Why do humans need a doctor?

 Why do humans need a doctor?

It had been my “private” curiosity even since I was a kid, and I noticed that all other life forms in its free state RESPOND to any dis_ease by themselves! Their response includes the labour_pain and death. DIY technology 😜( do it yourself).

It led to a search for oddity in humans!

I had to wait beyond youth and even middle age to get convinced that my_own inferences are valid. ( Even now, I am open to corrections with utmost humility+ gratitude. Meanwhile, I liked to share my observations with a few others. Maybe they might have something in it to use🙏😓).

Mind, because of its ability to choose, making its own choices, had to interfere with the in_built response system and its own cellular intelligence embedded in our physiology 🙏.

Most of the time, this cellular intelligence fights an enemy within( like Bharat has been busy with), instead of using its resources to defend from external threats.  Most of the CHRONIC ailments we have, are a result of our bad_choices of response to the needs of our body!( Cravings for junk food 😜. Animals in free state eat responsibly, sensibly and thus remain Healthy, not just disease_free🤣).

If I had no mind right from my birth out of a healthy womb, I may not need a doctor???( A very strange kind of thought 🤔). I looked at a mental health home. Doctors aren't needed for inmates who didn't have any PRE-EXISTING chronic ailments🙏. Their body is free_from their mind( that's why strong and healthy caretakers are employed!).

Next level: did humans ever detach the superfluous interference/meddling of their minds into the sensible functioning of their bodies??? All the roads led to the same destination 🤣…. Desi spiritual giants, when they tamed their physiology to the highest humanly_possible levels, to a certain point where the body doesn't interfere with their “consciousness”( call it by any other name, spirit, atma, being, prana, chaitnya…etc).

Migration to a forest, after 60 is not like migrating to “USA”, or relocating closer to any multi-speciality hospital 😜. Basic qualification itself is compatibility with all kinds of life forms dwelling in a forest, and a self-imposed undertaking “not to tamper with the ecology” of the forest. 

Which is easier to tame? Body, mind or ‘the’ breath?  ( Breath is the only 24/7 connectivity with nature outside of our body!). These 3 are entwined 😜. 

It makes sense to ‘deal’ with the easiest one first🙏.  Human intellect is the most sophisticated gadget for any human. The mind can refuse to see the truth, whereas the intellect can see only the truth😭.

A doctor can give symptomatic relief for any dis-ease. Cure/recovery etc is up to the body🙏. Doctors say at times “the body is not accepting the medicine”.  The mind and its positive emotions might help to persuade the body to “please accept the medicine”. The rarity of such minds makes it seem like a miracle! 

I still don't know why the adage is “a sound mind in a sound body”??? When mind is the culprit to make each human body capable of uniquity of dis-eases😜🤣. Each fellow has a unique ailment, needing a doctor “good or lucky” at diagnosis 🙏. 

My experience is, once the mind gets tamed, body takes care of its own medical expenses 🙏😜… ( maybe, to tame a mind, i have to request my body to undergo a “circus” called “Yoga”… a misnomer 😜. )

Heartily yours,

psn(2 Apr 2026)

Why the blessings are in a disguise?

 Why the blessings are in a disguise?

Flu like symptoms 🙂

I enjoyed "fever" as a very small kid( but didn't dare to spell it out aloud😳)

What I enjoyed was..... everything inside was communicating with me louder. ( And something more strange, my mind felt clearer EVERY time 🤔)

I knew I was an odd guy in this 🙏.  ( The best part was, i seemed_to_know that i am likely to get a fever tomorrow 🙏. And seldom got a wrong guess 😂. I didn't know how_else this forewarning is going to be of any other use, until i stepped on to spiritual practices 😓.  This 'accidental' ability enhanced the body_awareness like a 'bonus' ahead of time 😜)

Disguised gift….body awareness 🤣🤣🤣

Yet, i wasn't quite convinced about this saying “blessings” are always in disguise!

Then came a lesser used word “benediction”. Tangible item. 

Next level…..benedictions have an expiry date 😜 ( they can't be carried over beyond this life time😓😭🙏)

Next level (of my grasp). Blessings add to my inner strength! Innate qualities get enhanced/enlarged/etc. 

Next level ( desi equivalent?...). The school taught in English medium only. The thinking_language oscillated between english and hydraabaadi_hindi only. A sheer consequence of what I “used” as a language most of the time! 

Desi equivalent, I hunted it down as a kid….asheervad & anugraham. ( Another problem arose🙏😰 “why do mallus seek only Anugraham only, instead of asheervad? 🤔”. Can't ask such “non_routine” questions to elders, as a kid. I had to “wait” till the answers decide to ‘bless me’ 🙏😜😜😜)

Morals …. in verbal form, received, stored or recalled….seemed more_like a benediction😳😳😳( hardly they get implemented!!!) 

Basics of “life”, when understood by the “intellect”( bypassing the mind, its emotions/logic, and then stored using “cloud technology”😜🙏🙏🙏… ), seemed to obviate even the need of ‘ethics’ wrapped as moral_science, i got in school, as a weekly period class of 40 minutes till my 7th. Dunno, why did the school stop moral_science as a subject after 7th? 

I felt thrilled to ‘view’ the basics of life ( even to the miniscule extent that I grasped) as a “blessing”.  It feels as though it is becoming a part of karma, which means “carry_forward” is pucca👍👍… ( the bigger joke is…. contradicting proverbs, sayings, adages started becoming visible😜. And desi_versions i noticed don't conflict mutually 😳. Awesome 👍)

Simply yours,

psn(2 Apr 2026)

Not my problem

 Not my problem
(popular mind-set of today, socially acceptable)

"The whole creation is my concern as well"
( a whole society thought like this, till the recent millennium, in Bharat.😊!)
Whether an individual's 'concern' for such VAST level of inclusiveness made a difference or not.... for sure it helped that Individual to attain the highest-human-possibility 🙏.  Logic cannot befriend inclusiveness of such a huge magnitude. Logic contends saying 'infinity' ain't my problem!

Symbolically, Sun the only star of our planetary system, and the only 'male' that gave birth to life in all forms known to us, is 'said to be donating' a thousand cows, as a gesture of gratitude, when a person is born,  who is likely to energize the sun, using sound forms, compatible with quantum laws🙏. Verification of the validity of this symbolism is possible only after acquiring certain level of sensitivity, transcending the sensory levels of perception. (meanwhile, a dumb-data can suffice as a 'reference' using the ritual called Sandhya-Vandan, done thrice by that person, when Sun is viewed at its extremes at any location on earth)

Exploration during the recent centuries was mostly from west. People from east tried to explore only to accentuate their exploration deep within, called spirituality 😜. There is a qualitative difference in both these quests. The commonality being, an attitude like "It is very much my concern"!!!

My experience: 
Somewhere in 2009 or so, during one of  my routine visits to the village of my spouse, she happened to suggest "shall we go for a walk?". Such 'walks' are not in our syllabus   😜
We walked. 
It was sunset. A ringing of bells at a small temple attracted her ears. She said "A murugan temple. Saandhya-Pooja time. Do you mind a look for a couple of minutes. We are already beside the temple" (She had to offer so-much of positive reasoning because she knew my present trend. Not keen about  visit to temples 😊)
I nodded. We stood at the doors of the shrine. The priest was gesticulating with articulations in 'sync'. After the energised flame in the camphor was offered to the devotees present (only 2 of us, then), the priest stepped out for a fresh-breath-of-air (the sanctum is dark, zero ventilated, and the available O2/oxygen gets spent by burning lamps, incense, camphor etc----something logic defying about desi temples, especially when there are zero side effects on the 'health' of any priest 😜
I gently inquired with the priest "Sir 🙏....  TANTRA eh?" ,  His eyes widened. An unusual query!!!  He was familiar with only-not-my-problem posture of minds from his regular devotees there, who were only from the vicinities.  
He exclaimed :"yes! And not quite often we get to see this form of the deity being invoked with tantric chants!. I couldn't avail even a single day's 'off from work'/leave/holiday, simply because there is no substitute who can perform the rituals in tantric style. My home is far away" 

His curiosity was "how is this (temple's different style of propitiation) a concern for this guy?" (I could see the source of his_problem 😂... curiosity/wonder.  And therefore I proceeded to explain whatever I had observed in his performance of pooja)
He was emotionally moved.  Almost like, his hard work, dedication, and skills received a crude and informal recognition from a total stranger, and yet meant a lot for him 😂.  My wife was equally stupefied, since it was a 'first time' for me, to a temple which she used to visit from her kid age. 
That priest had to proceed towards the next set of rituals, and we had exceeded our 'budgeted' time allocated here. He wound up saying "Please visit on a Thai_poosam day, and I will ensure a place for you to stand and witness the special pooja, despite a crowd on that annual event." I thanked him, and left. (Today, 1st April, 2026 is a "Panguni Uthram" day, an annual event at all Murugan temples. Murugan is known as "Kaartikeya" in the North of Bharat. Tamils regard Murugan as 'their own God". )

My blogs are a glaring evidence of my mental problem, when I couldn't acquire the attitude "not my problem".  I tend to run_into_trouble often due to the absence of "mind my own-bijness" trait.

intrusively yours,
psn (1st April, 2026)

 

Merit versus qualification

 Merit versus qualification 

A very "private" joke🙏

1969, my dad joked at home ( within only 'his' family 🙏) : " a funny situation at office. I hold charge of 3 offices, nagpur, bilaspur and raipur, as Manager. But in my office of 25 staff, i am the least qualified😂.  All the 3 peons are "PUC"(12th or +2). I am just a matric. The steno, an M.A. in English asks the meaning of a few sentences i dictate and she 'transcribes' on typing machine from her shorthand notes🤣"

That day....i learnt a very precious lesson 🙏

Merit has zero dependence on certification process.

"Nature" played a joke with me, during 1992 to 1998 and still_on. Spiritual processes Accord merit which are elusive to the 'notice' even, at sensory levels of perception 🙏😭

( I feel stupid, when i indulge in an imagination, where i 'try' to convey my experience to close and trusting people around me 🙏. No way, they can see it. )

Helplessly yours,

psn(30 March, 2026)

Post script:  not too sure, but i guess, paper qualification became a necessity, when our ability to recognise "merit"  got extinct 😭 ( and now, fake certificates abound😜)

Propeller and Universal joint

 Propeller & Universal joint

Awesome concept 🙏

Modernity had infused an attitude of ‘mockery’ in a few minds, and they used the phrase “bullock cart people” to refer to the ancient Indians. The irony is this very phrase describes the ‘life’ of these fanciful people, and the joke is they are ignorant of ‘life’ itself mocking at them😜

Yes, a bullock cart is pulled/pushed USING an external force applied to it(the bullocks are the force, the power, the fuel, the energy🙏).  The cart moves the wheels, not the wheels itself moving the cart🙏.

And a modern vehicle uses internalised power applied directly to the wheels and when the wheels are turned by a  propeller ( transmission of power) the vehicle moves!) 

When a bullock cart takes a turn, 

the wheel outer to the circular direction is ‘forced’ to rotate a larger distance 😜. The wheel at the inner side compensates by rotating in a reverse direction to ‘OFFSET’ the difference in difference travelled due to turn. This reversal of inner wheel is solved by placing an Universal joint to the dhaft connecting the two wheels. A marvel of invention in engineering 🙏

My idle mind( again a phrase used to refer to the idleness “an idle mind is a Devil's workshop!”😂), just tried to “look” at a bullock cart and a car.  The most fundamental aspect occured in that idleness( actually a “still/silent mind” in the desi_sense, of a meditative mind, which “allows” the intellect  to ‘see’🙏.

1.the car is driven by internal fuel. The cart gets pushed by external force (situation decides. If the bullock decides to turn left, the driver HAS to use a whip😜).

2. The 2 wheels dont ‘cooperate’ with each other in a bullock cart, unless the direction is a ‘smooth_forward + straight line’. 

Today's human_life is SITUATION driven. 😂

Then, i turned to look at the ‘available' data about the lifestyles of ancients!!😓. They channelised the life_force inside them, and that force decided the direction. The mind and the body, coordinated in synchronicity with the internalised fuel, its transmission chain, mechanism, design, purpose and even the ‘road_map’ 😜. WHAO!!!

Forget the whims of the bullock(situation external) even the wheels( body and mind) OBLIGED to the superior intellect, instead of each wheel the body and the mind, yielding to its own eccentric cravings, whims etc, neither aligning with the situation, nor with the internal road_map built in 🙏

I was very hesitant to share this ‘funny and comical’ looking thought all along🙏

But 2 things internalised my ‘motive_force’( like the ‘e.m.f’ in physics 😂). My personal experience with the tools(ancient), for sophisticating the vehicle Equipped with body and mind….and the fact that i am aged enough to know that my time is up now and it makes sense to motivate a rare few who can afford to use their own sense of Discrimination to decide which of the 2 is worth working upon towards_sophistication???( The precious gadget called human body and mind, with its H.I./human intellect? Or, the poorly fabricated gadgets without its life, using A.I….???). The experience of ‘life’ gets decided accordingly 🙏. External gadgets are excellent slaves, but devilish as our_Masters🙏. Choice is ours! 

A propeller, yours,

psn(29 March, 2026)

Post script:

This after_thought is a tribute to my dear kid_age friend, who happens to be a renowned Surgeon, often assisting his spouse, a gynaecologist 🙏. He asked me a question (which can occur ONLY to a beautiful mind😜). He asked “why does the baby want to come out?”( It took me an hour plus, to supply ‘scientifically' oriented reasons for a spiritual phenomenon 🙏)

He summed up “oh! That's the way the soul( spirit/atma/etc) manifests!!” I thanked him for his feedback/response. Today, i was reminded of his question 🙏.  Internalised energy power, deciding to ‘move’ the body and its accessories out of the womb 😜😜😜.

Commercial advantage of cunning laws

 Commercial advantage of cunning laws

Nature is innocent, but not an idiot. Cosmic balance tilts the pans when enough-is-enough.

Human laws are “subject to eccentricities of a human mind”.

Live_in relationship is accorded a recognition by feigning innocence in a request to “please register it”( courts are getting a new “source” of fuel for adjournment “ 😜).

Adjournment is a ‘legalised’ way for fund_flow_management.

Exampull:  a contractor submitted a tender for procurement of ‘fly ash’ from thermal power plant owned by govt. This contractor was advised by a vakil (friendly with judges of courts) :”don't block your hard cash. Invest just ½ of the earnest money as a Fixed_deposit in a bank , lock-in period of 7 years. Bank will seek ‘legal advice’ for a bank-guarantee in lieu of EMD(earnest money deposit). Vakil will certify “adjournment is guaranteed for 7 years”. Bank is happy 😊. EMD is 100% secure with an investment of 50%, beCause, 7 years later it doubles!

Exampull-2 : famous 2-G scam. The auction got cancelled ( by supreme court). Same supreme court was CONSTRAINED to let the perpetrators to go scot-free😜. Exonerated officially, legally, because they followed the rules( framed by themselves 😜)

Union guys(banks) “hey! If adjournment is a clever way of fund_flow management, why not delay even_routine_wage_negotiations like ‘adjournments’? Our pockets get filled in private🙏👍

Bank management, by now, is familiar with the potency of ADJOURNMENT in courts😜. A case of 2016 yields treble its actual_outflow, if withheld for ten years atleast. Adjournment zindabad👍. The workmen have given a proof of their consistency in stupidity, by electing ONLY handpicked corrupt netas of their union👍🙏. Pay peanuts to legal experts to frame vague rules and regulations under a strong agreement ( win win situation for survival of corrupt netas and greedy management 😜). 

Nature gifted humans with “intellect “. Conditions apply, for ‘using’ intellect 😭.

I even tried a “silly koschan/question “ in a blog “when does the intellect function?”. Readers are in their comfort zone while reading such basic_to_life reminders 🙏

( I seek solace in bothering about my_intellect_only😜)

Gullibly yours,

psn(26 March, 2026)

Love and Trust

 Love & Trust.

If my previous blog, ( https://selfseekers.blogspot.com/2026/03/litmus-test-of-love.html ) does not appeal, please do not bother to waste your time reading this 🙏

I look at Love & Trust as 2 sides of the same coin 😜

Obviously, the same litmus test ought to work for trust as well 👍 ( otherwise, my idea falls apart 😓. I should accept my flaw).

“True trust never seeks a satiation”

( When I started ‘looking' like an oldie, the social norms applicable to an oldie, from youngsters, started getting operational 😜. Not that, there was a likelyhood of any Damn experience out of it😜. Just a show bijness, to go_through a stupid ritual. Sans symbolism, every action connected with desi tradition is reduced to a ‘ritual’ only. No experience out of it 🙏)

Anyway, youngsters started seeking ‘blessings', while formally inviting me to their wedding.

I try to “add” some value ( to my_best only🙏).

I tell them “see, any wedded life is bound to have ‘slight’ quarrels once in a while. But if it gets a bit serious and you get_a_doubt like ‘does he/she love me like before’, you might feel confused. Instead you ask YOURSELF ‘ is he/she still trustworthy?’ . If the answer within is a big ‘Yes’, the …. be rest assured your quarrel is a passing phase. Love is difficult to measure, but trust is damn easy… same coin, 2 sides”

No youngster disagreed till date😓

Trustingly yours,

psn(24 March, 2026)

Litmus test of Love

 Actually, my idea is to simplify the confusion that confounds youngsters when 'something' very strange overpowers their 'normalcy' of psyche 🤣

No harm in trying out my idea, even if am wrong, even if my idea is flawed. With little patience, a reader can realise by himself that all I did was to demystify the traditional litmus test a_bit.  

Thirst hangs on till it gets satiated ( embedded software in the human machine 🙏)

Yes, thirst is normally satiated by gulping water🙏 But think of a situation where, a person feeling very thirsty walking under Sun in a desert, is somehow teleported to the inside of a huge freezer machine, which is at Minus 20 degrees centigrade? The body does a reassessment of the Ratio of the Level of its Hydration-needs inside that freezer and declares "Buddy, I ain't no longer any thirsty👍...  Forget about drinking watchar/water" (a far fetched imagination, over_exaggeration to "sell" the idea that "satiation" is exclusive of any object(here, water) 🙏

Let's try to demystify "UNCONDITIONAL love" as a standard Yardstick/parameter for TRUE love.

Rewrite it as "true love NEVER seeks a satiation"  Does it not sync with satiation as a "conditional love?"

Satiation can be 'as simple as' a psychological or emotional satiation ( satisfaction). Still, this satiation is a condition.

A love that doesn't seek any kind of satiation, is far unlikely to die down. It doesn't get extinguished ( for want of any fuel). It simply responds to the situation, if okay. It doesn't FLARE up as a violent REACTION to any excessive fuel from the situation 🤣

Criticism is welcome 🙏

But please beware of disclosing any test_results, if a reader decides to use this litmus test. Your love is your private "affair". I have no bijness to know about it 🙏

Lovingly yours,

psn(24 March, 2026)

Innocence versus ignorance

 Innocence versus ignorance 

They are not at all the same.

And….. I am not rich_enough in wisdom to extol the distinction comprehensively enough.😢 ( I said ‘extol’ because we say “ignorance is bliss”😰. Somehow, I couldn't reconcile with remaining ignorant 🙏)

Easy on brain, wala difference:

I was a kid 7 decades ago. I was both ignorant & innocent. 

Other kids around me, at neighbourhood, relatives, school…… why even in a train journey if ……. lasting more than an hour, become ‘friends’ with me.

The joke is, only about 2% of my kid age friends are “still  my-friends”😰. ( It doesn't matter to me, if ‘i am a friend to few more others!’ that's their choice. My_friends treat me likewise, and I am happy with that👍)

I thought over it.

Despite ignorance, innocence begets friendship. It's like a water-tap without any filter gadget fixed at its mouth 😳 

As I aged, my preferences, choices, NARROWED (filter became OPERATIONAL 😜).  My greed, unrealistic desires, and exclusivity ( as an opposite of ‘inclusiveness’)  played mischief by allowing a ‘leak’ in my filters and I paid its price when my tiny wisdom BECAME affordable to do away with such unfiltered friends)

Ignorance….

gets dispelled at various levels 🙏

The examples that I can think of, 🙏 are

1) sensory levels ( I don't touch a live wire after getting a mild shock. I don't sip a drink while the steam is still seen—got my lips burnt due to ignorance 😜)

2)brain as a processor ( when I didn't like a teacher who loads me with more homework, my elders at home like that_teacher MORE!😳. I was ignorant of this_statistical concept! INVERSELY proportional)

3)mind as an emotional fool ( not often, that an elder offers a ‘chocolate’ out of pure_love. My elders even warned me “don't eat anything from a stranger”. Often, the boss offers a liberal praise, when he looks at me as an unwitting idiot to fall for his ‘friendliness’, while planning to exploit my potential for unpaid/unrewarded/non-compensated ADDITIONAL load of work )

4)spirit/soul/atma ( a bit fuzzy thing to substantiate ‘logically’.  My sister, 3 years younger than me, was DISCOVERED to be my_protector since her 2 years of age! No logical explanation for this! Using ‘negation/neti_neti, न इती –न इती…. soulmate is the only option left out😢। when she was an adult, and throughout later, her ‘being’ continued to be my protector😂. Of course, I gained just_enough spiritual experience to explore to her, about her strange tie-up with me. I could NEVER reciprocate her shielding unto me🙏. I was a ‘normal' brother only!)  A rather difficult_to_get type of example . Spirit itself is EVASIVE 🙏😰. How to quote and substantiate an example about its ignorance_removal???)

Innocence:

No examples are needed👍🙏

Terse concepts are in place 🙏 

Absence of negative emotions 🙏

( Evidence: Show me a fraction of 1 negative emotion, in a new born baby, even till it gets a month old? That baby is innocent. Unfortunately ignorant of its own innocence and unaware of own self)

I became aware of the merits/demerits of the visible qualities of people around with age and experience 🙏. Compatibility issues decided the level of friendship. Ignorance of kid_age was without filters(fetters), and so, intolerance/resistance was almost non_functional, though latent😜😜

About kid age school mates, I need to keep aside my eccentricities acquired beyond teenage, if I am to have any hope of refreshing, for_a_while, the kid_age friendship from the other 🙏. That's my responseAbility🙏. Not quite easy 😜. But worthwhile 👍.

Knowingly yours,

psn(23 March, 2026)

sensitivity as a consequence

sensitivity as a consequence

We need sensitivity, for survival as a human being.

If my one ear is less sensitive, I become a partially-deaf .

Certain sensitivities cannot be deepened without certain tools needed to deepen them!(desi spirituality is full of such tools. The 'problem' arose, when the ancients decided to make a few tools as a part of our life style.  The most acute (but not chronic) problem is with a scripture called "Manusmriti".  Heavily criticized, especially for the stringent rules prescribed for females 😜. What we miss to notice is... even he, as a king , never IMPOSED his own book manusmriti on his_own_subjects.🙏.  Anyway, a political mind won't like to agree with this !

For sceptics : in 1960's neurosurgeons in west abstain from drinking tea/coffee, a week ahead of a brain surgery. Mild nervous stimulants cause 'shaky hands' at the surgery of nerves viewed through a 3-piece microscope 😜(naked eyes can't see the nerves largely enough to stitch the nerves without blocking the pipes.).  Sensitivity of a shakiness in the hands of a genuine neurosurgeon is the historic evidence. today, the surgeon can boast of his insensitivity, because robots can stitch nerves without a shaky hand 😜

One example that I can think of is from the story about a Namboothiri in keralam retold to me by my dad (he had the means to relate it with the specific household of that exceptionally 'sensitive' Namboothiri of that household called a "Mana".
Banana tree has rings of layers in its stem, and extends right up to the end of fruit.
While the stem has layers that can be easily seen(tangible), the rings in the fruit is a bit inconspicuous (maybe a very powerful microscope can make it better tangible). Nutrients get deposited parallel to the layers of rings, from the water that climbs up by capillary-action.  Well, we get tears, due to the same capillary action, so...  don't tell me "I dunno, what a capillary action is"...  
This Namboodiri (in my story) had an extra sensitivity in his taste buds 😲   
There is(at least 'was') a variety of Nendra_BANANA, in Keralam which was known by its uniquity. It ripens when watered for 100 days (nooru nana nendra---mallu name).
this mallu (Namboothiri) could taste a bit of Transverse section/T.S. of the ripe banana and say "It was not watered on the 57th and the 89th day!" Sounds exaggerated???   Even I don't believe it blindly.

The concept I wanted to convey (right or wrong🙏)
Sensitivity can be deepened, also as a consequence of a certain 'lifestyle'
Evidence? The bulk of traditions in Hinduism, which stood well until 500 years ago, doesn't satisfy common logic 😜 One can 'live' comfortably, safely and blissfully ignorant of its purposes even without following them. Eat your meals without the stupid-looking parishechanam (circling of plate, spilling drops of water, mumbling some chants, swallowing solo-grains...... etc), and still the food digests PERFECTLY okay💪🙏...  if we don't know the difference there is none!

Any Namboothiri on an average was better sensitive than other non-vegetarians. He can 'relish' a dish called "Olan" (which is just slices of ash gourd, cooked miserly, with 'carefully' measured dose of salt, and a sprinkle of raw cocoanut oil when cooled). Entire keralam treats this item as a 'must' in any feast. States situated to the north of keralam doesn't relish this dish.  Lack of sensitivity might be the only culprit, after ruling out all 'logical' possible reasons.  As we travel north, the dishes 'NEED'  to become spicy, more and more progressively, if it has to please a diner 😜.  (typically, desert dwellers prefer to eat food that is tasty for smell, rather than the taste buds.  Masala of middle east is predominantly more fragrant in its spices.  A glaring exampull of sensitivity or the lack of it, as a consequence of eating styles.....)

How to become sensitive enough to feel subtle things that the spiritual guys speak about? 
Well, be prepared to undertake intensely, the most crazy-looking practices a routine😜
Alternatively, find consolation in 'knowing' the theory part of these subtle things from a bookish gnawLedge, or a well read lecturer who specialised in reading scriptures only.  Anyway, spiritual scriptures are of no practical use, except as a road-map, or a milestone. 🙏

Consequentially yours,
psn(23rd March, 2026)