ShringaGiri

 ShringaGiri

A rishi named Shringa is said to have performed penance on that mountain. The mountain got a label 😜…. Shringa’s Giri/hill.

It didn't stop with that…..😭

The very place acquired certain qualities too. It remained undiscovered, till a ‘visionary’ sighted these qualities 😂

Aadi shankara was that person. He even decided to be charitable about mentioning his discovery 🙏. Those life forms, which normally perform ONLY the functions embedded in them ( technical name is PraVrutti…. or, in our ‘way’ of understanding “embedded software”) happened to TRANSCEND this ‘nature' in them and performed a much superior function. 2 examples ( noticed by AadiShankara & depicted in a stone as a picture) is a vulture sparing the life of its prey/food, a snake, and a snake sparing a frog, and instead , both protecting their prey 😜. Sherlock Holmes used to ‘deduce’ . AadiShankara didn't have to, since he was capable of experiencing the subtle energy which caused this Transformation 🙏. He decided to institutionalise this quality for the benefit of mankind. A mutt, and a lineage of pontiffs, to this day, came into being, known as Sringeri Mutt. Assignment to the pontiffs is simple ( not quite easy 😜) : to propagate the highest of the 4 declaratory truths, “aham brahma asmi “... ( Tools required for the task, would be a choice according to ever-changing situations). Any visionary can verify the credibility of the place, with sufficient capabilities of perception and sense of Discrimination 🙏. ( A symbolic story to illustrate this effect of a ‘place’ like this is ‘The judgement throne of Vikramaditya “ where a cowherd boy happened to sit on a mound of mud, and astounded others by his unbelievable sense of Juris_Prudence, and later a king decided to dig that mound, to discover that throne_of_vikramaditya🙏.)

The concept of a place getting energised in a subtle level is available in the science of Temple_consecration 🙏. 

( Imagine my surprise, when a once_omitted_paternal uncle wrote an email to me “do you know, the sringeri pontiff, is our KulaGuru 👍”, in response my email about my visit to Sringeri, for a family_ritual !!! 😜… That, to me, has a new message “never should I indulge in exploiting the commitment of the ‘lineage’ of the pontiffs, no matter if the price i have to pay is Even_my_salvation🙏🙏🙏”)

Humbly yours,

psn(14 Jun, 2026)

Base and steadfastness

 Base & steadfastness

“അവനവൻ ആയിട്ട് ഒരു നിലയും നിശ്ചയവും വേണം”

I asked A.I.( Google)😂

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ജീവിതത്തിൽ ആത്മാഭിമാനത്തോടെ ജീവിക്കാനും, സ്വന്തം കാര്യങ്ങളിൽ വ്യക്തമായ കാഴ്ചപ്പാട് ഉണ്ടായിരിക്കേണ്ടതിൻ്റെ ആവശ്യകതയെക്കുറിച്ചാണ് ഈ പ്രയോഗം സൂചിപ്പിക്കുന്നത്.

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Perfect! 👍 

In normal desi English now 🙏

My grandmother.

A university by herself. Reason : got her ‘basics'(base) from her traditional lineage and steadfast from this adage🙏

But she was illiterate 😥

She can ONLY chant what Worked for her 😓

Her eight kids couldn't find a reason (situation) to quote this punchline 😂.

A translation looks like this : For oneself, each has to have a base, and the steadfastness ( to stay on that base)

 Such brevity, when it packs too many life_concepts, presents a huge task in finding its functionality, or functional_software to be applied in a routine life 🙏 

I too heard this punchline from her as an advice, in response to my reporting to her, my failure in having missed something very_relevant to me, when i yielded to some other attraction which diverted me away!😓. I could understand ONLY THE CONTEXTUAL relevance of this adage at that kid_age. And i did keep in mind, the advice for my use in SIMILAR situations 🙏

But now, the subtle sense in it is getting revealed and the value/worth of it seems UNIMAGINABLY deep 🙏🙏🙏. ( For example, if the ‘karma’ theory is acceptable as a postulate at least, for an extremely sceptical mind, for a while 😜…..then, applying this adage as a thumb rule, …

Is it not important for a life_form to recognise its ‘base’/നില & remain steadfast/നിശ്ചയം to the PURPOSE OF THAT BIRTH with that PARTICULAR form of body???? ( newer desires, chasing of those desires, creating more complications, inviting more karma’s…. warranted???🤔)

Once the base is familiar, and resolve/നിശ്ചയം is steadfast, we just dissolve that set of Prarabhdha karma and go👍. The acquired SKILL of base+ steadfast comes very handy in the next form-of-birth, with next set of prarabhdha karma, carved out of Sanchita karma( our private Godown of karmas😜)

Basically s

teadfast, yours,

psn(14 Jun, 2026)

NCC: why do we see things?

 NCC: why do we see things?

This question is what fascinated me more than the lesson in my school NCC 🙏

( How to ask oneself, so as to invoke deeper perception, use sense of Discrimination?..... was the derivation gifted by my fascination)

Armed forces are trained to preserve their ‘life’ during a war🙏. It is an AWESOME design, which substitutes for the unquestioned sense of obedience ingrained in the same training 😂.

To me, the army training seemed to mimic the style of imparting education in our ancient gurukul—-allow the intellect to function, while the negative emotions within, trying to ask questions which are logically fallacious are bridled, till the intellect reviews them🙏🙏🙏

The answer to the question is simple ( and forms a part of the chapter “camouflage & concealment" as a defense🙏)

6 sisters and 1 mother ( easy to remember 😜)

Expansion…

Shape, Size, Shadow, Skyline, Shine, Silhouette (6 S’s)

Movement (1 M)

Army examines thoroughly, the ‘Basics of Life’ thoroughly 🙏 ( purpose is survival)

Spirituality, as i saw it,  also looks at ‘Basics of Life' ( purpose is, ultimate liberation, and therefore, the looking/examining is far_deeper 😜. The body gets prepared for serving armed forces as well 👍… defying comfort zone 😜)

Camouflagedly yours,

psn( 9 june, 2026)

Why should I silence my mind?(Meditative state)

Why should I silence my mind?(Meditative state)

Only a deep examination of 'mind' can reveal it's true nature 🙏

Unless that nature of the mind is clear enough, no way to think of attempting to silence it consciously 🙏 ( the very low rate of successful meditative state owes to this 😌..…. )

Accidentally, mind becomes still to everyone 🙏. Its value goes unnoticed. Easy example is, mind is non_functional during deep sleep. The advantage is, we feel 'clear' bright and refreshed after waking up in the morning 😜. 

By night, the brain is damn tired. Mind churns out stupid, disconnected scenes which we call dreams ( brain wakes up partially, when dreams are fearsome 🤣. Oh!😥, it was just a dream😜🙏, says the brain .... Otherwise mind is left to dream .  Science labels it as sub_conscious mind🙏... Whereas, we don't need a label 'subconcious' for a brain, a physical organ.

Why should we silence the mind when awake????😡😡😡😡

( I won't attempt to vocalise my answer🙏... Try to find it out only if you are intense enough to know😜....  Experience is enough to convince us)

Mind is a very powerful+ extremely useful tool 🙏, only when tamed, harnessed

Mindfully yours,

psn(8 june 2026)

Side effects of true friendship

 Side effects of true friendship 

Just a humorous note 🙏

( Not a preachy stuff intended)

I used to stay alone in a small room in Maharashtra ( a small town) for 9 years.

Being a bachelor then, the infrastructure for cooking was bare minimum. 

Ironically, about 8 of my close friends ‘demand’  for a lunch, prepared by me. A very cumbersome task with just a small kerosene stove and two vessels 😓. Cook in installments, pour the dish onto a corner of a large plate, heaped, to have space for the next 3 installments!

Only one fellow ‘bothered’ to come an hour early, to help me😥

The pleasure i derive lasts only for 15 minutes, watching them pounce upon the food to gobble it , whereas my labour is for 2½ hours preceding it 😓

I didn't mind the effort.

6 of them were very rich. Watching them ‘adjusting’ with gross inadequacies of space, cutlery, etc… so effortlessly was a source of amazement for me, afresh each time 😳

Once, they mocked at a fellow. I didn't know that he was so_fussy at his home while dining🙏😥. They said “ look at this fellow! At home, he hurls a glass tumbler of water,  to pieces, if a water drop is seen sticking to the upper edge of its inner side, and here, he quietly pecks at food from a inside of pressure cooker’s lid, parking only ½ of his bottom on a shared steel chair, happily licking his fingers to swallow the last bit of food 😜”( this guy is the youngest child with 5 sisters elder to him. Too pampered. 

I was amazed at the total contrast in him, when he eats in my room, thrice in every 2 months! 

Stubborn, rigid and resistance_filled fellow, displaying unusual flexibility, just to be a ‘part’ of a gang of friends, and to soak into the joyousness of an ambience of ‘unconditional togetherness’ !!!🙏😥😥😳😳😳

These visuals served “in good stead” 15 years later, during a residential spiritual program 😜…  i just had to ‘tap’ the innate+latent flexibility in me🙏. The discipline of the structured program, could cause no ‘discomfort’ to me. I just looked at spiritual bijness as a ‘dear friend’ who can't afford a comfort zone 🙏. His(spirituality personified) friendship is all that mattered for me 🙏

Discomfortingly yours,

psn(7 june, 2026)

Kerala towel

 Kerala towel 

A traditional kind of bath towel.

Intentionally woven with coarse/loosely_spun 100% cotton yarn.

Torn but still preferred 😜, instead of a new one .

Best use is when it is carefully "hand-washed". When it is still dazzling white, despite a daily use since 6 months ( doesn't last longer), the health+ spiritual benefits are immense and maximised 🙏

Simple advantage is, it absorbs water very well ( residual moisture at the base of the hair of a densely- haired person's skull, might seep into the skin, and cause common cold, headache etc.).

For the spiritual advantage, i leave it to the readers to deduce it from a silly_question :  a bath towel gets soiled, after using it to wipe off the water after bath. After a bath, we are supposed to be 'clean' 🙏 Then, why should the towel get soiled? It can get wet👍, but why the dirt, needing a washing, instead of just squeeze+dry???

Washing your own towel was an ancient practice. The loose weave helps dislodgement of dirt wedged between the weave of the towel. Ancients were too fussy 😥 ( probably for a spiritual reason) about the uses of this traditional towel 😥 ...  A fresh unstitched bit of this towel is preferred for quenching the soul's thirst for the first ten days after the death of a desi guy! The towel is dipped in a bowl of water, ends gathered and twisted anticlockwise, with the left hand holding the lower end, twisting anticlockwise, to direct the drip on to a piece of rock, into which the departed pret_atma is invoked.  Very sophisticated and not perceivable through the 5 sense organs, to understand and accept the "sense" in doing this 😥...  

Bits of dead skin, sticking to our skin are a bit wet and easier to be 'wiped' off, with a coarse, loosely spun+woven cloth. Hygienic benefit is, pores of the skin open up when cleaned. The sensitivity of the skin at very subtle levels is enhanced by the scrubbing of skin during bath, and the efficacy of this towel during the wiping_dry of skin and head after bath. The freshness of skin and hair enhance the receptivity of our "antenna" if... receptivity seems to really matter when inside a temple 🙏

Kerala temples have "managed" to retain the 'science' in the best benefits of a temple, through its unique "rules" imposed on the visitors of those temples. The taantrik style of propitiation has a significant role in affording a keen visitor, to relate the traditional rituals with tenable and modern scientific way of reasoning 🙏

Clearly yours,

psn(4 june, 2026)

Agastya

 Agastya 

One of the stories about this sage, which made a very deep impression on me , is about his unintended conflict with an ascetic who did intense tapas( austerities) to acquire a great siddhi.

When traveling down south of India, Agastya became too popular and very soon among people of tamilnadu.

A local ascetic grew jealous of this popularity, overtaking his own popularity!

This ascetic decided to settle the issue of ‘who is greater, me or Agastya?’

He sought an audience with Agastya and challenged him to compete with the ascetic.

Initially, Agastya conceded defeat with all humility, being not interested in any competition.

But that ascetic won't leave it. Popularity of Agastya was unbearable 😥

Ultimately, the ascetic himself suggested a very simple and primitive siddhi as a test of greatness, thinking that ‘this fellow isn't going to win over even this👍’

That ascetic handed a sword to Agastya and asked him to slash the arm of the ascetic. Agastya refused saying “i don't indulge in such crude and gross acts of violence”

Then that acetic uses the sword on his own arm, holding the sword in the other. The sword broke!!! Ascetic’s arm withstood the blow of the sword!!!🙂

Now the ascetic asked Agastya to demonstrate the same feat. Agastya replied “🙏 I cannot inflict an injury on myself. You may do it👍…and, since I am the nuisance to you, slash the sword across my chest_itself, right to left diagonal, so that I cease to be, conclusively. The audience is witness to the event and will absolve you of any related_crime allegations “

Ascetic gave a powerful blow with the sword across Agastya. The sword passed through, smoothly without leaving any cut or injury.

Ascetic: “ 😳😳😳 “ surprised! 

Agastya: now, do it the other way “ X “ to make it doubly_sure 🙏

Still no injury! Sword unspoiled as well 😜

Agastya broke the silence: “see, the spiritual practices are about becoming more and more subtle (sookshma)and not about becoming more gross( jadam) than the steel_blade of that sword, to put up a stronger Resistance 🙏”

Needless to add, that ascetic joined the gang of devotees of Agastya 🙏

(My ‘take’ for my own personal use, nothing to do with others ….  Siddhis however super human powers they yield, do not purify the mind, by themselves. Unless there is purity( ‘innocence’ with full awareness, moksha is a distant_dream🙏. Remaining as a non_entity/नाचीज़, and yet accomplishing the minds purity, to me, is what matters most 😜. I use this story, for my personal evolvement, even if it was a fiction👍… my teacher had warned “while i will be doing my best, to plug any ‘super powers creeping into you, a few capabilities are inevitable, due to the nature of spiritual practices you do with me🙏, please exercise caution+self-restraint, in misuse or abusing them! Best option is to ignore those siddhis😌)

नाचीज़, yours,

psn( 3 June, 2026)

Confronting strangers

 Confronting strangers

A few centuries ago, we didn't confront many “strangers” on a daily basis.

Today, the bulk of them are strangers to us.

Initially, I was persuaded to look at “how I confront a stranger”....  Later, as a grownup I happened to also add “how might he_be_confronting me” 😜

Nothing worthwhile to talk about me😓🙏( how much i evolved into my own tools and techniques of how i confront)

The first thought of ours( we, I mean 🙏) might be “who is he?”( Profile & biodata related).

Next thought, in most cases would be “how best am I going to ‘defend’ myself from him”( as a society, are we not nurturing mutual mistrust? 😜)

The costly_joke is, an Airhostess keeps her job only by forcing_herself to flash  a plastic _smile on all the strangers boarding a plane. Needless to add, she needs to ‘relax’ first, to defuse the tension built-up by 300+ stubborn smiles, in her uniform 😭🙏

Centuries ago that ‘next thought’, ( owing to the trust levels in those days) might have been “how do I become receptive to any ‘possible’ value addition from him/her?”

If the first thought had said “he is so_and_so, and it's my duty to offer some kind of Value addition to him” then, that other fellow too adjusts oneself accordingly 🙏

I leave it to the readers to use their sense_of Discrimination and visualise the ‘related’ consequences and its ramifications caused due to the repetitive thought processes 🙏( i don't wish to drag the length of this blog too much)

The_joke.

Highly evolved persons( call them as “enlightened” fellows , if you wish🙏), avoid mutual confrontation, unless their joint effort is indispensable, to “add value” to any other/s in the vicinity 🙏.

These guys OBVIATE that ‘first’ thought itself 😜 ( “Who is this?”). They ‘know' merely by looking at the other, everything that is worth_knowing 🙏, and that's what enlightenment is also_about 🤣

Trustedly yours,

psn( 1 June, 2026)

Post Script:   my blogs usually makes/renders a reader to become “defensive” 😭…  I can't help it. 🙏

Manufacturing defect in me 🙏 😜

Any value addition is purely incidental ( etc etc…..like the disclaimer issued by producers of TV serials/ soap_opera)