Though, I am not a Kaafir!

The word 'though' is a bit subtle, when it is said with a 'tho' in Hindi/urdu...

That song...

Main kaafir tho naheen... Magar aye haseen.... (after I 'knew' you..), I understood what Bangagi is!

It was 1973, and when this line struck me like a bolt, I was found guilty of misinterpreting a wonderful romantic song into a spiritual one! I heard this song incidentally, through the DD's Rangoli, and I went back into the memories of that allegation!... I could not counter the allegations then, and tried to look within, if there was something really wrong with me! Everybody around of that age, where insanity is of a unique kind, and there I was prematurely old!

Today, even the other stanzas seem wonderfully spiritual!..

I am not an 'enemy-by-default'... (says one couplet in that song)... but now I know what 'friendship' means! (reference to 'unconditional love' which becomes even a 'friendship', if the outside situation requires us to wear that kind of a garment/role!!!

I thank that poet of the movie, Bobby, for the wonderful theme... It does not matter that somebody fits that song into the story, to suit it “somehow”...

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Kaafir, I suppose is a non-believer, or at best an athiest... but rigid religious viewpoints tend to look at them as 'natural-enemies' of 'that' religion! ...

'Ibaadat' is incidental to Bandagi, but not a pre-requisite at all!

Now, a blind-believer, who refuses to make use of,..... the unique gift of self-awareness, coupled with the sense of discretion, .... and gloats about that blind-belief as a capability (though knowing too well, deep within... that it was a matter of 'convenience' or giving in to laziness, rather than a sacrifice, or trust)... such a person, in spiritual terms, .... is he ever going to taste “Bandagi” in “real terms” (taste, I said, not even just 'experience'... there is a song “pibarey Raama Rasam, rasaney...” to glorify that sense of taste, when it comes to a Bandagi towards the personified form that we refer to as Shri 'Ram'.... )...

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(Nothing hampered me, or dampened my spirits from 'also' enjoying the romance in that movie, then... despite this peaceful coexistence of spiritual thirst within me!)

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Bandish-ly yours,

psn (28^th April, 2013)

Non Pretentious Pretense!

The credit and the debit of this blog accrues to a very unique kind of 'seeker', whose open-ness outbeats all sorts of 'usual' short-comings and conservative-nessess that bogs down an aam aadmi normally from a spiritual pursuit...

He pretended to over look that, I had copy-pasted somebody's profile, and asked about my being an actor.... So far it was okay... What intrigued me was when he nudged me about a 'pretense'... !!!

Why not? I thought! That sent me 'pretending' to be a blogger about pretense... or 'pre-tense'... that pretense about which we are not aware most of the times!

Long ago, a teacher told us a simple example... An actor did that Hanuman role, with that mace on the shoulder too well... The audience applauded him, saying, 'Hey it is difficult to believe that you are not a Hanuman!'... That got into his head... The drama over, but, he simply would not put down that mace! (Anyway, it was a card-board one, thanks to craftmanship of decorator/stage-creator/s skills)... He simply walked down the stage, and walked past the audience to a loud cheer and acknowledgment... They felt grateful that he walked amidst them... Not it stayed into his head... On the road, he was too busy to notice public looking slyly, squealing at his comical attire... But at home, his pitiable family had to bear the brunt of his nonpretentious pretense!

(The ancients say... “We got identified with that which we are not!”... they said it in so many ways, several times, and through several means!.... We just put down 'our-own-dear' pretenses for a while, and the rest is His-story, instead of an auto-bio-graph-y)

It is that kind of pretenses, which we think to be our 'original-me' .... which is of great concern to our genuine teacher/Guru... Now, if that Guru is going to ampute that pretense, and if it pains a little, is it wise, running out of that operation-theatre half way? At least allow the surgeon to sew us up properly! Self-operation is not totally impossible... it is almost improbable... We need the ability to Knead ourselves, we need a well polished mirror, we need a vision that can re-reverse the reverse image of a mirror, and we need a polishing stone, a touch-stone, beside us, besides other well polished, time-tested spiritual tools, for a 'do-it-by-yourself' operative session... and for a post-operative care? (Another pretentious pretense?) Dunno!

non-Pretentiously yours,

psn(25^th April, 2013)

Assumptions!

There was an interesting news....

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/f-s-news-anchor-begins-career-by-swearing-during-bulletin/387191-77.html

quote: “"We train our reporters to always assume that any microphone is live at any time. Unfortunately, that was not enough in this case. We can't take back what was said," she said.”

unquote:

The significant part, that I found was... “always assume that any microphone is live at any time.”...

But, that is exactly what had been told ever since ancient times!

In a language that is 'understood' even by 'nature'! (The only language said to be a 'discovered' one... which is in conformity with quantum laws... and therefore, I was tempted to say, 'understood by nature'!)...

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At my work place, I found one advise given to executive.. “The memo/charge-sheet/'asking-for-explanation'... etc in contemplation of a subsequent disciplinary action therefore, .... has to be “In a language understood by the employee”!

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As a kid, I used to be more interested to 'see' what others are doing... rather than minding 'my own business'... So, I saw that, while people used to pray , they do so with their 'own tongue', and I used to wonder if that deity understood all the languages ! What if the deity misconstrues any rare language and gives a boon which is just opposite of what is asked?... (Already, there are clever Gods, who twist the tongue, to force the devotee to mis-spell, and then land themselves in a “spell”.... yes, “Nidrevatwam” (sleep), instead of “Nirdevatwam” (deva-less-ness)... Devas were natural hinderance to Asuras, but this asura went into a spell of sleep, and was called Kumbha-Karna...!

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So, wrong words can cause problems...

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But, what if emotions are strong enough, to reduce the impact of any words to a naught?

Dunno!... “Assumptions” are advocated, to afford us to err on the safe side!.. When clarity occurs, problems dissolve, conclusively too!

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Silently yours,

psn(24^th April, 2013)

Complication

For a change, this blog is to seek help... only...!

(Other blogs are about sharing experience, ideas etc... leaving it to the readers to 'take it or leave it'..)

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My doubt is about complexity and complication, and the vulnerability of its relativity to confusion, whether such confusion is a cause or a consequence or both!

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I have to use a few examples...

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Kids are very simple in their thinking... their mischiefs might seem complicated to elders (bad luck!)... Kids are at once attracted towards any thing that looks complex... be it a complex operation..... like a car mechanic unscrewing the minute components of the carburettor and refitting them carefully, tighting the screws carefully to the right extent, to keep the vents optimally open, etc... Kids watch it with rapt attention... As a contrast, elders just get repelled from that scene... they look at it as 'complicated' (needing special skill, training..), instead of simply looking at it as complex mechanism... So, I hope we can agree that all complexities are not necessarily complicated, and hence not confusion-causing at all!

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A Master of the house, gives instructions to a junior-most servant of the large houshold... usually that servant is told 'what-to-do' by a much junior in that house... Now, the servant is asked to repeat that simple instruction to ensure that he got it right... That timid fellow, puts back the words in a very complex way, to make it look so complicated that... the elder, the master is confused (whether to continue to rely on this timid fellow to get the job done?)... The master now beckons a senior, and tells him the problem.. that senior chuckles mildly, and politely tells the Master 'Sir, why did you take the trouble with such minor details... any one of us would have instructed that servant well!,,, .. Now, please watch... he calls another junior's junior... 'Hey! Ask that servant to do this..'... and that sub-junior, simply shouts first at the servant (the master is baffled, thinks...'that shouting was needless'.... keeps the thought pending for verification)... the sub-junior now gives a very crisp, brief, to-the-point instruction, and that fellow find it easy and quite routine to 'follow' or comply with!

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Even movies did not miss the opportunity to highlight the tendency of an 'Aam-Aadmi' in trying to complicate things....

please try this video clip (hindi)..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7dfspqXKQo

Shri Asit Sen complains of ... an-other complication in his health... 'Shifting pain'!!!

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It was a Yoga program...

(This story is real please... I was a witness and a volunteer, with participants... )

The teacher asked the participants to “close your eyes... “

“You there...” the teacher points out to a person in the fourth row... “Please close your eyes”... and... and.. that person is turning back to find out ... as to whom the teacher is addressing as “you there..”!!! (Complication?... No confusion what so ever! That person is so sure, that it is “anybody-else” but not him.... !!!)

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I remember another movie scene... where a person tries to appreciate

the 'simplicity' of a south Indian... He says most politely “I like YOUR simplicity very much”.. That south Indian belonged to Madras... He got visibly annoyed, especially about 'your' city.. He retorted: “So.... you like only SIMPLY-CITY..???... You don't like MY Madras-CITY???...”.. “Whaaaat sir... ???”.. “Okay.. what can I do... if you do not like Madras-city, but like only simbly-city!”

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Now, my doubt is...

is this complexity of things confusing us ab-initio... and it repels us, where as it attracts the innocent-kids always?

Is it that we adults understand things only when they are adequately complicated (simple things simply escapes our 'kind-attention'!???

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Why I ask thus:

The scriptures have tried to speak only from “spiritual” point of view...

The ancients were well aware that religions can be only time-relevant... whereas, the concepts within the religion (under Ideal situation ) are of eternal value, and hence they have to “contain” an element of flexibility to make the rituals and traditions adaptable to the situation... (for instance, in Hindu-way-of-life, having a bath with water is prescribed before certain ritualistic ceremonies, propitiations etc... But, when water is scarce, there are chants that can allow a 'deemed-bath' (like our deemed Universities, whose degrees are of value, though not exactly like original Universities)...

The complication, the confusion, etc related to religious prescriptions, interpretations etc can arise out of the nature of our mind, that tends to make complex things as well as simple things,..... complicated enough ..... to confuse anybody!

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So, if we are a bit clear about our complex complications, confounded confusions, .... may be, spiritual simplicity might appeal to us... and might even persuade our 'lesser-believing' friends, motiviating them, inspiring them thus : “hey, if this idiot can evolve, even this much.... why not me.. and much more than him?” (I am that lone person being pointed out, as an example!)

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simply yours,

psn(19^th April, 2013)

Remorse!

I would say it is fortunate, if people find themselves struggling to forget some bad past that belongs to them! Now, when we say fortunate, it is not about a 'feel-good-factor' like having won some lottery ticket, or having received some appreciation, tags or so... The suffering is now 'felt' quite intensely, and even a help or consolation seems to be a hinderance or even a humiliation, at times!

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The fortunate part turns really-fortunate very soon, only if such a person gets the right kind of support... from outside at least, if the inside is not that stable to balance by itself!...

Our ancient culture used to patronise certain type of people who specialise in just this... to give the right kind of support, and with which, the spiritual growth is phenomenal (as a contrast to the slow, steady and structured growth!)... The story of 'angulimal' from epics is a typical example... He was a dacoit who prided in wearing the chopped thumbs of his innocent victims as a 'garland'(and hence the name!)..

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Anyway, an asker appealed to me when I felt the 'genuine seeking'...

Why not try to give some practical support I thought ....

And then, why not find out if my words do carry any sense of appeal?

This forum is the touchstone for me!

(Please see, it is the needless and excessive overtones of that guilt, which peg down a person into the abyss of negative emotions, quite needlessly!... Nothing prevents us from turning even that initial sense of guilt into a blessing-in-disguise... After all, we have ample evidences where 'curses' are invoked to suit us in times of distress as a blessing! (Arjuna invoked the curse to turn into a 'female' when it suited him best, to remain incognito!)

psn(18^th April, 2013)

quote:

http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130417234131AASsILe

How do i forget past things?

I have lived a life of bad problems. My mom was an alcoholic and as i was growing up was, i was the only one who was physically abused. i was the middle child. when i was 13 i was put in a situation where me and my older brother had to kill two people. out of self defense. although it was ruled as self defense at 19 i still have nightmares about it. i watched the life leave someones eyes. ive done some "bad:" things since and never felt guulty about doing it until recently. im full of inarticulate rage. but a newly and rarely a sense of guilt. i have become jaded and emotionless. i have morals and have never hurt my family and have been nothing but good to them. ive never hurt a woman. i broke up with my gf 3 months ago and i feel that emotional numbness coming back. and that urge to beat people up i think "deserve" it. i dont like it or the way i feel. i know it wrong. i just cant feel its wrong. how do i fix this???? please help....anyone who can understand.....

My suggestion (answer)

We have done only those things that a man is capable of doing!
It is just that it takes a little more to not to do these things...
It takes much more to do things, which are good for others, but very few attempt those!
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We have sort of become a 'guru' for ourselves, having done these negative things... Now somebody who demonstrates doing things, has taken a little extra trouble to show it 'live', in a way that is not easily forgettable! So, it is good to feel grateful to such a person.. Here it is 'we' ourselves! So, why forget? Instead, remember it as a reminder, a lesson for ourselves, by ourselves, and ourselves, with a sense of gratitude towards ourselves! This 'sense of gratitude' if felt and nurtured a bit genuinely, then... it cannot... it will not... stop just within... we grow into gratitude towards nature, and all those around, who did something for us (that great noble soul who built that massive bridge over which we travel to and from umpteen number of times... if he did not build it, we would struggle to reach across... That person who invented the shirt buttons! Or else, we would be trying thread/cord across our chest, with flaps over each other like those Roman king times!)...
Slowly the memory becomes a useful reference for us.... and someday, we would start narrating it to other youngsters, to tell them, that they need not go through the same stupidity again, when they listen 'live' from a person like us!

Nothing in a Name!

There is indeed nothing in a name, or even the person who hangs on to that name, as if it was earlier than him!

But, till that nothing gets revealed in that spiritual form, in that mystic form... where the choice now rests with the owner of that name, to be in touch with one's own nothingness within, very consciously, at will, and in full awareness.... the name is going to do its own job, .... whatever!

The question was not new, ... the mind that asked it was trying to look at it afresh... and therefore that made the answering a bit thrilling too!

psn(7th April, 2013)

http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130406084524AAoxmcr

If there is nothing in name than why people prefer and tend to adopt the old/original/local name?

One of the most famous quote of Shakespeare is "What is in name? A rose by any other name would have the same beauty and fragrance". But in reality the human nature is in total contrast to what this English writer said. Almost all African countries have adopted their original old names. In Asia also Sri Lanka, Myanmar, China and several other countries have adopted their original names. If there is nothing in name then why there is such tendency to adopt the old/original name?

My Answer:

The label was missing...
Therefore the name was also not there...
That youngster thought that the contents are sugar, and used a spoonful to sweeten the 'heath-drink'...
If the health drink manufacturers had not made it too aromatic, perhaps, that powder which was not sugar but just some 'cleaning powder' would have revealed its true identity!
(This is a real story... That kid shared it to an audience with all humility to impress the benefits of certain spiritual program where the "practices" prepares the body so well that what is not needed is expelled by the body, and if fortunate the life is saved, though with a little adverse side-effects! This kid recovered too soon, to even make his mom feel less guilty, for, it was she who placed that cleaning-powder-bottle at a very wrong place!)...
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In ancient India, the name had lot of significance, because the names were in a discovered language... not a man-made language... The discovery of this language also happened to reveal its subtlety to the-then-ancients about its great aspect of "conformity" to quantum laws... form-sound-vibration... and now it made sense to assign appropriate names to individuals looking at their karmic-resultant-birth-form during the present visit to this planet!

Human potential in 'Abstraction and Variable' functionality of the Mind!

The sense of discretion, when it is bonded well with self-awareness, enhances the capabilities of abstraction as also the variability (vary-ability... ability to vary!)...

Recently, I met a retired teacher of English literature, who still manages to give lectures by choice, for a token amount as compensation... Very eager to extract the essence of life experience of a person who dedicated to propagate the skills of verbal communication, focusing on the dexterity of words itself, and in doing so, this person, the teacher must have crossed over that breaking point of mental fatigue, when the job-requirement compels a person to cross-over the repetitive fatigue-causing, vision-narrowing logical aspect of the mind!...I liked to ask her something!

All I asked was a simple query, to comprehensively cover all these aspects...

I asked “Madam, do you find yourself being able to agree that the ability of 'abstraction' as a concept is an indispensible component of a student who is keen to excel in study of literature, beyond a basic level?”....

Her eyes widened visibly enough to radiate the bewildered joy, when she could at once recognise the implications of such a query, and yet she lost no time in bringing the breath from the very bottom of her stomach to effectively utter and emphatic “Yes!” ... ( the exhalation happened through that 'yes' to make it look like that full lunged exhalation of some Yoga program!)...

I felt grateful to that dedicated teacher... (I silently also thanked my spouse, who was the best-friend of that teacher, and therefore the opportunity/privilege for me to ask such twisted-query)...

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About the variable vary-ability, there was no such dramatized incident in the recent past...!

Like any body else, I too was sailing in the same logical boat to cross over the ocean of problems...

And yet, I find that the mathematical concept of that variable finds its fuzzy application right into our mind, when we are able to 'free' ourselves of bonds of all kinds, and become a variable to be able to fit into any kind of role that a situation requires us to do!

(This, should suffice the elaboration needed to have a grasp on that varying variable in us!)

yours 'X'-heeding-ly,

psn(5^th April, 2013)

Conditioned Air!

I received a useful mail forward....

quote:

“PLEASE FORWARD TO FAMLILY AND FRIENDS !

Car Air Con and CANCER

Now this is very interesting! Car manuals states to roll down the windows to let out all the hot air before turning on the A/C. WHY ?

No wonder more folks are dying from cancer than ever before. We wonder where this stuff comes from but here is an example that explains a lot of the cancer causing incidents.

Many people are in their cars the first thing in the morning, and the last thing at night, 7 days a week.

As I read this, it makes me feel guilty and ill. Please pass this on to as many people as possible. Guess it’s not too late to make some changes

Car A/C (Air Conditioning) MUST READ!!! Please do NOT turn on A/C as soon as you enter the car.

Open the windows after you enter your car, and then turn ON the AC after a couple of minutes.

Here's why: According to research, the car's dashboard, seats, a/c ducts in fact ALL of the plastic objects in your vehicle, emit Benzene, a Cancer causing toxin. A BIG CARCINOGEN. Take the time to observe the smell of heated plastic in your car, when you open it, and BEFORE you start it up. In addition to causing cancer, Benzene poisons your bones, causes
anemia and reduces white blood cells. Prolonged exposure will cause
Leukemia and increases the risk of some cancers. It can also cause miscarriages in pregnant females.

Acceptable Benzene level indoors is: 50mg per sq.ft.
A car parked indoors, with windows closed, will contain 400-800 mg of Benzene.

If parked outdoors, under the sun, at a temperature above 60 degrees F,
the Benzene level goes up to 2000-4000 mg, 40 times the acceptable level. People who get into the car, keeping the windows closed, will inevitably
inhale, in quick succession, excessive amounts of the BENZENE toxin.

Benzene is a toxin that affects your kidneys and liver. What's worse, it is extremely difficult for your body to expel this toxic stuff from your body.

So friends, please open the windows and door of your car - give it some time
for the interior to air out -(dispel the deadly stuff) - before you enter the vehicle.

Thought: 'When someone shares something of value with you and you
benefit from it, you have a moral obligation to share it with others.'.....”

unquote:

I too forwarded it to a few more people..... after adding a little of my own 'masala'! I thought some of us might enjoy reading it for fun!

Quote:

I too feel guilty reading this , but for entirely different reason! I have never tasted A/c on an on-going basis, regularly! Whatever little A/c that I got myself subjected to, was at wok place, and thanks to heavy power failures, it was never a 'regular-A/c'

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Two wheeler was what I had... (it worked on DC battery, not A/c...)

That leaves me with only one kind of "air conditioning" the one within me, as an embedded system! It has not suffered power-failure or even water insufficiency (it recycles the water with utmost care and meticulousness.... my merciful kidneys!)... And when my internal A/c is "on"... (it is here that I thank the almighty!)..... something amazing happens, about that 'environment' that people say... My body does throw out the dirt within along with the expulsion of the waste due to the A/c but while doing so, it does not pollute the atmosphere in anyway... Instead, it leaves the inside of me clean and fragrant, a fragrance that this body is originally designed to relish...!!! (That inner 'air-conditioning' and its technical know how came to me direct from my grandmother, skipping the intermediaries! Just a coincidence, that, which even is rare today!)

psn (1^st April, 2013)

(About the title: We do say... “it was all in the air....” the “conditioning” which tends to tell us/remind-us... 'hey! This conditioning of your mind, which you pick up from the very air that you breathe in... is what becomes your 'destiny'... and my destination”)

Astrological-Sleep?

I was not surprised too much when somebody asked for an astrological solution for sleep! When nothing else works for getting something that we desire to have, we think of Shri Amitabh Bachan or his likes! (a non believer by situation, turns to God, when everthing else fails... Courtesy: story writer of “Deevar” a movie that 'wrote the confirmation letter' of the hero's appointment into film-industry (Hindi)...)

So, it is about getting so much attached to something, that we tend to give up our rigidities within, to somehow get that something... Spiritually this tendency is looked at by Masters as something very significant, and a few Masters who try to specialise into evolving yet others (the disciples, usually,) look out for attachments in their wards!

Sometimes, the basic needs become also our intense desires... and fear comes in the way! Even this kind of situation complicates the persona... psychiatrists claim their 'cutting-edge' superiority only when they find themselves equippedd to identify and isolate the root-cause of this complicated muddle in another person!... And when such a muddle is in a group or mass-groups, the person who even names it get recognised as a 'philosopher'! (and not that apt nomenclature of Mass-level-psychiatrist'/whatever!)....

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Sleep is a basic requirement... it restores the 'life' in us!... May be most of us tend to look at the incidental benefit of rest and sleep quota to be the main benefit... that is only until we become insane due to lack of sleep (but by then... the problem gets shifted to someone else at the proximity)...

It is perhaps the apprehension of the sanity problem (about which a person so attached to fear is usually better familiar with), ... which drove that person to ask about the effect of planetary positions or..... the manipulative possibilities of its wrong positionings, as a possible solution for the lack of sleep!

The answer(mine) was not aimed at suggesting any astrological solution ... perhaps that is why the half-dejected mind that raised the query had left it to a vote mode (that mode is not even a conscious choice.... it is THE fate as per the designers of computer world creators who carved that crater to dump such abandoned data!)

And yet, I am tempted to revive the question afresh to use it for an opportunity to look at the connection between that 'peaceful-sleep' and its close and natural rival 'disturbing-fear' .... afresh!

It is up to us to take it with that kind of a 'salt' (salts of all kinds are said to be the taste-enhancers inside a meaningful-kitchen!)

Fiery sleep other-wise ...?... dunno!

psn(25^th March, 2013)

http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130305130430AAuTU7w

Hi i cant sleep at night due to fear of somebody breaking in my house..plz suggest astrological solution?

Non planetary solution ... not just an 'unearthly' one!(my answer):

Sleep is too important!
Even a non-astrological solution is welcome, if I can 'somehow' manage to get sleep..!!!
Best of doctors tell nurses at the hospital to skip the strict-timings of dosage of medicines/pills, if the patient is fast asleep (they are yet to discover a drug-substitute for deep sleep!)..
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Fear is in the mind (no where else)... Fear may be very genuine, and for very valid reasons too!
But, even a soldier needs a little sleep...

Consciousness switched off!

I simply couldn't wait to know whether 'my take' about it is going to take off or not!

The query was good, and I got a chance to say what I liked to tell/sell/yell about!

The question:

How is consciousness shut off during sleep?

How do we regain it when we wake?

My conscious reply:

We insist on a memory recollection of anything that we are going to accept at all, to be existing, to be real, to be so...!!!
We do not have any 'reside' of our deep sleep states (dream does not belong to that 'deep' state of sleep)...
And yet we know, we slept well, because of our 'after effects' that we experience... Well rested, mind feels fresh, etc!
The problem is about that 'self-awareness' which our mind is unable to record, during the sleep... (our sense organs remain withdrawn... and our mind happens to depend on only the inputs received through sense organs... other than that, the mind uses the memory data to do that permutation and combination, to call it as 'creativity/innovation' etc!!!... But, we miss to take note of the self-awareness, which is witnessing all this drama... Some times, we experience "My-mind" and 'My body" distinctly... most of the other times, it is "I am .. the body/mind"... )
There are spiritual practices available to create a possibility that our consciousness does not get shut off during sleep! Once that happens, there is a by-product! (Like, 'Buy-one, take one-free'!).. the by-product is that when this body is unable to sustain/support this consciousness (what we call as clinical death, as per our dear doctor's certificate)... our consciousness would know, it would tell itself, "well our game is over now, with this body"... !!!
The second point... How do we regain it?... (Well, when the question becomes intense, "am I alive"... the sensory levels of perception get invoked... And that is how we awake, not because the sleep quota is over, or that we are well rested!!! Some of us do not yet know the distinction even.. And when we know the distinction, we do not know why on some days, we feel more sleepy after waking... and yet on some other days we feel more tired after waking!)... This consciousness, gets restored only during sleep states right now (we do not allow it other times, that is the only problem! Spiritualists manage to allow restoration even during non-sleep states! That is also known as 'meditative-states'!)...
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Nice question!
got that opportunity , due to this question, to push my hidden agenda gently across!!! :)
Thanks for that!

The link: http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130322124224AAClxfs

psn(23rd March, 2013)

Negation

The subtle aspect of it, is what attracts my attention when I try to find out the hidden blocks that hinder the spiritual growth! The 'passive negation' is elusive to that easy perception of it! For instance, the lack of appreciation for something deprives us of the experience of some other thing else, which in turn evokes joyousness in us, and we keep lamenting that joy evades us! If we happen to remain indifferent to all forms of music, for instance, how are we going to even know as to what we are missing?

I would try to use a practical/technical incident to demonstrate... Maybe 'techies' might find an appeal due to this example! (This happened a few years ago.... We were still new to use of computers for international/inter-country transactions)

At my work place, it so happened that the task of handling a cumbersome software fell upon my shoulders... It was cumbersome because of several reasons... The people around were too early at 'settling' down when compared to the computing technology, that demanded some attention at least initially, to re-settle into it, relocating ourselves from the earlier settlement into manual hand-written form of accounting! This particular software was cumbersome due to a unique reason! The designers had sought to focus more onto the security aspect rather than the user-friendliness of it, and hence they 'expected' the needed adherence to 'getting familiarized with its nuances on an on-going basis'!!! So, this one software became a source of fascination for me! The cost of even updating it was stupendous... And the people who held the access to the source codes of the software depended more on the process of revamping the very software, at least once in every three months (irrespective of whether the functionality-utility needed it or not!!), because, the security of the software was what made it the most dependable and most sought-after one globally! The bulk of inter-country financial transactions was done using this software...

The drama part of it: There was a data field which expected the figure in the form of a currency as its unit... The routine data input was fed into it, for that transaction, but the software refused to move further, to the next menu... It did not even give any hint as to which of the fields were filled incorrectly!... Several colleagues tried their 'common-sense'... the nearest they could approach to the problem was,... that this transaction was with a Japanese institution, and hence the currency was Yen. When they had decided not to try any more with it, (and were about to request the clients to use US dollars, instead), I requested for a few more minutes, and looked at what they did not try to look at so far... They went through that amount field, Yen, but did not bother to look at it... (We KNOW, the Yen has only one unit and no fractional units as its currency forms, is what they unanimously decided within themselves, even unaware of their own unanimity about it!)... I looked at that field, and saw that the name of the currency was correctly mentioned as 'JPY' and so was the amount too... correctly mentioned. Then it struck me, how is this stupid memory machine going to know that I have stopped with the numerals, digits of inputs?... Perhaps it is still waiting to know,.... that..... 'we' find it as 'enough is enough'!... I requested permission for one more attempt at data input mode, and they readily obliged me, reactivating the 'dead' file, to allow correction/editing to the data... All I did was to place a dot, a period at the end of the digits, the numerals of the amount field... Now the software got what it wanted (the 'go-ahead' for its cursor, the pointers to proceed to validating the next data field!).

Two significant things happened thereafter:

The people around missed to take notice of the fact that 'this donkey' (a non-expert, a non-technical fellow, a non-entity amidst us), happened to bray in the right tune, the right notes of music, to become harmonious with the receptivity of that 'entity' (Yes! When we seek to give life to that activity, enough for it to become a 'transaction' that would trigger a chain of reactions that are going to signify transfer of rights of meaningful activity of a few people, in the form of shift of merchandise across the continent, this transaction, even in its present form, as a digital file, may be rightfully looked at an entity!).

The second thing that they failed to appreciate is the concept of 'communicating' with inanimate designs which are 'effectively' a clear communication to us from the designers (as much as this planet, this universe, is a communication from its creator to us, its dwellers, its users, its by products!)....

The negation is in the nature of an 'omission' to take notice of something that does obligates us to do so!

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The heritage passed on to us by our ancestors makes it obligatory on our part to accept it with a grasp of its intricacies and then to hand it over to the next few generations, making improvements too, if possible! (A typical example, a simple tantric diagram, or image becomes a live design when a small dot is placed at its centre! There was a whole movie to illustrate this 'point' ... A malayalam movie 'Atharvam'!... Now, due to mere lack of understanding, if the design is not going to be adequately appreciated, are we not effectively negating to respond to the communication of the ancients who had bequeathed a wonderful functional design created with lots of efforts, innovation and application of highest-level of human efforts!).

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Coming to spiritual arena, 'negation' and its ramifications have been dealt with at great depths, and the tools, techniques and processes evolved to handle the unwinding of such accumulated 'negations' bear testimony to the enormity of its importance, and value, in spiritual terms!

Psn (21^st March, 2013)

Confident Confidant!

We can confide things with.... only a confidant about whom we are confident, and when that person is also self-confident! Confidence here includes several aspects, other than that privacy... The most important one being the open mind, followed by ever deepening perception, willingness of reciprocity, and a stable seal of unconditional mutual trust!... (That 'ever-deepening-perception' is the most comprehensive of all the terms.... it calls for an ongoing awareness, alertness, receptivity, etc!)...

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That was my view of a confidant...

But when a question came up, asking for that source with whom we cross check our questions and queries (obviously, not the routine type of questions like :- a) what is 'the' time?, b) which bus goes to station, etc...)

And then, the asker did concede that 'service-tax' to the forum, which allowed hoisting such a question (and therefore that prefix of 'other-than-Yahoo'....)

The rest of the question, was what I felt intrigued with!....

I was least prepared to find myself giving out the answer that came out of me soon after reading that question! (And I was equally surprised to find the asker picking that answer of mine!)

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I did require time, to decide whether it was worth sharing this question and the answer... but the words of my teacher came to my mind... those words, which was again an answer to my own question to my dear teacher : “Sir, when ever I find a question within me, and I wait to reach it to you, I find that the 'need' to ask gets extinguished, when I actually confront you?...!!!” (it is the 'need' that persuades or pushes the question to seeks its manifest form!!!)...

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Confident confidant of yours,

psn(20^th March, 2013)

the question:

http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130310035056AAchUCl

Other than Yahoo, who do you discuss your beliefs and thoughts with?

My answer:

Oh!
My own very self.. dear self!
(The most responsive, responsible, response-abled, alert, resourceful, receptive mind of mine!)...
When the mind is alert, and yet calm, relaxed, thought simply pour in... (Eureka was just that...
The falling apple revealed gravity, but if that mind were more calm, the tree of that apple growing upwards, defying gravity, would also have been noticed!!!)...
And then, Yahoo, who is who, etc.. is a matter of choice!

Default Mode!

'Default' is a word which carries contextual meaning... It was earlier used only for 'failure' (in default on a loan.)... 'Winning by default' is another interesting use.(The failure of one or more competitors or teams to participate in a contest)..

The most popular sense of its use today is : A particular setting or value for a variable that is assigned automatically by an operating system and remains in effect unless canceled or overridden by the operator...

Computer sense!!!

Computer Science may be beyond our reach, but not the computer sense!

Very fortunately, the basics and fundamentals of computers happen to be, to a large extent, a reflection of the logical aspect of our mind itself! (That 'large-extent'... was not the case hitherto, during the yester years... we brought upon ourselves so... because of the situation we created around ourselves in so many ways.... !!!.. The memory dependence, the reference to the memory at the drop-of-a-hat... etc.)....

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It comes very handy to grasp the abstract concepts that do affect our spiritual growth.... (“It”... in the IT-sense, computer sense... the 'default' mode in us!!!)....

Our judgement about others usually ends up with our 'search' mode finding the default mode of that other person!... A reassessment has to be necessitated by the situation, and it has to be good enough to invoke a crisis-signal inside us!!! (Yes! Our very life-style has been inclining towards crisis-performance-only... instead of resorting to crisis-management due to unforeseen situation!)...

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It is the 'default-mode' within us which is 'read' as our 'attitude', by others.... and when it is not that accurate, there is a bottle-neck in the relationship! This bottleneck might eventually turn into a strained relationship, drift in communication channels, stoic relationships etc....

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Thus, even for the deft handling of material aspect of life, this default-mode in us which decides our reaction to the varied situations, has to be looked at, if we are going to do something about the quality of life.... Otherwise, our winning the competition of life might be solely by-default (absence of other competitors!... Whatever the reason... Ranging between sole inheritance to elimination of others by that political muscle power!)...

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For spiritual purposes, the initial corrections are usually towards imbibing a healthy 'default-mode', just to ensure that there is some progress to feel motivated enough to be able to handle that 'breaking-point' in-case-of-need.... Otherwise, the best, the last, and the ultimate option, historically has been, to disengage that 'default-mode' itself !!! No replacement at all! (Such people are not available for others to judge, even with the help of astrology!.... A very difficult proposition to grasp, as well as to agree even.... not to 'think' of conceding!... But, if we can try to look at that spark of 'divinity' within us too, as present all over, universally... then it is not altogether impossible to look at the possibility of that divinity in its 'own mode' taking over the way we manifest ourselves thenceforth!)

By default yours,

psn (16^th March, 2013)

Time slips by...

Before time slips by....

I felt.... it is time...

that we share this kind of experience too...

here, on this spiritual forum....

Not all are going to subscribe to this concept even (even if there was an experience!)...

But still, it has a lot to do with spiritual aspect of life!

It so happened that I had a re-look at a question that I had answered a few years ago.

It is wonderful to know of such a possibility....

I was not surprised even, to note that the asker did not pick an answer (it might have even 'meant a sort of commitment to oneself', for that person, probably!)

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Some of here are going to love it, (so I feel!)

Regards,

psn(14^th March, 2013)

Quote:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060920093608AAWaA6D

Question:

This is a strange childhood experience that happened to me, I'm looking for an explanation.?

I will never forget this, I was in first grade eating lunch on the playground (we always ate lunch outside). I looked down at my food for just a moment, and when I looked back up, EVERYONE WAS GONE!! Where there had been kids at every picnic table, everyone was gone, except for a little boy sitting at another table across the playground. He gave me a bewildered look as if he was wondering where everyone went to. I remember being worried that I would get trouble for not being in class, but I got up and walked into class and no one said anything and I never said anything either. This is the strangest thing that has ever happened to me and I have no explanation for it, but I will never forget it.

My answer:

Please try to look at it as new experience, it is not really strange, though it appears to be so !
When you "happen" to step out of 'time' unawares, you are perfectly in awareness, and yet time slips by.... The lunch time was over and everybody left to their respective classes. What seemed like just a moment for you may be the the rest of the lunch time.
To make this happen, people on spiritual path work with great single minded dedication, for perhaps many years !
Since it happened to you a bit unawares, or without your conscious effort, you could neither make anything out of it nor even try it anytime. ONE MORE THING, should have happened that day, the sleep must have come to you a bit late, or at least you would have noticed less of fatigue or extra freshness, vigour, lightness, for the rest of the day.
Even when it happens unawares, the benefits are immense.

Source(s):

Experience.

Are you Normal?

Not a safe question to even look at, when there are yet others around(looking at you, of course)!

The only people who are absolutely normal with this question is those who are at the two extremes of that 'normalcy!!!

Anyway,

I enjoyed looking at the question, yet again, afresh!

(That way, whenever the life-experience gets intense within me, the awareness about the non-verbal, abstracted-concept-form of this question also gets renewed, but de-novo style!).

I did not expect the asker to subscribe to the concept part of the question, which at once looks at the source of it(the question) objectively... but obviously, that might have happened so (my guess), when I look at the pleasant surprise that the patronage inclined towards 'my-say' about it!

(And, I feel a bit fortunate about that 'additonal details' part of the query!... It gave scope to delve into what I had to 'wedge', at the opportunity I got,...... to reach that ....... 'mind-of-the-asker'!!!)

Psn(14^th March, 2013)

quote:

http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130310045756AAe7gnp

Have you ever wondered if you were normal?

What's the standard for normal?

My s/take:

Even for that normal BP (blood pressure), the surgery decided it (till then there was no standard of 'normal BP'),,,
Some kind of comparison is needed to decide the yardstick of normalcy...
Except when the mind becomes alert, calm and least active, not lost in activity, everything else is abnormal!

Faulty error, Erroneous Mistake!

What a caption!

Fault, error, mistake.... interchangeable words with very subtle difference, and seldom taken notice of! That is exactly the fault, error or mistake, when we 'fail' to(adequately) appreciate the language !

I was reminded of an acquaintance of mine, who was usually extra-cautious about the other person 'likely-to-miss' the emphasis.. and so, he used to say, 'Faulty error' and 'erroneous mistake' and things like that when he liked to soften the impact of some failure on his part! I used to repay him with 'extraneous error', just to let him know that not everybody is error-ridden enough, all the time, to miss the strategic advantage that he tried to gain using linguistic gimmicks!

From spiritual point of view, error(and its variables) begins and ends, perhaps with just the perception! Once the perception affords us (the being within), that clarity about such errors (and its cousins), then the choice rests with us, within us.... to do what is needed! The 'abrupt' and striking contrasts that we find in those Zen stories are ample evidences of the attempt to draw the attention of that less-alert-mind, towards such erroneous perceptions of abstract concepts, perpetuated over lifetimes, lifespans,.... whatever...! (And let me give something to un-nerve ourselves, those few of us who might be tempted to look at this proposition as some kind of 'fertile-imagination' of an idle mind.... “The traditional time-tested and well established practices of match-making mandates that horoscopes of a bride and groom have those 'fault-levels' matched appropriately to ensure a 'smooth-quarrel' to last a life time.... the technical names might be, 'paapa-saamya' or 'dosha-saamya'... “ the ancients called dosha or paapa to mean as 'faults', since they were too keen to maintain the awareness that wrong-identification with this gross body is the main fault!)

(Now, is it going to be too much, if we try to see, if our sight is a bit erroneous, when we are trying to pick faults with traditions that have stood the test of time, just because these healthy traditional prescriptions got encased into an erroneous name .... say for example, our own dear Hinduism? ... This is going to be a stupendous task... the vision-correction to 6-by-6 levels, from where ever we are right now!... The word 'correction' is itself not going to find some appeal, for some time! Because the 'correct' levels are not within our perception at all, in the first place, to afford us some kind of comparable parameters!!!... And those that are 'marketed' by gimmicks-men, are huge blocks themselves, to be avoided, not reached!!! These gimmicks-men are holding the fort of spiritual business, and the walls of their fort being our own fault-ridden, erroneous mistakes of remaining stuck to our own ideas about those abstract concepts!)

Do we need any further proof that this stuff might have come out of a 'double fault' failure in my erroneous mind which tried to mis-take the people around?

Erroneously yours,

psn(8^th March, 2013)

To liberate Education from Literacy!

I found myself drenched with joy to find somebody sharing a very 'first-hand' personal experience with teaching, and was able to clearly mention the role of 'trust' in the process of teaching-learning!

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Obviously, such a person has to be also very generous with handing out a permission, 'just-like-that' to reproduce his opinion as a blog!

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Here it is:

(bold fonts, italics, mine...)

quote:

“...Oh! pleasedo create a blog with some of these ideas and discussion about education system. u also in an earlier comment expresed similar opinion. By the way did u see this news-article today 
it implies a practical experiment implying similar adventurousness generating. I do not know at all Sugata Mitra. He seems to be doing very interesting experiment. 
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/nri/us-canada-n ews/NRI-education-pioneer-Dr-Sugata-Mitra-wins-1-m illion-TED-Prize/articleshow/18705008.cms

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unquote:

The above was a response to my humble request thus:

I am almost tempted to copy paste it into a blog, and face the 'consequences'!!!
Now, I pray, I wish, that this string of comments should be preserved !!! (not the negative wish, 'should not be deleted'!!!)... 

The main quote is:

“Yr example is indeed very interesting narayanji and reflects yr insight. I enjoyed this occasional teaching.
There was another interesting aspect I observed. In USA undergraduate teaching is quite regulated in style. Course is almost completely pre-defined, even the book etc. One spends as much time at least in tutoring, helping students as in lecturing. Home work is given and regular quizzes, tests are given. But even in this regulated teaching a trust plays important role. teacher is trusted and also student. I remember a Tamil proverb, which I like very much -to some body climbing a coconut tree u can only help him with support till yr raised hands reach, after that it is the tree and him), I think it is important to also remember this while teaching. Perhaps because of this trust and also because of a general culture of adventure in USA one sees another phenomena often in USA (much more than India - I have confirmed this also with some others ).

Some times some students, there u can see that they do not at all follow method u taught nor what is given in all books, they may not have understood all aspects well but they are strong enough to develop there own methods and give proofs or calculations quite bizarre but quite right over all and logically also quite correct.

I think we have almost removed idea of trust in our education system to generate this kind of adventurous attitude very much needed to learn. We do not trust teacher- exam is set by some body else - nor student - more worries about cheating then actual learning- nor business and industry (who consume these students, we do not take their opinions at all). only people we trust is govt (their set rules have to be followed) and foreigners (course standards and system is set according to usa or european systems etc.)

We did have trust and much more in the past. We thought of teaching then, more as a process of enjoying together with the student and not some giving of knowledge etc. Even if we can bring back this shloka philosophy, which I like very much, and trust it implies, it will bring back a lot in our education system.
ॐ सह नाववतु ।
सह नौ भुनक्तु ।
सह वीर्यं करवावहै ।
तेजस्वि नावधीतमस्तु मा विद्विषावहै ।
ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ॥

Let us pray together to one who protects us both (the Teacher and the Student),
Let us enjoy together nourishment from that one,
Let us enjoy together with energy and vigour,
Let our Studies be enlightening, not giving rise to Hostility,
Om, Peace, Peace, Peace.”

unquote:

(I happened to 'forward' this quote above to a few youngsters, and I received an interesting feedback too!

I am tempted to quote a small portion of one of such feed backs...)

quote:

“While there are always few exceptions, it is true that in this country, honesty and integrity at this level is assumed  to be implicitly present at most places - including education and academics and even in common place activities like restaurants and grocery shops. After all this while, I'm not going to attribute blame on the the system or people in India for having developed a sense of mistrust with everyone and everything around them. I do not find it surprising that dishonesty is prevalent in India given the extent of competition for anything and everything, right down to survival. Right from groceries to earning a livelihood is extremely competitive, where only the fittest survive. When driven to a corner, it is instinctive to seek self-preservation by dropping honesty, trust and integrity. 

To quote an example from the above post, it is natural for a student to cheat in exams if he knows that his chances of survival are minimal if he doesn't do well in an exam. While in US (just to quote a country for concreteness), a student knows he will live and quite comfortably too without having to pass that examination. For most of us, the instinct of self-preservation has become a habit that we don't realize that we are often even dishonest with ourselves. Unfortunately, this is very common in teachers/professors/educators/philosophers in India. I find it often that I see someone making incorrect claims of knowledge on something, just driven by this instinct of self-preservation. It is even more painful to see that the aspect of self-retrospection is very low in most people. The fear that you'd find yourself lacking and thereby become useless or face imminent extinction in the competition, has made honest analysis of oneself almost impossible. 

Looking back at my earlier school days, I have been driven by the competition factor to say : 'Yes, I understand this' and 'I can/ should be able do this', when in reality, I have no clue on what is going on. So much so, that it is an everyday struggle for me now to come out honest with myself and say "I do not understand this" or "I am not doing this right" or "I can do this better". I knew I don't have to fight for my food, and therefore in my case, it became a habit at a level where I had to face competition. For example, beating the system for scoring high marks was a necessity for beating competition then. I'm realizing that it is happening even now, at a different level, without my awareness though - but that is really not any excuse to be dishonest.

If I find that with all insulation, protection and opportunities around me, I'm finding it hard to be honest within myself, I really do not find it surprising that honesty and trust is rare in India where day-to-day survival is a big chance for most people.  Since you had explicitly sent this note to me, and because I see students all around me all the time, and being a student myself - I think I had ventured my opinion here. Actually, no. I'm just writing this as a reminder for myself to be aware of my habit.”

unquote:

Source:

1. A very precious contributor to the rare kind of website : http://www.speakingtree.in/public/soumyasrajan
2. Comments at: http://www.speakingtree.in/public/spiritual-blogs/seekers/science-of-spirituality/attentiveness-alertness-acceptance-and-awareness
3. Feed back source: A very personal and closely associated youngster, through our personal emails.

psn (5^th March, 2013)

Attentiveness, Alertness, Acceptance and Awareness

Just these four happening at an enhanced level, and simultaneously, helps spiritual evolvement...

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Does not matter whether it happens by chance or by the efforts of a proper guide...

The rest of it is already there, without any need to 'happen' afresh!

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I try to see at what level, we can make a beginning for these four ...

Attentiveness—the sensory levels of perception its receptivity kept sharp.

Alertness—the domain of the mind, its activity kept subdued to the possible extent.

Acceptance—the fusion of body, mind and breath, and its extension, running into deeper levels of recognition of interdependence with everything, everybody, at experiential levels.

Awareness—the 'being' within, being allowed to 'be-a-witness' by the subdued self, the ego, resting and relaxing for a while...

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Teachers look out for such rare occurrences, in that disciple...

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Trust levels enhance these four to be present at greater intensity!

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We use the expression, 'the cat is now out of the bag!'... but this time, the bag is already within a much larger bag(mind is expandable, like that 'Pushpaka-Vimana' of Ramayana story), with 'no where to go' for the cat... so, it would be very interesting to see what we are going to

'make-out-of-it'!

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Regards,

psn(20^th February, 2013)

Concepts and Beyond!

The concept formation finds its source in the self-awareness, when it manifests as a mind... a thought-process....

When concepts influence us... and it does too... invariably... when it does, the problems that are seemingly irreversible, is what intrigues us most!

The most fascinating problem is about the desire to remember our own dear true self!!!

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For a long time, I was hesitant to reproduce the answer given by me to a question on another forum... The essential part of the answer, as also the question was an interesting talk! I had the needless apprehension about being misconstrued to be an 'advertiser' for yet another 'ism'... Not really true!

Now , I am tempted afresh... to put this to you... and this time, I decided to go-ahead and tell it.. the issue, the topic is too precious for any unfounded apprehensions to hold me back!

Regards,

psn(13^th February, 2013)

The question, its link, answer etc...

(Please do try and listen to the talk on that 'youtube'.. link within the question)

http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101110072902AApaI7G

Is my desire to remember my true self just a concept of my mind?

Why do I feel like I have to dig deep to remember who I am if on the deepest level I never forgot?

This video really resonates on a deeeeeeep level:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niZLWHY5O…

if you don't have the patience to watch it all skip to around 7:00, but it is an awesome video so in my opinion it is all worth watching :)

Additional Details

lol...I am so confused though! :)

2 years ago

The video is:
"Assimilated into The Collective Delusion & The Imagined Journey Out ~ Mooji"
posted by Awakening Bridge

2 years ago

LOL I am absolutely torn between two answers. I am going to have to put this one to a vote.

Thank you all for your beautiful answers and willingness to share your point of view. Love and blessings!

2 years ago

Before I put this to a vote I must say that I am realizing the importance of being in the moment now. Because that IS where my true self resides. It currently is still hard for me, but I am going to keep on working on my meditation practice. Thank you.

My answer:

The problem is because of the very nature of that "true self".
We could give an indicative example. We cannot stretch the example too much, and too logically, because we are trying to compare something that is too subtle and intangible.
The example: Suppose we are in a closed room, totally dark, with only a torch with battery cells to illuminate. We can see every object in that room, except the 'make' of the two battery cells , which give the power to the bulb in that torch! The moment we open the rear end of the battery and take out those cells, the light is gone!

Something like that! The "desire" belongs to the mind. "to remember" also belongs to the mind. "concept" is formed or grasped only by a mind.
The mind operates from the power given by the 'true self'. This true self is a sort of 'pure witness'. When we slip into that mode of true self, we become 'awareness' itself! It cannot be captured as an image, vision, picture, etc to be stored in our mind's memory. Please see, everything that we know and remember is an "input" through sense organs, or sensory level of perception. Later our mind analyzes and forms a concept. For example, a child can be easily made to know a stool, bench, desk, chair, etc. It takes time to make that child learn that "furniture" is the name for the family of such items!
We are rooted in our body most of the time (we experience that "I am the body", especially when there is a deep pain or injury.)
Other times, we are rooted in our mind (we experience great joy, and "miss" to notice the pain sensation caused by a mosquito bite!)
Some times, we even talk of "my body" and "my mind" (now,..... here,... we have just a feeling of that "my" but no tangible form or an image to hold on to! Even this "my mind" is mostly a delusion, since it could be one part of the mind observing and witnessing the other part or other emotive aspect!)
This "true self" is at much deeper level than any "mind" can ever imagine. That is why spirituality is such a mystic affair! It is popularly known as 'pathless-path'. It calls for perception deeper than the perceptional levels! Pure experience of "true self" is not available as a thought at all!

It feels wonderful, to see such deep questions!

Inter-Viewed perception

When somebody asked about perception, the stupid, over-ambitious sly-eyed part of me, inside me jumped out of excitement .... 'hurrah'... here is somebody keen to know and we can share what we know.... spiritual aspect of perception..... (This joy did not last more than a few moments! The navigational dexterity, in reaching & looking at the 'details' of the query, acquired over.... over-half-a-decade, took the lead to demolish this joy, when it became clear that it was just about materialistic perception, about which the clarity was sought... and that too.... the seeking was by people who insisted on “inter—view” not just own view, or the view of others which could have a potential of becoming 'my-view'!)...

So, I proceeded to tone down the precept of perception to that extent, hoping that it might eventually 'pave the way' towards this one, which is .... at once my friend and enemy!

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There were other answers, which were perhaps far better, and of wider acceptance, especially the one, quoted out of works from 'father of objectivism' , though it was a lady! (a matter of perception ... you see....!!!)! I am myself a great fan of that theory, and no doubt, its author too!

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precepts persists only due to perception, perhaps.

psn(27^th January, 2013)

quote:

http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130118125925AAhKsEK

What is perception? Please Kindly explain in detail and with examples.?

(Details of query):

What is perception and how it is related to organizational behavior?

My friends were given this topic in an interview and was asked to write something about it as essay. They told me that they are giving same topic to everyone right now. So am planning to go for interview. If this topic comes up I need to write it and for that I need to understand it....

I have googled but in most of the site incl. wikipedia they have used difficult words and statements so its difficult to understand.. So I want people's views on this topic

Inter-view Answer :

People who have organised the interview,
are aware that candidates are going to 'prepare' well, using google, copy/paste etc...
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They are seriously interested in finding candidates who have deeper levels of perception, and thus, they also "know" perception in-depth... out of experience (experience is not job-experience... such skills are vouched by documents, no need for an 'interview' to test it..)... experience is 'life-experience'... When a human being is recruited, interpersonal skills are of great importance, because they (the hirers/recruiters) are trying to find out how well the candidate is going to be flexible, less resistant to productivity, very good at 'team-spirit', etc... For all this, tutoring on a day-to-day basis, is simply not practical... A resourceful candidate is going to be an asset.... Resourcefulness is directly relative/proportional to "PERCEPTION" capabilities... That is what they like to know... (If they are good at this skill themselves, they can 'smell' genuine, first hand knowledge about perception from the very body language, though the verbally spelt out answer might be a 'copy-paste'!!!
Best wishes.