everything for the blur, except our root-cause, which is that layer/crust of non-directional-worries...

To make it a little clear...

when the mind was

quite intense... yet very-relaxed...

the gravity-effect was grasped when the apple fell...

the loco-power was grasped, when the steam blew up the lid of the tea-kettle...

the principles of relative density got revealed when water in the bath tub got displaced by 'Eureka-scientist'

:)

A striking contrast: An expert pickpocket is a good student of psychology too, when he can make out the 'worried face' on a salary-day, in the crowded bus/train, and know that this 'victim' is a sitting duck with his alertness subdued abnormally-enough... to miss sensing a 'touch' on his purse! (it is a 'eureka' too, but only for the thief!!)... The salary-cash in the pocket... brings to the surface a cloud-burst of worries hanging at the next-layer of the mind (budget allocation to each worry-some expense is a huge mismatch!... but a very wrong place to offer such 'vulnerability' of reduced-alertness).

That 'relaxed' mind is a bit elusive, even when we are physically at leisure...

We cannot lay a finger on a particular bit, causing that 'global-warming-like' effect on our mind, when the accumulation is so-voluminous, and we don't have a proper 'indexing' too, to retrieve each file-of-it!

Some of it turns into 'non-verbal' thought form even... when the text fades out like our thermal-paper print out slips that our ATM's cough out :)

warmly yours,

psn (6th October, 2015)

Cushion time

We know how good our Shri Sachin is, when it comes to facing the best of bowlers. They don't bowl to 'oblige' him...! And he manages to do 'what-he-likes' with that ball (that's what makes the best bowlers say, 'We bowl, also-hoping to impress him, not just to get him out, as-soon-as-possible)....

Sachin manages to 'find' a cushion time, the few micro-milli-seconds, after the ball has left the hands of that fast+spin-bowler, and it reaches the three menacing sticks, loving to get blown away, with its micro-audio sensors amplifying the hit too-loudly! (I am not qualified enough to give details of how and what he does, to find that 'cushion-time').

We ordinary people squander the 'cushion-time' available in abundance around us... Very rarely do we find a 'genuine-exigency'... So, instead, we try and convert every small thing, event, need, etc into an exigency, and then, impress people around, making a big-drama about-it/over-it :)

A young techie, who 'happened' to appreciate that 'cushion' time a little excessively, miss to take note of 'unspoken-communication' from his boss about 'reverse-concept of that 'cushion' time .. Not his fault... He was new to the work-atmosphere of that 'industry' though abundantly qualified for the job :)

He misunderstood the 'communication'...

His boss told him... “The dead line (not life-line!), for this project is 7 days from today” (Later, the boss explained to this youngster --- as an exception---that, he usually quotes the real intended/planned deadline after subtracting some 4 days!... He 'knows'... these techies never do things in-time!).
Why he explained, as an exception was.... what happened ..
The techie took the dead line literally... He assumed that the 'boss' was honest (meaning, the dead line did not include a hidden cushion time, reversed!)..
the techie, in all innocence, deployed what was 'his-quality'... He created a cushion time, by telling himself, “now for me... the dead line is 4 days!... I must make it fast!!!”
This techie spent 2 nights and three full days, pounding the keyboard with 'dual-monitor'...
Fourth(day's) morning... the boss said, “Looking at your unchanged T-shirt, I can guess that you didn't sleep at all for last two nights... now, please 'oblige' me , by telling me as to what-I-can-do, to ensure that you sleep for at least next 4 to 5 hours!” (I guess, this 'dialogue' doesn't need too much elaboration, about the true-emotions implied... I keep the name and details of this techie a little hidden, for two reasons... I hold great value for this kid, not many around of his cambric. Second, this kid might happen to read this, and would feel a little embarrassed, when 'thoroughly-exposed-thus' :) But, this was a true incident, and the techie has only improved upon his 'weakness' aggravating it, not renouncing it :).... )

Traditionally, (I guess from what I read about ancients)... the cushion period for a spiritual journey is at its brim, till the age of 7... It lasts, at a diminishing rate till 15 years of age... (some say it is 16)... And till 25 years of age, 'creating' a cushion period is possible, by compressing the 'irrelevant' other activities of life... after that the gross body doesn't oblige with the 'so-called' cushion period at all... And unfortunately, the mind becomes too-engaged to afford it's own 'subtle-body' to oblige us :)
(I find it relevant with a look-at my own life-experience... )

Yes, ... wherever we find 'exceptions' to this, we need to examine a little-more-closely, and we may stumble upon other 'relevant-facts' where the cushion-period was redundant, and the 'subject' needed only a 'spark', a push, a nudge, a-whatever... to get into the track called spirituality(the preparation is 'said' to have been done abundantly in some far-distant-past!)...

Now, what to do, if we happen to 'agree' that we kept ourselves busy with everything else except what is relevant to this very-human-form that we were endowed with? It is for 'teachers' to suggest... I ain't-no-teacher of any sort, ever!

Cushioningly yours,

psn(4th of October, 2015)

Entangle

The admiration that I had for this term grew manifold, when I heard it being 'entangled' with quantum, to make it a 'quantum entanglement theory' , without even the conventional tools so clearly visible otherwise! (when most youngsters that I 'try' with, seem to acquire that look-of-confusion even at the 'dropping' of this term (quantum-entanglement) in their presence, makes me wonder... tempts me to think... 'could it be because they failed to appreciate-adequately, the term entangle-itself, at its primitive sense!... dunno!')

My 'affair' with this 'entangle' concept got really deepened at the very kid age, not when I saw the ball of knitting thread of a sweater gets entangled (mom used to wriggle at both, with equal misery, ..... the knitting itself, where the tightening of weave used to either make the fabric crammed up, or it becomes too loose, but seldom right.... or when the shop-wound thread found its natural flow into an entangled-ball, when it received lesser attention! The attention got entangled into the right-tightening of the knit!)... So, not when I saw the sweater thread, or the likes, but when I walked my way to school across a railway yard, where I noticed very regularly, some worker stayed 'tense' between two Rail-wagons, to hook on the one on to the other, and then turn a knob-held lever to thread its way nearer to the lock mechanism... I was so fascinated by the visuals of this technology, that it never failed to enthrall me afresh each-time! Now, anybody who can 'afford' to observe me standing with my gaze riveted thus, ought to very-reasonably yell, “Hey, what are you looking/staring at? Get lost!”... But, here the small group usually gets absorbed into the 'possibility and its avoidance consciously' of a near-collision, so much that... they seldom feel even-my-presence! That afforded me to get entangled into their every cell, deep enough to vicariously get a feel of every thought process of theirs, during those tense moments! A wagon loaded with inflamable material like petroleum used to just-multiply their anxiety a little more! For a lesser-observant person, this group provided ample hints, in their very next-activity---either a cup of tea/a tea-break, or at least a beedi-smoke-break...

When it is a chance for me to travel in a train, almost the entire co-passengers , elder ones... used to 'await' for that 'jerk-and-halt' when a train stops for-a-halt at a station... The engine driver used to even relish the devilish-pleasure of a 'series-of-jerks' during midnight, maybe the thought that 'why should I alone suffer the lack of sleep, when I can give a jerk-jolt technically, and escape a blame-game?'... This 'empowerment'(of giving jerk-jolt deliberately)... got dissolved when the entanglement of one coach with the other became sophisticated!... I found the 'application' of this concept... of dissolving the jerk-jolt-induced by outside-factors, affecting adversely a married couple, when their mutual entanglement was similarly sophisticated (with ample cushioning-effects, two way-shockabsorbers, not affecting the tug/tag-along , to ensure fuel-efficiency!).. But it was quite rare to get to see this application deployed properly!

The next level... obviously the subtle levels too... of a life-form's entanglement into a gross structure a body... its subtlety going into super-sophistication-levels, when it is about a human form... caught my attention! And when it did, it caught me too into its 'entanglement'...! Now it was a 'dual-entanglement' (for me!). To undertand the one, to reach into the other, or to reach into the other, and understand the 'one' as a consequence! The path was one , and the 'reach' the other!

(Not without side-effects/benefits... untying/unentangling those created-bonds became clear and a bit simple too!)

Entangled, yours,

psn (1st october, 2015)