How to ask?

 How to ask?

One of the toughest “projects” I had imposed on myself, since my kid age😜

( Evidence of my sustained slogging:  Glance a few of my questions at the blogs “silly questions” or “silly doubts” 🙏)

When I ‘tried' to improve myself in this art of asking well, I discovered that I had inadvertently developed an ‘eye’, an ‘ear’ ( receptivity, actually!) for details lesser_noticed by pre_occupied_minds around !  Subtle aspects of life don't evoke any questions at all,😜…only then the question of seeking/discovering their answers! ( My own experience: a blog “Kerala” where, I listed briefly the uniqueness of Hindus versus rest of Bharat, since ancient times 🙏. The ‘why_so’, is too elaborate and tiresome for normal healthy minds to pursue 🙏

Are we capable of handling the responsibility/responseAbility of shaping the minds of our children, to evolve better than ourselves? ( Any decent factory keeps evolving into better models of its manufacture isn't it?).

Unless I can teach my kid to learn in 10% of the time I had spent for learning the same thing, how can he go further & beyond? My life is a sheer waste, if I don't nurture and nourish a model ten times better than me, is my target😂

Asking questions ( at least unto oneself) is the key to ‘discovery’ of knowledge.

“Is it necessary to remain stuck to the gravity of this earth?” a koschan/question!

Modern minds, stuck in material aspects of life, discovered a way_to_fly…. aeroplane, spacecraft.

Ancient Bharat, delved into deeper potential, design and structure of the most sophisticated gadget they possessed –own body, mind & intellect. They took off using sophisticated yogic tools! A Pranayam which lightens the body, a technique which enables the spirit to exit+reEnter the body at will(paraKaayaPravesh), a meditation which affords the mind to interact with another mind using Quantum entanglement laws😜

When does a mind become capable of asking the right kind of questions, in an accurate sequence, such that we are led towards the discovery of something we are seeing, with the least time & efforts? 

Here again, the ancients perfected the syllabus for the kids of their Gurukul_schools—- how to learn, perceive, etc( 4 items of learning).

Socrates used the technology of “asking” right kind of questions in a correct sequence — leading the innocent, ignorant & illiterate minds of humble peasants around to discover the spiritual knowledge from within themselves!

An expert crime_investigator knows “how to ask the right kind of questions in the right sequence to oneself” and using+ pursuing those questions, he unravels the mystery around the crime!

What am I doing with my life?

Oh! What_else SHOULD I be doing with my life then?( A sequence of earlier answer 😜).

At work place, I deployed my private_skill( acquired by myself, and therefore a very crude, unpolished, and primitive one, yet good enough for me) to ‘solve’ the complex outstanding reconciliation accounting_entries between far off branches of the bank , accumulated over 15 long years. The complexity owed to the sheer magnitude of transactions between branches ( about 5000 branches, reporting an average of 500 to 800 items per day) 

My crude personal & private skill at subtle levels, helped me to find out “how to know, if the meditation of these people sitting eyes closed, stone_still, and therefore looking ALIKE, is happening well???”( The teacher used to glance at the motionless aspirants sitting along the wall, and I asked myself “how does he FIND OUT?---who is sleeping, who is meditating, who is dreaming etc?🤔🤔🤔” Teacher won't reveal his_trade_secret. I resorted to asking myself 🙏

Questioningly yours,

psn(2 Feb, 2026)

Post script: 

The sad joke of our present day life🙏 : parents are bogged by the queer questions their toddlers ask, and get drowned into the embarrassment of saying “dunno kiddo!”. Whereas, the ideal thing would be to “use” that MegaPrecious element of Wonderment( very crucial for INTELLECT) to shape the kid's questions thereof, and thereby shape his destiny towards the HIGHEST human POSSIBILITY in life🙏🙏🙏

Jai Hind 🙏