“Om purna mada purna midam Purnaat purnam udachyate Purnasya purnam adaaya Purnam eva vasishyate Om shanti shanti shantih”
Literally translates into:
“That is the Whole; this is the Whole; From the Whole, the Whole arises; taking away the whole from the Whole, the whole remains.
How rightly said. Why is our brain (or mind – often) fails to understand this? Or rather, fails to remember this? What is consciousness? Is it the presence of mind or the physical being or the awareness of the super power?
One day, I was with a friend of mine and we were traveling at night in his car. We met with minor road accident and we realized that there were many options which we could have chosen and probably that might have avoided the accident. But we volunteered the situation and it just happened. My friend was telling me that the supreme power is the greatest techie, his programs have never failed. It is pre-written and pre-programmed. It can never be changed.
Why do that people often look at the happenings and situations and feel disturbed? Why can not the same seen in a different light? The light of truth, the ultimate reality. Why do we have this resistance to understand, realize accept the final truth?
I still keep wondering “why can’t I condition my mind?” Yes, some day I will. It is required of, to be more refined human being, for all the blessings we have, to be a human being. But why is everything so blurred? Is it an illusion or is it that I can’t see. Is it just me being blind or everyone is so?
Why go fat, fat with those sympathies, soft corners, concerns and care…. It just makes you fat and invites trouble, does not do any good. Instead work out a daily regime, a rather strict regime to shed those fats. The best prescribed exercise is to develop the attitude “who the hell cares”.
As everyone is aware of this fact in this modern era, this exercise will bring good only if this is practiced ritually, every day, every moment. Go out with the chin up and say “who the hell cares (W-T-H-C)”.
These accumulated fats are too dangerous for a peaceful living. Few of these accumulations have been briefed below:
Sympathy: Quite harmful. Do not expect it from others or do not give it to anyone. Everyone in this world is smart enough to find their way and if someone is not, then he or she is not fit for this era. Most of us smart enough (though majority is street smart), to be able to do or achieve what has been the personal interest. Be it at office or family or friends. If you look back and analyse a situation, where you have shown sympathy or received it – take a moment and undo the scene. I am sure that there would have been other avenues. So do not bite onto this dangerous food. Be pro-active and say “W-T-H-C” with the chin up and remain slender.
Next on list:Soft Corner: Why on earth? Sympathy – the first culprit is directly associated with this. Do I have to explain any further? Let me detail out the side effects of soft corner. One who gets used to this would develop a habit of using that extra muscle power all the time. Be it office or the house or the market or the road, anywhere and everywhere, he becomes the culprit or prey for those street smarties. Everyone, out there are opportunists, just waiting for an opportunity to feed on to someone who has these extra fat. Everyone is mentally programmed to prey on the weaker and a person with these accumulations is in much vulnerable position.
You are at railway station and you are in a queue for buying out ticket. The line is so long and you start wondering whether you will ever get your turn. The line keeps moving at snail’s pace, you cannot do anything about it but to wait. You keep waiting and moving and you are almost at the counter, there comes a person requesting you to buy ticket for him, that the train is about to leave or already moving, etc,. I would say he is street smart and such people are to be honored. How on earth you have so much time to stand in a queue and still help people buy out tickets. He has saved so much time and you have invested so much time. Today, time is money or everything is money. Tell me one thing that is not money. Is there a thing?
Concerns: For what? This era, demands one to be smart enough not to have any concern other than your own. You might have faced this situation where you are standing in a signal with red light, but the guy from back keeps honking at you….you have no clue whether to break the rule and give him the way or jump the signal and make your move or start education him (most dangerous – you are already a unhealthy fat fellow and you may lose out with physical damages) or just ignore him. I would appreciate that guy, he is real (literally) street smart. He does not have any concern for the rules nor for other and you. He is fit for this era as his concern is only of his well being, he just want to go ahead and red light on a post so high cannot stop him, but you are – physically in front of him – stopping him. That is why he is honking at you.
Care: Everyone wants this and no-one ready to give it. This element is something about which you need to be careful about. This is required at various level of concentration and for example you may expect and also you may give more care towards family. This is healthy. But watch out, as they say “too much is too bad” goes for anything of course. But again also depends on the amount of care. Your friends may require little care from you give you back the same way. Your work life may call for just a fraction without you getting anything out. You may give and expect probably 1/10th with your neighbours and on a social context. But just be watchful. The moment there is an accumulation of fat or even better before accumulation, start exercising - W-T-H-C.
The biggest culprit without a satisfactory cure: Accommodating: Have you ever wondered how this world clings on to you the moment there is message (of course an indirect one) that you are accommodative. Take it from me that if you have this, you are done for life. You better be a slave. May be you may prosper in life as a slave. This is the simplest way to tell the world that you are un-fit for this era. You are there to take orders from others and act accordingly. Remedies for this are very rare and it is genetically acquired problem. Rarely W-T-H-C has shown some results but this is not a sure shot. Nothing wrong in trying and you may get cured. If not, then as I suggested, there is ample opportunity in life to prosper as a slave in this corporate world.
Few more collective fat accumulations (which are lethal when co-exists): self respect, principles, ethics, and values: Common dear, you are straight away to be sent at least 150 years back. Yes I mean, you better don not practice W-T-H-C, best way to end life. Just keep enjoying while you are in this era. There is no good from any of these. In isolation, all these are required in right proportion but not all of them together. If you are not street smart, you have no right to witness this era and with the lethal combination of all these, you are deceased up to neck. Better way is to just be what you are (does not matter how fat you are) and count your days. Sounds too pricky? Am sorry, I do not have soft corner. I am considering myself to be street smart. (Am I?) I know the answer, of course, but I have worked out the regime and let me see how religiously I will stick to it and succeede.
A dedicated program for the cutest couple from Canada
The great idea came when one of our friends met me over a cup of coffee and realize that she is shifting base to Canada. We (me and other two good friends of mine) were demanding her to identify and buy a 30’ X 40’ site at Canada to build an establishment there. It all started with a 30’ X 40’ site and expanded to a farm land (?)…best option came out to be not farming but dairy farming.
There formulates the BULL SHIT.
Imagine a dairy farm as big and huge as possible, as much dung as there could be, with Canadian cows, wow, imagine those tons of….Let’s be pro-active in saving world, let’s make the world green with bull shit….let’s implement gobar-gas plant for fuel, light, wherever possible…
Let us light up at least a part of Canada, and our friend volunteered to be the ambassador for this mission for the worldly cause. Let us name the company Bull Shit. Let us rename that city of Canada as Bull Shit.
The business grows and there will be flash news…Stock value of Bull Shit growing higher….one day it could also be “Indian Bull Shit company enters NASDAQ” or “Indian Bull Shit at NASDAQ” or “Bull Shit at all time high”, etc;
We would also hire engineers to our research cell, to convert the Gobar Gas into automobile fuel “engineers and researchers required working on Bull Shit project”
It is a prerequisite for those cows to produce kilos of dung, even at the cost of producing no milk…this newly appointed ambassador is all impressed and has promised to brand Bull Shit….so keep fingers crossed and wait we work out the theme for branding and put across before you….till then, happy reading…
Unconditional: On and on, came the wave, unconditional, the change was evident. Change was / is inevitable, but why do we fail to accept it unconditionally and live happily ever after? Sounds contradictory? My previous blog and this looks a little farfetched? Yeah, agree with you, in a way, but not really. Why can’t I un-conditionally accept this world? Come to think about it and you will realize when you are standing on that thin strip of transition, it is quite simple in a way. It is like your residence’s flooring. You have two different flooring materials and one small strip separates them. So many times, it is good to accept things unconditional and things would be lot easier and better. How can anyone, for that matter, can dictate or line out a condition for any other human being or a situation, or be possessive and be judgmental, and step into my shoes, you would understand. Best part of life, as I feel, is that there is ample opportunity for fine tuning. Are we conditioned to tune our self or in other words, are we ready to accept these unconditionally? Why do we get stuck at a place, to a situation, to the comforts, to the “imaginary” social values (not that you kick off and throw away those values and walk on streets with the title – I mean MAD) but why? Who decides the values? How can one be conditioned or unconditioned? How to possess and yet be un-possessed? It is very relative and as a human being, for any one, it would be very difficult to be possessed with while not really being possessive. Degree of inclination may vary from person to person. Also included are the personal spaces. It is lot to do about the sensitivity of individual and humane behavior pattern. Not too many would understand these finer aspects of behavior. At times, it is rather too finer an aspect that one would be little lost in understanding the demands and expectations of being or behaving humane. I think I am lost again over those many breaks while typing this. I am not too sure that have communicated well enough here. But tell me something, do you get annoyed if I tell you “yes I failed to communicate well, so what?”
Who the hell thinks that I can’t condition my mind - a dedicated thought to Ra Sh
A lot goes into it. First of all, need to understand what is conditioning? Secondly learn the art of saying “who the f***** (too many stars? Then you have understood what I meant) cares”, thirdly never let yourself go down with your own failures or by others….bound to happen and to practice this (conditioning the mind or brain) is not an easy task and gonna take a lotta guts n lotta failures before succeeding.
Certain warm ups are required before you hit the ring….start with very tiny things….smallest and least bothering things…like have a cuppa coffee instead of your regular tea…the idea is to overcome the resistance both by the body and mind…here you would be working against your own physical craving, your own wish, comfort…etc:
After all, why should one condition the mind? What so great about it,,,,answer is simple…if you believe in it and try to win over your better half (am talking about your own split personality - I think I owe an explanation here…some years back me with “Mr. Spot” realized that in this universe, there are only two kind of results and nothing in between, eg: dark and light, day and night, true and false, life and death, etc, etc…if we had conditioned our mind at that time, we could have studied better and scored better marks at school instead of finding the meaning of life which, at that moment wasn’t the call) and gain better scores with your own self and life… after all, success (in very social context) seeks and settles with people who are systematic, principled and obey and honor time….to reach there, for us (creatures like me and you) lot of conditioning is required as we do not come gifted or born with the ability to take up just anything and everything that life may have in surprise offering. We get moved and carried away with our wishes, dreams and wants and start living in a paradigm…we start believing what we VISUALIZE and not realize or open our mind to the facts and get deeper, instead….when the bubble bursts on a high tide, can you imagine where can we be? Do you realize the importance of opening the eye (the 3rdI – read as third eye – lord Shiva had one and many great successful humans from past and present proved that they had that additional eye by believing and proving their dreams on a long run)…
Where am I?
Yeah…to succeed, for fools like you and me need to close eyes and open up the not-so-intelligent-quotient-of-mind…and start conditioning the mind in “seeing the universal truth”, looking beyond what eyes can see (be it a human, a situation, objects, goals, etc: looking beyond, beyond the horizon – I wish I had better capacity to put my thoughts into words, better speed as well…my mind races ahead and my fingers keep searching for letters on key board)…..
all what we see may not be true….people or situation may mean something else by communicating something else….and to learn and understand things beyond their literal meaning and purpose, one needs to be educated and this education comes through observation, practical application and greatly by conditioning the mind…so this should be the intent of conditioning the mind…if so, then am out of focus to talk about how….should wait for my next mood swing to continue this (don’t I need to condition my mind….yes, this, though dedicated to Ra Sh, in many more ways, a booster dose to my own self….)…lets catch up again with the next edition of this…..life is beautiful and am loving every bit of it…am so lucky to be and people am associated with…some are simply great and help me and some are so good that they keep teaching a thing or two by being wicked….and GOD Ji has worked it out so nice for all of us….oops one life may not be sufficient….sh!!!!Condition your mind to be contended J
Monday, June 22, 2009
Am I not specially abled?! (22nd June 2009)
Saw a very young girl, today morning, while having my breakfast. I realized that I was looking at that special human being while standing in front of the window, having my morning feed. Since then, am thinking to myself, “Why is that some are so less fortunate?” In spite of having all in place, am I not specially abled? Yes am talking about the mental illness that all we carry with us.
With all the odds, the girl looked so happy and innocent. Those really made me think “why is that am crippled?” The effort put in by the kid, while walking, dragging both the legs, trying to cross the road, walking away, while I keep watching this through my window, her father holding her by one hand, with all the indifference. The mother, joined along the other side of her, just before they are about to cross the road and held the young by the other arm.
I was very surprised by the effort with “never say die attitude”, the kid crossing the road with unsteady and irregular walk pattern and that was the moment made me feel lost. Yes I know that they do not need sympathy but the affection and encouragement. What about us, the so called “normal human beings” wicked at heart with all the ailment? What do we need?
Is there anyone who is normal with both physical and mental aspects…...I wanted to meet this kid, spend time and feel contended of bringing at least few moments of cheers in her life, in turn, help myself in indulging myself in something which would make me forget that am specially abled. Keeps haunting me WHY and fail to find an answer…..how I wish this world had only physically and mentally hale and healthy people.
Am Alive!!
So?
How many of us can dare say so….not for the heck of saying but really are? This keeps bothering me from time to time and keeps questioning myself, am I alive? Answer is NO! Then immediate thoughts are why, how and what…
Not too far off with the walk of life and it is the general quest of anyone to look back and review…that is the only way one can bring in the refinement to life…a lot matters about the body language, culture, upbringing by parents, social value system one adopts, concern about others and the society….not many will be found with an equal balance of all these things…this gets added with self respect, ego, self-confidence, ethics, principals, etc;, hmm…a long list to go and think about…
I know you must be wondering again about the Katte and Kudre series…but really to tell you, I got bored out of it…this is what happens when you have a long pause in between…this applies to life and motto too…you can’t be dis-oriented from your life’s goal…sooner than later it will seize to be a goal..it is very important to keep the spirit and the goal alive…But am sure that you will excuse me for the discontinued series of Katte and Kudre…can’t I change my mind?
If one is careful about life to register everything around, will be quick enough to judge whether he/she is alive or to become alive…here am talking about the spirit of life and goals of life…you are not alive just because you hog four times a day, you sleep, you go to office and work, that’s not living….the animals too do the same…except going to office!!
In my opinion, living does not mean to just exist, but it is more to do with the refinement in life, the values (they are very different from one to other – it all depends on upbringing as a child, personal experience throughout the life, social and cultural values observed and adopted). So it cannot be measured on a scale or defined. But in my opinion, living is not just living and it is beyond any average human being
