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)

Sanatha Dharma, concepts

 Virtualisation concept in #sanatana Dharma

This Dravidian athiests are now he'll bent upon eradicating "sanatana" itself…..😜

Not even "knowing" what they are up against? 

It's an eternal concept. 

Accurately इspeaking, they are out to eradicate NOTHINGNESS itself.

Shiva is the symbolism of "that which is not"

We Hindus call him MAHA_dev…( other Gods don't try to "mess" with him…. Scientifically, you mess with NOTHINGNESS, blackhole swallows you😂)

An exampull 🙏

Recently, when entire India was celebrating raksha Bandhan, we a few in tamilnadu ( we, who hail from a lineage of traditional beggars पारम्परिक भिखारी वंशज)

were busy renewing our janeu ( thread of janeudhàri pappu).

We are required to chant 2 names for 1008 times ( part 1…out of 6 parts)

I suddenly felt a flow of energy through my subtle energy channels ( they call it praan naadi…..some 72000 😜 with several "junctions" bla bla)..

I slowed down….the chant. Focused on the source of sound in me, consciously shifting it to the base of my stomach ( I knew how to handle it, once this thing reveals itself😂😜)

Yes! I am not into self_deception, hallucinations etc…. Theory of "element of repetitious_ness" was ensured to render it as a scientifically acceptable observation ( not that i am "seeking" any concurrence, but i wanted to be sure for my own sake)...

The two names….( kamokaarisheeth, manyurkaarisheeth)... 

I became curious to google.

Somebody explained, it was just "names" to represent kaarmic residues accumulated in us over past times, and to submit the karma to it, with the sole purpose of freedom from those karmic bonds( mukti in piece meal)

Fine!

It rhymes with several concepts…. atma by itself is pure, says Gita…bla bla 👍

Now what is this virtualisation of rishi_like thing?😳😳😳🙏🙏🙏

Awesome concept.

Computing technology is evolving into creating virtual servers in cloud technology, in order to take networking technology to a newer level 😳… beyond 5G, virtualisation is indispensable 🙏

Here, the ancient rishis have placed_in_orbit …..2 virtual servers ( kamokarisheeth & manyurkarishreth) who can be invoked consciously, during a particular phase of moon, every year… and we can transfer our karmic data to those "virtual servers".... 

I felt humbled…

Usually modern kids finish the chant under 20 minutes (1008). I needed 90 minutes, being stuck inextricably into the maze of vibes it created, crisscross in my neurology 😭

How do these jihadis/Dravidian parties/whatever, propose to eradicate something which is already "virtual"?

Darkness complained against light to Godji " he is chasing me out, wherever I go 🙏😭"……………to which. Light explained " my lord Godji….how can bi have any vengeance against somebody whom I have never seen bin my life?"

Dear Jihadi/ricebag….first find out the location of "nothingness"( it's not emptiness…. emptiness is space)... Then eradicate it… we can agree, you did eradicate sanathana dharma 🙏… Shiva is our boss👍

Anyway, yours

PSN ( 5th August 2023)