Am I dreaming?

 Am I dreaming?

(third blog of the day🙏😥... couldn't think of losing this funny thought!)

I am not going to ask you whether you get a question "like 'am I dreaming?' while you are also inside your dream" (needless embarrassment).

Instead, what if I ask you "were you ever aware that you were BREATHING, while inside your dream?" This question might make better sense 😔. We can work out the possibilities using Logic 😉.... Dream is possible only during_sleep. And when asleep, our sense organs get withdrawn👍.... Breath awareness is dependent on sensory level of perception only!

De-addiction centers

When nothing else seems to work, the psychiatrists there suggest "meditation" for de-addiction. But if my blogs seem to cause any possible 'addiction'....   please try verifying with a psychiatrist, who can answer without charging any fees 😊( because, my own view is my blogs can cause only de-addiction of the mind, and any de-addiction is related only via/through a mind only!)

Breathing

We are alive only due to the fact that we are breathing (obviating even breath is indeed a 'capability' a siddhi, possible  through the desi Yogic practices, but somebody who is adept at being alive without needing to breathe, doesn't bother to read my blogs, except for pure-fun!).
Is not breathing a non-commercial activity? And, it is 'the' most important activity of our life. Unfortunately, our mind refuses to make it into a habit, to be aware of our breath 😉. Try as much as you like👍.... breath awareness isn't going to oblige us in becoming a habit! In fact, mind does everything possible, all-the-time, whenever we try to maintain the awareness that we are breathing, to divert our attention 😭
Are we not denying ourselves the opporChutney to get de-addicted from commercializing our mind, when we argue "why the hell should I try to become aware of my breath???" 
Breathing is the most vital activity in our life,
Breath is a 24/7 activity that is 100% non-commercial. (No need to 'want/desire/etc' to breathe for any exclusive  commercial greed/gain/benefit/selfishness/etc. We rush to a doctor when we gasp for breath becasuse some other greed or desire wants us to live😉. When a baby is breathless, it simply struggles, it does not 'request' for help!).  We can (if interested) use a thought like "I am never idle. I am contributing towards life to happen on this planet, when I am exhaling. Plants need my exhalation to live. I am immensely grateful to the greenery around for the oxygen they exhale, and I need it inevitably to live".  (Breath awareness has much higher potentials, than we can imagine, using a 'mind' 😇... but that is for a 'seeker' to know about it).

dreamily yours,
psn(28th Feb, 2026)

 

 

Gratitude and commitment at its BEST for ever

 Gratitude and commitment at its BEST for ever

This narrative is purely from an epic story 🙏

Impossible to prove that it really happened 🙏

But, if and only if, a mind can afford to deepen its perception to delve into the Symbolism embedded in it, a concept related to cosmic laws ( sanatan dharma) will manifest ‘scientifically’. ( Unfortunately for a modern mind, the entire bulk of Hindu_literature is loaded with heavy symbolism 😭. Exactly why, the incompetent minds become self_styled propounders of Hindu spirituality, and end up desecrating its values!)

The story:

Highest ever gratitude: Shiva says to Dadhichi, a rishi :”dear Dadhichi, you saved me the embarrassment of ‘asking' you for something which shall henceforth be known as the highest sacrifice ever, when you gave it to me voluntarily”.( The item was a crucial component for Vajraayudha, a sophisticated missile 🙂)

Not stopping with this expression of unprecedented gratitude, Shiva proceeded to display his Unprecedented Commitment 🙏.

Highest ever commitment: Shiva personally says to Mrs Dadhichi “Henceforth, Madam…you are my personal responsibility” ( no delegating or outsourcing to other Gods, who are OMNIPOTENT likewise 🙏)

Humbly yours,

psn(28 Feb, 2026)

Postscript:  this way of viewing these two sequential incidents continue to inspire me to ‘try’ gratitude & commitment to my_humble and diminutively meagre best🙏

Commercialization of mind

 Commercialization of mind

Do we not wonder ‘what is happening with we_humans?’ Where are we heading to?

Nah!!!   We “think” we are wondering. But in reality, we stopped “wondering” ( as a quality in us) at the kid age itself. Parenting has ‘become' (got reduced into) teaching logical skills to the kids in exclusivity of emotional skills. Wondering is an emotional skill! 

A.I. The robot doesn't ‘wonder’. Logical ‘values’ are precise, and can at best only keep asking questions.  Wondering includes asking, but asking is not wondering🙏

So, we ‘ask’ what is happening with us?(Logic allows asking. Only emotional skill can afford “vismaya”/wondering. )

Asking doesn't bother to ‘wait' for a sensible answer. Illogical to ‘wait' without defining ‘how long’?

When emotions(positive) peak, needs are fewer! Test it by yourselves 🙏. When we are too_happy, we are not too fussy about comforts, not even needs like mild_hunger, and we say “it's okay 👍…I am floating in joy(actually, happiness, not joy😜)

Negative emotions are the nutrients and nourishment, for the enslaving-logic,  to dictate our lives. ( Positive emotions are inclusive, whereas negative emotions tend to be divisive).  Logic divides and only thereafter it can ‘calculate’ using addition, multiplication, comparison, and Excel in Hedging_funds, future profits 😜

That's how we became commercialized. 🤣🤣🤣. 

There is hardly any commercial interest in re-acquiring positive emotions 😥 😭. Without skills and potential in positive emotions, how can we experience joyousness?  Happiness is when a mind feels a match between desires and the situation. Mismatch ‘used’ to just disappoint. Today mismatch is capable of stress/hypertension and such big things 🤣👍👍

Are we not improving our commercialized minds????( A question, not that I wonder🙏)

We market instead of bartering, selling or trading. ( Advantage is, we can create a “market” for anything & anywhere.  Vote-bank, fake_spirituality, a market for newer and created diseases/corona/covid-19…. etc…just anything that we can think of👍. To hell with trust👍)

Marketing strategy has evolved.

From providing the 'basic needs' (thousand years ago)

It improvised to 'creating' a need (cleverness, but still a small amount of honesty is left), hundred years ago 

Next, it shifted to creating a "Dependency" . Here, honesty had_to_be abandoned 🙏😢

We depend on anything we buy, use, see for the first time even 🙏🤣

Mobile handset is not working (missing, stolen), see what happens to my_mind? My sorrow at a condolence meeting turns into a worry, occupied by tension 😜

Switch off the electric supply for 4 plus hours, and a surgical strike via sky is a success (radars are out into deep coma, and batteries are not recharged.)

Human intellect struggles for nominal recognition when evaluation is outsourced to A.I. enabled robots to give marks in University 😜. 

It's okay 👍.  Whatever seems to work! Logic 🙏 ( Don't complain about growing psychological disorders, breaking down of relationships, depletion of emotional happiness…. Forget ‘joy’.)

Cosmic laws are infallible. Divided fragments of ‘one’ will eventually collide mutually to merge into the blackhole (shiva_tatva, nothingness. 😜). The few fragments which escape will joyously wait, for eternity! When we “become” a pure joy, eternity is eternally this_moment_only🙏👍. No logic can make me understand this. I can only trust.

Non-commercially yours,

psn(28 Feb, 2026)

Open secret of Joint Family

 Open secret of Joint Family

Somehow, I feel   usually emphatic about this blog.
I feel like 'not to bother about any concurrence from any reader'. Not an ideal thought. Not a healthy sign for a blogger 😓

But, I am genuinely receptive to any well considered disagreement with my views, to ensure that I keep my learning curve vertical, not horizontally flat alongside aging 😜


Reverence towards well-deserved-Elderliness (not related to age) was the only factor that sustained a Large family.
We coined the word "Joint" family, only when families broke/shrunk. Otherwise, the "Large" had a wider scope of inclusiveness without bounds 🤣Not just a joint-family within blood-relatives. Almost any reverential person around was considered+treated as a part of one's own family! 

My personal experience:  In 1967, a huge number of uninvited villagers congregated themselves at a private ritual conducted for-me. The formal invitees were less than 20% . The ritual itself, (I realised only-decades later,) is supposed to be the most important one in my life! But the by-product was of no lesser significance, in as much as that, it opened my eyes to a mega manifestation/display of 'what a Large family used to 'look like'(not exactly "was") in the ancient days !!!!"  The body language of the elders of the village looked like 'they were all a part of my/our household itself'. Their activities assumed an air of "we are privileged to do our part in this ritual". Much to the surprise(and a little disappointment too) of the 'elders in our family', my dad ordered me to present the token-fee of Rs5/- to the entire gang of local musicians who rendered a highly-charged emotional performance on their musical instruments(mind you, quite un-solicited) for an hour during the auspicious chant-hours.  I cheerfully obeyed my dad's instructions, in prostrating fully before the chief musician, before submitting the 5 rupee note with the traditional betel leaves and areca nut. That man was in tears of gratitude at this unexpected display of reverence from a freshly initiated-lad of just 13 !

I realised experientially, the distinction between eastern(Bharat) culture and western(modern) culture. Ours 'was' a reverential culture. Theirs 'is' a freedom culture. We have adopted theirs, forsaking ours. Reverence, obviates the need to look for freedom and independence. From a distance, reverence and slavery 'look-alike' 😉 Can't help!

Emphatically yours,
psn(26 Feb, 2026)

Merit and competence

 

Merit and competence

One of the few pairs of words about which, we seem to have clarity about their distinction, and yet we miss the distinction during its application.

“I do not know what merits I had earned, in my past life, to deserve so much of love/comforts/wealth/prosperity/etc, in this life time !” A few humble souls express thus, when they feel gratitude for something they received, without working for it. The choice of word is ‘merit’ and not competence. So, merit is earned from others, where as competence is acquired, at the minimal requirement level.

A very meritorious youth, with a gold medal in academics, meets disappointment when he himself discovers that he lacks competence to handle a routine situation at the workplace, which is so-effortlessly handled by a fellow who got the same qualification with barely just-pass-marks. Merit was ‘official recognition’ accorded by competent authorities in the academia!!! Then, what went wrong??? Probably, the criteria for ‘merit’ lacked something that missed to ensure a minimal competence required at the workplace, where the work is related to the same professional qualification. (we are not trying to plug loopholes in our ‘system’ here. We are merely trying to attempt a ‘clarity’ between the two, which will help us to function better in our routine life personally and individually).

In rare few professions, where competence is crucial to survival, we are clever to ensure competence. For instance, in armed forces, even a barber, a sweeper, or a driver, needs some basic training to handle a simple rifle or a gun, at least to save himself, when he becomes the sole survivor of an infiltrated attack by the soldiers from the other side. Minimum competence is ensured. Merit is when a soldier gets decorated with war medals, for a performance far exceeding the highest levels of ‘competence’ expected from a soldier. A doctor, given a job, without adequate competence, ends up granting ‘moksha’ to more number of patients than his meritorious counterpart, but only in the form of a clinical death, and nothing to do with the ‘spirit’. We need to re-calibrate our norms while diluting the levels of competence for certain jobs, in our laws!

Ability or capability is just a potential which could be latent and untapped as yet. Competence is often evaluated by a parameter/yardstick, when incompetence is likely to cause any disruption to any routine affecting any person/s. That is why the ‘competence’ gets stripped off during the period of ‘suspension’ of a Cop! His abilities/capabilities remain intact. But competence to deploy it is denied by the civilian norms.

I was wondering about these terms ‘competence’ and ‘merit’ in relation to my personal and private arena of pursuit. Spirituality !
A story, I heard.... Once, Aadi Shankara told his disciples “assemble for an important lesson today”. Every disciple eagerly made it to the classroom, excitedly waiting for that ‘important’ lesson. But the teacher, AadiShankara, seemed to be still waiting for ‘somebody’. Everybody grew curious! Who is he waiting for? We all are here. Nobody is missing. Then whom-for is he waiting ? Then suddenly, looking out of the small window, a lad appeared, picking a few flowers for the next worship/Puja, from the front-yard a little away. Shankara kept looking at that flower-picker. One of the disciples remarked to the teacher “Sir, he is just an idiot meant to be used to do only odd jobs like picking flowers, sweeping, cleaning, fetching water etc. Why wait for him? He isn’t capable of understanding the lessons taught to us. Incompetent. (and so on)” But Shankara shot a side glance at that humble lad, with a spiritual war-head mounted on that ‘glance’. At once that lad ‘attained’ a coveted state of lighting_up of his intellect, and he started singing a praise for his Guru, (famous verse ‘thotaka-Ashtakam’ I guess), and prostrated to his Guru, Aadi Shankara with deep gratitude and reverence ! Merits of that lad’s past life was accorded due recognition by the Guru, and the parameters of ability, capacity, or competence was bypassed by the guru, in granting a spiritual attainment. (I have a personal experience of having performed a spiritual practice, without any prior practice!.  I fetched the first levels of results the very first day!. Traditionally, this practice is said to require some 22 years, including a whole set of other rigorous practices, as a preparation for this one. A combo of 2 mudras, and 1 kriya! This experience compelled me to concede that there is indeed a past life, and even a carry-forwards of its merits, by the spirit, waiting for a 'mind' to utilise it at the physical and material level of this world . I would therefore recommend to await an experience without blindly conceding or negating the theory about any past/future lives!)

Incompetence, inabiltiy, disability, incapacitatedness, etc had no relevance for spiritual evolvement. These qualities are relevant only for material world. Yet, these very qualities, if put to use by us to the best of our abilities, would fetch us a ‘merit’ enough to deserve the highest human possibility, which is a spiritual attainment. To me, it appears, that there are not water-tight compartments between these distinct words. Doing my very best, always, leads me quite naturally, climbing on the ladder of heirarchy, towards the highest merits. Maybe over a few lifetimes!

Incompetently yours,

psn(26 Feb, 2026)

Serious Fun

 A viral video clip.

A joke, using most popular questions asked to celebrities!

I too forwarded it, being amazed by the answers, because I too had ‘evaded’ these questions thrust on to me by ‘elders,’ with their ‘preachy_stuff’ 😜

Teach the ‘basics’ of ‘life_itself’ to a kid and he won't need these fanciful things like “big dream, big problems, big secrets, big plans, best hobbies, and most importantly a  “thought” for motivation” 😜😜😜

( Do I need these, to “live” sensibly? Intellect is far more powerful than a dream, problem, secret_gimmick, future plan, stupid hobby, or getting stuck into a ‘thought’ in the name of “motivating thoughts”.  Humans are ‘endowed’ with a huge potential to stay at the peak levels of intellect 🙏. Our epic story of krishna, in Mahabharat, shows how a Yogi like krishna goes through all kinds of situations in life, and yet stays untouched by any of those! His advice, the Song_Divine, bhagavadgita, is enough to reach the highest human POSSIBILITY 🙏. )

The joke:

1).what's your BIGGEST dream?

Answer: my biggest dream is to dream big

2).What's your biggest problem?

Answer: my biggest problem is to know what's my problem 

3)what is the secret of  success?

Answer: secret of success is a big secret 

4)do you have a specific future plan?

Answer: my future plan is to plan my future 

5)What is your favourite hobby?

Answer: my favourite hobby is to decide my hobby!

6) what do you do to stay motivated?

Answer : I motivate myself to stay motivated 

My response to this joke: 

It was for "fun".

Apparently, it looks like, he is missing his priorities, in trying to hoodwink the very tools/aids/questions which helps a person to set the priorities right.

But inadvertently, his answers seem to sync with the basics of spirituality 😜

Look again and see where it would take him if he seriously implemented his replies 🤣

( I never got caught up with any of these questions asked to this fellow 😜. Yet, I think I didn't miss the priorities either👍)

Blankly yours,

psn (25 Feb, 2026)

Paa into paa

 Paa into paa

A classroom joke in my school days 🙏😂

“Paa into paa” the teacher was dictating the “principle” in physics 😓

Desi kids 🙏

Not familiar with phoren accent, not Equipped with the ‘embedded’ software as an interface to decrypt the accent and Reach the correct word “power” 😭

A kid thought ‘aloud’ by mistake 😓

He uttered “ paa into paa????”( his TONE was conveying his ‘bewilderment’ 🙏🥵)

Teacher “😡😡😡😡”( stern look, with a perceptible pause in her dictaShun! 

We all laughed. Teacher now angry square (anger²).

Physics….. fulcrum…..

“Power X powerArm = Load X loadArm” that's all 🙏

Galileo: “give me a fulcrum long enough, and I shall LIFT the Warald/world👍” ( figuratively an example to afford easy_learning of Concept involved 😓.  “Power required to lift a load, on a fulcrum is INVERSELY proportional to the length of the power arm.”( interpretation of laaa/law)!

That teacher was ‘highly’ kwaliFied, compared to several other aged ones. Ironically, we kids had a better reason to revere those humbal/humble elders a bit more😓( buzurGee/elderliNess). That, was the bone of contention 🙏

Jocularly yours,

psn(24 Feb, 2026)

How we Misconstrue

 Even what I propose to narrate hereinafter maybe my own mis-construed grasp 😜

Only certain "abstract concepts" can be classified as bug_free ( construed correctly)

Looking at my life thus_far, I feel that I was unduly fortunate, in progressing so well on the spiritual path( to whatever extent I managed).

Such progress is vulnerable to misconstruing that others too should have found such progress to be easy 😳

Then, the karma theory rescued me 🙏 ( I might have slogged in my far past 😓, and am just lucky that I didn't fritter away the advantage)

It's like this 

NASA has managed building a huge enclosure with "zero gravity" inside, for training purposes. Suppose I am a tiny ant, trapped inside it, with  thinking-abilities like we humans 😜....  Am I not going to misconstrue, looking through the glass window of that cubicle, and wonder 🤔 " why are the humans and even ants etc like me struggling to 'move about'???". I have no idea that I am enjoying zero_gravity, being born and brought up inside this lab( with zero gravity). I am able to move, fly etc effortlessly. Others, outside the glass_window, I can see struggling to even walk 😳.  I don't know what zero-gravity is, because I wasn't exposed to 'gravity' 😜.

Lesson for me = never take ("easy"/for granted,)things to be easy/taken lightly . Human birth is a great blessing! I managed to overtake millions of sperms racing against me, to reach my mom's womb, to get the first+only_prize of a human body 🙏. Make the most out of it, in the tiny speck of time(relative to the life span of this universe), allotted to me 🙏

Gratefully yours, 

psn(23rd Feb, 2026)

The_why, of my_roots!

 A controversial re-discovery, that I hail from a lineage of traditional beggars 😜🙏

Therefore, I would rather try to confine this blog to a narrative of FIRST_person narrative only ( me, mine, I myself, pertains to only_me…etc 🙏).

Rituals, traditions and practices that happened with me, like anyone born into the cluster of human samples that I be’long into, raised serious doubts in ME_only.

After a huge pomp & show, I was initiated into the greatest maantric_chant, called ‘Gayatri’ . The irony was, I discovered to my utter surprise that whenEver I try to chant this, after a preceding INVOCATIONAL chants, it is no more a mantra😂. It assumes a much higher ‘form’( evidence is glaringly available right_within that invocation_chant, but…. today's high_speed mind has ‘no_time’ to bother about such trivial matters🙏😜😜).

What baffled me was….

The first thing I was asked to ‘do’ immediately after the-most auspicious occasion of my life ( dwija_fication) was, to_beg_for_my_food 😳  (a humiliation, which escaped the ‘notice' even….owing to the photo_sessions during it, and the abandonment of this huge ‘lesson’ soon after the show_bijness is over👍. Back to normal egoistic composture 🙏).

In the ancient days, that_begging was realistic!!!  Not to be abandoned like today👍

Why did the most literate, most intelligent, most self_disciplined fellows in a society have_to_BEG for food???(The fuel for seeking an answer to this strange doubt was….. this damn practice sustained for thousands of years 😳. Several generations cannot be stupid enough to perpetuate an idiosyncrasy 😜).

It took decades for me to re-discover 🙏.

How else do I retain in my surface level awareness, of the deep interdependence I am bonded into with everything and everyone around??? 

How to be damn sure of the interdependence?( Tougher question)

How to make this ‘idea’ into a sustainable thing( ideas can be reversed, forgotten, opaqued, obliterated etc)

A stable living experience of the VERY root of this deepest level of interdependence 🙏 is_a_must👍, therefore!!!

Not an easy task, I was to discover, during this journey on a “pathless_path” (spirituality! Yes, even logically, the ‘thing’ that is ‘ticking’ in this piece of flesh_called_me, is the spirit within 😳, by whatever name 🙏. Spirit—->spirituality.).

Then it dawned on me.

The 4 MahaVakyas 😜 

Declaratory truths!

Accept it or throw it away 👍… the truth isn't dependent on my subscription, patronage, acceptance etc! ( I can be_with that truth, or deny myself the bliss, and suffer a hell created by my own negation of these truths, for innumerable lifetimes 😜).

Until the experience of the first truth gets STABILISED, after its first peek look/glimpse that ‘it’ reveals into me, inside me, within me…how else can I pursue for its Experiential_permanence,  except by using the simplest tool? That tool is simple but not easy🙏. Begging 😜. It keeps reminding me in_real_time, that I am interdependent with this Universe😔( Vasudaiva kutumbakam). I give my everything in return for that one_meal, every time I am ‘genuinely’ hungry😜. (Everything includes the_most precious of my possessions. Why ‘google_search’ with too many possessions? Just my brain_power will do👍🙏. Possess nothing! Beg for food.)

The best plus point is….. when I need to ‘beg’ even for food, I don't need any conscious effort to avoid ego! Humility is an INEVITABLE consequence, an incidental by_product( like cow_dung is a by product and a medicine, manure etc, when cow’s milk is the main purpose of rearing it🙏). Reverence from others around was ‘natural’ when they can “see” that this beggar(me) is begging only for his_food, whereas we beg for everything else from_him!!!!

Today, begging is a COGNIZABLE offence 🙏. So, I need to sophisticate it in order to make it inconspicous 😜, not to gain fame from sophistication 🤣.  That's another complication forced upon me due to today's social norms🙏. It makes my task more thrilling, like a ‘HURDLE’ race! Keep jumping over the damn hurdle, and yet run fast!!!

Anyway, I am now more_or_less settled into what I want to do for the rest of my life👍… Choicelessness is the only_freedom!(A tool, for solving the puzzle of Enlightenment 😜. My blog “the most prized question” might convince a reader, as to how deeply puzzling is this enlightenment bijness😔. A NASA scientist, with degrees running into 2 lines of alphabets, had asked it on Yahoo answers forum. That forum is gone. But I captured that awesome question into my blog🙏).

A beggar, yours,

psn(23 Feb, 2026).

Disclaimer:  any reference to any person living or dead, is unintentional, and irrelevant. I am the sole recipient of any hurt, injury( both are very different 😜) though caused by me🙏

A Yardstick to measure my_tolerance

 A Yardstick to measure my_tolerance levels.

( if it seems to be of …..‘a likely to be useful one' ….I can feel rewarded🙏)

A chance occurred for me to meet my school classmates, I missed meeting them  since 1969-70.

Obviously, I started wondering! 

We were kids from 5 years of age to 15/16.

We were ignorant of our innocence too 🤣( though it worked too well, to tolerate the eccentricities(नखरे) of each other 🙏)

Now, the distance between the other two points of two straight lines touching each other at one of its points ( an angle, we say in geometry) was small when we two were small straight lines 🤣. Now we elongated in 56 years to the extent that the open ends are far away from each other. The meeting point was in kindergarten only 🙏

1)Will I be able to transcend ( or at least keep aside for a little while) my_own_eccentricities when I meet them?

2)will their expanded/magnified eccentricities prevent them from tolerating “me”? Perhaps they use the memory of my_kid_age image they carried for 56 years and would have concluded “I was constrained to tolerate this fellow, since I was a kid, and couldn't get rid of him. But now I can decide for myself. Intolerance, by itself, towards this wretch is not a Cognizable Offence👍”

I can only try to become amenable to others. Keeping my eccentricities ( negative emotions) under control, so as to avoid causing a ‘needless’ inconvenience to my school mate🙏. 

I tried to conceptualise it. 

If I can manage to become a kid yet again, despite the emergence out of my ignorance ( of kid age), and find my friends tolerating me even now,  I am doing well, proportionately! ( Eccentricities multiply by itself. Tolerance is never a default_habit, though the attributes to any amenable person ‘seems’ to be his_habit 😜.  Just loosen a few nuts and bolts inside the ‘head’ of Mr Amenable, and we get to see a giant volcano which was sleeping for years!😜.

I also kept in my mind, “meeting old schoolmates is precious because it is a non-commercial, emotional and unconditional occasion to re-live the innocence of our kid_age, and hence, it is enough for me to stay within acceptable level of civilised social norms, and not bother about any_possible ego_problems crept into any others”

A useful Yardstick for measuring myself 🙏. I am not under any external constraints to tolerate the ‘other’ 👍.  And my tolerance is exclusive of how I handle the outside situation ( namely an old mate).

Of course, if I get stabilized in my emotions, to that extent, I obviate dependence on any Yardstick 😜

Tolerably yours,

psn(18 Feb 2026)

Post script:

A joke( but real)

School mates of LKG are like 'lab conditions' ( innocent kids).

About 8 years ago, the daughter of my niece lamented "my mother-in-law is so difficult to be satisfied 😓... However hard I try, she points out some non-existent error in my house keeping!"( She is a good girl, quite amenable, hardworking and non-complaining. With her husband, she is very happy! Kids well groomed)

I asked : "your husband's very close friend is your neighbour, isn't it?"

She :"of course! They are neighbours because of friendship, not due to convenience 😳"

Me: "that friend's mom.... Complaints about her bahu?( d-in-law)"

She:" yes! Always. But she likes me very much! So tells me everything 😂"

Me :" okay! Now tell me, does your mother in law like that friend's wife?"

She : " oh yes!  Very much! My mom-in-law even tells that girl against me😓"

Me:" do you not see the root of the problem? The 'role' assigned to those 2 elderly women? ... They are supposed to play 'villain/vamp' to their own bahu😜(d-in-law)!...  So nothing wrong with any of the 4 ladies. The neighbour's mom likes you. Your m-in-law likes the friend's wife. Good friends!"

She :" oh God! 🥵... Never occurred to me 🙏. Right 👍"

Me:"just enjoy the rebukes! Only filter out the genuine criticisms, rectify with deep gratitude. Inwardly applaud the 'role'! Not easy to play a villain role so well, that too in real life!"

( Now that old lady is no more. But fewer bickerings thereafter 😜)

Care of oldie parents

 A few messages are viral. Cooked up stories of "busy, rich, migrated " children realising that they missed to "give back the care, love and affection" to their parents. The "timing" of realisation is dramatised...... "funeral"...😜🙏

Indeed a few adult children do_get_moved, and might even resolve to "make-amends" ( or whatever). But such emotions aren't going to last 😂.

I thought, let me "risk" a disrepute ( inviting criticism) from most ones around, especially oldies 😜🙏....but, I seek consolation in having 'tried' to revive the lost glory of ancient desi tradition.

I copy paste my reply I tried to 'compose'in reply to that 'forward. I changed my mind and decided to blog it, without sugar coating it 🙏

Most probably just a fictional story. ( That viral story) 

Our ancients NEVER subscribed to such emotions ( seeking or persuading gratitude from children 😂).

This, ...if I speak aloud today, I would only invite disrepute unto myself 🙏😜

Vaanaprastha is the easiest evidence.

Strongest evidence is, even today, no animal, bird, etc 'takes care of its aged parents'. Not in the 'scheme' of things.

Reverence towards elders got replaced with taking care of physical infirmities in aged 'fools'. An act of empathy, deterioration into sympathy. Over a period of time, sympathy became a 'right' in the corrupt minds of aged fools, like we got used to 'freebies' from govt as a right, not ex-gratia 😂.

Now, the assertiveness nurtured an ill will, and paved the way for "old age homes"🙏😜

Being in a particular way, deserving it due to being_so, and getting the due therefore (care, respect being incidental to Reverence 🙏)

Got reversed .

Wanting a payback for emotional love, demanding it as a right,  as a return for investment..... fetched only 'materialistic_compensation' since Reverence & love cannot be mandated by enactment 😜

Honestly yours,

psn(21 Feb 2026)

Postscript Punch : Think/visualise oneself to be deserving "Reverence '.... Care, respectfully is during lifetime & seeking of blessings will be during shraadha_ceremoney for a 100% experiential reason 😜( if visualising seems to convince, then strive to deserve Reverence. By-product do not work as the main purpose of a factory 😜

Our cache memory

 🤣

Suppose I happen to write something that looks like "yep! Worth using this piece of suggestion 👍"

After 5 years, if I repeat this again you will appreciate+ forget it again ( what we felt as 'yes! It's so true' 😜

And, of late, preachy stuff is causing indigestion, nausea and we even vomit, by "forwarding" 😜( CopyPaste & forward is serving the purpose of "ah! I got rid of it 👍....now I can forget it")

At a 13 day yoga program, the teacher delivered 'lecture' for 2 hours daily. Each word was designed very carefully, sequenced like a software meant to last a lifetime, and bug free🙏. Participants forgot it the very-next-day,  by replacing it with that-day's fresh stuff.  (After 6 months, I casually cross-check with a fresher "do you set the 4 conditions of Pranayam daily?" And he stares back, asking "Whhat?.... Only for meditation we were told 4 conditions to be set isn't?  Was it there even for pranayams???". And I start all_over_again 😜)

If I 'really' am able to accept something, why am I not able to retain it in my cache memory?( I don't keep chanting my own name and mobile number. But, it there in the cache_memory and when a 'gourmet_aafeesar'/govtOfficer asks, I chant it by 'default' 👍🙏...

A gadget has a limited cache memory. But ours is expandable! 🤣

Don't I want to be guided by life sustaining basic values?

Coast guard guys in cold countries are trained to get a phrase "keep swimming" into their muscle memory 🙏. Life saving Chant 😔.  Hypothermia sets in when they try to rescue a drowning civilian in freezing sea water. The organ brain doesn't work. Muscle memory works. Last few thoughts of last 15 minutes keeps repeating in a loop, like our compu-Server when 'hanged'. Swimming helps survival, not-inaction/no-response!

 The moment I sight a junk_food meant for me to eat, I need to be guided by cache memory "junk....just taste it, not fill up the stomach with it. It gets absorbed better on a very_hungry/starving stomach, NOT when just_vacant/empty 😜"

Lest we forget to breathe, mother nature decided to make it an embedded software. But we misconstrued it as 'no need to remember that I should breathe' item, and we struggle to 'be aware that we are breathing' 🤣.  

Breath-awareness keeps slipping within nano_seconds. ( Why_the_hell should I be aware that I breathe??? Good koschan/question. Please ask a spiritual person, I ain't competent to explain, though I revere it🙏)

"What are you doing right now??"

Factual reply is "nothing, just idling"

Truth is: "I am breathing and I am contributing for greenery to survive 🙏 My exhalation is precious for their inhalation. It's botany 👍"

Cache memory is precious 🙏. I realised this, and asked my mind to make-space for basic values instead of negatives 🙏 

Basically yours,

psn(20 Feb 2026)

My guess about: the-why of a generation Gap

 We don't try to question a generation gap between latest versions of a 'gadget' (unless a bug has crept into the latest one! How we handle the bug is our affordability, viability, feasibility etc).

Whereas, we are (without exceptions), bogged down due to the incompatibility we 'experience' between the previous & the generation after us !

I tried at a precise brevity about what I deduced (despite being afflicted by the 'gap' myself 😜)

"ever increasing COMPLEXITY of our mind"

If this statement meets non-acceptance in a reader's mind, please abandon the time and effort to read any further 🙏

Complexity, by itself is not a problem. The inadequacy of ability in handling it is🙏

And when the 'emotions' get riveted at one type of complexity, rendering us incapable of any-other emotion, we become a challenge for even the best psychiatrist around, and he ends up 'trying to merely managing our emotional imbalance, even using a confinement if necessary!  😜 (the inadequacy of tools is perhaps a major hurdle for medical science for not discovering a solution to restore emotional balance in a patient🙏). Most cases of ill-health in our minds, can be easily traced to emotional issues, the unresolved inner-conflicts, than the logical imbalance itself, in exclusivity of emotional issues.

Ancient vehicle of transportation was a bullock-cart ( Mockery phrase "bullock cart people", is an easy evidence, used by the 2nd generation after us, usually)

Today's vehicles are many. (a jet-liner, as an example for illustrating the 'complexity' in mind)
The driver of a bullock cart, goes for a nap (auto pilot) and the jet-liner's pilot too takes a brief rest using the auto-pilot mode. The complexity matters, only when something goes wrong! 😜 As also when the sense of responsibility pops up an apprehension like "what if....   something goes wrong?" The bullock cart driver can foresee almost-all the possibilities of "going wrong"  situations, whereas the pilot's mind races through a hundred-plus dials in the cockpit, while he scrambles for remote assistance, and also prays hard, that the connectivity of gadgets with the control tower and the person handling it is capable of control over his-own-mind, to handle the situation going out of control!

"Pure mathematics" as a specialisation at post graduate levels got phased out when our computational abilities got complex-enough to handle the volume and intricacies 😊. But, we managed to maintain awareness about the significance of "basics" involved and the distinction that can affect the complexities.  Our maths is 'decimal' where as it is outsourced to a machine that uses 'binary' system!

Are the basics of our emotions sophisticated adequately enough to handle the complexities of 'life' we wove around us (for whatever reason!)? Our minds couldn't do-away with emotions and ironically, the gadgets we depend upon evades the programming that can mimic human-emotions, needed for mutual compatibility 😜 (I happened to notice a distinction in the emotional disposition affecting the physiology between 2 sets of samples around me, observed for a sizable length of time, belonging to the same gender 🙏. Exceptions exempted!  A few ladies, due to compulsions of situation, stuck to a little old-fashioned desi-lifestyle.  The other set of ladies managed to emerge victorious in competing with their male counter parts, in deciding upon a non-traditional life style. The second set even demonstrated very successfully that 'freedom' is possible from the traditional and enslaving life-styles. The physiological consequence of invading into the arena of courageously swimming across a highly-complex life-span, did have an adverse impact on their physiological well-being.  With the females of next generation attempting the superficial temptations offered by this new-found-freedom in the 'modernized' females, decidedly  started off on this journey of pursuing the complex-life-style a bit earlier than their immediate predecessors. If i sound a bit preposterous and/or indulging in gender-partiality, please look around at the occurrences in the cases of mismatch of mutual compatibility resulting in breaking-up of relationships, including the instances seeking a legal remedy thereof! Nothing wrong with any gender.  Just that, mother-nature decided to be abundantly-liberal in granting emotional- sensitivity, strength and a potential to evolve endlessly to the female gender. May I remind that the very 'title' assigned to human females in our desi tradition is "shakti"/power 🙏.  Emotional shakti/power is only a potential not a functional & embedded software 😜.  Even a very 'casual' look at the functionality in handling a situation in routine life is enough to convince us. Multitasking comes naturally to a female, whereas, single-pointed-focus works better for the male counterpart. 

Ancients, in their wisdom, (my guess only 🙏), had perhaps foreseen the trend of mind losing a grip on its basics, and failure to preserve the emotional strength, in its mad-rush to dive into the fascination lure of indulging into complexifying itself, and getting lost into the maze of dead-ends of logic, and therefore decided to preserve the wealth of their hard-earned wisdom using genetic engineering 😜. Evidence: Moksha, the ultimate human possibility is still prevalent, though in microscopic numbers, and inversely proportional to the minds-that-became-complex, in any cluster of human society. Hinduism, (a misnamer for Sanatana Dharma, a science) as a gross evidence has outlived all other kinds of societies, religions, races, etc, and has stood the test of time. Essentially, emotional training was sought to be synchronized with cosmic laws (the 4 declaratory truths) by the ancient scientists/rishis, using varied and highly sophisticated tools, interwoven seamlessly too! 
I had attempted to summarise the entire syllabus of ancient gurukulas/schools, into 4 brief subjects-topics.  I can only add here,  a query, instead of trying to impose my guess-work, leaving the reader to examine it with a sharp fault-finding & complexed mind 😜.  Question: "are these 4 not dependent on an emotionally equipoised mind, to attempt a mastery on these?" 

Even my frail attempt to simplify the root-cause of complexity in our present day minds, has ended up in adding to the confusion caused by the existing complexity, I concede😕. 
All I can humbly suggest is "clarity of mind is even today, heavily dependent upon our ability to retain the basics of life, in our 'cache-memory'."  Try dealing with cleaning the cache memory if you like👍 Doesn't cost anything at all!

Simply yours,
psn(16 Feb, 2026)

Tail-bit:  A few people do attempt to bridge the generation gap 🙏. The attempt is from either side or in rarer cases both (present and previous generation). 
Ask them.  What is the 'tool' they are likely to hit-upon, whenever/wherever they meet a little success? Logical tool, and/or attempt to bridge the emotional-gap??? (In either case, the response of a positive result is invariably in an emotional expression, not a logical-compromise 😜 😍.  If this is factually true, the clue is also within the same result 👍. The faculty of reasoning in our logical mind compromises enough to concede that "we humans cannot do away with emotions, and still hope for the ultimate freedom called moksha") 

How to ask God, a boon?

 How to ask God, a boon 

🤣

Even for those, who are bold enough to assert “there is no God” ….. “A.I.” likens a God today, though at its primitive stages only.

I tried 2 searches on Google, now "A.I." enabled:

1).”selfseekers p s Narayanan” 

A.I. results were surprising. The results did include reference to the blog page, but added ‘something' to the nature of contents in my blog 😜….   Without a “human like mind” the A.I. just_focused on ‘general theme” of my blogs 🙏😂😂. Something that my readers often missed 😓

2). My curiosity increased and I asked “does A.I. search give semantic results in relevance to the syntax?”.  And the results were “AWE” for me at least 🙏. It confirmed what I managed to guess ( the results ought to interest professionals in information technology, but I am inclined to pursue my agenda only😜)

 

Sanskrit is regarded to be in CONFORMITY with quantum laws 🙏….  Probably why, ancient “boons” where asked+granted using sanskrit 😜.   Got my hint?   Yes, semantic errors go uncorrected 😭

Case law:  after great ‘tapas’ a fellow asked “nidreVatwam” ( syntax error instead of ”NirDevatwam”. )   The cosmos( God) granted “tatah, Asthu”/be it so👍… and he fell asleep, having spelt “nidra” instead of “nirDev” 😜

This story of Kumbhakarna intrigued me 🙏 😥 “is there no way to avoid such syntax errors? Is the”Dharma/Cosmic laws” so_unforgiving?

Then I discovered the way out! Just leave it to the M.O.I.( most original intelligence) prakruthi/nature/cosmic intelligence….to decide What-to-grant me! 😞

It works 👍🙏

Trust is the emotion that syncs CLOSEST to the cosmos 🙏. 

The problem is, trust is a consequence of lot many positive emotions 😥.  I found a simplified formula even for that👍.  Just slog/strive/work/whatever, ….towards absence of the 4 negative emotions 😜. (Granting boon turns out to be the headache of the entity whose popular name is God.  I started to experiment it right_away, with a spiritual teacher, whose synchronicity with the cosmos &  I trusted him totally forgot this synchronicity.  When he asked me to choose a ‘boon' within the 4 he could offer, I responded “you are better than me to decide what is good for me🙏, so please decide that choice yourself!”. It worked 🙏 

So, as far as I am concerned….. “ ultimate intelligence”/U.I., grants results which actualises too….with relevance to the purity of the mind which asks( here, purity is ‘absence of 4 negative emotions only ‘🙏)

Very luckily, my earliest trial/experiment was with “aano bhadraah krtavo yanthu vishwataha” . It took a long time to yield results 😓. But it works 👍.

For nothing, yours

psn(15 Feb, 2026)

Curse of oldage

 Curse of oldage 

The curse of oldage is.....

Even in cases where a person has 40% only of negativity and 60 % of positive qualities....

Negative:   is "default" by nature, and requires no conscious effort to manifest. No health or energy needed😜 ( hence, it remains 'steady' and same as during youth/middle age)

Positive:  Cannot ever become "by_default". Needs conscious effort each time to manifest. With age and deteriorating health, weaker brain to coordinate, renders the functionality to decrease from 60% to bare minimum 5% probably with age, gradually 🤣

( Percentages are very imaginary, and highly subjective, but the phenomenon is real👍)

Result!?.....  40% looks like 95% ( over exaggerated in front of that 5% or even more 😜)

Frustration is inevitable when the youngsters exclaim : "of late, with age....you are turning intolerable 😓😓😓"( oldie wonders 🤔.... He used to like me, love me and respect me... _*what happened with_him_now?*_ 🤣... धूल चेहरे पर है, आईना अब भी वही है 😜)

Agedly yours,

psn (12 Feb, 2026)

Misinterpretation of Dharma

 misinterpretation of Dharma

Is it not time_enough that we rectify the most popular mis'interpretation of ancient advisories in sanskrit ( handed down to us from millenniums, and hence viewed as time tested🙏)

When the "text" could not be tampered, cunning minds resorted to popularizing a deliberately misinterpreted meaning 😂.

We might argue "well, I am NOT going to even touch it.... So, I am not affected by misinterpretation 👍".

 Such escapists are its worst victims.

*_the goal was to render the Minds susceptible to any other misinterpretation as well_*  😜

The "ability" to discern, distinguish and discrimination is sought to be crushed 🙏

Famous quotes:

1)Atithi devo bhav 

2)Matru/pitru/acharya, devo bhav 

These two are addressed to whom?

Popular version:  

1)Treat your guest like a God!( Pamper, please, trust that incursionist as well, if he poses like a ‘guest’ 😜… )

2) Treat your parents and teachers like your Gods, (no matter if they are actually an idiot, or devilish criminals 😜)

Somehow….. do we not find flaws, defects, or atleast difficulties and self-inflicted damaged, in blindly following the misinterpretation, merely because these interpretations are popular????

Not requiring too_much knowledge of Sanskrit, can we afford ourselves to make a simple comparison with other EQUALLY popular and VERY SIMILAR quotes,  with tamper-proof interpretation???

a) Ayushman bhava 

b)Sowbhagyavati bhava

c)putravati bhava

d)yashasvi bhava

Who is the “addressee” in these a)-to-d) ???

“May You be”... As a suffix to variable “long-lived/fortunate/with_vhildren/famous “

“Bhava” is “may you be” and not “be treated as”  😜…. Here is the ‘catch’

If 

1) atithi devo is “may you be like(behave like)” instead of “may you be TREATED like( by a gullible_fool)”... 

2) mom/dad/teacher devo is “may you be like(behave like)” instead of “may you be TREATED like( by a small kid, utterly innocent, too small to be burdened with a Heavy load like “Treat your dad/mom/teacher as_if they are your God 😡😡)”... 

then,

the addressee gets rectified and interpretation SUSTAINS without any collateral damage, caused 😜

Most importantly,

we get trained into a “rational thinking” …which really matters 🙏

Bhavami Yours only, ( may I be, yours)

psn (12 Feb, 2026)

Anti-disclaimer: Obviously, I am morally duty bound to accept any Valid criticism for my attempt to persuade a refinement in ourselves, using a flawed argument if any 🙏

Punch: I am quite UNAPOLOGETIC about one thing, for sure…. Come what may💪!!

I shall respect only elderliNess (of any age, even a kid), and not Elders( by age alone, bereft of any wisdom) beCause even a donkey aged😜. 

Jallad/जल्लाद like Guru

 Jallad/जल्लाद like Guru

🤣

I feel aweFULLY (sense= maximizing the ‘some’ in “awesome”) blessed to have been under an Executioner_like teacher 🙏, for 5+ years in the proximity! Utterly merciless 🤣. Torturous!

His best armour (bullet_proof jacket) was, he never insisted us,  on doing anything we were told to_do…😜( if you can't tolerate me, you are free to leave 🙏). And we, our commitment was the material for his bullet_proof jacket to defend himself against our anger, frustration etc, which spews like a volcano 😥, when he makes us do things like( mild samples only, mind you!):

a)Breathe through alternate nostrils without using fingers to block the other nostril 

b)Meditate with open eyes( we had barely managed to settle down into “CONSCIOUSLY withdrawing the sense_organs…🙏😭… eyes, the toughest to withdraw seeing_even_when_looking. Or, looking without seeing .

b(1) look_to_see, but see the emptiness ahead of you at 2 feet or so.

c)Ask your stomach to press the “pause” button of digestion, do the meditation and then release the pause button to allow stomach to resume digestion ( one type of meditation is on empty stomach, not a hungry stomach 😜…. and if we missed the med and ate, this instruction 😭🙏)

d)sleep without missing yourself totally ( 😡😡😡. Imagine 🙏, he doesn't allow us even a peaceful sleep. Even Condemned_cell prisoners are allowed to sleep like_a_log )

e) more such & more torturous practices 😭( subtle ones, hence they evade a verbal description)

Worst vengeance on us, the early_birds, was : the participants who enlisted after the first 8 years were let off with “deluxe Yoga programs”( too mild, too simple, damn_easy, and no harm in using ‘pause’ button any often and re-start by choice 😡).

( Probably, this vengeance of my teacher was a grudge (खुन्नस) he carried forward from our togetherness of our past lives 😭।

Ofcourse, there is always the cosmic rule “Dharmo rakhshati Rakshita”  He did his guru_dharma and me my_dharma to a possible extent। Sanatan Dharma was constrained to bless both of us, guru_shishya pair😜)

Cursedly yours,

PSN(10 Feb 2026)

Compatibility issues between spouses

 Compatibility issues between spouses

A reader is going to ask me “who the hell are you, to assume competence to talk about this subject?”

I am not competent enough.

But I had a chance to look at my parents right from my kid age 😥. And, I am not divorced as yet, since 4 decades😜

Even notionally/emotionally–Estranged couples shoot this question to their parents who were stubborn about matching of horoscopes “what happened now?😡” (Astroger had certified that horoscopes match excellently👍🙏…. Still the couple is not happy with each other, especially after the magic of physiological attractions faded in a very brief period 😥)

Some people try “after sales service” from the astrologer. (Meanwhile, in all probability, he himself is facing the same issue between him & his own wife😜). Joke: astrologer blinks, when asked: which fool matched the horoscope of Ram & Sita?” Well, they faced every situation together, not in mutual conflict😜.  It is about mutual compatibility, not a silk_smooth life in comfort zone 🙏

Spirituality is not meant for solving compatibility issues between spouses 🙏. Yet, the insight might help offering clues which the later generations of astrologers ignored to learn🙏

My guess work(to the extent I discovered/learnt):

1)well matched horoscope failing & omitted cases of looking at horoscopes, being–successful 🤣 ( now…. interesting? 😜)

Well, horoscopes and the astrologer, if both are exceptionally good (this itself is rare🙏😭), they match only one out of 3 essential ingredients requiring a match.

Our minds are foremost to become compatible (even if one spouse hates a running fan while sleeping and the other needs fan_air compulsorily, a matching ‘mind’ might adjust 🙏. Physiology has mutual problems 😜)

Mind, at the today's legally permissible age of marriage, becomes an unbreakable block made- out of the three ingredients in uncertain quantities each & aggregately.

a)Own karma of past( praarabhda karma, carved out of the godown of Sanchita karma) the wandering spirit, mind, soul, whatever is seeking a vehicle (body) for its unfulfilled desires 🙏. Today's astrologer is “stuck” at finding a match only for this aspect of the mind/karma, using the horoscope, and the science behind it 🙏. Today's astrologer forgot ‘how to match's or atleast request his customer to ‘also match, b) & c)”

b) inherited karma…. Parents ( if there is, a lineage also🙏…. Genetically, memories influencing a mind, is proven scientifically —a video clip : Ghost in your genes— has influence) contribute to the mind, right from womb, until they are together.

c) Acquired karma 😜…. Now-a-days, world_wide_web or WWW, that too, AI enabled, apart from homes, neighbourhood and schools/college/colleagues/friends & enemies/well+ill wishers, contributes to the tendencies of a mind 😜

The uncertain mixture of this mind is trying to find compatibility with another gender of uncertain mixture of that_mind🤣

A tiny advantage in the ancient days was = child marriages , to a large extent managed compatibility issues of b) & c) . I must drop a mention that a family priest used to be highly qualified in astrology until 200 years ago in Bharat. He audits therefore, a), b) & c) , sincerely, honestly and thoroughly 🙏. Today's priests don't know the scientific effect of even the chants they use, and tutor their ‘victims’ to repeat.

The topic is such that I should leave a reader at this🙏. ( He can add anything on his/her own, and choose to respond or not with their feedback.

Compatibly yours,

psn(10 Feb , 2026)

Hungry stomach

 Hungry stomach 

We often mistake an empty stomach as ‘hunger’ and invite dis_ease by filling it up with ‘something'! ( It is not meal time😂).

This ‘something' is less harmful if it is fruit. But, we love junk! Tastyness is far more compulsory when there is zero hunger. Junk always tastes better than natural foods like fruits, carrots, etc.

I googled the difference.

“my experience” may not be so_appealing like Google A.I.

So I copy paste google🙏

If, by chance, we get interested further, find a genuine practitioner in spirituality 🙏 . He will guide better👍

Quote 

An empty stomach is a physical state occurring 2–4 hours post-meal when the stomach is clear, often beneficial for digestion and health. Hunger is the physiological signal (triggered by the hormone ghrelin and low blood sugar) indicating a need for energy, often accompanied by stomach growling or contractions. 

Key differences include:

Physical State vs. Signal: An empty stomach is merely the absence of food. Hunger is the brain receiving signals—via the hormone ghrelin and low blood sugar—that it needs fuel.

Physical Sensations: Empty stomachs may not feel uncomfortable, while hunger often causes physical contractions, rumbling (borborygmus), lightheadedness, or irritability.

Purpose: An empty stomach allows for bodily purification and optimal function. Hunger is a survival mechanism to ensure nutrient intake.

Timing: An empty stomach can exist without hunger, and one can feel hungry (due to cravings or habits) even when the stomach is not truly empty. 

While an empty stomach is generally considered healthy, true hunger is the body's call for sustenance. 

Unquote 

One disadvantage to doctors and medical shops is, those who eat only_when_hungery, are unremunerative 😭…. More people healthy, is less business for medical professionals 

Hungrily yours,

psn(10 Feb, 2026)

Post Script.

The hidden agenda of this blog is spirituality bijness 😜….  My blogs are to market spirituality, which is the most_lossMaking_bijness🙏. Zero profits.

If more people are there who know what hunger “feels like” (not via intelligence or GnawLedge/knowledge), the scope for temptations towards spirituality is better👍. Partially sick fellows easily escape my trap 😜

Tragedy:  most of the spiritual practices require an “empty” stomach, not a hungry_stomach. But, we never allow the stomach to remain hungry 😥. It suits doctors, not spiritual servants 🙏😭

Handling own Karma

 Handling own Karma

Ultimately, my experience of life decides how I enjoyed or suffered my life isn't it?

Unrealistic “desires” seemed to me, to be the only Major hurdle.

Mind which remains stuck to such unreasonable desires won't allow the ‘experience' of the present moment to soak in FULLY ( as far as I am concerned)

Mind decides upon desires using 3 major sources, mainly ( as per traditional suggestion)

1.praarabhda karma( accumulated+ unfulfilled desires of past lives)

2.inherited karma ( genes of parents and their lineage)

3.acquired karma ( influence of presently held desires chased by a) parents/guardian b) others around, throughout my life.

And, 

there is an UNMISTAKABLE choice vested in any human format of “life” as compared to all other life forms 😜. ( This was my huge clue!)

Almost on my_own_now….. happened when I was suddenly relocated far away from the people around me, who kept_on influencing me some_way_or_other. 

Exercise of choice ( as per my choice) gained maximum strength when I was left to decide on_my_own.

Workplace ( location away from all the present ‘influencers’ into my choices) seemed to bind my choices to some extent, owing to the contractual job obligations 🙏

My experience of how it happened with me:

I secretly, privately & personally looked at ill-fated privately employed youth around me paid far_lesser than me (1974).

Zero scope to_be vocal_for_local ( याने, private workers, same quality/qualification).

I decided " at least let me maximize my returns 🙏"

This parameter decided my intensity+involvement at workplace.

One hurdle popped up from union "your output is reducing job opporChutney for other unemployed 😡"

Without quarrel, I reduced/scaled down the visible_form of output😜.  ( Advantage: union guys aren't attentive enough to notice subtle levels of quality_performance....whereas stakeholders, that is customers noticed 😂.

No scope for "gratification" to clerks🙏. )

Focus on quality over 3 decades.... refused to deny certain qualities in me🙏 {slogging with "my" 100 intensity & involvement came to stay as a 'default' quality in me😓...   I was getting shaped for spiritual practices (from 1974 itself) which was to come only in 1992.}

My assessment of 3 decades of workplace.

1.all other life forms are 100% intense and involved during their whole life 🙏. Their karma is varied, but intensity is alike, to_their_own_best. ( Very little scope to accumulate new unreasonable/unrealistic desires 😜. Dissolve one_set of karma & quit). I was just freak_lucky to have chosen to get_lost_completely into working intensely with involvement. I replicated the attitude of mules😂. Mind_time unavailable to pamper desires.

2.continuity of this intensity at workplace ( paid hours) apart from stabilizing me into a pattern of mind, permeated a lot, incrementally, into my non_paid waking hours 🤣 

3.replicating this attitude of total involvement with intensity, BECAME effortless, when it entered my muscle memory ( body, as a whole, including brain, adapted this pattern)

4. Influence of others had lesser effect even post retirement ( I can ‘safely say so’ after 2 decades of “do whatever you like” phase of life, with a modest pension without working for it 😜🙏.  Yet, I am able to sustain MODESTY/frugality in my lifestyle, using the repetition of ‘fortunate than many others equally qualified’ wala thought 😔)

5. ( Several such items, likely to fatigue a reader🙏. Hence, the gimmick “etc, etc & etc”)

Mind turns meditative, with age and related infirmities. Brain functions slower. It suits to escape ‘processing’ of newer unrealistic expectations and desires 😜. Contentment seems like ‘default'. A cow awaiting a slaughter-house, or a neglected rotting, after it has ceased to yield its milk under captivity ( society, in my case🙏). Joke is, all other life forms die gracefully, inconspicuously and eco-friendly in their free-state, and I can't_desire to replicate them🙏. My intense practice of “death” as a guided meditation for 500 plus times, doesn't reassure me that I can do it at_will as_yet. At best, I may know “my game is over now👍” and it might reduce my dependency on traditional rituals as a free_soul 🙏.

Fortunately yours, 

psn(9 Feb 2026)