Compatibility & perception

 Compatibility decides our perception. 

Our primitive versions of earlier SIMs inside our mobile handsets were compatible with lower bandwidth. Hence, it won't "sense/perceive" the Tower in a western country. And we said, "this mobile doesn't work there" Problem was with SIM and handset took the blame 😂

When we fail to "perceive" something,  will it not be wise to check Compatibility-issues also? 

A true incident 'educated' me about consequences of inadequate literacy 😜. My younger brother on a very busy morning suddenly screamed "my belt is stinging me". I was a kid of 10 and he was around just 4. My dad said, "don't start your tantrums now. We all are busy, getting ready to go for work, school etc. Just get dressed f-a-s-t ..."  Due to increased pain, the crescendo of his voice increased! Dad got angry and smacked him. The half-trowsers, yet to be buttoned, fell down with its loosely-inserted "belt".  A scorpion jumped out of the belt-loops.  My dad stared jaw_dropped! I could read dad's expression "what did I do? I punished this kid, instead of protecting him from that scorpion! (Obviously,  at his age, he wouldn't be literate enough to convey exactly, in a language which I am compatible with)!"  Rest of the story is irrelevant here🙏

Humans can be flexible by choice, to adjust their bandwidth to become compatible with their dependants who are yet to acquire few more bandwidths🙏  ( successful teachers of 6 types in ancient  Bharat were dexterous at this flexibility 😜).

School teachers, team leaders, family heads, politicians, union leaders....etc are the ones to become flexible to "sense" their dependants 🙏

My defect :  I am unable to write blogs that can be comprehended by all readers alike. 🙏😰😭 (I fare slightly better, on one_one basis, when the other decides to trust me "a little") 

 My rewards : one reader in a lakh (google statistics says so😜. A lakh views), happened to reach one of the "coveted states of samadhis" reading that stuff, testing this phenomenon several times! He fulfilled the scientific requirement of "element_of_repetitiousness" to be certain about the corelation of something "mystic" happening inside him & reading my nonsense,  each time!😜....  other-than this stray incident,  incompatibility is what abounds, with my blogs😂.... ( at least, I set an example in myself,  about "what a reader should_not_be", while expressing themselves to others!🙏)

I draw consolation from several authors of ancient scriptures, proverbs, adages, sayings etc! ( they didn't compromise with values, merely because their audiences were stubbornly refusing to evolve!).   Text books in maths, gave ridiculously easy examples and I had "issues" only with 'excercises' at the end of each chapter! I even_used to wonder, "may be, that chap/author too, found those sums too tough, and therefore passed_on his burden to my maths_teacher! Kid_age thoughts are not compatible with wisdom😜

Incompatibly yours,

psn(29 March, 2025)

Tail_bit teaser (😜):  nature's software is hack-proof! Programmers can neither conceive, not copypaste it from nature, to make their A.I. machines, robots compatible enough to “sense/perceive” human emotions! 🤣

To my WhatsApp group: 

 Not that,

I do not attempt at all,

To solve my incompatibility issues 🙏

A humorous incident!

I learnt the concept of "dispersion of light" in my physics lab at school! ( 🙂.... that prism, cardboard.... VIBGYOR? remember? 😳🙏)

I became curious.

Can I convey this concept to toddlers, kids in my school?

Yeps!  👍 I devised a trick! 

I stood near water tank( drinking water from 3 dozen taps at the base). Kids gathered. I filled my mouth with as much water as I can. Cheeks pained, puffed out like a water balloon. I sprayed out the water in a fine-mist, using tight-lipped pressure,

And the kids witnessed a temporary "faint coloured rainbow" in that mist, with morning-rays of sun inclined at about 45° through that water-mist,....🤣

( whether those kids would-remember this, was not my concern at my teenage then, because  it didn’t even occur to me)

Co-relating concepts we know

 Interesting concept, of why/how to co-relate the concepts known to us!

I learnt "siphon" in physics. Tried it to draw water from the tap 1½ ft. higher than ground level to my water tank 8 feet deep. 'Airtight' it should be--- was the concept in "siphon".  It didn't work! Air bubbles get in, even into the "main pipe" 3 feet below ground.

I had to revisit physics. Then I kept adding other chapters( co-relating them "wisely". This wisdom took 3 decades). I added "viscosity,  molecular affinity, capillary action" etc!🙏😰  I "wished" if-only my physics teacher had seeded the idea(concept of "seminars") that in real life, we might need to corelate these allied concepts! Anyway, I solved the 'water problem' staying within rules of municipality,  despite very low pressure of supply.

Kids learn "gravity" and avoid stepping on a banana peel. It is "centre of Gravity"( one step deeper). Then, one day a girl child is thrilled when the outer-edge of her long petticoat defies-gravity, when she played spinning fast till her head feels giddy!  That "wonder" of the heavy petticoat defying gravity while speeding around, didn't get a chance to "stay" longer. Or else, a bicycle would have been born long ago, alongside the birth of petticoats😜

4 wheels are better stable, but speed can cause loss of control on a slippery surface like hardened snow or oil spill on roads, for a speeding car🤣.  Why not try becoming unavailable to road-contact? Yes, fly! ( aeroplanes). Spacecraft, obviating displacement of air😜. 

Spiritual concepts need ability to co-relate them, when symbolism is resorted to, to represent concepts subtler than a minds ability to comprehend them 🙏.  Adamancy in viewing them in isolation or in exclusivity of other correlated concepts can only-breed dis-trust in these concepts. "Religions" resorted to compelling their followers to "believe" with "faith". Now, grasp became a matter of rare-chance for religious people( any blind-belief foreclosed the opportunity to look, see, behold, observe and then perceive the original, made available via symbolism 🙏)

Desi ancients were good at "debugging" their software called "way of life", renamed by invaders as Hinduism. Simply "live" in a particular way, and we evolve. Simply keep chanting a few words in a language, which is in conformity with quantum physics, and experiences will dawn😜🙏🙏🙏

It is the distortion of the prescriptions alongside the tools suggested as way of life, which forced the extinction of ancient "wisdom". That-wisdom, which elevated a human into his highest-human-possibility! ( a doctor "prescribes the dosage, duration and conditions alongside the name of pills he writes on the paper in an illegible handwriting 😜... focus "more" for deciphering it, and we remember it better👍🙏

My "silly" questions were "partly" aimed at provoking out minds to revisit our abilities to conceptualize oddities that we seldom care to even notice! I "wished" to have peepals/people wiser than me around👍, so that I can "afford" being silly, throughout my_life😜. Dat's my idea/concept of carefree living🤣...  

( a few samples of my silly koschans/questions.   https://selfseekers.blogspot.com/2024/09/silly-questions.html )

Oddly yours,

psn(26 March, 2025)

My defect

 Among many defects, this one irritates my readers most!

I am not even sure that it's my_defect. ( until a few readers point it out, how am I to be sure of my assumption? )

Defect :  I load too many concepts in my sentences😭

Result : readers feel "it is so difficult to understand, what is it, that this fool is trying to convey?"🤔

Source : my mind's  way_of_thinking. I love concepts🙏😭 ( trouble started only when I decided to share my ideas🙏...  when ideas were just_echoing within me_only, others are spared 😜)

Broadly, 2 types of concepts----timeless & time/situation bound.

The concept called "Gravity",  is relevant for our body only on earth. ( Madam Sunita Williams, was taken in a wheelchair, after exiting the landing capsule! Her body might have "forgotten" temporarily, "how to deal with earth's gravity, while walking"😜...  Eleven months in space! Got used to "effortlessness" in physical_living😳. Hence time&space bound!

Spiritual related concepts are irrelevant for our physical existence! ( maybe, if our spirit evolves, as a result of abiding by those concepts, the "result/consequences" might make out living effortless! There are stories about Spiritual giants moving on earth, being UNAVAILABLE  to earth's gravity😜....  even when we are too_joyous, body feels a "little" lighter! Sadness makes us feel the gravity more!🙏).

Spirit is timeless. Obviously,  it's concepts too ride on it, likewise😜....  timeless concepts.

Concept of concepts? ( mind_bound? Dunno! Objectivist epistemology deals with it)

Defectively yours,

psn(25 march, 2025)

Rare kind of health checkup

 This kind of personal experiences,  I wouldn't have thought of blogging. But at 70+  "am I going to take it beyond my grave? Damn it! 😡... let somebody in posterity explore it as a possibility! " said my stupid mind 🙏

Prologue: Naadi vaidya is unique among 6 types of medical sciences, in one aspect atleast,  when it evades granting a passmark to an aspirant, in its entrance eggjam/exam itself 😜 ("sensing" the 3 naadis is too subtle for an aspirant, compared to sensing a "pulse" with finger tips! Human_level touch_sensitivity is challenged 🙏)

Body of blog :

A naadi doctor holding my wrist, feeling my naadis, said " his Guru naadi" won't be available to sense_it, for another 2 hours."(1992 yr)

When asked "why so?" .... he explained " this fellow must have been at_meditation a while ago!"

Others, felt satisfied.

I felt "deep gratitude 🙏"  ...  rarest of rare kinds of 'health check up' to assess the level of meditaShun, as a practice for me. 

( the whole drama had lot more details,  but I am focusing on only value_addition portions!)

Epilogue:  if and when Guru-naadi can be "sensed" by a gifted expert in naadi-shashtra( a science), the life-energy is assessed better than an MBBS doctor. We find rare instances of a "corpse" waking up(😜) to life, on the way to burial/cremation, on a bier, after that medico writes out a death_certificate. He certifies only "clinical" death. Guru nadi is the subtlest of life-energies, waiting a bit longer to "revive" even after the heart has stopped🙏

( it was indecent to 'touch' the wrist of a female, to "test" her meditation 😰...  so I went in for a tougher option. Just watch! It took a decade, to get some proficiency🙏...   I won't spoil the livelihood of half-baked 'teachers' advertising "Learn meditation from me". रोजी रोटी का सवाल है,  उनका 😔. I don't need to commercialize spirituality for my daily_bread!)

Testily-yours,

psn(24 march, 2025)

Roar of silence

 Should I keep quiet?

I sometimes ask even_myself this! ( seldom, a response to my blabber 🤣)

A tourist_guide even staked his job, requesting a group "if you too can keep quiet for a moment...."

It happened thus:

This tourist was showing the roaring Niagra-Falls to a group of Madams....standing as close as they were allowed at the railings( fine mist rising from the waterfall was moistening their faces)

The guide said " this is the famous Niagara. Its roar can be heard several miles away. If you too can keep quiet for a moment,  even you can hear it 🙏"

Am I muting the roar_of_silence, with my incessant blabber? 😭🙏

Nuisansically  yours,

psn(23rd March, 2025

Affordability

 A luxury, I can ill-afford ( dunno about rich peepals/people)

A family doctor who is healthy_himself😜

Affordably yours,

psn(23 march 2025)

Miserliness

 Miserliness 

Those few who try to be frugal in exhausting resources that belong to the society, are at times a bit unfortunate,  when even_the close ones around him brand him as a miser !

Examples of society's resources are like water, air, fuel, electricity, staple food grains etc ( very essential for life to happen). When these and such items become scarce, money loses its intrinsic value! People compete to pay a little extra for these. Negative inflation happens!  Deficit financing, within control is positive_inflation, and  autocorrects itself over a period of time).

Other life forms are naturally frugal. A honeybee saves, so also an ant. But a lion can't refrigerate his meat_food. Lion doesn't indulge in fun_killing . We humans are beings of “Volitional consciousness“( as per objectivist epistemology). We can choose sadism to exploit. We can choose to be greedy. 

If greed to accumulate something,  is the fuel for hesitation to spend_for need, it is miserliness!

Ideally, a choice to become “inclusive”( treat entire universe as my_family, as said in sanskrit as VasudaivaKutumbakam), then….very naturally, we look at our “needs” and then, create a want/desire for it. Other than our needs, we naturally become a custodian/caretaker, of whatever possessions that happen to come within our control.

(My personal experience: when I got a job, I am supposed to take care my needs, all by myself. That salary was my sole_source of inflow! It barely sufficed “my needs” which was a little beyond food, shelter and clothing. Over decades, my needs seldom expanded, except for another “life” which happened through me-- not by_me🙏. 

Post retirement,  the wants started shrinking a little more than that of needs! This is an oddity, exceptional to rare few  like me. Among those few I am the worst type of idiot. But, a side_benefit was, I was constrained to “wonder + ponder” over sources of “wants & desires”!  Like, i ask myself “i really need this damn thing. But, unless I want_or_desire it, how am I going to try_to_get_it?”)

A small consolation creeper in when, slogans like “save water/LPG/electricity…. do not waste food” etc became Viral( thanks to information technology). Now, only my savings can cause an eye_sore to those spendthrifts around me, whose incomes were similar to me. Richer and poorer ones spare me😜

Lavishly yours,

psn(23 March, 2025)

PostScript: 

Funny side of miserliness. 

Not easy to be_miserly, in use of water. We can be lavish, though a decent_name for such lavishness is "wasteage".

( suez, supplying 24/7 in coimbatore is capitalizing on the constricted_grasp of water_miserliness, to mint money😜.  My storage tank of 2000 litres becomes their storage tank of 2 lakh litres . Simple.  24/7 was from my tank. Now it is their tank😜, and for which, they depend on my lavishness to charge me "extra" beyond 15000 litres per month. This 15000 litres is parallel to minimum charges😜

Once that 24/7 is not from my tank, I "tend" to become lavish🤣🤣🤣)

Whereas,

Air.... 

If I turn miserly in breathing ( not really easy😜), 

then, I become healthy.

Heart works longer! Life span increases along side sensibleness( mere aging is useless, if senility accompanies🙏😰).

Anger reduces, tension reduces,  anxiety reduces....etc....if, I consciously decide to become miserly in consuming oxygenated_air 😜

😰

Since I am unable to afford
'the'  lavishness of copypastes/forwards( pun intended),
I resort to the_miserliness
'of' resorting to writing by_myself, often 🙏

The breath

 Human breath, if you may please ....( 🙏) focus on.

( this blog is churned out of my personal experience,  and hence, the obvious disclaimer is "see if it also_seems_to_work for you, or else, delete it forever" 😜🙏)

The "breath"

can be manipulated by both, the body and the mind. ( mind needs the coordination of the body, though)

When sensory perceptions are withdrawn, while body is in deep sleep with an ideal posture, 

And when dreams are absent ( mind is inactive)......

The breath responds to the surrounding, on a 'need based manner ( 'needs' are well-taken-care of in an ICU🙏😜).  IF, rejuvenation recouping is the priority, blood cells transmit the "urgency" via its designated network ( "available " network,  ideally is neuros, via brain ).

( meditative practices of_the ancient ones are super_tuned to make this happen at-will!   🙂... any further elaboration might elude a grasp for want of experience in nadi-channels in us ....numbering some 72,000🙄)

Meanwhile,

An effort to deepen awareness, 

To merely "observe" ensuring relaxation,  as_to, "which of the 2, and how?"  is our breath responding to? ( body &/or mind).

Mind's  state is tougher to "assess" for want of awareness of its non-verbal thoughts!😰🙏

During any prescribed practice, both body--to a large extent  AND the_mind, to some extent  is "tamed".

Other than during practice, this attempt to observe our breath pattern(in all its perceivable dimensions), is precious for deepening our awareness!  🙏 (elaboration is again,  at the doorstep of complexities 🙏😔)

Heaving/breathing ( a sigh of relief, 😜)

Yours, as ever,

psn(21 March, 2025)

Wisdom

 Wisdom

if I were really-wise, i wouldn’t have been talking, about it 😭

Probably, I ‘think’ i can talk ‘about’ wisdom, without waiting to become one (waiting to become wise, and then to speak ‘about it’ might not work! Because, I would then see-clearly, the futility in that excercise😜

We don’t need to be beautiful, to speak ‘about’ beauty

An ugly person can be ‘sensitive’ enough, to perceive beauty, and therefore should be able to appreciate beauty, and if he is capable of expressing well, using words, he might be able to even ‘speak’ about it!

A beautiful person need not be aware of one’s own beauty (though, such cases are rare)

That person cannot possibly understand, if somebody tells him “Hey, you are indeed beautiful!”

Anger might elude the awareness of the person who is right now ‘caught up into that emotion, anger’. A person who is a ‘little wise’ might make it a point to ‘become’ fore-warned, when anger creeps into him, and he benefits in getting ‘a chance’ to be able to contain it to a ‘possible extent’ ( a wise person doesn't ‘become’ angry…. but, he has the freedom to feign anger when the situation seems easier to ‘handle’ by looking-angry to others.

Wisdom, doesn’t exist without letting the wise person knowing that he is wise, unlike beauty , anger, confusion, etc

Shall we try to look at ‘sensitivity’ at intellectual levels?
Physical sensitivity at skin level, a doctor can CONFIRM, using a piece of cotton, and then a sharp pin, to touch our ‘doubtful’ area of the skin and asking us ‘ able to feel it now?” . we know already, and only the doctor ‘needs’ our words “yes/no”. Insensitivity of a piece of skin announces death of that part of the skin!

Emotional sensitivity, varies with each_type_of_emotion.
Some people miss to_laugh at a good joke! (can’t help it. If we try to point out their lack of sensitivity towards humour, they ‘become’ angry :) àt once! anger-sensitivity is a reaction, not a ‘sensitivity’ ….. strictly speaking— there is a subtle difference, though, we commonly address an anger-prone-person as “he is a bit too-sensitive” Please see– ‘a bit’ and ‘too’ are opposites :)) ‘too’ indicates ‘too much’ !!

Right now, most of us ‘feel’ only pain deep-enough, to evoke tears as an ‘emotional-response’ (robots of A.I. need to be programmed to manufacture-tears, if they sustain an injury. They cannot ‘feel’ hurt like us-humans! Even words can hurt-us, without needing an injury :)) Again, a reaction to words, being not-enough wise, to ‘sense’/be senseAbled/sensible enough to know that words of insult are a pre-conclusion by the other, and we do not become ‘that’, merely because the other fool misjudges me and says “you are a fool” !!!

Like ‘joy’ or even_happiness evoking tears among a few lucky ones among us….. luckier ones, sensitized enough towards music, can beget tears, listening to a beautiful musical performance! … not all of them who know a_lot about_music are necessarily sensitized enough to experience it deep_enough to get tears😜. ( desi concept of music, elaborates it saying “music is technically flawless, but somehow, that bhav/bhavam is missing 😰”. A performance which might fail a little, in rhythm, laya, swara, or any of its elements might be “rich” in emotion of bhava, and might evoke tears in a sensitized listener🙏

I tried to look for ways to ‘become wise’ !
Wisdom eluded me for too long :((
then, it struck me! “hey! why not try SENSITIVITY instead?
Not as easy as I thought_it_was ….
Sensitivity ‘reveals’ its next layer saying ‘here I am’, only after I stabilize on its previous one!

spiritual sensitivity, presented to me as the-biggest-challenge :((

( details of the hurdles i faced, are too-mystic 😜, to be encapsuled in words 🙏😰)

somewhere, I had a very vague_feeling, as if that elusive fellow called wisdom, is trying to tease-me, oftener than ever before! (the tragic part is physical-level-sensitivity is unable to hold-on/wait, owing to age, to say a “‘hello!” to that wisdom, if-and-when it is likely to dawn!.... Darkness is perennially unable to meet the sunlight to wish a “good morning” ).

unwisely yours,

psn(19th march, 2025) 

Silent mind

 This state of mind( silence), dawns seldom and invariably too late in present day situation.

A quickly_available litmus test ( whether such 'state' is okay?) is.... the errors of judgement by our mind turns fewer and fewer.

See, if we are capable of even 1 thought  which is not a judgement or conclusion of some_sort?

Mind( our thought processes) is a very powerful tool, but only when it is well_tamed!  A processor-chip, gifted by nature, exclusively to humans. Other life forms have an embedded software like the keyboard, with an infallible & instantaneous responsive system .  🤣

Western objectivist philosophy  calls human as a being of Volitional consciousness  ( the tools to push this capability to it's peak possible levels are formulated long ago in Bharat,  but still in its primitive stage in the west! 🙂)

Silently yours,

psn (13 march, 2025)

Mosquito versus meditation

 Mosquito versus meditation 

Mosquito suddenly became a teacher+yardstick for me,

During 1992.

🤣

By parameters "known" to me then
I had preconcluded
That I "relax" sufficiently well, ( especially with sufficient practice of that guided meditation where conscious 'tensing and relaxing' of each part of body is prescribed!  Initially, we use voluntary muscles etc, to create tension & then let-go.... relaxation 'happens'  involuntarily 😜)

The teacher said "Mosquito is an intelligent creature.
It won't waste its venom. It pokes the needle a "little" to check the stiffness of your skin. If soft, it gently pushes the needle further, draws a drop of blood, departs!
Only it's venom causes 'pain' to you. We have had 'butterfly-needles' for baby's injections? Mosquito has better ones🙏
So, if you are keen to avoid pain, just relax a little more. Compromise. 1 drop blood-donation isn't going to deplete you. Alternatively,  sit inside a Mosquito net. Still worse, use those toxic cream, fumes etc"

So,
Choice was mine.
1) learn to relax deep enough ( even the 7 layers of skin gets 😌 relaxed ---to atleast Mosquito-standards, if not better😭)
2) spend money and health on expensive defence-procurement.

I too was capable of stubbornity at-will 😜
I decided to learn that cursed thing called skin-level-relaxation to meet my co-habitants called Mosquitoes😡.

It took hell of a
Lot of time to learn.  Humble beginning was extra painful.  Sitting not-meditating, I notice an uninvited guest, Mosquito landing on my forearm
He is busy & focused . He pokes the needle. I get "alert" I too focus.
Dammit....pain is double? 🤔
( lesson : mere focusing increases my skin-tension!!! That lady nurse "knows" . A wise nurse says "look away". Atleast the incremental tensing due to focus is reduced.  Cellular-level intelligence will "naturally resist".  The distinction became quite-clear.  A scientist looking at a phenomenon 'affects the effects' a little 😳)

Anyway, mind-over-matter wala-concept was needed to be deployed😭
My mind had to gather enough power to instruct my neuro-network, to tell the skin-cells "allow the enemy to get inside your fortress!" ( easy to write it here in a few lines. "Project" took time!😜😜

Now, the definition of "relaxing" is still undergoing refinement in me.
Perhaps, only in a GRAVE-situation, that is....I reach my body's final destination ( burial or cremation---let alive ones choose🙏).....my tension about "how deep to relax" will pause-to-tense 😜

Metabolic activity dropping dramatically,  I was-to-discover, is a short-cut to relax via a by-pass-surgery of stressfull-physical efforts! Confused? ( that's the-mosquito in me😜... injecting kaanfusion/confusion👍

Pokingly yours,

psn (4 March, 2025)

Being Good

 Being Good!

“Who suffers more? Good ones or the bad ones?” Asked the teacher!

It was a yoga program.

Of course “good ones”( my mind prompted out of “real-life” experience 🙏😭

I chided my mind “okay, dammit😡… now don't repeat my stories related to this….. I paid for this class. Can't miss the next few sentences, getting drowned into your re-telecast of those tragic episodes! Just shut up and listen”

I didn't miss the recipe. Teacher narrated a short story. A cobra took an advice of a saint too-seriouly 😜 ( be good unto others)

A kid accidentally threw a ball, and it hurt this snake “a little only” ( my mind “tries” to divert me with “yep! You too thought, little-help to colleagues and they got addicted to exploiting your goodness…remember? “ I had to stop my mind again “buddy, didn't I tell you to shut-up. I don't want to miss the-lesson in that story! I can't even throw you OUT…. YOU ARE MY-MIND😭… P-L-E-A-S-E  Shut up”

I didn't miss the “continuity”.

The kid was surprised. That ‘stupid’ snake didn’t hisssss!😳

Soon kids got the news( this cobra is an idiot. Doesn't react 😜)

They had fun, throwing pebbles, then stones at this ‘good’ snake!

Badly bruised…the cobra once again…went to that saint, complained.

The saint laughed,”fool….you didn't listen CAREFULLY, I told you “BE good, not LOOK-good.”... who told you not to hissssss? “ the snake got the teachings! 1)pay attention when taught 2)’good’ is relevant to ‘self, not for advertisements etc! 

Now,

My tragic sample-story ( of being “good” like that STUPID snake).

I don't want to be tooo-good, telling too many of my tragic-stories, lest you will be bored😜

A colleague used to ‘tease’ me “PSN…you are just-lucky, you appeared for bank job at north( nagpur). Here, you would have flopped😂. Competitors are better here!”( I was supposed to be “good”! I didn't react with “dammit, I topped the list there!😡… combined list of graduates, and non-graduates, and I was a non graduate! “ ……actually this guy used to ask me to explain circulars in english/hindi--bi-lingual)

One day, he requested “hey, psn….draft a 2-minute welcome speech. Make it good! Delegates from all over India “ 

I wrote.

He read it on Mike.

Next day, he asks me “psn,  what did you write? I just read it mechanically. Normally,  only a 2-second feeble claps for welcome speeches. But, yesterday they clapped for 5 minutes, that too STANDING😳”

I didn't know what to say😭

I tried “looking good”, by saying “oh! Did they applause? Maybe they call it ‘standing ovation’…. Sorry-yaar, I forgot what wrote, in those 10 sentences🙏… anyway,  nothing harmful isnt it?  Let's forget👍”

I don't think I can learn to “hissssss” during this-life-time😰😭

But I thank Gawd, I didn’t have to learn afresh “how to hissssss at my mind, by  asking it to shut-up😜”( meditations seemed a “bit” easier, sooner in me🙏🙏🙏)

Badly yours,

psn(3rd March, 2025)

Placebo effect

 Placebo effect

We know what that means 🙏

( a typical example is : my classmate at school….now an eminent surgeon,  used to tell me 4 decades ago “ some patients insist on having an non-existent ailment. I inject plain water, and tell them ‘very powerful injection’. And they get rid of their symptoms “.....  )

Enough research is going on on placebo effect. Mind, when positive, seems to discharge curative material abundantly enough in the body, hastening the “healing” process…

One instance where a training in placebo effect works, and I came across it was….  Coast guards are trained to chant “i must swim” and use it 15 minutes before hypothermiasets in them…..  It seems when hypothermia sets in while trying to rescue people drowned in near-zero degrees Celsius sea water( Coasts of U.K. etc).... icy water numbs the brain. Body can do only the last-few instructions of the brain, of 15 minutes ago. So, “I must swim” increases the chances of survival. An example of “placebo “ of mind.

But ancient Bharat innovated this placebo very scientifically, and structured it to “function” extremely well,  consciously ( not like a “numbed brain”😜)

Certain meditative practices deepens into extremely relaxed state of physiology,  while maitining razor-sharp alertness and awareness.  Once this is within ‘a reach’ the person can actualize his strong visualizations at very-very subtle levels too! Seemingly super-human tasks become possible.  Siddhi, is one popular branch of spirituality where this “sophisticated “ format of placebo-meditations are deployed to acquire such tough capabilities.  Synthesis with past karma ( prarabhda, inherited & acquired) helps karma get dissolved, using these deep meditative states!

Not quite a convincing blog this one🙏 ( especially the description of ancient sophistication-part of placebo! ).  Research, using ailments and ways to cure, basically differs from research using “health” and ways to enhance it to peak levels of performance 🙏.  Results/findings differ dimensionally🙏. Utilitarian aspects depend on “findings” as presented by that-mind🙏

Plainly yours,

psn(2nd march 2025)

Imposing ideas

 Imposing ideas

Advertisement world survives on imposing ideas on its victims.

And the ‘disclaimer’ in fine print survives on our laziness to read it.

I am not good at imposing ideas.

And……somehow, by some strange luck, it so happened that for all these 7 decades, I never succumbed to any imposition by others🤣 ( not even an instruction like “pray” ( at a temple) really impressed me. I used to join palms, and make-a-show, so that they( elders) focus on their-prayer, instead of wasting  their precious visit on me🙏😰. I assumed-the, “ maybe it works for them” 

Is it not a “desire” surmounted by a huge expectation, of that desire to get-fulfilled, which provides a vulnerability to become victimized to “ideas” that may not suit_us, work_for_us?

I told my son “brush your teeth the first thing, early morning”. He obeyed. It worked for_him_too. But I didn’t try to tell my toothless grandpa “hey! You don't brush ….then why are you IMPOSING that idea on me?” 

Teachers find it hard, to impose on certain kids the idea “sit quietly while in the class!”( now, doctors found it a lucrative source to siphon money from loving parents, by selling the idea that “restlessness in certain kids is a disorder”...  ADHD--ATTENTION-DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER).

 Unless, a kid sits calm and focused,  how to thrust the lessons into its head?  Can we call it imposing ideas….. that A,B,C,D….1,2,3,4? The kid is yet to learn politics of language_imposition, NEP, anti_hindi protest, etc😜

I see a speeding truck about to crush a deaf person, looking away. Do I appeal to him “sir, I dont want to impose my idea ‘you better step aside, to escape a fatal accident” and leave it to his choice to contemplate_deep, before succumbing to my_idea.. I just push him hard. He sustains minor abrasions on his forearms, falling suddenly! But he is alive🙏. I thank God, I saved him! 

When do I end up, imposing my_ideas? 

Should I wait till the other person realises that I have victimized him into accepting my ideas? 

Can I not use my ‘brains’ to distinguish between what is common and can be conveyed versus what is not going to work for others, just because it did for me? ( a guru noticed his deciple, copypasting an idea “if my guru can drink liquors,  I too can” and was buying a drink, and drank it. That guru stopped at a blacksmiths workshop, picked a cubicle of molten iron, gulped it. Then the Guru turned to look at disciple and that look conveyed “your turn now…. Copypaste this too dammit😡”... the disciple hung his head down)

Apart from being honest in sharing my experiences ( clearly distinguishing….what worked, and what did not…for me) I learnt that my ideas need to be workable for the others. A phrase,  “Value-addition” seems a useful reminder, till I find a better phrase, a comprehensive one🙏.

Experience of having_shared ideas( experience based) also educates me on what seemingly suits others, but doesn't appeal_enough to invoke their passion to fuel an effort to try it.

Capitalists, socialists, communists, fundamentalists, extremists, radicals….and now paid tool-kits experts, are not/never going to subscribe to this idea of “do not impose ideas on others for personal ego-satisfaction”...  Inadvertently,  certain propagationists of certain religions use unfair means( within the loopholes of law😜) to impose their “beliefs” on forced-converts!  

A color-blind, yet to get tested for it, might recognise different shades of “grey” and even convince me “look this is what you call as blue, in your language, isn't it?” And I agree👍 … indeed it is blue for me, I can see colours! ( and I don't know really, if the bandwidth of waves i call as “blue” is actually a “green” for the other fellow, but he calls my_blue as his_blue, though, the colour he sees is “green”. Labels of colors don't matter, as long as we are consistent in identifying it the same way, each time🙏).

How about trying to make the other, find an appeal to pursue his_spirit? 🤣 can't impose even a pursuit ( only thereafter, a “question” can arise about which_of the 4 paths, and tools of each one!🙏😰😰😰).

Insurance,  is a subject-matter of solicitation ( so is spirituality. ) . Even law prohibits imposing “insurance “ policy🤣.

Habit-forming negatives shouldn't be made available even as visual temptations ( forget about imposing such temptations).

Well,

Did I impose this blog to be read? ( anyway,  seldom do my blogs touch readers deep enough!🙏… quite harmless)

Harmlessly yours,

psn(1 March, 2025)