A tribute to my teacher

 I do not ( rather "should not") expect a reader to find any value addition from this one blog 🙏

Nothing prevents a reader to find anything 'worthwhile' in it.

I felt it appropriate to place a gratitude at the feet of my teacher, as a 'gesture' also, since this blog allows me such a freedom 🙏 ( my gratitude to the organization "blogger.com")

Any genuine seeker on a spiritual path, finds numerous questions surging from within 😜.

In my case, I CONSCIOUSLY decided to wait patiently till the teacher decides to answer them, unasked 😂.

I did ask one question 🙏 ( it was about my disinclination to ask any question 😥).

I took every care possible by me, to present the question in strict conformity with verse 110 of chapter 2, in the Manusmriti 🙏 ( the care was owing to the reverence I felt for my teacher, despite his flexibility in "ask me any nonsensical question 👍" )

My question: "why is it that my urge to articulate a question dies by the time I reach your proximity? I fail to ask! 🤔"

His reply is too sacred for me to CopyPaste it here🙏( it is nothing secret, private, personal, confidential or anything like that.... Just sacred, due to its sanctity😂). I didn't have to ask any question to him thereafter 🙏.

Unquestioningly yours,
( this time, "yours" includes my teacher 😜) psn(25 June, 2026)

Stubbornity, firmness, and flexibility

 Stubbornity, firmness, and flexibility 

One blessing in disguise is that my blogs are seldom taken too intensely.( Only one out my 1000+ blogs ‘caused’ a rare and one of the coveted states of spiritual experience. Neither me or that reader can claim any ’credit’. Closest explanation is, like a huge spill at a petrol bunk, with the air super_soaked with the oil, waiting for a spark from a humble matchstick at the edge of the ‘area’ 😜)

My spiritual teacher is a “super” example for me, to learn the ‘basics’ of life 🙏 

It took 3 decades for me to even understand his extra_flexibility in handling ‘me’ as his own_commitment towards the disciple decided upon by_him.  Otherwise, his_flexibility towards many others was like God's own flexibility towards humans😜(“do whatever nonsense you like for a million lifetimes 👍.  Eventually, you will seek Me”). My teacher's firmness at its subtlest should have been ‘the’ reason for his flexibility unto me! 😂.  

Becoming aware of one's own stubbornity is very basic to living meaningfully 🙏. And this awareness leans too heavily upon the need of understanding ”firmness” with utter clarity.

We relax our stubbornity under great stress, mental tension, anxiety, fear etc😂. Perhaps, anger is the only negative emotion that adds to own stubbornity 🙏

I leave it at that …. 😜

( I thank my flexibility, which is a gift from my firmness about the reasons thereof 🙏)

Firmly and flexibly yours,

psn(25 June, 2026)

Post script:  I can confess here! I haven't been able to adhere to the 110th verse of chapter 2, of Manusmriti, despite decades of consistent efforts 🙏.  My own stubbornity is awaiting for a clarity about the need to adhere to it effortlessly 🙏. Till then, my firmness is my stubbornity in disguise 😭, and I am painfully aware of this self_deception 😜

Breath

 Breath

My spiritual teacher narrated a brief story during my first time to a spiritual program, (closest word for its sanskrit name is “synthesis”).

Story:

Gautama Buddha had a very close childhood friend.  A commitment to such friendship is unconditional+ without expectations 🙏.

Buddha ‘wished’ that this friend should benefit from the spiritual wealth Gautama possessed. But that friend used to procrastinate every time when Gautama passes by the shop of that friend, saying “too busy with my bijness, next time you visit 👍”

Years passed. That ‘next time ‘ never came 😂.

News spread that Buddha is going to breathe his_last soon.

Friend was shocked! He rushed to see Buddha 🙏.

Disciples prevented him initially “nobody can disturb his peaceful departure 🙏”

Friend implored “my kid age friend. Just 5 seconds🙏, last_chance for me😭”

Friend was allowed.

Buddha was lying eyes closed. No movement.

Friend: “Hey, Siddharth ... .I am here. I apologise having neglected you all along 🙏. Just tell me one thing. How to get_you after you are gone???”

Gautama opened his eyes, looked into the eyes of his friend and said “watch your breath”. Eyes closed thereafter 🙏 

It is said, these words “watch your breath” became one of the most_powerful spiritual_tool given by Buddha 🙏 ( it needs the ‘key words’ for it to function….😜. Only a Guru can ‘initiate’ a deserving disciple to use those ‘key words' 🙏. A chant!

( Even otherwise, plain breath_awareness can work….but only according to the ‘fuel of intensity ‘ of a seeker 😜)

I got initiated as well 👍 🙏 🙏 🙏 

An initiate, yours,

psn(24 June, 2026)

We are basically entertainment seekers

 We are basically entertainment seekers

This blog might disappoint 🙏

Readers are advised to exercise caution, similar to reading a ‘notice' for AGM of a corporation, without any ‘explanatory notes’ 😜…  

This blog has many loose ends 🙏

In 1970 or so, I was surprised to see a movie being released in morning show 😳

After seeing the movie, i got the answer 👍 ( dosage of entertainment is below the minimum requirement of masses 😕)

( Chandramohan jain whispered his question, not shouted to the speaker, 🙏. He knew the 'nature' of audience 🙏. )

Imagine Rajnikant/Amitabh ( even devAnand ) replicating the boxing/wrestling world championship style against villain 😜. Audience will be bored to death.

I was 'eagerly' awaited by my cousins in Kerala during summer holidays. Even after 15 days' stay with each gang, they request 'stay one more week 🙏'. ( Now, it is 2 decades since I visited them. They don't 'miss' me 🙏. Instead, they feel relieved 😜. I don't entertain 😭, of late 😥).

Remove the frills from crowd_rituals and improve the bare_vedic part, and see if people 'attend' with the same number? 😅 (The frills obscured the purpose of attendance itself😭🙏🙏🙏)

Exceptions are everywhere and in everything 👍. ( Jaggi's third program is a total contrast to the first basic yoga programs, in terms of entertainment. 😅.... Still, a good number come. सिर्फ़, the 'good' in the number is from the 'large' of 8 basic program of 10 places😥🙏). 

Seminars are popular today, only because the organisers sacrificed the intrinsic meaning of the word 'semen' in the adapted_concept behind selection of the audience 🙏. The main_purpose of 'seminar' is irrelevant now👍

Patanjali’s yoga sutras( the book) is rarely read. Among the readers very rarely understood. Within those who understood, very few practiced it 😥. It is not popular, but antique, and therefore survives today. The ‘preservation’ part is owing to earliest readers who attributed reverence by themselves_becoming a product of that monumental book🙏. Today it is a most boring book for today's minds, in its bare form without any explanation 🙏

Tersely yours,

psn(20 June, 2026)

A question to WhatsApp University

 A question to WhatsApp University 

Now that this university churns out billions of unsolicited spiritual advices…. 🙏

I thought it's worth asking a humble question 🙏

Can WhatsApp University provide me the transcript of non_verbal COMMUNICATION received by Mr Paul Brunton, when he visited Sri Bhagwan Ramana maharishi, the second time?

Paul Brunton is the same one who authored the book “Search in secret India”.

The occasion called second visit is described in that book itself 😜 ( A.I. search with intelligent key words can yield info very quickly)

Easier question if this one irritated a reader🙏

A very famous verse. 

“sruthi smrithi purAnAnAm Alayam karunAlayam |

namAmi bhagavadh pAdha shankaram lOka shankaram “

Question: who said/wrote this???( I am ain't ‘seeking’ any answer😜…  By fluke, my antenna worked 👍)

Questioningly yours,

psn(18 June, 2026)

Dependance

 Dependance 

My PM, Modi has openly declared “dear citizens, i depend on you during my entire term of each 5 years, when you elect me🙏”

( Other scam netas depend on me….only on the day of voting 😜)

I like to respond via communication also, apart from performance of my citizen_Dharma 🙏. But i failed miserably in reaching him. The intermediaries aren't responsive enough, every time. I have abandoned the idea of reaching my PM, at least till the structure ( interface) is healthy 🙏( to convince a sceptical reader, shall i quote an instance where, i failed in my 6_years of persistence to return the freebie amount credited in my family account? 🙏. It was just an error, in feeding the rightful recipients account number 🙏. But, who else but me can point it out? Public money. )

Kings of the ancient Bharat adhered to a tradition: travel INCOGNITO through the streets of their kingdom 🙏. Even the most_timid citizens get ‘reached’ by_the_king🙏. Corrupt intermediaries face a threat 😜. King ‘depends’ on the aspirations of common man 🙏

A mom depends on her baby, to know how/where/when to give her care.

If parents misunderstood the independence of earning/married children, this “care” for adult children becomes a big nuisance 🤣 

A joke: 3 kids excitedly reported to their teacher “ M’am, we HELPED an old woman to cross the street today👍. Our compulsory homework of ‘do a good deed today’ is a completed Assignment 🙏”

Teacher: “ Good!”. As an after thought, teacher asked the 3 kids “why did it NEED 3 of you to help her cross the street?”

3 kids : “ because, she NEVER needed to cross the street, and we HAD to somehow do a good_deed 😥😥😥”

A doctor depends on the patient's body’s willingness to accept the medicine 🙏. We ‘talk’ only about our dependance on a doctor's honesty+ skill 😓

A spiritual teacher has a difficulty 🙏.  He looks for dependance of a disciple, based on the receptivity of the disciple and not the need/wish/willingness of the disciple 😥. That's why a Guru decides, not the disciple about tutelage 😜. And, once a Guru decides, the disciple is choiceless 🙏

Godji, (if really an existing entity), didn't take any risk 🤣. He planted a piece of himself in us, and obviated his dependance on our uprighteousness to manage his bijness 😜. 

Dependantly yours,

psn(17 june, 2026)

Tumour

 Tumour 

I asked Google: can a tumour survive without a host?

A.I. didn't need time to reply🙂

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No, a tumor cannot survive on its own without a host. Cancer cells are parasitic; they do not have the complex biological systems required to independently extract nutrients, regulate temperature, or expel waste. If the host dies, the tumor cells quickly perish as well.

Why Tumors Cannot Survive 

IndependentlyReliance on Blood Supply: Tumors cannot create their own circulatory systems from scratch. They rely heavily on hijacking the host's existing blood vessels (a process called angiogenesis) to pump vital oxygen and glucose to the tumor.Energy 

Needs: Cancer cells have a voracious appetite. When removed from the host's tissue and deprived of a steady stream of nutrients, they generally die within minutes to hours.

Extracellular Matrix: Like all human cells, tumor cells need a specific, stable environment (temperature, pH levels, chemical balances) that only the host body provides.

The Only Exception: Laboratory CulturesThe only way a tumor can "survive" outside of a living host is in a specialized laboratory setting. Scientists can extract cancer cells and place them in petri dishes containing a nutrient-rich chemical "culture medium."While these cells can multiply and "live" indefinitely in a lab (the most famous example being the HeLa cell line taken in 1951), they still require constant human maintenance, precise temperatures, and daily feeding to stay alive

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So, a ‘healthy' body simply shows a placard at its door to the tumour “No food, we are closed for today. Sorry for the inconveniences 🙏”  And the virus keeps checking for food daily 😜….

Only when it comes to the tumour called FEAR ( in our minds), we don't know how to stop supplying it with its ‘feed’ .  It takes different shapes to keep its supply_chain on👍. Call it desire, anger, hatred or resistance 🙏

( My own conviction: if I can manage to avoid fear in all its forms, I am set_free 😜)

Fearfully yours,

psn(17 June, 2026)

Definition

 Definition 

(x-a) (x-b)

My algebra Teacher had taught this .

I even got good marks in the examination reproducing what was taught .

But as a kid the practical application in normal mathematics came to me only-through a shortcut I learn’t in Vedic maths.

Example:

978 x 990

written as (1000-22)(1000-10)

the short cut doesn’t bother to explain the definition/formula. It simply says “do this mentally, and you get the answer)

I do this:

Step-1: 978 minus 10 (or 990 minus 22, whichever is easier)

I get 968000 (3 zeroes I am ‘asked to add’, no questions)

Step 2 : -22 x -10 , I get = 220

step 3: I add 220 to 968000

answer is = 968220

(Rules are framed under an enacted law, for functionality. Nothing new!)

My physics teacher taught 4 concepts related to water.

Not ‘how to combine and use the 4’ 

Later, I saw water ‘climbing’ on its own at 2 historical places (Paan-chakki & Golkonda fort).

Armed with these 2 (school physics, and visuals of 2 historical places), I resisted paying bribe to the water-Lineman, when I got a house constructed decades ago!

In those days, water was from a huge tank situated far away, catering a very large area of houses, and by the time it reaches my house at the outer edge, the pressure is inadequate to flow out of my tap, 1.5 feet above ground level.

I attempted to combine the 4 concepts(4 chapters, hydroEngr., related), and guidance from visuals of kid-age visit to the 2 historical places. 

I could get water for my domestic needs (without infringing the rules of water-supply, without tapping from underground, illegally )

but the ‘perfection’ in reaching optimal use of the 4 concepts, plus the ancient skills of Bharat, took me 3 decades to ‘reach’.

Moksha/salvation is yet another purpose of life for few at least.

Definitions abound. 

Functional application, to reach that state, attain that state aren’t much sought-after. Because, this activity has no relevance in managing the material aspect of life. 

I was on the look out for tools & techniques, not the definitions, or meaning of salvation (a guru said, “when you attain... anyway you will know it!”. I have reasons to trust him)

Unlike simple task of learning the use of algebra/physics, I had to pour out myself, to learn the subtleties involved in the time-tested tools.... 

one good thing is, there are footholds on the pathless path of spirituality (moksha). Once we plant our feet firmly on any of those footholds, chances of slipping down further is very remote.

Undefinedly yours,

psn(16th June, 2026)

Moksha bijness

 Moksha bijness 

A very sincere friend responded to my previous blog, in private.

Omitting his personal profile, i reproduce it with my response….

Hindi, which i can't help 🙏

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[16/06, 10:38 am] जिगरी दोस्त: 

सप्रेम नमस्कार, मोक्ष प्राप्ती ये कोई बंगला ,जगह कोई स्थान ऐसा नहीं हो सकता वह एक मानसिक. स्थीती है ,कोई पाने की चाहत नहीं  कुछ खोने का डर नही ,सभी इच्छा तृप्त है ,कुछ कहने सुनेने की जरूरत नहीं,फिरभी तृप्तता है,सभी जगह आत्मीय आनंद है, और मात्र स्वानंद है , कोई अतीरिक्त इच्छा अनीच्छा नहीं है ,शायद इसेही मोक्ष कहते है.👏👏

[16/06, 11:18 am] PSN: 

जबकि मैं,

सिर्फ़ 

माने हुए ' लक्षण '  की सहायता लेने की कोशिश करता हूं 🙏 ( क्योंकि, मोक्ष 'अवस्था' की परिभाषाएं ढ़ेर सारे हैं, 😜, जिसका उपयोग नज़र नहीं आ रहा मुझे 😭🙏)

मेरे गुरु ने पुछा ( कक्षा में):" भीड़ भरी bus में, तेरे बाजू बैठा हुआ इंसान मोक्ष प्राप्ति वाला है तो,  तू कैसे पहचानेगा रे?"

मैं चिंतित हो गया 🙏 

( आगे की details boring है 😜 , जब की मेरे निजी जीवन का अनमोल वृत्तांत है 😜🙏)

Strivingly yours,

psn(16 june, 2026)

My purpose

 My purpose 

1)मोक्ष प्राप्ति के लिए कुछ औज़ार 

2)उप जीवन मार्ग के लिए कुछ कौशल 

( Bank में बाबूगिरी की क्षमता "पर्याप्त" लगा मुझे, second आवश्यकता हेतु 🙏

पहला वाला ने ही मेरी प्राण को निचोड़ने पर लग गया 😜, 

अब, एक "पड़ाव" पर टिक सका हूं 🙏 यहां से तो भी, और नीचे नहीं फिसल गिरूंगा, unless i commit a stupidity 😜🙏)

Firmly footed, yours,

psn(16 june, 2026)

ShringaGiri

 ShringaGiri

A rishi named Shringa is said to have performed penance on that mountain. The mountain got a label 😜…. Shringa’s Giri/hill.

It didn't stop with that…..😭

The very place acquired certain qualities too. It remained undiscovered, till a ‘visionary’ sighted these qualities 😂

Aadi shankara was that person. He even decided to be charitable about mentioning his discovery 🙏. Those life forms, which normally perform ONLY the functions embedded in them ( technical name is PraVrutti…. or, in our ‘way’ of understanding “embedded software”) happened to TRANSCEND this ‘nature' in them and performed a much superior function. 2 examples ( noticed by AadiShankara & depicted in a stone as a picture) is a vulture sparing the life of its prey/food, a snake, and a snake sparing a frog, and instead , both protecting their prey 😜. Sherlock Holmes used to ‘deduce’ . AadiShankara didn't have to, since he was capable of experiencing the subtle energy which caused this Transformation 🙏. He decided to institutionalise this quality for the benefit of mankind. A mutt, and a lineage of pontiffs, to this day, came into being, known as Sringeri Mutt. Assignment to the pontiffs is simple ( not quite easy 😜) : to propagate the highest of the 4 declaratory truths, “aham brahma asmi “... ( Tools required for the task, would be a choice according to ever-changing situations). Any visionary can verify the credibility of the place, with sufficient capabilities of perception and sense of Discrimination 🙏. ( A symbolic story to illustrate this effect of a ‘place’ like this is ‘The judgement throne of Vikramaditya “ where a cowherd boy happened to sit on a mound of mud, and astounded others by his unbelievable sense of Juris_Prudence, and later a king decided to dig that mound, to discover that throne_of_vikramaditya🙏.)

The concept of a place getting energised in a subtle level is available in the science of Temple_consecration 🙏. 

( Imagine my surprise, when a once_omitted_paternal uncle wrote an email to me “do you know, the sringeri pontiff, is our KulaGuru 👍”, in response my email about my visit to Sringeri, for a family_ritual !!! 😜… That, to me, has a new message “never should I indulge in exploiting the commitment of the ‘lineage’ of the pontiffs, no matter if the price i have to pay is Even_my_salvation🙏🙏🙏”)

Humbly yours,

psn(14 Jun, 2026)

Base and steadfastness

 Base & steadfastness

“അവനവൻ ആയിട്ട് ഒരു നിലയും നിശ്ചയവും വേണം”

I asked A.I.( Google)😂

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ജീവിതത്തിൽ ആത്മാഭിമാനത്തോടെ ജീവിക്കാനും, സ്വന്തം കാര്യങ്ങളിൽ വ്യക്തമായ കാഴ്ചപ്പാട് ഉണ്ടായിരിക്കേണ്ടതിൻ്റെ ആവശ്യകതയെക്കുറിച്ചാണ് ഈ പ്രയോഗം സൂചിപ്പിക്കുന്നത്.

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Perfect! 👍 

In normal desi English now 🙏

My grandmother.

A university by herself. Reason : got her ‘basics'(base) from her traditional lineage and steadfast from this adage🙏

But she was illiterate 😥

She can ONLY chant what Worked for her 😓

Her eight kids couldn't find a reason (situation) to quote this punchline 😂.

A translation looks like this : For oneself, each has to have a base, and the steadfastness ( to stay on that base)

 Such brevity, when it packs too many life_concepts, presents a huge task in finding its functionality, or functional_software to be applied in a routine life 🙏 

I too heard this punchline from her as an advice, in response to my reporting to her, my failure in having missed something very_relevant to me, when i yielded to some other attraction which diverted me away!😓. I could understand ONLY THE CONTEXTUAL relevance of this adage at that kid_age. And i did keep in mind, the advice for my use in SIMILAR situations 🙏

But now, the subtle sense in it is getting revealed and the value/worth of it seems UNIMAGINABLY deep 🙏🙏🙏. ( For example, if the ‘karma’ theory is acceptable as a postulate at least, for an extremely sceptical mind, for a while 😜…..then, applying this adage as a thumb rule, …

Is it not important for a life_form to recognise its ‘base’/നില & remain steadfast/നിശ്ചയം to the PURPOSE OF THAT BIRTH with that PARTICULAR form of body???? ( newer desires, chasing of those desires, creating more complications, inviting more karma’s…. warranted???🤔)

Once the base is familiar, and resolve/നിശ്ചയം is steadfast, we just dissolve that set of Prarabhdha karma and go👍. The acquired SKILL of base+ steadfast comes very handy in the next form-of-birth, with next set of prarabhdha karma, carved out of Sanchita karma( our private Godown of karmas😜)

Basically s

teadfast, yours,

psn(14 Jun, 2026)