Really ‘related’ with relatively related relatives?
We have lots of these relatives through family relationships. “Close” relatives sometimes are not that ‘closely’ related. It is relative to situations, as to what ‘relates’ us really!
Oh! It is touchy or sensitive to resolve with relatives directly. Usually, it is the ‘take it for granted’ attitude, that dulls true bonds. Some sort of ‘right’ on the other’s ‘duties’ towards us is essentially what brings a sense of ‘suffocation’. We seek consolation by trying to reassure ourselves that we are ‘bound’ by social rules, customs, traditions, practices etc. Also, as an individual, we feel helpless to bring about any change. And, what kind of change could we think of? Already, ‘joint family’ concepts are a thing of past. Ironically, the word ‘joint-family’ got coined when the ‘recession’ had set into the ‘quality’ of relationships between relatives! Only a crisis would compel us to take a serious look at any issue! This time, it would be an emotional crisis that could perhaps persuade us strongly to take a serious and a deeper look. But once the emotional ‘balance’ is lost, sound judgment is the first victim! Handling emotions better, is an arduous task, given the present situation where there is no structure/institution in place to ‘train’ us. That leaves us with just one choice—an attempt to logically analyze the issue.
Logic helps us to understand that ‘subtle’ difference between ‘commitment’ and ‘accountability’. It is the clever blend of these two that compels us to be ‘duty-bound’ towards our relatives. When a commitment is compelled, using ‘social-accountability’ as a weapon, no rules can come to our rescue. Remaining ‘connected’ to relatives gives us a sense of social security. In ancient days our evolved ancestors resorted to ‘social’ boycott as a ‘refined’ way of punishment for crimes, instead of violent injury-causing, brute, crude punishments. Some where down the line, this got misused by ‘heads’ of clan, family, society etc and then the values got eroded. Today social boycott is not very effective since we are already used to dwelling in the same building, calling it ‘Apart’-ments, not bothering to even get introduced to the next door neighbor for years!
We do have a hazy picture of that subtle difference between commitment and accountability because many a times we are more comfortable in the company of our friends than our relatives. Friends ‘acknowledge’ our commitment more ‘manifestly’ than those ‘accountability’ demanding relatives who blame for not helping and fail to show any response even (leave alone any show of gratitude), because it is their ‘right’ as your ‘relative’. But the picture is still not that clear (non-interlaced-monitor is clearer, and like wise, non-interlaced understanding of commitment and accountability has to be clearer!)
There are that friends with just vested-interest, need based friendships, materialistic friendships etc. Also, there are those meek and humble relatives who do not protest against ‘accountability’ rights! It is therefore, that the debate about better help in times of need, whether from friends or from relatives, remains inconclusive and highly subjective.
We all are having that sense of commitment. But most of it remains latent for lack of adequate social recognition. It is here that emotions matter! For example, during the Nov-2008 Mumbai attack, even the staff of Taj hotel displayed tremendous sense of ‘commitment’ towards guests by risking their lives to save that of the guests! There was no accountability factor at all! Nor were they related as either friends or relatives. Even it did not matter if the guests were not fellow-countrymen! In a normal routine day, they (the very same staff) might perhaps deprive themselves of this tremendous joy, the inner experience, withholding the manifestation of commitment latent in them! They are victims of their own perception. It is the situation and society that victimizes us. Even students of ‘Law’ are required to ritualistically take an ‘oath’ to ‘commit’ themselves to justice! The preamble of every enactment is ample logical proof of limitations of law in fixing that ‘accountability’ through codification!
“Enough is enough” was the popular slogan during the post-analysis of Nov-2008 Mumbai attacks. It called for a deeper look at our sense of commitment beyond just complying with paying taxes, demanding ‘accountability’ from leaders, police, army etc. Our ‘commitment’ towards secularism seemed to need a serious ‘re-look’ when it has become a ‘right’ of some others, to be used indiscriminately, interpreting religion to even justify the taking of lives of innocent, defenseless civilians, women and even children!
Such extreme situation need not be the only reason for us to get our priorities re-aligned! It is quite sensible to avoid confusion about ‘commitment’, duty, response-ability, accountability etc. If and when this sense dawns, then, every body, more so those ‘accomplished’ individuals would invariably also end up as great social performers, offering their very capabilities to their very best, joyously with a deep sense of commitment, evolving and expanding their sphere of relationships from just relatives, to friends, society, country, mankind, and then every living being!
Our culture is very rich. There is a tradition to teach ‘values of commitment’ even at a tender age. Soon after that ‘thread-ceremony’ , a child is taught to accept food as an act out of ‘selfless-love’ by one’s own mother, implying that, it is her ‘commitment’ that provides the child his food and not his ‘right’ to be fed by a ‘duty-bound’ mother! Symbolically, the child utters “Bhavati Bhikshaam Deyhi” and then the mother offers rice grains. Today, the only significance that remains of this ritual is to ‘pose’ prominently enough before a camera or video-handy cam during the occasion!
So, obviously, there is no ‘accountability’ involved for the usual lack of response or feed-back !
Regards,
Psn(29 Dec, 2008)
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Breakingpoint
Breaking-point
This is something that I had been longing to share about for a long time. But, even to talk about it, to me, seemed difficult! Somehow, recently, I happened to ‘blurt it out’ in a way that far exceeded my own guesses.
Yet, I have been very hesitant to write it down, this time for a totally different reason. I am reminded of many precious words fading out in many ways, just because it was written down, to be read at one’s ‘convenience’. My own experience reaffirms the ancient traditional practice of ‘through the word of mouth’ method of communicating one’s experiences, effectively and enriched with the much needed emotion contents! The urge to collect the thoughts and place them together, got the better of me, perhaps!
The word
I seek reference to this word ‘breaking-point’ by attributing a little non-conventional use of its sense and meaning. So I do not mean to refer to it as –
a) that point at which a convict, a suspect or a prisoner ‘confesses’ something under torture,
b) that point when someone feels being ‘driven to the wall’ and then succumbs or tries to retaliate despite one’s all the short-comings, weaknesses, etc (like in the case of a blackmail).
b) and so on …..
This is about something that happens to us out of our own mind-set which prevents us from pursuing that which is needed of us to be done. This ‘breaking-point’ is something that I am unable to precisely define or that it is a bit subtle. Nevertheless, I could use an example to give an idea or some ‘feel’ of it. We sometimes undergo a kind of mind-fatigue that we call as ‘boredom’. Once this boredom creeps in, it straightaway erodes many of our capabilities, tolerance & sustenance levels! Students preparing for an examination in a subject which fails to evoke their interest know too well! When we attend some long lectures, our alertness fails, and we try to fight that sleep inducement! Even in the case of children, the lullaby puts them to sleep very soon, at a wrong time, to suit the ‘busy’ mother, and while the mother innocently feels proud of her ‘melody’ capability, it could be the repetitive gibberish that induced the child to retract into a slumber!
A helpful link:
I happened to mention about how ‘priority’ evades, being steadfast in our life. I can weave an extension to it here. We find our New Year resolutions, de-addiction-resolves and the likes becoming short-lived. Goals remain just the ‘goals’ because it lacks the dynamism of ‘priority’. The ‘priority’ itself slides down right under our nose! So if a person feels interested to look at ‘breaking-point’ the way I seek to express, a reference to what I wrote about ‘Priority’ could help.
http://selfseekers.blogspot.com/2008/12/priority.html
The ‘breaking-point’
I do have to concede here that I can only attempt to describe it. And that too, using illustrative situations, which again are merely indicative.
Brief illustrations:
1. There are some songs, we like to hear again and again, any time. There are ‘ever-green’ movies, stories, etc. But can we read, listen or view these repetitively and non-stop, on and on? If we try it, we find some kind of saturation point like being ‘over-fed’ after a few non-stop repetitions. We have to allow that mind’s appetite for it to form by itself again, if we are to be able to really enjoy it, though we know that we love it!
2. Students attempting to revise lessons on the eve of their exams find it even surprising that such exercise leaves them nearly ‘blank’ as at the beginning. Well, perhaps ‘re’-vision is really about something that we already had some ‘vision’ earlier! But some subjects simply refuse to cooperate with some students.
3. A rare occurrence though, we find some brilliant students become mentally ill as a result of intensely studying some subject. We are surprised or baffled by such instances and try to become a bit cautious ourselves.
4. A sudden & intense shock, pain & sorrow due to a very untimely death of a close person causes mental dis-orientation to some people. Lucky ones, as we find in movie stories, regain normalcy at a similarly shocking situation!
5. People pursuing excellence in arts like music, dance etc or in fields of sports like cricket, shooting, chess, caroms, etc, find some kind of stagnation in their attainment of higher levels of performance. Some kind of mental fatigue seems to obstruct their abilities to focus better!
6. and so on ….
Mind encounters some kind of fatigue while doing things a bit repetitively. In some situations the very first attempt makes us weary. We know of job-fatigues. If something compels us to tolerate this mind fatigue beyond our capacity, it leads to a ‘torture-point’. This distance towards torture-point grows in magnitude progressively.
The time allowed for reaching this torture point inversely affects the mental calm and its retrieval too. The repetition of such journeys affects the mental health proportionately. All this is individual dependent. Once this torture point is reached, most people retract (or retrace their steps) very quickly. Here an example might illustrate. There have been spiritual practitioners (in ancient days), who try to undertake some rigorous practices. To become better equipped for their travel beyond that torture point, they also practice some kinds of ‘self-torture’ like sleeping on nail-beds, sleeping with corpses, tasting excreta and such other acts, just to be able to ‘cross over’ the distance beyond that ‘torture-point’ till they touch that breaking-point! This example is merely an extreme case where certain spiritual practices require uncommon levels of tolerance. Since the present generation has taken a ‘fancy’ for “Yoga” and spirituality, we can also easily see a very large number of ‘drop-outs’ happening in a very short span of time!
For each person, and for each type of activity, this journey towards the torture point and beyond, up to breaking point, differs entirely. While there are no measuring tools, no tangible milestones or standard techniques to traverse successfully, the ‘awareness’ of such a phenomenon does help in handling the real-life situations, handling priorities, etc, more dexterously and thus ‘realizing’ most of our cherished goals.
There are many examples of persons who have been quite fortunate to crossover the breaking point.
Such people find ‘effortlessness’ in such activity of theirs.
Help from others, support from others does matter in our journey to cross over that breaking point. In a spiritual journey, such help is accorded the highest respect and begets or invokes the deepest of gratitude.
Emotional training is of very great significance and does matter a lot in our journey towards that breaking point.
It so happens that the experience of the nature of journey differs from person to person, and also for each type of activity. So, familiarity with a tougher journey (coupled with sustained awareness), makes the lighter ones easier. And obviously, the toughest one, the spiritual path, is also the most hazardous one. The rewards are proportionate. Fortunately, the occurrence of this hazard (in the case of spiritual path) is rare mostly because, very few venture even up to half way towards that torture point itself!
Divine grace helps us to simply glide across, right through over that point, after which life itself is effortless!
Psn(8-12-2008)
This is something that I had been longing to share about for a long time. But, even to talk about it, to me, seemed difficult! Somehow, recently, I happened to ‘blurt it out’ in a way that far exceeded my own guesses.
Yet, I have been very hesitant to write it down, this time for a totally different reason. I am reminded of many precious words fading out in many ways, just because it was written down, to be read at one’s ‘convenience’. My own experience reaffirms the ancient traditional practice of ‘through the word of mouth’ method of communicating one’s experiences, effectively and enriched with the much needed emotion contents! The urge to collect the thoughts and place them together, got the better of me, perhaps!
The word
I seek reference to this word ‘breaking-point’ by attributing a little non-conventional use of its sense and meaning. So I do not mean to refer to it as –
a) that point at which a convict, a suspect or a prisoner ‘confesses’ something under torture,
b) that point when someone feels being ‘driven to the wall’ and then succumbs or tries to retaliate despite one’s all the short-comings, weaknesses, etc (like in the case of a blackmail).
b) and so on …..
This is about something that happens to us out of our own mind-set which prevents us from pursuing that which is needed of us to be done. This ‘breaking-point’ is something that I am unable to precisely define or that it is a bit subtle. Nevertheless, I could use an example to give an idea or some ‘feel’ of it. We sometimes undergo a kind of mind-fatigue that we call as ‘boredom’. Once this boredom creeps in, it straightaway erodes many of our capabilities, tolerance & sustenance levels! Students preparing for an examination in a subject which fails to evoke their interest know too well! When we attend some long lectures, our alertness fails, and we try to fight that sleep inducement! Even in the case of children, the lullaby puts them to sleep very soon, at a wrong time, to suit the ‘busy’ mother, and while the mother innocently feels proud of her ‘melody’ capability, it could be the repetitive gibberish that induced the child to retract into a slumber!
A helpful link:
I happened to mention about how ‘priority’ evades, being steadfast in our life. I can weave an extension to it here. We find our New Year resolutions, de-addiction-resolves and the likes becoming short-lived. Goals remain just the ‘goals’ because it lacks the dynamism of ‘priority’. The ‘priority’ itself slides down right under our nose! So if a person feels interested to look at ‘breaking-point’ the way I seek to express, a reference to what I wrote about ‘Priority’ could help.
http://selfseekers.blogspot.com/2008/12/priority.html
The ‘breaking-point’
I do have to concede here that I can only attempt to describe it. And that too, using illustrative situations, which again are merely indicative.
Brief illustrations:
1. There are some songs, we like to hear again and again, any time. There are ‘ever-green’ movies, stories, etc. But can we read, listen or view these repetitively and non-stop, on and on? If we try it, we find some kind of saturation point like being ‘over-fed’ after a few non-stop repetitions. We have to allow that mind’s appetite for it to form by itself again, if we are to be able to really enjoy it, though we know that we love it!
2. Students attempting to revise lessons on the eve of their exams find it even surprising that such exercise leaves them nearly ‘blank’ as at the beginning. Well, perhaps ‘re’-vision is really about something that we already had some ‘vision’ earlier! But some subjects simply refuse to cooperate with some students.
3. A rare occurrence though, we find some brilliant students become mentally ill as a result of intensely studying some subject. We are surprised or baffled by such instances and try to become a bit cautious ourselves.
4. A sudden & intense shock, pain & sorrow due to a very untimely death of a close person causes mental dis-orientation to some people. Lucky ones, as we find in movie stories, regain normalcy at a similarly shocking situation!
5. People pursuing excellence in arts like music, dance etc or in fields of sports like cricket, shooting, chess, caroms, etc, find some kind of stagnation in their attainment of higher levels of performance. Some kind of mental fatigue seems to obstruct their abilities to focus better!
6. and so on ….
Mind encounters some kind of fatigue while doing things a bit repetitively. In some situations the very first attempt makes us weary. We know of job-fatigues. If something compels us to tolerate this mind fatigue beyond our capacity, it leads to a ‘torture-point’. This distance towards torture-point grows in magnitude progressively.
The time allowed for reaching this torture point inversely affects the mental calm and its retrieval too. The repetition of such journeys affects the mental health proportionately. All this is individual dependent. Once this torture point is reached, most people retract (or retrace their steps) very quickly. Here an example might illustrate. There have been spiritual practitioners (in ancient days), who try to undertake some rigorous practices. To become better equipped for their travel beyond that torture point, they also practice some kinds of ‘self-torture’ like sleeping on nail-beds, sleeping with corpses, tasting excreta and such other acts, just to be able to ‘cross over’ the distance beyond that ‘torture-point’ till they touch that breaking-point! This example is merely an extreme case where certain spiritual practices require uncommon levels of tolerance. Since the present generation has taken a ‘fancy’ for “Yoga” and spirituality, we can also easily see a very large number of ‘drop-outs’ happening in a very short span of time!
For each person, and for each type of activity, this journey towards the torture point and beyond, up to breaking point, differs entirely. While there are no measuring tools, no tangible milestones or standard techniques to traverse successfully, the ‘awareness’ of such a phenomenon does help in handling the real-life situations, handling priorities, etc, more dexterously and thus ‘realizing’ most of our cherished goals.
There are many examples of persons who have been quite fortunate to crossover the breaking point.
Such people find ‘effortlessness’ in such activity of theirs.
Help from others, support from others does matter in our journey to cross over that breaking point. In a spiritual journey, such help is accorded the highest respect and begets or invokes the deepest of gratitude.
Emotional training is of very great significance and does matter a lot in our journey towards that breaking point.
It so happens that the experience of the nature of journey differs from person to person, and also for each type of activity. So, familiarity with a tougher journey (coupled with sustained awareness), makes the lighter ones easier. And obviously, the toughest one, the spiritual path, is also the most hazardous one. The rewards are proportionate. Fortunately, the occurrence of this hazard (in the case of spiritual path) is rare mostly because, very few venture even up to half way towards that torture point itself!
Divine grace helps us to simply glide across, right through over that point, after which life itself is effortless!
Psn(8-12-2008)
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Priority
This very word makes me wonder whether it is a sheer coincidence that its use in English language leaves its competitors (the translated equals in other languages), far behind!
As an example, ‘Top Priority’ has a matchless impact! We turn to another capability “communication” and its skills that necessarily complement priority.
Perhaps it is the complexity of communication, its skills, further compounded by diverse priorities, its shifting nature that decides many things about life.
Many things about life that matter, include attitude towards life, handling of situations, mutual relationships, etc.
Marital relationships and Priorities:
Mutual relationships are most vulnerable between spouses, when there is a mismatch of priorities! Communication skills could at best help sustaining relationships for a longer period, by ‘camouflage & concealment’ techniques, in trying to reveal this mismatch. But again, at the cost of nurturing a distrust!
Whether it is about spouse or spice, we are more tolerant than the western world!
Giving a patient hearing, with some emotional empathy has not been a ‘priority’ in the materialistic western world. So, psychiatrists thrive, doing this, for a handsome fee, for the patients. So, it is just that if we are unable to accept that ‘patience pays’, we end up as patients who pays!
When marital relationships become strained, we try to find out ‘who is wrong’. The answer seems to evade us. Then we try to find out ‘what went wrong’. Still, a solution seems to elude us! Now it is time to shift from wrong way of searching for a ‘wrong’ or right. It is not about comparison or gradation. It is about clarity. It is about priorities that could be just unique or diverse. Perhaps a solution is now well within reach.
The ‘Priority-factor’:
It is the ‘priority-factor’ that decides and also connects the sequence of our goals, short term & long term goals, culminating into success of our ultimate goals.
Some situations:
A leading, popular and very successful mobile company perhaps understands the complexity of communications only too well, and so markets too many models, and claims that it is ‘connecting people’ and prefers to call its retails outlets as “Priority” !
Shifting priority—A journey is important, when we compromise to enter the jam-packed unreserved compartment of a train. Later, we ‘think’ of good place to stand in the crowd, then if we can squeeze into a seat, then even about sleep! Now if the sleep needs to be ‘sound’ we look around for an innocent looking ignorant idiot, persuade him to take care of our luggage, and even ask him to remember about waking us up for meals-station or our destination!
Children, are not really good at ‘handling’ even their few priorities. We find them too impatient, testing our patience in turn! On the other hand, when a person handles multiple priorities well, and simultaneously, we call him a ‘mature’ person.
When a person meekly surrenders his/her priorities, he/she becomes a ‘good’ husband/wife.
A good teacher, a good parent to a child is also sometimes surrendering of priorities though such priority would have been in the best interests of that child’s future!
“Good” is bait offered for hunters of scapegoats who are willing to surrender their priorities. Thus, self respect, dignity, human rights, civil rights etc vanish from the list of priorities when a common man deals with police, courts, politicians, municipal corporations, tax authorities etc.
Between spouses, we are often surprised that individually ‘ideal’ couples end up as mutually-incompatible mismatches! The problem aggravates to a chronic & acute levels when ‘temporary’ priorities produce ‘lasting’ results called children (again a resultant and longer lasting ‘priority’!), and then, even the mismatch of basic priorities deter a separation or even a divorce. Also the diverse culture of our country does not easily support divorce! The ‘compromise’ now demands a heavy price!
Prioritize priority:
A deeper understanding of our goals, evolving a structure of priorities, makes life a bit easier. Ability to also understand the priorities of others and of the situations, and flexibility to adjust & re-align our own priorities makes our lives more happy. When a person places the priorities of others well above one’s own, and thus shifts slowly towards a state of ‘choice-less-ness’, coupled with a deeper perception level & sharp levels of alertness & awareness, joyousness pervades into one’s life!
Success in life, in a way, is about the success of the priorities, by the priorities, for the priorities!
A response, either way, if evoked by this, may be indicative of ‘priority’ becoming a priority!
Psn(3-12-2008)
As an example, ‘Top Priority’ has a matchless impact! We turn to another capability “communication” and its skills that necessarily complement priority.
Perhaps it is the complexity of communication, its skills, further compounded by diverse priorities, its shifting nature that decides many things about life.
Many things about life that matter, include attitude towards life, handling of situations, mutual relationships, etc.
Marital relationships and Priorities:
Mutual relationships are most vulnerable between spouses, when there is a mismatch of priorities! Communication skills could at best help sustaining relationships for a longer period, by ‘camouflage & concealment’ techniques, in trying to reveal this mismatch. But again, at the cost of nurturing a distrust!
Whether it is about spouse or spice, we are more tolerant than the western world!
Giving a patient hearing, with some emotional empathy has not been a ‘priority’ in the materialistic western world. So, psychiatrists thrive, doing this, for a handsome fee, for the patients. So, it is just that if we are unable to accept that ‘patience pays’, we end up as patients who pays!
When marital relationships become strained, we try to find out ‘who is wrong’. The answer seems to evade us. Then we try to find out ‘what went wrong’. Still, a solution seems to elude us! Now it is time to shift from wrong way of searching for a ‘wrong’ or right. It is not about comparison or gradation. It is about clarity. It is about priorities that could be just unique or diverse. Perhaps a solution is now well within reach.
The ‘Priority-factor’:
It is the ‘priority-factor’ that decides and also connects the sequence of our goals, short term & long term goals, culminating into success of our ultimate goals.
Some situations:
A leading, popular and very successful mobile company perhaps understands the complexity of communications only too well, and so markets too many models, and claims that it is ‘connecting people’ and prefers to call its retails outlets as “Priority” !
Shifting priority—A journey is important, when we compromise to enter the jam-packed unreserved compartment of a train. Later, we ‘think’ of good place to stand in the crowd, then if we can squeeze into a seat, then even about sleep! Now if the sleep needs to be ‘sound’ we look around for an innocent looking ignorant idiot, persuade him to take care of our luggage, and even ask him to remember about waking us up for meals-station or our destination!
Children, are not really good at ‘handling’ even their few priorities. We find them too impatient, testing our patience in turn! On the other hand, when a person handles multiple priorities well, and simultaneously, we call him a ‘mature’ person.
When a person meekly surrenders his/her priorities, he/she becomes a ‘good’ husband/wife.
A good teacher, a good parent to a child is also sometimes surrendering of priorities though such priority would have been in the best interests of that child’s future!
“Good” is bait offered for hunters of scapegoats who are willing to surrender their priorities. Thus, self respect, dignity, human rights, civil rights etc vanish from the list of priorities when a common man deals with police, courts, politicians, municipal corporations, tax authorities etc.
Between spouses, we are often surprised that individually ‘ideal’ couples end up as mutually-incompatible mismatches! The problem aggravates to a chronic & acute levels when ‘temporary’ priorities produce ‘lasting’ results called children (again a resultant and longer lasting ‘priority’!), and then, even the mismatch of basic priorities deter a separation or even a divorce. Also the diverse culture of our country does not easily support divorce! The ‘compromise’ now demands a heavy price!
Prioritize priority:
A deeper understanding of our goals, evolving a structure of priorities, makes life a bit easier. Ability to also understand the priorities of others and of the situations, and flexibility to adjust & re-align our own priorities makes our lives more happy. When a person places the priorities of others well above one’s own, and thus shifts slowly towards a state of ‘choice-less-ness’, coupled with a deeper perception level & sharp levels of alertness & awareness, joyousness pervades into one’s life!
Success in life, in a way, is about the success of the priorities, by the priorities, for the priorities!
A response, either way, if evoked by this, may be indicative of ‘priority’ becoming a priority!
Psn(3-12-2008)
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Short-cuts!
Most of us are tempted to look out for “short-cuts” unless we really enjoy doing something. The age old saying “there is no short-cut to success” does not really seem to deter our pursuit for short-cuts.
Many a times, there is just a wafer-thin line that really separates a ‘short-cut’ from a ‘better way’ of doing things. For instance ambidexterity, multi-tasking etc are too subjective and situation based, to decide the merits of such short-cuts. We are at times confused when a child genuinely asks whether a calculator can do away with the need to learn multiplication tables, a spell-check in ‘word’ processor obviates the need to memorise the illogical spellings etc.
The next level of confusion arises when medical experts attribute most of health problems to change in life styles! What they are hinting at, is literally the short-cuts we adopted when we use machines to replace manual washing, walking, cleaning, gardening, grinding, blending, churning(curds in kitchen), and such other routine chores!
Personally, the next level of short-cuts did not confuse me! When I looked at it, my hitherto bemused look turned into an amazed one! For most people this level continues to be a non-issue. It simply involved discontinuance of certain traditions, customs etc. The reason for this effortless ease in ending these practices is the very fragility of our ‘way of life’! This ‘way of life’ was assigned a name called “Hinduism” when invaders chose to refer to the ancient Indian civilization. A religion name was a mandatory ‘check’ box even in those days! The entire fabric of this Hindu culture was ‘suggestive’ rather than a prescription or dictum etc (like other religions). Right from the choice of God(out of some 33 crores), the food, clothing etc were a matter of choice. Six types of marriages were prominent out of a larger list! How a person chooses out of these was entirely based on level of perception and awareness!
When a consecutive set of generations evolved steadily, these choices got resolved into best ones and obviously like any conscious choice towards a refinement, these too entailed a set of elaborate restrictions(self-imposed) on life-styles! The traditional 9-yards sarees, the 11-course dishes during anniversaries, the 13 day’s obsequies, the elaborate marriage rituals& restrictions ranging from rigid horoscope-matching, sub-sect selections, ‘girl-seeing’ , upto the auspicious date and time selection for the nuptials, all these are really mystic-looking, and seem to go in an opposite direction from short-cuts!
Well, the present day situation has ended up in driving our mutual relation-ships into ‘economy-driven’ bonds rather than emotional bonds! The emotional well-being is not entirely dependent on economic well being. That is why the westerners are baffled at the emotional stability levels of Indians!
But we are fast catching up with every available short-cut. Faking, duplicating, replacing, etc are evolving at an appreciable speed. Corruption is the outcome of illogical shortcuts. Cultural degeneration is the outcome of reckless substitution of short cuts to emotional-value-based-traditions!
When we indulge in pirating data, software, effort of creativity of others, the economic value of such pirated object gets devalued in many ways, ultimately resulting into, an emotional breakdown.!. Home for aged is a short-cut to taking care of elders at our homes. Results need no elaboration!.
Delegating motherly care to baby sitting, bottle –feeding etc., results in magical disappearance of bonds with children!.
‘Out-sourcing ‘of emotional support to periodic consultation/counseling by psychiatrist seems to be the latest of short-cuts! We seem to have lost the ‘in-house’ software for emotional shock absorbers within a home, when we had dumped those mystic traditions!
And then,
An epilogue,( perhaps! )
We were once, an emotionally-driven beings, and thus had evolved into demonstrating the highest human capability, deepening of our perceptions beyond sensory levels. We are now economy-driven beings, fast adopting all sorts of shortcuts, casting away ‘ senseless’, ‘illogical emotional values’. The race is towards “short-cut-driven” life! Obviously, suicidal death is the greatest of all short-cuts! It solves all ‘known’ problems!
PSN(08-10-2008)
Many a times, there is just a wafer-thin line that really separates a ‘short-cut’ from a ‘better way’ of doing things. For instance ambidexterity, multi-tasking etc are too subjective and situation based, to decide the merits of such short-cuts. We are at times confused when a child genuinely asks whether a calculator can do away with the need to learn multiplication tables, a spell-check in ‘word’ processor obviates the need to memorise the illogical spellings etc.
The next level of confusion arises when medical experts attribute most of health problems to change in life styles! What they are hinting at, is literally the short-cuts we adopted when we use machines to replace manual washing, walking, cleaning, gardening, grinding, blending, churning(curds in kitchen), and such other routine chores!
Personally, the next level of short-cuts did not confuse me! When I looked at it, my hitherto bemused look turned into an amazed one! For most people this level continues to be a non-issue. It simply involved discontinuance of certain traditions, customs etc. The reason for this effortless ease in ending these practices is the very fragility of our ‘way of life’! This ‘way of life’ was assigned a name called “Hinduism” when invaders chose to refer to the ancient Indian civilization. A religion name was a mandatory ‘check’ box even in those days! The entire fabric of this Hindu culture was ‘suggestive’ rather than a prescription or dictum etc (like other religions). Right from the choice of God(out of some 33 crores), the food, clothing etc were a matter of choice. Six types of marriages were prominent out of a larger list! How a person chooses out of these was entirely based on level of perception and awareness!
When a consecutive set of generations evolved steadily, these choices got resolved into best ones and obviously like any conscious choice towards a refinement, these too entailed a set of elaborate restrictions(self-imposed) on life-styles! The traditional 9-yards sarees, the 11-course dishes during anniversaries, the 13 day’s obsequies, the elaborate marriage rituals& restrictions ranging from rigid horoscope-matching, sub-sect selections, ‘girl-seeing’ , upto the auspicious date and time selection for the nuptials, all these are really mystic-looking, and seem to go in an opposite direction from short-cuts!
Well, the present day situation has ended up in driving our mutual relation-ships into ‘economy-driven’ bonds rather than emotional bonds! The emotional well-being is not entirely dependent on economic well being. That is why the westerners are baffled at the emotional stability levels of Indians!
But we are fast catching up with every available short-cut. Faking, duplicating, replacing, etc are evolving at an appreciable speed. Corruption is the outcome of illogical shortcuts. Cultural degeneration is the outcome of reckless substitution of short cuts to emotional-value-based-traditions!
When we indulge in pirating data, software, effort of creativity of others, the economic value of such pirated object gets devalued in many ways, ultimately resulting into, an emotional breakdown.!. Home for aged is a short-cut to taking care of elders at our homes. Results need no elaboration!.
Delegating motherly care to baby sitting, bottle –feeding etc., results in magical disappearance of bonds with children!.
‘Out-sourcing ‘of emotional support to periodic consultation/counseling by psychiatrist seems to be the latest of short-cuts! We seem to have lost the ‘in-house’ software for emotional shock absorbers within a home, when we had dumped those mystic traditions!
And then,
An epilogue,( perhaps! )
We were once, an emotionally-driven beings, and thus had evolved into demonstrating the highest human capability, deepening of our perceptions beyond sensory levels. We are now economy-driven beings, fast adopting all sorts of shortcuts, casting away ‘ senseless’, ‘illogical emotional values’. The race is towards “short-cut-driven” life! Obviously, suicidal death is the greatest of all short-cuts! It solves all ‘known’ problems!
PSN(08-10-2008)
How do we emote!
Most of us, being caught up in the situation around us, are driven by the same to decide as to how we emote! Some of us manage to keep the intensity of emotion under check. We know the devastating effect of anger, we know the size of the hole created in our wallet when we exhibit our anxiety to buy something from a cunning, greedy and alert bargain-seller!
There are a few persons, talented, well stabilized from within who manage to emote at will! An impressive example appeared on a recent TV interview when the legendary grand lady Zohra Sehgal was asked thus: “How do you manage to cry instantly & intensely when a scene requires?” She was known for doing it without the use of artificial means. The details mentioned by her simply amazed me! Briefly, she invoked two of the opposite emotions of laughter and tears from the very same incident that took place in her life!
That made me wonder if we too can do a little more than just ‘controlling’ anger, putting of the use of medicine at times, etc!. Hypothetical situation, quite imaginary, yet logical possibility may perhaps serve as an example to afford a deeper look within. Shall we attempt, with 3 ‘created’ situations, and attempt visualizing them quite intensely, not getting caught into it, retaining the freedom to observe how we would really respond and what happens within us, to our intuitive instincts.
The three situations:
1. A woman with very modest means has eight children of her own, all of them of school going age. During an evening, while she was very busy with household routine, and children engaged with their own activities of pastimes, a neighbour rushes in to inform the sudden death of one of the eight children. The mother is gripped by shock and intense sorrow. She rushes out of her house, and in utter disbelief, looks at the body of her child being lifted out of a nearby well with which the child had drowned, tripping over its inadequately low protective wall, while playing around it. Yet to recover from the first shock of this devastating grief, news comes in within a couple of minutes, informing the death of her yet another child, who had an unexpected heart seizure or so while engaged in a high pitched vocal practice sessions near by !
The child with ‘heart’ problem did have some minor occasional ‘chest pain’ complaints, but it had never seemed to require any serious medical examination. The timing of this serious occurrence was an unexpected blow to the mother. When both the bodies were placed in front of her house, there comes a third body, this time, the body and its appearance explicitly reveals the manner of accidental death to a yet another from among her eight children!. The badly mangled body tells it all !.
How would this woman be able to emote distinctly for each of these three deaths occurred in near succession? Is it not too difficult to embraces all the three at a time!. Each child’s loss creates a deep sorrow enough to intensely suffer for days! How to stagger any two to do justice to one, at a time?
This examples is not about over exaggeration. Our minds are sort of structured to pre-empt almost any routine situation, and an intense situation is perhaps needed to catch it ‘ off-guard’ to afford a genuine observation.
2. Let us try a reversal of emotion this time. Some time or other, we have come across a joke or situation that sets us into unstoppable bouts of laughter. We keeps laughing incessantly causing aches in lower abdomen!
Let us visualize that somebody narrates a brief joke that evokes such intense laughter that we are unable to even avoid the embarrassment for about another 30 minutes, when we do not seem to have any control over it, to appropriately suit the changing outside situation. As we grow into adulthood, such good jokes through intense enough may fail to evoke such uncontrollable laughter! If that is the case, please also visualize ourselves as children, at school, during classes. The joke encountered in the earlier day keeps stimulating sudden bouts of loud laughter in subsequent classes in serene situation. This laughter simply overpowers even the fear of punishment by class teacher for inappropriate class-room behavior! At offices, or counters facing public in queues, such out-of-turn laughter is really an embarrassment!.
Now comes the catch!. Suppose another joke of yet deeper intensity occurs within a minute of the first one!. To which of the jokes do we actually continue to respond with such unstoppable laugher??!!!
3.( A brief epilogue: )
Lest we run into a possible lesser focused attention, the epilogue suits here better, to get the attention it perhaps deserves. The sequence of examples are deliberate. A person who gets caught in the situation of first examples usually skips over the second, but the third one ‘grounds’ the person back. If on the other hand, a person manages in not getting ‘caught’ in the first one, does appreciate the second one adequately enough to now attempt a de-mystification of the third one which is bereft of any external influence.
Third situation :
Yes the third one is very simple, practical, irrefutable and yet has a cloud of mysticism, that some of us do know of and most of us take it for granted as “ oh! It is so “. It deals with sheer physical pain.
We know how naggingly persistent that below the nail puss and swelling is! The half broken-crooked growing nail, with a crevice, infected with puss forming affliction never seems to leave us at peace even for a moment. Whatever else we are required to do, the pain is felt incessantly, reminding us that it is there. People who float and drift away into their day- dreaming –sessions find this nail affliction to be a rare even when they manage to find themselves riveted to ground –realities throughout the duration!
Now the catch. Supppose there is such a pain on the left thumb at present, and our right thumb is brutally chopped off in a single severe blow! We know, the pain caused due to sudden and shocking loss of thumb when chopped off, simply dissolves the hitherto irritating pain at the nail of left thumb! The earlier pain, in our experience, DOES VANISH. Yet, we know, logically, the source of pain is yet intact, unresolved. Later on, we are surprised (we do not have a chance during the painful session),What happens to the earlier pain when the next one overpowered us?
Well then, if this helps us to take a look at our emotions, instead of merely getting caught up with it each time and getting lost in our struggle to wriggle out of it, please do let me know, to reassure that our effort was worth it. At the least I shall be able to refrain being a 4th situation! Ha Ha Ha! An inadequate response, not even the lack of it, is good enough to educate me to refrain from ending up into a loathsome 4th situation for you!
You see, I do solicit many things, but trouble is not one of them!
Regards
PSN ( 6th Oct’08)
There are a few persons, talented, well stabilized from within who manage to emote at will! An impressive example appeared on a recent TV interview when the legendary grand lady Zohra Sehgal was asked thus: “How do you manage to cry instantly & intensely when a scene requires?” She was known for doing it without the use of artificial means. The details mentioned by her simply amazed me! Briefly, she invoked two of the opposite emotions of laughter and tears from the very same incident that took place in her life!
That made me wonder if we too can do a little more than just ‘controlling’ anger, putting of the use of medicine at times, etc!. Hypothetical situation, quite imaginary, yet logical possibility may perhaps serve as an example to afford a deeper look within. Shall we attempt, with 3 ‘created’ situations, and attempt visualizing them quite intensely, not getting caught into it, retaining the freedom to observe how we would really respond and what happens within us, to our intuitive instincts.
The three situations:
1. A woman with very modest means has eight children of her own, all of them of school going age. During an evening, while she was very busy with household routine, and children engaged with their own activities of pastimes, a neighbour rushes in to inform the sudden death of one of the eight children. The mother is gripped by shock and intense sorrow. She rushes out of her house, and in utter disbelief, looks at the body of her child being lifted out of a nearby well with which the child had drowned, tripping over its inadequately low protective wall, while playing around it. Yet to recover from the first shock of this devastating grief, news comes in within a couple of minutes, informing the death of her yet another child, who had an unexpected heart seizure or so while engaged in a high pitched vocal practice sessions near by !
The child with ‘heart’ problem did have some minor occasional ‘chest pain’ complaints, but it had never seemed to require any serious medical examination. The timing of this serious occurrence was an unexpected blow to the mother. When both the bodies were placed in front of her house, there comes a third body, this time, the body and its appearance explicitly reveals the manner of accidental death to a yet another from among her eight children!. The badly mangled body tells it all !.
How would this woman be able to emote distinctly for each of these three deaths occurred in near succession? Is it not too difficult to embraces all the three at a time!. Each child’s loss creates a deep sorrow enough to intensely suffer for days! How to stagger any two to do justice to one, at a time?
This examples is not about over exaggeration. Our minds are sort of structured to pre-empt almost any routine situation, and an intense situation is perhaps needed to catch it ‘ off-guard’ to afford a genuine observation.
2. Let us try a reversal of emotion this time. Some time or other, we have come across a joke or situation that sets us into unstoppable bouts of laughter. We keeps laughing incessantly causing aches in lower abdomen!
Let us visualize that somebody narrates a brief joke that evokes such intense laughter that we are unable to even avoid the embarrassment for about another 30 minutes, when we do not seem to have any control over it, to appropriately suit the changing outside situation. As we grow into adulthood, such good jokes through intense enough may fail to evoke such uncontrollable laughter! If that is the case, please also visualize ourselves as children, at school, during classes. The joke encountered in the earlier day keeps stimulating sudden bouts of loud laughter in subsequent classes in serene situation. This laughter simply overpowers even the fear of punishment by class teacher for inappropriate class-room behavior! At offices, or counters facing public in queues, such out-of-turn laughter is really an embarrassment!.
Now comes the catch!. Suppose another joke of yet deeper intensity occurs within a minute of the first one!. To which of the jokes do we actually continue to respond with such unstoppable laugher??!!!
3.( A brief epilogue: )
Lest we run into a possible lesser focused attention, the epilogue suits here better, to get the attention it perhaps deserves. The sequence of examples are deliberate. A person who gets caught in the situation of first examples usually skips over the second, but the third one ‘grounds’ the person back. If on the other hand, a person manages in not getting ‘caught’ in the first one, does appreciate the second one adequately enough to now attempt a de-mystification of the third one which is bereft of any external influence.
Third situation :
Yes the third one is very simple, practical, irrefutable and yet has a cloud of mysticism, that some of us do know of and most of us take it for granted as “ oh! It is so “. It deals with sheer physical pain.
We know how naggingly persistent that below the nail puss and swelling is! The half broken-crooked growing nail, with a crevice, infected with puss forming affliction never seems to leave us at peace even for a moment. Whatever else we are required to do, the pain is felt incessantly, reminding us that it is there. People who float and drift away into their day- dreaming –sessions find this nail affliction to be a rare even when they manage to find themselves riveted to ground –realities throughout the duration!
Now the catch. Supppose there is such a pain on the left thumb at present, and our right thumb is brutally chopped off in a single severe blow! We know, the pain caused due to sudden and shocking loss of thumb when chopped off, simply dissolves the hitherto irritating pain at the nail of left thumb! The earlier pain, in our experience, DOES VANISH. Yet, we know, logically, the source of pain is yet intact, unresolved. Later on, we are surprised (we do not have a chance during the painful session),What happens to the earlier pain when the next one overpowered us?
Well then, if this helps us to take a look at our emotions, instead of merely getting caught up with it each time and getting lost in our struggle to wriggle out of it, please do let me know, to reassure that our effort was worth it. At the least I shall be able to refrain being a 4th situation! Ha Ha Ha! An inadequate response, not even the lack of it, is good enough to educate me to refrain from ending up into a loathsome 4th situation for you!
You see, I do solicit many things, but trouble is not one of them!
Regards
PSN ( 6th Oct’08)
How well do we critically evaluate criticism?
For a change, I would rather indulge in just putting together at a place, the various aspects of ‘criticism’, its common reactions and a few uncommon responses! My love and fascination towards mysticism at once tempts me, to subtly shroud the suggestive hints, wherever it is felt appropriate, just as a professional encryptor indulges in camouflaging a message to a friend, in an amusing jargon! A natural question that could arise is, whether I am being sincere in doing so? Yes, very much, & “without wax”! True to the very origin of the word ‘sincere’! It is said that when sculptors in Spain, during the ancient Renaissance period, happened to produce a flawless, expensive marble statue, which did not require a patchwork with wax for their flaws, called it (nay, hailed it) as a sculpture “sin cera” or a sculpture without wax. Eventually anything true came to be referred to, thus. The English word ‘sincere’ evolved thus. Quality criticism too evolved alongside!
Why do people criticize? A look at a very brief, indicative list--
1. For the sake of saying something, knowing no other way of making their presence felt,
2. To get the other person provoked into a reaction at least, when arousal of a response fails,
3. To contribute a sense of participation if a person fails to notice anything worth appreciating,
4. To reassure the others of a genuine, sincere, honest, true concern and loyalty towards them(!)
5. A pre-emptive strike, relying on the adage, “ Offence is the best form of defense”,
6. To correct, educate, & help a loved person,
And, so on ……
How do people choose to criticize—
1. Diplomatically, when possible reactions are felt to be economically unviable!
2. Subtly, when relationships are too precious and vulnerable, despite compulsions of situations.
3. Loudly and in public, when the recipient can be at a great disadvantage to retort even!
4. In a staggered manner to avoid being out-done with a corrective action(when there is a race)!
And so on……
How well we respond or react to criticism, largely depends upon various factors and situations. A look at a few situations—
1. If it the boss who criticizes only two golden rules:--
a) The boss is always right,
b) In case of a doubt, refer to “a)” above!
(The term ‘Boss’ may include parents—in case of children, teacher in case of students ,and wife in case of ‘dependent’ husbands)
2. When we are capable of in-depth knowledge about the value of the critic, as well as the contents of criticism, the evaluation and response happens at its best—a rare situation.
3. We stand to gain a lot when ego satisfaction strips the other person of all his sense of well being, wealth & disposition in our favour, when we merely feign a deep humility at criticism received! (Not an ethical proposition, though indulged very commonly !)
4. Induced criticism, as a technique to ‘create’ a need or market for something that is meant to benefit the recipient.
5. When we choose to care for the well being of others, response to any and every type of criticism turns out as yet another opportunity to translate our unbounded love into action! A bit rare occurrence.
6. Criticism also becomes a means of evolving better into our emotional capabilities when response is looked at as a conscious effort each time with a sense of gratitude. Response may not necessitate any action, but a mere subtle gesture, a hint in deep acknowledgement of the other’s message that they care, and therefore criticize!
7. Health of a ‘healthy criticism’ deteriorates along with the weakening of relationships!
Epilogue:
Criticism is vulnerable to emotions a lot more than a casual, routine, analytical feedback. The complexity of emotions, by its very nature traps a person into a unique world of one’s own creation. Therefore, it is very difficult to generalize any aspect of criticism or response thereof in a manner to afford universal dependence for infallibility! No better evidence substantiates this fact, than the prevalent practice of ‘case-laws’ being quoted more often than the enactments, altogether over-shadowing the sacrosanct preamble thereto, when legalized forms of criticisms are dealt with in courts of law!
Repondez s’il vous plait.
Psn (6-10-2008)
Why do people criticize? A look at a very brief, indicative list--
1. For the sake of saying something, knowing no other way of making their presence felt,
2. To get the other person provoked into a reaction at least, when arousal of a response fails,
3. To contribute a sense of participation if a person fails to notice anything worth appreciating,
4. To reassure the others of a genuine, sincere, honest, true concern and loyalty towards them(!)
5. A pre-emptive strike, relying on the adage, “ Offence is the best form of defense”,
6. To correct, educate, & help a loved person,
And, so on ……
How do people choose to criticize—
1. Diplomatically, when possible reactions are felt to be economically unviable!
2. Subtly, when relationships are too precious and vulnerable, despite compulsions of situations.
3. Loudly and in public, when the recipient can be at a great disadvantage to retort even!
4. In a staggered manner to avoid being out-done with a corrective action(when there is a race)!
And so on……
How well we respond or react to criticism, largely depends upon various factors and situations. A look at a few situations—
1. If it the boss who criticizes only two golden rules:--
a) The boss is always right,
b) In case of a doubt, refer to “a)” above!
(The term ‘Boss’ may include parents—in case of children, teacher in case of students ,and wife in case of ‘dependent’ husbands)
2. When we are capable of in-depth knowledge about the value of the critic, as well as the contents of criticism, the evaluation and response happens at its best—a rare situation.
3. We stand to gain a lot when ego satisfaction strips the other person of all his sense of well being, wealth & disposition in our favour, when we merely feign a deep humility at criticism received! (Not an ethical proposition, though indulged very commonly !)
4. Induced criticism, as a technique to ‘create’ a need or market for something that is meant to benefit the recipient.
5. When we choose to care for the well being of others, response to any and every type of criticism turns out as yet another opportunity to translate our unbounded love into action! A bit rare occurrence.
6. Criticism also becomes a means of evolving better into our emotional capabilities when response is looked at as a conscious effort each time with a sense of gratitude. Response may not necessitate any action, but a mere subtle gesture, a hint in deep acknowledgement of the other’s message that they care, and therefore criticize!
7. Health of a ‘healthy criticism’ deteriorates along with the weakening of relationships!
Epilogue:
Criticism is vulnerable to emotions a lot more than a casual, routine, analytical feedback. The complexity of emotions, by its very nature traps a person into a unique world of one’s own creation. Therefore, it is very difficult to generalize any aspect of criticism or response thereof in a manner to afford universal dependence for infallibility! No better evidence substantiates this fact, than the prevalent practice of ‘case-laws’ being quoted more often than the enactments, altogether over-shadowing the sacrosanct preamble thereto, when legalized forms of criticisms are dealt with in courts of law!
Repondez s’il vous plait.
Psn (6-10-2008)
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Hari Pattar's school of Emotions!
Hari Pattar's school of emotions?
Why not ? like that Harry Potter’s school of Magic!
Prologue
The station master minds the train,
The school teacher trains the mind !
How well does the teacher do it today? Logical skills, yes. Intuitional skills??
(End of prologue)
Of late, I find the inclination to ‘e-mail’ waning rapidly, within me.
It saves lots of trouble for my recipients.
Yet, something very strongly persuades from deep within me to convey an observation. There seems to be no known system, structure in place (like those educational institutions) to formally train the younger generation in intuitional aspect of the mind !
All known edu-institutions do excellently in logic. Even psychiatry logically tones down imbalanced persons to manageable levels! It is intuition that takes care of imagination, creative skills and emotions.
HR people who are grappled with attrition related problems,
Politicians, who are transfixed with brain-drain (or lack of ‘brains’) related probs,
Religious heads, struggling with revival of traditions,
Social & cultural activists, guards, complaining about loss of heritage values,
Etc,
Would know better, and perhaps appreciate this observation.
I prefer not to delve into elaboration of how & what kind of system or structure existed in place, even until a couple of centuries ago, especially in India that is ‘Bharat’!
(And now, the epilogue)
If there is any inclination to look into the veracity of my observation, the ‘logical’ explanation might/could ‘flash’ in the minds, and would also perhaps give a clue to the various questions related to ‘where are we going’, ‘what is happening to our people’, etc, the erosion in ‘human values’ that is very similar to the depletion of ecology, environmental purity, etc!
Regards,
Psn (3rd Sept, 2008)
The ‘special’ 4th phase of moon, which ‘minds the mind’!
Why not ? like that Harry Potter’s school of Magic!
Prologue
The station master minds the train,
The school teacher trains the mind !
How well does the teacher do it today? Logical skills, yes. Intuitional skills??
(End of prologue)
Of late, I find the inclination to ‘e-mail’ waning rapidly, within me.
It saves lots of trouble for my recipients.
Yet, something very strongly persuades from deep within me to convey an observation. There seems to be no known system, structure in place (like those educational institutions) to formally train the younger generation in intuitional aspect of the mind !
All known edu-institutions do excellently in logic. Even psychiatry logically tones down imbalanced persons to manageable levels! It is intuition that takes care of imagination, creative skills and emotions.
HR people who are grappled with attrition related problems,
Politicians, who are transfixed with brain-drain (or lack of ‘brains’) related probs,
Religious heads, struggling with revival of traditions,
Social & cultural activists, guards, complaining about loss of heritage values,
Etc,
Would know better, and perhaps appreciate this observation.
I prefer not to delve into elaboration of how & what kind of system or structure existed in place, even until a couple of centuries ago, especially in India that is ‘Bharat’!
(And now, the epilogue)
If there is any inclination to look into the veracity of my observation, the ‘logical’ explanation might/could ‘flash’ in the minds, and would also perhaps give a clue to the various questions related to ‘where are we going’, ‘what is happening to our people’, etc, the erosion in ‘human values’ that is very similar to the depletion of ecology, environmental purity, etc!
Regards,
Psn (3rd Sept, 2008)
The ‘special’ 4th phase of moon, which ‘minds the mind’!
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Are you busy?
Are you busy?
This question is being constantly asked to us! A very gentle attempt to get our attention, to be able to ‘communicate’ (meaningfully, of course!) to us.
Just that we happen to listen to it not quite often!
Take a look at the situations when this question is put to us (and usual responses).
When,
1. In a normal day-to-day situation asked by…..
The boss -- No Sir/Madam, please tell me what I can do for you?
A VIP asks us -- Oh! Sir, you embarrass me… it is always an honour to be of any help...
Beauty queen/ Prince Charming -- Never too busy for you!
Nagging spouse – (No reply warranted until the question repeats atleast thrice / aloud!)
Friend -- Depends! (on what?... Well, mutual benefit scheme’s conditionalities!)
Customer -- No sir/madam, please tell me… (wait, the next word you utter will decide!)
Etc….
2. The same question in a bit subtle way….
A gentle breeze --
(a)Oh! Thanks, no fan or AC can ever match this! (when sweating profusely!).
(b) …… (when otherwise busy)
Menacingly approaching vehicle threatening head long collision –
(a) Brake, Horn, Yell, etc (Get the hell out of its way, and fast!)
(b) ……… (if turning to talk to the pillion rider, staring at a provoking poster)
Etc…
3. The same question (this time in the subtlest way, and now, is why it is “constantly”)
Nature (manifest) --
(a) Great! I shall return again to you very soon! (When on a brief holiday!)
(b) Oh! Dull, boring… (Etc) … (when unemployed, but survival take care of)
Life (personified)
(a) …… (busy stuck in body, mind , situation etc!!!)
(b) Death ( personified) … Please, not yet, allow me little more time, lots of unfinished…!
Well,…. It is not about whether we bother to respond to this question each and every time, or not. Situations keep changing, so also our attitude, capability & priorities, and so accordingly our responses.
It is about our levels of preparedness to meet, experience and enjoy life as it happens around us, till we ‘Rest In Peace’! It calls for that razor-sharp and ever enhancing levels of alertness, coupled with deepest possible states of relaxation, simultaneously maintained, that decides the quality of our life. Performance, achievement, etc happen exponentially upgrading, but we would soon discover, that they just happen to be side-benefits, a sheer consequence, as inevitable as the negative consequence of ‘absenting’ from that preparedness! The essence of this discovery, the experience of this discovery, when put into words, perhaps might look like this: “Oh! Most of the time, I had been just re-acting to situations that happen to me! It is now that I happen to be really living, acting according to the situation, whichever way ‘Life’ happens to me! Even inaction, silence, stillness is very dynamic in experience!”
Psn ( 13-07-2008)
This question is being constantly asked to us! A very gentle attempt to get our attention, to be able to ‘communicate’ (meaningfully, of course!) to us.
Just that we happen to listen to it not quite often!
Take a look at the situations when this question is put to us (and usual responses).
When,
1. In a normal day-to-day situation asked by…..
The boss -- No Sir/Madam, please tell me what I can do for you?
A VIP asks us -- Oh! Sir, you embarrass me… it is always an honour to be of any help...
Beauty queen/ Prince Charming -- Never too busy for you!
Nagging spouse – (No reply warranted until the question repeats atleast thrice / aloud!)
Friend -- Depends! (on what?... Well, mutual benefit scheme’s conditionalities!)
Customer -- No sir/madam, please tell me… (wait, the next word you utter will decide!)
Etc….
2. The same question in a bit subtle way….
A gentle breeze --
(a)Oh! Thanks, no fan or AC can ever match this! (when sweating profusely!).
(b) …… (when otherwise busy)
Menacingly approaching vehicle threatening head long collision –
(a) Brake, Horn, Yell, etc (Get the hell out of its way, and fast!)
(b) ……… (if turning to talk to the pillion rider, staring at a provoking poster)
Etc…
3. The same question (this time in the subtlest way, and now, is why it is “constantly”)
Nature (manifest) --
(a) Great! I shall return again to you very soon! (When on a brief holiday!)
(b) Oh! Dull, boring… (Etc) … (when unemployed, but survival take care of)
Life (personified)
(a) …… (busy stuck in body, mind , situation etc!!!)
(b) Death ( personified) … Please, not yet, allow me little more time, lots of unfinished…!
Well,…. It is not about whether we bother to respond to this question each and every time, or not. Situations keep changing, so also our attitude, capability & priorities, and so accordingly our responses.
It is about our levels of preparedness to meet, experience and enjoy life as it happens around us, till we ‘Rest In Peace’! It calls for that razor-sharp and ever enhancing levels of alertness, coupled with deepest possible states of relaxation, simultaneously maintained, that decides the quality of our life. Performance, achievement, etc happen exponentially upgrading, but we would soon discover, that they just happen to be side-benefits, a sheer consequence, as inevitable as the negative consequence of ‘absenting’ from that preparedness! The essence of this discovery, the experience of this discovery, when put into words, perhaps might look like this: “Oh! Most of the time, I had been just re-acting to situations that happen to me! It is now that I happen to be really living, acting according to the situation, whichever way ‘Life’ happens to me! Even inaction, silence, stillness is very dynamic in experience!”
Psn ( 13-07-2008)
Broadcasting LEGEND
Broadcasting Legend.
I felt fortunate to have had a glimpse of that Broadcasting legend, Mr. Ameen Sayani, during the brief interview in the program ‘Being a Legend’ telecast by CNN-IBN on Saturday 1.30 pm (19-7-2008) and repeated next day at 1.30 pm.
He had a captivating voice, and literally ruled the hearts of all Hindi knowing, and some of Hindi listening audience from 1952 for about 45 years.
When I was listening to his experience, and comments it just occurred to me that he had all the ingredients to become a legend. In fact, becoming a legend was an inevitable consequence.
Body, mind and breath are closely interwoven, though loose within each other. It is exactly this aspect which was deeply looked at by our ancient masters, when they perfected the technique to reach deeper levels of consciousness!
Our legend, Mr.Ameen Sayani, happened to become more and more breath conscious, given the nature of his profession (or else that noise of inhalation /exhalation would get ‘aired’ during a broadcast). Attempting a fair control over this breath must have contributed towards acquiring a steady pattern! By itself, this would mean not much since most ‘mike’ users do this. His attitude right from start was very positive, and that was a major contributor as a catalyst, to the exponential growth/evolvement in his ‘being’! This was amply visible when he said that he never imposed himself on the other person during interview recording of celebrities. He also mentioned about participation in the emotional psyche of the other person to help the other person to get motivated, and also took care to come out when appropriate! Most of the ancient Masters held their disciples in this way. This bond is symbolized by numeral 8 wherein both the circles are in contact, maintaining the independence. Where as when both are in same circle, there is a domination for vested interests. He attributed his ‘recognition’ amongst radio listeners due to this non-interrupting attitude during interviews. Perhaps he set into motion, the concept of “Radio listeners club’, and it took of phenomenally. He also had to get rid of that Gujarathi accent which came with his childhood days, and he was aware, it took some seven years to acquire the required Indian National Language accent! In a subtle manner, he underwent the ‘experience’ of how deeply embedded characteristics could be consciously loosened up! Most spiritual seekers find this as a major stumble-block!
I had read somewhere that ancient Rishis, conducted a broadcasting of different kind! This may be quite difficult to agree, understand or accept, but the rishis never bothered about the aspect of ‘recognition’. In fact, they preferred remaining incognito. It seems the time of broadcast was Brahma Muhurtham, at their station of broadcast (some remote inaccessible cave, where interference of most types, is obviously least!). A logical inference, though very weak, can be drawn from various instances, to mention a few,
a) Most patients in hospital, undergoing acute pain, get some respite during early hours.
b) Early risers, find this period very useful to focus on any problematic issue.
c) Music teachers (traditional), suggest this time to reasonably amenable students.
d) Professional truck drivers, find it safe to park for a while during early hours, since ‘deep relaxation’ over powers them, when they try to strain and concentrate during all-night non-stop driving.
e) Some surgeries are undertaken during early hours in reputed hospitals.
And so on…
Our legend Mr.Ameen Sayani did enjoy some of the facilities of seclusion, non-interference of noises, etc inside that broadcasting room confinement, for a sufficient period of time. May be, it added to his advantage while undergoing a crude form of meditation/sadhana/tapas, like cave-confinement, single minded, well focused practice of ‘reaching’ out to people far way, through well modulated, well appealing, soft, clear, loving voice !
It is no wonder that he was able to put forth the essence of his experience in developing a yet another unique approach towards good communication skills! He mentioned five “sa” prefixed Hindi words, as a thumb rule to develop into being a good broadcaster.
Sanchar, is a form of communication he explained. So, he suggested five “sa’s”.
Sahi (correct)
Satya (true)
Spasht (clear, unambiguous)
Saral (simple, easy to understand)
Sundar (appealing, attractive).
He tried out migration to TV, but found that he felt more comfortable with something he was doing for years. Well, he was no novice at ‘contentment’! He gladly accepted a tin of ovaltine in lieu of ‘remuneration’ during early days of broadcasting for ‘commercials’!
I felt there was much to learn and imbibe from his rich experience!
I wish many more years of valuable & priceless contribution from this Living Legend Mr.Ameen Sayani to our ‘listeners’!
Psn (20-07-2008)
I felt fortunate to have had a glimpse of that Broadcasting legend, Mr. Ameen Sayani, during the brief interview in the program ‘Being a Legend’ telecast by CNN-IBN on Saturday 1.30 pm (19-7-2008) and repeated next day at 1.30 pm.
He had a captivating voice, and literally ruled the hearts of all Hindi knowing, and some of Hindi listening audience from 1952 for about 45 years.
When I was listening to his experience, and comments it just occurred to me that he had all the ingredients to become a legend. In fact, becoming a legend was an inevitable consequence.
Body, mind and breath are closely interwoven, though loose within each other. It is exactly this aspect which was deeply looked at by our ancient masters, when they perfected the technique to reach deeper levels of consciousness!
Our legend, Mr.Ameen Sayani, happened to become more and more breath conscious, given the nature of his profession (or else that noise of inhalation /exhalation would get ‘aired’ during a broadcast). Attempting a fair control over this breath must have contributed towards acquiring a steady pattern! By itself, this would mean not much since most ‘mike’ users do this. His attitude right from start was very positive, and that was a major contributor as a catalyst, to the exponential growth/evolvement in his ‘being’! This was amply visible when he said that he never imposed himself on the other person during interview recording of celebrities. He also mentioned about participation in the emotional psyche of the other person to help the other person to get motivated, and also took care to come out when appropriate! Most of the ancient Masters held their disciples in this way. This bond is symbolized by numeral 8 wherein both the circles are in contact, maintaining the independence. Where as when both are in same circle, there is a domination for vested interests. He attributed his ‘recognition’ amongst radio listeners due to this non-interrupting attitude during interviews. Perhaps he set into motion, the concept of “Radio listeners club’, and it took of phenomenally. He also had to get rid of that Gujarathi accent which came with his childhood days, and he was aware, it took some seven years to acquire the required Indian National Language accent! In a subtle manner, he underwent the ‘experience’ of how deeply embedded characteristics could be consciously loosened up! Most spiritual seekers find this as a major stumble-block!
I had read somewhere that ancient Rishis, conducted a broadcasting of different kind! This may be quite difficult to agree, understand or accept, but the rishis never bothered about the aspect of ‘recognition’. In fact, they preferred remaining incognito. It seems the time of broadcast was Brahma Muhurtham, at their station of broadcast (some remote inaccessible cave, where interference of most types, is obviously least!). A logical inference, though very weak, can be drawn from various instances, to mention a few,
a) Most patients in hospital, undergoing acute pain, get some respite during early hours.
b) Early risers, find this period very useful to focus on any problematic issue.
c) Music teachers (traditional), suggest this time to reasonably amenable students.
d) Professional truck drivers, find it safe to park for a while during early hours, since ‘deep relaxation’ over powers them, when they try to strain and concentrate during all-night non-stop driving.
e) Some surgeries are undertaken during early hours in reputed hospitals.
And so on…
Our legend Mr.Ameen Sayani did enjoy some of the facilities of seclusion, non-interference of noises, etc inside that broadcasting room confinement, for a sufficient period of time. May be, it added to his advantage while undergoing a crude form of meditation/sadhana/tapas, like cave-confinement, single minded, well focused practice of ‘reaching’ out to people far way, through well modulated, well appealing, soft, clear, loving voice !
It is no wonder that he was able to put forth the essence of his experience in developing a yet another unique approach towards good communication skills! He mentioned five “sa” prefixed Hindi words, as a thumb rule to develop into being a good broadcaster.
Sanchar, is a form of communication he explained. So, he suggested five “sa’s”.
Sahi (correct)
Satya (true)
Spasht (clear, unambiguous)
Saral (simple, easy to understand)
Sundar (appealing, attractive).
He tried out migration to TV, but found that he felt more comfortable with something he was doing for years. Well, he was no novice at ‘contentment’! He gladly accepted a tin of ovaltine in lieu of ‘remuneration’ during early days of broadcasting for ‘commercials’!
I felt there was much to learn and imbibe from his rich experience!
I wish many more years of valuable & priceless contribution from this Living Legend Mr.Ameen Sayani to our ‘listeners’!
Psn (20-07-2008)
Mandatory to appreciate?
Appreciate or else, miss the glory!
Some time ago, we enjoyed looking at ‘Contribution and achievement’…
The other side of the coin seems to be appreciation/recognition.
Infact, it is perhaps the lack of adequate recognition that sparked this topic or debate of Contribution/and, or, versus/Achievement.
When this recognition/evaluation/appreciation falls short, even qualitatively, the result could be quite fatal!
Attrition ridden corporates are standing (or falling!) examples!
Everybody has to learn to appreciate things around, if the quality of life does matter!
Like we say, “charity begins at home”…..
We learn to appreciate, starting with the women folk at home.
It is thus that in Indian culture, women are placed at a high Pedestal from times immemorial!
Then look at extreme levels… the next seat passenger, the stupid looking bystander on the street is an ‘enlightened’ being, and we fail to ‘recognise’ !!!
Hanuman frantically tried to ‘hint’ to Tulasidas, when Rama appeared in a disguise, to give darshan! ( This story is to be looked at indicatively, and let us not get diverted into controversial logic of why at all disguise etc…. There is enough credible logic even for that, but that is a different field of discussion).
Well, I thought we would find it interesting to look at the question that I attempted to answer on Yahoo Answers forum.
I hesitated to add one more, though a bit subtle, reason, as to why artists could go mad/insane….. There are instances of sporadic outburst, when an artist happens to see a serious flaw in his/her own work, which others around failed to notice for quite a long time! ( Let us not forget, psychiatry and counselling is a very recent science, and the only one that frequently undergoes drastic modifications at even its base levels!)
For a change, and for obvious reasons, I close without the customary incantation referring to response!
Psn
Quote:
http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AnD3WKKzcwLtF7huoS_LJ_uRHQx.;_ylv=3?qid=20080703211001AApvfm4&show=7#profile-info-YHfJFXxMaa
Why so many talented artists go insane ?
Maybe someone of you have read some theory answering my question or wants to express personal opinion?
I was interested in the most talented people's biographies and so many of them had various mental problems ...
My answer:
• Mostly because of "mismatch " of levels of evolvements of people around them. It is the consequence of this mis-match that results in inadequate "quality appreciation" of the art. This lack of appreciation drives the artists mad! They find it hard to 'digest' that people find it so hard to 'see' what they display through their art skills so painstakingly.
In some cases, they even end their lives out of frustration.
Few, very close people, happen to suggest to them in vain, that they are a bit 'before' their time! And as if to prove this , it so happens that many of works of art gets world-wide recognition only long after the artitst 'passes' away!
In India, there were indeed a few artists who did not depend on 'outside' appreciation! They felt rewarded by the very process of performance! Such people were the few lucky who were simultaneously evolved at spirituality! Such is the richness of our spiritual heritage! Very few cultures of the world offer such "built-in" insurance ! Even today, no insurance company offers stress-insulation of this kind!
If we read the book "agony and ecstacy" (Micheal Angelo), we find that he spends a week (the time alloted for a sketch painting for sculpture), with a lady. When the lady anxiously asks him how he is going to 'achieve' the deadline target with only one day left, he takes a paper, flashes a few lines, and to the amazement of this lady, the king (or so), approves the painting, QUITE CONVINCED that the artist "did really have to spend the entire week for that sketch"!
As a contrast, a co-student of this Micheal angelo happened to mock at him for spending over two days on a single broken/loosely hanging tooth of a statue. It was then that the teacher/guide who corrected this mockery, by adequately admiring the life-like finish of that hanging tooth!
....
It takes a very deep level of perception to admire any skill adequately. In case of "fine" arts, the perception skills are more 'demanding'. Obviously, it rarely happens to evoke the right kind of appreciation!
Some time ago, we enjoyed looking at ‘Contribution and achievement’…
The other side of the coin seems to be appreciation/recognition.
Infact, it is perhaps the lack of adequate recognition that sparked this topic or debate of Contribution/and, or, versus/Achievement.
When this recognition/evaluation/appreciation falls short, even qualitatively, the result could be quite fatal!
Attrition ridden corporates are standing (or falling!) examples!
Everybody has to learn to appreciate things around, if the quality of life does matter!
Like we say, “charity begins at home”…..
We learn to appreciate, starting with the women folk at home.
It is thus that in Indian culture, women are placed at a high Pedestal from times immemorial!
Then look at extreme levels… the next seat passenger, the stupid looking bystander on the street is an ‘enlightened’ being, and we fail to ‘recognise’ !!!
Hanuman frantically tried to ‘hint’ to Tulasidas, when Rama appeared in a disguise, to give darshan! ( This story is to be looked at indicatively, and let us not get diverted into controversial logic of why at all disguise etc…. There is enough credible logic even for that, but that is a different field of discussion).
Well, I thought we would find it interesting to look at the question that I attempted to answer on Yahoo Answers forum.
I hesitated to add one more, though a bit subtle, reason, as to why artists could go mad/insane….. There are instances of sporadic outburst, when an artist happens to see a serious flaw in his/her own work, which others around failed to notice for quite a long time! ( Let us not forget, psychiatry and counselling is a very recent science, and the only one that frequently undergoes drastic modifications at even its base levels!)
For a change, and for obvious reasons, I close without the customary incantation referring to response!
Psn
Quote:
http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AnD3WKKzcwLtF7huoS_LJ_uRHQx.;_ylv=3?qid=20080703211001AApvfm4&show=7#profile-info-YHfJFXxMaa
Why so many talented artists go insane ?
Maybe someone of you have read some theory answering my question or wants to express personal opinion?
I was interested in the most talented people's biographies and so many of them had various mental problems ...
My answer:
• Mostly because of "mismatch " of levels of evolvements of people around them. It is the consequence of this mis-match that results in inadequate "quality appreciation" of the art. This lack of appreciation drives the artists mad! They find it hard to 'digest' that people find it so hard to 'see' what they display through their art skills so painstakingly.
In some cases, they even end their lives out of frustration.
Few, very close people, happen to suggest to them in vain, that they are a bit 'before' their time! And as if to prove this , it so happens that many of works of art gets world-wide recognition only long after the artitst 'passes' away!
In India, there were indeed a few artists who did not depend on 'outside' appreciation! They felt rewarded by the very process of performance! Such people were the few lucky who were simultaneously evolved at spirituality! Such is the richness of our spiritual heritage! Very few cultures of the world offer such "built-in" insurance ! Even today, no insurance company offers stress-insulation of this kind!
If we read the book "agony and ecstacy" (Micheal Angelo), we find that he spends a week (the time alloted for a sketch painting for sculpture), with a lady. When the lady anxiously asks him how he is going to 'achieve' the deadline target with only one day left, he takes a paper, flashes a few lines, and to the amazement of this lady, the king (or so), approves the painting, QUITE CONVINCED that the artist "did really have to spend the entire week for that sketch"!
As a contrast, a co-student of this Micheal angelo happened to mock at him for spending over two days on a single broken/loosely hanging tooth of a statue. It was then that the teacher/guide who corrected this mockery, by adequately admiring the life-like finish of that hanging tooth!
....
It takes a very deep level of perception to admire any skill adequately. In case of "fine" arts, the perception skills are more 'demanding'. Obviously, it rarely happens to evoke the right kind of appreciation!
Touchy touch
Touchy touch!
Touchy = oversensitive; irascible
Irascible = susceptible of ire or anger.
“Touch-me-not” is the name of a weed, which is also very slowly facing extinction.
Children enjoy touching it, since its leaves instantly fade and close down for a while!
This ‘touch’, has been looked at by people since ancient times.
It is interesting to take a look at some of the situations involving touch.
Some people are very sensitive to touch. Tickle them under armpit and they jump with a forced laughter.
Children play that ‘touch’ and ‘you are out’. In that ‘Kabbadi’, touch and cross over the line back, the touched player is out.
The list is endless, and suffice it to close here with the latest,
“Touch Screen”
The ancient touch theory is what has turned very very ‘touchy’ of late!
The reason seems quite simple.
They have suggested a lot many of conscious ‘touches’ and they all seem to ‘elude’ our meaningful perception!
These touches have faded out. Not just the touches, the very ‘files attached’ got obliterated!
Like to take a look at few of them?
During that daily ritual after a thread ceremony, the touches with specified fingers are notoriously complex!
When somebody is famished, it is hardly the time to touch singular grains with cumbersome combination of fingers, mutter something (mercifully nobody notices), and swallow it!
The spouse is to touch the husband’s shoulder blade with a grass blade, (they are very fussy about the correct ends, as if they are verily negative or positive live wires with a DC current!).
The sacred thread for the holy knot during wedding is to be ‘touched’ by elders all around, just before the ‘big moment’!
The offering to deity is touched by devotees, before it is offered.
And so on….
How long do we continue with these meaningless touches?
Well slowly it has to fade out.
Meaningless, outdated, irrelevant provisions of any enactment is struck off!
Here, the problem is, there is no majority vote stipulated, needed to ‘deal’ with it.
Whether fortunately or unfortunately, Hinduism is indeed a way of life, and not a religion, to be rigorously enforced upon any body!
Then the obviously logical, but a bit subtle rule that we try to follow, before we try to do away with such touchy touches (and why just touches, even untouchable provisions like 3-day ordeals too) seems to read as :
Any way, these practices are fading out quite fast. Choices have already been made. The purposes of ‘taking a re-look’ seem to go no farther than ensuring that we do not confront any social exclusion, due to any inadvertent, unforeseen reasons like a cluster-cloud effect or so!
Tail piece: (perhaps that is why the thread renewal programme is the isolated ritual that continues to attract maximum numbers for that ‘muster-roll-signing’!
What ever the bulk majority of people do, the essence of spiritual traditions are not and have never been at the mercy of ‘present generation’ at any point of ‘time’!
Somewhere somebody gets helplessly pushed into spirituality, and the whole of the text lays bare before such person in the eternal ‘web’ to just read it, eyes closed!
( For instance, somebody closely known to me is already on the job. He has dug out some touch system, where touching the tips of fingers of same palm for sometime, has given that person immense benefits for acute & chronic ailments! He told me it is some ‘Mudra-vigyan’ or so! And he knows it will not stop at the superficial layer of stupid cures! It would take him literally “places” (!) , reminding him perhaps of that “nadi” quack who can feel the life energy and not just the pulse with a mere touch!)
Now, you agree, I had to lay bare, the ‘touchy’ aspect of it all, “once and for all”!
Psn(16-7-2008)
Touchy = oversensitive; irascible
Irascible = susceptible of ire or anger.
“Touch-me-not” is the name of a weed, which is also very slowly facing extinction.
Children enjoy touching it, since its leaves instantly fade and close down for a while!
This ‘touch’, has been looked at by people since ancient times.
It is interesting to take a look at some of the situations involving touch.
Some people are very sensitive to touch. Tickle them under armpit and they jump with a forced laughter.
Children play that ‘touch’ and ‘you are out’. In that ‘Kabbadi’, touch and cross over the line back, the touched player is out.
The list is endless, and suffice it to close here with the latest,
“Touch Screen”
The ancient touch theory is what has turned very very ‘touchy’ of late!
The reason seems quite simple.
They have suggested a lot many of conscious ‘touches’ and they all seem to ‘elude’ our meaningful perception!
These touches have faded out. Not just the touches, the very ‘files attached’ got obliterated!
Like to take a look at few of them?
During that daily ritual after a thread ceremony, the touches with specified fingers are notoriously complex!
When somebody is famished, it is hardly the time to touch singular grains with cumbersome combination of fingers, mutter something (mercifully nobody notices), and swallow it!
The spouse is to touch the husband’s shoulder blade with a grass blade, (they are very fussy about the correct ends, as if they are verily negative or positive live wires with a DC current!).
The sacred thread for the holy knot during wedding is to be ‘touched’ by elders all around, just before the ‘big moment’!
The offering to deity is touched by devotees, before it is offered.
And so on….
How long do we continue with these meaningless touches?
Well slowly it has to fade out.
Meaningless, outdated, irrelevant provisions of any enactment is struck off!
Here, the problem is, there is no majority vote stipulated, needed to ‘deal’ with it.
Whether fortunately or unfortunately, Hinduism is indeed a way of life, and not a religion, to be rigorously enforced upon any body!
Then the obviously logical, but a bit subtle rule that we try to follow, before we try to do away with such touchy touches (and why just touches, even untouchable provisions like 3-day ordeals too) seems to read as :
Any way, these practices are fading out quite fast. Choices have already been made. The purposes of ‘taking a re-look’ seem to go no farther than ensuring that we do not confront any social exclusion, due to any inadvertent, unforeseen reasons like a cluster-cloud effect or so!
Tail piece: (perhaps that is why the thread renewal programme is the isolated ritual that continues to attract maximum numbers for that ‘muster-roll-signing’!
What ever the bulk majority of people do, the essence of spiritual traditions are not and have never been at the mercy of ‘present generation’ at any point of ‘time’!
Somewhere somebody gets helplessly pushed into spirituality, and the whole of the text lays bare before such person in the eternal ‘web’ to just read it, eyes closed!
( For instance, somebody closely known to me is already on the job. He has dug out some touch system, where touching the tips of fingers of same palm for sometime, has given that person immense benefits for acute & chronic ailments! He told me it is some ‘Mudra-vigyan’ or so! And he knows it will not stop at the superficial layer of stupid cures! It would take him literally “places” (!) , reminding him perhaps of that “nadi” quack who can feel the life energy and not just the pulse with a mere touch!)
Now, you agree, I had to lay bare, the ‘touchy’ aspect of it all, “once and for all”!
Psn(16-7-2008)
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Chained?
A beautiful question:
quote:
*Do you see the chains of your attachment?*
Oh! Very few of them!
In fact some of them only when the gold coating wears off, and pains.
Yet some other, pure gold, are being held steadfastly, and we 'refuse' to
acknowledge them as chains at all, depriving us of that 'freedom'!
A deep bow, and many thanks for this question! "Seeing" the chains 'seems'
to be the major problem, or rather even 'recognition' that there is a
problem at all! (This beautiful language of English has provided many words
, very nearly similar in meaning, to get our attention.... See,
behold,look, perceive, observe...... and yet, it is the level of
perceptions, that matters, differentiates amongst us, and decides as to who
evolves !)
quote:
*Do you see the chains of your attachment?*
Oh! Very few of them!
In fact some of them only when the gold coating wears off, and pains.
Yet some other, pure gold, are being held steadfastly, and we 'refuse' to
acknowledge them as chains at all, depriving us of that 'freedom'!
A deep bow, and many thanks for this question! "Seeing" the chains 'seems'
to be the major problem, or rather even 'recognition' that there is a
problem at all! (This beautiful language of English has provided many words
, very nearly similar in meaning, to get our attention.... See,
behold,look, perceive, observe...... and yet, it is the level of
perceptions, that matters, differentiates amongst us, and decides as to who
evolves !)
Vulnerability
Human beings, as also other living beings are 'pre-embedded' with that
survival instinct, and therefore the impusive acts of 'self-preservation'.
invoking a vulnerability of a different kind!
See, when we describe our dear and very close friends, we say,
" I can be totally myself with him (no formalities, pretenses, or defences required)"!
What happens when we consciously drop that defence and offer our vulnerability?
When I looked back, this is what occured to me:
quote:
Please do tell me your way of looking at this?
regards,
psn
survival instinct, and therefore the impusive acts of 'self-preservation'.
We tend to over-use it, becoming 'defensive' at every encounter with somebodyAnd then, it becomes our 'default' behaviour,
we do not like to accept 'totally'.
invoking a vulnerability of a different kind!
See, when we describe our dear and very close friends, we say,
" I can be totally myself with him (no formalities, pretenses, or defences required)"!
What happens when we consciously drop that defence and offer our vulnerability?
When I looked back, this is what occured to me:
quote:
Despite having been required to pay a 'handsome' price, of nothing less than a premature and abrupt voluntary retirement, I would, still, and more vociferously, advocate for playing intensely the role of 'vulnerability' , even at the place of work, or in the least, at home, amidst all types of 'Brutus's', to taste that priceless joy!
A Chakora pakshi (an unique bird) compromises for nothing less, stops at nothing less!
Please do tell me your way of looking at this?
regards,
psn
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Awarness
Awareness
Very casually, I attempted a question, and was chosen for the appealing answer.
But my heart goes out for one of the answers which should have been considered by a very very logical brain.
The profile of that answerer appealed to me and also ‘caught’ my attention!
I “wished”,……… if only that person comes across a good guide, a worthy spiritual master to now effortlessly step on to the threshold of a deeper level of perception(beyond sensory levels perhaps), having acquired a very firm & enviable grip on objectivist epistemology (may be also thro’ Ayn Rand’s philosophy on objectivism)…….. {take a look at this link…
http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AmZ2O.0KVdxGPVW9z4RGO4yQHQx.;_ylv=3?qid=20080310124258AAminR8&show=7#profile-info-c26ccbe94ac827717297b6e8f042510aaa
Very interesting answer by this person!)
psn
http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AjY5KaWxmHZiua8aw9Tnq5KRHQx.;_ylv=3?qid=20080309095703AAek5mO&show=7#profile-info-OOlatNnIaa
Question : Anybody achieved awareness ,tell me how?
(Answer) Chosen by Asker
Even you have that "self-awareness" to be able to use the words "tell ME how" !Well, when this awareness becomes deeper and sharper, things happen!
Asker's Rating:
Asker's Comment:
at least someone thought something before awnsering
http://in.answers.yahoo.com/my/profile;_ylt=ArHb9TWEdeGZ0tzCzihHKlZeHwx.;_ylv=3?show=yUudoO1Raa
Another answer:
You first achieved "awareness" when the doctor held you upside down and spanked your bottom. Your faculty of subconscious epistemology screamed, "WHAT IN THE HELL IS THIS PLACE?"
{Psn’s note: Yeah!! And maybe because it is so, that our ancients have appropriately thought of calling a person who undergoes that thread ceremony occasion(the most precious traditional Indian spiritual Initiation, still in vogue, though as a mere ritual!) by a name “Dwija” (meaning “twice born”!)…..}
http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AmZ2O.0KVdxGPVW9z4RGO4yQHQx.;_ylv=3?qid=20080310124258AAminR8&show=7#profile-info-c26ccbe94ac827717297b6e8f042510aaa
Is there any objective perception?
No. Perceptions are the memory of sensations. We do not feel the actual sensation, the impulses of electricity and chemicals that flow from our fingers to brains, we feel what those impulses and flows do to us. The same is true with our eyes: we do not sense the wavelengths, we sense what the wavelengths have done to our occular organs. We do not remember what the wavelengths of light felt like; we remember the image carried on the wavelengths.In order to have a perception of material outside of our minds, our sensory organs must have had an objective moment of sensory perception. That is the objective part of all empirical events between our organs and the material.It is the perception which that causes in our mind that is the subjective element.The immediate sensory experience is objective. The perception caused by the experience is subjective." A "perception" is a group of sensations automatically retained and integrated by the brain of a living organism, which gives it the ability to be aware, not of single stimuli, but of entities, of things."
9 hours ago
Source(s):
http://www.aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/pe...
Very casually, I attempted a question, and was chosen for the appealing answer.
But my heart goes out for one of the answers which should have been considered by a very very logical brain.
The profile of that answerer appealed to me and also ‘caught’ my attention!
I “wished”,……… if only that person comes across a good guide, a worthy spiritual master to now effortlessly step on to the threshold of a deeper level of perception(beyond sensory levels perhaps), having acquired a very firm & enviable grip on objectivist epistemology (may be also thro’ Ayn Rand’s philosophy on objectivism)…….. {take a look at this link…
http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AmZ2O.0KVdxGPVW9z4RGO4yQHQx.;_ylv=3?qid=20080310124258AAminR8&show=7#profile-info-c26ccbe94ac827717297b6e8f042510aaa
Very interesting answer by this person!)
psn
http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AjY5KaWxmHZiua8aw9Tnq5KRHQx.;_ylv=3?qid=20080309095703AAek5mO&show=7#profile-info-OOlatNnIaa
Question : Anybody achieved awareness ,tell me how?
(Answer) Chosen by Asker
Even you have that "self-awareness" to be able to use the words "tell ME how" !Well, when this awareness becomes deeper and sharper, things happen!
Asker's Rating:
Asker's Comment:
at least someone thought something before awnsering
http://in.answers.yahoo.com/my/profile;_ylt=ArHb9TWEdeGZ0tzCzihHKlZeHwx.;_ylv=3?show=yUudoO1Raa
Another answer:
You first achieved "awareness" when the doctor held you upside down and spanked your bottom. Your faculty of subconscious epistemology screamed, "WHAT IN THE HELL IS THIS PLACE?"
{Psn’s note: Yeah!! And maybe because it is so, that our ancients have appropriately thought of calling a person who undergoes that thread ceremony occasion(the most precious traditional Indian spiritual Initiation, still in vogue, though as a mere ritual!) by a name “Dwija” (meaning “twice born”!)…..}
http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AmZ2O.0KVdxGPVW9z4RGO4yQHQx.;_ylv=3?qid=20080310124258AAminR8&show=7#profile-info-c26ccbe94ac827717297b6e8f042510aaa
Is there any objective perception?
No. Perceptions are the memory of sensations. We do not feel the actual sensation, the impulses of electricity and chemicals that flow from our fingers to brains, we feel what those impulses and flows do to us. The same is true with our eyes: we do not sense the wavelengths, we sense what the wavelengths have done to our occular organs. We do not remember what the wavelengths of light felt like; we remember the image carried on the wavelengths.In order to have a perception of material outside of our minds, our sensory organs must have had an objective moment of sensory perception. That is the objective part of all empirical events between our organs and the material.It is the perception which that causes in our mind that is the subjective element.The immediate sensory experience is objective. The perception caused by the experience is subjective." A "perception" is a group of sensations automatically retained and integrated by the brain of a living organism, which gives it the ability to be aware, not of single stimuli, but of entities, of things."
9 hours ago
Source(s):
http://www.aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/pe...
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
A Call Center
My friend, who happens to be busy now trying out various types of ‘business-ventures’, after having surprisingly failed at a steady one held on to for several years, came up to ‘consult’ about the layout for a ‘brochure’ to persuade prospective students to join the proposed institute/training center for a “call center” job.
Obviously, the present tie-up is with just two modest companies, who perhaps cannot even afford the expenses of a very preliminary process of recruitment of their own! And the course-coordinator who accompanied this friend was ‘hooked’ up to stake a one-hour meet session, with me, just because he has already invested his commitment with this friend, for setting up a training center!
The discussion , for me , turned out to be a very ‘refreshing’ experience!
It lasted for an hour (very short period, by the usual sessions that I normally enjoy (!) at the expense of others(!), because they had to race against time to keep other appointments, having overshot their own allotted time-slot with me!
They produced a brief write up, defining a call centre, its uses, and then summing up with Job opportunities.
I suggested to turn it upside down in presentation to start with “Job Opportunities” to entice the reader to move further. Like….
“ MNC’s need YOU,
to make available,
a virtual help desk at the door step for their
prospective customers, clients, buyers (as an after sales service ) etc…
if, you have good,
communication skills,
proactive attitude,
‘satisfaction-assuring’ abilities,
Screening abilities (to properly channelise the calls to proper person up the ladder)
Etc… etc….
The coordinator said he had two years of experience at “training” students/candidates for manning call centers. I at once proceeded to bring out the distinction between “training” and “teaching” ! One can ‘train’ even an animal, but to teach, you need a ‘human’ being as a student! Even with animals, after training, the circus animals happen to fascinatingly impress the audience much more than the ‘content-value’ of the sniffer-dogs that are trained by police personnels! One interesting aspect about training a police dog is that the well trained dog happens to always excel the trainer himself, for obvious reasons of highly enhanced, and more importantly, un-adulterated perception abilities gifted by nature! Since the dogs are trained, not taught, they can be fooled/misled/deceived by an expert criminal !
And, the apathy of us moderners, is that, we inadvertently end up training our children at handling life’s routines, instead of teaching them, and even ‘boast’ of having groomed them, with good ‘up-bringing’ skills! Here lies one of the clues to the puzzling lack of respect for ‘elders’ when children happen to ‘stand’ on their own, facing real-life situations! The lasting effect of elderly care is relative to what we teach, empowering children to handle any situation, out of the resourcefulness that they can enrich themselves with, when we teach them the ‘learning’ skills well ! We get repaid in the response we receive as their ‘elders’ at a later stage when we ‘retire’ from active life!
Dramatic examples occurred to me during the discussions, to effectively communicate the concepts involved in acquiring communicative skills, customer-retention-skills, seamless transportation of customers to that ‘comfort-zone’ affording an assurance of personalized care response, etc… Despite intense temptations to mention those examples, the elaborate narrative involved in them bringing out , deters me here. For instance, I used real life instances where a person stands at the entrance of a garment shop shouting at the crowd, modulating the voice to barely resemble a warm welcome, where as the noise of road-traffic compels a shrill full-throated audibility-oriented scream! These persons, I explained, end up as shout-centers, as a contrast to the telephone-call-receiving call center person! A good mother, is an example of an expert call-center-jobber, when she identifies/diagnosis the correct reason for each of those instances when the baby gives the same pattern of ‘crying’ call to get the attention (whether it is hunger, sleep, nappy-wetting, insect bite, physical discomfort due to sweat, stuffy clothing, etc.. etc…). However, it is not very wise, to ‘train’ a child to use ‘crying’ as the only means of attracting a mother’s attention, because the child may remain stuck to that stupid trait, even after growing into verbal communication abilities!
I gently summed up saying that I was ‘practically’ better taught into ‘how to end up as a “shut-up-center”….’ for nearly 12 years, so , maybe, I was not very much suited to be consulted about setting up a ‘call-center’ (mentally I recalled all those ‘silence-programs’ I had attended, during the spiritual-oriented Yoga programs I had attended).
That friend in turn summed up, and doing so, he hinted at persuading me to conduct a seminar for the students when the call center becomes functional! (And, I was wondering, if they really knew what it means, to call something a “seminar” ! The origin or the ‘root’ of the word, and its choice, incidentally, happens to prove, yet once again, the ‘uniqueness’ of the priceless gift to humans, the awareness, using which, we have evolved far beyond using the reproductive organs for merely the primitive procreation or rather preservation of our species ! Oh! Mercifully enough, they did not or could not wait to hear this elaboration! The dictionary says, “ a group of advanced students working in a specific subject of study under a teacher’.. … meaning, they are ‘prepared’ to be implanted with a ‘seed’ about a deeper topic, …….. like the present marriage laws suggest, the ideal age of marriage for a girl to be atleast 18, healthy enough to contain a seed !)
Obviously, the present tie-up is with just two modest companies, who perhaps cannot even afford the expenses of a very preliminary process of recruitment of their own! And the course-coordinator who accompanied this friend was ‘hooked’ up to stake a one-hour meet session, with me, just because he has already invested his commitment with this friend, for setting up a training center!
The discussion , for me , turned out to be a very ‘refreshing’ experience!
It lasted for an hour (very short period, by the usual sessions that I normally enjoy (!) at the expense of others(!), because they had to race against time to keep other appointments, having overshot their own allotted time-slot with me!
They produced a brief write up, defining a call centre, its uses, and then summing up with Job opportunities.
I suggested to turn it upside down in presentation to start with “Job Opportunities” to entice the reader to move further. Like….
“ MNC’s need YOU,
to make available,
a virtual help desk at the door step for their
prospective customers, clients, buyers (as an after sales service ) etc…
if, you have good,
communication skills,
proactive attitude,
‘satisfaction-assuring’ abilities,
Screening abilities (to properly channelise the calls to proper person up the ladder)
Etc… etc….
The coordinator said he had two years of experience at “training” students/candidates for manning call centers. I at once proceeded to bring out the distinction between “training” and “teaching” ! One can ‘train’ even an animal, but to teach, you need a ‘human’ being as a student! Even with animals, after training, the circus animals happen to fascinatingly impress the audience much more than the ‘content-value’ of the sniffer-dogs that are trained by police personnels! One interesting aspect about training a police dog is that the well trained dog happens to always excel the trainer himself, for obvious reasons of highly enhanced, and more importantly, un-adulterated perception abilities gifted by nature! Since the dogs are trained, not taught, they can be fooled/misled/deceived by an expert criminal !
And, the apathy of us moderners, is that, we inadvertently end up training our children at handling life’s routines, instead of teaching them, and even ‘boast’ of having groomed them, with good ‘up-bringing’ skills! Here lies one of the clues to the puzzling lack of respect for ‘elders’ when children happen to ‘stand’ on their own, facing real-life situations! The lasting effect of elderly care is relative to what we teach, empowering children to handle any situation, out of the resourcefulness that they can enrich themselves with, when we teach them the ‘learning’ skills well ! We get repaid in the response we receive as their ‘elders’ at a later stage when we ‘retire’ from active life!
Dramatic examples occurred to me during the discussions, to effectively communicate the concepts involved in acquiring communicative skills, customer-retention-skills, seamless transportation of customers to that ‘comfort-zone’ affording an assurance of personalized care response, etc… Despite intense temptations to mention those examples, the elaborate narrative involved in them bringing out , deters me here. For instance, I used real life instances where a person stands at the entrance of a garment shop shouting at the crowd, modulating the voice to barely resemble a warm welcome, where as the noise of road-traffic compels a shrill full-throated audibility-oriented scream! These persons, I explained, end up as shout-centers, as a contrast to the telephone-call-receiving call center person! A good mother, is an example of an expert call-center-jobber, when she identifies/diagnosis the correct reason for each of those instances when the baby gives the same pattern of ‘crying’ call to get the attention (whether it is hunger, sleep, nappy-wetting, insect bite, physical discomfort due to sweat, stuffy clothing, etc.. etc…). However, it is not very wise, to ‘train’ a child to use ‘crying’ as the only means of attracting a mother’s attention, because the child may remain stuck to that stupid trait, even after growing into verbal communication abilities!
I gently summed up saying that I was ‘practically’ better taught into ‘how to end up as a “shut-up-center”….’ for nearly 12 years, so , maybe, I was not very much suited to be consulted about setting up a ‘call-center’ (mentally I recalled all those ‘silence-programs’ I had attended, during the spiritual-oriented Yoga programs I had attended).
That friend in turn summed up, and doing so, he hinted at persuading me to conduct a seminar for the students when the call center becomes functional! (And, I was wondering, if they really knew what it means, to call something a “seminar” ! The origin or the ‘root’ of the word, and its choice, incidentally, happens to prove, yet once again, the ‘uniqueness’ of the priceless gift to humans, the awareness, using which, we have evolved far beyond using the reproductive organs for merely the primitive procreation or rather preservation of our species ! Oh! Mercifully enough, they did not or could not wait to hear this elaboration! The dictionary says, “ a group of advanced students working in a specific subject of study under a teacher’.. … meaning, they are ‘prepared’ to be implanted with a ‘seed’ about a deeper topic, …….. like the present marriage laws suggest, the ideal age of marriage for a girl to be atleast 18, healthy enough to contain a seed !)
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Perhaps a Bridge to spirituality?
We are always fascinated by things which seem 'out of natural' !
Ancient Indian Masters, the sages, the saints had spent life times exploring the possibility of experiences beyond sensory level of perception.
I felt fortunate when I received the following though an email-forward. I felt it would be good to make it available to those who care to glance through this blog page.
Please do read it and give it a thought!
Maybe, perhaps, etc........ Our ancient Mantras, blessings, that "tathaasthu" etc could have been really with some purpose! That 'Jaatakaranam, Naamakaranam,' .... oh! that endless list.
Well, UNLESS perception is deep enough, way beyond sensory levels, better to leave it to an OPEN mind to explore for oneself!
If inclined, I would really appreciate comments/views/opinions!Regards,
PSN
quote:
Russian Human Genome Project discovers Extraterrestrial abilities to modify DNA through a "biological internet"http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2007/05/15/01569.htmlby Mary Rodwell [Excerpted]Some recent Russian DNA discoveries documented by Grazyna Fosar and Franz Bludorf in their book Vernetzte Intelligenz have been summarised by Baerbel. `The human DNA is a biological Internet' with evidence that DNA can be `influenced and reprogrammed by words and frequencies.' This suggests that `our DNA is not only responsible for the construction of our body, but also serves as data storage and communication.' The Russian scientists and linguists have found that the genetic code `follows the same rules as all our human languages.' In effect, human language did not appear coincidentally but is a reflection of our DNA.The Russian researchers believe that `Living chromosomes function just like a holographic computer using endogenous DNA laser radiation. This means that they managed to modulate certain frequency patterns (sound) onto a laser-like ray which influence DNA frequency and thus the genetic information itself. Since the basic structure of DNA-alkaline pairs and language is of the same structure, no DNA decoding is necessary. One can simply use words and sentences of the human language! This, too, was experimentally proven!' Of course the frequency has to be correct. But for the purposes of this article, the Russian research shows how science now can demonstrate a way to reprogram DNA through language and frequencies."Experiencers" who manifest unusual languages, such as Rochelle (see the video Expressions of ET Contact: A Communication and Healing Blueprint?) call these `soul languages'. Rochelle vocalises them when doing energy work and healing. Healing with sound and frequencies takes on a new meaning in this context. It could mean that Rochelle and others like her may well intuitively be able to change or reprogram DNA though such frequencies while healing. We already know that our subconscious is affected by subliminal frequencies and hypnosis, and the Russian research may have given us a scientific explanation why such techniques work so well. The question is whether the specific frequencies of these languages are designed to affect orreprogram our human DNA? This may well give us grounds for reviewing ancient texts in regards to our origins.The Russian DNA research article coincidentally mentions the changes in our children in terms of group consciousness. They comment that `if humans with full individuality would regain group consciousness they would have a godlike power to create, alter and shape things on Earth and humanity is collectively moving towards a group consciousness of a new kind.' They state that `fifty percent of children will become a problem as soon as they go to school, since the system lumps everyone together and demands adjustment. But the individuality of today's children is so strong that they refuse this adjustment and resist giving up their idiosyncrasies. … At the same time more and more clairvoyant children are being born. Something in those children is striving more towards group consciousness of a new kind and it can no longer be suppressed.'Are the Russian researchers in fact referring to what is now called the ADD (attention deficit disorder) child? Unfortunately, because there is no funded global research it's hard to gain accurate statistics. But, if the process of labelling children as ADD is an indicator of this phenomenon, then we are indeed evolving at an astounding rate.The global perspective and more pieces fit the puzzle: Science, anthropology, theology, archaeology and the kids.This short article entitled `Learning to communicate with extraterrestrials: young children in India-China Himalaya use strange sign language' appeared on the website of India Daily (29 Jan 2005) by a staff reporter:`In the deep region of Himalayas, people are reporting strange behaviours in children. The children are using sign languages which are unknown to their families and anyone around. Many of the children draw pictures of triangular objects flying in the sky. Many of them do not know what they saw and how they learnt these sign languages. Some in the region of Aksai Chin believe that these children regularly communicate with the extraterrestrials who are only visible to these children and communicate via telepathy. The children learn the sign language to communicate back to these beings. According to UFO research materials, some Mexican children also manifest similar behaviour, when many in the area reported for a long time UFO sightings. … According to some teachers in the schools in that area, young children are extra agile and extra talented these days. Their problem solving skills have increased and they are much more disciplined. They continually use a strange sign language among themselves. However they cannot teach this language to adults! The locals in the area believe UFOs have been visiting the area for thousands of years. It stopped for a while and now it has started again.' (See: www.indiadaily.com)Families have contacted me from all over the globe, not only from Australia, Europe, North and South America, but Asia and Russia, and all describe children advanced from the norm in psychological and physical development and with exceptional psychic abilities.In Mexico City these same "New Humans" have begun to emerge, and it is said that over 1000 children are able to `see' with various parts of their bodies. In some countries, government agencies interested in such children are actively researching the phenomenon. China has a program for investigating children with similar abilities, which is taken very seriously by the Chinese Government in Beijing. The book China's Super Psychics by Paul Dong and Thomas Raffill describes children with exceptional human functioning (EHF) who display similar patterns to Indigo or Starchildren. They, too, are very psychic and intuitive, for example some have the ability to open flower buds by thought alone. And like the Mexican children, many have shown an ability to see with other parts of their bodies. They display telekinetic abilities as well as other fascinating multi-dimensional skills, such as sensing another's thoughts (telepathy). It has also been reported that the Chinese government has observed these children changing the human DNA molecule in a petri dish before cameras and scientific equipment to record this supposedly impossible feat. We have no evidence to prove that these abilities are the result of extraterrestrial interventions. But, given the fact that the Chinese government is very secretive, this may well be something they do not feel ready to share. However, I am told that the Chinese are extremely interested in the UFO phenomenon and take it very seriously.More pieces of the puzzleAlthough I can't cover all my research in this article, I can give the reader some points to ponder. The late Francis Crick, Nobel Prize winner, co-discoverer of the shape of the DNA molecule and author of Life Itself, made the astounding claim `that an advanced civilization transported the seeds of life in a spacecraft'! One wonders what led him to such an incredible conclusion. References in religious and biblical texts certainly raise questions as to our real origins. Anthropology still can't explain how we changed or morphed so dramatically from Neanderthal to Homo sapiens and the missing link has not been discovered or explanations given on how the developmental gap was bridged. Biblical scholar, Zecheria Sitchin, author of the Earth Chronicles suggests such answers could lie in ancient religious texts, such as the Bible. According to Sitchen, the Bible is a condensed rendering of ancient Sumerian and Akkadian texts. From his research he believes that Homo sapiens was a "genetic upgrade" of existing hominids which was undertaken by extraterrestrial beings called the Nephilim who came to Earth 450,000 years ago. Indigenous tribes worldwide have within their oral history that they are visited by sky beings and are being genetically upgraded. The Dogan tribe (African Mali Tribe) call the star visitors the Nummo, an alien species which came from Sirius and genetically upgraded humans when they came to Earth. The Aborigines of Australia also talk of the sky beings Wandjina, who made them and gave them laws to live by.For those who seek to explore, there are many such anomalies in archaeological, anthropological, religious and spiritual texts that must guide the thinking person to question what we are educated to believe in terms of our origins and genetic heritage. But, the most compelling evidence comes from the testimony of children, many of them not old enough to read. It's information so profound one has to wonder how and where they obtained it. Mike Oram ("experiencer") resides in the United Kingdom. He told me that he was only 4 years old when he told his mother that there was no such thing as death. His mother disagreed, but Mike said `the Universe goes on for eternity and it's not true that we no longer play a part in the Universe. We come back.' `I was too young to know the word reincarnation', he said. `I then shocked her by saying "You are not my real parents, my parents are in space, and something of incredible importance will happen in this planet and it will affect all levels of consciousness, it will not happen in your life time but it will in mine." My poor mother never forgot that conversation' (Mike Oram).Colin Wilson in Alien Dawn (1998) wrote that not long before Andrija Puharich's death he asked him what he was working on. `Paranormal children', he said: `You wouldn't believe how many of these kids are out there, they seem to be at genius level. I know dozens, and there are probably thousands.' Wilson concludes, `And this, I suspect is the beginning of the change that the UFOs are working on' (p.309).Unfortunately many such phenomena are only recognised through a particular discipline's limited field of study, and this sadly narrows the perspective. There is no doubt that, for some, the extraterrestrial hypothesis is a hard one to swallow. But even if (for now) we interpret this data from a desire to understand why we may be evolving so rapidly, as this research suggests, we need to be open to all possibilities. Even if the puzzle is just perceived as another way of understanding ourselves, the question remains that, if we are evolving at an accelerated rate than cannot be explained in normal evolutionary terms, how and why is it happening?Are "starchildren", "New Humans", Indigos and smart kids, etc., one and the same phenomenon? If they are, then the extraterrestrial hypothesis makes more sense. After all, it is ludicrous for the thinking person to believe we are the only intelligent life in the universe, given the vastness of space. And it is logical to believe that some of those other life forms may have evolved sufficiently to be able to visit us, even if how they travel here may be beyond our current scientific understanding.The hypothesis of extraterrestrial reality is not only possible but also probable and explains many anomalies in our origins, our mythology and religions. Certainly, if what experiencers and indigenous people tell us is true, we have a very intimate and on-going relationship with the visitors, in addition to a common gene pool. This would certainly explain their continuing interest and participation in our evolutionary development.The primitive and aggressive nature of Homo sapiens, armed with technology to destroy not only each other but our beautiful planet, may well be why these ET ancestors have decided to accelerate humanity's evolutionary upgrade program. A "New Human" with multi-level awareness of our cosmic connection to all that is, may well be the only way we will finally appreciate what we have, change our behaviour, and grow up to take full responsibility for ourselves and this beautiful planet.The starchildren could be an integral part of this wake up call and it may be that through them we are being led to an understanding of this profound connection.`Human beings are here to remember themselves, with conscious awareness and with complete understanding of their innate connection to the Universe.' — T. Taylor.If quantum theory is correct, science can't disagree that we are indeed connected to everything, including our extraterrestrial visitors! `To them we are the aliens!' — Jess, (8 years old, Western Australia). What can I say: `Out of the mouths of babes'
Ancient Indian Masters, the sages, the saints had spent life times exploring the possibility of experiences beyond sensory level of perception.
I felt fortunate when I received the following though an email-forward. I felt it would be good to make it available to those who care to glance through this blog page.
Please do read it and give it a thought!
Maybe, perhaps, etc........ Our ancient Mantras, blessings, that "tathaasthu" etc could have been really with some purpose! That 'Jaatakaranam, Naamakaranam,' .... oh! that endless list.
Well, UNLESS perception is deep enough, way beyond sensory levels, better to leave it to an OPEN mind to explore for oneself!
If inclined, I would really appreciate comments/views/opinions!Regards,
PSN
quote:
Russian Human Genome Project discovers Extraterrestrial abilities to modify DNA through a "biological internet"http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2007/05/15/01569.htmlby Mary Rodwell [Excerpted]Some recent Russian DNA discoveries documented by Grazyna Fosar and Franz Bludorf in their book Vernetzte Intelligenz have been summarised by Baerbel. `The human DNA is a biological Internet' with evidence that DNA can be `influenced and reprogrammed by words and frequencies.' This suggests that `our DNA is not only responsible for the construction of our body, but also serves as data storage and communication.' The Russian scientists and linguists have found that the genetic code `follows the same rules as all our human languages.' In effect, human language did not appear coincidentally but is a reflection of our DNA.The Russian researchers believe that `Living chromosomes function just like a holographic computer using endogenous DNA laser radiation. This means that they managed to modulate certain frequency patterns (sound) onto a laser-like ray which influence DNA frequency and thus the genetic information itself. Since the basic structure of DNA-alkaline pairs and language is of the same structure, no DNA decoding is necessary. One can simply use words and sentences of the human language! This, too, was experimentally proven!' Of course the frequency has to be correct. But for the purposes of this article, the Russian research shows how science now can demonstrate a way to reprogram DNA through language and frequencies."Experiencers" who manifest unusual languages, such as Rochelle (see the video Expressions of ET Contact: A Communication and Healing Blueprint?) call these `soul languages'. Rochelle vocalises them when doing energy work and healing. Healing with sound and frequencies takes on a new meaning in this context. It could mean that Rochelle and others like her may well intuitively be able to change or reprogram DNA though such frequencies while healing. We already know that our subconscious is affected by subliminal frequencies and hypnosis, and the Russian research may have given us a scientific explanation why such techniques work so well. The question is whether the specific frequencies of these languages are designed to affect orreprogram our human DNA? This may well give us grounds for reviewing ancient texts in regards to our origins.The Russian DNA research article coincidentally mentions the changes in our children in terms of group consciousness. They comment that `if humans with full individuality would regain group consciousness they would have a godlike power to create, alter and shape things on Earth and humanity is collectively moving towards a group consciousness of a new kind.' They state that `fifty percent of children will become a problem as soon as they go to school, since the system lumps everyone together and demands adjustment. But the individuality of today's children is so strong that they refuse this adjustment and resist giving up their idiosyncrasies. … At the same time more and more clairvoyant children are being born. Something in those children is striving more towards group consciousness of a new kind and it can no longer be suppressed.'Are the Russian researchers in fact referring to what is now called the ADD (attention deficit disorder) child? Unfortunately, because there is no funded global research it's hard to gain accurate statistics. But, if the process of labelling children as ADD is an indicator of this phenomenon, then we are indeed evolving at an astounding rate.The global perspective and more pieces fit the puzzle: Science, anthropology, theology, archaeology and the kids.This short article entitled `Learning to communicate with extraterrestrials: young children in India-China Himalaya use strange sign language' appeared on the website of India Daily (29 Jan 2005) by a staff reporter:`In the deep region of Himalayas, people are reporting strange behaviours in children. The children are using sign languages which are unknown to their families and anyone around. Many of the children draw pictures of triangular objects flying in the sky. Many of them do not know what they saw and how they learnt these sign languages. Some in the region of Aksai Chin believe that these children regularly communicate with the extraterrestrials who are only visible to these children and communicate via telepathy. The children learn the sign language to communicate back to these beings. According to UFO research materials, some Mexican children also manifest similar behaviour, when many in the area reported for a long time UFO sightings. … According to some teachers in the schools in that area, young children are extra agile and extra talented these days. Their problem solving skills have increased and they are much more disciplined. They continually use a strange sign language among themselves. However they cannot teach this language to adults! The locals in the area believe UFOs have been visiting the area for thousands of years. It stopped for a while and now it has started again.' (See: www.indiadaily.com)Families have contacted me from all over the globe, not only from Australia, Europe, North and South America, but Asia and Russia, and all describe children advanced from the norm in psychological and physical development and with exceptional psychic abilities.In Mexico City these same "New Humans" have begun to emerge, and it is said that over 1000 children are able to `see' with various parts of their bodies. In some countries, government agencies interested in such children are actively researching the phenomenon. China has a program for investigating children with similar abilities, which is taken very seriously by the Chinese Government in Beijing. The book China's Super Psychics by Paul Dong and Thomas Raffill describes children with exceptional human functioning (EHF) who display similar patterns to Indigo or Starchildren. They, too, are very psychic and intuitive, for example some have the ability to open flower buds by thought alone. And like the Mexican children, many have shown an ability to see with other parts of their bodies. They display telekinetic abilities as well as other fascinating multi-dimensional skills, such as sensing another's thoughts (telepathy). It has also been reported that the Chinese government has observed these children changing the human DNA molecule in a petri dish before cameras and scientific equipment to record this supposedly impossible feat. We have no evidence to prove that these abilities are the result of extraterrestrial interventions. But, given the fact that the Chinese government is very secretive, this may well be something they do not feel ready to share. However, I am told that the Chinese are extremely interested in the UFO phenomenon and take it very seriously.More pieces of the puzzleAlthough I can't cover all my research in this article, I can give the reader some points to ponder. The late Francis Crick, Nobel Prize winner, co-discoverer of the shape of the DNA molecule and author of Life Itself, made the astounding claim `that an advanced civilization transported the seeds of life in a spacecraft'! One wonders what led him to such an incredible conclusion. References in religious and biblical texts certainly raise questions as to our real origins. Anthropology still can't explain how we changed or morphed so dramatically from Neanderthal to Homo sapiens and the missing link has not been discovered or explanations given on how the developmental gap was bridged. Biblical scholar, Zecheria Sitchin, author of the Earth Chronicles suggests such answers could lie in ancient religious texts, such as the Bible. According to Sitchen, the Bible is a condensed rendering of ancient Sumerian and Akkadian texts. From his research he believes that Homo sapiens was a "genetic upgrade" of existing hominids which was undertaken by extraterrestrial beings called the Nephilim who came to Earth 450,000 years ago. Indigenous tribes worldwide have within their oral history that they are visited by sky beings and are being genetically upgraded. The Dogan tribe (African Mali Tribe) call the star visitors the Nummo, an alien species which came from Sirius and genetically upgraded humans when they came to Earth. The Aborigines of Australia also talk of the sky beings Wandjina, who made them and gave them laws to live by.For those who seek to explore, there are many such anomalies in archaeological, anthropological, religious and spiritual texts that must guide the thinking person to question what we are educated to believe in terms of our origins and genetic heritage. But, the most compelling evidence comes from the testimony of children, many of them not old enough to read. It's information so profound one has to wonder how and where they obtained it. Mike Oram ("experiencer") resides in the United Kingdom. He told me that he was only 4 years old when he told his mother that there was no such thing as death. His mother disagreed, but Mike said `the Universe goes on for eternity and it's not true that we no longer play a part in the Universe. We come back.' `I was too young to know the word reincarnation', he said. `I then shocked her by saying "You are not my real parents, my parents are in space, and something of incredible importance will happen in this planet and it will affect all levels of consciousness, it will not happen in your life time but it will in mine." My poor mother never forgot that conversation' (Mike Oram).Colin Wilson in Alien Dawn (1998) wrote that not long before Andrija Puharich's death he asked him what he was working on. `Paranormal children', he said: `You wouldn't believe how many of these kids are out there, they seem to be at genius level. I know dozens, and there are probably thousands.' Wilson concludes, `And this, I suspect is the beginning of the change that the UFOs are working on' (p.309).Unfortunately many such phenomena are only recognised through a particular discipline's limited field of study, and this sadly narrows the perspective. There is no doubt that, for some, the extraterrestrial hypothesis is a hard one to swallow. But even if (for now) we interpret this data from a desire to understand why we may be evolving so rapidly, as this research suggests, we need to be open to all possibilities. Even if the puzzle is just perceived as another way of understanding ourselves, the question remains that, if we are evolving at an accelerated rate than cannot be explained in normal evolutionary terms, how and why is it happening?Are "starchildren", "New Humans", Indigos and smart kids, etc., one and the same phenomenon? If they are, then the extraterrestrial hypothesis makes more sense. After all, it is ludicrous for the thinking person to believe we are the only intelligent life in the universe, given the vastness of space. And it is logical to believe that some of those other life forms may have evolved sufficiently to be able to visit us, even if how they travel here may be beyond our current scientific understanding.The hypothesis of extraterrestrial reality is not only possible but also probable and explains many anomalies in our origins, our mythology and religions. Certainly, if what experiencers and indigenous people tell us is true, we have a very intimate and on-going relationship with the visitors, in addition to a common gene pool. This would certainly explain their continuing interest and participation in our evolutionary development.The primitive and aggressive nature of Homo sapiens, armed with technology to destroy not only each other but our beautiful planet, may well be why these ET ancestors have decided to accelerate humanity's evolutionary upgrade program. A "New Human" with multi-level awareness of our cosmic connection to all that is, may well be the only way we will finally appreciate what we have, change our behaviour, and grow up to take full responsibility for ourselves and this beautiful planet.The starchildren could be an integral part of this wake up call and it may be that through them we are being led to an understanding of this profound connection.`Human beings are here to remember themselves, with conscious awareness and with complete understanding of their innate connection to the Universe.' — T. Taylor.If quantum theory is correct, science can't disagree that we are indeed connected to everything, including our extraterrestrial visitors! `To them we are the aliens!' — Jess, (8 years old, Western Australia). What can I say: `Out of the mouths of babes'
Monday, October 23, 2006
Love Death & Life ?
the question...
" True or not true?
Those who truly love life;aren't afraid to lose it.tell me why its true or not ... "
This question never fails to fascinate me...
So, once again I attempt to look at it..
Any feedback , after-thought, short falls, comments ?
Regards,
PSN
I quote the answer I gave....
TRUE ! A simple way to understand this would be to just say that a person who lives a contended life, has no expectations from it, and is therefore in a deep state of acceptance to also accept death cheerfully ! For the more inquisitive,......Once a person can experience life in its fullest dimension, he experiences everything around as a part of himself. He experiences the unlimited nature of his 'self' . For such a person there is no death. It looks like a contradiction, but the only way to understand this is through experience ! This person has experienced the true meaning of death.... it is the absence of life, like darkness is just absence of light and cold is just absence of heat etc... The fear of death can go only with the experience of what it is ! There are time-tested traditional practices to teach this. It can happen even casually, unexpectedly, unawares also to anyone who comes close to death like situation, and mind also ceases for a while, but rare and the experience might create more doubts than clarity , since it happened without preparation of mind, and sharing produces less support , being unique and rare, and less acceptable with a vast majority of scientific , logical people around
" True or not true?
Those who truly love life;aren't afraid to lose it.tell me why its true or not ... "
This question never fails to fascinate me...
So, once again I attempt to look at it..
Any feedback , after-thought, short falls, comments ?
Regards,
PSN
I quote the answer I gave....
TRUE ! A simple way to understand this would be to just say that a person who lives a contended life, has no expectations from it, and is therefore in a deep state of acceptance to also accept death cheerfully ! For the more inquisitive,......Once a person can experience life in its fullest dimension, he experiences everything around as a part of himself. He experiences the unlimited nature of his 'self' . For such a person there is no death. It looks like a contradiction, but the only way to understand this is through experience ! This person has experienced the true meaning of death.... it is the absence of life, like darkness is just absence of light and cold is just absence of heat etc... The fear of death can go only with the experience of what it is ! There are time-tested traditional practices to teach this. It can happen even casually, unexpectedly, unawares also to anyone who comes close to death like situation, and mind also ceases for a while, but rare and the experience might create more doubts than clarity , since it happened without preparation of mind, and sharing produces less support , being unique and rare, and less acceptable with a vast majority of scientific , logical people around
Sunday, October 08, 2006
Marriage
I was waiting for the next available bus eager to make the journey !
Such was the eagerness, so I decided to take up the earliest question that even 'just touches' the subject. Please read on, and be sure to give your welcome, awaited comments/feedback, and if desirous, the email id too.
Quote:
Question:
what you think is love marrige is good or arrang marrige is good?
Its true that everywhere is misteks and for that mistake some one shoud be punishid or repay for that.In the arrange marrige where the family mambers take the resposibility to serch the would be new faimly member,they did there best.But if they make any worange desicion then two live, to family compleatly disturbed and a bitterness take place in relation.Being an advocate I myself seen many divorce cases and broaken families.Just a question came in the mind who is resposable to thes thing.Why in socity the person who is going to marry ,why can not take there dicison?but there are also example in society where love marrige too break?thus I want to know what you feel as a society member what the mode of it sould be and why?
My Answer:
Please go to the very basics to understand this. The very early man of ancient days did not need marriage at all ! Reproduction was a natural instinct, and nature allowed it by just satisfying one condition, like in animals, the reproductive age ! Only when self-awareness enhanced, man consciously decided to excercise a choice , now driven by a desire for REFINEMENT !From there on the level of evolvement decided the level of refinement desired, and accordingly more and more selectivity crept in. It reached peaks where, some cultures understood the consciousness, life process, so well, out of deeper perception, that they could clearly perceive the purpose of birth, and very very consciously(much much deeper, than a normal, rational , logical thinking can reach ! ) chose to decide about it far early(even about child marriage) , and so out of tremendous sense of responsibility , prescribed very stringent rules of selectivity criteria for marriage to maximise the possibility of such couples to not only reach peak levels of spirituality, but also to ensure greater progeny of similar types ! In doing so, they could maximise the compatibility of a deeper purpose of life between couples. All this process reduced the original purpose of reproduction to least of importance, though an essentially needed one ! This process not only improved over a period of time, but also sustained for good few centuries !When values were lost, cultural degeneration happened, the capability to understand the intrinsic values of these 'seemingly blind restrictions ' got lessened, the youngsters started questioning the very process ! The questioning is very well justified. The understanding of answers depends upon ability to have deeper level of perception, as well as knowledge of the person giving the answers !Today, those who adhere to traditional methods of 'arranged' marriages do so mostly out of blind faith , this blind faith seeks a consolation from the logical conclusion that "so many ancient people doing it for so long a time could not have gone wrong, or could not have done it without a good reason" ! Such borrowed intelligence is very difficult to LEAN upon when dealing with modern scientific minds !So, if the capability of understanding the purpose of refinement is lost, it is better to go to the basic purpose of just reproduction(like the primitive men), and do not STUPIDLY deprive oneself of ATLEAST the primitive desires and pleasures of mating, according to one's own choice , driven by superficial appearances of beauty ! Any conscious restriction imposed voluntarily on oneself, in any manner, is, to always achieve a refinement in personal characteristics , which ever way you look at it, what ever the situation it is applied to !Choice of birth, the toughest , most complex, most mystic, too was harnessed by intellectual and spiritual excellence by the ancient masters, churning out a well defined methodology ! So, obviously, it also has to be the most difficult of all things to perceive !
Such was the eagerness, so I decided to take up the earliest question that even 'just touches' the subject. Please read on, and be sure to give your welcome, awaited comments/feedback, and if desirous, the email id too.
Quote:
Question:
what you think is love marrige is good or arrang marrige is good?
Its true that everywhere is misteks and for that mistake some one shoud be punishid or repay for that.In the arrange marrige where the family mambers take the resposibility to serch the would be new faimly member,they did there best.But if they make any worange desicion then two live, to family compleatly disturbed and a bitterness take place in relation.Being an advocate I myself seen many divorce cases and broaken families.Just a question came in the mind who is resposable to thes thing.Why in socity the person who is going to marry ,why can not take there dicison?but there are also example in society where love marrige too break?thus I want to know what you feel as a society member what the mode of it sould be and why?
My Answer:
Please go to the very basics to understand this. The very early man of ancient days did not need marriage at all ! Reproduction was a natural instinct, and nature allowed it by just satisfying one condition, like in animals, the reproductive age ! Only when self-awareness enhanced, man consciously decided to excercise a choice , now driven by a desire for REFINEMENT !From there on the level of evolvement decided the level of refinement desired, and accordingly more and more selectivity crept in. It reached peaks where, some cultures understood the consciousness, life process, so well, out of deeper perception, that they could clearly perceive the purpose of birth, and very very consciously(much much deeper, than a normal, rational , logical thinking can reach ! ) chose to decide about it far early(even about child marriage) , and so out of tremendous sense of responsibility , prescribed very stringent rules of selectivity criteria for marriage to maximise the possibility of such couples to not only reach peak levels of spirituality, but also to ensure greater progeny of similar types ! In doing so, they could maximise the compatibility of a deeper purpose of life between couples. All this process reduced the original purpose of reproduction to least of importance, though an essentially needed one ! This process not only improved over a period of time, but also sustained for good few centuries !When values were lost, cultural degeneration happened, the capability to understand the intrinsic values of these 'seemingly blind restrictions ' got lessened, the youngsters started questioning the very process ! The questioning is very well justified. The understanding of answers depends upon ability to have deeper level of perception, as well as knowledge of the person giving the answers !Today, those who adhere to traditional methods of 'arranged' marriages do so mostly out of blind faith , this blind faith seeks a consolation from the logical conclusion that "so many ancient people doing it for so long a time could not have gone wrong, or could not have done it without a good reason" ! Such borrowed intelligence is very difficult to LEAN upon when dealing with modern scientific minds !So, if the capability of understanding the purpose of refinement is lost, it is better to go to the basic purpose of just reproduction(like the primitive men), and do not STUPIDLY deprive oneself of ATLEAST the primitive desires and pleasures of mating, according to one's own choice , driven by superficial appearances of beauty ! Any conscious restriction imposed voluntarily on oneself, in any manner, is, to always achieve a refinement in personal characteristics , which ever way you look at it, what ever the situation it is applied to !Choice of birth, the toughest , most complex, most mystic, too was harnessed by intellectual and spiritual excellence by the ancient masters, churning out a well defined methodology ! So, obviously, it also has to be the most difficult of all things to perceive !
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Comments by visitors
Some body ( Mr.Cliff K.D.) was kind enough to post a comment, and asked my views on the great JK,
But unfortunately, I could not get his email id.
Kindly give your e-mail id, when you expect a response from me.
Thanks.
But unfortunately, I could not get his email id.
Kindly give your e-mail id, when you expect a response from me.
Thanks.
Friday, July 28, 2006
Punish Child? Upbringing
An interesting question came up...
The asker was very sincere, concerned and genuine.
The question was,
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AgDE6s6_K0bN6puVws06pYDsy6IX?qid=20060727073832AAvL3pn
"How do I get my 9 year old son to listen?
He is a good kid at heart, however, he is very stubborn, argumentative and has a hard time following rules. And when he is punished he can't stick to his punishment.What would be good punishment? How do i nip this in the bud? "
My answer:
"9 years is not a bud ! It is half way through. Not like old times, the child-like innocence is lost very soon in this generation. No harm really, but parents are on a real fast-fast-forward, as far as nipping at the bud is concerned. And the sprawling media content offers tremendous transparency regarding many things that hitherto youths could find for themselves only when they are on their own.Punishment would only foster hatred. The vulnerability of society for a city bred child is by itself a punishment in many ways. We have to participate meaningfully, intensely, wholeheartedly, communicative, and cheerfully, as much as possible (that is if children are really our priority !), in all their activities, and suggest options, explaining the consequences of their choices, and not in the least of all, admit our ignorances and failures, honourably and gracefully. "
Please give your comments ...
The asker was very sincere, concerned and genuine.
The question was,
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AgDE6s6_K0bN6puVws06pYDsy6IX?qid=20060727073832AAvL3pn
"How do I get my 9 year old son to listen?
He is a good kid at heart, however, he is very stubborn, argumentative and has a hard time following rules. And when he is punished he can't stick to his punishment.What would be good punishment? How do i nip this in the bud? "
My answer:
"9 years is not a bud ! It is half way through. Not like old times, the child-like innocence is lost very soon in this generation. No harm really, but parents are on a real fast-fast-forward, as far as nipping at the bud is concerned. And the sprawling media content offers tremendous transparency regarding many things that hitherto youths could find for themselves only when they are on their own.Punishment would only foster hatred. The vulnerability of society for a city bred child is by itself a punishment in many ways. We have to participate meaningfully, intensely, wholeheartedly, communicative, and cheerfully, as much as possible (that is if children are really our priority !), in all their activities, and suggest options, explaining the consequences of their choices, and not in the least of all, admit our ignorances and failures, honourably and gracefully. "
Please give your comments ...
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Eye ? Aye, Aye Sir !
As I write this blog, I feel really excited...
A question came up , which I awaited for a long time....
I enjoyed replying, and wonder whether I took care to ensure that it must evoke further queries, because, I do enjoy discussing it often !
I quote below the question and the answer I gave:
Question:
http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060704055704AALZxYu&cp=2
Is it the eyes or the mind that see?
Lets assume eyes work the way science says. Surely your conditioning, knowledge and capacity for critical thinking reveals different aspects of simmilar input from person to person.
Answer:
I was really awaiting to 'see' this question, and was on the 'look-out' not to miss 'viewing' the question!! Thanks for asking....Also, a parallel question, where do you "hear" ? Well the answer is the same. The clue first.. (the clue would help really 'seeing/perceiving/looking-at/... the answer)... When you fall asleep, (mind you, some people CAN sleep with their EYES OPEN), how do you fail to hear(& perhaps see)?Now the answer... It is the energy in us (call it by any fanciful name like 'life', 'soul', spirit . .. anything), that actually enables us to use the organs to allow information to reach within us, where, as you rightly said, science will tell you which nerves etc will translate the message and compare it with your 'cognitive' faculties, compare / contrast etc with memory bank, and deliver it to the mind for its "judgement"(also called thoughts!).And shall I further raise a quarrel? A loose theory then(as I would like to call it!)......... What you ACTUALLY call as green MAY be my RED (as I see it) but we are comfortable, because all are TAUGHT to 'call' it so since we were toddlers !
A question came up , which I awaited for a long time....
I enjoyed replying, and wonder whether I took care to ensure that it must evoke further queries, because, I do enjoy discussing it often !
I quote below the question and the answer I gave:
Question:
http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060704055704AALZxYu&cp=2
Is it the eyes or the mind that see?
Lets assume eyes work the way science says. Surely your conditioning, knowledge and capacity for critical thinking reveals different aspects of simmilar input from person to person.
Answer:
I was really awaiting to 'see' this question, and was on the 'look-out' not to miss 'viewing' the question!! Thanks for asking....Also, a parallel question, where do you "hear" ? Well the answer is the same. The clue first.. (the clue would help really 'seeing/perceiving/looking-at/... the answer)... When you fall asleep, (mind you, some people CAN sleep with their EYES OPEN), how do you fail to hear(& perhaps see)?Now the answer... It is the energy in us (call it by any fanciful name like 'life', 'soul', spirit . .. anything), that actually enables us to use the organs to allow information to reach within us, where, as you rightly said, science will tell you which nerves etc will translate the message and compare it with your 'cognitive' faculties, compare / contrast etc with memory bank, and deliver it to the mind for its "judgement"(also called thoughts!).And shall I further raise a quarrel? A loose theory then(as I would like to call it!)......... What you ACTUALLY call as green MAY be my RED (as I see it) but we are comfortable, because all are TAUGHT to 'call' it so since we were toddlers !
Monday, July 03, 2006
Save a life or Lifetimes ?
One of the questions that tempted me to answer....
Quote:
have you ever saved anyones life?
My answer:
"Yes , it gives a tremendous boost to our ego..... But if you look deeper, real saving of anyones life happens when you help that person to understand(having understood for yourself first), the true purpose of life and help that person , persuade the person to work towards fulfulling it. I think this would save that person's MANY LIFETIMES (instead of just this life)!
Quote:
have you ever saved anyones life?
My answer:
"Yes , it gives a tremendous boost to our ego..... But if you look deeper, real saving of anyones life happens when you help that person to understand(having understood for yourself first), the true purpose of life and help that person , persuade the person to work towards fulfulling it. I think this would save that person's MANY LIFETIMES (instead of just this life)!
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Simple solution, not easy though !
I loved answering a very good question in Yahoo answers !
Please do send your comments to me.
I quote below the question and my answer:
Question:
Why are people so hate filled and angry here?
Why so much hate and intolerance here? Why so many horrible people spouting the worst things?
My answer:
Democracy and freedom has spread out at its best ever. The understanding of the true sense of it does not match the number of people who inherited it without deserving it. The price to be paid is learning it the hard way. Hate and anger is the only possibility when duty towards society cannot be implemented with the same emphasis with which freedom is sought to be enforced.
Please do send your comments to me.
I quote below the question and my answer:
Question:
Why are people so hate filled and angry here?
Why so much hate and intolerance here? Why so many horrible people spouting the worst things?
My answer:
Democracy and freedom has spread out at its best ever. The understanding of the true sense of it does not match the number of people who inherited it without deserving it. The price to be paid is learning it the hard way. Hate and anger is the only possibility when duty towards society cannot be implemented with the same emphasis with which freedom is sought to be enforced.
Monday, June 05, 2006
Re incarnation ?
This was a question which appeared in Yahoo answers... I too attempted and gave a brief answer... But the asker chose this one as a 'best answer'... Though elaborate, it gives a fair idea about it... But very difficult for logical reasoning mind to accept it on face value... yet worth reading..
QUOTE:
Rencarnation???
Do you think it is possible??? If so what do you think we may come back as????
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker
Why believe in Reincarnation?What exchanges old for new, offers no special deals or closeouts, and keeps us coming back for more?You were. You will be! Know this while you are. Reincarnation is the natural process of recycling human energy through birth, growth, decay and death. Each rebirth is a link in one's eternal chain of latent impressions, thoughts, desires and actions. The soul in its new body is given the opportunity to learn from the past, to live the present and to prepare for the future. Reincarnation: Why Believe?Once I have begun to base my sense of ‘who I am’ on perceiving myself as a soul rather than on perceiving only my temporary costume, the body, I deeply realize that, as a being of spiritual energy giving life to the body, I am immortal. I begin to understand that I change bodily costumes just as a snake sheds its skin, but I – the eternal soul – can never die.Death and RebirthAt the moment of physical death, the soul withdraws its energy from the organs of the body and vacates its seat in the middle of the forehead. It takes with it the impressions accumulated in that life and enters into the body of an unborn baby, while that new body is still being formed in its mother’s womb. This normally happens between the fourth and fifth month of pregnancy. A human soul only enters a human body. The type of body the soul enters and the conditions of birth are determined by the past actions of the soul in its previous life or lives, and the cumulative account of give and take that it has built up with other souls. Without proper understanding of this process, the leaving of one body and the taking of another is often an experience of great fear and anguish; but the details of the old life are soon obliterated by new experiences so that the soul is not overwhelmed and confused by past memories.Reincarnation: What You Take With YouBy the time the baby’s body and brain are developed, the soul has all but forgotten the past and become accustomed to its new conditions and to the parents of its new body. However, although the soul cannot usually remember details of its past life or lives, it carries with it—in the form of attitudes, tendencies and personality—the cumulative effect of all that it has experienced and learned. All that is genetically brought to the new life is the physical make-up of the body, the racial type, the colour of eyes, shape of nose and so on. And although the environment in which a child is raised – as well as the personalities of those around the child – definitely exert an influence on the child’s development, its tendencies and reactions to people and events are not biologically generated but are inherent in the soul from previous existences. Those predominant impressions recorded in the past life soon begin to manifest themselves and are expressed in the new surroundings.Relationship in Other LifetimesHuman life is based on inter–relationships between souls, which in turn are based on the different impressions present in each. These impressions determine the course of life, the nature of the soul’s activities and its physical placement in a particular environment. Thus there is typically a link or an ‘account’ between two souls who have formed a relationship in one lifetime; that link will bring them together again in other lifetimes. This explains why many people have the sense of having met or known a person before, even though they are apparently meeting for the first time. Or they experience meeting someone with the feeling of either attraction or repulsion even though they don’t know them well enough in the current life to have developed those feelings. What is taking place is that the soul is recognizing the other soul – even though they have different bodies – from the last time they met.Reincarnation: Process of RebirthReincarnation is a process of rebirth. With each death comes a new birth and the opening of a new chapter in the never ending story of life. With each new birth the soul carries on with its journey through eternity where it left off in terms of its ‘accounts’ in the previous birth. The soul is not the victim of an angry or vengeful God condemning it to a lifetime of deprivation or suffering for no apparent reason. The soul inherits a past created by its own self. The fact that the precise past causes for the circumstances of the new life are not apparent or visible does not mean that they don’t exist. In other words, a soul born in fortunate circumstances is not the recipient of God’s grace or blessings; rather it is reaping the reward of its own generous and beneficial actions done in the previous birth(s). Each soul is constantly experiencing the effect of some past action and also planting seeds to be reaped as some future fruit.The understanding of reincarnation reinforces, in meditation, the experience of my own immortality, my eternal existence as a soul. This is excellent medicine for many types of fear, anxiety and limited thinking.
Source(s):www.bkwsu.org
QUOTE:
Rencarnation???
Do you think it is possible??? If so what do you think we may come back as????
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker
Why believe in Reincarnation?What exchanges old for new, offers no special deals or closeouts, and keeps us coming back for more?You were. You will be! Know this while you are. Reincarnation is the natural process of recycling human energy through birth, growth, decay and death. Each rebirth is a link in one's eternal chain of latent impressions, thoughts, desires and actions. The soul in its new body is given the opportunity to learn from the past, to live the present and to prepare for the future. Reincarnation: Why Believe?Once I have begun to base my sense of ‘who I am’ on perceiving myself as a soul rather than on perceiving only my temporary costume, the body, I deeply realize that, as a being of spiritual energy giving life to the body, I am immortal. I begin to understand that I change bodily costumes just as a snake sheds its skin, but I – the eternal soul – can never die.Death and RebirthAt the moment of physical death, the soul withdraws its energy from the organs of the body and vacates its seat in the middle of the forehead. It takes with it the impressions accumulated in that life and enters into the body of an unborn baby, while that new body is still being formed in its mother’s womb. This normally happens between the fourth and fifth month of pregnancy. A human soul only enters a human body. The type of body the soul enters and the conditions of birth are determined by the past actions of the soul in its previous life or lives, and the cumulative account of give and take that it has built up with other souls. Without proper understanding of this process, the leaving of one body and the taking of another is often an experience of great fear and anguish; but the details of the old life are soon obliterated by new experiences so that the soul is not overwhelmed and confused by past memories.Reincarnation: What You Take With YouBy the time the baby’s body and brain are developed, the soul has all but forgotten the past and become accustomed to its new conditions and to the parents of its new body. However, although the soul cannot usually remember details of its past life or lives, it carries with it—in the form of attitudes, tendencies and personality—the cumulative effect of all that it has experienced and learned. All that is genetically brought to the new life is the physical make-up of the body, the racial type, the colour of eyes, shape of nose and so on. And although the environment in which a child is raised – as well as the personalities of those around the child – definitely exert an influence on the child’s development, its tendencies and reactions to people and events are not biologically generated but are inherent in the soul from previous existences. Those predominant impressions recorded in the past life soon begin to manifest themselves and are expressed in the new surroundings.Relationship in Other LifetimesHuman life is based on inter–relationships between souls, which in turn are based on the different impressions present in each. These impressions determine the course of life, the nature of the soul’s activities and its physical placement in a particular environment. Thus there is typically a link or an ‘account’ between two souls who have formed a relationship in one lifetime; that link will bring them together again in other lifetimes. This explains why many people have the sense of having met or known a person before, even though they are apparently meeting for the first time. Or they experience meeting someone with the feeling of either attraction or repulsion even though they don’t know them well enough in the current life to have developed those feelings. What is taking place is that the soul is recognizing the other soul – even though they have different bodies – from the last time they met.Reincarnation: Process of RebirthReincarnation is a process of rebirth. With each death comes a new birth and the opening of a new chapter in the never ending story of life. With each new birth the soul carries on with its journey through eternity where it left off in terms of its ‘accounts’ in the previous birth. The soul is not the victim of an angry or vengeful God condemning it to a lifetime of deprivation or suffering for no apparent reason. The soul inherits a past created by its own self. The fact that the precise past causes for the circumstances of the new life are not apparent or visible does not mean that they don’t exist. In other words, a soul born in fortunate circumstances is not the recipient of God’s grace or blessings; rather it is reaping the reward of its own generous and beneficial actions done in the previous birth(s). Each soul is constantly experiencing the effect of some past action and also planting seeds to be reaped as some future fruit.The understanding of reincarnation reinforces, in meditation, the experience of my own immortality, my eternal existence as a soul. This is excellent medicine for many types of fear, anxiety and limited thinking.
Source(s):www.bkwsu.org
Friday, May 12, 2006
Whose God is better!?
I had answered an open question which I quote below..... I am sure my blog readers will find the other answers also quite interesting... The asker rated my answer as best ( yahoo answers) and hence I thought it would be interesting to also quote it here...
http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1006050527355
Whose God is better!?
Christians'? Muslims' or Jews'???Is it about god anymore???
Asker's Rating: These days god acts as the ultimate justification for politicians actions. It has become a tool of hate while the message of religions has undoubtedly been love. Even with GPS it still proves to be difficult to understand that many paths toward a common destination might exist!
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Spiritualseeker6 days ago
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To each follower, his God is always better. It is better to imbibe Godly qualities to the extent possible, than disputing about the better one.. One may spend / waste a lifetime trying to choose a better God !
Please do give your comments, as also any similar question you may like to seek answers !
http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1006050527355
Whose God is better!?
Christians'? Muslims' or Jews'???Is it about god anymore???
Asker's Rating: These days god acts as the ultimate justification for politicians actions. It has become a tool of hate while the message of religions has undoubtedly been love. Even with GPS it still proves to be difficult to understand that many paths toward a common destination might exist!
26 Answers
Spiritualseeker6 days ago
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker
To each follower, his God is always better. It is better to imbibe Godly qualities to the extent possible, than disputing about the better one.. One may spend / waste a lifetime trying to choose a better God !
Please do give your comments, as also any similar question you may like to seek answers !
Thursday, May 04, 2006
Ask your questions
I found a web site where I found questions by visitors ..... I liked answering them... Please visit this site ... May be you would be impressed as me, and may find it useful too...
Thursday, April 20, 2006
ThanksgGiving...... Was it so?
A beautiful expression in words, was received by me from a spiritual seeker, who was fortunate to experience a deeper level of awareness after undergoing a certain process (involving a period of week’s silence)……
I felt I should share this with the readers……
Please do give your Comments on this quote …..
Quote:
IF WE CAN FEEL THE DIFFERENCE, WHAT ABOUT THOSE PEOPLE WHO CREATE THIS SITUATION FOR US TO EVOLVE AND ALSO SEE US GROW(COME OUT OF OUR OLD CRAP) FEEL.
THOSE PEOPLE WHO SEE TO IT THAT WE REALLY EVOLVE.
THOSE PEOPLE WHO WANT US TO EVOLVE.
THOSE PEOPLE WHOSE ONLY AIM IS TO HELP OTHERS GROW.
WHETHER I REALISE OR NOT , THAT THEY ARE ALWAYS WITH ME.
THEY MUST BE HAPPIER THAN US BY INNUMERABLE NUMBER OF TIMES.
I'm bow down to all those who have made it happen for me.
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I felt I should share this with the readers……
Please do give your Comments on this quote …..
Quote:
IF WE CAN FEEL THE DIFFERENCE, WHAT ABOUT THOSE PEOPLE WHO CREATE THIS SITUATION FOR US TO EVOLVE AND ALSO SEE US GROW(COME OUT OF OUR OLD CRAP) FEEL.
THOSE PEOPLE WHO SEE TO IT THAT WE REALLY EVOLVE.
THOSE PEOPLE WHO WANT US TO EVOLVE.
THOSE PEOPLE WHOSE ONLY AIM IS TO HELP OTHERS GROW.
WHETHER I REALISE OR NOT , THAT THEY ARE ALWAYS WITH ME.
THEY MUST BE HAPPIER THAN US BY INNUMERABLE NUMBER OF TIMES.
I'm bow down to all those who have made it happen for me.
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