When mind assigns value

 When mind assigns value!

I was wondering if you might find some appeal for this thought!

Human mind 'assigns' value to something ( usually a material object, to which it gets attached to. Ideally a concept would be better) and then this 'value' gathers a momentum and shapes the future of that person ( or a society itself, if it was a collective_mind of representatives of inert_minds😜).

Recent "tariff war" turned into a demonstrable example of this theory🤣

Barter system was replaced by a piece of paper ( currency) to which we assigned 'value' . Barter system became a science called foreign exchange. 

Tariffs multiplied the value assigned to the paper. It forced the planning of economies to be aligned with the assigned value and its inevitable consequences 😓🙏

When economy faced a threat, tarriff war had_to_be scaled down 😜

50% to 18% by USA on Bharat. 

( No doubt, only those who understood the concept and its potential played better 🤣. This one time, the players subscribed to "inclusiveness" called VasudaivaKutumbakam🙏

What if, intellect peaks?

Mind is guided by the intellect towards that…which is already the most valuable, being the core basics of this existence, and the means of approaching it being spirituality 🙏 

Mindfully yours,

psn(4 Feb 2026)

At least Arjuna as a safe Yardstick?

 Atleast Arjuna as a safe Yardstick?

Today almost any fellow assumes and assigns himself the eligibility, competence and qualification to expound the contents of bhagawad Geeta 😜

No cognizable offence, for desecrating its essence 🙏

Not so during ancient times 🙏

A voluntary & unconditional mutual understanding existed among literates that “only a fellow who is able to EXPERIENCE the 4 MahaVakyas within, shall attempt to expound the contents of Gita. Others shall only lead a chorus of chanting, because of the embedded software in the verses to manifest it's latent Energy ( hence, no_less important 🙏)

Forget Krishna, forget Rishis, and even forget ashtaVakra, the sole fellow to Compose his own version called “AshtaVakra’s Gita”. 

At least Arjuna can be a Yardstick? I humbly ask today's self-proclaimed Gita_experts( those who are yet to be enlightened of course 🤣 🙏) “should you not be at least somewhere nearby to Arjuna, to talk about Gita? Arjuna was superskilled. Our Arjuna_awards are for sportsmen, not war_heroes🤣😜. Even Arjuna asked too many doubts to Krishna, documented in Gita. And, significantly enough, it took 11/eleven full chapters of Gita to enable Arjuna to ‘think’ of addressing Krish as “Bhagwan”( a bit of respect 😜). Should we not be atleast 10% of Arjuna to expound Gita to unsuspecting audience???”  No law can be enacted for this. 🙏

Misinterpretation, despite any amount of “all in good faith & without any negligence” wala factor, can cause a hindrance in a future possibility for that gullible listener to get an accurate translation 🙏.  Alternatively just chant the text, as accurately as possible, 🙏 and results are guaranteed 👍

My hope is, a few among readers might consider well, what I am trying to convince and avoid falling a prey to incompetent fellows thrusting some nonsense as their interpretation 😜…. At least lack of patronage might be an effective deterrent.

Hopefully yours,

psn(3 Feb 2026)

How to ask?

 How to ask?

One of the toughest “projects” I had imposed on myself, since my kid age😜

( Evidence of my sustained slogging:  Glance a few of my questions at the blogs “silly questions” or “silly doubts” 🙏)

When I ‘tried' to improve myself in this art of asking well, I discovered that I had inadvertently developed an ‘eye’, an ‘ear’ ( receptivity, actually!) for details lesser_noticed by pre_occupied_minds around !  Subtle aspects of life don't evoke any questions at all,😜…only then the question of seeking/discovering their answers! ( My own experience: a blog “Kerala” where, I listed briefly the uniqueness of Hindus versus rest of Bharat, since ancient times 🙏. The ‘why_so’, is too elaborate and tiresome for normal healthy minds to pursue 🙏

Are we capable of handling the responsibility/responseAbility of shaping the minds of our children, to evolve better than ourselves? ( Any decent factory keeps evolving into better models of its manufacture isn't it?).

Unless I can teach my kid to learn in 10% of the time I had spent for learning the same thing, how can he go further & beyond? My life is a sheer waste, if I don't nurture and nourish a model ten times better than me, is my target😂

Asking questions ( at least unto oneself) is the key to ‘discovery’ of knowledge.

“Is it necessary to remain stuck to the gravity of this earth?” a koschan/question!

Modern minds, stuck in material aspects of life, discovered a way_to_fly…. aeroplane, spacecraft.

Ancient Bharat, delved into deeper potential, design and structure of the most sophisticated gadget they possessed –own body, mind & intellect. They took off using sophisticated yogic tools! A Pranayam which lightens the body, a technique which enables the spirit to exit+reEnter the body at will(paraKaayaPravesh), a meditation which affords the mind to interact with another mind using Quantum entanglement laws😜

When does a mind become capable of asking the right kind of questions, in an accurate sequence, such that we are led towards the discovery of something we are seeing, with the least time & efforts? 

Here again, the ancients perfected the syllabus for the kids of their Gurukul_schools—- how to learn, perceive, etc( 4 items of learning).

Socrates used the technology of “asking” right kind of questions in a correct sequence — leading the innocent, ignorant & illiterate minds of humble peasants around to discover the spiritual knowledge from within themselves!

An expert crime_investigator knows “how to ask the right kind of questions in the right sequence to oneself” and using+ pursuing those questions, he unravels the mystery around the crime!

What am I doing with my life?

Oh! What_else SHOULD I be doing with my life then?( A sequence of earlier answer 😜).

At work place, I deployed my private_skill( acquired by myself, and therefore a very crude, unpolished, and primitive one, yet good enough for me) to ‘solve’ the complex outstanding reconciliation accounting_entries between far off branches of the bank , accumulated over 15 long years. The complexity owed to the sheer magnitude of transactions between branches ( about 5000 branches, reporting an average of 500 to 800 items per day) 

My crude personal & private skill at subtle levels, helped me to find out “how to know, if the meditation of these people sitting eyes closed, stone_still, and therefore looking ALIKE, is happening well???”( The teacher used to glance at the motionless aspirants sitting along the wall, and I asked myself “how does he FIND OUT?---who is sleeping, who is meditating, who is dreaming etc?🤔🤔🤔” Teacher won't reveal his_trade_secret. I resorted to asking myself 🙏

Questioningly yours,

psn(2 Feb, 2026)

Post script: 

The sad joke of our present day life🙏 : parents are bogged by the queer questions their toddlers ask, and get drowned into the embarrassment of saying “dunno kiddo!”. Whereas, the ideal thing would be to “use” that MegaPrecious element of Wonderment( very crucial for INTELLECT) to shape the kid's questions thereof, and thereby shape his destiny towards the HIGHEST human POSSIBILITY in life🙏🙏🙏

Jai Hind 🙏 

Socrates method of teaching

 My maths teacher told us: Socrates is unique among the enlightened people, when he teaches by asking, not answering! Asking the right kind of question in a correct sequence begets knowledge from within " ( people around Socrates were illiterate peasants, and therefore the appropriate tool = asking.

That teacher even gave 4 of us a demo for just 5 minutes ( it took him a whole week to frame the questions and a sequence)

This technology stayed with me thereafter.

Now, when A.I. technology popped up, I felt curious to test my "asking skills" 😂

A.I. being what it is.... gave out an answer which seemed to pamper my ego 😜🙏

So, a CopyPaste no doubt, but squeezed out by me, the way I wanted 💪

A.I. agrees with me

I asked google-A.I.

( Just typed it on search bar, and A.I. popped up 🙏😜)

PSN:

“are humans not a variety of forms of music, given the fact that, a,u,m is the basic structure of the whole creation?”

Results 

Quote:

Yes, interpreting humans as diverse forms of music—or more accurately, as unique, living manifestations of the primordial sound AUM (OM)—aligns with foundational, ancient spiritual philosophies and is supported by modern understanding of vibration and resonance. 

In Vedic and Yogic traditions, AUM is not just a word but the fundamental cosmic vibration from which all creation emerges. 

Here is a breakdown of how humans are considered "musical forms" of this structure:

1. The Structure of AUM as Existence

According to the Mandukya Upanishad, AUM is the total sound of creation, preservation, and dissolution. 

A (Aaaah): Represents the waking state, the physical body, and the act of creation.

U (Ooooh): Represents the dreaming state, the subtle inner world, and preservation.

M (Mmmm): Represents the deep-sleep state, the unconscious, and dissolution.

Silence: The stillness after the sound represents pure consciousness (Turiya). 

Humans are seen as temporary, walking, and breathing representations of this entire cycle—constantly moving through these states of consciousness. 

2. Humans as Resonant Vessels

Vibrational Anatomy: At a fundamental level, the human body is a complex, resonant vessel of sound. Every cell, organ, and tissue vibrates at a specific frequency.

"Special Song": Each human can be seen as having their own unique "special song" or frequency, which changes based on their health, thoughts, and emotions.

Sound Production: The human voice, generated by vocal cords, is a direct, audible, and sophisticated application of these vibrations. 

3. The Musical Analogy

The Symphony of Life: The body's processes—heartbeat (rhythm), breath (flow), and neurological signals (harmony)—act as a symphony.

The Instrument: Just as a musical instrument is shaped to create specific tones, the human body is designed to resonate with the cosmic vibrations of AUM. 

4. Reconnecting to the Source

Chanting AUM: Chanting AUM is believed to harmonize the human frequency with the cosmic frequency, promoting physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.

Internal Alignment: By consciously utilizing the vocal mechanism to chant A-U-M, a person can feel the vibrations moving from the stomach (A) to the chest (U) and to the throat/head (M), aligning their internal energy with the cosmos. 

In this context, humans are not merely listening to music; they are the embodied, individual expressions of the universal symphony of AUM.

Unquote.

Questioningly yours,

psn (1 Feb, 2026)

Integrating internal intellect (I.I.I.)

 Integrating internal intellect (I.I.I.)

no point elaborating a concept, which is ‘unlikely’ to find an appeal in today's typically lesser_attentive minds 🙏

A silly example: suppose in a dense forest, we are about to relieve ourselves ( nature's call, either urine or ‘shit’ 😓. Apologies for being indecent 🙏).... and suddenly we sense a threat_perception. We run, as fast as our legs can carry us away from that ‘threat’( snake, wolf, jackal, leopard, tiger, bear, lion …. anything of your choice 🙏)

After reaching a safe place, we “realise” that our cellular intelligence situated in the adjoining areas of the exit points (designed and structured to expel the waste matter accumulated) had cooperated/coordinated with a sense of inbuilt design of integrating with our intellect which normally ‘attempts’ to assist+communicate with our mind_only.

What if….

We strove to make this ‘integration’ possible, by CONSCIOUSLY practicing it, and making such coordinated functioning possible at_will, by choice?

Is it not going to perform much superior functions, to progressively undertake more and more complex tasks? 😜 Obviously, it ‘calls’ for a discipline, physical and mental, way beyond the ‘bare survival instincts and related needs’ 😜

Cellular intelligence driven by a very subtle networking ( desi lingua “pranic nadis”) does the role of seamlessly interwoven networking between uniquely abled + intelligently located organs of the human body, with its own uniquely embedded software of cellular intelligence, muscle memory etc, with a highly responsive alertness, 24/7. 😜

I can think of a very simple desi name which is used to refer to such evolved humans 🙏… “Mystics”.  Such Mystics enjoyed the patronage of tribals, far more than civilians, for the simple reason of proximity and familiarity 🙏. Mystics tend to linger in the forest. Tribals dwell there.  Mysticism used to be regarded as a sophisticated science and learning was restricted to highly disciplined aspirants.  

( As usual, my seemingly preposterous assumptions, are with a support of a tiny speck of stray, randomised experiences which occurred to me, spanning over a few decades, and emerging with an incremental_pattern over a long span. I never thought it ‘worthy’ of any mention, hitherto, simply because I had no way to ensure any ‘value-addition’ to a rare_few_readers, among the bulk of entertainment_seekers🙏.

Obviously, I did_take into account the ‘element of repetitiousness’ needed for a scientific temper/mind, though I have no way or means as_yet to demonstrate it, at will 😓🙏.   

All I can think of, with all the possible humility in me is to thank MayaMadom who allowed me an occasional glimpse at the popular saying “ खुदी को कर बुलंद इतना कि हर तहरीर से पहले खुदा खुद बंदे से पूछे बता तेरी रज़ा क्या है” (roughly translates as : by your self righteousness, attain such heights that the creator of thy destiny asks you “what is thy desire? for it is thine  that will prevail”.... We sync with the cosmic laws so_much that, we become a part of its functionality, in full awareness 😜) …. streaks of freak occurrences, constraining a bit of attention towards its pattern.  Freaks don't matter anyway 😜🙏

Anyway yours,

psn(30 jan 2026)

Dependence

 Dependance

Beautiful concept.

We depend on how well we depend on the better_dependable Values, to minimise our dependance on factors which are less dependable, for a meaningful life 🙂

If the foregoing is dependable for its reasoning, then, we now turn to examine the types of dependency we lean upon😜

Self-dependance

Interdependence 

Independance 

Non-dependance( freedom)

For irreligious Hinduism to work for us, it depends on how well we learn these 4

1.how to learn

2.how to deepen perception 

3.how to stabilize emotions 

4.how to use the sense of Discrimination 

( Unlike other ‘religions' where ‘belief' is enough and dependence is outsourced to ‘numbers’ only, Hinduism defined it's dependancy as “Dharmo rakhshati Rakshita”.  Try viewing dharma as Cosmic laws, and it may synchronise better 🙏)

When the very basis of our very_existence is owing to some dependance, of some kind, the question of total non_dependance is irrelevant.

This physical frame depends on external factors for its functioning.

Minimising this dependance, gives us a relatively greater freedom, from uncertainties of the availability needed for the resources needed out of such dependence. 

2 examples 

1.An extreme example:

Undependable example is mine😓 I happened to discover that a combo of 3 yogic practices, obviates our direct dependence on ‘food’. ( The same practice can obviate dependence on sleep and the air we breathe, but I didn't pursue the practice to reach+verify that level🙏. Historical evidence was enough for me. Certain ascetics, preferring to continue their present mortal frame, to dissolve their past karma, instead of learning to live afresh as a baby( LKG of life😜), devised this practice to go into deep states of hybernation( no food, sleep, or breath) for a minimum 6 months, and then come out of that state to continue ‘next’ phase of work.

I revived this practice, and could see that I didn't need any food intake for 8 days( first 2 days out of 10 days was needed to ‘reach’ the non_dependence🙏). What baffled me was the experiential discovery that I had never tried this practice during this lifetime, whereas, doing this practice at a fruitful level needed atleast 2 decades of prior training 😥

Today, the present day minds have come to conclude that ‘financial’ independence is the fulcrum of other dependencies of all kinds. Relationships started depending of financial dependancy😥. Emotional interdependence lost its value. What we call as morality, ethics, inclusiveness etc are totally dependent on our emotional values like truth, integrity, loyalty, love, patriotism etc🙏.  

Why doesn't ‘spirituality’ find any appeal in us? When do we decide to turn towards our core_dependency, our ‘spirit’?  Sage Patanjali needed just 2 words in Sanskrit to address this question when?😜.  The opening sentence of his monumental work (yoga sutras), with the 2 words ‘atah yoganushasanam’( translation: and now, the discipline of yoga)! A fellow who has finished all his ‘games’ over several life_times, and having thoroughly got convinced that nothing else worked, finds these 2 words perfectly relevant to him😂

Shall we look at how we depend on external factors in our lives today? 😜

Just for fun 🙏 ( please don't depend on my sincerity beyond this sentence 😓)

1)we vote for scam netas blindly, and depend on their honesty to make our lives easy!

2)we depend on memorizing/copying the school lessons without learning the concepts and expect our degrees to work effectively and efficiently at workplace 

3)we depend on outsourced agencies to substitute our parenting and expect our children to care & love us in our oldage.

4)we depend on gadgets to minimise the ‘use’ of our body and expect our body to maintain its ‘working conditions’ even after we age😜. 

5) we depend on borrowed wisdom, instead of borrowed experience and expect the borrowed wisdom to work in our lives😂 ( intellect is rarely invoked…. we almost forgot how to invoke our intellect, uninterfered by our negative emotions 🙏)

6) we depend on chemicals in man-made medicines and expect them to cure us, whereas they manage only to give us symptomatic relief or to suppress the pain_response needed to warn us of a malfunctioning in our body😥 

7) etc…. Like, WE DEPEND ON COPYPASTE AND FORWARDS, and expect a genuine response of true_affection from our recipients 🙂 ( We end up only  adding junk_data into the storage location in minds and gadgets of both of us. Zero value addition. 99% of such forwards are deleted when mobile handset shouts ‘no storage space ‘!)

Trust is an indispensable element of dependency.  The quality of trust we offer and receive, decides the quality of our life. ( USA decided to print “in God we trust”. Dollars as a medium of exchange between non-dollar nations, did earn enough for USA, until recently 😜. Now, the quality of trust seems to be getting questioned 😥🙏)

Unexpectedly yours,

psn (29 Jan 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🙏)