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Saturday, January 24, 2026

Monkey bath

 Monkey bath


Due apologies to my honourable prime minister 🙏



Title is distorted.

But, my spouse, a non-Hindi madam, very keen that I shouldn't miss the talk of a great noble politician, reminds me and her pronunciation seems like “monkey bath”( for Mann ki baat)


( I am even doubtful if monkeys do take a bath for human_like_reasons).



Anyway, Mann ki baat ( #मन_की_बात).

Is very special for me, and unique too🙏


A Pucca politician, speaking to his voters, for 1800 seconds, without ‘touching’ politics…… 🙏 ( please visualise Trump or Putin trying to replicate it 😓.)


A top politician, giving very very valid, precious, authentic and easily verifiable reasons for EVERY Indian to feel proud of his nation,  AFRESH every month 🙏….. did any one else do it hitherto? Etching, engraving history of contemporary achievements in our minds/memories, fetching stupendous events from obscure corners of Bharat 🙏. No easy task. ( Till now, media of all types, history of all types was feeding only “negativity” of Bharat all the time 😜.  The rare few achievements didn't matter as numbers, especially due to repetitions. Imagine a ‘politician’ helping us, (to feel really_proud of our birth_soil,)instead of a historian)


Changing the mindset of entire citizens, to become patriotic, is an unenviable task, which no politician will dare to Risk_his_vote bank.  This PM keeps reminding me of my DUTIES ( not rights) in the Indian constitution 🙏.  Should I not be grateful to such a great politician???  Just imagine, if…..by some miracle, EVERY CITIZEN becomes 100% duty conscious, who needs a machinery for ensuring my rights????  Your_rights=my duties 👍🙏🙏🙏 damn simple!


Generating…..Duty_conscious countrymen is a very laborious and slow process 🙏.  Especially, when basic_human_rights are denied due to a 7-decade-rule by corrupt regimes( whichever political party 🙏). This PM is building a legacy, to be inherited by future generations 🙏.  ( Usually, politicians bother about doling out crumbs only during election, and to last only till they grab power!)


After listening to 100-plus episodes of monkey bath( apologies…. It is mann ki baat मन की बात), if I can “see” a pattern in the contents, there is no reason why any other fellow citizen can't see it 🙏. Literacy immaterial 👍



I am not trying to canvas for any votes.

I am getting, what I missed in my SCHOOL-education 🙏. ( History up-to-date,  reminder of duties as per Indian constitution, inspiration to feel proud of my own dear Bharat 🙏) .  Any spiritual seeker ought to begin with gratitude to own mother—Mother_India, Bharat mata.


Jai Hind 

a humble citizen 

(psn…24 Jan 2026)


Disengage the mind

 Disengage the mind 


🤣


Funny title, I concede…


And, an effort in vain, when we want to do it.

When we didn't even wish, boredom disengages the mind 😜


I don't know, but I can wonder, if the BP patients might find their alarming numbers getting it slightly lower when they are under a grip of severe boredom 😜 ( I am not blessed with high BP as yet, 😥…and therefore cannot experiment it by_myself without causing a needless_boredom on the readers reading this🙏)


I am neither blessed with boredom 😭, and it might be appropriate to call me a freak, on this_count😓


Now, you can guess why such freak blogs emit from me occassionally 😜👍


I underwent a guided meditation, in which one of the prescription is to CONSCIOUSLY create tension in just one part/limb of the body and then relax it 🤣 . I thoroughly enjoyed this exercise 👍 . My monkey_mind loved the process👍  create_tension, when people around are taking tablets, capsules , pills, drugs, medicines ( dunno, why each are different!) etc, to avoid_tension 😳


Monkey mind🙏

I decided to try it at office, in the midst of hectic busy work, while trying to locate errors in a maze of numbers ( figure work), being a Bank_clerk! I was surprised. I didn't have to ‘tense’ my face!😳 I could ‘notice’ the neck muscles and the head about it already tensed! So, relaxing it was the only ‘needed action’ 👍. I relaxed my neck and head CONSCIOUSLY. ( My practice at the guided meditations came_handy, 😜…having done it a few hundred times!!! ). 


The surprise was, the mind got disengaged from the stupid_needless_thought “I must locate the error!”.....  That's what I am doing,! Why then chant it like “I must find it, I must locate it”????  Now, my mind is better focused at ‘looking' for it. 

It worked 🙏 

I could locate( what I was looking for) a bit easier, maybe a little earlier too… but, for sure, I needed to spend lesser CALORIES 🤣.



Monkeys are fuel_efficient 😳

Any time ( at a zoo or elsewhere) I could observe, monkeys sit utterly relaxed. Their fingers and wrist just hang, unlike us who hold it stiff, all_the_time! We step on the accelerator and the brake simultaneously 😓, quite unawares. More fuel is required to move.  Monkey mind, I think I needn't feel embarrassed to concede. I relax, the next moment, I finish a muscular movement at any physical task. Only the ‘thought' needed a break, stepping onto ‘brake’ pedal, so that the fuel of my calories isn't getting wasted🙏


I don't know if it can work for others ( readers). But if it works, psychiatrists, pharma guys get a reason to curse_me 🤣. Illegitimate curses don't work on me👍🙏. And for my age now, physical assaults don't matter much👍


Try?

Whenever, we get a space of 3 seconds….

First second, focus on any part of our body ( facial muscles is the easiest, with eyes closed till we count 3)

Second second…. relax the part( face) CONSCIOUSLY 

Third second: forget the whole thing 😜 ( I know, this may sound ridiculously simple, but remember some wise guy's proverb : Simple isn't always easy😭).


Nothing to lose, except a little blood pressure 👍


Gains? Your most priceless gadgets, our own dear body, gets a bit of love & care, it had always deserved 🙏



Stupidly yours, 

psn(24 Jan, 2026)



Postscript: once we get used to disengaging the  mind, we are armed with a power to get rid of garbage in our mind isn't it? ( Less luggage, more comfort — railways wrote it🙏)


Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Do we know to Bless?

 Do we know to bless?


Boss,


अगर मैं,

हिम्मत जुटकर पूछूंगा,

To an elder who placed his right palm on my head "बड़े मियां, गुस्ताख़ी माफ़ 🙏, लेकिन आप के ( मेरे सिर पर)स्पर्श द्वारा, कुछ हुआ क्या, जो आशीर्वाद से ताल्लुक़ रखता है?"


He 'needs' to have an experience isn't it? I may be a insensitive, non_receptive येड़ा 🙏😂



This ritual has a tradition of 1000's of years 😳... All cannot be stupids to continue it for lakhs of generations 🙏.




( About 15 years ago, an elderly couple came to give invitation for wedding reception at a local hall. Wedding was at far away place. The lady requested me "please bless my son & the bride"


I asked "how? 🤔. If you want me to 'touch' his head, it's easy....but for a blessing to happen *_due to that touch_* ....😥"


She knew me. She told her hubby "let's stop the distribution for Today" and turning to me "please....🙏" and sat down ( normally, in a spree to hand out invites, standard dialogue is "no time to sit,🙏...lots of cards to go around!").... I told her my own experience of subtleties 😞🙏... 60 minutes it took)


Blessing, desi way, had a wide spectrum of choices 😜….  Broadly, wired & wireless. Wireless had more types, like LAN, wifi, bluetooth, WAN, tower, satellite etc 🙏 



Submissively yours,

psn( 21 Jan, 2026)


Being Practical

 Being Practical 


“Are you being Practical???😡😡”

This is the main issue very often in our inter-personal relationships. 


The details of “what is practical”, differs vastly with each situation 🙏.


Only a deep and complete understanding of “dharma”( a sanskrit word & name for a scientific concept called cosmic laws) can guide us Flawlessly 🙏.  This kind of grasp is impractical unless we “attained” moksha, Jeevan mukti, ( in simple terms “Enlightenment”🙏)



Hurdles in becoming “practical” is something we can atleast “try” and make out daily lives a ‘bit' easier 😜




1)Giving up our own personal desires, wants and likings, is the most prevalent and most common hurdle.  

2) Our personal desires can be controlled or governed by logic or emotions.  Logic can Never understand emotions and, emotions are unavailable to logic.  Enough for an internal conflict???


Examples: 

A desi tradion of ‘kanya daan’ is 100% illogically designed 😂😜.  Ideally, we ought to ‘become’ inquisitive to ask ourselves “ then why the _hell did this custom & related rules prevail successfully for milleniums???😡”


Why should we ask_at_all this question?

Don't ask!🙏 ( Logical response!)


Intellect is better inclusive than our logic. (Intellect is aware of limitations of logic.) Emotions are an inalienable ingredient of this entire cosmos🙏. Only the intellect can hope to evaluate the worth & relevance of emotions in any scientific phenomenon. Rishis were at the peak of intelligence. Hence they formulated and prescribed the rules of functional aspects of kanya-daan. Zero scope to ENFORCE these laws (please see, any practice, tradition, law, ritual etc, if based on emotions, can_never_be_enforced 😜🙏🙏🙏)

Exactly why, the kanya-daan concept and its related traditions and rituals are falling apart progressively with each day🙏.

Consequence? Except in cases where emotional compatibility is excellent, relations between spouses are falling apart. If logic is too powerful, the relationship hastens faster towards a divorce. An alternative to ‘only_logical_based’ relationship, for marriage is a ‘Live_in_relationship’!


Attrition rate of present day is due to increased patronage towards a ‘live_in_relationship’ ( logic in exclusivity) at workplace 😂.  ( Why should I be loyal, in the absence of a commensurate_compensation? ….is the logical question, which has no logical answer).



Domestic relationship– Versus workplace relationship. ( An example).

Logic_based rules are unenforceable in any home, simply because, the base of relationship is emotional, non-commercial and beyond logic. A wife can be a boss at office, but bossing at home cannot sustain 🙏😜. Marriage has to metamorphise atleast into slavery, in such cases to survive. And if physical survival is the topmost priority of the hubby, he simply doesn't mind misnaming his slavery as “marriage” to suit the ‘social norms’😜


A very PERTINENT question, “why does it always have to be…only a female that surrenders???😡”

A practical reply ( to stubborn minds) is : please do not surrender. Fight unto death 👍 ( if stubbornity can stand aside for the intellect to ‘look’ there is scope for a lasting reply. Till then, breakup of relationship is inevitable 🙏)



At home, a mind which is fatigued by ‘non-stop-logic’ at workplace ( techies, typically talk to the monitor_only, and the monitor tolerates ONLY logic, not emotions), seeks ‘some’ emotional outlet ( not_inlet …mind you 😜).

Both the spouses techies, and one_way_traffic_only??? Sustainable? Outlet only, no inlet?   Can't last long 🙂. Look at divorce rates around tech_cities.🙏



Commercialised_minds seek short-cuts for emotional satisfaction/gratification/satiation 🙏.  Whereas, even emotions, to sustain, needs a strong sense of reasoning, emotional _reasoning 🙏 ( a bla-bla-bla response to a sensible question, info, comment from a family member, merely to satiate an emotional thirst, doesn't work. The spouse, kids, siblings…shout back”can't you talk sense????😡”. )


Wedding gatherings, is an excellent outlet for releasing the ‘steam’ of pent-up emotions 😜….  Hours of bla-bla, utterly meaningless conversations, works amazingly! Those who can't talk at-all, without logic, ( often males), use the area reserved for ‘drinks’ at the marriage party! Switching off the logic too works🙏👍. Problem is, liver gets damaged 😭



Enough of my Bla-bla-bla 🙏


What is the clue? ( Solution is a choice)

Inclusiveness is the key! 

Inclusiveness sustains relationships. Unfortunately, no logical answer is possible for why_be_inclusive. 

Ultimate practicality of inclusiveness is ‘blackhole’. There is no questioner at all, anymore 🙏 


Simply yours,

psn(21 Jan, 2026)



Post_script punch

Two advises:


1) when rape is inevitable, better enjoy it👍 ( mass appeal, and hence popular)


2) Rajasthan Thakurs to their spouses: burn our kanya girls, then burn yourself. We males will apply on our forehead, the ashes from your burnt bodies, and use the emotions of your sacrifice to Chop off as_many_heads as possible, of the invading JIHADIS, who outnumber us at the moment 🙏 ( zero appeal to this advice, yet ....a documented history and the source of 'sati' sampradaya 😜🙏🙏🙏)



If there is a bhagwan ( really 😥) whom will He give pass_marks? ( Unfortunately, no logic for a query :"why should there be a God at all???😡". Either experience God or be doomed to be an atheist or a blind believer. Both are qualitatively same🙏)


West enjoys practical jokes.


Witness( victim): my lord. I was raped by this young novice.

Judge (🤔): why do you say a "novice"???

Lady: beCause my lord..... I had to show him how to do it 😓


Monday, January 19, 2026

Freedom from parenting

 Freedom from parenting 



The "trend" is ....


Oldies ( assuming to be wiser than other oldies around), advise : we must give FREEDOM to our children and grandchildren 🙏. 



( I rejoice 😜, when such advise it thrust upon me, even very_ informally, by any responsible oldie around 👍


I respond : "Done!!!"( I simply translates as :"I am no more responsible for that fellow any more! A jailor is damn_free, when there are zero inmates in his prison 👍.  " Lowest/mildest/simplest responsibility. Highest responsibility is as_a_guru 🙏)



Desi way of parenting used to be very sophisticated 🙏…. It used to start in the womb, when the baby is 5½ months plus.

Kid in the womb gets familiar with pranava resonating in the mother's womb 🙏. ( ashtaVakra 'developed' 8/ashta deformities/vakra, while in the womb. The resonance he was 'force_fed' was not in 'sync' with correct semantics of pranava resonating 😜---- a symbolic story, 'meant' to persuade us to delve deeper!)



( Am I violating verse 110 of chapter _2, of manusmriti? Supplying unsought data?😭🤔)



Violatively yours, 

PSN(19 JAN, 2026)


Post script 
As per tradition,

The eldest( by elderliNess, not age alone) steps_into_the_shoes of a departed elder🙏

Subrogation is stepping into the shoes.

( My grandpa was 'conferred' with the subrogation rights, by 3 of his brothers elder to him by age! Not a common feature, beCause, Hindu_way-of-life ensured buzurgi/elderliNess to run concurrently with age!

I am so fortunate, my siblings ( of my "larger family" stripped me of such moral responsibility, when they declared their independence_from_me. 😜.

I don't need a vaanaprastha to seek seclusion/hermitage/solitude etc in this age/kaliyug, at my age of 70+🙏👍

Friday, January 16, 2026

Potential of music

 An honest disclaimer: I am a zero in music. 


Hence, this is more of an attempt to request "please see, if I make sense 🙏"


Most of us remember at least one small line of a song. We didn't work 'hard' to memorize it. Yet, we keep humming it ( without the lyrics) whenever we like🙏

I tried to look at the basic components of any line of a song ( from what I heard about music)

It has the combo of 7 notes ( meaningless alphabets like, sa,ri,ga,ma,pa,da,ni,sa

A pitch ( level of sound form)

Spacing between two notes.

Arrangents of these alphabets (😜 permutations and combinations)

( Maybe a lot more "factors"...)


Suppose these 4 are written down in a text format, and a kid of primary school is asked to memorize it for a 'test' next week? He struggles to reproduce it😜


Instead, teach him the 'concept' related to decoding a line of a song, into a written text form, and ask him to appear for the same test/exam? He doesn't need to 'memorise' the entire paragraph of 4 lines each, with 'junk_looking' characters 😜. He enjoys singing, and writes text instantly!

( I heard that the poem "waves of beauty"( soundarya lahari ) by aadi Shankara is a "time capsule"( with all the knowledge till that point of time in a micro_chip) retrievable with a software ( a chart showing the alphabets used to represent formulae in physics, chemistry, maths, astro-logy/nomy....and several other branches of sciences¡ 😳

The key is to know what an alphabet represents in each science) German scientists seem to have decrypted many of its secrets. One example I heard was a formulation from pollen grains, used to restore the memory of spies 'brainwashed' by russian army during WW2, let loose back to Germany as "mad" fellows!!! 3rd verse, describing pollen grains of flowers inducing chaitanya/life 🙏 


One thing I tried was to add a rhythm to any text lesson tough for me to memorize for any school exam 😜. I used the rhythm to correlate the stupid, useless,insipid text to recall it in the examination hall.  I learnt the 'trick' in a 'feel_of_it' way. I add an element of 'emotion' to something 'dry' and difficult to memorize 😜

Slowly, I learnt to 'invoke' some emotion to learn anything. It worked. Then I bumped into something very steady+ stable. 😜...   Intensity when emotionaliZed CONSCIOUSLY, it serves multi-purpose tasks🙏. It helped me to walk on spiritual bijness, when others just crawl and slide back, most of the time!


illogically yours,

(psn 16 Jan 2025)

Sunday, January 11, 2026

Human communications

 Human communications 


Other life forms need to use very subtle techniques to communicate 🙏


We humans can ‘speak’.

We evolved into creating languages 🙏

The “use of language” turned highly subjective, due to the fact that “human is a being of Volitional consciousness”( we exercise a choice, whether to confuse, abuse, hurt, insult others, using a language, or to dedicate ourselves to offer Value addition with Each_use of a language.




A British author and cartoonist George du Maurier, defined a language very humorously 🙂

Quote:

"Language is a poor thing. You fill your lungs with wind and shake a little slit in your throat and make mouths, and that shakes the air; and the air shakes a pair of little drums in my head . . . and my brain seizes your meaning in the rough. What a roundabout way and what a waste of time". 


Du Maurier was a late-Victorian era writer known for novels such as Trilby and Peter Ibbetson, and for his work in the satirical magazine Punch. His quote is often used to highlight the perceived limitations of verbal communication compared to other forms, such as gestures or non-verbal cues. 

Unquote 


😜



And think of the profound wisdom of our Desi_ancients ( 🙏 rishis)!!!!


They used a language, SANSKRIT like a very powerful tool 🙏


It's proper use can invoke powerful energies, from a CONSECRATED piece of stone, whether such consecration was natural (swayambhu/jyothir) or by evolved humans(praana_praTishta)🙏


Sanskrit is an interface to download core_data, core_software related to the core of creation itself, as also the seamlessly interwoven form of basic elements in nature.

Sanskrit is in CONFORMITY with quantum laws 🙏( this statement is enough to define its power comprehensively 🙏)



I ain't that_fortunate to learn Sanskrit ( though I managed a working knowledge of ½ a dozen man-made languages 🙏.). But I did manage to try out the efficacy, using powerful combinations of alphabets, like mahaMantra 😜👍. The vibes, from my primitive, crude and indept voices were enough to persuade a family member to request me “hey! Your chants are emitting powerful vibes, causing my nerves to shiver🙏. Entirely my_defect. I have been using steroids for my asthma since 5 decades. My nerves are too weak. Hence the reason for feeling it ‘unbearable’. Please pause for a while. “......  I paused. Thereafter, I chant it only as a ‘free sample’, harmless dosage😜( now, that family member is no more, so I can use it non-injuriously😜).


The joke is, one sanskrit chant (A-U-M, ॐ) can be “spoken” powerfully, EVEN by a person born-Dumb 🙏 ( basic sound forms of universe…..even a few animals can produce a,u,m 😜🙏)



Communicatively yours,

psn(11 Jan, 2026)


My imaginary Sins

 My imaginary Sins


😜


What does it feel like to commit uncommon kinds of sin?

( As long as it doesn't cause any loss or damage to anyone, it seems okay 👍)



My spouse said, during her early days when we got wedded, “I became a teacher for 4th class kids. But very soon I realised that I am not good at teaching. I decided ‘I have no right to spoil the future of 50 kids, being unable to really “teach” them the concepts, I must quit. Salary can come without harming others too!’  But, I wasn't let off immediately. The school asked to quit after_the_term. (Her confession inspired me to imagine myself sinning too! 😜)



My imagination ( hence, confession can be religious too, not compulsory to use my irreligious Hinduism 😓):


If,


I were a teacher for 8th class in physics, 


I would ask a simple question like :"I look through my window. It is drizzling. But I like to see the rain_drops in the air. I am looking at a white coloured wall on the opposite side, but I am unable to see 'rain_drops' . Suddenly the door of that house got opened and a little darkness was seen through that door. Now, I can see a few rain drops against the darkness of that open_door. Why???"



😂



( Any kid explaining the "why" of seen/not_seen , both.....has understood+ learnt to apply the lesson "refraction of light" etc, related to chapter 'light'.🙏.

If none of the kids answer, I go to the Chapel, and do a confession to the Lord "O'Lord, I sinned! I didn't teach physics properly! Please try to       find_a_way to forgive me for my unpardonable sin, as a bad teacher 😭🙏"


End of my imagination 🙏 



I started wondering, 

A kulGuru is ill-fated, compared to a normal ‘Generalised’ guru ( traditions are such😭)


Example: shukraCharya is guru for the cluster( kula) called Rakshasaas! 

Any number of times, true to their innate nature, these demonic fellows keep insulting their Guru. Shri shukra_ji, true to his vows as a kula_guru, cannot abandon his disciples ( villains). If asked to”get lost” he moves away, only to take back his job at their request & “sorry sir, won't repeat a get_out” repeated very soon😜


Add another burdensome rule : a Guru decides upon a student, unlike 5 other inferior types of desi_teachers 🙏. And, a failure of a student, is deemed to be a teacher's failure! Pure misery😓😭


( I decided: at least for a teacher's sake, I must SLOG to learn 🙏. My slogging yielded side_benefits—-i improved a bit, even in spirituality 🙏).



Sinfully yours,

psn(11 jan, 2026)


Saturday, January 10, 2026

Intelligent networking

 Intelligent networking 


Disclaimer:

My opening sentences, few of them, are entirely my wild_imaginations only🙏 Any semblance to towering_reality of computer science is purely coincidental😳


Fictional part

A network provider faces competition. His lab churns out an intelligent, page aware, situation aware, interactive networking software which is cost_effective also👍

A sample: a voluminous data needs to be delivered across a rough terrain with very poor networking, low bandwidth and unreliable connectivity. This scientist conjured a ‘routing’ software which ‘guides’ the datapackets with a header which can tear apart the volume it carries, marking each bit uniquely with intelligent data_bytes, which can park themselves at the dynamically nearest proximity, in such a way as to be able to incessantly reassemble themselves ‘intelligently’ so_as_to_be seemlessly interwoven with flawless integrity. 

When repeater_towers are positioned at a place where terrestrial connectivity is infeasible, that tower provides a way for throwing up the data packets towards a reflector placed in a geo_stationary object up there. Here, the bandwidth is ridiculously low, vulnerable to huge distortion of waves travelling downwards, in order to facilitate low cost leased_rent. The distorted rays scattered down can be captured by towers at a distance (crossover_targeted_destination), where even the owners of those towers don't suspect the illegitimate “usage” of their reflectors, owing to subsonic bandwidth used for the scattered data from sky. That's where another strong tower equipped with “intelligent” sewing, knitting and weaving software reassembles  the datapackets for further transmission 👍🙏.  Spy-networking might be a realistic name for this commercial cunningness!

End of fictional part.


Networking among ancient rishis:

100% software oriented, ( unlike ours, which still_depends on “some_kind_of” hardware 😜)


Consecrated temples, uniquely energized, positioned at weird places like unscalable mountain tops( makes us wonder “which Fool has built a mammoth temple here, unreachable for devotees to reach?”) . ….. Certain rituals planned when mega stars like “ardra nakshatra “ are in an orbit to multiply&magnify all the messages back to the mystical form of an ellipse, in sync with shape and form of galaxy/milkyway, namely ….those shiva_linga_structures strewn all over Bharat ( propitiated uniquely on ardra_darshan day annually 😜).

Certain highly trained ascetics, generating powerful”carrier_waves” during Brahma muhurat hours( local time, 4 am to 6 am), to carry the encrypted data kept ready by hovering minds ( body_less, Wandering souls) to be uploaded on the energy waves😜.

The entire data is downloadable by any one, ready to become receptive 🙏. 

One such recent and demonstrable example, documented in a published open_software is…..when a pontiff of Puri mutt ( a shankaracharya), downloaded Vedic maths from “cloud”, sitting in a forest for 7 years or so! His competence is available in a format which is an Admissible_Evidence👍🙏. He created an all time record of academic brilliance by scoring the highest marks in all the subjects, appearing in an academic examination from Bombay or so( a remote exam_center). The book was published by “indological publications” new Delhi. The preface mentions the biodata of the author!


I did a very crude experiment, with a simplistic sound form, formulated into a Vedic chanting , giving out a very fuzzy & seemingly_unrealistic meaning like “Let noble thoughts come forth from everywhere” the syntax is “aano bhadraah krtavo yanthu vishwataha” . It worked, and still is working. Only problem is, I am unable to be in a steady+constant synchronicity with the required bandwidth 🙏😭.  Of & on, I get the data🙏. ( But I am a dependable evidence for that ancient technology. Wiring is required at subtle levels to use me like a guinea pig, in a testing lab😜).



Demonstrably yours,

psn(10 Jan, 2026)


The good, bad & ugly about memory

 The good, bad & ugly about memory 


A decade or more ago, I took up a question on the internet platform “Yahoo Answers”. The question was “what is your earliest memory?” 


I liked the question.

How do I pick the “earliest” one among those belonging to my kid_age, when the concept of age, date or chronology was yet to creep into me? ( This Was my first hurdle 😥)

Anyway, when I proceeded to dive deep into the past, a memory surfaced 🙂.

I recalled a struggle to move forward, using my arms upto my elbow, to reach out to the vastness of a shiny black surface ahead of me, pushing myself hard, using my left arm to pull myself forward, while the right one was just planted firmly under my chest to help the left arm. There was a success. The ‘surface’ was moving backwards below mentioned, but the target ahead kept increasing 😥. 

 I had to deduce, as a little grown up boy, to make out of this memory, that I must_have_been swimming on the floor…🤣.   I felt amused, at the limitations of the “impressions” and the info, offered by this piece of memory 🙂.

1.The visuals, helped me to ‘fix’ the probable place, time and activity.

2.The emotions experienced helped me to ‘fix’ the nature of the ‘situation' I faced😜


Armed with the analysis, I answered factually, but mentioning my ‘diagnosis’ separately to enable the asker to distinguish between facts and assumptions related.


My assumptions, as far as I am concerned, are also related to the facts with “data_integrity”...🤣.  I used both types of logic. Identifying the similarity with later memories related and using the elimination_process of other related possibilities.


I was below 8 months of age( I was reportedly able to walk unevenly at 10½ months itself 😜. The span of knee_walk must have been very brief, though no memory of it could be recalled)

Floor, because it felt too cold. Black and shiny, because it was black_oxide, very old and ill-lit. Light was from a solitary glass_attached tile on the roof. No electricity till the next 16 years. Either my mom's or my dad's birth house, since both had that large halls, which seem ‘vast’ for a baby with a limited range of vision🤣.  We place a toy a bit nearer to the baby when it doesn't respond to crawl towards it😜. Crawling was the ‘activity’, which means, it a ‘safe’ inference that it ‘ought_to_be’ my Earliest memory. ( Incidentally, mine got picked as the best_answer😂)


I am fortunate to be able to ‘recall’ quite a good number of stored data items, of my kid age. ( Very recently, I happened to tell a classmate “ you were the Expert among our classmates, who could sharpen a lead-pencil best🙏. We were in 4th standard (1960). And I had determined to learn it looking at you, which I did 🙏” He exclaimed “hey, man….what do you Eat, to have been able to nurture such a sharp memory???😳😳😳”.  I knew, he can easily Recall it, being good at that Job👍, though others had no deep emotions related, to remember this fellows ability!. My emotion was my conscious choice to strive towards acquiring that ability, using a Guru who demonstrated it, once in every 40 minutes 🤣. Teachers change every 40 minutes and subject_change was…..only a consequence, as_per my stunted kid_age_logic😓.



Mere logic related to any incident, fails to get a ‘prominent’ location in our storage hard_disk—--is what I deduced. 

Emotions, which are at a minimum requirement, for the process of “recall” to “access” that prominent location cell of memory storage chip, is indispensable.

Good emotions are dim and faint, beCause, happiness is internalised usually, and therefore the memories related brings only a blurred image of audio/vidio.

Bad ones are due to negative emotions, and obviously we externalised the “cause” of mismatch of ground reality with our expectations, desire etc. images are clearer, and better focused/zoomed-into the source of mismatch, like abuse, spanking, collision, pain_inflicting_object, etc👍. 

Ugly ones are a bit complex😜. We added our stupidity of conjured negative emotions to it, and recall a fictional horror story👍. It could even be a horrifying dream😜. A “dejavu”( whatever it means 😥😥)



I embarked upon learning “how to store so_sensibly, that I can recall at_will, what I ‘like’ to remember 🙏.( Futile to elaborate, since I don't know if it can work for others🙏). But I acquired the ability to recall meaningless numerals, alphanumeric forms etc effortlessly.  I saved the efforts of ‘writing’ an amount like Rs. 2,35,45,671.39 by learning to retain it in my “cache_memory” till I walk back to my table, 50 steps/2 floors away, to see if it matches with what I arrived at, to balance the book of accounts 🙏.  Page numbers of ledger accounts of frequent customers, I recall easily, at it saves my energy flipping pages of bulky ledgers. Ability to store+recall without any induced-emf was tough ( here, emf is my_accronym— emotional motivation force🙏….   Electro-Motive-F, etc😜)



Alas! I met my Waterloo, when it came to retaining a spiritual experience. The screen goes blank🙏😭😭😭.  Couldn't even ‘devise’ any tool😥. Had to be contented with the ‘contentment’ yielded by those experiences 🙏. ( After-effects, side-effects of spiritual experiences, seem to offer a Lollipop “buddy, your storage+ recall of all other inconsequential worldly ‘drama’ will be better than before 👍”. But the charm of this drama is fading away with spiritual bijness 😭)



Memorably yours,

psn( 10 Jan, 2026)


Friday, January 09, 2026

Why Gurus seem secretive?

 Why Gurus seem secretive?



There is a popular short story in Malayalam.


Four blind men try to feel "how an elephant is?"

Their description:

First one holding the tail describes what he 'touched' 

Second one touches the leg and says "elephant is like a pillar of 1 feet diameter 

Third one described it holding the trunk "a very thick but  tapering flexible hanging branch"

Fourth one it's underbelly "a curved ceiling, heavy "



None of them reached the actual"elephant " 🤣



Spiritual practices are like the elephant (beyond reach of a Single practitioner, experiencing it like one blind fellow 🤣 . ) Even the "combined" description of all the 4 blind is not going to 'reach' the accuracy 😜.


There have been"rishis" who spent their whole life, in perfecting JUST_1_yogaAasana, like VajraAasana🙏.  


Wise Gurus, seldom indulge into pegging the mind of their students into their own limited experience of doing a practice 🙏



( I have learnt this concept, the Hard_way....🙏.


The most sophisticated type of KapalBhaathi yielded unexpected response from a spectrum of birds, when I touched 3000 repetitions per session, steadily incrementing the number over 11 months, starting with 25 times🙏. I discovered that birds could sense the "frequency " of energy waves emitted during the practice 😜. My stunted 'idea' of 'sound' tore open its shell of limited understanding 🙏. I also realised that, the same practice 'holds' many more mysteries, unthinkable for me to reach/unravel, during this lifetime 🤣.)



Discretely yours,

psn(9 Jan, 2026)