Stories for myself

 Yep 👍

This time, I am my reader and audience 😜🙏

It's time to educate myself a little.

Thinking aloud, can turn into “music for ears” when the listener finds it to a confession 😊 ( a welcome variation from people who make tall claims of their achievements and accomplishments, not bothering to even distinguish between the 2)

So, this blog is for purely entertainment purpose. ( Any relevance to any body, is purely coincidental, unintentional and ….bla bla bla…😜)

Two short stories ( for me to learn from)

A fellow approached a zen master “ teach me spirituality”. zen master caught his neck, dipped his head into a water-tank nearby. Held him gasping for breath, and released his grip. That fellow lifted his head out of water, inhaled deep. Zen master asked “ tell me, while your head was inside water, what was your topmost priority?” That fellow “ to breathe 😭🙏”. Zen said “ come to me, when spirituality becomes like that breath, when you were under water”...

Second story:

Buddha was keen to teach a kid age friend, because of the deep emotional bond of friendship. That friend was a busy shop owner, like Adani and Ambani of those days. Every time Buddha passes by his shop, and requests, that friend says “ next time”. This years passed. Friend rushed to Buddha, when he heard that Buddha is about to die. With great difficulty, the devotees allowed that friend to go near Buddha ( nobody is allowed to disturb a monk awaiting death). Friend “ sorry, I missed your request every time, and I know it is now, too late 😭🙏…. Just tell me, how-to get you, after you are gone?”( It seems Buddha opened his eyes for a brief while, and replied. That “reply” later on became a huge lesson for posterity. I too was taught that lesson🙏).

Manu had clearly said in his ( Smriti)...verse 110 of second chapter, and I am struggling to learn that lesson yet 😭🙏… my confession 😔. These two stories are illustrative format of this verse. ( A rough translation of that verse : "without being asked, one must not speak anything to any person not should he speak if any question is put to him without decorum.  in such cases, the intelligent one shall behave like a dumb person")

Until yours,

PSN (29 Dec 2023)

Compatibility issues

 Compatibility issues

A familiar term in today's minds.

I am deliberately using it to draw attention towards issues in interpersonal relationships, so that, emotions do not remain a jargon, where compatibility is an issue 🤣

Logic can easily deal with compatibility issues in robotic world, not emotional worlds 🙏 ( emotions are unavailable to logic, that's why)

A pair of software will be looked into deeply, when there are compatibility issues. 

Interfaces….that need patch ups…. 

Functionality issues, needing a bit of revamping of the basic codes

Concept related clashes ( affecting designs. Bare concepts mean no harm😜)

We can try relating it to the 3 gross layers of our emotional software 🤣

How we manifest our emotions ( mismatch of harmony, sync…etc)

How we respond to situations, due to strong impact of entire bundle of emotional experience thus_far in life)

The core emotional residues, sticking closest to our innermost_being( our basic life_energy, it's vibrating_pateern, wavelength etc 🙏😔😳).

I am only going to ‘tickle’ our intellect with a mind_boggling example 😂😜

We do_come_across couples, who surprise the people around, by sticking together, despite mutual quarrels on an almost daily basis 🤣…. ( Still rare example is, in cases where one of the pair “kicks the bucket” prematurely, the other one collapses mysteriously 🙏.

I am not going to propound the debugging process of emotional compatibility issues between the close ones of my readers here🙏… ( general prescriptions don't work)

Compatibly yours,

PSN (28 dec 2023)

Reason Versus Justification

 Reason vs justification

A good reason for something seems to qualify as a justification for that thing.

When rains are heavy, river floods and flows on to even sideways of its bank. Hutments get swept away. Probably lives too. Annual feature of few rivers. Reason remains asa justification for inaction by people for several generations, until some fellow stands before that mighty river and says “I will stop that river 💪👍”... People around laugh and label him as a mad fellow ( the justification of past generations, is being questioned by him 😜… no ‘need’ to tolerate his argument/challenge. He or his descendants build a dam ( earthen dam, later masonry dam, whatever). Then, the same flow which swallowed lives, will light up the nights of lives generating hydro_power 🙏

Nucleic family is a reason for inadequate parenting of present generation…. Should we use it as a justification for lack of values in kids? 

Interpretation of statutes, case laws, seem to convert reasoning into justification, while the preamble gets grossly ignored in courts. Unsound mind, if it can be proved as a valid reason, using an admissible evidence of doctors certificate from a corrupt doctor, every murder gets a pardon 😜😰 . Money power and cunningness of an unethical lawyer turns a system meant for ‘justice’ into a mockery.

When investigative agencies unearth black money, scam funds, etc from a politicians premises, the culprits shouts “vindictiveness” by the ruling party ( reason is reasonable….. and minds of vote bank nods “yes…. vindictiveness “ forgetting that, this neta never said “ I didn't hold black money, I didn't perpetrate the scam”

The power of reasoning throwing away the bits of justice remaining scantily strewn among isolated politicians, was demonstrated so mightily when a prime minister explained on the floor of the parliament ( documented into perpetuity now😜) the justified-reason of multitudes of mega_scams as “due to coalition compulsions” …. 😂🤣🤣🤣 Awesome example of mega corruption of minds of those who occupied the highest chair of public responsibility as a civil servant 🙏

My personal experience…. Spiritual path is well insulated from any kind of misuse, abuse, manipulation, craftiness, slyness, cunningness, connivance, etc of minds, which seeks to justify a reason or cause, for neglecting our spirit, life, being, soul, atma, rooh, whatever 😜 … a department of justice symbolised by a personified deity shanidev, using the characteristics of a planet called Saturn, when its planetary influence to symbolise its functionality, had served the purpose to guide our minds on right path since 5000+ years 🙏, was a mega contribution by mathematicians of the highest order, of ancient times, who were known as rishis .

Are we interested in cleansing our minds, to some extent? Do we like to avoid self_deception of misusing valid-reasons as justification for our complacency?  

There is a huge risk. Face isolation 😜… get labelled as a fool. Because, the baby_steps starts with accepting responsibility for failures happening very routinely in our mundane lives 😜

Anyway, nature takes its own course( coarse, if we are too complacent about values, basic to life)...

Unreasonably yours,

PSN ( 13 Dec 2023)

Elbow space/room

  “elbow space/room” is the popular phrase to convey the emotion of utter misery when we face lack of space, at any place/time.

Space constraints……😜

Probably, only person who can afford to maintain that “serene look’ despite severe, acute and chronic space constraints, literally disallowed even a little elbow space……is the one lying six feet below in a coffin 😂😜😜😜😜

Story says, Pushpaka Vimana of Ravana was designed to overcome space shortage, when I heard about this aeroplane that “there's always one vacant seat in it, no matter how many board”( like our gadgets with “expandable memory space” 😜🙂)...

Normal life is what I like to talk about…

How our mind looks at space constraints.

A small story.

A poor man's small hut grew crowded when his children grew up, a few got married, had children etc... His wife started grumbling....

This man had a "guru"...🙂

A village guru, illiterate as well. ( Slightly better than others in common sense 🙏)

Guru was consulted.

One good thing was the poor ones in the village quietly obey this guru ( however bizzare, crazy, funny, or stupid-looking, are... his prescriptions 😂)

Guru said " crowded? Less space? Okay....tie up your 4 legged domesticated animals inside the hut. Come after ten days"

This man felt a bit humiliated, but....as was the practice....obeyed 😜

Wife started shouting and wailing aloud. The droppings and stench of the goat & buffalo made life more miserable. But this time, the man quoted Guru. Can't disobey. 

Ten miserable days.

Very punctually the man stood before that guru/sant/saint.

The guru just looked at his face. It was all written all over the face. No need to ask "how's life?"😜

Guru said, "okay 👍....now take those animals outside and tie it at its usual place their shed outside. You may not need to come to report now.

Man heeded.

Everybody in the house (hut) experienced sudden enhancement of moving space. Cheer spread across their faces. Clean , airy.... breathe_easy....after the 4 legged ones were sent out. They forgot their earlier rant of crowding due to expansion of family members 😂.

( Story over)

Now my experience…..

At amravati

I used to spend quality time

observing afresh each time

That paanWaala sitting in a tiny cubicle for 12 hrs plus, a day.....

Literally no "elbow space/room"...

Surrounded by countless jars and containers to be able to dig out bits of ingredients for each customised pan/betel leaf... If his elbow extends a millimetre extra, he knocks of 2 to 4 jars with loose lids, ( kept unscrewed for high speed blending of its ingredients)

Most fascinating part comes only if I wait patiently, for an hour or plus.

His stiff body needs to come out of that cubicle for a minute or two at times.

He brings his elbows close to his chest so that the width of his chest matches the *_diagonal length_* of the board that separates the lower half of his body from our view🤣

He bends his knees gently, allowing his upper body to slip down vertically, till it goes below the board , and then he bends his chest between his legs to squeeze himself out onto the road. 

I am *_easily reminded_* of a child birth, though I *_never witnessed one_* 🤣

What baffles me is.....

Once he comes out and stands erect, he doesn't 'stretch' himself ( like the bus drivers do, after climbing a ghat section for 3 hours with loaded passengers, hairpin bends etc, when they get down for a cup of tea. They hop down raise their arms high, bend backwards and s-t-r-e-t-c-h...... Aaaah!

Panwala has kept a minimal customers waiting, and can't afford 'wasting time' to stretch. Revenue 😂 he rushes to get relieved, or to do something urgent, some buying from a nearby grocer, and back to go through the *_reversal process_* of re-entry into his orbit 🤣🙏🙏🙏

I think of him, and then .....I never feel any space constraints anywhere.🤣

Decades later,

a bigger shock awaited me 😜🙏🙏

On a 'holy day' at a shiva temple... buses run jam-packed to & fro from town to that temple 10 kms away at the outskirts of the city.

Buses run for 22 hrs that day. Conductors go to&fro the length of that bus, at least 15 to 20 times each trip, to collect fare, give out the correct ticket and balance coins 😞🙏🙏🙏

I often tell my cashier colleagues " try to match him, whenever you feel 'burdened' due to rush of customers.... standing patiently I a queue, clutching bundles of cash, when you sit in a safe grilled cage, with a mini fan, despite A/c...and seldom required to return excess coins/notes tendered with challan/voucher.

They painfully agree, with a bow and namaste 🙏😜😂😂😂

Sympathy, empathy, sync.... whatever,😳🙏

Helps us to come out of our own created_pain….

Spaciously yours,

PSN (7 Dec 2023)

Inheritance

 Inheritance

What is worth inheriting?

If we inherit the proverbial “wheel” (should I be required to “reinvent the wheel”).

How do we inherit it?

1)By retaining the wheel, extending its life as much as possible. For that, using it very sparingly. ( Doesn't look like a “strong” proposal 😕)

2)By replicating it, storing abundant ‘spares’ ( shelf life decides it longivity)

3) By learning to make one 😳 ( no need to reinvent a wheel. Just learn to make one)

4) by learning the “concept” of a wheel ( the roll, the role of a pin, hub, axle, which allows the roll of the wheel. The role of rolling balls, ball bearing which ensures a smooth interface between non_rolling & rolling parts.)

5)by allowing our focus to dwell upon this concept of wheel, and ‘seek’ a mechanism which can rotate/roll at a different speed, direction etc ___paving way for a “differential” 😜 , a tie-rod, etc.

6) destroy the prototype called wheel ( jihadis are good at it. Now, we can reinvent a wheel, a square, a hexagon, or any non-sense 👍).

Inheriting a property is most common thing today.

Retaining the value of that property, a little uncommon. 

More uncommon is…..adding value to that property. 

This was about physical and material aspects.

Inheriting values, knowledge, retaining it, increasing its use, value etc …

Inheriting “presence” …..🤣

Looks like a bloody joke 😔😭🙏

But Bharat has a heritage ( root word ‘heritage’ we inherit heritage 😜…not merely a property 🙏).

In that order, our ancients evolved into a technology of retaining the “energy/spirit, and it's subtle qualities……to function as a guide to future generations “ …

Example: aadi shankara…..said “my samadhi will be functional for 700 years”( actually, it is still retaining it's energy and can be felt by fellows who bothered to sensitize themselves to its requirement 🤣😜)

Temples carry subtle energies, designed to last….( Invoking it needs some expertise, which is getting extinct when priests chant mantras very ritualistically, without any symbolism 🙏)

Ancestral homes ( in Kerala it is ‘tharavad’, or a mutt, etc) are consecrated for progeny to benefit from its energies ( certain techniques in yoga/spirituality/etc helps to invoke and imbibe those energies)

Cloud technology 😜😜😜…. Yes, Bharat had this concept of cloud_computing to tap energies. ( On the eve of janeudhariPappu day….a kind of propitiation similar to annual death_anniversary ….is conducted with positive chants.  Energies of evolved ones among a certain Lineage of gotra, are invoked and their ‘presence’ is sought to guide the new initiate into highest ever chant called Gayatri. Once initiated properly, and if the kid learns to invoke properly, this chant undergoes a dynamic change in its very basic structure and becomes something much higher than its usual nature called a mantra. This changed form has a name , ‘chandass’ but it's notice remains ignored by even eminent head priests. Sad 😭…. Inheriting values is a matter of choice, and cannot be adjudicated by a court of law 😜

I personally, govt trapped into a groove which kept rotating me around inheriting of deepest values available in Bharat , at different places, different forms, different formats, varied sources etc…( numerous sources 😳😢🙏🙏🙏).

I thought, a few might care to know about “what other than physical and material property , can be inherited?”

I don't try to prescribe about reinventing or inventing of any wheel . I am merely trying to apply a little grease to rusted wheels in us 😫. 

( I personally engaged myself in keenly observing, learning, and experimenting with various kinds of stuff, worth inheriting 😜… inadvertently, I tripped on things that I seemed to have learnt in a far off time, and there I had a very strange ‘feeling’ of having inherited my own past 😜😜😜… the ‘thing’ I herited from my past is supposed to need 22 years of rigorous practice under stringent supervision of an evolved spiritual teacher, whereas, I seemed to be able to do it with tangible results in a matter of 8 hours this time, in 1994 😳… something unbelievable and astounding 🙏. I am able to see and witness “live” , a piece of property, being disputed in a legal battle at court, and the litigants oblivious of its inherent and latent value and potential of far higher value, spiritual value that can empower creation of the physical properties at will😜🤣… I could personally experience that subtle presence in that disputed property, since I had proximity by virtue of social customs, to be able to see simultaneously the distinction of ‘fighting for what?’ when, sense of discrimination, depth of perception etc differs from person to person, and confines a person of lesser ability with constricted sense of discrimination.)

Spirituality, very much like insurance…..

Is purely a subject matter of solicitation.

Uninvitedly/unsolicitedly yours,

PSN (1 Dec 2023)

Evaluation skills

 Evaluation skills

A joke ( copypaste)

Mulla nusruddin caused eyebrows to get raised by audience when they saw him seated in the front row of a classical music concert in a large auditorium. While they were yet_to recover from their bewilderment, they saw him in tears as he was staring at the singer. By now, the shock and surprise had completely overpowered the high-value-ticket holders near him, and they shifted their focus on Nasruddin. No sooner the tea-break came, they vented out their surprise " Mulla, aap!! Yahan?"( to the best of their knowledge, he had nothing to do with music. Mulla didn't take efforts to contain the tears still flowing down and said " I could see the pain in the singer, while he was stretching the aalaap 'aaaaaaa…awawawawaw…

' because just 3 days ago a goat was able to sense it's beheading and the imminent death ahead of its event and was letting out a pain through its throat, exactly the same way. May the merciful lord grant a painless death for that singer_vocalist🙏. He must be at the last stage of some incurable ailment, and terminally I'll." ( the audience_members heaved a big sigh of relief😢… unfounded fears set to rest, about the music evaluating skills of our dear Mulla😜)

I Resewed/received a phorward/forward " value those who add value to your life"....

At once, the images of all those who added value to my life flashed through my mind.

Didn't stop there.

Those who gesticulated ( birds, insects, animals, cow_milk, etc) . Didn't stop. Those who stayed still waiting for me since centuries ( mountains, samadhis of vibrant gurus, deities 😳).

Didn't stop.

Bodyless beings, whose name or face impossible to know(😫🙏).

Deep interdependence with everything around, everyone. 

😰🙏🤔🤔🤔

Decided to value one common denominator of all of them. (Whatever name for that 'nothingness')....

Hey! What about me? My value? ...... Ofcourse, my nuisance value😜😜😜

Mercifully, nuisance didn't ever needed to beg_for_its_value....😂🤣

It was door_delivered instantly 🙏👍👍👍... Unasked, unsought.... shut doors invariably 😞

Full value guaranteed.

I have seen a good number of shut_doors of their minds!

( a few .....even hurl abuses via slits of small vent-i-lators, to vent their 🤬 at me👍

I am grateful to them. They take care that I don't grow horns. )

At this point, I request the readers to quit reading….

I can't guarantee about the imminent boredom, here onwards.

Without any evaluation skills, how do we expect to be able to value anything? 

A newly wed girl, at times happens to vomit the food soon after intake. If there is an elderly lady around, they smile with a tinge of humility 🙏… expectant mom in the offing.

Very soon they provide a desi_version of an 'english tablet' like….Gestanin 

( reference: quote " This medicine helps to prepare the uterus for pregnancy by causing the uterus lining (endometrium) to thicken" from : https://www.1mg.com/drugs/gestanin-5mg-tablet-233145?wpsrc=Google+Organic+Search )

Desi version has least side effects.

We forgot those….. so forget it.

Hormonic imbalances are sought to be set right…. The body is programmed to expel any life form trying to thrive as a parasite ( stomach worms, for instance). So, in some cases the primitive cellular intelligence fails to recognise that 'new life' as it's own species and the phenomenon as propagation of species. Vomiting is a superficial symptom. In acute cases, deeper symptoms occur and at times, even render the child deficient in health 😭

We assist evaluation of the new_life in a newly wed expectant mom🙏

When the sensory levels are more in any life form, evaluation skills needed are of stringent_standards. Just one sense touch, and the trees and plants just feel the water and nutrients and thrive. Add taste, smell, sight and ears…the four legged ones need a little tutoring for its offsprings.

Human has sixth sense….sense of discrimination 😭…. This needs heavy tutoring. But parents or teachers have lost the syllabus and teaching materials, in the recent centuries. So the use , direction and levels of this …. already available sense of 'discrimination' in us, sways like a floating bit of straw on a river, left to its own destiny.

There are music_evaluation courses…. Somebody who is gifted with the patience to appreciate music in a primitive & crude way( I am that 😜) can….if interested….. benefit from an evaluation_course( music appreciation classes).

To value the value addition from others, don't we need evaluation skills? How much of it??? 😜

Enlightenment is supposed to be the ultimate level of evaluation skills. ( it is believed that everything in this universe appears & disappears alternatively, one_followed by 21 zeroes times per second .....    1/1000000000000000000000 of a second, is it's time duration. No gadget to capture the disappearance 😭…. Understandably, that gadget too….if at all available, will disappear for a fraction of second. Buddha talked of atkalpa….subatomic particle, and it's nature. Can we expect Buddha to remain ungrateful to irreligious Hinduism, which nurtured and nourished him into enlightenment? Yet today's Buddhists try to demean sanatana Dharma 😂🤣😜… discrimination matters🙏😫)

Shall we try to revive, refresh, remould and redesign the tools required for teaching evaluations skills?  ( present trend .....multiplies jihadi skills at a tremendous speed 😜... We can also choose to leave it to that 👍)

Nonsensically yours,

PSN ( 2nov 2023)

Life Span

 This time, I am placing a disclaimer.

I ain't too sure about what I am saying……despite my adherence to my self_imposed rule of speaking out of experience.

My experience part is outweighed by my observations. Level of perception determines the accuracy of observations.

Experience: of late, I am noticing the delay in restoration of myself. Worn out rechargeable_batteries get depleted much faster, and get charged very little, with that deceptive 100% level befooling us😜

Guess work : all along I was keen to see if my guesswork about the possible lifespan of others around, happens to turn out true or not.

Parameters were set by myself, evolving in it with experience 🙏

We notice that a few exceptions baffle us. A fellow looking very healthy, fit etc…. suddenly bids a goodbye. Another fellow despite multiple chronic and acute ailments, keeps deceiving death, and surprising us😜…. So, I thought/guessed….there is one more vital factor, quite subtle and imperceptible, whic decides the life span. This factor happens to be the exclusive monopoly of those who learn naadi-vaidya, to come to the_closest-possible approximation of life time left for a person 🙏 

Accidental death…..we can't predict.

I started looking into deeper aspects of life_energy getting replenished 😜 awesome experience and revelations.

I am almost certain, most of the readers will find the details of my findings too boring or fatiguing at least. 

Of course, there are always an alternative source of charging, and even storage….of life energy……but that's an entirely different thing

Depletingly yours,

PSN ( 28 oct 2023)

Positivity versus negativity

 I noticed a copypaste quote in Hindi " even when situation is negative, if we can remain positive, it is a success". Damn tempting 😂…Mind doesn't even wait to say a "wah_wah".... I am an ulti_khopdi 🙏😭……… I pick fault where there is none🙏😭😢😰 manufacturing defect 😅

I wrote there…. 

Quote 

"https://www.kooapp.com/koo/Shrivastav_Divyesh/9f999d7b-e866-4da1-a9d2-aff4b55e4305 

स्थिति तो परिणाम है ( हमेशा)!

सकारात्मक रहना choice है

नकारात्मक बनना मजबूरी/कमजोरी/विवशता है 🙏

दृष्टिकोण ही तय करता है, कोई भी स्तिथि को ( जैसे, समाज में 99% अगर ज़बरदस्त तन्दुरूस्त हैं, doctor के लिए तो नकारात्मक स्तिथि ही ना? 

नोबल पुरस्कार का संस्थापक, लोक युद्ध को सकारात्मक ही अनुभव किया 😜 दोनों पक्षों को युद्ध सामग्री बेचकर ही कमाया पुरस्कार के निधी का मूलधन 😭🙏)

सनातन में ऐसे कमाई से पुरस्कृत नहीं होते थे 🙏😜"

Unquote

Situation is a consequence of something, so …there cannot be anything negative or positive in it by itself. We view it as per our perspective… ( and added " positivity has always been a conscious choice, while negativity is a compulsiveness/weakness/shortcoming/etc"

If, 99% of society is damn healthy, a selfish doctor finds the "situation" as negative, 😂

The source of funding for Nobel prize comes from a situation where nations at war was "positive" for merchant of death, Alfred Nobel 😢😰 ( it seems, he grew weary of such earnings towards his last days, and instituted an award for positive purpose, as some kind of atonement 🙏

Sanatana Dharma never funded for rewarding positivity out of illgotten wealth…😞…

Now, my usual nasty habit of ticking the readers, leaving a bitter taste in their minds ….

A silly question:

which one is a choice, positivity or negativity? 😜

First sip, taste, snort of nervous stimulants( drugs, liquor, etc) was a conscious choice. Once addicted, there is no more any choice 😜

Can positivity ever become an addiction? Can negativity be ever a choice?

Positively yours😰😭

PSN (19 Oct 2023)

Contributory negligence

 1990 or so ....

A colleague was chargesheeted for fraud... enquiry held, and dismissed.

The defence representative for charge sheeted employee is from trade union. There wasn't any scope to argue against clear case and evidence. वो bore हो गया, enquiry process में, which was a mere formality. Everyone knew, he will be dismissed.

That neta, used to utilise time for union work in my city( travel on duty, expenses paid by bank ....as a defense lawyer in enquiry 😂). So he asked me "final submission तुम लिखो, मैं sign कर दूंगा"

Force of habit.....😢

I studied the entire proceedings, evidence etc, before framing the "final submission of arguments " on behalf of delinquent employee.

I then described in great detail, the aspect of contributory negligence of the superior officers of that employee. ( every one was complacent about everything in that enquiry, and therefore didnt bother to pay any attention to what I wrote)

"Contributory negligence" is an offence too, in law and it's concepts.

Allow currency notes to pop out of pocket too glaringly, and blame the pickpocket alone?

I didn't know, that....copies of enquiry process goes to RBI, when there is a 'capital' punishment ( dismissal).

RBI has a dedicated department to read all of it carefully 😜

They wrote a very strong letter to headoffice.." why aren't the erring officers not issued a show_cause_notice? For their serious lapse, contributory negligence?.... immediately chargesheet them, send copy to us 😡"

Sudden shock....😂

Head office had no choice.

Officers association ( usually चम्चा of management) connived to send only 'copies' of chargesheet to negligent officers ( who facilitated the fraud, due to their lapses, कामचोर)… original was never served. RBI doesn't ask the results of all chargesheeted cases ( chargesheet देने को बोला, हमने दे दिया! बस………… even shraap, curses, are converted as symbolic नाम के वास्ते 😜, in few cases)

A story of a car owner of denmark, deciding not to move his car till the eggs of a bird in a nest on his car is hatched, became a viral clip on social media, appreciating his humanitarian gesture. 

Here, parking the car for long duration ( contributory act).....bird decided, it is safe to build a nest ....

So, not destroying the nest till the eggs are hatched.... कोई उपकार नहीं किया it was a dharmic duty, only to offset earlier negligence( negligence is .... misleading a bird, that this object is a discarded scrap. 

Even at cellular level.....flab is nothing but a godown constructed by cells in that area of our body..... when we don't use that limb/organ/part of our body for long duration..... contributory negligence of misleading our cellular intelligence 🙏.... when sick, flabby, etc...daaktarr says " walking करो!" Then, people go for "walking करने जा रहा हूं "……… whatever their language, the word "walking" is retained in English...as if it is a generic name of a life_saving_drug, not to be mispronounced or translated😜😂

This "contributory negligence" is very often a series and serious lapse on the part of parents in their upbringing as an act of omission.

result is...... sudden discovery that an offspring does something not in tune with traditions, Dharma etc... Effect is, that generation deteriorates....and over generations, culture, tradition, heritage, values etc evaporate 😜

( values like...... How to learn, how to deepen perception, how to stabilize emotions, how to use sense of 'discrimination'?.... lost 😜😂... सिखाने वाले भी लुप्त)

We often become unaware of several of our acts of contributory negligence ( omission and commision). Like, we suddenly discovered ecology environment etc getting spoiled due to our 'modern' lifestyle 😜

Yours contributorily,

PSN (19 Oct 2023)

Mind

 Mind

A joke.

Mind takes a longer time to accept something it could understand very soon...

That's why a Gym might help...( mind's gym 😜)

 that, a flab in the stomach we carry all our waking hours is a needless burden, and a drain on our energies,....it's understanding is easy and instant.

Does the mind permit and cooperate , if we wish to go to a Gym, to reduce the flab? Mind might prefer off_the shelf solutions 🤣..."belts" are getting sold as an attraction. But we don't meet any beneficiary.

Physical activity is not about excercise, keeping trim, being healthy, alone 🙏

There is a subtle aspect too.

Body, mind and the breath are fused.

The being is getting itself limited in numerous ways into these three. 

The being seeks liberation. But, when this urge gets expression through body or mind, the form and meaning changes. We find the mind longing for more&more. If being speaks, it would say it very differently 🤣

Physical activity, performed with the permission of our mind, keeps the body calm, flexible and utterly relaxed, as also aware and alert. ( all the yogic or spiritual practices are supposed to lead us into this. Structured activity, designed to tame our body and breath. Mind gets tamed as a consequence. Now, liberation of the being is natural 🙏. A choice happens, to leave the body or to remain in it for its natural span of wear and tear. 

There are various 'stages' of liberation. The life's joyousness is proportional to the stages of liberation reached🙏

Baby_steps...

Seek the mind's permission first 🙏

am I yours?

PSN (4oct2023)

Gym

 A joke..... 

Youngsters go to a Gym.....

Workout there, is to keep trim, strong, get rid of flab, etc....

Do we know of any 'Gym' to excercise our minds? ( with same concept?)

Well, 

It just occurred to me 😢😢😢😰😰😰😰😰😭😭😞😞

Am I turning into a Gym fellow inadvertently?.... and not even clever enough to charge fee?

Excercising the mind of...who ever comes to know my_mind ?

On-site ( direct chat in person)

Off-site ( is actually online 🤣....blog, speakingtreedotcom.....now, "koo" platform 🤣🤣🤣🤣

One koo user( anonymous, pseudonym) made a remark too....

https://www.kooapp.com/koo/blessedtobesanatani/b72ccbf9-755d-4bca-be26-840ea775b744

Well,

Only a healthy mind is capable of being amenable to becoming quiet. 😜. We can't order it with " you shut up"🤣 it will rebound with double force.

Unhealthy minds, manage to remain "socially acceptable". Only ill_minds (mentally ill) need a care in mental health home🙏 ( NIMHANS, Bengaluru…kilpauk……erragadda….etc)

Why become quiet?

The only way to enhance the "abilities of a mind"😰

Patanjali defines 'yoga' as cessation of incessant waves_of_thought 😳 ( if he can be trusted 🙏)

Evidence: during deep sleep, mind withdraws into quietude ( nature's embedded software design, to ensure preservation+ propagation of human species 😜)

Now,

If……and only if……we make a conscious choice, to quieten our mind, for a while, with full awareness ( unlike deep sleep state), there is a dynamic state about that silence 😜…. technical name is MeditaShun…

Very gymnastically yours,

PSN (2 Oct 2023)

Tailpiece

Gym

🤣

I like that nickname/pseudonym/mockery name/whatever.

It suits me best👍😔

Nobody, even flabby people are 'against' any gym , yet, ...most flabby ones keep away from gym, or even workouts at home....😂

Inadvertently, when somebody bumps into me, neither of us are aware, that any conversation beyond 300 seconds(5 minutes, )....I end up into a Gym 😭...

For the mind, that is 😰

Quite understandable 🙏....not everybody likes to step out of their mind's comfort zone ( couch potato 🥔)....

And, I can't shut down my gym whenever I am not busy with some kind of physical activity 😭....

A few, surprise me. They keep tolerating me for even years 😂.... ( usually, such people....also happen to report some healthy slimming of mind's flab 😂)

I am aware.....a "Bruce Lee" might visit incognito, and land a formidable punch on my brains 😂....

Despite its injury , I make it a point, *_not to feel_hurt_* ....I am grateful for a healthy punch from a master, a Guru 🙏

Reverence

 Reverence

The best available term in English for the deep concept in Sanskrit called "shraddha". 

This shraddha is assuredly an infallible tool to acquire wisdom represented by yet another deep concept called "Gyan" in Sanskrit.

I used to ask youngsters who spent "quality time" in the western countries. ( the reach itself needs these kids to be "creamy layer" among students. I ask them " can you name one very_fundamental difference between the two cultures…..East & West…?"( Bharat and developed European countries, USA etc?). All other aspects are incidental to this single aspect.

Then, I volunteer my own view, leaving it to them to argue or learn from it😂

BHARAT is fundamentally "reverence culture" West is freedom culture.

Once freedom is your priority, the clamour for independence is inevitable. Once independence is a priority, fighting for rights is obvious.

Even today, the residue of "reverence" is available as streaks of light, when we look at the tendency of average Indians, not trying to fight "adequately" for their rights 😜

I cannot use a better example than the docunted one in Gita, to stress upon the depth of the word "reverence".

From the story, we have a reason to believe that Arjuna was above average as a good student/disciple/etc. He alone passed the "focus test" conducted by Drona ( an acharya…mind you😜🙏…not a Guru, in the technical sense😰)... Difficult to find a learner like Arjuna.

Even he…. Arjuna, needed to cross over 11 chapters of Gita, to feel the reverence towards Krish, to be able to call him "Bhagawan" 😜😂😂😂

If that is reverence of Arjuna's level, where do we stand? 😭🙏🙏🙏

Anyway, those who read this upto here, cannot say " I didn't know"...

It's a choice, whether they wish to remain stuck to freedom or to evolve into the potential of experiencing reverence. ( Sadly enough, for a "Sanatani" , practice of reverence is indispensable)

Reverentially yours,

PSN (24 sept 2023)

Subtlities

 Subtlities

नज़ाख़तें

Quite a subtle concept, apart from being abstract….the concept of subtlety.

Very few try bother about finding out the distinction between similar looking words.

My cousin is one of them. ( at least, he was……if, the age hasn't forced or squeezed_out the curiosity about such subtle aspects).

Probably, he decided it was safe to ask a fellow like me about distinction between achievement & accomplishment ( of course, there was some kind of debate at his workplace during their brief recess. And the decision remained inconclusive, due to the very nature of these two words, which overlap like conjoined twins😜)

I told him my views, and it looked like, he was convinced.

He might have even forgotten about it.

But me, the way I am…..I used to get bogged down by the confusion between two actions, in the arena of spirituality practices.

Already, spirituality is itself quite a fuzzy, abstract and subtle word well known for its evasiveness of grasp ( or was it "elusiveness"???😜😜)

And the, when we are supposed to be just trying to remain alert, eyes closed, we end us trying to watch our breath. These two are entirely different 🙏…. Being alert, doing nothing….and watching the-breath.

So, 

achievement versus accomplishment……😂

I managed to coin a sentence. Let's see how much I am correct about it.

The effort was to bring out the subtle difference 🙏

" We would have achieved nothing worthwhile, if we could not accomplish the subtle task of grasping the distinction between the two terms, achievement and accomplishment. Which of these qualifies better for success, is not fixed, because situations might differ. Whereas, we have people who are known for their achievements, and we have yet others, who are known as 'accomplished personalities' and they aren't quite the same"

Luckily, I ain't either of these, and therefore….have the luxury of observing the two, dispassionately.

Ordinarily yours,

PSN (22 September, 2023)

Idiot

 Idiot

Recent _most occasion for me to be addressed thus, was just within the two days 😜

Quote

"🇮🇳 (Mr X, ) 🇮🇳 commented on your Koo

Ok, that proves it, you are an idiot. Gandhi was a British stooge, sent to Bharat to hijack independence and to destroy Sanatan Dharm. You missed the entire lesson taught by Krisha, one must fight for Dharm. You are truly stupid. I feel sorry for you and your family. Retired? So you are older... how sad that you gained no wisdom. There is still time. Meditate."

How do we handle such titles, when addressed to us ?

I didn't know, how to !

I noticed that I was the kid who was called most number of times by elders around me, till I reached the age of 22. 

Age wasn't the reason, for ceasing to call me so…. I became financially self dependent ( a job, and a salary 🙏😉). Pathetic reason to stop calling a close relative " you are an idiot"

Early kid age, there was a versatility in calling me using all available synonyms of "idiot"... ( the mix of Malayalam & Tamil provides a wide spectrum of such words, synonymous with "buddhoo")

I didn't know how to handle this attribute 😳

They wouldn't explain why ( I am an idiot).

I had to figure it out by myself 🙏… can a mentally ill patient figure it rby himself, once he has become a acute one? ( it is here, I got one small clue🙏…. That doctor tells his relatives, not the patient, that the patient is mad😜… no use telling the patient, because he won't agree😂

Whereas, an idiot has some chance….he isn't mentally ill. Just an inadequacy of common sense, that's all.

I started looking within. Not much help. I couldn't understand what was so_idiotic in me? 

Then, when left with no other option, I started looking at the people who called me an idiot often.. …. A pattern emerged😂.

Numerous reasons…..

1. they had the right to call me so, as elders (1955-60 era.. respect for elders was by default, irrespective of deserving it😉)

2. they didn't know any other way of reassuring themselves of their relevance 😜 ( most of them, miserably poor in academics, and unemployed)

3. my dad wasn't too protective for me, and being the eldest of eldest born, I was their earliest punching bag for practice, without any risk of retaliation 😂

4. A unanimity got forged amongst them, when they conversed about_me, and found that I was very uniformily asking all of them only stupid questions 🙏 ( like, " when we trust God to be omniscient, why do devotees shout_out their request at the temple, as if God ji has turned a little deaf, of late?... why do we have to ASK, instead of trusting God ji to know by himself?. ".... and " can we not reach God at the accident site itself for help? We can't reach temple, if disabled/injured. He is supposed to be everywhere.")

5. Etc

For sure, the majority rule didn't seem to work, ( majority opinion).

A few who didn't call me an idiot, were a little more patient that the others. 

Now, I improvised my data collection. I started looking for "what persuaded them to call me an idiot"😜…. Mostly, it was a convenient replacement for an embarrassing truth " I dont know " …

When I was thoroughly convinced about the reasons, using the scientific concept of "element of repititiousness, to theorise a postulate, to ensure a pattern", I reduced asking them irritating questions, and decided to seek answers by myself 🙏 ( today, I seek irritating questions, but from an eager –not egoistic— mind, keen to learn )

My next problem was a natural consequence 😂

How to handle appreciation?...

For me, this was a more vulnerable issue. I might grow horns 🤘😈. Then, I might stagnate 😭

Usually, the person who appreciates me, explains his perspective. And I get a chance to pass on the credits to due person, because of whom, I became a mere tool, and not the doer of that appreciable act, word, or thought. If I don't find a tenable reason either from the other, or by my own search, I simply disown it, just as I dismiss the title "idiot".😂… 

It is easier to locate the error in me, when I am called an idiot, than knowing the reason for a generous appreciation. Reason is simple. Idiot is a title, I can earn by myself, but appreciation is the combined efforts of many who toiled to evolve me🙏😰… 

When the appreciation or depreciation is about an abstract quality by nature, it is usually a perceptional ability or lack of it. Such perceptional ability or lack of it could be a common social problem. ( reasons are physiological. Thoughts, of the society as a whole, used to be non_commercial 5 centuries ago, compared to today. Almost all the thoughts can be traced to some kind of commercial value today. Such lopsided mind's can err in a collective pattern when it is about an attribute like intelligence/idiocy etc.)

Anyway, I have started enjoying, being called an idiot once in a way. I am by now, good at faster analysis and instant + dependable results, about the justification of my being called so 🙏

Appreciation for what I consider as my efforts, and accomplishments, comes only in a very mystic and shrouded manner, of late. And I am full of gratitude for that manner of acknowledgement 🙏. Commercial appreciation doesn't stir me 🙏.

Idiotically yours,

PSN (17 sept 2023)

Relevance

 Relevance

The relevance of this word dawned on me when I saw people around me facing irrelevance 😜

A GM, a clerk, and a peon are at par, after retirement 😜 . The slang for describing them is "fused bulb" 🤣… the wattage is irrelevant, once a bulb is fused. So, the functional wattage decides it's relevance. If retired people are retained some wattage, their weightage is proportional to their relevance.

When a incorruptible, patriotic, hardworking, brilliant, neta like Modi became relevant by some divine interference, and ended up as a prime minister of Bharat, scam netas started facing irrelevance like never before in the past 70 years since independence. War against a neighbour became irrelevant, when this master_strategist rendered the terror exporter into a beggar, shattering them economically.

Enough of entertainment 🙏

I started looking at relevance, even as a kid 😰😳😳😳. My dad used to chant often " when elders are conversing, what have you_got_to_do here??" ( message was "get lost, you are irrelevant" . But I wasn't wise enough. I misinterpreted it as "chats of elders is not relevant to you"...

At school, the problem of "relevance" kept haunting me. When a teacher doesn't know the answer, their rebuke would be   "ask something that is_relevant to your exam…"( even the prescribed lessons get omitted from 'portions for exam')

Somewhere I turned nuts…..🙏😰😭

Not just any nut/s…. A proper CASHEW_nut…( it popped out of the fruit, due to impatience 😜)

I started looking at relevance of my birth itself, as a human being. The good thing about such idiotic_looking_questions is…..it brings alongside it, the wisdom also, enough to know, whom_not_to_ask….the relevance of being born as a human 😜. ( I wasn't familiar with the word "spirituality".... 

when elders ask me to "pray" before a deity, a fotu, an idol,      or     a temporary consecration like 'ganapathy bappa asked to occupy a pyramid of turmeric powder/idam haridra bhimbe aavaahaYaami…" …..etc …in such situations, I wonder 'am I relevant to this_Godji?'.... God's are selective as well 😭. Shiva certified Ravana as his best_disciple. Rama pampered Hanuman to even cause irritation to Sita 😜… )

What is then, relevant to me?

How am I going to be relevant to others?

( a diamond doesn't bother about irrelevance, lying covered in mud, with mud…for centuries, untill the keen eyes of a prospector, expert in recognising jewels casts his eyes upon it 😜)

Rishis, ….as I could observe ( though I never have "seen" one 😞), dealt with this problem of facing irrelevance, very conclusively!  

Even death was irrelevant to them 🙏😳😳😳

That….hit me like a thunderbolt 😶😳😳😳

No way to "ask" a Rishi…😜….no use asking non_rishis…( how to use the already_available sense_of_discrimination ……gained relevance 🙏… to empower me with a subtle tool, to fathom the secret about these rishis🙏… I know, at this point, most readers begin to lose relevance of this bla_bla , to them 🤣).

I could see that nothingness is the only way to dissolve the very issue of relevance 😜 ( I won't elaborate on this…. so that I don't become totally_irrelevant to readers ).

Reverentially relevant, 

yours for ever, 

PSN (12 sept 2023)

Retrospectively introspecting

 Retrospectively introspective

One of the few syndromes of old-age 😜

Brooding over the past.

Often, we ask ourselves " what if i were given a chance to take the clock back, re_do something in the past? Will I do it better?"

I too asked myself 🙏

I was very clear.

If i were given that chance, to do it again, with the mind i had then….i wouldn't be able to do it any better 😫 ( i usually do my very best. )

Whereas, if i carry the mind i have now, i will surely do every bit of my past many times better 😜….

As simple as that.

This personal experience gives me the freedom to think over my past, and engage into debugging, whenever I have leisure time to sit and think by myself.

It is this "process" of indulging into introspection retrospectively, which allowed me to verbalise something like……

" core education concept is all about….

Learning,

How to….

1)Learn ( the learning process peaks, thereafter 🙏)

2) stabilize emotions ( intellect peaks 😜…great discoveries happened when mind was still)

3) deepening of perception ( the best possible evolvement for a human birth form)

4)use of sense of discrimination ( the ultimate tool for spirituality 🙏)

And then i retrospected into far past…..gurukuls. 

The structure was pathetic 😭….just a hut in the desolate dense forest, with adverse survival means( vulnerability of wild animals injuring, is 24/7…. No sensible parent would send their kid to such a dangerous school 😜🙏)

Today's schools keep innovating gadgets and tools ( labs, library, digital technology…what not? )

Product that comes out both these schools, with diagonally opposite infrastructure?

7 to 16 age, gurukuls are churning out master brains, equal to some 40 PhDs, and importantly the learning curve improves exponentially to reach a Rishi level 🙏 ( all the ancient rishis of Bharat, were mathematicians of highest order, specialising into every known branch of science)

Today's kids….one PhD in one sub_menu of one subject, that kid is past 25 age, and usually stagnates by 30, in all other areas, except his PhD subject 😜… he needs "how to tutorials, for using a new gadget".

There was a sophisticated process of retrospectively introspecting….

It was a functional aspect of a spiritual concept called samyama ( nearest word is "synthesis").... this synthesis can be applied to our past( karma). If, this process is done dexterously, the past karma can be dissolved through 'virtual reality ' 😜… ( this paragraph might cause slight indigestion 🙏… but, let me state, for what ever I am worthy of, that i speak from experience 🙏, and purpose is, to reassure of the possibility as yours too! For you too👍

Retrospectively yours,

PSN (10 sept., 2023)

Learning skills

 Learning skills

Conceptually, teaching and learning skills are interspersed.

If it is really so, then it follows that the functionality of these two are both, complementary as well as supplementary to each other. Complementary in reaching peak levels of productivity, results. Supplementary, to deal with inadequacy in either of the two, teacher or student.

Usually, the type of present day students are broadly of 4 types

1). just curious to know, how much the teacher knows

2). willing to listen and enjoy as long as the student finds it acceptable

3). willing to even learn, only those things which the student finds it comfortable to learn, or…compromises if compelled to learn.

4). Here, the student surrenders to a teacher " do whatever is needed with me, but somehow make me learn🙏

We don't get to see the 4th type easily, or often.

3rd type depends inversely proportional to the comfort zone that the student can afford. ( example: a fellow going to live in a submarine will be constrained to learn if somebody can teach " how to breathe through skin" nose wasn't used during stay in water for 9 months in the womb. Duryodhana knew to stay underwater for long duration 😜… example 2: an illiterate mom wouldn't argue that she isn't literate when a doctor says " xscufs is the medicine, get it in 40 minutes if you want your child to live" she simply byhearts "xscufs" the way it sounds, and utters it at the medical shop. No time to write a prescription etc… example 3: question paper leaked at 10 hours to go for exam. A fellow desparate to just pass, struggles to get byheart and manages to write the answer, repeating the text words "for fig. 23, turn to page 147" )

1st and 2nd type of students, are dime a dozen 🙏….no example needed.

A student who happens to learn any or all of the following?

How to….. 1)learn, 2)deepen perception 3) stabilize emotions 4)use the already available item 'sense of discrimination'.....

He depends very less on the teaching skills of a teacher.

Suppose a teacher can teach even one_of_these_4 ….???( Oh! Great 👍)

Look at freaks, who are quick and early learners…( these four or any of them has_to_be_present)

Why would a student be interested in spirituality?

Skillfully yours,

PSN (7 sept 2023)