Keeping a watch

 Keeping a watch 

 "how could you know that the sun has just set?" Asks the heroine in the movie  'Koshish', to a blind man, sitting on sea shore.

Blind says "I can smell"

( We don't have to become a blind, to learn how to smell. 😜

Question of just deepening our perception, using the same sense organs. Eyes can read "aura" if we are willing 🙏)

😂

Normally, I don't engage into prying into things that do not concern me (mind turns into a politician, when we indulge thus 😂)

Somewhere in 1993, I felt that I am seeing a dark shade prominently around a co-participant in my yoga programs. He was intensely keeping a 'watch' on me, my unprecedented growth into practices 😂. The teacher would have given 'hints' to him and another participant, both seniors to me in the first level)

I told him " I think, I see a dark shade around you. Makes sense to be more alert, atleast while driving your motorcycle 🙏" ( he didn't seem to take it seriously)

Third day, he came rushing and asked breathlessly "how is that shade now?"( He was in a hurry to leave, as well. Usually, he visits only when 'leaving hour' is flexible)

I looked at him, eyes defocused.

"A bit dull, but not yet faded out"

He said "I barely escaped a fatal collision, entirely the fault of the other😥..... How did you know?"

"I still don't know, how I knew!"I said, "it showed itself too prominently 🙏, and the dark_shades are said to be associated with something negative 😜... I just guessed"

 Keeping a "watch" is an excercise, a tool, prescribed by evolved spiritual teachers, since ancient times.

Once a seeker approached a zen master. And did a "🙏"

Zen called the chief disciple and instructed :"keep a watch on him. He will work in the kitchen" (the entrant didn't need any lessons or practices. He was now the seniormost disciple, with just a "waiting period" to explode into enlightenment 🙏😜😜😜...  Keeping a watch on him was the_most important excercise for that hitherto_seniormost student!)

Watchfully yours,

psn(24 Oct 2025)