Mind & Spirit

It's the Thought that Matters

Wrong Thought Patterns Create Bad Living Conditions

Written from Pradeep's time at Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, this is a single sustained case for a simple but uncomfortable idea: the quality of your thinking, not your circumstances, is what actually builds a bad life. No chapters to skip between — one continuous argument, start to finish.

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Bio: From Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry.

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My contention is that humans have yet to evolve a lot and that they can. That we have accepted the fact of "this is how we humans are" is a false stand that should be attributed to our arrogance and self-glorification. There is great kindness too so it is clear that there is an alternative possibility. We have failed to explain how we live happily with our sense of pride, vanity, rage, cruelty, greed, jealousy, lying, stealing, cold-blooded murder that makes us tyrannical and bullies. For the present moment in time our entire effort is going into a covering-up the negativity instead of striving to rise above it altogether. We talk of it but do nothing about it as we are not focusing on this factor at all. Let us change our focus and commence thinking and acting to go beyond this state of affairs. How much of your knowledge and understanding is based on your intuitive knowledge or from personal experience of life? How much of it is based on second-hand information derived from books, religion practiced in your family and schooling? Nobody is stopping anyone from having opinions. It is the judgmentality that creates the problem as all of us suffer from the same problem: we think our opinion has value while we agree to others only because it suits us. Don't you see? - We have so much to say without knowing. We are better off as a blank slate. How many of us see that we are living a double life? We think of one thing, say something else and do altogether something else. Francis Bacon clarified this well. The mind may act grandiose, the speech may act wise but it is the habits (subconscious) that rules with an iron hand. The mind that we know, what the psychologist and the barman would both call the conscious mind is far away on its own and prefers to keep a solid-wall distance from the subconscious mind. The mind is learning new stuff every day and at a fast pace but the subconscious rules and is basically averse to change. And the twain never doth meet.

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Thought Patterns and their ill Effects (mostly).....when in doing supposedly good, we are worse off.

What THOUGHT PATTERN according you would change the course of human history on earth as we are seeing things unfolding on Earth? Talk of one single thought pattern that if dropped or adopted would significantly change outcomes on earth.

I feel certain thought patterns are adopted, have been in use and have done no good really (Quite the contrary). Many THOUGHT PATTERNS have side--effects that are behind the sad state of affairs on Earth that are seeding pain and misery instead of doing any good.

Please tell me what you would say to this statement/question.

Here is an example from me:

THOUGHT: We must be charitable.

What does this mean?

Ans: We must feed the poor, take care of the luckless children and open for them a better future.

What are we seeing as a result of this Thought Pattern? Generally this has given rise to charitable institutions that gobble up money, teach their philosophies and create more discordant personas to continue into the future.

My Question: How has this helped in mitigating, reducing the POOR on earth? My answer: I don't see any good results in general. The Charitable institutions are rich, the Managing people live well, the general public that is large hearted thinks it is doing "GOOD" and earning good karma ( which is an illusion).

It is all a chimera.

Here are some thoughts that should make us think.......

- The Generosity of Credit. Giving Credit in money terms.

It has only made humanity irresponsible, indulgent and sickly.

This should be stopped or at least made difficult. As an aside it is encouraging industry to produce unwanted goods that are being bought by non-needing people that is polluting the earth for no good reason.

- The Insurance, specially in medicine.

Is it protecting the people? People are paying premiums that they never use under the fear of not having enough money when they'll need it. The bankers are fattening on it because unused premiums go into their pockets. The hospital industry has raised prices for all their services and the Pharma industry too. The food industry is producing non-nutritious semi inedible goods and helping the sickness industry

The people have become careless of their health and wellbeing and are being technically robbed. The very doctors that they go to for being cured are also into the scam. The earth is seeing sick people and sickness like never before.

The Government is aiding these combines with laws and mandates.

- Children should not be allowed to work or not be judged for heinous crimes until 18.

Why not? When they work they learn a trade free of cost and eventually make a livelihood out of it. Sending them to school will only fill them up with undigested knowledge which makes them useless for any adult purposeful life -- they end up becoming vagabonds or parasites.

As to criminal activities, if they are big enough to commit crimes they should be treated as adults and judged accordingly.

- We all have rights to have children.

My point of view: On what grounds? What right adults have to produce children that they cannot provide for adequately or they abandon by divorcing. Serious matters these. Do they realise that disgruntled children will later add to the stress of life of society in general, and their own and others. They will in all probability produce children too and add to the burden.

- The HERO is the guy who kills most of the humans on the other side of the fence that we have dubbed The Enemy.

What glory is there in killing? Kingdoms and borders have been coming, going and shifting every 30 years all over the globe. Yet in this time of international co-operation this is one lesson we are unable to learn. Where is the problem?

The joy or High that comes from achieving something difficult is definitely to be praised.

But when it is a question of putting your precious life which is given as a gift into uselessly dire situations, that, I find the thought not so very palatable.

- Singing Hymns is a Spiritual activity.

How is it? A song is a song. There is 100x times more spirituality in the singing of an Opera singer who has put in years of effort, self-discipline and sacrifice.

Practice of religion is a sociological activity. Nothing spiritual. It is like a club and all getting together for some common ground to have fun. This business of putting all on the shoulders of a "Someone called God" is just another excuse to get away with what we want and therefore consider it "right or spiritual" or whatever. Let us grow up and think a little more brotherly like and help each other's garden to grow without looking for excuses. This would be truly spiritual.-

The word and thought of "Freedom" is a formation of the ego. To the Ego freedom is to do what it wants without any kind of reservation or control. Can we ever be that? Can we be without the air around us, the water in the pond (although away from us), the vegetables and fruits that grow at a distance from us unconnected as it seems.

Going by the basic premise that it comes from the ego center in us, the whole conversation around this word becomes void and not worth the attention,

My personal experience of the mental domain is like of a kaleidoscope toy. Huge and vast and complete in itself and being rearranged in multiple ways but the elements remain the same and within the "toy" The glass pieces in the toy are WORDS.

How long are we going to allow a few words to superimpose their grip on our thinking process? Specially thru some books that are now accepted as the guided knowledge coming from god directly. The human mind is prone to deep fakes. Technology has shown how easy it is as a process. The human character is basically dishonest, hides its dishonesty well using words through the mouth or thru the practice of writing. Words as we can well see are not directly connected to reality truth or anything by concrete material links. Words are simply utterances, sound in the air, that inspire images in our minds and we can then reinterpret them into whatever images we like. It is so much like deep fakes in its process. Yet we give super importance to the extent that we think we have arrived at godliness by simply hearing some over-zealous self-acclaimed bearer of the good word of god from pulpit which he call the house of god. Come-on humans; When are you going to wake up?

The tragedy of human life is in how easily we are willing to collaborate with dishonesty and basic insincerity. We are definitely not objective enough. Our minds are not trained to be so. We may think that we are but it does not happen by itself; not without rigorous training and discipline. See how easily optical illusions deceive us. How easily we mis-hear and mis-see and jumping to conclusions is a well know sport in humans. So-called eye witnesses are often proven wrong and this is because we assume more than we register. Our cultural inclinations and education tend to play spoil-sport.

We are so open to words at this level that we are like mushy clay in the hands of others and we literally allow them to manipulate us. This can happen only when we are in tune with it all. The chances are that by at least 94% you are being lied to in any given situation. And we have organized our policing and courts of law on the basis of that people speak the truth, especially when their hands are placed on a book. The way narcissistic people, gossip mongers, fake claims on products/drugs flourish should be proof enough of what I am saying.

Of course honesty and kindness exist but we cannot and should not use it as a rationale to allow dishonesty to exist. The language is not at fault it our use of it

- Love is Blind.

This is one of the biggest jokes. Firstly what humans call love is a "mating phenomenon". It is based on the hormones looking for mates. It is a very selective and calculated affair.

Do humans really understand the AURA of love that is self-effacing, kind, non-calculating and seeping in generosity without judgement or any profit motive?

Let us change......

1) Lynn Kalita-Hausch:

Truth in advertising, honesty in politics, justice in humanity, people before profits, love your neighbors - all of them! ❤ End war

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Note from friend Parris:

Materialism is a huge magnet (hypnotic spell) for the Mind and Soul. So very hard to escape! That is the general nature of this plane. It IS exhausting. Here in the West, we had Jesus who was a great teacher. He could demonstrate to power of the Mind+Heart. Of course the "officials" nailed him up. Most of Jesus' pupils did not win the highest prize except, I suppose, Thomas, who went east instead of west. Now Jesus still is scoffed upon because people find his materialistic credentials questionable, when those doubters should be holding him up with Krsṅa, Buddha, Zoroaster, Guru Nanak, Shiva, Muhammad ... Teacher after teacher, trying to help the Monkeys wake up.

PK: ah. This is not happening soon. In a book of million sentences, humanity is till at the first line. Jesus made no difference at all. His teachings as of all other sages have become a source of scourge on earth. We were living in greater harmony before they came to awaken us. We have only awakened to "war". It is high time that humanity finished reading the first line and moved to the second line (at least) in their book. But no they want to talk of Consciousness, soul, life-after-death, love and spiritual matters purporting to have been the knowledge transmitted by their gods; they know all about God, Allah and Brahma and very little how to settle their daily issues. They have even written books on it and made churches and temples to follow their own thoughts and their interpreters are ever ready to guide the people. As you say the magnet has caught them in the web.

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Pradeep Pk Maheshwari I think the mistake is in our thinking that the media is there to tell the Truth or whatever goes for truth. It is simply a tool to carry the words and thoughts of people who can make use of it. Humanity at the common denominator level has no brains. It has an apparatus called the brain but this brain really has no discernment ability. Our assumption are totally wrong wherein we have assumed that human are all equal with thinking ability, education and desires all at the same level. Humanity has been made to think this by the media and cleverly taken over the thinking of the masses.

Our preoccupation with the needless, useless and unreal is fascinating. We are identifying ourselves with figures that we know only thru the Media. We are obsessed by this side of life. Why and whatever for? To me it seems an escapist venture where we keep ourselves occupied with non-essential important happenings because the media is flooded with it and we wish to be seen "WITH IT". The fault is with us that we are allowing the digital world to flood our existence with trivia, time consuming nonsense. It is a perfect excuse to avoid all those things that ARE our real responsibilities for lack of time. Our focus on IMAGES has made our own lives mere projected images.

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Do we have free will? Good question. I know I have a "desire" and if I am able to put it into execution then I would call it free will. If not then I don't have it. Yet with hundreds of laws and law-keepers around me I have the right to have a cup of coffee when I want to and this is also free will. But I have a wife who is following doctor's orders and won't let me have my way. SO I do ask what is Free Will? From what I can see I have really not much free will: the sun will not change its time and the tide won't either. The rain rarely listens to me and my child is beyond my control. What free will I ask? And when I react into anger am I able to control myself? Where did my will disappear then? But yes if I want to be honest I have full free will to be so but here as I see 1001 considerations come to plague me. And my subconscious has its own ways. No; let us admit we have no free will but nobody is stopping us from jumping off the cliff or to conclusions.

The only people who have free will are the rulers and judges. If they decide you are to be hanged or burnt at the stake, their will is done without question or second thought.

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Energy as a commodity and currency. We waste a lot of energy by not following the mantra of the hunter which is: Focus your thoughts to a single spot. Forget everything else for the moment. Meditate on the "aim". What do you need? What is available? How to make the two requirements to come together. Devote your energies solely to your purpose. Avoid distractions. But in real life, in the luxury of modern technological living we have forgotten everything. Our first stop as our goal is to find "Amusement". This is what makes us feel that we are IN with things and alive in way that matters -- (matters to whom may I ask?). We like to be seen and be known and if possible heard. We have a great feeling of being appreciated for our presence and what we offer to the people at large by being there. We see ourselves achieving results that other can only dream about. How silly can we get? The reality is far more dull and bland. Nobody cares. Nobody is impressed. The world will go on merrily without you. You may have some great stuff to sell. But it is of value only if you have an interested buyer. Otherwise all values are notional and as good as none. What you should be doing -- focus on your needs to feed your mind, feelings and body with the most nutritious foods. Do you know what these are? Then go and learn about it. Read, ask, discuss from those who have clearly and unambiguously shown that they know. Associate only with those who have shown a high level of positive vibes. Reduce your energy expenditure. If you have nothing to do then find a silent corner and spend some silent moments with yourself. Let your subconscious speak to you. PS: It would be good to question if all those masters giving out selflessly their energies in Reiki sessions, massages, long talks to relations, standing by with friends in their personal agendas; to me it seems like a waste of energies on a colossal scale for nothing.

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The turn towards spirituality. This happens only when we are tired and disgusted with the ordinary everyday life about money, pride, sex and "enjoyments". The woman is central in this picturesque delineation. Both the sexes are equally involved and soon when fatigue and disenchantment takes over, the turn towards spiritual growth happens. In the final analysis this is what the Universe is aiming at. The woman represents the "hugging" force of the Universe. There is a lot of dynamic energy there but it is needing a complicated key to unlock. Technically she may open her arms but she gives nothing away. She'll give you a good recliner to feel at home and take everything while you thought you were being masterful. Take for instance any activity that we do with women. We are giving away till we go dry. Even when we get a baby from her, we are not getting anything really. Sex and money keeps us trapped. And we idiot males have only worsened the situation with laws that women are now using against us. The female energy enmeshes us so that we are forced to go within to find ways and means to overpower it - there is no escape- escape to where anyway --

"A real man knows his woman's happiness is key to a happy relationship." (This is how the world rationalises it; keeps itself trapped)

In the composition of Human's make-up Vanity is the feminine component. Flattery is the password to bypass the firewall. Male and females have it in equal measure. The accompaniment to vanity is "obstinate intractableness" often going to great length to purposefully take the contrary route out of spite; specially when INSULT has been registered....rightly or mistakenly. In contrast the male energy is Arrogance. Arrogance in strength to be able to hunt and hurt and get away with it showing little remorse or empathy.

When people talk of gaining trust, I see simply the art of making somebody feel inclined to believe and think of me as a person of worth who cares for "feelings" therefore a "nice" person therefore loved and liked. The opposite, of course, makes us enemies.

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Life is a chain which ties all of us to each other in some way. Some command and some obey. It is the natural way of things. None of us is totally free or independent and for the sake of relative freedom we allow ourselves to be shackled. One of the worst mental blocks humans live with is the idea of Freedom. We tie ourselves to a family first thing and then get into the cycle of living for each other and quite openly become a link on the chain of command. But we convince ourselves that we are free. Then we go out into the world and thru conditioning and fear we obey 101 laws that a government has foisted on the people. Who and how all this is happening we have no understanding. We feel imprisoned by all this regulation and squarely blame the head of the family or the kind and imagine a state of freedom by wanting to change the head of the family and the king. Has this ever changed anything?

We are not free because we have not learnt to operate on our own steam; we are highly dependent on others to survive or manage even simple things like repairing a tear in the shirt or boil an egg.

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What constitutes so called-spiritual activities? The present age we are going thru, is recognized mainly by the fact that humans think that all thought and thinking is centered in the organ called the brain; that life is happening and controlled from there. People have heard about the subconscious and the intuitive mind but they do not yet take it into their calculations. The result is that we try to "think" everything out based on parameters that we have been fed and normally this feeding is so generally based on informational gossip that it is mostly more active in putting us on the wrong path. What we think of as spiritual is also mandated by our minds. The mind uses words to understand and communicate. A little serious observation will show that we associate our attitudes based on the words in use. We think we are being spiritual when we associate with words like love, god, patience and meditation and hundreds of words on the same scale. These do help us think towards spiritual virtues but do nothing to really change us and our character base. It all started in the mind and remains in the mind and all we do like singing hymns, ceremonial puja, listening to somebody telling stories from the Ramayana and quoting the Gita, Bible and Koran -- all boil down to mind led activities that in no way helps us go beyond the limitations of our programmed nature. This is why we are seeing so many excesses and activities that are hurting us. Let us take some obvious instances. - Use of pesticides. Reducing the number of bugs is good and some level of control is absolutely necessary but we tend to think some is good and more is better; this is where we err. The food now we eat is poisoned but the shelves of shops are full. Everyone is fed but also sickly. This has helped the store owner and the hospital industry but not you and me. To open your just go back a few decades: 100 years ago we were sacred of TB and it always ended badly. Cancer was not known but gradually it started expanding its reach but we were not worried. Now The fear is gone due to antibiotics and cancer is considered quite a normal sickness. Also with this we fell into the trap of high prices and less of medical care. But no one seems to be complaining. It is a wonder how easily we allowed ourselves to be brainwashed. But don't think we are not responsible. We have not really objected and we are solemnly taking the gossip that "It is safe". This is dished out to us with sanctimonious virtue and we lap it up because we are too lazy to really think it thru.

- We are given washing machines, mechanized saws, escalators, elevators and cars then when sedentary habits started to sicken us we are asked to exercise. So now people go to the gym. Body building is in fashion. Proteins are being consumed. Things are being taken to such excesses that people are dying from exhaustion. Just imagine consuming caffeine laden drinks are consumed to keep going. Why because at the same time nutrition has been compromised and the food, specially the factory made kind lacks nutritive value and contains many chemicals that eventually take a toll on the body's chemistry. The only people who are happy are the factory and hospital owners. We on the other hand have taken the extreme decision to NOT Think and follow the industry when they say that everything is safe.

- Has anyone asked why and how the industrialised combine got the rights to pollute the water and the air and then blame it on our cars and then profit from it all by making us buy filters for staying alive?

I could go on and on but the people are content because they have God, Ganesh, Buddha and Allah to take care of them.

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Revolutions and Group protests are useless unless action is also practiced at the individual level. Until and unless we rise above the consciousness levels of the perpetrators, we are only adding to the struggle by entering an equation which will never come to a solution because both the sides are equally at fault in demanding a certain type of action based on "personalized" morality. "I am right" vs "you are wrong" is recipe for quarrel and argument, rage and war.

We are burdening our spirit for no good reason. Each generation plays its own game and departs. Of course some changes, for good or bad are always initiated and the new generation has to often reconstruct and manage with what was left behind. But it is minimal when seen with the vast resources of Mother Earth and its regenerative powers. Look at it like a football playing field. It is there before the game and will be there even after it. Teams come and go. Every time it is the same game but always different in its details or so it seems. The spectators enjoyed it as much in the year 1800, 1900, and 2000. Every win was feted with the same emotional uproar. The field is still there and the games continue. Revolutions have and gone and were here now in 2020s and still the same problems are on our minds. Did it ever help? All these greats who would change the world only ended in great number deaths and upheavals. Robespierre, Cromwell, Washington, Lenin, Hitler, Tito, Gandhi, Mao and many more thru the ages, what did they achieve? Look back a little and see how Elizabeth-1 with all her pirating attitude and spread around the world but in the end the English unifying it thru language and exchange. How the Europeans Americans took up life to break away but first started with the same blunders but then eventually brought in change (example: ending the practice of slavery) and later on help end WW one and two. Life goes on whatever we do ends up repeating itself and also changing. Every generations swims in a new pond which is also the old one. The new America is making again the same blunders. The new world is burning with the same impulses. Let us just focus individually to be good, do as much good as our understanding permits. The universe will take care of itself. Group protests are useless unless action is also practiced at the individual level.

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It is not the germs. Our naturopaths/Ayurveda had it right from way 1000s of years back.

Many chronic diseases can be traced to mitochondrial dysfunction, according to Chen Junxu, a natural medicine expert at Bastyr University. After reviewing over 500 research papers and drawing from his extensive clinical practice, Chen developed a comprehensive theory about the relationship between mitochondrial health and chronic disease, which he shared in a recent interview on NTDTV's "Health 1+1" program. Understanding Mitochondria's Vital Role Mitochondria are often called the power generators of human cells. They convert nutrients such as glucose and fatty acids that we obtain from food into adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the primary energy source in our cells during metabolism. At the same time, mitochondria are the core of human immunity, too. Healthy mitochondria effectively regulate immune responses, while mitochondrial dysfunction can damage immune cells, resulting in many chronic diseases and impaired cellular differentiation. Chen argues that seemingly diverse conditions---including diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, cancer, allergies, autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, and even various mental illnesses---can be understood through a "unified theory" of mitochondrial imbalance. This means that almost every disease can be traced to mitochondrial imbalance. In other words, in mitochondrial imbalance, there is invariably something wrong with the body's basic metabolism. This perspective suggests that approximately 90 percent of chronic diseases stem from problems with mitochondrial metabolism. Chen quoted Dr. Chris Palmer, assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard University and founder and director of the Metabolic and Mental Health Program at McLean Hospital, as saying that mental illnesses are metabolic syndromes. That means mental illnesses and metabolic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and cancer are all caused by problems with cell metabolism, which has its functional core residing in the mitochondria.

Why Do People Get Sick? Chen emphasized that illness often results from violations of natural health principles, whether through environmental factors or personal choices. He suggests that disease can serve as a warning signal, prompting necessary lifestyle adjustments. Key preventive measures include: Avoiding environmental toxins Limiting exposure to food additives and pesticides Making conscious dietary choices Maintaining consistent sleep patterns Getting regular exercise appropriate to individual fitness levels Chen said that sometimes illness can be a blessing in disguise that reminds people of the need to rest, adjust their lifestyle, retreat from their earlier mistakes, and return their bodies to a healthy state.

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A grim reminder that this is finally all that was saved and achieved. And we continue to do so.

Skeletons of fallen Greek warriors from the battle of Imera, near Palermo , northern Sicily, who fell defending their land versus the Carthaginians in 480 BC, the exact same day of the naval battle of Salamis , where the Greeks defeated the Persians too!

And they saved their civilization.

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In the concept of abortion I see a deep insincerity and the sense of utter irresponsibility towards life as a whole. It is an utter proof of our self-centered, remarkably stupid and wishful thinking. Nothing will change the fact that you have no reverence for life that you first start and then have no regret in terminating because it does not suit your selfish plans. Today there is a great attempt to cover this up with legal arguments but nothing will ever change the fact that this is not an accident and murder is on our mind for a spoonful of pleasure. This attitude is showing in everything, we, as humans do. In this I would say modern medicine has helped humans to become utterly careless. We have become graceless and murderous towards all life and living. Take any aspect of our lives: our food industry, call to arms, and luxury thru technology, the callousness of our laws and how we are treating children our commitments. I don't think civilised humanity can go lower.

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Truth is whatever IS most acceptable (for profit).....specially if it comes from someone in authority who cannot be questioned anyway or from someone who has enough wealth to make people fear him or if he has a sword in his hand. Then there are these people who do a short course in a seminary and are called priests and they are automatically considered "WISE" in knowing the truth down here and even in the hereafter. The farmer in the field "KNOWS" but he is a nobody. Principally the human race has established certain "arrivals" as the gate-posts of what they call success. If you have achieved to reach any of these posts whatever you do or say or consider appropriate, correct and true will be honored. Behind all this is the sustenance power of the ignorant masses who is keen and ready to be manipulated as long as he is seen and made to feel as an important link in the game.

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There is just one mitigating factor: If we are pleased we can be very kind too. So this gives the collective entry to Insincerity in human affairs wherein we all are trying to please each other but at heart wanting to overwhelm to suit our own wishes and desires. There is a strong element of "I will skin thee alive" if you speak against me! "All those who praise me not are mine enemies by default and there is no gainsaying this"

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My view is that women take too much poetic credit for carrying a baby in the womb. Their praise should be going to the nurturing they do after the child is born. The focus on nurturing after birth has always been given a miss and that is where problems and their real worth shows. Had children been so important to women and parents we would not have abandoned, neglected, enslaved and bullied children Carrying a baby in the womb is quite surely a totally natural process over which they have no control except as proof that they have been enjoying sex. But the poets gave them a moral superiority on this and mothers have used this fact to control/blackmail their children by saying "I carried you for nine months" to get what they want from their children as if they were doing them special favor.

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"Bless those who are doing the best they know how. Pray for those who have hate in their hearts." - PK: Very fine sentiments indeed. And from the point of general goodness I perfectly agree. But I am a cynical critical bug. I don't want to simply exist and co-exist with this humanity in this never changing human condition. I want to look at what can be and become and make life a more definable joyous episode. Take this sentence: Bless those who are doing the best they know how. Are they doing their best? Is that all they know? Are they really sincerely doing their best or simply saying so? If so then are they ever trying to learn more and if not then why are they not trying to learn more? Are we absolutely certain that they do not have hidden agendas of short-cuts, pride, laziness or greed and such other thoughts at the back of their heads? Let's look at this sentence: Pray for those who have hate in their hearts. Sure. It is not our job to point fingers. But I am also certain it is a waste of energy and effort. I have yet to meet anyone who would change; rather they put all their energy into fighting to remain in their comfort zone and repeat what they were successfully doing and getting away with it.

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Here is a question for admirers of Modern western medicine: When you have a thorn stuck in your hand or foot and it is paining what do you do? Take a pain killer or remove the thorn? PS: Then why do you take painkillers for pain in the shoulders, knees and such? Why don't you ask something to effect a proper cure?

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At no time do we reflect upon first finding ways and means and then starting a family. We are prepared to live in misery but never think of NOT having children if our worldly capabilities are lacking. The misery we bestow upon our children has never been a "thought" of concern. ......... In a remarkable photograph from 1908, a family stands together, frozen in time, capturing a blend of pride, strength, and the rugged spirit of early 20th-century America. While some aspects of the image may seem surprising to modern viewers---such as a young boy holding a rifle---this was a different era, defined by values of self-reliance, resilience, and a deep connection to the land. The scene reveals a family embracing traditional roles and responsibilities, as well as the skills needed to survive and thrive in a country still rooted in frontier ideals. This 1908 photograph captures an era when Americans held a deep appreciation for the outdoors and viewed nature as both a source of sustenance and a place to prove oneself. The rifle in the young boy's hands, while striking, underscores a way of life centered on survival skills and a connection to the environment. In a time before the conveniences of modern society, each family member played a part in ensuring the household's stability, safety, and sustenance.

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Look into your thoughts and you will see that humans want and search for sympathy in life and we have unconsciously learnt that we get the attention we crave only when we are sick or in an accident. Psychologically we are for it! The correct mental state would be to oppose the illness and not allow it to enter your aura. Reject it mentally as a poison not allowed entry.

The first step of goof health would be our own psychological state. The fact is that people tolerate illnesses and some even invite them. People retort by saying that "who would want to be ill?" but reality has shown it is very otherwise. Just look around and within yourself. How often do you delay in taking your illness seriously enough to give it first importance in the scheme of things? How often do you ignore symptoms till they become severe enough to incapacitate you. This amounts to a tacit acceptance of the illness; instead of rejecting it mentally outright and not allowing to fester, you do nothing for the simple reason there are more important things on your agenda. Also look into your thoughts and you will see that humans want and search for sympathy in life and we have unconsciously learnt that we get the attention we crave only when we are sick or in an accident. Psychologically we are for it! The correct mental state would be to oppose the illness and not allow it to enter your aura. Reject it mentally as a poison not allowed entry. The modern western medicine has harmed our health and consciousness by giving us miraculous potions that kill the symptoms of pain, fevers and such. These masking indulgences allow the illness to take a firm seat in our bodies. You should rather go back to old age natural medicine and help the body to stave off the attack with half hour of noticing any imbalance in your healthy countenance. Illnesses are not our friends.

PS: People are allowing themselves to be misled too by trusting too much the pharma hospital combine which is now a commercial venture for making profit and not curing.

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If we have to understand each other and try to live together as one family, one thing we need to do is to have a simple understanding of the subconscious influences on our mind in our mind's way of working. The first thing to accept is that between the act of the sounds or words from another leave their origin and reach our ears and then penetrate the mind, there is a long enough intermission for contamination to take place. For example when I speak to someone, my word-sounds leave in a straight line. Then it gets shaken up a bit by other sounds around if there are any. Even if there are any the listener's mind is already active with thoughts like "Oh now he is going to clarify or justify and try and change my mind". Preconditioned thoughts surge from the hidden corners in the listener's mind and say "people don't change" "Don't trust him". When my words finally touch the listen's ear the sound is in the form of a spirally thing. Some judgments are also being passed in the listener's mind as to how good or bad I am and how I should be treated. By the time the words have hit the listener's ear, the question has been raised like "Am I being criticised and more attention is being given to this question than what I am saying. Finally what enters the listener's mind is not what I have said but a garbled message which the listener will not acknowledge that he was not listening properly, accurately. This will be followed by arguments and real accusations and finish with quarrels quite often (married people would understand this easily).This is just a trailer of how messaging works. Half the messages never reach. People are too engrossed in themselves.

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The value of human comments is as good as nil. People, as I understand, have two ways to see others; the first is with compassion as the Dalai Lama often reiterates-then you see everything with a forgiving and admiring eye. The second is the more normal way in which we turn cynical and can't see anything good in any situation, thing or act and person. We see ill intent all around us and its expression. The greater part of humanity does not bother much about thinking about anything except where the next meal is going to come from. There is a stupendous lack of imagination. This category of people stick to the immediate mundane and gossip about the people in their small limited circle. So choose well to who you give your ear to.

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A new world is coming out of the comings and goings. We have to start thinking about the future eras that will emerge. That period has passed and we need to now stop explaining and justifying life by re-iterating the words, notions, precepts and concepts of the past. The time has come to take the next step in the evolution of man into a more harmonious whole. THE NEXT STEP should be our focus now. What needs to be done? Which thoughts are keeping us back? Which notions and established truths (?) are keeping us stuck? How can we merge our past and present to mold the future?

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Most children are not taught about real values and upside downs of life. Their parents do not take the trouble of teaching them the offs and ons of life or anything about life. This concept that children have to be readied consciously and with great effort for the future and parents are solely responsible simply is not prevalent. What, why and how did this notion of having children without responsibility take such a strong hold?

From what I have learnt about life people have very many motives to have learn for their benefit like insurance for their old age or their life after death or even as objects to start earning as soon as they can; I have also heard that a lot of couples have children to sell them off for hard cash. The sad part is that society is accepting this without a murmur. And worse now we have divorces as if the children don't matter at all in the scheme of things..... How can one abandon their child is beyond me. WE ARE FILLING UP THE WORLD WITH DISTURBED PEOPLE.

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The soap operas are the worst in this regard. They project values in the form of a story based on reality. But I ask haven't we enough of real life that we should want to see the worst of our propensities on the artificial screen? I have been campaigning against this aspect but I can't seem to get even one person to agree. I have been asking people not to watch these programs because they influence us to do the same. But even my wife refuses to budge. I would so like to see goodness portrayed and solutions in terms of correct behaviour shown to us so that we emulate this instead of the negativity now. We are giving ideas to people who would have otherwise never thought of doing the crimes they do.

In the name of being "better informed I find that there is a great interest in political gossip. You may want to discuss other serious matters such as philosophy and how certain things that are affecting your personal life but these people around me wish to talk only of what the politicians are doing and they want to focus on all the commas and full stops in gory details I ask 2 questions. 1) From when did what the kings do and specially today's politicians (in and out of power) ever mattered to the person in the street. 2) How does it matter if we have detailed knowledge of what Putin had for breakfast or said something about the state of our economy? What concerns me is if I will be able to go to my destination swiftly without a protest march or the passing of a politician's motorcade blocking the roads. We are so glaringly showing our true lack of taking life seriously at the personal level. Nothing makes us look at ourselves and what we need to do to be in better health, better moods and better relationships. It is all a sham. Politicians serve so well as hooks to hang our coats on knowing fully well that we don't matter, they don't matter (they come and go and they are there to corner as many millions into their bank accounts) and by focusing on the gossip we can safely be busy achieving the perfect image of those who care but are so helpless to do anything about it all.

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If you quieten your emotional mind and observe you'll see that every instance and happening has a long chain of a "tale" behind it. Our kindness and compassionate center is awfully hurt by misbehaviour and rejection due to misunderstandings but we as we are and this feeling is part of the play. Let us go into the effort of discovery to rise above these manifestations. It is always more profitable and wiser along with amusing to know the consequences behind the consequences and how we bring things to happen to us. Once the picture becomes clear, the pain goes away. The sadness will although remain.

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The more aware we become the worse it gets. We cannot continue in the way we are and we don't have the power to advance our agenda. In this world of deceit we who will not act by deceit are at a disadvantage. We feel there is help outside. But really there is none. In Urdu we speak of "Flower where you have been placed by your maker". We look for a door and that it will open; we pray that He that put us here will open it sometime. But it is all hopeless. HE put us here; no help is forthcoming from HIM. Our brothers and sisters are busy protecting themselves and their cages. We are on our own. Let us think on the lines that we are strong enough to take them on. I am sure I can handle this bully. I will educate myself on the best methods under the circumstances and take care of myself. What is the worst that can be done to me; that can happen? Being the grand guy did not help me any. BUT I am at peace with myself. No-one can say I had hurt them. My going will leave no ripples and disturb none's existence.......And best of all they leave me in peace as they see nothing of value in what I have.

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The subconscious is like memory foam; it always comes to its original form and position. Changes happen if at all over a long period like give or take a million years. It is more than just obstinate. It has outsourced its thinking to the Spirits in the Cosmos and The Devils are simply enjoying their Planet Earth Resort. Notice from the wisdom of the owl, the cunning of the rat, the strength of the tiger, the grace of the eagle and the charm of the deer that all is well except for the human who has given himself to God!

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Some time ago with some friends this same topic came up. I put up this point of view: War is one way of make things budge in the Cosmos because otherwise evolution has a tendency to sit on its backside and refuse to move; just like a recalcitrant donkey. Whenever a people/culture starts suffering from Inertia and refuse to think beyond its laid down parameters, a decay in the vibrations commences and it is at this moment that Mother Nature thru the micro programming already deeply embedded in human greed some other cultures get awakened. The sad part is that war is the only way as yet for the change to be instituted. Humans have not grown enough mentally into wisdom to initiate change because good sense says so.

Our laziness is supernatural and it requires The Spirit's involvement to break from its clutches. Most are happy with our little struggles and acceptances and therefore rarely make the supreme effort. And life goes on.....making change to come with force. The cosmos uses many elements like war, natural disasters and sages but no one really pays attention to the sages.

The language ability of humans is at a very low level of development + their thoughts are in an unformed shapeless state so to put them in words is like trying to catch the oxygen in the air around us. Most people have really nothing to say that would have any import or impact on the world around them -- it is just mumbo-jumbo and noise pollution. We are only creating confusion and misunderstandings that give rise to disastrous occurrences. The world needs to learn to contemplate, focus and then direct their words and actions with precision.

We are all made that way. Not one of us is totally sincere about anything. Every word, every plan, every intention smacks of some personal end in view. Insincerity is the foundation of human make-up

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How? How does one understand a deep occult truth as this one when one is totally drowned in the sea of evil insincerity grounded in self-deception? Where is the tool that can show our insincerity?

This requires meditation and a sincere look at ourselves like what jealous thoughts are we harboring.... what tricky plans we are putting into operation....what manipulative words we are using......what we are hiding while projecting an image for public consumption...what we are not telling 0r/and what we ARE telling????

A few words thrown out into the atmosphere are not going to anything and if your aim is to show off your saintly side, there is then insincerity involved anyway.

All depends on the onlooker. If he is dumb, a bum, ignorant, uninterested, clever, cunning or wise. The final explanation is subjective to his state of mind desire agenda. The person debunking has only as much value as we give him. Objectivity is sorely lacking in our thinking.

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In the last 50 years we have unknowingly promoted narcissism. The parents have suddenly seen an upsurge in living standards and pride has blown out of proportions. This is showing thru their children who are being treated and protected as extra-specials. This attitude of "Don't say or do anything because this may cause trauma to their psyche." has only created spoiled brats, sissies and entitled bums who are offended all the time. Not a single parent is seeing to it to prepare the child for a future; a future that will not provide them any protection. They are totally forgetting that 90% of the character, the traits, mannerisms etc will have already made their way into the subconscious by the time the child is15-26. The poor child is being sculpted for rejection and failure into a disturbed life. Vandalism is the way of speech today. This is how humanity talks. This is the method of the jealous, envious and afraid that the world is passing them by and they will be left behind in the dust/mud. It is called nuisance value. What we are seeing today is a larger manifestation of this attitude that management takes of appeasement. We are forcing people to go to school via large scale teaching systems..... To bring "learning" to people who have no need, or no aptitude for it. Why not teach life-skills and professional skills? The aim is funny. We need trained mechanics and specialists but we send them to school to become white collared clerks who find it beneath their standard to change their own tyre or clean the car. We have created half-baked anarchists instead indeed.

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It is the same old world in a greater glittering avatar. Mayhem and security was the thought at the back of everything we did even in the times of living in caves and now in this 21st century we are still worried on that score. Do what you have to do to safeguard yourself. Earlier it was the T Rex that worried us, now it is the Tax Rex. The tax Rex is far more dangerous as his hunger is never appeased. There is this eerie feeling that we are going about as soulless creatures verily. What is motivating us? The next meal, the next need of the body to lie down, go potty or find solace in the arms of our partner? Our life is leading us or are we leading a life of our design? What is this design? Activate to view larger image,

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And how, exactly, are men the thing that women need "protection from"?

Pradeep: Come on!!! We do treat them as chattels

"We" do? How? Specifically.

Are you from the earth planet?

[Pradeep](https://www.facebook.com/groups/3170364623176050/user/838157924/?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZXiYi5ktLUrtaakMyhdYiEtkS22_gWcjHaIDy7sSeMK01-u9J-QmL9tE2TvIPxbefeL_-us9v9wNAcfkTT3-dbI6k4aO635C2GP7yCaRPq4pGJPHLRE1JvA1npXdeL8VYLwWYl3nYGAAg4IhTPrTtC8z5VdDlpn4cI4pBXQP1juirwrPds4zPTIBx_DOwoSB2vfmt1xDbpr_KKwFs5ov5rLY9E3Gvm1W8HgQ36DduWXpA&__tn__=R%5d-R), I'm quite sure I am.

I ask this question to people, and they typically say the things you are saying

But none of them can ever be specific in a manner that is not either limited in scope or easy to refute with readily available data.

But I remain open to any specifics that would validate this narrative.

That's why I ask. I'd like to hear them if they exist.

Rather, what I see is men providing for their wives and daughters. Working for their security and their futures. Sacrificing their time and health and bodies to make women's lives better, doing awful jobs that few if any women do. I see men protecting women at risk of their own lives, at home or off in foreign wars.

I see women enjoying equal rights that they have been denied throughout history. Engaging in politics and commerce at the highest levels, establishing legislature, and ruling on women's health issues in the highest courts - something that did not occur even so recently as when RvW was established.

[Bill Evans](https://www.facebook.com/groups/3170364623176050/user/100018635115191/?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZXiYi5ktLUrtaakMyhdYiEtkS22_gWcjHaIDy7sSeMK01-u9J-QmL9tE2TvIPxbefeL_-us9v9wNAcfkTT3-dbI6k4aO635C2GP7yCaRPq4pGJPHLRE1JvA1npXdeL8VYLwWYl3nYGAAg4IhTPrTtC8z5VdDlpn4cI4pBXQP1juirwrPds4zPTIBx_DOwoSB2vfmt1xDbpr_KKwFs5ov5rLY9E3Gvm1W8HgQ36DduWXpA&__tn__=R%5d-R) to [Roland Hoshuteki Tembo Hendel](https://www.facebook.com/groups/3170364623176050/user/1399099764/?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZXiYi5ktLUrtaakMyhdYiEtkS22_gWcjHaIDy7sSeMK01-u9J-QmL9tE2TvIPxbefeL_-us9v9wNAcfkTT3-dbI6k4aO635C2GP7yCaRPq4pGJPHLRE1JvA1npXdeL8VYLwWYl3nYGAAg4IhTPrTtC8z5VdDlpn4cI4pBXQP1juirwrPds4zPTIBx_DOwoSB2vfmt1xDbpr_KKwFs5ov5rLY9E3Gvm1W8HgQ36DduWXpA&__tn__=R%5d-R)

I agree with you. This universal motto of Woman Good Man Bad is so biased and generic.

[Roland Hoshuteki Tembo Hendel](https://www.facebook.com/groups/3170364623176050/user/1399099764/?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZXiYi5ktLUrtaakMyhdYiEtkS22_gWcjHaIDy7sSeMK01-u9J-QmL9tE2TvIPxbefeL_-us9v9wNAcfkTT3-dbI6k4aO635C2GP7yCaRPq4pGJPHLRE1JvA1npXdeL8VYLwWYl3nYGAAg4IhTPrTtC8z5VdDlpn4cI4pBXQP1juirwrPds4zPTIBx_DOwoSB2vfmt1xDbpr_KKwFs5ov5rLY9E3Gvm1W8HgQ36DduWXpA&__tn__=R%5d-R) to [Bill](https://www.facebook.com/groups/3170364623176050/user/100018635115191/?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZXiYi5ktLUrtaakMyhdYiEtkS22_gWcjHaIDy7sSeMK01-u9J-QmL9tE2TvIPxbefeL_-us9v9wNAcfkTT3-dbI6k4aO635C2GP7yCaRPq4pGJPHLRE1JvA1npXdeL8VYLwWYl3nYGAAg4IhTPrTtC8z5VdDlpn4cI4pBXQP1juirwrPds4zPTIBx_DOwoSB2vfmt1xDbpr_KKwFs5ov5rLY9E3Gvm1W8HgQ36DduWXpA&__tn__=R%5d-R), thank you.

Division and fear are two of the most powerful tools of oppressors throughout history.

The oligarchs have that down to a science.

[Pradeep Pk Maheshwari](https://www.facebook.com/groups/3170364623176050/user/838157924/?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZXiYi5ktLUrtaakMyhdYiEtkS22_gWcjHaIDy7sSeMK01-u9J-QmL9tE2TvIPxbefeL_-us9v9wNAcfkTT3-dbI6k4aO635C2GP7yCaRPq4pGJPHLRE1JvA1npXdeL8VYLwWYl3nYGAAg4IhTPrTtC8z5VdDlpn4cI4pBXQP1juirwrPds4zPTIBx_DOwoSB2vfmt1xDbpr_KKwFs5ov5rLY9E3Gvm1W8HgQ36DduWXpA&__tn__=R%5d-R) to [Bill Evans](https://www.facebook.com/groups/3170364623176050/user/100018635115191/?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZXiYi5ktLUrtaakMyhdYiEtkS22_gWcjHaIDy7sSeMK01-u9J-QmL9tE2TvIPxbefeL_-us9v9wNAcfkTT3-dbI6k4aO635C2GP7yCaRPq4pGJPHLRE1JvA1npXdeL8VYLwWYl3nYGAAg4IhTPrTtC8z5VdDlpn4cI4pBXQP1juirwrPds4zPTIBx_DOwoSB2vfmt1xDbpr_KKwFs5ov5rLY9E3Gvm1W8HgQ36DduWXpA&__tn__=R%5d-R)

I suppose no one here has heard of rapes, marital violence, kidnaping and enslavement just for the fun of sex?!!! (The virtuous use and throw/murder aspect). The oligarchs are so dumb!!!

[Bill Evans](https://www.facebook.com/groups/3170364623176050/user/100018635115191/?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZXiYi5ktLUrtaakMyhdYiEtkS22_gWcjHaIDy7sSeMK01-u9J-QmL9tE2TvIPxbefeL_-us9v9wNAcfkTT3-dbI6k4aO635C2GP7yCaRPq4pGJPHLRE1JvA1npXdeL8VYLwWYl3nYGAAg4IhTPrTtC8z5VdDlpn4cI4pBXQP1juirwrPds4zPTIBx_DOwoSB2vfmt1xDbpr_KKwFs5ov5rLY9E3Gvm1W8HgQ36DduWXpA&__tn__=R%5d-R) to [Pradeep Pk Maheshwari](https://www.facebook.com/groups/3170364623176050/user/838157924/?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZXiYi5ktLUrtaakMyhdYiEtkS22_gWcjHaIDy7sSeMK01-u9J-QmL9tE2TvIPxbefeL_-us9v9wNAcfkTT3-dbI6k4aO635C2GP7yCaRPq4pGJPHLRE1JvA1npXdeL8VYLwWYl3nYGAAg4IhTPrTtC8z5VdDlpn4cI4pBXQP1juirwrPds4zPTIBx_DOwoSB2vfmt1xDbpr_KKwFs5ov5rLY9E3Gvm1W8HgQ36DduWXpA&__tn__=R%5d-R)

Modify the above slogan to "Some" men... and I think we can all agree

You both have shown a side of your deeper thoughts that do not merit further attention.

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A funny culture seems to be evolving. Like: You listen to me when I need you and am talking to you. Leave me alone otherwise. pk

Providing support. Ageing gracefully. The body has a time limit that is enhanced or reduced by the way it is forced to survive its period on earth. So there is first this period of 15-16 years when it has to be nurtured. Followed by a period of vigour that last well into the 40s. Then begins the decline in its ability to handle weather, stress and illnesses. No problem but the mind stays put in its arrogance of still sporting its thought about itself as the owner of the body and refuses mostly to accept that things are not the same. In its pride of "still being young and in prime" it normally ignores symptoms of fatigue, minor aches and discomforts not being that right. The mind continues or actually becomes more insistent to prove that it is not getting any older and thereby increases the burden on the body to LOOK and BEHAVE young as it was in the 20-30s. This is a serious error. Wisdom dictates that we listen to the signals being provided by the body and shift our stance accordingly. Why allow vanity to encroach upon a matter that does not concern it? But no; vanity will interfere and impose. Look how people spend their fortunes in "looking younger! But eventually the time will come when a cane is necessary. When you can longer dare to run after thieves and call it a day. The sooner we realize this the better health we will enjoy. This is called ageing gracefully.

Psychic Imprisonment.

The inorganic money-laden man-made culture has no place for older not earning members. So what have we done? We have imprisoned them in small box like prisons. They are not allowed to meet the rest of the world. There is nothing but "OLD" vibes surrounding them and making them age faster doubling their pain. The living life-giving caresses of the children is not allowed nor wanted by the intermediary generation who are busy making money. We are carefully killing them in every way but not strangling them outright. I suppose this is because they are a good source of income for the caring hospital industry. They need children and the children need them to grow properly both in mind and body. PS: Beware of the karma coins you are all collecting.

My experience is that human minds work on the basis of first come first served. The first thought that gets implanted is the champion and all our consequent thinking will depend on if later information fits with it or not. And, of course we shall also judge and act by it. This is the reason adult minds become rigid in their concepts based on what was fed to the minds in childhood when the minds open in full trust mode. Later on vanity gets attached to the thoughts and we intractable stupid adults.

Usually it is true that we give too much importance to what others think of us or would think as we imagine their thinking process by our own standards of personal egoism. So it is necessary to withdraw and find our center. But this has the downside of becoming too involved with one's own thoughts that lead to mental masturbation and eventually dementia. We need real life to keep us pointed in the right direction and nothing like slaps to wake us up now and then.

Being in love passionately does make us indomitable though. PK.

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'I don't know how I got to that thing of not caring what other people think, but it's a good thing. The thing is, you fall in love with ideas and it's like falling in love with a girl. It could be a girl you wouldn't want to take home to your parents, but you don't care what anybody else thinks. You're in love and it's beautiful and you stay true to those things.' Lynch

Accuse/Defend. The art of putting others on the defensive. In some people this is even seen as second nature. Something picked up unconsciously since childhood because the elders around them were so. But as a strategy to it is used by unscrupulous managers and leaders. The police use to tremendous effect.

The idea is simple. Focus on the deficiencies and keep on airing it whenever possible. Often the concept is used simply to accuse without basis and keep the others manipulated into a defensive state of mind to maintain an upper hand in the relationship. The accusers are not interested in your explanations. Once they have spoken they may immediately after shut of their listening apparatus (ears). It is simply a tried and tested method of keeping you seething mentally AND LOWER YOUR SELF-ESTEEM. Don't fall for this. If you know and understand what is happening, just stay silent and let the person go on. Don't get into a defensive argument ever. This will only increase the chances for the accuser to start broaching other misdemeanors from the past to brow-beat you into utter helplessness and shut you up. (NOTE: The only way these people can be shut up is when you can make them feel that they have something to lose or have the courage to show them that they have crossed the line. This requires self-control, a lack of fear and strength of character to not feel like a victim who may not tolerate this behavior overmuch and couldn't really care one way or another). There is really no attempt to arrive at the truth of the matter. These accusers do not ask questions. They "KNOW" and they tell you so or order you to do whatever they think is the solution. If you are a junior in an organization you really cannot do much about it except leave before your mind in its anger does something that will hurt you long term like suicide or react in murderous hurt-attack -- the world will not see your problem or you as the victim.

As this tendency is planted securely in the subconscious, there is no changing it either. How you play your cards is in your hands. Trying to change their minds is not one of them.

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Errrr hmmmm......

1) That humans do not know when they are better off. 2) That humans are basically mentally lazy & wastrels but great at talking and smoke-screening with words. 3) That poverty best suits the human personality - it makes them neighborly, kind, caring, careful and resourceful and negates the ballooning of arrogance and narcissism.

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Our approach is defective. Read the below para on prayer: It would have been equally true had you said "Pradeep hates this of humans". Was it necessary to peg it on god as if it is out of bounds with humans? This is where we are going all wrong by making it a godly attribute rather make it an essential goal for humans to be for which they are eminently capable of achieving IF ONLY they wanted it.

· A Prayer to Hate What God Hates By Laura Bailey Bible Reading "There are six things the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil, a false witness who pours out lies, and a person who stirs up conflict in the community." - Proverbs 6:16-19 NIV

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The western medicine people refuse to learn from antiquity because their mindset stamped the world as Pagan, wild and illiterate without ever realising that all the forest people have great medicines and understanding of life. The corporatisation of medicine has negated everything. Their need to make money is the prime motive today and not healing which they know as they always knew that it is the body's own energies that do the healing. It is does not require great intelligence to see that a wound may be covered and healing pastes applied but the wound closes by itself thru the body's own magic. Large scale manufacture of standardised drugs is their aim and protocols established by some closed-minded authorities is how they are making and running their education of doctors and hospitals. The same treatment is offered in New York that is available in Delhi; how is that possible? A system that does not take lifestyle and geographic elements into consideration is basically incomplete. The western closed mind is the result of the closed loop thinking of the Christian faith that considers itself as all fount of knowledge. Everything they advocate finally smacks of their barbaric tendencies. The burning of people at the stake of all deniers, of wise women as witches, the Inquisition etc are pointers. Today the books of history/knowledge that are freely available and taught are basically the history of Europe. And the rest of the world is left in our education as "indigenous" knowledge of no worth which has to be researched which actually amounts to reinventing the wheel.

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The millionaires

These are the real poor people. I pity them. These poor people you must have seen are deprived of all the simple everyday pleasures. Have you seen that they cannot even find a normal pair of shoes - they have to get it custom made. Have you seen how they cannot enjoy a simple sandwich without some caviar to go with it? Even their cherries need to be soaked in brandy or they can't swallow them. They can't even sit in normal cars - like you can't give them a lift - for without genuine leather their skin erupts in boils. Have you seen how their breathing collapses in normal commercial planes - they have to have their own jets. It is a very sad life.

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

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If you want to create a conducive atmosphere for money, just maintain peace, and money will reside there. A troubled man is very unlucky. Avoid unnecessary arguments and passing of blame if you want financial favor to locate you.

They say money talks....But smart money listens.

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The whole scenario is wrong. We have never understood the full nature and the energies behind the human form. We may think of ourselves as individuals totally acting within our free will; but no this is not it. As far as human evolution goes, we have only recently in history discovered our real mental capabilities and we have yet to learn to use it to its full potential and understand its capabilities and limitations. Right now we act prompted by the invisible (to human eyes) world. We are just cogs in a huge conglomeration called the Universe. So until the time we have understood this and mastered the intricacies properly of what moves us, we are living in ignorance. Total and complete ignorance at the most basic level and whatever wonderful things we think out, as these are motivated to satiate our wishes, we shall end up on the wrong side of Providence. In fact we are tempting Providence to play with our lives. We may see ourselves as innocent but this changes nothing. We are swimming in ignorance and we always end up by drowning in it.

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Unless we are cynical and look at ourselves with unstinting ferocity we shall never strive to improve upon anything. The positive aspect is that humans can do it but why they are not doing is a mystery. We are capable of great kindness and understanding but we do not emphasize on these factors in our education and raising of children. In the Indian tantric tradition we attribute it to "tamas" and inertia/laziness in our subconscious patterns. Changes can happen only when we go to war with our negativity and stop wishy-washy cover-ups to sneakily promote our greed, dishonesty and lack of responsible commitment.

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The world has veered to a totally "physical" personality. It values everything instant, biggest, largest, shiniest, highest, fastest, thinnest, fastest, and deepest. Everything is exciting, super, fantastic, prodigal, and miraculous and mind blowing. All the very ordinary everyday happenings have now been labeled with grand adjectives. All the unwanted aspects have been normalised to make the dunces feel normal and at par with Beethoven and Einstein. So now with words they have created a megalomania kind of super structure in which all are above and beyond the world standard. A foundation built on pure illusion where people think that carrying a gun shows how powerfully built they are and fooled by the running water in their taps to think that they control even Mother nature. The spirit is kept quiet by regular visits to some brick and mortar edifice every now and then while they pray to some gods to grant them their wishes while their coaches chants magic hymns in a language nobody understands. The cleverer 1% are sucking the people dry, eve deliberately poisoning them to keep their industries running and thru the media they have brainwashed the world but the lowest denominator only sees how swell they are. Cash notes are printed and thrown into the market and free credit cards keep the economy going. Nothing is real. Not even the boobs and buttocks which they prize so much.

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Are "Humans" an advanced intelligent race? What would you gather from these options: - loves speed for speed's sake? - Still equates his ego by his car. - Goes gaga on the perishable female form. - Is easily pleased thru the clever management of taste buds. - His words lack commitment. That a saying exists to prove it (Promises are made to be broken) - Does not love or take full responsibility for his children. - Lies and hides his real motives; the legal system of laws, lawyers and courts is proof. - Easily corrupted for personal satisfaction. - His healing system is a money making industry. - He is more inclined to be willfully cheated. - Lives in an illusory world of gods and values and refuses to see beyond it as his "persona" is complete thru these notions and gives him all the excuses he needs to think of himself as virtuous and awareness-wise superior. - Lives as if he is immortal and focusses on collecting material wealth. The very fact that he uses women and children for trading pleasure and protects the perpetrators shows how vile his entire social system is which he protects by "force".

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"If I am good at what I do and have done I shall automatically rise as a success in life." No; you won't be! Don't allow yourself to be duped. Also do not fall for this simple philosophy that hard work and success go together. Between the cup and the lip there are many slips. The slips in life come from dishonest and unscrupulous people at one end and people unable to realize the value of the good you are doing at the other. A very important factor is LUCK and luck is good karma coming back to you. So go figure.

Honesty is the best policy. Ha! I tried to live by this adage and got snubbed, cheated and reviled for my childish lack of maturity but once or twice when I cheated I was successful. The message I got from life was that this is the way to succeed. In a lot of things and activities I was very good at but the idea of competing except with my own-self was totally anathema to me. Self-effacing cooperative people are seen as dumb.

My attitude is if they have the ability to recognise my talents they are welcome. I do not see why I should go about spending good energy in convincing anyone about anything. Yet I learnt a little late that people around us have no other means or trained minds to judge one another any other way. Their thinking is totally outsourced. One very good lesson that I learnt that as an author is that as I am not part of an organisation or recognisable institution, I am not marketable so of no interest to any publisher. In business I have proposals but as a partnership none is interested-they want it all for themselves or not at all.

I still live by this adage but all I get to do is sit alone with my computer for company.

Once you have come into the limelight then everybody recognises you and is prepared to partner.

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Our modern lifestyle drives much of the chronic and systemic inflammation that leads to disease. Systemic inflammation is a serious condition characterized by widespread inflammation throughout the body. It is also thought to be the root cause of practically every known chronic health condition. Chronic inflammation's most common causes are: Poor diet Physical and emotional stress Sedentary behavior A lack of high-quality sleep Toxins in the environment Lifestyle habits such as smoking and alcohol consumption. You and your health If you are unwell you have two choices - try sincerely to correct it. Study the nutrition, life-style and immunity levels. The other alternative is pay somebody else to look after you..... The SUN, germs, viruses, pollution make for a good scapegoat. In life if "that" is what you want, then THAT is The THING for you and of course all the consequences that Go with THAT. Who cares?... and how does it matter? Your life; your body; your indulgences; your sickness; your feelings; your sufferings AND your death. Enjoy it as long as it lasts. But one thing is certain: The pursuit of pleasure and praise through willing subverting slavery has become the normal thinking pattern.

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

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Most "kings" become kings because there is a vile deep foothold in their consciousness of the negative forces. Their administration is based on control and self-profit at the expense of the country. Most politicians are on a one way ego trip. I wonder if they have spoken a single word in their lives connected to the truth of their hearts or even if they are capable. The influence is so strong that most government employees, organisations are seeping in negativity and blocking change or improvement for this would mean "sharing" and this is not what they are there for. People who work there soon lose all their personal personality and sense of proportion. It is quite like being transmuted very slowly into unflappable living stone statues. I read somewhere that bureaucrats are people who have been trained to NOT understand and this is perfectly acceptable as thought and style of life!

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We can simply not see beyond our personal needs which are shaped by our limited environment while being raised (the first 20 years). So we are unable to recognise the gifts many of the greats that we meet in life as teachers, friends and sometimes even relatives are in a position to offer. We don't see or go out to grab more because our environment along with what we know and think we are is quite satisfactory to survive.....mostly quite well. And for emergencies or special needs there are always some people around us offering their expertise (such as cobbler, tailor, grocer, doctor, mechanic) for a price so the need to learn and grow is non-existent.

When we are visited by suffering we always pat philosophy to justify and keep us calm and feeling virtuous. Not to forget there is a serious illness inborn in the human composition and this is laziness.

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To Joshua: Agree with most of what you are saying but with a twist. On the Love that is spoken of in spiritual experiences and by sages, at the base level of chakra, to people operating from their "minds" at a material object-subject level depending on their five senses, only this much can be said :.....This love is like the air around you. You are in it. It becomes you. There is no separation. It becomes the foundation of your basic persona. It acts as a firewall between you and the negative world that is filled with arrogance, anger and hate that translates easily into violence. These emotions/values simply have no more place in your persona although you recognise them and pragmatically take all blocking actions needed to avoid them entry in your atmosphere. Your mind does not depend on inputs of the senses alone but also from the infinite intuitive mind. You move about in the world as just another human but your motivations simply do not have the elements -- showing-off, grabbing, hurting, attracting appreciation or worrying about fate and what the future will bring The whole process becomes so automatic that it will show in your appearance, your way of handling situations and responses. The "littleness" that we see in human nature disappears. You see clearly that we are a bundle of a lot of good and hurtful vibrations and you see clearly the working of the mental and emotional vibes around you in the world but also realize that this is too big and not your problem or that you cannot do much except be yourself and make your own corner more hospitable. If you have to be it will Kindness all the way. PS: Here I have noticed a conflict of interests. I would like to do good at every moment but what I consider and view as good is generally NOT so seen by the crowd and this is a complication that requires a lot of wisdom to sort out.

I'll try to explain with a bit of imagery. You love your child. Keeping him safe and clean is high on your mind's list. But the child wants to play in the mud created by the recent rain. Your first instinct is to stop this. But I feel that is not correct. Why? Because I know that the child' spiritual development requires for the child to play and discover. This is the wise choice. + Now it has been also been confirmed medically that it is good for the child's physical/biological development. But most mothers would not agree.

The above note was written in response to this note by: Joshua ( a friend)

Love by definition is unconditional. Otherwise it's merely infatuation, and it involves meeting mutual wants/needs from two parties that can change at any moment. The word love is bandied about far too often. It's almost always some flavor of idealism and enamoring. Those dreams can be crushed so quickly and usually are. True love is usually found in parent - child relationships (but even there, many fail to produce it). And sometimes, if you're incredibly lucky, in very long term relationships/friendships. As far as divine love, if you mean those fleeting moments where we are given revelation from "the other realm," during synchronicities, lucid dreams, meditation, yoga, etc., I can understand that feeling. The entire art of Zen Buddhism and Taoism, is predicated on trying to stay in that state of mind as much as possible - what we call the flow state in neuroscience. It's not something you can give others, as I'm sure you all know; but if they're interested, perhaps they will follow their own path to that state. But I don't personally find it very pragmatic to be in that state of awe all the time. You run the risk of becoming an irresponsible hippie who fancies the feeling of bliss over important family/life matters. I've seen this happen with many people. They become addicted to the experience. I guess it's cliché to say, but as always, moderation is key. I don't want to be drunk on love, nor a rigid person who doesn't understand its necessity as part of maturation.

Convictions are such bad ass things.

Peep into any mind and you will see that there would be hundreds of convictions lining the wall the brain. In time and with time these convictions harden to become strong permanent partitions that influence and justify all our actions -- even those that do not require it. Their influence is so strong that thinking and analysis, detective work etc takes a back seat. Let me paint you some images:

I wanted some coffee. I was at the house of a relative. In this household all water is properly filtered for consumption. So asked her to make my instant coffee just when the water become comfortably warm at around 5-6-deg C.....to NOT boil the water as I did not like being served boiling hot drinks. Her response was immediate "how can I serve you water that has not been boiled safely" and boil she did. She was scientific enough to have a proper water filter but her convictions picked up since childhood were unassailable. If we analyse deeply we might see how we think on the basis of perceptions that become convictions and then labelled as good or bad become fixed assets.

Today we this example of sleep deprivation. How because we have convinced ourselves that Sleep is time wasted. That Diet Coke sugar-free is good. Sex is love. That we can control anger through talking it over with a therapist. That imprisoning violent people will rehabilitate them. That the element of violence can be managed thru the system pf police/courts of law. That people speak the truth under oath. That parents and teachers are always dedicated and would never seek to harm the child. That the medical system is out to look after our health.... Millions of other convictions that never hold out to be really relevant but these run our lives.

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One of thought patterns that has set like concrete in human thought foundation and needs to be trashed immediately is this one: Christians and Muslims are SEPARATISTs. By separating god from the Universe and humans from the rest of the Creation they have created an unreal world which has no basis from any angle. Humans are made from the same molecules and atoms as other things in the Universe. The enjoining force/glue is something part and parcel of every grain & object. How could these people envisage a God that sits separately, unconnected and as a judge. Even from the human's point of view I don't see how it would make any sense for any God to create a world to "trouble" Himself with. I wouldn't trust a word these people say. Their entire strategy has been to sow discord among humans and then control with this GOD figure as authority.

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"Am I that easy to forget?"

When I first heard this line in the song I was woefully hurt and felt rather sad for then in full-blown teen-hood I had also dreamt for companionship and some relationships did develop that made me dream but soon evaporated quite as fast. It did leave me wondering and this line got to me. But this went rather deep enough to make me wonder about existence as a whole. Questions that cropped up are "Why relationships happen and why they get broken; what makes us want relationships". "Who and what are we?" My entire life has been woven around this question. After 50+ years of guerilla warfare with life I have understood some grim realities.

What are we really? A small package that encompasses a bit of our parents, a bit of our schooling, a bit of our exposure to the world and our own efforts to discover. Considering the size of this world it is really just a speck; almost nothing. We become a power only when we are together and this is why the family has been always so important and so necessary in our lives. At the age of 16 it is easy to think of ourselves as being in "demand/attractive/impressive" and we can attract anything and anybody we desire as we are somebody making an impact as somebody exclusive. But even with all our specialties we soon realize by the time we have crossed 40 that we are limited and NOT so important and quite easy to replace. The commonness between us all is finally dawning on us and we are not pleased. But we have to keep the illusion up and this is the point where our decline begins.

Imagine how as you age you become more self-centered and with your own family + birth family you feel you don't really need this world as you are well surrounded and protected and all your needs are being met in totality. Then you realize that children grow up and go. Friends do not wish to carry on the burden of tolerating you. Uncles and Aunts start dying. Cousins have left for faraway lands. Year after year the planet seems lonelier. Suddenly one day you wake up alone with your cup of wine for company (or coffee) that your doctor is asking you to Not have. AND you understand the loneliness of the man who forgot to make friends with himself. PS: Although it is the strength of the glue of family that keeps this world together and going BUT there is an aspect that seen from the spiritual angle and elevation of the conscious that would consider "family" as a trap that keeps us locked in into mediocrity.

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Justifying rage-violence.

Last evening I saw a dramatic unfurling of the "RAGE" component in humans. The trigger being that "a mistake" was pointed out. The person unleashed a defensive barrage of loud-mouthed abuse that would shut up any sensible self-respecting guy. The poor recipient being a delivery boy. I have seen these people that fly into rages doing it only when they know that the person at the other end is in a vulnerable position and it is safe to attack him/her. When they are assured that they will get away with it they come out expressing their cruel side in full measure.

And to avoid the situation escalating I tried to intervene and the full force of the rage was turned on me. What did it achieve? I learnt my lesson again that this is an area of human nature that simply cannot be touched. People are not going to ever accept that they have shadows and that they are ever in error; that they are not perfect as they are. Their image cannot be poked. If you want their goodwill their ego has to be pumped up with appreciation. The other side of the coin does not exist.

I don't see humanity going forward as long as this aspect of our nature is avowed, accepted and focussed upon as the stumbling block in our evolution to a kinder mankind.

Psychologists/Counselors advise nowadays that dialogue, listening to grievances is the solutions. Well considering that human nature is not changing one whit this is quite true. To my way of thinking this is totally useless as an answer to resolve anything. It does give time to the enraged party to cool down, come to some level of senses and go away to fight another day. By opening a door thru dialogue we are only making it easy for the situation to be blanketed for the moment but humanity is now in a decisive phase and we need to go beyond this level of our human character.

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Basically we are kind and friendly but also brutal in equal measure if not more. The Environment in which we are brought up and live and work makes it better or worse. This fact that humans who have to be in a brutal atmosphere how they get affected by it is not fully acknowledged nor understood. This is what happens to the Policemen, Army men, Factory supervisors and labour contractors and bouncers in bars and prostitution dens. Parents and teachers who have nobody to control them or oversee them also easily lose control and become very often brutal. There is this tendency to compare, label ourselves superior and then treat the others as underdogs by giving ourselves the freedom to be cruel and demanding. Specially those given the duty to control certain activities and maintain discipline like minor clerks, doormen, accountants etc. It is a sad story how our innate laziness and dishonesty makes us non cooperative or nonproductive forcing others to adopt coercive ways; we use minor violence to argue ourselves out of our responsibilities that we often take on willingly and annoy others who then bend down to violence. Then there are those working in the line of fire who have to kill and destroy as part of their work. They get eventually insensitive to it all. Just imagine the unknown plight of the worker in the meat factory where he has to see the fear and tears of the animals being murdered day in and day out! How we promote negative forces and vibes:

An example will clearly show our errors.... We admonish and lecture our children to be honest and not to lie. But in real active everyday living we are lying, going back on our words, breaking promises and not delivering on our commitments -- all these in front of our children -- blatantly. And then we wonder why the society structurally is going to the unruly factions! Now due to the spread of communications and media the wrongdoings of everyone on the planet is being told all around and the coming generation is deeply affected by it all. Honest people are being even victimized. We haven't done well at all.

The evil that men unleash with such determined apathy always returns to bite them. The waves that are unloaded on others frighten the self-preservation instinct in others and the Fear of annihilation sparks the evil to flare up which may have been dormant till now or had been limited to everyday "bullying" like shouting at helpless employees, children, belting wives, torturing students and insulting the poor. The tidal wave that builds up destroys the very people who started it.

Yet all if these thought patterns are deeply embedded and accepted as normal by the human race. What are we aiming for?

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Intentions are there; this is what the post is all about. No denying them. We all see things thru our spectacles of intentions. But it is possible to rise beyond the need of intentions. But when judging and passing judgments we are definitely passing on our intentions. It quite depends on the level of evolutionary perfection your soul has arrived at. But as a generalisation what you say would apply to most of us. But then again this is not what we are here for - to sustain what is. We should be contemplating what better way things can be and focus on that even if it is not yet true.

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In order to survive on the physical plane, in this body on earth, we, as human beings, depend on everything we need from the external world. We would be unable to live without the elements that the earth, water, air and the sun provide for us. We are creatures, and all creatures have to get what they need from outside themselves in order to survive. The prevailing thought patterns now active are that we are masters of all we survey and we are busy destroying our sustenance. Only the Creator is above this law -- he has no need of anything external to himself since he is life. Therefore let us choose wisely. Our health, physical, mental and emotional swill depend on what we are surrounding ourselves with and consuming. Use your intelligence. Inform yourself thru all the means available to you. We allow the advertising to run our lives.

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Mental Engagements, disentanglements and contentment.

From the medical angle what I am seeing today is at least to me a little alarming. People's minds are loaded with data which is superfluous to their lives. It cannot be even called general knowledge in most cases. Like knowing the date of birth of Einstein; how is it help us in leading a better life? The streaming is so continuous that there is rarely a pause for the mind to sit back and process it all. Every second new data is being recorded and the old erased; there is no process of anything registering. What is happening is that people are simply floating mentally in limbo without being in touch with anything at all except perhaps the very immediate whatever is taking their attention. The memory and the knowledge/info backup is blank. Consequently the sense of responsibility is lacking and for all practical purposes these people are useless -- specially so in jobs requiring commitment. Why do we need the TV and the videos on the smart phone to keep us feeling engaged? We are catering exclusively to the monkey mind. The value of silence and enjoying one's own company has been shot down like a fighter jet in flames with no survivors. It is Chitty Chitty Bang Bang all the way 24/7. Advice to disengage is taken badly. But My I at least have this say: Please at least, ask this question: How is this info or "engagement" help my understanding of life or be good for my well-being?

Sit back and ask what have I learnt today? What are the aspects of my life that I need to be careful about? Release yourself from the easy digital engagement and do something about the physical things that are asking for attention around you.

Children know how to be quiet and happy with their own selves. We the adults spoil it by over doing it. Let them be quiet or let them work it out for themselves with hobbies in which others are not needed. This attitude in later life will do them a lot of good. People who have found their center in interests in which they are the "doer" are well balanced and do not suffer as much as the indolent ones. They are aware and conscious of the attention life requires and are happy in silence and silent gaps in life. They actually thrive in this condition.

To win in this world two things are necessary: 1) to communicate clearly and succinctly your thoughts, properly formulated into understandable ideas. 2) A deeper, more occult understanding of human psychology to know their motivations and how they will react. Language control, delivery and poise has to be learnt and mastered thru special coaching. Psychology on the other hand needs a little expose theoretically and then you have to go out and observe by mingling with people.

The apparent and the obvious is normally not the true picture. Welcome to the concept of digging deeper into the wonderful world of the hidden tendencies where we are floating merrily in the pond of wishfully and insincerely yours.

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How our language has been our undoing.

I blame our language ability for our ills and I can literally prove it; just bear with me and read on:

Let us start with the word ICE-CREAM. When Ice-Cream came into the market nearly 100 years ago it was a simple product something like frozen whole-milk. This was also the time that modern medicine was "naturopathic" in its character. So doctors started prescribing it for children as a supplement food. In the intervening last 50 years the character of food, its processing, ingredients changed from natural to synthetic as our manufacturers got scientifically cleverer. Today the thing called ice-cream sold in the general market has NO MILK at all. It is a pure reformulation of oils, artificial pastes and flavours. But people still think that it is the ice-cream of old. Some years ago I was surprised that doctors are still prescribing ice cream to children as a health food.

Got it?

The other words that have been misapplied for pecuniary gains are 1) Bread: What we have now is denatured, bleached goo. 2) Ghee. Which got overtaken by hydrogenated oil and called vegetable ghee, 3) Pure OIL which after modern processing is nothing but machine oil. 4) FLOUR now is nothing but white powder derived from processed wheat that has been denatured, cleaned and deodorized and still called four but only becomes hard balls in your intestines. 5) Mayonnaise is another word. A rich tasty poison along with all the sauces and ketchups you are being sold.

BUT the real magic has been in the word Sugar Free.

You might start by doing some of your own research.

Morality has come down to a level where the sellers feel no qualms to knowingly produce cheap products (or highly adulterated) under the old names while they use the removed ingredients to produce new products that bring them more money. And the waste is thrown into the waterways that eventually comes back to us in the natural recycling of water.

But the products taste fabulous.

We have now in this world 2 types. The suppliers that understand the basic psychology of the average man who is limited by his need for good taste, good feel and good-looking products in food.

This gives them a 99% customer base support and they are able to control the market. Now they have 100% control of the market with nonfood products based on the looks, taste and feel factor.

In medicine too, a similar trend is ensuing where "relief" is what the customer base asks for.

Cheating, disregard, lack of empathy and responsibility has become the norm in our lives. The Good standard that we judge and are judged by are Cars, swimming pools and the holidays we are taking abroad in expensive places.

Similarly you can see if you open your eyes how certain words in use have changed character and meaning and have been judiciously used to make our lives worse by the powers that be in every sphere of life be it family, religion, trade, law social implications.

Why are we so easily taken for a ride -- willingly????

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Did the doctors tell you that once you have reached a certain age, you are not going back to your young healthy self? For people over 75 I ask why this concern for your health now when it is time to call it a day? Of course changing life-style may reduce some of the pressures on health but it also disturbs the chemistry that your body has learnt to live with and now you are going to make it change when it is in distress and thereby adding to the distress. As it is I find western medicine treats every part of the body as a component, independent of the rest of the body which is an idiotic approach. Western medicine doctors think like mechanics and not healers.

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Yesterday I saw a beautiful movie. And I said to myself whoa. Beware of the friends you keep. This man has killed himself by driving home drunk. His wife wants to know why he would do that because he loves his family. The insurance does not want to pay. So she complains to the police and an investigation starts. The investigation throws up this startling fact: One his friends was trying to woo his wife and he was upset and so this man was drinking away. This friend was at the party along with another friend + wife. This good guy (The second friend) took the keys of his car to save him from himself. But his wife tried to win him back as they had an affair long ago in the past. This man flatly said no as he loved his wife and wanted to go home. So this woman out of spite gave him the car keys and of course, totally drunk he decided to return home in his disturbed emotional state went out and killed himself. My note: Stay away from people you have flirted with and parted. Vanity may raise its head in hurtful ways. When are we going to grow up to learn to be masters of our minds and emotions?

People are what they are - the sum of their childhood exposure and conditioning. Where education and varied exposure to different experiences is missing, no amount of lecturing is going to help because our words do not penetrate the ego-wall and make any relevant effect on their reasoning. They see the superficial and think the outer glow is enough and physical strength is impressive. Where there is no self-awareness/analysis/discipline it is childish to expect that our words will do the trick. They admire their own image and nothing can sway them, specially all this talk that shows them in a lesser light.

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Spinoza spent his life studying the holy books and philosophy, one day he wrote: "I don't know if God really spoke, but if He did, this is what I believe He would say to believers: Stop praying and beating your chest! What I want you to do is go out into the world to enjoy your life. I want you to have fun, sing, learn ... that you enjoy everything I did for you. Stop going to those cold temples you built yourself and claim to be my home! My home is in the mountains, in the woods, rivers, lakes. This is where I live with you and express my love for you. Stop accusing me of your miserable life, I never told you there was something wrong with you, that you were a sinner, that your sexuality or joy was a bad thing! So don't blame me for everything they told you to believe. Stop reposting reads that have nothing to do with me. If you can't read me at dawn, in a landscape, in the eyes of your friend, in your wife, in your man, in your son's eyes... You won't find me in a book! Stop being scared. I don't judge, I don't criticize, and I don't punish. I am pure love... I filled you with passions, limitations, pleasures, feelings, needs, inconsistencies... and I gave you free will. How can I punish you for being what you are, if I am the one who made you? Do you actually think I could create a place to burn all my misbehaving children for the rest of eternity? What kind of God can do this? Respect your fellows and don't do what you would not want done to you. All I ask is to watch your life, let your free will be your guide. You and nature constitute a single entity... so don't think you have power over her. You're part of it. Take care of her and she will take care of you. Don't use your genius to look for what's wrong with that balance. It's up to you to keep that balance intact. Nature knows how to keep it very well, just don't disturb it! I have set you absolutely free. You are absolutely free to create a heaven or a hell in your life. I can't tell you if there's anything after this life, but I can give you some advice: Stop believing in me. I don't want you to believe in me, I want you to feel me. When you take care of your sheep, when you approach your little girl, when you caress your dog, when you swim in the river.... Express your joy and get used to taking just what you need! The only certain thing is that you are here, that you are alive, that this world is full of wonders... Don't look for me outside You won't find me..... I'm here... The nature, The cosmos... This is me. " ~ Baruch Spinoza ~ 1632 -- 1677

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Humans and other life-forms have been here on earth for millions of years. Yet today suddenly the humans think that without their intervention the human body and the entire natural system of life will collapse.

The thought is so comforting that we are in "control" that we can stop infections and illnesses and continue without fear with our stupidities. After all we vaccinated. We use anti-bacterial soap. We live in wonderful protected buildings/homes. What can go wrong? The general populace is so snug about it while the industrials pollute and chemically poison the environment but this worries no one because what is important is their little comforts and magical gadgets (small and big...example: Alexa and SUVs).Whatever lies or misinformation the populace is given, we lap it up. It is a mutual effort in fooling ourselves into blissful feeling of safety and being above it all am so depressed about this thought wave that has gripped the world.

Even the most intelligent and well informed ones among us are going with the official versions of things without questioning any of it. I can understand play with gadgets but allowing them to INJECT into us whatever they want in the name of whatever reason is the height of stupid warfare against ourselves. Why does it not ever occur to anyone that we may subconsciously colluding with the enemy by fooling ourselves into a false sense of protective custody? We have totally outsourced our thinking. We have given up our sovereignty. Just think till tear 1900 our water was clean. The air was free of exhaust fumes. There were no taxes. People were living to ripe old age even without the magic of modern medicine. And then what happened? Why did we give away our rights to naturally clean water and air? And why do we not take into calculation that this dirty water, and dirty air and processed dirty food Is what is making us sick; we are actively helping the enemy by reducing our ability to defend ourselves from Nature by staying away in our artificially conditioned homes. The germ theory of sickness has well gripped us as if there were no germs before. Germs make great scapegoats that we need to live in blissful communion. Our natural immunity has expired due to over stimulation. Small things that would have ended as a cold now turn to pneumonia. Cancers are erupting. And we are highly proud of it all. Of what? The fact that we have sent a Rover to Mars. That we can dive 2000 ft into the sea. We can do London to New York in 3 hours. Yet we are floored by a cold!

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What we need is philosophy without the stamp of an imagined god and a religion around it. Why religions at all?

The world is being filled with long explanations for people who don't even want to look in that direction.

Essentially all the sayings, all the different religions, all the millions of books when it comes down to practice can be summed up in a few lines.

Those who are looking for emancipation, find it in a few lines.

You know; those who must will find a way to cross the ocean and those who don't will drown even in a cup of water.

When a show of being NICE is enough why bother if we are truly kind at all?

Step back a few steps and see around you: How much effort goes into covering our lack of effort to go and understand the root of anything.

Culture is a prison. The strict labeling of good, bad & unacceptable keeps us blocked and trapped - frozen in time.

What a loss of the gift of this life-time.

Most people have religion and if the mentoring pastor has been the "KIND" kind, the person grown up eventually will interpret life in a kindly way. Religion is basically philosophy bound up in parables and served as past events. This is where it becomes narrow in its thinking by focusing on the "facts" and forgetting the philosophy.

I wonder if we could make a new set of philosophical commandments of about 20-30 or so that would keep our minds thinking on friendlier, pragmatic and compassionate realistic lines?

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Life is a collection of APPREHENSIONS that we try hard to hide. We really have no options but to play the game of life so we have to put up a happy front denoting successful achievements.

What a life we have made that we wake with apprehensions instead of creative thoughts and feelings. A life made on a foundation of lies and total insincerity of purpose, method and unreal ends.... But who gives this a thought? In our minds we are all living full lives, doing our duty honestly and blaming god for the rest.

What is in store of us? What will I have to suffer before this day is through?

God is speaking to us thru many different pens, mouths and means. It is a continuous process. But we have this tendency to ignore all messages that do not go with our personal private agenda. We prefer our "smallness" and would like things to simply go the way we wish them. ARE WE IN ANY WAY PROGRESSIVE? The why do we always shun new thoughts and change? How many sages have been killed by authority because they did not fit the current narrative? Like Socrates for example. How saints were burnt on the stake by the theological rulers? How many sages were crucified or beheaded because it was expedient to do so for the ruling class's creed? Can we trust the religio-theocratic narrative? Are they telling the truth of their experiences or cooking up the narrative as expediency demands? And why are we so eagerly so dependent on them to do our thinking for us?

It is rather "suprenant" that MAN in all these millions of years has not been able to conceive of a greater goal in life than to claim a pretty female. And females to have a male master.

And yet as my experience, goes, there is nothing special from one to the other. They feel the same. They claim you and hound you the same. And eventually become the same bores. I honestly conclude that it is more of a utilitarian goal. Both looking for prize catches to show off and have a good life together too. And they never give themselves fully and completely. The major part of their persona stays way out of the reach of anyone for that matter.

I wonder over and over.

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Attention spans have spread thin like a pat of butter onto four toasts. The mental computer is in "SLEEP" mode. The more the world creates strong stimuli with lights and colors or activity the more the mind retracts into itself. The soul desperately asks for silence but a force greater than us won't allow us to shut off the digital screen. It is a significant milestone that humanity has reached; from here on either we win over our minds or they will steal our minds and souls and all that we have. It will be worse than the medieval time of the dark Ages. And when the minds cannot be reached how can we correct the situation? No the wise community has lost this bout. The other day I raised this question: that my quest was to understand why we "DESIRE". What after all is the source? Is it part of us or does it influence us from elsewhere. What is this thing called love and how is it mixed up in love partnerships. What is love then? Is it all starting and ending with the body or is there a wider scope of its manifestation? On this subject the big question took me straight to the love angle between the sexes and how it operates thru the mind, emotions and body. I have had many flirtatious and serious affairs and thru them I understood how the bodies respond to stimuli thru the senses. How words and corresponding expressions and body language cam be used to make the other respond. Charming others and seduction can be actually be compiled into a science but unfortunately or fortunately rather most never get a chance to learn it for the simple reason that the institution of marriage blocks all further learning and experimenting. This has kept humans at the immature stage and trapped in the vortex of sexual slavery + ignorance how to deal with it. I can very emphatically also say that no one at the masses level is really looking for answers. We are all bumbling along and it is really not that much of a bother. This attitude is also seen in our spiritual leanings. We are lying and cheating and know it.

We are fooling and the fooled is us.

The ILLUSION that change can happen while we lazily sip cold coffee by the sea side needs to go. Now.

This is keeping humanity back and humans want it this way which in effect means that they don't want change and all that they are doing for Jesus, Buddha, Mohd and Krishna is pretend lip-service thru empty hearted rituals.

Most end up going the reverse way and show out their cruel dispositions.

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We are all made of the same elements.

Continuing the conversation I would like to say a word or two on this sentence of yours "Ultimately, finding the right balance between kindness, assertiveness, and self-care is a personal journey." Everything in our lives is a personal journey. Even a pin prick is personal. Nobody is sharing it and would not know what you are feeling. But it would be a rare person who has hasn't known a pin prick in some form or the other. So when we do talk about it becomes a sharable experience. It also proves that we are not as individualistic, particular or special. Otherwise how would you explain that the Bible, the Koran and The Gita all talk as if their lessons are applicable to all?

Talking in general about negativity in the human condition does not make me a frustrated individual. That is your way of explaining away something you wish to ignore or aggrandize your persona. We are all the same. We are made from the same elements. We are belonging and are a small component of the Cosmos. Nothing is individual. Attacking me with this remark: [The perspective you've shared seems to reflect a sense of frustration and skepticism] is totally reflecting your smallness of thinking and exposure to the Cosmos. Humans need to look at their own selves and see how we complement each other; and how common are the pains we suffer and the pains we inflict upon each other. If we are going to know fulfilment we need to understand our faults along with plus points. Right now we are focusing exclusively on our plus points and the entire thinking is unrelated to reality being all conjecture on the useless philosophy of positivism. Humans unfortunately avoid more in life than they embrace. Pride and arrogance plays a bigger part in our lives than does kindness. No wonder their character has not improved one bit in the thousands of years of recorded history.

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When you have distanced yourself away from the maelstrom of life you start to see the world pulsing on in a most peculiar way. Every individual's personal propensities, thoughts and preferences stand out and are visible for scrutiny.

It is a picture that is difficult to define and very nigh impossible to paint thru words.

At the core of each individual you see clearly his very tiny little spark of a personal agenda. Nothing else matters. His entire strength of body, emotional energy and thought are working to get this agenda off the ground and manifest it. Nothing else matters.

This is serious and deep. No individual is going to come out of this frame of his persona and will never work for anything else. But the outer persona is working hard to hide this selfishness and self-centered approach or at least it thinks it is doing a great job at it. In most cases it is as obvious as the sunrise and sunset but humans are great at persisting and maintaining an illusion.

The fun is watching this mass of humanity trying to show that it is working for the betterment of all, moving and acting in togetherness and that there is no personal agenda as such.

The insincerity and the stupidities, the pain that results from it is palpably painful to the watcher from a distance.

Many systems have been devised to avoid this pain that humans are collectively foisting on each other. There are things like drugs, alcohol, religion and their simple solutions like "Be Charitable", "Love is the answer" which is understood as finding a mate and being busy raising a family, psychoanalysis and war. But try as much as they will the maelstrom and the thunder of life only increases in intensity with every move because no one wants to touch the central source of this fountain of pain which is normally termed as the Ego and the absolute self-centered focus it creates and lives mostly in denial. With billions of egos clashing what would you expect? Humanity has also devised some escapist gods to blame it all upon and a greater sham is played out by asking these gods to make everything alright.

But it is also obvious that this is too immensely huge a cauldron and nothing can be done. We may add herbs after truckloads of herbs into the cauldron but the flavor adamantly remains the same. We can only watch and murmur oh my, oh my!

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A great lot of our thinking is founded mainly on our personal likes and rejections. When we are unhappy alone because we are dependent on being happy as the center of attention from others we automatically assume that the world is also suffering in the same way. The people who are used to luxuries of bath tubs and running water easily tend to think that all those who have never known this must be miserable.

Thoughts, behaviour patterns, psychology etc are not something created by our minds. It cannot be a few concepts stringed together by our minds and then adopted as the truth or abandoned for newer ideas whatever. Ideas that birth in the mind, have rarely much of a foundation or connect with REALITY and existence of Earth Consciousness.

If you open their minds and laydown the assumptions that fill the heads of humans, you will see a list of "assumptions" picked from the passing winds. It is mostly a list of personal preferences that never match the assumptions of others around.

One of the greatest fallacies is based on the need for harshness. Why teaching and administration is based on "harshness".

This understanding that harshness is the only way to make people behave, pay attention to rules and this will result in order. Wars early on in human evolution laid down the need to destroy opposition seen as the enemy. This concept is still working insidiously in the human consciousness. Even in the democratic process which I don't believe in they are not prepared to listen to the public and send in armies to control crowds. The crowd itself has totally forgotten that it was r4esp9nsible for the government being what it is. Irresponsibility on one end of the spectrum and harshness at the other. And this is life today,

The schools are not places of learning but institutions of rules and timetables. The children are not learning by experience and not growing naturally but being indoctrinated in obeying and their minds are being hammered to know the data on which all this harshness is based upon.

Life is therefore a harsh place for most of us. When the individual is hurt beyond repair and shows disturbing behavior he is sent to psychiatrists. I don't understand why applied psychology is not used "before" this state is reached. Why this great need for harshness.

Certain basic disciplines that also add to the growth of the consciousness is all that early education needs. From there on the mind will learn to be objective, learn from experience and happily change track for the good of all.

Our entire concept of life is faulty; encapsulated in terms of "good/bad, right or wrong: and some of these concepts are coming from way back times which are not of any relevance in today's times.

For instance I was talking about the concepts of child marriages. 500 years ago this was a necessity of the times. Life span then was average 40 years. Wars and natural destruction was rampant. To keep the tribe growing children were needed in great numbers. Is this relevant today?

But all modern changes are not automatically good either. With less to fear from natural circumstances we have become lazy. less courageous lacking in initiative and are not battling life so our consciousness instead of taking advantage of this peaceful living has shifted stance on pleasures which are always short and require continuous repetitions and has created a new wave of depressions in their wake. This is destroying the body and pushing us into the greedy and ever ready hands of the medical industry and the religionists. The food industry has also joined hands with them and we have royally messed up. All this based on the concepts that we readily accept on what is good, pure, natural and truth. We assume truth is prevailing, read and believe the label and adverts; never using our minds and our education at all.

Now we have a reached a stage that Humans need to unlearn all and start anew with more positive objective thoughts based on their understanding of applied psychology and physics/chemistry/ natural sciences.

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Happiness in marriage or in life. Is this possible? My contention is that people talk of happiness but this is just an image in our minds. What do we mean by the word needs to be clearly demarcated to begin with. I feel humanity at large is looking for happiness or at least using this word to mean that their wish of what they want or wish to impose on others is realized. On this note I reiterate that humans are basically self-centered and this needs to change from deep down at the core before any real happiness can establish on earth.

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This is a very important facet of our lives. To be left alone in peace is anathema. It is seen as being ignored. We howl that we are not given a moment of peace but do everything we possibly can that our education, imagination, manipulating abilities, situation due to birth and other factors that allow us to show off and attract attention.

One of the easiest way to woo someone's attention is by ignoring them. Nothing hurts their pride and vanity as much.

Ken Repmit to Pradeep Pk Maheshwari

That is true, the ego hates being ignored, but there is also desire to live with dignity, and not be in the company of those who would look down on us. A desire for social interaction is natural in and of itself. Looking down on others is a subtle form of aggression as well.

Pradeep Maheshwari:

Looking down on others is an aggressive vibe agree. But then the human race in its entirety and in its total collective collagen is basically aggressive. Our friendships, relationships, business contacts are all based on "Hear me, Look at me, Learn from me.... Am I not wonderful..... Ok don't but I'll make you listen to me one way of the other".

It is so like in polite society when others bore you with their banal discourses, you don't want to listen but out of so many 101 considerations you do.

But one thing amazes me. I think people like to be bored and talked to; at least they are getting their important doses of attention. For example my sister-in-law telling how brilliantly she made the chutney even when all the ingredients were not available. Does the subject or the person telling it to me interests me (rather quite the reverse)? Not in a thousand years but the cannon is loaded and aimed at me and fired. Like a good man I just have to take the shot and die.

In some relationships I go to the extent of bluntly telling them, "I get the idea. I have got the message and this does not concern me so let us drop the subject -- why tell me all this?"

But do they stop? It ignites them to explain it better in greater detail !!!!

PS:

Oh I love people. All those people who cook my food, make my bed, dust my home, repair the puncture, run the store, the electrician, the plumber, the delivery boy and make it possible for me to play classical music in my car..... they are welcome but only in a parallel world where I can't see/hear them.

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Outward conditioning and what is called education designed as a common protocol for the masses only disturbs what fate has written. No wonder we now have more and more disturbed people. Everyone is living up to some standards they neither understand nor vibe with. The Ruler kings want soldiers. The Business kings want clerks. All the others are a nuisance.

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The story of Abhimanyu (from the epic Mahabharata) makes me go sad every time I think of it. Such a callous lowest of the low vibes in operation.

But it something told over and over as a great story.

Bah!

Our higher octave living is based on certain personalities that we regard as Gods now but if we study deeply their advent, whatever the message they left behind, their coming brought great wars and periods of ignorance eventually.

Krishna's coming is allied with the Mahabharata war. All knowledge of philosophy was forgotten after that and only the story of Mahabharata remained which recounts and indirectly imprints on human minds so as to teach and glorify bad behavior at every step.

Ram came and notice, how the story unfolds and ends again in war. All episodes show us how NOT to live but in the end this is what the humans have adopted in majority.

The coming of Christ created a new barbarian class that dumped Europe into the Middle-Ages of total ignorance and continuous wars in his name that refuse to stop even today. The Crusades only made life bitter on earth and the war goes on with another religion (Muslim) now on a perpetual warpath.

Do some more study on your own and you will see how the trick is in the interpretation. Everything, every one of the greats seem to have war attached to them.

The lowest vibrations of this life on earth seem to be in command and ruling.

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Every development and product has SELFISIZED the human in the last 100 years. They have planted the seed of egoistic individuality and promoted "ACQUIRING" as means to being seen as an "Individual" - the mind instead of being the usual focus, has been reduced to moronery. The word individual has been perverted like all other words ("love","food","thought") to mean hair style, designer dresses and shoes/handbags. A home or office designed by others + mass produced "exclusive" products.

....and they proudly call themselves "individuals" - yes individuals like every ant out there.

999 out of a thousand never question, never wonder. Like in a factory they enter the processing at one point and come of the other as an end product. They do serve Mother Earth's purpose to spread her seeds and pollinate while tilling and tending her lands. They are fodder and "motor" power for Mother Nature like the donkeys they have learnt to use for their ends.

But yes the exception "one" does feel and sense that there is something else. He looks around and shifts thru the "HAPPENINGS". He questions, initiates changes and brings in new vitality to the old brew. These are the Individuals -- the harbingers of change and the NEW.

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

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

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The human can become quite tiresome and by the time it has reached the age 50ish it becomes repetitive and tries to keep the conversation and activities within the borders it knows forever repeating the same stories and actions like an automata and a bore. Very few people ever learn to listen and keep growing with new data being added. Most of the new data even if acquired is rationalized and dumped away so there is no change forthcoming....... And the world bumbles along.

99% of us are non-matured entities, put together by the process at work in the Cosmos, in human form mostly at the mercy of Universal forces that work thru our subconscious. The persona we have in this life time will dissolve back into where it came from into the universal ether. The MIND that you speak of as you will evaporate back into nothingness. Nothing will remain except a forlorn forgotten tombstone.

But it is also a persona strictly formulated by the Soul for a strictly limited experience that the Soul has decided to have in this earth in this life time. Most of the time the demonic forces are manifesting thru humans for their own joy as they love mayhem and feed on it and humans readily let them play thru their minds; in most I feel that some specific spirits have even made home as the outcomes with these people is the same every time you engage with them.

Could this be the reason that humans have never really evolved with all the advice available to them thru mystics that pass by on this earth?

Sages have come and gone but the human adamantly remain stuck to his puny mind and his vanity that it knows and there is nothing more to be said!

So the end persona is of a person with limited data, faulty reasoning and a booming vanity. I may add that our minds tend to take great pride in their physical bodies as powerful and beautiful forms as if they were in anyway associated with its "Occurrence". It is such a sorry and sad state to see people slowly entering into a depressed state as the reality of old age dawns on them.

There is another wider world if we leave our vanity's hold on us and try to get in touch and this is the Intuitive mind and this mind is in touch with the cosmos and provides all the info one may need but very rarely the humans allow themselves to reach out that far because this requires going silent and stopping the constant din in our heads of feeling responsible, doing, showing-off and making a living.

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Humanity needs to focus on its narrow-mindedness. We are living in cities as one but literally existing as "ONE" in one's own special plastic barrel with great expectations from life and others and little consideration from our side.

The word that comes to mind is "SHRILL". If our personalities could be controlled like by a knob of "volume" on a radio we would find that we are all stuck at shrill. All our activities tend to be strident in character. Grating on each other and violence resulting from whatever we do.

Considering the way we treat our bodies, I do not see much intelligence in action yet we make placards and stand at the corner of the street to proclaim our wisdom and understanding.

What I see is that we are all hunting each other down. Our lives are hunting expeditions. We hunt for love, food, satisfaction, territory, gold and fame with the same energy. But it is always "Hunting" with a trophy at the end.

We even raise our children as assistant huntsmen.

Certain professional pursuits only brings this character into even greater focus. The two that I see are the Businessman with his eye on profits even if it has to be accumulated dishonestly and trickery/lying is involved....and ...the military mentality in which getting to the objective is all important and if people are crushed in the process, it really does not matter and the mind covers it up as collateral damage. In both these professions violence is actually patronised and it will of course show in all they do.

We are basically violent. Anger is a very strong component along with our pride that will not be crossed without asking for revenge.

Unfortunately our understanding is inversely proportionate. We are also inclined to dream up insults and ascribe meaning to help our anger have a foundation and meaning to be justified.

The worst part is that we tend to believe what we see first and hear first. Rumours infect us easily and ill-intentioned people easily get to our ears. We LOVE to believe the worst (it makes us look so comparatively more virtuous than others). We jump to conclusion and make up our minds on the spot for ever and ever.

We are not ready for the big life. Our minds and personas are still in the "village" small communities mode. Until our hearts expand we shall only be hurting each other.

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I have yet to meet a person who would listen and admit that he has room for improvement. Just to impress the boss and the entourage they may often make a show of humility by saying yes they have faults with a lot of room for improvement. But it is all a sham. They know what they are. They are quite impressed by their selves. The world likes to find fault and criticize. That is the way of the world and best forgotten or ignored for the good of their mental health.

What sounds good and virtuous is left best alone as wonderful words on paper that will go nowhere and take nobody anywhere.

Let us think of Creative ways to succeed. Success and Creativity go hand in hand. They walk together like partners in life. Creativity is Life's Force expanding itself though you. This is a positive life-giving factor in our development and growth.

Wisdom lies in nurturing this Creative element in our lives and making it an essential part of our character. This will permit us to find solutions to roadblocks on the way and make every incident and possibility that crop up in life into a successful step to achieving our goals.

HR units and Trainers are tumbling upon each other and doing great work to give yeoman's advice to people so that they can improve themselves, execute their jobs better and fit in the working environment with success. I feel most of it goes down with no one and achieves very little. Especially all the writings and short advice columns one sees in journals of all description. It is all a lot of useless effort with the advice sounding good on the printed pages but rarely achieving anything; mainly because the theoretical aspect is related by the readers with the facts with difficulty if at all. Then if the reader has not had some experience to back up his reading he would never understand the relevance of the topic at all because he would not be able to correlate the two.

I have today picked up some gems from a journal where the writer is trying to help his readers to enhance their potential. Every word he says is right but useless too.

See what a brainy young man, who has just joined the workforce, has to say:

COMMUNICATE WELL. : Well what makes you say I do not communicate well to begin with? In school and college I used to even be appreciated for my language and clarity of communication. I was winning debates. I am very confident that my language is good and my grammar correct. Everyone I know in my family and friends said so. What more is needed? Then you say "Be persuasive". What do you mean? Am I not good at getting things done? Very few people refuse me what I want. I have a string of happy clients to prove it. You say; Try and adopt effective communication skills. Whatever are they and have I not explained my point already?

THINK THREE STEPS AHEAD: Do you think I am a seer? How do I see ahead? Everything in life is a team effort and most people just don't put in their 100%. If things are not turning out well, am I solely to blame? Ok I know that I must take this into calculations but that I already do. That is: as much as I know about the game. Then, where is the problem? And if you feel I do not calculate the exigencies well then let me ask you, have you taught us what is what in this game?

KEEP IT SIMPLE AND SHORT: Have you tried the technique yourself? What interest do I have in talking on and on to explain my point? We are all at work, doing our jobs. The others are supposed to know what they are doing and they are equally responsible. The problem is that they never do. They know that after all it is my baby and the axe will not fall on their heads. Tell me of one person who would know how to get an ounce of seriousness into these guys. Even after crossing the" Ts" for them, they go and do the very thing they were told to guard against. I assume you have never tried to sell anything with a sales target quota dangling on your head?

STAY IN HIGH SPIRITS: Frankly I miss the point entirely. With all these untrained lumber loaders around my neck putting spoke in my wheels at every stage of life it is easy to say. There is a saying: The advisors don't have to pay for it. First I am needed to delegate, then supervise and finally end up redoing it all by myself again. At work it is a madhouse and home is no place to relax and you ask me to stay in high spirits. Have you ever worked in a team which was not of your choosing; where you have all the responsibility but no authority?

ADOPT A FRESH APPROACH: Shall I fire the team and get a new one? Change my job? Or do you mean I am incompetent? If I were not certain of my methods would I be following them? Why would anyone think this is purposeful advice? Where were these teachers when we were at school and they were appointed for shaping us for life? These people who now want us to change are the ones who taught us earlier or of the same ilk. Then they would not hear a word we had to say. Discussions were discouraged and insistence was taken as argument and opposition. Now when we have been certified as ready for managing our lives and the affairs of men, we are told to forget our old self and recreate into another image. For them it is mere words but have they tried to improve themselves?

BUILD A TEAM: I knew you would be coming to this eventually. How much choice do I have in life? Did I choose my parents, family, friends, schools, teachers then what makes you think I have any choice about the boss or the team I have? It is so easy to string a few words that mean nothing. It only shows that you have read a few books and become a trainer but with little experience of life. Get your nose to the grinding wheel and let's meet again in a few years.

And so on and so forth.

The ability to look for the extraordinary in the ordinary is the difference that differentiates between a successful person who is always cheerful and welcomes the next challenge and others who are always cribbing and complaining but doing nothing about what ails them. It is all about going around the problems of life and turning them into opportunities.

A creative Nature sees beauty and possibilities in everything around him. But this has to be cultivated by constant learning and doing. If this flame is not fed regularly it can easily die out. It has to be inculcated since very early days by encouraging the child to express himself fully through every means that you can make available to the child such as drawing, painting, photography, making things, helping in the garden & kitchen, letting the child "do". Instead of keeping him safe and protected, we should make it a point to be there, and "do" with him; help the child experience as many different activities and expose him to the world at large. The onus for this falls on the shoulders of the parents and teachers.

A creative child would know when to make lemon if life dishes him out a lemon. The ability to laugh at life's mishaps is one of the attributes of positive creativity. A child with this attribute would leave the past quickly behind and look for solutions and ways & means to achieve his goals by thinking at a tangent - focussing on what he wants to achieve instead of following a pattern. He makes his patterns where none exist.

Education in different disciplines also helps in "seeing" possibilities. So it is good to give the child not only book knowledge but also help to put his knowledge into practice and help him learn by experience. For example in our technology world of today it is best to learn basic physics and algebra alongside other artistic subjects like stitching and embroidery. It is important to understand the logic behind how things work to be able to find solutions later. These help the brain to grow and tackle problems head on. Learning to play chess is more important than playing video games. Chess not only enhances the neuron highway structure of the individual but also teaches him to strategise & win without arrogance or/and lose without getting depressed and blesses the child with the thoughts of hope that there will be another time and opportunity to win + solve problems and juggle possibilities in his head before taking decisive action.

The ability to tackle problems comes naturally to those who have played and worked in a team and indulged in sports like football, badminton, table tennis, cricket, swimming, mountain climbing and rafting etc.

Languages play a very big part in enhancing ones' ability to learn from others through books and listening. So great effort should be put into improving the child's language ability and give him the gift of expressing himself correctly and precisely. This will give him the upper hand right from the beginning as he would know how to get his point across and understand the other person easily. Make your child bilingual. Give him the edge.

Lastly give your child lots of love and positive reinforcement. Help him think and feel that if he tried hard and sincerely enough, he CAN. He is special and more potential is hiding in him and waiting for an opportunity to surface.

Give him the gift of the "URGE to Excel and continuously improve himself; happy to be but not satisfied as there is always room for improvement and change.

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Psychology and the understanding of the thought process has happened slightly differently in the Orient compared to that in the Occident. It is really the two sides of the same coin but one is contemplative and the other combative in character. What can be termed as the east is more indolent-mind based and the west is more action-mind based. But now as both sides are merging the time has come to look at it all from a new perspective. A new world is coming out of the comings and goings. We have to start thinking about the future eras that will emerge. Right now humans are depending solely on "WORDS" and thought patterns received from long ago as told and related by sages after sages all over the globe. That period has passed and we need to now stop explaining and justifying life by re-iterating the words, notions, precepts and concepts of the past and using muscle-power to attain ends. The time has come to take the next step in the evolution of man into a more harmonious whole. THE NEXT STEP should be our focus now. What needs to be done? Which thoughts are keeping us back? Which notions and established truths (?) are keeping us stuck? How can we merge our past and present to mold the future?

Human existence seems to be stuck on the lines of might is right. This was fine when one's life depended on the strength of the arm to wield a sword to protect oneself and communications needed us to be physically present. In 2024 life has taken a totally different hue. We meet rarely and communications are from a distance. Trust has become essential to co-exist. To survive the base platform will have to be "SINCERITY"; how honestly are you living it up is what will direct your life and destiny. For example when you say "I love you", "I am donating to charity", "I care"....how sincere are you really? I don't think so much and all these long philosophical explanations based on the writings and texts of the past is only confusing. I have always believed that a few 20 or so guidelines/precepts that touch your heart and soul should be adopted and put into practice and the rest will take care of itself.

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Let these people take responsibility of their lives first. Let them want to get out of it if they find life unbearably and hopelessly painful. Let them look and search. Don't preempt them by providing solutions that may or may not be right. Nobody who is in real pain wants to stay there. And no amount of your telling is going move anyone who is not interested in making a move because essentially he is comfy there.

At the conscious everyday physical mind that works with the five senses level what everyone says is very true.....to them and for them. It is really very particular and cannot be generalized. But here the emphasis is on the subconscious and the patterns that get imprinted over time - in general into a people. The superficial mind changes its inputs with every generation depending on what the fashion is and what education it receives and what geographical necessities dictate. Most people, the greater swathe of humanity are just getting born, live thru and die. They are born in a particular thought pattern, they pursue that calling and never bother about ifs & buts mentally or question their existence (they often don't see any options). The subconscious rules totally in their lives. Most arguments that have come up against my affirmations seem to be confused about the exterior mind, the subconscient and does not differentiate between the interference of desires in the midst + some genetic memories that are particular to certain groups, families or even individuals ( that is if we take the subject of reincarnation into consideration.)

I could go on but most respondents are more apt to find and latch on to certain words and use these as platforms to interpret everything in such a way as to promote their thinking and conclusions. Very natural and welcome but I see it in conclusion as this keeps us back in time and stuck with old thought structures. We need to think ahead and open our minds to the Unknown. But it is sad to see everyone quoting old writers from way back to thousands of years to justify or condemn new thought and thinking and observations and experiences. WE must welcome all the thoughts as possibilities that are true too and the correct way would be to meditate on it until it proves itself one way or another. But it is sad to see these brilliant minds missing the possibility totally.

To be open for Initiation, - sometimes

Interpreted by Modern Psychiatry as a Form of Schizophrenia....- Is one of the first steps, hard to stand, especially in modern times and western cultures. So it will be always a minority of human beings reaching higher consciousness - and the majority will be stuck somewhere in between, but if that incomplete path already helps to heel traumatic or psychopathic/neurotic patterns, it's just okay as it is.

The phenomenon of Pseudo-Gurus/Healers, Therapists is another part of that Story.

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Why are we so resistant to growing up?

Humans have been more than simply clever. They have deliberately trapped themselves in a maze and they have perpetuated misery onto themselves by not facing the basic TRUTH of their Being. Have you ever spent time with the shamans of tribal people who are still living and thinking as they were doing some 40000 years ago? Perhaps not but you would have had definitely the inkling of their beliefs and philosophy from books available on them as written by many people who have had the good luck to be with them; "Journey to Xtlan" by Castaneda is a good example.

And one thing clearly emerges.......the fact that from day one, humans have known and understood well that humans have a lustful, selfish, vengeful, cunning, insincere, opportunistic element that forms their basic nature. Humans have hidden and played this down by REFUSING to see it or acknowledging it. Instead they have promoted themselves as living for the good of others and thinking well for their families, village and the society as a whole. And they are prepared to go to battle to uphold this insincere belief that they have projected since the very beginning of time. This I am convinced is the unholy reason why humans have made such a mess of LIFE on earth.

We have shoved this fact so deep into the recesses of our vast mind today that we are blissfully satisfied that this part of our nature simply does not exist or if it is there, it is an aberration that can be easily controlled by our thinking mind. We actually take great pride in our magnanimous nature - generous in forgiving an insult or injury; free from petty resentfulness or vindictiveness. We have also fooled ourselves into this mind-set that we are self- disciplined, thinking and responsible people. Totally untrue if you ask me and the earlier it is so accepted, the faster we can improve life on earth.

Not only not true but it has been suppressed so actively that it has now gone deep into the hidden corners of the DNA what philosophers call the Inconscience; ... the lurking instinctive soul of Mother Nature that is at the root of our being. Very obviously, unless we open up one day to this charade, no improvement ever can be or will be for how does one correct something that does not exist -- something that we refuse to accept that it exists and is the primeval Soul governing the animal that is the human being.

That is why if you would see, the Earth is shown supported by a tortoise that represents a tough impregnable exterior, slow moving and blessed with having a long life -- virtually eternal in the language of animals. On top of the tortoises are elephants; the very image of physical strength, plodding along with slow steady steps and unchanging.

We humans have always known and understood that we have a streak of cruelty but have religiously ignored its presence. We have very assiduously painted an image totally contrary to it. We are not all born equal in intelligence and attributes. There are truly intelligent and mentally sharp people. There are physically strong people. There are very kind people along with very cruel people and thousands of shades in between. But we all have all the same elements that make us - US. The proportions may vary. Yet we need to accept that the negative attributes are far higher in evidence than we would like to admit. Humans talk of the Wild and Wilderness but this is only to ward off focus from the reality which is the fact that humans show a kind of sadistic attitude and behavior that is never seen in the wild.

The clever and intelligent ones know that the larger bunch of people are basically docile and focus their lives on the daily bread and do not look beyond that; which makes them easy fodder for control and enslavement and these cleverer people brook no delay in implementing their plans to make the most of it. If they have to be harsh and cruel to achieve their aims, they will be so without any feeling of repentance. They are very good at rationalizing things to suit their plans.

In a narrower stream what is to be wholly expected is the way men and women pursue their need of satisfying their lustful sides which are also awfully tempered by their need to have absolute control over each other and everyone else to boot. This is an essential component of Desires being wholly consummated.

The charade of presenting the human as a good hearted rational thinking and loving persona is the biggest HOAX perpetuated by humans on themselves. And the whole of humanity allowed it to happen because it serves all perfectly to a T.

All the cheating takes place routinely under this umbrella; everybody knows it, everybody understands it, everybody accepts it and great effort and energy is spent in keeping it well hidden under wraps as religions, almost all, without exception have been designating it as a sin but humans have never shown much fear of God or authority. After all nothing ever is.... until proven so and where is the proof?

The same thought then crops us; how can anything be improved upon until the error is owned up?

Unfortunately resistance to change is strongly built into the narcissism aspect and it cannot be broken into by simple words and reasoning.

In truth we are living a lie. Our egos and subconscious patterns make us live at another level where the focus is on pretense; grabbing, pleasure, over-shadowing and showing ourselves as specially able, talented and superior to all other individuals thru behavioral patterns/tricks that are well understood in applied psychology - this is our real "self" of living.

A little hint that the other is wrong/lying or backtracking on words and you'll see the reaction of denial often with anger and counter accusations tinged with violence. How can I be friends with these people and how can I be optimistic?

We need to start first with ourselves. Understand what is running our patterns. Then alone can we comment and criticize life around us. Until we have taken the pains going into our depths we are living superficially -- it is like an unreal movie projection. The moment the light is extinguished the images are gone. So let us get real. Let us really want joy, honesty and laughter in our lives. Then we can be optimists. And the very first step toward this state is being "sincere". Mean what you say. Think well-intentionally. Focus on your SELF. Look at your faults instead of sugar coating them. Stop looking for scapegoats. Aim at your future as you see yourself in the future. I am saying this because most people satisfy themselves by a show of uppity in the small crowd of people we live with. We need to rise beyond this need that satisfies our egos and jeeps us small and insignificant in this life although in our minds we picture ourselves as greats and special. This is the reason behind our disturbed brethren. Just a little more sincerity is all that is needed. Why are we so dependent on lies to survive and make something of our lives? But yes the entire world is this way.

PS: A colossal overall change is needed in consciousness. Will it ever happen? I think we are now conscious of this but acceptance is low and it can take a few thousand years more for it to happen. The fear is that by then we may have destroyed ourselves

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Living in cooperation

Ha! I tried to live by this adage and got snubbed, cheated and reviled for my childish lack of maturity. In a lot of things and activities I was very good at but the idea of competing except with my own-self was totally anathema to me. Self-effacing cooperative people are seen as dumb.

I still live by this adage but all I get to do is sit alone; they are right as the world is out to win and life is seen as a competition as to who would be the king of the anthill.

Once you have come into the limelight then everybody recognises you and is prepared to partner.

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Mother Nature does not know and does not offer Retirement or any Rights. It is how the dice falls. Pk

I have been wondering from the time I started wondering how humans have so conveniently forgotten that they come into this world only for 3 score and 10 years.

How silly it must all look from the vantage point of Heaven where they are thinking of spending eternity to see THEIR kingdoms being parcelled away THEIR parcel of land being owned by others, THEIR wives/husbands/children forgetting them, THEIR old clothes & goods being sold in garage sales and THEIR treasured motorcycle/car rusting away in a barn.

The futility of it all; having spent their entire lives away simply to show to the neighbor that THEY are(were) also somebody!

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Thinking into the Future.

I have been giving much thought to this point lately. At one point we are definitely living too much in the moment and generally quite inexplicably we are forgetting that the moment is connected to our past and future.

The perfect man as I hope Confucius would have agreed is the one who lives in the moment and does not hesitate out of fear or hidden agendas/motivations to do what has to be done; nor does he procrastinate but at the same time keeps in mind that all his actions merit consideration for the future moments that will soon be upon us and the consequences thereof.

I have been studying small and medium size industrial houses since the last 50 years. I have been connected thru my own family and other families that I have known and lived with in India and Europe. Today I was asked of what I think how our corporates do. My analysis is a little discouraging but for whatever it is worth here it is.

One of the biggest retardant to growth is the acute involvement of our psyche with the moment. I'll admit that his is absolutely required to get started. We come into this world, see things around us. Some things we like and others we don't. We see the opportunities hidden in the moment and work on them to find success. And Most of us do succeed. Once the growth graph starts flattening out we are already doing well and the growth pattern continues for a while. This can be over a period of 20-30 years. In a relative way the individual is seen as a captain of industry and somebody to rely upon to take the business and country's economy forward.

But this is where I find that things start coming to a stop. We as humans especially more so in India are totally living and thinking in the moment. These older captains are still living in the moment of 20-30 years ago. They have certainly refined their methods of work and are stable as far as income is concerned but I find they are unable to open their minds to the new developments at the root of society and technological advancements and with these the opportunities unfolding in the world. Talk to them about new proposals and ideas and they will come out with negative assessment because they are depending on factors of success as they have known in their past and why rock the boat?

This is why I have seen most of the businesses that were huge successes suddenly lose steam and the 2nd generation is unable to keep the unit going because the 1st generation is in control and won't allow changes or new ideas to take root as risks are not be taken with the existing wealth structure. Eventually good brands and successful organization fold up and are forgotten.

The new generation starts on a fresh footing and often loses all that was achieved in the past. The secret is in keeping continuity with timely changes but most people take the adage "LIVE IN THE MOMENT" literally.

Yet there is a silver lining. All the organisations that take in new and young managers and allow them a free-hand manage to do well for the simple reason that these young ones come with their quota of the moments and are more in tune with the emerging realities.

Family owned units and managed by family members usually don't do so well until they diversify. The influence of the oldies can be very strangling and new ideas are not easily planted.

India we have too long and too ardently focused on tradition. This has kept our societies together in the past but never allowed mental or psychic growth. It has made inward looking and the need for security is first on our minds. Risk taking and new ideas, the urge to explore and find new possibilities thru travel and associations is discouraged and generally speaking non-existent. This also gives rise to another negative factor and this bent of our minds towards taking short-cuts and cheating. Our way of working leaves the element of safety to remain questionable. We are not kind to our workers and partners. It has made us one of the most corrupt societies in the world.

Lack of trust is another very unfortunate aspect in human affairs. Grab and kill comes easily to humans. And it is astonishing that these are the ones that becomes kings or take kingdoms down. In businesses too this shows. We are simply not thinking of the future. Cheating and fraud may be profitable in the short term but never play out profitably; never bring joy. But with millions of stories from the past and history and often even from our own lifetimes, no one seems learn a bit from the consequences suffered by others.

We not only cheat and lie but allow others to cheat us because we are not conscious of this element as something to be vary of.

Look at India's history. Every time we the children of the soil have lost to invaders it was because someone in the team betrayed his own kingdom. Not just one or two but nearly all the stories end this way. Why because we had not the vision to see that we would not only lose the kingdom but that no foreigner would let us be king by fighting our battles for us. It never occurred to us when we allowed the Afghans to enter India that they would usurp our culture too. That by allowing foreigners from Europe a foothold we would lose everything.

Constantly battling among ourselves, we humans lost sign of the future in which we forgot that we have only a moment's role to play.

There are signs of great inventions and thoughts and stories of greatness too in history that humans never developed upon. Instead of embracing these wonderful thought patterns, we have been more destructive than constructive. For some reason unfathomable we humans refuse to want to evolve into better humans, laced with love, joy and kindness and share the world.

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Everywhere I look I see good hearted people and the focused people (those who live with a single focus like making money or afraid of losing their job or doing things out of sheer sense of self-importance) harassed and harried by life with not a second to spare to ever think about themselves and a moment's rest to recuperate and replenish their energy stores. The truth is that they are not so much harried as NOT knowing how to free themselves from the tangling webs people around them weave. They are too good hearted to know that they are being manipulated and they are too kind to see others making a mess of their lives. BUT THIS IS A MISTAKE. By doing it for others, by making their life easier we are blocking the very needs of their lives. They are here to learn from their mistakes like we all do and we are all required to work for our emancipation. Let us not get into each other's lives without an emergency call. Have the maturity to take a step back; to sit back and ruminate. Relax and let the world take care of itself. Being kind also means to NOT interfere in their Destinies. Let them fall and pick themselves up -- help them at this juncture if you have to.

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We use the word Love for everything. Love a book, a cup of coffee, a child, a flower but when I tell a woman that I love her it is taken that my intentions are dishonorable.

The human is living neither in love nor in hate but justification.

His knowledge of things has given him the absolute "understanding" of what is correct and what is not. And because he follows these doctrine to the letter he has to act as he acts.

The fear of purgatory or karma is what makes them decide.

How to get them out of this loop?

We have a funny way of judging things. Like for example take this scenario:

1) The typist in an organization (living alone in a bad city trying to eke out a living) is ready to leave for the day and the boss comes in and loads her with work that has to be done now so that he can give the report first thing in the morning. He then leaves for his dinner meeting. The typist finishes her work at 9pm and then has a trouble finding her way home where she has to then cook dinner too and do the washing and other household jobs and also be ready to be in the office at 9 am again. And this is happening day in and day out.

If she complains it amounts to being ungrateful in the eyes of the world.

2) How often narcissism plays it game in relationship is not known but outsiders would still judge.

The mother who is faking fatigue and is not doing her part but expecting and demanding gratefulness for the little that she does. And the world takes the mother's side.

The husband who feels that he is working hard to feed his family who beats his wife for a tea that is not just right. And the world takes his side.

The wife who feels that she has done the man a favor by marrying beneath her and who is never happy and shows this by acrimonious displays at the drop of a hat. But the world takes the woman's side.

3) etc etc etc.

I totally DISAGREE with this philosophy of throwing adults children out and forcing them to live separately. In the final analysis we suffer more due it than do the children.

I don't understand the lack of empathy in this kind of thinking. Whatever be the place the children are born in, it is their place by birthright. How can we forget that they did not ask to be given birth? This is callousness.

I am seeing all over in the west in this "thinking" that the home they are born in is not theirs. Well yes, once when the world was big and the possibilities were greater and travel did not require visas, it was good to push the child a bit to go and make a place for himself but now in the 2000s it smack of selfishness. You are parent for life. No wonder in the later years the children don't want you either and old people are dying of loneliness in old-age homes.

This tendency to keep the child away so as not to let attachment develop in the guise of promoting independence shows in the way the child is kept away from the day of birth by keeping it in a separate room or crib; monstrous to my way of thinking.

What we need is an indulgent pragmatic atmosphere in which the child is loved and cared but not stopped from going out for himself, experiencing different possibilities under our care and we support by sharing our own experience to help him grow.

Even in India I see this concept that the daughter cannot come back home after marriage even when she asks for help when being persecuted for dowry or other interests.

Who gave this right to people to first become parents and then OWNERS of the souls of their children?

All parents who do not do well by their children merit the pain they go thru in later life.

The Spirit of being kind.

The MISTAKE is in categorising HOW IT IS TO BE DONE. The Christmas spirit is and should be part of our persona. Otherwise we are only a part of the jungle.

A few acts of labeling certain activities as "christmassy" is wrong. This only promotes pride, vanity and self-declared niceness which is a thought-out gesture; not spontaneous activity coming out of our goodness.

Just be kind. Think kindly. No judging. No labelling.

For instance yesterday I was thinking on how we complicate life by helicoptering wherever we can. Why?

Let them enjoy their destiny and let them flow in life and find out for themselves.

I was looking back into my life and my conscious effort to raise my child as an independent loving person. As a parent I took the responsibility of keeping a hawk's eye on my child but never interfered with her own will. My attitude was I am here to protect you but not shaping you. I'll teach you what I know and share all my experiences and thoughts but never meddle in your affairs. You decide and find out!

We have instilled the loving thinking in her that it is her house and home; we belong to her and not the other way around. Sometimes when she is way out of tune with her own goodness we step in but otherwise we are genuinely happy that she is there.

And today it shows in her loving disposition towards all.

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If you want money (so called wealth & prestige) you will need to confront cheating lying and insincerity at every stage. The world as it is now, is run by occult forces that have for now tied the money domain with the lowest propensities of humankind. How much of it are you prepared to take?

If you want sex you will need to subvert your persona to another's and beg for it with insincere acts of praise and blowing up the other's vanity. How much of it are you prepared for? You may even get entrapped in an endless payment schedule of wanting and retribution.

All your efforts will need you to ask for help and involve give and take and unwilling associations. Are you ready for it?

You will neglect your body and know sickness and yet without it you are "not even here". Thought of it?

You really will be selling yourself and your Soul.

How much of your life is your "real wish"?

Think. Use your mind.

To grow even a little into greater manhood like Hanuman (Indian God that transcended into Godhood by sheer power of sincerity and devotion to Godhead) we have to go from being a slave mentally to a commander. The mind has to be disciplined and brought to serve as a tool of our Soul.

The idea to speak on these subjects is mainly to help the mind open to new "Questions". But the mind is too clever. It won't allow it. It wants the human mind-state to stay within limits and find rationale to let life be. Life is basically bearable. What is the problem? We have to first learn to see the mind as a separate instrument from us.

The human mind is part of the mental World. It is as huge, borderless, and as infinite as you can make it. The human mind is mostly grandiose, wishful and a great artist; it can imagine, create wonderful images, cook up ideas, perceptions and even build statues in the mind and call them "real". It is also clever and cunning and keeps on embroiling itself and others in shady projects. It is a fun place really. It really is a fool's paradise. Illusions and delusions and reality live together in this domain. When this mind is not trained and brought under the stick of self-discipline, it is a great deceiver. Most of the time it fills its human container (recipient/persona) with illusionary thoughts and grandiose self-assessment parameters. No wonder humans are happy with their state. They don't see their follies and infirmities at all. The mind makes sure that they see only their greatness.

From the way I see it is that by normalising all critical thought you start accepting what is. There is a great virtue in acceptance but it also closes doors to reaching to higher consciousness levels. It is equally easy to be rationalizing every bit of our character and behavior as it is of changing it but rationalism removes all need to think of change. If being silent, calmly existing is the aim then humanity's attitude to not rock the boat is perfect. Everything and any subject can be rationalised one way or another to make existence comfortable. How will becoming aware of the larger world beyond the mind help in living down here? Nobody is really genuinely interested. It is understandable. Where do I start? First let us see how this world is: "I want peace and quiet" .....And to obtain these, first we have to make a decent place to gather in the market-place and this would first require some lying, cheating, fibbing and spending hours hooking-up with people we don't like and drink coffee distastefully with people we would rather not.

People opting out of the rat race are rarely recognised as of any worth because in this world even though wanting to be living within a higher consciousness the fact is people still do regard worldly monetary status that is visible as indicative of worth.

Note: To this has been added the letters that indicate diplomas and awards. Everything has become superficial as if people have lost all ability to discern and judge anything on their own.

Today's education, life-style, commercial world and training has resulted in people getting into protective cocoons. It is as much a wave of not needing others and an Egoistic movement to protect one's goods, privacy and unbelievably a need to be alone due to a spiritual awareness growth that is being seen. What shape things will take in the future is any one's guess. But one thing is certain. Egoism is not going to take us far. We need human spiritual interaction, exchange of energies (like nutrition for growth) otherwise we shall stagnate and dry-up. We have to stop ourselves from over-protecting ourselves or hiding behind our possessions. There is special need today to find our childish openness again and let destiny, chance and providence do their thing. There is nothing to fear although yes, there is a lot of stuff out there to damage us but we should counter this by educating ourselves and not by closing doors.

We are basically a dishonest race. How humans weave insincerity into their lives. The first and foremost is this need to manipulate others. There is this great need to create a favorable impression. We are very conscious of our abilities, the impression we may be making and totally aware how limited are our abilities. We have almost very thoroughly compared ourselves with many others and found ourselves wanting but instead of improving ourselves by learning and retraining ourselves we get into the act of "charades". As an example look about and you'll the inordinate care we place on our branded clothing with the "brand" showing prominently, our hairdos, our purchases that would be visible to others are always more expensive than we can afford or need. Our cars are our first line of "Impression" and we make sure that we get one or more to make an impact. The second factor is how we hide ourselves under the carpet by straight lying.

Another lie that is deep in our psyche is the use of the word love. How many say I love you to women when all they want is to play with her luscious body -- often they even marry so that a woman is available when they want one. But inside, they all know that a charade is being played out for convenience for the married couple. The woman knows is equally well but it suits her. And before parting let me ask you how many people take a job and execute it honestly keeping the interests of the company in mind and how many employers care a whit or their employees considering the company depends on their grit? How many companies really want to enrich their shareholders and how many loans are taken with a sincere need and intent to pay? There is also this insincerity in showing effort to be spiritually oriented and inclined. Too much effort is put in Personal Effort towards attaining Enlightenment.

(PS: this holds good even if we want to become a good manger and leader of men.)

Enlightenment is a state that is active and as a process it is forever flowing towards humanity outwards and is simply waiting at the gates to be let in. One little crack and it will come flooding in.

But humans have put up heavy sluice gates that they keep closed.

Life has taught them that everything from boiling an egg, taking a bath and hunting an elephant requires personal effort. In the physical domain this is true. All the books on yoga/religious literature demand that you sit in such poses and silence the mind and get onto the mediation bandwagon etc and this education has convinced the human spirit that enlightenment is another state, another world and like a missile we got to fire it away to reach the heights.

I think this is a total misadventure. Most of the time the humans remain in the mental domain albeit in a very larger circumference. It SEEMs like enlightenment and one may easily delude oneself that they have crossed over but it is not.

What is needed is to train the mind to be objective, impartial, honest and sincere along with "learning" all that one can to show the mind what life is all about. Until one has not experienced Life in all its hues personally one does not become aware of one's functioning and the subterfuges that are employed by our mind (ego) to avoid the real work to look into oneself and our utter lack of sincerity.

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I have also noticed that many great souls know exactly that they are doing as they are consciously creating by their thoughts and actions, vibes that are designed to help others or/and open up.

They also know that humans are basically self-centered in their stupidity. They are sadly accepting that if talked to or approached directly the idiots will respond by fighting off the good vibes but there is no other way to reach them. So they quietly do what they have to do and play the game as if they are not aware, not very dynamic or very mature - it is a ploy to NOT create any resistance, antagonism or jealousy - rather the opposite happens that people sympathize and feel like coming closer to them which helps greatly in the work. These people who are spreading good vibes are rich beyond imagination as the whole Cosmos has their backs but most humans see them as "poor" which helps them remain incognito.

2) My view is that women take too much poetic credit for carrying a baby in the womb. Their praise should be going to the nurturing they do after the child is born.

The focus on nurturing after birth has always been given a miss and that is where problems and their real worth shows. Had children been so important to women and parents we would not have abandoned, neglected, enslaved and bullied children

Carrying a baby in the womb is quite surely a totally natural process over which they have no control except as proof that they have been enjoying sex.

But the poets gave them a moral superiority on this and mothers have used this fact to control/blackmail their children by saying "I carried you for nine months" to get what they want from their children as if they were doing them special favor.

3) Living below par. We are, none of us, living to our full potential or ability. Why?

Because social niceties demand it so. First is this element of "actions". The natural give and take has been legally curtailed. For example the pedestrian has the right to coolly walk in front of my moving car (talking of India) or another car coming from the left cuts in front of me to go right and I have to simply curse and let it happen because there is no material/physical proof left in its wake. But if I bash the person up I am in the wrong. Looking at life philosophically I see clearly that I am living a topsy-turvy life. The doctor says relax, take naps but the boss says "how dare you?" The dietician says eat less sugar but all the food available today is laced with sugar to the level of poison and nobody is controlling the industries that do it. There is no public facility to travel comfortably for not-so-able old people so I buy a car but then I am called a polluter hundreds of controls and laws are passed to control my activities because as the owner of a car I am supposed to be rich enough to afford it and they have to show that they are taking action to curb congestion on the roads and pollution. Now there are so many cars on the road that we cannot move about anyway. Saving the errant cyclist is also my duty. The doctor takes his fees and if the prescription helps me or not or makes me worse that his not his responsibility. Nobody is responsible for the service or product they provide and when things go wrong the onus of proving it on me. When the fridge, washing machine or car stops working due to any manufacturing defect I am required to carry it on my back to a court of law and prove it there. Closer at home have even lesser liberties. The wife has to be satisfied that I have not kissed any women on the way... The children blame me for not being there to do their homework. Does anyone care if I wish to take a nap? No; the TV and the games do not stop. I am a prisoner of my own lifestyle. This life has been it seems been specifically designed for others to use me and throw me into dejection. They make pointed remarks and then laugh to make it seem as a joke while I am expected to smile and seethe under my beard! This interdependence with no individualized protection/freedom is the bane of modern civilisation where all have rights -- just not me.

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Basically there is one predominant trend in humans and this trend is now at its peak in the 21st century. This trend is consumerism, being distracted; create dissatisfaction which can be alleviated only by more products and activities that require constant titillation.

But human nature's potential is bigger than this and vaster. Humans are not tapping into it. We have the possibility of enhancing and sharpening our mind & bodies to a point that we can do wonders which would be called miracles. Many of the activities that we now do with machines.

The Hatha yoga of India and Shibumi of japan are sciences that cannot be scoffed.

But all the methods that have evolved in different parts of the world have one thing in common. Distractions have to be reduced and in the end stopped. Focus and concentration have to be enhanced. The focus on pleasure and wasting energy on pleasures has to be curtailed. Certain thoughts and wishy-washy ideals have been permitted to firmly become the guiding light for humans and these are what keep the humanity trapped with little progress being made. This book studies this angle.

Of course the question does come up as to why anyone would want to do it. And this is what it is all about. Zen and Yoga both show how it can be done if one wanted to. Zen is more practical in practice. Step by step old masters have shown how one can achieve the concretisation of our energies into laser-like strength.

The idea is to bring into focus certain thought patterns that need to change that are so obviously wrong and have kept the human in its semi ape like persona. But I am not going into lengthy lectures.

If you are really thinking of making an uplifting move to become more TRUE instead of just sounding virtuous by taking some God's name, you would need to forget the agitation in your mind and focus on what actually helps in the evolution and transformation of the human spirit that is sorely needed. The Major part of the Complex human persona is well hidden behind layers of smoke screens. For civilisation and evolution to go ahead we need to come out of the dark corners; come into the spot-light with our entire imperfect and yet great souls.

Whatever I said or say is never in derogatory insinuations. Humankind wants to see itself as a superior, developed thinking race. But it is not really yet so. I suppose it is not polite for me to say so. But then I am here to be meaningful -- to shake things up a little and I will not sugar-coat my thoughts.

The qualities, the emotions, the thoughts that bring joy, growth, understanding and developments that uplift all as a whole one single movement, that bring silence, that reduce anxiety without any negative attributes like anger, jealousy, envy, greed rancour etc - this can be deemed to be the qualities of a persona into a more evolved consciousness.

Do we really utilize our senses? Are we aware? Do we really not see or do we refuse to see, understand or "Question" anything around us... can anything constructive be achieved? 60 years old or 6 days old, the mental acuity level is the same. Following the crowd will only make you one of the crowd. To become "super" you have to become aware of your frailties, your prejudices and look inwards before you can go directing the world's affairs and show or even hint to others about The Truth & Way. Otherwise you remain like a parrot that has much to say but understands not what it is saying but ready to die for its right to say it and would even dare you to contradict.

We need to move towards becoming integrally a divine persona and look within at ourselves to check how much of the negative elements rule us and thru us the world around us.

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One of the widely accepted notion is that when we have spoken we have conveyed our message definitely and we have been understood. This happens rarely. You may speak but do not expect to be understood and that is if anyone has listened to you in the first place. The subject matter and the experience of life of the listener is important as without some common factors of agreement the conversation will most probably be misunderstood. Imagine a driver of F1 caliber trying to talk on the subject of car handling to somebody who has driven only a Citroen 2CV or often not even that.

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We may not know the exact literal details of what one may be going thru but one thing is certain; we are all going thru all the possible emotions every day of our lives. No one is continuously elated or depressed or sad, hopeful or dejected, feeling loved on lonely, joyful or afraid what the next moment will bring. Memories and fears play a great part and our thoughts determine what is going on in mind at any given moment and this is what gives rise to different memories and different emotional states. As life goes on the burden of memories grows greater and new possibilities grow less. Most often than not people are stuck in a groove and being sadly inclined gets more and more pronounced. I have seen that in the day of anyone and everyone all these emotions come into play for some time or longer for some time in the course of each day. When we understand this we realize that it is useless to think of us as exclusive and that what we have is happening to only us. This should make us a little less self-centered and summarily kinder in our behavior and outlook on life.

This also makes me think about this proclivity of humans to think that they have a right to kill others because others are not thinking as they do. Not only judgemental but we also take refuge in funny logic (that suits us) and moralisations to attack, kill and torture others. On what grounds did humans get this right? Most claim that they have Divine guidance asking them to do what they are doing. Bah! Does anyone ever think about this and how it influences our prejudices and behavior to envelop us in continued anger, quarrels and wars?

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Yes. We will have to learn to live again and pay attention to our hidden agendas and foibles. I am so glad 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 Vedas 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.

Has your ego probably been feeling strong lately, and you may be feeling an extra boost of self-confidence? Just wonder why this is different from other days. A little deeper and quieter examination will make it clear that it is not all you but the entire universe around you having its effect on you. We do talk of planets and their relative effects on the worlds around them. And I firmly believe that an unseen hand fashions much of what I am going thru and responding to. The only thing is that my response does have a modicum of control thru my will if I could get down to exercising it by using my reasoning and discerning mind. Alas where is the fun in that? By some quirk of fate my reason tells me that I am in a position of authority and control; won't it be fun to make the others around me squirm a bit and make them grovel? It is so satisfying. Once this feeling gets hold of our mind, the battle is lost and we let the demons play. The question now is when are we going to stop to let the demons play?

Once this cloud is hovering above us it blocks all light and the ability to reason with a person under this cloud reaches an impossible status. He WILL have his pound of flesh.

In passing I would like to say that I have studied the effects of planetary configurations and seen its effect on world affairs and individuals. The cause and effect is real and visible. I take the everyday horoscope and announcements of planetary positions quite seriously. For instance if the horoscope generally says that Mars is active today and I should not poke an Aries or for that matter anyone, I may start a war, I see this as quite true. I move more carefully in the day making certain that I do not provoke anyone without very good reason and even then! + more importantly as I am an Aries I try to keep in mind that I am an Aries and short tempered which is nothing to be proud of.

The next thought to focus on is why I am speaking of this today. Am I playing with words or am I serious? I mean every word I say. The foundational making of MAN is a collection of many occult ingredients. Until these are seen and understood the view will be from the base human intelligence. Our automatic gesture to our future results from an established base of habits and convenient gestures which results in long lectures designed to obfuscate and deny.

A broader, more expansive view of life and possibilities to evolve into masterfulness is needed otherwise we shall end up rationalising and arguing and just staying put as we have been determinedly doing since the last few thousand years.

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Are we ever really truly praying? Voicing our wishes more likely. And we delude ourselves that our prayers are being heard.

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In a prayer one should be placing one's problem in front the Almighty if we consider The Powers to be so and therefore let the Powers decide what would be best. Our wishes are personal problems and these we have to sort out on our own.

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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.

*"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 bandied 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.

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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 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.

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1) Too late for prayers. Humans have been going against the Lord's Creation far too long and yet pray to Him for correcting what is now so discomfiting and discomforting. We have knowingly invited calamity upon us.

2) The Issue of being in the Media Glare.

I saw today in the papers, a young actress clarifying that she does not use Botox. I wonder who are we to accuse her of anything. What we know of her is what we have seen on the screen and what we know about her is what we have read or heard thru the media. She is not a real person for us or connected to us in our lives in any way. Our preoccupation with the needless, useless and unreal is fascinating. We are identifying ourselves with figures that we know only thru the Media. We are obsessed by this side of life. Why and whatever for?

To me it seems an escapist venture where we keep ourselves occupied with non-essential important happenings because the media is flooded with it and we wish to be seen "WITH IT". The fault is with us that we are allowing the digital world to flood our existence with trivia, time consuming nonsense. It is a perfect excuse to avoid all those things that ARE our real responsibilities for lack of time. Our focus on IMAGES has made our own lives mere projected images.

3) In the name of being "better informed I find that there is a great interest in political gossip. You may want to discuss other serious matters such as philosophy and how certain things that are affecting your personal life but these people around me wish to talk only of what the politicians are doing and they want to focus on all the commas and full stops in gory details I ask 2 questions. 1) From when did what the kings do and specially today's politicians (in and out of power) ever mattered to the person in the street. 2) How does it matter if we have detailed knowledge of what Putin had for breakfast or said something about the state of our economy? What concerns me is if I will be able to go to my destination swiftly without a protest march or the passing of a politician's carcade blocking the roads. We are so glaringly showing our true lack of taking life seriously at the personal level. Nothing makes us look at ourselves and what we need to do to be in better health, better moods and better relationships. It is all a sham. Politicians serve so well as hooks to hang our coats on knowing fully well that we don't matter, they don't matter (they come and go and they are there to corner as many millions into their bank accounts) and by focusing on the gossip we can safely be busy achieving the perfect image of those who care but are so helpless to do anything about it all.

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The value of human relative valuations.

1) Illnesses are not our friends. The Psychology of non-acceptance of illnesses.

The first step of goof health would be our own psychological state. The fact is that people tolerate illnesses and some even invite them. People retort by saying that "who would want to be ill?" but reality has shown it is very otherwise. Just look around and within yourself. How often do you delay in taking your illness seriously enough to give it first importance in the scheme of things? How often do you ignore symptoms till they become severe enough to incapacitate you. This amounts to a tacit acceptance of the ill ness; instead of rejecting it mentally outright and not allowing to fester, you do nothing for the simple reason there are more important things on your agenda. Also look into your thoughts and you will see that humans want and search for sympathy in life and we have unconsciously learnt that we get the attention we crave only when we are sick or in an accident. Psychologically we are for it! The correct mental state would be to oppose the illness and not allow it to enter your aura. Reject it mentally as a poison not allowed entry. The modern western medicine has harmed our health and consciousness by giving us miraculous potions that kill the symptoms of pain, fevers and such. These masking indulgences allow the illness to take a firm seat in our bodies. You should rather go back to old age natural medicine and help the body to stave off the attack with half hour of noticing any imbalance in your healthy countenance. Illnesses are not our friends.

2) The value of human comments is as good as nil. People, as I understand, have two ways to see others; the first is with compassion as the Dalai Lama often reiterates-then you see everything with a forgiving and admiring eye. The second is the more normal way in which we turn cynical and can't see anything good in any situation, thing or act and person. We see ill intent all around us and its expression. The greater part of humanity does not bother much about thinking about anything except where the next meal is going to come from. There is a stupendous lack of imagination. This category of people stick to the immediate mundane and gossip about the people in their small limited circle. So choose well to who you give your ear to.

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I read it and it impacted in me like a boil. My wife let me tell her and I cried, letting my feelings get in touch. Like having a boil lanced.

How will justice be served?

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Leave your body for a while and watch the earth from the stratosphere and you will see there is nothing like justice or "rights"" on this earth as we want to encapsulate it in our moralistic principles of good, bad, ugly, kind whatever.

Let us go into the effort of discovery to rise above these manifestations. It is always more profitable and wiser along with amusing to know the consequences behind the consequences and how we bring things to happen to us.

Once the picture becomes clear, the pain goes away. The sadness will although remain.

4) So; I have lived with honesty, given respect, treated others as family, lost my temper often and did not go along with those I felt were ungodly. What did I achieve or get in the end? : Truck-loads of anxiety, privations and loads of disrespect and alienation as I was not one of them and it IS THEIR world! I now understand why pleasure and cruelty is more satisfying. I had loads and loads of friends. All like me. But because we were all basically honest we had no idea how to navigate in this world and so remained where we were and now that they are all gone, I might as well be living on Uranus. We are all in a prison but for most the cell is large enough and the grill is a safety net from the vile world out there. They look for friends in the cell and are content. The more aware we become the worse it gets. We cannot continue in the way we are and we don't have the power to advance our agenda. In this world of deceit we who will not act by deceit are at a disadvantage. We feel there is help outside. But really there is none. In Urdu we speak of "Flower where you have been placed by your maker". We look for a door and that it will open; we pray that He that put us here will open it sometime. But it is all hopeless. HE put us here; no help is forthcoming from HIM. Our brothers and sisters are busy protecting themselves and their cages. We are on our own. Let us think on the lines that we are strong enough to take them on. I am sure I can handle this bully. I will educate myself on the best methods under the circumstances and take care of myself. What is the worst that can be done to me; that can happen? Being the grand guy did not help me any. BUT I am at peace with myself. No-one can say I had hurt them. My going will leave no ripples and disturb none's existence.......And best of all they leave me in peace as they see nothing of value in what I have.

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Each one of us is a small independent farm

We all live in our special place that we have made in our minds like small farms dotted all over the planet earth. All virtually independent, self-sustaining and really can manage with little or no help from others. We are not keeping each other away. No sir. We meet casually, in a formal HI YOU THERE way and in a crisis we do get together and see each other thru. BUT ESSENTIALLY we are NOT for each other and we prefer it this way because this INDEPENDENCE; this need to be by ourselves and living under no pressure to listen to another's tune is primarily our way of Being.

Trust your Life-Force that is guiding your Life.

There is a Destiny that has planned this lifetime for you. It has placed you where you are and organized everything around you to benefit at the maximum from all that is given to you.

Trust the LIGHT leading you to greater emancipation and awareness of how to navigate in this world.

Simply open to this idea that great and better good is possible.

But here is a rider.....how will this happen and how do we implement it?

The answer is sincerity. Being sincere in everything absolutely. Wishes, desires, speech, thinking and follow-up actions, responses. Absolute sincerity is the answer.

Being sincere to one's purpose, taking responsibilities sincerely. Being sincerely in balance with the world within and without.

You will find not even 001% of our behaviour will really/honestly/integrally meet this need.

Humans will have to become conscious, then act consciously and drop all contrary thoughts that goes against the question -- AM I BEING CLINICALLY HONEST?

All these talks of "Finding" oneself, going within, aligning with the Flow, Discovering our primary path and all that are simply expressions of one simple movement -- the art of learning to ally with our spiritual destiny; even without understanding it. I admit I am not saying anything new or thunderingly exclusive but the point I wish to emphasise is that all these damaged and hurt children we see are special. Let us not brush them aside into isolated sanatoriums as unwanted burdens that are there for us as our cross to bear. Every single one of them is carrying a seed that will help us manifest our spiritual destiny and humanity too. Special talents are latent in all of them. Given an opportunity some fantastic examples have come become evident. Parents can help greatly. By observing the child and its primary tendencies they can help the child flower in the direction its bent is showing. (Unfortunately in 99.99 cases the parents impose their will and no destiny at all and thereby mess it all up for the child and themselves) Teachers can also help and in all truth I can say most do (most of the time it is due to the teachers any flowering is taking place) but their job is badly cut out as their influence is reduced to minimal due to the regimentation of education as a duty and a job they are doing, their friendly potential curtailed by force by the organisations they work for. In today's atmosphere teachers have been reduced to menials. And there are some who are there only for h alary. This unfair to the ch9ild and I would request people if they don't have the bent, please don't go into life pretending to be a teacher and take such duties. All these manifestations of Creativity in normal and abnormal children should be given openings to flourish. These are Spiritual destinies trying hard to flower out thru the gaps in the concrete. Help them make it your life's work to help people locate, discover, exercise their rights to permit their spiritual destinies to empower their own growth; unrestricted and smiling.

We have created nothing. My life is a transcription of some unwritten play that is unrolling of itself. Everything "COMES" to me. All I do is ASPIRE, work in complete honesty and sincerity whatever I do. The rests falls into place by itself like gifts falling into my lap. I have just to be open completely and not block my own flowering.

When people you have known since childhood, loved and played with, lived a lot of your life with suddenly turn their eyes away what do you do? Nothing. What can you do? Accept it as *fait accompli* and save yourself some traumatic responses. It is mostly arrogance that is behind these responses of people. They judge dourly and with malice in their hearts. We are better off without their presence in our atmosphere. There are millions and millions of people who do not know us. A few more in the sea wouldn't really matter. SHOUDN'T REALLY MATTER AS IT IS ONLY OUR PRIDE THAT IS HURT. OUR DESTINY IS ACTUALLY NOW FREE TO TAKE US FURTHER ONTO NEW ADVENTURES. This happens when you align your purpose with some higher elements of vibrations specially living in the Intuitive mind. Most people know of it as their GOD element without fully understanding it or even being remotely near it but in words they know even if not in a direct experience manner.

To me the idea of death is a comforting one.

The thought that there definitely "IS" one of these days, an exit from this drudgery of living this sordid life with few joys but many tragedies and accidents all leaving a trail of pain. And it only gets worse with age. First the body fails and secondly the memories kill you with their weight.

What does this mass of humanity have against death? Why does it so thrashingly flailing to avoid it? It is prepared to suffer a million torments to live another moment, only making the charlatans richer by shelling out and selling themselves out to all who promise another day.

I just don't get it!

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People don't realise that when we wish to transfer an image in our minds thru words, we need to have an exceptional ability to paint the picture in words; something that very few have and most of us never bother to try and acquire - rather we couldn't care less. A little misunderstanding becomes a good joke, people laugh it off, there are minor disasters and life goes on. People assume that others are thinking on the same lines, have had the same education and experience. We automatically assume that they understand the same terminologies and equally proficient in the subjects concerned. And so many other things I don't think we take communication seriously at all or for that matter this life at all the way we live it. What can you expect from people who are destroying the very ground they live and feed on?

True and accurate communication between humans is not possible. Mainly because we use a language system that is loaded with literal and figurative meanings including idiomatic uses. Every word is in practice used a little differently by different people on earth and due to personal memories may give a very personalized picture to an individual which is totally different from the intended picture being conveyed. For example the English in USA and the English in England and the English in India are three different languages in real use terms.

Add to this the level of education. Every one of us has had a different education in quality and content.

How many people really put in the effort to learn a language properly, understand the nuances in idiomatic use of language and pay attention to the psychology at work with the listener? In India there is a tendency to speak and holler from distances and it is impossible to make anyone understand that hollering at each other from way away will not result in communication. But we are too lazy and too much in a hurry to get the message out. Miscommunication is therefore the rule. Add to this is the level of wisdom and knowledge on different subjects that one possesses. If the receiving mind has not been educated and readied for certain subjects it will fail to comprehend. Vanity may make the person nod his head but that is about all that will happen. But most are quite smugly happy with what they know and don't feel the need to know more. Most people are mostly quite confident that what they know is more than enough and people should be looking up to them for answers; not only let them be but emulate their fine example in everything. Add to this mix the people who hide behind philosophy and because they cannot fit in make a virtue of not having to fit in: "I'm not here to live up to the standards of this world."

They don't comprehend because they don't want to and of course starting with this premise they never listen; the portals are kept closed in case their mind end up showing that they heard and then they may have to do things against their wishes.

The data in most minds is cluttered; No clear cut, neatly clarified ideas. Putting these jostling ideas into words will never work. Add to this our psychological states where we are afraid to speak because of peer pressure and be seen stupid or antagonise others or we are dishonest like when courting or marketing.....so many variables when we deliberately are not communicating sincerely.

I am referring to the entire concept and the psychology propounded about communication. As if there are transmitters and receivers and all that is needed is proper functioning of the technologies. This is such an over-simplified way of looking at it - as if it is all simple rules and we see everything within this structure. NOTE: There are many slips between the cup and the lip.

1st thing is that the first stumbling block are our prejudices.

The second is our insincerity. And involved in all this are our emotional states at any given moment where mainly vanity rules. More often than not we are not in a proper receptive mood and nothing the other communicator throws at us will find entry.

Our likes and dislikes rule our listening. Add to this is the fact that language is not standardised. Worse most people have never bothered to hone their language ability with a view to communicate effectively.

The thing is no-one cares. There are emotional hang-ups that open or close our ears.

An intelligent man takes all criticism, meditates over it and then rejects it. After all his mistakes have already shown him where he is in error. Deep down everyone "knows". Live without fear. Go and do it. Forget the labels of good bad, right and wrong. Learning comes from the consequences; ignominy breaks down our resistance to change.

Most criticism is not aimed at you. It is normally a way of proving to one's self how better one is. It is also embellished in the telling so not always worth it.

We are all bumbling along. It is a good subject to fill and waste time. We are all jousting.

It is a subject of no merit whichever way you look at it. There are methods and science involved I agree but not one single individual will adopt them. A lot of people do take the trouble becoming effective communicators but I have as yet to see anyone understanding them or put the information to great use. In scientific matters perhaps this may not be true as a very cut and dried language is used in the science world and things work quite well there.

How many people really put in the effort to learn a language properly, understand the nuances in idiomatic use of language and pay attention to the psychology at work with the listener?

I love this remark

Melissa Bowers: Trying to communicate today gets you in trouble if you disagree.

PK: Finally it is our prejudices that decide our level communication

So what choices do we have in making sure that we are understood?

Thought and Thinking

This world of humans is run by thoughts and thinking of the human race. So let me begin from this starting block.

- It is the thought that counts. The thought is the seed. What has the humanity been up to? The basic thought of humanity has been: 1) Provide food and goods for family 2) The unknown is the enemy 3) Kill the enemy. 4) I know what I am doing 5) Grab whatever you can

The guy 10 000 years ago was thinking the same. And today we are still thinking on the same lines. So when is this EVOLUTION that we talk of going to actually begin?

- The old "thought-patterns" that were needed thousands of years ago which helped mankind evolve are now keeping the human evolution back. The Sun, Moon and Mother Nature do not frighten us anymore. We don't cut out hearts to feed to our gods to protect us from wars, famines, and thunderstorms. The time has come to grow into something bigger. We have to grow up beyond our instinctive responses and logic of the tribal communities. It will not happen immediately but it will happen. It has to happen. This creation is not stationary; it is in movement and growing.

As and when we are ready, new ideas, concepts and inventions come into our minds and there are always individuals who have more expanded minds that latch on to them and make them available as theories or objects to others. The human greed to have more is also a strong motive factor. This is why we go conquering and bring devastation in our wake but actually it is not devastation but reconstruction devised by the Creative Powers. It pumps in new blood into old civilisations. This is why although colonialism was hurtful to the indigenous tribes all over the world it has also helped to make the world move forward. What merit is there in staying put in a culture and thought pattern for ever and ever?

This is why industrialization although being near to magic and destructive to Nature, it did take humanity forward. It is also now showing the backwardness of humans who are not able to receive this gift of a better life-style; they are unfortunately destroying themselves with it but it has also awakened a huge number of beings on the planet. The stupidity of human greed, lack of self-control, the avarices .... All have come to the top like cream in a bottle of milk.

We should be happy to see that all over the world the traditionally naturopathic tribal cultures are now waking up and reforming with modern thought patterns.

There is a definite growing of awareness about human psychology and the world around us; the physics and chemistry of it and how basically ignorant we are and we have been trying to conceal it by shows of tradition and bravado as already being super cultures.

Humans are so lazy and averse to change. They have to first agree to change. Humanity has to then get together and strive as one.

Not only the tribal cultures, the elite intellectual cultures is being dashed to the ground. But for the time being the resistance is great. The Hippie movement put everything to question and started a movement to think differently and more cohesively and integrally taking Mother Nature as partner as against the arrogance of humans who thought through their science they could control life.

Everything is leading to this new rebirth. We have to now surpass our own intelligence and all that we have achieved till date. All our thought patterns about our own superiority and divine self, our religions, morals and misconceived world of gods on which we pattern our social structure has to go; will eventually go.

Religions based on thought patterns of long ago still control us. Why can't we think ahead?

See for example how communications have speeded up, how goods and services have become universally available, how dishonesty has spread and is being unmasked.... all this is leading to chaos apparently but as we all know reconstruction can happen only when the old establishment has been razed to the ground.

As Sri Aurobindo mentioned in his aphorisms: The mind was the helper; the mind is the bar.

PS: I see thoughts as waves coming into our minds, passing thru the subconscious and presenting them-selves as something personal. No they are not of our manufacture. We are simply sensitive to them and allow them free reign in our minds. Our desires and aspirations or problems are the triggers helped by reasoning and all the data collected in our minds.

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Discovering the Deeper Mind-Psychological-Occult State of our Beings

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.

People put all their energies into being and remaining what they are; but talk of change. Our life on earth is part of an ongoing evolution process in which individuals are being "tested". Every second of our life is a test of some kind. We are being tried, prodded and examined for stature every moment by situations and people.

It is part and parcel of existence.

Women as the mothers have been given the job of pushing us to our limits and they do that so well. We need to be thankful to them.

They help us learn about ourselves. The problem is that most of us are not here for learning so the entire process is covert and happening against our wishes and we are rather unhappy about it.

It is also a fact the people with the greatest spiritual destiny also land up with the worst relationships. They sort of get needled into enlightenment.

Humanity has this seed built-in and we all men and women have some element of it. Women for the most part have a heavy dose of it. But you will meet a lot women suffering from husbands with no purpose in life but to needle their wives.

But if we look within calmly, it is all for the good. And humanity is looking for cures and solutions in the wrong corners.

I have learnt that the human condition is such that the mind just yet always goes for the most opposite route in life. Humans seem to be wired to take the most diametrically opposite stance than they should be taking in any situation.

We speak when it would be best to be silent and things flow and unfurl themselves.

We act when we should wait and watch.

We remain silent and inactive when we should intervene and stop malefactor energy...... etc etc etc.

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...

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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 ourselves 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.

Humans will never understand each other.

They cannot. This is the reality as things are. Let us study the probabilities as we know it. We are born to parents who have total legal, lordly rights over us. We are only a few days old but they have already decided on a name for us -- If you have any trust in numerology/ astrology the Universe has already given you a basic character, history from anterior lives + to this is added a name which has its own vibration and will play a meaningful role in your life. A few months on you will realize that there are other people of all sizes and configurations around you and whatever the label they carry they are all carrying you all around and you will carry their imprint on your soul for the rest of your days. Certain ceremonies and traditions are added, like it or not as part of your life. They will eventually become your habits with many likes and dislikes already etched in your minds.

Then there is this schooling for most of your younger days till the time you reach your teens and cross over into adulthood. You are at this stage a perfectly moulded specimen of a "Being" from a particular place, community and family. It is a comfortable life till this stage because everyone around you follow a similar set of ritualistic phenomenon. All very fixed and by the time you are 20 your subconscious patterns are established and you will become a person of recognizable habits and preferences with an in-built incapacity to adjust happily. Now visualize millions of people on this earth with their own personal stamp of persona. Not one in any similar to another. How can we understand each other? We have no idea, learning or sensitivity to the environment the others live in. Added to this is the primeval problem of the Ego. We all are similar on this factor. We cannot be seen as a lesser person and take slight at any hint that we may in any way not be a super, first class and supremely the best model of a human on earth. This is where the seed of all quarrels sprout including the fact that we are also rather covetous and envious. Under these circumstances do you see any possibility of understanding each other? No. We are a perfect formula for wars and disasters. There is just one mitigating factor: If we are pleased we can be very kind too. So this gives the collective entry to Insincerity in human affairs wherein we all are trying to please each other but at heart wanting to overwhelm to suit our own wishes and desires. There is a strong element of "I will skin thee alive" if you speak against me!

"All those who praise me not are mine enemies by default and there is no gainsaying this" The issues are too complex; the combinations into too many billions and beyond my mental capacities nor do I really wish to improve upon it. I'll let you be if you'll let me be; but will I? I look at it all, feel totally out of sorts, totally incapable to tackle the world and go and close myself in my "No-entry" study in my defiantly shut-up home.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Just because your eyes and hands are not working together.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Here is a question for admirers of Modern western medicine: When you have a thorn stuck in your hand or foot and it is paining what do you do? Take a pain killer or remove the thorn?

PS: Then why do you take painkillers for pain in the shoulders, knees and such? Why don't you ask something to effect a proper cure?

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Looking forward.

We allow our sense of morality to reinterpret signals coming to us. We hide our real sentiments and thoughts. Kindness is a big strength and if we are not kind to each other we will all be at each other throats because that is what our sentiments are raring to do.

So basically this means we are only aiming for a pleasant life and no real improvement because there is enough kindness in the weird world to manage with living somehow or other.

But then what will happen to the raise of consciousness we are looking for? When shall we admit the truth of our beings and rise into a better stress-free level of living?

The way things are a little judicious governing and we become cozy in our nests. And soon death ends it all.

This is a sheer waste of energy.

All our troublesome moments can be traced to the point where we assumed that things are certain.

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

It is the oneness in me that feels and identifies with the Creation and also knows its place in it. Things are what they are and I have no power or understanding to change much of it. I see all and feel all and watch the inexorable march of the kayak, slowly paddling on in the stream of time.

I feel I am a nobody in this sea of bodies.

But I am also this itinerant soul who was a fakir, warrior prince and a beggar once. I have had so many names and identities. Now I am just a child of the Divine looking for the way back home.

Perhaps we should retrace our steps a little and start thinking again from the starting line with the thought that the body HAS an intelligent chemistry & physics consciousness that has evolved over billions of years. Perhaps we who consider ourselves knowledgeable aren't so knowledgeable after all. So instead of imposing our theories on the body and Creation, we should quieten our pervert minds and try to understand exactly what, who and how this show is running and what Mother Nature is aiming at.

The Earth was not created by a chaotic mind. Everything is too perfect and it is obvious a great intelligence is at work.

I am perforce inclined to think that the reasons of most developments by humans are with ulterior motives although the final products seem like wonderful answers to our issues.

We are taught a lot of things but finally it is the prejudices in us that drive our demons.

The focus is all on facts and figures. Not on the narrative and none at all in "understanding" the forces at play. These forces are eternal and people will change, come and go but the play will continue in a slightly different set of facts and figures. The same pains, greed, ambitions and consequences will play out.

It is like listening to the news. It is the same thing in essence but different every day - *ad nauseum.*

If you really want to understand, come to grips with what is at play then all you need to study is the history that started when the "colonisers" started landing on foreign soils and the rape of the land started; the killings, the cheating, murders, massacres, enslavement, grabbing and all that is nefarious. And later spilled out through the world wars that gave some countries the power to lead and destroy and they did just that.

Just imagine the mind-set of a people who reach the shores of a land they did not know about and immediately plank their flags there and say we claim it in the name of the King/queen. And under this god-given right to rule they butcher the populace to take control of the land?! But before we lose our heads we must also understand the occult forces at play. These new colonisers had guns-effective killing machines that the rest of the world did not have. Any way the time had come for the old cultures to die out and get transformed into more modern versions. Mother Nature/The Cosmos uses wars and greed to promote its evolutionary trends.

The only negative aspect in all this is that the new comers rarely adopt all that the old cultures have learnt and thereby actually lose in the long run.

From where I stand it is clear to me that "humans" are not living at the level of the intelligence at work in Creation and actually messing up big to their own detriment although some are able to afford the luxury of mansions with swimming pools and comparative safety from the hordes and this they call "Life". This awes the general populace alright and the populace also makes the mistake of looking up to these people as Knowledgeable, Capable and worthy of emulation. It is a rather convoluted affair and so it will remain as far as I can see.

So for now Death is the only dependable friend we have and luckily it stops Thinking Patterns before some individuals end up destroying the planet utterly. If you are not getting my drift then think of the thinking patterns of some of these periods in history(that are thankfully history) Elizabethan 1, Caliphates, Napoleonic, Victorian, Bismarcist, Hitlerian, Stalinist, Japanese etc

We shall know respite only when the present bunch of thought influencers, have gone and their mistakes sprout mushrooms between the toes of the rest of humanity. All we have to do is wait. !!!

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

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

But my experience shows:.....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Truth is what IS most acceptable.....specially if it comes from someone in authority who cannot be questioned anyway or from someone who has enough wealth to make people fear him or if he has a sword in his hand.

Then there are these people who do a short course in a seminary and are called priests and they are automatically considered "WISE" in knowing the truth down here and even in the hereafter.

The farmer in the field "KNOWS" but he is a nobody.

Principally the human race has established certain "arrivals" as the gate-posts of what they call success. If you have achieved to reach any of these posts whatever you do or say or consider appropriate, correct and true will be honored.

Behind all this is the sustenance power of the ignorant masses who is keen and ready to be manipulated as long as he is seen and made to feel as an important link in the game.

Karmic ramifications of our actions. There is so much that is said, can be said and will be said, the discussions can go on and on safely with no change resulting in any form except the expounder goes home very proud of himself, of his grasp of life's essentials and his wisdom with somewhere at the back of his mind this thought that he has impressed his listeners and made a mark!

What is ignored is our hurry. This, if I am not mistaken is called Multi-tasking nowadays. A way of working that I abhor. Nothing is done with focus and proper application. All our actions tend to be incomplete and sort of hover around us waiting for their culmination.

I think this is awful; the idea should be to do less, live luxuriously and here we are pushing ourselves to an early burn-out by doing more. Humans really need to reorient their philosophies.

We do most things by habit and while in the act allow the mind to wander all over the cosmos. We then leave "undone" karmic footprints that drag us back, vociferously demanding that we finish the job or at least learn to do it differently and well the next time or pay for the consequences.

The mind not being wholly satiated or satisfied, continues to crave. This may show in excesses like binge eating, passionate affairs, show-off purchases and the like. A veritable vortex is created that can envelope us in its negative impact which then has the effect of creating stress, bad decisions/attitudes and even more stress and eventual misery.

Say a man is eating. The food is of his choice and normally he would have savored it to his entire satisfaction. But he is in a hurry because his mind is on the meeting in his office where he aims to make a definite point and he hopes to get a raise from it. There is also the need to be aware of what goes on in the world so he opens up the TV to watch the news. His wife on the other hand has some complaints and reminders and may even be talking to him which as can be imagined he is saying yes-yes to without listening. By the time he leaves, settling down in his car, his phone to his ears his mind is already properly muddled. He has no idea what he has eaten; he has no memory of having eaten at all. He has not grasped any of the news and totally forgotten about his wife. And in all this he has hasn't had a quiet moment to fully work out his presentation in the meeting which he then does not do too well. The eating, driving and listening in the above episode being totally mechanically habit driven; is this multitasking or multishucksing?

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