Negative Approach

Something that doesn't even warrant any pucca 'definition' (my perspective, at least until it appeals to a few more 🙏)

But,
a sample is quite harmless 👍

A young and newly married couple were 'analysing' the vomit of their baby, a few months old. I was watching the fun for a while.
argument broke out like,
'Why should this item come out first? the rule is last_in_first_out isn't it, when the journey is in reverse? Engine last, when a train is shunting backwards?"
the other spouse interjected: "Not necessarily....  Use a 'bit' of logic.  The first_in item like a half-ripe banana bit can FLOAT isn't it? And during a vomit, what floats, comes out first. When a water dam Overflows during a torrential rain, the dry grass which floats, spills-over-first, though that grass was occupying the dried water dam since last summer 👍"
It went on-and-on.
I normally don't interfere in the 'family-matters' of others. 🙏  But here, two PRIME reasons:1) I was acceptable to both. And, 2)emotional conflict was yet to creep-in.  They were only fighting with logic. Logic is like thin sticks used to hurt the other, without-any-scope for an injury 😜
I said:  "Wrong approach, dear friends 🙏"
They :"hey psn....  we thought you will declare a Winner instead 😶"
me: " Approach itself is wrong...  and  I mean it !"
They were showing a sample of restlessness + uneasiness 😂( a good symptom. They will be 2% better atttentive)
me:  Firstly, the child is awaiting your 'decision' to provide a medical attention. No elders with you to refer (google search not there 30 years ago. I didn't qualify as an 'elder' until I touch at least 60 😂. Stupid social norms....  age has nothing to 'do' with 'elderliness')
me: " Did you 'hear' a doctor  asking for a Vomit-Sample?  Like the 'Stools sample'? 🙏??? Every wonder 'Why'????  Vomit is due to indigestion. Starting point.  Stools is a info of  "residue, due to poor digestion, etc, etc, and several etc's ....."   
They: 😟
Me:  " Analysing the contents of a vomit,  is not going to take you anywhere.  Its like trying to analyze the blabber of a confused mind, using  psychiatry.  Undigested thoughts spill out  during a senseless blabber. The material of a mind comes out from the mouth/words itself, whether with or without digestion. 😂 Mother nature was wise, in using dissimilar exit points for undigested and poorly digested intake. She did not 'take any chances' with human common sense !"
They nodded. 
The doctor prescribed 'sequential steps' and the kid recouped well  in two days!

A very popular 'approach' is " How to find a genuine Guru?. Is a guru needed-at-all? (Etc)"

Even about death, the popular approach is "doctor certified that he/she is dead👍Nothing more to it now. Worry about disposal of the carcass now" 

Guru:  The approach is futile.  When a Guru decides upon a disciple, the latter is choiceless about it  😜.  (Logically, unacceptable.  I agree! A cyclone, storm or earthquake doesn't seek my permission before it engulfs me 😂.  A guru is far more 'Lethal' than any of these natural calamities. He doesn't need a negative-approach to reach me.  He has the 'core' of existence to work for him 🙏.  An old adage, not easy to digest is:  "Khudi ko kar buland itna, Ki har tehreer se pehle, Khuda khud bandey se pooche 'bataa teri raza kya hai?"  It is not about 'obliging to the whims of any egoist. It is about a Guru positioning himself in synchronicity with cosmic laws, and then choosing a 'ready-victim' to pounce upon😂)

Death:  A doctor certifies only "clinical death" (when we 'can' talk like:  My body , my mind...   there ought to be a "me" isn't it?...  )...   See, if it makes sense to approach death,  using our focus on the "me, I" within...😥!  Wrong or negative approach doesn't matter to others, about death. Anyway they know the  route to graveyard.  I needn't worry about this-one-destination and its route-map, location, the graveyard. 😂


Positive approach?
Everything that is life-negative is negative, and anything life-positive is positive for me   🙏.  I decided to 'approach' that piece of thing ticking inside me called 'life or praana'.  How can that 'approach' go wrong/negative, ever?...   
My approach towards any situation in material life, can go wrong/negative. But, my orientation to lean towards Praana, helps me to 'auto-spell-check' any mis-takes/errors/negativity in approaching the situations around me 😜 
On a serious note,  I have avoided my 'approach' itself, to quite a  few around me, owing to my age, and mindful of their precious time, when I eat-up their time 🙏.  Only they solicit nuisance/trouble, when they persist to retain a 'social' plastic smile to be flashed onto me . That way, I am more-available, to genuine TRUST in me, by a rare few.  No constitution can enforce Trust in me on any citizen. By their_right, I am a 'kaafir' to a very large number 👍.  I accept+acknowledge their 'right' to treat me thus, under 'freedom-list' in desi KaanstooShun/constitution.  No qualms about a negative-approach by them 🙏 

Neutrally yours,
psn(12th March, 2026)

Side effects of better Focus

 Side effects of better Focus

Lengthy blogs seem to diminish the ability to focus,....  in a reader 🙏😭( this is quite illogical, but a fact. Something to do with psychology 😜. And a new disease for modern minds). Ancient epics were voluminous and ‘no probs’ 👍😜😜😜

A true incident:

This happened in 1976.

I had a very close friend working in the largest PSU-bank. I was sitting beside him during my routine visit there.

Manual work, without calculator machine.

Totalling 17 rows of 8 or 9 digit numbers is prone to errors in addition. Handwritten numbers don't align vertically sometimes, and contribute to errors in picking hundreds as tens or thousands 😜.

This guy NEVER rechecks his totals.

And as a rare_breed, he doesn't write the right_most numeral of a vertical row added each_time. He writes the ENTIRE sum (added) at once and at last😂… 9 to 10 digits, including the two decimals of ‘paise’.

The incident: His boss came to his desk to point out an error committed.

Boss: “your totals are wrong on this page! Check and rectify 😠”

Friend: “where exactly are you finding your mismatch?” 

Boss :” you do the ‘finding out’ not me”( not a friendly tone…😂)

Friend (cool): how much money do you have in your pocket/purse right now?”

Boss: “whhhat???? What has THAT got to here now?”

Friend:”cost of asking me to re_do my work(reTotalling)”

Boss : nonsense! It's your job, when asked to do something (official authority quoted. Plain ‘dadagiri’)

( By now, I have become ‘tense’ within 🙏😭. My friend, an emotional bond. But I am an outsider here. Can't run away, nor can I deal_with/face the emerging “situation “)

Friend: “see, I normally don't engage myself in futility, but I can oblige for a fee,  net worth of your purse😂. Of course, if I lose( I erred in my totalling) my purse is yours👍”

Boss ( annoyed to his Limit): “nothing doing. Just obey😡😡. This is an office, not a gambling den”

Friend: “in that case …. I refuse 🙏. You can keep_totalling, till you arrive at ‘my total’ or….as a boss, initiate a disciplinary action for my disobedience 👍. But please go away now. I have my_work to do”

Boss went away 

Me : 😳😳😳 at my friend 

Friend ( to me): “Don't worry. He will learn a lesson today ‘not to Mess with me’😜”

That day, I met a RARE specimen. A friend who DERIVED such resolute self_confidence as a SIDE_EFFECT( benefit, an incidental by_product) of super focus in his ‘work’.  A Guru 🙏

I was ‘already’ above average in accuracy of figurework among my colleagues at my workplace. But his incident inspired me saying “eh??? You are nothing. Try to further improve your focus now. He, your dear friend is a bench mark”

I worked on “focus”. 

180° u_turn, happened to my sharpened_focus, 

from outwards( my 5 sense organs, my tools of focus)

to inwards(1992)...withdrawing the ‘sensitivity_alone’ of my sense organs( CONSCIOUSLY, not switching them off, like it happens in my deep_sleep 😰🙏).

Tragedy:  no ‘tangible’ tools for inward_focus, like our 5 sense organs, 😰

So?  forge the subtle tools, to become available in my awareness, firstly, and only then to think of ‘using’ it for focus_inward.

Hurdle :  is…the fool inside me, who can_focus, gets mixed up with my_body & my_mind, without a Warning 🙏😭😭 (example: some idiot trampled my toes in a crowded bus and I yell “Why are U trampling ME??” . later I re_frame my words at home to my spouse ”a fellow trampled MY_TOES in the bus today!”.... later, “my mind lost its cool the other day, when a fellow trampled my_toes in the bus” …. Who am I??? if it is my_mind, my_body, when the ‘i’ is a little calm, oriented, better focused etc?? Dunno, as yet🙏

Interim_tragedy 😜 : my_mind, focusing on itself, it's own non_verbal thoughts, IS_NOT_THE-ME….😂)

De_focused, hence yours,

psn (10 March, 2026)

Tricky questions

 Tricky questions

I usually ask only "silly questions"🙏( A whole blog of samples, and when the cup was full, I continued it as "silly doubts")

That doesn't meant I don't face 'tricky questions' at all 😥

3 samples:

Joke form :
Judge: " answer yes-or-no.... Has your wife stopped beating you???"
witness: "😰"( he sensed a trap .... in both, a yes or a no)

Escapist form:
Cannibal :" If you are truthful, we roast you and eat, If you lie, we eat you raw. Now, Who are you?"
Victim : " I am a liar" ( a paradoxical answer😇. They let him go, unable to decide whether it was true/false)

Formatted form : Look at a 4-page Loan_proposal form .... for unsecured/inadequately_secured  loan from a Bank.   There are repeat questions in 1st and 4th page. But cleverly worded. Deceptive questions.  A dishonest answer at both places, will mismatch, and the fellow processing the loan proposal is 'trained' to sight such hidden lies!😉( A set of tricky questions, like a CBI investigator, but in a 'template')

My experience (can't prove it with evidence😓)
Exit interview : "What are the factors leading to your decision to retire so_prematurely?" ( the idea was to provoke me to narrate/spill my woes. Convincing arguements were well prepared to retain me 😉)
Me:  Only 1 factor. No plural 'are'...  only 'is'.  I joined for salary. Now I can do without salary . Simple (I torpedoed the hidden 'trick' with a straight_forward answer, which was the essence of my several 'factors'. Workplace ambience couldn't offer any additional reason other than "I badly need a salary". Instead, it dissuaded me negatively 😉.  But why should I not avoid the 'trap'?)
He : (😓forgot what else to ask NOW!!) : " well, in that case, it's your choice now!🙏" 
( Don corleone, in "Godfather" movie said, "I make a proposal, which the other can't refuse". A lesson that comes handy in my life in tricky situations)

A.I. enabled scenario
me to google : "Shiva laid down before Kali to pacify her?" ( A.I. is programmed to 'search' using 'key' words....   Shiva (epic name), Kali (epic heroine, angry), pacify (related symbolism, Shiva-Shakti combo)
Google Maharaj : (too lengthy result, to paste here! But I got the 'symbolism' involved.. several write-ups, by facebook users, quoting the symbolism from books, etc...  though a copypaste, I can 'use' my own spiritual experience to evaluate it 'intelligently'😉 The 'asking' part is tricky with A.I. 🙏. Right kind of key words!!!)


Unquestioningly yours,
psn(9 March, 2026)

I ain't no good at sanskrit.

 I ain't no good at sanskrit. ( Popular version of Double negative 😜)

I came across a paradoxical set of 2 attributes to the “conceptual” sense of Nothingness, called Lord Shiva 🙏.

Attributes: kshamavan & kshipraKopi.

( Patient and Short_tempered 😜. A paradox. If he is going to be my AadiGuru, YogiRaj, it is my Bijness to understand his_attributes deeper 😭)

So, I googled “kshama has 2 dissimilar meaning, patience and forbearance. Why?”

( The results awed me 🙏.  The deep emotions and its manifest form look_different 😜.  But the ‘language’ is RICH_ENOUGH to guide us unto both the meanings ( and a lot more 🙏, all of them being “super accurate+ unambiguous 🙏. The only thing I,  I need to EVOLVE enough to comprehend all the variables in all its connotations/context and grasp😭).

Mallus “use” the deeper sense( emotion called ‘patience’) in their adapted form in Malayalam 🙏.  A.I. doesn't need any emotions. So patience is irrelevant. Its processor speed is its limit. 

A.I. results of search:

Kshama (क्षमा) is considered a "word rich in meaning" in Sanskrit, encompassing not just two, but a spectrum of interconnected virtues—primarily patience, forbearance, forgiveness, and mercy. 

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It appears to have dissimilar meanings in English because it bridges internal emotional regulation (patience) with external behavioral response (forbearance/forgiveness). 

Here is why it covers both:

1. The Linguistic Root: "To Let Go"

Kshama originates from the Sanskrit root ksham, meaning "to release the grip, to let go, or to lift up". 

Patience: Letting go of the desire for things to happen immediately (internal).

Forbearance: Letting go of the desire for retribution (external). 

2. The Functional Definition: "Large-Heartedness"

Kshama is defined as having the capacity to be "large-hearted," or the ability to absorb and dissolve all assaults. 

As Patience (Internal): It implies remaining serene and restraining impatience with circumstances or people.

As Forbearance (External): It implies staying calm, restraining anger, and not retaliating, even when wronged. 

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3. The Spiritual Context: "Protecting the Self"

Kshama is sometimes broken down as Ksa (to destroy) and Ma (to protect), meaning it protects one's inner virtue from being destroyed by negative emotions like anger and jealousy. 

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Patience is required to keep your temper while facing adversity.

Forbearance is required to protect your spirit by choosing not to harm someone who has harmed you. 

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In summary, Kshama isn't just waiting (patience) or just tolerating (forbearance); it is the comprehensive, active, and courageous capacity to forgive, endure, and remain peaceful in the face of provocation or difficulty”

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Impatiently yours,

psn(9 March, 2026)

Why do Desi scriptures matter?

 Why do desi scriptures matter?

Anyone who manages to annex power over others without using a long_lasting source of own power is bound to be under mental pressure. The pressure is due to the potential threat like “what if the slaves under me become wiser than me?? I will get overthrown, and lose the luxury of their obedience!”

Political power today leans too heavily on the ignorance of the voters in a democracy. In dictatorship, it leans on the blind_loyalty of those who have the brutal power, and are willing to obey one single brainy fellow who can combine their might.

Scriptures, very unfortunately ‘seeks’ to liberate every human without any exception, unto a responsible freedom using the utmost scientific reasoning humanly possible! Once the core basics of the entire existence is a living experience in a human, inclusiveness is a natural consequence and Unison (synchronicity) obviates the need for any ‘forged/forced unity 😜

If the foregoing is acceptable for valid reasons, the revulsion of those in power, without this wisdom ( about scriptures) becomes clear, and we can understand the reason for their hatred towards Sanatan Dharma.

There are 2 ways to approach the knowable of/about our_entire existence. Approach from gross towards the subtle, and the other one is to understand the utmost micro and subtlest ‘base’ of the existence and then ‘learn’ how the gross edifice got constructed using it.

Intellect is the fellow equipped to ‘decide’ the better option, and of lasting value. 

The history of modern science ought_to_be enough to help us to get familiar with the ‘nature’ of our modern model of approach 🙏. A few examples might convince us.

1.An intellectual discovered that an atom is the smallest particle of matter around us. Macro to micro approach 🙏. It made sense 👍. A recognition was conferred. Some other intellectual decided to explore further towards micro. He discovered that atom has smaller components like electron, neutron and proton. Later the ‘space’ around these three seemed to matter more👍😜( so on..)

2.Electricity paved the way for electronics.(Micro again)...

3)The travel of energy called light paved the way for further micro understanding of bending of this light, due to subtler factors.

4) study of human physiology and it's approach towards micro, paved the way for understanding of a virtual organ like mind better, and it bettered our study of psychology. ( It is interesting to ‘notice' that psychology is missing in the ancient scriptures as a study_material 😜. The reason is too obvious. The scriptural approach was focused at taming the mind, and therefore, a science like psychology which only_aims at keeping the mind under manageable levels is redundant 🤣)

Nature itself guided ancients about the better option of approach. The tangible process of life is growth from a micro to macro. A tiny seed grows into a mega life form. Intellect was used, when it dawned on the ancients that a mind can only use the memories of its inputs from the past.  From experience, it became clear that intellect transcends the limitations of a mind. So the approach evolved very_naturally, from brain( gross) to the ‘mind’ ( subtler) and ultimately the subtlest called intellect.  When the ‘direction’ of the approach turned right, it was only a question of refining the tools and techniques to be used for reaching the most_micro structure, the subtlest form of creation.  This approach necessitates the sharpening of ‘learning' process. Obviously, ‘how_to_learn’ preceded the entire process of learning. When we ‘look’ at the documented evidence available in the scriptures, our intellect is challenged with basic questions like “how_the_hell did they manage to predict the movement pattern of so many celestial bodies so accurately without the use of any gadget???🤔”.  Unfortunately, medical science did not even manage to ask a very similar question about the ancients, related to their own ‘field’ like “how did the ancients manage to define the spirit’s exit, while we are ‘stuck’ at certifying only ‘clinical’ death, and have no idea at all about the the actual thing called ‘life’ ticking inside a person alive???🤔 ( Even a sensible question depends too heavily on the peak_level_efficiency of the intellect!). It would be pertinent for us to ‘notice' here that…..among all the texts available for medical professionals of all the different systems of medicine, Ayurveda is the ONLY text authored by people who attained the highest human POSSIBILITY 🙏.  It makes sense, if our mind permits us to learn a little bit of Ayurveda alongwith/alongside whatever else we try to reach a PhD, in medical science 🙏. ( I actually managed to convince a professor in botany teaching to post graduate finalists, to offer her knowledge to the Ayurveda students, on a trial basis 🙏. She knew much about live_plants, which becomes the after_life raw material for ayurvedic kids as their medicinal ‘herbs’🤣.  She rewarded me with her tears of joy, of realisation that she had the potential to reshape the approach of modern students in ayurveda with a quantum leap!🙏. Any new idea when attempted as an ‘experiment’ gives rise to apprehensions of cost, viability, feasibility etc. I had to ‘tone down' the surge of these negative emotions in her mind, for some 3 plus hours, alongside my efforts to convince the worth of this ‘complementing’ approach to improve the human well-being of their physical health 🙏. That was about 2 decades ago.)

My personal experience is, this approach to reach the subtlest form and then studying the grosser levels constructed thereupon has had a side_effect in me😭. I turned a little vulnerable to the functional form of a Vedic chanting, which was used quite harmlessly in a printed form for decades, and now discarded by a famous organisation dedicated to study Desi_hinduism (BVB) and their logo was “Aano bhadraah krtavo yanthu vishwataha” ( quite harmless, until it gets provoked by a half_mad_nut like me 😢🙏. Irreversible consequences. Better to avoid it—--functional aspect—beyond logical learning/info).

As_it_is yours,

psn(7 March, 2026)

Why I stopped 'trying' to be good

 Why I stopped 'trying' to be good?

Throughout my kid age, and even during adulthood, I kept struggling in vain, trying to be 'good'.

Problem was, I had to compromise too often with my own 'sensibility' and had to do something very senseless, just in order to be "good".

somewhere in 1992, somebody opened my eyes to 'see' something which was already quite obvious. Just that, my perception levels were not good_enough to 'observe' what I was able to 'see'.
The eye_opener said "See, if you have be 'good' there have to be 9 others around you who are bad! If all are equally_good, where is the distinction ?" 
I gotcha👍(got it)
The second half of the eye opener was something I didn't have to 'practice' afresh! (It is going to be embarrassing to even read it, so  I omit it🙏. It calls for something not-at-all easy, though damn simple!)


When I stopped 'trying' to be good (to others, to suit their tastes, their comfort zones, their advantage in handling/exploiting me), the consequences were very much on expected lines!🙏 
I became, very different things to different peepals/people:
a) Not so good, but just-okay. ( I help them only when they really need, and ask for it)
b) not good (when they ask me to do what they_want me to do, when they too know it is not the right thing for me to do in that situation.  Like, they dump abnormally excess food onto my plate as my host, and 'expect' me to stuff it into my stomach, suffer indigestion, and other consequences! I tell them very politely : "My stomach is not your garbage_bin 🙏. I shall remember to be careful, when you serve my food!")
c) Un_amenable, bad (when I refuse to part with my hard_earned savings, to give them a non-refundable loan to enable them for their_routine_essentials, Where as they frittered away their adequate income to pamper their 'luxury' desires, way_beyond their means!)

I was not 'causing' any deliberate/intentional/sadistic inconvenience/harm/injury/hurdle etc to anyone around.   Quite simple---my own life pursuit was already a huge task for me to chase.  Spirituality. And any idiot like me, on a spiritual path, is automaticallly_harmless to all others around. The very basic-requirements for the journey are such, that my thoughts, words & deeds(actions) are entirely my bijness, and nothing to do with anyone else😂.

But, if I mind my_own_business,  I am a sitting duck to a few around (Materialistic mind of the present day is such, their antenna is ever looking for a 'scape goat' to exploit). 
Here, a story I had heard in my kid age, helped me to reach for my common_sense 🙏. A snake decided to be 'good'. I decided to follow a saint's advise 'not to bite humans with its poisonous fangs'.  It suited the humans around, when it did not 'pose' a threat to their lives.  One day, kids were playing nearby where the snake was taking rest, coiled.  (A still snake doesn't get noticed! Please remember to check and verify this. Looks like a mystery, but it's true 🙏). Accidentally, the ball with_which they were playing hit the snake.  They expected the snake to get angry and bite. But our_snake was on the path of trying_to_be_good 👍.  It did not react.  Kids grew curious.  They threw a tiny pebble. No reaction. Emboldened, they used larger stones and enjoyed hurting the snake.  With great difficulty, the snake withstood the injuries and remained_good.  When it could bear no more, it crawled away, and headed straight to its Guru, that saint and complained "see ...  I tried to follow your advise, and I am now bruised, bleeding, and suffering 😭"
The saint said, " I had only asked you not_to_bite.  Did I ask you not to Hisss????"
Story over! 
I used the 'common_sense' in that story.  I hisss (like a snake), and those few who "take me for granted" now keep a safe distance.   For my part,  I don't carry any hate/anger/dislike/etc against them(these negatives are a hurdle on spiritual path 🙏). I become 'dead' to them, as far as I am concerned. And, we can''t exploit a 'dead' fool!😩😉...  I don't 'exist' in their experience. 


Very Badly yours,
psn(6th March, 2026)

Lessons for me from the Iran war

 Lessons for me, from Iran War

Iran’s ability to “withstand” even 6 days, has surprised many of the attackers. Did they underestimate Iran? 

Underestimate what_exactly? Weapons or their strong will ?

Or their practice with facing adversities from nature & humans?

Other nations who had ‘weakness' for crude oil ( dependence) jumped in 😜

Bharat withstood invasions OF ALL KINDS for thousands of years.

Whether “Indians” are resilient or not….the irreligious Hinduism of Indians is RESILIENT. 😜

Individuals who are able to protect their own Hinduism within themselves, are protected by_the_Hinduism inside_them, PROPORTIONATELY 😜. ( Dharmo rakhshati Rakshita 🙏).

Core of Hinduism is Sanatan Dharma.

The essence of Sanatan Dharma is the 4 declaratory truths.

Experiential-awareness, STABILISED within,  of the 4 declaratory truths ( MahaVakyas) is the ultimate protection against any kind of invasion/war 🙏

It works for me ( to the 00.00001% extent) that I managed thus far 😰.   Enough to reassure me that I need not keep checking the map/milestones(scriptures) all the time, time to time, to know whether I am on the correct route/road/track 🙏.  My only job is to continue my journey. Clarity is there about the ‘road’ leading me towards the destination. The road and journey itself will become the destination ( mystic secret 😜). My baby_steps....choicelessness is the only freedom ever. 

I can't do much, if Iran or its enemies decide to fight_to_finish. But I can learn from them both 🙏. 

Peacefully yours,

psn( 6 Mar, 2026)

 Scriptures

3 march 2026

[03/03, 10:54 am] a query, seeking my_vieews:

 I love listening to Upanyasam and Bhagawata Puranam. It falls in the realm of belief. However I feel it has its own value. Reading scriptures also helps. Your views.

[03/03, 10:59 am] PSN:

 Okay....

My personal/private/individual take......

on this.....

"All the known scriptures, in all its various forms( written, remembered, spoken, lectured, propounded etc) are....either a roadmap or a milestone for a seeker. By themselves they don't 'lead' us unto Moksha"

This principle worked for_me too well 👍

psn(3 march, 2026)

Post script:  then, what else ?

Walk the pathless path👍(with or without a Guru 😜🙏)

Proof: AadiShankara already tolded "नहि नहि रक्षति डुकृञ्करणे" 

Khunnas(खुन्नस,in hindi, Vindictiveness)

 Khunnas(खुन्नस,in hindi, Vindictiveness)

I love this word "Khunnas(खुन्नस,in hindi).....

Love is due to the innocence in the "people" who use it tooo often :))

Mumbaikars!
Yesss!
They observe its occurrence often because they don't carry it themselves!
I shall give an irrefutable evidence 🙏
Does 'vindictiveness'/Khunnas(खुन्नस,) allow "inclusiveness"??????🙏
Now,   without inclusiveness can any 'Metro' (like Mumbai, with all its highest attributes that can be only envied, not acquired, by any other metro of that-size, be posssible???
MOST-COSMOPOLITON city 🙏( Financial capital of Bharat---- they defied the maxim "money and power corrupts)


The secret(now)
Somehow, aam aadmi of mumbai decided to walk fast!
We hasten our speed with a purpose (to catch a bus before it leaves the bus-stop. A housewife hastens towards the stove "Oh! The milk is boiled. shouldn't allow it to spill over.  A cowherd hastens towards a cow which might get lost, if allowed to continue its diverted walk :)) .... and so on)
A mumbaikar walks damn f a s t....  without needing any purpose. I had to stand+stare on the famous Dadar-overbridge, for 60 full minutes just-to-observe common folks scurrying in both-directions, with a stern look, without any 'purpose'.   "Keep busy" must have been a Unison mantra they imbibed as a CONTAGION :)) ....  a fresher to mumbai , who are in thousands, each day, from nook & corner of Bharat (that is India), pour in, and manage to find the means of livelihood. They learn in 'no_time' to adjust to ABSENCE OF Basic_amenities, increasing  EACH_DAY,  due to swelling influx!

Now, the secret 🙏....
Inclusiveness is the adhesive, that holds, INDIVIDUALS, ....  INDIVIDUALLY-together!( Not needing any boss/dada/leader/neta/priest/religious-head).
Incrementing the 'pace' of life (despite severe odds... Super crowded local trains, streets, overbridges, living spaces of match-box sizes) keeps the mind 'free' from Khunnas/vindictiveness.  The minor ailments like greed, desire, jealousy, etc doesn't get ENOUGH Nutrients to thrive in the mind. :)) 
Innocence is unawares, because it is an inevitable by-product in mass_scale, in a cluster called "Mumbaikars". Yessss! innocence out of ignorance/unawareness, is vulnerable to exploitation 24/7 🙏

It then dawned on me...   "Hey! the core essence of Sanatan Dharma" (VasudaivaKutumbakam) is available as a remnant in Mumbai!!!!  Name is camouflaged as... "cosmopoliton" city! 

I still love Mumbaikars 🙏
Quite innocently and grossly unawares, they end up being a Guru to me privately, personally, about one-ness, togetherness, jointness, about Vasudaiva Kutumbakam.  Even Ajmal Kasab (himself a victim of radicalisation), couldn't 'CONTAIN' the resilience of Mumbaikar towards Sanatan Dharma. Mumbai bounces back to 'life' at super speed even after the Worst kind of any terror attack!
My only worry is, we non-Mumbaikars (world-minus-mumbaikars) do-not-know-even, how to preserve this rare species with their "mumbaikarNess"🙏

My heartfelt NAMAN 🙏 TO each of the 'nameless' mumbaikar of Mumbai. 

Without any खुन्नस, Yours,
psn( 3rd March, 2026)

Learning and studying

 Learning and studying 

😂

I will make it ‘simple’ 🙏

( Not my problem, if “simple is not always easy” ….in this case too, for any reader, in grasping the distinction between the 2😥🙏)

My mom died an illiterate 🙏 ( zero scope for “studies” ….the way literacy is ‘structured’ in the design of “education” in schools 🙏)

She ‘learnt’ telugu very well. Well_enough to become inter-woven seamlessly with telugu_born locals at Hyderabad 🙏. ( Probably, ‘how to learn’ was an inherited karma, in her, when her elder sister-----also an illiterate , wedded before puberty ----managed to learn Telugu+ sanskrit well enough to pose a formidable threat to pandits in Sanskrit, experts in the ancient tarka_shastra, at a remote village ‘inkoluu’ ( near Chirala, Andhra Pradesh) 🙏

I ‘studied’ telugu as a subject(2nd language) at school, from 4th to 12th, and even ‘passed’ with good marks😜🙏👍👍

But I never managed to ‘learn’ the language, except for faltering with even the ‘working knowledge’ level required for basic/primitive communication with Telugu_only_peepals/People 😜🙏.

Matter over.

Switch on your “already available+ inbuilt Sense_of_discrimination”, if at all your priorities permit your mind to ‘perceive’ the distinction judiciously 🙏

Studiously yours,

psn(2 Mar 2026)

Postscript 

 A joke...

Kids of rich guys try to Study swimming at a swimming school, but are hesitant to jump into a turbulent river to swim across.

Whereas,

An illiterate kid of a poor fisherman 'learns' enough swimming ( naturally) to wade through powerful waves at the shores of a mighty Ocean 😜

 An honest confession:

My tribal Brethren in deep African jungles are ....

*_hundred times better Learned than me(🙏), about  mother_nature, when they live_with nature, because I have only_studied nature in my school, as a subject "nature study & hygeine"_* 😞

Clarity versus confusion

 Clarity Versus Confusion

😔

I need clarity(of my-mind) to write something sensible and worthwhile on this 🙏 

The reader needs some clarity to pick flaws in the basic premise of what I propose to write. The advantage for a reader over me is, he can re-visit to read (even if I remove this blog due to a sense of shame of having indulged in stupidity of spreading 'confusion', clever ones among readers might copypaste the words in the meanwhile 😆)

Without the  intervention of emotions, the brain as a processor, seldom 'causes' any confusion, by itself. (A robot doesn't store or report any 'confusion' about its own data. The data might be flawed, wrong, erroneous etc... But 'confusion' is absent. Inconclusiveness, uncertainity, etc precede the emotional state called 'confusion'. But confusion can be isolated with its symptoms like 'no peace of mind' 

We know of a 'confused mind'. We do not refer to a confused brain. 
Dreams are not 'found' to be confusing as yet!😊 (earlier,  I had written about 'boring dream' 😊, just to induce 'confusion' and hoping to lead it to clarity!)

Excessive confusion is vulnerable, and susceptible to driving a mind in either of the two directions, depending on the emotional stability we are equipped  with at that point of time. A stable emotion leads to clarity (a bit rare in the present day situation).. ...  negative emotions are a passport to intensifying the confusion driving us towards madness. And when madness overpowers, anger, frustration, etc can cause harm to oneself, one way or the other. If we can identify 'confusion' snowballing, we are a 'bit' safe. It's like "If I can see a lightening, I escaped it!!"😉

Reading 'about' confusion shouldn't 'create' confusion, normally 🙏
Clarity might evade clarity about itself, but only if we play tricks of looking for shortcuts 😊

Emotional stability insulates us from confusion to a great extent. (Cunning scammers, political toolkit manufacturers, find it difficult to 'trap' emotionally stable minds 😭. Politicians find "sympathy-Wave" as a golden opporChutney to grab power, when their misdeeds are 'fresh' in the minds of the voters).

"I am here due to my madness, not for my stupidity 😠" growled an inmate of a mental health home from the window. A fellow lost the wheel fastening nuts into a gutter, after replacing a puctured wheel of a car/4-wheeler. He was "confused".  He was looking around to find out "What to do now???". That inmate of mental health home was watching the drama, and offered help(actually, clarity), saying "remove one nut from each of the 3 wheels, fasten it on the 4th wheel". Damn thing  worked!!! The car can move slowly till it reaches a nearest 'spares-shop'.  Surprised at-the-clarity of an in-mate of a mental health home, the car driver exclaimed to him "Thank you!!!!!!  But what are you doing here???😕 Now, the confusion is about "So-much clarity, and still in a mental hospital???why???"
That's where our dear mental patient offers 'Clarity' saying " I am here for my madness, not stupidity"
(I leave it to the 'clarity' of the readers to find our "why that mad inmate had 'clarity' as against the 'confusion' of a 'sane & mentally healthy' fellow trying to fit the 4th wheel....)

Expert_Techies are even-confused about "why am I getting confused 'always' when dealing with relationships?" ( programming needs only "logic" and zero emotions.  They invoke 'robotic' precision while coding....  not while_designing, because the emotions are shut-down temporarily, leaving the processor called 'brain' to reach its peak_level_efficiency 😊, engaging in only logical calculations!)

Two drunkards were quarrelling.  One was saying "this is the Sun, up there on the sky!". The other quarreled "Nah! It's the moon!".  No confusion. Both are clear about what they say👍. They started fighting about "I am right, you are wrong". A third fellow appeared. He was sober. They compelled him to 'settle' the issue.  He-got-confused!!!  Supporting one fellow will anger the other fellow! "What to do?"(usual symptom of confusion).  His-CLARITY had nothing to do with Sun-or-Moon issue. He politely said "See, I am quite new to this place! I don't know whether a Sun or a Moon rises at this hour to be seen in_this_place...  I am not competent to judge accurately 🙏" .  They both nodded. They let him off, to seek Justice elsewhere 😉 


Clearly yours,
psn(2 march, 2026)