Innocence versus ignorance

 Innocence versus ignorance 

They are not at all the same.

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

Easy on brain, wala difference:

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

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

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

I thought over it.

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

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

Ignorance….

gets dispelled at various levels 🙏

The examples that I can think of, 🙏 are

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

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

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

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

Innocence:

No examples are needed👍🙏

Terse concepts are in place 🙏 

Absence of negative emotions 🙏

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

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

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

Knowingly yours,

psn(23 March, 2026)

sensitivity as a consequence

sensitivity as a consequence

We need sensitivity, for survival as a human being.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Consequentially yours,
psn(23rd March, 2026)

Scientific greetings

 Scientific greetings

😂

When I realised the power of thoughts (which are guided only by our emotional ‘disposition’), I ‘started’ looking a bit deeper at the greetings as a tool to persuade a positive thought.

Telugu speaking people seem to have retained the ‘goodness’ of a ‘seed’ thought, embedded in the greetings, which has the potential to place the very roots of our thoughts into positivity 😜

The origin of the greetings is in Sanskrit. Sanskrit, being in CONFORMITY with quantum laws in physics, has the potential to ‘actualise’ 🙏

In Telugu, one form of greetings still in vogue is “ festival Shubha AAKAANKSHALU”.  A template where the name of the festival is prefixed to the syntax “shubh aakaankshaloo”.

Shubh means auspicious.

Aakaansha means desire. 

Once, the very thought process is on a track of positivity, such a person becomes synchronous with the cosmos.  Anything that is in synchronicity with the cosmos is a part of it too . ( The 4 MahaVakyas, declaratory truths, are the structured process of getting into this synchronicity 🙏. The 4th one is a milestone reassuring a person that,  once he experiences this truth, he has reached the highest human POSSIBILITY 🙏)

A simple and routine greeting, being used as a mega powerful ‘tool’ to reach the highest spiritual attainment, indeed has invoked a deep Reverence towards the people who devised it .

( How intensely can I use this tool each time, is all that matters now 😜… 

The scientific way of it is, if lab_conditions are fulfilled, boom 💥…..and I am liberated 🙏😜)

With best wishes for

Shubh aakaanksha always,

Yours psn(21 March 2026)

My defective deflection

 My defective deflection

One of the meanings of “deflection”, in Cambridge dictionary is “the act of attacking or blaming another person rather than accepting criticism or blame for your own actions”

My defect is, I deflect from this definition in another”sense” of the word 😜 “ a change of direction after hitting somebody/something”

“ Nobody told me this” 

“I was never taught this”

“How am I supposed to know? (Whatever)”

The most powerful missile to me, was

“Am I God, to know everything?” ( and I deflected away, allowing this missile to retain its trajectory 🙏. Reason: I was hit by another missile “ aham brahma asmi” meaning ‘i am brahrma” 😜. Only one of these can be true!😢

I looked at what I knew 😞

A baby keeps putting anything it picks into its own mouth! The “why” bothered me 🙏. Nobody around had the ‘time’ to think of such stupid-questions. So, my ignorance is my problem alone 😭. I realised, I need to subrogated( step into the shoes) of a baby to understand why it keeps putting things/objects into its mouth. But a baby is yet_to_use a shoe!!! 🤔. Symbolism became a tool to solve this riddle. When I solved this “why” about the baby, I experienced the concept of symbolism (in the word ‘subrogate’), I experienced the mindless+instinctive state of a baby who used pristine+nascent intellect, and the brain which processed a non_verbal thought of a past experience of first imposed_activity 👍 ….  Perplexed? 🤣. Not my problem, figure it out yourself 🙏

Imperceptibility can be due to insensitivity ( or the lack of it) at both levels 🙏. Sense organs level & at extra_sensory levels. Bulk of present day minds don't ‘bother’ about the potential in us for extra_sensory levels ( a proof which is a ‘bit’ relatable EVEN for today's mind is = a naadi_vaidya( that system of medicine, where the medical practitioner senses the subtle energy channels in his patients, naadi channels, called ida, pingala, and sushumna), has this sensitivity of extra_sensory levels, via the touch_sense😜. In the desi tradition this extrasensitivity was called ‘indriya_atheeth_gyan’ a sanskrit word 🙏, adapted by Hindi atleast 😞)

Ancients meant the “epic” stories like Mahabharat & Ramayana as a litmus test also( apart from multi_uses of far more purposes 🙏), to find out my_own levels of sensitivity ( sense organs and extra_sensory, both) when I muster enough patience to revisit these epics again and again, AFRESH each time 🙏. A kid, gets ‘new’ questions after puberty like “how beautiful it might have been for Rama & Sita to have a ‘privacy’ in the wide open (forest), for romanticism??🤔”. He now ‘looks’ for its subtle references in the same Valmiki Ramayana, where the author dropped a very IMPERCEPTIBLE mention, even before the event happened 😜 and, dat’s/that's ‘his’ perception levels,🙏 Visualising a future event like “sita silenced the blabber of Rama with her lips!🙏”( The kid is insulated from paying attention to it till he is mature enough to ‘know’ it with responseAbility 🙏

To wind up,

My defect ( “I am responseAble/responsible, for my_ignorance”) opened up to newer dimensions of ‘life’ when someone guided me into spiritual “tools” 🙏. To that extent, I didn't have to ‘reinvent the wheels’ 😜😜🙏🙏🙏.

My blogs inherit my_defects 🙏 (un-intelligible at few places 😥), but then, it serves a purpose. It gets itself deflected away from the minds, who are addicted to “ignorance is not my problem”👍. I try to keep myself confined to only experienced_narratives, not CopyPaste🙏. ( Revisit to my earlier blogs is a disclaimer: entirely at readers’ own risk and resposeAbilities🙏)

Deflectively yours, 

psn(19 March, 2026)

senseAbility

 senseAbility 

I think, I can use simplicity 🙏 

Sensitivity is a potential ( aged fellows lose the touch, hearing, or smell sensitivity 😥. Can't invoke)

'sensible' is sense_ability ( sensibility) tapping & using the latent potential 🙏 

At subtler levels, the tools & use of the senseAbility after tapping the potential is what_used_to_be known as a sensible person ( today the connotation has shifted to being clever, cunning, conniving, etc😥.  It is sensible to remain 'innocent'-----free of negative emotions, not as an ignorant idiot susceptible to being duped/fooled/cheated).

Humans have a choice to deepen our sensitivity as much as we 'like' ( 4 declaratory truths/MahaVakyas, are the evidence)

Sensibly yours,

psn(18 March, 2026)

Flexibility and resistance

 Flexibility and resistance

Once, I confronted a serious inconsistency within me, about the ancients. 😳
I knew, people until 300 years ago in Bharat had a healthy life style. A healthy 'mind' basically 🙏
A crucial ingredient was the thought contents of their minds.
Non-commercial thoughts. (must be around 95% or more of non commercial thoughts)
As a contrast, the thought-content in today's--me, can be easily traced to some kind of commercial value, and 98% of my thoughts are such! 
Why should it matter? Well, we decided to 'buy' everything, like water, air, sand, instead of using it conservatively, according to our needs. Even today, other life forms in free state don't pay for their food. We earn to pay for food. It matters!

The inconsistency now (of course, only my-problem, not of others!😒)
Why did the ancients try to use "Gold" (top most representative of wealth) as a name for their kids???? 
They were not 'commercial-minded'. Then why desi names 'Sona', 'Swarna', 'Thangam', etc???
My problem, so it is my head-ache. I kept it to keep aching in me till the inconsistency got re-solved.

It dawned suddenly one day!
Gold, the metal..;  Its innate qualities.   Desi style of using 'symbolism' at the drop of a hat 😜
Symbolism serves as a functional example, not just as a name-sake.
I referred to my memory of 7th class. 
Gold is malleable + ductile. (I wish, I had paid more attention to these 2 qualities in gold!😭). 

Damn! 😓(me, that 'damn', not gold 😜 ....🙏) Why didn't I think of it? 

They were 'wishing' for utmost flexibility in the kid, they decided to call as "Sona/Swarna/bangaroo/thangam/etc".   It was not about 'price' of gold😓

The tragedy is, I had already 'looked' at the aspect of 'flexibility' in humans, and still I missed the brilliance of ancients in 'symbolising' this adorable quality in  highly-evolved people 🙏
Proof of my stupidity : I kept on asking young techies an irritating koschan/question like: "What do you recruiters look for exactly in the candidate during the 4th round of personal interview for a 'plum' job???   
(I add 2 teasers, 
1) See, unless you know WHAT you are looking for, and  how can you sight it in the candidate?
2) a hint...   The same thing is what a bride/groom looks for in the other, and fails to sight it, leading to increasing number of divorce rates today, more among 'logical-wizards' called 'techies'😜

And, tragically, I failed to 'see' that the ancients had already known too-well this 'quality' and also, to sight it instantly  🙏🙏🙏( Super techies, in human-intelligence)

I will wind up my blabber now!
All the gadgets we use, need resistance, to be_of_use for us. (a chair needs to resist our weight, otherwise, our bottom faces a crash onto the floor if chair breaks😂)
Humans, need absence of resistance, to be of any use to others at least! (that was my problem 😭. "absence" was the word I used to 'catalogue' in my memory. and "DLL" developed a 'bug' in the hard-disk, my memory.  DynamicLink didn't work in my Library of my-mind)
Absence of resistance is flexibility.   
If I am Gold (instead of the 'idiot' that I am right now!), heat me,  beat me, bend me, stretch me to the limits, do every thing to me, that we do to Gold, I keep shining more, serving more. 🙏🙏🙏
(Lucky that my parents didn't think of naming me as 'Gold' 😜.  Very kind of them. I can resist being good, being useful, being loved, being liked. etc 😓)
The bigger tragedy is, to some extent, I even-had consciously dropped my resistance, when I attempted to reach towards my own spirit, using sophisticated tools bequeathed by ancients, and still failed to use my sense of discrimination to understand the deeper symbolism of ancients when they used the word "gold" for nomenclature of their kids!

flexibly yours,
psn (17th March, 2026) 

Alertness, Awareness and Attentiveness

 Alertness, Awareness and Attentiveness

Well, it is like this : if I don't know the difference, there is no difference for_me😄
As simple as that 👍( The side-effects of ignorance, heavily contribute to my 'karma')

A deer is 'alert' enough to know, to sense, that a tiger which is within the range of pouncing upon the deer, is not really hungry right now🙏, and therefore there is no need to 'run for its life'.
A lazy soldier might drop his level of alertness, while inside the sleeping place, due to lack_of_awareness that a spy could have infiltrated into the tent where off-duty soldiers take rest/sleep to recoup their stamina. 
Attentiveness if sharp enough, helps a 'sharpshooter' to get the victims head shot, at the first chance when the victim holds his head still_for_2_seconds 🙏( sharp shooters are professionally trained assassins, with expertise to aim sharp from a great distance using telescopic sight on rifles.  They are capable of single-pointed attention, sharp-focus, without any external motivation from an adverse situation on the situation outside, where they lie-down with infinite patience for their victim !)

A baby is razor alert. But it can't remain attentive beyond a few seconds. Awareness is too nascent yet to call it as one.

Our minds tend to compensate for lack of any or even all of these three, by substituting it with a 'defensiveness' which, eventually becomes a huge hurdle in our lives,  over a period of time, turning into a 'default' habit 😜  Bulk of our negativity is owing to this 'defensiveness, at the drop of a hat' which gets hardened over a period of time. The negativity has a better name "Resistance" (or intolerance).  The tragedy is, kids develop this resistance/intolerance much earlier+faster than the kids of past centuries.  😭. Hardened resistance is brittle enough to cause serious psychosomatic disorders, if the situation hammers it hard enough to break it apart. 

A resistance to do something 'new', something extra, is a very common and easily identifiable example. 
example:Two people on  the road collide with their vehicles. Even with least harmful ones like bicycles.  "You are at fault 😡" (most common and 'default' reaction we see from both of them!). Only an alert, attentive and aware person among the 2 will manage to 'use' the common sense to 'respond' to the situation.  A response is a choice. A reaction is out of negativity. Subtle difference.

When 
resistance is a 'default' functionality of a mind, which has indulged into excessive abuse of the 'design' of mother nature, the function of defensiveness, meant for a restricted' and limited use, for the purpose of PRESERVATION of species🙏(Remember, the deer is  defensive only_when_needed, and doesn't run away from a Tiger, which is not hungry. The alertness and awareness is enough to 'sense' if the tiger is hungry or not right now!.  Ironically we don't know the difference experientially between hungry and an empty stomach in us and therefore tend to stuff needless edible junk,  the moment stomach feels empty 😆, as a 'defensive-reaction' or insurance against non-existent starvation. Karma punishes us with consequences of indigestion 🙏)

The tragedy is, refusal to use these 3 (alertness, awareness and attentiveness) for a long duration, ends up losing the 'functionality' of the 'sense of discrimination' which is available only to the human species 🙏 ( A tragedy happened with me, at a spiritual program in 1992. I alone burst into a loud laughter at the remark by the teacher : "Well, if you don't know the difference, there is no-difference". This was his response to the absence of a 'correct answer' from 40 participants, to whom he posed a very simple, basic and fundamental question : "What is the fundamental difference between humans and other species?"....  I could easily guess the answer which he was 'looking' for, when he stressed upon the words "fundamental difference" 🙏. But i decided to keep shut, being curious to know, how aware my co-participants are.  My laughter attracted a 'look' in the faces of participants around which translated as "Fool, what is there to laugh in it ?😡"...   I at once 'sobered' and became stern-faced! The teacher is the 'boss' not me🙏. Let him decide to explain or ignore the absence of sense-of-discrimination in us. )

Somehow, I had a irreparable defect in me .  I invoke my defensiveness only as a last resort in any situation. I respond. This defect had perhaps led to my decision to quit prematurely from my salary-oriented routine called a 'job'. I never had to ever regret this decision. On the other hand I felt gratitude to "Maya Madam" who planted a thought in me to quit. By nature, I never quit from a situation where I sense a potential in me to respond🙏. Mother earth 'responds' every time it rains 😔. I am made of the material borrowed from earth. so, not a wrong thing to sync with the earthly traits, till I dwell in this body 🙏. 

In retrospect, I tend to deduce that the observation of my senior participants during 1992 in my first spiritual program, that my pace of progress was a bit unprecedented and fast, was owing to the inadvertent residue in me, of these 3 things, alertness, awareness and attentiveness. My mind keeps losing its battle to push down the levels of these 3 in me, often. More so, after I started practicing the spiritual tools prescribed during the 4 years from 1992.  I enjoyed practicing them at frenzy levels!

simply yours,
psn(16 march, 2026)

Problem with "Satyameva Jayate"

 Problem with “satyameva Jayate”

😂

It's a problem only if I take it seriously 🥺

My kid age was not any different from others, as far as ignorance was concerned 🙏 ( that…..was ‘the’ truth!😓. Ignorance is susceptible)

The problem now 👍

The kid in me asked myself things like

 “well, if truth is going to win ANYWAYS, why break my head over it?”

“Why are dishonest ones having a ‘good time’ most of the times?”( What happened to the’ incharge’( whichever God ji)of ‘satyameva jayate’?”???

“All the government offices display this logo ‘satyameva jayate' so prominently, especially courts, but ironically, that's exactly where truth is desecrated oftener! 😰. Why?”

A bit grown up, and I tried a bit smartness “okay….if great men of Vedic times said it, it must be good 👍.   Probably they didn't use indelible ink to the fine print “conditions apply” 😂. “

Which “truth” were they referring to?( An example of my mind ‘manufacturing’ a new problem, when fatigued by failure to solve a natural one😜)

Some more years passed.

It dawned on me that “only an evolved intellect can devise the functionality of eternal concepts 🙏”. ( Like, capillary action is already used by nature, ignoring human intellect 🙏…. In a coconut tree, water reaches 30 ft high to its leaves. In a human, eyes can “shed tears” invoking capillary action as a response to a tiny dust, or the emotional outburst of that fellow 👍.  A rare few "intellectuals" devised this functional form of capillary action… water climbs by itself, to the top of a fort, 900 steps higher to via mudpipes, designed to ‘abide’ by the ‘truth’ in the concept called Capillary action 🙏.  Non-meritorious but qualified engineers broke those pipes assuming that they are intelligent. They spoiled even  the chances of future intelligent ones to unravel the design 😭)

A joke about situational_relevance of truth.

A disciple decided to strictly implement the truth told by his guru “Everything is Maya”( illusions).

An elephant came charging at this disciple and he decided to “use” this bare_truth( everything is Maya) and didn't bother to move. The mahout seated on the elephant was shouting “run away…. This elephant is mad right now!”. But the disciple is experimenting with”maya” now👍. Litmus test of Maya!.   He got bruised badly. Limping, he carried his doubt to his Guru”but you said everything is Maya?”

Guru “within the same Maya, did not the MAHOUT warn you to run away??” 

😂

Adaptation of concepts for a functionality needs a thorough grasp of the concept(bare law, bare act) 🙏

Satyamev Jayate 🙏. Contextual truth keeps winning till the cosmic truth says “your time is up now👍” 

Micro level of contextual truth is what we connive to pamper our desires, greedy, laziness, carelessness etc till the bubble bursts🙏

Macro level of contextual truth is the 4 cycles of time, satYug, tretaYug, dwaparaYug and right now the kaliYug. The ‘truth' related to the ‘nature’ of these yugas keeps winning till the cycle peaks. Then, a total dissolution or pra_laya. 

A choice is, abide by the ‘eternal’ truth right now, and enjoy witnessing the contextual & functional truth winning right now, by becoming ‘free’ from its stickiness, adhesive ( like a Lotus in slush), as a Jeevan mukta/living_enlightened or…… deny oneself the awareness about the comprehensive meaning and grasp of the sutra/concept “satyameva Jayate” and suffer it 🙏

Illusions is the “truth” about illusions. It “prevails” is the validity of the concept. ( Can we be aware that we are the_dreamer “while still inside the dream?” 🙏. The functional truth is, during a dream, my sense of Discrimination is Unavailable 🙏). 

The truth of the “situation” is this blog will struggle to find any deeper appeal than any entertainment value ( inadvertently crept in ) in it. Truth wins, not my expectations from this blog 🙏

Truthfully yours,

psn( 15 March 2026)