Why Bad guys are Okay in Bharat?

 Why Bad guys are Okay in Bharat?

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Bharat seems to most tolerant with negative guys 🤣 ( a jocular guess : Bad guys in phoren might have wished “Gawd, let me be reborn in India. Easier to get away doing any crime”.  A ‘plausible’ reason why we are outnumbered by back_stabbers, scam_netas, tax evaders, corrupt guys etc,  in India 😜)

Right from my kid age, I have been hearing people around me wondering “ why do ‘bad’ guys seem to get away with it?

Just look at this quote:

Sanskrit:
जानामि धर्मं न च मे प्रवृत्तिः।
जानाम्यधर्मं न च मे निवृत्तिः॥

Translation: "I know what is right (धर्म), but my mind is not inclined to follow it. I know what is wrong (अधर्म), but I cannot hold myself back from it."

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If this quote doesn't try to give any ‘hint’, look at the epic stories. Bulk of “villains” who needed ‘avatar’( incarnation) of Super heroes ( Godly divine beings) to eliminate them! Yet, all the Raakshasa invariably attained Moksha 😜👍. Not a ‘roasting’ in hell! ( I even tried a ‘silly’ question in my blog on a collection of such questions 🙏😭).

Is not Duryodhana “aware” of his karma? Was he dissolving his past ‘desire’ by doing it+satiating his desire? Even Bhishma taking sides with villains, dissolving his earned_curse?? The numerous theories afloat around the meaning and definition of Karma presents conflicting confusion, despite a ‘clear’ message in Gita related to action_reaction phenomenon 🙏. 

Today's scenario:

A chaos in Bharat, if we observe the peaceful co-existence of wrong_doers and ethical ones right under one roof, and extending upto the most powerful places of politics incrementally in magnitude and intensity 🤣. ( The only non-controversial result of this chaos is “Tolerance level of Indians is miraculously high”😓). We don't even know why we are so_tolerant 🤔. We cook up our own excuses for tolerating the wrongs we see around us🙏. We don't have any patience or quality mind_time to inquire into a rare few guys who remain “untouched” by the corruption of all kinds around, like the symbol of Hinduism, a Lotus 🪷…. They bloom better with more slush!!!

My own personal observation, during my spiritual journey thus far, seems to suggest something about guys today,  like Duryodhana of the epic example 🙏. Even I am not fully convinced in my own observation 🙏. Just a wild guess 🤣. Whether my guess is right or wrong, it gives me a little breathing space between the conflicting confusion 👍.  

One theory of cause of rebirth is our past unfulfilled desire ( also included in the meanings of Karma 🤣).  Now, this desire has to be dissolved 😳. It seems, there are options for dissolution of this desire. Easier way is to ‘live’ it. Tougher way is to experience it deep_enough, as a perfect substitute for practical living through it 🙏 (there are highly sophisticated spiritual tools for the second option 🙏. Time tested and very ancient. One feels inclined to agree)

If this interpretation of karma is valid, an edifice is possible on it. Go through it like Duryodhana did, in full awareness that he is doing something very_wrong, and taking care, not to accumulate any More karmic_desire out of it 🤣. Just like a good actor doing a villain’s role so well that he gets a “best actor” award for it😜. In real life, a real villain gets a “release” from his own past karma( a desire to do a negative action) and manages a dissolution of that desire/karma and thereby a release/moksha👍. ( My guess has too many loose_ends🙏😭. Like, “what about the victims of this real_drama guy, who gets his dissolution okay, but causes a suffering/injustice to many others around????😳).

I leave it to my readers to find out.

Ambiguously yours,

psn(4 sept 2926… A janmaashtami 😜, mystic-8)

Nature's gender bias

 Nature's gender bias

I am totally against gender bias, especially when my roots genetically require me to revere a female like a deity to be worshipped, symbolically atleast owing to present day social setup which might look at me as an idiot, if I revere too glaringly & manifestly 🙏. ( How I deal with a female is situation dependent 👍 . But I view a female deep within, is decided my Hindu genes 😜).

I need not dwell upon the prevalent gender_bias due to several social factors and the struggle to fight it in numerous ways.

What if ‘nature’ displays something that looks like a gender bias?

Menstruation, child birth and health issues of the present day?

The generations until my parents “seem” to have escaped the psychological side effects of the gender bias by nature. And maybe therefore that they never bothered to view it as a bias at all 🤣🤣🤣

I asked Google: “ is it true that psychosomatic health issues are more in female than males?”

And Google said: 

Yes, research consistently shows that women report and are diagnosed with psychosomatic (or somatic symptom) issues more frequently than men

Biological Factors: Hormonal fluctuations (such as during menstrual cycles, postpartum, and perimenopause) alter how the body and brain process stress. 

Stress Response: Neurological and genetic differences affect how male and female brains regulate the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis under pressure. 

Escaped cases : Though only a guess, Rishikas of ancient days as a peak levels example & heads of global level corporates of today , as a convincing level examples seem to have rendered themselves unavailable to even nature's bias 🙂

Biologically, females score better in emotional equipoise, compared to males. Whereas, logical prowess seems to be better in males. ( Certain type of weddings out of 12 broad ones in ancient Hinduism, looking at the scientific element in their chants seem to evidence their expertise in accentuating their natural disposition in logic and emotions further, by exchanging it, and thereby becoming a ‘formidable’ pair for their spiritual & material bijness 🙏 

Unbiasedly yours,

psn(3 Sept, 2026)

Tailpiece:

By the way, the concept of prakruthi and Purusha suggest that nature itself is feminine. And ‘that’ which is beyond nature is masculine, for spiritual bijness.

Humans are equipped with an accessory (comes with original equipment) which can help a human to transcend nature🙏

If Hinduism can be viewed as an irreligious spiritual tool, then technology can help to hasten this transcendence 🙏

A rare & unique Argument

 A rare & unique Argument 

Quite understandably, we use the term “argument” loosely+interchangeably with its nearby words like discussion, debate, conversation etc. Probably, the mathematical sense does a bit of justice to the word.

I just liked to quote a story, which seems to me, to be presenting a stubbornity as a ‘standing' argument 😜.

Story:

Once, the desi saint, Madam Meera Bai, on her journey to somewhere, came close to a hillock. She came to know that a great Yogi resided on the top of that hill. Naturally, eager to meet anyone evolved and famous for their spiritual bijness, she attempted to climb on.

A disciple who stood guard at the foot of the hill stopped her saying :”my master doesn't give audience to females. I am ordered to prevent the females attempting to visit him”

Meera Bai, paused, and requested that disciple to convey her message to his “master”. The message was “Very sorry! I was under the illusion that there is only one Purusha( male) in this entire universe! I have come across a second one 🙏”. And she walked away.

That disciple was a simpleton. He didn't know what to make out of such strange message. But his common sense stood in ‘good_stead’ for him. He ran up the hill, conveyed the message verbatim to his master. That yogi instantly understood the taunt at his stupid “standing argument” ( Won't see a female). He scurried down the hillock, ran after Meera Bai, prostrated with apologies+gratitude and became her_disciple.

Story over.

What happened to the “rule” that it is the Guru who decides upon a disciple?( If this question doesn't arise at all, to a reader, it could be due to one of the 2 reasons 😜.  They could ‘sense’ the compliance in the hearsay_story, or they don't even know why it didn't occur 😳)

My head_on  collision with a rare argument:

“So…. there's no dhauti( a posture) for people like me eh????” Said a fresher to me at a center for backup support where i was volunteering for freshers to get their practices corrected.

I had no reply to this”argument”. He had a huge pot belly which  cannot allow his neck and head to bend forward to touch his knees in a kneeling posture😓

I surrendered to the ‘boss’ inwardly saying ”your turn Boss👍…handle this argument 🙏”

And then, I was used as a conduit pipe 😜. The reply through me hit that guy hard like never before. He reached the that goddam posture silk smooth and took 2 minutes to regain his spine & head up ( normal kneeling). I was stupified 😳. He was in tears of gratitude. He stood up. I said “hey! We just started. Why did you stand up?” And he said “this was more than i can take today. I shall come later”( i don't think he returned soon. Never met him again, after that first meet).

I learnt ‘about’ argument and was taught about what a befitting reply can be 😜.

If our ego can be called as our argument, not bothering about the English grammar in it etc… the hunt for a reply could take us ‘places’ 🤣🙏🙏🙏

Arguably yours,

psn(3 Sept, 2026)

Efficacy of Mantra

 Efficacy of Mantra

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Today, a flawless chanting happens, most often through a speaker box connected to studio_recorded audio storage digital_technology_enabled device ( A.I. can decide on our behalf, when to chant it)🙏….  It's a fundamental right guaranteed under the Constitution to do what we ‘like’ . I respect it at least for fear of my life😜 ( not death 😥… no point, fearing death, when that's the ONLY guarantee in ‘my’ life 😂)

My sister exited her mortal frame while standing.  You don't have to believe me, though I am a witness to it, and I have zero benefits in even disclosing it (forget about me being truthful or lying about it… I was amply reassured by overhearing a message meant for my mom on 3rd day “I have arranged a decent send off for your daughter 👍” from an enlightened Master 😜. It merely confirmed my observations 😥🙏).  Exit point needs to be scrupulously accurate, if the direction of a projectile is pertinent 🙏. A sensible soldier ensures the ‘exit’ track of his rifle to remain in Excellent condition, no matter if he doesn't get time to clean his own exit point after defecating, during a battle 🙏 . His priorities decide his life!

Its not the bullet that decides the effect on a target, compared to the rifle, when efficacy is desired. A piece of hard substance that mimics a bullet can also do its job, if the rifle is super_efficient 😜. So, a soldier doesn't need ‘advise’ to keep his rifle in a ‘best’ working condition 🙏. Bullets remain ‘packed’ until use. Mantras are like bullets. The person is ‘the’ rifle. Unfortunately, the person who utters needs too many subtle_level sophistication to make it work.  At peak levels, a thought can substitute a set of syllables 🙏, when the person ( rifle) is super_sophisticated 😜🙏🙏🙏

My source of inquiry: In 1992, during a spiritual program, the teacher Warned “By any chance, if any of you guys REALLY turn meditative, I don't wish you to cause any harm to anyone or anything around you 🙏. Your thoughts become potent 😥. I do everything possible within me, to ensure that my meditators are positively aligned with existence. But I have limitations, when it comes to your personal choices”.

( Innumerable treasure hunts, emanated in me, with this warning 😜. A sample item I started ”hunting” for : “How to find out if the meditation is happening well in a guy, among dozens of them sitting quietly, eyes closed???🤔 “...  They all ”look alike”. It took me 1½ decades to figure it out 🙏😭 . Teacher won't tell me, and now I too won't, for similar reasons, if not his_SAME😥. )

MANTRA : why is it going to be effective? (We are familiar today, with its ineffective functionality 👍😂….so much that, we don't ‘feel' like even_looking for its results 🙏👍👍👍).

Why? ( It used to work damn well. For a constructive purpose, a blessing. For a destructive one, a curse!)

How?( Stringent requirements. The ‘machine’ which is a human frame. The chant, which is in CONFORMITY with quantum physics 🙏. The ignition, which is the invocational chant with few tools! The target , which is vulnerable to the ‘hit’.... Etc)

When? ( The conditionalities of “how” being fulfilled. The person using it is very sure if the situation genuinely warrants it, to happen, through him too 🙏).

Accidentally, even a rifle goes off 😜. If the intended target is too unlucky, a ricochet can hit him ( too close to the strong wall 😂). So also with any ‘energy' that gets hurled.

Today's scenario:   I had to be on the ‘lookout’ for freak_occurences to find out the ‘secrets’ related to what they ‘call’ as Mantra 😥🙏( guys with certainty of its results are scarce 😥).

Joke on myself by divinity 😭 : A sure/pucca source mocked at me saying : “ You idiot, be informed…. The best among known Mantras CEASES to be a mantra, when an initiate chants it prefixing the invocational chants! It turns far more FORMIDABLE. It becomes super_powerful as a ‘Mother of Chandass’..beware!”( And it intrigued me like never before 🙏😭…   even the weakest of chandass is more potent than the strongest mantra. And, a mom anong chandass????😳🫪. Beyond my imagination 🙏).

Narratives of this kind cannot be exhaustive. Too many loose ends 🙏, that even I know of. Unknown to me, is oceanic 😜

Anyway yours,

psn(2 Sept, 2026)

Tailpiece: Forget about “mantras” 🙏…. Even thoughts are physical, though subtle. Ask any teenage girl, if she can ‘sense’ a youth staring at her bare_back, very intensely, without needing her to turn_back to see, who_is_the_culprit?😜. Enough to convince us 🙏 ( our thoughts are usually coming out of an old rusted piece of metal which used to be called a rifle long ago 😜… even the trigger fails 😥. A Badly maintained physical body, a gun, for a mantra? No way!!!..   not even the priests of today dare to claim being a rifle😜)

A friendly tip (to those who believe in Hindu_temples):  have you heard of automatic rifles equipped with radars of thermal/metal sensitivity? It fires at anything it senses through its radar.

Try…try to ‘think' of any consecrated place (usually temples, often samadhis, rarely naturally energized stones, rocks, mountains and freak instances where a meditative guy dwells 😜). These consecrations respond to anything/anyone, receptive to its energies. A human has a choice of enhancing one's own receptivity unlike a fresh flower, an offering placed near it 😜, which needs inherent receptivity.  Each temple is uniquely consecrated 🙏. Obviously its response differs according to the unique receptivity. If this  “can”  be understood deep enough, a reader may not need to view the video lectures of Ms Sinu Joseph, to heed to the friendly advise for menstruating females to WAIT for visiting Sabarimala and similar places 🙏.

Joke : We are oblivious to the possible efficacy of a ritual like….placing our palm on the top of the head of a fellow prostrating and touching our feet, seeking “blessings” 😜. Most often this ritual is as harmless as a dried piece of wood touching a piece of surface insensitive to electrical energy 🙏. Both need a certain set of conductivity to complete the circuit. ( To think of this ritual without any mantra, and expecting a blessing to work ! 😳😳😳… Not too much? 🙏😭)

Facing myself

 Facing myself 

We all do this standing before a mirror.

There's nothing much we can really do about what we see.

As a kid, I had a most stupid & idiotic logic about desisting from looking at a mirror 🙏. I am not the one who is going to look at ‘how_I_appear’. A little later, I realised the mistake 😂. My responseAbility to make myself a little ‘presentable’ 🙏. By this time, the elders decided “DIY” ( do it yourself).

But, I got ‘used to’ not_bothering about ‘how I look’. ( 2 decades later, I was the sole idiot who didn't care about hair, dress etc even at work place. Situation suited me too_well. A small town, and simple farmers mostly, their ENTIRE focus was on ‘safeguarding’ their money they entrusted with my bank ( not how I look. In fact, they felt ‘homely’ dealing with a guy who looks like an illiterate poor labour 😜. My bosses ‘gave up’ their efforts to convince me “try to look a little more decent”). How much I ‘wished’ that they used the other word ‘be’ instead of ‘look’ 🙏. I would have obeyed like a slave!

I kept ‘looking’ at my within, right from my kid age. And till I started shaving my beard, elders around never missed an opportunity to mock at me for the ‘ideas’ and ‘thoughts’ that spill out, as a consequence of my looking at within 😭. When majority felt alike about me, I concluded “it's a manufacturing DEFECT in me, which I have to live with 😓” Another side effect was, it afforded me very little mind_time to look at polishing my outer appearance 😜🙏 (1974, the manager even told me ‘you are right, but try to ‘sound’ a bit more polite. We are here to do bijness, not to correct others 🙂”       100% sensible 👍. I adopted it in a moment, and it stayed till I retired 😜. I don't point out other's miss-Takes, not even colleagues. Its their problem. I do what I am paid for 👍. ).

A joke: I even managed to satisfy a huge depositor, that his money won't be too_conspicuous in the eye of a ‘casual’ tax-leech 😜. I became my trade_secret.

My inside now 🙏

1992, a spiritual program tempted me when a guy who attended it came to convince and said “a glimpse of divinity guaranteed in the 13 days👍”(that's his_opinion or experience, whatever 👍.. but I am ready to stake the small fee they quoted. I rarely get to see a guy ‘lecturing’ about my manufacturing defect 😜).

The words of the fellow who conducted this program , spoke only about looking inside ourselves for all the 13 days. I was stupified 😳. Damn ! Just what I looking for since my kid age 🙏😭

The worst tragedy was…. There was nothing much, I had to do with myself as a mid_,course_correction , since he spoke things with irrefutable reasoning and utter clarity 😥, and all I had to do was to ‘tick’ his checklist with what was within. 

A relief : damn! I was not_wrong all along 👍 (this gave me 100% freedom to focus on the spiritual practices part that he taught).

It took ridiculously less time for me to 'get the hell out' of the misinformation bombarded on me about me_being an idiot, ignorant of how to handle my inside myself.

No turning back now👍

It wasn't entirely ‘without’ any problem 🙏. (People around lost no time in passing an unison_judgement “you didn't change a bit, after the program” 😓. Whereas the guy who taught us had been honest “don't advertise this. We are not fooling more for a profit. If it hasn't worked for you, don't recommend it for others. In fact, WAIT for others to NOTICE a real transformation in you, and they should pester/nag you to disclose what you did 👍” I was STRIPPED of the marketing tool 😂. Looking at me was only going to convince them “his way of being is more solidified now. Confirmed idiot 👍”

But, things changed for me thereafter. Once I get an assurance that my ‘route’ is okay, I needn't keep crawling back-and-forth due to uncertainty 🙏. Just get up and run 😂. I did just that! Damn lucky 👍.

Vainly yours,
psn(1 Sept 2026)

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 😜)