Gods and Demons in the Service of Mankind

Life & World-View-- when a monk takes "Notes" from Inside an Ashram.

Life as it is, is playing itself out and seems to be full of dangerous, futile episodes of intolerance and dominance. A small bunch of people have on the other hand also seen the loves, kind and compassionate episodes but they are outnumbered 100 to 1 by the sadder ones. Ashrams and monasteries and retreats give a better view indeed. So one goes within a special place to contemplate and what does one see from there and what are the solutions, answers to the perennial question to improve upon it and the route to take?

Here are the thoughts of one monk who passed this way.

In India, ascetism has been closely related to the tantric understanding of human occult psychology and the forces working behind the scenes in humans. For those who are looking to be in command of their lives, understanding this is of paramount importance. There is nothing at all new to be told as it has been told since thousands of years by every "Soul" that has passed this way but I feel it needs to be retold taking into account the new mental development this century has seen and to be of pragmatic use it needs to be nearer to the times we are in.

My way of telling is more like in the form of raising new ideas to consider implementing in present day style of living for better results to reach our goal. The immediate next step humanity needs to take. No ready-made solutions. I give you the recipe. You do your own cooking to best suit your tastes.

Your mind wants to know about the dark side of the moon. What will it do with it?

Your mind wants to know if the Universe is Conscious. Whatever for?

Your mind is busy wooing the neighbor. Will it ever happen?

Then you blame the world, destiny, universe, gods, people and providence for everything that goes wrong - just because you avoided taking care of the weeds growing in your mind within and your garden without.

Just because your eyes and hands are not working together.

Just because your ears and mind are not working together.

And worst of all - the mind and heart at loggerheads most of the time.

I think it is overload of a mind that is not ready for the finer points. Too much information of the unusable kind, mixed with non-essential info is confusing and dumbing down the machinery in a kind of stuck gears situation.

People are busying themselves with inanities like the "choosing" of the junk food (Burger and Coke combo for instance) which should not be there in the first place. Imagine yourself standing at the beach not even touching the water. The vast ocean spread in front of you.

This is how humanity stands in front of the sea of thought. There and not there at the same time.

When the waters come forward to bathe the feet, our reaction is to save our sandals and run back to avoid all "real" contact.

We have collected enough water in our bucket from the sea of thought to last our purpose - whatever it is ...... One bucket of water is more than what we can carry with ease. The ease part is so important!

TO ME it seems that we use all our strength to avoid looking at Life because that would mean confronting it.

We talk of Gods but prefer to follow the sheep in habits and attitude.

Life is manageable.

- The Lord and Grace have been around me and taken care of the accidents but "They" sure do not pardon my sins.

- RESTITUDE

Let your head rest.

Let your body rest.

Let your mind rest.

Let your heart rest.

And then, refreshed;

Let AGITATION rest.

All demons harm. The "path" some make you take are pleasurable.

But eventually there is going to be pain and depression. The morbidity is in-built. Specially if the pleasure is connected and possible through the medium of body alone then it is a certainty. The after taste is always sour/bitter because it needs a continued repetitive movement to remain pleasurable which is not sustainable and even boring to the point of reaching satiation.

Why the Psychopath narcissist goes unrecognised and has never been given due importance in human lives?

This is a very intelligent and clever demon that knows how to project itself as a saintly victim and can actually transform its projected image to be a wonderful caring person. It lies like a trooper and can rewrite stories to make everyone around him/her seem like devils out to hurt and had it been not for him/her the world would go asunder.

The truth is that in the safety of the home where others may not get a glimpse into his/her real "self" they become psychopathic monsters and harming, making others grovel is their hobby and gives them great pleasure. So much so that they destroy their own home and family doing so for in the long term of their existence in this Universe, they do NOT SEE their family as "theirs". They have really no attachment or heart so to speak.

They are unreachable by human methods.

On earth, because everything is having two sides, everything is evil and good at the same time. It is a matter of limits. We just need to learn to stop when it is time to stop.

Ever consider the fact that all our altruistic thoughts and acts are planned maneuvers to gain something or some traction out of it all!

Ever consider the fact that all our altruistic thoughts and acts are planned maneuvers to gain something out of it all! Did they notice what I just did, Will I ever be recognised as the great one that I am, How do I play for power under the circumstances, I can't let them get away with all the glory can I? etc etc etc

Every movement of ours is deeply seeped in self-centeredness on a quid pro quo basis at its best.

Don't agree? Observe with a very quiet mind; detaching yourself from yourself!

You might also observe that the clever ones are always "busy" (unavailable) until they are getting something tangible out from it.

- Stop when night falls is something humans have practically forgotten. Now 24 hours is pleasure time. Sleeping is for those in the coffins.

All our problems stem from the fact that we do not know how to stop when the going is good and when other elements in life also demand our attention in balance.

But you know that; yet hope that the rule may treat you as an exception.

The life as practiced by humans is too mentalised, intellectualised and structured and supremely instinctive at the same time; not in agreement with itself, totally out of balance with reality; tugged by education, conditioning and instinct without forgetting the original character/nature given to us by Mother nature at birth. We think of one thing, talk of another and act totally in another way. Yet we call ourselves individuals. What a joke!

Feeling sad ....

Shame how shallow human spirit is.

How we pride in our destructiveness.

How we destroy our own wealth to appease some entities somewhere and how we feel great therein. Now I wonder what makes behave in this way. What demons sit in our heads?

You are saying the problem is with them. Then how come you are bothered by it? There is something in you responding. These are rationalisations, they do explain the situation but for all practical matters useless in changing anything that would happen. We have to look for the fault in us.

What you all are calling good people are the masses with no good or bad - just plain mother nature's mass produced bums. Just neutral idiots interested in their food, roof, laziness and sex. If it does not disturb their existence they let everything happen around them as if they are inert. Evil people know this and understand this and capitalise upon it.

Numbskull

is the word on my mind.

How we numb our minds to make this existence a little tolerable. Pk

Pete Apte

So we get beyond the mind

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari

Yes in to the Intuited mind - then one sees clearly the entire picture

Pete Apte

And we do this with people who are neurodivergent, it doesn't matter how people think, they can still tap into the divine if they choose to.

PK........

You don't have tap into the Divine. The Divine is waiting to tap in. We have to just ready the conditions in us. And the elements for this are quite simple and well known.

The physical mental part simply is not interested. It gets all the pleasure it wants from plant sources and sex and such.

My way: Start with classical music. Learn to sit to listen. If inculcated in childhood it does a lot of good.

Choose 20 or so phrases that touch you to the core as wisdom that need to be incorporated in life. Repeat them once a day or more. Sort of read them out from a paper.

Do not try to run or influence others.

Otherwise go about normally in your life.

In food go for simple non-difficult to digest fare.

30 years ago a French friend said: traveling to other places is no fun anymore. There is no local character. All the shops and scenery is taking on a corporate hue and you see the same things.

We are all becoming like eating /wanting/dressing from the same stores.

And following the trends.

I wish to elaborate upon this sentence of mine: I am now convinced that the difference between them and me is that "they" don't see the joke! But see a seriousness which is not there".

There are a lot of people doing a lot of what they call good work. It is something familiar to the concept of Christian Charity/goodness/great good. I mean that this is part of the general idea of goodness which you see in any religion be it whatever name you take: Buddhism, Muslim, Sikh etc......... Basically it is the human mind, shadowed by guilt or/and superficial sense of good trying to appease itself and what it calls gods to earn some remarkable concept the humans have cooked called merit points to fool karma.

Well let me paint you this picture - "There is this huge garden that you have created. It is being tended. Some plants more than most. You see yourself in the center as a wonderful honest do-gooder and so full of virtue. But the day you stop tending, the garden starts dying out and will one disappear back into the ethos of this earth.

So my point is that we are not doing anything at all for the earth but for ourselves. There is great selfishness in this altruism.

The change that is needed is in the subconscious level where we truly change our nature and let this vibe spread.

Just a bit of real kindness, uncalculated, without obligation or plans - this is what is needed.

But I dream.........

Frankly the way things are this situation will remain as long as understanding dawns on the humans that life is in 3 parts. 1) The Mother Nature part: Under the aegis of Earth pure and simple. 2) The emoting part. 3 The thinking part associated with civilisation, kings, laws and organised social structure.

The big question is where in this life we wish to be living.

Having children like the cats, dogs and lambs do is fine but then just romp about, enjoy it and don't complain. You make your bed you sleep in it. Except that wisdom is to know when to let the kids go and totally forget them as most in the animal kingdom do.

But most carry it into the emoting part and get stuck with their own feelings (attachment/possessiveness) and suffer.

Taking this whole into the organised sector makes it worse as nobody know what to do there.....the poor parents and the kids following them have no idea, education or means.

Mitigating factors are simple: First settle down into a comfortable stream. Then have children.

I was talking of USA and the present world situation. The War Demon has been ever present. But the ingenuity and cruelty and DRIVE USA's immigrant conquerors have shown, specially after ww2, is special. There was a lot of power and good in the drive but the brush with Hitler allowed the Demon King to now take over USA.

The earth nature at its "inconscient" level "moves" under pressure of fear (and to some extent often passion) powered by the invisible forces that be. Otherwise it takes the placid route and comfortably stays within a known boundary -- with self-centeredness as the guiding factor.

Fear is the only force just now that unreservedly opens the inert conscious levels of all creatures on Earth. When scared or hunting for solutions, beings become open for a short while to walk out of their comfort zones and "listen". This is the period when Healers, Teachers and Leaders can take people to new pastures and a change of pace.

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It is ok to be black, brown, red, yellow, plaid, striped, and yes, even white. Because you have no choice. When leftists quit seeing what is on the outside which isn't a choice but what is on the inside which is a choice then maybe they'll realize racism is only in their minds.

PK: No it is self-planned joke that backfired.

Americans started with discrimination in their hearts and mind when they destroyed systematically the local population and governance after landing totally alienated, frustrated and angry from their own lands in Europe. Then they idiotically , deliberately, most highly unethically brought in negroes to serve their baser needs and "Behaved" most ingloriously - they sowed the seeds of hatred that will not die for a 1000 years.

And they are now spreading their ill-will all over the world with their concocted wars.

The world is not stupid - it may be powerless under the guns but it is not fooled. Wars are not human really. There are Demons and Forces in the Universal Wind and their food is "MAYHEM" the vital emotional energy that is released thru pain and disaster. The world unfortunately is open to this play of power. It seems to grow out of it rather suspiciously. This impetus is need otherwise it would automatically disappear from the Earth. So technically we can say that humans are inviting it upon themselves. And why should the Demons not have their play?

It is a fun life making do with a little less, bric-a-brac and the odd things here and there. People with too much will never know the pleasure of pleasuring oneself thru our own creativity.

Thinking aloud. Now that USA wants to go warring with Russia it is using Ukraine as the front guy. But very cleverly it is using, strengthening the elements that are already in place to create a strong bloc. I mean it could have easily just sent in its army under the pretext that the locals are totally incapable and nothing will be done until they do it. But of course intelligence is prevailing. BUT what happened to this intelligence when it was time to vaccinate a non-vaccine under coercion to the entire USA population and promoted with fervour all over the world. Will someone explain what USA has against the "PEOPLE" in general? What greedy Devil is afoot there?

What about Gurus?

We do not dare question authority because we are in some ways or other dependent on it for our daily bread.

Following gurus that everybody is following helps in supporting your irresponsible life philosophy easily as the group makes sure that you are well kept.

Gurus who are politically able to make connections and keep the group sustained are the successful ones.

It is not lies or fake gurus at all. It is a charade that suits everybody and is religiously maintained by everybody. Be grateful to the man on top who will take the fall if it comes to it.

*The true gurus, first couldn't care and what they care about they just "do" without fanfare.*

All nature is one. There are elevations. At what level you are is the question. Every level has its own parameters. One would like to maintain the factors of where one is- that is all.

But humans live with front doors closed and the tiny ones at the back open.

When it is obvious we are emphatic. These are the big doors. Example when we know a policeman is around we never break a law. We become honorable and honest to a fault.

But does that mean we have become honest and sincere to any degree more than we originally always are?

When we know it is absolutely imperative to maintain decorum, or show a certain attitude and say some appropriate words, we do so by compulsion and are a picture of chaste purity for the world to see.

The tiny voices at the back of the head are not silent. Our wishes and desires have not gone away to haunt another. When we feel we can get away with it we attempt to let our original persona come out to play.

There are ludicrous moments like a diabetic or alcoholic wanting a spoonful of cake or a drink when he knows full well that it is harmful to him so he cheats on himself even when there is no need to hide himself (nobody really cares if they live or die). These are the small back doors that are always open.

And behind closed doors we mostly permit all our monsters to come to play with aplomb.

Sudesh Mahajan: Without thoughts, is life or living possible?

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari: YES.

Thoughts are entities going around in the Universe like migrating birds. They alight where the conditions are right.

The human mind considers itself as the thinker which we can all agree is an error.

When we make ourselves ready for a type of thought it comes to us. We have the option to accept its arrival or block it out (our emotional or/and physical condition are also instrumental in this decision). When our minds connect in the Intuitive mode the whole process loses its separateness and we merge. Then there is no thinking as humans know it. We are swimming in the thought pool and are welcome to do as we please.

We are not thinking but using the thoughts floating around and available to us. To receive new thoughts the mind has to be broadened and prepared by an all-rounder education + a lot of travelling outside one's comfort zone. Perhaps a little more reading by different authors (even contradictory) on the subject will enlarge your view to see what I was talking about.

A great lot of troubles that visit us are of our own making. (both for psychological and bodily health). Some vibes that are being generated within us are seeking for corresponding response from the world at large. From both what is happening around us, and by meditating within. In quiet, we can understand what is happening.

The business of vibes attracting and responding to other similar vibes can be stopped only from within if psychic silence is maintained. It can be nullified by positive thoughts and intentions; the world rearranging itself around us differently. But IT HAS TO BE psychically, concretely - not just hopeful thoughts in the wind!

In general, for the humanity at large, the best I can say is that they should expose themselves. Speak about it. Understand the futility of hiding behind ideas "what will they say?" Let the world see what is happening. The people who start it and the people who let it continue, will both think twice and this puts a relative brake on things.

I have also learnt from life that ill-will and deliberate hurts from people should be treated as accidents of life. We carry and can carry anger in our hearts against other humans and beings only. For inanimate objects like stones and potholes on the way, rains and storms & other similar accidents, are we angry or can we be really angry?

I wish this had been taught to me early - this state of grace and understanding that there is pride and arrogance behind our need to forgive so if we do not take it personally and treat it all as incidents, we simply forget it and go forward with our lives. It also puts a spiritual spotlight on us and we need to change our behaviour too to fit better into the exposed scenario.

This helps in keeping us safe from "sickness" too. Because as was well understood in the past, sickness in us is a response of some kind from within us. When we justify the possibility of sickness, it catches us more readily.

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Sarangha Kay: How to fall? Don't they teach this in Judo/Ju Jujitsu? Sorry not a martial arts expert. This can be an advanced spiritual practice. How to admit mistakes and taken embarrassment. Maybe starting there will help in times of contraction.

PK: You have raised a good point here.

Study all ancient martial arts in the East like India and China and Japan. One thing is basic; the stress on self-control and acceptance. To realise that we can fail, that we have weaknesses and our knowledge may not be complete + neither our self-control so we may play into the hands of others. No candidate is allowed to go out into world until he has mastered his self-control.

Fighting for pleasure, for supremacy, for the glory of the ego is the western way of thinking and you can see how the western "Mights" have been conducting themselves.

There are many good movies showing off these differences. I love the Mister Miagi movies - my child learnt a lot from them while I taught her boxing.

Dealing with people with a disturbed childhood or toxic people.

Unfortunately I have noticed that at the very moment the time comes when the ice is finally going to break, something in them rears its head and they get frightened of what they are getting into and go back into their shell by using some stratagem of rediscovering a quarrel or something. Some safety switch clicks that their world-WALL is being breached and the front that they have created to safeguard their insecurities may open the gates to aliens. I have also noticed they cannot take any hint of criticism and they refuse to entertain even the remotest idea that they can be in error.

They keep a very quiet inward disposition or a very belligerent front. I would say the demon that now use them for their purpose on earth gets wise to the strategy being used to dislodge them and they immediately cook up a quarrel to avoid any thing of good happening.

It can be very tiring, pointless and sometimes terribly traumatic. Better let them be.

Calling people out,

This is the point: why should they be called out?

Who are you to call anyone out?

Your vibes take you to a certain spot in life and give you some experiences. Accept it as your learning curve-path. Call yourself out if you have to.

This is all life is about; LEARNING from experience.

Bow your head for your weaknesses and move on. Look deeply, whoever this guru was, he helped you to rise one notch didn't he? He has done his job one way or another.

The OTHERS will find their own solutions and don't think fate is going let them have it easy either. Their actions will invite reactions. Watch the fun unroll.

You are missing the point and you cannot be the judge.

In India the expression is "putting the cap on somebody's head".

The very notion of testing a guru is so ludicrous.

When one goes looking for a guru, one does so because of the dissatisfaction with life as it is where the student is. Then you go looking for a guru testing him on the same parameters. It is so incongruous.

Sex in India has a deep tantric tradition that the Christian mind cannot grasp and gets unhinged more often than not. Sex is a learning and "testing" process for both the student and the teacher.

The western mind based their sense of purity on it which is the first fatal knot in their minds which is destroying their society at many levels.

The second is their mind's partiality to "white and transparent" goods which is also destroying their health; example cooking oil - if it is clear, odourless and tasteless then it is "Pure". Same for white sugar, bread and rice.

The thing is the western mind is still operating at the "physical" level. At this level BIGGER, FASTER, STRONGER has more importance than kindness and forgiving acceptance of foibles.

Do they expect their astro-physicists be sexually "pure" to be called Professors? Why not? After all they are gurus too! ??

When a woman offers herself to a guru, she is "Testing" her own depths. It is her primeval need to control the relationship; to be seen and accepted as an equal. When with gurus who live at three different levels, this does not happen, they use all the tools available to shout "WOLF".

I may add that 90% of the people masquerading as gurus are NOT fit to be called so. Even their spiritual knowledge is suspect but ordinary people find their "readings" from old texts as a sign of spiritual attainment. The one eyed leading the blind.

SARANGHA KAY: HOW DOES ONE CULTIVATE A REVULSION FOR SAMSARA WITHOUT PROJECTING OR HURTING PEOPLE EMOTIONALLY/PHYSICALLY/MENTALLY? THIS WOULD PROBABLY BE THE HIGHEST FORM OF DHARMA.

PK: A yogi trying to get out of samsara has to stop worrying about the samsara.

There is no good or bad.

Live by the set of rules that you consider best and the experiences will show you where you are moving in error.

Know that everybody collects morbid experiences as coming to them from their own selves. You are not a DOER.

Worrying about others will only give you excuses.

Everything is by itself and is in its place. This is the first realisation. If this has not been reached by you just keep going on the way you think fit; though it would be a lot better if you did not waste your time in futile discussions.

Sarangha Kay: What are the qualifications for a DOER. What I mean is who do we describe as the DOER?

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari You are not the person really taking the decisions or organising the situations. You act if at all by impulse (which are not really yours) and react most of the time. You are a leaf in the wind but you may think that you are doing the flying and this is what a doer thinks.

God and his picturisations.

All the depictions and frames are first creations of our minds. They are ARTWORK first.

We can call it whatever we want but God is a bystander in all this. And should not be made part of our sense of appreciation - good or bad.

And I have seen that everything offends some people somewhere on this planet. It is natural. By the theory of "chance", to be expected.

If at all, when we laugh at something, we need to be circumspect of the neighborhood. This whole life is a joke anyway and as I say it, a wonderful joke played upon us by God whose existence too is humorously questioned.

Josh Rivera:... all google is a big fat xerox machine. Wikipedia is an eternally unfinished work. It has its uses, it has its bullshit. Just like everything else. Some people say this about it, some people say that about it. This and that are typically at odds, though with some nuanced points of agreement. Blah blah blah, bluh blah bluh blah blah blah. Blah bluh (blah blah bluh blah) blah blah blah, bluh bluh blah....blah.

Though some may respond: "bluh bluh bluh blah bluh bluh bluh bluh blah."

To which I would have to retort: "BLAH BLU!"

Our acts and subterfuges.

Everything is already there in every one of us; simply waiting for an opportunity.

The appreciated activities we indulge in without fear and we even are insincere enough to dramatise them whenever we can.

Most of the time we live so insincere & fake lives that most of us live in shadows and take advantage of opportunities for unappreciated activities whenever we feel we can get away with it.

Internet & telephony has made it easy to reach out but cameras/hacking etc also made it dicey.

In the name of truth....Every war, Crusade, revolution, massacre, Crucifixion, hanging, rape, molested child, battered-wife is the result of people who were Omniscient and had become TRUTH and lived it and taught it and they went out into the world to right the wrongs.

Violence in Marital Relationships

The fact is marriage is a contract in which we put ourselves at harm with great desire. It is destined to be a disaster because nothing good can come out of an action taken on the foundation of DESIRE. Two people together need understanding but in marriage once the passion for physical intimacy has worn off, the mental and subconscious side begin to show themselves. This is where the grating on each other begins. They both end up showing their violent side.

Men get bleached. Women get manhandled. Children get trauma. Families get ruptured.

The tragedy is that even when wishing well, our habits both mental and emotional and our subconscious rule the human persona. We live very unfortunately not being in control of ourselves at all.

Marriage is a wonderful thing and was perfectly suited to the Pastoral attitude.

But in today's world of great mobility and extensive exposure, we are anything but pastoral and home bound. It requires great maturity to be home bound and loving and being careful that all in the family are happy.

We are now tending towards individuality.

Let us where this will take us. Until now only the selfish side has become visible.

The mistake is in thinking that life is anything but a "Learning Process". Life will be dishing out the same soul-focussed experience designed to shake your "Consciousness" in a different form; you choose marriage or not.

The problem arises at the very moment we say yes to coupling. We are then equals. The need of the man is equal to that of the woman and their need of each other is absolutely the same.

In their need of being intertwined together, physically they are absolutely equal. In natural conditions the woman more so than the man.

Now one should not expect the woman to forget this. In marriage we give her an equal LEGAL status to add to her natural status.

Once you have put a person on a pedestal there is no way they are coming down of their own.

The problems begin when the woman in her "Equal" position starts interfering in things that are not her domain; just like when the man starts interfering in matters which are not within his understanding and best left to the woman. And then there is the need for variety in life. People are so easily bored. The stamina needed for married life is neither there psychologically and legally we have removed all the blocks too. So today it is no-man's land all around us.

All nature is one. There are elevations. At what level you are is the question. Every level has its own parameters. One would like to maintain the factors of where one is- that is all.

But humans live with front doors closed and the tiny ones at the back open.

Poverty, Wealth and Anxiety

Poverty and wealth are the same thing. They both give anxiety, problems and sickness. Albeit apparently different versions of them. Look at the learning process to understand life

Tim Edward One in poverty has many less options than someone who is wealthy. On one side is need, on the other is greed.

PK: This is an over simplification. For example: Anxiety, whatever the cause is the same to poor or rich.

The poor is worried if he will have a breakfast at all or will he have to manage with a little coffee and a biscuit. The rich in contrast is more worried that will he be able to digest the breakfast at all and perhaps he should skip it because of the acidity that he would develop later.

The rain makes it difficult for the poor to reach his work place. He is anxious about the how of it. The rich is equally worried if he will be able to make it to the meeting in time to sign the contract and if the chauffeur will come and the car won't give trouble - his biggest worry being his image if he has to go in a taxi.

I can go on and on giving more and more examples.

But if anyone has not got the crux with these two examples, I wonder if they ever will.

If one takes the essential feelings and thoughts, they are the same.

Mother Nature has provided us with trillions of permutations, combinations and choices. To the physical eyes they all look different but essentially they are not.

When you reword y statement or add a tangent link to it all, you are changing the subject.

Life works at Macro level and with individuals at micro level.

Each of us although living on the one same principle of life, have different problems and solutions from the multi trillion possibilities.

Mahabharat in my view has been retold so often that the philosophy and words in it is not accurate or simply I find it not trustable.

The Quest.

I have seen 20 or so chosen quotes can take you farther in your quest than most gurus can.

The trick is in reading them once every day. All that is asked of us & we need to do is contemplate.

The mind has to be made to think on those lines and repetitive reminders can eventually start influencing the subconscious mind and with changing thought patterns, life starts changing.

Every time you come across a quote that catches your attention or sort of speaks to you, NOTE it down.

Over a period of your life time, you will see your list of quotes changing as you do. Let in the change and remove the quotes that do not work for you. Try to keep the list at 20-ish figure. This requires a lot of meditation and deliberation. It is easy to collect but throwing out the not-so-needed requires contemplation.

I am not sure very many people want to have anything to do with this word "change" - of any kind.

They want their moods to be recognised, accepted and appreciated. Their moods are always justified. They don't see anything negative or need to change.

The CHANGE if any is needed in others around them.

All these people strutting about, hurting others, why does not the world censor them? The carelessness, the taking-for-granted, the hurtful words, the misuse and playing with emotions, the broken promises, the selfishness and the "Lost-in-their-I" attitude etc etc

Want to live in the luxury of certainty, un-encumbered mindless unperturbed leisurely state of total contentment?

- Follow tradition rigidly

- Follow your elders

- Do as you are told

- Never question the priest

- Don't read.

- Spend your life watching videos on your smartphone.

I write this note mainly because I do not like to go to death gatherings and wakes. I have my own occult understanding of these things.

I have learnt that the last rites should be conducted at the place of death, probably the plans of the soul are to continue from there. And that we should not create too much of a sad crowd around the dead person. Let them pass on without being pulled back by attachment.

In my heart I have been thanking The Lord for releasing me from this and other family obligations where you have to rush to go and show your sad mug whenever you get news of somebody dying.

By following the path as I have I have been made unwelcome. Now that I am not welcome in any home whatsoever, my relief is unbounded. Another good thing is that I am also free to NOT needing to pretend that I am shocked, hurt or anxious about news of in the family - which really I never was.

My view-point can help others only if it is accepted in good faith.

The problem with viewpoints is that it has to pass thru filters of "Is he making fun of me", "Is he fooling me". "Can he be trusted", Does he even know what he is talking about", "How does HE know"........

Then it is to be noted that everything is in balance with our core nature. Too much good advice can shake this delicate balance. The business of Help is usually at the human existence level always leading to more detrimental states.

By the time the filters have deodorized and purified the message only one's own justification of oneself remains which is of course valueless from any angle.

To expect this kind of faith in general life with all and sundry is really asking for too much; neither required nor advised.

It is good to not worry about others and their thoughts or attitudes but then why even say anything? What was the reason behind the need to say it? You can't be just grumbling to yourself?

You must have observed something?

You may not want to interfere or give advice and let the world be but you are putting up a mirror for the others to look into.

Deep inside even the most isolated sage is also concerned or he would not come out of his Nirvana cocoon to help/speak out.

Until we accept that all thought patterns have a limited life depending on the "times" when formulated and are good enough for some 5-600 years at best or let us say even a 1000, these debates on validity of teachings, postulates and dogma, which are meaningless rather, will continue.

Stories, interpretation and explanations are not time-less. Every age and cultures retells them and reinterprets them. Don't be misled by the absoluteness of what you are told.

Then there is always a big question mark on the authenticity of it all.

Dogmatic religions whichever they are evolved in a certain time in history which is not valid anymore. Their philosophy is good but their edicts can be mortifying; Take for instance the Shastras of The Hindus and the Sharia of the Muslims. For guidance into life look into pure philosophy and philosophers of every hue; the nearer to your time of existence, the better.

I have learnt more from Marcus Aurelius and Seneca of old and Sri Aurobindo and Osho from the new than all the religions put together.

Dogma will only idiotise you and is good for the non-thinkers - if at all.

For people who have begun thinking and looking deeper into their selves, religions tend to hamper.

I have seen too many people reach a level of intellectual and spiritual attainment that can easily be called refined and superior; then they get stuck at the "judgmental level". Or rather they get unstuck on their way.

It happens usually in 3 steps: 1- Born with a keen intelligence, they are well read and do well in formal studies.

2 -- Their intelligence is laced with intuitive intelligence (acquired mostly thru previous lives) and they do well in their chosen profession and materially in life.

3 -- The combination of comfortable wellbeing and well-read intellect makes them judgmental and argumentative with relatively blown-up ego....... and it can keep them busy and stuck at that level unless they consciously do something about it.

The answer is to stop reading and go and do something different in life like trying a new project, product or change of profession for the heck of it where they are not in control and have to start at the bottom as a comparative junior. The thing to understand in spiritual life and keeping up the tempo of spiritual emancipation is that the moment it seems that you have learnt all that can be learnt in a particular environment, you change and jump onto a new stream.

This keeps the mind alive, the body active and the ego in place.

What is this Karma thing?

You adopt a puppy. Good karma.

You feed and take care of the puppy. More good karma.

The puppy is sick - you run around to get it treated. Even better karma. Or so you thought.

One day when you return after a long absence, the puppy is so glad that it wags the tail too hard and breaks some crockery. - What karma is this? Does it come under karma?

Keeping the puppy indoors cooped up in apartments, is it correct/good karma?

What was the reason to get the puppy?

OR is it simply an action done on impulse with the notion that you were doing GOOD - this would fall in the selfish category and bring on negative karma anyway!

Then you get in the trap of Samasara. Things happen. Consequences follow. Where is Karma in all this?

Karma should be seen only when it is referring to the Soul's journey. A broad view of the path you are on. Kindness collects more kind vibes. The vibes you emanate will translate and get interpreted in funny ways in life. This is not karma. Anything else is just your imagination putting meaning into things that have nothing to do with karma. Small causative incidents.

Look at the word KARMA as you would the words Destiny and Fate - in a broad sense. If you are looking for "learning", teachers will gather around. No details on how but that is what happens and karma operates at this level. You wish to crush the world under your feet - well a lot of crushing will take place; what form it will take is anyone's guess,

Don't even try to join the dots.

The Lord and Grace have been around me and taken care of the accidents but They sure do not pardon my sins.

Laura Prince: How do you know?

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari ....because kindly but ever so kindly I was made to realise that I would not be pardoned but helped in establishing good faith again after I have made-up for the wrongs I have done. It was not punishment but a loving guiding thru the maze of the unforgiving land of crime and punishment that the Karma rules.

I knew what I was doing and was being done to me and I accepted it gratefully & gracefully. The sigh of relief at the end is what you are listening to today.

What happens to humans?

The human child is born with an open mind; very inquiring and full of generosity, companionship and love for all living things.

Then suddenly when grown up it develops into an instrument that gives rise to such things as.....

Burning people on the stake because they would question a doctrine, Killing a woman because she was raped and all are invited to participate in the killing by pelting stones AFTER burying her helplessly in the ground, Sati (burning the woman on the funeral pyre of her husband) because the widow is a burden to the family or even quite often when her family is not providing more and more upkeep or the man wants to remarry.

And the good books become the justifications!!!

What happens that humans turn into monsters?

There is no such thing as Son of god, Special Beings being sent to earth or coming down to Earth out of compassion to Guide the humans to Paradise.

The Earth reflects perfectly an Evolutionary cycle and all is in balance.

All the knowledge needed is already here and was here since thousands of years before Christ, Krishna, Mohammed or Buddha.

The point is none wants to put it in practice because people have very short term goals and for that not much knowledge is required. Instinct normally suffices.

We come back to Earth for our own evolution. We are all inching towards Bodhisattva,

We help others because we are normally kind and can't help being otherwise.

Consider:

.... A wise man doesn't go instigating the crowds and ends up being lynched himself. Neither does he go about forcefully changing people.

Humans are first an extension of the animal family on earth.

They project themselves as evolved demi-gods. Wearing different garbs and different crowns and chanting mumbo-jumbo that nobody understands; they make themselves into superior beings.

All this is FAKE.

Under those garbs they are as human and animalistic as anyone out there. And life is going on in the hidden just as it is going-on outside in the streets.

You want to give yourself airs? Go ahead.

And if the sheeples agree and follow you, why not?

Can there be Peace on Earth?

I wonder. Not with the amount of Anxiety each one of us carries and vibrates all around us.

Just try and feel the weight the Earth is carrying for the human child carries an unbelievable baggage of mostly fears (anxieties driven by wishes and pushed by desires).

Life, alone, can be terrifying.

We need an elder who we can latch on to for hugs and guidance.

The deep seated protection provided is medicine for body and soul.

One of the easiest and practical + perhaps the only way to help women to come out of their negative sulk is by activating their "fall in love" side which happens mostly always when concern and attention is shown to them.

When a woman is open to receive, a spiritually advanced person can guide her onto a better "self" platform from where her life can take off.

This is an arduous and fatiguing work. It will almost always unload the negativity of the patient onto the yogi. Most yogis take the vow of silence, celibacy and not meeting other humans, specially women just because of this possibility.

Sometimes sex can result out of it. And it can be a beautiful elevating experience for both the yogi and woman.

And it is all very positive. And much kindness is involved to take the soul-burden of another. For spiritual seekers this should not be a limiting factor or a platform to judge others.

(There is one word of caution here: The patients soon get back their illness/pains as the subconscious is rather deeply ingrained in matter, so most of the "help" that is provided is finally a waste of yogi's strength and energy. This is why patients keep on going back and healers become rich, overconfident and greedy)

The yogi also benefits from this exercise as it helps him understand himself and his own impulses and this then becomes a map for his own release from samsara.

When a yogi is still in need of this part of his life, he should not take disciples, not project himself as a leader but continue life as an ordinary person till he is ready to let go off the world and move into another dimension while still being tied to Earth.

But idiot humans only see and reflect their own projected morals within a limited framework of Good and Bad and judge things they do not understand. Obviously projecting themselves as "Virtuous" and grander guys by taking this route. In my book these are the worst and lowest kind of human intellect, deformed by too much reading and too little actual experience and understanding.

No yogi "falls" as the general public tends to judge and have been projecting simplistic and ignorant views.

PS: The movement of sex by Tantric tradition can be very enlightening and educative.

The Christians were actually more interested in regulating the societal culture and branded it as a sin to keep control and modicum of order in a virtually "wild" population to avoid a social mess. They were not there to lead the public on the ascetic path to "Liberation". For that they have their "Orders and monasteries" which is as well. But it has, over the centuries, created an imbalance between the natural instinct of man and his thoughts.

- Many people on the path of Self-discipline realize that they have acquired concentrated energy which can be used for healing and helping. And in the goodness of their heart they do so. Often they don't fully understand the ramifications of this field of action and can hurt both the patient and themselves.

There is one word of caution here: This help at best is palliative. The patients soon get back their illness/pains so most of the "help" that is provided is finally a waste of yogi's strength and energy. This is why patients keep on going back and healers become rich, overconfident and greedy.

- This is how it should be.

Be a genius but show yourself as average. People then expect less. Then there is the envy quotient in life. This is real. It can even affect your health and fortunes. Avoid characters that are heavy on "ENVY".

- So it has been said and so it will be done!!! A practice began with socialist governments is of putting big banners exhorting people with advice but doing nothing at all about anything. Example - City is dirty. Government's answer: Put up a banner saying "Keep your city clean".

Traffic problems. No problem - put up a banner saying "Lane driving is sane driving"

Similarly now on Facebook all the enlightened ones put up great memes like "Desires are bad. Desire only God". or "Destroy the Ego which is the source of your misery" ..... problem solved!!!

My response to all these great virtuous practices is: Wow. So finally after 12000 years of exhortations, human nature will change! So it has been said and so it will be done!!!

Humans need something or somebody to hang their dirty coats on. Ram and Krishna are good excuses as are the Bible and Koran and all other "BOOKs".

Essentially no-one is looking to improve oneself or make an effort to live by a Natural Harmonious Order.

We need excuses and religions, gurus, cults in any shape give that to us.

If only we could take step back (prendre de recul) we would see the colossal amount of energy and resources we are expending to achieve so much demonic conflagrations.

PS: I wish I could show you how in every minuscule event we create a silken cord of negativity. We have to go about poking every ember - so to speak.

Demons are good for us.

From the family I got tongue lashings in plenty and so I drifted away to unreachable corners and made a setup of family and friends in this great wide world. It also forced me to see LIFE in a broader spectrum and my own reflection. It had the positive influence of showing me my rough edges which I tried to correct and discipline. This brought me a lot of good-luck and more good friends.

This was great good luck as my friends, mostly all older to me, took great care in educating me in the ways of the world and telling me where I was going wrong. I spent 47 years with my father. Not once did he ever tell me anything, never gave me guidance or advice or exchanged any experience or his philosophy. I simply was not the focus of his life but more like a responsibility to raise by giving me food, shelter and education. Like any government official would do.

For guidance I had the words of not only Sri Aurobindo & The Mother of Pondicherry but I was also avidly reading all the works of all the philosophers I could lay my hands on. Something in these writings would hit a chord and subliminally some long forgotten memory would arise and show me what I was experiencing corresponded directly to the words I was reading and it this helped me orient myself to understand if I was on the right track or not; whatever humans generally accepted or not or said/believed and censored me for.

- Are you liked, appreciated or thought of?

Don't break your poor head on this line of thought.

We engage ourselves or not in some ways in certain activities or not is relevant to every thought, act or subject.

The world will run on. It is not waiting for anybody and neither censoring anybody.

Humans want to be seen in a particular image. They connect some activities with what is good and some with what is bad or improper. Then they get stuck in their own mess for the simple reason that life does not conduct itself on the philosophy decided by humans and anyway this keeps on changing.

All we need to know how humanity moves is to study the values in vogue in 1900 (Victorian time) and in 2000 (American time) and the absolute confusion now prevalent.

Most of our lives, if we study them carefully, we shall see that we are experts at not getting things done, avoid responsibility and use all our intelligence in keeping APPEARANCES alive.

Sarangha Kay: Pradeep Pk Maheshwari How do you tell the difference between a guru and a charlatan?

PK...

There are no charlatans. It is the disciple making gurus of average men because they want to. The gurus enjoy the life because stupid people give it to them. The idiots need something to relate to and they create it. Have we not created Gods and put idiotic images of them in temples?

Are we not making billionaires by buying their fake promises, goods and dreams? Then we stand head bowed in front of them. For centuries we were content to allow Kings to call themselves "Children of the SUN" with God given rights and treated them as such.

Everything around us is because we allowed it to be.

Bottom line. It is all a projection of our own stupidity. One gets what one deserves.

The normal average Joe lives at one plane, horizontally, shackled by his inertia/tamas/laziness. He rides on the shoulders of the most easily available and impressive guru.

Most often all the material riches a guru has are because the disciple place it at his feet or places golden crowns on his head. This is bribery and the guru knows it.

But the guru who can be genuinely called that lives on different planes vertically moving down or up as the disciples need and he is comfortable at all levels.

Disciples cannot understand him or need to or even should. A good disciple only pays heed to his own needs and if the guru is able to provide he is a good guru.

If you are judging and criticizing it is cleanly and assuredly because you are at a very low level of intellect, narrow minded and do not even have the basic modicum of faith needed to see further into the fog nor do you really want to. You are only showing off your great intellect - at least that is what you think you are doing.

Nirvana according to my way of looking at it has nothing to offer. It is an escape.

PS: Nirvana is an age old concept in yoga/meditative techniques and not special to Buddhism as most would think.

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Like suicide on material Earth which is so delusional as a Liberation mechanism, in Nirvana you usher yourself into a limbo. The poor Soul that took the body and the Emotional and Mental Beings for experiences here on earth to evolve is now forced to find its way all over again, confused and lost. You have only worsened the situation.Why Nirvana in the first place?

You were given a life for some purpose.

Find that purpose and your place in the Universe.

We complicate life to make it more enjoyable by adding layers to layers that do not need any adding to. And then we pat our backs for doing a good job - and then look around if anyone is appreciating our efforts or not.

RIGHTS

The industrials and the government have all the rights to pollute and poison the environment it seems.

While we the poor dregs of this country have to spend more and more in protecting ourselves by installing filters and take Protective measures and buy expensive medical instruments to stay alive. The sickness that results again brings profit to the whole medical and pharma industry.

People don't see how their lives have been hijacked and the richer are getting richer and the poor poorer. It is pathetic.

Has anyone given thought to this point?

Why are we required to install air filters, water filters and air conditioning and what not? Why do I need expensive treatments and equipment? Let those who are spoiling it all pay us for it! The industrials are having everything at pour expense. They are profiting at both ends of the cycle.

They pollute and make money and then make money by making us go for expensive equipment to protect ourselves from the onslaught.

Money types are those who think money in everything. Their entire world and life view is related on the foundation and fountain of money.

All their reasoning is based and involves money.

Examples:

Food - they count the cost and how to economize. You would count the calories and the health benefits.

Home - They count the cost of everything including the repairs etc. I would count the comfort and well being it brings.

Relationships - they count the cost of receiving people and giving gifts. We count the pleasure of having them in our lives.

Never understood the philosophy of Duality.

Why not accept everything as coming to us by The Grace. So there is no duality.

I wish I could tell how it works. I have had to pass at 3 stages in my life of deep depressive moments lasting years caused me by family and circumstances. The family was the first to abandon because understandably they did not wish to get involved. And to be truthful ashamed to be seen as a failure kept me away from them.

Some friends stood by and it worked out but eventually friends also go their own ways and as life advances, they depart into the unknown and you have only your own strength to live by.

Basically I am a fighter and problem solver and student of Research and Applied physics and Applied Psychology so I like to look for answers and am not depressed easily.

So the lesson is that instead of telling people to change and behave differently, let us learn to make our children strong mentally, give them enough motivating philosophy to live by and understand LIFE with.

Teach them the basic truth of life what people are in their core selves instead of the sugar & spice stories that we teach them. Let us be clear that lies, cheats, accidents & heart breaks are part of life so that they go into life with their eyes open.

I don't think parents are really playing their part and doing this.

Parents do not help the children to understand and realise that this world is made for adventure. Everything is so drastically important when we are children. Consequences are not really understood. A little philosophy goes a long way.

I remember when I was a tenant with a family who were old family friends. The younger son would come barging into my apartment telling his 3 year old son - go and raid the refrigerator. Nobody in this world will dare to stop you. Your father is here!

And that was when the child was actually being invited to raid the refrigerator!!

Now if that child grew up into a selfish bully can we blame him?

It is so sad that children who are our saviours finally also become so much of our critics that they decide to stay away from us. The fault is ours that we don't listen to them and of course, then they stop listening to us.

And we never do talk to them properly either. We never exchange our experiences and motives to take decisions that we do and that affects them. We simply never consider the fact that we need to befriend them and make an effort to maintain the friendship.

They talk of

Sadness/.happiness

Cruelty/Kindness

Fortune/misfortune etc

Yet note not.....

Nothing is being created specially for you.

Life is what it is.

All the elements are the same for each of us.

These elements were always here and will be for the foreseeable time to come.

Every one of us enjoys the same and gets hurt the same.

It is the same story being retold over and over with some twists that come with the permutations and combinations possible with the millions of factors in play.

Wake up and realise how self-centredness is the painful core in every story.

PS: And you have to enter out families to see how we discriminate against each other on the basis of earning power or education or even choice of dressing.

To avoid non-acceptance we all normally hide behind proverbs, traditional sayings and quotes of people (however stupid or out of context they may be) and worse - behind some book as authority.

We do not realise how untruthful and insincere our life then is and how we discourage and annihilate those who are living out of this "Dishonest and stifling bubble".

Dealing with Toxic people:

When older relations get upset & tick you off, it is time for NEW ones and new experiences but always based on past errors. Therefore pay close attention to past errors. Close the door to the imps in this Universe who are needling you. They are there to help you and serve as mentor and mirror; never forget the lessons learnt. Remember the stories and experiences from the "live lessons" but do cutout the nasty people that were involved.

If you are hoping that truth will reveal itself, forget it. Toxic people relate stories that others accept and they twist tales to make others look bad. People do not see thru the machinations. They rarely do (until it hurts them personally) and even if they do, they do not connect it to you.

Your reputation stays where it is.

Not to forget that people believe the nasty parts with glee. They enjoy it as it makes them feel "BETTER" (literally and virtually)

Quotes, Notes and such......

Man-made god in his image and man is very rigid, shallow, short tempered and shortsighted.

The TV, The videos and the constant barrage of informative pictures and people speaking to us thru the "screens" keep our minds over loaded with overlapping pictures. Whatever we remember is a mix-up. If we remember anything at all! For we need to acknowledge that old impressions either get wiped out or deformed with over-printing.

For one do not take things personally. You may not think of murder but as whole communities and country governments you will agree we have often used the book to go to war - futile wars that gave nothing except a modicum of pride.

Whatever you say in life, someone is going to twist the meaning and light a fire under you. It all depends on you as to how fast you can jump out of the pot.

The "I" is life complete.

It does not need to understand anything.

Why is "Money" always used to ACCUMULATE and rarely for Spreading Joy and Well-Being?

What is there to regret?

I see my world is dropping dead around me.

I may be next.

When the idea is to kill, why should anyone pay attention to being humane?

I wonder why the Soul decided to be born here in these circumstances and what lesson it needed to be learnt.

Let us hope this torment that the Soul has taken on itself ENDs soon.

When you say something That you DO NOT mean, You are being MEAN.

We love the compliments and can see how perceptive the other person is and is able to recognise value.

Also note the criticisms and wonder at the "negativity" in people and how they hurt others deliberately.

Between the two, we compare and find ourselves so "balanced" and correct; worthy of note and emulating.

Sadness is a component of Joy. Sadness serves two functions. It helps to quieten down and contemplate. We pity ourselves sure as we are basically selfish but the mind also tends to replay and in the replay it sees its own role in the whole event too. The people with a sincere attitude see their error and build up on it to greater success. The insincere ones see the error of others and think of everything except the growth and/or improvement this event offers as an experience and lesson. Often the highly trauma-corrupted kind takes it as an attack on their persona and all their plans for the future becomes revenge scenarios.

There are Big Normals and Small Normals; but all are finally in the same family of Normals.

Black is normal in Africa. White in Scandinavia.

All the same to me. I am Brown.

There is no conquering. There is transmutation.

Your time has not come.

When there are so many taking care of your every wish, it is easy to be smiling and content. The guru can order cold coffee anytime and the server thinks it a privilege to serve the great Great Living God - Virgins falling at His feet and Bankers offering bundles unasked.

Boy this is life.

This is the only reason people become gurus. But one must admire their deception and ability to maintain their deceptive exterior!

I would lose my temper in a matter of seconds.

I thought....

I am feeling bugged today. The last two days have been a continuous stream of s "Idée fixe" situations.

When I hear somebody saying "I THOUGHT....", I feel and get scared and start steeling myself for what is coming.

The human with all its intelligence becomes a threat when it's Creatrice Power INSISTS on doing things the way it perceives regardless of the parameters staring it in the face.

The human mind tends to be rather indulgent with its own self. When it has decided on some Factor in play, it refuses to see the variables or give any margin of error to itself and whatever comes - hell or high water, - it will go ahead and execute its "IDEA" of things.

This is why the great power that the human spirit IS.....becomes a negative energy in the "application" of it in our lives.

They will do what they think is to be done. They can visualize the path of action their idea will take them on and they clearly see a successful culmination of the plan. Even if it is your life, they WILL interfere. Despite all entreaties, explanations, logic, facts and the feelings or science behind it, the majority of humans will finally end up doing what "THEY THOUGHT". If you manage to stop them, they will do it later when you are not there to stop them. What they do not see (for whatever reason) does not exist therefore immaterial and best ignored.

People who caution about the dangers and pit-falls are seen as "negative" people. Warnings are for sissies. Conversely where there is no desire to "DO", people who exhort action are also negative people.

Prejudices play an enormous role in our existence. Nothing can be done because the mind is in normal parlance unreachable. Pride and Vanity are sure and insurmountable blocks.

This, I suppose is the reason for all the mayhem in this world.

This and the fact that we try to make the world fit in to our personal agenda..... No matter what. It is the basis of all quarrels.

I expect the virtuous ones who see the world in only positive glow will find my statement rather ridiculous and very demeaning to the human race. I would never-the-less request these great souls to look around see how the Governments run, the law runs, the management of corporations run and the families run and so on. Just a question in passing: If humans are loving, kind, understanding, thinking beings, why is there so much acrimony within families small or big -- even couples who know that at the fag-end they will be living together and that when they quarrel they are hurting their own home?

It is and was never love; always passion. The sexual aspect of life takes paramount importance. But if the only way to get to your goal is by lying then so be it. The end justifies the means. There is a time in life when the availability of a woman is more important than wasting a lot of time wooing. Marriage is so inviting and feels forever.

The problem comes when this time passes and we have to continue to lie to keep the peace. If we look at life dispassionately, it is the same day; day in and day out with some minor alterations in the story.

If you have not learnt this by the time you are 30, you are in for a strong dose of depression.

Our Bubbles

We are just a speck in a huge net of things connected to our nature and life. We have our own bubbles. The others have theirs.

There are no simple rules of good and bad.

Mostly our intentions and the purity of our attitudes decide the karmic unfolding. 99% of the time the subconscious is running the show.

Life is running and flowing but incomprehensible to our limited sight and comprehension.

Ignoring our frailties by treating them as natural occurrings "That will happen" and giving them acceptance by ignoring their development at the nascent stage by seeing them as that part of life "That will happen" and there is therefore no point in giving them importance because that would mean change of direction in our lives and requiring change of "character and habit" for which human nature has never been partial.

Two very important aspects of life that need our attention are: 1) The mental health issues

2) Poverty.

This is how I see the problem and their solutions......

Mental health issues

The age old issues of our own negativity, vanities, arrogance and bullish behavior are passed on. Some can take it and some can't. We have children but we don't make any attempt to understand them and bring them up according to their individual needs. In most cases they are accidents of nature and not even wanted. We are raising disturbed children and mental issues are bound to happen. Instead of taking heed and still doing something we first try to hide this as an aberration and ignore its existence. But with the work of Freud and Jung at least they are now accepted as something meriting attention.

But we are treating them as illnesses and handling them as such. Totally ignoring the fact that these are deviations due to behavior patterns of peers and the change is needed there. The treatment is not the answer. Change is drastically required in understanding the cause which lies in nefarious thoughts and misbehavior of peers. Correction is required at this point and not treatment later which only enriches the doctors and absolves us of our responsibility of behaving more responsibly.

Poverty.

We would all like to live richly but we have as yet in the last thousands of years never allowed this thought to mature that perhaps we are "PRODUCING" poverty. Increasing the mouths to feed will also need corresponding increase in infrastructure. It is a simple question of logistics. But producing children is seen as a natural right but the corresponding "rights" to also improve and increase the infrastructure to feed all these new mouths and rear them properly is not seen so.

Why is it so? Perhaps we strongly have always wanted our sexual pleasure too much at any cost. We are conscious of it all but will not accept it as a possibility. So be it!

Until we are ready to come to grips with this by our people, their planning will fail for two sublime reasons being that the poorer class have too many mouths and not enough of anything of worth with value to exchange it for food and other amenities. And the rich see no reason to improve upon this state of affairs.

The Spiritual label

Why should ancient texts always be mentioned? This is the best way to remain stuck in the past.

Gurus that quote the ancient texts in the ancient languages are lust showing off their literary abilities. They are only interpreting them for you at a very mundane level. Hardly makes them spiritual in any way. If you are stupid enough to take them as "enlightened ones" - the mistake is yours.

On sex: When women are attracted their whole being wants to get involved. They go willingly into the arms of their "Appreciated One"

Gurus become gurus because the lamentably stupid public wants them to become IT and it becomes a very attractive proposal.

Most publicity searching Gurus are clever enough to take advantage and profit from it all. The line of guruism has money and glamour and free fun. There was never any inclination of spirituality.

It is the association of certain images and words that you are responding to and fooling yourself to be spiritual when taking on a guru as your guide and master.

Anyone who runs after sex is at the lowest chakra level. If you fall for the image of dress/words and building or organisational front etc you are the one at fault.

The so called guy that YOU LABELLED as guru is running a shop. The truly attained ones just do not enjoy sex and money as generally humans (as animals) do.

Before you judge anyone or get attracted or whatever, hone your discernment. Unfortunately this comes by getting involved and you will only go as far as your understanding takes you.

NOTE: Everyone is taking advantage of you and each other. It all depends how stupid you are to fall into somebody's net.

You can't "learn" spiritual things.

Go and do something, even stupid and the experience will teach you all you need to know.

Is spirituality or whatever it means important?

Trying to find meaning in meaninglessness.

It seems the first step to freedom is to let go.

Why would anyone let go? What would provoke them to do so?

No; nothing matters outside the time frame of when it happened. Forget it fast but remember this.

This insane world

How can anything be sane in an insane world?

This is where I advise you to fear. Live in fear of the next madman and the mad thief and madly clever crook. Zigzag thru this maze. Live by observing what is happening to others around you + study the sciences and methodology of crookedness!

But first eliminate the crookedness in your heart before you venture out to find faults otherwise you will not recognise any.

The more stuck one is in one's mind and one's thoughts because one is comfortable in the zone one is and immovable in one's stance to evolving life, what would you call it - stupidity - isn't it?

So logically Adaptability = Intelligence.

Nobody is listening. They will pay attention only when the sky falls on their heads and then that too momentarily and will soon get used the idea of carrying the sky on their heads.

Even in places where I have proven myself, am considered an elder, people do not listen to any advice or suggestion on health and well-being matters. All responses as I have noted are designed to avoid and evade further responsibility and effort.

They simply accept everything as perfectly normal and are easily swayed by mass hysteria and beliefs - in any subject or field of activity it may be.

Nobody ever asks the question, a question or any question about anything.

Finally it is the crowd that calls the shots and human laziness that follows.

It is so ridiculous to note that even the most dynamic, educated and young ones feel better only when they have paid for advice and consultation to a proper so called "qualified" idiot who is only interested in the fee he is earning and not at all bothered about their welfare.

This laziness of the spirit is what needs to be understood and only when it is removed can anything change. Until then things will go on as usual till the inevitable happens.

IT JUST HAPPENED

The Question: Why do I find that nothing at all is ever registering in the minds of others. The only things people register and remember is the hurt, mostly imagined or misinterpreted that was caused to them; they then cling to it and fashion their lives around these memories and are stuck in it forever like in a block of cement. The Answer: You are trying to be tangible in an intangible world.

Perhaps the answer is in leaving them alone and let them fend for themselves. Speak your truth but don't get into arguments of more than one sentence.

Don't explain. Provoke them to discover for themselves - IF you are able to pierce the iron curtain of their vanities. The trick is in learning to provoke.

Standing ground with our pride intact is laudable.

That is what we mostly do.

We are after all somebody!

BUT WISE?

This is the very reason for Death. Our immovable status if allowed to be would stultify the world. Therefore DEATH! - The only way to break the stand-off.

Can death be delayed?

Everyone normally has 3 dates in a life time. If you are living correctly you can create delays and extend your life time.

Nancy Kohn Raven : How is this done?

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari This is done by living in the future. Always with your eyes in the coming moment. The trick is in guessing what is coming from the data available and shift one's stance immediately by letting the past drop away like a cloak. This would also involve habits, preferences and such.

The idea is to be fresh like a child and open to everything new, to be excited by new developments and see every sunrise and sunset as a new one.

This also requires preparation by learning as much as one can about everything. No subject is left out. Imbibe and gorge yourself with updates on new methods of curing and making things.

Don't let attachments keep you back. Frankly don't allow any attachments to come in your life at all. Honesty, sincerity should be your guiding light without personal preferences. Be available and welcome friends but without attachment.

When the Soul sees no need to change bodies it will not. It will create new situations for you to grow in and death will watch you from far and as a friend even smile. After all you are HIS child too.

New challenges will come fast and furiously and you have to take them with perspicacity, analysis of the world and more so self-analysis.

Keep growing but total sincerity and agreement with the Cosmos is wanted.

You cannot have your cake and eat it too. Which means that all that we consider important and all those we consider "ours" and all that motivates us become unimportant.

Just follow the SUN.

I am not averse to sharing or donating BUT...

1) I am not convinced that the cancer research and other so called research in vaccinations and new drugs is on the right track. I do not agree to the philosophy of germ theory and immunization etc that the modern medicine is following. I am totally against certain treatment protocols and the treatments they offer such as chemo therapy. 2) There seems to be enough evidence that the money is not going to the destination where it is asked for. Most often it goes to the upkeep of huge organisations. 3) Lastly how do I know that those who are collecting the funds are not pocketing it? I don't see much honesty in anything nowadays.

Yesterday I was telling my daughter this story: A great money lender of great wealth by mistake hit a cat that came in front of his car. The cat was lying lifeless there. This was for a Hindu a sin of no small means. The priests were called and it was finally decided that all Karmic ramifications would be absolved if he donated a golden cat to the priest!!! And the cat should be given the last rites by Hindu standards. All was agreed upon and when they went to pick up the cat, it was not there. The stunned cat had run away.

I have nothing to say against the religion and how people are comfortable with their selves by following certain acts and activities/thoughts and principles.

The Hindus believe in a dip in the Ganges under the ritual guidance of a priest will absolve all our sins. But when it comes to talking psychology, this singular act is one of the most surprising.

Then take Christianity. How an entire swathe of humanity (Nearly half of the earth's population) is swayed to believe in great forgiveness and redemption by this dip.... hundreds of years..... It goes on and on....

Would a reasonable law-abiding thinking God would be ever so simplistic? All is forgiven by adding a label of "Christian/Hindu" to us?

No wonder then, a religion based on love has also given the surety that whatever cruelty is dished out by its members, it is all ok as long as you donate to the church/temple and get baptised in the name of Christ or any other God for that matter!

Unfortunately in some shape or the other, this thinking is prevalent in all humans and shamans, priests and religions and temples all feed upon it.

DEATH is the way..... to make money!

First they frighten us and then feed on it.

We are now seeing this in India. The doctors frighten you and even go to the extent of asking you to go for surgery immediately and luckily it always happens so that they are geared for it and an operation theater is immediately available! And you need to decide on the spot within five minutes.

Many doctors admit that they have a quota to fulfill to continue to be with the hospital.

And people rush there as if there is nothing else. As long as they are not needed to think or take responsibility for themselves, life is fine. The insurance should cover it.

But ask them to wear proper clothes in winter, not go out in the extreme heat, not drink water from unreliable sources in the monsoon, clean and wash the vegetables, sit in the morning sun, go for a walk, have quiet moments of prayer or meditation, drink and eat moderately, don't abuse substances that are bad for you (all advice that has been coming to us since thousands of years) and they look at you as if you are a whining imbecile!! -- Do you want them to miss out on life?

DEATH is the way..... to make money!

It seems money cannot be made without "KILLING" involved

Yesterday we went to see the Durga Pooja installation as this is the season of festivities in India.

At the exit there were people standing asking for money for "cancer".

First the infrastructure, food and environment was poisoned by the powers that be. They fed on that.

Then when sickness came they feed on that.

Now what next?

Why generally, are the humans ready to take whatever is dished out to them? The people who land up in positions of power, the administration anywhere in the world, the shopkeepers all seem to get away with whatever they want to give us. AND WE TAKE IT all without a whimper.

Brilliant.

This so called research in the last 50 years seems to be fattening the purses of the same people who gave it to us first. Are we so brainwashed? Don't we see how sickness is being used to make money while natural sane methods of living and treatment are sidelined and ignored?

(WHY should I pay for you because you chose to live badly?)

The other money making racket is war.

We communicate badly because we learn early that clarity is not wanted, it is not good practice and people take you for granted. A little margin needs to be kept to obfuscate matters and leave space for arguing either way - to continue or shut the other up.

Then we can always blame the other for any error in understanding which we deliberately seeded.

It is a confirmed fact we ( "I") are/am never wrong or in error.

Back to the Dinosaur.

At the rate we are misusing "Science" to reinvent the world we will end up with some very monstrous Creations.

Has Concrete done us any good?

From what I can see, it has allowed us to created monstrous "creations" that have been largely instrumental in creating our INHUMAN cities of today.

Look at our modern advancement in knowledge and processes.

Every single advancement has brought us more misery.

Examples:

The car. We now go long distances and fast. We are sitting most of the time while our bodies are in motion and disrupting the flow within. The exhaust is polluting and bringing sickness with it. Children are most affected and thus we are sentencing the next generation to a sick future.

Air Conditioning. With controlled temperature, our bodies are losing their ability to tolerate different conditions of weather. Our immune system is compromised. We are staying indoors in stale air and imbibing hazardous fumes from indoor pollution.

Washing: The detergents are polluting the water supply. We rarely use the sun to freshen our clothes and antibacterial effects of the sun is being missed out. The exercise we used to get from washing (and sweeping etc) is gone from our lives.

Preservatives and pesticides. We are now eating dead food and poisoned too.

Our most scary thought, although we would never admit it is that we might get cancer.

We think we can fight the diseased environment that we have created by vaccination which is nothing but another misguided attempt to recreate NATURE and we are actually (aghast) adding illnesses into us.

Can any race who thinks CHEMO is a treatment and curative be considered even more aware than an imbecile?

What kind of a life have we built?

Bramhacharya means freedom from the need of sex as motivation for living, the driving force in the animal. As the mind grows and becomes independent and then grows further into the Greater Mind and then grows even further and dissolves into the Universal mind, the connect with the body and the "sensational" world dependent on the nervous system for a "high" is reduced and eventually evaporates. That is when we say we are into Brahmacharya.

And this rarely happens until we have run its course by first seeing all it has to offer and eventually get disgusted by all the pain and sourness it brings and the routine repeatedness of the experience like a drab deja-vu.

Abstaining from sex is at best a rule imposed on celibate communities that are pursuing some religious goals properly where the group cannot allow the mind to wander. Imposition is a useless exercise.

Any act done with sincerity and selflessly for the one we love is Bhakti. It all matters on what we choose to be in love with.

Deep down everyone knows where they are faulting. But we have learnt the tricks of social hide & seek and all of us are playing the game of a charade which helps us manage our lives without the effort of correcting our faults or there being any need to do so.

You have to give the Devils their due.

This is why I say: be kind but not "good".

Evolutionary speaking the world is not yet ready for GOODNESS. It always culminates into tragedy.

And you thought people are listening to you???

Humans are designed to OBJECT, HINDER and DISCUSS.

The idea is to seem considerate yet never commit.

What we call kill the snake so carefully as to not break the stick.

It needs wisdom to agree to a wise man.

There is a kind of feeling that the animal kingdom is getting the subtle message of our destructive violence.

They understand but are not always able to do much about it and there is a sadness flowing around.

I think the animals are doing things deliberately within the limited capacity of action they have and I have seen videos of contrary action being taken by them to thwart.....

One should not judge - agreed. One can judge with only what we have learnt and seen/experienced. Let us first agree that it is not much - a very incomplete data indeed.

Then we will also have to admit that we are in no position to judge even the basic mind body things; leave alone the spiritual.

It is also a fact that we go about judging to hide our ignorance - to obfuscate matters.

You think you are "treating" But are you curing?

You have only managed to change the focus from Not being sick to Not dying.

We are treating only the "levels" where interaction is possible like on the material plane that we can see at a one to one level - something that can be called symptomatic alleviation of offending symptoms without attending to the cause. Certain formulations act anti or neutralising elements to each other. There they do good work for a short while. Bigger ailments if checked or blocked can internally be redirected to come out as other more horrific diseases.

Example: Antacids/blockers. It cures the symptoms of acidity and reflux but now the damage done by Aluminum Hydroxide is understood. Then people stopped thinking beyond it. Nobody thought of eating better or controlling their gluttony/habits. Food industry adverts made out that they could EAT as much as they wanted and then pop a pill.

The basic problem of indigestion such as lack of digestive enzymes was not spoken of + the food industry under its umbrella added chemicals and made the food into some tasteful muck that further destroyed the body internally without any direct correlation that could be proven for which we have no eyes as yet to see and the medical industry hid behind this curtain.

The entire industry fooled the "people" The foolish lapped it up. The Devils went laughing to the bank.

In short the medical industry has not been curing anything. IT is the body that cures itself. All it needs is a little support in time of stress. The medical industry has only complicated and multiplied illnesses. For instance digestive enzymes by helping the body complete the process properly, remove the anomalies and cure many problems of the liver/gall bladder and constipation or/and stress on the appendix/spleen and such problem as piles are also reduced.

But in a scenario of the blind leading the blind, what can be said?

In one way or another, until man wakes up his intelligence, we can only talk but for now the Devilish ones are in power.

A lot of people don't do anything because they wonder whatever for when death is the final step. They are happy to do their little bit and rest

Others are in a hurry to do so that they leave nothing for others and they have only a small life to do it in.

JOY Street

I look at life psychically. And I find, desires have becomes the focus, mental tenacity has weakened, mental laziness has gone up to zombie levels; we tend to look for short-ended stop-gap solutions - that unfortunately create long term unhappiness.

In India then we used to see that those Indians that had migrated, would become noticeably larger and all over flowing with huge bellies.

We were impressed by the well-being and the quality of the goods that they brought back with them. In comparison we had "nothing" in India. I remember asking for and getting a wonderful adjustable razor from a cousin that I used for 30 years till Gillette finally came into India with their wonderful shaving items.

I visited USA in 1980 and even then I was a little surprised at the number of sick people I saw there. There were people with wheel chairs everywhere. (Of course the explanation given was that better infrastructure and better quality of availability of wheel chairs made this possible)

I had just then started to study the science of Nutrition, the biochemistry behind it and such things and my intuitive side said that this is not quite right. I was not impressed.

Another thing that impressed me was the attitude of NOT caring much about how life would turn out. In 1980s the American Dream was flourishing. No one was worried about anything and the TV sets that I had never seen before were on 24 hours x 7 which I thought was basically upturning the cycle of the circadian rhythm. Can't be good said I to myself.

All I could see was the race for JOY and more JOY in life. How much joy could be encapsulated in a day seemed to be the goal. Rest, sleep and the health of the body was not at all on anybody's mind.

In the guise of giving Joy, the American people have been robbed of their Spirit.

Interestingly enough, all the answers I was looking for also were found in USA and the books I found there. USA is also a very forward looking place too.

But now I feel that it has gone too forward and the people have let themselves down! Specially at the nutrition medical side!!

What hurts is that this philosophy of medical engineering backed by synthetic formulations has caught on even in India and laziness in thinking and personal care is in vogue here too. We were as it is not a very dynamic people..

Another thing I now see as a businessman is that USA wherever it went as a buyer, imposed raised salaries and morals that were not suitable. Example in India they raised salaries in organisation they were in control of and upset the economics of the populace. They went against child labour and families are now starving. Children are now neither learning a trade nor being educated.

What will become of these minimally literate bums who know nothing? And everyone is sicklier than they used to be 30 years ago. But one thing has happened - they are all well dressed and full of arrogance of being "somebody". Impossible today to find help as everyone sees it as "Under" their social status.

All ideas that eventually hurt seem to find receptacle beings in USA first.

People rarely or never integrate; they are taught from day one to destroy other cultures to impose theirs and uncontrolled births are one of the weapons in their philosophy.

This thinking has been drummed into people's thoughts since time it began and today they go about it like conditioned zombies.

Change is impossible because the religious book is unchanging. We see this kind of thinking wherever A BOOK is the driving apostle.

Certain classes consider themselves genetically superior like our Brahmins. It shows in the subtle ways they relate and take decisions. Nothing can be done. Thousands of years of conditioning is now embedded in their DNA. They may act reachable but they are definitely not. Relationships are (normally) possible only at the "join me and have-some-tea" level.

- Children dying of hunger in war torn areas. Nobody they say is listening.

PK: when the idea is to kill, why should anyone pay attention?

I wonder why the Soul decided to be born here in these circumstances and what lesson it needed to learn.

Let us hope this torment that the Soul has taken on itself ENDs soon.

- In India we take the "Evil Eye" seriously.

Take some black Rye in your fist. Or ask someone to do it and after circling it around your head 7 times and then throw it in the middle of the cross road.

Once you have done the act, go to the cross road nearest and simply drop it in the Centre of the cross road. Let the evil vibes disintegrate into the four winds.

Another way is make a wick and seep it in mustard oil. Ask some good person to wave it around you head to toe seven times and then light it.

The wick is burned away from the person concerned by a good hearted person. It will burn and die out. It is a small wick so there is nothing much left. We do it at the kitchen sink and the ash is then allowed to flow away in the water.

If there are envious bad vibes, the wick will crackle loudly.

Do it again and again as and when needed.

If you have a presence. Burn jasmine oil lamps. While making the wicks say a prayer. Evil spirits do not like certain perfumes,

A dream.

Last night I had a vivid dream with a strong message; a message that was already hovering around me since the last 2 days.

Something in me said -- get the message. There is a time when every relationship is at its peak and after that it should be plucked or it will drag on for the sake of appearances. The student has arrived and should go off independently. We tend to keep and miss many relationships. But the day arrives when any relationship will have lost all meaning and it is best to pluck it away instead of keeping a withered flower in one's vase for ever and ever. Time to grow up boy and be on your own!

What made this dream happen? The answers that I am getting to solve the "Air Pollution" issue. The design of a simple electric powered mobility device. The people who were watching and paying attention to what I am saying and then breaking relationships both in life and FB; relationships that I nurtured rather too well for years and then when they have grown suddenly I am too much for them, the first to be discarded.... The maturity needed to be alone and left alone....etc etc.

* All our thoughts and pronouncements, our codified philosophies and our attitude to life seem to point to one thing: Humans conspiring to make each other feel better, quietly hiding the fault lines by a thin layer of commonly accepted lies.

In the realm of thoughts, all thoughts are true.

So at the level humans are, wherever they came from and wherever they are going, my statement is a photo of the present state of mind.

- Yes. The constant need to respond, adjust and compromise and stay alert to stimuli of others is VERY fatiguing.

Observe a family in action in daily routine. There is a continuous call for attention by somebody or the other for something or the other because people interfere with each other in some way or the other. It grates and irritates our subconscious centers to give rise to quarrels.

I was awake and letting my mind float away this early morning. I was thinking of the small rooms people today make and call them three bed-roomed apartments in an area of less than 600 sq feet and how this crams their spirits living with other family members all cackling away with their personal agendas- the very thought makes me squirm in discomfort.

- There are mischievous elements in the netherworld that take great pleasure in engineering mishaps.

These are the same ones that also enter the minds of people and make them pull chairs back when other sit and throw banana peels under the unwary walker's foot

The most weakened aspect in our psychology is that we always take the opposite stance to prove to other how wrong they are and how right and more reasonable we are.

Our superiority complex is way too high. A lot of arrogance and nothing to be arrogant about as far as practical life is about.

- Malachy Matthews: Of course we continue to learn right through the life-cycle!

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari: We pride ourselves in thinking that way but very few are really learning anything life-changing.

Narayan Sirdesai: What is the relationship between memory and learning.

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari: Memory is a knowledge bank. We can draw upon it to complete new puzzles that life keeps throwing at us. On this basis we take action. We learn from the action when whatever transpires teaches us finally when we realize the consequences did not go according to plan or as envisaged.

If the lesson is retained and sent down into the subconscious our lives change. Otherwise history is forced to repeat itself.

On the point raised that Christianity and Mohammedanism are fabricated religions as against the others who have a single realized being or saint beings originating them. (example: Buddhism-Buddha, Sikhs- Guru Nanak)

Answer to a friend: Let's not get lost in long dissertations and miss the actual point. All the religions are codified mental formations that are based on really experienced personal "experiences". The religions that are based on old stories, parables and garbled history are so messed in the telling that it is difficult to arrive at the core meaning of the lessons being imparted. The clever human mind can reinterpret the words and create a useless mess and this is what has happened with all the old religions. The newer religions are closer to the truth as easier to relate to as the words haven't been reinterpreted yet over much. I would rather follow a single teacher's words and find out for myself instead of just making it an intellectual exercise. Without accompanying experience and having lived the words are worse than useless as they only provide a platform to the MIND to consider itself knowledgeable.

In my opinion, the truth is there hiding behind it all with the details as weeds growing around it. But then the TRUTH if it is hidden behind the words then the religion is of no use. As it is in real life the Truth is out there but hidden. We might as well forget the religions and start looking for it through life itself. The whole Earth is speaking of it. We are not listening.

Once the truth of the matter at its origin is seen, the focus should be on moving forward in our quest. Religion is really not for the true of heart.

Focusing on the details as detailed in the rules and customs of religions keeps us stuck with the old mental formations and although we may sound wise, we are not moving forward.

30 years ago I took a decision that would take my life at a serious tangent from the one I was pursuing then. But quite evidently I was doing something wrong as my activities brought me to a spot where I was immobilized by life. Life has this curious habit of throwing adventurers into quicksand situations from which one can dig out only with help. These situations and the help we seek then form us and shape our character. It can be painful too as they cling to us and become part of our lives. I wonder if the decision that was taken 30 years ago that brought me where I am today will now hover on me for the rest of my life? If there is respite possible how will it come about to happen?

We can regret it or enjoy it; the choice is of course ours. Whatever the chain of events that brought us where we are, now what do we do if we are unhappy about it? At the fag end of our lives, like I am where I am, what are possibilities of making change as there is little fight left in the body?

Just occurred to me there. Why precisely

Did "We" put machines on Mars? I will accept answers that substitute 'Moon' for Mars as the question is challenging.

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari

If we convert it into a psycho-spiritual question the answer would be that we feel an internal urge to grow. But as yet our view is totally towards others and the manifestations that we can see and feel with our 5 senses.

The telescope and the microscope opened to us new worlds. The airplane and the submarine opened to us newer vistas.

Now we are sort of addicted to more and more information which may or not may be of much use to us but the exercise feels good. The mind is a collector and it has more than enough to keep it busy for years/ages to come.

It also eliminates the need to look at our own selves and the little imperfections that we happily compromise and live with and ignore the tragedies unfolding around us as mere aberrations.

Our selfishness implores us to ignore the immediate and we need something to keep busy seemingly importantly.

I suspect we are not fully human until we explore and develop our entire faculty spectrum, both cognitive and intuitive. I do realize that many of the impressions and vague memory type experiences embedded in me do not particularly relate to my current existence and I considered these as possible indications of previous lives from which I reincarnated; genetic memory so obviously present in birds and monarch butterflies does explain at least a good part of this. I am often told that I go 'deep' into people and I know I am quite a strong empath - intuitively pick up on people in a crisis whether it is mental, physical, or emotional and I am drawn to them and appear to make a difference for them during that time after which they disappear again from my life. When I embarked on my doctoral coursework I also tested strong in 'empathic' intelligence and I am quite thrilled that we no longer strictly measure IQ at least at some of the institutions of higher learning.... we still have a long, long evolutionary road ahead of us; works in progress...

Pradeep Maheshwari

Yes. People like you are opening up.

At least new thought patterns are entering the human consciousness. Until 50 years ago it was usually brushed aside as rubbish.

Today the number of people opening to the intuitive world and not just treating it all as unfounded feelings is growing.

This is why we are seeing the opposite movement of restrictions and controls on our liberties and thoughts being applied by those in power as they see their powers fading. The occult world is at war.

..But what is this thing called inner purpose?

For me it is a sea of words. What is this purpose being talked about? You say inner purpose; what exactly does this refer to? My need for food? My need for sexual satisfaction? My need and yearning for praise and adulation?

We are throwing around philosophical wisdom in words that really very few relate to.

Nowadays it is in fashion to say love thyself. It can be interpreted to mean hundred and one things - each different to every person.

Nobody says something simpler and nearer the truth of things like "Be honest & sincere". Admit to yourself your own insincerity. Admit to yourself your yearnings. Until you have found satisfaction within your own nature, you will see life as incomplete around you.

Do you see yourself responding to certain stimuli and motivations? What are they? Will they do "good" or create negative waves and turnout badly for all concerned. So many questions. These are questions that plague each one of us. This is what matters.

When we have understood these questions in us then we have arrived at a state of purpose as finding answers to these questions become our purpose.

Don't forget most of it is told to us before we learn to discern. On what grounds would I, at the age of 16 start wondering that all that whatever was told us was wrong? The mindset is important and it is definitely totally the most important factor. But unfortunately it gets formed in childhood under the situation we are brought up. By the time we wake up and come into our own we are already "somebody" with a game-plan already integrally embedded into us. And we are all not born with a dynamic persona.

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Very few are able to go beyond the words into actions.

Parents kill the initiative in children to maintain their hold on them and under their thumb -- although unconsciously as this they are simply being themselves. After the age of 20 it is too late.

How do we change this pattern?

It will be at least another 10 years before the chinks in whatever I was told will start showing off at all. Normally if the chinks are not life threatening why should I bother?

Then there are subjects like every day religion practices, philosophical questions of race, caste, food habits that have really no connects and pose no problems and there seems to be no reason to worry too much or change.

It is very easy to continue within the circle and social structure one is born in. This is why people do not see any need to go looking for answers as there are really no "questions".

The non-questioning attitude is seen most in medical care. We tend to trust the doctor and medical industry simply beyond measure. They play with us and make us pay for it. But then how do we get proper medical care if we question them at every stage? Quite similarly then, would we trust the restaurant and the dress makers or for that matter the teacher and anybody at all?

We forget or ignore or simply do not wish

To know that there is an occult world around us.

We pick up "THOUGHT patterns" from childhood that settle in our sub- conscious and memory as TRUTH and reality since the day we are born. Today the scientific community accepts that genetic memory also exists and traumas are carried forward by coming generations.

These thoughts entrap us in their hold and we run our lives not looking sideways or ever questioning them even when experience is showing us that things are not working out. This cussedness is the main problem of ills that beset us in life and eventually quite often even snuff it out.

When we try to follow a life more suited to our instinctive knowledge, truthfulness to ourselves we end up being in confrontation with established society. And this either makes us surrender to the existing patterns or we fight and hurt ourselves.

The correct path is somewhere in between.

Birth, life, death are not factors in our control actually nothing is but the most mistaken thought that we are in control and the "DOER" is instilled in us from the beginning. What an error and how much pain this element brings in life and society cannot be seen by those who are happily floundering in the shallows and accepting it as fine!

While most people are busy making points, I lived to tell the tale. I nearly died, at least was given up for imminent death at the age of 2 and then father tried some homeopathic treatment and it worked. Then when 14 I got Tuberculosis and it was drama period of non- listening parents, confused doctors, experimental treatment , deterioration and then one day I put my foot down and went my way to a Homeopathic doctor of my choosing. Survived again thru sheer self-disciplined living and have survived to this day by giving up a lot of "life" that most people take for granted.

So please at least try to understand what I am trying to say because a lot of our survival depends on us and our ability to unlearn, readjust and reform every day and every moment at the drop of the hat. I am only sharing my experiences so that your own path may be validated by similar experiences of others.

This is the problem in its nucleus form. People trash new information; they pride in their critical thinking and quite often react by getting into a criticising mode. This blankets out all need to reflect, consider. They miss the new line of thought that could save them from themselves.

John Lee

The first paragraph is very good, accurate and true. From there we must share.

As a child I was always "damaged" due to others actions. A fractured skull around 16 months old. Then twisted bent legs at around 3. Others' doing. It is interesting, and even I find it interesting that at around 7 my mother became ill. In and out of hospital. She began looking for a naturopath and due to her searching we met a very talented man whom managed to repair my legs back to perfection. My mother's illness continued until she passed away when I was 11 and a half. Only a few years after that my father became abusive to the point that by 15 I could not be bruised any longer.

These are direct parental influences that leave one scared and unknowingly angry.

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari

It is convoluted and complicated; every man for himself. We are so basically cruel.

John Lee

We can be yes. But I believe if we can become aware or self-aware, aware of our own actions, mood, thoughts, than the only cruelty is maybe the truth we speak. It is the truth we dislike.

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari

"IF"

But yes that is the way out if we shall adopt it

The rise in extreme reactions can be attributed to more widespread "news"

50 years ago few would have been affected by the "Happenings" outside their little worlds.

Now we are being overwhelmed with negative news and our blood is curdling, our anger and helplessness is rising and our sources of income are disappearing.

This trend is clearly visible everywhere; including India.

Sally Boult

Pk, would you rather be kept in the dark about world happenings? Many people live in ivory towers and know nothing of such matters. At least they have a bit more time before all is lost.

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari

How does it help me to know that a woman is being stoned to death in Iran for trying to run away from a cruel husband?

It only makes my heart bitter. When my heart is bitter, I will spread bitterness and vileness around.

Changes nothing and I have absolutely no way to make any changes in the way the world is running.

As to the availability of time, this is precisely what I am referring to: Busy yourself and expose yourself to things that matter to you in your personal growth and life. Leave the rest of the world alone to itself.

What is the difference between "The Corrupt" & "The Great Unwashed"? The C know what history succeeded & repeat it. Naivety, of TGU, saturates their total existence.

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari

Everyone is corrupt to some degree or other. This is what keeps us together and the world bumbles along without change.

History is not repeating itself. Things are so and it has been so. We, you are seeing the manifestation of the same FORCE in new settings generation after generation.

El Darlin

Each generation tries to re- invent the wheel instead of learning from the errors of the past.

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari

Yes! It is perpetually the same movement starting again with each new birth.

Yoga, the subconscious and all that crap maybe what sainthood needs but for the average house-holder simple uplifting of spirits & positive advice is good and in greater balance with actualities.

Envy, Greed, Superiority complex and the Fear of the unknown are still too big players in the human make-up. Minor undercurrents of personal gain & satisfaction (above all) run in every decision and act of human behaviour.

The distraction of the cities are so fulfilling and numerous that there is no end to the time we can spend there and lose all track of it. All we need to do is keep indulging till our body sheath drops dead of fatigue and over-use.

But as I see it, people, prefer discussing the path rather than following it. By expounding our knowledge of philosophy, books and scriptures, I suppose we are just being virtuous in our show-offing. In many ways it is a profession.

Three things keep us stuck.

1) Lack of opportunity to experience new things.

2) Lack of ability to learn from the experience and knowledge of others.

3) Lack of inclination to jump into new situations -- avoid learning.

Rather it has jolted me into wondering of what purpose it is to try and inform others about anything? Most will live and decide only by the light of their own little world and the knowledge and experience they have collected.

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari

For a mere 10 ten days of being the king of the anthill.

Violence and getting our own killed and killing the others for the fun of it.

And it goes on and on.

What gods or Demons run the human character?

We have no idea what we are fighting for and don't learn anything from all those dying all around us.

A moment of sitting on a shaking throne, worried from which doorway the next dagger will be thrust - what kind of life is it?

Senseless. This is what we are.

Debra Gambrell

When we choose to bomb another country, we are acting in violence. No amount of social justice will make up for the abject violence. Violence is violence and it must end if we consider ourselves human.

When we share our thoughts, experiences, and give advice or suggestions are we making any difference?

Very little if any.

Yes if they see the same advice from many others/sources then it starts working first on their minds and then on their subconscious and then they one day get the idea as a thought come to them from their own thinking and analysis of life and then of course they act on it.

PS: Most often I see the whole and complete research lacking; the information being incomplete, they end up doing something silly and most ineffective and then, at this juncture they will suddenly remember you to accuse of not giving proper advice or useless advice.

Example: We have in India a natural preparation based on camphor which is the most potent anti-bacterial in nature. Normally taken as a line of first defense at home in mild tummy upsets and fevers and such. One of the brands in use in north India is Amritdhara, Krishna Mixture and in further South Zinda Tilismath.

So I advised this to a relative.

Next time we met he says "your advice did not work. I took Pudin Hara (a concentrate of mint) and there was no effect."

ME: But Pudinhara has nothing to do with Amritdhara.

HE: Oh they are the same thing; I don't agree with you.

The game of words. How the mind likes to reduce everything to a basic single cell image.

Yoga has become the "postures as seen in hatha Yoga"

Meditation has become sitting in the lotus pose thru guided scenario by another guide who is raking in the moolah.

Humans really go to great efforts to delude themselves as in everything they do their basic dishonesty kicks in.

The delusions of man! The basic dishonesty - for all our larger than life gains are always based on some dishonest manipulation.

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari

Even we the people are in real terms aiding the government in their unsavory practices.

We are looking at life only from the point of view what needs to be done and is being done by the Kings. From up there to the trickling downwards. We see ourselves as the sufferers.

Just close your eyes for a moment and contemplate...

1) How did the kings become king; who supported their becoming?

2) Are our living habits in concordance with sane, frugal and minimal living?

Example: Do we waste food? Do we buy and throw away clothes without one single thought of how they were produced and how much they represent our earth's natural supplies? Do we not over eat and eat and consume stuff that is knowingly not good for us?..... and so on and so forth.

Are excesses not our way of life?

3) Do we lie, pretend and show off and make mansions bigger than we need? Do we buy and use motor cars that are huge, gas guzzlers and travel unnecessarily without planning or calculation as to how much this represents wastage of natural resources? Do our families really need the number of cars that they have?

Would we ever consciously want to live with less rather than the excesses we are won't to pursue? We are laying ourselves open to exploitation. Do you see this?

Then why are we complaining that the kings that we made are taking advantage of us? They are one of us. They are doing the only thing we humans know how.

It is time to start looking from Bottom UP.

The fear comes with part of being human.

Clever people who become our Principals, leaders and kings know this primeval fear and use it to frighten us more and keep control over us and we like babies fall into their caged trap gleefully. (There is another side to this scenario: The need for some people in some positions to deflect attention from their selves. They lie and fabricate stories to malign others. If this ends in hurting others it does not seem to bother them as long as their own agenda is being taken care of. In almost all cases they hypnotise themselves to be convinced that what they are doing right and the only way. It is the barbaric element in humans still very active but in a very polished way)

The subconscious waves need to be understood and eventually controlled and regulated by our awakened mind.

The mind feels threatened and wants the offending items to go away or it wants to see it dead very materially. Then as they say it is a case of "No bamboo - no flute - no music"

This is something subconsciously in us since very early beginnings when anything outside the village enclosure was to be feared. Either it was the animals or it could be marauding tribes.

The Jungle is still in us.

We are still being taught to fear and lock the doors. The guards and the guardianship activity is the largest employer.

In life we meet more people wanting to stop us than befriending us.

Think.

We are helpless they say...

When talking of good health and medicine, I am now realising that we are wasting our time worrying about others. Certain bad attitudes are picked up, promoted and often followed for a life time. These habits and practices are so inbred in certain communities and families that nothing can really be done. They pride it all as their traditions and can take offense if criticized. They live at a level of unawareness that is stupendous. To somebody like me it is positively criminal what they do with their lives but it has to be underscored by the point that it is none of our business.

There are a lot of factors like lack of education, income and social practices that curtail but the will also is lacking. Being satisfied with a little relief is all this mass of people is aiming for.

They are fodder for the system and go to slaughter willingly. I suppose we can just watch and feed them little tidbits of info, with the minimal hope that perhaps they will pay it some attention.

The maids that work for us, for example, in 20 years, I have not been able to make them understand any of the little things I have tried to teach them. They prefer to spend small fortunes in illnesses by going to "Doctors" with established big successful looking clinics. Impossible to make think of in terms of better nutrition or even supplements or something like simple wearing of clothes in winter. We try to help by giving them things but still there is this feeling that nothing is registering and there is no real willingness.

Two years ago her 20 year old son had pleurisy and is forever sick; it is so heartbreaking but we cannot help because their pride won't let them listen.

Their attitudes are determined by certain thoughts like:

- we may be poor but we are living well and we know what we are doing.

- sickness is happening to everybody.

- it is our fate.

What can you do when people abdicate their right to use their intelligence and minds?

Let us, for a moment focus is on the superficial way of looking at things. What is stopping us from looking, researching deeper? Nothing really, except our inherent inertia and laziness. The superficial world gives us enough gossip to feed our free time and occupy our minds. We feel we are knowledgeable and "IN" with life. We are happy to imagine ourselves connected and in touch with the inanities of our times.

Today's driving force is the media. The media jumps at some exciting things and splashes them all over. It makes and unmakes people and things in an unnatural way. Given the power it has over people's minds; just imagine the good it can do. It is so sad to see all this good power going to waste -- being used to promote itself and more superficialness and false images.

History is not repeating itself. This is how IT IS and it is flowing as it was designed to flow.....unless the humankind wakes up, takes note and then changes course.

We have additionally deluded ourselves by agreeing as a whole that we are godly, formed by God in god's image (whatever the idea of god is) and that we are all by value of our virtues destined to greatness and heaven.

We have erroneously convinced ourselves that evil is an aberration. Talk of DELUSIONS. This mass hypnotism is the magic.

I used the word crude instead of 'sexually explicit' as I'm new to the good folks here and while not trying to be offensive to anyone I was taken aback by the carvings (on temples in India) subject matter in some of the renderings. It is beautiful artistic work, phenomenally intricate, time consuming and detail is unbelievable.

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari

Our temples describe and relate the tantra. When there was no written word to communicate with, the world over, temples, cathedrals and churches told their story in statuesque work.

In India the female form was never hidden away. The female energy was given great importance. The desires were out in the open. Prudishness was clearly understood would create internal traumas and was bad for the health of the individual and society.

Freud made this distinctly clear.

So the possibilities were kept out in the open and treated as something normal to life, like food/dessert is seen as normal cravings.

If a male of the species would not desire a female of the species, what else would he want? The female likes to be appreciated, desired and loves to lord over as long as she can. So it suits everybody.

Everyone knows that after you have seen one female you have seen them all. Why give it too much importance as the western churches did and made men and women different distinct species that people were fighting for and with.

We understand very well that a bit of hugging, petting is healthy and nothing to be ashamed of.

Sex was never given more than its due importance in the scheme of things in oriental thinking.

The western church did a brilliant maneuver by linking sex with sin, hell and the basis of marriage chastity. Boy did this fuck up the western society and still does.

Parris Ja Young

We are generally fucked up 😁

A friend hides his child's eyes when something innocently sexual appears on the TV ... kissing, hugging ... but lets the child watch when a violent movie shows people being beaten, shot or blown up.

As Hippies we lived often without clothing. Our children grew up without embarrassment about male or female anatomy. I believe this is healthy.

Some cultures separate the males and females as far apart as possible. This increases the pressure to find and have sex and often the pressure is so great that love plays no part in the relationship.

A tabby in heat climbs the screen door, yowling at the night.

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari

Yup. The two groups of followers of religions that have massively fucked up the earth are Christians and Muslims. I see them as a master-stroke of the Demonic Spirits. People do not yet understand that there are highly intelligent and knowledgeable malefic gods also. And these two religions are the result of manipulations of these Demonic Gods. If we look back and deeply we shall notice that these two religions have motley of different individuals relating stories and they are formed basically on highly attractive human moralistic principles that seem and sound virtuous but technically are basically cruel in their import.

All the other philosophies and so-called religions have an Individual's name behind them: some realised being who spoke or wrote out his philosophy and a group followed him. These philosophies did not create the massive wave of cruelty that the Christians and Muslims did even though they talk of "love" a word that means as many things to as many people on earth.

Let me give you a small list:

Confucius, Buddha, Krishna, Nanak, and there are hundreds of other greats who are revered and followed by their single names. (Of course their followers did fight for their rights and went spreading the word too -- but this is the human side of things)

One great challenge today's generation is facing is alienation particularly when they leave their villages also cities for bigger cities or for foreign lands. When you leave your city or village for a new place for a variety of reasons... it could be for pursuing higher studies or for employment. The most difficult thing is assimilation. They belong nowhere.

Unfortunately hate, envy, anger, likes and dislikes are also based on the character handed out to us by Mother Nature. It is the narcissistic element in us; more or less in all of us.

Most people don't even realise that they are being triggered by "Life" and fall cleanly into a pattern in an algorithm already embedded in us.

If anything all our energies go into justifying ourselves which normally result in more of the same often in a chain reaction giving rise to the excess of vileness in human life.

If some other worlds were looking at us from the beyond, they would think we love our senseless suffering. That is because we think it is senseless. The mind does not like the pain and finds it malicious. Of course.

But have you ever seen a man do anything worthwhile when seeped in luxury and indulgent habits? - Except perhaps being the originator of suffering for others?

This is unfortunately the basic nature of man. We actually live in the moment (Philosophers advise humans to live in the moment but I say "They Do" and that is the problem) without ever thinking of the consequences. The small pleasures of the moment take all our attention and energy. When we think of the future it is only with the aim of impressing others - to build a bigger house, buy a bigger car and have a more gala wedding.

Malachy Matthews

That's the problem with 'mindfulness'; what we are mindful of!

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari

+ The advice: Love yourself which only results in more selfishness.

In my life the attachment to life was broken by too much "wisdom" (pardon me the use of this word). Either it was me or the young ladies that I wooed - mainly though it was the pragmatic side of the ladies who did not see in me a secure future. Love is definitely not the motivating factor.

Today when I look back, the "Could have been" scenario is always sad to contemplate.

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"The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world's existence. All these half-tones of the soul's consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are." (Fernando Pessoa)

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The lady I missed most and messed up my life because the hurt she caused was more than what I could get over. She was told by unscrupulous persons what a bad egg I was and she threw me out like a fly in her soup never giving me chance to understand what happened. We met again 40 years later and then I asked her what happened. She had not forgotten and asked forgiveness for the pain she had caused on the basis of gossip.

The second lady for some reason asked me to talk to her parents and then in front of the parents said no. It hurt like mad. The insult was also difficult to swallow.

Another lady wanted to but did not really see me as rich husband material so eventually went away.

The last and very important relationship I gave up as I saw confrontations in the future as she was a foreigner (different language too) who might not know how to adjust to life in India and vice versa.

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Arjun K Nagar: "Wealth or poverty is not found in people's pockets, but in their souls."

Pradeep PK Maheshwari: So? How does the soul of another matter to any other.

We think of this distinction because the material wealth or more accurately the exchange value of the so called money wealth is what is of interest to others.

The Soul-rich people are of no use to those who are looking for material gains.

My Soul-wealth is of use only to me and therefore I am of no interest and worst of all it does not show, cannot be exchanged or given away for use by another or it shows only to those who are themselves rich at the soul level.

From the pragmatic level this is a subject which is technically a non-starter except to cover one's material poverty and explain it away in laudable terms.

Those who hanker after material gains will continue to do so whatever you may tell them. Their view is contained by greed, insecurity, vanity and will never change.

Life will rip you apart.

When you choose to take the path of self-questioning and then putting your house in order, something astonishing begins to happen. Everything starts going asunder as if life decided to rip you apart. This is very disconcerting and stalls the weaker ones who do not show greater courage.

What most do not see is this is an occult phenomenon where the life is coming out in response to your own demands. The idea is to put you up together in a better form but this unfortunately is always too far into the future and too uncertain - seemingly absolutely impossible.

What the human heart and mind sees is the tragedy.

But these tragedies form you; help you to recondition your mind and subconscious and awakens your intuitive visions to see the truth behind all the "appearances".

The family that we are born into has a huge role to play in this as if your destiny has chosen to place you accurately where your basic character needs it and will get the maximum advantage.

I can vouch for this. All the incidents that happened in my life seemed expressly designed to disillusion me and helped me break my attachment to the comfort and support of the family. It was only when I was free of this natural bond and conditioning that I was able to find myself.

Yes this is a very deep understanding that only few get. That as the saying goes "we are all walking each other home"....many of us are there only to help and assist some creative beings to go forward and make the changes that are due in time in the earth's consciousness.

One in a few thousand at most. All the others are there to support and follow.

Humanity has to accept one day that it is weak in WILL and Insincere.

Until that day these incongruences will remain.

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One half of sexual assaults involve alcohol. Those are very alarming statistics. Yet alcohol is celebrated within our culture.

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.

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