I Can Only Repeat It

There are no Pros and Cons. There are no choices and no alternatives. The board is set. The dice has been thrown. Now it is your move.

Delusion and deluding itself "life is Joyful" is how humanity survives; but also closes all doors to change. We all feel that we have done, seen and learnt vastly more than all others. There is no need to learn further and there is absolutely no desire to out-grow ourselves.

BUT we talk of change; words that do not go further or transmute into action.

The irony of life is..... When you live the life of the crowd, you are never sure what luck has in store for you and fear will complicate everything and take you to the grave.

When you try to make yourself exclusive the effort and the need to prove yourself will be the cause of stress that will take you to the grave. BUT, perhaps, the Soul will have matured and evolved and all this would come useful in your evolution in the lives following this one. Tathastu/Amen/Inshallah/Jai-ShriKrishna...

The DIVINE vs THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE.

There is in Life another principle at work and that is the NON-Divine element. In the present state of Earth' evolution the Non Divine forces are at work in a big way. And the need has now descended upon humans to accept this error of conceptualization that we are operating from Divine influences. We are fully under the governance of the Pleasure Principle.

There is definitely a Creator but life at the Earth Level is not Divine although Divinity is seen here and there and it has the capacity to become Divine because in its essence it is Divine. But as things are as we see by our "physical" eyes things are NOT Divine.

Humans do not accept this and have cocooned themselves in a false self-satisfying coverlet and this is the source of all their pains and suffering.

The Pleasure Principle in humans has been aroused. Our end goal is Pleasure. Anyone who has a product or idea or service that enhances our pleasure, our vanity and our sense of worth is welcome.

Via the Pleasure route is how the Non-Divine Principle took over the earth in the first place.

The whole platform is based on AROUSAL. Thoughts and feelings are aroused. The nerves are kept on hooked to excitement. It seems the sages knew about this and regulated it by giving precise instructions on conducting life as sacred ceremonies and daily practices.

In India we have Ayurveda. An age old system and philosophy of living that works and has proven itself as Divine in so many ways. But today is it still practiced in the full sense of the words? No! What we have in its place is what 1200 years of philosophy from the Afghan/Mongol/Persian/Turkish influence + 200 years of British governance has given us. We are now ranting against these philosophies as un-Indian and NON Hindu etc. We are totally forgetting that in the last 50 years a more insidious influence has over taken us and that is the commercial philosophy of the western corporates that is dishing out products and influencing our health and habits in a rather diminishing way. But we love it; why because the "Pleasure Principle" is fully satisfied.

How did this Divine Principle of Ayurveda get diminished into the Modern Pleasure Principle?

What happened to the glorious thought that is also being dished out to us that we are in principle Divine and this Earth was made by a Divine/God character. Does it seem so?

No; for IT IS NOT so.

And all those who continue to repeat it are after your attention and money and influencing you in more ways than one and not always to your benefit.

In this land of Divine Principles where life was based on Ayurveda how did the Non Divine gain control and continues to operate and spread? Let us not blame the Non Divine forces but understand our selves and the activity going on in the back ground. Have you ever watched the thoughts or the conversations going on in your head? You imagine scenarios; work out details of operations and plan your life in details -- often totally disconnected with the real life. Your emotions are aroused by acts of others, by images that titillate and your body reacts. I wonder if there is anyone noticing the Disharmony created by discordant thoughts such as envy, rage and wish to avenge and hurt. This unfortunately is rather more permanent in character and affects humans in the long term.

There is such a thing as mental arrogance when one is totally disconnected with the world outside one's head and is not able to connect with the thoughts and "possibilities" as MIGHT be going on the heads of others.

What I like to call Mental Colic or at best Mental Gymnastics with a lot of beautiful action but going nowhere. Have you noticed people lying about how they saw things happening when it never happened? The thing is IT HAPPENED; but in their heads.

Let me give you an analogy. Nestle is a huge corporate which has fingers in all important pies and is in every corner of the earth. Its advertising says they bring the latest technology and products to you for your health and well-being. We KNOW that their philosophy is of enticement and that their manufacturing is marketing is not good for Earth or us as individuals. But we like their tasty products and even the bottled water that is free in nature we are prepared to buy from them because they had this simple idea to make it convenient by putting in a bottle. Study what goes in their favorite product Nutella. Anything good there? But are we questioning it?

Many have pointed out the formula but does anyone care?

All the products/services now being sold on Earth have a heavy dose of the PLEASURE quotient in them and a lot of suffering built-in be it for living, health or medication but do we care or do we have the eyes to see? Or for that matter do we even want to see?

So how come this Boss of Nestle like the Devil is controlling the whole earth? And in India how did they manage to override the Divine Principle so easily.

We should be honest for once. We let them. We invited them in. We are too lazy to think further about our lives and our Soul's journey.

We have to accept that we are responsible and it all depends on us who and what we are going to permit to invade our lives. Otherwise we have to contend with the RULE of the NON-Divine Forces and that is that.

And remember the NON-Divine Forces too are in Origin Divine and as intelligent and knowledgeable as the Gods. They influence the minds and thinking of humans and animals and all life on earth. They are the ones that gave us the religions that contaminated our thinking and the ideas that are now helping to ravage the planet. They serve a purpose and we are colluding with them no end.

This Divine in His Lugubrious ways is also in action in individual pockets here and there but awaits the "disgust" of the humans to turn their faces towards HIM. He can afford to wait. He has the eternity in front of Him.

The humans know they have short lives; a mere moment in eternity. So they are in a hurry to enjoy out their pleasures as fast as they can before the clocks run out.

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Laura Prince: But seriously... is the non-divine a separate FORCE, or is it the absence of the Divine?

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari: It is a very separate Force; very much in control. Its lure and control is mainly through the sex and money power which the "Living" of The Earth are unable to contend with and desire above all else.

The mind is a separate entity but right now in cahoots with the Desire/Instinct Centre.

All those who are able to move away from this combine see life from a totally different angle - and there then the Divine is able to find some foothold.

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Together we can do much but this is one thing we are not ready to do.

Often small groups try to establish a positive way of life but it soon reverts to old way due to the self-centeredness of individuals.

Instead of wanting to change the world, we should first ask why the world should change. Most of us see no need. We are still at the stage where we accept the pain and tragedies as part of life and until humans realise on their own that they can change the direction of their lives by changing from within their responses, nothing permanent will ever be.

We want the adulation, the appreciative glances, the reverence and all these other glorious vanity boosting elements. What people want to know is how to enhance this effect in their lives. This is the stage humanity is. We already think of ourselves as grand, good and helpful. How do you change that greatness?

Our job if any and at all is to wisen up the people. What they do with the information is their Karma, Destiny and or fate.

But individually we should aim at living with sincerity to our selves, to our pronouncements, to our commitments. In small groups attempts have been successfully made by realised masters but as soon as they go, things slip back into the usual. Humanity as such has really no commitment to idealistic living - whatever for?

The point is insincerity, selfishness the propensity to hurt, grab and steal, break contracts are so deep just yet in our subconscious that change is not possible from without. The subconscious is a deep seated memory that does not like change and is not affected easily.

But slowly, eventually, it may take a few thousand years more, humanity will have to wake up and change its way and the change will then come.

It can come only when the subconscious starts changing. And to shift the subconscious we will need the unified Force and Power of the entire population of planet Earth in one go which as you can visualize is not happening or not possible to organize. What can be done?

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Realised "Beings" come, show by their lives what a higher consciousness can do. Give guidance, lectures and a lot of words to go by. But soon they have to pass on and disciples carry forth their words. Cults and religions are formed. But tell me

Has the Ramakrishna Mission produced another Ramakrishna?

Has the Gita produced another Krishna?

Has the Koran given us another Prophet?

Has Christianity produced another Christ?

Has Buddhism produced another Buddha?

All humanity ends up doing is pray to them, take their label and proudly think of themselves as part of the Their Spirit.

Creating more arrogance and stupidity which then requires more Avatars to cleanse the slate.

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Why is the world managed so badly?

The very first reason is that humans are not conscious of Values of Generosity and Gratitude. So Both Rulers and Ruled are actually always clashing with each other for very insignificant personal gains.

The second is that the populace refuses to follow any principle. For immediate personal gains they are ready to disturb, cheat and selfishly overlook everything but their object/goal of desire. Disciplined living is needed in a group and some common rules have to be followed which many are not prepared to accept.

The second is that the populace refuses to follow any principle. For immediate personal gains they are ready to disturb, cheat and selfishly overlook everything but their object/goal of desire. Disciplined living is needed in a group and some common rules have to be followed which many are not prepared to accept.

Another problem faced by governing leaders is that the populace behaves decently only out of fear and in fear of repercussions. And even with this fear about some think that they can outsmart the system and go ahead with their stupidities. This is the psychology. What alternative is there? Of course in theory Education is the answer but how?

Then management tactics are difficult and highly depending on the situation and the kind of people we confront.

Violent regulatory practices are hurtful and not always successful but very few people have the deep understanding of a Machiavelli or Chanakya and the discipline of Talleyrand.

Force is so much easier as a tool. (I talk as a manager here.)

But I also have this philosophy that Mother Nature gives no guarantees and no rights. Hurtful situations will be engendered and continue to always happen - our destinies are planning it all in the background.

Humans may think whatever they want; the Cosmos is trundling on with a philosophy of its own in which we and our personal thoughts and "MORALS" don't really matter at all.

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Peter McLaren my generation is a bit different, hopefully.

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari: Think of CHANGE. Not simply betterment. It would not be enough to bring some improvements. The old subconscious foundation has to be changed so that life can sprout from the Divine Principle.

Example" Take a building from the 1200 years. Can you renovate it to a totally new building based on the materials/utilities available in 2000?

I would say no.

You leave it alone or destroy it completely and start from scratch.

It is good to think of improvement. This is anytime better than wallowing in the old muddy pond. But betterment means working on the same old foundations. That will not take us far. The whole mind set/subconscious hold has to be changed. But the mind is content with itself in the present time of evolution that it is becoming its own hurdle. What Sri Aurobindo said comes to mind: The Mind was the helper. The Mind is the bar. -----

Can one "want/desire" and still talk of spiritual things? No.

Anything spiritual comes when we surrender our sense of wanting and go for discovery of that thing that makes the Cosmos throb.

Your spirituality remains an intellectual exercise till then. A kind of mental gymnastics - impressive, alluring, a huge forest to get lost into but still only a mental fabrication for the most part.

A lot of this world is not a Divine creation. It was built by Demonic forces because they needed a playground for their own flowering. The insect/animal world, mainly the poisonous disease carrying ones have in their background demonic "formations". Mother Nature is slow and is being used. Slowly and gradually the Human person as we know today was built.

The Mind as we know it woke only about 200 years ago. And it is totally being used by the Demonic forces. They need suffering and mayhem to feed on. They manipulate and create everything. The best tool in their armory now is the human mind itself.

As we can see in so many ways they have given us knowledge that has benefited only the evil geniuses. We think ourselves as the thinkers and source of the ideas. All these thoughts are provided to us. When the mind is ready it grasps them and translates them into some tangible material reality that can survive on the material plane and act on behalf of the forces. The demons create it all but quite a lot of the Divinely awake minds use it to good purpose too. The problem is that we don't have more of the Divinely motivated minds.

BUT in the morass of people there are some who have woken up a little more by the Grace of The Divine Mother. For them the next box of secrets is also open. To get out of this morass we need first absolute sincerity of intention and then come patience and goodwill. When these elements are provided the Mother Divine can preside and take over.

Here too very slowly and gradually the Divinity is also making its way but it is going to be a long battle. It is acknowledged by those in the know that Hitler was taken over by a very powerful Demon trying to take over. But now he has spread himself over though thousands of individuals mainly thru USA and influencing the whole wide world thru the media that has been created.

We will have to agree the planning and execution is superb.

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We are sent down on earth pumped up with "PLEASURE" on our minds.

Sensational pleasure seems to be the motto of life - built into our DNAs as the starting line.

Followed by the religionists with their ideas of sin, virtue and good manners. The philosophers are the worst - giving us complexes.

Life can be so frustrating.

A great lot of our energy goes into remembering the past which is designed to be forgotten - see the number of statues, memorials and gravestones and our minds and memories are choked.

Yet when we sit down together we discuss the future for which we are leaving little place. Our idea of a good future is based on the past repeating itself and all our discussions are on how to maintain the continuity.

With so much focus on the past how can we create a new world? Our subconscious keeps us trapped in the ever circling wheel keeping our nose to the grinding wheel.

It is a pity because it is from the past that we learn from. How soon we forget the lessons but erect memorials to remember the event.

So think deeply....what will be the end result? Our minds go and repeat the gestures and acts as this is what it is filled with.

We think of war remembering wars and then go to war. We think of a woman and we want to go back for another bout of pleasure. We see he picture of a good favorite dish and we start salivating and feel hungry.

We think of (may be in disgust but we are thinking of it and the thought then becomes part of our character and process) of Sati, Rape, Plunder and bestial episodes and of course then we do not feel alienated from them.

They seem to be the thing to do and unknowingly, because it the subconscious that runs the world, we go about doing the very thing that we otherwise in our waking moments condemn.

This is what makes the human animal double-faced. We often find so called spiritual explanations to actually promote the wrong doings and this is why religions have such control over the minds of humans and a negative end result.

What is the most saddening is that kind people choose always to overlook the misdeeds out of compassion for humanity and inadvertently give strength to the continuing momentum of all that is wrong.

We are being deliberately spoilt.

Without realising it we have been trapped in our petulant minor gyrations of daily irritations - forever unhappy.

Remove all conditions that we have erected as protection to our own limited image of ourselves.

The barrier that comes from thoughts like...

"Not of much use to me"

"Not of my status"

"Time spent here would be a waste"

"Not worth spending effort over"

"What an imposition this is"

"This is so uncouth"

This is unbearable"

We really erect ourselves as a statue to our grandeur and mortify ourselves into unhappiness. Standing there on a pedestal in the park and no one bothering one bit.

In this hyper state we become vulnerable to evil thoughts and even act upon it in an effort to control the flow of events to uni-directionally flow only towards us.

Others can only confirm the truth of your being and your experience. Learn from others but do not ape them or go by their guidance.

And definitely be aware that the mind can play tricks to make you see yourself as a "Knower" which is mostly not true.

I would take the opportunity here to debunk the Truth that some books carry the truth that we need to know and follow. Sharing of some experience is all the written word can do. This is the starting point.

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When we move about in this world, we soon see that there is an undercurrent of dissatisfaction in human kind. Is this because they are unhappy with their sort? No. With a little effort, this life can be made relatively comfortable and livable. Yet there is a deeper truth about humans that needs to be acknowledged; the simple reality that they are made for bigger things, a far more Towering persona than they exhibit yet at the same time they have not permitted their selves to Flower to their full potential. Why are they content to remain petty?

Teachers have been coming with singular regularity down among the people on this earth but for some reason only a handful is ever able to profit from the presence of such teachers amongst them. What is it then that keeps us back from Flowering and Towering to our full stature? We have all known and grasped most of the active principles acting out in this existence but still something eludes us.

A little introspection, a deeper foraging into our self will show that it is not those big principles but the small quirks in our behavior patterns - all those little inconsequential things that need to be understood and ironed out.

So of course we come to the question of what are those elements that do not permit us to Flower and Tower to our real complete self and greatness.

Want to change your life?

Just implement one discipline and see what happens.

For instance decide that "I will not utter an untruth".

A major block this then becomes as most of our world is based on pretense, lies and charade. At every moment there will arise the need to think everything out in great depth as to what to say or not to say and how much hurt or pleasure it would cause + plus the fact if you should be saying anything at all.

Or take this discipline to implement in your life: I will mean every word I say and keep my word.

The pressures of life that will ensure will teach you all you need to know.

And soon you will find yourself flying towards the LIGHT of The SUN.

People behave as if their lives are not their responsibilities. Nothing seems to affect them; Kindness, exhortations, advice, requests, laws, rules, fear and punishments nothing seems to bring any change in their modus operandi. Just look how they drive. Even death does not scare them.

Accidents and sickness happen. People are good at rationalising and excuses and good reasons can always be found to do nothing -- learn nothing - not to take it seriously or be bothered. Life is never so bad that it may be worse and that keeps us going.

I doubt anything will change. People are so bent on their pleasures that nothing shakes them. All happenings can easily be attributed to something and somebody else; so they continue merrily till the day it does come.

To make any effective change, death will need to change its tactics. Right now it is so "final" that it does not make sense. All the learning that should have come with the accident and death goes waste because the learning experience is lost in death. Near ones too, learn nothing from what is happening around them. If you share too much of your experiences, they start shunning you.

NO. I conclude that death needs to change its way of functioning. Death needs to scare people. Give them the fright of their lives. Not kill them outright. Now that will teach them.

And finally humanity can go forward.

Life is a chain of Thesis and Anti-thesis links.

I asked myself the question why some people have more than their share of anti-thesis situations and relationships.

I realise on studying the subject more deeply that it all depends on the level that one is on the evolutionary ladder.

The Thesis is what invites the Anti-thesis.

Consider yourself lucky when Life, Fate & Destiny ignore your wishes totally and do not leave you a moment's peace and leave you very few options except that of drilling yourself out of the holes they keep on throwing you in - back to back.

If you have any intelligence, you would welcome these instances, learn your lesson and change your ways. When the course is over, you will be rewarded by freedom from this cycle of birth and rebirth from life on this tiresome planet.

We hid ourselves behind the concept of being made in the image of god that we made in the first place and everybody then started fooling everybody. This served as the curtain while the demon side of us went on its rampage with a mask on.

It was always a grand secret open even to our dogs.

What do humans aspire to be? Nothing. There is no aspiration.

Like any seed, it just becomes, keeps on becoming unknowingly in an environment and place not of its choosing with a future it has no idea about.

No point in directly aiming the pointer at anybody. But be aware all those who collect disciples and allow a cult to grow around them are Beings from the sub-god level, very high in "understanding" but wanting to be adored. These are not humans who have spiritually grown into godliness. They are incarnates of Beings between gods and humans.

They play with words, emotions and know how to use the worldly earthy substances for their purpose.

See what this Krishna Movement has become. It is at best a successful business house.

The need if any is to grow towards a greater of silence; to silence the tumult cause by emotions and to reduce the din in one's head.

Meaningless singing of "kirtans" and hymns

Endless sitting in the lotus pose.....

Will not culminate into spiritual emancipation. In shape size and form these are like visits to the gym. Good, beneficial exercises for health.

But then you know that. Our Reality is based on what "SEEMS". We never question it. We are always convinced of being correct.

And continuing our discussion on the Pleasure principle we are clearly attuned to consider anything GOOD if it is bringing us "pleasure".

This for the ONE who has seen the beyond the curtain of pleasure is the sure sign that devilry is afoot. A lot of judgments and punishments are instituted by mankind as social needs to maintain law and order but they have only permitted cruelty to flourish.

Humans have been covering up their cruel and nefarious side by postulates of being Nice basically and hiding their demonic side with the great excuse that God made them in His image which is a sad joke really.

Anyone who has learnt to think impartially sooner or later realizes that humans first made the God and then the High Priests became His messenger and then announced what is what. And the funny part is that because it suited all the people who knew very well in the core of their hearts that they ARE cruel, everyone lapped it up and forced it on everybody. Now we all accept these postulates and are totally "deformed" and sick due to it.

Until we accept that we are Cruel, Cheats and Irresponsible, this humanity is on a self-destruct path and that is where we are all going for now.

They can shout from the roof-tops that Love will save us but for the life of me I have not come across Love in this life or any evidence of it in humans till date. There are a lot of passionate grateful outbursts. As exception I can accept there are kind people and I have seen many acts of generosity but Love as a free-flowing element: NO!

Take it as you will. Let us not personalize the subject. This is how we fool ourselves - by focussing on individual acts of generosity and kindness. I am talking of humanity's consciousness level generally -- which is, I repeat, is ruled by the pleasure principle.

WE are kind and generous, this I have mentioned already. But the LOVE consciousness is definitely not in the air.

The Love Consciousness once in a while, for short seconds does get a chance to show itself in humans when we are in deep stressful conditions, desperately looking for a happy outcome and have just been relieved. At this moment we are truly grateful and open to giving and our selfishness goes down last on the list.

But it rarely lasts long. Now if we could achieve this state more permanently!

When you say "Oh Lord I offer myself to you. I am your servant and slave to do whatever you wish etc "...what exactly have you offered HIM?

Your body? It belongs to Mother earth.

Your Mind? It is just another organ acting as a medium and not very reliable at that.

Your heart? Do you have one - you seem to act as a bundle of nerves responding and reacting in a very predictable way.

So?

By the way what is the most aspired for object in your life just now... An Adonis, A Venus, A glittering palace, Bowing/begging/frightened underlings, Personal Yachts and Planes?

Have you been able to visualize life or anything in life beyond that?

Why are you offering yourself to HIM? So that HE provides you with what you desire? And then why should HE?

Which, What and Who.

Did it ever come to your mind that we all have a personal Devil riding on our backs?

I have often talked of being conduits and being used.

Why this knowledge is not more common like all the other nonsense from scriptures and holy books that seem to be going around.

People are lecturing about Souls and Consciousness all around us but nobody wants to talk about being conduits for devils that then establish themselves in our consciousness and become our - what we call self.

Have you ever thought of the Cosmos and the beings in it?

A devil riding on our back is not a very difficult concept to accept. Look at how certain children develop certain aptitudes and tendencies to lie, steal, bluff & bully or play people against each other or just exaggerate and carry it on in their adult lives forever.

These are tendencies that we all have; some more than others and some often not much at all. Most parents and social groups are able to curb these tendencies and a general norm that is socially acceptable is maintained.

But the problem arises that with nothing to stop them these characteristics and the devils that are behind them take root in the persona and become permanent markers and then control the person for their amusement or purpose.

What is not understood is that these are often very strong beings with a lot of power and great intelligence with potential for mischief. These devils can operate on others less mentally formed , not using their reasoning powers and less strong-willed people and be a source of great nuisance but partake in the pleasure the irritation they cause.

For example I have felt a strong BEING attached to me whose job is to make my life difficult and like a good friend only stresses on the points that need improvement in me. He knows what I am going to do or thinking and whatever it may be, at home or on the road or in business the Being will create accidental situations by putting some odd thoughts in the other person opposite me and the actions of the other person will come in my way or hurt me if I am not careful or fully in the "present". His job seems to be to keep me awake by not letting me slip into indolence.

I have become so frightened of this that I am always on my toes and benefiting from it!!!

So, the devils are serving their original purpose of prodding and goading humanity to seek a more positive "influencer" in their lives by being more vigilantes, look for more positive kinder outcomes.

I was reading a novel by Wilbur Smith - The Birds of Prey.

The entire book though accurate for the period of sea time piracy and life on the African coast, one thing was coming through and it hurt my sensibilities so much that I had to skip quite a lot of the portions.

From beginning till end in the name of Christ there was nothing but treachery, killing and the highest examples of human BRILLIANCE being used only for nefarious purpose to acquire wealth at any cost, wealthy that they would never get to use or even take home at the end of day!

I was talking to another friend who wanted to know what Louis 14 of France was trying to prove with his ostentatious spendthrift ways and exploding misery on his people. My answer was that he was preparing the world for the Revolution and in that time period there came on Earth many Kings (like Aurangzeb in India) and leaders who are today remembered for their cruelty.

Providence is working so hard to change the attitudes of humans but humans are made of stern stuff - we are not going to give in that easily as we can all see.

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Thoughts as Mental Implants.

It should not be difficult to accept that there are "Beings" in the Cosmos. All religions talk of it. The Devil or Shaitan is commonly accepted. God and Angels as entities we all accept.

How do they influence individual lives? By using Mental Implants. They send THOUGHTs and our minds grab them as their own; and before our reason or heart has the time to interfere we allow the thought to Manifest through us.

Consider this fact.

All these Inventions, Discoveries and Principles that have made life easy for us and destroyed us in the process are all "Gifts" from these Beings.

That this is a Reality should not be difficult to accept considering we use the principle all the time ourselves. What do you think is Reverse Psychology?

I name a few to give you a hint.

Car/Moto: Made us lazy. Spoilt our Muscle strength. Became a source of Vanity and show-off, Horrific accidents. Increased the reach of ill-intentioned people.

The Mobile phone: Has made us talk more. Destroyed our calm. The mind is distracted and has lost its focus. Has distanced us from life. Psychologically has hurt the fabric of society. Made it easier for ill-intentioned people to plan and organize/disturb.

Food for all: Designed to make us sicklier, Convenience is making us eat more and at all times of the day and night. Poisonous elements are being administered to the people in logical safety. Fills the belly but is non-nutritive.

The TV: Numbing the mind. Subliminal programming. Thoughts being implanted with no effort at all. Humanity's minds have been robbed.

Pills for all occasion: Masking measures to make sicklier in the process.

Vaccination and Chemo: Accepted as life-saving. The Logic was implanted first and then the solutions. Mutations and damage to persona and health are now being noticed.

How thoughts influence our lives can be a very interesting subject of study. Take the THOUGHT of Marriage. The concept of coupling into a nucleus to take care of the progeny -- a very beautiful and correct thought if you ask me. But to make it adoptable by the promiscuous male who is designed on the Pleasure Principle, The world has accepted it as the state of Bliss. This is the source of all ills.

The Union of the male and female "bodies" and then being blessed with child has been made into a Divine affair and the ultimate goal of existence.

The time has come to look beyond it.

"Soul mate" what a term!

There are so many good friends in our lives. Let the ones who wish to remain with us be!

But it needs to be a voluntary act. Not legal; with the word "cheating" hanging in the air as an absolute crime.

I remember when life was simpler, that there were grandfather status people and an aunt living with us in my ancestral home in my grandfather's times who were not related at all.

My uncles had three wives by consent and all agreeably living together.

Laws have been made to control and herd us and we all fell into the trap. This is what happens when we complain too much and do nothing.

Marriage can be a very strong bond to fight the vagaries of life. But can also become rather routine in character and boring.

To the woman it is all economics so that her home and children do not suffer in any way and they do like to be appreciated and shown this appreciation; when this is lacking, they may have a fling without uprooting the establishments and therefore need to first feel totally secretively secure and the fling may not even be sexual. The men like flings but rarely do they want to break the marriage and home establishment.

It is this concept of "Cheating" for divorce proceedings that has killed the natural movement of life together. The focus on sex alone was an invention of the legal media and today the lawyers are the ones benefiting the most from it. Humans are not known to use their common sense and fall into all the traps the media lays for them. You can see this response in everything they do. They follow the media in blind faith that this is what the rest of the world thinks or does and they want to be seen to be part of the world.

It needs to be clearly understood that marriage is not just sexual union. The bonds are in the heart. Unless there is a need or want to separate on emotional grounds or violence, there is rarely any desire for divorce. Most couples would rather stay together.

I see nothing wrong in a fling. It actually is good for the emotional health of humans. It should not be overdone. The change can keep people sane in difficult situations and relationships and actually save a marriage.

What exactly is this thing that we call Love between 2 people?

It is first of all the DNA and Hormones calling.

But mainly it is the Appreciation, Approbation, Admiration (the Pleasure of being Admired) - that we see in the eyes that attracts us. The look of the smitten puppy, the look of Desire, the look of a person ready to go down under into a state of utter humility -- these are the things that attract us, that inflate our vanity and make us feel great, Superior and exclusive among all those around us.

It is very intoxicating and we crumble like cookies.

What can be said of the male of the species whose highest aspiration is pleasing a woman; when being accepted by a woman as partner into a cuddle is the "great glory" goal of his life?

Of course you cannot fault her if she begins by wondering "What benefit is there in it for me?"

Instinctively she knows that once his lust is satiated his eyes will start roaming. So the most successful women come out to be those who know how to be difficult to get but just so.

On this score "marriage" as an institution is a good thing - at least for the children that result. For the baby, parents are the whole world and absolutely essential till they can fend for themselves and in humans this needs about 20 years of time.

I still feel, now that I am talking again on this subject that divorce should not be allowed if the couple has a child. I t is alright if they live separate lives but remain close-by but no divorce. Until unless our civilization accepts that children come first, nothing great or good will transpire.

Anyway divorce kills any need to adjust compromise, learn and delve deep within to live together. Divorce is a very selfish movement and not at all advised "spiritually". Our older cultures that were seeped in spirituality understood this and in all older cultures divorce has been a taboo of sorts.

Note: That I am not stupid enough to realise that today with the digital reach, most people have more than enough on their plate and lacking for nothing in terms of escapades and other possibilities; selfishness has raised its head to the maximum possible in humans. Marriage is really not of great meaning anymore; specially if both the partners are having separate working lives and virtually living in two different worlds.

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OVER-SIMPLIFYING

I am wowed by humankind. Nothing seems to fluster them.

If some is good, more can only be better. We can easily go to an extreme by oversimplifying. To the extent that false can seem true and vice versa.

How this tendency can make us lose view of our reality is a great study in itself.

For instance in management circles, there is a view: The Good manager has to be somewhat ruthless. This in turn becomes a license for terrorising employees, behaving badly and not worrying too much about their sentiments.

The food industry is a wonderful example. We have oversimplified our attitude on the basis of this old saying: The proof of the pudding is in the eating! The focus is on taste. The ingredients don't matter as long as it tastes and feels like food that the people have known and that is what finally sells the product. And now we are ready to eat anything as long it satisfies our taste buds. As long as it does not kill us overnight it is alright!

Another oversimplification concerning health is based on the notion: Good health means no symptoms. Therefore the aim of medicine is to make the symptoms disappear...so modern medicine focused on making the symptoms disappear.

This is again an over-simplification of major proportions which no-one is prepared look deeply into. The great medical fraternity has a plethora of magical potions that give instant relief. And the illness? It goes merrily on multiplying quietly under the skin on its way.

In the process, Free from the burden of worrying about cooking and head-aches, we now indulge in activities that go a long way to destroy our peace of mind and stability of body. What we have done to our environment in our quest is akin to inviting demons in our midst.

We play with words and notions and end up fooling ourselves and let others fool us. Even the highest concepts are deformed to their basest possible meaning by surreptitiously changing the use of words to mean figuratively or in expressions something totally else. Take for instance the word "Love"

What do you think it meant when Christ talked of it and what it means when the Dalai Lama talks of it today and what do you think it means when the bum in the street talks of "making love"?

This should be indication enough that humanity is not looking for emancipation; not trying to improve although it insincerely talks of it to mask its real intents. If anything it is only and exclusively looking for resolution of its wishes and looking for satisfaction of its desires; and it will play any game towards this end -- honest & accurate use of language is the first casualty.

When they talk of Peace, Welfare, Eliminating Poverty, Kindness, Compassion they are emphatically lying. If you believe them, then it is so because you are a liar yourself and resonate smoothly with those vibes as they serve you better.

Thankfully we have a great friend in Death who stops this entire charade one day. But this Birth guy, our enemy keeps on adding 2 new vagrants for every one death takes away. And the whole drama keeps on rebirthing with little twists here and there but essentially the same.

Most of us aren't really that well in tune with the Cosmos. We are using largely a very tiny portion of our faculties in a huge world of great variety. The world is complex and most often there are influences at work that we do not understand, rarely even know about and we end up miscalculating our moves. In simple words we can say that we are buffeted by our simple desires and wishes and the problem is that so is everybody else. This results in clashes of wills and destinies.

Kathy Glover: Would freedom from the burden of worry actually keep us healthier? We all know how worry causes a corresponding issue with some part of one or all aspects (spiritual, mental, physical, etheric, astral whatever you want to call them) of the body.

Ken Timper: Seems like everything is upside down: that which we should simplify, we complicate, and that which needs more in depth analysis, we oversimplify.

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari: Worry is needed to keep the humans on their toes. People are not worried. This is precisely what is wrong. We need to be doing and taking our life and things a little more seriously.

Everyone gossips about it, even often stand at the corner with placards and sometimes there is enough "goad" of maladministration that people even get together and demonstrate their displeasure. But no one sees it all as a situation made by every individual collectively.

It is like this neighbor of mine talking about garbage with a plastic bottle of water in hand.

Most of us are quick to point out - "what can we do?"...to quite an extent this is true. We have sold our souls to the clerk, mayor, governor, prime minister, President, king in general life; in private to wife, children, parents and the group/society which we live in. Our worries are limited to the next meal and what will the neighbor think (never assuming that he is not thinking at all in the first place).

We could talk on this subject for hours, months and years to come and still have something to say. Here is one example that should give a clear cut image of the situation we are allowing ourselves to live in:

Bottling companies are taking our natural resource of water and bottling it and selling it to us. How did this situation come about to be?

How and when, in our deep sleep we permitted this anomaly to happen and worse, we now promote it all by buying the bottled water and promote both our exploitation and pollution - rather gladly.

In short: We think small, live tiny, talk big. Act only under compulsion and waste away our years in reproducing the past and imagining a miraculous future that will favour us in the ways we desire it to.

It is a fact of existence that to get out of the spiral of pleasure and decadence that we normally live in a great, a very great effort is required to make even the smallest shift.

Scurrying back into one's comfort zone is a natural and primary tendency. This is at all levels; mental, emotional and physical. Laziness influenced by arguments from our ego wins over effort most often. Change means learning and changing habits and this requires a concerted and very conscious effort. Is this sustainable in real life? Why disturb the status quo?

Every step necessitates a struggle or overcoming a shortcoming. It is about our relationship with our destiny and our own wishes for ourselves and how we then go to undo everything.

This has two sides to the coin.

One: One has to gauge correctly what is it that will make us go forward towards our goal. A sincere and impersonal guide and mentor are needed and they are extremely difficult to find or even recognize.

Two: Once the elements requiring correction en route are understood, a great effort is needed to retrain ourselves with new thought patterns and habits. Subconscious patterns, inculcated since the day we are born are deeply embedded in us and we have to literally fight against their hold on our everyday lives.

Let's look around us. How many people are bothered to improve their communication ability yet never failing to complain that nobody understands them?

How many are complaining that there are no avenues to progress in their lives yet failing to take any initiative whatsoever except grumbling?

How many of us are constantly criticizing the other guy or blaming fate for all the ills and happily wasting time to make the world hear our version over and over again?

This is not only the soft option but also the option of cowards who prefer to scurry back into their zone of comfort at the first hint of troublesome effort like frightened mice into their mouse holes.

As things stand, we are but creatures designed by Mother Nature in a Cosmos where we simply ARE by some Grace. The rules, laws and bylaws are already laid out and we have to live within these stipulations.

We are born with little choice; in a home, place. Family with no conscious choice. Life unrolls without asking us. Governments steal all our rights. Sickness develops and we have no idea from where. Death comes in this final act we have 0% choice.

Tell me in what little thing do we have rights or even much of a choice?

We have the option of yes or no every second. Nothing else and this option we rarely exercise with wisdom. We do have the option to try out our thinking but the consequences were never in our hands.

Humans have made new laws to live together but considering the large groups in which we live now most of the laws are difficult to implement and not being obeyed.

Actually the large concentrations of humans in our brick and mortar jungles is promoting misbehavior -- for getting lost in this jungle is easy. Opportunities for misbehavior are at an all-time high. The quest for privacy is also laying us open to hidden attacks.

By natural laws, the female as species are at the receiving end. There is a lot of suffering imposed on them because they cannot stop men to overpower them; if changes come it will be only when humans allow sincerity, respect, kindness, generosity and gratefulness as the main elements of their lives. Don't see this happening soon.

There is no point in talking on this subject till we are ready to also consider the consequences of our behavior and acts.

A law lot of laws are being made which are then broken by the law makers and the enforcers of the law. Individuals also get away with it because enforcement is difficult and virtually impossible. And then, of what use enforcement when the deed is already done?

After having seen life in all its wonderful colors and shades, by the time one reaches 70 -80 years, one starts to want to run away from all the bullshit that keeps on repeating around one in the "more-of-the-same" nature.

Fear settles in our hearts about getting mugged, about falling when trying to change the bulb, about indigestion and about people dying all around us.

The main reason to wish to die off is because there does not seem to be enough good reasons to want to live. The question uppermost is: why bear the trauma of living?

What are we doing down here with this life finally?

Earn and then spend it; spend it in such a way so that the neighbor is impressed and more money can be made by impressing more people. Use the spare fund in search of pleasure. Feel sad when things are not going as we wanted. Put in more effort and get tired and depressed. Withdraw and reflect. Start planning again. Feel great joy when things are suddenly going our way and immediately we get back into the old cycle of pain, fatigue and depression.

Even poets, writers and painters eventually realise that their poems are piling up, books collecting on shelves, their canvases are filling up rooms - there is already too much of everything on this earth.

Today the concept and word of Karma is bandied about. When the thinking and purpose of life is seen through the lenses of PLEASURE does it really matter? What do you understand of it anyway? Our past creates the conditions and our present emotional responses act as the triggers. What can karma do? Karma operates at the Soul level.

At the superficial and human mental level the basic human animal with its undeveloped mind can only see in stark black and white mode which means it sees only the "visible" cause and effect as punishment or gain.

Humans are conditioned to learn only from disasters - their wishful thinking makes it so. But they do not want to learn. Karma serves as a convenient lashing post while humans continue merrily with their pursuit of pleasure and grandeur.

Karma's undignified role as far as humans can see can only therefore be the disaster side of things in life.

In simple terms anything that goes against our wishes is a disaster and karma is the only one we can blame - after all ARE so obviously virtuous beings!

All our pains have basically one source:

....that the Universe uncovers our dark unsavory side of secrets that we hide with so much cleverness.

The uncovering of our cleverness hurts the most.

But instead of learning from it we try harder to cover it up by more lies and deceit. The consequences of which do not need to be defined in plain words because they have been happening over and over again in other stories and will be the same in your story too.

The aim of life is not to just NOT DIE. Nor was it to just LIVE it one day at a time because we had no idea what else can be done.

The aim is not to simply pass away our time either trapped in the moment.

Come to think of it there must have been a purpose.

How about putting a little fight into it?

Look deep into your heart; what does it say?

Just do it.

Whatever happens next will be wonderful -- be assured if not joy then understanding will surely be your gift. Pleasure will be accompanied with questions as to WHY of it all. Life will give you a purpose and make it worth it.

I remember being advised, the way to live life is to do it first and think after. Humans go about it the wrong way. They think too much about safety, avoiding mishaps and getting organized for a long "Pleasurable" life - they fall into the trap that was actually designed for them to make them miserable.

I look at what displeases me. Then I assume that it would displease others. So I Look within me and search for the roots of my action. I then avoid or try to eliminate what is unpleasant.

That is all we need to know and pray for and live for.

How we as humans kill honesty and affectionate natures in this world.

I have been always a little "IN LOVE" type. My tendency is to love deeply and not afraid to show it but never to analyse it too much. This has been and was always interpreted rather badly in the adult world. To every friendly gesture I respond like a puppy.

This also makes me a very trusting type and I part with my money easily (but that is another story).

Let me tell you a story from my childhood. I was in the boarding/hostel in the Ashram at Pondicherry and must have been about 9-10 or so. We were as Ashram children a little cut off from the world. There was not even a radio or newspaper and there were no meetings with people from the outside world. But the Ashram had regular stream of visitors and we, especially I, I always wanted to know more about the world and unhesitatingly approach strangers and talk to them - befriend them as we would call it. I was the leader of our children's group in approaching new people.

It so happened that a young group of people had come from another town to play a cricket match with the Ashram team. They were hosted by the Ashram and I was as usual in the forefront in making friends with them. A song was then popular and one of the cricketers was singing it and this was absolutely something new and exciting for us. The song was "1 and a 2 and I love you...let's play the game of love".

One of my distant cousin sisters older to me by 5-6 years was also in the boarding/hostel with me. She asked me to approach the young man and get the entire song written down for her. I did that but it took me a day or two but by then she had left for home for the holidays. So I asked my guardian for an envelope+postage and sent the song to her. This went straight to her mother. And the next I knew I was being accused of vulgarity and "what is going on between you two" scenario. I had no idea what they were talking of. I told them she had asked me to get the song and I did it.

But the girl flatly refused that she had done anything of the kind. I still do not understand why she did not just agree to have asked me instead making me look bad.

I stuck to my story. It all died out if I remember. But the seed of my reputation for being a degenerate was sown and spread fast in the family.

This was my first lesson to be vary of "people" though I never did learn it and I have a long list of stories but I did start taking my INTUITION more seriously and if I felt uncomfortable with somebody I would simply refuse to meet them or avoid them if necessary.

One other defect that has plagued me is that I do not know how to hide my anger or disagreement. I blurt my out my NON-Acceptance of dishonesty and put people off rather. I have made many life-long enemies.

My reputation as a mature person has been steadily going downhill all throughout my life but then what the heck. I'll ask them how they fared when we all meet again in the NEXT world. Because from what I have seen I have fared the best in the final analysis.

I talk of one study of mine about people: I was sitting alone and thinking about all the rich friends I have and have had. And I was thinking what was that single element that differentiates them from others? How come they are able to hold on to their money while I am not?

Of all the 30 or so people I have known, one characteristic was common - Their promises were not of any worth.

What they said, they planned or promised to do - it had value only for The Day. They move on continuously.

No remorse or apologies until agreement is signed and even then.

Quite clearly the world is not ready to listen to kind requests, compassionate appeals or respond kindly.

Humans live at the most inconsistent level but expect a continuity of their pleasurable pursuits.

Is this the way of the wise and the way to bring The Divine Principle into our lives?

What I am fighting for - and this falls into the occult domain -therefore not at all perceptible to all and totally non-provable - is the fact that certain negative thinking is behind the way the world is fashioning itself.

There is too much greed, laziness, inertia. People are happy to be led, made to think in a certain line, being forced to do and behave in coercing ways - all this to satisfy the whims of some really intelligent and clever people.

And what hurts is the way we are all colluding - totally ignoring the aftermath - the only thing our minds seem to accept is the comfort and pleasure of now.

War by itself is simply a notion. It is our stupidity and egos at war with the rest of the world. We want it. They want it. He wants it. She wants it. Then followed by we won't let them have it. We all are ready to fight for it. War happens; born of nowhere.

Imagine each of us with a plastic- transparent and invisible bubble globe around our heads -- like an outer-space head cover.

All our thoughts and feelings closely kept in there. Well hidden and defended against intrusion.

With this head-gear we go around trying to communicate and make contact with others mostly with eyes not seeing much and the ears not hearing much.

It is quite obvious, is it not, in this state we can only ever make functional communications at best and even day to day activities end being mired in controversies and misunderstandings because the messages get deflected or retouched by our receptors to fit into our predetermined "patterns".

If you live I would want to you to enjoy your life to the fullest. You are stopping yourself by not thinking critically. It is always a good idea to understand the milieu you are in, the products you are using and what are the pushes and pulls around you.

My words and attempt are to shock people into opening their eyes - even just a little.

It is of no matter and absolutely no deal for me if you die by a car or by a vaccine or by food poisoning. When our time has come, we will go like it or not.

But if you choose the Way of Suffering, who am I to complain?!

Generally I would say it is enough to ask this question in any situation in life "Why did this act/thought/discussion became necessary?"

In India we have good fortune of being a very rich geographically. This ensured that India was well fed, rolling in luxuries. It made the Indian character: Non-thinking, greedy for more, slothful even depraved. So spiritually the other side of the coin became a necessity. And very many individuals reached great heights as is evident but they are the exceptions. The situation has not changed much.

We are so crowded now that we are behaving even more badly with each other than we were a few centuries ago.

Philosophy and religion have always given good excuses to continue with our natural bends. For example in India the businessman says it is his "dharma" to make money so cheating becomes acceptable. The Thugs say that it is their dharma to kill and steal. The man says that it is his dharma to have a son so women have to bear the brunt of either being burnt alive or thrown out so that he can get another woman in his life.

In the final analysis, religion/philosophy/politics has got nothing to do with anything. It is our greed and intelligence at work everywhere in close partnership.

But just look at the Grand Illusion of Divinity that we project!!!

There is a deliberate tendency in people to avoid being conscious. All the effort goes in avoiding reality because that would demand looking for answers.

They won't even acknowledge that they are in pain.

The need to prove that they are bigger than their weakness is very big.

What have we done to ourselves?

We have connected our egos to our sense of virtue.......

Slogging is respectable - taking it easy or in short steps is not.

Obeying is the right thing - questioning is being obnoxious.

Putting up an image of infallibility is essential - show of inability makes you a pariah. etc and so forth.

Ignorance - what is it?

I don't know but I would put my answer like this:

It is the "Instinct" that runs the world that we tend to ignore.

How does our life move from one "happening" to another?

What is happening and what will happen? There is no definite way to know. There are many subtle worlds that our physical eyes cannot see overlapping our physical world and greatly influencing it. Then each of us, we must have noticed attract certain event and things and people all the time persistently; which leads me to think that we must be emanating some sort of vibes that act as magnets. Deep down somewhere in us there is a generator producing these vibes.

Some people claim - like "psychics" - that they can see into this subtle world.

But frankly most of us can't. And to be brutally honest most of us do not even bother to see attentively in detail what our physical eyes see. Our awareness levels and presence of mind is so low as to seem zombie-like.

BUT we like to complain and criticise and that in our world serves well the purpose of obfuscating the issue - not warranting much after-thought and we can be wonderfully merry, evasive, confounding and clever.

If we have to talk of the Divine Principle we will have to consider the psychology and the art of obfuscation that humans utilize to "sound" progressive but only insincerely so.

When we talk of psychological dents in the character of humans everyone vehemently agree and nod their heads signifying that they wish greatly that humanity would change its ways so that all of us can be happy and live peacefully.

Wouldn't it be nice if all these people looked into the mirror that is being shown to them and realise what a mixed up character they are -- we all are.

But the moment it is indicated that the fault is in them too, the fortress doors are clamped shut and the drawbridge drawn-up, crossbows brought out and you are given marching orders!

Though a lot people are now reading indiscriminately. It is possible to overload your brain with too much reading. You need to ask questions and sort them out and eliminate all the info that does not equate well with your personal experiences.

Then you must give yourself a break from reading further.

My advice to you would be to select 20 sayings or proverbs that hit you in the center of your eyebrows and "LIVE" them.

All the answers will come.

Is anyone listening? Come on - grow up. !!!

We all feel attacked. In the occult realm a war is going on -- has always been going on. Humans are but pawns.

If we made a little effort to rein in our "anger" disposition which the occult forces use to their advantage, we would weaken their power to harm us and we would all benefit. But these Forces have played their cards well; by giving us pride of achievement in the form of Diplomas, Ruling positions in Institutions backed by unlimited credit and safety within borders, the vanity component has got so blown up that it has become impenetrable. Humility, Thoughtfulness, Pondering as activities have been squeezed out.

As long as we remain enchanted with these attributes, humanity is fated to suffer. We need to consciously with great intent and integrity start the process of disenchantment. Nothing else matters. People don't give it a thought but the means of audiovisual education is already in our hands. CINEMA is and has been since the last 3 generations such a wonderful instrument available to us but we as usual have only misused it to harm and brainwash the populace into a diminishing spiral.

The movies Ben Hur and The Gladiator have had a very formative and deep influence on my life. I could also certainly mention other movies too but these 2 movies touched me deeply because they reflect the battles I have had to wage in my personal life and when I look back today, I am glad that these battles came to me and hastened my process of disenchantment.

Another movie that I am deeply thankful to for opening my eyes is Ryan's Daughter as from this I realized how parents bring down pain on their children because of their own personal agendas and compulsions with the absolute power that they hold over them and make me think of the sentence from the occult angle of life: "the worst thing that can happen to the child is the parents".

These three movies haunt my thinking and my interpretation of life.

I mention these movies because in them I saw graphically how the hand of Fate and Destiny works. The theme of my words here is how the main characters in these movies, on top of the social chain and great abilities way above the normal were brought down by occurrences in their lives that were not always their fault or doing and yet they fought through it all with an unwavering sense of absolute INTEGRITY to their own Truth; and rose again like phoenixes to dominate the landscape which their deep personalities were designed for. It is a great feeling to be supported by these stories as they show how we can battle circumstances by maintaining a higher plane of consciousness at all times and come out winners; circumstances that break lesser men.

To note was the clear understanding that what got them thru was a mental clarity unburdened by prejudices, operating under absolute & clear mindfulness with constant awareness tinged with kindness even under duress. They never lost the long term view and did the best under all circumstances instead of collapsing under the weight of life and bemoaning their fate.

In my life too I was adopted by some very exceptional persons and they supported me and pushed to reach my full potential. I remember the words of Dr Amrik Singh to me on a debacle I went thru: "Oh you'll bounce back!" He had more confidence in me than I had in myself.

I now live with a clear attitude: Pay for my errors and try not to create new ones, protect and instruct my child for the future so she can take the punches as they come. Pass on my life's learning and help her understand life early so that she does not recreate the old story all over again. Nothing else matters.

When you can give up your mental and emotional attachments to what has to be, how it has to be, when it has to be, why it has to be, you open the door to the Holy Spirit. When that energy, the energy of life, light and love enters your world, your life becomes more than you ever dared ask for.

Ruminating on the conversation I was having on the quality of life, living older, medical assistance and developments and such stuff, I felt that we are not paying much attention to long term effects of our activities. Our approach to life is based on short term gains that clearly may not stand in good stead in the long term. In many cases we are not always aware of the consequences and we adopt practices that with looking back we realize did not help us at all; although they gave us a moment to shine with. This is why learning reading about the life of other greats is essential for our own growth. Movies even more but a great deal depends on the selection of the storyline and the personages we decide to consider worth knowing about.

One good reason for the Vedas to have survived thousands of years (and I think it goes back to cultures before the last Pralaya around 12000 years) when all over the globe the culture went into oblivion is the fact that the Indians stayed put with the Vedic Values. My question now is have we Indians benefited for being so or has the world done better? Spiritually we are definitely more adaptable and open. So let us thank The Universe for this graciousness.

Psychiatrist Marie-France Hirigoyen, specialist in family and professional violence, says that our society promotes the accession to the powers of pathological narcissistic personalities. She analyzes the deleterious consequences in her new book "Les Narcisses"

PK -- My view on the subject:

9 out of 10 people I know show these tendencies absolutely. There is no attempt at even being apparently soft or kind. Not one of them realise how monstrous, destructive and negative they are being - it is considered the grand thing to be to be able to look down on somebody and make things happen in tune with one's arrogant wishes just for the heck of it; they have seen their elders do it and all others around them do it and it is imbued in all of us as the normal thing to do and be. A show of subservience by praise by blowing-up egos practiced by people who benefit only makes things worse. People who do not fall in line, speak up or resist are immediately side-lined and mostly rejected out from the group painted black with good quality coal tar.

The entire social hierarchy is made this way. I wonder how many people were burnt at the stake, stoned to death, crucified or imprisoned in mental asylums just because this fact is in effect in our world.

It is in the vengeful state in humans that troubles brew.

Essentially we go looking for more hurt when we are vengeful.

Once humanity understands that it is not "people" that hurt us but our own Soul employing all the people and possible situations as instruments for its stratagems.

The Soul has its plans and only IT will prevail.

Anyway what can you do in the short time of 3 score and 10 years that you will be here that you can call "mine"? When we can conclusively say at the end of our lives that we did not allow the Pleasure Principle to sway and we helped the Divine Principle to spread, this would the greatest gift that we could have given Earth.

It is useless to converse at best on humans and their need to justify everything to suit their moods. Humans are Human because of their failings.

They reinterpret everything to suit their petty inclinations.

Ah......and then I am talking of the present moment in time. Somewhere in the future things could be different.

Think how our attitudes reflect on the children .....What shall we expect of our children when we are not being entirely and clinically truthful ourselves?

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How we unmake ourselves and the turbulence we unleash on the planet makes a subject of great study. Did we do evil or we helped others grow by the difficulties we created? I heard a point being made: That which makes us is the very quality that is also the unmaking of us.

The speaker gave the example of Napoleon Bonaparte. How war was his life. He shone because war gave him an opportunity. He came into himself because of war. He was great as a general. Finally this was his undoing.

Why? He got caught in his own chain of thoughts that were giving him great pleasure and he was living in a charmed world of his own making.

His success made him arrogant to the point that he stopped listening. He was Supreme and he would not consider anything except his own thoughts.

Outside of war he failed.

The point being made was that it happens to all of us. We are all great in one area or even multiple areas of life and rather failures in others. We should never forget this fact. Our charm, intelligence, successes, abilities, all those things that we take pride in become our cage. We blow out of proportion and eventually burst our own balloons. When life's cycle closes he lesson is then thrust home. The devastation he incurred must have taught millions a bitter lesson and finally on the Island of Elba he must have learnt his own lesson. A little goodwill would have shortened the path for everybody.

We keep ourselves from growing and not allowing others to grow either by using "GUILT" to blackmail others into a straight-jacket.

The negative issue in this is that we become afraid to do the right thing by us. We allow ourselves to be trapped in uncomfortable situations, issues and relationships. We also trap ourselves in doing things that we may not be in total agreement like medical treatments, foods and social norms.

"The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming of that which the wicked man does in actual life." - ~Sigmund Freud.

Yes this is the only difference

This is a subject that we were told about very early in our education.

How exposure to certain THOUGHTS can create a ripple and then a tsunami effect in the minds of others and our own if our filtering mechanism is not strong and impermeable.

Audio-visual images combined with thoughts can be a devastating drug. Like LSD it can take over normal minds that are just waking up. Education or skills that allow us to earn well are no match when it comes to stopping their effects - rather they aggrandize them.

This is what happened first with the printed pictures, grew with the movies and blew up with the TV. Now digital media has taken over totally.

Why are we seeing so much violence? Because we have childishly promoted it. The stories, the possibilities these raw minds see, they absorb and try to replicate as they have no guard against them nor do they know the details that will then come into operation when they get going in their actions.

We have only awakened a force of great possibility into simpletons that have not been trained, prepared or in any way formed to distinguish values that will bring great joy and satisfaction so that anything not in alignment can be stopped before it takes hold of their minds and intentions.

Some very clever people initiate these ideas and inventions. They make money out of it and enslave the human character. These are people who I would tend to believe are under the influence of Universal Minds that we otherwise call nefarious beings/demons from the wide mental consciousness operative in the Universe.

There are of course, Very kind and positive universal minds too waiting to be received and allowed to act but the humans haven't shown great propensity to develop themselves to be their partners in action.

The state of affairs now prevalent on Earth is so insidiously unfair that one wonders who actually is the malefactor -- who and how humanity is now allowing itself to progress spiritually.

The seeds of failure.

I have seen too often the seeds of failure sown into children by their parents.

The parents are so afraid of failing in their own lives that they pass their thoughts down to the child in the form of compulsions, denials and controls. The child is not allowed to think outside their given box lest the child upset whatever the parents have built up. Then they can only see a continuation of their selves and their work through the child so they start preparing the child for this ordained future.

Adding to these thoughts and vibes also sometimes enter the temper of the parents and their violence that kills the spirit of the child. The child soon learns to create a base for himself which serves as excuses in case he does not succeed in his plans. He tries but he also makes sure that he surrounds himself with factors he can easily blame for any failure. In many cases the child fritters away all his assets in putting show after show till he arrives at bankruptcy.

In many cases where the child is a little introverted there is a clamming up totally and some parents push without understanding and land the child in an asylum.

The student knows too much. Has much to say.

Has already too many opinions.

Does not come with intentions of learning but proving how inadequate the teacher is.

The world now belongs to "certified" coaches.

The "real" teachers see the games being played and stay aloof waiting for the world to reorganise itself.

And to be pragmatically honest, all the populace needs is the basic first steps in Applied Psychology.

They will fight with all their might and rights to refuse you the possibility of speeding up their evolution.

If people came to me for advice on "happiness", I would emphatically ask them to not get married - even go to the extent to fall in love with their cars or dogs and avoid the mating cycle totally.

But if they came to me for "Diksha" (spiritual advice) I would ask them to get involved and get married. Mating has been designed by Mother Nature as a joining together of two opposite vibrations that are helping each other BE. The constraints that we have to apply on ourselves to maintain a relationship at some acceptable level of harmony assists us in growing wiser and knowledgeable about life.

This is unconscious Raj Yog.

Slowly though many lifetimes, at the speed Mother Nature (Turtle) growth happens.

There is a lot of sadism in us but we keep it hidden due to obvious reasons for fear of being judged and mugged back. We show aggression in many ways with an intention to hurt that often can be masked and is not clearly evident.

If we make a list we would have to look at.......

Ignore

Silent treatment

Lying

Insulting through masked jokes

Negative reinforcements

Keep others waiting?

Overbearing

Grabbing

Dispossessing others ...etc

What pleasure can there in such activities but humanity seems to great indulge in it happily.

There is a period in our lives when many questions arise in our quest when we go forth out into the world to discover for ourselves what it is like and about. There are serious questions popping in our nascent minds. There are strong urges instinctively making us to make moves. We are afraid too of the unknown and consequences when the master bullies like societal rules and taboos, our parents, the schooling and religious dogmas have already laid siege to our minds.

Devastating.

It is a good subject of study. How parents, brothers and sisters and family in general can devastate and destroy one's life. Although spiritually I have learnt that it has a purpose but for the one who has to go thru the pains it can be devastating and I am seeing so many people ill-equipped philosophically to live thru the "moment", do something horrendous to others or their own selves -- just out of spite.

Let me tell you a story from my life that is on my mind and I just can't get over it.

My father was having a friend circle since college and bachelor days. These friends became eventually family friends and they were all working in the same organization too and the bond was very close. I grew up with these people around me. Then I went to the Ashram and when I had to come to be with my parents for a while due to a sickly episode and by luck at the age of 21 or so we found ourselves again together in the same place. It was a beautiful time and we were all so happy together. My father's friend had a daughter and we got on famously. The acceptance of me by them was my high-point as I had never received this kind of affection and acceptance from my own parents or family.

But then one day I had to leave town for some reason and when I came back the young lady refused to be with me or talk to me. I never again got the chance to talk to her again as quite soon later I left town to pursue my career. But one thought remained that what in the name of heaven happened that she stopped talking to me. What did I do?

This was as anyone would understand such a blow to my self-esteem that I never really rose up back into my full confident self. A kind of fear settled in me and I was always afraid and apprehensive which never really let me go forward full steam.

Life continued and this rankled more and more. It sort of put me off from making close relationships and there was only one thought pursuing me that one day when I meet her again, the first thing I would do is ask her "WHY".

After 40 years this moment arrived and I asked the big question that had been bothering me for ages. She told me that my parents and specially my mother had so much negative things to say about me that she decided that it would be best to keep away from me totally because I had been painted as a cad.

This blow was even more devastating.

My own parents? I couldn't imagine this.

So many things clicked into place. The seed of my disrepute was being sown by my mother all these years everywhere?

I was shocked into numbness.

But this is a world where nobody cares or can care for others. You have to carry your burdens. It was a great satisfaction to know that it was not me. This made life livable and the thought made me comfortable with myself.

But when I sit back and wonder what a life I would have had if my parents had been "FOR" me?!!!

Would I have sat back and pondered ever about the SELF, about LIFE and what makes us tick?

There is nothing to do but to venture out and find out by doing it, removing the covers once and for all and face the truth. A lot of pain and misunderstanding would be so avoided and when our time comes to be in power we shall commit less harm.

If it is taken as a spiritual experience, self-centered annoying people are goading us to seek balance.

As an irritant and sowers of discord they will disappear only when humanity has grown up into anti-selfishness.

These people are being used by the Gods of Stupidity to create stressful situations which in the long run are amusement for the Gods and lessons for humans.

We are all growing all the time and our relationships and equations have to change and do change. That is why people come and go in our lives. The need to re-establish our lives all over again every now and again is a reality. Unpleasant like an earthquake and rebuilding is no pleasure though later we come to love it. But who wants change when the old pattern still works and is so profitable!

Don't let life create diversions in your life by tempting you with minor gifts.

How things will turn out at any given time is a big question mark and anxiety attacks are common. When hopes do not go to fruition as expected, there is depression in its wake.

Society is not making things easy. The lack of humane feelings in today's professional attitudes is so unbelievable. And I am not talking of any specific people. Take anyone - a little power over you or your affairs and they misuse it to the full by leading you the honey-trap path.

Every error is capitalised upon. A little error and they take you to the cleaners. Take bankers, lawyers, policemen, doctors even the clerks in the municipal offices.

Every fault or small situation is taken with absolute seriousness and the problem is magnified to its full potential. You end up paying to get out of the predicament which out of sheer kindness and humaneness could have been overlooked with a warning.

It is demonic when the medical, military, policing people do it for gain as they who are Gods to us and we go to them in trust, yet they play with our health, life and well-being fully knowing the horror that they are inflicting on us.

Parents, Teachers of children, Business bosses, and Successful businesses become arrogant about the power they wield and their self-importance goes right through the roof.

When we are looking for control we are manipulating with all the limited thoughts and data at our disposal to twist life around our fingers.

We create barriers to hide our insincere attitude.

But when we go out and stand in the open field, exposed and unafraid with innocence and the desire to learn and know, LIFE comes to us and envelops us and tempts us with gifts.

It is a sad statement about human nature that we find it agonizingly difficult to speak well of others. Praise has to be forced out of our hearts like a breathing exercise.

Well there is definitely room for improvement in all of us. We are not always very honest with others or ourselves and then we go to inordinate lengths to mask the truth of our hearts; often from ourselves too.

I would have thought this was self-evident. Does it need to be said?

Well we need to focus on the positive aspect. There are many who have nothing to hide and couldn't care if whatever is visible is seen by others. They have realized there are billions of similar entities out there and they are nothing special to gloat about. Self-aware and humble; they are lovely people and these are the people who will always have something nice to say about you.

But alas they are few and far in between because it is a quirk of life that if anything can be distorted, the embedded prejudice in people will do so and more often than not do it in such a way that a lingering perfume of negativity is left behind.

The greatest harm to others comes from narcissistic people. When they also tend to be wives, mothers, husbands, fathers or bosses/teachers the harm they can do can go forward for generations.

What thoughts control your life?

It would be a question to ask.

We have a fistful of thoughts and motives circling in our mind that live like frogs in a well. These thoughts give rise to our desires for the day and then we put our entire mental and physical faculties to help manifest them.

Are we even aware of the process happening within?

Before hopping out of bed, wake up, sit up and meditate on the dreams you have had, then plan for the day and watch which thoughts take precedence in your list of priorities.

Look at the thoughts with objective impersonalness and you will realize where your thoughts are taking you.

If you are looking for change this is where you start.

To "APPEAR" good and great is our aim - not make something of our lives - and to be honest we have no idea of what this is all about.

At present the world is constituted in such a way that whatever you do the end result is "hurtful" in the end.

For example just see what the story of Krishna has done: The humans have picked all the bad examples cited in Mahabharat epic for their personal gain. Even the Gita a philosophical (purely spiritual) treatise is a money-making racket today.

See what happened to The teachings of Jesus, Mohammed and any other name you take of which are today taken in high esteem and the worst demonic acts committed in their name.

See what science has done. What is happening under its umbrella?

I have more respect for Chengis Khan than all the above; he was so honest to his purpose that nobody dares take his name and act upon it.

The local saints speak of FALSE and TRUE.

The point is that until and unless we are in a position to qualify "false", the whole meaning is lost and meaningless.

Most of the people propounding like the Mullah in his mosque, and the Priest in his small church or/and temple are not linguists and their language is simple and destined to the mostly not very educated people among whom they work -- so normally what they say can be interpreted in 1001 ways, opening a Pandora's box.

There is a simple beauty in the way they explain the workings of the Divine realms/Gods and The Demonic/the Devil. How everything is so beautifully categorized and put in separate boxes and everyone is content that they have understood.

Obvious contradictions are waived aside. Life goes on. The funny thing is that none of them have any idea of what they are talking of as personal experience is totally lacking but the public accepts them and the public then rules.

The religious fanatics speak in terms of Lord Ram and Ravan or Allah and NOT Allah or God and Lucifer.

There is this wonderful simplification into two categories.

This closes the doors to further thinking, discussions or searching for the Truth.

Too much talking or questioning on any issues quickly labels you as "NOT one of us" and you become the focus of their ire.

We have certain propensities. Some call them lower and upper natures of humans. Whatever that means. What I see is that certain aspects of our nature of the human spirit are self-destructive and the others are actually joy-imparting and uplift the human spirit.

The things that keep us unburdened - like people who share their possessions and keep only that they really need and therefore are not bothered by fear and get a lot of help and friendly assistance from the world around. Things come to them of their own accord. They know and understand that nothing can ever "belong" to any one person; not even the molecules that give them the appearance and body and this personality. For what is life but an exchange of things changing hands.

This is why farmers and gardeners are a calm, happy lot. They know more will automatically come from wherever it always does. They are used to open fields and the loveliness of life surrounds them as far as eye can see. Tragedies come but life renews itself. This is so uplifting and keeps the spirit on a perennial high. This I suppose would be called the higher nature in us that helps us feel good and better.

But in contrast we have the other side of the picture.

For example the aspect of Greed: We become focused on obtaining certain goods. This brings a sort of joy and some happy moments. Then the novelty wears off so we need more of it. We then wish to share it but mainly as an act of showing it off; so more effort is put in to look grander. We boast too which invites envy and ill feelings. When we have much, the element of fear enters the scene. We are now afraid that others may steal our possessions. So we create elaborate systems of walls and locks. Anxiety becomes our constant companion. Our health detoriates. Our walls keep the sun, moon and breeze out. Only people of use to us to collect more possessions are allowed in. A game of charade of pretentious camaraderie is played out with no sincerity in it from anyone; all being of the same ilk. We are trapped in our vortex till death frees us. Here too we want to make of ourselves into "Mummies" and think of the afterlife. We just can't let go.

This is I suppose is then called the negative side of human existence.

There is an element of narcissism in all of us at varying degree levels. Until we understand this and appreciate it as being an elemental part of our psychological structure, we shall all be individual short stories looking for answers which are really not there.

In cases where the narcissism is an extreme feature like 70% or more there never will be a give-and take-relationship; similarly where the disenchantment level with life is anywhere 70% or more there is never going to be any insistence for continuing a relationship if not really wanted. Relationships are possible when selfishness/self-adulation or Vairāgya is below 50-70%.

Vairāgya is a Sanskrit term used in Hindu philosophy that roughly translates as dispassion, detachment, or renunciation, in particular renunciation from the pains and pleasures in the temporary material world.

The Inconscience is ruling the Earth's consciousness. From a pragmatic angle the possibilities of change in the earth's elemental composition are very limited. The Mother earth can move only in a certain patterned way and change if any needs a lot of time. Mother Earth's timetable is in hundreds of years. And for now it is mostly concerned with the "physical" aspect.

The human has only recently become aware of the laws & principles at work and the first thing that happened was the instinctive forces of the human make-up like greed and grab looked for fulfillment. Humans as yet are only instruments.

Mother earth is a kind mother. She lets the children do. She thinks in terms of millions of years.

It is the humans that think in terms of 3 score and ten. So they are in a tearing hurry.

Individuals do manage to get out of the general flow and find a more broad-minded level of satisfaction in their lives but this conscious is like throwing a drop of purified water in a dirty pond.

Death overwhelms everything. And every new birth brings us back to the starting point.

There are many Forces and Energies at work, often contradictory in nature. Humans are not even trying to find a balance. The primitive tribes and pastoral existence was at a good balance but the Earth had come to a standstill in its evolution. We are now heading towards a new balance and Creation. The old one is under the hammer.

Change will come when humanity will be forced by its own destructive activities to rethink it all; when all options will be gone.

Then the remaining humans will huddle together and let their cloaks of sloth, cleverness/cunning, greed, arrogance and superciliousness drop - then on this foundation a new breed will spring up.

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But then - give it a thought - how did your body come to be?

When we flirt and sincerely love we have already unleashed certain vibes and put into motion certain Forces. When we embrace and continue to pursue the path of alignment with another (being the male and female part of our being) we have started a process of completing a circle that is as much our need as that of another.

For the moment it is called love.

When it culminates into another soul being called into the milieu, you start a creative process in which you are deeply woven.

Think of all the arrows you are shooting out into the Universe. They will hit something or somebody. Think of all the arrows that are being shot out by everybody all around. Consider then the damage we may be perpetuating. Those that are hurting are going to then shoot out arrows of pain that then look for their beginning and everything comes back.

When we start babies and then terminate half way, we are harming our own little personal world most. We are also unleashing bad vibes into the atmosphere which will eventually want to do their bit by starting small fires of their own.

No vibe, however small or insignificant goes waste. Don't give it a chance to exist in our physical material envelope if not necessary to our joyful existence. It is a world in itself. Even speech is giving it material/physical body. Repercussions are a certainty.

Abortion is not simply a material/physical thing. It is not limited to a woman's body nor should a baby be considered a possession. Children once conceived are a piece of magic - a great responsibility thrown into the mix of this universe. Once humans can see beyond this point they will realise what they are doing.

We were told that when we take the path of "individualization" of our scattered being and start aligning ourselves to the most positive aura we can conceive of, the normal group destiny changes into a specific individualistic one.

It is at this moment that an invisible Being as a teacher cum master attaches itself to us. He grows with us His job is to test us, create proportionately difficult situations from every little incidence that is happening in our lives. There is only one cure to the difficulties being presented and that is to become more and more sincere, grateful and live consciously with aforethought. Solutions and protection is also provided as we go along.

Before we really understand this, we will be afraid and desperate to find relief from external sources and visits to astrologers and healers. Nothing will work - rather as I have experienced, this makes things worse and back lashes occur which are worse in nature than the original difficulty.

That there is this Being can be felt. I once went to an astrologer who advised me to feed black moong lentils to a cow. I did that. And suddenly it was as if a weight was lifted from me and I fell down - collapsed in a heap as if a bubble had burst. I think what happened was that the being attached to me was taken by surprise. But soon this passed and it never happened again.

People will go a long way to hold you down to their level as any improvement threaten their own being. And they do not do it consciously. It is the occult vibes in action thru all of us. If we respond or not break off we are sunk with them. A lot of actions are not even subtle as they come out as belligerence straight and simple often with great violence.

Yes...but we should also make a little effort in keeping away from people who are not ready to hear the truth and then, it is not our duty to change or improve others however well-intentioned it may be.

We will only raise their hackles and when they become stubborn, we are actually stopping their progress.

When we feel we can improve others, is not our vanity reflecting in it?

There is no doubt that we are living in a time of change but we have to as well counter the living conditions as they are after thousands of years of evolution and human development or/and interference. There is also the fact that considering all the factors, everything is in its rightful place but there is definitely room for improvement. This is where the difficulties arise. Sri Aurobindo and The Mother have shown us other possibilities but we have to live and survive with the world as others not-so-conscious people are making it and running it.

But even otherwise, in the normal state of things, leave out all the philosophy, there is a gnawing fact that has become obvious to the general, even slightly aware humanity, that we are living a life seeped in insincere considerations which forces us to put up a façade and live a charade that we at the bottom of our hearts we may not be wanting to.

Self-centeredness is at the core of human nature. Keep this in mind when you take altruistic decisions. Specially when talking of things as they ought to be, should be, the right way and more in tune with generous, kind and compassionate ends. The doers don't really have the same thoughts. They mask it well and fool themselves & others.

This is the change humanity is expecting and waiting for but no-one is practicing; even the ones that profess and show the way to others.

I am giving here some instances to ponder over. Not only ponder but to meditate upon and see within how much of it applies to your own selves.

I see a total sense of childish irresponsibility in our living. Hardly the kind of resolve needed to go into Sadhana for self-improvement.

In the occult world all acts and actions follow some rules and line of action. It is like if you add white to black, you will get grey. It cannot be otherwise. In the life of humans things happen, situations present themselves and we often fail to read them properly because either we are not reading them objectively or with not enough sincerity. By this I mean that we all allow our personal agendas to interfere in the analysis process.

A program gets chalked out for every soul as it progresses. The next step depends on you. Situations, occasions, happenings and meetings occur to help you on your way as tests and confirmations.

Most people live a life of "natural Consequences" rather ignorantly and don't see or feel the need to see beyond it.

But some awakened minds start using their will to interfere and shorten the natural flow and speed up the process. Their fate seems to take on an unnatural glow and speed.

Conclusion: Change can come only when the subconscious starts changing. And to shift the subconscious we will need the unified Force and Power of the entire population of planet Earth in one go which as you can visualize is not happening or possible to organize.

So, there!

BOOK TWO. The Unseen

The technologies that came in the last 150 years have changed life-patterns and there is a kind of pressure to integrate. The very thing that humans thought will make them superior & exclusive is now leveling out the playing field and there is this new burden to expand our consciousness to subsist within the new frame-work. Self-centeredness is having a hard time and change finally will come when the new paradigms settle down into the subconscious. But our hidden thoughts and traditional habits are keeping us back and we are afraid to air our minds out in public for fear of censure.

Our fears endanger our safety.

The Consumerism philosophy of the West has done wonders in introducing new technologies but hurt the world. The focus of economics has now shifted from the New World to the Old world of the East that has a deep seated relationship with Mother Earth and the Higher consciousness.

There is a movement to slow down on the use of technology and improve life as a whole from within oneself.

This I see as a good thing.

We are arriving!

Yes. We will have to learn to live again and pay attention to our hidden agendas and foibles. I am so glad as they are being exposed by this camera in the phones all over the globe. All the traits in our nature like sadism, pervert activity and cruelty that were hidden have now surfaced and get shown all over the globe in seconds. Our own laws now have to take cognizance of the way our Kings and Guides are misusing them for personal advantages and the average Joe's mind has exploded with all these realities coming to the fore in a form that he can "see'.

Now there is no running away from it.

I love it.

Spiritually all those who take a conscious path of self-examination and correction are considered to be on the Path and every tiny grain of sand in their lives takes on a huge meaning. If every event and moment is seen/checked or analysed and its origin traced, it will be found that we started it all or something in us got the ball rolling.

The Cosmos moves in certain ways following certain vibrations. Like the water flows down the hill in a very definite law of least resistance.

Money is just now in the control of the sexual impulse and the lowest vibrations of Demons but very powerful. Wherever there is excess of money, the impulses go downwards into the most vulgar expressions of behaviour and attitudes.

In the Vedic Age humans took Life as a period of tests and betterment. They did not fight it but thought of improving upon it and the Veds and Upanishads were born; the way forward was to understand and improve upon our own ways to tackle life headlong. To rise above it by merging one's thought with the universal Cosmos. But the human mind can turn gold into mud in its hurry to reduce everything to its own petty size. It ended up by all wanting MUKTI & Nirvana. And they left the mother earth alone and uncared for - left out of the spiritual reckoning.

So now we have this modern age with the Earth involved and apparently it is devastating the planet and the Human Intellect is lost in the wilderness.

But look deeper and you will see that human consciousness has to for once delve deeper and confront itself. It is now imperative for humans to learn to live with all the technology that they have "unearthed" (pun intended) and it is not possible without involving Mother Earth and the use of this technology has also made us look at ourselves and how we are evolving. The limitations of this pursuit are also becoming obvious.

And the fun is in seeing all this cross cultural laws conflicting with each other's religions - The separatists Laws and Religions will either merge into each other or even disappear and we will take each other more kindly - indeed that will be the only way left to us..

This is what I foresee.

If I am involved, spiritually, I am responsible.

Thought vibes enter our field of consciousness and instigate us as seeds. The desire arises and asks the mind to work out possibilities. The whole being goes into active mode and in its quest for resolution of its desires, suffers by first enjoying pleasure and then the aftermath or directly inviting tragedy upon itself - one way or other.

We need to stop the thoughts before they do damage.

If you can remain quiet, not vibrating to the thought that is trying to influence you, it will weaken and dissolve or go away to do its job with someone else more receptive. But do we want to do this at all?

The tragedy is that there are just too many of us responding and there are Beings behind these thoughts and they are having a lovely time. Things were never better for mayhem and what we call tragedies.

For example you may be quite happily sitting alone and enjoying the rain. Then a beautiful woman passes by or you see a picture. Thoughts of desire arise and if possible you want to satisfy them.

*"Donna Osborn Yes, and there are so many occult actions going on all around us, that if we paid heed to them, we could avoid unsought consequences. But how do we not read too much into an action or situation? So many occurrences feel like "tests." Best is to try to learn from them. IMO, the best lesson a person can learn is that they are responsible for their own actions."*

*"Ken Timper ..... We all have this darker nature or the potential for it. The older we get, if we are not working on ourselves, the deeper we go, generally speaking. A teacher I knew used to say : there is no neutral/static state, spiritually speaking, one either is ascending or descending, expanding or contracting, growing or shrinking, and there is a point where transcending your negative karma becomes virtually impossible."*

You are right Ken Timper. I don't speak on this so openly because it is not something to be thrown about. My agreement is absolute in the fact that we are never stationary in our character formation and if we are not careful we can easily slip back to the starting point and sometimes we get trapped into the arms of such Devilish Demonic Forces that it can take ages (count in terms of many many lives) to come back to the level of emancipation that we have achieved, the point where we are in this life.

Anyway it is funny that human beings would want to regress or not recognise that they are regressing. When vanity is in the driving seat it is very difficult to make anyone understand or make them see any other view-point other than their own in which they will never see any error.

I think what happens is that they get into an arena for which they are not ready; example some intellectual with a lot of "read" knowledge or some cruel tyrant who is unable to stop his sadistic streak.

A graded response is always best. Read, practice, experiment and then go to the next level and repeat. Just make sure that your body mind and heart are all moving in unison.

Example of this not happening: A highly educated person gets a senior bureaucratic position due to his qualifications. This gives him a lot of power and to remain unquestioned. As a well-informed person he is able and can do things in relative safety, unquestioned by authorities. His arrogance of his importance and powers also grow. The intelligence is advanced but the heart begins to regress into an unfeeling uncaring hardness. Soon because of the malevolent vibes he is gathering around him his health also regresses. At the time of death his mind and body dissolve but his essential soul is covered by layers of ugly mal-intent. This will take him many lives to shed.

To higher Beings this is abhorrent but often they have to go into this experience to rise above it and free themselves of all responding and corresponding vibes in them.

Once out of this vibrational lake, you will notice certain Beings who have everything but not needing to earn. The Universe takes care to supply them everything. By some quirk of fate situations or people around them gather to make it all possible for them. They are basically givers. And they get surrounded by givers.

In the club of givers everybody is giving each other, there is never any lack but also no desire to own nor is there any suffering due to any lack. If we are living consciously then we ARE responsible for all directly induced actions. All events and actions that happen to us are also coming to us because there is need to show us something so that realisation of our goal is proper.

The action may have been started now or the seeds sown sometime long ago. Here are some stories.

- Our wisdom has some weird ways to show itself. The scenarios being given below are founded on reality.

Take this scene: A three year old is seeing that when father comes home he is given a glass of water first thing. So next time he opens the door to his father, his first reaction is to run into the kitchen and pick up the first appropriate vessel he finds, fills it with water and goes to offer the same to his father. If he is alone, hopefully there will be nobody to stop him and hopefully if the father is a kind and wise man, he will gladly accept the water.

The other scenario is unfortunately more likely. The child might be seen and the first reaction of the adult would be to stop him in his track. With words to the effect telling him that he will make a mess although he has not done anything of the kind yet. Many apprehensions will surface because for all one knows he has dirtied many other vessels with his unclean hands or picked up a dirty one; etc etc. All this as if the sky has fallen and in a loud shout of warning. The poor kid gets bawled for no apparent reason that he can remotely understand. His good-will gesture has become a disaster for him. He has been thoroughly scared and upset. One thing that has been very succinctly made clear to him is that: (a) He has no rights and he will always wonder if he belongs there, (b) Taking initiative is bad, (c) Nobody appreciates him, (d) He is totally inept; and so on so forth in the same train.

The child has in this scenario received the gift of a very negative self-picture and an even more negative world, which is reinforced every now and then with similar situations and this may go on for the rest of his waking days. Then will come the day when he will grow up and he will be expected to take charge and prove himself to be one of the elite! Rather incongruous, don't you think?

Take this second scene: A young lady of some merit has landed a job as a teacher. It is a new life for her and the new environment is somewhat daunting although not impossible. She has some good reports even to her credit but all is not smooth sailing with her colleagues. She has really never been exposed to the outer world and this blunt world can be mystifying. She comes home and has a lot to say on the subject of clashing egos and her grumbles. The mother responds with the sage advice that she should leave the job with immediate effect. The message that has been in reality conveyed is: (a) Stay at home with us, (b) Snobbism is acceptable, (c) Effort is painful, (d) Compromises are demeaning, (e) Stay within the known comfort zone. This is hardly the way to ready one's progeny for an independent life later on. Especially when marriage is not far off. The mother is sowing seeds that encourage weakness of spirit spiced with self-centeredness, which will only bring pain to her daughter. But in this topsy-turvy life it would be called doing well and standing by their children!

A last incidence to give more meaning to the subject in question: A young boy of seven is very friendly with his neighbor who is a smart guy going about on a motorcycle, the very epitome of what a young boy dreams of being. It is winter and he evinces a great wish for a pair of gloves. The neighbor agrees to buy him a pair if he would clean his bike every morning. The boy is in seventh heaven and gets started right away. But his mother hears about it and right away a thunderous situation develops. The mother, a working and earning member of society and very proud of it, is absolutely against the idea that her son, the apple of her highborn Brahmin eyes, should be wiping off the dust on bikes like a menial. "What" says she, "do we lack? I'll buy you all the gloves. What do you have to worry about as long as we are there? The neighbor is a monster!" The child is hurt. The neighbor is shocked. The point has been made. The seed of the following lesson are sown: (a) Self-reliance is demeaning, (b) It is the parent's responsibility to provide, (c) Effort is for the lower castes, (d) Pride comes first.

If only people would hold their peace. The world would move a little slower and even uncertainly, but as time and time over it has been seen, things do work out.

The universe has a plan, you know!

- Insults are so often thrown as jokes.

To control others is human nature and everyone..... wherever they can get away with it..... do so by whatever means available to them.

There are some psychological tricks to avoid and attack back but most people are too afraid or conditioned to manipulate back.

We get the treatment we allow others to give us BUT there can be extenuating circumstances that simply bind us down. Yet how many really try to get out of it?

Instead of putting effort to improve one's ability to get out of it most people just "pray" and hope - which is a trap.

- The purpose and aim of life and the highest Bliss as I can see men pursuing it, specially in India, where I belong spiritually but not mentally, is: Put your thing in her thingy. The aim of life therefore becomes that you find a HER or something that looks and feels like it. Money is made for it and spent for it. Products and services that are highest paying are all connected with it.

The biggest traumas and dramas are connected with it. History is made by it. Men are putty in its hands.

While more pervasive passions like music, painting, crafts wait to be discovered and enjoyed - but where is the time for that?

Eventually I found the whole activity tiring, often stressful and the best way to get old faster. It seems to be a kind of pressure within us that one wants to get rid of.

The only time it has some uplifting and joyful countenance is when somebody really hugs you with deep affection and appreciation.

- Agreeing to things; just to keep the peace. Easier said than done.

Philosophically it may be said to be the correct thing.

But to navigate one's ship in this world, one requires a certain mastery and many talents to deal with and handle situations as they arise or to make an income or/and be independent enough of others to be able to have the guts to tell others "shoo-off".

Most of us have only simply grown in body in a particular comfort zone without too much learning or earning potential. Most of us have no idea of what the world outside this zone is like. It is too scary to want even go out.

There is dependency with others interwoven in our "life" on earth. We cannot survive alone. Just imagine your life if you had to grow your own food, weave your own cloth, sew your own clothes, make your own sandals and fetch your own water after digging your own well and walking all the way to the beach 1000 miles away for a holiday?

There is a story told about a frustrated man who gave up all to become a hermit. A mouse was giving him no end of trouble. Nothing was safe from the mouse. So he kept a cat and to feed the cat, a goat. Soon he had a new household. Something even worse than what he had run away from because he had no one to help him in his labors.

I will go to the extent to say that this is bad advice as this kind of thinking will only instigate some hapless guy to do something to create a hurtful situation for himself and give rise to more drama and trauma.

- Trapped in the samskar of pleasure. The evil Gods have to then come to help you out by creating a tragedy. PK.

- Yes don't give yourself airs.

This one line has enough TNT to blast you into the Spiritual Stratosphere if you let it penetrate your thick skull and armour protected heart.

I have never been able to understand how we ever learnt to presume that we are "somebody" even with millions of similar, no-different, more-or-less similarly endowed walking-talking Joes all around us.

One little talent that one person develops and it goes to his head! Or even a gift by accident of Birth. A bit of praise and his nose simply never points downward again.

- What thoughts go into the making of a suicidal make-up?

On many occasions, a thought has come to me of running away lock, stock and barrel from the daily grind which in my case is not very much but I have to live by the laws laid down by others with some abuse thrown in and this is rather difficult on the vanity and the necessity to adjust to it all.

What do these "suicidals" expect to achieve from it? First of all the idea is to punish "them". Second the satisfaction that they will be missed. Third that "they" will realise how important a link they were in the life of others and now will regret but will never get a chance to make amends now.

Supposing this is the thought in the mind of a person who has committed suicide. It is plausible - isn't it?

The sobering thought that keeps me back is that I know from my understanding of human nature, that those who did not care enough when I was there wouldn't really care much about my absence. There will be a small tiny hiccup in the everyday working but will soon rearrange itself. I make it sound personal so that people can identify with the thought as having come from experience as a human. It is not just speculative.

Everyone goes thru this and if they learn to not identify with it, it would not have the power to affect their destiny and life with despondency.

Notice how often the thought comes to many of us ....."If I am sick I will get attention, if I do something unusual I will get the attention I crave..... That I can win back the girl by arousing sympathy etc..."

- Pradeep Pk Maheshwari: Now let us come down to earth and take care of it and our brethren.

Sarangha Kay: Yes but how?

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari: Just think kindness.

Sarangha Kay... Hmm

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari: Stop thinking with words.

- The choices we made are responsible. The responsibilities we have taken have to be completed. Occultly, running away is not an option. Anyway wherever we go we carry ourselves and the vibes/situations/problems of similar nature will again surround us because we happen to be in the state we are and the Cosmos organises our life specifically to our needs around the vibes we emanate.

We were taught to "transform" the situation by changing ourselves so that the responding vibes also change.

Attend to your moments as they come. Go step by step as your evolution opens up the vista to you.

People don't understand WHAT AN ABSOLUTE WASTE OF MENTAL AND PSYCHIC ENERGY it is to look for answers for which questions have not yet cropped up in their psyche.

It is pure intellectual gymnastics and useless - it may even take you on the wrong road.

ASK your pertinent questions and focus only on the answers to them.

How is this subject of any interest to you or me - really? Besides being high grade philosophical gossip? What profound answer will it give you to take care of the INSTANT you are living in now?

Addressing situations that are not there and do not matter.

Really, we live in a Fool's paradise.

How little we matter is the thought that comes to mind.

At any given moment a thought overwhelms us and we put all our energy into acting it out.

Reflect - what does that make you? AN UNTHINKING ROBOT; totally unreasonable because you are not using your wisdom or your will, to stop, wonder, reason and show any patience.

You ARE a stooge, a tool of some Forces operating thru you using you as their conduit.

Observe yourself - are you not the YOU you make yourself out to be?

PS: The colossal amount of energy we spend in inanities!

Say your thing the way you know how. Treat critical comments as feedback to improve your expressive power.

Our words are particular to us. Those who are particular to us will appreciate them.

It is stupid to expect any others to do so. We should blow our trumpet for the fun of it. But as we say in India No point playing the flute to the buffalo.

* We humans are born & live in small knit groups and rarely look beyond it. We are satisfied to be accepted in this small group of family, neighbours, school-friends and later in life work-place friends.

We are formed deeply by this little family we are born with and end up living in with. This is real and the emotional bonds created are the only real thing with any meaning.

Everyday contact and memories from this closeness is all most us can visualise as life and our world. Deep relationships are formed only by close contact living.

Even close relatives but with whom we have not lived don't really count. They fall into the category of acquaintances who we honour by remembering on birthdays and family gatherings. But no close or deeper contact comes out of it all; often not even this much.

Nothing else really matters outside this frame and the bigger picture is for philosophers. This is also the reason why nothing much has ever percolated to the people in terms of teachings as all the teachings in the world are superfluous to their needs of the moment.

It would be premature to expect humanity to rise beyond this level of thinking in the present state of evolution of human-kind.

Some odd individuals here & there break out of the mould certainly and they are rays of hope in an otherwise rather dark scenario in which pettiness reigns.

The saddest part is that when one generation, after serious traumatic events, has learnt its lessons and LIGHT shines on in this world, Death interferes and soon it is back to square one with the new crop of humans having to start all over again. Very little gets passed on.

- Let us improve.

It is Not as simple as that. Men are expected to go out in the world and provide. They have been mentally tuned that way. And most families still operate that way. Women stay home to take care of the home and it is their efforts that men end up having a home. The pressure on men to tackle life and the world is high and they may have not been well trained for it - rarely are.

Women tend to nag and end up needling the men although that is not their intention per se and their tongue lashing can be rather deeply hurting and biting. Most men resort to violence and have great difficulty to quieten/calm themselves.

All of this creates a "Witches Brew" but the kinder type of men find this rather too strong and opt for suicide.

The problem is that our government, peopled by people like us is not at all kind and when back at home too the situation is explosive, where does anyone go?

The world really, immediately, considering that we now are a huge family spread the globe over - we need to learn to be kinder, and hopefully it will then show itself in friendlier laws, policing, manufacturing, friendlier after sales service, friendlier - less "Shylocky" medical care and...and.... and....

- Our complacency is enriching the very people we are complaining about.

Most of our approaches towards a solution fail because we are giving too much importance to the "Apparent".

This is most clearly seen in modern medicine where symptoms are treated as the illness. Example: Fever & pain - paracetamol is used and most people think that they are better when the fever drops and the pain goes away. That it is temporary and both soon return is not considered. We

love it as it is APPARENTLY and that is all that we need. Anyway it permits us to go on with our urges and stupidities.

That is why we have a saying in India: "Truth is that which the world sees".The word apparent has cousins like "assume", "pretend", "obvious".

The mind jumps to conclusions mainly on the apparent. Dermatologists are therefore the happiest doctors. The entire department is based on superficial treatments and masking of symptoms - they know that their patients will never be really ever cured.

The cure for acidity is better quality, less processed food and digestive enzymes but the pharma promotes antacids and we love it.

Apparently breathing problems are caused by constricting in the lungs and an inhaler is the cure. The patient is very happy with the instant relief. But no one is really asking why constriction takes place - although old systems like Ayurveda have explained it in depth but that requires self-discipline and care - which is obviously too much trouble. The patients are to blame for this attitude. Apparent relief is what they want and modern pharma is giving it to them. I admit relief is a great need but so should be the cure if possible.

Millions are being spent to find more APPARENT CURES instead of removing the cause. The public is happy too as it needs something NOW and couldn't bother with long term permanent solutions.

These new cures are a source of wealth and the "raison d'etre" of big pharma which we, all of us are actively promoting but not apparently so; therefore it is ok with us.

WE have agreed to live with polluted & poisoned food, air and water - I don't understand why - why don't we ask the industry to find cures for the removal of the polluting elements?

- People jam-pack their days with something or the other so that they do not have to think of "silence" and "communion with Self".

I have had the good fortune to have been cared for by some people most of my life and all of these are/were people with spiritual destinies yet they were avoiding the final release by being busy. Whenever I would call them, they had only one reply: I am very busy. You come over; the house is at your disposal and do it yourself.

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The Sage instinctively avoids becoming too busy, which is seen as the worst form of laziness. Mostly, being busy is nothing but the effort to sidestep the issues that really matter in one's life. (Taoist wisdom)

- On the Question of freedom of expression to children: Adults are afraid. One would think that their little world is endangered every time a child goes experimenting or on a personal voyage of discovery. But then they are afraid of other adults too. What are they so afraid of?

I feel Control as a natural reflex is in play. We need to become thinking executives to improve; consciously living and striving to live by our most affectionate feelings & the most positive thoughts.

I try to make people think by raising question rather than throw quotes and thoughts for the day at them. Without a bit of churning......without a live question, answers are pointless.

* Of what value? Pradeep Pk Maheshwari : In the end it amounts to nothing. If all your development remains mental it ends with the body. We recommence again in next lives with a funny feeling of incompleteness. Until disaster strikes and like a shot of lightening the mental shell is broken to permit an opening in which case one starts connecting with the Intuitive. Until then it is all a classroom journey. When you are connected to the Intuitive, online nuggets are very helpful reminders and often clarify many doubts. I can say that I have benefited. The ease with which we get to be in touch with so many realised souls and their words is fantastic. We have to remove this mind out of the way in a way so that it stops interfering with our soul's experience.

Through online, I have learnt one thing, that there are many out there speaking of the same experiences and saying it better than me. It has helped me become more humble and helped me put me in my rightful place on the ladder of evolution.

Sarangha Kay... Good point. Looking for some golden nugget via the intellect especially online is fruitless.

Ken Timper... Sarangha Kay, There are many nuggets everywhere. The whole of life is a "school." There is a great line by VH that stuck with me over the years: "One ounce of falsehood can corrupt ten thousand pounds of Truth." It takes a lot of trial and error, even time and effort to develop spiritual discernment. Mentally, the only valid method is abnegation (also called neti-neti, not this, not this). Can we be self-honest enough to admit something is false when it goes against our preference or preferential thinking? There are very, very few places or sources where one can find consistent truth. The problem is that most want to cherry pick and avoid inner discomfort at all costs. This is what leads to tarnished golden nuggets.

* A little "pure" appreciation is so like elixir. It makes us feel worthy again.

We all want it but do not wish to give any.

If we look inward, we must see that if we so like it then others must also like it but yet we are mostly busy focus on the faults, misinterpreting happenings to see the faults and generally being nasty.

And then there is no denying that we resent and end up with envy when others are being praised.

I think humans are basically nasty people and pathological liars just for the fun of it and mostly to cast an image of themselves in a particular frame..

* Can we discuss this like mature adults?

No we can't for the obvious fact that we are not mature adults. Mature adults do not go around carrying their heart on one sleeve, their egos on the other and their mobile phones tightly clamped in their hands. Then, most adults never discuss. They accuse outright. This cannot augur well by any standard.

Whose house is it anyway?

Peace descends on all households once this question is firmly resolved. Most couples do not even know that most of the problems of their life together are stemming from this question at the back of their minds. And the children know for sure that it belongs to them; thereby only compounding the intricacy of the problem. Women say that they were brought in by marriage and why would any man would do that if he did not want to let her feel so? She is right. Most men think that because they are earning members, all rights are theirs. I am on the side of women here; this is the most stupid thought a man can have. And if the woman is the earning member then it is best if the man thought of himself as the vassal in the equation.

On the question of habits.

Most habits are there to stay. Both the partners have picked them up on their growing up saga and I see not how they will change now. He leaves used glasses everywhere with rings all over the place which makes the woman livid. She uses his towel and he goes all red. These problems are of their own making. They need to be taken with a pinch of salt.

When we first get married we want to be entwined. But sooner or later the novelty wears off and then we want our private space back. I wonder if there is any going back.

My personal experience is that we are in it for the duration. Men should try to create small corners for themselves in their homes without making it too obvious that they are doing so. Hide important things if needed. Most women who move things around do not realize the frustration and time lost in looking for things. Small things which most often, as they have been moved by another person cannot be found without the other's help anyway. Women on the other hand should be ready for being treated as the happy partner, whatever happens: like he bringing in two of his friends for dinner and she not properly made up. Most women may complain on how is she to provide for two sudden guests; but the truth is that this does not bother her at all. She could cook up something with one hand tied behind her back. But being caught unprepared with her hair in disarray is something else; she cannot ever forgive that. Men need to understand these fine points.

Shall we ever learn?

Come on, wake up. The learning process stopped long ago. We are now an evolved couple -- are we not? That we are continuously getting into each other's hair because "I know best and refuse to shift my stance" is another matter. Anyone can see that I am changing and adjusting; if only I could say the same for my partner!

Illness and babyism.

When it comes to illness like sore throats and a slight fever or even a little pain, men show their real selves. They have learnt from early on that when they are sick they get the most attention. Now I firmly blame the women for this. Unfortunately what the mothers sow has to be reaped by the wives. But then men have no role in this fiasco and should not be blamed!

I learned a lot from my parents by observing them. And of course observing other parents around me because I had to live time with my uncles. In India we had the benefit of joint families. I definitely saw the things that were grating on everybody's nerves and made me question -- why are they so? I read all the books on psychology I could find and all the books written by spiritual masters that I could lay my hands on.

I resolved to not marry until I was, at least in my own thoughts, ready to take on the responsibility of another person in my life.

And when I did marry, another universe unfolded. And I realised how un-ready I was. The process of change and learning actually started at this stage because I was ready to listen and see myself through my partner's eyes.

- The Ingrates that we are.

Remember the story of Sleeping Beauty.

The death warrant was changed to 100 years of sleep years by Gratitude - the youngest fairy of them all and still not respected as an important Spirit.

In the material world there are many generous people who do so much for others and they are seen as stupid, weaklings and considered as looking for admiration/ulterior motives. This is how debased humans are.

In the invisible world, even among ourselves, there are kind thoughts and certain sages giving us gifts for our wellness and joy and taking care of us.

But do we recognise them? And acknowledge them ever? NO. We feel it is our accrued greatness that does it all. The Ingrates that we are.

I feel funny when family members talk of distant family members. I don't remember most of them and they have forgotten me. We have no common thread left between us - not even memories.

Leave the things that have gone into the past and take care properly about the ones present now.

People reduce their world into a small manageable size. This is the error. Grow and keep connecting to new elements.

This is your time and this is your people. The rest is meaningless and can only serve to keep you back in your Sadhana if you are following a path of conscious evolution

There is a constant going back to a journey that this life has been. Most of the roads simply disappear behind us. Most of the people and possibilities that bother us as memories are only in our mind as if being reminded of them will keep us connected.

No. They are gone. Don't block your space with these but look ahead for the new ones that are coming in.

- Who is listening

Yes. I have much to say on this, but who is listening?

We can only re-say what we all already know. You particularly know it well and do not need to be told more.

The others couldn't care. The ones who really need to become aware of the pushes and pulls in our conscious and sub-conscious planes couldn't care less - they are so smug in their little worlds.

Humans started communicating with sign language and then words came in and then writing and more complex languages. To this was added printing that made long dissertations to be disseminated at long distances in long passages. People had the time and inclination to want to know more because they had this urge to find more about their world and how they could take advantage of it.

Today it is VISUALS. Everything comes to you as videos. Small and big clips that you can repeat as often as you wish -- something unprecedented in human history. There is nothing to absorb or retain.

Remembering and integrating any information and use to further oneself is not really that necessary.

We have happily, very comfortably allowed ourselves to think that we know, we have heard and that we have understood even before the point has been made.

The mind is an instrument. WE have to learn to use it. It has to be trained by rigorous methods. But our education system, the social system, our behavior and responses system have been re-calibrated by the focus on "LIVE WITHOUT EFFORT".

Digital technology has put stupidity into our hands literally and we are wallowing in it.

See how and what we have done with life in comparison with the life in 1920s. We have a commercially engineered answer to every wish...... You want to impress; go for the most impressive expensive car as alluded to by the media.....you need money; the banks are so ready to give you credit cards..... You need to be seen in a good light your Jeans and tee-shirt or jacket will do it......excitement is wanted in life: highly organised "safe" adventures are organised and waiting; you have to only pay a frightful small sum.......being knowledgeable; you need Google and an instrument......books? What a waste of good time..... etc etc and so forth.....and with a click you can let the whole world know.

We have actually sold ourselves out. Whatever little science of application and training of the mind we had learnt in the past 5000 years has been washed away in the last 50 years. Only pride and arrogance has overgrown and nobody is mowing the lawns.

I am afraid if I go on too long on this subject for surely somebody will come and say "So you think you are superior and can tell us what is wrong with us as if you are without faults - what an arrogant brute".....and that is that.

When it is never "THEIR" fault, there isn't much left to say. What we don't like we can easily avoid today both in people and experiences. Wonderful; isn't it?

The word ELEGANTLY has seemingly got replaced by ARROGANTLY.

I remember in my college days, I visited a shop along with a friend in old time Hyderabad which was still a place of polished behavior patterns from the classical time of the Nizam rulers. I don't exactly recall what I did but the owner (it was one of those prewar kind of Pop-Mom stores with elegantly woodwork and entry doors with auto-door closer in one of the old royal localities) admonished me by affectionately telling me "You are obviously, it shows on your face, that you are highly educated and from a good family, this is not done". I was very apologetic and showed it.

I took it sincerely to heart and more than 50+ years later I still repeat it to myself and use it to administer my thinking and behavior + associations. This great person, an angel guru in passing, whose few words have been my guiding light, cannot be let down.

A little kindly positivity is all that is needed. This happens all the time. I have landed up with suites in hotels when I just book a room. Extra consideration at airports like being signaled to check-in at the first class and by-pass the security and the custom officer coming after me with my bag that I forgot at the counter; gifts being sent to me because I had a kind word to say and even being invited into homes by unknown people who have only known me by telephone or emails. Shop keepers going out of the way to find me what they psychically feel I would really appreciate without me saying anything.

Friends that I met on the plane or in work for some reason and then the contact lasted for years to come and still existing.

People complain about not being lucky or not having a privileged start etc. I don't think so that is the reason. They are so focused on themselves that they forget to see themselves in the mirror and try to see themselves as the world sees them.

If we need to put any effort back into life, it has to be to get elegance back into our lives and the world around us and our thoughts, words and presentation should all be in quiet subdued balance with each other.

Formals and formalities are not my style but neither is crass dressing and manners. Everything is selected to please me and not my neighbors. Therefore everything stands out without being ostentatious.

Elegance is not just flowing robes, ermines, diamonds and fine bone china. It is an attitude. The attitude of patience, the need for silence, the craving for slow and considered behavior and not being satisfied by just about anything less than the best.

- Till date Truth has been an intellectual subject and remained an intellectual exercise. It is rather fenced in by the chain of words and is kept there by intellectuals.

Few have tried to live it or even want to. Discussions and writings serve the purpose.

Those who live it don't speak of it.

The general populace doesn't want to have anything to do with it. They are not looking further than their 2 slices of bread and the pat of butter.

- LIFE has a funny way to teach detachment and kill all sense of arrogance of being a somebody - this is what I would say is the lesson.

Life has been a series of incidents in which I found being labeled as the person responsible and once even questioned as a thief as a matter of fact because of my vivacity and always being ready to GO-FOR-IT.

The question I ask is why do I always end being in the right place at the wrong time... and noticed... and remembered?

I have actually learnt to be afraid and avoid life if it can be for surely my personal reputation will get embroiled in some way or another. And I am required to rise to the occasion by not taking it seriously or give it any importance or simply learn to live with it.

- The extermination which began with the world wars is still in progress. In the occult world nothing has changed.

Digital media has been very diligently used by the malefic forces to steal our minds.

Nothing but the basest is being allowed to emerge and survive.

The Divine Forces are upto something!!! You know like allowing it all to boil down to disgust and death so that humans will turn finally and irrevocably towards the Divine.

Animals know and they feel they are being exterminated. And it is directed at humans too.

There is a "scare" vibe in the air. I have felt it since long.

- I suppose we love this new digital world of instantly available shooting and viewing and the huge, virtually infinite number of Videos or call them Audio-visual short stories now available, already categorised under "subjects" of our desire.

We get so tuned to seeing and be one with our desires, that nothing else is REAL. We want our desires fulfilled and we want it now.

These videos and the cinema also are "seeds". They instigate. Desires swell up where none were existent along with thoughts of all and any character.

This is the harm they are doing. All audiovisual stimuli have great educational possibilities but the choices need to come from "teachers" and not from our desires.

When choices are made by our desire Self we only find "support" for our base persona of desire.

- Yes, there is a lot of great information and it does make one think. But mostly when it goes to an unprepared mind the result is of a turning of the back and resistance. But my journey is taking me to renew the wisdom bank from the basic source so although historically it is of interest to see how human development is locked in old ideas and yet trying to move forward, .....We need to de-link ourselves totally from the past symbolisms and get in touch with everything all over again by reconnecting with the Intuitive Intelligence based on our personal experience.

The mind is a slave to the body and arrogant like hell. It is always in a tearing hurry for instant gratification. It is a victim of its own intelligence. If it could be lazy in action and more active in 'waiting" to see how things develop - observe how the cat plans before it pounces.

- We are so afraid to live in action so we live in our imagination.

But often things get messy when desires dominate and the images get too disturbed and lose their chains to reality.

We humans have not been evolving but Mother Nature around has.

Humans feel that with all their technological achievement they have arrived at a "Superior" state and status ( as Confucius would call it) .

But they forget that they have been dissipating their entire mental energies forcefully as thoughts that are making deep inroads into the subliminal minds around them; even of animals!

PS: Wherever we may be, never jump out of bed. Stay in bed. Slowly... wake up. And pray in gratefulness. Think of the things to be done and work them out in your head in quietness.

Then venture out and your subconscious will take care of you for the rest of your day.

- The "group" can be and is a very cruel imprisoner.

Once it has even one little thread of you in hand it has the colossal power to reel the whole of you in.

This is the basic subconscious reason why we love making walls around us - never fully understanding that our ears and eyes are like gaping holes for armies to enter in our wall if there is one.

Advice to a young lady who is smart, able, moderately well educated and earning well.

Today what is bothering her is that she is alone. The good life that one sees in movies and read about in books is elusive. Romantic images flood the conditioned mind. The need to earn a living without any backup can be devastatingly tiring and stressful - specially I would say in cities like Delhi or comparably New York or any no holds barred location as cities are evolving today.

Don't look for love or support. Become the one to be giving it. Most love affairs are short stories of passion. Passion is good and wonderful as experiences go but don't make it the foundation of your life. Lives, contented lives are founded on appreciation, compassion and empathy. Look for these. And when in a relationship, make sure that you do not sway one way or another. Do not make it a battle-ground of vanities. Make it a point to be neither the demanding one nor the refusing one. Be always ready to do and give and honestly ask for what you want. Keep the communication lines open. This is called being pragmatic. Avoid drama. Study others around you and you will notice that relationships are spoiled by melodrama and narcissism.

Happy moments have to be created, nurtured and remembered; everything else is to be let gone. Call a spade a spade. Those who understand will remain with you and those who don't will leave you alone.

Like the world in general do not speak out only in anger. Be the one with an iron hand in a silk glove. All will be well when you have promoted a mutual attachment laced with pride in each other. Worry not. All will be well. As well it can be in this world of nasty surprises.

We need to see religions and long lectures on how and what makes the world move and activities based on speculative theories as pure drama being played out for the fun of it by children.

I get more answers when I simply ask the question "So what is it to me or so what is it to you?" rather than get embroiled in argumentative exchange of data.

- Don't make me talk.

I lived alone by choice and did not see any good reason to get married and mingle with the family. Friends were all married and saw no reason to visit me.

So I could remain silent for long periods if I chose to. But on my father's death with my mother with me all that changed. All of a sudden I found myself constantly irritated and tired.

And as flash came the response: That I was now constantly talking.

Most people I realized are not complete by themselves. They need others around them to engage with in veiled sort of way to attract attention and validate themselves.

THEY MAKE YOU TALK; Often for no good reason. There is a constant string of words being unleashed and cannot be ignored or you do so and create an emotional impasse.

The energy that is wasted! The mind could be silent, meditate and contemplate. But with a family around you it is like small whirlwinds all around you at every moment with windmills attacking you from all sides.

I can now understand the allegory in the book Cervantes' Don Quixote.

When I was a bachelor and living on my own, I was really quite content to be alone as I was NOT required to speak every few minutes -- specially on topics that meant nothing to me and did not require my intervention.

It is even more galling when you realize that they make you talk, give answers that they promptly forget. Kind of using me as a "tablet for Googling"; after all I am always there and can be touched upon as and when needed again and again.

The need to be forced to speak is the most unwanted activity in my list of activity. It is fatiguing and literally puts the brakes on one's spiritual development that requires extensive contemplative breaks.

- For Success, you need Detachment.

I have always felt that the attitude/philosophy with which children are brought up has more of a role to play in the way health-wise and ability wise the children will come out. We had doubts and we went out to learn before we started.

But the poor stress more on their pride and very arrogantly disdain to confront the subject. They have also learnt to depend on charity as norm practiced by the rich because religious thought and sentiment advises so.

Almost everything depends on the few "thoughts: and "Emotional responses/habits" on the foundations of which we grow up into LIFE.

The poor are poor because they spend on their "image" more than doing something about it. Complaining and whining almost always gets them enough to live upon. This is the easy way out.

I have heard this so often that I now have given up: "What is wrong with our life? We eat and live well", "What is wrong with the way we are bringing up our children?", "You think you are better than us?".....all aggressive questions designed to shut up any thinking on the subject. They seem to be quite content with their lot.

They are promoting brands and high priced junk more than the rich.

The rich spend on essentials and on the goals of their lives.

I find more laborers, living in hovels with no overheads like taxes and huge rents to worry about, spending small fortunes on hair styling and Adidas/Reebok shoes. They then very soon burden themselves with family and children and get trapped in the "Chakravyuh" (LABYRINTH/Maze) of life, never to get out it again. The result of their decisions and attitudes is later also visited upon their children. This subject should not be touched even with a barge pole. Everyone sees having children as a birthright regardless if the parent has wherewithal to support one. But then a beggar's life doesn't demand much!

The middle-class, when they come into some money do the same except that their first focus is on the biggest SUV and Gucci - nothing less will let them feel unashamed to go out in public.

- Suffering happens when we stop the learning process. One example: Every intelligent person to whom I explained that the use of industrially processed cooking oils is doing major damage, quickly switched over to healthier alternative. But the ones who are destined to suffer scoffed it vehemently. The same with information imparted on the formula of Coke, Energy drinks etc. Or any other subject for that matter.

Worse: by not taking responsibility for their lives (it is so much easier to grumble and blame other factors) they fall into the clutches of charlatan degree holders who take all their money and leave them suffering even more.

I see people going for expensive courses that bring them nothing in terms of knowledge or abilities but hope and regret in plenty. BUT then as friend Ken Timper says: Did they make some less than perfect decisions in the past? Did YOU?? Pride and arrogance always go together.

Things started worsening with the coming of the TV. This system of brainwashing needs to be closed before any improvement can be discussed.

The people were so easily netted, that in the realm of the wise, it would be termed as "ludicrous".

A lot of people start with the thought that it is their karma and their life. And before they have learnt any skill or trade or created any source of livelihood they start having children who eat away whatever little there is. They trap themselves in perpetual poverty with an attitude to boot.

Life demands effort to crawl out from under the rock of tamas, mental laziness and inertia. A very great many people just do not want to; (which often makes me conclude that it is their destiny and choices made by their souls and best is to leave them alone and wait for them to ask for help which in their pride they may never do. Often they do ask for help but as doles not "opportunities")

I have tried to help a lot of people working for me help them rise higher and tried to raise their level of thinking to help their children get better openings - not one parent took my help in the last 40 years.

Of course - speaking generally.

We shall see change when we go one step further by becoming more aware ourselves and note objectively the true value of a person by

1) VIBES being emanated.

We normally miss this because we are being taught to disregard our intuitive sense. All Beings emanate certain vibes of their guiding principal thoughts -- such as generosity or thieving. It will also show in their words and clothes and how they tell their stories. We know all this but we do not expressly directly teach it to our children - As if living a lie is a virtue.

To see life as it is, our children are dependent on audio-visual inputs like movies, videos that can do and did a lot of good till it was limited to great movies. We saw them now and then and they remained in our memories rather strongly but are now being streamed all the time with the aim to unfortunately do the opposite by keeping the viewers all muddled as if the controlling powers behind the scene have decided that uplifting of the human race is not be permitted. Vulgarity and violence is now being shown more than before.

2) MENTAL acuity being shown.

People normally close their minds and become more involved in proving themselves after a certain age. They get so involved with their own image that they stop listening and learning -- even from experience/incidents. They protect themselves by refusing to open themselves to new ideas and possibilities. It is easy to recognize this. By their words and body language they show exactly their state of mind. Most of us are downright so negative that NOs & NOTs and exaggerated reasons will be put forward and a lot of energy spent in arguing to avoid all possibilities of a shift in stance.

The human race will go forward once this block is recognized and not allowed and we take the extra effort to teach it to our children.

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Please don't look for deep arguments in what I say above.

The idea is more to get people thinking and if possible to change a little their attitude to become more open and generous in their thinking.

But it is all talk finally.

- How destiny beckons

The thing is that if we study our lives and analyse all the happenings objectively we will notice a clear pattern of common causative factors emerging.

Every time the same "types" of people come into our lives and circumstances form on similar causative lines. The situations that occur have the same basic ingredients composing them. Slowly we start fearing and becoming vary and cautious and then try to think before we leap -- which is exactly what Providence is asking us to do. The other lesson in all this is that there is a message in these repetitive occurrences and we should not fear or avoid or rationalize and ignore them.

Our duty should be to look deep within and attempt to understand whatever it is, it is in us that is attracting these people and events. Mostly I find they are trying to show us a defective program embedded in us that needs to be removed. We also realize that when we let this happen our life changes for the better dramatically -- changes come in.

The storms are precisely what we have to learn to fly over. Destiny is guiding us to confront our fears and all the shadowy parts, bring them out, expose them and then we can be free of the tendency to hide them and live under a cloud of pretense.

All of us are given a strength and an equal and opposite weakness. Each of us has a special set given to us for this life which would be the stepping stones of our path as planned out by Destiny. I have one great weakness -- actually three but all rolled into one. I am not good at routine repetitive work, I use my entire intelligence to avoid work and people I do not wish to associate with as they waste time and poison my atmosphere or make me do or get involved in insincere behavior because I have found that even a tiny microscopic dose of insincerity brings an avalanche of trouble on my head that then takes me years to work out.

My strength is my Intuitive ability to sense and smell the vibes of a place and person -- even problems. With my knowledge of the subconscious patterns at work in others I am able to manipulate or take decisions which seems horrendous to most of the people around me.

My Mind is not the principal thinker; there is another mind which is supplying the inputs so if I have to maintain this openness (which I want to and am working actively to broaden the opening more and more -- this is my goal for this life so that my Guru and positive influences can work directly thru me in my life) - this is the crux of "sadhana". So I try to be honest, open to influences and as far as possible, clinically sincere. This is a dual edged sword and I easily am affected by incoming knowledge or negative influences and vibes. This is the main reason for me to be doing things or coming out with words which often even surprise me. I often end up asking myself "now where did that come from?"

I often pick up illnesses from people I am in sympathy with and carry their illnesses with me back home and then I have to put all my knowledge into curing myself while the original donor feels relieved. I have not learnt to avoid this as yet except by keeping distance and avoiding interaction with such people even though I have a soft spot for them. I have had many occasions where I had to take hard unpleasant decisions to avoid being battered and being dumped into an occult black hole for no appreciable reason.

So, on your journey think about these things.

- Just words.

I come back to an old-age stand that I have always taken about talking of things that nobody is really interested in -- especially in the realm of philosophy, occult and enlightenment.

All this talk to the layman of the Gita, Of Vishnu Puranas, how things happen in the After-life and Moksha and how the soul chooses birth or life is BUNKUM. Totally pure intellectual gymnastics that does nothing to enrich our journey and serves only to while away our time. It is like serving tea in a cup without a bottom. Meaningless to all those tired entities at work in the fields that feed us and the rest who have to finds means to earn enough to purchase the food.

As Gary Jones says: "just words" to most of them.

PK: It amounts to giving answers to those who do not remotely even have a question.

When there is no question then the mind is not imagining anything. We are at fault when we try to sway others into thinking about things that they are not ready to be able to comprehend and IF they did they would only misunderstand and disturb their equanimity and spoil their lives unnecessarily.

Most I suppose would skim over the words and promptly forget them.

Most people don't take their minds that far and that would be 99% of them.

- We are all depressed to some degree.

There is definitely something or the other that bugs us and is bugging us. The older we get the doubting Thomas's we become and the world seems depressing.

The only one who has benefitted and is profiting from it is modern medicine which has made Depression into something honorable to create a market for their anti-depressants. A short-cut to the problem if it is a problem in the first place.

People who are not depressed, what do they have.....are we looking into that? Mostly you will find that people who do not show signs of depression have been brought up on a philosophy of courage, motivational philosophical thoughts that help to fight the situations in this world with a dose of detachment and pragmatic understanding that wishes are not always fulfilled and that we suffer from the wishes of others like others suffer from our wishes. They are not self-centered or selfish which is the root cause of it all.

There is a clash of WISHES in this world and we need to learn to navigate through this sea.

The onus of teaching children about this is with the parents.

Depressed people are a result of bad parenting and schooling. Now where does that leave us?

- Of What benefit is it to me?

Human culture and evolution seems to have been raised on the foundation of these words.

We are calculative beings with a good dose of generosity built-in.

What will eventually motivate us when we are adults is solely dependent on the thoughts we have imbibed in our formative years.

Parents; are you listening? Don't blame your children in later years.

Right from the day we are born all our actions and reactions are based on what we need at that moment and what attracts us at that particular moment of our age and evolution.

But the selfish basis is easily perceived at every moment and in children the element of generosity is very high but unfortunately our education and cultures are founded on "selfishness and the rules of possession" and soon, gradually we inculcate this in a big way to make them predominantly our motive force.

With this as our aim in life we adopt multi-faces and the imbecile ways to fool ourselves into virtual somnolence.

This is what I always say wherever I bring up the subject of our higher aspirations. What can be said of the male of the species whose highest aspiration is pleasing a woman; when being accepted by a woman as partner into a cuddle is the "great glory" goal of his life?

Of course you cannot fault her if she begins by wondering "What benefit is there in it for me?"

Instinctively she knows that once his lust is satiated his eyes will start roaming. So the most successful women come out to be those who know how to be difficult to get but just so.

On this score "marriage " as an institution is a good thing - at least for the children that result. For the baby, parents are the whole world and absolutely essential.

I still feel, now that I am talking again on this subject that divorce should not be allowed if the couple has a child.

Anyway divorce kills any need to adjust, compromise, learn and delve deep within to live together. Divorce is a very selfish movement and not at all advised "spiritually". Our older cultures that were seeped in spirituality understood this and in all older cultures divorce has been a taboo of sorts.

Note: That I am not stupid enough to not realise that today with the digital reach, most people have more than enough on their plate and lacking for nothing in terms of escapades and other possibilities; selfishness has raised its head to the maximum possible in humans. Marriage is really not of great meaning anymore; specially if both the partners are having separate working lives and virtually living in two different worlds.

The time has come to think further and we are already more tolerant and free in our attitudes to living together. For me this translates itself into thinking of our life in general; how instead of worrying about "ME & Mine" we start thinking of relationships in a more spiritual sense.

Our movies, stories, melodramas, theatricals and books all think in the societal pattern of many hundreds of years ago. Possessiveness is highlighted. Togetherness is misunderstood and mountain is made of a molehill. The word "cheating" is thrown up and immediate breakups the only solution. To me it looks like Egoistic hysteria.

But it was understood that people are often very happy and sometimes very unhappy and being with different people for different times for a few moments are good for mental health and peace in society. I would squarely say that if two people are having a happy moment I would not create a hue and cry nor go into histrionics. Think of it: A small moment in a not so very long life - in eternity

We need to go back further in time and learn from the older cultures of (Let us say) the Red Indians of America, The Polynesians and the Australian aborigines. The child was considered as the child of the tribe, the village and the nation and belonged to all and was the responsibility of all. The father took care of him and his mother and the mother took care of everything to create a home. The rest of his life was his.

I am seeing so many children virtually handicapped to move out in this world because their over-protective parents did everything for them; never let them think and never bothered to pass on any of their life's experiences. By their plan it seems they had organised to be there forever with all their possessions, including their children which were considered as possessions too.

- Spirituality as practiced today.

And now it happens all on the digital screen.

But then this was bound to be where everything is parceled into neat packages, clearly labelled, practiced rigidly and charged a fixed amount. The achievement is a Diploma that you put on the wall.

Humanity repeats itself.

- All this talk of Supremacists is absolute nonsense.

We are at heart all of us supremacists. It is a projection of our vanities - which means that we want to be seen as Super and Superior to all others around us.

And we spend our lifetimes in looking for the "RATIONALES" that will give us the excuse to rant and rale. (Money, Beautiful body, Acquired education, Intelligence or the lack of it - accidents of birth all of them - nothing that is actually ours). A Plausible excuse is all we need.

Bosses, do it, Marriage partners are always doing it, Siblings are famous for it, Politicians use it to divide and rule.

So unless we are going to LOOK WITHIN we are not going anywhere and WILL continue in the same manner in the same style and with history repeating itself.

This is Mother Nature who intended it to be this way and it forms a great part of the foundation of human nature.

- Journey delayed

I realise that out of many considerations we delay the journey for others in what we think is being kind, helpful and protective. My DILLEMA is - is it my Karma to help OR should I help them learn the lesson knowing fully well that I shall be disliked or misunderstood for it?

I think a worse situation is when we delay our own journey.

99% of us do it because the known is comfortable. A little pain and misfortune is accepted stoically as LIFE. And we stay put.

But mostly the error is in the walls we build around us to "satisfy" the limitations, prejudices and immaturity of others and so called society.

And even more sadly when we misjudge everything because of our own prejudices.

Look a little deeply and quietly to what I am saying. How often you have stopped yourself from doing something that was ok by you but not ok by your family - as a compromise for the simple reason that misunderstanding would be created!?

How often you went about doing something you did not want to do but went along with your friends circle anyway?

And think about the white lies you spoke when it was really not necessary to speak at all because you did not know what and how to deal with the situation?

All these delay us on the path and we doggedly pursue our "comfort zone" until we can and soon, before we know it death comes to take us away.

Most people who have realised the connect and disconnect in life, normally see the waste of time that is a continuous drain on precious energies. One becomes sharply conscious of the limited number of hours and days given to humans and people wasting the time of others become devilish entities.

We, the consciously striving ones who want to keep them away get the label of "Obnoxious" though.

Getting rid of them or avoiding them becomes a huge exercise in itself.

- Men and their foibles

There are two groups of men. The first group runs on instinct, passive resistance to life in general. They don't think much beyond their meals and sex and families they are unconsciously born into. This is their sole reality and they look no further. They form the 99%.

They have tiny minds, not in size but in operative boundaries, that reflect whatever is going around them and their decisions and actions are made from images that they get to see and they decide on the basis of how it would affect their family status based on the tradition and religious faith they carry. They have been given the vote and they decide who will be king.

They as a whole are responsible for the mess we are in today because their choices run the world.

Can we influence their hearts and minds?

NO!

But they can be reached thru the indirect method of newspaper, radios, TV and audio-video clips and movies as thru these Medias we can bypass their minds and reach the subconscious and leave impressions directly.

Then there are the intelligent ones who stay out of it all. They manipulate the 99% and play the fool to their hearts content. They have a Devilish streak and it is all fun and drama for them.

They form the 0.9 % .

The remaining 0.01% are thinkers who have managed to free themselves from the mass movement and think and reflect and try to see beyond. They speak and try to infuse sense in the melodrama of life.

But nobody is interested and they are normally considered an aberrant group of individuals who can be left alone as the numbers are too insignificant to bother anyone.

As for this life....

Come down to earth sir. The body which you call yours is a collection of elements that has been forming and reforming itself since the beginning of time. You are in a body for a very short span and within this short period mayhem ensues by the trinity of the Mind, Emotions and Body. They come together, play in this world and then disperse back to their world when the body cannot support anything anymore. The body also disperses.

- Parent-child time

It has more to do with the journey than any specific situation. Parent-child time is just a situation. The parent's job is to prepare the child for the life that is coming. Parents are not required to be soft or harsh but firm and educative but most parents treat children as an extension of themselves and personal property. Unconscious parents are passing on their lack of conscious awareness and instinctive hereditary memories. This cycle needs to break but HOW has always been the question. We can have aware parents only if their curriculum of family influences and education is changed when they were children growing up. A vicious circle that is difficult to break.

There is also this question: a drastically changed curriculum of bringing up can make the child unfit for the life & social circle he is born in.

In the coming "Future" of this Earth this cannot go on. It has to change. The more unprepared you go into it the more difficult it is for everybody and you can leave a huge sticky mucky trail (like snails) behind you for generations.

Now just imagine when everyone is doing it. How much muck is being produced and the "waste" being secretly dumped in the subconscious? We can't let the demons win, can we?

Difficult or not humanity has to wake up to this fact of the wastage and pollution we leave behind for a moment's fun on this earth because we are in a position to do so.

This has been the problem since always and now it can be seen as a "physical" aspect in the deforestation, radiation, monster-medical practices, plastic and nuclear waste being secretly dumped that is insidiously spreading and affecting lives and the very existence on earth.

- ......messages from the past.....

As a designer I dream up something and am sure my design is final and will work but then we try to make it or live it the problems crop up and this necessitates change; often rather drastic changes have to be incorporated.

The human mind thinks that whatever takes birth inside its confines is final. Then it will try using all arguments at its disposal to maintain its dignity by not agreeing to need of change. Whatever was the thinking just 100 years ago or let us take 1000 or 2000 this attitude keeps us back and comfortable in the "known" and more importantly in the "Accepted". The arrogance of humans who think they always know. ....that their thoughts/principles laid down are final and of course it is all claimed to be coming from God -- the final authority on anything. It is really quite amusing, if one looks at humans and humanity from a distance how ludicrous the scene really is. To the Gods it must be awfully slapstick.

Then let us not forget that we have our own highly regarded modern "idiotic" thoughts that will go down in history in another 100 years as downright ridiculous.

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

Then there is also the fact that certain thoughts are conveyed in vocabularies and style that is very particular to a particular time/cultural ethos and in other times these wise pronouncements become ridiculous, specially when taken out of context.

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.

- Rape as a tool of Mother Nature.

War and Rape has been Mother Nature's tool to spread its "purpose of "change" and "progress" and intermingling of races. Human morals may not see it nor like it. There is some basic truth here. Mother Nature is interested in "births". At a very slow but definite speed it is evolving. Our morality may not accept it but Mother Nature has only one wave like in the sea and it goes on and on. Mother Nature does not recognize man-made laws/morals and borders. It has a purpose and everything serves its purpose.

Where and how it transpires does not bother it. Violence and disorder is just another tool for it as is love and order. The old has to be improved upon so it has to go. Death is part and parcel of living. For the time being, the state the human mind is in, cruelty gets strongly enmeshed in the mix -- this is how human dynamism shows itself.

Genetics and DNA exchanges serve to strengthen the human race. Cultural evolution has foundation in intermingling of races.

The basic nature of humans should be studied. It loves to copulate, fight, destroy and waste. Mother Nature put it there primarily for its own ends. Notice how floods help agriculture, how wars help cultural integration and rape helps in sending the seeds far and wide.

The concept of rape is a human construct. For Mother Nature it is just another tendency and activity.

Who and where the blade will strike is FATE and part of life on Earth. Nobody has been able to police it or control it as yet.

The spiritual and more humane angle sees it as something we need to rise above for there is no good reason to continue this in perpetuity. That would be the correct thing.

It is the reason behind wars and pervertism (by our philosophical standards and morality) in human nature - why is it there what purpose does it serve? - The animalistic sway that this powerful force has on behaviour.

To Mother Nature it is plain and simple a continuation of its natural birth and death policy + renewal and refreshing of the elements.

I have specifically mentioned that our morals, principles and laws are irrelevant. Mother Nature does not recognize them.

So let us not harp on how things should be because our "God" book says so.

- Treating others as Gods.

Yes. If we look at it from a very "Mentalised" angle. It is really a very primitive thing very prevalent in the less mentally advanced tribes. A primitive response to life as would have been observed with primitive tribes still worshiping totems and menhirs; from there they moved on to temples and now to sages, ascetics and "tantrics"(Shamans and occultists in India) who can answer their questions and even remove/solve their problems and tackle their issues. Humans rush to soothe-sayers because they either are too lazy, too uneducated and simply in this moment of time incapable. Being members of so called religious groups and visiting so-called holy places they show off their feelings of being virtuous and grander than thou in their community.

In the Indian or southeast Asian context, they really "worship" They unload all their aspirations, fears on the person or/and deity they worship. All they give is obeissance in principle and expect in return that all their wishes are fulfilled and problems solved and ills cured.

It can be a very negative thing.

The real ascetic, philosopher/saint avoids this. Reverence can be understood and there is no objection to meeting people to speak to them if they want to. But worship is totally another thing and should be totally avoided, rather shunned.

- On Communicating

Malachy Matthews: Is it possible to communicate as humans?

PK: Good question. Perhaps yes if you find someone who "listens", who has then the patience to register the data and mull over it absorbing each word, comma, full stop and nuances. All this is generally not happening as deemed so unnecessary for we all are here to tell - not listen like servants.

Listening means understanding, learning and doing.

Not listening is so convenient, so effortless. And you can always blame the other for not speaking clearly.

But as time will, change is in the air. We can now connect with instant speeds; say our thing as it comes into our head but we are being actually forced to pipe down and think before we put it in words because messaging has become the mode to connect. "Words" put down cannot be retracted nor be explained over by saying it was a mistake or misunderstanding. Like it or not we need to improve ourselves and we will.

- Community clashes among us.

Certain religion based militant communities very petty goals and have a mentality to spread the Word; with the sword if necessary. To them all those who do not agree to them are Infidels and Pagans. And they offer Paradise as recompense for doing as their priests dictate. Haven't The Christians been going about doing this to the whole world since many centuries in all the countries they colonised, specially the Crusades which have not been at all forgotten by the Muslim community. The Muslims tend to be merciless and terribly cruel. In India we remember their "arrogance" and that of the white Christians from over the seas of being intractable.

We had a maid 30 or so years ago who came from the Christian Faith. We in India of the Hindu community don't worry about faith much and do not try to impose our thinking on anyone as we Hindus have really no dogmas or fixed concepts. We have enough on our hands and quarrel incessantly among ourselves. But this woman had all the answers and would try to convert us and kept us reminding us how great HER Jesus was; comparing Him to the insipid Gods of the Hindus and that we should read the Bible and we would find joy and Peace as she had done. Her plus point was that she was disciplined and sincere in whatever she did and she meant it. Unlike the Hindus who are basically charlatans

The absolute dependency on the help/advice/guidance of the Padre in her life here on earth and the coming after-life and the power he had on her life was astonishing.

What we saw that her retro thinking was keeping her family in poverty rather than the other way round.

I have seen the same with the Muslim community. I have had very close working relationships going back 2 generations with certain families but when it came to the crux, they did not accept us and we them.

Somehow, both the communities do not get taught that "EFFORT" is written in as much bold letters in our lives as Faith is.

These people become terribly annoying with their superiority complex; specially when they are a minority and living quite obviously a less successful and meagre livelihood than the ones they are trying to impress.

- We need to also ask to who he was talking to, when he said what he said:

The list of pointers he is giving is the kind of guidance one gives to very lowly educated but important people vocationally as the laboring class, fishermen, carpenters and cleaning- people.

The one on the mother is because we tend to neglect old people as they continue to nag till the last day and never let the children forget that they begot them and under their supervision there is no "growing-up". The sons and daughters always tolerate but the children-in-law have other ideas about creating their homes and mostly things get carried away in the same selfish spirit the parents had raised their children. (My personal advice: Parents must learn to change their behavior as the child grows, year by year, shift their stance to "listening, following and joining in" as the child grows and eventually become "elder friends").

The other points made on "Money" are simple factual, basic roadmaps to help them stay out of debts and keep a pragmatic attitude about money's importance in life and not try to ape others in spending power. These are needed in India because the class of people he is talking to tend to be taken advantage of their childish ignorance of life and letters and often are highly cheated by the moneyed-class, money lenders or corrupt bureaucrats.

Finally it is wisdom that guide posts should never be made universal as usually no words uttered by people we later call Messiahs are absolute truths when seen in the pragmatics of real life. Like the 10 commandments they sound great, but are really basic and always localised to a culture and time period in a moment in history.

- Service providers do your job the way they think it is best done - never in the way you want it done.

> Why? After all what is it that makes their hands move in a given > direction/method whatever you may be telling them? I think it is a > matter of convenience, habit and sticking to the known. What we > habitually do becomes a habit. We do certain acts & jobs so regularly > that our sub-conscious records it and automatically over-rides our > thinking process and makes the body do as if it were consciously awake > and doing it. This is the secret behind our illusion to think that we > can multi task. The conscious brain can handle only one task but the > subconscious can handle another silently in the background. > > I need to register the route in my head before leaving home. Often I > am day dreaming. But the car arrives safely where it was intended to > arrive. I was not even conscious that I was driving. All so automatic > that it is often frightening how much of "robots" we really are. > When we are basically lazy and know what is to be done we become a > little arrogant that we "know". We are, as it is, rarely in the > listening mode. So when we take up a job of similar nature but > requiring new parameters to be incorporated what happens is that first > we do not listen properly as our arrogant mind is often busy elsewhere > and then when the time comes to do the "automatic' mind takes over. > This is compounded when there are many workers around and talking to > each other. The work always suffers.

From the occult angle I would say our persona works within these two book-ends: "Latent laziness & to consciously make an effort". Then we hide this laziness in argumentation. No wonder we argue about everything; for deep in our hearts we are avoiding doing it - looking for a way out if can be delayed at least - we do what we do only under compulsion.

Then when you complain this is the answer that comes:

Ok I'll do it as you ask but if it does not come out well don't blame me!

- Agreeing with you will reduce my stature in the eyes of the world.

So this conclusion: Wise ones exist only because there are these contradicting coyotes and dancing peacocks to spice our lives. I feel that this contradicting attitude and the dance they do and the dance they lead us does finally egg on some of us to not take it sitting down but find ways means to escape. In the final metamorphosis it is a spiritual act as every annoying thing on this earth is.

As for the act of contradicting and taking the opposite stance? It soon becomes a habit. They contradict or find fault because they have become so -- an automaton. Their brains are full of connecting images or phrases to the words you may have used and it is this association of words and images, with the support of their vanities that creates this scenario.

I give an example of a conversation with a landlord I had when I was younger and the landlord was actually a colleague of my father. ME: I would like a light on the bathroom mirror both at the lower and upper end (to see the face more clearly while shaving). Landlord: But the light source should be from behind you (the sentence being one we used to read in instructions that came with the simple cameras 50-70 years ago).

This left me just one option: Shut up and go and do it myself or have a raging argument and still end up doing it all myself.

The thing to see here is how cleverly his subconscious mind acted. He closed the conversation as it was not in his interest. Listening to me meant extra trouble and expense. He may have seemed stupid but that is a calculated move and really of no importance as along as he is having his way.

Contradicting is so easy; so much fun to see the shock in the eyes of others and so comforting to know that we were able to shut-up & put somebody down with just a few words.

It is quite simply our inferiority complex showing up as The Superior. It is a dare to the world in general and to you that if you have the courage to fight back let us see if you would throw it all into the wind and kill the relationship.

It is one way of testing the waters of telling you off and saying that you are really not needed here to complete the relationship.

Most people, down with their egos hurt, start explaining themselves.

The wise ones see the ensuing battle and quietly walk off - let the other live in his/her grand scheme of things.

- The Hard Work of being lazy.

Yes people have no idea how much planning goes into it.

Most people think procrastination is being lazy or simply letting days slip-by by delaying things.

No. Being lazy requires, planning, restructuring, organising, attention to detail, keeping things in order, taking care of health etc etc etc.

Then you sit back and look lazy to the world.

- There is this notion that we are separate and separated.

> Separation is an illusion created to create as many creative hands as > possible to cover the entire earth's needs. Like grass and weeds; > thousands of small little ones are needed to cover the whole ground.

- The problem with Philosophy and Real Life is this. Philosophy is safely tucked away in books, enveloped in words. It needs the ability to read. It becomes an issue of interest when Real Life makes you slip on a banana peel and the whole world is laughing at you or worse still when you give in to a temptation and the whole world is shouting at you. Then you want to "know".

> All the philosophy in the world does not help when you live in a drab > home and walk to school and your classmate comes from a 50 roomed home > in a Maserati. You feel insulted and you definitely do not see the > joke. > > Only the wise know that the poor have more because they have the whole > world while the Maserati people are busy staying within the confines > of their wealthy fences and miserably afraid to lose it all. The pomp > and show they put up is all a charade. > > But how to pass on this to children is the real question here. Parents > of the poorer kind usually are not happy or content either. If they > could they would also like to become picture-perfect happy as it seems > to picture in the big adverts. They make small gestures beyond their > spending capacities to give an idea that they are really not poor but > live below their means because they are philosophically influenced by > thoughts of living simply and without showing off. This is a charade > too. > > To live with the carefree attitude of the happy person, you have to be > really so and the question is how do we acquire this; is it possible > that it was an ingrained virtue in us that we are born with? Or is it > something that we acquire as conditioning from our parents and social > milieu we are born in or brought up in? > > By personal experience I have this to say. Parents have to show the > way and fill the heads of their children with philosophical thoughts. > At the same time "BE" good examples. I give some examples of my life > with my child that undid her competing with the Jones's attitude. > Since the beginning we were always showing her ways of recycling > things, repairing and redoing things to our taste - like remodeling > things, re-tailoring dresses to help her fit as she was growing but > never compromising with the looks or standard of beauty or what we > found comfortable. We asked friends for clothes for her, specially > warm clothes which are usually expensive and in the growing stages > last only one season. Used clothes....so what? > > One of the best examples was what we did with the car. In Delhi's > traffic it is difficult to keep your car safe from bumps and > scratches. My child complained that it was becoming ugly. So I brought > two cans of spraying paint and made art. I let her do it at the age of > 6-7 it was fun and the lesson I think went down deep. People > commented, laughed and mostly praised the idea of creating art on the > car. It made the car stand out and no thief would want to be seen with > it. My child was very proud of it. > > This is it in a nutshell. Make the child proud of the life he is > living rather than complain about others and desire with envy of > other's goods. If you don't have something, make or create it and > have an original. Live within your means. > > She got a pleasant shock and laughed when she saw I had cut of the > sleeves of my Ts because that is how I am comfortable in the heat of > Delhi and not afraid or shy to be seen in it. I think she is quite > proud of her exclusive parents. > > Have the courage of living your life your way. Be comfortable in your > skin and with your thoughts and feelings. DO NOT compare yourself with > others nor want what they have.

- The truth is humans have learnt to live with this kind of personas - impulsiveness and vindictiveness; craving for adulation; the misogyny, predatory sexual behavior.

> They see nothing wrong because to some extent we are all so but less > noisily. > > And mostly, let us admit, it does not affect us directly or > personally. What we don't see does not really matter!

- The deciding factor.

> I would say the deciding factor in our march towards becoming a > greater humanity to write back home about us has been the WORD. > > It is the simple written word that has brought us to a point where > there is some commonness and universally accepted unifying elements in > our global family. > > Look at our story unfolding from the naked sword to the smart phone. > > All our decision making is from 3 obvious and 2 not so obvious levels > of existence and our attitude is reflected from the level in which we > are floating and deciding from. > > First is the Physical level: The body and its shape, ability and sheer > strength and prowess is what matters and everything in our judgment is > based in relation to it. (Think Stone Age right upto the Middle ages > and people at the "physical level like boxers and soldiers) > > Second is the Emotional level. All decisions are based on our > preferences, likes and dislikes. This is not a stable condition. It > changes from minute to minute and is affected even by the weather. > (Think of The Middle ages to the Present where the aristocrat created > a niche for itself with its demands, emotional responses, sulks and > beautiful creative era when many of our best buildings, books and such > were created and new ideas from scientific discoveries took birth) > > Third is the Mental level. All the stuff that goes into it is what > eventually comes out. It has little discernment of its own. So if > started with a precise aim, every child can be conditioned to think > and act in a particular fashion. (Think after WW2) > > The not so obvious levels are the Instinctive subconscious level and > the Intuitive levels. > > The subconscious has a near total hold over us and is formed by our > recent memories and the memories that go waaaaay back....some to the > extent of the time of the dinosaurs. We have no say here. > > The intuitive level is a reality but is not generally active. It is > hidden by the active that we well know of. When the mind has developed > and grown to a point where it interferes and over-rides all other > levels, nothing else is active in the fore front. This is where all > problems start as at the present moment of evolution it has become the > servant of its "Emotional Elder Brother" and has not learnt to see > beyond it. Hurtful Situations and Enmity has grown because the people > of all level have begun mixing but not giving any space to each other. > The mind has no patience, very little tolerance and demands obeisance > otherwise it becomes uncomfortable and REACTS -- mostly on the basis > of instinct and the subconscious patterns. And its first reaction is > to bring out the sword (this is how it was in recent Earth's history > and the patterns are still highly prevalent). > > We are still quite at the level of "SKIN HIM ALIVE". Earlier we did > it literally and now we do it with WORDS. Unfortunately though, with > the advent of weaponry designed to kill from far, the tendency to go > to war with extreme cruelty is surfacing again. > > So the question is at which level are we and taking our decisions > from? > > We humans have had a long journey and the question that is faced by us > is WHERE are we headed now? > > Off hand, if I were to be asked how I would advise the human race to > become a Complete man as Confucius would say, my response is.... > > First let us divide in a very broad manner the kind of people we are > most likely generally to meet.... > > 1) The warrior hunter > > 2) The teacher, artist, craftsman > > 3) The businessman > > 4) The siddha, yogi, sage > > 5) The intellectual mentally well informed > > 6) The none-of-the above > > The complete man would have to be all these 6 in a composite whole as > well as distinctly separate. So totally master of himself that he > would show only one or more side of his persona as the moment > requires. It would be impossible to place a finger on him and say "he > is this". > > His greatness is in the ability to project only that part of himself > as the opposite party can reconcile to and recognise or need or use. > > This is the aim I believe humanity should be working at just now. I > find it rather scary when people talk of spiritual attainments when > the basic foundation has yet not been formed. It is very easy to > create tall buildings that would sway and collapse in the first strong > gust of wind or so heavy that it would collapse on itself. > > In this light, Enlightenment and the search for it seems so amusing.

• The first sure sign of a wise man: he couldn't care if he looks foolish.

Be certain that you are in the presence of a way superior intellect and persona when they allow people to laugh at them; often consciously giving the people great occasions to make fun of them and let the others feel superior and content.

It is a deliberate "act".

Because by taking this stance, they keep you thinking about yourself and your greatness, unthreatened - leaving them alone to pursue their lives. You may even end up sympathetically helping them live their lives the way they want to.

- The Buddha/Krishna/Jesus is already here. Question is thru who he is going to manifest.

Is anyone even interested in letting HIM manifest?

Life is so complete with food/clothes on the shelf of super stores, easy communication and smart phones; does the world need a Buddha or anyone at all?

If He showed himself, the chances are He would be stoned to death for disrupting the Peace of established status quo.

Honestly: I think people would be happier to see magicians who can make wine out of water, containers that refill themselves indefinitely, multiply bread and make the chosen female fall in love and of course ducks that lay golden eggs.

- The ideas people have about spiritual attainment !!!! (I admit though that a kernel of Truth exists)

How everything has been reduced to certain words with limited meanings and people then think of themselves as "fulfilled" as if they were an order on Amazon.

For instance Meditation, Kundalini, Compassion.......all reduced to reinforce the human stupid Self and its propensities.

What is Spirituality?

Pragmatically speaking, there is little or no spirituality in the way humans live and have fashioned their lives.

It is most conspicuous by its absence rather than its presence.

That there is a more contented way to live and experience life is often experienced by all; specially when we are in the throes of "love" and the spirit of kindness envelops us.

So exceptionally we all experience this state a few times in our lives. This leaves us wanting more and searching for the element that will make it a permanent feature.

This search and all the elements that help us reach this state normally get clubbed under the heading "spirituality".

The secondary question for discussion's sake is why we are not able to make this state permanent even when we have "known" it?

My answer: This body rules us and its clamouring is still too strong to ignore. We just get lost in its labyrinth and the mind that could have helped is happy to serve it as its slave. And from all points of view as far as we can see life is not such a burden after all.

So we remain boxed in.

All exchange of knowledge for now at the level of evolution humanity is, depends on words. The same word has many different connotations. There is the literal, figurative and the virtual meanings and then there are the idiomatic meanings and usages. In short the words are as imperfect as any tool can be; for example like using of pliers to hammer down a nail.

Therefore it is clear that the main constituent of our understanding is based on 2 things: 1) Our learning of the language and the literature we have read on the basis of which our understanding is related to. 2) Our own experience of life.

To understand better let us take the word meditation. If you open the dictionary this is what you get:

.....Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Meditation, religious chanting & spiritual states

chakra, flotation, incantation, mantra, meditate, meditative mindfulness, nirvana, quiet, Transcendental Meditation, yoga, yogic

I come from a background of philosophy (having been schooled in an Ashram) and the practice of "calming down" and contemplation by silencing the mind as a natural state. So for me meditation is an act of trying to communicate telepathically with my guru by first silencing myself by quietening the buzz in the mind. First lesson: Quieten the din in your head.

In the west for those who are brought up on the philosophy of earning by work and constant activity to obtain what they call success, the word meditation means simply "stopping" for a while.

To many mediation means nothing but a few bodily actions to create a picture in their minds which are buzzing at full speed even when in the state of meditation although they are able to relax bodily enough to be considered "in contemplation".

It all depends on the formative years and the education you have received. To illustrate: Some people can hardly manage to drive in an open field. Managing a car is beyond them. Others can race it in a crowd. Both will be called driving so the word becomes meaningless.

So to me meditation is the act of dissociating from the mind and connecting to silence and the universal, instinctive consciousness - whatever it is.

Something that is meaningless and beyond the experience of the average Joe, specially to those who have been taught and raised to equate joy and happiness and silence by breaking their backs and bodies for a few pieces of gold and their idea of silence is to sit in their recliner and watch TV. (the way these people jump-start on hearing the phone ringing like Pavlov dogs is enough of an illustration about the point I am making).

I am not talking of what is written. I am talking of the aftermath of the practice and the way these religions have conditioned the people's thinking and behaviour.

I have only one point to make: How every precept becomes an excuse to stay blocked and NOT evolve.

See how the word has been degraded.

See what the Inquisition and the Crusades did.

See how by calling others Pagans they gave themselves the excuse and the military right to plunder and enslave.

See how Islam butchered the local people wherever they went because in their book it is their duty to finish-off non-believers.

The time has come now to grow out and go above the notion of religions and harness our instinctive understanding of our natural love and kindness and let it play out.

This would mean we have only one thought which would be our philosophy and our religion and this is:

Let our every act be founded on Kindness and respect for each other. Nothing else to be our motivation.

PS: I may say that other people like the jews, parsis, hindus, shintoists and taoists are all the same when it comes to the use of philosophical precepts for their selfish ends and with equal brutality.

Ask yourself: Are you always talking/moving/acting with intent? Treat life as a military operation where your energy is the "life" of your soldiers. Make every second and Minuit count. Move, act, talk with planned moves. Play chess with life.

• Our disconnect has reached dangerous proportions. The thinking mind is not in use. If this goes on we shall be back at the stage of the "fish". I saw a video on FB in which a tiny fish has been trained to jump thru a hoop by a householder in the aquarium at home. The dolphins are showing greater awareness.

This morning I was standing outside at the gate on the road. The newspaper boy came and I thought he would put the paper in my hands as he stopped 2 meters from me but no; he went around the car and placed it in the porch as usual. When he came out I asked him why he did not give it to me. His reply: I did not see you!

I am scared to let my kid go out as for some reason they are so lost in a world within themselves that they do not notice anything around them. They don't see the cars coming, the things blocking their ways and people around them waiting to snatch their phone and bags - they take no protective measures as if they are still sitting in their mother's lap.

It is frightening.

The need of the moment is a rise in consciousness levels.

Humans have learnt to live upon certain glorified images of what is good and bad and they are content and satisfied when they have managed to ape and incorporate these images in their puny lives.

As individuals we live we very self-contained tiny lives; moving within some very limited parameters. All our energies are focussed on creating the right images for others so that we are appreciated and accepted in the society we move in.

As an aside I give this example: It was found in the 1950s that being seen on TV with dogs and babies increased the chances of being elected to office. So this became part of the orchestrated projection of the persona of the candidate. So much so that soon having a dog became the virtuous thing to do. Now people think of themselves as pet-parents. And human children are not having it half as good dogs are in many households.

This has been the problem of humanity since the time the mind woke up and began developing separately as an intellectual spirit. Religions came out with lists of good and bad "IMAGES". In the present state of things most people have only one goal - to be seen as "good" and this they do by fitting themselves into frames that have been already prepared for them.

The vibrations, the words and the images are being pumped into a person right from the moment of inception.

The big question therefore is how to break this vicious circle and raise the level of consciousness and change the images to be living for.

The climate issue is not yet hurting the individual in the city where most of the activities of humans is now centered. Where and what is the problem? Water comes in taps, electricity runs everything; for travelling there is the car and food can be ordered by telephone.

What crisis are you talking of?

As mostly history has taught, humans need crisis to get out of their stupor. And the earth is definitely moving towards one. Everything will happen in good time. It is a natural cycle that cannot be hurried without a raise of consciousness and the raise of consciousness will not happen without the crisis. The pity is that one crisis may not be enough. With each crisis humanity moves up one tiny microscopic notch. So we have a lot of generations still to go.

As individuals let us do the best we can.

(Although my feeling is these few drops into the ocean only serve to delay the inevitable crisis.)

But I am seeing the mind now sticking itself on other fixations. This scientific understanding of the Creation is creating another shift in mentalising our world.

I will call it a change only when the nature of the mind itself sees a change where it stops being a tool of the "emotional center" and will stop seeing itself as the center of the world.

- "It matters not". The realisation that nothing is ours here on earth.

We don't live lives. We live a streaming of moments. Some are connected to each other but mostly not.

The moments pile up on each other and are short or relatively long but basically still remain moments.

But if you enjoyed your moment then it is and was all good.

The error is in calculating your future upon it.

What really matters: Did the moments teach you to be KIND beyond yourself?

Kind enough to say what you mean and do what you mean?

The world is as false as the words you utter and the thoughts you know will not be seen or cannot be known so indulged in with impunity.

But nothing matters. You die with your cleverness and are soon forgotten.

- Malachy Matthews: I have to be honest with you Pradeep, I simply do not have the interest to read all of your post. But I guess you posted it for yourself, rather than assuming that others will read. I'd say it's the same with my own posts.

Reply from PK:

Am I going door to door trying to talk to anyone?

If you read or not or for that matter, if anyone does or not and is inspired by the words or not is never the aim.

Nobody ever does anything for anybody else.

I write for myself and am surprised that anyone is ever interested in what I am saying.

And I put it down to see how it resonates with others.

It is nice that you even come down here to see what I am saying but if you come here you do it for yourself as I write for myself.

You are welcome but never forget the WISH to be here is yours.

It is the concept that we need to be available to others and we need to help that is the block.

Do we really think there is no consciousness that is shaping the world? That there are no other forces behind every act and happening?

That even the suffering we see has a point?

The funny part of life is that is humans have not even come to grips with the basic 10 commandments but they think themselves good enough to be in direct communion with the Divine.

* The lower level of consciousness at one is, the more is the need to:

1) Exaggerate; to an extreme of building up imagined stories by twisting explanations.

2) Victimization; always project oneself as the victim and need of being avenged.

3) Judge & Punish.

- Teach your children to recognise the possibilities that demons are walking this earth, to not be over confident and as parents please keep a surer eye on them.

Just don't take Goodness for granted.

This is a fact of life that there are people who steal, molest and even torture children for their pleasure; shocking and so soul-less.

It may be wholly or partly a lie.

But from what I know of the human biochemistry, it is possible.

And from what I know of the human race, extremely plausible - we are basically demonic although we have learnt to hide it well behind certain accepted images of what are considered "Good people".

With modern facility of travel and communicating the speed with which we can activate our nefarious goals is immense and serves the ungodly with impunity covered facility.

- We rarely wonder about the overall effect of our words on others and the circumstances that might ensue from the turmoil it may create in the minds of others. We unleash actions that normally end up by hurting us. The immediate gain being the focus. Not the long term issues that will develop.

And good or sensible voices raised are systematically silenced with extreme use of force if necessary.

Our words are a reflection of the image that has formed in our minds of the resolutions we perceive and all our focus then tends towards wanting our image to materialize.

Everything else becomes secondary, immaterial and insignificant.

This faulty thinking process is a key element in creating confusion and unwanted, un-presumed and un-understood chain of painful events that bug our lives.

The human thinking process sees cause and effect rather childishly and keeps getting into sticky holes.

You want examples?

The Africans trying to cross into Europe: is that a solution to their woes?

Pakistan trying to destabilize India by sending a few trouble makers into India: how is it helping?

Americans on the warpath in Asia -- what exactly are they doing there?

In medicine: Is suppressing the pain the answer or should they focus on curing the source of pain?

The Mexican wall -- is that a solution and the way the migrant question is being handled, would you call it sensible?

In food is pesticide the answer for growth and bigger yields? Is it not evident that finally we are poisoning ourselves and the planet for a few extra days of "life";

Do we want longer lives or more fulfilling ones?

Look at the car: It has become a standing example of how our thinking and pride works. Huge polluting examples of luxurious ambulating boxes that are clogging the sinews of our world; but we are making more and more of them, bigger and bigger and our vanities are directly related to it.

Finally one more example of our NON thinking: Population explosion. For a few moments of pleasure we go on and on without a second thought of the misery we are giving birth to by adding to the personal pain of our babies and Mother Earth and eventually ourselves. The Mother earth is not able to sustain our propensities; no problem.... Let us shift to Mars!

THINK. Seriously.....

Have we really brought contentment by making transportation and communication easy and available to all and sundry?

Haven't we only managed to bring the "village" into town?

By producing more phones, cars and clothes and shoes.....

The millionaires have become billionaires. Has it changed their lives?

By making it easy for the rural bumpkins to migrate into towns and even new countries HOW have we helped either the rural migrants or the residents of these towns and countries?

We now hear of Honour killings in England too with Asians behind it. Intolerance to anything that is beyond their own known world of their village makes the violence in them appear.

How is it helping?

- We started as one. Then came the regionalising and the religionising and the isms and the differences!

After all with increasing wealth beyond the village, we needed some excuse to go to war and plunder.

This was the best excuse and un-resolvable! Still continues after thousands of years!

What fun.

- When newly awakened recruits come into the spiritual philosophical vortex, the sense of enlightenment hits them like a flash. They suddenly see everything and understand everything; specially the errors all others are committing.

It becomes difficult for them to contain their grandness. The first thing that hits them is "Kindness" and this makes them see and be kind which translates into "helping or at least advising" others to change their lives which in a funny sort of way becomes an irritant and gives birth to more misery than they will ever know.

The simple way they see is on these lines:

Suppress anger

Do away with Jealousy

Be not greedy

Live in the moment.

So simple really. All you have to do is think about it and it is done! The solutions are so obvious.

Nobody ever thinks in terms of sitting down for a moment and finding out how, why and where.

Just like the doctors who see warts and boils as growth to be "surgically removed" without ever thinking about how and where they come from.

Intellectual discussions and claims are like ants going in a circle at random claiming certain string of words as intelligent postulates. It is an immensely huge circle so seemingly there is much to be discussed.

The only purpose of these discussions in evolution is to show you by the end of the day how useless and pointless and meaningless all this is because most of it is just strings of words NOT connected to actuality.

The nefarious aspect of these intellectual discussions is that one gets addicted to the pleasure of being heard, seem wiser and waste time seemingly wisely.

It benefits you to start moving towards the Intuitive Intelligence when you feel and allow another wider intelligence to influence your thinking and life.

So calm down, sit down, and meditate on this for a moment.

- Anything that leeches on your energy cannot be good. Certain activities open a hole in your atmosphere and permit entry of sucking ghouls that feed on your energy.

Nothing to do with any ism.

Nothing like hunger and daily needs to keep people sane, grounded to realistic self-preservation and aware that we are dependent on each other so we had better be kind and accommodating.

The modern world has made life rather easy for all concerned. The belly is full and it is easily taken care of. The body is clothed and there is protection from the weather. Medical emergencies are taken care of in the most wonderful magical ways.

The only thing that has not evolved or developed is the mind, still hitched to the vanities.

So finally we can say that in their quest for material wealth, the clever and organised ones have actually distributed swords, clubs and deathly ideas to the bums that people this earth in great numbers. They enrich themselves while the bums fight among themselves.

And like zombies they go about doing their thing; after all what can you expect from bed bugs and mosquitoes other than that they will bite? Do you think if we provide them blood in a cup they will leave us alone?

Misguided leaders have as yet not understood that we are not all equal in temperament, abilities, selfishness and self-control.........That there should be some regulating factor in the giving away of gifts to all and sundry. We have till date only empowered the bums to an extent that the more understanding and kinder ones have gone into hiding to save their skin.

Just ask this question: Is it really a good idea to sell guns and alcohol like candies? Have we not learned since thousands of years what alcohol does to humans? Instead of removing things that disturb the peace we have added modern drug formulations in the name of medicine that is unhinging the brain even more.

And to that add the fact that we consciously indoctrinate our people with vengeful ideas based on God's Principles. Wow .....We are stupid indeed and so bloody proud of it.

The wise have this opportunity in today's world to spread their experiences but then so have the others whose avowed goal is "Mayhem" for whatever reason.

My view is that basic needs are being met everywhere. The question is what is "basic needs"? The Guy in New York and the guy in the jungles of Borneo have different needs and their minds do not see beyond that and they are not really suffering due to not having many things that we (used to air conditioning) consider important.

The problem starts with spread of ideas and this has been going on thru the activities of missionaries and evangelists. It is these misguided people who I see as children of the Devil.

Just think for a moment. Do unhappy people breed? If they are having babies, smiling and sleep well when the sun goes down, they are content with their sort and their basic needs are being met as far as their minds can see.

Virtue and chasing pleasure as a soul condition.....No point talking of it. This is my conclusion.

Until satiety has reached - specially in the sense of being totally put off by the disasters that usually follow - until the point when disgust enters our Soul, we go for sense pleasure because it is easy and constantly available when we are in the body.

There is also the fact that the colossal energy we put into its pursuit creates a long lasting fatigue eventually.

Old age and Death interrupts the fun and we clamor to take birth again. Then one day, when Grace finally takes pity on you, you ask "Isn't there more?"

- This is the question I have been asking. When all this talk on love is on, what exactly are the men aiming for really?

It is my contention that the goal is attaining the vagina. The rest of the woman is incidental and her mind really seen as a stupid interfering irritant and their hysterical outbursts are unsettling. To reach the vagina these are tolerated and men look for all the excuses they can to bypass the process; wars and religion provide them in plenty and that is the region why these two activities are in such great demand.

The boobs are also of interest though.

But this love thing is a total LIE. All that is wanted is easy and immediate access whenever desired; a home that is managed; Kids taken care of although rarely planned or thought of.

All these ideas that once in a relationship you will be cherished, loved and desired exclusively is pure humbug -- mental construct that in real life has proven itself by not being there. What keep people together is property laws, ownership tangles and of course children that one comes to love.

FUN and an outlet for the hormonal pressure is all that is on the agenda to start with and when circumstances permit people will jump from one partner to another.

- Do you see the world at your intellectual and wisdom level?

And therefore refuse to see many unpleasant traits thru your "positive attitude" eyes?

You have lived by your high principles and done well. Kudos.

Do you not realise you are the exceptions which make the general animalistic gathering on this earth more glaring + you are the perfect examples of the ideals we should be all trying to achieve and as you have shown it is distinctly possible.

But the question remains: Is anyone interested?

Digital tech knowledge has put everything out of perspective. We now know much of what goes in the hidden worlds as seen thru the microscope and the telescope and we have made Automation our slave but with the sad result that we have become heartless, non-thinkers and depressed as a people on the whole.

- Here is something to meditate on.

We usually use every incident and conversation to introduce our own stories. Discounting others and eulogising ourselves. It is totally "we" all the time everywhere; opportune moment or not.

Even Faith is more or less instinct based depending on the environment of upbringing with a lot of fear embedded. Life ends up becoming routine, a ritual and eventually boring and they lament it so much that they are thinking of ending their lives -- just like that.

Humans being what they are: clever, cunning and lazy, reduce every act into a ritual so that they may seem wise at every moment + pious, sincere and reliable as honest-to-god types. What can be done for people who are not willing to own it up?

Life goes on. It is a fast moving activity. It takes only a few minutes for a promise to be spoken and forgotten equally fast. Words are being constantly uttered in a passionate moment with no intention of following them up -- they are spoken as they make the speaker 'seem' great at that moment and everyone is impressed. As soon as the speaker is out of the ambit of that situation he has forgotten it; he had never meant it anyway and it would be foolish to expect it to manifest or materialize -- understand that it has become the "past" and let it slip into history.

You'll save yourself a lot of heartache.

- Don't clutter their minds

The subject matter is "CHILDREN" and what we are teaching them by giving them stories, examples and such.

Teach them the arts like painting, photography, rudiments of vocations like carpentry, electricals, stitching, cooking and tinkering, teach them the sciences and teach them sports. Let them learn languages from old classical writers like Maugham, Twain and Maupassant who were short story tellers par excellence and give them selected happy stories.

It is conclusively proven that those who are brought up without religion and dogma are better human-beings later.

Don't steal their childhood with fearsome and scary tales of religious strife and history. Let the past die. Prepare them for the future.

Just keep these epics, convoluted adult idiocies and gruesome adult nonsense away from them till the age of 16. Time enough for them to learn about them later when some discrimination develops and they have better understood themselves.

They will learn enough about human behaviour from their friendship capers.

- People are ranting against leaders in every other country. All seem to be doing a horrific job and messing the lives of their people and taking decisions that are downright pain-causing in every sphere of life.

How does one explain it?

To me it is a clear show of strength by the Forces operative in the Cosmos. It seems struggle is needed for consciousness to rise out of matter. The malefic Forces are helping by doing what they best do.

Check from the time of recorded history. The number of tyrants, conquering hordes is what it is all about.

Human history is.....

- Proclaim principles.

- Make certain things legal and all else illegal

- Prosecute

- Demand obeissance from other nations.

- Kill opposition with brutality to instill fear as well

- Go conquering other lands on some pretext

- Again kill all opposition for establishing supremacy

- The avengers become active and there is more killing and repeat of the same.

The coming of Hitler spread their powers. He started a chain of speeded-up horror that has been multiplying and accelerating in gruesomeness.

Shall we take this as a fight for the common man to wake up from his stupor and claim his rightful place under the sun?

Life has become international no doubt. The last few hundred years and specially in the last 2 centuries we have started learning and knowing about others and their different customs and thinking.

But it is a sad fact that our millions of years of conditioning of fear has still not been eradicated from our subconscious; specially the fact that we are afraid of others that we do not know and our first reaction is to eliminate them or/and kill them. Our method to solve problems is basically still 99% based on "removing" the person as the cause of an issue.

We have no understanding of really resolving issues. Our capabilities don't go that far.

I give a story to clarify -

In a University hostel the ladies and gentlemen ate separately. No one bothered to dress properly at the dining table. Rules were announced but no one took heed. Punishment deterred nobody.

A new director came; saw the problem and announced that henceforth ladies and gentlemen will eat in the same hall and together.

The problem got solved overnight.

- The thought patterns that surfaced in the 19th century have out-lived their relevance.

With the new data now with us we need re-access our theories.

For nothing in human knowledge is final.

And then they are all "theories" not permanently established elements.

Sadly we are harbouring thought-patterns even older.

When shall we move into the future?

- The focus of medicine has shifted from acute to chronic care making it catastrophically expensive and bad for general health.

Did you ever for a moment sit back and consider how Commercial houses dealing in medical services and products have high-jacked the health agenda and are now making you pay for it?

Go back to medicine as it was practiced in 1950/60s. The onus of maintaining health was on us. Avoid getting wet, Wear warm under-clothing. Eat freshly cooked food and at a proper times. Hygiene is important. Go out in the sun. Take a walk in the park. Add a lot of herbs in the food. Eat salads. Drink soup when not feeling well. Yoghurt was made at home and so was cream and butter. Hydrogenated oils were unknown. Vicks vaporub was the ointment for all ills etc etc etc.

Then came penicillin and antibiotics. The doctors and the patient started getting careless and irresponsible. All the bad habits could now be indulged in; specially the sexual orientations. Body-destroying intoxicants and hallucinating drugs came into fashion as great adventures. Low IQ became the fashion and as the largest group of buyers is from the lower IQ level, everything started being developed and made for them and with them specifically as customers in mind. The quality of life and health with it plunged to new lows never even known in the dark middle-ages of civilised life in Europe.

The food industry developed the long shelf-life inert food line that was poison in disguise. More complex and incurable diseases began proliferating but antibiotics could manage everything or so we thought.

Now the focus is on cancer. It is now a multi-millions industry with highly sophisticated treatment plans where you as a person do not matter but only your money does.

Earlier the person aimed at NOT getting ill. Now the focus is on NOT dying.

Notice the difference?

The people actively follow this thinking and support the money-making racket of the industry.

- The mind has no discerning power. It accepts as truest whatever info is fed to it first. And when it has no other info to go by it listens to its master's heart.

This is why "parents & teachers have such a "hold" on the minds of the coming generation.

Change therefore can come only thru parents. Now how do we change the parents' mindsets?

Example: the child who cries first is believed. The one who complains first is always believed as being in the right.

The "bad" boys escape most of the time because we blame first the support-giver on the scene that WE SEE.

In religion philosophy what is "fed" first becomes the reality.

How do you break this cycle of acceptance in babyhood and later when the Ego-hood is in full command with the sign-board "NO-Entry" - the warehouse is closed due to lack of storage space?

This is why all our posts, lectures and discussions change nothing, teachers have come and gone and nothing has changed, all the books collect dust and life bumbles along as usual.

Only the soul can open portals and this happens only after traumatic experiences when the mind can no longer continue to exist with its existing information.

- Humanity till date has lived on the principle: The things to be said and the things to be done are two separate things. ...this won't do any more.

- It is possible to know and feel what others are thinking and feeling but for this you have to be living in and at the intuitive mind level.

Words dropped here and there will give us indications for sure. But humans are creatures of moments and cannot really be relied upon for constancy in whatever they do or say; one never knows when some subconscious switch may operate.

So the best way to coexist with humans is to keep your eyes open, manipulate situations as they present themselves and never take anything for granted.

In my life for some reason or the other, I seem to be the person people focus on when some mischief is afoot. I just gulp the incident down and continue sedately with my life and strictly avoid the people thereafter. I do not spend any energy in clearing the air. This is in my opinion a waste of good energy as the assumptions made rarely change; specially when people have decided you are not the "right type" of a guy.

Some people have to endure more than others....

More than reason our weapon of maintaining relationships seems to be "blackmail". We use sulks, anger, embarrassment and downright abuse.

There seems to be an absolute ease with which we use extortion to keep in control people around us specially in one to one close relationships...... We get the control and they get the unwellness.

Like for instance:

Man-wife: Choose between me and ......

Boss-employee: Do this or else

I remember a story of group insurance that was being initiated in a factory. One person was not agreeing and holding everyone to ransom.

The boss called him and whispered something in to his ear which was in short "sign or I fire you"

Later when he was asked what had the boss had said he replied "nobody had explained it so well to me before".

* So many talented people are ending up homeless/jobless/aimless. Why? The question: Why and How these talented people end up down the empty road?

If I go by my own life, I would say it is because of ATTITUDE, values of decency and highest aspirations that are impractical in this world and the possibility of having hurt too many people in the process. Too many values and nobody having taught us the value of giving value to the decision making power of others and how heartless life is.

How a roof on our head matters more than purity of intentions.

How our values are irritants to others and totally of no value whatsoever in the Bread-earning-program. Like being Honest in the land of thieves - every word will be used against you and even those that you never uttered!

And to end this discussion here is a quote from me:

People are so busy being clever that they have no time to be intelligent.

BOOK THREE.

Window into the coming times......

We are laden with thousands of years of gowns draped on our persona; the human being we know today as the human race. Most of the gowns have served their purpose and if not discarded they will squeeze the life out of us - enveloped in their disintegrating folds. We now need to think into the future and put on new gowns if we are to survive the new challenges that we shall be meeting and that are now upon us.

It is with a heavy heart that I see that now that the secrets of the Pandora's Box are becoming available to mankind, how awfully and with what stupendous zeal they are out to destroy technologically the very fabric of our existence. I cannot go into each and every example how we are denuding the planet and depriving our fellow humans a means to live so that some people can play kings and accumulate a lot of stuff - tangible and intangible - for no great gains or use to them. Here are some of my thoughts on the issue.

• Soon they will realise that machines do not pay taxes, do not buy their cars and washing machines and all that agricultural produce is not selling and then for funds they will have to tax themselves which now they are imposing more and more on the small captive earners and the old and infirm who have no place to run or recourse to being heard. They are using all the methods they can devise to enrich themselves and soon wars will not be needed because people will be dying on their own, trapped in their hospitals and cleaned out financially before they finally do die.

Suddenly their factories will not be required either. The planet will not remain livable. It may take another generation or two but it is surely coming.

Only those with some saleable skills and living on kitchen gardens will survive. It will be back to the 1900 and we can start all over again.

The above is in reply and agreement to:

Rick Robinson: Balance in All things! Too much of anything isn't Good for you. But yes, can't you see the trend? Robots replace welders and painters then assembly line workers, and receptionists, then Self checkouts started popping up, replace Cashiers. Now we think we're about ready to replace taxi, bus, truck drivers. People Need Jobs, people need to feel important. How would you feel if they wheeled a Machine into Your Job one day and sent you out the back door? Tools are to Help you do your job, not do the job for you.

• Celebrations relating to WW1/2.....

All the crocodile tears being shed in remembrance and the photo ops that it creates for the media is so nauseating.

The question is: Are we celebrating the deaths or the wars or the devastation?

Malachy Matthews: That's the question Pradeep. That's it. Or the victory?

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari: Was there a victory? Then why after 2/3 generations the same situation is nearly upon us?

They start the wars -- just go deep into the issue and you will see politicians and kings sitting around tables in great luxury and starting wars as it suits their immediate purpose. Soon once their needs are over; they sit around a table and stop it. No territorial gains are shown but yes economically the areas are taken over for more profit to the same industrials that profited from the war effort.

It is one dastardly way to make profits.

The conglomerates on both sides were enjoying a boom. The youth had all been killed. Looting was the aim. The Reich would have collapsed under its own weight of devastation and the conglomerates would have been kings as they finally have become through the war mongering governments that took over.

And research where the Reich got the funds in the first place and you will see the victors actually started it all.

And we today are paying for it through questionable medical practices, pesticides, denatured food & pollution of our air and water because their greed has no end. Neither has ours.

• Bread is God to 99% of human animals. And once their tummies are full, attention turns towards the opposite sex which is like a huge pressure exploding outwards and has to be released come what may; then to a better roof above their heads. Lastly they start looking for implements and machines so more bread can be collected and eventually old age comes and takes over.

All this talk of God is a social convention and good for getting together because we need each other. We dream of enriching ourselves from these groups. This is why we are such avid believers of God and follow the religion adopted by the reigning kings - it is the best thing to do for the wellbeing of the family that comes with a full belly.

That is all God really amounts to in people's lives.

If you thought the people talk of God and the sacred religious books because they wish to improve their personas so that they become better instruments for the action of the Gods they speak of....think again.

Most people are quite happy to be what they are and only wish to improve the world in their image and what is comfortable to their selves.

• In life often there will be misunderstandings. Clear them as soon as you can IF you get the chance. Very often people and circumstances never give you the opportunity to tell your side of the story. Prejudices and rumors play a big part in our life stories. If you don't get the opportunity to ever correct the narrative, don't feel bad. Take it as one of those things of life and move on.

It is good to remember that though we have thousands of years of learning behind us, we have not yet reached a level of wisdom where we are generous enough to forgive, forget and reunite.

• What is real and true? Evidently what I want it to be!

....for whatever I conceive shall be and IS. And when I make it law it becomes.

• We don't want a better life; we want better satisfaction of our wishes.

• If we can gain weight because we are stupid enough to knowingly not pay attention to our eating & living habits, do you think suddenly we are going to become intelligent enough to eat and live correctly to lose some?

• Nothing as unreliable as memory.

That is if we have seen and heard correctly in the first place.

And with a little alcohol even this question evaporates.

It is really quite sad when people talk of things 10s and 20s years ago as if it happened yesterday with total confidence of being absolutely accurate.

It shows how much we really know of human psychology and how much of our understanding of life is made up of moralistic jingoism.

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.

• This idiotic concept that putting the hand on a sacred book and taking an oath/vow to be sincere and honest will really make us so is so irrelevant today that it does not even bear thinking about it.

• Most people can only relate personally and judge the story teller and often respond as if they were being personally criticised.

I remember talking of driving skills the other day. The hazard created by newly learnt drivers for the express end of taking jobs as drivers and who are now creating havoc on the Delhi roads. I was telling how people who are born into a car-culture think and drive versus people who have never known cars and later in life learn to drive -- I was met with exploding anger by the listener as if I was commenting on his life for coming from a poorer background!

• We hear more stories of unhappy childhood than we hear of well-balanced happy ones. Yet the business of parenting goes on without anyone shining any light on it. And we have thousands of years behind us in terms of "experience".

To me this is so difficult to understand.

Why is humanity not learning from its past or present?

There seems to be a marked tendency to ignore mistakes and keep puffing on; producing babies without second thoughts. The way children are brought up would seem that we leave it all to Mother Nature.

Is it not worth giving a moment's thought to the fact that when we burden ourselves with children before we have started in creating a proper home for them, we block all possible avenues of growth because all our efforts are immediately swallowed up by the growing family? All the effort being put in for the family is totally squandered in keeping the family going and in the end it is the family that is most deprived and hurt. Why can't we discipline ourselves to wait a little before we have children so that we can put the infrastructure required in place for their best welfare?

Why do we not feel any sense of responsibility to improve upon ourselves and leave a better world behind us?

When will sincerity become our guiding word?

The time to regulate 'Baby Making" has come.

Something like this:

No marriage until you have a proper minimum income

- no babies in the first 5 years of marriage.

- second child after a 3 year's gap

- no divorce with children

Max only 3 children

• The Plunder that we promoted......

The Industrial revolution started the trend of factories. Simple gadgets that helped humans produce more. Better transportation helped sell more by going into faraway markets. It was a happy outcome as the whole wide world was open to sell into. Then in the name of bringing efficiency into production more and more intelligent and efficient machines were created. What the people did not see and the bosses knew very well that they were ensuring that machines do more and more of the work because they do not tire, do not ask for overtime and once paid for do not ask for salaries/overtime for years to come or unionise.

Then came the electronics age and with digital technology automation of the most complicated kind became possible.

The owners of industrial houses were in 7th heaven. They could do without humans. The humans did not see through this ruse till the jobs started disappearing.

I wonder how many know that there are factories where there is not even one worker and this is nothing new -- specially in the fields of producing CDs and Integrated circuits and such.

Now the market is full of products most cannot buy as they have no source of income. The whole bubble exists on credit that are imply numbers floating from one register to another but there is no real wealth.

The industrials focus merrily on manufacturing armaments that are designed to be used and destroyed so the consumption is not a problem. The politicians focus on manufacturing wars and the rich clique is having the best time that any society has known in history of civilization.

And the honest simple retarded human? He continues to promote these anarchists by supporting their every move by buying what they offer as products and services and has been cleverly trapped into the system by selling his soul by accepting Credit Cards that they offered. The simpleton common never knew what he was getting into and little realizing that he was taking loans on the capital he himself has put into the banks in the first place.

Today we are buying their air filters because the air is polluted and water filters because the water is polluted and we think of paying though our nose for so called organic foodstuff. Can't we see what a fool we have been made of?

The utterly stupid humanity is always ready to send their children to fight wars that the rich initiate. They come shattered and broken and the kings deplore these vagabonds who have nothing to do, no place to stay and no income once out of the army. They become meaningless ciphers that are an irritant and drain on the government coffers.

In health matters too, the industrials have managed to convince this blind humanity that the age old methods of health care followed since thousands of years are wrong and they have imposed on the people a medicare system that destroys their lives, is expensive and makes the people dependents on the crutches that the rich sell them. A system that developed on the killing fields of war and even today practiced as such in the practices of the hospital industry.

This is how stupid we are and there isn't much of a change to be seen yet. At the rate people are being trodden upon, their waters poisoned, lands taken away, I wonder when the sheeples will awake and see their lives are at stake?

• Once upon a time people were forced to fight to really protect one's homes.

Now they are engineered ends to the means of profit for huge arms dealers/manufacturers.

There is no glory; only murder. Murder of our own children and annihilation of the others that are simply labelled as "enemy" for convenience.

In Addition there is poisoning of the land and destruction of thousands of years of infrastructure and culture.

It is as if The Devil is expanding literally its reach to later sit on the heap of the dead to climb and crow.

Yesterday I read this sentence in a write-up "I had a great victory, I destroyed the entire district and converted thousands of families to our faith."

This is what wars have been about and today it is not even this.

• When philosophizing and relating stories....

I find that 4 out of 5 people fail to distinguish between the telling of personal experiences and the lessons learnt from them and when people are relating their personal pains and looking for "relief & support".

As teachers many people talk of personal experiences as case studies. This is a way to deflect any ME-YOU notions in the conversation and create an atmosphere of openness & authenticity so that the listeners do not take it personally -- after all we all have the same traits.

When there is real-time sharing the aim is to help share direct experiences so that others can avoid the same pitfalls and understand the situation from a different viewpoint.

But this factor is totally missed out.

• Like a chair that serves the purpose to "sit" but is available in many designs some very comfortable, pleasing to the eye and some neither of these; all the humans are also basically the same but come in different permutations and combinations of intelligence, kindness, motives, desires and vileness.

It is a question of degree between the saint and the rogue.

We need to see thru the smoke screens and the masks that surround people and understand each in their unique combination.

In ourselves we need to find and promote the best and highest purpose and vibes we can think of - it is gratifying to note that more and more people are now moving towards this.

We need to make a greater effort towards change. The consciousness levels supported by Earth and implemented thru humans is to be considered now, the elements in action (even though apparently changing in permutations and combinations) are not changing.

Oh, yes it can be argued there is change happening but it is all the intellectual level and not at the subconscious level. Leaving no permanent imprint on life on earth; most of these changes die with the person.

Everything is soon forgotten and literally "Laid to Rest".

• Come to think of it....

Do we ever do anything with total sincerity?

Most of our acts are motions to SEEM & PLEASE.

Our thoughts and intentions are all in a flux.

There is nothing concrete to build on; yet we believe great structures will rise and a world will be created in accordance to our unformed wishes.

• When I look back I wonder, did I really desire all this?

But then why did I not go for it all-hearted as most people go?

There was always an instinctive wariness - a sort of deeper thought that it seems fun but not really worth running after.

And somewhere at the back of my mind was also the notion that let life run after me.

After all whatever or whoever planned my birth/life has also a plan.

• A lot of trauma has its foundation in the starting philosophy of life that we adopt. Specially the "decent" behaviour imposed on children and demanded of them which are in exact opposition of the Truth of life. Example: We ask them to speak the truth always as we teach them honesty is the best policy while we as parents are lying all the time and nobody in life is living/speaking the truth.

Other examples: Respect your elders. Trust experts. Believe in labels.

Doctor knows best.

We give a very erroneous image of life to the children that later on can be very traumatic as nothing matches the education received and living has to be re-learnt.

Why can't we stop being the good saintly elders and tell the children how life is and how we went through it all when they are still under our care and protection so that when they meet "life" they know exactly what is coming?

• Although I am talking of India to avoid controversy, it applies to almost all places.

In India, to understand we need to go back into history. The basic Indian personality is very tamasic (full of intertia); wanting everything like a child without understanding the implications and without putting in effort. But when roused there is a lot of emotional energy available. Yet somehow, the mental energy is rarely active or visible in action.

I attribute it to the ruthlessness under which the Indians have lived first under the sword of the Muslims and then later under the foreign influences of the Europeans.

Indians have learnt to resign themselves to their fate and get by usually by misusing their authority - something they see the kings and overlords doing with impunity. The moneyed class is a bunch profiteers and cheaters and they have been squeezing every drop they could from the poor village bumpkins. They also make sure that the poor never get justice.

This situation has suddenly changed today into a democratic setup and has made Indians lose their heads. Everyone knows their rights and has a clear idea of how to misuse it but nobody seems to have the sense of responsibility that necessarily comes from the "self-governing" that LIFE demands.

We are callous to an extreme degree. And this is our problem; continuously repeating in our lives. No wonder we are the most corrupt people you can think of - even in minor things we are unable to be kind and compassionate except in self-interest situations and then we become the kindest, groveling and gentlest people.

Indians have always followed like sheep their Godmen (put on an orange garb and spout some Sanskrit and you become one) guides and have never taken responsibility of their lives and actions. Even the most highly educated run to astrologers to placate the planets to solve all their problems.

Change, Learning, Taking responsibility for one's well-being are not our strong points.

• At the core of our lives we face only two issues. One is that we desire something that belongs to or is in the control of another. The second is how to cross the vanity barrier so that doors will be opened and we can acquire our heart's desire.

Our life is spent in deliberating out these two simple interdependent factors.

The quest and the effort are unending.

Ken Timper: Physically, we all need things from each other. No one is totally self-sufficient. Psychologically... What do you really need? If you depend on someone psychologically, in any capacity, you are breeding dependency and fear within yourself. So how does one balance that, support and lift someone without becoming co-dependent? The vast majority of romantic relationships today are based in co-dependency to one degree or another, which leads to fear and the desire to control the other person, rather than support their inner growth. When you get right down to it, isn't that what selfishness really is? With that come jealousy, anger, and every other kind of negative emotion.

• Well if you choose to ignore the swelling numbers of certain elements in the beginning, they only swamp you later.

Not wanting to look a problem in the face right when it begins in the name of not focusing on the negative is one good way of letting things be and letting them multiply unchecked.

• On the occasion of Samhain, Halloween, Diwali...a special message from me:

Why good people trying to live in a decent way are more visited by suffering?

From the occult point of view in the present state of affairs, the world's behavior and karmic patterns are fashioned by the forces that use "Pressure and Heat" to forge the human awareness towards a better level of conscious opening. So Tragedy, Wars and Bereavements, Losses become instruments of the Karmic Forge.

But things move at the Mother Earth's speed because the material envelope takes time and is slow to change as resistance is an element built into it.

Decent people are generally speaking going against this trend. All the forces then focus their attention on them. The negative experiences force the human emotions and mind to think and react differently and more positively.

A secret which is rarely told is that when the evolutionary trend in a person gathers speed, a kind of Anti-Being who is actually a friend in disguise attaches to the person and starts initiating the happenings in life. His job is to make life harder which then breaks down attachments and vanities. It is a purifying process.

Every person around us, every act we initiate, every possibility that comes to us, all these are happening because of the being that is now running our life like a shadow. He grows with us.

It seems that the decent people are having more than their share of pain which is actually true.

Q: Does this mean that troubles keep on increasing?

PK: There are two aspects. As your strengths grow, the troubles increase and focus primarily on strengthening your weaker points. It feels like that every time you reach a peak a new peak arrives and has to be conquered.

The good aspect is that the very Being helping you grow also makes sure the trials match your capabilities. The idea is not to destroy you but help you master yourself. You will find as you focus on your Being to solve your issues, a window into the intuitive world starts opening. You are then led to answers and pieces of knowledge that help you on the way.

In the final analysis it is all good.

• Really!

If a well-balanced intelligent people looked at us, they would think of us as definitely a very neurotic race.

Make a list of the major religions and then make a list of the forbidden items and taboos, termed mostly as SINs and you will find that if all were put together, we are all living in extreme sin; most equivocally living a very degenerate low ungodly life. In short we should all be in Hades with no rights to the wonderful life we have on earth at all.

• Everyone you meet or talk to seems to be down with what the doctors now call VIRAL fever. I wonder if they know what they are talking of. Or is it a mask to hide their lack of understanding or lack of interest in knowing.

30 years ago it was the FLU and allergies that were in fashion.

Why are we so afraid of being sick?

If you count the percentage days we have been sick in our lives, we shall see that there is nothing to be afraid of.

Eat well. Sleep well. Play well. Laugh well and roam on the beaches at sunrise and bask in the sunset.

You may never be sick at all.

But I also ask, if we are so afraid of being sick then why are we poisoning the environment and our food specially - knowingly and willingly?

And why do we then follow the media's philanthropy to promote dangerous products and utterly believe in the Hospital/doctor's ability to unfailingly care for us and know our bodies better than us? Just check how much time does a doctor spend in knowing us and how diligently he is interested in our welfare?

I think what has happened is this:

Antibiotics, Denatured foods, Poisons such as pesticides ( in food growing and pest control in our lives such as mosquito repellents) have weakened the guts natural activity by eliminating digestive enzymes, compromised our immune systems and the constant bombardment of pollutants is what is making us sick.

+ the constant communications lines being open, watching TVs/Videos keep our minds unbalanced and consequently our bodies unbalanced.

The western medicine is not the right approach to wellness.

• Self destructive thoughts. It happens mainly when people with small minds try to think big.

And if they are in a position of some authority, the destructive action multiplies.

• Anything outside their own promulgated dogma makes people go out of their control -- the religious leaders know this.

Fear was the Key. Fear IS the key. So they conjure up demons and Devils and customs.

Keep them frightened and their own selves comfy in velvety cushions -- this has always been the trick.

Can't blame the priesthood alone.

This is the way of humans - earthly creatures.

The ordinary boss does it, the father does it, the wife does it, the teacher does it, the law does it, the king does it - even the dog in the street does it.

It is the "done" thing.

• Melodrama.

A really enjoyable piece of life if you can distance yourself away from the personal involvement when it is being dramatised around you.

Humans who have nothing else to crow about use it to announce themselves to the world.

I have seen it being used in good measure by men of small stature but becoming minor bosses and the ladies do it too but mostly as the wife of so called minor important people. And nowadays we see a lot of it from the entitled brat community.

• Some; rather most people cannot think and talk in general. Generalisations are lost on them.

They normally respond with exceptions to prove that they know what you are speaking about and take no time to show you the error of your generalisations.

Their vanities assuaged at the same time

Some words or some element of an image triggers their thinking process which they connect with images already in their minds and they are off on a track which your words never intended. Their reaction is to a single or group of words; never the whole idea or picture.

Give them a whole passage to mull upon and they will see only a few words here and there, conclude God knows what and thereby totally give your point of view a royal miss. Most often they do not respond, having totally misunderstood the intentions (I may even venture to say: deliberately) and relationships are soured.

It is best, while in speech mode not to use words that the other person may not know..... They end up matching the sound to some words that they do know, reword your sentence and it can end up in a miniature disaster.

Recently I used the word Condo as in condominium and the lady at the other end heard "condom"!

• We want life to go only one way.

Action and more action ; Pursuit of pleasure unending. We want Light so that we can make the most of life 24x7.

Neither would we sleep nor let others sleep.

Sleep is so gross when so much is to be taken and had!!!!!

I agree to the point that we are afraid of the dark - it represents inaction - something the "desire" part in us does not want.

• The Ego is the Life Force. Without it we become "sloths".

It is NOT to be melted or removed or eradicated but to be transformed. Use this power for selfless action and being yourself at the same time.

Example: You are hungry, please eat to your heart's content but do not take away bread from another.

What is needed to be melted is our selfishness and self-centeredness.

If only the understanding that our goodness and joy is closely knitted with the "good" of others and this planet overall.

Humans are selfish because they cannot see in black and white the goodies coming to them, waiting to come to them and the Wisdom of the Universe in organising our lives.

• Certain picturisations tend to then want to manifest. Spirits in the netherworld are attracted and find common grounds of magnetism.

I would desist from inviting ghouls in our minds and images.

There are no religions. There are thought patterns. These thoughts are put into words by certain perceptive people. On the basis of the sincerity of interpretation the words then make a place for themselves in the physical world though sound and print.....largely impregnating other minds who in turn re-translate it to fit a little more into the veracity of their personal experience as they will it.

Certain words are simple and can be used in multiple usages.

Like in India the most common words in action are "It does not matter" and these words now reflect in all we do - mostly badly. These words have been polluting our psychology. And; in this age of precise technology it is showing maladroitly as accidents due to bad maintenance and worse as faulty observations. It is proving to be a costly exercise.

• The philosophy of entitlements.

We start in gratitude in life when we get a source of income, or recognition or appreciation and soon we start thinking of it as an entitlement and that we are actually "the Doer", the responsible guy, taking all the credit for the good that we are doing to others by our service. Gratefulness soon turns into arrogance.

For some reason my mind went back to the day we visited the Konark Temple near Puri. A taxi was taken for the round trip. While booking I had clearly mentioned there should be no time limit in the visit - a point conveniently forgotten to be passed on to the driver/owner of the car.

It is normal to think that I travelled 2500 kms to visit a place and I would not be rushed.

I normally keep a cellphone only as an emergency instrument to keep in touch with home-base. This day too it was OFF as usual. I was savoring every moment of my visit to the temple with my family and having comes so far, I was not going to miss the opportunity to bask in its powerful vibes.

Then tired and ready to leave, I put ON the phone and call the taxi driver to meet us at the entry point.

He comes and in great style starts scolding me for taking so long and keeping my phone shut so that he could not get in touch. Did I think I had taken the taxi forever? He had already booked himself for another passenger etc etc etc.

I sensed that he was trying to create grounds for demanding more as payment (I have been in the tourist trade).

Then I stopped him short and in my most Lordly manner told him off using reverse psychology making it clear that he survives in this harsh world because we and people like us come here for visits. He is not doing us a favour - we are doing it to him! Not to forget that he has not been paid yet and if he feels like leaving he is welcome, I can always take the local bus back to town. That shut him up finally for that moment.

Back at the hotel he tried to rake up the matter again with the manager trying to extract extra payment for the extra time not knowing that the manager is the person to him I asked for this taxi without unlimited time. This is when I threatened the driver (that all it takes is a call to the right person in Delhi and the action that will follow could well destroy his business and put his manager [patron in trouble) and this frightened the manager of the hotel and he finally shut the driver for good.

We have really forgotten our graces in this world of today's entitled arrogance.

• The easiest way to being kind is to speak of all the wonderful fears we personally have. This will also make us look within and we shall be astounded with all the leaking holes in our boat that we see.

This should keep us busy and with little time for the stupidities of others.

I wish children could be taught this art right from the beginning. I wonder if a curriculum can be organised on a universal basis like teaching any other subject.

And poof, all our interpersonal issues would disappear. Empathy would grow and all would be well with the world.

We rarely like to speak of our fears, our doubts and our questions that are haunting us.

Why? Because we may be seen as weak.

Because we are afraid to expose our fault lines and our vulnerability.

We don't open up. Others don't open up. We all remain caged in our Halloween masks.

Then we feel sad that no one connects with us!

- Usually the people who fight their way to the top in commercial ventures have to be basically ruthless to arrive.

When they "arrive", a glass wall builds around them protected by sycophants.

The judicious worry of prying eyes and worries of reputation does not seem as important then.

Actions and decisions happen based on over confidence and for the mere fact that opportunities are there for the taking.

Dilip Kumar Roy: That is common stuff.

We need to experience and share a way beyond the common place, isn't it?

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari Yes. But when, as you say, "A point of Calmness within you. Poised, peaceful. Once there, an attractive figure can only cause a bare surface ripple. That is the destination that calls our brightest minds in business, journalism, government." is reached; the will to use all this chicanery to stay on top also evaporates. And in this cut-throat world, one prefers to then fade out.

The world as yet is too violent but yes the highest aim as you describe has to be humanity's aim

• Don't let this happen in your lives.

Only half an hour ago I was talking to wife Manjula about how the element of gratitude and good wishes has gone from our living. In the past the education was that we should gather a crop of good wishes in our lives and they will carry us on their wings to a fruitful and profitable life. Not anymore. The good wishes and kind grateful thoughts/vibes have no more any meaning. The value of friendly compassionate deeds is lost.

How could we forget in 20 years lessons learnt over 20000 years that goodwill is our armor?

Kind gestures are misunderstood

Examples:

No one gives way

None surrenders seat to elderly/infirm.

Doctors are marketing services of their hospitals in the guise of protocol.

Food manufacturers are promoting poisons knowingly.

Teachers not teaching but following protocol to save their jobs and those who do are soon removed.

Parents have no sense of responsibility except that they are unhappy or not and change partners leaving the children open to trauma and worse.

• Taking on a mantle of VIRTUE is so easy.

Go to the temple.

Pour some water on the "Shivling" or light some candles.

Mutter and utter some words which are normally advised by the astrologer or priest; followed by your litany of desires.

Place some flowers as offering (that you plucked from somebody's garden in the name of god).

Your part played now you can "Virtually" expect God to take care of you and all your worldly affairs to suit you.

• Saturday Meditation.

It is astounding the rate at which I am losing the will to live and I mean genuinely from deep within as if my stint for this life is over and I wish to move on. I can feel the disconnect happening.

I look in the mirror and can understand that in this world of "UP & DOING" I am quite out of place. Humans are so stuck on visuals and conform to certain images rather ridiculously strictly. So I am now of no interest to the "DOERS". Experience as a book of learning to shorten one's own learning period has never caught on as a commodity of value.

Even in my immediate circle, I am an anachronism as their brains, washed with the flux of advertising know all the answers. I can only watch in horror the young ones with their half-baked over confidence repeating mistakes like the rest of the world when a little time with me could have helped them resolve many of their questions but the tragedy is they are not looking for answers.

And I am not going to just sit in my balcony and watch the world's coming and going will I?

Then what am I doing here? And yes it is true, I can no longer cut a plank or lift a suitcase nor hang a picture though I can still make an omelette but it is no longer in fashion.

• Good health philosophy. (advice to a young man whose father was down with cancer)

There are many treatments in our old Ayurved, Unani(greek origin) and Tibetan medicine but to find good experienced doctors and good medicines is hard (one rule is never go to a young person)

Allopaths (doctors of western modern medicine) have no real treatment for cancer. The treatment is more lethal than the disease, Stay away from it.

Immediately stop all sugars, acidic foods. Take some baking soda every day to alkalinise the blood.

Get your father out of the polluted atmosphere. Give him a balanced organic food diet.

Reduce noise, dust, irritation in his life. Totally avoid all factory made eatables. Stay away from EMF or reduce it as far as possible.

Ask him to take life easy and do things in which he finds joy. He must practice the art of withdrawal.

Based on this philosophy, learn more. And put it into practice.

• We have been readying them for war since the day they are born.

Our education, sports and lifestyle all promote to go out and "win" at any price. Ruthlessness is promoted. The media glorifies murder, misdeed and all ills that we suffer from in exclusivity. The law/judiciary does not seem to protect but helps in evading.

Movies have been teaching revenge and war to get what we want. Be Macho is the lesson.

Duplicity and cheating is obvious at every step in life. The parents, teachers, leaders are lying and the children can see it.

Yet we expect our children to grow up as exemplary saints.

• The error has been in making lust as the highest pleasure and termed heaven (even divine rather sickeningly). The men and women can't think beyond it,

That this is untrue is evident from all the unhappiness this pursuit causes.

The men can't visualise anything else and the women think that they have the upper hand in control of the male when they offer themselves. Nobody realises how boring it all gets finally.

I think all the problems of humanity come from the fact that the male wants to play with the female body, only with the portion below the neck and that too when charming & young, but has to live with the above-the-neck-part which requires continuous lying and pleasing with untrue words and champagne.

• This is a perfect example how short term solutions and gains can come to haunt us in the long term.

Problems for which our human abilities and levels of consciousness are no match.

The festering is unstoppable. New karmic wave is being created every second. The boils multiply.

As individuals we may consider ourselves as "so clever" but leaving a wake that grows on itself.

In a bigger totality the pettiness of humans finds a way to manifest.

• I was pondering on how certain words and their acceptance thereof make it so.

Specially in the realm of profit and how things are confounded and fear is sowed in the minds to profit therefrom.

How rulers classify certain words and forget the real intent.

A "doctor" is someone with a Diploma. Healers are witches although the truth is that a bunch of people get together to codify certain knowledge, accept it as valid and then institutionalise it by giving out diplomas. Anyone not following it all becomes an illegal and culprit.

The same can be done and has been done with all streams of knowledge and activity.

The "bastard word" becomes king and Truth goes into hiding. Now there are only 2 kinds of people the knowledgeable with diplomas and the bums.

Certain words are purposefully spread and used to instill fear and then the establishment uses them for profit. Words that have played a great role in deluding the people so that the rulers could profit from commercialisation of the fear have been: Communism, Nuclear war, Terrorist, Immigration, Cholesterol, Allergies, Vaccination, Cancer, Molestation, Abortion, Pollution and such in a long stream.

The sheeples follow like good little babies that they are and become active participants and purchase products like mad to protect themselves from all the terrifying pictures painted for them.

• We spend a lot of thought and speech energy in useless pursuits. I keep repeating to all who would listen, particularly, to stop complaining and discussing, just do what you have to do in this moment and be done with it.

Observe, contemplate and act if needed. Then drop it from your mind - forget it.

• Unwilling learning is always a great source of pain. Therefore all this talk of Dukkha (pain and sadness). Right now we have to go with the Universe; all our kind thoughts and wishes notwithstanding. We force the Universe to inflict pain by making us go through the drills of life otherwise we would never learn.

Humans refuse to accept that things are not quite positively balanced on Earth.

A small error is made in thinking that the positive energy will erase the negative. Right now in our Creation both are needed to complete the circle. And the negative ones are strongly placed.

Eventually one day, sometime in the evolutionary future the positive vibes will permeate and the negative ones will dissolve but not just yet as far as I can see.

• Human love is not divine. It is a manifestation of the Vital (elemental, dynamic) Forces and Beings that move things in active cooperation of the body's baby making machine and the mind's limited & prejudiced prowess. Of course in the origin there is Divine everywhere but it is hidden under layers of sheaths of many kinds. Had human love been totally divine, there would not be jealousy, anger, cheating, scheming, manipulation, revenge, sadism etc in the manifestation.

The raw Vital energy is what gives us our Ego and our motivation.

• Anything that leaves a bad after-taste can be assumed to have origin in the netherworld, at the lowest chakra level, inspired by the beings that inhabit the demonic world. The bitter after-taste is the indication.

Take any product or activity or state of being or biological specimens that are source of illness or such.

The earth, earthlings are still dependent on negative sourced energy and thoughts to maintain a balance and the spinning of life.

Example:

Artificial sugar.

Human Love.

Human designed products but with inspiration caught from beings that don't want us to improve spiritually...

Mosquitoes and such.

I hope you get my trend?

• When we leave home or invite others home or go to work or play with the thought behind it all that "Are we being noticed; Are we making a good impression; Am I pretty; Am I smart; What are they thinking of me?", we are laying open the doors of vulnerability to our castle open.

We are even making it easy for others to influence us by playing on our own thoughts/vanities mainly by listening to praise that manipulators always use as a tool.

Think about it.

• Listening is for slaves.

Listening comes down at the base chakra level as "obeying" - meaning doing something on the say so of another.

With the heightened ego that has developed in the conquering spree that started 400 years ago to emancipation as a free voter and constituent of this planet, what we see in prominence is VANITY.

In actual life too even in families there is a hierarchy that insists that the juniors listen to the elders. It is done with resentment and soon the mind learns to shut itself up and it then becomes a habit that the native himself is not aware of, cannot be made to accept or realise.

It becomes a tragedy when critical instructions are passed down a chain: like doctor to nurse, senior master to novice, critical engineering projects and sports - where one false move can result in disaster.

The most intolerable kind of human is the one who will argue in a most disconnected manner to maintain a sense of superior air because he cannot see himself ever in error.

• Modern living with all its ease, police protection and laws has given us a false sense of strength and safety.

We have now forgotten the art of unobtrusiveness, staying out of the evil-eyes scope of people, not showing off, not boasting and camouflage to avoid predators.

We have become so "rights" conscious that we demand certain conditions as a matter of fact and expect all others to conform.

We have lost our way in this Creation which unhappily has its own laws, offers no guarantees or protection and does not go by human values.

Quite often our suffering is more in the mind when we see our rights being trampled.

• Sexual activity is a natural activity that can over-ride the human mind's natural thinking process. Whatever little reasoning and will power there is, here even this evaporates.

It is like the north pole and south pole of a magnet. When they come too close together -- BANG will happen.

It is a natural Force on earth and nothing on earth can stop it except that a distance be maintained scrupulously.

Asking men to control their urge and asking women not to be attractive is like asking the South pole and North pole to control themselves.

The religious bodies/religions managed to control it somewhat through making it a sin and making it a crime both legally and in the name of god and enforcing lifelong marriages.

But yes the voice of women was strictly unheard. The warrior hunters were men and they subdued everything and everyone around them or tried.

This attitude is firmly embedded in human psyche and DNA.

The women became objects of pleasure and toys -- playthings and chattel.

Now in the 21st century they are being heard and the pendulum is going the other way and it is the turn of the men to squirm but will it last?

• Has anyone given it thought that without some sort of consensual element, the very position physically that one has to achieve to have sex is quite an elaborate one?

Look a little deeper. How we are sometimes where we should not be in the first place; specially knowing the conditions and lay of the land.

And then there ARE the naive ones who get taken advantage of. By laws of karma and happenstance, it is best to take it all as a lesson from fate and move on and as far as one can go.

But this argument is useless if of course the man is supremely strong or there is more than one person involved?

• When people throw platitudes in response it is so infuriating. As the universal acceptance of these words is high, the conversation stops there with the point being made that we who spoke are in error and not thinking right.

example:

- quotes by Buddha/Zen, Proverbs, Certain words that sound right from the moral philosophy brigade's point of view, words and quotes from famous authors as if this makes them authorities on whatever they are saying. Quotes from Saints and philosophers as the last word leave nothing more to be said.

I wonder people throwing these platitudes even understand what they are doing or do they have just the minimum intelligence to know how to close a conversation in an uppity way.

• We humans are great liars and are clever and cunning enough to take advantage of all that comes our way.

Our ability to gauge the truth by appearances is virtually totally nil.

All testimonies should be seen as engineered drama. Just enjoy the show.

• I believe that certain invisible but powerful entities use human people for universal ends not very clear to human intelligence. Humans as yet are not fully mentally formed with a strong will and mind. The mind is also not well informed or educated -- it is under influence of the subconscious with the entire history of the earth behind it. It is a very primary instrument easily given to misuse by stronger entities and manipulated with ease. You can see humans of a clever kind manipulating the lesser intellectually endowed all the time. So it should not be difficult to imagine more powerful Beings in the hidden atmosphere of the earth running things since time began.

Even death does not really stop much as these same entities are only delayed but never stopped. According to some occult traditions, there are mischievous entities that cause accidents for pleasure.

Those who try to live against being used normally have very turbulent lives as it is a war of a kind being waged. The malevolent entities all join hands and work as a team and keep interfering and devising situations to get their way. Those who do not cooperate have to face many troublesome times.

But in this world karma is also at work and this can also be seen doing its work of cause and effect but it is slow and not always evident to the human eye in its time frame.

Lorrie Grenier: is there a way to forever rid one of these entities?

Pradeep Pk Maheshwari: No. They are part and parcel of the Universal fabric of the Universe and make the other half of the spectrum. They serve the purpose of "testing" the human spirit otherwise it would remain forever dormant and never realise its own Truth. They are inadvertent Teachers so a necessary evil. They will dissolve the day the human consciousness rises and they will have become redundant.

But some of them are counterparts of Gods, equally grand and in opposition. They feed on human pain and gory events and keep on engineering them.

In the dark ages they had Europe completely under their grip and from there they spread all over the globe culminating in Hitler who was under the influence (as told to us by Sri Aurobindo and The Mother of Pondicherry) of one very great one. His defeat was an engineered feat which allowed Him to spread to USA and Russia and from there spread mayhem in terms of war and general damaging thinking....when I use the word damaging thinking I mean using thoughts to give an impression of doing good and serving the people's interests but in actually weakening their spirits from within - making them virtual slaves and zombies.

The war between the Forces of Light and these demigods continues and we are seeing the effects of it in our lives individually and the condition of destruction in the world in an intensified form.

These clever Beings also give humanity the thoughts and technological knowledge to produce products and services that allow them to spread their misery loaded suggestions.

Humans unknowingly are cooperating. But luckily some individuals, now in greater numbers are waking up. The spread of basic education was used to enslave mankind and dumbing it down. This same education is now helping to spread the positive words of understanding and growth. Today electronics is also helping these individuals to find each other and learn and become even more aware. (This is my justification of being on FB)

• There is a huge sadistic side to humans that humans want to hide/ignore unashamedly.

Point. The vileness is there. No doubt.

Humanity needs to upgrade fast if it is to manage in this mode of modern living.

We haven't shown much of an intention to protect anything or anyone.

Hurting others for our pleasure is a sport.

It does not augur good.

• Humanity is a lying bunch but character assassination is simply so wrong and that too in the form of gossip with no substantiation and no possibility of trial or clarification.

An activity indulged in by most of us to be seen in a better light in comparison.

How can we do this to our fellow people? How sadistic, clever and cunning can we get?

And when we do it in our family circles with young ones, we are burying them half in the ground like they do in Muslim countries to be slowly grilled and stoned throughout their lives.

This is worse than murder or any other crime label you can think of. This is slow roasting on a low flame forever and ever.

And this the most prevalent crime and the most accepted. In fact society seems to be built on this foundation of prejudice.

Let us educate our children on this truth and warn them so that they can avoid falling into this trap by controlling the image they give out and warn them also against using it as a weapon because it will certainly come to us to complete the magic circle of karmic cycle come to roast us and make us pay in full measure and some.

• People are so much in a rush, gushing back and forth, in a constant flurry of activity, mostly pursuing intangible ends that they never really realise that the end result in any case will be the same if they had waited for life to come to them and taken the opportunities as they were coming on their own (which they always do).

No I will just sit it out with a cup of coffee on the porch while I look at the world rushing about

- Don't get upset. This is how humanity is. It has been so since ever and ever. Every now and then a time to revamp the system comes by advanced beings taking birth and trying to push humanity upwards to a more intelligent level. A lot gets done but soon in the beautiful environment that is created, a few Devils see the opportunity of a lifetime and distort everything for their own profit & the whole cycle begins again.

Just check the number of great souls that have descended on earth in the period of 1850 to 1950 or so and how they helped into carrying humanity out of the barbarous times but soon humans latched on to the money factor and greed overtook us again.

• When I look around me in India where the "son" is placed on a higher pedestal than Krishna in the prayer room, I see spoilt brats that have the arrogance of their male bastion while the mothers instill the thought that the son is a gift from the gods and help providence by covering up their faults and misdemeanors which encourages them to misbehave.

The victims to start with are often their own sisters/cousins and younger aunts and later sisters in laws and servants and once they come into power it continues on with employees and tenants and now in the digital age it is anyone that catches their eye.

- Arrogance + sexual drive + opportunity = the MESS

• How cancerous states of health come to be:

In the occult parlance we talk of it as soul energy being sucked out by negative suckers that can be in the form of situations, bad weather, living conditions (like modern cities), wrong or lifeless food and vampiric people - leaving the body depleted of Life Force.

The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. "Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does." They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted." -- Aldous Huxley

Conrad Cain: Sometimes it's kind to be cruel!

PK: Our entire teaching, employee control and legal system is based on this thinking. Somebody has to bell the cat.

Hiding faults & errors out of kindness creates double faults/monsters.

• From what I can gather....

We humans live a very "Pretend" life. This puts blinkers on our seeing and makes us NON-seeing. So we have created this value system based on a common denominator of the "value" of certain goods, styles, behaviour and such. More like the visual "icing" on the cake regardless if the cake is worth it or not.

We value people and things therefore based not on divine values but devilish protocols.

• If and when we are in the right frame of meditative stance and allow the subconscious and the Universe to assist us, cures can not only come to mind but often the whole energy is such that things arrange themselves to help you out.

- I was an avid film-goer. And on the TV I love the Hallmark Channel. For me it was a learning experience of the most intensive kind. But I was very very selective.

But the selection process of "choice" is the question mark. Very few people have the self-discipline to "do" in life only that which they know will help or teach them to live a better life at a higher consciousness.

At the mass and masses level the marketing is to the lowest moral denominator and programs are being made that way and now it is over 200 channels 24x7x365 days.

What in the military they call carpet bombing.

As we grow older we will have to contend with life getting compacter. Many of our entourage will fade away, new people not replacing them.

Life in older families like ours here was a continuity because the family was all in one place and every generation had a lot of children and the house would be chock full of people of all ages. The continuity was such that often cousins would be older than their uncles/aunts.

Today we are so focused on our little nuclear families and so encumbered with our responsibilities that we actually put in our energies to avoid wasting time with boring cousins and old friends who have not only drifted apart but who may often be 30 years older - like a generation gap.

There is also the fact that gossips, unverified stories, misunderstandings float around in abundance to colour our attitudes.

But at the other end, I think people have so much of everything to do on their own, of their own that it is understandable that they want for nothing and do not need too many people in their lives as they are already burdened with too many connections.

It is understandable that the younger ones do not want to have anything to do with the elders.

Nephews and nieces who played in our laps have grown up and gone away and find the elders even more boring.

I say: The elders may be boring. But then who is stopping you from bringing your Light and Action and enlivening the place. Complain if you are rebuffed - not before that!!

I say take advantage of your elders, they like it or not. I did. I took a lot and was never denied. But I gave back in reverence and service.

• When you permit your life to be run by others (and doing jobs for others amounts to that) you put yourself in the lowliest status of the society ladder. Nobody is here to feed you. They are all here to FEED OFF YOU.

Whatever the glory and the height you arrive at in the hierarchy, when your status in life is dependent on the crumbs that others throw at you, specially at the lower end of the labour ladder you have not only sold your soul, but you have admitted to a life of simply subsisting. It is respectful slavery - sold down the river but with ego intact.

When we are insensitively dogmatic, insistent on doing it our way and ignoring the signals.....what is the best that can happen?

A little shock of an intervention from life.

• After WW2 there was a great shift of consciousness towards unification of people and move towards a unified one world.

This went too fast and there is backlash towards back to the village borders as humans are not ready to expand their consciousness.

In India I am seeing a terrific horrendous Resistance to the greater good and we are harping more on the caste, language and religion in our lives; trying hard to contain the world to fit in with our limited persona.

I suppose (as I see from posts on FB, it is happening in other parts of the world too)

• We take life seriously and literally

Whereas life itself considers itself in the abstract.

• .....Of course some people behave with such impudence. Here they are putting you down with a purpose knowing exactly what they are doing as a gesture of service and they are helping you learn a lesson while you misunderstand and return the favour with vindictiveness.

SO ungrateful of you.

• I look at people and see how self-contained they are.

Totally complete in themselves.

With listening closed.

Eyes unseeing.

Mouths spluttering word associations.

No active memory.

No presiding Intelligence.

Totally closed in their first 25 years -- Life as patterned then.

And I bow to The Supreme Intelligence of This Universe which keeps on going in spite of it all and is able to keep the Earth and the Solar system alive and well.

• The scenario of what will happen is already upon us with the exponential growth of population because all the conveniences are located in spots, localised into small areas.

The human kind is coming into its own and needs to control its "wishful" component. From personal experience I have realised the answer by controlling my desire to own everything beautiful as a first stop. But this came only after I had travelled a lot into the most beautiful places and known all the luxuries that life has to offer. It was clear that these things with millions of choices are already in their rightful places and wanting them for myself would be so stupid.

Then I was tempted with human relations and I realised that all human relations except a rare few are need-based; even these are minimal. You are soon forgotten and for the world you are a nobody and this finally dawned on me that I am a nobody and whatever I do I shall be a nobody for all practical purposes.

So I started living with a restricted list of wants, the best of whatever I "needed"; in the most minimal way. Lacking in nothing but also totally unencumbered - Keeping the chain of life simple. Not one iota of a drop of water more than I needed.

Live without wasting a simple nail even.

In the present times this kind of thinking will be misunderstood and reviled. I wonder how many have the courage for it.

I suppose humanity is inching its way to this realisation. But until we arrive there which could take another 10000 years we are in the doldrums.

• First the mistake to think of men and women as separate species.

Second is to think that we are all at the same level of evolution.

Third is to think that we are limited by our preferences alone.

Fourth is to think that all are different. Basically the same attributes and attitudes are in us but in different degrees making it a great mix.

When we respond or judge only based on our personal preferences we can never be right and then we make the error or judging others in the same way.

Narrow mindedness has replaced the broadening consciousness that was active in the last century.

On the basis of sex alone, we have created a huge chasm. Many laws are simply barbarous in view as they instill fear, accusations and totally hide the natural inclinations of the human race. We need to learn to live together; instead we are going farther away than we have ever been from each other as individuals. Any word on the topic you are quickly branded as prejudiced; and even attacked for being derogatory. Overblown egos are at their peak.

Living is no more "fun"; even harmless joking lands you up in courts.

The restrictions that are being put into force are a joke to the point that they have become detrimental to the human race. Let me cite some examples:

You cannot use your parental love to help, talk or protect another's child. It will immediately land you in trouble as good people do not exist anymore.

Flirting is seen as molestation.

Marriage is for sex alone. Sanctity of marriage is based on this one item alone. You choose your partner and then live as if there are no others in this world or else you are branded as a "cheat" and separation is the only solution (creating a horde of children and adults that are deeply psychologically hurt forever and then create more discordance in society).

ETC ETC

The world has hypnotised itself to see women as weaklings, needing support, loving, motherly and victims of men's brutality and scheming ways.

They are all that but they are also what we all are: dangerous, scheming, extremely vindictive, possessive and hurtful and designed to carry forward the procreative urge without much deep thinking.

Romanticism of the last 200 years has instilled a false image of women. This has only added to the aberration in the understanding of life.

People with intellectual prowess and disciplined life develop a personality that is very attractive, specially if the person is higher in the hierarchy and in a position to better one's condition. So a relationship seen to be of mutual attraction is quickly established with others in a closed group.

On the occult level both are to blame.

This is natural phenomena and should be treated as such. Today complex laws have made life a difficult to live naturally.

How did the humans make laws based on the assumption that all humans are honest and not vindictive -- is beyond me.

Humanity is inching towards chaos within itself.

The world has become dormant to the negative side. It has deliberately hidden away the negative side. This is why it is out of sync. I am focusing on this right now as this is what my intuition tells me is what the world needs now. Until it accepts this side of things there will not be any improvement in the state of human affairs.

• How people manipulate:

1) Guilt feelings.

By making you feel guilty and defensive.

2) Reverse psychology

By making you look bad otherwise

3) Flattery

Plain and simple.

When you understand and know how to deflect these movements, you will always come out on top of the heap.

Until then just go through the motions and don't complain or blame anyone.

• Arguments are to be stopped.

Arguments mean quarrels. Somewhere thinking and values don't match. Why insist on continuing in a friendship for old time's sake? Live in the present. If the time for a break has come so be it.

• Not using less but using with mindfulness.

• As for bullies, treat every man as a gentleman until he proves himself to be otherwise.

Once he proves himself otherwise, break it off cleanly and completely as far as possible.

• I wonder why we cannot and have NOT learned from life that we all suffer from: "Amour-propre". Bursts of rage have always been the reasons of disasters in our lives. Yet we continue to harbour the image that we are immune to its effects and rather justify it or at least rationalize it.

A little twist in the upbringing and education would change this considerably.

All I see is that by the coming of the smart phone, we have reduced the size of the world we interact with in person and now the incidences of rage have actually grown in number.

I have seen proper breeding does minimise it by teaching self-control and instilling attitudes of forbearance + knowledge of worldly ways.

• Women lash out generally with verbal abuse that is aimed to hurt. They are normally not physical as men are but they know and use to their advantage their position as a legally married wife protected by laws and society.

Women use "shaming" as their tool.

Men are too stupid and naive to understand this game and normally respond with physical strength.

Women are now getting bolder and often use indiscriminate physical means too as they know the laws are weighted for them.

• I think the basic problem is that we humans don't know when to stop and even if we know, we are unable to use our conscious mind to exercise any control over our reactions and instinctive play. The Will has to be trained into a strong warrior.

• In comparison of consequence & importance the ocean is the earth's keeper and has been here since the beginning of time washing the sins of living organisms on this earth.

We will understand our importance only when we realise of how little consequence we are. The speck of sand on the beach has been here longer and has been keeping the beach together for hundreds of years and will still be there a few hundred years on.

The human insect comes for an odd 60 years and does more damage than the ocean does in 6 million years.

Humans live in their mental worlds, a world peculiar to them, invisible to others and rarely connected to the real EARTH. Yet they all think (individually & separately) that the world is because they are.

• Most often in my experience all they want is a servant to their wishes in the name of assistance. In India it goes further. Service providers do your job the way they think it is best done - never in the way you want it done. (I think it is a matter of convenience, habit and sticking to the known and not listening to anything because it does not suit them.) From the occult angle I would say: Latent laziness to consciously make an effort. Then hide this laziness in argumentation. No wonder we argue about everything for deep in our hearts we are avoiding doing it (talking is easier) - looking for a way out if it can be delayed at least - we do it only under compulsion. Then when you complain these are the answers that come: 1) Ok I'll do it as you ask but if it does not come out well don't blame me!

2) You did not tell me anything precisely.

(Habits that evolved though time because there is rarely any witness or recoding of the actual words spoken).

• I learnt early that a bad memory is one of the biggest helps in life. I had such a good memory that I could remember every word for 6 months. (In college days I needed to read a book only once and I could remember it wholly for three days)

It was a torment because I had some unpalatable and memories of abusive bothering me. I then trained myself to forget.

I also keep myself busy with projects to make changes in the home, products or something the way I like things to be. I learnt a lot of trades to get things just right - my way.

I have also had to deal with many other abusive people so I have finally realised that in this life destiny is teaching me to learn to live to go beyond these factors and these circumstances without being affected and losing my cool.

Being in it but also totally distanced - like a witness of my own life

• We live in a bubble. A few people around us that we interact and we can say "make our circle", a few jobs that we do to make our living and all the creativity needed to survive in this bubble is what we call a life.

Every individual has his bubble. We are the centre of this world.

It is also our comfort zone.

It is easily pricked because it is made out of "Vanity".

And people will go to the extent of "murder" to protect it from being pricked.

• The whole of life is an exercise in adoption. We adopt friends who are closer than blood relations. People take us under their wings and help us grow. Why some people make it a point to knowing which human gave us birth is the only important person?

It is only mental conditioning.

Just laugh it off.

As to not feeling like belonging - no soul that is old and growing feels so in any condition among the general humanity as it is way far away, centered in another dimension.

The material bodily connection is not the whole reality of our being.

• Karma is "doing". Praying won't help.

Karma is not an intelligent being with decision ability. It is merely a chain of consequences and the chain cannot be broken except under divine intervention by adding something new to the chain which is rare and happens only in exceptional cases.

In general life we start by mainly allowing the old karma to expend itself out and without allowing new negative patterns to set in its place.

Talking about it is of absolutely no use. Nobody cares - least of all "karma" itself.

The way in all simplicity is:

1) Do not add to the violence already accumulated in your Karma bank. Specially if it is derogatory in nature.

2) Mean what you say and act on it. Sincerity in thought, words and action without manipulation is needed.

How do we arrive at this state? Read, travel and explore and try to see and understand of how others think and why. You will see that you are a "nobody" on this Earth and then the perspective starts changing.

• I have noticed some people who I call the police of human kind that they never miss a step or beat in noticing something that gives them a baton to browbeat another. Every fault gets noticed. As if an invisible spy is telling them and they always manage to be where they are not wanted or/and will notice something that is being hidden from them. Once in the know their raised eyebrows and often lashing tongues can shrivel the hardest heart.

But when it comes to being aware of petty hurdles they never notice anything. They miss everything. They put their noses into everything but observe virtually nothing. They trip on all the possibilities this world provides in plenty which only gives them more material to crib about.

As if they have been specifically put there by Mother Earth to make life uncomfortable for the humans; creating an atmosphere of -- wake up or else.....!

Have you noticed something of this kind?

• In our way of thinking, the process can be hastened by being acutely aware and conscious of every act and thought.

This is the first step towards becoming a master of yourself; a powerful yogi; everything done with deliberation and deliberately with great focus.

• If humanity is to rise above its present insincere attitudes, it must gear itself to speak with intent. Which means it must not just keep on warbling. It must speak with intent. It must absolutely speak with purpose and let not this precious energy go flying and dumped as garbage of no importance.

Do not utter words you do not mean. Do not make promises that you do not intend to keep. And if your promises get broken for some reason, make the effort to personally make amends.

I noticed in the past 2 years that my daughter was promised/invited for a special treat which eventually never materialized. This has happened on 6 different occasions. On one date she was all ready to go and she gets a message that it would not be for now.

In other cases she invited people who promised to come but did not for no real excuse. She waited and was so disappointed that it showed.

What has come over people? And these people I am referring to are not casual relationships either.

The hurt this has caused my daughter is hurting me too. Her need for validating herself has grown and she is showing signs of being disturbed by this rejection. It is showing in her life in school too.

I hate all these people doing such meaningless harm.

• The Question is:

Do we need change?

Then

1) Who will establish what change is wanted?

Religions are dogmatic and "control" is their aim.

Philosophies are "seats" of arguments.

Psychologists change their theories every day.

Occult sciences like Tarot & I Ching give indications but again we are back to square one as the decisions have to be taken by us.

2) Who will teach the change that needs to come?

3) Where will the teachers come from when everyone here on earth is at a stage of needing change?

Conclusion: Things will bumble along as they are. Eventually things will move only at Universe's speed till the whole conscious level of every creature rises in a huge all-encompassing spiral all together one cockroach at a time.

Change, growth for now will remain an individual thing.

The author. Facebook name: Pradeep PK Maheshwari

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