Friday, 8 September 2017

EARTH - GLOBAL MOTEL FOR ALL TEMPORARY BEINGS




EARTH - GLOBAL MOTEL FOR ALL TEMPORARY BEINGS 

 
VAST & BEAUTIFUL PARADISE

We rarely explore the colorful gardens of Eden, the virgin rain forests, over crowded with beautiful birds, exotic plants, and interesting creatures coexisting very peacefully. A life time is too short to enjoy all that this guest house has to offer to us. Alas, we spend majority of our time indoors pursuing cheap pleasures and sleeping. This luxurious resort is not what you asked for yet it is there for you to walk, run, frolic, and gambol as you please. The all-powerful sun has been located millions of kilometers away from us, for a very good reason. The highly toxic rays, ultra violet, infrared, and others radiations are very harmful for our bodies and health. However we do require heat and light for nourishing all life on our planet. Unfortunately we do not venture out in the sun as much as we should, to get our needed doses of vitamin D. In such a heavenly paradise if you still feel melancholy, then surely it is by mistake. Therefore let us analyze this mistake on your part, which makes your life a misfortune.
 YOUR SKEWED PERCEPTION
You are not a prisoner in this beautiful wonderful world, but if you do feel trapped with your back against the wall, then seriously you need to examine yourself and stop blaming the world. The very same environment does not make everyone else imprisoned and trapped. This world is a mirage, an illusion of your mind. It is a magical wonderland where you derive what you want and expect out of it. It does not produce sorrow and grief. It gives back pure experiences, only, like a mirror reflecting back into your face.                        
Unfortunately you extract total misery from it, because your mind projects it. It is termed mental projection. It is your own creation. Your mind makes life a sad affair. Since the mind has extraordinary powers, both positive and negative, you end up with extraordinary sufferings, sorrows, and grief. This complaining is illegitimate, unfounded and wrongly perceived. You are grieving over trifles and things that do not deserve grief.     
  ONE HOUSE TWO SCENARIOS
The haves are unhappy with all the comforts, while the have not’s are equally unhappy without those comforts. A house is up for sale. The seller wants to get rid of it. The buyer wants to own it. Both parties are happy with one deal, the same house. This phenomenon is true in our relationships too. First we want each other badly and madly. After a couple of years we get tired of each other and want to divorce our partners, get new ones for you, no, second hand in reality, or continue to live together hating each other like sour lemons for various reasons.                
 IGNORANCE IS THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM
It is the lack of knowledge of the functioning of this Universe. Our upbringing and programming of the mind is so damn faulty, that we end up as failures. A sense of duality is deeply ingrained, when we are very impressionable and innocent. We feel division of self, leading to feelings of uneasiness. We scream on top of our voices, “All is not well with me”. We act as inadequate, unfulfilled, and incomplete. These emotions are reinforced many times over resulting in self-condemnation, self-demeaning and limited in multiple ways. We believe that we are seriously crippled and handicapped in major facets, physically, intellectually, psychologically, and spatially.           
WANTING TO BE DIFFERENT
We live in a state of not accepting ourselves as we, thus want to be different, from whom we are. Now, we have a full-fledged internal war, perpetual conflict of ideologies, and personalities. The agony and dilemma of choices, this girl or that woman leaves us helpless and overwhelmed with hundreds of fears. On top of all this we are plagued by dozens of likes and dislikes. All of the above negativity ruins our true sense of perception of the Universe and all that is happening in it to us. We become seekers, seeking, desiring, wanting, a never ending wanting. We are conditioned to be beggars of happiness. We come to believe blindly in many things out of fear and clouded judgments. A belief is a judgment prior to gaining knowledge and subject to verification by inquiry. Since we have no mindset of inquiry and inclination to verify, we continue to hold on to our baseless beliefs till death.
EGO - EARTH GUIDED ONLY

What stops us from changing?  Why we refuse to change?  It is our own EGO that comes in our way of progress, way for betterment and new life. It is the root of all evils. Ego stands for Earth Guided Only. The opposite of Ego is soul consciousness. It is our attachment to the wrong beliefs about us. It is the false center. We put on a mask of restlessness over our real nature of calmness. We go about masquerading, all our lives with passion. We are intoxicated with ego feeling, agitated state of consciousness, resulting in stimuli of feelings, hence covering the bliss. Ego lives on attention. It feels hungry, deep begging for attention. It is all about me, me and I. All misery enters through ego. Two egos clash because both are not confident of themselves. You are a little spark and yet you extol yourself. I am the owner of the Universe. In reality you do not own anything on the Earth, let alone own the Universe. Ego is homemade, fabricated, self-manufactured and ugly of course, since it is man-made. We are afraid of being alone, lonely. Hence we invent illusions, TV, clubs, conferences, sects, churches, crowd, and parties, to procrastinate the effort to look inside. This is our self-hypnosis through others, attention from others. 

If you are hurt inside with one’s insinuation – it is ego.

If one’s behavior causes you pain – it is ego.

If you speak loudly, and shout to get your point across – it is ego.

If you want to control your children & the world – it is ego.

If you are pointing the index finger and giving orders – it is ego.

If you are worried and anxious for things – it is ego.

If you are suffering and miserable most of the time – it is ego.

If you are generally angry at the world situations – it is ego.

   EMPEROR HAS AN EGO TOO
One day in the land of Mongolia an emperor Aurangzeb was praying in darkness in a mosque. He was telling the lord, I am nobody. But unfortunately he was not alone in the mosque. There was another common man praying too beside the emperor and he too was saying the same prayer, I am nobody.  At once the Emperor Aurangzeb’s ego, flared up. Who dare say the same prayer? The emperor punished the common man, one of his own subject’s with death by beheading in public, for praying with him and saying the same stuff. The emperor could not tolerate such a simple act. Most people have very low ignition point, and they flare up very quickly over, anything trivial. Ego is hell, misery, and suffering.

 EGOISTIC DOCTOR                                    

A well-established mature psychiatrist had a solid practice in Los Angeles. One day he was approached by a very beautiful lady, Tyrell for help and consultation. As she walks in to his clinic,  the doctor goes flying off the floor. He is totally knocked off by the captivating charm and beauty of our lady patient. He could not control himself. He approaches the lady, hugs her straight away, kisses her and excuses himself for the act on his part. Madame Tyrell, that was my problem, now what is your problem? The lady patient slapped the doctor and sued him for 10 million dollars. The doctor was ruined just because of his ego. Ego gets you into trouble, hence beware, be extra careful.
  DUALITY VERSES NEUTRALITY

Choice gives you options, but it is accompanied by tensions. This one or that one! Ego comes into play. Duality is created by the mind. In the beginning there is no distinction. Then my toys and your toys! Where to live?  In the hills or in the valley! A huge dilemma cannot make up your mind. Are you for sex and promiscuity  or against sex and celibacy? Either way you are in anxiety. When you are in one of them, the grass seems greener on the other side of the fence. Are you for Jesus Christ and Christianity or Anti-Jesus Christ and against Christianity? Well there is still another option available to you, which is being neutral or indifferent to Christ and Christianity. Choose, to wake up from slumber, deep hypnosis or continue sleeping. Few people try consciously to develop the potentials of mind, body and soul. Rest are purely victims of circumstances, of past. 
  LET GO OF EGO
How do we escape this monster of Ego?  Just drop it, simple! It is easy to say but difficult to do it. The only sure way out is Awareness. You have to be dangerously aware, alert 24/7. Alertness is intensity. Try being as alert as if you are walking a high 12 inch narrow rope bridge over a gigantic ravine or river. The wind is swaying the rope bridge and death is at your heels every step you take towards your destination across the river. This is the highest level of awareness you have ever had or will have when you attempt to venture on such a trip. Therefore become intensely aware of this monster Ego and watch it dropping off, disappearing, and finally gone. Of course hard work is required on your part first, before you can see some results.
KNOW THY SELF
The darkness of ignorance can be removed by the light of knowledge of self.  Who we really are? This single piece of information makes a world of difference in our lives. It also turns the tables on us. It is important to be wise than to be otherwise. We are matter vivified by Consciousness. We are pure Awareness, which is limitless, formless, all pervasive, timeless, action less and self-effulgent. We are complete, totally liberated and perpetually happy beings. We are joyful beings at peace with ourselves and happily doing whatever must be done. This miraculous secret is concealed very intricately inside us and it can be unraveled only by ourselves, with our own effort and lots of hard work.
WE ARE A PACKET OF ENERGY
Man is made up of five elements; ether, air, fire, water, earth. Gods are made of three elements; ether, air, fire.  All tangible objects are born out of ether. It is possible to see it with effort. All consciousness and active objects vibrate. It is crucial to them all, air, sky, voice, and noise. Vibrations give rise to waves, which help move from point A to point B. It is through will power that we succeed in life. Strong will power has vibrations and they affect others by reaching them. Prerequisites for strong will power are: profound solitude, preserve energy, talk less, self-control, happy face, thought free like a child, developed eye power, no self-talk, no revealing of thoughts & secrets, no anger, no loud laughter too.

WE ARE THE SUBJECT OF AN OBJECT
We are fusion of Mind and Awareness which results in an explosive brilliance and effulgence. We are cosmic awareness, subtle matter, cause, absolute, real, and eternal. We are the subject which cannot be negated. We are also NOT, the awarer, gross matter, the effect, relative, apparent, and temporary mortal sentient. We are not the object which we often think and believe we are. Our true nature is joyful. Our bodies cannot tolerate any foreign stuff. It has to be expelled as quickly as possible - A dust particle in your eye or a worm in your stomach. The same is true for sorrow and grief. It is alien to our nature and is contradictory. In love we are one. The flame of love fuses two into one. The other is totally accepted for the time being, no division. But in a fight, and hate we are separate from the other. We are two and the other must be annihilated.

IT’S ALL TEMPORARY

Everything is temporary, transient, and short lived in this ever evolving universe.  We are like traffic on the highways, or in Times Square, very temporary for a short span of 90 years. But sadly we are always looking for permanent things in life. Lifelong jobs, ever lasting relationships, permanent addresses, and the list goes on. How tragic? How much out of tune and alignment are we with the flow of nature, and the laws of the universe? The answer is, very much out of tune.
CHANGE SELF NOT THE WORLD
Life is a flux, ever changing. Therefore change yourself, not the world. You can never change the universe. It is huge, beyond your power and comprehension. Change the cause because, you are the cause. You started the chain of events. Hence change yourself. Life echoes back at you. Life is to be conquered. You need intelligence and strategy to win wars and battles of ever changing scenarios.
GO WITH THE FLOW
A flowing river cannot be stopped, so just go with the flow. It is stupidity to stop the flow of water in a river. Be friendly. If you cling on to life, and beliefs, you are heading for disaster, frustration, misery. Intelligence lies in not clinging, but being unattached and that is how you create bliss. As a system of intelligence functioning, there are five senses. All our experiences are coded in these five senses. But the world we experience is not outside us. It is only, We.
We do not react to world out there but to the PERCEPTION of it. Perception is something we build. Since we build it, we can change it. Reality happens through YOU and TO YOU.
YOUR ENTRY IN THE MOTEL
You come into this world as a love product of two loving people. You are the most wanted guest entering the ten star facilities, the planet Earth, your temporary Guest House. You do not bring a truck load of supplies for your long 90 years of stay here. You come with just a carry-on baggage of your physical body knowing well that you will be taken care of. Everything is provided for your comfort and enjoyment in this magnificent guest house much in abundance, exceeding your merger requirements, yet you experience an over whelming sense of scarcity.
  ABUNDANCE OUT SIDE, SCARCITY INSIDE
Some oceans are ice capped and some are boiling hot waters near the equator. This differential helps move the waters around and churn up the marine life. Rich top soil has been deposited on land for you to grow your food and fodder. It is even irrigated by overflowing rivers to facilitate the crops of fruits and vegetables, herbs and trees, woods and forests. It can sustain billions of people for hundreds of years if used carefully maintaining the ecological balance. Despite this entire splendor, you slaughter animals to satisfy your palate and hunger.
Seven gigantic oceans of water have been strategically positioned for your hydration needs, but you are found dehydrated at most times. You will unknowingly flush down 50 liters of filtered, drinkable water into the toilets but refuse, hesitate and simply forget to consume even one liter of water in your human system. Our bodies are 70 % water & topping up intelligently & quickly are of utmost importance.
  PURE OXYGEN FOR IMPURE BLOOD
The spherical guest house is specially enveloped with diluted oxygen for hundreds of kilometers deep into the sky and hermetically sealed with a super sensitive ozone layer, to divert the harmful radiations coming from the sun, and prevent the nitrogen and oxygen from escaping into the space beyond. Yet, you breathe like a miser, taking shallow breadths, resulting in toxic blood levels. How pathetic is your story. I feel sorry for you.
OXYGEN LOADED BREATHING ALWAYS HEALS - PERSONAL ICU 

History of breath gives us the knowledge of our childhood wounds, trauma, fears & chronic insecurities. We must open up to these & consciously breath them out. Don’t wait for the crisis to change your lives. Hurry up sickness, is an epidemic these days. Make choices, slow down, spend time lavishly, then you will have more of it. Healing with the breath is an ancient art lost in time. Affirm loudly that each breath is transforming me into thine image of purity, perfect happy soul.
  
FEELING AT HOME WITH EVERY BREATH

What we are and what we wish to know are not separate. It is the same thing. The finger pointing at the moon. We are awakened consciousness. The very nature of the breath arising from within us announces this message over & over again.  Celebrate your own homecoming. Mindfulness is to mind the breath, is to decide, that this very moment is yours to own it. To extricate self from the past & pull of future, gradually come to peace with ourselves, one thing at a time with full attention.  When not at peace, we feel righteous anger, a justifiable disappointment.  Solution is to be choice-less.

DEEP BREATHING MESSAGES THE INTERNAL ORGANS

It is the primal wave movement.  The source of this rhythm lies in the swelling and receding of the motions of pelvis & abdomen. Breathing is a global body experience.   Every breath massages all the internal organs for good health automatically. We feel the body through the medium of breath. Listen to your breathing and know who you are. Inhabit your body with full awareness. Entering stillness within the breath. Observe how the breath is inside the breath Pause & be still. Inhalation is born out of this stillness and exhalation returns to this stillness. Allow yourself to become luminous stillness. Soul shining star. Witness thoughts from this stillness, & you will get to peacefulness. The capacity for aliveness & pleasure permeates every cell.


THE KING OF ALL SECRETS - THAT THOU ART.
That, what you seek outside of yourself. Thou meaning you the self and Art implying you already are. You already have what you seek. It is so simple yet terribly complex or complicated to comprehend and implement. It is impossible and erroneous to want something when it is already present inside you. Hence it is a big mistake and illegitimate action of seeking, wanting and desiring. Before this knowledge you could not conclude, but after having this revelation, conclusion is unnecessary because knowing is self-conclusive and not subject to interpretation and negation.
  
DELINKING REWARD FROM ACTION
The second part of the KING OF SECRETS is the universal laws of nature and how they work. The cosmic laws of nature are impartial and they never fail. These laws can be understood but not changed or altered. Our actions in this world are rewarded by the application of these cosmic laws. The rewards of our actions can be diluted, delayed and handed down in the next life or another future life. It is in no hurry and always very patient. Today we perform actions with expectations of big rewards, but when we see the rewards not forth coming we get disappointed, frustrated and angry. Our reactions and attitudes towards the rewards of our actions are another big mistake and part of the fundamental problem of mankind. The secret is to go on performing your actions without any attachment to the rewards. If we delink the actions and the rewards, then the problem can be resolved very easily. Just be a witness to the action and not an unconscious doer of action. Another aspect to this business of payment for actions is to accept the fruits what ever they are, very gracefully like a “Prasad” a gift from heavens. The meaning of Prasad is, “absence of sorrow”. Bear in mind that many times there may not be any fruit at all immediately.
YOUR EXIT

When your stay of 90 years, more or less, in this guest house is over, you have to leave to return to your HOME, just as you came, empty handed, with no baggage at all. All your riches and wealth do not go with you. They belong to this earth and must be recycled again and again. This time you do not take your carry on baggage even, of your old diseased worn out body with you. The benevolent earth takes care of your body and disposes it off very efficiently to the various elements of nature, except the bones. A miser is a person, who leaves this world without knowing the truth about self, for he has not used this vast wealth of human intellect to inquire into the purpose of life and enhance it by adding value to it.               

EASY TO SWITCH NEGATIVITY TO POSITIVITY

We can learn to switch negativity to positivity by consciously attempting to do so. Breathe slowly and deeply through the area of the heart. Self generate a positive feeling like appreciation or care. By doing these two things, you can shift the pattern of signals; the heart sends to the brain, reducing the inner noise and helping the three brains work together in harmony. This will stabilize your emotions and start to recharge your energy accumulators. You have the capacity, to get back your original self, just as you were born, fully hydrated and zero emotions.

Thoughts - assault the mind and make you mentally tired & the heart, emotionally sick. Scores of desires makes us sore & tense. Desires are closely related to breath; hence breath control will help curb lust desires.  A single desire leads to many subordinate desires culminating into a stream. Some desires get fulfilled and make us happy, thus setting up a vicious circle of more such desires. Many desires remain unfulfilled making us sad, mad, sorrowful & angry. Man’s life is vitiated with tension, restlessness, and worry for non-fulfillment of desires. Germination of anxiety – just to do sociably & ethically reprehensible acts first then hide them, spend energy to keep them secret for the fear of their revelation to public, fearing shame. It reduces our body to hollowness.  


Emotions - of sex, lust must in any case get its expression with horrific results of stresses & complexes.  In the entire above fragment our effort is wasted & we forget to control the inner mind. Man sacrifices his life at the altar of desires, because he is subordinate to the dictates of mind. Mind is like a pitcher: one hole or 20 holes cause dissipation of energy. Many thoughts, scattered velocity, one thought concentrated velocity. 

Mind makes us laugh, cry, fear, joy sad and future speculations. It transcends all dimensions of time & space. A mind devoid of criminal propensities would free man from fear & then he would harbor only constructive thoughts/ideas. The two minds are interrelated. Mercurial mind is a science of creativity. Outer mind responds to physical world, daily chores. It is conscious of present time & memory. It argues and questions. Inner mind is the sub conscious part which accepts everything always, a consciousness of higher plane. It relates to dream state & memory of past /future. A third component of mind is the intellect which is related with faith. 

HAVE COMPASSION & EMPATHY
You are not alone in this guest house. You share it equally with many more guests just like yourself who may look different and speak strange languages. Therefore you must take extra care to leave the ten star resorts in good condition for others to enjoy it after you leave. Please do not pollute and defile the marvelous resources of this planet. They are self-renewing like our bodies.
NO CHARGE MOTEL - PAY BACK WITH GRATITUDE
Also bear in mind that there is no charge for your lodging here, and no bills to pay for boarding, and all that you consumed so shamelessly and wasted so wantonly.  How do you expect to pay back? You cannot. You have nothing of your own to give. You lived in and off the guest house, gratis. The only currency that is accepted by the benevolent Host is the currency of Gratitude. An attitude of thankfulness is enough to please the Host. Therefore be humble and grateful throughout the entire duration of your stay in the beautiful Guest House. See you again in your next life friend. 

Monday, 4 September 2017

CAUSE OF MENTAL AGONY - DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES OF SAME VIEW


TORN BETWEEN CONCRETE TREE ATTIC IN BOMBAY & SPRAWLING FARM HOUSE IN DEHRADUN

A POINT OF VIEW - MENTAL FRAME WORK 

MENTAL AGONY CAUSED BY LIKES, DISLIKES, COMPARING, PREFERRING ONE OVER THE OTHER/THIS OVER THAT.  


PARENTAL FARM HOUSE - FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD

At Nana’s farmhouse in Dehradun,  tea-time was a ritual. At precisely 4:30 pm, Nani would switch on the kettle. In ten minutes, its twee-tweee- tweeeiiiiiiii-, so like a train signal, would lure Tina and me from the gardens. ‘No dogs allowed!’Bahadur would capture Tina in his rough hands and carry her off. I would shoot her one wistful glance, but I was more interested in Nani’s tea and sugar-encrusted Nice biscuits.

My Nani, plump, squishy and ever-smiling with red-apples-in-her-cheeks looked like she had walked out of Heidi. Ridden by arthritis she moved slowly, preferring to stretch and bend rather than shift her knees. To me she looked like a dancer, bending to the shrill whistle of the kettle, clinking cups and saucers to their proper places on the carved wooden tray, pouring amber liquid from the kettle to the pot while nightingales cooed in the gardens. The dance would climax and the tea-tray would emerge with holy smoke around it, deliverance music in the background, a perfect symphony. I can still picture the tea tray clearly. The large pot under the plump embroidered tea-cozy, two sparkling white tea-cups with green curly designs on the rim and shining silver handles, the squat sugar bowl, the dainty milk jug. To me they looked Mother Ganges pouring into her tributaries. The old wise queen of sea and her little mermaid daughters. A mother space ship and its fighter jets.

INNOCENT PLAYFUL GRAND CHILD ON ANNUAL VACATIONS

I was nine and I had an active imagination.
‘Bahadur!’ Nani would call him to take out the tray. I would follow Bahadur, my eyes on the Nice biscuits arranged in a perfect circle on a white quarter plate.
Nana would be sitting in the verandah, sun setting behind him, its crepuscular rays streaming through the clouds like golden rays shining behind Hindu Gods and Goddesses. Nani was short, fair and plump. Nana was dark, thin-as-a-reed and six-feet tall. It was said that they saw each other for the first time on the wedding day, by which time it was too late to do anything about it.

I would sit at the table with Nana, happily dunking Nice biscuits in my milk so that they would dissolve to soft mush in my mouth. The biscuits would disappear in a flash and then I would eye the cream rolls on the table. They were a treat; Nana would buy them every Sunday from the Tibetan bakery in town. I was allowed to have only one at a time, but Nana would smile indulgently and slip me another.
‘Are they just like scones?’ I would ask Nana, eating them carefully, following the curly pattern of the pastry with every bite and leaving the sugary cream filling for the last.
‘Scones! Hah! These are ten times better than scones!’Nani would mutter.    
She didn’t understand.

GENERATION GAP - DIFFERENT NEEDS & PRIORITIES

My parents didn’t understand either.  In a country that took pride in community, Nana had chosen to live alone. ‘Mad!‘Your father is mad,’ Papa would declare to Mamma. ‘Living in the jungle like that. What if they need medical help? There isn’t a doctor for miles.’

In Bombay, food was meant to be eaten in melamine plates, or from steel tiffins, predigested smelly oily gunk, or from cardboard boxes delivered by a fast-food chains newly opened up in the city.

COLORFUL ENTICING FARM HOUSE

Built outside the town of Dehradun on the foothills of Mussourie, Nana’s house was a picturesque red brick house in a twenty-acre plot. Nana had planted every fruit tree, every rose shrub in the plot, painstakingly converting it into lush green countryside. Banyan vines swung in the mild summer breeze, Nightingales cooed on the roof, plums and apples dotted the green meadows, dogs barked in the background. In a struggling nation where cities were beacons of hope and prosperity, My Nana, my England-returned, retired-from-British-tea-companies Nana had defied common sense and built a country farmhouse.
‘Roses grew in Spring in England, you know,’ he would tell me, shoveling the dirt from their roots. ‘They had them in so many colors, purple, pink, red. You would have loved it.’

I did love it. I loved Dehradun. I loved its Englishness. Its Enid Blyton-ness, its Sherlock Holmes-ness. In Dehradun, Tina and I would embark on a new adventure every day.
‘Lets follow the dastardly thief in our caravan!’
‘Goodness Gracious! I’m starving! Oh look! Gran has packed us some ham-and-cheese sandwiches!’
 ‘Hark! Was that a rabbit you were chasing Tina?’

My friends in Bombay had long given up on Enid Blyton. They’d moved to American fiction: to flaky Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Archies and later, even worse, to Asimov. Bloody traitors, the lot of them. I stuck to Blyton, Bronte and Dickens.
Other things were changing too. Coca cola was now available at the corner store. McDonalds had opened up its first outlet in Bombay to long snaking queues. In a city that had never seen a curfew, they were religious riots and massacres.
Bombay was changing. Bombay was growing up. Bombay wasn’t even Bombay anymore.

A homegrown American arrogance was taking over the country. Servile non-violence was the past. Unity in diversity was the slogan for Bombayites. Brown over-educated, tea-sipping sahibs were the mascots of Bombay. The future was Mumbai, it was unapologetic; it demanded its place in the world. Mumbai’s mascot was the Mythological Narsimha- a lion-man with a kataar in his hand, tired of the nonsense, forever angry.

THE PERILS OF GROWING UP

My childhood was divided between bustling polluted Bombay and idyllic Dehradun, between people like my parents who were keen to escape to the future and Nana who floated outside the very edges of the past. The future was beckoning, it was winning. India was a nation on the brink of change, a revolution was sweeping the past away silently, meeting no resistance.
My friends tried cigarettes, passed chits to boys and ogled over Dirty Dancing. I was called Fatty-four-eyes and left to my Classics.
As long as I had Dehradun I could remain a child forever. 

This is the story of Sandy in her own words - Author of Burnt toast.

EXPLORING MENTAL AGONY / PERCEPTION - Two points of same view

The conflict between our grown up Sandy & her man, who are TOTALLY different in major aspects is bound to happen.

One is white, female, young, free, & natural.
Other is black, male, educated, busy, & normal.

Can you visualize how diverse these two people are in five dimensions, poles apart. They are bound to have opposite view points about the same object/topic. They are never going to agree on most of the issues between them. Once we understand their stands, then it becomes a little easy to see through their own personal perspective of daily situations.

Now we go into the depth of their mental process/activity about the same OBJECT.

1  FORM - Shape of the object, its configuration. Process of looking at the                         object  - ATTENTION SPAN, AWARENESS LEVEL

2  PERCEPTION - Process of becoming aware about the object through the five                          senses. Act of seeing - KEENNESS OF OBSERVATION,                                    COLLECTION OF INFORMATION, VARIABLE PARAMETERS.

3  FEELING - Realization of reaction & associated emotional state.  Clarity of                      feeling depending upon - ATTITUDE, INCLINATION, MEMORY                          RETENTION.

4  IMPULSE - Influence of particular feelings. View point assessing                                       CLASSIFICATION, RANKING, GRADING.

5  VOLITION - Power of using Will, capability of conscious choice.  Decisions &                      judgments based on - UPBRINGING, LIKES, DISLIKES,                                  COMPREHENSION, DESIRE FOR 2ND LOOK.

6  CONSCIOUSNESS - State of being aware or awake of surroundings.                                             Differences of opinion, gap becomes basis of - CONFLICT,                               AGGRESSION, ASSAULT, BATTLES, WARS.

There you are, much wiser than before, go figure, call off the battle please.


HANDLING OF KARMA'S WITH RESPONSIBILITY

INITIALLY SCREWING EACH OTHER FOLLOWED BY REVERSE SCREWING OF OTHER EACH

Skewed people & adverse situations in your present lives are your very own Karma on its return journey from the distant past. Beware of this predicament, & do not suffer on this count. In the past life both partners were of the exact opposite sex and you screwed each other. Now both of you have come back to complete the reverse screwing, hence take it lightly, lying down in good humor. It is helping you stamp out your own false EGOS, therefore be grateful for this gesture - Thank you for coming into my life is the syntax used very often. Do we mean it as in the above context. Think again.

INITIALLY SINGLES MATCH FOLLOWED BY REVERSE SINGLES MATCH

In lawn tennis match tournaments too, they first have singles match and then they have a second round of reverse singles match. After both the matches they decide the winner. 

EXERCISE, RITUAL, FRAME OF MIND, MENTAL SETUP FOR PEACE 
We transmit & receive intentions, thoughts, feelings to & from our partners, neighbors, relatives, friends and strangers all the time. Therefore to protect your self from such negativity floating in the surroundings you have to make some harsh choices and take drastic steps.

Firstly DETACH quickly by WITHDRAWING internally and LET GO at once externally too.

Secondly ACCEPT & acknowledge them as they are, right or wrong, good or bad for your own benefit & peace of mind.ACCOMMODATE & TOLERATE the less fortunate souls who like you are different in their Sanskars but other wise just the same Soul energy. See them with the eyes of love, like a child does. Practice COMPASSION by forgiving self & others right now.

Thirdly DISCERN in light of greater good. When you see things as they are & don’t want to change them then everything becomes more open to change. When you don’t judge anything, everything starts moving towards goodness. CONTENT just to BE.

Fourthly DECIDE to act it out lovingly. Create happiness on purpose with good intentions for all.

Fifthly FACE boldly, now that you are armed with the above six powers. Give freely, quickly, gently & generously without any expectations of return. Give thanks with an attitude of gratitude to enhance the value of what little you possess. Live simply with bare basics in abundance mode.

Sixthly be still, yet vibrant inside. Hear attentively & free your mind from yourself. PEACE will sit next to you. Befriend SILENCE and make room for GOD into your heart. Stay light, dump your baggage of past & shine lovingly to show others the way to Bliss. COOPERATE with all, at all times. Serve others joyfully to reap your harvest of CONTENTMENT.

Are you prepared for this question : Dear Soul WHAT IS YOUR SPIRITUAL NETT WORTH.  Ponder over this statement for a day for a month & still if you do not have an answer then surely something drastically is wrong in your life choices. Before you ask me about the currency to measure up your nett worth, the answer is Contentment, Happiness, Peace. All your financial nett worth can not be traded for even one hour of Contentment.


Rohit Khanna - Soul In-dewlling, therefore content & Blissful.



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