Practices Versus Practical

 Practices Versus Practical

I was tutored into practices right from my kid age. It improved the dependability on me for the elders around, to manage me 😜 

Just managing is a bit different from caring and parenting. Practice a kid to do a certain routine and managing that kid becomes easy effortless and no_tension 😂. Even as an adult, that kid psychologically gets enslaved to a certain practice/pattern of behavior 🙏. ( I recall a cartoon joke: a thief chased by a cop makes use of the practice of the cop to stand in attention 😂. He puts on a song of the national anthem at a way side shop. The cop is habituated/hard-wired to respond to the anthem  and mechanically stands still , giving ample time for the thief to run away out-of-sight).

Somehow, my ‘chemistry’ was unable to adhere to any kind of imposition on me, in the name of a practice. I didn't develop any aversion either, to any practice 🙏.  I got a word for my oddity when I became a teenager 👍. I am being “practical” about this practices.  Luck favoured me in one routine practice in my household, when it suited me practically too😜.  I can eat food whenever I am told to eat👍. I am hungry enough, not just an empty stomach when it is breakfast/lunch/dinner time👍. 

At home, wishing a ‘good morning’ was never a practice. Whereas at my school, it was imposed as a “chorus” 😂. At workplace, I merely ‘opted’ to wait till the other guy squeezes out a return gud_mourning out of me, by promoting me with his own 😂

Irreligious Hinduism, into which I was born seemed to reassure me with “Hey kid, there are no rigid practices here, even about a ‘belief’ in ‘Gawd’. You are free to use your own intellect, and only that will work, not your mind, in being practical 👍” 

It is thus, that I discovered the justification for Brahmins consuming meat and liquor, on certain occasions during certain rituals, like offering their physiology as a magnifier to the invoked departed ancestor 🙏. AWESOME technology, at its peak levels of subtlety 🙏🙏🙏.

I cannot be expected to remain a vegetarian, if my employer transfers me to their office at North pole😜. I won't remain, if I try to remain as a vegetarian 😜….   If we can afford being “practical”( a very polite word for “being intelligent”,  it makes sense to see that my body is designed+structured to digest vegetables ( chewing teeth, part- processing with saliva, long tubes to-from stomach etc 🙏), and therefore, the body, brain, mind and intellect can coordinate better with a vegetarian diet 👍. When “survival” is the priority, grab and swallow anything that the stomach can ‘tolerate’ for_a_while, even junk_food. ( It is to tickle the intellect 🙏 that I coined a “silly” koschan/question, like “why is the offerings to a Hindu deity usually a junk_food, when the bulk of dishes for death anniversary rituals are ‘healthy'??” …  Sadly, the modern mind is made to practice “don't use your intellect 😡…  Ask A.I. instead 👍”).

Spiritual “practices” are countless 🙏. Even about sitting quiet, there are some 500 ways 😜, I am told🙏.

( I did an experiment with 1 ‘practice’ called suryanamaskar while trying it on a friend who was “scheduled” for a major spinal surgery and the doctor had instructed not-to-bend forward till then 👍.  After a few weeks of the broken format of ancient ’practice’ , to be practical, utilitarian and medically necessary, the surgery got obviated 🙏. Medical consultation was oftener than ‘practice’ to insure/ensure avoidance of any misadventure 😜). 

For sure, I understood that none of the spiritual practices will work unless we MAINTAIN awareness and do it as if it is our first-time and not out of any practice 🙏 ( this Composure of the mind, happens to be a main hurdle! Mind and intellect seem to oppose each other about the concepts of “practice & practical”. 

It's a good practice to avoid responding/replying/commenting on my blogs👍….  Other practices remain stable and firm in its place, which pampers a mind located in its comfort zone. ( Sadly, a genuine Guru is one who Unsettles a mind, disturb the mind 24/7 out of its comfort zone 🙏).

Practically yours,

psn( 3 Nov, 2026)

Practice of ‘tail piece’ now, 😥

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Bulk of “debugging” has turned into a practical_practice of cut-and-paste of a set of program codes, from an old software 👍. Intellect is sleeping —with a sign “do not disturb me”