Essentially

I think this is the culmination of my life's learning. I share it remembering some people in my life. Lars Thye of Copenhagen (owner of Lars Laj Aps). Since the day we met 45 years ago in 1976 we have worked together as a team. My baby sister Ameeta with whom my life has been closely linked from the day of her birth. Babu Bhai who came in my life when I was lost and he was there till he felt I sorely needed him.

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Penetrating the fog of Life. *"I can't be wrong and I couldn't have been wrong all this while". Change? Whatever for?" * The pandemic of 2020 has been kind enough to bring us back to ourselves that was largely lost to the world of "over-activity". We learnt again to value self-reliance and be quiet. The spirit was out in the front again and guiding our lives. Unfortunately humans being what they are, the tendency to forget and get back into old grooves is high. So I put all the "essentials" here as short notes and thoughts as reminders for the future from my own "learnings". How we continue from this time onwards will dictate how our children and progeny survive and live it out in difficulty or happiness. I hope that I have been objective enough and it would be accepted by all as a point to consider. PK

What are we doing here?

We ARE because we have a body to manifest in and thru. We identify with the body but disregard it only as a tool towards fulfillment of pleasure seeking activities.

Whatever happened in the human psyche that we think of our bodies as US but do not take care of it? This we leave in the hands of experts who we call doctors. How will the doctor ever know of every aches and pains that you often suffer from and the connection with your emotional state due to the stress of living amongst others and the food you take in and other such myriad things? A few signals that they can watch are all they have to go by and you expect them to know how to cure your ills?

Well, it is true that some tiny weeny terrors have to be ignored otherwise we will become paranoid and hypochondriacs but we cannot forget our excesses.

Have you looked up the meaning of the word Doctor in the dictionary? It is also used to mean... "change the content or appearance of (a document or picture) in order to deceive"; falsify.

"the reports could have been doctored" The otherwise neglected body is always on our minds though as the shape is deeply registered in our genes and subconscious. And for this reason our attraction to the sexual component in our lives is irrationally high.

Our arrogance of being different and unique is the source of our undoing.

Essentially we are what? We are all "HUMANS" We represent LIFE" in a body made from Earth. We are not the body and we all just plain and simple similar with variations to the theme. And we are not alone. Life is represented by other species too.

So are we humans and let us not forget it.

There is great beauty in the containers; sometimes more than in the contents. This is the enigma of life.

The containers are all perishable yet life will go on.

But are we living our lives as intended by the Creator? I wonder. It seems more like a chiaroscuro effect. We have perfected a socio-political system that is all lies from top to bottom. Technically they are not lying. They are living it. The whole existence is basically a "Mithya" - a lie. We lie, accept, and promote things and acts that are not right, correct, kind or acceptable. Not one person can say that he was able to live by the 10 Commandments and these commandments have been there for 12000 years at least. I have read them in Hindu texts and later they have been greatly promoted in the Christian philosophy but they don't seem to have made much headway in practice anywhere in the world except in tribal communities.

Humans are dumb or they wish to hide; there can be no other reason for arguments. Frank and honest people accept each other, correct their views on the way and adjust to new norms as they come up.

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Pradeep, I think I need to say this. I find your writings interesting. I think they are good reading for a certain audience. You assume that you are in some way advanced in your thinking. I would say you are just slightly wiser than average. But in no way are they (your writings) advanced for me. Perhaps this is why (as you put it) 'People keep trying to explain to me what I have already told them' (paraphrased). Is it because they know these things already and want to echo back in their individual style? Perhaps your ideas are considered advanced (with reference to your social / spiritual comments) in Indian society. Generally speaking I would say not so. I would say your Ayuverdic medicinal recommendations are excellent. Also I would take care in referring to others as 'the humans' as if you were not one yourself. And by the way I am quite happy to be a 'more conscious bum'! It's a greater compliment than I deserve.

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Quite right. I am not saying anything greatly new but they are all the things that humanity has suppressed in them and put on layers of the most opposite attributes instead and these must be reminded lest humanity lose itself into the netherworld.

As to humans, the word "humans" is used to differentiate from other living species who in my way of seeing are more conscious like some cats and dogs.

I love your comments and conversation. Often they help me orient myself as I try to focus on just this thing "the next step humanity needs to take"; nothing more. I am simply reminding the few elements humanity could correct to be happier; you know like a chiropractor. A few twists and pushes and you are feeling better and moving faster. Humanity has a way of talking of Supernatural & Occult stuff that keeps it enveloped and occupied in a cloud and in way helps it feel superior oriented but really it is a charade to keep life at arm's length. WE need to get out of this bubble. Brad Hercina ( another FB friend)..... you are indeed correct in that there is very little that I am certain of. And even less the possibilities that others are perceiving Life in all its gloriously simple complexity the same way I am. With you being a writer, the chances are that approaching stories from specific angles was / is also a valuable skill. It equips you with the ability to "report" from the Spiritual World in a very matter of fact way, with the data included to back up the story. For myself, I find your writing very easy to understand, and your "points" well researched by Life experiences. Probably most importantly however, is that I generally relate quite closely with the Spiritual Journey you are on and many of your observations could well be my own. Hence, I am like a target audience for your writing and you stating spiritual ideas, thoughts, principles, etc as being as obvious as, oh...,

Essentially

Our arrogance of being different and unique is the source of our undoing. Essentially we are what? We are all "HUMANS" We represent LIFE" in a body made from Earth. We are not the body and we are all just plain and simple similar with variations to the theme. And we are not alone. LIFE is represented by other species too. Similar to perfume. Perfume is perfume. What is "perfume"? It is something that smells nice and makes you feel nice. Everything on earth is not perfume. Yet it is everywhere and not all pervasive either. It is something very nice and not found all the time everywhere but it is there and exclusive; millions of different containers and millions of varieties and permutations and combinations. We have ""parfums" from Paris, Attar from Arabia, Essential oils from Grass, Incense from Ethiopia, Dhoop from India and Eau de Cologne and Eau de Parfum and scented bags. The varieties are endless. BUT there are malodorous things and beings too; much more in evidence than the perfumes - All in the same family and all here on earth. So are we humans and let us not forget it. There is great beauty in the containers; sometimes more than in the contents. This is the enigma of life. The containers are all perishable yet life will go on.

We need to be more selective to the noise we allow in our lives. Decide who is worth listening to and who not and then pay attention.

But my experience shows:.....

Why do we tend to NOT believe or TAKE seriously our own people but always easily trust and believe what the written word or the TV says to us or gossip brings.

On matters of health and Attitude I speak often as I have nothing better to do. I speak from no hearsay but a long life of study and experience. But when I speak the ears close down. I am bracketed cleanly as the blah blah of someone who has too much to say and does not stop saying it and hurts people's vanities by treating them as "stupids". (I understand and accept the criticism)

I have often seen people giving me the news of what they have recently read and what they have learnt on the subject of something I was speaking to them about only some time ago. It becomes obvious that they had not paid any attention to me (who am I? A person of no consequence who has not done an ounce of anything of visible importance but gives long lectures) but they are so terribly impressed by their newfound understanding that the first thought in their mind is to come and inform me as they know I am interested in this subject.

I suspect my talking of it must have made their subconscious aware of it and therefore the subject was at the back of their minds. So I suppose did do some good.

When we change... when change is required and wanted, which way will we go? Some go towards elegance, more classical thoughts and style; even spirituality and the qualities of humility and unobtrusiveness and others will go towards ridiculousness because that is all they know. Some also think by destroying the old standing infrastructure and goods they are representing Shiva in action and riots are therefore seen as a beam of change.

The stupidity level of the consciousness in general now prevalent on Earth is quite an eye opener.

Learn to forget. We tend to run certain thoughts over and over and thereby keeping them alive and influencing us. Learn to use every free moment to take a journey to a pleasant spot or find anchor within you on some phrases that you should be repeating to yourself from your own discovery that helps you to keep your persona on the right track.

Mother Nature is pushing us forward while we want to go back to the forest days.

Imagine a chimp being forcefully dragged out to wear a suit and preside over a royal dinner in a palace with all the ceremony and structure of a superior class.

The Other Side of The Coin

The 21st century is a time in earth's history which is full of possibilities. We can travel to exotic destinations, we can have all the information at the press of a button, we can make anything we want with the technology, tools and spares available, research i on fingertips, everything is available instantly, we can write, publish and make and deliver any product we want to any corner of the globe.

Just imagine mail that took months to arrive 150 years ago now arrives in seconds. Just think at this speed and the mind blowing possibilities.

For a creative person dying to make something out of this life, the opportunities must be overwhelmingly just too many to take advantage of all of them.

YET WHAT DO WE DO?

We go and sit in a cinema hall and like pussycats watch like timid mindless worms an unreal story that will disappear at the flick of a switch. A total waste of time unless he story is with a purpose.

HOW CAN A CREATIVE, GROWING HUMAN CHILD EVER waste this precious time sitting like a retard in a cinema theatre? Or in front of a TV or glued to the phone?

To my mind it is boggling. I cannot grasp the insaneness of this activity. How vacuous how without purpose are we?

I have seen every single human trying to cram into his 24 hours the most activity he can so that he does not miss out in life with opportunity to make some more money or a sexual encounter. People cut out on sleep and yet there is always time to go and sit in a cinema theatre?

Just can't put together this puzzle.

In the 1950-70s when here no places to meet, specially hidden from prying eyes, the cinema hall was a good escape place. But now in 2020 I don't know how it relates except for the big screens and surround sound experience.

A closer inspection of how humans lead their lives shows that for a little excitement they will really go to long lengths. Like fast cars are always in fashion as are the amusement parks.

But when you talk to each other there is rarely time to interact or for family or our children or our commitments professionally. Our ideas of what constitutes wastage of time and wasting it away for others who are anyway only important to us when we need them is a subject that really needs serious examination.

What is the most prevalent emotion in mankind?

My answer: Anguish.

Before reacting to my reply, please reflect.

Most of us would think of Love and would jump to contradict this statement like the trained minds (monkey-minds) that we are.

Love is the strongest and most powerful emotional movement but the most prevalent is anguish. The Driving force of love cannot be contested but it is also the emotion that starts most of the cascading other emotions in us. Nothing in our lives brings more anguish than the concept of, the thought of, the idea of and the expectation of what we call Love.

Humans have not analysed themselves properly. What they call love is the primary motive force in Mother Nature to create more babies and there is an instinctive wave to it. All the species know what to do and how to take care of their babies and nurture them. But humans are more complex. To their persona is now added a mind that is a little separated from the instinctive mind.

This is the intellectual mind that can override the instinctive mind and this mind can be trained to operate in a given direction. How this mind will project itself eventually depends quite a bit the way it has been programmed in the early nascent stage of childhood. This is the general assumption. This is quite true but along with this there is also another factor at work and that is the basic nature that we were provided with when we are formed in the womb. It is rarely thought of but even the spiritual atmosphere at the time of conception leaves its mark. And one of the elements that form our persona is Pride.

This is the element that creates all the anguish in our lives. Humans have called it the Ego but really it is nothing but the simple fact that LIFE loves to be appreciated. It would have been a great boon because this emotion prompts us to appreciate others too. But we demand attention and do not understand why others don't appreciate us; the fact that others have their own axe to grind is lost on us. The flip side is resentment.

And we have much to resent too. One the most important resentment is the fact that instead if life flowing the way we want it to, it takes altogether in another direction and this is rarely happily accepted. Add insult to injury, we are normally forced to resign ourselves to accept it.

This is heavily resented although most of us can do really very little about it and we go about giving the impression that this is exactly what we had asked for. Resentments run deep; very very deep. WE may resent where we are born, into the society we are born into and the wealth and conditions piled on us and the pattern of behaviour imposed on us by this accident of birth. There is always so much to resent: why is one born to be king and the other a lowly peasant? Why do we have to do so many things in life against our wishes -- why are we forced to conform and yet put up a brave face of being satisfied, content and superior? It is galling.

Al these questions weigh heavily upon us but we rarely ask or contemplate how we can live more efficiently so that our future generations may live happier. We are normally so focused on our own short joys that we destroy the fabric for later and often find ourselves deep in the morass before we are released by the inevitability of fate.

BUT WE CAN BLAME others and this can be the mitigating factor in our personal lives but also discharge negative emotions into the atmosphere. This permits us to feel good. Good enough to continue appreciating ourselves in the image of what we imaginatively see ourselves to be.

So what is the image of you that you have? Until this question is answered properly nothing can be resolved.

But yes this one fact stands out; the world dos not appreciate all the values that you have. This is the crux of existence. How to make others appreciate us? This is why "BEING APPRECIATED" is such a big thing. It helps us value ourselves. Even false appreciation is ok.

Unknowingly we stand firm in our convictions and blame other for our ills. We are even prepared to lie and cheat as long as others see us in the good light we want to be seen. Often it is for short term profit but the hurt we do is long term. Just as revenge and anguish births in us we are doing our bit to birth it in others. As the population grows things are becoming cruelly complex as the number of people around us is growing and so are the demands. We are all of us pulling and kicking up each other's tailbones.

The arrows we unleash are flowing around us and not will sooner rather later come to hurt us. Humanity needs to understand now that there is no space for individual ivory towers. The good, the bad and the hurt to unleash will flow around you and you would too be its target. The emotions of revenge, envy and lust know no borders. Humans do tend to live in the illusion that life is = " I " & others. While I am perfect, virtuous, visionary the others are nincompoops, village urchins just out of their shells. Shatter this illusion yourself otherwise life will be forced to step in and this can be very painful indeed.

The added sting to this emotional warfare is the fact that our procreative energy is highly dependent on this appreciation factor. We cannot have sexual outings until the corresponding partner appreciates us enough to lower and do away with all the barriers...... And this is where all the pressures and problems begin and mount in human affairs.

Mother Nature has really swindled us into this state of affairs. Our need to be appreciated, to have sex also happens to be the Creative Force that makes us great. This brings the poet out in us and all the lovingness that we are capable of.

But again this selfish side in us does not make us good sociable beings and we throw about our actions and reactions, our resentments and bickering around with great abandon. We have to prove ourselves don't we? This is causing so much strife and anguish. The study of how humans force themselves on others just to prove to themselves that they are a "somebody" can be an eye opener into our dirty secrets of our beings.

It hurts to acknowledge but nobody really needs us. We may be useful to many and they would surely see that much at least so we stay together; but none really needs us. This is a sobering fact that is the foundation of a happy contented life.

Many individuals saw through this machination of Mother Nature. Behavioral rules were advised. Protocols of behavior were laid down. But instead of helping humanity it only curtailed their basic instinctive nature and created more frustrations and anguish. It also gave us Religions and more reasons for strife amongst us.

When we have lived long enough, we may out of fatigue sit down some time and reflect on the life we have had. We all do this one way or the other. We replay the moments and unwittingly we give birth to anguish in us. The unfulfilled dreams, the opportunities that we did not know how to profit from, the errors we made, the stupidities we committed, the stories that we cannot tell, the harm done to us that we cannot forgive......all these are hovering around us at all times and we pile up more anguish as we go along.

Quite obviously comes to us the next question: How do we reduce this burden of anguish?

The answer could be childishly simple:

Reduce the expectation quotient.

Appreciate genuinely.

Look at your own follies and see the same follies in action in others; specially the "Being Clever" element.

Then never forget. You really don't belong here on earth. You will be leaving like all others before you. What the hell are you so lathering about?

On the plus side I can vouch that we all get to be "Queen of the Spring Fair" at least for a short while in our lives. Be content with that and live away your life unconcerned with what others may be thinking about you. And please leave others alone to their demons.

We all have to live with our demons. It is a lonesome journey. Once we accept this and re-evaluate our lives with this in regard, contentment comes.

PS: It is good to not protect our children from the feeling of disappointment even with best inputs of conscious efforts and attitudes. We should let them learn that the vagaries of life will overwhelm us now and then -- be with in their moments of crisis as a pillar of support but let them experience it all. Certain things are best taken in our stride. Tomorrow is another day and if today did not speak in our favour, perhaps tomorrow certainly will with "MORE INFORMED" input of course.

Donna Osborn

That was quite a read. I agree that anguish is a lasting emotion. The trick is not to 'languish' away into a state of tamas, which is almost paralyzing and leads to an unfulfilled life. We are lucky if our personal story, the one that starts with 'once upon a time,' unfolds as we would have it until the ending. Even if it doesn't, with that mind that you mention, we can edit the script and hopefully see that it was all the Divine, waking us up to our short comings and we can proceed from there. A friend made a profound post this morning, she said, "Try looking through the eyes of God and see in yourself what he sees..."

The Human Spirit.

I see with sadness the weakness that has been sown in the human spirit by these scientific-wallahs. Everything is turned into a sickness and they have a pill for it. The child is hyperactive - he needs a drug, he is indolent - he needs a drug, safety rules have tied people down in knots, people are depressed they are given a pill, they are angry -- they are given a pill; they cannot sleep and there is a pill for it.

The clever community has drugged the world into dogged silence. There is no pain, nothing to fight for, no reasons to go out and risk one's neck. We humans have fallen for every trick they played on us.

There is only one thing on people's mind: there should be no sadness, only positive and ever climbing graph in our lives. The slightest damper breaks our spirit. Lately in the 20th century we have started the philosophy of appeasement which is actually in its most crude form a kind of weakening of the spirit. The ruling class saw thru the weakness of the populace and in the name of safety and protection and satisfying our small needs, they gave us shields to protect us from the shocks and hurts of life. Now we have reached a stage where we are so weakened that a push and shove is not required; a small nudge is enough and we go tumbling like nine pins.

The message is: Just live under the wing of big brother. It is sad and does not bode well for this crushed spirit that humans feel so comfortable with. It is devouring us.

Learning and Change is all we want -- at least we say so -- we even insist by arguments like" who would NOT want to improve one's lot?" But what they constitute as improving may simply be an increase in the satisfying of their desired goal like more money or a new woman every night to play with or simply being admired and be in the news (becoming famous as they say). Honestly; look at our activities: We read as many writers on the subject we can find, we see movies to help our mind grow and we join in discussions galore. But none of these are really impacting our subconscious or the patterns registered there. Most of our life is run from there. Obviously changing the table-cloth will not change the quality of the food served.

But in human affairs change has always been cosmetic. The underlying motivations are neither changing nor improving in the desired level of result. The same emotions are driving and manipulating us.

From what it seems from a distance is that you are playing an unending game of marbles with a set of permanent friends from the neighborhood. But forever it is the same goal achieved. We are not looking further.

Ever the same game; the permutations and the combinations of the game of life remain quite the same. Think for a moment; What did Julius Caesar want/desire and aim for? What did Ashoka, Akbar and Shivaji want? What did Charlemagne want and what was the aim and goal of Bonaparte? What does the President of USA want and desire? Do you see the pattern?

The game never changes. The talent level quite commonly remains the same. The desired result is enough to please us. When the game of chess that most of play ends we go to bed to get up and start another next day. When we win our ego gets a boost. We are content of being the better one.

Technically it is all the same; on and on till death part us.

"Try to make it work kindly & lovingly"

TOO MUCH REGULATION AND TOO MUCH TECHNOLOGY ARE BOTH KILLING THE HUMAN SOCIAL FABRIC.

They brought in minimum wages and a lot of employers stopped employing.

They brought in machinery and created unemployment and a society without money to buy their goods. They used foreign cheaper labor and lower standards. Then they went one step further and moved the work to foreign cheaper lands and impoverished the country that resulted in riots.

They gave them Appliances and communication tools and made them lazier. They distributed credit cards and indebted all.

Thieving is easier than working for it so cheating got inadvertently promoted.

And then we gave them fast vehicles to steal and run and organize themselves from a distance thru cellphones.

What are we actually doing? What have we done?

The humans are anti-intelligence.

We wish to survive without others around us but need workers to fulfill our needs and run our factories but we do not really want to pay for services yet when it is our own turn we insist on being paid for every little thing at very high prices.

Is this sustainable?

Machinery and automation should have a simple purpose. To help the worker - not replace him.

Machinery should be permitted and adopted only where it can be concretely demonstrated in jobs that can be done better and more efficiently with mechanical help.

What you call your wealth is not yours. It belongs to Earth and you are here only for 3 score and 10 years or so.

Bring your hearts out into the open. Share and strive for contentment.

If you are special it will show.

We need each other.

Things were simpler, normal and natural before religious fanaticism entered the picture and then bankers joined in.

The error I feel though is in the legal system that enforces "possession" and too slow to redress complaints.

Nothing in our social fabric today enforces "Try to make it work kindly and lovingly"

What is going on?

- Of course I love receiving gifts; who doesn't? But in my case I have no "money" clout in the world and as a good-for-nothing do not really merit great attention..... after all even if I am, let us say, displeased, I don't scare anyone into worrying.

So I normally get gifts that are recycled or are not really givable to other more valuable relations.

I am glad that at least they thought of me to be valuable enough to give a gift to. I am really pleased. And then I quietly recycle the gifts away - this saves me a lot of money from buying new ones.

PS: why is this so? I suppose because we are more clever than intelligent. Kindness has little place and commitment not at all.

- How do you use your ego in a positive way?

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari:

Ego is "energy" of great power. A strength; without it there would not be any action.

But its logic and reasoning has to be broadened to include the understanding that all the stuff that it considers insulting may not be so. This is where education comes in.

This is where it all begins. Good education starting with understanding of what is important/UN important, how the world works, the psychology of people behind their acts and words become all important.

If your good sense is angry at certain things, use the anger to correct the faults. Anger is basically the ego not in complete agreement with the world.

I'll give you an example in passing. As a language teacher and a strict "good-practice" buff I normally do not like loaded questions that ask me to say yes or not. Why not ask open ended questions and wait for the reply. In younger days this would make me angry and I would browbeat the other guy into feeling null and guilty.

Now I still get angry but at the same time I have educated myself to understand that these are one of the bad habits humans pick up unknowingly and that if I can answer, I should never the less. This habit does also give away the spiritual level of the person asking but that is another matter. Those who are open take it well; others try to justify back or even attack me personally. Here I just withdraw.

- To most of us we ARE our face. I deduce this from the SELFI craze.

- We are just too many.

It is like the floods.

It has to happen

- The Element of Terror is part and parcel of life on earth.

Should we be worried of what is happening in 2020.?????

The small Dino was terrorized by the Big Dino.

The Stone Age people were terrified by wild life.

The Vedas talk of Demons but they came and got lost.

The Persians, came, made huge palaces and got lost.

The Egyptians came, flourished but then go lost in the Desert.

The Greeks came, The Romans came, and the Caliphs came.

Killed and made millions miserable

Then came the dastardly time of the French Revolution, The American Revolution, the British Empire, The Russian Revolution, The Communists, The Japanese, The Germans.

Cruelty is the hallmark of humans. And they never learn.

Mass deaths due to the hurtful thinking of the leaders have been the main cause of suffering since the beginning of time.

Terrible times all when all were afraid, hiding away hoping NOT to be caught in the turmoil.

Has anything changed?

This is just a moment.

I'll come back in a 100 years and see what finally transpired.

- LIBERATED Humans enjoying their lives in their boxes.

We use the box to get out of the box. But cannot see the box.

We become aware of the box when it starts crumbling due to damp, rot, white ants or simply accident of weather.

Nature is so kind.

Strategy for life.

Hardening up the individual from childhood to weather the storms in adulthood was the concept of the warrior-hunter when life was without modern protection & guarantees.

Then came in the medicine of "removing Pain". The entire thinking veered towards removing pain by analgesics, kindness; the "rights of individuals" meant that they enjoyed the right to be weak and to be protected by all of us.

"Psychiatry" also took this route and idolised trauma and stress and focused on removing it by drug formulations and advice to not be strict or difficult with children in case we give them "bad" experiences. This has created sissies and acceptance has only created a huge market for the pharma industry.

MY ADVICE: Raise your kids with love but firmness. Don't make it easy but make sure of safety. Goad them to take on challenges

We tend to think like regulated automatons. Our thinking is so based on a set timetable that we get perturbed by things not going as planned and we see tragically misadventure in our future. Like the child has to start school at age 5 and then regularly reach an age after passing regularly all exams and take a job. Then marry and start a family and that is all there is to it.

Today we see the loss of a few months as absolute disaster in our career progress as if life came with a guarantee.

But suppose you had been sick? Or after graduation you could not find a job? What would happen?

Would it be the end of the world?

Then in the lockdowns you would have learnt to appreciate and enjoy other pleasures that come with aloneness - are you giving value to that?

I wonder why males and females see themselves as separate species. It is a devilish development in the thought process of humans that set them apart as two different armies with constitutional rights and the hormones pumping away in the background.

But this divide fostered by the females has only sowed the seed of sex in male minds and excited their hormones and the distancing has made it worse as an unattainable pleasure while the women show themselves off more and more. Specially so that after thousands of years males are expected to restrain themselves in more ways than one.

Too much value has been given to the body while the emotional being sulks in the corner and the mind has been locked up as a disturber of peace.

Sex has been made casual and valueless by the stories that we see on the screen and gloriously unavailable in real life. The idea of RESPECT and restrain has degenerated into a vulgar phenomenon.

Let us see what shape things will take when the bubble bursts.

When the world was made, humans were given the constitutional rights that the gods will not interfere and act directly in human affairs.

One exception was allowed: Individuals when they called upon god, the gods had the option of responding or not as they thought fit but only on individual call.

The slightly clever among us saw this constitutional right as an opportunity to make hay while god's hands were tied.

Not only this, these charlatans find other minor charlatans who climb on the band wagon to preach and spread the word.

I think the stupid ones are at the bottom of the pile who take home their photos and statues, place them in a HOLY corner, sing and dance in front of it and think that their lives will be taken care of according to their wishes. Anyone allowing him/herself to be revered has a soft weak spot and has stopped growing spiritually. Nothing godly here.

It is a huge mass self-defeating movement initiated by our lazy bums but FUN

Apply SELF-Control on SELFISHness.

They will do what they will do and have decided to do in their best interest.

The populace wastes its energy in giving its views

Humans like to pay hugely for their lessons which otherwise come free from Mother Earth and the Universe.

Each of us, you included should be focussing on becoming better humans. Just that. Leave the spiritual part out. The word spiritual is a mistake. It should not be there. There is nothing like it.

Humans need to develop all their positive, constructive and creative talents and attributes.

But let us also look at the other end of the spectrum and see what is going on.

With ideas of security, rights and "all are equal" we have made a mess and only let loose mounts of garbage. Mother Nature never gave us any promises, guarantees or assurances of long happy lives. If not this situation, it will be another; we are drowning whichever way we look at it.

The multiplication table is out of control. We tried better governance by making Republics, Constitutions and Laws, providing guarantees and Life Insurance but all this has finally resulted in misgovernance and large scale cheating by those clever enough .

Let us talk of our resources. It is finite. We all agree but live as if it is not and each one of us wants it all without sharing. Now that we are basically comfortable our goal has become "PLEASURE" for the sake of it. Basically the sex urge is so strong in nature that it is simply not possible to control it thru mental self-control. Since the beginning when the life expectancy was short, the message has been embedded in the human subconscious that having children is a good, a wanted thing and an imperative need of society. It is one of way of rationalising our need to have this activity. And then for this we need houses, cities and the full gamut of infrastructure.

Then suddenly the picture has changed. Life expectancy has gone up. The multiplication table is out of control and to top this we went one step better by giving them tools of childbirth control; we have let loose the Devil of the sexual urge with abandon. Society now accepts single parents, and there are antibiotics to take care of any disease that comes thru it.

By hiding the human female anatomy, we have created a psychological chasm and problem of gigantic proportions and we still do not realise the gravity of the issue.

Maximum of our laws and misdeeds are can be traced as based due to this practice of glorifying the female to such titillating levels that now we have few normal humans. The otherwise neglected body is for this reason always on our minds.

The rulers, those in control and even the basically wise man on the street sees that the population needs to be controlled or we all go down with the ship. [Their methods may not be wise though]

On what grounds did this idiot humanity decide that we are all equally intelligent, responsible and sincere?

I have never understood this focus on Saving Lives rather than live healthy - but here too there is this money making element in the background so it is not difficult to understand.

So you see at one end they want more people and want to let things go on & on and then at the other end they want to control - OR DO THEY?

I don't think their search for vaccination is for our good. It is one way of ensuring that a plausible picture is created so that governments will want it and find it easy to impose on the populace, the techs/pharmas/marketeers will make money, the people will continue to get sick and hospitalisation will make more money for those who matter.

Every one of these rich ones know that they have only this moment to live it up. Death is a certainty. Who cares? No one... not really.

Does the average Joe give much of an image of a person who cares? No. He is too focused on lamenting and happy in it.

Depression, Fear, Anger form part of our lives There was all this in my life and still tries to enter in as many ways as it can. We are made this way. But there is this Yogic process to get out of this morass. I have gone thru it. I am talking of it from this angle. For us these were mountains to climb and conquer. With the Guru and Divine by our side we never saw it as problems or sickness as humanity normally sees them

Humanity as a whole has to eventually go this way and rise above it all.

PS: The modern medicine and psychotherapy has taken humanity on the wrong path by insinuating that these are treatable or helpable illnesses. That they happen to hapless individuals and it is alright. No it is not.

These are not illnesses but better seen as small demons of errors in our make-up and character, as weaknesses to be understood, out to devour us and we should, we need to learn to subdue or rather neutralise their actions in us and thru us. This for us is the Yoga of the strengthening and purification of the mind.

The fault is in the population that is allowing itself to be played.

Virus or no virus it is the lack of sense of responsibility both at the Management level and at the "common-man-in-the-street" level that is taking us down under.

Until these qualities enter the human consciousness, this game will go on.

We now need an infusion of...

Live by need alone

Act responsibly by being basically honest.

Understand that nothing here is ours - we are only guardians.

Question ourselves and control our baby-making machinery.

Focus on growth of the intelligence and mind.

In short apply SELF Control on our SELFISHness.

IF not then we shall be played and the game of life will continue one way or other as Mother Earth doesn't really need us to survive.

We humans act on a "need" basis. Our relationships are solely on this basis. That is we become friendly only when WE NEED something.

Once the need is over, our attention shifts and there is very little time left to look back at things that are already discarded in our minds.

Don't grieve on relationships ending. Grow up into new ones.

Reclaim your narrative..

You believe in the fact of the EVIL-EYE? We all do. If the Evil Eye can affect people without any physical element present, don't you think the virus would be something more virulent?

I have seen children falling sick with fever and then cured by just some mumbo-jumbo done by some lady. I have no doubt that this is a truth that westerners and western medicine do not understand or accept.

Since the beginning of coming of intelligence, shamans have been telling us that the physical world is an emanation of the occult world and deeply influenced by it. Rather it all begins in the spirit world; our bodies are the final symptoms of a far-off malaise

Humans have been gradually taming the occult demons into physical forms through their understanding of science and use of technology.

If most humans don't feel or see the connection it is due to our insensitivity and that our eyes are not well honed and our minds not made aware of what to see or recognize the signs.

Unfortunately humans will dig a big hole for themselves if they continue to follow the line of thinking they are doing now. The vaccine will be the last step in complete capitulation to the demonic forces.

Last year a UK lab published report that antibiotics kill the body's ability to fight he virus. This year it is conveniently forgotten.

All these demons will have us and once they have converted everything into gold, they will reign supreme. Humanity will be dead.

God will have to start all over again.

- Sadly Speaking..... Remember the end.

No real guru would behave as insincerely as Drona did in the entire Mahabharata. Bloody shame.

And for that matter the behaviour of Bhismpitama, Yudhistir are all also puerile. Is this what we want to give as message to future generations? Unfortunately that is exactly what we are doing and have done.

Yesterday I started talking with wife Manjula about the life examples as given in Mahabharata and Ramayana and the stories in them. She was not happy with what the stories were relating. I strongly AGREE with her and more.

I have always been of the opinion that these epics are the examples of HOW NOT to live and behave. All the stories now can be seen in Indian society in the most abject ways.

We have imbibed the behaviour without understanding the philosophy. The same is now the basis of all our movies and TV serials till some time ago.

The whole atmosphere created is negative, non-progressive and in the pretext of showing what life is we are not.... never showing how life should BETTER BE to make it better.

No wonder we are lackadaisical, excuse givers, irresponsible, liars, totally insincere, beggars and tyrannical.

PS: The only good thing in it all is the Gita which IS NOT part of the story at all. It was added later into the narrative.

- The first essential is to recognise others for what they are, Thugs are thugs. Rascals are rascals and forever will be so (generally peaking).

The general human nature is quite an established fact. No running away from it. All teachers when communicating have to take this established consideration in their calculations... Or for that matter in all decisions be it at any level of life or government. What is good or not good for the populace becomes very important as either it will be mostly misunderstood or misused.

You cannot allow your artificially conceived moral compass to guide you as to how you think things should be. There is nothing such as what is best. Every individual if he can at all be called that is at a very separate level; lessons have to be carefully graded to be positive and affirmative.

This is the big error that is being made in "spiritual teachings and dissemination of "GUIDANCE".

All I see is misguided chicken flapping away without purpose and finding great meaning in their every misdeed while the so called spiritual masters, religious organisations, churches, life-coaches, psychoanalysts, astrologers and such bums make fortunes

- Reclaim your narrative for yourself.

Whatever you resist dealing with in your private life inevitably shows up in your public life. Any separation between the two is a mental barrier that astrology exposes as the flimsy phantom it is. Everything you have been able to confront, hold, understand, and heal within your family system helps you to better show up in the world with clarity. When you are able to accept your family for whom they are, and not who you wish or even needed them to be, you'll find fountains of self-acceptance for yourself. Unearthing the expectations and stories others have of you about who you are and what you are supposed to do helps you reclaim your narrative for yourself. [ From Chani Nicolas]

SOMETIMES I WONDER ON WHOSE SIDE ARE WE?

This is basically the problem

Wherever antibiotics are not in great use, people have done better.

Wherever western medicine is prominent in use the problem has been worse.

I now understand that antibiotics damage the glandular system and imbalance the gut bacteria.

The body is simply not able to cope.

I have little doubt now that most of our serious illnesses take about 20+ years to become troublesome enough to make us conscious of them.

Till then we smugly go on, pushing mild symptoms to the back of our minds as minor inconveniences. This is a dangerous attitude and none of us is immune to it.

The western medicine with its wonderful science now gives us tools to mask the symptoms and this is a BOON to the microbes, bacteria and viruses. While humans douse the fires with antacids, antipyretics and analgesics, the microbes eat our innards to their entire satisfaction. These little beings have the backing of the entire malefic spirit world but I suppose it is best not to talk about it too much for fear of being considered an idiot.

SOMETIMES I WONDER ON WHOSE SIDE ARE WE?

The Arrogance of being separate.

The human mind would like to make us believe that we are separate from Mother Earth. A powerful individual thinking and acting from the highest possible intentions closely resembling The Gods he has constructed in his mind. What a lie we live. This mode of thinking has become more prominent as the mind developed with "writing" and started depending on words for information and guidance towards wisdom. From PRACTICE we took a few steps back into THEORY.

Now our heads are full of words called knowledge with no practical experience to understand them.

Wherever the western type of education has spread, there is also this thinking that we are separate from the whole of earthly existence and we do NOT form a part of the complex chain.

We have now convinced ourselves that we are separate, complete and all the problems that we have to face come from outside of us.

Medically this has led us to think in terms of antibiotics, chemo and such. Now the thinking is forcefully taking humanity towards dangerous vaccines and investigative procedures that are painful and often create permanent damage too.

Naturally subsisting humans will disappear unless Mother Nature does something to stop us. The Covid virus is the first lesson and warning. Yet already with the pandemic all around us we can see the humans trying desperately to go back to their moronic ways.

The second lesson has been with us since thousands of years but Mother Nature does not seem to have found a way to make us listen to it although we "read" it studiously as part of our basic education.

Albert GrashiousL: Why are some of us attracted to toxic thoughts, habits and people? That we know is no good.

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari: Good question.

I understand that deep within there is something in us that responds and would love to come and play if we would only allow it. But something bigger and self-controlled keeps it under check

Two advantages were obtained from the Lock down.

It gave us time to organise our medical response and understand how vulnerable our modern living has made us. Our concretisations have created huge hot spots. Water-bodies have been directed into tanks, pipes and bottles. Mother Earth is now a huge barbeque.

It has conclusively taught us that we cannot escape the universe and there is no running away from Earth. We are not separated from the chain and links however much we may think,

And there is always death to consider.

Large scale plundering will not do.

Back to minimalism and naturalism

Not a good mix.

I had a deep subconscious dream.

Why are women treated so badly?

In the meat eating & flesh exposing cultures, the fleshy being that is our body and serving as a housing for the spiritual being that we are has lost its meaning or never had a big meaning. We are attracted to it as a person and take it seriously when dead but in life it is just another entity for our amusement till it is available. In our psyche it has really not much meaning although we pray, love and adore it too in some instances. But from the way we murder and kill, the way we rape and molest, the way we love and hate, it is not convincing that humans give it great importance.

Finally those who think of sex only and food and that too the meat only as good stuff to fix their hunger, these people can see only the meat and cannot value the flesh beyond its meat value.

After you have seen carcasses at the butchers and the heartless way they are treated, hung on hooks, and nude women in pictures, on the screen, on peaches and pools, there is really not much left to command respect or reverence.

Add to this the natural sadistic side that is in all of us. Our pride, arrogance and lying.

Men rarely meet others at the mental level. There is too much discord in thinking patterns and habits. Emotionally there is a spark but it soon dies down due to pragmatic needs. When words get bandied about the atmosphere clearly changes into dislike and hate.

Not a good mix.

Keep it simple. Enjoy the aloneness and the company of your Soul if you can get in touch with it. Living well does not mean owning a Porsche and 20 tons of gold stacked somewhere in the Bahamas that you don't even get to see.

People always wonder why I did not want to do anything like starting a company even when the chances were given to me and why I refused good offers etc. mainly because this to me was like putting mySELF up for sale.

Huge dowries were offered but I refused to be tempted because it was effectively a transaction.

And every time even without trying when I became richly successful, I found that undesirables would start taking interest in me - rather in all the things surrounding me; very annoying indeed.

And all of a sudden all want your company that I had no inclination to share.

The more you have the more a prisoner you become while trying to protect it all from it being stolen or damaged.

It only brings a life of anxiety.

Most egos won't let you come near.

A good gesture done in all naiveté may be interpreted as an insult and showing off, specially when the other has inferiority complexes and most humans are very conscious of their social standings.

When I came out of the Ashram it did not take me long to see that most people are so busy proving proving their selves that they are taking the short cut to prove themselves thru clothes, objects, products and generally speaking showing off their money - even when they don't have it.

It is surprising how education and self-improvement never really seems to be the method used by humans to impress others?

We children in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram of the 50s/60s had teachers from France, England, Germany, Australia, Japan China etc and eminent personalities from every state of India. And we were only 6-10 in a class.

Our language abilities and multi-cultural understanding + general knowledge and practical knowledge from having done things were way beyond normal.

With the result the best minds out in the open world could not easily argue with us or impress us. I could see the frustration and complexed they would feel.

There was always a lot of envy and jealousy and this need to show us down with peer pressure but NEVER did I ever see this feeling arise in anyone that they could also educate themselves and rise above the rest of the crowd.

The situation in today's regimented education is no different or rather it has become rotten and worse.

In our quest for being seen exclusive

Yesterday I was listening to Jane Goodall on BBC in Hard talk.

She mentioned how the professors in Cambridge when she went to do her Doctorate scoffed at her to treat and consider animals as intelligent, thinking beings with personalities.

It was their contention that only the human species has intelligence or any personality.

The whole world knows different since the beginning of time but these intellectuals on whose education depends the education of this world were talking absolute baloney.

No wonder this world is in such a sad state of affairs.

When the Europeans came out of the Dark Medieval Ages they thought of themselves as the bright stars on earth because they had no inkling of all other races and cultures on earth and promptly dubbed the rest of the species as dumb and idiots.

So they took up their guns to help the world become a better place with their wisdom and their Christianity and spread out to annihilate the rest of the world. The effects of which we are still seeing and it seems will continue.

- I just remembered an encounter with a small hotel owner in a remote town in France who kept a nice place but was too clever to be really good. We even talked of business ethics and management philosophies and eventually the relationship did end with a bad taste because his method of communicating was too harsh.

The sentence that came up then in my mind was "Vous etes trop encloué pour être vraiment bon". Loosely translated I would say - "You are too stuck with your ideas to be really good"

- The Futility of Being SEEN separate and Different.

In our quest for being seen exclusive in some way, how much effort goes into imprisoning ourselves in activities that are of NO value to the Mother earth and friends and family and give us really no exclusivity worth talking about?

Take this man who has nurtured his nails to become a few feet long, something that nature designed to fall off; so what?

I see only someone who has imprisoned himself in a maintenance program that brings him nothing but restricts him in more ways than one.

- Do you realise you MISunderstand more than you understand.

That your miniscule persona with the little ego is making sure that you don't grow and that you stay an idiot because otherwise it will lose all control on you and the life it is enjoying thru you? It keeps throwing bits at you to appease your idea of being somebody special and keeps you bound to the small praise that you get and the money you are able to make. A whole life may pass you would remain spiritually only a 20 year old.

And that this is the state of the majority of humans.

So we are really unknowingly deliberately confounding issues to avoid the need and effort to grow understand and make any effort to learn.

- Finally people do what the TV tells them.

Life's tutors today are the TV adverts.

I have noticed even the doctors go with what the Medical Reps tell them.

The minds are totally constipated and cannot think beyond taking a laxative now and then by forgetting even that much. It took how many years from man to evolve from the Chimpanzee/Gorilla to what we are today.????

I suppose it will now be another same period of time to become fully intelligence driven

Well, I am surprised

It is astounding and unbelievable that human minds are so limited in their "view" of things and so self-gullible. How we fool ourselves. We want our cake and eat it too.

I fail to understand how humans managed to survive on this earth all these millions of years with this attitude.

But we have to face reality. This is the Truth. Most minds see reality only as far as what is visible. Their view stops there. When people talk of "change" their idea is go to the Beauty Grooming Salon and get their hair done differently in shape, design or color or if they have disposable income they buy a new wardrobe.

The human mind like to put 2 and 2 together as fast as possible and be done with it; smug and happy to "know"; smugly justified and satisfied.

You can see people stoically ignoring symptoms and signs. Never acknowledging the real reasons by explaining them away cleverly by so many other directly visible and relatable causes; it is more like an exercise in obfuscation... Either not using their intelligence or too much of it.

You might in your goodness want to reach out and help every living thing around you. There's a danger of being too helpful and supportive, it could be tiring for you and which some could find stifling, overbearing and ego-pinching.

I have seen this attitude in people coming from USA. My first contact with American thinking happened more than 60 years ago with youngsters from Peace Corps. Later on American businessmen and then tourists.

Their choice of words was always condescending. They had no idea about India and how we think or our thousands of years of history behind our psychological make-up. They were actually very selfless, wanting to do "good" and treating everybody as acceptably inferior species. Naïve is the word for them but dangerously so with their money power.

Take for instance Narcissism in humanity. I think it is one of the most marked and spread out trait but the people have not and do not wish to acknowledge it. There has been an immoral cover-up that can be traced way back even before the Stone Age as necessity to stay together. They based their judgment of others on the few gestures they see while the sadistic behavior continues with very few exceptions. The sad part is that It is true, it is known to be true but knowing that this is true does not help as we are socially bound to go along with the mass acceptance to survive.

You deal with one engagement, a short while later another will erupt. They go and on. Nothing affects the instigators.

They stop only when they realise that if they continue they will end up hurting their interests. They are very clever that way. This is the reason for the continuing threatening attitude the human creature takes in all relationships.

If you do not have strength of spirit, you crumble. Because not just the abuse and the quarrel with you, they take the battle further by gossip and often by action like bringing in the law or making scenes in public or at the work place and others and make life difficult for you for the long term.

And if conditions of life do not allow you to break off or distance yourself, it is like waking up and waiting for being served the daily cup of poison and hoping that the day will pass off relatively without irreparable harm.

It is the human character to think that we are complete and whatever we are doing is also complete. Our minds are not vast enough to encompass too many subjects in depth. The little we know seems to serve us well and in healing we seem to mange to heal anyway or seemingly.

Then there is the problem of language and concepts and theories. Too much interdisciplinary knowledge can be confusing.

A continuum is maintained by ensuring that the children get compulsively and obsessive shaped in the image of their parents to serve possessive purposes.

This world will not change.

NOTE: The subconscious insists strongly to stay put while the mind wants to roam and upset the cart.

I have been correlating data thru numerology.

The number 8 is generally what is prevalent on earth now. Number 8 people are field workers with minimal awareness and little need to. Their action is on the earth plane and they do it well. I have seen that their ability to grasp anything beyond the obvious is limited, specially of the spirit world. They don't want to either. It sounds like a hoax to them and escapist literature.

And it is quite right too. When the house has to be swept, clothes washed at the well, or the garden tilled and the work in the factory done as per orders, how does the spirit world matter?

All this talk of the higher minds is just a lot of great sounding thunder that only makes them run away inside.

Then there is the other side of the picture.

Are humans ready to be let loose freely on this planet?

Historically till now I see no evidence that they are anything more than ready for anything but servitude.

Personal Responsibility in Health

PERHAPS Ill Health AGREES WITH OUR SUBCONSCIOUS TENDENCIES.

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I notice a deep belief in the western minded/educated population about the western medicine's explanation of disease. It looks like white washing to me to make it palatable. For example that most diseases are genetic...easily explained in natural medicine by the fact that the same habits and lifestyle patterns flow in families from one generation to the next. The body adapts and passes on the memory because if that is what it has to live with then it needs the adaptation but this can change if situational changes can be incorporated.

Nature is always ready to change if given the chance.

One of the biggest reasons is living on some preferred things to the exclusion of all else. A pattern of life and disease forms.

I personally think that the western medicine methods of diagnosis and suggested prevention methods are downright BRUTAL. CERTAIN TREATMENTS ARE BARBARIC and not treatments at all.

Evidently they are all quite satisfied by the medical assistance they are getting. They obviously do not want to see from the other angle that had been in force before the 1950 era. -- "thinking" like taking every little signal seriously and learning to recognize the signals; not suppressing symptoms and natural rebalancing when an unusual activity in the body is noticed.

How humanity has come to accept the brutal medicine [not speaking of surgery] of the modern thinking is quite an amusement to me anyway.

So be it

Preventive medicine:

Note the small irritating symptoms that keep showing up every now and then. They will show the way to the tendencies genetically the body has. Give a thought to how and when it happens.

Keep a record about the triggers and consciously avoid that route.

Study, read about all available info on the causes and preventive methods as naturally understood in natural medicine.....and make changes in one's lifestyle to preempt the disease.

PS: Of course. It doesn't really matter in the final analysis.

Philosophically speaking, finally all that matters is the "learning" acquired in this lifetime.

In the human condition as it is now in the evolutionary process, "SUFFERING" plays a big part.

How one chooses to suffer is totally another ball game and not very important because we all learn the same lessons in the end.

But there is this point that we could perhaps reduce our traumas by going along with Mother Nature more. There is also the fact we could reduce our stress by not letting our habits rule us.

In my own life I saw experts having total sway in India and everyone always focusing on the some ailment in fashion then for every ailment or symptom. It was more like a ball game with no responsibility in the curing process.

The Vaid who had learnt traditional Ayurveda empirically could not explain but his treatment worked.

The allopath couldn't understand his reasoning and he could not understand the allopath. And both of them did not have the mastery of concepts and language to understand each other or explain their points of view.

Interdisciplinary understanding would require a wider education of basics as well as language and understanding how terms used by one system mean or translate into another system of medicine. I was particularly not impressed by a doctor friend telling me that homeopathy was like using gutter water. His mind-set was to be noted.

Talking of people alive now, those are basically evangelists/self-styled god-men talking of things that people like Buddha are supposed to have said. Not very original in their thinking.

What they do is like Big Pharma. Alleviate some pain and let the cancer grow in the deep. God does not speak thru anybody. He needs nobody to do his work. First we have to clear the debate that there is/are gods. To me it all seems a beautiful human construct which is born out of our insincerity and irresponsibility. This gives us a hook to hang our coat on.

Just note all those also saying that you are complete and that you need to only listen to your soul. So where is the truth?

The so-called God-men make huge pronouncements only to fill up empty heads of their followers and "arrogance of the knower" is all there is as the end result of it.

Often some good general advice is also forthcoming but mostly it is so badly (language-wise) said as to be valueless. Then there are those who have really realized but don't know how to get it across to others as their language power is not adequate or somehow they do not know how to relate to the listener's ability to grasp the point. And this makes me think on how intuitive or understanding they really are!

The genuine sages always went for one to one advice and reclusion as that is the only thing that ever works in essence. They abhor becoming a public figure.

The rest is MITHYA. Illusion of knowledge, the pride of knowing, the virulent arrogance of great worth but NO change forthcoming..... Therefore valueless in wisdom .... but of great worth to start wars.

Note : Anyone allowing to be revered has a soft weak spot and he has stopped growing spiritually.

· Sally Boult to Pradeep Pk Maheshwari: exactly, because he is ego-driven.

Bill Evans: Why make this assumption? The Buddha was purpose driven...no ego involved.

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari to Bill Evans: how did the Buddha enter the conversation? We were talking of people alive now, that are basically evangelists/self-styled god-men talking of things that people like Buddha are supposed to have said.

Buddha was an original who spoke of what he had personally realised. Most people are reinterpreting and adding a lot of their own mental-constructs into the package; does not augur well for the evolution of this world. As to what you say about my assertions as my own constructs is correct. Whatever we write are basically our constructs. Yours or mine.

Yes Sadhguru is a fine man and I appreciate him like I appreciate Osho. I have learnt much from them and I also value highly Castaneda, Bertrand Russell, Guy de Maupassant, Somerset Maugham, Guru Nanak etc etc

I think you miss my point entirely. The people don't matter but their pronouncements are not always understood, mostly misunderstood and these wise people do not know how they are messing up life on Earth. Just note the wars, killing and hurt that have ensued; note what havoc Jesus's/Mohammed's words have caused.

Problems get really complicated when these wiser human are made into saints and gods and become excuses for our dirty tricks.

This is my point.

Don't need more people

When we consider Death as an anomaly and outsider, we have an unreal disturbed state. Death is the only sure thing.

When I look at some people I see their thoughts dashing about like whirlwinds inside their skull; locked in tight.

This makes them useless as a part of the bigger world.

They can think and relate only subjectively concerning and focused on them.

And when we try to speak to them in wider terms they automatically presume that we are either complaining or need their help/advice.

The limited one square foot space (in the head) they live in can give claustrophobia to people who associate with them.

We all have, individually, all the knowledge and experience to lead the life we are leading and planned for ourself; complete in itself and by itself, complete by each self. When others force-feed our thoughts they only sow seeds of discord.

Just let others be. Wait to be asked for help and assistance. This way the question if asked becomes "live" and purposeful.

Yes it is also true that we all have different configurations and we have to live together. That is what makes it a circus [reminds me of Charlie Chaplin's movie The Circus] down here and is best taken with a pinch of salt as a big joke.

From this angle I like FB. You share your thoughts. Who picks it up and does what with it is left to destiny. All that is demanded of us is to post the most authentic feelings and thoughts/experiences in all sincerity with the aim to share.

What will it be?

Peace of mind or excitement?

You have to ask the mind to shut up. Enjoy everything as true until it proves itself otherwise.

Retreat into childhood and enjoy the goodies offered by adulthood.

Just dont trust humans.

When it comes to downright abuse to cow me down, I have received my fair share of it. Wanting to live differently from the crowd normally invites it.

There is so much talk of trust and forgiving. But this I would call at best over simplified to become palatable to simple minds. The real issue that we should be focusing on is FORGETTING.

Whenever I could I would retire from an association to avoid any further repeats. But this is hardly a solution because what is destined to come to me will end up coming because my "Nature" needs it and something in me needs to be strengthened or corrected.

[Humanity normally deals with the issues by blaming others, fate and karma - the easy way out although it resolves nothing and these situations return with redoubled efforts]

Well to cut a long story short, if I kept stuck with remembering all the abuse I have known, I would have been by now in an asylum and missed the life-lessons. But I learnt the art of forgetting. I haven't actually forgotten but I let the memories slip into oblivion until some incident reminds me that I should be careful about my reactions and responses based on old patterns of behavior as a "repeat" is coming. So I handle the new episode better. But now I have learnt to nip the incidents in the bud as I am not attached to the outcome.

To make my point clearer I would ask you to think back on your relationships; How automatic they become and how repetitive. For example if there is a friend who is always asking you to do things for him or her. You do it so the friendship does not end. Then one day you understand and do not agree to his demand. Softly tell him no. Be friendly but be categorical and remove yourself from the place. No doors are slammed shut but the demarcation made clear with no fear of the outcome.

PS:

But essentially I felt I do allow my soft corners to upstage my pragmatic side. This is a weakness.

· And as can be seen today....it doesn't matter a damn.

You think what you want to but the doers do what they want to.

Socrates, see what they did to him.

What do you think happened with Christ?

Every reformer is met with deathly resistance.

More recently we have Jeanne d'Arc, people like Galileo/Keppler.

Because we do not give much value to good sense, people like Hitler and Stalin can happen. History is full of them.

It is like creating a politbureau of Diamonds where Pebbles are the ones valued.

· All people who lecture know the subtlety of making the audience feel comfortable and the need to put the listeners in a happy state of mind. Humor is indeed the only way. But to be humorous requires to be basically well read, understanding of cultures so that lecturers understand what will annoy and what will amuse.

One of the topmost ways of breaking the ice is by presenting oneself as a minor buffoon. This puts people at ease because they feel that the person talking to them is human and approachable.

One of the better ways to create a humorous start is by contrasting the seriousness of the subject with the presentation of oneself as not being so good enough as to really do justice to the audience.

If you can make the people even smile, you have made a good start. The sentences need be smartly made to present neutrality and in no way critical or attacking the audience.

Take the joke on yourself and all will always be well.

· Why does anyone feel the need to get personal.... where we start attacking the person instead of the subject.

I think this is typical narcissistic behaviour?

What is wrong in me saying my thing, you saying your thing and then we sit and ponder over it. No need to need to get into an argument.

Whenever there is this need to get into a verbal spat, you can take it there is an ego situation.

· Yes "buttering up" is learnt early.

Perhaps it is the teacher's attitude that invites it.

To inculcate honest behavior the child needs to be SHOWN it.

· If you give a moment to understand that narcissism basically is a psychological response where we want everything to go our way and we are ready to hurt others and blame to be seen as superior beings. Cleverness and cunning form a strong component of the whole.

Does this not reflect our society?

I bring this point up because until and unless we accept this fact we shall never consider change nor improve and become a real power to contend with.

· In business dealings and relationships people are what they are by habit.

It is up to each of us to deal with people and life as each of us wishes to.

There can be no rules and I chose whatever I thought best at that moment. Perhaps today I would change my tactics.

I still don't see people changing or deserving too much attention.

I believe in the old adage: Treat everyman as a gentleman until he proves himself otherwise.

The Unreal world of make-believe.

The make believe world is very real and it is easy to get lost in it. It is a world by itself.

It is not our world and should be left alone to those who want to live in it.

They give us stories to live by and teach us the vagaries of life. That is the limit up to which it should concern us. What the residents of that world do is not our concern.

The mistake is when we start associating ourselves with the actors and the machinery behind the celluloid world.

All that should matter us is the story we "see". And after having "seen" the story and leant whatever we could from it,, we go back to our own world of brothers, sisters, aunt and uncles, bosses and friends.

Prithviraj Kapoor playing Akbar - remember the Akbar.

Charleston Hesston playing El Cid; remember the El Cid and forget the rest.

Look at characters on the screen as drawings in a book.

There is no problem to solve. Just concern yourself how the stories are impacting your subconscious and your life thereinafter.

The problem if any is that the people are identifying with the actors and would like to be in their shoes and take things personally. The answer: Don't.

The human character is to spend all its energies on the world that sees outside of itself so as to not see the world within itself asking, rather begging for attention. Actors today are the celebrities with keep ourselves busy and the sportspeople. They have no reality with our lives but we insist on making them the only things of importance.

If today the electronic media disappears it would make no difference to our breathing and life that we carry within us and the lives we lead as a matter of course. THINK.

And this is not all.

We have also stepped into another UNREAL world and this is of the Gods.

We have made our lives more complex and confusing by making our own gods that are supposed to do our bidding.

The root of the world's problem is that these gods don't listen. This is forcing us to fight for every inch and among ourselves to get what we want.

If we don't have felicity, it is because the gods are so recalcitrant, so stubborn, so adamant, so difficult. We make them cathedrals and Temples, crown with real gold but are they pleased? No - the big blundering bullies that they are.

Yes people are such hollow beings. They look without for others as hooks to hang their coats on.

For example look now the practice of all those who wish to show themselves off - what do they do - they copy paste memes on FB and pass it off as reflecting themselves.

They have nothing to say but know what needs to be said.

This is "Here"

We are always here. We may go out and come back But we were always here. We may go visiting continents away We will always be here. We are never gone anywhere. We are here with ourselves. We move or stay put We are always here.

PK

- Alcohol the local leveler.

Well known, well understood yet the most common preferred drink by this twisted humanity.

To me its being so prominent as a dearly loved item clearly indicates the overall bent of humanity: the need to forget and run away from Responsibility. The great need to NOT take life with the seriousness it demands... Not understand the value of this life that is given to us. ..Missing out on the greater pleasures for some moments of oblivion that often is a greater source of greater nuisances, pains and tragedies - bringing more pain that needs more forgetting.

A demon that finishes by consuming the human.

- When I hear someone celebrating their 25th/50th marriage anniversary - in love and total beatific existence........

What?

Are you a human or protozoa?

Did you stay together for love as you say? Can humans love?

Or was it a total lack of initiative, or a mix of laziness. langour and the small comforts that made you convince yourself this was perfectly beautiful and satisfying. You were being taken care of, you were served - what more?

Why I am always thinking of an inertia-filled domestic acceptance of one's existence is more like it?

Nothing ever came to shatter the peace between you and the other? No quarrels, misunderstandings, always total acceptance and silent beatific indulgences?

You want me to believe this?

Keep the adjectives a little more on leash and reasonable please.

- Indians are basically book Learned, exam oriented types. Their grasp of practical realities and pragmatic skills, even general information from outside their limited circle of life is not very high.

This online system of education being adopted, isolated studies will make it worse.

It will certainly also create and worsen psychological neurosis and cases of disturbed minds will rise.

Instead of focusing solely on books and programmed lessons we could also get the Education Board to include selected movies to teach out certain life situations.

Take for instance movies like Ryan's Daughter, El Cid, 55 days in Peking, Gone with the wind, Dr Zhivago etc.

Make these movies the text books and part of the syllabus.

These are extremely engrossing and educative. It educates and takes the boring part of online learning out.

I have seen the lectures coming on line. Some are good but most are bad and some are downright horrible.

The teachers language, intonations, pronunciations are so bad that it might as well ask the student to read his book because the exams are mainly tests of memory anyway.

- hahahah

It has really never been GOOD.

Never.

Just realized that this earth is God's "Coliseum" Arena and we are mere gladiators playing to the gallery.

- A conversation of some merit on the question of good and bad as seen by humans and the understanding of the Action of God., based on the same mindset as those of the Christian concept of a separate God and the need to do God's work because God is incapable or the fugitives from God need to be brought back into the fold.

Sri Aurobindo has been made into a God and now his army is going around convincing others to follow his thinking. While they feel grand, superior and special.

PK: It is saddening how in their hurry to "Spread the Word" the Ashram authorities first made the Samadhi into a public place and later all the "Followers" became preachers/pracharaks.

What have they achieved? They have only achieved to dilute by the power of 1m x the Power of Sri Aurobindo's focussed thoughts and energies and made him into a minor god in the Indian pantheon.......while there is no change in the lives of the followers.

Gunwant Agarwal

Fully agree with you. But let Sri Aurobindo take care of this. Remember, earlier there were no children allowed in the ashram. But after the big storm in Pondicherry, many homeless families took shelter in the Ashram. Mother graciously granted them protection and henceforth children too became a part of Ashram. Then followed the establishment of schools etc. Also the morning meditations which were held for hours were stopped. All this happened while Mother was there physically. So current changes also have a role to play.. But what exactly is that, we do not know..

PK

Sorry Gunwant. You missed the occult message I was giving.

This kind of rationalisation does not wash with me.

For one the Godly realms send us vibes and Grace but they do not enforce or act directly. The human is allowed independent action and that is a kind of constitutional right in which the gods rarely interfere.

Sri Aurobindo often sent telegrams to the Congress but did they always listen? And he could have made the changes on his own using spiritual strength but he did not.

Mother often said that she had sent the thought but nobody received it as humans are NOT receptive.

Sri Aurobindo also said our effort is written in as part of our destiny.

A lot of things were allowed IN the Ashram due to the political or social necessities of keeping the Ashram going. I was always there and in touch with trustees till 4 years back.

The shape things are taking are constructions of the human mind.

Mother knew that some were lying about Auroville funds and the Society etc but she let it go on.... so what shall we conclude?

Gunwant Agarwal

I could not write some things on a public forum. I am certainly aware of many concerns that you mention. Actually all organizations go through slow degradation after the founder passes away. The vision of the founder takes a back seat after his death. But obviously Sri Aurobindo would have known about this. I do get puzzled by the fact that his disciple Mulshankar was stabbed to death while protecting Sri Aurobindo from the attackers. The first time I read this, I couldn't believe this. How come Sri Aurobindo didn't protect his dear disciple? There are certain mysteries which are unravelled later.

PK

Precisely. We cannot allow our sense of morality to reinterpret signals coming to us. I am writing to all the thousands of people who are feeling sanctimonious and superior by posting photos and quotes instead worrying about their own "sadhana" -- their own developement. This is a sheer waste of energy.

It may not feel nice as it may hurt sentiments. But that is precisely what I want to do. Break the ice so that some thinking can enter their consciousness.

And you are being kind in your approach. We are here and around us a battle is on. We don't need nice people but wisdom in action like the Japanese Samurai.

Your reaction is very emotionally "human". You do not realise the harm being done in the occult manifestation of truth by these people with "holier than thou" attitude. It keeps us down and back; it aids to keep the humanity down in the clutches of the vile forces by giving them excuses to not change. More than the excuses they ordain themselves with great values making them think GODLY and fill their pot of virtues.

Patch up the sores

How blind we can become to the harm we do 'cause we do, what, we in our arrogance rationalize as best for all.

- There are two ways to solve situations:

1] Exacerbate them and let them burn out. Provoke the snakes out from their holes. But then you must have a clear plan to fight them. Or once you have exposed yourself you are going to be gobbled up.

2] Patch up the sores as they come up and seem nice. Nothing is solved but the image projected is of a good one.

PS: The problems of any country/family/individual do not rise or build up in a short time. The waves that we see coming over us today started to build up a long long time ago.

- Do you remember the snapshots that used to come in the papers called "HAPPINESS IS......" .

I feel the first lesson that needs to be learnt in life if one wants to be happy is to learn to BLAME IT ON SOMEONE ELSE.

One thing is certain. We open our eyes in life and see all doing it. It comes easily to us. Avoid being seen as the incompetent at all cost. If necessary never take decisions, never commit and never behave responsibly. This is how one achieves "CONTENTMENT" in this life on earth.

Enjoy as long as you can.

Oh that this will come to a bad pass later is another matter.

- Effort is written in your Destiny.

Even with my Ashram beginning and a life of many possibilities and the Grace of the Guru sometimes I get depressed because nothing seems to happen in spite of my efforts and I am hurt by all around me. But patience and prayer is all we have and plans need to be put into action to somehow reach our goal.

Think at a tangent. Lateral thinking is what is direly needed. Humans get bogged down in their predetermined linear thinking patterns. Learn about possibilities that are open to you from the standpoint of where you are now. How to hoodwink all the blocks around us etc

One of the things that keep us back are attachments and fear.

The FUN of living

The word itself, the word RACE in any of its form has been a trouble maker.

Humans need to rise above it.

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Why so much bother about who thought/wrote or said what.

Let us focus on our "View" of things. All we need is firstly an honest heart-view of what we make out of the world. Then we wonder "why am I feeling this way".

Finally we laugh and enjoy life.

It is a continuous swaying between the subjective and the objective.

Eventually, you are there but only as a witness; above it all. Descending into it now and then because the need to go and buy bread never changes, but yet untouched by it all.

A little amused, a little sad. Amused as you can see that the creatures out there cannot see the joke amongst all the seriousness and sad that you cannot do anything to alleviate all the tiny storms of suffering each one has in his head.

2 big questions and my replies.

CONTROVERSY 🔥

Anybody can be, anything they want to become,

Dare you be no-one? Madhusmita Dhakal

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari: We already are no-one. That is the human problem and we try hard all our lives to become someone. Someone who will be noticed and appreciated.... who has some meaning in this basically meaningless life that ends in death anyway after all is said and done.

The moment we leave behind this need to be the center of focus we become a nobody; at peace with ourselves. A contentment comes upon us but yes we have to then live with only our self; a little alone but free to be whatever we want. We may not be "a somebody that would come on the front page of TIMES" but we are OUR Self in the purest element.

‎Rati Agarwal Gupta‎ to eStaffroom

One of my favorite questions to ask someone..

What's your favourite role ???

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari: I am a "Creator"; Forever wondering how I can improve life and cure the ills plaguing us. I am never sad. When something displeases me or is not to my satisfaction I find means and ways to repair/change/redo it to my satisfaction.

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I am mostly speaking from the deep human nature point of view based on our understanding of human nature as shown in the tantric way.

There is something very common in human nature and history has been repeating itself since the beginning of time because the humans replicate themselves and whatever they do.

Humans miss it all because they like to label things paying more attention to the commas rather than the content.

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We aren't racists or casteist or unkind. We are plain and simple OPPORTUNISTS. Too clever by half!

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What is the point in talking with "MAYBEs" and "PERHAPs"? If you aren't certain stay silent.

When you are trying to explain something away with a vague maybe or perhaps, you are not accepting the story being told. It is a simple method to hijack the narrative,

You are in fact trying to fit a new story within your old mould of thinking or story picture.

Why? Mostly perhaps it is more convenient this way.

Why not accept the new story and rearrange the data in your mind and grow with it? "Perhaps" this would be too much effort? ( Now here I am using perhaps to launch a debate purposely).

The reason for raising this point is that when you are thinking or letting yourself flow in a mindset of Maybe and Perhaps, you are purposely leaving a wide margin to deviate, change your status vis-a-vis anything on your mind and IF you come across at a crossroad where change is needed, you do not allow a pointed thought to pierce, embed or take root. So change cannot be possible and is expressly avoided.

People don't allow anything to register and they prefer to stay stuck within their arguments like in a spider's web.

These are the worst kinds in my book. These people with education and positions in society have so much potential to change the atmosphere and things at ground level but they mask it all behind a curtain of uncertainties. - Mainly to avoid effort.

A great loss. These kind of people cannot by the nature of things have a place in my book as all words, thoughts in my book are calculated and weighted for a specific effect and there with a purpose.

So either you live with a purpose or you go about bantering your life away.

I personally choose purpose.

"It will displease".

One of the things in the Indian ethos is our need to remain silent about disagreements or/and bullying for the consideration that "It will displease" and invite further ill-willed reactions.. This is true; we are emotional babies and we are easily displeased, insulted and shamed. And this is one attitude that we promote religiously.

Why can't we be open, frank and honest? Take things with a pinch of salt and humorously. It would cut short the duration of misunderstandings and pave the way for real development, Action and development -- stronger deeper friendships.

From where I stand I can see only a peeved population clamouring for attention but afraid to voice it; the sad part is that it always tumbles out of the cupboard at the most inopportune moment as a quarrel or at best as an argument and show of strength. It is a vibration continuously transmuting into violence.

When I ask someone to do something, he may at heart not agree to it for genuine reasons but he won't say it then. He will simply maintain a studied silence and then NOT DO it or worse do something quite contrary. At your end you have planned differently taking his acknowledgement as acquiescence and then at the critical moment you are at a loss. Often there is loss of material, money and time. Anger bubbles up. Try to see this aspect in personal relationships and public affairs; for example... - The clerk or doorman wants a tip but will refuse it and then sulk and not cooperate later. - The corrupt official will not say it but block your file from going forward. - The friend will accuse you of taking him for granted.

This story from the news simply does not make sense to me: "Why did you consent to a relationship when you were not wanting it?" reply: Because I thought he would be displeased. "Then why are you complaining now?" - Because he had promised to marry me and now he won't.

The great amount of poisonous feelings that are unleashed for no reason is astounding and then we wonder how this world could be so vile, non-progressive and full of negativity; Illnesses and dirt. We never see our own role of irresponsible behavior.

Take for instance this collection of my Bedtime Stories that I wrote for Aruna. One of my home publishers agreed to publish it in 2017 with a promise that they will take it up in 2019. In 2019 I reminded them about it and asked them point blank if they are taking it up. The response was always "yes; it has been sent to the publication department". I waited 2 and a half years not offering the manuscript to any other and 2019 came and went; no call for the final manuscript. So I started to send the manuscript to others but this pandemic tanked everything. So no recriminations but I simply put it on Amazon as a self- published book and that is that. It would have been so much nicer if the local publisher had the courage to be honest and tell me that they would not be taking it up and I could have tried other publications in the two and a half years that I waited. Now do you think I would ever want to do anything in return for these people?

How to Fake it.

You want to learn to be happy?

Then look closely at the human race.

The human race on earth today has mastered the art of being unhappy. Specially these faculties: Faking it, Imagining it, Pretending it, Wasting it, Sulking it, Scoffing it, laughing it off, Waving it off as unimportant and Unseeing it.

All the diametrically OPPOSITE ways are the secret to happiness.

YES. Look how we exalt the Chimera.

We all know deep down that it is as untruthful as the image we project of ourselves. When we wish to avoid talking of ourselves we deliberately choose some other subject. Earlier it was the weather; now it is the screen personas and virtual reality.

It is a good way of being seemingly involved without liabilities.

When we look at these manufactured celebrities from the film or for that matter any industry we are really looking at what we feel we are too and stand alongside. Had the circumstances of birth been different we are no less. Anyway we show our alignment with the images they conjure.

It is all the technology and lifestyle that has built-up around us that has created a "weakness" syndrome in our entire physiological make-up and made us less tolerant mentally.

We are now thinking in terms of vaccines and antibiotics, concrete and insulation to protect ourselves. The body is losing its ability to fight its own wars as there is really no need to develop its defenses.

We want it all now and expect a regulated and thermostatically conditioned environment 24x7x365; always well fed with choicest and preferred food alone and no ups and downs in anything even relationships. We expect to be understood and amused at all times with the world moving and behaving in line with our moods and preferences.

We are manufacturing garbage individually and collectively + industrially which has to "BE/remain" on this same planet - where do you think the dirt will go? IT IS BOUND to come back to us.

We are not victims; we are the perpetrators.

"Here come and buy me"

Why are we so keen on stopping people from meeting their fate; if death/sickness/trauma is what Destiny has ordained and is their wish, WHO ARE WE STOP THEM?

This is the tragedy of this season's pandemic; the absolute need of the governments to maintain the old normal. Restarting would be so difficult with newer norms and controls. The present populace is known and understood with people who have already been clearly and cleanly brainwashed.

It must be clear to all clear thinkers that it is not safeguarding you. It is safeguarding itself and its continued existence.

See how money is being freely distributed to labs, corporates, and institutions with some of course to lowly individuals. How the small business has been effectively killed while the corporate businesses have gained. How digitalization of spending brings them greater control and taxes.

If you still think they are protecting you from dying you are not thinking and perhaps you deserve this condition for abdicating your responsibility for your life into the hands of a coterie who couldn't care a dime for you.

You have been at war with yourself since more than 150 years and keep calling the Devil with "Here come and buy me"

The way the Medicine Big Pharma, Chemical and industrial empire lobby is behaving, it is like the Church in Middle Ages. Same Mindset and from my shamanic point of view, the same Beings running the show.

The same insistence on Dogma based on Profitable Protocols. Just ask yourself: Do we really need so many cars? Why car production is such a big deal? Because it shows a great Gross national Production figure and then it requires petrol to run and a spare parts industry that seems to provide a lot of job opening. Mainly the focus is on the taxes it brings in many forms on a continuous basis. And the pollution and the sickness it brings? Who cares!!!

The Institutionalised Medicine system to benefit the Controlling High priests runs on the same principle.

The same Witch Hunts to shut up all contrary thought. Dissent curbed at all costs. The coterie that runs the show is protective itself and doing it for itself. We are willing pawns.

Similar use of government laws to established their hold.

The same disregard for humans and human life.

Man's behavior is aligning with the Ogres. With more physical machinery to hurt, the physical arrogance has gone through the roof. Our cruel dispensations are out in full force.

Speak not against their wishes.

Stop them not. One word in contra and they smite you with the full power of THOR.

PS: We have been devising ways and means to protect ourselves from the weather, labor and disease and every step we have taken has made us weaker, more prone to hurt and illness both in mind and body. Knowingly and mostly unknowingly we are living afraid; afraid to rock the boat.

YOU are NOT yourself

On education and how it is murdering the spirit.

In the formal and capsuled environment of today we are training the minds to think linear and "ACCEPT" certain given parameters and ingest facts as ordained. It is even backed by law to think in a particular style and method. Non-acceptance of dictates invites punishment. Is this conducive to "Learning"? NO?

This is only creating the highly informed and computerized "personas" of today that are totally useless in an emergency, cannot and don't want to even think beyond the socially accepted norms. This way of BEING suits the commercial world which is increasingly controlling governance. So now we have established common syllabi, common fashionable trends, world organisations like WHO that decide what we should do and what is best for us. Personal needs, and liabilities have been thrown to the wind. Individuality is looked down upon as it has been since the beginning of time but now it is easy to enforce and spread because of education having gone large scale and customized. By coupling the education with Government approved Certificates and grants and then making the Certificates the platform of all activities like running a school or teaching or starting an industry, the establishment has effectively produced robots who pay also pay for it to become it. See how in the final analysis people now think and behave. Fashions are dictated by industry. Psychology is dictated by the practice of psychiatry. Medicine is either TRUE or fake. Mother Nature and personal experience has been trashed. We do what others expect. We want only what others think is valuable and correct. The mass control and authority that was first intimated by The Romans is now today a reality. "It has gone so deep into the basic human sub-consciousness that it has given to birth to a special kind of character -- "Some people are so virtuous that they make it their life's work to fault others or find errors."

Take for instance the beauty industry. The commonality of thinking what is considered beautiful is astounding to me to say the least.

In a school gathering of my daughter's class I was rather numbed into a kind of shock on seeing the faces. All the mothers looked like alabaster marble busts with moving eyes.

What kind of cosmetic beauty make-up is this? Is this today's idea of looking superbly smooth everlasting young? I had difficulty in recognizing which one was which. They looked the same to me and I thought, God, has the museum from Florence walked into this room?

What culture is this that prides itself in hiding itself so thoroughly - Inert and lifeless?

The Unsaid Things

Nobody is ever asking the real questions. We have always avoided it. What I am not sure of is this due to ignorance or willfulness. Or is it plain fate or simply how things are as ordained by the Universe.

Even more likely is the fact that deep down we know that if we ask we shall get the answers that we do not like and then life will become more excruciating as more effort will have to be put in to do something about it.

This post that I saw indicates the human tendency perfectly:

Mitchell Rose

He should have never been tested. See? This is what happens when you're tested.

All general statements are widely broad-spectrum. Look into the general and then find your particular.

Feel the pulse of the Universe and align with it and then find joy in going along with it. Make changes, develop processes and products to make the alignment needed.

This is the core of life. This is fun

When I understood the karmic cycle, I said to myself this repeat and cycle of retribution must stop and I started by not hurting or avenging back; not even truly defending.

Only protecting myself as best as I could.

Let karma spend itself out.

This is the crux of it.

Divorces don't happen because we aren't good for each other.

Divorce happens because we are too selfish, overbearing & controlling to be friends.

We allow our anger to flow and overtake our lives purposely as this gives us the reason to separate which we desire after the first wave of passion has passed deep within us.

Tremendous shape language-wise merely means he is a good looking hunk and his youth has youthful appeal of course and the strength that comes with age.

Medically it means nothing worth talking about. As it it is the western interference with the human body has left the human biochemistry shaken and stirred to a point where it is no longer fully there.

From what I can see of all the westerners I meet that they are loaded with vaccine, antibiotics, GMP foods process into inedible waste and disturbed by total dependency on artificial light and weather controls.

I am not surprised that appearances are deceptive.

In candle light we are all beautiful

Humans have deliberately worked hard to increase the divide between the sexes and given too much of an importance to the baby making machinery.

The time has come to trash this.

Instead we must increase the interests of young ones to become engrossed in other hobbies and interests and grow in ability with multi talents and "create' something of value for the coming generations.

At the same time increase their awareness philosophically that the baby making machinery is very alluring but brings only momentary pleasure and can maar one's life, destiny and future prospects by the existential need to provide for the family and give them a protective home -- you know meal times cannot wait.

By simply denying and saying NO to stop them from making any errors we are not helping. We need to make them understand and create alternative interests too.

When we are young we don't really know but for some reason we hanker for coupling up. Adults know this and after their own experience of life they become more pragmatic and although they think that it is best for the progeny to be fixed up with a partner soon so they don't go astray there is also like in India, a hankering for dowry. People with sons dream of dowries while the parents think of the price the son will bring. The girl's side is afraid of this burden but would rather see their child settled in a good well provided home. Behind 99% of marriages is the Greed for Dowry.

Behind many of the cruelties in married life is the greed to blackmail HER father for evermore.

Her beauty, education and companionship rarely are the issue. In my grandparent's time anyway most couples met only in the dark of the night in candlelight or lamplight; in this light everyone is always beautiful and the woman was there for taking care of the home and children so nothing really mattered.

Today in the educated scenario things have got complicated. It is always how much dowry she is bringing in and how much she can bring as an employed woman or her value as a servant in the home.

NB: Never Forget never: all cats are grey in the dark.

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PK: What does the world know? We are not a nice lot. Believe me

Does anyone ever really peep into the male spirit?

What do they see in the female of the species?

In the west people marry for passionate reasons and the marriages don't last.

In the east we marry for every other reason but passionate attraction to a particular woman. We rarely are given an opportunity by society.

In both cases marriages exist as the world does not offer any respite or options otherwise. Romantic dreams are never satisfied. So we have a disgruntled dysfunctional society. It is easy to understand the marriages of young people failing because the hormones initiated them. I have so often said that marriage should be after the age of at least 35 and divorce not allowed when there are children to care for.

[Malachy Matthews](https://www.facebook.com/malachy.matthews.1?eid=ARBHGMaV-QJj35JsgrQy5gqIYh7k99EsQ5JLguDIq-ZvYhMPQIdgORwZLTkOUgmcAYjo5pPfWGp5Qjq-): So Pradeep, if what the post says is generally true in India (which I am finding hard to swallow), do prospective brides not see through the system and resent being a lottery scratch-card? What's in it for them? I'm asking on the basis that all humans are self-interested, not just the male in the marriage.

Pradeep PK: Women had no choice. Even the young men/boys had very little choice. Alliances were and mostly even now made on the basis of the wishes of elders/parents. Though I may sound like exaggerating a little to give this point a bit of extra flavour, the children in the marriage had little or no choice. The arrangements were always based on family status, caste, financial and political aspirations. Astrology played also a part. As most young people had no idea of any relationship with the opposite sex or the world, it worked as there was nothing in their minds or memories to think or desire differently. Hormones demanded attention that is all. The brain was trained to think that way from day one. Mostly a good relationship would eventually develop between the couples. Of course the opening up of society in the last fifty years has made some difference in the professional families.

The Time and Place has to be right

Why women fall into the clutches of BAD men?

Firstly their own hormones are looking for outlets. The young ones have some built-in selection method already that is attracted to strong physical ability rather than intellect; more like Nature needing strong bulls to create more strong bulls to hunt and till thee land.

These hormones are designed to select the most strong and healthy looking/smelling (pheromones) males. Mother Nature has only one interest -- the propagation of the species and iself. Unfortunately these males are generally low on the IQ or EQ side too and definitely not ready or designed for a lifelong commitment to one partner. (This is why I advise to wait till one is nearer thirty. Till that age flirt but do not get attached/involved) The education about life is sketchy and incomplete for which we need to blame the parenting. We fill the child's mind with Christian values of goodness which is sorely lacking in reality. The education is mainly in the most opposite direction of playing it safe and nothing is taught about self-defense, kidnaps and circumspection. Secondly to all the above we can add the basic nature of the ego in the female. It all begins by the feeling of being "NEEDED"- This does them in. Males are good actors. They need the women so badly that they are ever ready to grovel, submit to all infamy, and even go to long lengths to satisfy all whims and wishes of the women. Women are so pleased by all this that they are "sold". Sentences like "You are my dream come true", "You are ravishingly beautiful", "I don't think I am good enough for you", "You are astounding in so many ways" spurt the vanity to accept the male's overtures. Women do put up a few tests and men who pass them are given whatever they want. Vanity also makes them feel that they are in control not realizing that this lasts only till they are solidly stuck and confined.

This is the trap. Very difficult to get out of it and even when one realizes that one is trapped, often our pride does not accept it and we continue to believe that things will change or we can change the human with love and such other nonsensical thinking. Sometimes the use of brute strength of the male does not let you run away either.

Don't tell me later that I did not warn you.

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN

A labourer sold his daughter for Rs 30000. When asked why, he said that that was the going rate for girls.

This is the problem when there are buyers, sellers will appear.

Sociologists may cry hoarse that this is immoral and against God and what not.

But reality is that girls are expressly being given birth for "selling".

This is the great LOVE that these "humans" talk of. Charlatans totally.

One young lady was engaged with great ceremony. She had known the boy for 10 years. She insisted. But then something soured after the engagement. There was some talk of dowry. All LOVE flew out of the window. The engagement was broken. The family showed great courage in breaking off because the insult in society is seen as great.

The problem is in the false appearances we support. The insults we perceive.

Once a manufacturer came to my office to discuss exports. He had a young lady in tow. Her presence put me off. But I watched as my partner discussed. But the behaviour of the man was offending to me as he was treating us as if we didn't matter and that he was the man in control so self-assuredly. To top this he was continuing to receive calls on his phone and conducting his business as if I was the visitor there and at his entire disposal. When the phone rang again for the fourth time I asked him to leave.

My partner was deeply annoyed with me because that man was offering the young lady as compensation for the export order and my partner so wanted it.

Women too have been quietly involved in selling themselves; I have talked to many. They say "how does it matter?" It brings in great wealth without much effort. They forget (or do they?) that youth lasts only for some years and then it is the trash can. OR perhaps they know this well and make hay while the sun shines.

Playing on their innocence.

Humans, Men over women, women over men, trap each other by offering the other the illusion of POWER over their selves. Example the buyer feels that the seller needs him and glibly agrees to all terms the buyer asks but once the sale is made he retracts on all of them. The man offers love and consideration and promises galore, even momentarily meaning them and the woman is assured that he is under her spell but then when bored leaves the woman. The woman shows a loving and adoring side that the man simply cannot refute/resist, gets totally overwhelmed under the impression of his own charm, thinking that this woman simply never refuse him anything and when she has taken all that she wanted, she promptly shows him her real colors.

This is the oldest trick in the book and works like a charm even in this age of "knowledge at finger-tips" literally and saturation media coverage.

Anger, Avenge, Revenge

I have seen deeply into myself and anger and the urge to avenge is there. It comes over me now and then. But as my mind in its natural state lives in the domain of intelligence where it has seen that this activity only brings more pain I have learn to desist and look immediately away as fast as I can make myself to do so.

In my anger I have hurt people and I have seen how karma comes back waving its chains and floor me. Now I am more scared of the retribution and control my anger. I have also taught myself to forget. By keeping my peace I see more deeply into human nature and its convoluted ways; I have become more intuitive and can connect the chain of events that will ensue. The image of the results frighten me.

I have seen clearly that I am the perpetrator of my own violence. Somewhere it all begins in me. The others are all retaliating.

The mass of humans do not see where it begins. It is ever so clearly the fault of others. By this logic they absolve themselves. In this world neutral positions are not allowed. Do you remember how Ben Hur is confronted by his old bosom friend with "Either you are with me or you are not; If you are not then you are the enemy" and Ben Hur becomes the mortal enemy of the Roman general who was his closest friend. The pain and violence that ensues is beyond senseless. It is one sided but it cannot be stopped. Ben Hur does not respond back but he does protect himself and the result is that the Roman friend comes under his own chariot. There is a spiritual issue here. We have to learn to not be allowed to respond to our impulses and see the consequences we bring upon ourselves.

The mass of humans cannot be shown because their eyes are turned. The going issue here is that simply telling makes no impression. It has to be pounded into men. Mother Nature has designed life with disasters and emotions for warfare. We cannot hurt back Mother Nature so we sit back and weep but against others humans we let loose our martial tendencies. Especially when we know that the other person is not in a position to retaliate; then all our sadistic propensities gush out forth in all their blatant coarseness.

I have only one prayer: O Lord don't let me fall into the hands of these scoundrels who love hurting, are legally in a position to hurt and their sadistic tendencies.

Tell me Malachy, how many do you think this way?

Malachy Matthews to Pradeep Pk Maheshwari,

And you know there are those who take the moral high ground and tut tut and their solution for this situation would be to cut the perpetrator's head off or send him to solitary confinement for 20 years; a similarly brutal act. The deep irony of it all.

• We do "good" to be seen as "good". Period. Not generosity.

Whatever this means. Pk

• This is what is so depressing. The glorious virtues we humans give ourselves whereas we are really demons in disguise. Pk

• The illness of the human: wanting the world to see how great, exclusive and smart we are.

• Then there is the additional fact that by changing one's consciousness level we change our needs and karmic factors, although on record they remain the same, the unfurling changes. The consequences change. And often the material earthly environment then needs change. Change of religion, place on earth, profession and all such will change or there will be a tendency towards change in a direction more comfortable to the soul for its further experiences.

• Peace? Not happening. Cannot happen with all the fears and greed.

• It is far easier to find one's soul by pitching oneself with the world outside us. Confrontation and bewilderment is the spark that opens the mind. Trying out new things because we are not satisfied with the traditional one puts us on a new and different trajectory. When we venture out with an open mind with yearning in our heart to discover how things are and how we feel and react, the enlightenment happens.

• If we die, we really can't be whatever we think we are yet we refrain from questioning. Pk

• Cleopatra; was she beautiful?

The beauty of a woman lies in her beckoning eyes. All women are beautiful. At close quarters or from afar nobody ever looks at the face.

The face matters only when we meet for tea.

• Human perceptions are all travesty of reality. Appearances that can be interpreted either one way.

The wise who have seen this clearly do not jump to conclusions and investigate the obvious. That is the difference between the mind of a Sherlock Holmes and a guy otherwise.

• We would like that we live without any controls. A smooth graph of growth towards more and more of what WE (The I) want.

A few words on Education and Awareness.

1] A. Alexander Tadjbakhsch to PK

"Thanks" to our public school system most graduates are not able to understand the sense of more than two sentences (no cognitive recognition of meaning of articles, content of books, etc... ).

As an experiment I printed and distributed articles of Mr. Rudolf Steiner and other „thinkers" amongst students ( part time jobbers besides university ). Interestingly just a minority ( 2 out of 24/25 ) was able to understand long sentences as had been used around 100 years ago...

„Thanks to the global players mankind will get AI very, very soon....sooner as expected by majority...not to forget the shift towards robotics....PK: Yes, we are slowly happily losing control over our lives, getting disconnected and depression/suicides and a sense of failure is pervading

2] Donna Mae Travis: Sadly all these technologies introduced in their young age with video games and such are dumbing down these now adults. They stay indoors to play games. They use texting with incomplete sentences. They don't read real paper books but use online formats. They don't really touch base spending time in nature or have real conversations with family and or friends around dining tables. Parents became disengaged with raising up a children and allowed free use of technologies. They ARE disconnected with reality that is humanistic. They are a lost generation. They will willingly allow AI to take over their rational thinking skills. Their minds are gone. I have seen these things being filmed in shows and movies. Namely one is "The Outer Limits". That future is here already unless some Divine intervention takes place or parents and teachers step in to teach in the proper way. Otherwise machines will take over: Science fiction at play. I read books too. We are lost now with the youth.

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari Yes. But luckily this gadgetry is all based on electricity. And one these days this is bound to reach an unsustainable limit; it will also be our saviour as when this infrastructure collapses, the need to regrow IQ will start all over again and hopefully in the next phase we shall do a better job.

The TAO of NOW

People who give advice continue to do so without consideration of time and place and who. More often the advice is pure hearsay, good sounding and makes one feel wise and as it is already universally accepted, all around safely nod their heads. This does not mean that they "live" it by any measure or could care less about it all.

One of the advices going around is "LIVING IN THE NOW".

What do these advisors think; that people are not living in the now?

ALL ARE LIVING IN THEIR NOW along with their anxieties. This should be our focus because people are entangled in their beautiful lives with Bosses, Families, Food, Income and rents and neighbors that we worry about. These are not going away.

Have you ever lived in an Ashram? Where you don't have to worry about rents, meals and even what needs to be done tomorrow to survive another day? Or perhaps you were born in inherited money - It is these people who go about advising the householder how to live LIFE in this topsy-turvy world. At the other end, the Householder has no experience of this kind of living, not even minutely and the whole idea is beyond his conception.

3] Living in the Now. Humans unfortunately take the advice rather literally.

We refuse to take action till calamity strikes. We wait for the Now and then take action in the now.

Living in the now with a mind seeped in the desire center as the majority of us live, is an impossibility. Take away the desires and wishes you turn into a vegetable with nothing to do but waiting to be cooked. So how does one really live in the NOW?

Answer: Reduce your wants and DON'T spread yourself thin. Do not go out to impress, avenge or show others their place. Just live by the very best standards you can think of in every small thing you do. And always keep your eyes open to learn more about the world, how things work and how you can reduce your anxieties by organizing your life-style and self.

Take care of the minor repairs and detours without blowing your top. Quiet efficiency is what you have to aim at. The answer then boils down to: Reduce load of components bothering your thinking. Minimise and organise your life. Keep it simple. Others are not there for you and don't expect anything. Depend on your own hobbies and interests to amuse you.

Technically, from experience I can say that reducing Dishonesty, Lies, Insincere components and associations/practices can make a vast difference. But then this requires guts to go against the grain and live with lot less as the world around you is not going to let go.

The other experience I have noted is that when we try, the Universe helps. Mostly as kind and happy moments only increase our desires, the Universe sends us accidents that make us think on different lines and angles to survive.

We simply need to take it calmly with a pinch of salt.

Humans unfortunately take the advice rather literally. We refuse to take action till calamity strikes. We wait for the Now and then take action in the now. See in today's date [first week of Aug 2020] we see this news of few hundreds of tons of explosives waiting in Beirut's port waiting for the legal sanction to remove it since years. Now it has blown the city away. A similar thing happened in Bombay some 80 years ago. We never learn. Today we have the plane in Calicut that skid and fell in a ravine on a short runway on tabletop hill in rainy/stormy weather that was known as NOT-SUITABLE and risky for rainy weather - yet there was never any directive to not use it in inclement weather. Same stories with similar images can be seen year in and year out on TV about floods, smogs, fires, shortages, pandemics, robberies, attacks and reactions. Humans on this planet are a boring lot.

They come, they do and they go.

What are the chances of this world, its people and the general behavior changing to any appreciable degree willfully?

None.

It can't. It is like gravity. Unidirectional. With new births happening every second and with trained humans dying with their non-transferable memories gone with them, this world cannot be corrected in any degree in any sense. We are fated to start all over again and repeat the same boring lessons again and over again Only Mother Nature can and She is doing that at the rate of few feet every million years. There is a lot of activity and learning BUT only at the "MIND" level which dies with the body. The only way to transfer experiences, learning and memories is through words, spoken or written but because they are without feelings, they remain of academic interest only. Everyone starts afresh and the same story starts and ends again and similarly again.

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Malachy Matthews Lol I love that about trained humans dying all the time! At 60 I am now considered to be 'over the hill' in terms of the capacity in which I used to work. What they don't get is that it is only now that I have reached my best and can give the most, based on my experience and mistakes. So they take on 30 year olds who will make serious mistakes that will affect their business. No, humanity is unlikely to learn. And Ageism is a mountainous stumbling block. It's quite shocking and surprising really those obvious skills in older people are ignored by organisations who want to make a profit. Or perhaps they know that they can't foist their corporate BS on me because I will tell them to feck off and leave the door swinging behind me!

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari: Accurately said to a T. By social standard I should not speak about it but I have seen most proprietors of business etc are either self-made people with limited training or understanding of the world but having expertise in one particular field and of course those who come into money and readymade businesses.

In my life there were many in family and family connections who would see the talent in me but were afraid that I may overwhelm their own personas so I would not be really welcome even when they knew I would be highly profitable to their work.

They wanted me as a quiet servant which was simply a no go for me.

[Malachy Matthews](https://www.facebook.com/malachy.matthews.1?comment_id=Y29tbWVudDoxMDE1NzI4NDY4OTQ1MTIzN18xMDE1NzI4NDgzMzc4MTIzNw%3D%3D): I worked in manufacturing industries and my experience has been that senior people in those organisations are typically dysfunctional, highly intelligent, in terms of cognitive and even political and rhetorical skills. Or indeed highly qualified with the much sought-after MBA. And of course a post-grad in engineering means you can fly to the moon and back. In reality, these people had no understanding whatsoever of the organisation and management of day to day manufacturing processes.

[Pradeep Pk Maheshwari](https://www.facebook.com/PK.pradeepmahesh?eid=ARAV-yRI6-GxM-nKWVPNWyGT9FH5ZSvvtjBDzoZYTjRndWuQ8pUQeJPkavhB1cXR8ncT-0aWwgQJjYgX): Yes. The knowledge in the head rarely translates into pragmatic abilities and talent unless practiced with hands on experience.

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Kaela Bedard to Pradeep Pk Maheshwari ...that's a pretty negative point of view. I understand why you think that, but if we change ourselves and show change is possible, more people will follow. We just have to lead and prove anything is possible.

📷Pradeep Pk Maheshwari The number of people who know of me are miniscule. Why would anyone follow? Whatever for? When we change, do others see any change in our SOUL or fortunes or status due to it? What interest they may have?

📷Kaela Bedard Of course, we can't change them, they have to do that, but if we explain our experiences, even if we only get one person to help, that's still one more person who is self-aware and willing to change.

📷Pradeep Pk Maheshwari to Kaela Bedard ..And then we all die. The world goes on and repeats itself sine die. The biggest illusion is that we can help others or that we should even think of changing others. Why is it that the moment we have some wisdom, the first thing we do is think of going and changing the world instead of progressing further?

Choose very carefully what you have to say.

1) Does it need to be said?

2) Is the recipient of the information ready to receive it?

3) When put in words does it make sense?

I give here an example..........

Balance

Do not make unimportant things important, nor concentrate on trifles at the expense of vital matters, or you will hamper your progress. Impulsive actions that are not in keeping with one's real duties are undesirable.

~ Sri Paramahansa Yogananda,

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari What is unimportant? or is there anything unimportant. What are my duties?

I find these kind of quotes saying the whole truth in a nutshell but meaning nothing. The words are so relative that they mean nothing to anybody as they are translated and reinterpreted by everyone personally according to their established thinking and that is like going to square 1 for all practical purposes.

The View from Behind

When the physical and the occult connect. My first question is how much influence does the average human have in how humanity and FATE will play their games on Earth? If Nostradamus could predict events hundreds of years ago, it goes to reason that there is a process and formula at work which makes certain events and activities quite the norm as one step following the other while walking. But humans live in the bubble in the now and think with great pride that they are running things. The truth is that wheels are turning and blocks are falling. We, although we pride ourselves as the "Doers", we are just a drop of water in a flowing stream. And seeing the from the results we are producing, I would say our pride and priorities are badly misplaced The physical form has its own problems and limitations. Our physical forms are bound by the laws of physics and chemistry. For instance we can't fly and somebody CAN hold us and imprison us.

This means that power and strength play a big part in every act and eventually transpires to give a sobering fact that people with Power and Force are bound to have the upper hand in events transpiring on Earth. The occult Forces that use these people and elements know this and use it to their great advantage. This also limits the exposition of occult forces as they cannot be seen and those without experience of their action do not see them nor understand their presence thru mere words. Most people see life thru individual, single episodes and get bogged down in the details of these events which explain nothing about the larger picture. But those who want to explain and improve the understanding of LIFE for others are limited to show the connections of occult forces at work by giving examples of their actions in real life and here the problem arises that people do not see beyond the example and would rather argue and discuss it instead of going into the possibilities of how and why it happens at all. For example: The Truth: Humans are prejudicial. judgmental and dishonest and twist everything in understanding and story-telling. So "expect dishonesty and do not take anything at face value" should be the lesson imparted to children. BUT do we? But when I talk of this I am immediately bombarded with objections of being denigrating and being most probably under trauma of my own life experiences. When we call a spade a spade the do-gooders will almost always take the opposite stand. And this has been why the malefic forces always win and remain in control on this earth.

When some thugs decide to steal our bag or property or maul us can we fight them? Yes if we have the strength or training but the chances are that we will be hurt and dispossessed. A young lady being kidnapped by four strong men, can she do much in the circumstances?

The lessons that we need to give to our children is that we should avoid crowds, dangerous gatherings where emotions are running high or alcohol flowing freely and strangers with circumspection. Or at least seek the presence of others who can and will help. No; we teach that there are laws and rights and the laws of the land will save and protect us? Do they?

We need to remind each other every so often that if we have been hurtful we create an aura of hurtfulness and we are completely in the dead center of this vibration and this can only hurt us eventually in some way or other. Similarly our pretenses, boasts, gossips also create not very kind vibes around us. Be careful.

We need to learn to be more careful, better afraid of personal limits in life and basically honest and SPEAK about our lives as little as possible because all this becomes ammunition in the hands of others to hurt us.

There is always a lot of good advice to handle the ills of this world. All you have to do is talk of your issues and there will a stream of great solutions put across to confront the issue with a lot of philosophy/psychology and traditional approaches/customs to deal with it all.

Note my use of word DEAL WITH. Nobody talks of the ills plaguing us all in general and the basic understanding of the reasons are rarely talked of because they are not seen to as issues at all and unfortunately accepted as norms.

The foundations are never tackled, ills are never cured and the world plods on in its misery.

We have thereby given them tacit acceptance and approval.

Priests or kings or executives or we even in our general activity, my focus is on we as the instruments of forces eternally there and working the evolutionary process. The superficial facts of every case is not important

Do you believe in the evil eye? I have noticed in my life the good thing happening to me will suddenly shut off once I speak of it. All I need to do to get into trouble is to boast some, or talk of some achievement and everything turns to dust. I normally blame Pluto and Uranus for the mayhem. In Indian astrology it would be called Rahu-Ketu.

2] Every kid has a neatly laid out spiritual destiny and his learning will go along with it. Real good teaching should be able to direct the kid accordingly. But we digress. The basic concept of present day schooling method developed in the 19th century when the need was for soldiers and clerks to create empires. The same mentality continues today when new types of empires are being made. We really do not want thinking adults and creative to boot. It would defeat the entire commercial establishment. The internet changed many things. It took the minds of people in many directions so now the leaders and the led are both like confused tribesmen in a forest when their forests are cut down. The old school is clamping down as we can see with information "blocks" being put in place and fake news or manipulated news is fed to the netizens. So many wrong practices are in place that I wonder if things can ever really get better at the "Crowd" level because the crowd has only shown a tendency to fall toward a lowering of consciousness. At least for the moment. The Demons have played their cards supremely well.

From the Spiritual Destiny angle, nothing ever goes waste. Even the mental interference, mental blocks and Detours that result from human mental interference. There is delay but the process is toughened and results in greater, more thorough and better job done in the final analysis

THINK: When the USA or France or England or others started shifting their factories/manufacturing to China, were the intelligentsia of the country asleep or was this actually initiated by them? Did not the populace realise that jobs will go along with it? Did anyone complain then? In dire straits does anyone try keep the number of mouths to feed down? Even today the populace complains on FB but continues to promote bad companies like Walmart that promote "empooring" activities worldwide. Do we care? Not really

There is money to make more armaments but not to feed the people or teach the kids.

And now one little virus frightened us into killing our world order overnight. hahahahah

Fate, Men and women

Fate, Men and women

Fate:

Judy Lester: And what is fate? Destiny? Fate negates any free will.

📷Pradeep Pk Maheshwari: Fate is the one that gives you the Free Will and then the opportunities to use it.

The negation comes from our ignorance, arrogance and laziness.

Judy Lester: Why does fate give me free Will?

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari: To use it and see what will happen. It is a way of adding some personal responsibility in the equation of universal affairs. It is also a clean method of helping individuals realise how fallible our understanding and abilities really are. This is why failure is thought of as a teacher and hence the expression "Experience is the best teacher".

There is an ambiguous problem in the understanding of FATE. Some like the Hindus live in the delusion that we have no say in the matter of conducting our lives. They are therefore defeatist and mentally live a retarded life looking for answers in the stars and curing their ills thru ceremonies in temples to please the gods. It is a kind of escapism although there may be some vibrational truth in it but it cannot be forgotten that personal effort is written in every horoscope.

The western psyche is the opposite. They have this feeling that they are in total control and they are the ones that make things happen. This also gives them the right to lord over all beings with the power of life and death. This is pure arrogance but swords and bullets fly without restraint. And they do make the blood flow and deaths galore.

Whatever,

As if Truth happily living in the Realm of Gods really could care. It is forever laughing under its mask.

The reality as I tend to tell it is: there is a Universal flow in which we are just a part, a small cog in a huge operation. And we enter this operation for a miniscule moment - like a drop in a flowing river.

The poor drop. But often it is given a choice and this is what determines if it will land in the sea or a pond. Such as if it goes left of the rock in the way or right.

And to sum it up you know well that fate does not give us free will but choice of saying Yes or No into a moment where the story is already laid out for us. Each moment in life we are met with a question and how we respond to it is what takes our lives forward.

Every thought, action counts. This is the basic principle of karma.

My first question is how much influence does the average human have in how humanity and FATE will play their games on Earth?

If Nostradamus could predict events hundreds of years ago, it goes to reason that there is a process and formula at work which makes certain events and activities quite certain and the norm as one step following the other while walking.

But humans live in the bubble in the now and think with great pride that they are running things.

And from the results we are producing, I would say our pride and priorities are badly misplaced.

The path is whatever comes next and the exigency that crops up. We don't know the path and neither do we really know the destination. Things will happen in their time and at their pace as one step following the other while walking.

The truth is that wheels are turning and blocks are falling and I can use good company

Men/women.

The word "LOVE" means "Dissolve in the Divine" to "love of coffee" to "plain sex". It all depends on the level of consciousness one is at and the context. This bewildering, confusing and I think designed to be so as a camouflage to hide the real feelings in mental fog.

So this word has really no meaning. It is the most used and misunderstood word in the English language.

About humans and as I see it in humans it is basically a selfish movement although for a while one does get into the right spirit of it.

Men and women; we really live very separate (oil & water mix) lives but this concept of "love" has us hoodwinked. You give a shake and there is a semblance of mixing. You stop and things settle down to both being their individualistic selves -- refusing to integrate. So I presume that human love needs effort, continuous practice of deliberate effort in thought and action to be LESS Selfish, More considerate and using our intelligence to understand and learn to being better at it. Do you realize this is Raj Yoga - The spiritual path to emancipation?

Kimberly Rasmussen: It's really amazing if you can figure out how to deal with the opposites it hands you. Not an easy feat. Best of both worlds. I think you can be whole as an individual and have an entire new wholeness as the two wholes come together. It really is magical. My husband and I have come so far.

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari: Agree Kimberly Rasmussen. But from the personal it needs to grow into the Universal. That is when it will realise itself in its full grandeur.

Kimberly Rasmussen: Pradeep tell me more please. How do you go from personal to universal? Parris Ja Young: Ah ha! We can forget the higher forms and consider sexual love alone! It is so powerful. I am not talking indulgent sex, I am talking loving sex. I am talking sex that connects first as chemistry. Pow! Two are drawn together. If, with the gentlest nudge of the Great Mystery, that love rises to Eros, then there is a joining of spheres ... and the winning of a crown.

Here in the USA folks develop a condition where their spirits exist within a glass-like bubble. We are isolated and alone, although we form relationships. When love happens, portions of our "bubbles" merge; a THIRD being arises, a being you and your beloved share. Sometimes that overlap becomes a wedge, because the one whose self-awareness is improved through the degree at which they can see through the eyes of another, may hate what they see. Or they may love what they see and grow to become the animus or anima to the other. Such states DO EXIST and are of great value.

Kimberly Rasmussen: Parris I didn't know you can become the anima or animus. How is this possible?

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari: Kimberly Rasmussen When put this way it sounds funny. But Parris Ja Young is right. We absorb the vibes of others and when we are in long drawn associations, we start vibrating to others and vice versa.

Particularly in sexual relations with intense passion the transfer is on a very high transformative scale. ( this is why you would see that people who have had too many partners eventually in life become also very dis-balanced and often sick).

There comes a time when we sincerely realise that our human "love" is an interdependent arrangement in which our imagination plays a big part. We keep each other interested in each other by inflating the Ego.

It becomes Universal when we see it in action all around us and start noticing the little glitches in the pretended relationships that are based more on habits of a comfort zone that we build around us.

Once we see this, we start also seeing that there is enough genuine kindness and compassion in us and everybody else.... hidden away by selfish motives and considerations backed by our arrogance/pride/vanity.

Then it is something that becomes obvious when you realise that others won't let you in into their cosy zones and that fences have been put up. We try to hide these fences by certain words and activities that have been labeled as indicators of "lovingness".

It is all a sham. The hardest part is in realizing and accepting that we are actually very cruel in our basic make-up.

Karma and Reincarnation.

Many explanations and we in India see it in our own way.

I think it is all a waste of time; this subject.

We NEED to learn to LIVE. And focus our energies on LIVING - better and more correctly.

The coming life will automatically be a better one.

What is needed is simply sincerity and spontaneity. Too much knowledge of the hereafter makes us calculative and even cruel.

Joshua Lillian

Agreed. Such an important topic.

The ideas of karma, reincarnation, heaven, hell, sin, etc; these things have done far more bad than they have good in this world.

They are almost nothing but ideas people behave by (selfishly), in hopes to gain something for themselves either now or in an afterlife they know nothing about.

How many jihadist-bombers are rotting as a meaningless corpse in mother earth simply because they thought they were getting virgins in heaven?

How many millions of indigenous and pagans murdered in the name of "sin" because they didn't follow what the Christian kings wanted in medieval times.

If only we could take the transcendent ideas out of the fucking sky, and put it back in our hearts.

The gods of our minds have warred long enough.

Rebalance the environment towards merit.

What our Egos want is "Prestige". Awards and Prizes are how we are honored nowadays. The Empires gave TITLES which people adored. Wining jousts and earning medals is very big in human appreciation of Self.

Money was not so much the thing and in agricultural economies there was a limit to how much money could be made.

But Henry Ford gave the idea of mass production automated lines. A car for everyone. A TV, refrigerator and washing machine, a house, clean piped water that even the kings of yore had not known. And the race started. Money in figures became the prestige point.

All connection with Mother Earth was lost. All values were dumped by the roadside in quest for more. Pride in one's own land has gone. None now does anything for the country or for the land. Achievement is judged by the zeroes in a bank account in another country where taxes need not be paid. The bankers anonymous became the kings and they now pay for the projects as well as the wars. Countries are their tools -- sold out.

If the world has to survive, we humans will have to curtail our selfishness and not corner all the resources.

Prestige should be measured by the goodness and what we can do for this Creation. Things can change only when the able ones take the lesser able ones "WITH" them. When merit counts and rewards are based on merits.

Let us live with a few millions less and share it so that everyone is having a little more and sufficiently.

Example more salaries, less profit margins, lesser CEO packages. Extra voting rights for education and tax paying or acclaimed awards.

Ever thought why CEOs are paid so much? Because of their network and their ability to make profitable deals and cut red tape thru contacts and illegal means and so on. Is this justified?

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I go out for half an hour and return disappointed, depressed and quite devastated.

My mind goes back to the story Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw and the movie My Fair Lady.

At one extreme was the professor Higgins and the other end was Elisa's father Doolittle.

Today everyone seem to be somewhere in the middle of the two, tilting more so towards the "take me to the church on time" theme.

Rules & regulations, ordered living, carefulness, consideration, need to better self, outclass others, improve one's persona........ all seem to be drowned by the equalisation that mass-produced goods have brought.

You wear the same Ts, Shoes, Jeans and drive the same vehicle as I do; how am I different or any less he asks?

NON conforming is the IN thing. So I shock them with my total disregard to be IN.

That takes them by surprise and frightens them. This is something they don't understand and do not know how to confront as when I speak my language, it is obviously not theirs and distinctly above their class. They see no fear in my eyes -- that puts them aback. These are elements that they have usually seen in people with authority and power to harm them.

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It is a Full DESERT out there.

Why do men show off their wealth but do not want thieves to eye it?

Why do you want the most elephantine eye-catching car but do not expect it be scratched ever?

Why do we buy the cheapest bread but expect it to be the most nutritious?

Why do women show off their breasts and even get implants but then don't want to be stared, leave alone fondled?

I have so many questions.....

Thoughts at random

You know I believe some thoughts try to reach humans and many sensitive people are touched at the same time; synchronicity is real. But we tend to brush them away as unimportant.

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Paradigms have been fed to humans and people now live by it considering it one of the basis of life. Why? Out of sheer fear of being thought ungrateful and left out.

I pity all these women being given birth against their will then being pushed into unwanted marriages and motherhood and worse.

There are too many feminine and motherly "feelings" and womanly "urges" taken for granted.

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Deep down our prejudices, our image of how our greatness requires to be treated and behaved with are the cause of irritation that can easily be magnified to show that we have been insulted or hurt and punishment from us to them is then justified so if we are in a position to get away with it, we let lose our temper with a little drama and a lot of impunity.

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There is a latent laziness; we in Indian occultism call it Indolence, Tamas (Inertia) that we are born with. This is the reason we have laziness. To add to this laziness our clever minds find ways and means to not know, not do, not learn but there is always enough cunning to go for immediate profit and momentary pleasures.

Proper brainwashing completes a job already started by Mother Nature.

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This pathetic mental state of humans where they have to go and save everybody.

Even God lets us all die.

Why does it bother us so to forcefully stop people from wanting to die?

Kindness would be in letting them when their time has come.

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Politics is a line where INSINCERITY rules. The entire professional basis is based on getting what one wants by defeating the wants of others. Stealing, suppressing and cover-ups are the normal foundation stones of this profession.

The game of dishonesty is at its highest intensity in the rulers/capitals of this world that when you see a gleam of honesty one starts wondering what is wrong.

It would be similar to finding butter instead of honey in beehives.

Looking for dishonesty in politicians is such a sham of a charade that it almost looks like a slapstick comedy like the TV program of "Friends."

Why do even people bother and how do these people come to be in the seat of power?

Why do the "PEOPLE" not spend their energies to resolve this question and improve their real lives?

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The information above is critical in two fields. 1) Education and 2) Marketing. I have seen it in practical form. The Dogmatist needs statistics and repetitive tests and trials to come to a definitive conclusion. Something that can be shown in black and white, called undeniable proof. The Materialist is a little better but needs to see it all in a controlled comparative tests because they cannot trust anything else. Even if they have any "feelings" they need to prove their feelings in a scientific manner which is not always possible. The Metaphsyics guy is usually more open to Intuitive influences. He can see the right answer very fast but cannot always prove it. He does not need to eat the whole egg to know when it is rotten. He is considered by most others as a disturbing factor. In marketing let us suppose you wish to start getting into an industry to make Ceiling fans. You need to know if it is viable. This is how the three people would go about it. Dogmatists: There are 2000 manufacturers in the country and all are selling. The population is 200 million so there is scope for more. The materialist will go a little deeper and see which category of product sells more and which category of population buys more. He will survey at least 200 households and then take his decision. The Metaphysician will have two thoughts: Should I enter this industry or go for something new? Can I produce a more exclusive product and corner a niche market?

In Education the problems of teaching students in a mass produced and managed system begins with this. The IQ levels and tendencies of students vary greatly. The ability to absorb data and the method by which they remember differ.

All in a day's work

In Indian TV serials, any episode or for that movies, the word "shut-up" and a slap have been in great prominence since the last 2 generations.

The result is that an entire Indian female population thinks of "shut-up" as the smart thing to say and the thing to do is to slap the guy hard to show who is master. This feeling of being protected by the gentlemanly code that one does not lift a hand to women is their safeguard.

Unfortunately it always turns out into something something terribly more nasty. It starts a turn of events that normally go badly for the young lady. The stories of rape and murder that are in the NEWS virtually every day breaks my heart. Nobody traces the problem to the subconscious waves we are implanting in the young thru TV and Movies.

I have always felt that women initiate a duel of egos by using "words" either abusive or accusive and designed to hurt, giving a slap comes easy to them. Their expectations in return for their attention are way too high.

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Why does the Indian not STRIVE for more?

Here are a few lines by Chetan Bhagat in TOI of Sunday on 16th Aug.

This is why I see students not wanting to excel. Business not wanting to expand. Clerks not wanting to rise above their comfort zone levels.

We are more apt to take short cuts, cheat and opt for creating an image rather than the real stuff. Effort is not our thing.

This is also why India is big and great but will never a competitive player in the American dream that the entire world has been following since the end of WW2.

Only a very small percentage want to grow into huge corporations and live beyond their means under stress and dissatisfaction and those that do, they succeed awfully well.

The average Indian prefers to be a follower and enjoy the proceeds what is handed down to him.

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I practice numerology and started free counseling to students to help them understand their nature and strong points. One student one day rings me up (note: he did not take the trouble to come to me) and asks me if I could tell if he will pass in his exam. I replied that if he prepares well there is no reason why he should not. His reply dumbfounded me: "-- if you see in the future that I will pass then I will put in the effort, otherwise what is the use!" This is India.

The animal world knows it, they understand it.

Only humans got to verbalise it, enveloped it in their arrogance and began destroying it all.

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Take the thinking just 100 years ago. The arrogance of humans who think they always know. Then let us not forget that we have our own highly regarded modern "idiotic" thoughts that will go down in history in another 100 years as downright ridiculous.

Humans really need to leave the thoughts of certain periods to die down with the period.

Then there is also the fact that certain thoughts are conveyed in vocabularies and style that is very particular to a particular time/cultural ethos and in other times and ages these wise pronouncements become ridiculous.

.....of course there are always enough exceptions to justify "denial".

You do understand that I am just waving a red flag with my statement?

Why this speedy need to deny?

If only we would learn the lesson and rectify and focus all our energy in this direction of betterment.

Would you dare voice what you think should be happening to a lot of people really in the deep bottom of your subconscious heart?

Pragmatic requirements of life require adjusting to the environment around us. So of course we rarely speak out our minds and hearts.

Spiritual requirements are so totally otherwise.

It is one huge bridge to cross.

But yes why do we put so much stress on modulating our existence and our being to fit in others all the time and become unreal ourselves?

We are for always talking on how to be kind or honest, to repay, to counter, to defend to, protect to not make them feel bad etc...we seem to be covering for something or the other...in this mode how can we ever be ourselves and in unity with our being?

But then is there another way?

I remember Sri Aurobindo saying: You don't have to lie but you don't have to say the whole truth either.

And some good rules of life are:

Mind your business.

Treat others as gentlemen until they prove themselves otherwise.

Minimise and simplify your dependency factor.

Create no waves and take no shit.

Don't live to impress the neighbor.

Find your friends in music, books and sunsets.

Tactical Warfare as a tool in Life

Slapping a male can be like poking a dagger into the Ego-heart of a male. Females should think twice before they do it. Promoting this "slapping" culture will not help as it instigates further violence; justifying erroneously even worse violence.

What we need to teach the women is tactical warfare. How to play with words. How not get into physically sensitive and dangerous places. Teach them about how men and people can manipulate them with dares and sweets drinks. Seduction is an art and women should learn how men do it. It will teach them much about themselves too; specially the subconscious part where they are ready to fall into the trap and need to be aware of their own tendencies.

We have to instill in our daughters that they can win and fight back. At the same time it would a good idea to teach them basics of hitting out and not be afraid to land a good one.

Read more... In Indian TV serials, any episode or movies the word "shut-up" and a slap have been in great prominence since the last 2 generations.

The result is that an entire Indian female population thinks of "shut-up" as the smart thing to say and the thing to do is to slap the guy hard to show who is master in the relationship tangle. There is this Victorian era thinking of being protected by the gentlemanly code that one does not lift a hand to women will be their safeguard.

Unfortunately it always turns out into something terribly nastier. The stories of rape and murder that are in the NEWS virtually every day break my heart. Nobody traces the problem to the subconscious waves we are implanting in the young thru TV and Movies.

Madhusmita Dhakal I thought about slapping many Nepali men back then too, but never had the courage to do it.

You know they were usually teasing girls, whistling, calling bad names and sometimes even harassing us in crowds. During Holi we were hit with balloons, and we ran. It was embarrassing and traumatizing. 😟

Every behavior is a backlash of some other behavior.

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari True. Yet promoting this "slapping" culture will not help as it instigates further violence. Justifying even worse violence

What we need to teach the women is tactical warfare.

Madhusmita Dhakal .....patients can give you anywhere from 1 to 5 stars on the web, saying if they like you as a doctor or hate you.

Pradeep PK Maheshwari: People want to hear what suits them.

Most good doctors usually contradict the patient's wishes because the patient has normally arrived where he is by a chain of bad habits or wrong living patterns. It is a sad realization that patients come looking for relief and not cures.

Genuine doctors trying genuinely to help are never liked.

Most people who would get 5 stars are basically "Charmers", never telling the truth and providing exactly what the patient ordered. They may be great doctors though.

There is a lesson of life here. Humans are a funny perverted lot. They want confirmation of living well, of being well and better than others and such insincere support.

Shall the healer go down with them or try to raise their consciousness to a healing level which in most probability they will not try to arrive at on their own. Is it the healer's job to take the patient's life on his shoulders? NO!

Madhusmita Dhakal to Pradeep Pk Maheshwari... oh wow. Doctors with good reviews usually are people with super polite and polished manners; manage to be politically correct all the time.

In the outpatient I got a lot of patient with history of addiction demanding stimulants and benzos, so I automatically said no and they left storming out the door.

But I would not say that doctors with good reviews are bad though.

It sucks to be hated all the time, and to be in constant conflict with others. People scapegoat you, talk shit about you behind your back, you hear people back stabbing others behind their back, and then they are super anxious about being back stabbed by others, creating a very paranoid and divided world between themselves and others.

This art of being genuine, being who you are is tough

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari: But of course. True. It is such a constricting atmosphere: being able to manage to be politically correct all the time.

What is this life that is based on "likes". Yuck.

It is vampiric. It drains you and kills you slowly like a pinch of arsenic in your tea every day takes months to kill you. I left teaching and healing for this same reason. It is not sustainable.

Maintaining a chain that is non-sustainable will kill you and bring you no wealth or pleasure. Picture your soul being stretched out of you at all times and you trying to pull it back from these marauders.

We only end up stretching ourselves, over extending, over exhausting our spirit and feeling bad in the bargain.

Becoming a recluse is the thing BUT there is this big question: How do we survive without an income?

Pradeep PK Maheshwari: In love I started in life with the idea of love should be reciprocal and all that. But life made a cynic of me. There was always an element of self-interest in all relationships, with parents, brothers-sisters, and business/commercial.

Everyone wanted to take but never give if they could help it.

I suppose this is life.

In the name of friendships we easily over extend ourselves, exhaust ourselves and get lost in our own maze.

Now I prefer to be very selective and not so easily available... go out to help only when asked three times

Elderspeak

The piece of cloth on the mouth and nose has been prominent since many years due to the increasing "POLLUTION".

So why this sudden aversion to it? Why because by being advisedly forced to use it we lose our "rights to be"?

We talk of awareness but most people are abysmally unaware or have any desire to be aware? This presupposes change. What exactly is wrong with the world? If everything is alright with the world then why the need to talk at all? We all see ourselves as smart and handling this world very well. More awareness, more learning, change...why?

· I remember coining the term "The Intelligence of a person is in inverse proportion to the time he spends on his hair."

I went out to fight and change the world and would not accept fashion and tradition that I did not like. But it never occurred to me to change my looks or anything to "LOOK" different or get attention.

My instinct to attract attention was by being better at what I did, knew and my language mastery so that I could impose on others and their weak personas.

I suppose I had enough intelligence that changing looks does not change anything.

* When I tried to come closer to God, this is what I learnt.

God is a good CEO. He leaves the running of the company to executives while he goes playing golf or rave parties. He loves fast chariots and snapping His fingers and causing rains and floods for amusement. He couldn't really care less.

In comparison the Roman emperors were benevolent.

Most of the time if you try to contact him thru Messenger, you fall on his executive called Karma who is totally without conscience or humor and never relents one itsy bitsy bit on anything.

It is best to pray quietly in the heart to his minor agents like Hercules who often help you out.

It is not the system. It is how humans are made. Everything that comes out of them is colored by their innate insincerity. They subvert every thought and good intention into something ugly; more suited to their nefarious ends.

The Universe thinks long term. The humans think short term and only of pleasure to be obtained in the now.

- Our ideas of living, loving and enjoying Nature needs a radical *de-dishonestisation.*

- If there are mentionable exceptions then the statement has value.

· The good is "GOOD". To change things we must come down to earth, confront and force attention to the Bad.

There are Two Hearts.

The Human Persona is Double Layered. We are really two people in one external form. It is a mere sense of perception that separates the two Beings. Look at how the Poet sees it all: What is this thing called you? You are but your BREADTH. The day you stop breathing you become dust and are thrown back into bosom of Mother Earth to be recycled.

There is this physical form; complete in itself with its own heart and mind which we normally know as instinct. This is the basic animal that we all are. Given form by the cellular activity in Nature. We are not different from most being on earth except that in the human form another Element has been added -- what Sri Aurobindo calls the Psychic Being. So we have this body with its instinctive Desires and Basic Thinking Appparatus. At the same time there is also this Psychic Being with its own Emotional Centre and Thinking Apparatus. Most quarrels on Earth begin when these two clash due to the Physical Mind calling its instinctive process with the same words as that are applied to the Psychic Being. The separateness between the two not having been duly established and recognized as yet becomes a source of quarrel. So we have two hearts, two minds and two souls. Once we look at it this way the confusion clears. What the physical body calls love shows in a Physical Form is the Baby making machinery. The same word Love is used for the Generous Being that has roots in the Psychic being. The organ called heart is also synonymous with the feeling of Self-less affection. The word MIND is also connected to the Brain with its nervous system and intricate memory bank and habits etc; the psychic Being is also talked of with the use of the word MIND but it totally another entity that is using the physical mind to express itself but should be best referred to as The INTUITIVE consciousness (mind).

Most of the people on Earth are still very deeply connected and living at the Physical level. The vocabulary used is confusing and creating animosity in use. It is cleverly being used to confuse issues and when we use the same vocabulary to clear the issues we only end up generating more storms and unending arguments, which are normally called discussions yet are anything but.

So when we do not see eye to eye, we should take the above into consideration. We may be using the same words but not referring to the same things. We need to first accept that like in the colour gray, there are 10001 shades between white and black. It is easy to get trapped in a maze of words with double meaning and "entendres". This can be corrected somewhat by "reflecting and meditating" quietly before allowing ourselves to respond either vocally or silently or as often seen in with sheer violent physical force as of hurting the body will stop the minds from functioning. This rarely happens; actions and reactions follow each other in fast succession tied closely together as in a necklace. No wonder this earth is in a mess.

The process of Human Thought.

2 stories:|

1] The neighbors had placed their flower tree blocked on a corner because there was no place. So I said to myself, shall I offer them to keep it in front of my apartment. This way I'll enjoy the beauty of these flowers too and offer the plant a lifeline. And as if they had heard me, they did place it in front of my apartment the next day. 2] The young lady who helps us in dusting/cleaning our place told me that the neighbors she works for were wondering greatly of how I live, what I do and how although I don't seem to anything I am so "Nose-up-in-the-air" and never seem to need others around me. She told them that I do most of the repairs and work myself and I am quite a bit on the computer. Ah they concluded he must be playing the share-market.(Something I would not touch with a barge pole). And that is that -- I from my side conclude that this conclusion helps them to place me properly within the moneyed people bracket as they wouldn't like to be seen with poor neighbors!

Asking a questions.

Exercise in Observation. Do you ask questions or are apt to make statements? Asking a question.

1] Why are you asking?

What kind of a question: Functional, technical, personal or plain curiosity? Where is the question being asked - for example in a Lab to a colleague or in a court of law to a witness or casually in a friendly gathering?

Is the question being asked to create an opening so that the person asking can say what he wants to say - he may not be looking for an answer at all.

The question may be important to you but not to the person it is asked to. So again the chances of getting a proper answer are slim.

2] It is rare that people listen to answers anyway. Most of us have answers already zooming around in our heads and we filter and reinterpret the words as they come to us within the frame-work of our experiences with those words.

By experience we learn this early and stop bothering. In addition the chances that you will get an honest answer are rather low.

3] Would you agree.... Humans, [each one of us] live in the world that has formed and now is existing - already formed in their head. It is already a very balanced whole within the limit of their knowledge base. They have worked out life in every detail. You can give all the answers you want but it will change nothing. You can ask all the questions but remember that others have the choice of not being bothered.

When answering people modify their answers based on their perception of their judgment of the questioner which is generally always in error so the answer is useless.

4) If the question is to elicit an apology or explanation then it is a waste of time anyway.

Therefore in the final accounting, it doesn't matter.

- How wonderful a job The Modern World has done of brain-washing the public..... is astounding. I realized it yesterday.

I have been treating some people and helping them with homeopathic medication to help their spleen and lymphatic system work better. This has coincided with the hot and humid weather of the Indian subcontinent.

These people started sweating more and they got really "frightened".

I found they are equating sweating with "heart problems".

I would say the influence of advertising and focus on heart problems and anti-perspirants has made roots in the perceptions of most people -- even the ones who have no real education except from hearsay and TV advisors.

The other things that people are seriously convinced about are....

* Factory-made cooking oils are better for health.

* Coke is good and diet coke is better.

* Paracetamol cures fevers.

* Sunlight is bad for you.

....and I am sure you can add to the list of misapprehensions.

- The world that I thought was mine has all gone. None of the people are there. None of the establishments remain.

I thought that the world I grew up in would always be there but found it was a boat bridge and that has now floated away in the storm

PK

It simply Continues.

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Pradeep PK Maheshwari's note on the subject....

A good point.

Technically humanity has pushed itself into a corner very similar to a war zone.

This Build-up is nothing new in Earth's Consciousness. Children have been influenced and lived in worse.

It does pattern their thinking and behaviour which will create either peaceful loving dynamic individuals wanting to give relief to humanity or Dynamic Violent ones who will create more mayhem thru memories of their trauma.

This is a tug of war being played out between the Purusha and Prakriti since the beginning of time and I see no end to it; not just yet.

All individuals who can....should project their kind and compassionate thoughts out into the world. The more of us do so, the better it will eventually be. This should show in our words and even more in our actions and activity, aims and goals.

But if you look back just 2-300 years as a start you will see this has been the situation for ever and ever because of the incessant wars and devastation that has prevailed on Earth rather continuously.

It is not a nice picture. From the face of it I can give many stories to support what I am saying but the most authentic would be mine itself. The more I tried to incorporate the higher values of kindness, courage, understanding and compassion into my life, having been started off on the right foot in an Ashram, my people could not take it although they are the ones who sent me to the Ashram. But this was to keep me away, not help me grow and the plan backfired.

Circumstances brought me back to them and a whole war game began. I was on my path and they were pulling me down - destroying me as effectively as they can without attracting attention. They poisoned the entire well (minds of other family members) so that I may not drink from it. I could not be get rid of but was treated as an outcast.

What was achieved? I became stronger, bigger and into an impregnable fortress. The family alienated me and missed the opportunity to well-being and as I choose to see it profit from my presence.

THE BIG QUESTION IS: How do we open their minds and souls?

My daughter has taken well to this cut-off. She is at the crucial age where her spiritual development is at a vulnerable point of contamination by a friend circle that is in no way emancipated and actually tuned to take her away in the opposite direction. For example one of her friends is the daughter of a chain of Beauty Salon. Her parents are never there for her but shower her satisfying all her demands. She is extremely narcissistic and my little one was awed by all this riches and beauty as far as she could see. Her mind was rather taken by this side of life. But this isolation has shown her the relative value of things.

I got the opportunity to impress her persona to see the world correctly and in a beautiful light and help her understand. She has become more self-supporting, broader minded, more at ease with herself and independently able to analyse life around her positively.

I am extremely content the way things are.

My who began life by thinking of me as lost in the clouds now sees value in my presence and the ability to manage without too much support from other people.

PS: Have the guts to look deeply within. You will notice all our relationships are grossly possessive and finally aiming at control. Now that you are not of great use to anyone in this lockdown, how many people have called you to ask how you are doing?

This is in addition to our misgiven confidence that we are superior and capable enough and master of our lives. PK

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Every new day brings a new problem forward. Today I am consumed by worries related to the loneliness and isolation of our children in this pandemic.

We have new world children who are now spending majority of their time around electronic gadgets, playing video games, watching you tube videos with no to minimal social interaction. World was already becoming more isolated for our children even prior to the pandemic with the segregation of families, immigration, development of technology, but this is at its worst right now.

What happens to tiny minds and its development when play and exercise is taken away, when kids don't get to be kids 😢. What effect does this have on children's psyche? - kids are aloof and thinking more about the world, starting to worry more, becoming more depressed and anxious, preoccupied with information overload from social media/ web that their tiny minds can't process. When distraction and fun is taken away how do children cope?

I pray for all children throughout the world who are lonely and depressed right now. There are kids who are suffering torture and abuse through the hands of their caretakers, or being neglected to their own resources.

I do know many parents try their best and many have no choice. We don't have answers, at least we can talk.

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Offensive and Offended

In the last 50 years we have unknowingly promoted narcissism. We have plied them unasked for and unneeded goodies giving an aura of plenty and that there is more where it all comes from. Imagine children who have no idea that milk comes from cows and the potatoes grow in the fields. We have given them rights to the extent that a 12 year old goes to court to divorce his parents ( happened in Sweden).

This attitude of "Don't say or do anything because this may cause trauma to their psyche." has only created spoiled brats, sissies and entitled bums who are offended all the time.

Vandalism is the way of speech today. This is how humanity talks. This is the method of the jealous, envious and afraid that the world is passing them by and they will be left behind in the dust/mud; totally disregarding the fact that they are already there rather literally.

They are unable to see their way upward by effort and learning so they put all their energies to bring you down and to your knees if they can so that you are forced to beg them for peace and give them something to live on.

It is called nuisance value.

I wonder if I ever told you about the times.....

1) A young lady in YWCA who failed in my class and went and told the management that I failed her deliberately because she would not give the asked favours; as if the answer sheets did not speak for themselves.

2) When I was cornered by my students of Alliance Française for asking them to keep their love-life under warp in the class.

3) Of being held by the throat by a student because he was not learning by remaining absent most of the time but holding me responsible saying "It is your responsibility to teach me".

I left teaching that day as a profession.

What we are seeing today is a larger manifestation of this attitude that management takes of appeasement, of large scale teaching systems..... to bring "learning" to people who have no need, or no aptitude or it.

We have created half-baked anarchists instead indeed.

How in groups we think we have more people listening to each other but this is an illusion. We fare better when alone when we are out there in life to achieve a set goal.

When we talk to a crowd, we instigate and we can make them react but not make them understand and we should not expect them to.

Yes, we push ourselves into corners, mindsets. reactions, regrets and hopes that totally bludgeon our thinking and decision making.

That is why I like to talk it out with close friends. Listening to myself makes me see the errors I am speaking out.

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It is the same old world in a greater glittering avatar. Mayhem and security was the thought at the back of everything we did even in the times of living in caves and now in this 21st century we are still worried on that score. Do what you have to do to safeguard yourself. Earlier it was the T Rex that worried us, now it is the T Bum-ass.

We humans are not looking for sensible living, thinking and behaviour. It was always drama, gossip and anything that helps in the process of self --glorification. And something to serve as an excuse for our own agenda.

This eerie feeling I get that of going about as soulless creatures verily.

What is motivating us? The next meal, the next need of the body to lie down, go potty or find solace in the arms of our partner? Our life is leading us or are we leading a life of our design?

What is this design?

When I find myself in a full market place all I see after some overwhelming time is nameless, indeterminate "Humming" looks like a huge collection of buzzing bees going about in a quiet frenzy like a collection of flies, dragon flies or bees - whatever.

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I think these things in particular killed the economies of our known world.

1) The Credit card culture... stop worrying or saving: there is always more where it came from

2) Higher salaries + overblown perks in the misgiven hope that people would work more.

3) The idea of insurance so sense of safety as a personal responsibity became redundant.

4) Killing local production and jobs and livelihood + pride in oneself.

5) Regulatory controls so that "small" could never get started

Instigate, Investigate or Invest.

Suddenly one day you find yourself in the adult world and nothing you were taught, told or tortured with seems to correspond to the world of adults you are thrust into. So if you are the impatient kind, you use your fresh-found strength and instigate change by quite often wanting to destroy the old one, the vestiges of even older ones and the figure-heads that represent all that is wrong. But if you have been graced by a contemplative demeanor, you sit down and wonder, doubt and speculate. You ask questions and investigate.

The answers are eye opening and leave a little sadness behind because all the years you now feel that were wasted into forming you into a mould that is not you and not even the world or reality. So you investigate more and more and relearn the ropes and how to navigate in this seemingly awful world. Life may even make a cynic of you. And if you are the special kind who has already been gifted with some purpose, you invest.

Often the investment shows itself up as a gift to glorify yourself or some other ideal so you are seen as a benefactor; but nevertheless you invest. Think of all the Hospitals and temples made, Caravansarais made, Cathedrals built, Universities, colleges and schools set up. There was always behind these creative acts some great successful man by worldly standards who wanted to leave his name behind for posterity to remember by but it did a lot of good. So which way are you going?

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Question of the day: Am I really feeling these feelings of self doubt, self hatred, loneliness, and fear, or is it just my repressed emotions coming at me all at once because my menstrual hormones are crazy?

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Something in you is not happy with things as they are. It is these signals that you are feeling. Take them as guides to investigate further.

You are no average Joe. Average people do not get these doubts as you call these thoughts.

It would be a big mistake to rationalise and dump these feelings into the wastebasket.

Hear Hear

Thérèse Lepage Lachapelle-Bhatnagar

In your PERSONAL life, have you realized how "some" people have absolutely NO interest in YOUR life? The minute you start talking about yourself, your family, your interests even if you've been paying attention, listening to them for an hour, they turn OFF, whether on the phone, in person, on Messenger, etc.!

These might be your family members, your best friends, on Facebook or in real life, your acquaintances, or anyone else!

Pradeep PK Maheshwari Yes. Most people are like that. Basically this is in microcosm the elementary human; totally focused on his petty needs to the occlusion of all else. They learn early in life to shut off because of the continuous disturbance thru impositions adults create in their lives since the day they learn to move about. Children get so tired of being asked, ordered or denied to do, being lectured or not being allowed to do that. In school the continuous barrage of instructions is spiritually shutting off and I have seen most teachers are not using kindness at all to regulate them.

In exasperation they soon learn to shut off and then it becomes a habit and part of their adult nature.

We, adults need to accept and understand that we are actually training children to become bad listeners - we over-use our authority to silence them in their growing up period and later they repay us in kind. There is also this preemptive response: They preempt others from doing the talking by doing so themselves and keeping on talking, often meaninglessly.

Unfortunately, the young adults do not realise that they have actually become so hearing-deficient and the wall they have created around them is keeping "LIFE" away from them. This is a foundation for failing but also needed for self -protection. How to balance life in between is the big question. I wonder if we have clean answers for this.

In addition I must add that most people really do not have much of importance to say and are very boring indeed. Our social needs to listen to each other because we need each other can be a severe drain on our time and energies and spiritually speaking often leaves a dark cloud hovering over us.

This smart phone is such a boon.

Look at ME.

We spend the entire fun-time of our lives in boring schools with the avowed claim to make us bright and brilliant beings to be admired and appreciated. The only lesson finally that makes any sense is that nobody really cares; all are busy looking if others are looking at them. When it dawns on you that by the age of 20 with all your stunning looks, brilliant conversations, fabulous world-changing ideas and observations....only 20 or so people know about you, a rather greyish pall descends on you.

We opt for all the known methods of singling ourselves out in this crowded world. Some buy cars, some buy expensive out-fits and some make themselves obnoxious. The most singular and freely available product to play with is the hair and this gets the highest amount of attention as all young people have it in plenty and it is a farm where growth is unstoppable.

Let us stop for a moment and without worrying about it too much, let us look at life objectively. Go back just 150 years. Check-out some of the best long existing brands and how they promote themselves and why people are interested in them. The reasons: a] Real good quality, b] Expensive, c] Snob value and d] everyone knows about the exclusive nature of the product and its price tag. Example: Rolex and Rolls Royce. In the new era of the last 30 years it is Apple phones and Nike shoes and Ts to match or as I now despondently see, clothes that are attention grabbing to the extreme by being purposely torn or see-thru. The basic thing is to be seen with it and bask in the reflected glory of second looks that it brings....And "likes" on the electronic media. Easy come in seconds and easy go in minutes. But does it bring attention? Yes it does.....but the kind one does not want. Records show that robberies are rampant and the most flashy cars get stolen first, jealousy and envy can be seen in the eyes of all the aspiring working class, molesters target the most direct targets walking freely about and you cannot even walk on the streets or let your children out without a little fear in your heart due to all the negative news that you are bombarded with all the time. In this pursuit we have only managed to degrade the Earth and soon by the time we reach fifty, we realize that we are not special by any means and nobody cares. So the time to make something of life with the strength and energy that we had has passed and now with new wisdom we push on for really seeing life properly with values that matter such as kindness and cooperation. We are more at peace and ready to meet our eternal companion that is death for he is the only one with constant eyes on you.

- Just imagine making libraries so comfortable that our children would want to be there all the time with a book or indoor game like chess, checkers

Our library in the Ashram was a whole colonial building with games like carroms too and even painting competitions.; Classical Music programs were routine and this is where I picked up a taste for it, and we learnt our languages from repeated readings of cartoon stories like TINTIN and many other French comic characters with fantastic quotes, sarcastic and brilliant ripostes to fire our imagination and teach us how language can be used creatively to speak artistically and with purpose.

Are we"us" or they?

Humans , generally are "Beings" that live outside of them. Their persona is formed, exposed and affected greatly by the influences outside their bodies and inputs coming into from external sources thru others.

We love to think that we are individuals, self-made and thinkers. Reality does not concern us. We have our subconscious. Our mind, and our 5 senses and the small spot on earth and this is "US" We are quite happy with what we have and any discourse, or eventuality that shakes up our little world instantly becomes an anomaly, an inimical element, an opposition and enemy.

So does everybody else.

We survive on the fringes of each other and our greatest wish is to be accepted by others, even if this requires pleasing them with lies.

Corollary: This means that we are also quite the same and we automatically accept lies to boost our image of ourselves; we like praise even though noticeably false for example.

This should be enough proof that we are mostly living in other people's worlds.

Note how our subconscious is filled with what our parents put into it.

Note how our heads are filled up with what our schools, neighborhood put into it.

Note how the TV affects us our decision making.

Note how much effort and primarily lies we with live with to get the attention and affection another. We pose and pretend and yet we think we are not influenced by others.

Note how we are trained to feed on the "marks" we get; first in school, then in jobs, then as approvals and of course prizes, medals, awards and certificates!

Just note and reflect; is this activity on your agenda?

We all are where we are because of the support of friends, family and cronies + circumstances.

Let us never forget the exigencies in our decisions.

Good deeds are soon forgotten.- that is IF recognised as one in the first place.

Ken Timper

No matter what mistakes you may have made in the past, never let yourself fall into a state of shame and become demoralized. Pick up the pieces and forge ahead, in spite of everything.

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari

Easier said than really done in practice by people who have evolved on the say so of others.

Malachy Matthews

There was an excellent article on the value of university qualifications and the 'cognitive meritocracy'. I have seen people with Engineering degrees who can just about connect a light switch without blowing up the circuit. On the other hand I have worked with people who have no formal qualifications who are highly intelligent and outshine honours graduates in achieving results. Mary Kenny asks a good question; 'Are university degrees over-valued?'

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari: YES.

It isn't working because it is not real.

It is methodical control of the economy.

The need for award and praise has been utilized to enslave the human character and this trick worked.

Schools, university, colleges are making money because their certificates matter where the jobs are. And to go to the colleges, just see the list of all that we require and are made to go thru.

We are not being educated -- we are being sold into a system.

Points of View - Classical vs Modern

My book of Truth.

The truth is I am hungry and is there food?

I wish to take a bath; are there water and fresh clothes?

Is there a bed to lie down?

Who cares where the sun is! This is the last of our worries; IT will be either up or down.

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Everything in life, (good or bad times) has to pass; agree. But often it is painful - even very painful. This cannot be denied and SHOULD NOT be denied. To be able to take in one's stride is one thing but to say that it is of no matter is rather too much philosophy for me.

Luckily we have death to end all misfortunes but till it arrives, life can be awfully painful when connected with some events and experiences.

Yet by keeping a detachment and positive frame of mind, by calling on the Grace, the effects of a bad time can be mitigated somewhat.

Luckily 99% of humans only experience hard times, emotionally disagreeable times that they normally magnify in their heads and suffer due to it because relatively they have no idea how painful life can really be outside their little worlds; very rarely do individuals suffer any severe traumatic experience like a gang rape or torture in prison like in war - this happens only when one has associated or invited certain monster activities or "Beings" (if you believe in the occult world) into one's life.

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I was driving and Manjula my wife was telling me a story she was viewing on the TV of this 50 year old widower with an adult daughter. Now this man was in love but not having the courage to openly accept the woman in his life because it was his philosophy that unless the daughter accepted it, he would not do anything to disturb the daughter's right of having first option over his presence and in his life.

Commendable I say.

And I agree.

Once we have a child we belong to the child and the child should exclusively come first. Think: the child's house, the child's parents, the child's life....nothing else exists or matters but /and we as parents should never forget our responsibility to help the child grow and to instill in the child good habits and attitudes that will be of value in life. (Although in passing I wonder how many parents are aware at all of what would be of value or not and are bothered with their child as a separate person -- not a possession)

The society that does not honor this falls into anarchy and lawlessness and eventually disintegrates.

Malachy Matthews

Pradeep, you cannot be serious! Let the child go with support and live his / her own life....with a little scaffolding. You astound me if you are serious!

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari

As long as the child is at home for any reason, dependent on me for any reason, I have to be there for the child.

Once the child is flying on his own, it is a different story but still I would respect my child's wishes before I did anything that may hurt feelings of the child in any way or his future. You would have certainly heard of stories where the second marriage disenfranchised the child and brought horror upon the poor first born.

On the possibility of harm coming to the child do not forget the story of Cinderella.

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We have mentally and subconsciously accepted that after 60-70 we are old and incapable to do much. This gives us the perfect excuse to let our bodies slip into comfortable lassitude and lose its strength and many abilities - including healing itself. The Hunzas who live long are active till late in life and often even father children at the age of 90 or so. It is all in the mind and of course also in the way we live life.

Mind over matter really.

Teachers versus Teaching (written mainly for India)

Teachers versus Teaching (written mainly for India) but may be true for most countries.

How online education will worsen our educational level and talent level of our children if continued in the present scenario.

With the need to reach more students and easily the online lecturing method seems to be a God-send. It does have its +points like less travelling stress for the child but it has also one too many negative points. The first of them is the tendency of the child to "bunk" classes. The other is obviously our infrastructure to support this system and the most important one is the lack of readiness of our teachers to be effective on distance teaching thru video systems.

The children not learning social-kills is also a very serious development.

I would like to focus on the Teachers here. The faults that have been in existence since a long time have now become glaring cracks in the system and in my opinion we are producing candidates who cannot communicate so no group activity can be done with them and they cannot even be employed.

Have you ever visited the online lectures being put out on TV? These points project themselves out from the very second you lay eyes on them:

a] The pronunciation of the teacher is mostly awful, highly colored by their local native mother tongue and therefore very particular to a region and NOT-at-all understood by students of other regions.

2] The language used is English but the grammar is local vernacular which means the sentence construction and the idioms would be understood only by those who are into that particular vernacular.

3] There has been no training imparted to teachers to train their voices to correctly throw their speech. Whatever personal habits been acquired by the teachers, they unknowingly bring this to the screens; mainly the problem of either the volume of voice going up and down or lisping or saying ahem/ah/eh (this I now see annoyingly very prominently in all those announcers coming on the TV news channels) or not completing sentences and using the wrong words.

This kind of teaching results in confused students and I am seeing this in students in a big way those who come to me.

I am really sad about it but what can I do? I had offered to do Free sessions in schools for teachers but the managements mostly are not interested in focusing on their shortcomings -- I suppose they see this as extra burden on their highly charged timetable and at the pecuniary level not important to running and keeping the school going so not really important.

What are needed are Elocution classes and lessons from trained people outside the teaching structure; like dramatists. By restricting appointments of teachers on the basis of their "papers" alone we have missed out on the quality of experience worldly-wise experts and their abilities.

People in commanding positions and who have obvious capabilities to talk well and strong in languages should be involved; like for example Brigadiers from the army or captains of industry. In our times we had Jesuit fathers from abroad who cared and were wonderful committed teachers

A language has a standard and we should help our students to achieve the highest standard of grammatical and idiomatic use with command so that they can influence emphatically people and situations for success.

The kind of lectures in evidence today are pointless. A lot of our attention goes simply in trying to understand the lecturer instead of the subject. It makes no impact except to put one to sleep. A total waste of clock-time.

Arjun K Nagar: Are schools really making kids a good professional or minting hard earned parent's money? I am yet to see the fruitful outcome in student.

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari: Our system was created to produce semi literates for B and C grade level employment. It is the certificate for which they work. The word education is not really relevant here.

Family controlled businesses need non-questioning yes-men and not thinking-capable individuals who can take over the business. That is reserved to the sons of the owner.

Professional requirements have become essential now with this digital technology and distance management of issues. This requires a high precision of understanding and communicating. Language takes on prime importance but have people realized that?

Life was bumbling along fine otherwise. This is the reason India has remained a low skill industrial nation.

For example all the stuff that was being made 400 years ago is still being made and with the same technology - result: we have remained as a huge cottage industry.

Stephen Safka

But without Indian old school technology we would be lost in a HIGH TECH WORLD WITHOUT A HEART!

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari

Yes it is not a wrong or bad way to be. We were quite content really. Now this need to overtake the neighbor has spoilt it all. Only things have got complicated by this smart phone that has made people aware of what riches others have got and I see more people turning to robbery instead of learning.

Truth Invites War

We are at war when we lie and we create more wars when we tell the truth.

The question is shall we speak or remain silent?

From what I understand when we disturb the hive, the bees are bound to get angry.

So what do we do?

We speak with circumspection. Like a chess player, we think of the next few steps, the steps that can be taken back at us and the dire results if a wrong step is taken. Our focus should be on silent mulling instead of blurting and acting out the first thing that comes to mind.

Truth as yet does not move in groups on this earth.

All those who have grasped some truth and are shouting from the top of the wall to all others are only creating a situation where they will certainly be attacked. The truth of one group seems to be is not the truth of another; then what is the truth and on this question, humanity goes to battle.

This makes it personal and none of us can help in these circumstances and FRANKLY NO ONE IS INTERESTED.

The onus is on us as pointing fingers is easy and people will point not only fingers but whole arms; the violent ones do the pointing with sword in hand.

- What a mesmerising mix this life is.

The blood flows and we have no idea who makes the pump work.

We utter words that are more designed to hide the real intents rather than communicate. We use our mind to conjure up images which we then believe as Truth and Reality full of idealistic thoughts and ideals totally unconnected with human psychology or natural laws.

Then we worsen it all trying to use our poor ability to use words/language effectively to create a virtual imagery of our thoughts that are mashed up nice and proper and we get riled up when others don't understand us.

We talk today of the virtual world through the digital tech of computers et al. But we forget that humans have always been living in a virtual world as it is since the banana attracted our attention millions of years ago.

- The value of grand parents. I don't think young parents with their arrogant self-centeredness are the right people to raise kids but this selfish world is too far removed to understand in today's parlance. Selfishness has coupled down with arrogance to create unreachable individuals.

When I see fearful grand parents afraid to touch a grandchild without permission of the mother...it hurts me deep down.

What monsters have we become!

By the time people learn the value of leaving the child with grand parents, it is too late; the children are all grown up. Nobody bothers to pass on the lesson learned to the children who will soon become parents too and in all probability continue with the tradition.

Why has humanity not paid more heed to this fact and factor and incorporated it as lessons in their schools and churches?

By distancing away the children from grandparents we have done a lot of harm to the evolution of humanity because grandparents are the ones who have learnt the lesson and are kinder, adaptable and ready to suffer the child in every way and this is awfully needed to further the child's growth.

- We have more pride than intelligence. This is seen in how we value ourselves, how we value others and how others value us. When we cut others out we think we have taken appropriate action. When others cut us out we are hurt. Why do we feel we should be considered the guiding light for humanity? Why do we value their opinion so much? And finally why is the peace that follows in being left to oneself so hard to bear?

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- You are a nobody. It would be difficult to think on these lines. Our entire existence is based ON THE CONCEPT OF OUR EXCLUSIVITY.

The similarities that we all have, even the same identical looks that are constantly duplicated, the history being repeated and such factors.... why has this not become more obvious to all? Do we not see that blood transfusions are done on the basis of medical groups and nothing else. Why because children of Mother earth we are technically the same. It is on this basic knowledge that most medicines are also based otherwise drugs could not be mass produced. Have you seen how cars made in Detroit can be driven by all men anywhere on earth? Why? Because essentially we are all the same.

Do we really not see that the human body, the emotional and mental components are all quite similar. I have as yet to see a man from anywhere on earth not having been able to have sex with a woman anywhere else on earth. Any difference if there is any is due to minor factors in this world of millions of possibilities due to the permutations and combinations possible but in the end the basic components are the same. There is one difference though and that is that all minds and Spirits are not on the same level of evolution even if they look alike. This happens to be due to the Spirit being more pronounced in some and that is what stands out.

Otherwise, be certain that at least 10000 Cleopatra looking females have been born since she died and there have been similar individual stories of all that we have personally gone thru in life.

We don't know about all of them, we move in a small circle on earth and we think we are exclusive. This is an illusion.

PS: This is what the philosophers call "Illusion, Delusion, Duality etc". Yes, once we have seen this we have great difficulty in taking the wailings of humans rather seriously, sadly or supposedly.

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Older age and Treatment of Constitutional Health problems.

Over the last 2 years I have noticed my friends and relatives talking of health problems and even listening to me. I am in my seventies and my friends and compatriots are all above 50 and much more which is a clean indication that they are beginning to feel the call of age and are NOW ready to listen to some "corrections" necessitated in the way life had been lived by all of us. The old arrogance of still being young is fading away. But the habits that have ingrained themselves are not that easy to correct. Often as we live as family together, it is not always easy to make changes. The groove has been set. But our body is not listening to our problems and now it is not ready to accommodate our follies. Our neglect of our bodies will show up for what it is and problems will follow. It is stupid to think that the constitutional defects that develop over a period of 50-60 years will go away or ever be wholly corrected whatever the "POSITIVE" thinking crowd may say. It is not always a mind over matter because a lot of the problems are embedded in the subconscious and we are not in touch with that part of us at all. Early habits die hard. The arteries that are now blocked due to much cheese and pasta are not getting back to their pristine smooth flows. The heart muscles that have cracked under pressure will remain damaged. The exhausted adrenals will remain exhausted. The hungry bones will remain hungry. The eyes will remain tired. Our first duty is to reduce the stress on all the body and different afflictions that we burden it with. And of course, we must then also provide the nutrients, elements and formulations that naturally help to rectify the weakness that is slowly but surely entering our cell structure. I personally find Homeopathy and Naturopathy can do wonders and miracles, specially when working together.

But humans have this tendency to find excuses to not need to follow any regimen. So they listen when in pain but soon try to find logic to stop their disciplined living as soon as the pain and discomfort becomes reasonably tolerable. This is the reason painkillers, antacids, anti-pyritic, mood drugs and Stamina Boosters are so popular -- nobody cares that these break the body even more. We are indestructible -- are we not? Now this is the subject I want to broach upon. So they are happy to consult. I am happy to advise. Quite often my approach being holistic, meaning that the prescription is not disease specific but CONSTITUION specific, they are benefitted and feel so. But they rarely come back on their own and after few days just as they feel relief, they stop the treatment. Every time I take the initiative to ask the patients how they feel I realize that they stopped the medication without talking to me. So I wonder why they talked to me in the first instance and why they make me talk -- because I come free of cost?

Just this morning I was explaining a point like this "Madam your problem is now a "Constitutional Defect"; this means your body has changed and the changes are rather permanent. The medication that are being given in support and that I am suggesting cannot bring about a total cure but it will bring the body to some semblance of normalcy. The ailment may improve a bit but at this age will not wholly go away. Scar tissue forms wherever damage has happened and this is for always.

Your 60 years old body is not going back to its 16 years old constitution. You have to take these medicines now for the most part for the rest of your life. Symptoms may change on the way and the prescription will need re-evaluation but you have to give value to this point that your body cannot survive well without some support both in your life-style changes and taking care of the deficiencies that have been permitted all these years to develop and make you sick. The question in reply I got was: "Don't people take medicines for the rest of their lives out of fear even when not required?" So that opens up a new front and the change of subject is subtle. In short the subconscious foundation pattern is being readied to receive the idea that there are good reasons to not take medicines too. What can you do with these people? If they are not taking themselves seriously neither can we.

OFF-hand quotes.

* The hurt of a broken heart can last a lifetime. Yet not given importance.

- Most of our arguments stem from too much exposure to confusing inputs into our puny minds.

Superficial understanding based on the written word or gossip (plain and simple) and interpreted by every person from the level of his own evolution.

Meaningless.

Dont read too many people.

Dont listen to too many either.

Dont worry about experiences of others.

Simply ask your soul "Does it feel right"?

- Understanding the cause of depression:

By occult tantric understanding, when our desires and hopes are shattered and we have not taken the trouble to learn to rise above our weaknesses, this illness finds entry into our spiritual envelope. It is actually sad spirits overwhelming our souls.

We get into this state thru self-pity.

- Look this world runs on money. We live in this world. The wise, the poor are required to live by the existing rules. How cleverly you manage is the point.

Your spiritual life is your personal matter. That is not dependent on money. But your body is. So the wise man does not shun money but unlike all other humans he does not get attached to it. And he does whatever has to be done to have money around him to feed his needs.

It is also a fact that when the intentions are clear, the Universe assists and Destiny does have a plan.

The problem of and Question of Commitment.

Why are we so weak on commitments? This is where the ills of humanity begin. We are for some reason made this way. Call it by whatever name like Bluffing, Lying or Cheating the fact remains that our foundation is shaky and we speak without intent. The philosophers call it INSINCERITY but it is more than that. Humans make statements, Commitments based on the mood of the moment. They mean it for the moment. Tomorrow is another day. This is the psychological truth of our natures and general character but we do not accept it as we project ourselves as sincere, honest and indulgent people; something that we are deep-down not and considering the life we are forced to live on this planet, it cannot be otherwise. There are different grades of concentration of sincerity in this; every individual being at a different level. Some are absolutely insincere from the day go and are non-corrigible and there are others who are basically sincere and honest but sometimes life's weight and strain can be too much and they have to break their vows and they do so involuntarily with a heavy heart but necessity can be a hard master.

The point I wish to make is that humanity has no future unless and until it starts taking its commitments seriously. We are wasting a lot of time, energy and resources in negating each other. They say what does not kill us teaches us and builds us up. Perhaps the time has come to help providence change its tactics. Every word we utter has to be with intent and act as written in stone. It is good moral discipline. Once "in" we are in and there can be no way to wriggle out of the commitment and arrangement. You marry; you stay married. You have children you stay put and see to it that they mature well and get ready for life onward. You quote a price and delivery; you do it. You take a job; you deliver. You give a job; you become responsible for the person. You make a promise; you don't forget it. You make a mistake; you acknowledge it. When somebody stands by you; you don't ever forget it and remain in debt forever.

But these are farfetched thoughts. Humans are not even able to commit to their health and own well-being; what should we expect from them for others?

Humans need to stand by each other otherwise this world as it is, painful, unreliable and a torment to existence will remain as it is. All our talks of God, philosophy, Ethics are simply ripples on the surface of the pond; meaningless waste of time and energy and resources -- as we see these practices in operation, they are all charades based on our insincere dramatic abilities.

Nothing at all is going to ever ease the burden of living whatever the comfort level we achieve thru technology and policing. Just like cockroaches cannot be policed or controlled nothing can be done unless we first start policing ourselves.

Snide Remarks!

One of the biggest untruths of life is that "The parents did their best for you".

The parents if they had any sense of doing the best for me would have first learnt a little about people and children and the process of growing up. I don't think anyone really takes this trouble as an essential item so that the children grow up to be the best possible form of their selves.

And if the parents really were serious about raising superb children they would have first waited to be certain to establish themselves to be able to provide for the children "WELL".

I don't think parents really plan for children. They are thinking of themselves and their passions when they are enjoined in passionate embraces and whatever progeny happens become extensions of them. I don't think it is a conscious act and even one parent ever thinks in terms of how things will turn out and if they are prepared for the child to prepare it for the future world that is taking shape and unfolding. People normally plan for the future based on the past and their judgment of the future is always in error. More so now in the 21st century.

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People go for Degrees - not real education because that is now a basic requirement and degrees are available against 50% marks or less which means at most people know only some smattering of the subject and that too not well.

Most often after the exam all the lines learnt by rote also disappear and evaporate so the end product is a first class bum.

The degree program is creating arrogant semi literates. Education there is not and wisdom not at all. Applied knowledge of anything is totally missing from experience so the value of oneself is only in one's head.

What we see in an educated person today most of the times is a "VIRTUAL" persona; like the image on the virtual world screens.

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Employers make judgments on the basis of certain criteria points and the computer selects the candidates. That the person may be over qualified due to his experience and self-learning is not even considered. And the fact that the person may be a quick learner, innovative and an asset to the organization in many other ways is no more an important factor in employment.

So if you are planning to be running your life as an employee, the present day system needs you to conform.

Being creative will go against you.

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What is this talk of versions?

I have often wondered who I am. The persona I sort of feel is me is kind, compassionate and even knowledgeable, sometimes very creative too. I identify with it the most deeply and feel this is the one that dreams and acts most of the time.

But then there are other beings also living in this body that I identify with and one of them is always getting angry or jumping to conclusions and often overtakes my persona. When they are in action I could let my sword pierce other's heart and stamp them into a hole in the ground.

There is another being who would later regret it all. It is all so confusing. Who are these then? And what are they doing here? I feel a wave of disgust against them but am not able to stop them. Are they me too?

Ask right. Get it right

People are not asking the right questions and they end up pursuing the wrong answers.

I see it and the simplicity of the situation is shocking.

But this can be said of all things in life.

Humans live in cocoons and a very "little" world and they see it as their entire "whole" and rationalize about the world, their life and the life of others from that standpoint. It rarely dawns on anyone that our wisdom is not all universe encompassing.

You remember Chengis Khan, Hitler, Stalin, Hiroshima but not the people who died under this cloud of horror.

Humanity and humans glorify the doer. The Doer is the one who makes life move. He keeps the Universe humming.

This is the human way of stamping the Human Ego with Greatness and Grandness labels of sanctimonious hypocrisy.

This then allows the humans to misbehave with justification and live in the ego of "THE DOER".

At the same time DOING becomes religiously chaste and the correct method of living - regardless that the earth is denuded and people hurt and killed. That is only collateral damage.

Time to think anew and start afresh --never forgetting that the world is not a nice place.

One of the biggest mistakes which are part of our upbringing is that we are made to believe that the world is a nice place and that being nice, honest and diligent will take care of the rest.

Unfortunately the world is not really made of sugar and spice and all things nice. We are a mixture of great niceness and devastating evil. There is much love -- only for the self -- not for you. There is mainly instinct- not much intelligence. Intelligence, whatever little there is goes into supporting the private selfish agendas.

So be warned. Do not lose sight of reality. Take nothing for granted.

Dont crave Indulgence

This is another of those glorified concepts about action on the earth plane.

"Nonviolence doesn't always work but violence never does". Isaac Asimov

The violent ones do and for that moment at least get away with what they do. Their ends are met. It is totally another thing that the pleasure of having hurt another will bring in repercussions; that is of no consequence to the perpetrators.

The violence perpetrated gave the intended pleasure and result, the lesson if any in the act was duly imparted.

If intimidation was the objective, it would have done its job.

It is totally another subject of discussion that we are all ending up in a coffin sooner or later. The violent ones know it may be sooner but then so what - they lived with gusto and they took from life more than the average Joe ever does.!!!!!

Nonviolence is designed to awaken the kind and compassionate center in others. Most cruel people don't have it so the effort may go totally waste.

But one thing works and that is non-indulgence. Don't indulge situations that you think or feel NOT right. If you think somebody is not on the right, don't cooperate. Do not partake of the feast. Don't join the vibrations or don't let the influences envelope you; at least try to avoid he confrontation and amalgamation of your spirit force with energies that are misdirected. But there is a big BUT here: people really do not know what is good, right or wrong.

A little meditation will show that we are violent mostly with ourselves. All our indulgences end up hurting or trapping us. Too much gluttony gives tummy ache in the short term and other illnesses in the long term. Too much sex gives us depression directly or indirectly thru consequences. Violence can put us in jail where we may have to bear great violence in return. etc etc etc

Your ego needs to be under the thumb of your reasonable & kind side of your consciousness and mind. Then it becomes a friend. The ego supplies the INTENTION, The Force and power to our Self. It is now under the control of the lower mind which is a bit of a degenerate, callous and extremely selfish - its kind side becomes visible only when in need. This needs to be changed

En Garde.

America seems to reflect so beautifully our Indian division of the Cosmos into Devas and Rakshasa.

The Devas are of course the ones who want to uplift and progress and ethically raise mankind into godhead. The purpose of the Rakshasa is to block this at every possible move.

In fact occult sciences say that the rakshasas are there to concretize our intentions and efforts. There is no easy way out.

All these devastations that we see in life, all these blocks and tragedies are comparable to the tilling of the land for newer growth.

America is the land of experiment where these faculties are progressing at a wild rate. You can see the diametrically opposite in India which is full of lethargy and inertia making the work of the rakshasa difficult because we are so indolent. Life sent us the Muslims and the Europeans but nothing really happened; it is like a huge Bull (Nandi?) that refuses to budge.

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.

Show them what is right.

Why is it that some people are so offended at just about everything; specially things that do not concern them, do not bite them and are otherwise naturally none of anyone's business?

For instance we can take the case of uproar by the white cultures and their opposition to breast feeding children first medically some 30-50 years ago and now in open places? While they want to see breasts everywhere in their lives like in journals, their dressing and even in adverts selling refrigerators. They talk of dressing up but focus on the undressing!

What piques them?

After studying this a little even perfunctorily I realised that people who are offended are really weak character ones who find certain pictures and activities like attacks on their "weaknesses" - a kind of fear that they may expose themselves. Example: Take the Muslim men, they are so singularly sexual minded that they need to keep their women in burquas as otherwise they are always excited and can go berserk easily. The big news is that this vibration, in India too got passed on to the Hindus. And if one looks closely in history this factor raises its head every now and then in every culture when conservatives are in governance.

And to keep their charade of superiority they then can live only when the whole world follows their way.

A big way to maintain "divides" in society is by creating "Finger-raising" factors. This allows open and "fair" criticisms and the critics can pat themselves for the good deeds they are doing for society and its decadent ways.

Although it goes unsaid, but factors open to criticism also open door for justified violence. Anything that can be termed immoral can then also be openly attacked and women are such lovely targets.

Sanjeev Kumar Verma

One thing I don't understand is what these film actors (or actress) do that they get 50 or 100 crore rupees for a movie?

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari

They feed on human idiocy.

In society they entertain the masses who are devoid of any personality to be anything of value on their own. So we have virtual personas that we identify with who sing, dance, cry travel and behave and keep our empty minds busy and our hearts full with something to live for.

It is socially acceptable pornography.

In the business world they permit you to see for a few rupees nude bodies of females doing semi porno dance sequences which we would not get a chance otherwise and this keeps the people glued to the business of life in the name of entertainment.

Educationally, the people who matter know very well that this is socio-engineering at its best as thru this audio-visual method of sleek story telling they can feed the masses with ideas and concerns and govern their minds which come very handy in collecting votes.

In the unseen REAL world this is one way of keeping the masses occupied with things that don't matter, don't even really exist while the kings and the real world empty the pockets of the people and fill their own coffers.

Everything happening is the result of deep thought and plans, mostly insincere, designed to cover up the real thing.

Example: The "celebrities" of today are mostly screen figures, sports figures etc that are made and kept there for our the amusement of the public and while the public is busy learning about them and pursuing them, the "kings" play merry with the world.

The saddest part is that another dumb category of people are "LISTENING" and paying attention to them, allowing them to manipulate and often use the people to create disturbances and riots.

Life is so make-believe in the final analysis.

Regulate and Control

When I had my child I wrote on Facebook how she loved to play at the oddest hours of the day and night which were totally against my time table and habitual daily routine. The response was very clear. I was told quite clearly that she should be put to bed and her timing regulated from day one otherwise she would never learn good habits. Wow said I to myself. Is this how people think about raising children; as automats or because it fits in perfectly with their own comfort zones?

But frankly it never occurred to me to start imposing military regulations on the child because it did not suit me. This sounded so barbaric to me.

I now remember my times with her playing thru half the night. Those were some of the loveliest times of my life. And as to the child, I don't see that it has spoilt her habits in any way. The friendly bond that we made has grown and now a cherished friend rather than a major-general father.

My feeling (intuitive) was that regulation of habits can come after the age of 5. In the period of childhood uptil age 2 there should no attempt at regulation and at ages 3-5 the child should be allowed to pace itself and parents need go along with the child. Let the child grow mentally and physically without any inkling of stress. Gradually from this time disciplined behavior in certain activities like toilet training etc. should be imposed with clean cut directions repeated till they take roots.

PS: I also noticed another thing. As my child came to me at a long later age than normal, my friends and family had all gone thru this stage and the fun of having children about had gone from their lives. So I had none to really enjoy the presence of the child along with. This was a little saddening to me.

The Pleasure Principle.

It is a simple principle. Humans would like to experience pleasure. The easiest and most immediate pleasures are what the body can give. So we have all these products and activities that produce heightened excitement, sensations and a feeling "pleasure".

What keeps us back is the lack of means. If half the world is chaste it is because it cannot afford it.; in cash or either kind.

Money is required to purchase these products and services.

Once money comes in hand the first run is towards experimenting with the OBTAINING of pleasure by all means available to us where we happen to be.

Since time immemorial sex and alcohol have been the most common and vastly available commodities. Certain hallucinating plants have also been known.

Humans have and will indulge in these pleasurable activities. Businessmen will make money out of it. Where there is a buyer, sellers will also be.

Then what went wrong?

The thing that went wrong was when governments started moralizing and trying to stop indulgence by laws.

Human nature and Mother Nature cannot be stopped by laws.

Legalities have only created illicit trades, huge profits that are tempting to enter into as a line of business.

The problem of today is in the fact that huge effort is put in by the bankers in these nefarious activities to tempt, titillate and trap humans so that they have a regular supply of customers.

How can we change the human propensity towards pleasure?

To be bluntly honest, we can't.

The human lives in a world of sensations and is a virtual slave to the nervous system's information pathways to pain or pleasure. There are so many things that give pain; even a little indigestion can become painful. In contrast there aren't many things that give relief and pleasure comes from even lesser sources.

Humans at the present level of evolution identify themselves with their bodies and this life in this body is the only reality they know -- I speak for the masses, of course.

There are other sources of pleasure like classical music that can give equal amount of joy and pleasure but to enjoy something like classical music a certain amount of spiritual emancipation is required which come from quietening of the spirit, filling the mind with philosophical concepts and all this comes from education which everyone is not privy to. Very few get the opportunity to visit these areas of "life" like walk in the forests, listen to poetry, to cultivate tastes in art and music and the finer subtleties of experiences not dependent on the body. Most often it has been seen a guide is initially needed; one has to be lucky to find one and a really good one is hard to find.

But we can all aim for it and the digital tech has really made it easy for anyone who would like to.

Empty words

A very pertinent point. People think the words are enough. That they have understood and now once in their minds, it will as a matter of course define their lives. This is an illusion. A "mithya". A bit of a breeze with no body or staying power.

The transmitter is never enough as a standalone instrument. The receiver has to be ready on the same wavelength and it has to be on with active batteries.

It is not rocket science to understand that there is no point in answering questions that are not asked and loading information on people who are not ready to absorb it yet. Today a lot of information is force-fed to obtain a diploma which is as good as waste toilet paper.

What is happening now in the cut and paste culture is that words are being bandied about like sandwiches that are never even touched or often looked at.

Like penny for your thoughts, you can order/buy wisdom at automatic vending machines.

They are not out there to learn in the first place.

Let the wise men understand this basic "reality"

People are living in full imagined freedom in the Château d'If.

Outside of it nothing can matter as there is no escape and none wish to escape anyway.

It has been the experience of most long-standing prisoners who are released that they would prefer to be back inside in a place they know. This freedom into an unknown land was undesirable to say the least.

People who wish to escape always do. Read the Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas.

Most of us are rather proud of our great abilities and style in which we live our lives. Specially the harsh way life and providence has dealt with us. We survive our troubles rather well and in general good moods because we consider ourselves as infinitely better and able than all those around us whose company we have to bear. This certainly keeps us in a vainglorious laudable happy frame of mind.

We may complain and crib but that is only to avoid the evil-eye.

We talk of everything under the sun and analyse everyone and all situations but never look at our own errors. We discuss at length "what will happen after death" and the Lives of Vishnu, Shiva and Ganesh. But we never ask how we can improve upon our anger, racist tendencies, casteist behavior and vane thoughts. This is where improvement is needed and we normally avoid it.

. We talk of the next step humanity needs to take in its evolution. No point of talking of things like Brahma, Vishnu, Buddha, Kingdom of God, Superman, Aatma, Paratma and such. What are the factors that need to be attended to now? The Next Step like what does a class one child need to know to graduate to class two.

There are many sources that can trigger the internal question mark as to QUO VADIS (Wither Goest Thou?)

A few sentences from here and there from proverbs, sayings, quotes short stories even movies have shown me the way my soul feels inclined to pursue.

I have been advising my students to make a list of about 20 quotes/sentences that touched them deeply and reflect upon them every day before starting the day. This is enough to attain spiritual emancipations and opening if one is sincere about it.

Why the violence?

We are not being violent. We are being ourselves and that is "VIOLENT" because we are made that way for some reason by the Creator. Everything we do can be traced to some violent element.

The surprising thing is that we have done a good job of hiding it - reflecting our insincerity on the other hand.

It is funny how we have cultivated ourselves to become unreal and hide and then now we desperately want to become free of our self-induced captivity.

How do we shift the minds of people from the illusion that when they have seen a statue here or there, they have seen GOD and that by visiting a Pagoda, Temple or Church they have visited the realm of Gods? This is illusion also keeps them stuck in their over-valued sense of virtue!

Habit. Needs and understanding coming to us from the long past and still reigning over us.

We think we are more conscious and evolved to day.

NO.

The only thing that has evolved is technology. We humans have only learned to misuse it for furthering our stupid-ends. When people are looking for "change" in their circumstance, when they go to pray for diverting the river, when we aim for more, this point becomes important; for change is what we are afeared of and avoid internally but want it to manifest externally.

Things can change only when our understanding of change changes.

I am not surprised literally. Just bringing a point up for meditation.

On your part, as a kind man I see you seeing all with great generosity which is another reason for the humankind to not move forward as we need courageous, conscientious wiser beings who initiate elements of change while all the time also accepting that things are what they are as they are.

These humble working people contain more kindness in their hearts and stock more wisdom in their thumb than most degree holding professionals.

When I was learning 'Tinkering" in school the department had an old man called "grandfather" and he was such a traditional fount of knowledge that he was seen with wonder. He was a perfectionist and I was put under him. Whenever I think of a short-cut in life his image comes and stands in front of me. It was the same with my teacher who taught me carpentry although he was a much younger man.

There were highly educated teachers that we hated because they were so unkind. Humanity must regulate its thoughts. Some thoughts should be killed right there; never given to flourish out and spread.

Often we couch our hurtful words as a joke but it is something that surely will take root in some stupid mind and many will find it wonderful as an expression of anger. Often a destructive idea is present as a toy or product and people will pay for it and so will start another round of money making on an idea that should not be floating around at all. Unknowingly we promote violent vibes.

Immunity from disease thru removal of anxiety: this starts from conception. The vibes of the parents are imbibed by the child.

Changes can be made only when parents cooperate to reduce anxiety forming situations and behaviour around the child.

Bringing up has also to be changed "into bringing up" in reality; what is happening now is that we are just letting the child grow without and deep consideration or effort. The parents are also the biggest bullies and instill more fear and anxieties than is good. How anyone thinks this will change by just regulating things or lectures is beyond my understanding.

A drastic change of consciousness and effort is required.

AND we must absolutely somehow make humanity accept that they DO NOT have rights to have children without responsibility of making themselves ready mentally and economically.

I wonder if we shall ever fully know the harm parents can do and actually do to their children; specially the harmful vibes of violence they unleash upon each other thru words and actions.

And the lack of trying to understand the child to help him grow into himself is so regressive and so little acknowledged and practiced. Children are so often brow-beaten into cowering jellies because adults think of them as mini-adults, coming down from heaven fully learned and knowing about the adult world. I see so many adults behaving as if the child should have known what is in their minds as right and wrong and then punish the child for errors without ever explaining to the child anything at all about life.

Go deeper. It is not as simple or superficial. The people are simply not using their heads or integrity. It is the same Force or Power making hay while the Sun of stupidity shines on the masses.

Most "kings" become kings because there is a vile deep foothold in their consciousness of the negative forces. Their administration is based on control and self-profit at the expense of the country. Most politicians are on a one way egotrip. I wonder if they have spoken a single word in their lives connected to the truth of their hearts or even if they are capable.

The influence is so strong that most government employees, organisations are seeping in negativity and blocking change or improvement for this would mean "sharing" and this is not what they are there for. People who work there soon lose all their personal personality and sense of proportion. It is quite like the zombies taking over.

Everything happening is the result of deep thought and plans, mostly insincere, designed to cover up the real thing.

Example: The "celebrities" of today are mostly screen figures, sports figures etc that are made and kept there for our amusement & the public and while the public is busy learning about them and pursuing them, the "kings" play merry with the world. The categorising of things into compartments of whites or blacks or poverty or birth control or christian/muslim/ hindu/buddhism etc are just means of control of the mass mind-sets.

Whenever a positive force gathers momentum it is immediately broken with extreme force for the pleasure of seeing it dismantled and in disarray.

The general public does not understand the mechanics involved and so they have been gathering groups and exposing themselves to hurt and clustered attacks.

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My solution is that if we want to hurt the government, we need to just step "back" from using their services or the services offered by their cronies the "big businesses" and deprive them of financial sustenance that comes from our buying.

We have been fooled into thinking that our votes count or that we have a say in the government.

Although we pride ourselves on being self-made we carry the memories of them all in our subconscious memories that influence us in so many ways at every moment and yet we think of ourselves as master of our destinies, individuals with a unique footprint.

I wish it would also wake us all up to the fact that how similar we are and our lives are but a variation of a theme. Look at this photo. I am drinking at the fount at the Vatican in Rome, A unique trip for me. Once in a lifetime occasion; An event that even merited a photograph for posterity (to show that I was able to go there). But how unique really? This fountain has been there since centuries. How many travellers must have sipped water here and for that matter how many horses and donkeys and urchins and perhaps birds and ducks? Let us not let our egos runaway with us. I see the entire problem from the standpoint of humans thinking and deciding that the world needs their express intervention, constant supervision and acute vigilance.

It is their action, like murdering the wrong-doers, burning at the stake the defilers, lynching the unbelievers, raping the non-subversives, blackmailing the poor and making sure that people think as ordained -- all these are the tools and activities of the knowledgeable humans.

It is a state of mind that is totally common to us all. Some show it with guns others with means that are less violent but equally damaging.

Example my wife, father and the entire breed of adults, associates and even labourers that I have known outside the Ashram - what they have not done is NOT done and will never get done. You can't trust anybody; the whole world is so lazy, deceitful and such liars!

The world IS because they ARE and they keep it humming.

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