A Reality Check for Our Youth of Today

My reply: You are externalising the problem as something away from you and not in your control so it becomes a kind of escapist route to not take it on yourself to admit that we are all in this boat. Humans do preset themselves to certain convictions, certain social common parameters and have always aimed for "security". Analyse these points: What is marriage? What is this need to own houses, cars, wife and children? Why are we always talking of rights? Why don't we like being told the truth? Why are there so many Pretenses in our life wherein we wish to be seen in a particular light? Do we have the courage to be our real selves from the light of our deep inner feelings or/and convictions?

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> Mental Engagements, disentanglements and contentment. > > From the medical angle what I am seeing today is at least to me a > little alarming. > People's minds are loaded with data which is superfluous to their > lives. It cannot be even called general knowledge in most cases. Like > knowing the date of birth of Einstein; how is it helping us in leading > a better life? The streaming is so continuous that there is rarely a > pause for the mind to sit back and process it all. Every second new > data is being recorded and the old erased; there is no process of > anything registering. > What is happening is that people are simply floating mentally in limbo > without being in touch with anything at all except perhaps the very > immediate whatever is taking their attention. The memory and the > knowledge/info backup is blank. Consequently the sense of > responsibility is lacking and for all practical purposes these people > are useless -- specially so in jobs requiring commitment. > Why do we need the TV and the videos or the smart phone to keep us > feeling engaged? We are catering exclusively to the monkey mind. > The value of silence and enjoying one's own company has been shot down > like a fighter jet in flames with no survivors. It is Chitty Chitty > Bang Bang all the way 24/7. > Advice to disengage is taken badly. But may I at least have this say: > Please at least, ask this question: How is this info or "engagement" > helping my understanding of life or will be any good for my > well-being? > > Sit back and ask what have I learnt today? What are the aspects of my > life that I need to be careful about? Release yourself from the easy > digital engagement and do something about the physical things that are > asking for attention around you. > > Children know how to be quiet and happy with their own selves. We the > adults spoil it by over doing it. Let them be quiet or let them work > it out for themselves with hobbies in which others are not needed. > This attitude in later life will do them a lot of good. Don't > helicopter. People who have found their center in interests in which > they are the "doer" are well balanced and do not suffer as much as the > indolent ones. > They are aware and conscious of the attention life requires and are > happy in silence and silent gaps in life. They actually thrive in this > condition. > > People are what they are - the sum of their childhood exposure and > conditioning. Where education and varied exposure to different > experiences is missing, no amount of lecturing is going to help > because our words do not penetrate the ego-wall and make any relevant > effect on their reasoning. They see the superficial and think the > outer glow is enough and physical strength is impressive. Where there > is no self-awareness/analysis/discipline it is childish to expect that > our words will do the trick. > > They admire their own image and nothing can sway them, specially all > this talk that shows them in a lesser light. > > A stylish haircut, muscle building, Nike shoes and Levy jeans and a > blazing T-shirt is their idea of a great image. > > ...........{width="4.26in" > height="2.98in"} > > The Chaos that we are seeing in this world of ours now is for the > immediate now is not a "NICE" thing and all but if seen from the > occult point of view an indicator that something else is brewing > underneath of it all. The Demon (Rakhshas) Spirit was enjoying itself > unopposed on Earth and now suddenly the advent of fast and limitless > messaging has begun influencing the minds of people with thoughts that > will take the humans towards Kindness and joint-ventures. Till 1970s > the human minds existed in a limited area of influence but then came > the instant communication revolution. This is not what the Demon kings > had planned when they allowed digital electronics to pervade the earth > as the idea was more control over the minds of men which is also a > truth as can be seen by cellphone addiction. > I suppose they did not count on selfless people to also spread the > "love Message" with such unlimited ardour and sense of purpose. This > is so unacceptable to the Demon Spirit that it will try to block > humans (do away with them if possible) rather than let it take roots. > I predict that the curtailing of freedom will now start and publishing > will be made difficult and even travel and ease of communications will > see blocks on the way. > If humanity is not careful and allows the play of Demonic thought to > run unchecked, we might end up annihilating ourselves totally. > > > Robert Martin Anderson > Can the demonic become manifested with AI with self-programming > ability? Or is it merely and/or conjointly concurring with our > addiction to cell phones? > > > Pradeep Pk Maheshwari > The demonic uses every available component on this earth. Even your > paperweight can become an instrument. The robots are a master-stroke > that demons have gifted us working thru the minds of these technical > wizards. > The demonic energy works in beautiful ways. > One of main points is how higher so-called moral principles have now > been incorporated into the justice system. There is no law binding > down the act of rape and murder but you are not allowed to take the > law in your own hands because the criminal have rights and of course > cases cannot be proved and so a huge machinery is being fed for acting > as umbrella to the corrupt and criminals. > At one end we take children away from parents and then at the other > children are martyred to the lust of the ruling class under cover of > the police system. > See how systematically health is being destroyed to promote the > hospital industry. > One can see the unholy alliance of humanity with the Devil thru this > one thing alone: our glorification of alcohol -- specially the > distilled kind. > etc etc. > > ........... > > In our language it was called INTUITION as when with due diligence > when we are able to shift from the ordinary mind to the domain of the > intuitive mind and operate from there. > > Health and Wellness > > What is medicine and what is food; and what is food as medicine? All > products that are coming directly from Mother earth using elements > that form our own bodies are natural items that the body recognises > and knows how to assimilate and process. For the body this is food. > The body has over the millions of years > > grown with the Earth and is in perfect tune with it and the > knowledge of it is in its very cells and consciousness. > > It has also evolved a system of checks and balances that work > perfectly well and warn us when things are going wrong. > > But humans have this problem of wishful thinking that permeates > their very fabric of thinking and they have now learnt to override the > body completely. Humans have gone to the extent of creating new > products that the body does not know how to process and these products > MASK totally the warnings and messages that the body gives out. And > adding insult to injury to the body the humans have totally forgotten > that they ARE (alive) only because they have one; they refuse to think > for themselves and have outsourced their thinking to the medical > industry as if health is not their concern but of the insurance > companies with whom they are in cahoots by paying them huge sums. > > I just don't understand this behaviour. > > ......... > > Brad Hercina > > There can be no doubt that a Spiritual Life exclusively pursued, does > seem to make the person seem eccentric and out of step with the > mainstream. I speak not of the ordinary religious believer who follows > the observances of their culture, country or parents, (whether that be > Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Judaism, etc). > > Their religion has been made for them by others, communicated to them > by tradition, imitation and habit. It would profit one little to study > this kind of religious life. > > We must all seek our own unique original experience if we are to know > Spirit / God intimately. Otherwise we tend to fall into believing a > generic, one size fits all representation of the Divine according to > the religion (man-made dogma and doctrine) one follows. > > Pk: Yes. This kind of living is at the basest level of human > evolution. You find yourself dumped in a pond and without questioning > or exercising one's mind you start swimming with the other fishes - > with no aim except to die one of these days. > > The ego though is clever enough to see the social connect and follows > the patterns that speak of show of virtue and you can then strut about > in all your glory as a superior person. It is even used to feel > offended and is used as an excuse to punish and hurt others who may > not show the same tendencies. > > The worst state a human can be in from the spiritual angle.

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A pointer to what humans have started calling love. 1) Love is a universal state of being. If you are loving you can only love, admire, appreciate everything to the last drop of water because you are love like the breeze. It just is. People do fall in love -- this is a moment when they really crossover to the other side of self-centeredness and really are in love. 2) The passionate desire to couple-up for physical satisfaction that ends in coitus is now called love. The expression "make Love" is so stupid. It is an escapade and should only be seen as such. When an ardent whim is on your mind everything about the partner seems so lovely and you say you are in love. You want the partner to be exclusive and pay attention only to you and this is so against Nature and our natural programming. 3) Things have been exacerbated by our laws - legal and religious. The male dominated society wants the woman to be exclusive to them and for their purpose. The women now use the same laws to demand exclusivity. The result is traumatic conditions and hate pervades. 4) In practical life it is no issue if a man takes the responsibility of marriage and upkeep of family and flirts a bit outside of it. In real terms it keeps the marriage and relationship going smoothly. Most people do and everything goes on well if a hue and cry is not made of it. 5) The whole business and focus of relationships has been twisted out of recognition by this concept of sin which the governments/religious leaders break at every step but insist thru the police that the common people adhere to it. It is untenable. 6) It would be obvious to anybody that considering the amount of violence seen in marriages that were born out of "love" that love was never quite the thing in it. If it was love then how did divorce, suicide, murder, separation enter into the configuration. The need for security, the need for a partner on demand, the need to exist in society etc warps our thinking and agendas. Language use needs to be brought back into reality. Let words like appreciate, kindness, admire, desire, affection, fondness, lust have their rightful place in our expressions and things will be fine mostly.

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We were not only silent. We were being kind. We let them have their fun. Humans in their superiority complex "see" being kind as a charitable act that will make them come out as godly; never realising that this is exactly the opening the fiendish elements in the Universe want/need to establish themselves.

Until humans have the eyes to see that they are just conduit pipes to a bigger cosmos and the power-play going on between other worlds and the material world of Mother Nature, this situation will continue to go on ebbing and surging in a cyclic spiral till one day the human consciousness will become aware.

We are at a stage of development where we have established certain norms of images that we promote about ourselves in which we see ourselves and others in a simplified way as being virtuous or unholy. We are at present too occupied with these factors to be able to see that we are virtually living upside down.

Some examples of wrong thinking that pervades us and my take on it: - Dont act if it offends anyone. My take: My responsibility ends with what I have taken on. The others need to ask what is it that is offending them like their thoughts, their prejudices and precepts etc. This is their responsibility and they should not and cannot insist on commanding my behavior to fit into their comfort zone. - Luxury means inactivity, irresponsibility, being served. My take: We have created certain images of life that are considered high society and privileged living; like caviar, ermine and silk, suits from Saville row, handmade shoes and personalized goods and having an assistant to carry our briefcase and open the doors. All so false and meaningless. - Insincerity is a viable alternative to avoid unpleasant situations although we speak of Honesty being the best policy. My take: Humans are basically insincere. They lie to themselves by never admitting their feelings, their real intentions or wishes. If I am able to see thru their machinations I reserve the right to do what I think right. - Promoting the weaknesses by catering to what they want is the goal to profitability. My take: This is the philosophy of the Consumer Society of today. It has given opportunities and ease of robbery at a mass scale and greatly aided the petty thieves by giving tools to make their job easier. A lot of products have ended spoiling the general health of people and an entire industry has grown around this by profiting on weaknesses and illnesses that the industry has seeded by its generosity. - Be kind to them because they are going thru a bad time. My take: Life and living on planet earth is a strife torn affair. Everyone is going thru some tough issues. It is part and parcel of the destiny and fate of each one of us that we need to go thru. I will be kind because I am basically a kind person. I will not be anything other than what I am genuinely. I will not be pressured by my peers to behave seemingly and follow a trend of charade because "ONE IS REQUIRED TO SEEM GOOD"

It's how we should all behave. Furthermore, it shouldn't be surprising that a wealthy person doesn't expect special treatment simply for being wealthy. Nobody gets that rich without help. That said, it's good to see as it is all too rare.

John Shoji Sorensen to Gwyn Fox .....the world of our self-created shoulds/shouldn'ts is our imprisoning "dukkha" (source of pain).

You should try and live in India and you will see we are the exact opposite. We will wipe your bottom if you have money. We will allow you to rape our women for money and if you have money it should show in expensive goods around you and you are required to be arrogant to command respect. You're expected to be demanding and easily offended or swords will be out. The lack of fear and haughtiness is what shows that you have money power. The hallmark of our social psychology is:.. irresponsibility to show when we have money we need not care and we can buy our way out of any conundrum.

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99% of the males see only the female form - not the woman (The person) at all.

The interest of the male ends there and women need to consider this first before giving this "love" business importance.

The problem's source is the MIND. In both the men and women the mind is of the same kind and problems arise because basically the mind is "UNREACHable". We have different mindsets, different values, desires, very different goals coming from different backgrounds and we are simply not open enough to let any new formation/ideas enter our minds. Our egos are standing there as guards. Pride and vanity make sure that they unleash the dogs on anyone who tries to enter by taking offense. Listening and learning also means that the mind has to change its stance and the Ego has to change its attitude. The inertia in human nature is simply and adamantly not agreeable to such strenuous mental activity mainly because the subconscious will never cooperate. Habits rule.

By the way I have always wondered by this exclusive interest in one-male-female combination that is called "love".

Aren't we all fooling ourselves for a mutually acceptable rationale to serve some other needs on our agenda?

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With the rationalizations and explanations they give, I am convinced that humans are not designed to be well.

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In pursuance of our dreams.......If Mother Earth has to be destroyed so be it because deep down we know that our time on earth is finite and as far as we are concerned we need to only worry about living it out well in every way as our limited consciousness demands. This is due to the funny thinking advanced by the Theorists that we have only one life and after that it is Heaven or Hell forever and ever. Humans have been absorbing this thought pattern hook, line and sinker. I suppose it is so because it suits our self-centered possessive way of looking at life. When death was pointed out they continued with their ways using the next generation as an excuse to carry their name; anything to satisfy their cravings which are always laced with a good dose of cruelty towards everything and everyone. What can we do? Perhaps start all over again????? I think the Vedic exposure of the reality of life was and is nearer the mark. Buddha was a product of Vedic origins and Zen evolved from the same foundations from long ago. It is no wonder that these are being found to be more revelant and relevant by all those who are prepared to use their heads even superficially.

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The Problem of Money. Amassing money is not that difficult. It is a fantastic slave driver though. All those who are lured by the power it exercises on this material world have to submit themselves to its demand single mindedly? Are you ready for it? It is at the lowest level of human consciousness at the same level as wanting pleasures and physical/bodily excitement like food, sex and parachuting. Humans can easily get lost in its lanes. The problem with money is not its demand for unrivalled devotion to its cause but it also is impossible to meets its demand to come to you by demanding a certain amount of deep cruel detachment from the emotions like kindness and altruism. When you want it so much that it becomes difficult to let it go. And once you are in this trap it only tightens its grip on you as the time goes by squeezing you into a ball of hard core stone. PS: this was and is the reason why asceticism is always accompanied by advice by the need to relinquish our desires for material comforts. Though the process needs to happen in the mind at the deeper consciousness level but it has been seen that it begins to mature in human thinking only when one has had a lot of money and has suffered because of it or in its pursuit and eventually a detachment grows. This can take many lives to happen.

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We are on the verge of change. It is obvious. Like many of the civilisations that are no more and everything about

their philosophies, "raison-d'etre", values and in depth knowledge of many techniques has been eradicated from our consciousness, we are now entering a time when all the values of our cultural advancement as acquired in the last 5000 years is getting mashed up in such a way that we are no more certain what is right or wrong, what is valid or invalid, what is hurtful or gainful. There seems to be only one pursuit in evidence and that to find products to sell which require to first promote the frailties of human consciousness by supplying them all goods and services that their weak characters demand and thereby make a profit.

If Mother Earth has to be destroyed so be it because deep down we know that our time on earth is finite and as far as we are concerned we need to only worry about living out well in every way our limited consciousness demands.

The end seems to be becoming more and more obvious. This present wave of culture that can be traced to about 3000 years clearly as we know today is ready to disappear into oblivion as the old cultures like that of Aztecs, Peru, Babylon, Vedas, Angkor vat, Samurai etc

What is keeping us from rising up in consciousness and not lose all that we have so arduously learnt?

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I wanted to ask you something about Indian astrology, as far, or as little as I understand it.. hoping you may clarify further, or point me in the direction to explore further.

It is my understanding that in Indian astrology. The astrologer, might recommend the usage of stones in rings and the like, to help mitigate the energy effects of particular antagonistic planets, like Saturn, or Pluto... etc.

If this is so.. if for example, a certain stone reduces the effect of a difficult Pluto transit on the person.. does this mean that the "lesson" that needed to be experienced by the person, with that transit, will be "reduced".. thus, the person may not have the same opportunity to learn and evolve???.

What a beautiful question. The astrologers routinely advise on stones. But the very first hurdle is their knowledge of astrology which 9 out of 10 times is very superficial. Secondly there may be more of this need to frighten the client and make him buy stones that are expensive and the astrologer always makes money out of it as the stones have to be "Energised" by mantras and there is a definite prescribed procedure for it. It is often not accurate at all. The opposite can happen too as often we end up enhancing the negative effects of the planet in question. Then when you enter the spiritual field you do see that the planets are not going to move and their effects will remain whatever you do but colors do play a big role and so do the words that we surround ourselves with and with the words of course the thoughts. The idea is to channelise with stones certain colors to affect you and this I believe is very potent and true. For example I have noticed that I am personally aspected by Saturn and protected by Jupiter. Whenever Jupiter is in a weak position the effects of Saturn increase and my life-lessons become overwhelming and in this period if I wear yellow (to enhance Jupiter) or even brown, events and things go wrong more but if I wear blue ( to go with Saturn) things go smoothly at least without creating new problems and blocks. A very close friend who was connected to a very knowledgeable astrologer suggested a stone and it did nothing for me but did disturb me. I removed it and asked another jeweller friend to keep it for me and eventually sell it away.

On the subject of lessons in life. We can do a lot of things like wearing these stones, doing havans and puja and pilgrimages but these all finally do nothing. They may delay the inevitable somewhat so I see no profound sense in it all

because our lives are finite and we need to make the most of it as soon and as fast as we can.

In my case by taking a philosophical turn and letting The Mother and Sri Aurobindo to run our lives (we the children of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram) we have speeded up the process of life-lessons. I feel humans need to do this rather.

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Suicides are the result of unhappy and unloved children. The only way this will not happen is if children are taken as "important. People must need to take their marriage vows seriously and the children that result even more seriously. When the children come they must become the first priority.

We (The modern world) have gone the opposite way by making sex alone our focus. Divorces/separation disturb the children. No amount of "policies" and mental health programs can help with the above background making children "disturbed".

Somewhere the modern world missed the turning where hugging and listening should have been. Selfishness has been promoted like mad. What did one expect?

Then added to all this is the bullying the parents do, the bullying the teachers/adults do. The pressure of exams and the consequent nature of being seen as successful and making the children go and forcefully creating their own "pads"

Contented children do not think of suicides. Parents have to be there to support their growing up and their fight to fit into a difficult world. It is my view that children today are "tired" already by the time they are 12-14. We have stolen their childhood and their adulthood at the same time.

One good way to avoid suicides is not to have children at all in this selfish agenda. If you cannot "live for the child" dont have one. Why add to the woes of this world?

There is also another side: The medical toxins that are being fed. The added chemicals in the life-style supply coming from all the preservatives, pesticides and additives in life are causing havoc and creating sickness both physical and emotional as a consequence.

Instead of going to the source it has become a good reason for the hospital industry to get fat upon.

PS: To me the subject is 90% covered in my essay and I am of the thinking that humans are deceivingly avoiding the subject ..... it is surely not a comfortable thought....too full of responsibilities.

And the second point is that "The children never stop coming" and to this no one wants to give a thought.

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Staying boxed in.

In our journey we are all growing into a better person. Mother Nature has worked life's tangles so that we are

forced to live thru some aspects like it or not. The majority of humanity is moving slowly; very slowly and it seems that they are stuck. But they are not. Mother Nature is never in a hurry as according to her she will keep on giving you "new" lives to help you on. The truth is that humans as yet have not learnt that "learning" is the goal and they look for "continuance and status quo" They want to "arrive" and stay there. Change is fought against and along with it learning is avoided. Reorganising one's life with new knowledge every day is painful and disturbing. The focus is on maintaining the wealth conditions that we have acquired and our effort is in creating a great wall against theft from unscrupulous elements which in itself is also a learning process. The only difference is that we are fighting against the current. We could as well use the energy to run with the current and flow of life but then humanity's intelligence level has not arrived at this stage yet though some individuals do achieve this level so it is not an unknown fact. Your objective should be to grow out of this need. Associate with people and programs that help you go further otherwise you will stay stuck at whatever level you have become comfortable at and it does not take long for existence to become painful.

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The human mind focusses on anti-ageing with primary thought on a "pill" that will do it. It does not want to die. But what is it going to do with all those extra years in an ever-growing tired /incapable body?

With all our wisdom and education and so called intelligence why the focus is not on keeping the body well-cared for thru the natural way as Mother Nature intended and at the same time improve the capacities of the mind to grasp all the secrets of the world and thereby learn to live longer and BETTER

[I think the problem if at all is with the west's overthinking of what constitutes organised beauty. They try to codify everything into a regulated science and that does not leave much room for color and impetuosity. Their comfort zones are therefore lacking spontaneity. I was reading the life story of Van Gogh and he had to fight the rules of drawing and color throughout his life. See their music..... it is composed diligently to the last note; the only beautiful pieces are from compositions that have slipped out into the non-conformed emotional lightheartedness. See their science of Interior design: everything is labeled and cut and dry. See their medicine: it is not the patient that matters but their labels and protocols..... everything is so superficial.....designed mainly to reduce pain but not really curative medicine.](https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10164228988767925&set=a.10150815907582925&__cft__%5b0%5d=AZVQ22xRhB1YBM6EzJW-6Ih-J66LLmuf1eIOHpPxyA1dG_EHCClgtl312Cb9nRp9vbNVDr0WdEvDpx1IuWDYoSjkcaZ-FgT12sPSsSxRuUeuiA&__tn__=EH-R)

Yes this is a sad reality. Some years ago a student of mine read something by one of my friends on FB and consulted her. She immediately advised divorce. He was totally uncomfortable and came back to me and I advised him to ignore the advice and try to understand what is not working.

I had to unfriend that friend because for every question she would advise running away. This is the american way of doing things - eliminate the problem by carpet bombing it out of existence!

Let us leave it to the individual to find out for himself. I prefer the oriental way of describing "what is not the thing to do" and let the others experience it out.

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We may not show it but we do enjoy the feeling of being superior when we see others in trouble. Internally they compare and there is glee at the discomfiture of others. All our relationships are basically an ego thing finally. If to raise our own esteem others have to be pulled/pushed down then so be it.

A little lying is also in order and a little exaggeration and rewriting the facts is commonplace. It is called being honest and starts with the phrase " to be honest...."

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Humans will first be humans. This means that they are Mother Nature's creatures. The high point of human character right now is stupidity, low IQ and arrogance.

All the Philosophy and Religions will not change that. You can foist whatever you want on them and most will obligingly accept and show a lot of fervor and pride of being one of you.

BUT they will be human first and humans with their limited memories, limited needs and limited understanding of the world around them will never come out of this morass. Their immediate need is to pass the next 24 hours in the society that they are living in the most socially acceptable way. Being appreciated, being seen as successful, being seen as exclusive is more what they are looking for than being seen as a fervent hindu, christian or muslim, sikh or buddhist

Asking people to follow a narrow path that you conceive with pride is no solution because what motivates humans is greed and a lot of fear. Words either lead them to think that they will get something or they get frightened.

Keep your peace and focus on living your life. If others are going another way, how does it matter?

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I run a course that I call "Language as a tool" in which I highlight the use of language to make oneself understood, specially in the context of using English in the international arena. Most of our young generation has no idea of communication and are limited therefore to remain below their level of actual capability. There is a great gap between what they feel they are achieving compared to what is really transpiring. There is a high dose of wishful thinking and our young ones really need to mature up vis a vis others. Both The language ability and the understanding of psychology needs to be stressed.

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In Indian Tantric (occult) philosophical thinking we talk of HOPE as a trap. With hope we focus on luck, destiny and providence and wait for the magic to happen which will not happen for the simple reason that we are not putting any creative effort into our aspiration. Often we just keep on repeating our old moves hoping that things will change just because we put all the blame of our lack of success on external factors/others whereas we should focus on what we are not doing or whatever we are doing may be in error.

It is all in the thinking and the thoughts we allow to embed in our consciousness - specially in the subconscious. "Emptiness" is a just symptoms of constipation of the mind with thoughts that are not taking you anywhere but depressing you. The artist acts as a renewing element by bringing in new thoughts and often purpose. For me artists are those that bring a creative new twist to things.

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OK/ But how does one develop optimism? If it has not been inculcated into your subconscious patterns in early parenting, the chances are that it will not happen later. At least NOT by simply thinking and wishing about it.

The Indian is a child of nature; very instinctive, not used to using the mind as a tool for organising and planning. There is an innate tendency to look at the world only from his/her point of view and need. Crowds and people don't bother his presence of mind. He lives as if there are none others on the planet therefore any need to plan simply does not arise. This is why he is not good at following rules and laws. Added to this is the fact that there is a bent towards paying attention to gossip the more malevolent it is the more easily it spreads. At the same time the Indian is very "touchy" he can see a personal insult in just about any word or incident.

This is why things like these incidents happen: 1) Decision to convert all public transport/taxis to gas is imposed without adequate supply stations. 2) The electric vehicle is promoted but no charging stations.

It is always chaos when a lot of people gather as the planning that should go in determining how and where the crowd will collect/crowd control, the utilities needed, the question of food supplies and distribution is simply never calculated.

Just look at this one fact: Borewells are dug but safety concerns never enter the minds of the doers. News of children falling into it are a regular event in India but over the years no-one has learnt the lesson that the mouth could and should be covered when not in use.

Not only we don't have any sense of logistics but we do not learn from experience either as we seem to lack the sense of "memory".

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In the beginning of the journey the sense individuality is required. The ego is made our friend because the ego is what supplies us with the passion necessary for making a move. It is only when it is hurt by its maneuvers that a distinct idea forms that perhaps there is more to life and the "I" is not as separate as it had thought to be.

Most turn-arounds at the spirit level have to happen from solid, sad and repeated beatings by life. It has never been an intellectual thing.

These courses finally do nothing but agrandise the ego wherein the ego thinks it knows and therefor has risen above the crowd and starts teaching everybody around it a lesson.

This is all that is happening. This is also why there has been no real change. The intellectual world dies with the body and the Mother earth starts all over again.

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1) Focus on "relief" not cure. The Non-thinking, ever trusting populace fell for it and is rather happy with it.

2) Focus on Diplomas. Only medical school conditioned "doctors" can heal. Healers of naturopathy, homeopathy and traditional medicine are being banned by governments and rejected by the public.

3) Going to college is expensive. Banks give loans at huge interest rates and make money. You start as a slave to the system.

4) Insurance offers dreams to pay for medicare and the bankers make money on all the premiums that are never used.

5) The food industry is roped in, backed by scientific data which is always not always truthfully presented.

Processed foods and un-natural foods are promoted. The trusting populace finds convenience so pleasurable and cheaper that it goes for it without a moment's reflection.

6) Illnesses proliferate. The medical and hospital industry is in clover. The public lives under the illusion that it is getting the best advice, care and lives are being saved. Longer lives without meaning or purpose seems to be the honey-pot at the end of it all.

7) Laws and lobbying make it lucrative to keep the illusion going. Products are introduced to save labor and natural exercise and the human body becomes weak and unable to repair itself. This suits the industry perfectly. Laziness is touted as luxury.

NOTE: People take the car and the escalator to go to the gym but do not sweep their floors/wash their clothes or dishes/indulge in gardening as it is demeaning.

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Involuntary yoga. Armed with pride, laced with vanity and supported by a strong body we go forth into the world. Life is lived as well as one can. Beating the shit out of the competition is the goal and becoming the king of the anthill seems well worth the only thing. But soon, the body cannot take it anymore. Our ardour cools down. Our pride accepts that it had better take a backseat. Then arrogance also subdues its fervent volume of noise. Even sooner than the above we are surrounded by medicine bottles and stuck to the armchair near a fire. We think back of the good we did. We are sad at the ingratitude shown to us and how easily we are forgotten. This is yoga in action in Nature. This is contemplation but nobody ever taught us that we are or were the architect of our own situation. While pushing through life did we ever question what we are doing here; why and wherefore of the events that happened that put us here.....That we are not alone? Anyway the contemplation part is the cumulation of our life. And this is what we need to remember. The greatest benefit comes from also mixing it up with gratitude for all that we were given and all the kindness that was shown to us. This is the aim of giving life to humans but this is one point that is rarely grasped. Mother Nature couldn't care. She has eternity in front of Her. We need to be a little more careful and circumspect. In essence our lifetime is a very slow process of yoga. If we do this... this life becomes a Blessing and we have really gained from it. Follow up lives will of course profit from this contemplation.

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What I have noticed and this is talked of in almost all disciplines is that whatever you do has massive ramifications.

let me begin by giving an example: When shooting a ball into a football net there is a huge space to aim at so often you have some leeway but when playing billiards, a small deviance of 1 tenth of a millimeter and you miss the pocket.

I sort of live totally free from fear but afraid what the material world will bring in the next moment. The Grace is protective but one little spark of an insincere emotion or thought showing anger, jealousy, greed, boast, pride, vanity and WHAM a hammer falls...!

A point very difficult to make to the general mass of humanity because they simply refuse to use their minds as a tool. Another example of this fact is their approach to illness. They would rather that the pain goes away but the illness does not bother them so they use all their faculties to make the pain go away with aspirins and such while doing nothing for the illness and a cure. It is showing in all facets of life: In the use of the motorcar, phone, synthetic food and electricity - no one wants to escape their entrapment by using less but the focus is on making more of it "safely". The use of the mind is overshadowed by "Laziness". I give a story here. A person of around 60ish came to my academy. He was given prospectus to read. He took it in his hand and said "I have no time to read it so just you tell me" (in fact asking me to read it to him). My reaction was clear: If this man cannot burden himself to read a prospectus, would he ever disturb his mind to "study" anything?

PS: This is how they make their reality. This is how they get duped and cheated and then go about crying with long tears how the world is bad, callous and horrible. They will do everything except use their imagination to improve things. For those who do, they say that "Oh they are so creative, so brilliant, so special, so lucky" and go back to their grumbling:

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Are you a spiritual intellectual wherein you have read much, know all the factors, teachings and logicalities and explain and rationalise + argue till kingdom come and discuss things bare?

OR

You are really into conscious practice of looking at your subconscious patterns, instinctive egoistic reactions and trying consciously to change the negative patterns into positive ones by quietening and regulating the active natural mind as acquired by birth thru self-awareness and strict discipline imposed on your habits.

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Why allow them free reign?

I believe that people who allow their anger to control them are under the influence of Universal Forces that are stronger than the human mind & will of these people and these people readily allow these universal evil powers to use them as puppets supported by erratic reasoning. The fault is usually in the upbringing when their minds were being formed but this cannot be an excuse to allow them free reign in the world of other humans. The only way these can be stopped are by eliminating them physically or incarcerating them. Prisons do this job but why should we be paying for them to living comfortably in prisons at our cost? So best is to eliminate them.

Unfortunately the number of people who are under the influence of evil forces is rather high upto nearly 100% and new ones are born into the world every day. Most people learn to control their anger to a reasonable limit.

Humans sadly have not understood the need of having children only when parents are ready to fulfill the needs of "Proper" parenting. Violence is already deeply inbuilt in human nature; it is an unfortunate fact that our upbringing style is highly nurturing this trait and promoting the EGO, selfishness and cruel behaviour in many ways usually seen as non-harmful ways.

For example narcissism, bullying, jumping to conclusion and getting wildly angry at children for the simple reason that we can afford to, beating up wives etc. We do it because there is no one to stop us and words cannot be recorded; we even go to the extent of meting out physical punishment which is quite openly sadistic.

Sadism is accepted in our society very kindly but not murder and rape but this is only in the law books. Some do get caught and punished but if one looks at it in depth it is a lot of trouble/expense on one case while the hordes go freely about doing what they naturally do. The saddest part is that the memories of the horrendous episodes do not and cannot be transferred to the next generation therefore all lessons learnt are lost. Every new birth is a new sage starting from scratch and the stories. Human suffering and understanding has not changed one bit in thousands of years. For instance let us take the World wars 1 and 2. The 1950s so a raise of consciousness. Happiness flowed into the world's living till the 1980s Great progress was made. But the old generation did not want the new generation to suffer so out of kindness raised spoiled brats and today's generation without any memory of hardships and no suffering to involve deeper thinking is back to selfish and entitled ways.

The Rakshash (Evil/cruel) Nature It shows not only in governance but also in the most intimate relationships. This is why narcissism is so widespread or even considered normal while the humankind go forward protecting their Rakshasa nature with great cleverness. It is so much easier to learn to live with violence than to rise above it. If you study all our developments, all our clichés and all the sermons, they all are hiding our basic natures so that the rakshasa nature does not show but we know it is there. I notice that since the last 150 years the Rakshasa have been using the newly awakened mind of the humans to give us new products to amuse ourselves with and create great, more violent and gorier tragedies. You will have to agree that it has become easier to commit crimes, bigger and better, with all these new technologies now at our disposal like cars, phones, digital automation and indestructible raw materials to give shape to new gadgets that allow us to live more perversely. What is the silver lining? These are preparing us for eventual waking up. How long will this humanity suffer? The chain has to break someday.

PS: One thing that needs to be understood about Rakshsas nature. They cannot see themselves as rakshsas and they do not see that their actions are going to hurt them for all their cleverness. There is an automatic process there that eventually completes the circle and destroys the perpetrator.

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Why do people divorce when their hairs start growing gray? PK: When your consciousness is focussed on the "Physical" meaning that the person is still a monkey in the natural state of things, has little empathy or sense of responsibility and acknowledgement of the present tied to the past and future we have people who look only at the "pleasurable" moments and live in the moment like unattached , heartless souls. This is an example of selfish, mindless living that the human animal is prone to. Everyone for himself. Nature will take its course. Suffering that will come from this behaviour will do its part of teaching its lesson. From the karmic angle it is all to the good. Whenever in nature growth stops and there is no more spiritual growth happening at any level, Mother Nature (The SPIRIT element) interferes and prompts breaks-ups, natural calamities and even wars to infuse new blood into the mix.

There is another side to it. That when one feels that due to others there is no progress at the spiritual level then too some people move on. The soul makes it happen.

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*When reading/hearing something that hits you between the eyes it means that your soul has responded to it. Immediately stop whatever you are doing and meditate upon it. Write it down and look at it every day for the next few months as and when you can. Slowly it will become part of your thinking process for your guidance and take you a lot further than anything would ever have.*

*Tips on raising children. First become aware that a child has to be raised. The majority of the human populace simply allow children to come into the world as an aftermath of their sexual indulgence. The society really then takes charge and the children are fed, mostly badly, clothed and left to their own devices. The child soon becomes a drain on the energies and attention of the parents and this shows in the raising of them. For example: putting them in front of the TV to keep them engaged. In general without much aforethought we tend to see ourselves as mature and fully developed adults without ever considering that we may not be really so. Our education and knowledge of the world and the science involved is rarely worth talking about and we carry within us subconsciously many habits and patterns that were instilled in us by our upbringing and we pass these on to our children unknowingly subconsciously as matter of fact knowledge. This trap needs to be understood, deeply meditated upon and consciously worked on by the parents so that our negative traits are not passed on. We pass on to children our own conditioning that may not be right for the world that is their future. We are mostly preparing the child for a world that we know and which may not exist for the child when its time comes. So be a little more proactive in your responsibility to raise your child. Let the child be. Let the child explore new activities and expose your child to new trades and activities. Let the child try out everything at least once. Let the child discover what he likes and what he does not. His talents will also show out and help the child to mature in the fields that the child shows a natural talent for. Make the child work with his hands. This helps the neurons network in his mind to grow and will mature him as an all-rounder without mental health issues and problems. Help by consciously take him thru life so that he knows love affection, rejection and with success and failure all coming to us in life as a matter of natural happenings. Always stand by your child but do not cover up for him. It is always a good thing to let the child experience life in all its facets before he goes out into the world on his own. Our job as parents is to let our children know the pitfalls and the insincerity that lurks in human society. Always take the trouble to explain to the child in all sincerity your own experiences and talk to the child about your emotions. This way he will know how to understand his own.*

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*This story reminds us that our thoughts are powerful. That we become what we think. Ancient wisdom upholds that "man is just like a container, it becomes whatever it contains." It's crucial for us all to cultivate a sense of awareness to distinguish what is good from bad, so that we can keep our "inner world" clean and clear. Enjoy reading!*

Chinese people often say, "Facial appearance originates from the heart," which makes a lot of sense. Here is a story that can serve as proof.

Once there was a sculptor who liked to pursue the latest trends in the art world. He often made statues of evil demons, ghosts, and monsters. As time went by, he found his facial appearance became more and more ugly.

One day he met a master of qigong, a form of Chinese energy-healing exercises, who was very accomplished. The master said confidently that he could cure the man's illness, but he wanted the artist to pay him back by sculpting one hundred Buddha statues.

The master also told the artist that as soon as he started the sculpture work, the master would start to cure him. The artist agreed to this arrangement.

After he got one hundred statues done, his appearance did not just return to normal---but he looked even more handsome than before.

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Humans playing with their minds to create images that pleases them. All are welcome. Truth is another domain altogether. pk

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How do we play out our lives!

Let me etch out a picture. Here is a home. A big comfortable home made with great care and customized to the last nail to bring amalgamation between your physical needs and the needs of the spirit. This is cocoon where you are COMFORTABLE and AT EASE. This is your castle and hide-out. The rest of your life is dealt with as you behave and approach the delivery-boy. You expect him, you wait for him. You need the product he brings BUT you do not want to have any relationship with him: not even a casual one. Once the product is in your hands you actually wish him gone. This is exactly how people, goods and spiritually speaking how good thoughts new Thought patterns are received. Meet them and let them be. Our lives are not big enough to accommodate any of them. Our show of camaraderie is only as long as the words are flowing about. After that it is back to square one into our castle homes.

PS: It is though a wonder that with all this being our aim, we fall prey to Nature's bait and start a family that by the age of 50 for most becomes a grind-mill-stone around one's neck.

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The problems are always centered in the Pettiness and Narrowness of the mind's lack of growth.

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Aim for the Intuitive Mind arena where you see the Creation in its panoramic spread and everything is connected and in place like white to black thru gray.

But humans are never quiet enough to know of its existence. In the present moment in evolution the Intuitive Mind is a Gift where we see geniuses popping among us. Theses geniuses are people like you and me and have learnt to control the rampaging physical mind and use it as a tool.

Most of the humanity is usually the tool of their mind which is under the control of the Emotional Being and sees life as meaning full only when desires are being satisfied.

I have just returned from a week's holiday attending a family gathering and got the chance of meeting many old friends too.

I cannot describe my sadness to see the shallow limited lives that these multimillionaires all of them lead.

Not one is open to a new thought pattern. All trying to impress by showing off what they have and exposing their thought patterns in such a way their personas shine thru and the light bulb shining behind them is like a mild 0.5 watt bulb but the halo they create around them is huge in their minds and understandably all others around them praising them.

The words Tradition & Religion have a very deep insidious influence on the human psyche which is controlled in the external manifestation by the rudimentary mind.

Now the mind is kind of "petty". Its sole reason for existence is to collect and save. All its thoughts, material products come in this range. Its first goal is to be appreciated and works all its life to make sure its human is acting by the rules so it can be appreciated. The second goal is misappropriation and it will find all the reasons to blame others, accuse others and justify its own actions.

In all this a dedicated group comes in handy. The Traditions and Religion and common beliefs serve this purpose well.

This helps the thief and tyrant most of all.

By killing traditions and religion we can bring in change. Who wants that?

Wouldn't we as the human race be better off, have become friendlier and kinder if we did not have names like Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, Mohammed to pester us.

The mind changes by necessity and traditions and religions remove this requirement from our lives. It is so much more comfortable to be petty, iconoclast!

Things change when the mind shifts into the Intuitive mind where things are seen as they are in a large panoramic sense without the human mind analysing, factoring in and putting things together but this for the time being is not given to most of the populace.

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Correcting and discussing, advising and sometimes physically stopping are a necessity to loving parenting. Misbehavior should be condemned as it happens. Stop it right there and make sure your commands are listened to. This alone makes a dent in the subconscious patterns that will otherwise plague the child in later years and even bring misfortune to all around him and himself. It need not be done by "The Rod" - that is the easy way out for parents. Listen to your child and teach him thereby to listen.

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DON'T LET YOUR MIND KNOW OR DWELL on "What it cannot do". Find a way however unorthodox! Pk

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I get annoyed by these two sentences: 1) Good work. Keep it up 2) I know you can do it. Both insinuate that the person congratulating you is understandably superior and condescends to acknowledge a rare show of good work on your part. It smacks of arrogance. I find it demeaning. There are many alternative sentences like: I like your work, Your work is brilliant in my eyes, Ah but this is child's play for you etc etc etc. Think about it.

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We are putting all our energies into growth within the limits of what we understand about it. A good closeted family and small sphere of activity brings in this type personification of the self. Usually a fixed career curbs all personal growth. One starts by wearing jacket and then dies in it.

Unfortunately we never step back enough to see that all our energies are going outwards into the physical domain, flowing out into the world and not bringing the profits back to us. All this effort for gathering experience at the sensational level resulting in a lot of physical running around, fatigue and noise. The focus then becomes excitement and sensations. Growth as an element in life simply comes to a stop.....not even thought of.

Either we are never taught or we do not want it otherwise but it must be said that we rarely take a step back towards silence and going the same equal distance within into our selves. This is mostly due to our subconscious fear of looking at ourselves and not liking it.

Physical prowess in this world permits to earn enough money to keep ourselves busy otherwise and family responsibilities seem more than enough of involvement with our known core. Life bumbles along and nothing seems too much amiss anyway.

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There are low level nefarious Emotional Beings that rule the Creation by overtaking the persona of humans. The more the human instrument is capable, the more mischief these entities are able to do on earth. These entities love war and mayhem as it provides them with the energies they crave and feed on. Virtually every human to some extent is primarily under the influence of these beings but the "good" character ones who have been brought up under positive vibes and thoughts are a little more protected and do not always allow them to work thru them. But the human scenario is very complicated so there is always a mixture of ignorance and arrogance at work and this is the route (opening) that these beings need to take over the human persona.

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How arrogance or our sense of prestige closes doors to the handouts by Providence and Good Luck. While returning by train back to Delhi, we took a taxi by accepting an out-of-line offer and thinking these people are needy I accepted. He seemed a good and helpful guy. I told my wife I will ask him to help us get the luggage in and give him a good. Tip. But when we arrived home, I told the taxi driver that I am not quite well and if he would please help me carry in the luggage, this was his reply: "This is not my job".

And I thought to myself see how he has messed up his self-esteem and put generosity on the back-burner; closing all doors to openheartedness and gratitude. No wonder he was one of the needy ones. Providence wasn't going to open doors of "gifts" to such people!

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Easy to say but most have no clue how to go about it and their persona is already dwarfed by their own upbringing. The very first thing that needs to be done is to wait to mature and learn about child psychology before having children.

Let us focus on this.

Let me give you an example from my life: I was remodeling our home. My manager was going to the market at least 3 times in the day to get something or other. One day after they had all left for the day, my mother asks me to get a medicine for her. I asked her why she waited so long and did not ask for it in the day when somebody was going to the market every now and then. She replied she did not want to disturb me as I was busy. How considerate! So I said obviously you don't need the medicine urgently and I will see to it that it is got first thing in the morning. This bit of news was immediately made viral by mother to all who would listen that she asked me for a medicine and I refused to get it. Her point always was that she is not taken care of and I am a bad boy. She was fishing for sympathy by relatives and friends and she got it. My sister stopped talking to me to the utter glee of my mother. What did she get out of being cruel to me? Attention for being such a saint to live uncomplainingly with a son who was constantly hurting her. The word in psychology is narcissism but who cares. The third factor usually seen is in how we would wish to and how we do impose our magna self on others when and where we can. It is something that massages the ego and for this simple reason good enough. As long as we feel superior the end justifies the means. My father once wanted me to go and post something. The post office opens at 10 am. But he wanted to go at 9am. I said I will go let the post office open. "No" said he "if you will not go I will go myself" and under this threat of self-annihilation he forced me on moral grounds to leave the house. Yet he expected traditionally to be respected as the head of the house (also clan), as an intelligent, wise man that others could look upto..... as long as everybody did what he wanted. We are basically a dishonest race.

May Krishna's light shine on all.

I have learnt to appreciate the western mind. Thru education and sense of purpose they are in a big way open to the possibility of "something else" and ready to explore it. Their attitude to perfection, cleanliness and beauty has to be appreciated though they are very commercial in many ways. Their friendships are genuine.

The eastern mind is stuck in traditions as this gives them the perfect excuse to not use their minds and make no effort to live outside their preordained family structure whatever it is. There is little or no sense of "order" and general cleanliness, correctness is given no importance. I find friendliness here can be very "need of the moment" kind.

In this matter I find FB has helped in widening my own way seeing.

May Krishna's light shine on all.

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A few remarks on male-female psychology and relationships.

I comment on the basic human psychology and not what is taught as morals/precepts in different communities.

The man is more interested in the female form. If not this one then the other one is equally good. Women know this; that is why they decided long ago to be submissive and let their form do the talking. Most women are beautiful. Leave a man with even an ugly woman and in a few days he will stop seeing the ugliness and start thinking about her softness. The attractiveness of the woman is in her eyes and soft behaviour. Modern influences from the american marketing machine have influenced the people's thinking and the focus nowadays is on the outer appearance which is totally in error basically. The male form responds automatically to the female form; all that is needed is proximity. This is why in all cultures there is this plan to keep the unmarried away from each other.

Lately there is a hardness in the psychological make-up and a lot more self-centeredness. Both the male and female have become less compromising.

The entire human social structure is based on subconscious understanding but morals and laws and sense of justice of humans (of the more emancipated) expects humans to live by a higher standard which is easier said than done.

The earth's subconscious rules when we take a body. The female subconscious has evolved as I said. Not the teaching and nor the physical events alone should be taken in calculation to understand the subconscious.

The market this painting talks of is real (or was).

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Competition. First of all I would like to ask and understand why we are competing at all? It is not a question for intellectual debate to strip bare the meaning of the word. I would like to understand what humanity is aiming to obtain and reach as a goal when competing. To me it looks like fighting for supremacy in a show of strength/ability to announce that one is better than the other. So primarily it is an ego trip. It proves nothing except that some twenty people or 200 or let us say even 2000 people got together to show off and one is crowned the best! So what does that change anything in the world and existence? How will it help you to be able to out run faster than all in a limited distance (and that too only when in your prime)? It is good drama and amusement for the crowd. You can crow all you want but soon another champion will replace you. Or take another scenario: Why would you buy the most expensive car in a neighborhood where most people own mid-range cars that deliver beautifully with good reliability? What are you trying to prove? Wiser people have clearly explained that all that needs competition is that we be better than what we were yesterday. We need to compete with ourselves to improve upon ourselves the results of our last outing. This is the only thing that has any value for us and all those around us.

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You and your health If you are unwell you have to choices - try sincerely to correct it. Study the nutrition, life-style and immunity levels. The other alternative is pay somebody else to look after you..... The SUN, germs, viruses, pollution make for a good scapegoat. In life if "that" is what you want, then THAT is The THING for you and of course all the consequences that Go with THAT. Who cares, and how does it matter? Your life; your body; your indulgences; your sickness; your feelings; your sufferings AND your death. Enjoy it as long as it lasts.

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Hi PK....

I often wonder, if I truly had God in my heart, would I stop being critical of those who do not and even further, not even have thoughts about what others should or should not do? I'd be so full of the love of God in my heart that it would be a kind of ecstasy where there was no room for anything else -

PK:

I wouldn't bother as others don't matter and should not be our worry. But these OTHERS do make up our world and my own world is affected by it all. So I am confronted with a reality that I have to live with under duress. This is what makes me question things and life. The others are included due to this and not because I am interested in them. There is no criticism of others but there is definitely a critical analysis. At the same we have to look at the situation from the angle of personal life vs social togetherness. Why is it not right to bring the subject up? Does that make me impolite and unkind? Why would we so careful to not offend anyone? Continuing with this question I would also ask why we should not question existence. If others are in it then why are we so insistent as being seen as the "NICE" person? Isn't this something like inverted pride that we wish to be seen in a favorable way and this we do by cutting ourselves off from reality and our Soul by hiding under the bushel? Definitely there is a responsibility to our own life and if we go into it with sincerity, we will need to overlook every other angle.

Then to end the discussion this point can be added......Perhaps our rant may open their eyes to something else!!! And if our sharing of our notes helps even one in a million to become aware of other things in this world wouldn't this be considered as "Kindness"????? Sri Aurobindo used to say, even if he could find even one man who would consent to be divinised, it would be enough.

... though let me be clear; KINDNESS does not mean thinking for others, making the others weak by doing everything for them, ......be kind, don't hurt their feelings but don't become their crutch. Whenever possible help them out to help themselves. in the name of kindness an idea has grown called charity. This is good for the soul of the giver as he feels elated and superior but not the given who if lazy will become lazier..

Notes.

1) When a philosopher talks about a subject most readers/listeners jump to the conclusion that he is relating his personal life and often add their own presumptions that the philosopher is looking for sympathisers or advice. No. a philosopher is an acute observer and thru his curiosity has been thru experiences that the normal person avoids. So his grasp of the infinite possibilities is greater and putting all this together he expounds his philosophy.

2) It would down right moronic to judge somebody by his language ability very few people have a superb language command. Most people have a very limited vocabulary and exposure to subjects outside their immediate family and schooling environment. But as human nature is we tend to pounce on every error and inadequacy stemming from our own inadequacy to understand the limitations of the other. A lot of meaning can get lost and inverted in translation and idiomatic use of language

This results more often than not in misunderstandings and bad character analysis which we are never slow to gossip about and tar the character of others.

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The Brutalisation of humans.

Basically we are kind and friendly but also brutal in equal measure.

Environment in which we are brought up and live and work makes it better or worse.

This fact that humans who have to be in a brutal atmosphere how they get affected by it is not fully acknowledged nor understood. This is what happens to the Policemen, Armymen, Factory supervisors and labour contractors and bouncers in bars and prostitution dens.

Parents and teachers who have nobody to control them or oversee them also easily lose control and become very brutal often.

It is a sad story how our innate laziness makes us non cooperative or non-productive forcing others to adopt coercive ways; we use minor violence to argue ourselves out of our responsibilities that we often take on willingly and annoy others who then bend down to violence.

Then there are those working in the line of fire who have to kill and destroy as part of their work. They get eventually insensitive to it all.

Just imagine the unknown plight of the worker in the meat factory where he has to see the fear and tears of the animals being murdered day in and day out!

There is enough evil in everyone to become evil if they are so inclined to be and people who see themselves as entitled and deprived of their entitlements normally do take this turn. All the rest is splitting hairs.

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Marriage and the mating dance is a great way.

Adjusting to another's whims and lack of appreciation and trying to woo and manipulate another while at the same time being tied down and being manipulated ..... all these though slowly.... all lead one to greater opening of the idiot mind towards the of wisdom way.

Marriages are made occultly as balancing acts between two occult extremes. Although seen as "badly" these are great momentum to spiritual self-examination and if used sensibly are a great way to advance speedily towards greater widening and depth of perception into higher consciousness.

At the worldly level it is difficult and even hurtful but I "CHOSE" my marriage condition purposely through my knowledge of numerology and spiritual destiny.

So it is really all good. I would not have grown spiritually without the pride annihilating & self-examining conditions that I have had to go thru.

[Sandie Eader](https://www.facebook.com/sandie.eader?comment_id=Y29tbWVudDoxMDE2Mzg5OTk4OTM3MjkyNV8xMTk5ODQ5MDAxMDMzMjMx&__cft__%5b0%5d=AZUM7A5--3EKuf7IH2I5Dr4FeP6ZFhbqDXQ5qe45iYdnHGTsYPnHsrWfww5Mvzc1TGO7Cb9w-qHz0w3bEf1esyYT0TsYyET_fJoj7RrYN7QtGVjiBNRLjLXBDnZ5phQWE90&__tn__=R%5d-R)

Rape is neither fun or funny and is no fault of the woman.

[Pradeep Pk Maheshwari](https://www.facebook.com/PK.pradeepmahesh?comment_id=Y29tbWVudDoxMDE2Mzg5OTk4OTM3MjkyNV80OTc3NjAwOTI1ODQ0MzU%3D&__cft__%5b0%5d=AZUM7A5--3EKuf7IH2I5Dr4FeP6ZFhbqDXQ5qe45iYdnHGTsYPnHsrWfww5Mvzc1TGO7Cb9w-qHz0w3bEf1esyYT0TsYyET_fJoj7RrYN7QtGVjiBNRLjLXBDnZ5phQWE90&__tn__=R%5d-R) to [Sandie Eader](https://www.facebook.com/sandie.eader?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZUM7A5--3EKuf7IH2I5Dr4FeP6ZFhbqDXQ5qe45iYdnHGTsYPnHsrWfww5Mvzc1TGO7Cb9w-qHz0w3bEf1esyYT0TsYyET_fJoj7RrYN7QtGVjiBNRLjLXBDnZ5phQWE90&__tn__=R%5d-R)

Agree. It is definitely Not.

But also look at things from the Universal angle. There are no faults. Only unpleasant episodes in life. Mother Nature has made life this way. When has this not happened in the last 50000 years along with war and rampage?

A deep vulnerability has been woven into the human, natural make-up of life on earth; learn to live with it. No options.

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Do write a book if so inclined but first take feed back on your ability to express well in the language you are going to write; making it a learning process too.

For life is a learning process and we should aim to excel in whatever we undertake to do. This is what life is given to us for - not just pass 3 scores and 10 years somehow and bumble thru it all.

Some destined program brought us here on earth and so let us make the most of it by having just one thought: I will do and I will do it so I am satisfied that I did the best that my abilities can be stretched to. It may not get me the prize but my final work must be at a level where it gets appreciated by all and sundry.

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Blame games. Blame games can never result in anything good. These games are designed to destroy whatever is. The EGO is given full importance. This game is played by people in authority; that is given to them by circumstances and human laws. But there is this other side of the coin too. There is always some basis of truth in the allegations that are then exaggerated, magnified, distorted and added upon. Now this is the problem. Not only this, people who wish to impose themselves always focus on the errors and play the game to the hilt. They think they are being clever without realising that by destroying a good person they are hurting themselves and their relationship - that is - and here I would say they really don't care much for the relationship. It is fun and games for them and they enjoy it.

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Blunt and hurtful When our own sense of "respect" coupled with an insecure sense of standing is very high we are inordinately sensitive to proving that we are somebody and that in comparison others do not always come upto the level of cultural heights that we have arrived. In short we become a little critical in our attitude. And this begins to show in our responses as a natural. I notice this greatly in north India (where I am) specially in the middle class. My daughter is taking driving lessons. I go with her to be in the car just for the sake of it as a protective parent. Today he brought tears in her eyes. With remarks like "Can't you see....". As a good teacher I suppose the remark would have been best like "Do note the....... And then give her lecture of what would be the best thing to do" A little pulling after that saying something like "you are usually such a good observer, whatever happened today?" etc. Pure psychology but this is how we are. There is this inflection in all we say in which a little bite is enveloped to show how the other is inept. On deeper observation I notice that it is quite prevalent in our society. The lack of maturity and kindness shows. We really need to become kinder in every meaning of the word.

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One drop of honesty is all it takes and we would look at our own machinations to see that all we do is for our image that we wish to project and but fail to see that no one is really falling for it. Our entire focus on others is based on "what can I get out of this person/occasion?". The incessant talking, rushing, manipulative schemes that we put into action and then we go to sleep in a coffin; all those sound-bytes/written words all gone waste and into oblivion. What did we get in the end? A beautiful peace disturbed and great turbulence.

One has to rise just a few feet above the average humanity level and when floating above one wonders how cannot humans NOT see the great uselessness of wars even in the short context of our ambitious growth graphs wherein we become masters of all we survey - which we don't.

Leave alone the wars, even at the closer level to us, our petty quarrels with base only in our arrogance and our inability to admit that we may have been in error and that there is no real need to crush the other guy unto dust because finally we have to live together.

Just don't see how it escapes us so totally.

How much strength of character does it need to say "oh I didn't think of that. Sorry" - "I was mistaken" - "My karma; I deserved it" - "This argument is not needed and is quite pointless -- let us forget it".

[Robert Martin Anderson](https://www.facebook.com/robertmartin.anderson.9?comment_id=Y29tbWVudDoxMDE2Mzg4MTkyNTE3NzkyNV82NzI0OTgwMzgzNTM3NjI%3D&__cft__%5b0%5d=AZUy_CYEC4bQJjInkLW2DJ0hkus93q69kZFtKndHAlxaSF6zR2nvRjIliFKoeaDaLdz3XcSIP52dbJA76YJ4PGOthNnjfPPN73s9qvE-YqkQCSIVy6lRylsCeU_JEdMn7ZU&__tn__=R%5d-R)

Management by 'apology' is a scarecrows ruse...

[Pradeep Pk Maheshwari](https://www.facebook.com/PK.pradeepmahesh?comment_id=Y29tbWVudDoxMDE2Mzg4MTkyNTE3NzkyNV8xNTU3MDMyMzE1MTk0Nzky&__cft__%5b0%5d=AZUy_CYEC4bQJjInkLW2DJ0hkus93q69kZFtKndHAlxaSF6zR2nvRjIliFKoeaDaLdz3XcSIP52dbJA76YJ4PGOthNnjfPPN73s9qvE-YqkQCSIVy6lRylsCeU_JEdMn7ZU&__tn__=R%5d-R)

By Golly. Is this how you see my passage above? I was aiming to bring out the point that we would not need to come to the point of apology if we were honest with ourselves to begin with.

Think beyond the personal.

There is much growing to do.

Till now we have not shown the courage to accept or admit that humans are basically exploitive and insincere. No wonder we have only philosophical rationalisation and lot of talk of goodness but actions speak another story.

Humanity's saga of cruelty is unending and knows no bounds.

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"Most people do not see their beliefs.

Instead their beliefs tell them what to see."

How do "beliefs" happen?

Science was supposed to eradicate them but now we have more of them than ever!

I have always presumed that broadening my mind with extensive reading and travels with philosophy to aid me in my efforts I would learn to see beyond beliefs but I have many new "beliefs" in my store now

At least I see this.

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"Wait a second. Let the words penetrate and register" - and then mull over them before exploding in spontaneous combustion.

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All we have managed to do in the past 15000 years is to fence up, parcel up and post armed guards in this world. In the twentieth century we have gone way ahead of ourselves by working out decimating instruments of death and we are so proud of it all .....!!!!!

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No one really offers their soul and asking for soul crushing devotion is rather a sad reflection of narcissism and over expectation from life. They ask too much for what is on offer.

Being grateful for the good that happens is good.

But forcefully seeing good in everything may be counterproductive and intuitive. Philosophically everything is in its place and the outcome will be the best under the circumstances but the average human does not have the wisdom to see this.

Statements like "we are Divine" and "God made us in his image" motivate the people to not aim for discernment and promotes tamas, inertia and mental arrogance.

- People who look inwards and take up the way of self-discovery, by following certain philosophies and sects or study on their own and experience "understanding" of the way this Cosmos works somehow also create a rather specific image of the accepted image of a seer which separates them. But why? The idea should be to become master of the life you lead. Your mastery over this life should, IF AT ALL, in the way you move, handle exigencies, react and the words you use to convey your attitude. Otherwise you should be one of the crowd. What one should aim for is:

- The poise of an aristocrat,

- The analytical powers of the scientist,

- The confidence of the warrior,

- The grace of the athlete,

- The communicability of the actor,

- The charm of the romantic,

- The ruthlessness of the businessman,

- The language ability of the professor,

- The prowess of the mechanic,

- The perfection of the engineer,

The humility of a person above it all.

Technically an ordinary person but on top of it all.

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The Human Mind is so easily impressed by BIG.

Big for bigger's sake.

All these BIG things that are in records book just because they are bigger than the last time made.

If a little is good, bigger is better!!!

The visual importance holds great sway.

People are not using their heads. They go by advertising. Somehow people believe readily all advertising. I have noticed that only those products that are heavily advertised with simple "copy" twisted to show benefits, finally sell. The trick is in who can advertise most and how cleverly the copy matter is made to relate to some benefit.

People are not only gullible but are waiting for the next cheat to come along. The fault is in the human persona wanting a lot for least effort put in.

The business of tanning was a fashion statement for people from the colder regions who could travel down to the Riviera for some sun. Today this has lost all meaning.

But with a little twist to the words the advertisers have been able to make the gullible understand that tanning beds replicate the sun. And they have been laughing to the bank ever since.

......and life goes on.

Trust no one, nothing.

Wait for the next ball. Specially the curved one.

Enjoy the game.

When will the people rise and stop this:

Schemes after schemes, products after products, misinformation at the medical level, it has been coming since the last few decades. The media spreads it like wildfire and then soon enough the nefarious aspects of the same also start proving themselves and come out in the open, not to be hidden although they do try to cover it up as long as they can. Harmful products under the clearance of scientific research (proven to be manufactured in many cases) have been foisted on humanity.

People can at least do some thinking of their own. But fashion dictates take center stage.

This is my point.

The scientists have been brainwashing with claims that it is the germs and not the fault of the patient - a concept that has misdirected the entire medical practice and made the pharma industry kings and the patients into vassals.

When you look at life and the way people are conducting their lives, does what I say vibe and sound true to you?

Do we or not, all of us, without exception, do we not have in a hidden corner of the heart this feeling that our "GOODNESS" be recognised?

And with this as an end we use subtle methods. Like prayers in public, prayers beads, certain dresses, writing the name of the Lord everywhere even in our posts on FB, preaching on FB etc.

WE USE certain methods to show our piousness and virtuousness and hope that The Lord will be fooled and if not at least the people around us.

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The basic principle of life was the Zen way: sleep when sleepy, eat when hungry, read and listen to music when so wished and listen to the body. No hurry, no fuss and pay attention to the thoughts and emotions taking birth in you. Learn and educate yourself on all questions that can beset one. Be master of the situation. Prepare to be master in any situation and subject. Make the world come to you. No compromises. I managed to survive in this dog-eat-dog world by mastering about twenty trades and becoming seriously educated in applied physics and applied psychology and became a teacher and also a consultant to industry in marketing and negotiations at the international level specially in consumer products. I polished my languages English and French to international levels. The trick was in first mastering my language command in English, French and my mother tongue Hindi. This made communications effective and learning speedy. Command of the language is 90% of the story. It wasn't that difficult. Just needed the mind-set. I simply refused to accept that I would allow anyone to consider me second to anyone and see me as a serving diminutive. I used my pride constructively and my self-respect to dive within into myself and observe my weak points that would hinder my growth and do something about them so I would not be caught out.

Allow me to give you a very important quote here: "To go within one must first understand the principal thing: which is to be terribly honest to oneself, so that there is no deception whatsoever. We deceive ourselves so easily! We would not look. We would rather talk about something transcendental: God, theories, Atman, anything." - J Krishnamurti

The mind needs to be individualized at least to the extent where it knows what is good for its person and what is really needs and what takes it to perdition (waste of time, waste of resources, wastage of energy that brings in ill health and such + wishful thinking).

This would be a great step to begin with but what we see is a mind under the influence of every Tom, Google and Harry that is able to convince that life will be easier by following what they are saying. The logic that has been behind this attitude is that third party comments are usually reliable; after all when somebody praises his own self or his product, it is bound to be suspect. We are conditioned since ages to listen to far away noises. How can you help or do anything for anybody who is going against his own interest and avoiding the discipline required to first separate the good from the bad using one's intelligence and then using one's will to deter oneself from taking the wrong path which we usually do by excuses that we cook up. People will put all their energies in arguing but not learning/adopting new thoughts -- not even listening. Rather they end up by adding a lot of noise of their own.

Humanity has found the mind but does not as yet understand or know what to do with it. For now it is being used in a very basic way just above the animistic level and human reason has very little power over it as it is totally under the influence of the "Desire" center in us. The invisible world of spirit forces is able to play with us thru our minds and the humans are more acutely their tools now than ever.

Humans will need to learn to master their minds, use their will and goodwill and act discerningly then alone some sort of heavenly establishment will flower on earth.

When attempt is made to direct the minds of others towards a newer way of thinking, the more intellectually active ones specially... instead of quietly listening...... automatically instantly reword, rephrase and re-reference the words to bring things back to their own plateau of knowledge and thereby miss the point and the opportunity to a new gateway. There is an element "Oh I already know"! And sad to say there is a lowering of the consciousness levels too automatically. ( for example: Take the saying of any of the greats like Buddha, Confucius, Nanak......when an average man-of the-street explains and reinterprets it will always be within the context of his experience graph, interests, education and personal inclinations)

Why would you want to get involved in the narrative of others? 99% of the times when we interfere we worsen the situation and bring hurt to ourselves. One should help in dire emergencies but helping other for their good is another matter.

The idea that we can help is a misconception of our mind. Even at home when I try to help I get shouted at. For some reason every time I try to improve things I only make it worse.

Learn to live with the minimum if life situation so demands but never settle for it. Keep working for the maximum and expect it as your due.

Humanity ignores malevolence when judging itself: this is an error. In its manifested form on earth, the Divine spirit is neatly and deeply hidden under layers of ego-centricity, brainless mumble, the subconscious and the instinctive running of the planet by Mother Earth. Humanity is giving itself airs and misleading itself so it can continue with its idiotic stance. Its love for its own "Dukkha" (as the Zen people would say) is superimposing itself on everything. Given the choice of instant heaven vs their Dukkha, not one will opt for leaving life for heaven. Just look how we bring up our children: We don't want courageous progressive thinking individuals; we want submissive idiots who will dance to our tunes. And we keep on the onslaught even in later years by shaming them, criticizing their efforts and also using the method of reverse psychology to control their reactions to get them to care for us and run around us for our gain. The adults perpetuate their miseries, talk of god and greatness but make sure that pettiness prevails on Earth.

Why do we equate "YOUTHfulness" with a body of our 20-30s and activities that we did at those ages?

This is more a matter of MIND. A mind that is growing and maturing always feels young and is ready for more. It is the enquiry quotient and need to learn new tricks that keeps the mind young. A mind that is beset with new questions cannot grow old.

The youngest mind is the one that lets the past go easily, acquires new talents and childishly looks for new problems to solve. A young mind is not bothered with pride, showing off, attracting attention but looking for new creative ventures.

"This has to be done this way" - is a death sentence to the child in us. In the name of tradition, custom and laws all spontaneity is bashed out of the spirit.

Right from day 1 the lives of children are regulated and instructions piled on them. All spontaneity is systematically killed. They are frightened, coerced and educated in a way that suits the parents and society in which they move. How can humans flower as individual thinkers in these conditions?

What is keeping us from instituting a more positive atmosphere in the bringing up of children? I come from the Sri Aurobindo Ashram where I was encouraged, praised and allowed to experiment, make, even waste as long I showed this tendency to "try". Our attitude should be to teach patience, analysis, research, contemplation and to take calculated risks. This is how humanity will progress but NO we do exactly the opposite and shoot ourselves in the foot. Humans are perverted. We start showing signs of distress and fear whenever somebody talks of change and progressive positive attributes.

Most companies, employers manage on the philosophy that they are doing the runt-class of people a favor by giving them employment. These employees for them are expendables; of little value and easily replaced.

Yet life in its basic character is a process of opening up to greater acuity in perception. Mother Nature neither gives rights nor is kind. And even so we cannot forget that malevolence is a thing and exists.

But behind our minds is hovering the ever sensitive ego - better term being amour-propre. When hurt comes from a "person" the resentment is personal and it hurts more because we expect "appreciation" from other humans. It is the expectation of a smooth and wishful life that makes us weak and depressed at the tiniest spill.

Normally this kind of talk is reserved for the discerning class. The world today is in the hands of the mindless class and this class knows not what is good or bad; it knows only that it "wants" something and it will use all and any tool available to it to get what it wants. The intelligencia has not been very intelligent by making sophisticated tech simple and easily available for the inept; for whatever reasons. All I can see is that thieves and crooks are having the time of their lives with such aids now available to them.

- Most things can be said in one sentence. But we love paragraphs.

- Slow down and make your life last longer.

- The future is going to be ruled by cellphones (AI). How exciting things will be! Most of us will be baffled.

- Like Butter goes to Waist, Money-power goes to the Self-important selfishness. Only great old souls escape.

- You are assuming that anyone is even seeking to grow. How naïve can you get? They may speak about it and even dream but look into their subconscious, the bedrock of the foundation of our character -- you won't see any movement there except of inertia and laziness and smug-satisfaction. Until this aspect of the human character is fully understood there will not be any change -- not even an iota.

- All pain ensues from trying to make the moment last.

What makes us act reach for the better?

Can people be? : Always vague & evasive. Always argumentative & non-committing. In the name of helping always intrusive. Very self-praising and critical of others. Almost in continuous verbalising mode. Love noise and great show-offs with nothing to show really. Frog in the well and happy to be there. Basically dishonest. Primarily due to lack of exposure to the wider world outside their village. All the signs of a lowered level of consciousness which the digital age has helped enhance.

We can describe is the basic character of humanity as..... I have often talked of this subject by giving the example of a some-one coming from the low economic income group where even owning a bicycle is considered a privilege; when this person buys a cycle, which for him is comparable to buying a RR by the king. And he compares himself and behaves uppity wherever he may be - totally forgetting his place or understanding the situation. In his mind he is upper class and that is that and his arrogance becomes a standing feature. I think the basic human character is this primarily due to lack of exposure to the wider world outside their village (whatever their small area of operation is).

Question: When we put out words, obviously it must have been with some thoughts backing them using the usual logic of some commonness of meanings accepted universally and when we respond then we are told that what we understand has nothing to with it all and that our understanding is all in our head.....so the words that were sent out were they sent meaninglessly by the sender?

Once we enter the intuitive mind the answers come automatically and you learn because the Universe supplies the answers/explanations in a continuous stream. Every time we hear or see or interact or do anything, the intuitive mind opens a window and all the possible answers can be seen thru it to any question that may rise in our enquiring mind.

In ZEN schools it is said that to teach humility toilet cleaning is part of the assignments. Maybe. I think most students would take it as a "JOB" and as it is considered to be an activity that is namely assigned to the most capable students, it may actually go to their heads as honorable.

I think real humility comes when you are down in life and social status and you have to bear the tongue-lashings of your superiors. In real life derision from your wife can impact your ego more than any other tragic event in this word. Conclusion: Taking a lowly job and marriage are tougher/better schools.