Avoiding arguments

 Avoiding arguments

Peace is sought today only thus 😜.

The tragedy is, this tendency to ‘avoid’ argument with ‘others’, takes us far_away from peace than the open_argument itself 😜 

Who benefits?

1)more ‘business’ for psychiatrist. 

2) Easier marketing for fake products/ideas/ideology/misinterpreted-toolkits …. ( “who are you to tell me what I should do???😡” —type of attitude)

Side effects?

1). Mental pressure ( unresolved conflicting information, thoughts, etc within. )

2). Decline of ‘sense of Discrimination’ ( like an iron getting rusted due to dis-use 😜.) 

3). Vulnerability of being exploited due to dis_abled discriminatory sense 😜

4) shrinking scope for parenting 😭

Peace?

I had a hearty laugh ( silently within 🙏), when a teacher spelt it out so_clearly in a spiritual program i attended during 1992 🙂. He said “ today, peace is the most sought after thing, as if it is the ULTIMATE goal of life. Whereas, peace is the most basic thing, only then something else is possible for a human” ( He gave simple examples like “an animal is utterly peaceful, when well fed! Whereas, our peace is seldom about our basic needs like food, shelter and clothing”).

A human mind cannot avoid ‘arguments’. The very nature of thought process is to judge. 🤣. Every thought is a conclusion of some kind 🙏, a judgement (please test_check it 😓). And, we know….a court cannot ‘function’ at all if ‘arguments’ are dis_allowed🤣. A ‘healthy' argument is termed as a debate, discussion, exchange of ideas etc .

I felt persuaded to write this blog simply because, I bumped into a beautiful idea from a youngster “ argument should be to test oneself about how firm we are in our own opinion?” ( The words, if i were to acknowledge ‘credits’ of copyright was “about

convincing yourself how strongly you actually feel

about your own argument.”).  This attitude helps us to keep all the negativities about arguments away🙏🙏🙏👍.   Not as_easy_as it sounds 😜. Ancient guys of Bharat evolved a whole science to make it healthy and edible. TharkaShastra तर्क शास्त्र…. Unfortunately, the designers of syllabus in our modern educational institutions seem averse to including this in the curriculum. Only ‘logic’ makes a passing reference. “Real + genuine” scientists evolve into ETHICAL arguments, though only within the confines of their area of scientific exploration, not necessarily as their_own personal quality 😜.

Spiritual bijness, I noticed from my own personal experience, to be nurturing and nourishing the ability to be honest_in_arguments, as an incidental byproduct 🙏. The main product being expansion of our inclusiveness 😜.

Instead of bluntly saying “do not argue with fools”, Manusmriti coined it into a verse ( chapter 2, verse 110). It translates roughly as ( CopyPaste from Google search)

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“Manusmriti Chapter 2, Verse 110 states that one should not give unsolicited instruction or answer improper questions, and a wise person should act like a dull or simple person in society even when they know the truth”. UnQuote 

( Very rare to find a ‘response' in WhatsApp to the tons of CopyPaste we dump😜.  My blogs, I am used to the feel of ‘speaking to a Wall’ 🤣).

Argumentably yours, psn(28 Aug, 2026)

Learning at subtle levels

 Learning at subtle levels 

I heard a ‘story' about some fellow called ‘Totaka’ (totakaAshtakam verse fame, maybe 😓).

Aadi shankara asked his students to assemble for an important lesson.

Disciples sat in the classroom, collecting all the attentiveness they could gather in them🙏.

The teacher is not getting_started 😳 ( students wondering “what's holding him now?”). Restlessness growing by each moment 😜

The ‘minds’ of the students ‘started’ trying to imagine the ‘reasons' for delay in the teachers bla_bla ! ( What happened to the ‘quality' of attentiveness of a ‘still’ mind? 😜)

Teacher looked out of the window. Students followed the ‘track’ of the teacher’s glance. And one student even remarked ‘Oh, it's totaka. He is a dull boy, not worth being called a student, since he is incapable of being ‘studious’... teacher, please ignore him, lets get started 👍”

Aadi shankara didn't shift his side_glance from totaka, who was picking flowers( a menial ‘task’, meant for the dullest disciple 🤣)

Suddenly, totaka started ‘blurting’ out a poetic song ( now famous as his_ashtakam, 8 stanzas) and entered the classroom to prostrate before his Guru.

Aadi shankara: “ lesson over, you all may disperse for the day👍”

All other students: 😥😳😳😳

An interesting story 👍

But, doesn't mean a damn thing to_me 😡

My turn to learn ( I mean, my experience).

1974 

A renowned saint Janardhan swami, himself corrected my postures during an Yoga-class( weeks long class 4:30 to 7 am).

I happened to be the best among a hundred beginners, as per the volunteers who confided the opinion of the teacher. ( “Maybe” i told myself, since I knew, i had inherited a flexible body from my mom😂). I didn't bother to get that ‘certificate’ which would make me a govt. Certified trainer. 

1992

Again a Yoga class 😜

This time, the scenario nudged me to tell myself “ hey! What kind of a teacher is this???😡”.  

He is reclining on a carpet on the stage, with his head supported by his palm bent at his elbow?? He is ‘enjoying’ some soft instrumental music! He merely utters “come on, lets do it now” ( for each new posture when a volunteer finished his demo).

Where is his_teaching????

Luckily, I didn't hang on to  this thought 🙏. It passed by unresponded by me(my brain, intellect or whatever 😥)

I focused on my_job👍. Getting into the right posture as best as I can 😂

½ day passed.

Still 2½ days more to go!(Residential program…. The main ‘trick’ was to  impose dietic ‘lab’ conditions perhaps, I deduced 😓)

Post lunch session, I was going through the physical motions of my body, as_told 👍. Eyes closed, so the focus had_to_be within.

Suddenly, a ‘totaka moment’ 😜😜😜. The ‘scale’ might be only a fraction of 1% ( 0.0001 %) but for sure, it happened 😳 

The movement of arms and legs etc, the breath in sync with the movement, and the different organs, limbs, nerves, muscles, tendons, ligament….etc…whatever —-- all of them felt like ‘got Fused’ 😥, and me con_Fused at this strange experience. And then, a strange ‘flow’ within 😳. I can use a word known to us ‘mild current ‘ to describe it 🙏. Not an apt description 😭.  We know of only a ‘jerk’ caused by an electric current, not exactly its ‘flow’ 😓. But we are told, current flows through the wires. So, I can use the expression ‘flow of energy’ in me 🙏 

The ‘joke’ was…. I was exempted from ‘suffering’ the muscle/nerves/body fatigue of going through the ‘acrobatics’ of some 30+ asana postures for 2½ days, morning to evening 😜😜😜😜. ( My body felt normal, as if I was only watching others do it. Something I couldn't ‘explain’ to even_myself, to this day🫪. Where did the ‘tiredness/fatigue’ go???)

( We were ‘supposed’ to practice the entire set in 2 parts, each on alternate days, for 41 days, as a body_preparation for another 7 days residential program.  Since I was exempted from the physical tiredness of doing it, I did both the sets twice daily 😜. Kids playing for the whole day, hectic moment of their body, don't experience any fatigue 😜. They are ‘lost’ into the joy of playing together. Something like that, maybe 🤔.  I did meet a rare few friends, in whom alcohol doesn't cause any unsteadiness, mentally or physically. 😜. Asanas decided to exempt me from its side_effects👍. Dunno,  if I reasoned it right. Some_bloody_logic to quieten my mind 😓🙏).

Anyway yours,

psn(25 Aug 2026)

A cursed priest

 A cursed priest

Yes😀

I did meet one such fellow 👍

He was not cursed by any ‘entity’( real, fictitious or virtual ‘person’). His job was the curse. Zero salary 😭 ( he even refused the ₹10, I could afford to offer to him 🙏).

That temple was not for ‘public’. It was for the King who resided in the fort, and needed the blessings ( energy) from that ‘differently Enabled’( uniquely consecrated) deity, a Devi 🙏. The king is gone, and the fort is dilapidated.  But the descendants of the priests COULD NOT forsake the tiny deity installed on the hill_side of the path to reach the fort atop the hill 😭. One has to crouch and can only sit inside the tiny temple 😓. Almost inconspicous entrance & space. ( But DAMN POWERFUL 😥, as i personally experienced it somewhere in 1976. I ‘love’ visiting desolate temples, mostly plundered by the invaders, and therefore discarded by people around. The deities by themselves have no ‘issues' with the lack of patronage 😜)

Entertainment value of the story ( zero value addition to a reader, here onwards 🙏)...

We 3( me & 2 colleagues, decided to visit a ‘famous’ Devi temple, a hundred plus miles away from our workplace, on a non_working day. This devi was said to be the elder sister of our local Devi near our  workplace (makes sense, to ‘appease’ the elder sister 👍. That was the ‘logic' 😜)

After the ‘darshan’ my 2 colleagues were in a great hurry to return ( like a soldier eager to reach home after the ‘battle’ is over). My mind_set was a nuisance to them, especially on ‘outings’ like this. But they both loved me too dearly and unconditionally 😭🙏, much to their disadvantage. I was unhurried in my mind, for no purpose, and yet razor alert, at the ‘new’ place.  Alertness comes with problems along 😜. I ‘felt’ drawn towards a steep hill seen at a distance from the road we were walking on, to the bus station.

“That hill…. I want to climb on “, I announced firmly. Those 2 said “go to hell…we don't care! We are off to catch a bus back home 👍”

I started walking towards the hill… no path way, no ‘steps’ visible. Just a stone wall broken at a place, enough to obviate a jump over it 😜.  Helplessly, and unwilling to leave me alone they followed me. The climb on the hill was arduous. I needed 4 limbs in a few places 😜. ( The scoldings & abuses intensified during the use of 4 limbs to climb, from my co_adventurers)

Once we crossed the broken wall of that fort, we sighted a priest( his attire, a deep red dhoti, and a red vermillion mark on his forehead indicated that he is a priest). Then it occurred to me to “look” at where the hell did he spring forth from???🤔.

The tiny hole behind him, dark and scary. I glanced “ zooming in”. A tiny lamp with only its ‘flame’ visible….not illuminating anything around 😜.

That priest vigorously waving his arm yelled at us to go away/back. 

Old ruins👍. No man's land! I stood firm. A few more times he repeated to us to get_lost. I didn't budge. Then I asked him “you creeped out of that tiny cave, and there is a lamp in there. What's it?”

Priest “nothing concerning you. Go away. It's just a tiny old idol there”

I pulled out my thread( cast around my shoulder a decade ago, being a descendant of traditional beggars by Lineage 👍) and showed it to him saying “ I guess, I ain't gonna be a problem, if I take a look inside”.

He conceded “but be quick. I am going to my home for food”

I crept in, needed 2 minutes for my eyes to get adjusted to the darkness. Nothing around, except the tiny idol and an earthen lamp. Not even a single ‘customary’ flower. Sat crosslegged for about 10 to 15 minutes,  eyes closed, stone still. Soaked in the aura/energy/whatever. I felt exceptionally ‘lucky’ for no logical reason 😜.

Stepped out.

Priest and my 2 colleagues were at the edge of their patience 😂

Lavishly apologised to the 3.

Sitting in the bus, mind vacant reasonably, one colleague asked “how did you know??”

I had a “socially acceptable dialogue” to reply to such_a_koschan : “ gut feeling”( the organ gut, by itself, is not known to have generated any ‘feelings’ on its own 😂. Yet peepals do_not ‘question’ this dialogue 👍).

A bit about the ‘curse’ on that priest : The very nature of consecration of that idol rendered the lineage of priests ‘hooked’ on to that deity, perpetually, to propitiate, and ‘contain’ the energy therein. An exception was when a king was required to ‘face’ an attack and a battle was inevitable. The king's sword was placed at the feet of the deity, anointed with the ‘holy’ smear on the deity, and then the vermillion applied on the king's forehead, before the priest hands over the energized sword into the king's hands🙏. No ‘scope’ to undo the consecration or relocate the deity(in a way a  curse ). 

( It is therefore, that an aam Aadmi has nothing to do with this_deity, uniquely consecrated 🙏).  I don't know what the deities' energy did with ‘me’😳. I asked for ‘trouble', not heeding to the repeated warnings of that priest😭. But that's my personal problem 😜

( I never thought hitherto, that I would ever mention it as a 'blog'. )

Cursed to be yours,

psn(24 Aug, 2026)

Read + forget 🙏

( 😭 कम से कम बोम्मन लोगों कु, मालूम होना चाहिए --- Propitiation ( वैदिक है, normal) Invocation ( लौकिक है , situation based) मंत्र में फ़र्क पेंदा है 😜)

Concept formation as a routine bijness

 Concept formation as a routine bijness 

😜

Yep!

Sky is the limit, if we decide upon what we want to do with our processor called “brain” an organ.

I googled “concept of concepts”

It said “A concept of concepts is a meta-idea. It is the study of what mental building blocks are, how our minds sort things into groups, and how we use abstract thoughts to understand reality. It looks at the nature of meaning itself.”

Okay…. I felt. Madam Ayn Rand did much better in her awesome & monumental work in a book “Objectivist Epistemology” 🙏

My spiritual journey allows me to grasp Ayn Rand’s words better 😜

Abstract ideas need a sophisticated set of tools to handle .

I tried to experiment with my brain, trying to make concept formation as an ongoing process, ( in real-time, a popular phrase among computer wizards😜🙏). 

It's a brain's job. But it needs ‘data-input’ ! 

Just as our stomach needs pre-processed food ( chewed, and mixed with saliva, etc), when it comes to conceptualization of abstract data, a mind has to co-operate at its very best with the intellect 😭. Usually the ‘mischievous’ fellow in our mind cooperates ONLY like a mischief_specialist in a classroom of kids keeping quiet during the presence of a teacher, who is a known_terror among her students 😓.  

Meditative practices are good tools to hasten the process of automating concept formation in our brains.  

A.I. research guys ‘might’ be ‘slightly’ inclined to re-look at what I am (only)‘trying’ to say 🤣. They use cameras mounted on factory labourers head,  to ‘capture’ each tiny movement of the human limbs engaged in a complex set of movements during processing of a product. This data helps to design a Robot enabled with Artificial intelligence 🙏.  Still, they are yet to grab the data generated by a human brain, after it was processed under the direct_supervision of human_intellect, and a cooperative mind 🙏 

🙏 I did as_best_as I could 😥.

I am not competent scientifically to request any attention to the foregoing. My only consolation is that my blogs do not attract good attention. Mostly it is of entertainment value. And zero side_effects till now, from any reader 😜 ( comments are impoverished in number 😂).

This time, I felt hesitant due to the thoughts like "Ain't it too premature to articulate my fuzzy experiences, though of great spiritual significance?”( Like, i tripped on a live_wire, when I ended up messing with tender neem leaves during brahmaMuhurat, feeding it to ‘unsuspecting’ victims, and getting results that matched with a mention of it in ASHTANGA, ayurveda book scripted thousands of years ago…  an eminent physician confirmed it 🙏)

Conceptually yours,

psn(23 Aug 2026)

Emotions enriched words

 Emotions enriched words

Emotions don't ‘need' words .

But nothing should prevent us from humbly using certain words ( of address) as powerful tools/instruments, to invoke/reLive the emotions that got attached to those precious emotions of kid age, when those emotions were pristine, pure and genuine 👍

I am a ‘bit’ fortunate, in having a few of my school classmates still in touch with me 😜

I wrote to them, my views.

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[23/08, 7:07 am] PSN: Very very few among 70+

can "afford" addressing each other ( kid age friends) in the same style " अबे, साले, हौला, हौ बाप" etc। 😜

It's not just about the 'words'.   Words are mere tools/instruments to dig_out our childhood का innocence 🙏 ( no frills, adornments, embellishments needed.   Inside-outside same!  Pristine emotional bonds 🙏.  जेब में एक खड़कू नहीं है 😜, to even 'think' of appeasement 🤣)

Formal words have become more about 'appeasement' rather than a genuine heart_felt REVERENCE for the other( for the well deserved honour in the other 😓)

[23/08, 7:28 am] PSN: We "associate" a few emotional experiences with the words we happened to use during the occasion ( and the frequently used words especially).

Emotions, by themselves, are non_verbal. ( Beyond a point, we struggle for words, when overwhelmed 😭).

Then why 'deny' ourselves those words?

( A classic example of deep pain struggling with deep affection of a father :  mughal_e_azam....  Prithviraj Kapoor shouts to Dilip Kumar " शेखू 😡" when Dilip is adamant about a "लौण्डी"/heroine 🤣)

ज़रा सोच ( to my friend, i wrote)...

You are ½ asleep (not alert).

You hear someone uttering "Guroo"(my friend's pet name, used by his parents ).

You wake up with a 'start'( startled wala) 😂

The voice , tone and texture felt like a xerox copy of your dear dad/mom calling you! 

In a milli_second, you experience a very deep emotion related to your affection for your parent🙏.

( We 'recover' from it next moment 👍. We realise it's a false alarm 😂).

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No psychiatrist can ‘match’ the effect of those magical words, to revive certain emotions which can be like a tonic/elixir for our mental health 😂

Even great surgeons request that ‘close’ relative to come into the operation theatre and try whispering those magical words into the ears of the patient, who is not responding to ‘life’, post_surgery 😜

A thousand odd names of Gods, not counting the names of Gurus, in our irreligious Hinduism, unscientific???? (Ask those who got ‘initiated’ into a ‘mantra’, about what it does? 😜🙏🙏🙏).

NonVerbally yours,

psn(23 Aug, 2026)

Responsibility Versus responseAbility

 Responsibility Versus responseAbility

Responsibility is more about "accountability” 

A sense of responsibility is ABSOLUTELY necessary to ensure orderliness when we live as_a_society.

Law has lots of limitations in enforcing accountability.  Certain qualities like ‘civic sense’ , sincerity, honesty, nationalism , patriotism, etc cannot be harnessed into legal framework.

ResponseAbility ?

Our ‘ability' to respond to a situation 😜

Before the very first earthen dam was conceived, there was no Law to hold the ruler/administration accountable for lives lost due to monsoon_flooding anywhere. Somebody felt his Ability can respond even to a natural calamity.  😂 He might have used a crude expression like”I will stop this water” . Obviously, the people around would have laughed mockingly and said “You, a pint sized human, going to stop this mighty river???”. He 'conceived’ an earthen dam . Whether he completed the dam or his students/followers/descendants, we now have the “Ability to respond” to a flood.

Once we happen to turn to peep into our abilities and potential…… 😜

Exploration on the outside of us is driven by a very different kind of fuel 😂🙏

( Even as a stupid bank clerk, surrounded by numerous limitations imposed, my response to the situations drove me towards quite a few unprecedented and non_conventional ways of solving the problems. These problems were hitherto viewed as ‘helpless’ ones.)

Then came a ‘turning’ point 😜

Spiritual seeking got wings ( ancient spiritual tools) to fly a few micro_millimetres above the grounding by the nature's default gifts of Sensory levels of perception 🙏. The spirit was granted a chance to have a ‘say’ about its abilities 😂. The responseAbility now started using a different dimension itself 😥. ( I did use the courage of that ancient fellow who turned a deaf ear to mockery of his declaration “I will stop this water”. This time, I don't even need to announce anything. Nothing changes at the gross levels during the process of erecting an earthen_dam. And, the onlookers armed with only their sensory levels of perception are not going to even notice the ‘source’ of mischief 😂. I am blessed to exist like a nondescript non_entity/ नाचीज़ 🙏)

I love to be surrounded by people who are interested in tapping their responseAibility. ( The NEED even, for the Laws to fix “accountability”  is inversely proportional to the societies ability to tap the responseAbility within 🙏.  A historical fact in Bharat 🙏.  बहिष्कार, banishment was enough to replace the 107+ odd laws of India, which became applicable in JK after abrogation of article 370 of the Indian constitution 🙂).  Since spiritual bijness used to flourish in Bharat until a thousand years ago, the tapping of response_Abilities within was merely an incidental byproduct 😭, not even a purpose. GDP of 42% didn't need a noteworthy ‘mention’. Prosperity was a by-product of spirituality!

ResponseAbly yours,

psn(22 Aug, 2026)

Humor: One day, I noticed the lady who collects garbage at our streets, struggling to push the heavily laden pushcart, and quite helplessly her eardrums receiving the irritating squeal of the wheels protesting the push.

I asked her “ gimme a minute” 

I picked a nut fastener, and an oil-can of lubricant. Reduced the wobble of wheels tightening the check_nut, and liberally oiled the four wheels. To test myself, I dragged the pushcart backwards, much to her surprise😂. Then I asked her to push it as usual. Reaching my gate she asked “how do I thank you?”

I said “damn easy and simple. Just don't tell this to anybody around 🙏. Others won't be able to 'comment’ anything 😜” She nodded.

The joke is, she dumps a tiny smile at my spouse, in return for the garbage dumped into her cart. I explained to my spouse “the safety valve of the pressure of not_telling others is the reason for her smile. The valve releases a little pressure at the source”. 

Sponsoring Laziness

 Sponsoring Laziness

Laziness, by itself is a fuzzy concept 😂

( “Am I being lazy, or am I merely CONSERVING my energy sensibly?” an easy example of our common confusion 😜)

Laziness, at physical levels, a doctor knows and he gives a prescription in_writing “minimum 2 kms of mourning_walk daily 👍”... And we mourn with a long face each morning, with unprecedented CARE, of never exceeding the ‘dosage’.

Mind's laziness might have just one indirect_advantage 😜. Unlikely to need a mental health home 💪👍.

Intellect is choicelessly waiting to manifest its hyper_activity being naturally_insulated ( like ‘light’ which had never even seen a darkness Ever!!! ). Ever ‘sighted’ laziness in a kid upto its first year of age???( Mind is yet to form+firmUp 🙏…. A teacher in USA, very recently advised a desi parent that his 6 year old kid might need a psychiatrist’s counselling for what she guessed a “hyperactivity syndrome”! She was very ‘sincere’, no doubt 👍. And logically, anything unusual in a kid, needs ‘medical’ attention 🙏.  I happened to know this particular kid, and hence I cited my own example of how my elders were harrassed by my hyperActivity till the age of 6 😜.  A rare instance where the mind was underfed with toxic_ideas from elders around 😜)

“The Fox who lost his tail” ( a story of my English text, in my 4th class 🤣🤣).  Personification by the author, gave me an idea of how others around can ‘feed’ negativity in me 🙏.  This fox manufactured a whole “tool-kit” to brain-wash other young foxes around to ‘get rid of their unproductive attachment’ called ‘tail’ and become free!!! A wise old fox advises the mis_guided young foxes “don't be misled by this cunning fox, who is seeing a majority to avoid being an isolated embarrassment among others” .

Since the story raised too many other questions in me( i didn't have the courage to articulate it to my teachers/elders around), i had_to tolerate the memory of this story in my mind and it kept popping up every time my intellect popped up accidentally 😜. Now, this story is a precious antique item in my memory 😜. It doesn't trouble me🙏. This story served as a unique tool to untie knotty questions in spirituality for_me! Rigors of logic transcended by very subtle aspects of nature's design 🙏

I am leaving the ‘solution’ for mind_sponsored laziness, as well as ‘tool-kit’ caused revolts, for the readers to figure it out by themselves 🙏. ( I am a bit busy with practice of verse 110, of chapter-2 in ManuSmriti 😭🙏. Something i have been dodging for some 5 decades 😓. I need to imbibe it soon, with time running out for me at 70+ 😞 now!)

Unnecessarily yours,

psn(18 Aug, 2026)

A self_teaser 🙏:  Can a lazy mind think of such “silly koschans, & silly doubts” as my two blogs, which have proved to be utterly harmless till date?( No reader is affected in any way by those 2 blogs😜… positively or otherwise 👍)

Looking out for Intellect.

 Looking out for Intellect.

Don't worry, this is not a ‘heavy dose blog’ 🙏

Intellect is quite valuable, we can't deny.

Just that, our schools didn't plan a structured design to ‘tap’ it ( post independence, after 1947).

But that didn't stop a ‘rare few teachers’ in my school from tapping it in their students. The “syllabus” offered very little scope for students to try_using their intellect. Most of it was at testing a single skill “Who is good at mugging the text and vomiting it coherently in the answer papers?”( Best marks for the kid best at it).

Look at Algebra 😂

If a question paper contains an out of text_book problem to solve, the outcry is “it's out of syllabus”( syllabus and textbook_data are different 🙏).

Anyway, I am tempted to cite an example from my experience as an average student (aiming always a “pass marks” only🙏.). My dad required me to pass, not score high. It suited me too well, because my basic pull was towards only non-materialistic aspect of ‘life’( spirituality). Scoring was a time and labour consuming bijness in the rat_race for by_heart+vomit in the exams😭

My algebra teacher, writing two equations in algebra on the blackboard, asked “can anyone suggest how to solve?”(Simultaneous equations….the chapter name🙏, for readers to say “sounds having heard somewhere”)

Nobody stood up (meaning, we stand up only if we know what to respond_with).

The teacher was disappointed. 

I normally sit quietly ( I don't encroach into the privilege of scorers).

I stood up in slow_motion 😓

“Yes?” said the teacher ( it means “speak”)

I offered ( something like “dividing through out by “x”.... Adding x² to both sides, etc. Actually, a bigger one, but I don't want to make it an algebraic blog here😂). 

In essence, I simply ‘neutralized’ one set of variables in one equation, to bring it closer to the other one first…

Etc

It clicked 😜

Emotions overpowered the teacher that day🫪. ( A sudden transition from disappointment to joy, seeing one “intellect” awake among 50 heads! I didn't know all this at that age. I thought of a “commonly used word” we used,.... “FLUKE” 🙏).

The encouragement from the teacher stayed to keep inspiring me till now 🙏.  I thought at that time “hey! There's scope to use ‘own ideas’!!! “ 😂. Otherwise, it was “stick to the text book only”. 

Back at home, I started searching for an answer to “why did it have to be only_me?” . I found an answer, only over decades 😭. I am a tough nut , when it comes to approving myself 🙏. Otherwise, the answer was damn simple 👍. 

Real life situations offer us a chance to tap our intellect routinely 🙏.  We need to be aware that we have a “choice” , about using it.  

Only when I focused more on my private & personal bijness ( spirituality), i discovered that I am choiceless about using intellect 😭. Desi spirituality is merciless 🙏😓. Keep practicing the tools, and you just perfect at the practices, nothing to do with spiritual progress😥. Anyway, I thought it's time I turn vulnerable to critics😜. I welcome critics with all the humility possible in me👍. My response is guaranteed to be proportional to the intensity of involvement 🙏

Normally yours,

psn(17 Aug 2026)

Tailpiece: a popular joke : the problem with telling a good joke is….it reminds the other fellow of a dull one😓

Only a tamed mind can just “shut up and listen”.... The intellect can pop-up too 😜