Power

Power failure.

:-))
We understand the power of power via its 'failure' waala phases :)
That's how our mind power works , often, .. right now !

It gladdened me to keenly watch a “power” minister doing the right kind of things, after several decades of 'decayed, delayed kind'... of handling such a key portfolio...
When cost of living surges, human-power too becomes costly... Only electrical power can help material progress, when it can be harnessed, conserved, saved, by handling leakages, wastages, etc too, ... and making it cheaper and cheaper... Something we are able to 'see' so-clearly now!


As lay persons, we often miss 'interpreting' messages of 'poor handling' of power utilisation, distribution, channelising etc, when the whole 'process' is too subtle... The spirit in us, the piece of 'life' ticking inside us... is indeed too subtle... { An example: “Two hours after her birth, doctors at the hospital pronounced her dead after which she was taken to a graveyard for burial, bdnews24 reported.” http://www.deccanchronicle.com/world/neighbours/250916/bangladesh-declared-dead-by-doctors-newborn-cries-out-while-being-buried.html }

Spiritual processes, evolved as technology, in the ancient days, were devised as a means to tap the very-core power of our life, and thereby its manifest forms too :)

Even the understanding of this power presents a complexity, when the approach is from the end use.. ...
When a top-gear doesn't carry the load of a car uphill, we shift the gears, and feel-contended... it moves... The fuel consumption is obviously a little more! But it does not imply that the fuel, when in the top gear was being consumed optimally :) There could be leakages, if the exhaust smoke contains unburnt fuel, when the pistons of the engines fail to deliver the entire thrust from that combustion-explosion, etc... Only a huge leak in the fuel tank gets noticed, but not the gentle evaporation due to a faulty insulation ring at its cap in the fuel tank!

The classification of 4 major paths, of suggesting it to humans who are keen to 'reach' the core of their 'life' ... too was based on a preliminary observation of where and how this 'life-energy' gets manifested a little predominantly....
The 'observation' itself was based on the efficacy of a life-style, a way of 'living' (later called 'Hinduism'), which also included in its design, the facility to 'read' those subtle manifest forms of predominance of this energy/power, in its manifest forms, with utter-ease and simplicity...
Now, when this life-style itself got mangled and mutilated too-badly, this observation gets blurred, ... thus leaving it to a 'chance' that a person gets to recognise one's own potential-source of energy---more specifically its source of predominance...

Sounds a little fuzzy... :)
Do we not find people to be more-energetic while engaged in certain areas of activity? Somebody can work 'physically' a lot, but feels sleepy when we asks him to engage his 'brain' into grasp of an abstract-concept... Somebody is highly emotional, and can work wonders, when emotionally-charged, but becomes dull when left 'lonely' (even in a crowd)... and so on...

What I find it to be more challenging is... when a person's basic energies get almost-blocked (like the blocked arteries, or veins, which causes a heart-attack... here , such blockages renders a person's whole life to become like 'just another living creature'... nothing more!)... and this person 'struggles' with mere-living itself :)... Now, he seeks that 'peace' as his 'ultimate-goal'... where as, even animals in wilderness are utterly peaceful !... Peace is something very basic and fundamental to life, and only when we are peaceful, 'something-else' is possible...

So, that huge godown of 'stored-power'... the life energy... remains dormant, only to seek an action-replay some other time, somewhere else, some other form, and in some other way!...

Are we keen to find out the location of our own power-house?... The 'why-at-all' of it , needs a 'sanction' from our mind... but what 'if' the mind is not the predominant place where this power has chosen to manifest its form right now? Dunno!

Powered-ly yours,

psn(26th September, 2016)

Trust

"Do you trust me?"....

An adult: "For what?"

a kid: "Oh yes!" (he/she , being a kid... would 'reconsider that commitment of 'Oh yes' only if needed)...

Financial-trust is quite understandable... (and kids don't deal in 'finance-portfolio' as yet... )..

Other trust-forms (mostly, those seeking a specific name , in response to 'for-what?' )... are the ones, that keeps us away from trust as the very quality of our being ...
Emotional-trust,
psychological trust,

moral-trust,

ethical trust,

domestic trust, (I don't have to give examples-even :-)) }

office trust , (cashiers are trusted for 'free'... clerks are trusted helplessly, by the boss)

civilian trust,

political trust..
common-sense trust (may be even Intellectual trust)

etc...

We like to test, the other, before we trust... And then, if we don't trust our-tests enough, the trust on the other keeps oscillating..

Trust in its bare form, doesn't try to make any appeal into us .. ...

That is exactly where this intangible abstract thing poses itself as a great hurdle when we smash our head against hectic practices, and yet nothing-serious seems to happen :-))

Oops! I forgot to mention ... I betrayed the reader's trust , probably, when I said 'hectic-practices', without its prefix, spiritual-related :-))

But, for most of us, even getting started with basics presents a great problem...
Yep! It only 'presents' a problem... and like most presents we receive, it either gathers dust in the attic, or it finds its way to a better victim's location... the receiver hardly bothers... we are so-used to our positioning-of-self with, “Your problem, not mine, to evoke my-trust in you!” Somebody 'posing' to be a spiritual guru, would readily accept this unspoken positioning... and the other, would simply wait...

The 'operational' part of relationship, usually the practices, evidence the presence or absence of such 'unconditional-trust', quite often... Only that, its subtlety is itself becomes a reason, to escape it's-being-noticed... The non-subtle or a little manifest forms are 'doubts' that arise, without a 'proper-foundation'...

Examples are a bit risky :-))
I would prefer to deviate from my usual weakness to add that humor, satire, or whatever..

testily yours,
psn(18th September, 2016)

Habituation

“I guess, I need to now... recheck the total of the days!”
said my spouse, when it simply crossed her limits of 'reasonable' results...

The word 'century' too , had a place in the same 'embedded' software, 'habituation'... somewhere..

Long ago, I had embarked on trying to persuade the women folk of our household, to lower the flame of the LPG gas... (sparks would fly off, if I were to 'insist' on it)...

They took just about 3 decades to try... nothing more...
but even the 'try' was very gradual.... (can't take chances with what this 'crackpot' fellow says!... that's me, the crackpot)...
the 55 to 60 days wala cycle climbed steadily up to 75 days, when the 'need' arose for booking a refill...
The number of people got reduced to just two of us (situational compulsions, others got relocated)..
the days climbed up to 85, then 90... and last year, some 93 or so...

Yesterday, the batsman at the crease (cylinder that is burning its belly-gas), hit a century 101 days :-))

and therefore that 'urge' to recheck the totals...
“simple, I said...” and showed the date of 'booking'... no need to flip the soiled pages of wall calendar.. total mistakes can be in the area of tens, not units...

Now, I thought... it is time to 'deliver' two simple messages...
one--- we needed to heat only the food, and not the entire kitchen... so the fuel got its life extended, when the “lowering of flame” did only the job that it was meant-to-do...

(I reserve the 'opporchutney' to extend this concept to mind, which burns its fuel, indulging in too many of needless thoughts ! :-)) }

Pressurising a modern mind into accepting something at once is counter-productive...
The fast pace of life, its ever-increasing vulnerabilities...
Has one of its nearly-irreversible side-effects...

As a part of 'self-defense' program... a mind resolves to habituate itself, into a habit, of resisting something that changes their very-routine , of their mind-itself...
So, the very 'listening' now becomes a habituated-delayed-program...
and then the 'trial' sessions of some suggestion, which got 'listened-to' deep enough after a reasonable-length of time... (in this case, just 3-decades :-)) lowering of flame!)..
trial sessions too... were progressively delayed (the progress was in detaching one-self, from the earlier habit of keeping the flame-high)....

What would happen, to a subtle concept, attempted to be infused via some crash-course, like a 13-day Yoga program... the program would crash.... support for backup can't sustain for 3 decades like a length-of-time :-))

Well, if this 'wild-imaginative-idea' of mine appeals... please revamp the very basic 'idea' of that “habit of not taking in things too-soon” , as a part of defensiveness of mind wala embedded software-program... Maybe other sub-routines will get impacted in a cascading manner !

In my case, I was in a great hurry....
I took things too seriously... Two sets of crude postures , called aasanas were prescribed for a brief duration, of just 40+ days, as a preparatory thing, to afford to sit in a place for hours, without feeling numb-limbs or developing muscular cramps... (as a basic-need, to justify such postures)...
these two sets were to be repeated on alternate days, once... I did it twice each, every day... that needed a rescheduling my non-office-hours... just that.. and I did it... coupled with that, I tried climbing on the bellow-actions (a middle part of a set of structured pranayam), which was left unshackled (as regards to its number-of-times), to a 'frenzy' height... average ones do it some 150 times in three sessions together... I did it just 3 K ... Anybody , even merely watching me do this circus, decides to keep a safe-distance from me , and that includes my 'ideas' too!

Habitually yours,
psn(12th of September, 2016)

Need a want, or , want a need?

And somewhere 'desires' too, add to the confusion :)

Recently I got persuaded into giving a 'nod' for a compound wall to be constructed (just on one side of the residential site... ).. now please wait... you will laugh even more, when I add that, it should have been done some 3 decades ago, when the house was built :)
Just that I turned out to be the last-fellow to have it in the entire colony (cluster of houses)...

Well, I barely had enough money to have a wall then...
it would mean 'compound(ing)' my problems, enough to create a wall (narrow domestic walls)...when I couldn't elevate the 'item' which qualifies as a 'need' ... needs a promotion from 'fencing-stones+barbed wires' to a pucca wall :)

I started thinking...

where did it all start?
And while this 'thinking' was on... a youngster was just 'starting' after 'blinking and thinking' for quite some time , about his 'winking' at a sinking career!... He managed to float , and pretty well too..
I was reminded of my 'start' (when-today, any 'start' worth its name is linked to money, I too am constrained to say similarly, when I say my-start)....

The earliest few salaries, was barely enough to just-keep-going... (Yes, half the difficulties were due to the social standards 'set-by-the-society'... like we need 'clothes' while bulk of life-forms, walk about so-cheerfully, in their birthday suits !)..

Though I didn't actually “plan” it that way....
now when I look back, I guess, what I did gets formulated into an 'idea' that may-work for a few others too!

After that 'starting-trouble'... the only other phase, when I felt that money-worry was, when I raised a small house on a site, I purchased....

I have been aware of a lot many of people, around me ... worrying almost all their life, about insufficiency of financial resources :(
Almost like somebody working at a place like “Cherrapunji” ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherrapunji ) , and cannot just put-up with a lack of an umbrella alone! The place-itself, is the 'wettest' one!

Ah... I thought...
one needs to knead the need well-enough!

I was decidedly-set to set-my-sail, on a spiritual sea...
that decided about my 'wants'... What I want, ought to match what I need (desires are now decided upon by the situation, not my likes and dislikes)...
Often, people mess up the wafer-thin border line between 'reasonable-wants' and reasonable-needs...

and then, their wants eats into their available-income Plus, the essential needs..
Some try to just lament... others procastinate that lament into a misery, by borrowing heavily to fund their 'wants'.. I escaped this trap, just because I was sailing on different waters (spiritual-sea).. :-))

The major advantage I found was... over a period of time,

I happened-to drop that conscious effort to keep the “wants” from hovering over my head, when the look-out for identifying only-the-needs became utterly-effortless.... Now that, allowed me to afford myself, to focus better at work (in the office,) and to focus better at the family (while at home), and also keep that focus clandestinely-alive, into my hidden-agenda, the spiritual-Bijness :-))

Wantedly yours,

psn(7th September, 2016)

post script: I won't attempt to sermonize... what worked for me, if it happens to give some clue, ... it is up to the readers to solve-their-puzzles now!