what can be a debatable thing?

 🙏

What can be a "debatable" thing?

I learnt a precious lesson, about the "concept" around ..... "what CAN-BE  a debatable thing?"....

When, I too got "trapped" into a "debate, rather a fierce-arguement" about the famous "PF---PENSHUN"( option, compelled on employees of banks, to choose from. A paradox😜.. forced choice/option) choice. ( I stoutly refused to 'pay' ₹25/- for a printout from Trichy---somevwizard in software designed a program to project a future-amount of both....pf & pension, for a common basic pay. The union secy got annoyed at my refusal to pay. All others paid in that large branch, including scale-4 manager. I said"i never asked for it....nor do I need it. I am clear🙏...keep that waste paper with you," others unitedly scoffed at me, in 1995 or so...when 1st option came.

2 illiterate substaff defied union dictates and took my advice to take pension. I gave them a பேட்டி கடை கணக்கு ( simpleton's version like petty shop wala's arithmetic. I had to "device" a realistic example. They trusted me, more than they grasped my example. A decade later, they both showered praises....  all that was history)

Lesson was : I need to DEEPEN my perception about  what ought not to be debated  🙏

Topmost item i found was the 4 mahaVakyas----declaratory truths🙏

( this, pushed me onto an insurmountable task of delving into the subtlest of subtle truths🙏... because,  truths aren't debatable😜... 

The very-ardous nature of "delving into subtleties of 4 nahavakyas, turned into my best tool/means for self refinement🙏).

I am not trying to seek any concurrence in the foregoing words🙏.  Just a concluding remark from me, with all-possible sincerity in me🙏

Debatably yours,

psn(10 nov 2024)

PostScript 

To me,

These 4 mahavakya constitute the  true definition itself of "Hinduism"( everything else is its offspring😜....  cosmic truth---works everywhere in universe..... hence, "sanatana dharma"...  I could find "ways" to trace the roots of almost all kinds of ancient scriptures to these 4 vakyas🙏

An experiential-grasp of these 4....becomes a moksha😜... जीवन मुक्ति.... )

One of the uses of meditation

 A few are allergic to trying a meditative practice ( numerous excuses arise----mind games. Mind turns cunning to devise excuses to repel any kind of meditation 😜)

We don't mind improving our logical & emotional skills ( it helps better-handling of life situations)

Any personal-skill, if subtle.... has its own vulnerabilities.  Susceptibility to extreme/stressful situations. 

Situation  can weaken its strength,  and the same logic/emotion might turn against us, instead of helping us to tide over a stormy situation 😜 ( like a grenade bursting in our hands itself, before we threw it on to the target).

We need a shield, a firewall, which can reduce the possibility of instability of our logic/emotion, due to a situational stress.

Meditation has a historical evidence for its efficacy, in providing a shield to retain the efficiency of our logical/emotional strength🙏

Inherent risks can also be reduced to a sustainable extent!

A practical example.

Suppose we are able to confirm, as to

which of the two faces vulnerability of situational threat ( logic or emotion)

Then,

Insurance premium "rating" gives us a motivation, from the way....the rates are decided for  raw-cotton in-transit.

Loose cotton in transit/in-godown  is charged a higher rate. Whereas, fully pressed bales are charged much-lesser😜 ( fully pressed bales means..... a machine compresses it and allows a metallic strip to be strapped around it about 4 times..... 2 straps around its 2 sides, length and breadth. Now, fire burns only the outermost surface of this tight-bundle. The inside is safe😅... oxygen-helps-combustion. No fire hazard in a oxy-starved area. 

Consciously calming the mind, helps logic and emotion to function behind a "firewall"....😜

MeditaShun is not to be shunned, hated, despised etc, if.....we want to safeguard our sensibility in using logic/emotion/both 🙏

Insurably yours,

psn(3rd Nov,  2024)

Guru_twam

 Teacheliness ( can be a crude translation to gurutwam)

It is a concept, not a depiction of functionality of a guru.

In Indian lore, concept-of-concepts were too well developed, and perhaps, formed the “base” of desi spirituality. (Example: wateriness is liberally used to denote the molecular bond between Iron particles of a piece of iron rod, etc. Jala_tatwam is watering. Its functionality stretches to deepening a human potential to become capable of absorbing basic 5 elements (pancha tatwam) to provide water  into one's own body, effortlessly( 😜 this capability may trigger envy in a space-traveler, like astronaut or cosmonaut! )

I liked to look at a real like example.

I had a professor in economics at my college. I used to ask him a few questions, which come closer to core values in a human being, which affects the economics of a society!  Quite a few times he said “let me ‘search’ for an answer and then tell you.” I felt deeply impressed by his mind's courage to say thus in a classroom.

Then one day, the princi told me “do you know….in our 20 years of working together as professors, it is the first time I am seeing Dr.MGB greeting/wishing somebody a “good morning”!😳

I was stunned! Just ½ a minute ago that economist had mumbled a ‘good morning’ at me, which I repeated gracefully too🙏

Then one day, he asked for “psn” ( me), in the class! I used to bunk often to drive my dad's  car out of station,  on his official tours. Professor said"let him come, and then this new chapter”( he didn't  want me to miss that lecture!😰🙏)

Then one day, my dad quipped :”who's this dr.mgb?” ( I felt worried! Dad never bothered about my college life, education, literacy, whatever. He merely gave me my fees for the ensuing terms, nothing more)

I answered “any complaints against me? 🥺…he's my eckonomix/ economics professor “

Dad “don't know why, he sent word through our prof.rao “tell his dad, to ask psn to do a PhD in economics “

I felt inquisitive to know about Dr.mgb now! What a man! Why did he alone bother to treat me as his “blue eyed child?”? 

Over the decades, I got insight about Dr.mgb, in installments.

He authored a globally acclaimed book “Hindu economis”( he was a staunch communist at heart😜).

He retired as a VC of the university ( Nagpur).

Etc…..

The subtle aspect…..it just struck me🙏

Gurutwam. Teacherliness.

This man had learnt economics at the feet of a staunch Hindu, dattopant thengdi.  Obviously, the “Hindu_ness” would have permeated a “little” into Dr Mgb…. inevitably!😰😭

This hindutwa/hinduness, might have caused a little teacherliness/gurutwam to seep-into Dr.mgb😰🙏😜

( i could decipher no other better-reason, for him to “identify” the “potential-in-me” when I was just 19 yrs old, and a stupid-average-student🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣...  I am confident about the prevalence of this-potential in me, only now, at 70+.... 😰 gurus look for potential, not what a student is, right now! )

I was myself hunting for this gurutwam( the ability to identify a potential candidate, to pass on what I learnt thus-far), so that I don't “miss” my victims for my spiritual bla-bla 😜🙏…  I did acquire a “few” tricks of the trade😜…. 

Blabbering_ly, yours….

psn(2 nov 2024)

My tryst with yog-asanas

 Yog asanas.

1974 

Final yr b.com at nagpur.

Mind almost 'vacant'...🙂

I enrolled myself for 'asanas' class by a swami there aged 90+  ( he could do shiras-asanam on floor without support, standing erect on his head, steady🙂)

Lasted a month.

He sighted me in a couple of days, decided to fine-tune my postures( preferentially, compared to 99 others in that batch. We were100 learners)

The volunteers told me " you are the best & class apart". I felt humbled  🙏.

I felt lucky,  greatful etc.

I missed their exam after that month ( certificate, being govt recognized, meant a guaranteed job as a yoga teacher in govt school.  I was the topper too! The volunteers later said " you disappointed us, by missing the exam 😰". I had gone to Akola for temporary job in my bank, 3 months. I wasn't interested in any "certificate")

Till 1992 I thought "nothing more" to learn in these asanas. 

That founder of yoga-abhyasi-mandal , that swami is today in a samadhi at nagpur. A long queue to just bow once at his samadhi🤣... and I was taught by him personally, one-to-one, for 28 days,

When jaggi was reclining on stage, propping his head on one palm, enjoying music, and a volunteer demonstrating the same set of asanas.... I felt "teacher himself enjoying music? Not bothered to "watch" any of the 70 plus participants,  whether they need correction? ( but I was doing it flawlessly from first minute---1974 practice. )

3 day session ( compared to 30 days by Janardhan Swami 🙏

https://jsyog.org/  )

My-mind said " no comparison!"

The second day.....something strange happened in-me.

These postures suddenly started interacting with me, within me....waking up a strange+strong energy flow,  unmistakably 

Tears of gratitude 🙂

At once my mind conceded "no comparison"( same words, but in a 180° opposite direction 😜)

I understood what "yog" asanas mean? The teacher lying down was only resting his physical body and his 5 senses withdrawn. His "being" filled that huge hall, and was permeating into me 😳

I resolved " i have now....something very-very intense to work upon! These asanas are a huge benediction unto mankind!" ( never had to look back afterwards. My gratitude to janardhan swami multiplied many times, for "seeding" those postures in me in 1974🙏. It made jaggi's task simple! He just flooded his pranic energy into me😶... I understood the sequence, though 20 years apart. Masters coordinated thus

The sense of gratitude, transformed into a resolve

I will, when I become sure, help others towards this experience.  The  only payback possible

This resolve, instead of granting me any satisfaction, multiplied the indebtedness for me😰🙏😭... the experience of volunteering educated me about the process of imparting what I learnt, the subtlest of all sciences---spirituality.... 

This time, I understood "futile to attempt any effort to try a repayment of this huge indebtedness🙏"( just keep doing my best, and remember--i can never hope to repay😰🙏). 

Vacantly yours,

psn(30 oct., 2024)

I am an idiot

 Yes.

And this idiocy is a part of the original equipment in me ( karmic/causal body)

Why else would I misconstrue that sage Patanjali was addressing the first line of his monumental work ( yoga sutras) in a strange way,......was being to be addressed to me? 🤔

And now, yoga … he says ( अतः yoganushasanam). When you ‘saw' that nothing else has worked, now……the discipline of yoga! A teacher even emphasized this to me ( a guru who opened my eyes using strange non-invasive and subtle surgery. A bearded one, whom I knew as jaggi, in this birth! He even went to the extent of demonstrating to me, by me, for me…...about a possibility of the phenomenon  called rebirth 😜 . He did it quite-irrefutably.)

Thus the embedded nature in me that “this author was addressing only_you, you-idiot”( others were given a litmus test in the very-next verse/sentence, and therefore bulk of the reader adopted a need-not-read further, or read plus forget👍). Nature provided a teacher as well, for my lessons in yoga, and he taught me how to stay “within his range, irrespective of proximity”. Mobile towers need certain periphery to remain within its range of connectivity.

This “meant for me” concept took deep roots in me🙏😰

I started misconstruing that, the welfare of others around is my primary concern ( duty consciousness…..as opposed to “fight for my rights” wala attitude….😭). I have been paying a heavy price for this misfit-attitude. Only of_late, being battered mercilessly, i learnt to try-to-disengage myself in its manifest-form, from the lives of others 🙏

Now that I have explained about the unique and beyond-repair idiot-in-me,

look at a few souls who went unacknowledged …..

The evaluator of an answersheet who awarded a centum to an examined, was never known to have been a recipient of "thank you" from the centum/gold medal awardee😜…  the teacher gets thanked, the parents & well wishers get thanked. Ironically, a fellow getting lesser or fail scores seldom misses to curse that paper-evaluator🤣. Only brickbats for him, no bouquets 🙏😰.

Saturn too is looked at as a punishing_evaluator, despite his label as KARMAPHALAdaata/giver of fruits of past actions ( i am a “living evidence” that saturn gives blessings too🙏. And, Unconditionally too. I never had to propitiate shani-dev.  Mind you he is dev…god….not shaitaan/devil 😜. Gods are benevolent and not vengeful 🙏. Just that, he/saturn is assigned the unpleasant task of awarding NEGATIVE marks as well. If,  the failures with negative scores are in majority, is it fair to curse a “god”? Shani-Dev?

Oops! None of my concern….what you choose to call-him! 😞 sorry!

When a whole_perspective is based on a stupidity like “meant for me, addressed to me, for my sake alone, my duty unto others, others are my concern etc”…..the functionality of such an idiot(me) presents no difficulty to identify  me as an ‘original idiot’.  ( nature obliges by responding with a smile, when I look at earth, trees, air, water, sky and space etc……as “meant for me…my mom, from whose womb I came forth” etc!.  I can perhaps, find solace in the lap of this mom, not too late, either as ashes, or as decomposable organic garbage!)

Hope this helps, 

those around me( my victims, especially) 

to try to find a “way”

to pardon me for

My Unpardonable idiosyncrasies 👍

Idiotically yours,

psn(28 oct 2024)

Our inbuilt OBSERVATORY labs

Our inbuilt obsevatory labs

Normally,
Parents miss to "notice" a kid's "growth".
If....physical growth is so difficult to "notice"( seeing the kid daily,  is the attributed reason), then what about the subtle progress of mind,  intellect, response-system, reflex mechanisms and numerous other subtleties?

🙂

Instead of dismissing it, what if we decide to sharpen our observation?
( we will sharpen our focus, attentiveness, attention span, quality of grasp, quieting our mind for better intake, etc...long list!)

This quality might come handy to improve our-own  faculties of sensing.
We might "notice" early signs of infirmity, dementia, unsteadiness, lack of body-mind coordination etc...setting into our aged parents,  and try reversing the process to possible extent.

Extended benefits? We won't         miss
1)Early signs of dis-loyalty creeping into the trusted people around us!( something that espionage agencies specialise into 😜)...

2)Early signs of a chair becoming weak in offering resistance to our weight😜, and we avoid a fall!

3) early signs of moon's extreme phases causing imbalance in weak minds( mental health homes specialise in this 😆)

4) etc.... long list.

Such observations,  if it happens effortlessly.... we end up living-in-the-moment!

Ah yes!
Kids are the motivators for honing our skills of observation.  Because, we love them Unconditionally ❤ 

Observingly yours,

psn(28 oct 2024)

Random thoughts getting fulfilled

 

Those of our thoughts......

Which are in synchronicity with cosmic laws ( technical name for cosmic laws, has been for thousands of years, known as Sanatana Dharma.

Almost every one finds......
random thoughts of theirs, getting fulfilled ( appearing to be like a "miracle".... anything we do not understand,  seems like a miracle), though such thoughts are a bit rare. True spiritual seekers find the frequency of its occurrence to be a bit more than average!

The phenomenon is scientific. The 'snag' is.... its occurrence depends on stringent-conditions.

( i am able to notice an increasing rate of its occurrence in me😭.... I am therefore a little over overcautious about what-i-think. I call it side-effects of becoming meditative. Obviously,  I dont expect subscribers to this experience of mine🙏. It defies known-logic in psychiatry😜)

Randomly yours,

psn (24 October,  2024

Stormy life events

 We go through stormy sessions in our life.

This hectic schedule, bulk of which is about the 'situation' that drives you, pushes you to the limits ( what our mind aptly describes it  as "just surviving the storm" 😂),....

has certain advantages as well, only if we "had-happened" to use our tools of awareness and alertness.

In fact these 2 tools get invoked during that "storm" ( crazy navigation for survival leaves us with no choice about using our alertness and awareness). 🤣

Then what is the point?

Focus.
Where is our focus during a storm which has gripped us? Maneuvering 'somehow' isn't it? We 'feel choiceless about focus on  quality of our performance. Even an Olympic sprinter does a mad -run when chased by a tiger( he simply forgets about track-technique, breath-management, foot-work, optimizing elbow swinging....etc.  Ofcourse, he invariably does better than average common people, merely because of muscle memory, acquired over years of practice, in running for sports-racing. His focus is on survival from tiger,  not about creating a world record😜)

What if.....
We had already practiced adequately, to maintain a bit of self-awareness? This self-awareness, can co-exist parallel to our activities on the outside, whether hectic or normal-paced 🙏
Without that self-awareness, the "advantage" of any stormy-session  is out-of-reach!

Self awareness is a powerful defense against the vulnerability to emotional imbalance. We are equipped to be forewarned about likelihood of losing our emotional balance. 🙂
An emotionally balanced mind handles even-a-storm better than otherwise🙏.

And, during a drive through a storm.....the susceptibility to losing our emotional balance is highest ever!

Self awareness helps recalling of even-minor details of the experience during storm, when we are in a calm-after storm. Recalling of memory in a cohesive-sequence helps immensely for learning and value addition. Compare this with an imbalance of emotion, which snatches away our ability to even properly store the events in memory ? Recalling meaningfully is out of question. All we remember is how-mad-we-were 😰😜🤣🤣

Calmly yours,

psn (23 October 2024)

The no-time people

 The No-time people

Modernisation has churned out a lot of “no time” people 😂 ( until some 2 centuries ago, people seemed-to-have had time for anything & everything. Pace of life was snail's pace)

Just make sure that people have “no time” for something and then, it is easy to sell to them anything 😉 

What we call as “modern gadgets” are essentially time-saving things. Logically, of course. But factually, they eat away our time, and to understand this, ( only then, “any scope” to agree/disagree 😜) we don't have time ! That's  were the “modernity” nailed our coffin!

Well,

A sophisticated detonator might try to threaten earth “ i can destroy you….in-no-time”....and it really can👍… it is just technology!  But that gadget forgets that it is the very earth( which it ‘seeks to destroy’) that provided the raw materials of destruction !

Patanjali ( an ancient sage) has infinite time for those who don't have time for attending to the-most-vital aspect of their existence😜… 

And, it includes everybody ( atheists,  fanatics, jihadis, bhakts, mentally sick, and everybody 🙏)  Patanjali begins “ and now…..yoga….”( the implication of that strange-way of beginning a monumental and timeless work, dawns when nothing ‘else’ works for those who had “no time” since their numerous lifetimes….😜😂🙏🙏🙏

When a giant like Patanjali gives a timeless guarantee….. I can cheerfully walk out-of-the-way of those who have “no-time”  👍 ( He, for sure blesses me, when I managed to “realise” what he  meant 😜)

Un-Timely yours,

psn ( 1 oct, 2024)

Post script (30 oct 2024)

When 

Something turns into a passion in us,

time, leisure and wherewithal required for its pursuit begin to creep into us 😜

Kerala

 Kerala

(This is a list.... I might be able to add, if oddities occur. So, this blog might warrant a revisit, if a reader solicits those additions)

Tantra based instead of mantra

Abode for brahmaRaakshas inside temple compound only in Kerala!

Tonsure is not a practice

Elder brother and a husband addressed alike with "Jeyshta"

Deepavali not a festival

Bali, though a demon like ravana kamsa etc, worshipped

Gates closed at night only after a call "any hungry stomach out there???"

Strict dress code for temples, rituals according to deity and not desire of devotees

Tuft of hair tied up to the side towards ear lobes, not towards rear of head.

Fireworks specific to temple festivals…

Benedictions sought, not blessings!

Obsequies, 16 days, instead of 13 for rest of India!

Vysya as an exclusive class is not conspicuous among known names of classes/groups! 

No exclusive Vishnu worshippers among Hindus in Kerala. Rest of India has few sects in Hindus, who avoid worshipping Shiva!

A priest in a temple is called "shaantiKaaran"( one who induces peace, shaanti), unlike in rest of Bharat, a poojaari . Was it due to taantrik styled consecration? 😜

A keralite in-me, yours

psn(7th Sept., 2024)

Silly questions

 I might keep adding my sillyness, through questions  here. So revisiting this blog is a subject-matter of solicitation ( not a compulsive-syndrome)

Silly questions

1)Why do we learn? ( How to learn? is a vital question ❓)

2)Why do humans need parenting?

3)why do we miss our sense of discrimination while inside our dream?( we are unable to ask that dead person we knew "hey! You were dead, then how did you appear now?". We also don't know, it is our dream, not real)

4) garbha gruha in a temple is ill_ventilated, and priest further spoils the ventilation burning camphor, incense & oil lamps, and keeps the door shut most of the time….. and yet, he looks fresh? Over years he has no ventilation probs 🙏

5)human death anniversary on moon phases of that month each year, whereas God's birthdays are on moon phases instead of Star birthday like us???

6)festivals related to god's birthdays are usually with junk food ( even as prasadam), whereas food on death anniversary is damn healthy and easily digestible even if we overeat 😜

7)I used to quiz....those who are unlikely to get angry suddenly " can you tell me why......Godji in his different avatar, dashaavataar, etc....give moksha to main villains, the raakshasaas, and leave the poor victims in a lurch??? . Does it not look odd? Not an injustice?" They stare 🫣 no answer😜)

8) who between two is more prone to get angry, a coward or a brave person?( A coward may be even strong, and a brave one weak )

9) Did you mention factually inside your dream to somebody " hey ...I had a dream last night"

Meaning.....was there a dream within a dream????

🙏 i ain't gonna embarass you asking for the "reasons" etc.  🙏 ( that needs a genuine qualification in psychiatry 😜....not just a paper degree. A yogi is enough to explain 🙏)

10) what does the emotion of vismaya/wonder do to us? We dropped it, like we get rid of our appendix, when it is unwell, merely because medical science doesn't know it's purpose 😜

11) are you able to switch off logic and still think, by choice, consciously? 

12) Do you agree with my baseless wild guess.....???

I guess that among all nations globally, even today, Bharat has the biggest ratio/percentage of people, for whom money is not everything. We hold on to values, that are very basic to life, though of  no commercial worth or value .

If....you are able to agree, then your own priorities about those values, over and above wealth? 😜

13)Whenever you meet any acquainted person, 

do you view him with your outdated & fixed opinion?( or with an open mind ready to update the opinion with present reality?😜)

I have this problem : when I meet Valmiki today, I have no way to recognise him as a transformed Rishi, and my perception is outdated by just 3 days, when he was "😫Ratnakar_Bandit". So I was curious about others😜🙏

14) can you describe a thought ( or a sentence), which is not a judgement of any kind? Not a conclusion of any kind?

15) do you know through 'experience' the difference between empty stomach and a hungry stomach. If yes, how do you know you are hungry, if your body is trying to tell you? ( we "feel" very thirsty, and therefore we know, we want water to drink, urgently…..hunger?)

16) I asked my spouse " can you make out if the soiled appearance is gone from a dark coloured saree? You prefer a dark coloured dress, because it hides the soiled_colour, and therefore makes washing easy+lazy 😜

( I won't reveal her answer…. because it deals with deeper_perception to say "yes!"...

17) is humility a cultivable quality, or….is it a mere consequence of 'something/s else? 😜🙏🙏… like, we can cultivate honesty, by speaking truth always, by not taking bribe etc… humility? Is it an exclusive quality like honesty, stealing, looting, donating etc? 

18) kids are taught to respect & revere elders.

Is it sensible to revere and respect mere age, instead of elderliness which is not dependent on age, but probably used to sync with age often in ancient times?

19) do you consciously, and by yourself, voluntarily try to look to see, if you are also a part of the problem, whenever you are confronted by a problem? ( why should I look into? is not my problem. I and pappu are often a problem for others😂( though for diagonally opposite reasons 🙏), and so seldom we find an occasion for this kind of problematic introspection.

20) which one is a choice, positivity or negativity? 😜

First sip, taste, snort of nervous stimulants( drugs, liquor, etc) was a conscious choice. Once addicted, there is no more any choice 😜

Can positivity ever become an addiction? Can negativity be a choice?

21) why are we unable to become very intense in whatever we do, during our waking hours?  All other life forms are quite intense in living. ( What might happen, if we ‘try’ being intense at very routine, mundane and boring jobs?

22) what will you choose between blessings and benediction if there is an offer of any one item from a very powerful giver? ( in my view , there cannot exist anything beyond these two ). 

23) how would you sight wisdom in otther person?   ( relevance.?.. my teacher asked an all_the_more_tough koschan…. “How would you recognise, if the fellow seated next to you in a crowded bus is an enlightened being?”...they don't brag about it)

24) “no response” says the doctor, when he checks a patient in deep coma. But, when we are okay, and interact with our life situations all our waking hours, how often do we respond, instead of reacting ??? ( now, do you feel a reaction to this silly koschan, or does a response surge ?)

25) can wonder/വിസ്മയം/विस्मय be cultivated as a habit/capability, independent of any other emotion ( exclusively)?

Kids used to “wonder” …. Or, is wonder also, a consequence like, innocence,  humility etc? ( darkness & cold are a consequence of absence_of_xyz science)

26) are you having the ability to notice the latent “qualities” in any person, who is largely available within your proximity?( simplified form: if, N.D.Modi had continued to be a chaiwala/teaServer near you for 10 yrs, would have “listed” out several qualities in him? ( so_called andhBhakht, can list good, whereas haters can list bad qualities, though neither of them ever met him in person 😜). My colleages"discovered"me afresh after I turned ex-colleague😜🙏

27) Exceptionally good at which one, othe two , emotions and logic, is going to help becoming good at the other one????

( simplified version....

Excellent emotions enable dexterity at flawless logic?

Or,

Exceptionally accurate logical prowess enables deepest emotional capabilities??)

28) Between logic(reasoning) and emotions, which one can we afford to forego in a situation, of worldly material life?

( even to answer this sensibly, we may need to keep aside for a moment, our  emotion and use logical reasoning ? Dunno 🙄)

29) you may be a slave or a master/boss of your logic and/or emotions… 

But, between  logic and emotions inside us, which is the boss or slave of the other? Or, are they merely interdependent?  Or are they complementary and/or supplementary to each other? 

30) why is it that mother nature chose bleeding ( blood) to cleanse a female after her puberty ( till 55)?  And, we haven't heard of such bleeding-for-cleansing in other life forms, why? ( a very deep understanding of this process might-offer a gift of release from psychosomatic disorders that a woman( working ones….err…actually, earning ones) face as stress, tenShun etc in the present day). If we never noticed this aspect hitherto, at least I am not to be blamed😜… menstruating females do-use sweat, urine, etc like any of us, to cleanse their inner physiology,  then why bleeding?  🙏😜😂😂😂( no 2 women bleeding alike, why?)

31) this koschan only for fun🙏 ( let those, who call themselves “scientific tempered”, fathom it)

Why did ancients ask very differently from today's scientists, a basic question? ( ancientquestion was “ why did it rain?”  Instead of today's “how can it rain?” ….  And ancients brought rains using chants and fire worship. Toady “param computer” isn't able to match the ability of ants to predict-a-rain… dr.Yashpal kapoor quotes his true experience when tribals showed him, ants predicting rains🙂🙏)

32) we heard of powerful ascetic, using their powers (acquired through rigorous penances) to pronounce curses on erring people! My question is, was there any instance of an ascetic begetting a curse, because he cursed somebody wrongfully?  Abuse of power, warrants a punishment too, isn't it?🤣😜😜😜😜 ( yes or no…..why?)

33)Why did ancients make a very-conspicuous absence of psychiatry( modern format of psychology, I mean) for “living” humans, when…..they evolved a WHOLE-SCIENCE to counsel the bodyless-minds, stuck in the “past”? BhootAatma refers to a soul stuck into the past. Several complex rituals are available, to evidence their-expertise i reaching+counseling them. 

34) why are we not able to use certain life-specific concepts without needing to consciously invoke them mentally, when it is needed urgently+crucially?  ( the “gravity” concept, for instance, is into our muscle memory. A good motorist pushes the brake-pedal instinctively, while sighting an obstacle, not needing a mind's-effort to tell himself, “hey! Apply brakes”) ROM-and RAM concept.  We use softwares specific to the file-formats, without “invoking” them. Why not certain concepts we learnt?

35) why aren't we able to use the tools to evaluate the analytical-skills of others?( HR  guys, engaged into recruitment will appreciate this “silly” question better 🙏)

( might be continued.... my silliness, being perpetual 😜)

just silly, yours,

psn(7th Sept., 2024)

1 oct 2024 ...( onwards)

36)when all our “modern” and scientifically-advanced gadgets are essentially time-saving-devices, why is it that we find ourselves in a “no time for anything “ situation, compared to our great-grandpas of 200 years ago? 

37) what might be the reason for primitive man to seek “spirituality”??? It was not a “necessity” … in fact, bulk of us have no-idea about our “spirit” ( life, aatma, soul, etc….except for a fanciful-imagination, without experience of actual-life, ticking within us !

38)my personal question ( I am practicing it, that's why mine)...is it worth visualizing something very positive despite knowing it to be impractical? I have-been always visualizing ‘what-ought-be done’, in a situation, though I know, none of the team people are going to accept it. My reasons are, to keep my positivity in planning/visualizing ALIVE-IN-ME. something that needs to  place other's priority greater than mine🙏😰. 

39)which of these 2 are more SUSCEPTIBLE to extreme situations in life? Logic or emotions? ( logic may be strong in us, or emotional balance, or both good or weak, but vulnerability to fail during an extreme situation is due to the ‘nature-itself’, of logic and emotions. These two have its own innate nature, common to humans! That nature decides as to how much security, each one deserves🤣, not how well it works for us. A large glass house is more susceptible to a stone thrown at it, than a tiny house of rocks!...  so, which is vulnerable one? Correct understanding might help us to protect it better🙏)

Evaluating our testing-tools, used to assess the analytical skills of others!

 Evaluating our testing-tools, used to assess the analytical skills of others!

Vinayaka_birthday today ( moons phase occurring on this lunar month each year. Chaturthi, 7 sept, 2024)

He is supposed to be the dean of department of analytical-skills, in the university of DakshinaMoorthy.

Very seldom, we try to even look at the analytical skills of others. HR people engaged into recruitment of people for “key” posts, are grappled with this problem ( of evaluating the analytical skills of potential candidates).

Only thereafter, we may even think-of looking at our tools-of-evaluation( of analytical skills in others). And then comes the testing skills needed for updating of these tools.

The-why, of my delving into “analytical-skills’’ related problems, at this age, when retirement tires us of analysis of minds…….

I bumped into a bizarre situation very recently.

I met a person, whose “being” drew my attention in a very unique-manner. The preliminary “routine” that I go through, didn't yield any sensible results/reasons about “why is this person so-close to me in my ‘innermost-feel”???? ( mind boggling question 🙏)

When a  “positive approach” failed to light up its answers, i tried the “eliminating process”( negation…. नेती-नेती method, न-इती, not-this, not-this).

And I ended up deducing the last remnant possibility—-😜👍🤣—past birth relationship 🙏…. Soulmate/whatever.

I was compelled to re-visit all my skills related to my spiritual tools 🙏…. I am looking towards analyzing the “bonds” of my spirit's past with that of this-person's past life/lives. 

Despite several gross-mismatches of personal values we hold, I found myself inextricably stuck….to this-person's-being….. in a very strange way, that eludes a description, and evades an analysis!  I couldn't analyze this bond. My analyticalskills failed. The tools I use, to evaluate analytical skills failed to tell me the inadequacy, or shortcomings. There were no testing tools at all, to test my tools. Conceptualization skills seemed to reach a dead-end🤣

I decided to think-aloud.

Some reader might feel inspired to look/reLook at one's own analytical skills, tools, testing tools, whatever!

Lord Vinayaka is propitiated on this day, because the cosmic energies support our efforts to revamp our “analytical skills “ on this day, each year!🙏

Analytically yours,

psn(7th Sept  2024)

Our values & Set theory

Set theory 

Leaving aside the jargon, we can use the most simple samples to understand

How our values that we hold on to, presents a problem in our interaction with others.

2  circles on the extreme left & right are used to represent "values" held by two people "A" & "B" .

Destiny decided that they need to co-exist. May be as spouses, friends, close relatives, neighbours, or as enemies 😜

They have a set of values they hold on to, while going through "life" as it happens with them. The circles represent their values respectively. The circle in the middle with a question mark, is the area of uncertainties ( of values), during the interaction of A & B with each other. 

Taking a live example,

In the year 2011( census year) tamilnadu had some 60,000 ration cards of "no commodities"( these card holders do not want any subsidy on any consumable, from the tax-payer's money. Simple. Zero freebies. They refuse to be social PARASITES... This number dropped dramatically during 2019 or so to just 41,106 such non-parasitical card holders( with a family in each card). Percentage wise,, these 41000 odd cardholders constitute a tiny number among 1,96,00,000 total  ( https://www.tncsc.tn.gov.in/en/PDS.html       for exact numbers)

Those who "hold on" to the values called "zero freebies" are becoming extinct...😜🙏🙏

If a person from "freebie lovers" is going to become a co-dweller with "zero freebie" fellow, the "zero freebie" value-holder is destined to live MISERABLY 😜  ( CLASHES, conflicts, quarrels, emotional tantrums etc are going to be perpetual.  )

Suppose 2 people have total mismatch of values? And these mismatches are in direct-conflict? ( I wont take bribe-----versus------i shall live by bribery).... ill-fated minority-fellow who says " no bribes"....

We inherit values from 

own far-past( karma)

Our ancestors,

Our society of upbringing.

And then, we do our own concoction of permutation and combination.

Our emotions play a vital role, in deciding our mutual "tolerance" levels😜🙏🙏🙏

Ancient Bharat  transcended these problems associated with set-theory. They simply decided to turn reverential.  Inner evolvement was smooth, fast and with a fair degree of certainty. That's why, Bharat  used to be the spiritual destination.  

Ironically, the most advanced tech-city, Bengaluru, faces highest rate of divorces. Courts have to conduct "evening"sessions to manage conflicts of sets-of-values.

Just yours,

psn (2 sept, 2024)

 

Getting Noticed

 Getting Noticed

I detested limelight even as a kid. I got into trouble, whenever I got-noticed for something “good” in me!

The problem arose, only when a conflicting desire arose in me :((

I liked others to “notice” something of value to them as-well. And when I had to convey it, it had to accompany credibility. For credibility, it need an authenticity of my personal experience, and that …..involved allowing myself to be noticed. Sad thing for me!

Well, the track record was like this ……

As a kid, I made sure that I remained a mediocre in eggJams/exams. Average kids are ignored!

I discovered a “concept” 

There are teachers( of all 6 kinds—-1. The teacher who gives you information is called: Adhyapak.

2. The one who imparts knowledge combined with information is called: Upadhyaya.

3. The one who imparts skills is called: Acharya.

4. The one who is able to give a deep insight into a subject is called: Pandit.

5. The one who has a visionary view on a subject and teaches you to think in that manner is called: Dhrishta.

6. The one who is able to awaken the wisdom in you, leading you from darkness to light, is called: Guru.

Sanskrit is perhaps the only language that has such a refined vocabulary to distinguish the different kinds of teachers.)

…… there are teachers of all kinds, among whom….

……there are those…..who matter, and those who don't!. 

I discovered….

that….

I couldn't  EVER escape the notice of those who mattered :))

School….. a teacher/male_Sir, noticed me, and nicknamed me “genius”( much to my embarrassment. CR_sir.  

Another, gave me  “good” in my homework book saying “1st time, I am giving a good” ( I considered it as a PhD 🙏, since he was mathematics, every cell of his being😰)

At college, a prof declined to take a “new” chapter, if I was absent. He later became a VC, at Nagpur univ. ( princi noticed that this-prof said a pre-empting “good_morning"to me first, ….while he merely nodded to greetings of others. A distinction-of-sorts ….

At law  college, a legendary practicing advocate gave me an unprecedented privilege, causing a huge revolt among students union etc, but “of no avail”.... 

At workplace too, a few did-notice….but they were helpless in elevating me since the institution was a govt_undertaking where “merit had zero value” 😜 ( I remained a clerk, effortlessly).

A dean of dept of neurological sciences, at an Australian university of medical sciences, “noticed” me SIGNIFICANTLY, when he remarked at the end of a 4 hour chat “India is perhaps the only-place, where people like you are ALLOWED to maintain a low-profile!” 

Paradox :

Gurus, ensured that they NEVER-MISS-TO-NOTICE a potential candidate for spiritual evolvement ….

I failed here…. 🙏…. I invariably bumped-into too many of them.

Spirituality, being a “mystic-bijness” by its_very_nature, wasn't going to oblige me from escaping un-noticed .    it dawned on me much later, that I was almost being-chased ….by unearthly-beings 😜…

And, the tragedy was, …quite unwittingly……I ended up into a FIRM RESOLVE…in my teens saying unto myself “no point searching-for-a-Guru….just keep refining myself incessantly, such that, I dont escape their notice!”( I still don't know……which one worked…..my efforts or their range-of-vision!)

Anticlimax (😜)

A road sweeper, old, decrepit,  ugly looking, aged, hunchbacked,  was “noticed” by me ! ( his eyes pleaded “please, 🙏….don't  reveal me”... and I used my eyes to say a “okay, yes/done!”...). But, I had the freedom to tell my sister to “keep an eye on him” when that group was dusting the road in front of my home….  He responded to my sister's stare, quietly blessed her and walked off, hunchbacked…. That evening my sister just asked “hey! How did you know, ( that he is an evolved being?)????”( I celebrated my sister's choice… it was not “was he worth looking at?”... instead, she acknowledged my visibility, and merely asked “how is-it-done”?)

That was about getting noticed 🙏

IMPERCEPTIBLY yours,

psn (1st sept., 2024)

PostScript: all those names of those who noticed me ….are all dead, including my sister . So no “issues” of infringement-rights, copyrights, patent rights, etc ….. from them 😜😜😜

Play of words

 Play of words....

😂

When I try it, despite my sincerity, I end up collecting rebukes 😭🙏

Just look at what krishna told Yashoda : " mom, had you been my real-mother, you wouldn't have scolded me thus 😰😭"( and she melts....😂.

Yashodha says "you didn't eat the butter( stolen &eaten)"

Play of words....

( by Krish, with a sacred purpose 🙏)

Mai nahi maakhan khayo( I didn't eat that butter) 

Allegation was " you stole the butter to eat it"

Same words .....to accept the "blame" when yashoda grasped the deep lessons in emotional stability, from krish, a Yogi by birth  : mai ne hi maakhan khayo ( it was *_i alone_* who ate that butter)

Mysticism in this episode is.... krish was 100% true, in both his statements as per cosmic laws( sanathanaDharma).... I wont elaborate those "mystic" details here.... but for those with an "itch" to know, please hunt for the story, where the spouse was instructed to "learn" the secret of "how can krish be a NithyaBrahmachari?"... and durvasa, having gobbled a multi-layered tiffin carrier brought by spouse of krish, says " just as, i am a NithyaUpavaasi"( fellow fasting daily😜.... just now he ate 7 cans of food).

Narmada river parts way for spouse to walk across when she asks :" o river, if this is true that krish, my hubby is a daily-brahmachari, please allow me to walk across"( turbulent river, boatman refused to ferry across😂) ...and the other way,  return-ticket, she repeated "o river, if this is true that durvasa, my guru  is a daily-fasting ascetic, please allow me to walk across"( and it parted)😜

Playfully yours,

psn ( 11th Aug 2024)

Web of excuses

 A famous quote : “ Nature abounds in qualities we SEEK in ourselves”

My take 🙏

We obviated that-seeking🤣

Instead we did too well in weaving a “www(dot)excuses”

World Wide Web of foolproof Excuses…..

techies did a good jab(job?) at it!

Like a spider we are trapped into our own web, world wide ofcoarse(of course)

Excusably yours,

PSN (10 August,  2024)