Breaking rules

 Breaking rules

😜

I love this concept.

Usually, it is the negative qualities that fuels a mind to explore ‘how to break the rules and get away with it👍”

Only man-made rules can be broken, tampered with, meddled with, manipulated with, modified partially/wholly, replaced or whatever.

Rules of nature are eternal and tamper-proof.

I discovered this, when I was a kid : Rules in homes differ at each household. Step out on the road, and I have to obey the same rules as everybody 😳….  I received the fodder for my mind to explore!

Kid age necessitates a ‘lot of thinking’ to conceptualise a small thing like ‘why a common rule for everybody on the road?” . The verbalised format of the deeper concept took a few more years 😭.

With none around to ‘debug’ the syntax ( verbal form), the semantic form( concept) too remained a bit obscure to elders around. Slowly, when unchecked, unexamined, untested and unheard, the semantic and its syntax got embedded in me 😭. Very difficult to scrub the grout ( it is a grout, if it is defective concept 🙏). 

My defective verbalised format: common rules on road (maybe) because, the head of the town, city, district, state or country, while framing that rule( like: keep to the Left, while driving any vehicle) treated his area of dadagiri (commanding power) as 1 family “.

This got even ‘verified’ when as a teenager a phoren_returned teenager exclaimed to me “hey! Do you know, in USA, it is KEEP TO THE RIGHT, not left!😳”. Damn! Does it mean ‘no common sense?”      No!  Then what?  A fresh reason : “may be, just to afford some predictability about the other, to avoid a stupid collision, some_orderliness👍” ( This “suited” to fit-in several of my_own baseless_conclusions🙏😜.  That means, I can drive ‘as I like, when the road is empty, desolate…..anyway, no cop is posted in a desert😜…. And this road is Desert-ed temporarily at 2 am 🤣. I can BREAK the rules when it serves zero purpose 👍 

At work place, at times, rules came in the way , when a customer needed genuine help 🙏. ( Remember, ‘my defective concept’ …. on the road, it's one_family, a large home🙏…???  ) I looked at the ‘purpose’ of that goddamned rule. It's meant to only_protect the organisation! This customer is not going to harm my employers, if I do a OTB( One Time Break, like our OTP, one-time pin). I break 🤣. We( customer & me) share an entirely DISSIMILAR set of emotions, he exudes gratitude, while I exhibit a thrill of having mustered courage to break_a_rule to help a genuine & needy, with zero_risk to the “hand that feeds me food/salary”

Next stupidity ( stupid because, it my own idea): when the purpose of rule is not at risk, break it for a noble_cause

Thus, a crude non_verbal form of Jurisprudence and its related concepts started snowballing in me 😥

Side effects? I scored above average in Jurisprudence in laaa_eggjam(LLB).

I felt persuaded to EXAMINE the (juris)prudence in certain rituals which stood the test_of_time,  though they are seeming utterly stupid to do 👍…. A glaring example is “all the gesticulation and articulations performed by a fellow by Sheer reason that he is a JeneauDhaariPappu( wears a thread around his shoulder….today, mostly only_brahmins), do not display any purpose!!!😳😳😳. I brush my teeth, I can experience the purpose, foul smell gone👍. I bathe, and feel fresh! I walk and I move. So on…. The gesture and chants by a wearer of holy_thread?  Zero display of results 😭. Like writing on water, instead of sand with a finger🙏.  I had_to_solve this puzzle 🙏, my private & personal craze. Asking others yielded only frowns.

No leads or clues visible 🙏 

Then came a mystic ( camouflaged like a yogic guru) who initiated me( like thousands of others) into tools and techniques which could open up my receptivity beyond sensory levels of perception 🙏. Floodgates of info, via access to a newer dimensions of flawless network got opened up🙏. 

For the first time, I confronted the rules that I can never break! Rules rule me! My whole self, my_mind, my_body is dictated, governed and controlled by those rules . Call it sanatan Dharma or any fanciful name you like! 

The rules itself breaks me 🙏 if I am not in CONFORMITY with it🤣( we nicknamed it as karma, rhyming with Dharma 😜) 

Key to open the book of these rules( sanatan Dharma) is a personal experience of the 4 declaratory truths ( MahaVakyas). No other GnawLedge/knowledge, art, skill, expertise, achievement, accomplishments, siddhis etc can open the book of these cosmic laws for us to ‘read’ online in real-time 🙏. These gimmicks( skills) might at best assist a pure/innocent mind to reach the experience of 4 MahaVakyas sooner, easier, etc, but can hand-in the 🔐 key!

I now need a “break” ( not any rule_break… just a brake for my mind 🙏)

Unruly yours,

psn( 8 Feb 2026)

Rules rule our bonds

 

Real problem affecting our present day mutual bonds( not relationship 😜) between relatives is lack of trust, mutually!

Trust is the adhesive for human bonds, not rules 😜

Trust deficiency with non_relatives  also affects commercial-relationships EQUALLY, but we manage to reduce the impact by seeking help of more and more complicated 'rules' which are ENFORCEABLE at law 🙏

It is easy to understand the distinction.
But, we are stubborn about recognizing the distinction, enough to retain it in our awareness 🙏(why we are stubborn is : Emotional stress accumulates, when emotional needs remain unfulfilled, and emotions are unavailable to logic.)

Rules are POSSIBLE only in commercial 'relationships'.
Strictness of rules, in commercial 'relationships' is INVERSELY proportional to the trust.  More the trust, lesser need to invoke rules.  Zero trust, mind starts devising, conniving ways to flout rules 😜.  When rules swell, the costs are prohibitive in terms of money, manpower and time 😥 (unproductive costs is going to affect profitability, GDP and the economy itself.  Prosperity-graph turns horizontal 🤣)

Non_commercial relationship is breaking up, simply because rules cannot work!

Look at the 'new' set of rules we tried to squeeze_in, for non_commercial relationship 😂.  Both, bride and groom should be well employed, well qualified, carry zero 'luggages'( dependents like aged parents are now 'luggages' 😜), etc.

Babies are downloaded with one excellent software pre-embedded, called 'element of wonder' ..... Very precious! Wonder is the first and the only 'app' they can-use to learn! 
They wonder, looking at the commercial_type_rules in the Non_commercial relationship between the parents 😳🤔.
Nascent brain🙏. It merely adopts with trust assuming that only_this_works! ( Kid age, he tests "gimme 2 chocolates for doing my homework, eating your nasty( not Tasty) breakfast" etc. The parents agree to the kid_rules 😜 unsuspectingly, since their muscle__memory nods, looking at the synchronicity with their own mutual_rules 🤣.

Rules rule our emotional relationship instead of love, trust and affection.
It is STUPID to expect the results of a fruit using the wrong seeds and deeds😥🙏

When quality of emotions deteriorate, stress, hypertension etc are inevitable.  Nature shows reluctance and hesitates to 'grant' babies if the emotional chemistry is inadequate! Commercial mindset decides "babies are a burdensome additional workload without any remuneration/compensation-package, so.....at least postpone it👍. Enjoy freedom from burdensome bonds at least for a few years!" It works! They do get logical_benefits. 

Then comes an experience of 'void'. Without addressing the emotional needs, this void keeps growing and haunting. Attempts to substitute this void with gadgets using a commercial mind isnt going to work!(pet-toys, in the west, aren't working too well. Probably why, a fourth of the doctors are psychiatrists).

The source of emotional abundance is our spirit within 🙏 (when nothing else works, we say "and now, Yoga".... meaning,  oneness, inclusiveness, spirituality, etc). 

Once this problem is understood with clarity, solution is obvious.

emotionally yours,

psn(7 Feb, 2026)

My wishful thinking

 My wishful thinking 

Not that these are highly impossible, But we have ‘made’ these highly impractical 😜

Why not enjoy vicariously, imagining that these are actually happening?

I am trying to list out a few, and hope to add if a few more occurs.

1)If there was an  enter-button like we have on a key board, as a chip in the other person while we are talking? ( The computer starts processing the data we type only after we tap the “enter” button. Whereas, even my spouse is in a great hurry to pre-conclude even before I utter the 4th word of my first sentence spoken to her, and interjects with an entirely irrelevant response 😭.  Cross talk over phone is too common😓 Both reach nowhere, while the precious calories get burnt up by the organ ‘brain’ processing with mere 5% of the inputs required 😜

2)If, we were programmed to only do our duties, never bothering about our rights? 🤔

My rights ‘become’ your_duty towards_me 😜

Life becomes silk smooth! I don't NEED to get rid of my BP, diabetes, stress, hypertension etc because I wont get it into_me first of all. As an unavoidable benefit, mutual trust becomes natural 😥. Trust is incapable of coming alone into me😭. It drags love, affection, emotional bond etc, etc & etc along with it. The severe most consequence is the average life_span is never below 120 years😓🙏. I might need old history books to know what a “scam” is! What treachery is? What deceit is? We don't need unity😥. We are in “unison” about duty. Unfortunately, “duty” is only_unto_others. Caring about my self is already handled by x,y,z near me ( not necessarily my blood relatives 😜)

Hey, this imagination itself has triggered a temporary _bit of relaxation, peace, tranquility & joy in me😓 … ( let the reader suffer these symptoms…. It's suhaanaaSuffering, after all!😜

3) if only I can convert this thought as my default habit “this body is like a gadget, with zero guarantee about its life_span, and therefore, I must use it maximum to work for me & others, allowing only maintenance and not comforts” 😜.  Being the_most_sophisticated machine of the planet, O.I. enabled ( intellect is an accessory with original equipment) my productivity is super_efficient. Auto_evolving into highly improvised models as my progeny!

4) if only our real_life conversations happen like the well_scripted screenplay dialogues like in movies, TV serials etc? Unambiguous, crisp, clear and attention grabbing 😜. ( Women folk are highly skilled at meaningless, bla-bla for hours together at weddings etc😥. They part a little disappointed that 4 hours wasn't enough to exchange their cordial conversation 😳, though they don't have one sentence of new info as value addition to either🙏. Men are no different often! Only difference is, women are aware, that they want to be ornamental_only in conversation at social gatherings while men are unaware of own confusion 😥).

5) if only teachers are having a memory_loss about having taught the same text book lessons until last year? They remember the subject well, but teach as if it is their first time , they are teaching kids, every time 😜 …. Intense involvement guaranteed🙏👍

6) I wish —--teachers are permitted to say “I don't know”🙏 The princi is bound by a rule : a teacher shall not be terminated if he/she boldly accepts ignorance about any genuine questions from the students.

My physics teacher taught me just the laws related to fluids🙏 not the concepts, nor the possibility to combine 4 chapters. I learnt from Golconda fort, and used it to draw water from erratic, irregular, air filled taps at the stipulated height. Golconda fort had mud pipes to carry water 500 feet high without any mechanical device+fuel like motor-pumpset 😜( Hence, I welcome the toughest+stupiDest koschan in spreetualitee, because I can say ‘i don't know’ effortlessly, though the verse “आनो भद्रा: (Aano bhadra krtavo yantu vishwatah" is a profound Vedic mantra from the Rigveda 1.89.1”) saved me at_times 😭🙏

nth) …..  ( pending, until some fanciful ‘wish’ occurs 😓🙏… this blog is subject to periodical updations)

Until then yours,

psn(6 Feb 2026)

Critics and criticisms

 Critics and criticisms

😂

The two are mutually exclusive, though not often. 

A cunning critic outsources it, baiting a fool to voice his criticism 😜

My defect_by_default 😓….I got ‘lost’ into the criticism when I was a kid. Reason: an unwritten rule was, elders around are seldom wrong! ( Of course, as a teenager, I got_to_discover that …. wisdom & stupidity, runs concurrently with age, because all elders are not trained to ‘invoke their intellect CONSCIOUSLY 🙏”)

Then came the complexities when I had no ‘elder’ around to boldly_criticise me sincerely+honestly 😓. I had to look for the meaning ‘between the lines’ 😭.

Only when the criticism wasn't valid and yet a weapon used to infuriate me, I turned to look at ‘handling the_critic’, otherwise, I handle only the criticism, check it's validity and deal with it as per its merits.

This style of handling critics and criticisms distinctly, deposited a few benefits in the account of my character, quite surpringly and unexpectedly 😥.  My well wishers became more free with me! Trust in me started swelling a bit beyond its default elasticity 😜. I had to tone it down, at times, with a request: “please don't soften your criticism unreasonably🙏. I might overlook it's importance if I get lost into the sweetness of your tone, when you criticise. A stern voice guarantees drawing_my_attention 😥😥😥”

A joke ( about drawing the attention! Copyright: my spiritual teacher;  source:his spiritual program, 1992)

A seller demanded exorbitant price for his donkey from the buyer, explaining: ‘ this donkey obeys, just by speaking to it, no spanking needed’

Enthusiastically, the buyer tried it next morning “dear donkey, shall we go to the market? A big load of goods, you have to carry back for us👍”

The donkey ignored.

Buyer now tried several types of words, tones etc, verbally. Still no response.

Disappointed thoroughly, buyer went to the seller “you duped me! Donkey doesn't even listen🙏😭”

Seller : let me check! After all, there is something called “after_sales_service👍”

Seller gave a big knock on the head of the donkey and barked “walk 😡”. The donkey obeyed 😜

Turning to the buyer, the seller explained: see, you need to draw its attention first, and then talk to make it listen to obey 👍

Joke over.

Tragedy: my spiritual teacher never( during the five years of my studentship under him with a proximity) criticised or pointed to any error in me 🙏. Ironically, others numbering a few hundreds didn't notice that he omitted me from auditing! I was left to make guessed like: am I a case beyond_repair? or am I going to be auto_corrected? Etc.

I solved this lack of criticism, by evolving into a software of self_criticism 🙏. The only snag was, I had to ‘design’ another sub_routine program of healthy, impartial, sensible and a constructive_critic in me. Updation of healthy non_sadistic self_critic software involved equipoise of emotions, deepening of perception, sharpening of alertness, wakefulness in awareness, and judicious_discretion in Discrimination 😥.

Debugging of updations prove to be highly laborious than the basic design 😭

(By the way, a sample bit of my attempt to connive a sharp criticism to ‘look like a healthy one' 😜. During a month long residential program in spirituality, we were served with plain watery rice gruel for several days successively, twice a day. Several minds started repelling at the slow death of their taste buds. It so happened, that two of us( me and an other student, out of some 800), got noticed that the teacher never_refused to any of our request. I too noticed this, though a bit late! One participant tried to “use” me saying “hey, why don't you ask for teachers permission to have a pudding ( payasam, in desi language) at least once? He never refuses you👍” . I simply looked at the greedy in the eyes of this person and suggested calmly “but why did you volunteer to undergo this torture of rice_gruel/kanji? You could have stayed home and ordered for payasam( rice pudding) daily_thrice, being super rich yourself???” . That person CONSCIOUSLY collected all the energy from all over the body, concentrated it into the face, and displayed an unforgettable ANGER towards me🤣. My connived criticism caused an implosion in that person, unable to manifest/let_it_out in words 🙏 )

Software bijness in spirituality is a thankless job 🙏. All it can end up is, into detachment/freedom etc from the bondages I had preserved with the software itself😓

Non_critic_ally yours,

psn(6 Feb 2026)

Post script: observing ‘the way’ others use this weapon of criticism, afforded me to understand the sample_minds around, a bit effortlessly 😜

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)