Friday, 15 September 2017

IMBIBING POSITIVE VALUES IS INTOXICATING - TRUTH IS FOUNDATION OF ALL VALUES



IMBIBING POSITIVE VALUES IS INTOXICATING - TRUTH IS FOUNDATION OF ALL VALUES 


To understand the term VALUE, we will start with ANTI -VALUE first so that we get the full grasp of the meaning.

Anti-values can be classified into the following six categories by ascending order:
(1) the act of destroying the earth-of annihilating humankind and all other living organisms;
(2)  the act of mass killing of people by initiating a war or committing treason;
(3)  the act of murdering or causing death to a human being;
(4)  the act of damaging the body of a human being;
(5)  the act of greatly harming society;
(6)  all other crimes not covered by the above.

Higher values can be classified into the following five categories in descending rank:  absolute values such as absolute truth, absolute purity, absolute silence, absolute love, absolute knowledge. To this we can add political values, social values, legal values, cultural values moral values, educational values, scholastic values, industrial values, athletic values, values of life, medical values, values of language, technical values and emotional values. In addition to values in our life, all things have natural values including monetary values.


YOUR BELIEFS & PERCEPTIONS ARE NOT REALITY.

Reality does not change depending upon your beliefs, and perceptions. Beliefs do not establish truth. How do we acquire these harmful beliefs?  We internalize them from our environment, parents, teachers, role models, when we are very young, innocent, raw, and quite impressionable. Belief formation is spontaneous and involuntary. What are beliefs? They are mini programs in our memory. We internalize the age old beliefs handed down form one generation to another, pretty much Stone Age stuff.                     
We go through life struggling with these programmed hard disks which refuse to take in new and correct information from reality and everyday events. We are totally biased with these age old perceptions and notions that act like filters or brackets in our life’s experiences. In short the world events happen to us objectively, while we experience them subjectively through our filters, totally opposite angles and view points. What is the solution to this faulty programming problem? Simple! Format your hard disk or floppy, and leave it blank as it was, when you were born. It would be even better if you reprogram it as you wish it now, master of yourself. You are in charge of your life. Do it now, rewrite your own program?  Be alert, be aware of this malfunction. This is the root of all problems, misery, and suffering. Majority of the people do not want to do it themselves. They are again afraid of the unknown as usual, or they do not know where to start or how to go about it.                        
  CONVICTION WITHOUT VERIFICATION 
Belief is your conviction of the truth, of a proposition without its verification. You believe in many things because everyone around you believes in them, of course without verification. In many other things, you are made to believe through repetitive coaching, counseling, advertisement watching, and radio listening. As a result of the entire above overload of information, you come to believe in many things very powerfully, dangerously, and wrongly. The belief engine chugs away, strengthening old beliefs, spewing out new ones, rarely discarding any. We can sometimes see the foolishness in other people’s beliefs, but it is difficult to see the same error in our own beliefs.
BELIEF OF YOUR BIOLOGICAL FATHER!
A young boy Tamy aged 8, was asked by his friend Tanner, aged 10, who is your father? Then Tamy said, my dad obviously. How do you know this fact for sure, asked Tanner?  Because my dad told me so. Well, go and ask your mother again. Only, a mother can tell you who your real father is, and no one else. The best part is that you got to believe your mother too, no matter what she tells you.  The first belief of all your hundreds of beliefs happens to be the belief of your biological father. Goops! Did I trigger some doubt in you? 
  IGNORANCE IS BASIC

The fundamental problem for all mankind can be summed up in one word: IGNORANCE. 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.

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 what ever 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.

  CREATOR MUST REMAIN OUT OF THE CYCLE OF CREATION & DECAY

The creator is the Ocean of permanent insitu Contentment, Happiness, Joy & everlasting Bliss. In comparison we humans are excited, seeking physical bodily, short lasting pleasures, as a response to a stimulus from the material world or from our memory of a similar happening in the past. Just as you work hard to earn money, the same way you must work even harder to earn peace. Money can buy comforts but not peace. Money can buy a super comfortable bed & a house but it can not induce sound sleep. Successful people, CEO’s, executive heads, displaying miserable attitudes, are conveying a wrong message to the young ones, that material success brings happiness, NO it does not.

CREATORS INTRODUCTION IN HIS OWN CREATIVE STYLE

My name is Shiva, the benefactor, the seed & a point of concentrated light. Brahma Kumari’s  call me Shiva Baba affectionately. Literately speaking, Benevolent Father   

I am a Supreme Being, a soul like you, an infinitesimal pin point of energy which comprises of an intellect, mind & Sanskars. 

I have a personality to which you all can relate to easily.  

My qualities & attributes are always constant because I do not ever enter the world of matter. They are: Purity, Power, Peace, Knowledge, Love & Bliss.  

I reside in the incorporeal world, far away yet only a thought away from you. Here in the land of Nirvana / liberation there is total silence & stillness.  It is my home and home of all you souls. 

From here golden red light radiates & permeates to every corner of the universe from my oval shaped pearl. MY signatures are all over your planet, yet I am not Omnipresent.

Consider me as your father, mother, teacher, guru, beloved, & best friend, all in one and ONE in all. 

You can communicate with me with the help of Raja Yoga & receive whatever you seek in your multiple lives, when away from home (paramdham). You do not need a middle man, a deity, or a Mantra to connect to me.  

It happens only at this auspicious time every cycle. Therefore wake up from your sleep and do not miss this golden chance to unlimited inheritance of 21 births in golden age from the Father directly.

First meditate & begin your inward journey by focusing the mind on the point of light behind the third eye, your soul & vehicle to travel upwards into the spiritual dimensions. 

The power of silence cannot be over emphasized here. Stabilize your vibrating frequency at 2-4 cycles per second from 16 or more. This will bring you in tune with MY frequency & WE then connect together. Now experience your essence. 


To travel upwards you must have enough stock of fuel of positive, elevated thoughts in your savings account. Churning spiritual knowledge will produce high quality fuel for your lift off. Finally visualize MY red light as a laser beam & climb on it to get propelled up to ME anytime. 

CREATORS PERFECT COSMIC DRAMA - UNDERSTAND IT CORRECTLY

Each soul is different because of their journey of 84 or less births & interactions with hundreds of other souls.  They are not wrong, bad, foolish, immature just DIFFERENT. Get into their shoes and feel their pain, suffocation, entrapment, helplessness. Their troubled mind/sanskars is causing a troublesome behavior uncomfortable for us.  Hence have empathy for them & not take on their pain/sorrow. Even if we create hurt in response to their behavior we need to counsel our mind gently. What is natural for me is impossible for them. Hence have unlimited compassion for them. Pure loving thoughts for these souls. Modify your behavior towards them with humility, love & care. This creates healing vibrations for us & them too.

CREATOR REMAINS UNTANGLED & DETACHED ALWAYS

A tree gives fruits & flowers even if we shake it, stone it or cut it. Therefore be strong like a tree & always give love, good wishes to all. Do not entangle with the energy of other souls. No conflict with anyone’s negative sanskars. Be with them but remain untangled, detached observer, like a father watching over his toddler, like Shiva Baba watching over us, the impure souls with love & total understanding.  Finish the root of cause of irritation. It is only a programming of the mind. If I accept their bad habits, no effect on me, no irritation.  Tolerate externally, silently is when we understand & resolve internally. Negative thoughts, turbulent energy vibrations, powerless words have no effect on others. It is futile. Hence save your precious energy. If pain gets accumulated, the result is damage. If we suppress pain the wound will be on the soul which you will relive (past) many times over, becoming added baggage. Karma is recorded on the soul permanently, consequences will be experienced in future & present times.

CREATOR HAS NO EXPECTATIONS - because they are an Invitation to Irritations

Happiness grows in direct proportion to our acceptance & inversely proportional to our expectations. Longer the list of expectations more dissatisfied unhappy we will be. We seek acceptance from others because we feel happy & nice. But we need to accept ourselves first as we are. Are you a good company to yourself. If yes, then can you live all alone in solitary confinement happily. Think it over. To be beautiful means to be ourselves, as we were originally at birth.  

CREATOR IS THE BENEVOLENT COACH - BUT YOU MAKE THE EFFORT

Consider me as your father, mother, teacher, guru, beloved, & best friend, all in one and ONE in all. You do not need a middle man, a deity, or a Mantra to connect to me. You can communicate with me with the help of Raja Yoga & receive whatever you seek in your future lives, away from Home. It happens only at this auspicious time every cycle. Therefore wake up from your sleep and do not miss this golden chance to unlimited inheritance of 21 births in golden & silver ages, from the Father.
First meditate & begin your inward journey by focusing the mind on the point of light behind the third eye, your soul & vehicle to travel upwards into the spiritual dimensions. The power of silence cannot be over emphasized here. Stabilize your vibrating frequency at 2-4 cycles per second from 16 or more. This will bring you in tune with MY frequency & WE then connect together. Now experience your essence. To travel upwards you must have enough stock of fuel of positive, elevated thoughts in your savings account. Churning spiritual knowledge will produce high quality fuel for your lift off. Finally visualize MY red light as a laser beam & climb on it to get propelled up to ME anytime. Daily practice at Amritvela 4.00 AM can help you get to the highest level of consciousness : NIRSANKALP SAMADHI – free from active thought. Please keep trying MY child till you succeed, because I help only those who help themselves.  

Rohit Khanna - Before Insane, Now IN-SANE hence IN-DEPENDENT














Sunday, 10 September 2017

THE CREATOR & HIS CREATION - IT IS NOW OR NEVER




THE CREATOR & HIS CREATION - IT IS NOW OR NEVER


Every creation, invention, machine will finally come to dead stop after its life cycle is completed. It either needs to be overhauled, cannibalized or scrapped totally & replaced with a new one. This time of course an upgraded version if possible. This Divine Creation too meets the same fate. The life cycle of this Cosmic Kalpa Tree is exactly 5000 years which is just about to finish. Therefore a new Sapling of this Kalpa Tree is in the process of being planted by the Creator Himself. The task is huge, therefore He needs our help & cooperation to accomplish it on time.

When you are GULLIBLE then there is a chance that you will fall into the pit of FAITH sometime. From here under you develop TRUST that will bail you out into freedom, alternatively liberate you from deep bondage. Intense EFFORT  on your part is a must to accomplish this task for your own good. 


Smart, Intelligent, Rigid, Mentally strong people do not fall into this pit, thereby  missing the Boat of Life Liberation. 



CREATOR IS A KING MAKER 

His first effort is to locate His enterprising potential Student & the future Heir to the Kingdom of paradise. The once handsome pure Crowned King has come down the ladder in a long span of 5000 years & 84 births, become impure, ugly common subject mingling & lost among-st 8 Billion other impure souls. An ordinary Homemaker with a large family, is spotted by the Creator as KRISHNA disguised in his last 84 th birth in the Province of Sindbad. He goes by the name of Mr. Lekh Raj Kriplani & he is a wealthy diamond merchant, but at this time he is not aware of this fact & revelations that are about to come to him.

CREATOR ADOPTS & GROOMS POTENTIAL HEIRS

Shiva Baba the Creator adopts him immediately, & begins to groom up the potential student/Chariot  in his own unique ways. The creator surely needs a human body to speak to us, to educate us & give us the Divine knowledge which will eradicate our ignorance, sharpen our Intellect & reform us into pure beings from impure ones, so that we can become HIS instruments, ready for service. The rest is History in the form of the gigantic Global Brahma Kumaris Organisation, managed & coached by women primarily.  

CREATOR MUST REMAIN OUT OF THE CYCLE OF CREATION & DECAY

The creator is the Ocean of permanent insitu Contentment, Happiness, Joy & everlasting Bliss. In comparison we humans are excited, seeking physical bodily, short lasting pleasures, as a response to a stimulus from the material world or from our memory of a similar happening in the past. Just as you work hard to earn money, the same way you must work even harder to earn peace. Money can buy comforts but not peace. Money can buy a super comfortable bed & a house but it can not induce sound sleep. Successful people, CEO’s, executive heads, displaying miserable attitudes, are conveying a wrong message to the young ones, that material success brings happiness, NO it does not.

CREATORS INTRODUCTION IN HIS OWN CREATIVE STYLE

My name is Shiva, the benefactor, the seed & a point of concentrated light. Brahma Kumari’s  call me Shiva Baba affectionately. Literately speaking, Benevolent Father.  
I am a Supreme Being, a soul like you, an infinitesimal pin point of energy which comprises of an intellect, mind & Sanskars. 
I have a personality to which you all can relate to easily.  
My qualities & attributes are always constant because I do not ever enter the world of matter. They are: Purity, Power, Peace, Knowledge, Love & Bliss.  
I reside in the incorporeal world, far away yet only a thought away from you. Here in the land of Nirvana / liberation there is total silence & stillness.  It is my home and home of all you souls. 
From here golden red light radiates & permeates to every corner of the universe from my oval shaped pearl. MY signatures are all over your planet, yet I am not Omnipresent.
Consider me as your father, mother, teacher, guru, beloved, & best friend, all in one and ONE in all. 
You can communicate with me with the help of Raja Yoga & receive whatever you seek in your multiple lives, when away from home (paramdham). You do not need a middle man, a deity, or a Mantra to connect to me.  
It happens only at this auspicious time every cycle. Therefore wake up from your sleep and do not miss this golden chance to unlimited inheritance of 21 births in golden age from the Father directly.
First meditate & begin your inward journey by focusing the mind on the point of light behind the third eye, your soul & vehicle to travel upwards into the spiritual dimensions. 
The power of silence cannot be over emphasized here. Stabilize your vibrating frequency at 2-4 cycles per second from 16 or more. This will bring you in tune with MY frequency & WE then connect together. Now experience your essence. 
To travel upwards you must have enough stock of fuel of positive, elevated thoughts in your savings account. Churning spiritual knowledge will produce high quality fuel for your lift off. Finally visualize MY red light as a laser beam & climb on it to get propelled up to ME anytime. 

CREATORS PERFECT COSMIC DRAMA - UNDERSTAND IT CORRECTLY

Each soul is different because of their journey of 84 or less births & interactions with hundreds of other souls.  They are not wrong, bad, foolish, immature just DIFFERENT. Get into their shoes and feel their pain, suffocation, entrapment, helplessness. Their troubled mind/sanskars is causing a troublesome behavior uncomfortable for us.  Hence have empathy for them & not take on their pain/sorrow. Even if we create hurt in response to their behavior we need to counsel our mind gently. What is natural for me is impossible for them. Hence have unlimited compassion for them. Pure loving thoughts for these souls. Modify your behavior towards them with humility, love & care. This creates healing vibrations for us & them too.

CREATOR REMAINS UNTANGLED & DETACHED ALWAYS

A tree gives fruits & flowers even if we shake it, stone it or cut it. Therefore be strong like a tree & always give love, good wishes to all. Do not entangle with the energy of other souls. No conflict with anyone’s negative sanskars. Be with them but remain untangled, detached observer, like a father watching over his toddler, like Shiva Baba watching over us, the impure souls with love & total understanding.  Finish the root of cause of irritation. It is only a programming of the mind. If I accept their bad habits, no effect on me, no irritation.  Tolerate externally, silently is when we understand & resolve internally. Negative thoughts, turbulent energy vibrations, powerless words have no effect on others. It is futile. Hence save your precious energy. If pain gets accumulated, the result is damage. If we suppress pain the wound will be on the soul which you will relive (past) many times over, becoming added baggage. Karma is recorded on the soul permanently, consequences will be experienced in future & present times.

CREATOR HAS NO EXPECTATIONS - because they are an Invitation to Irritations

Happiness grows in direct proportion to our acceptance & inversely proportional to our expectations. Longer the list of expectations more dissatisfied unhappy we will be. We seek acceptance from others because we feel happy & nice. But we need to accept ourselves first as we are. Are you a good company to yourself. If yes, then can you live all alone in solitary confinement happily. Think it over. To be beautiful means to be ourselves, as we were originally at birth.  

CREATOR IS THE BENEVOLENT COACH - BUT YOU MAKE THE EFFORT

Consider me as your father, mother, teacher, guru, beloved, & best friend, all in one and ONE in all. You do not need a middle man, a deity, or a Mantra to connect to me. You can communicate with me with the help of Raja Yoga & receive whatever you seek in your future lives, away from Home. It happens only at this auspicious time every cycle. Therefore wake up from your sleep and do not miss this golden chance to unlimited inheritance of 21 births in golden & silver ages, from the Father.
First meditate & begin your inward journey by focusing the mind on the point of light behind the third eye, your soul & vehicle to travel upwards into the spiritual dimensions. The power of silence cannot be over emphasized here. Stabilize your vibrating frequency at 2-4 cycles per second from 16 or more. This will bring you in tune with MY frequency & WE then connect together. Now experience your essence. To travel upwards you must have enough stock of fuel of positive, elevated thoughts in your savings account. Churning spiritual knowledge will produce high quality fuel for your lift off. Finally visualize MY red light as a laser beam & climb on it to get propelled up to ME anytime. Daily practice at Amritvela 4.00 AM can help you get to the highest level of consciousness : NIRSANKALP SAMADHI – free from active thought. Please keep trying MY child till you succeed, because I help only those who help themselves.  
CREATORS STARTER KIT - MOUTH BORN CLAN OF BRAHMINS

Remember ME all the time and no one else, just ME, with full undivided, unadulterated  attention. Manmanabhav.  Shiv Baba is very possessive about his mouth born, adopted children. Huge investment has gone into grooming up the Brahmin clan and HE has lots at stake. We are his only hope and instruments to establish the Sun dynasty. Please cooperate with deep understanding urgency.   

CREATOR IS OCEAN OF EVERYTHING YET TIME IS LIMITED & SCARCE

Final destination of Golden age in our awareness is all HE asks for. Is it too much to expect of the ONE from his sweet children? There is just one aim & objective for us Brahmins: to emulate Lakshmi & Narayan. The cosmic play is about to end and very little time is available to finish the herculean task of packing up, winding up, & processing of new immigration requirements like PURITY, SOUL CONSCIOUSNESS, LIGHTNESS, WORTHY OF WORSHIP & HIS LOVE.

TIME is cyclic in reality yet it is a scarce commodity. Even the ONE who has oceans of everything else, has limited time on hand, just the confluence age period of 100 years. We Brahmins must be TIME CONSCIOUS all the time. If we let go of the present time then it becomes a past time, or pastime to waste away. Time can stretch long, stand heavy and even stand still as it does in Amritvela meditation. Time can also fly by too fast when we dose off or wander away during Amritvela again. Timing and timeliness has a purpose and that is to make choices now. Baba gives us no more than a second to overcome Maya. If not now then never.

CREATORS SCHOOL FOR SCOUNDRELS TO DISPEL IGNORANCE

UNCONSCIOUSNESS is our normal state of mind, absent mindedness, chaos, & confusion. Baba has enrolled us into the best university of the cycle to study directly under HIM the art & science of Soul Consciousness, alertness, attentiveness, awareness of many aspects of our lives. Consciousness of: our soul & others souls, Bap (father’s) soul and Dada (elder brother’s) his chariot soul. Awareness & study of the knowledge of cycle, Raja Yoga, Satopradhan stage, & establishment of golden age.  Attentiveness towards imbibing the 7 virtues and 8 powers. Finally 24/7 alertness for Alpha & Beta.   

Darkness is expelled by light. The present dark age is being transformed by HIS Soul’s shining light. Check in your baggage & burdens and be double light so that you as a soul can turn into a flying bird & catch the flight of love. With the Power of Raja yoga let the forehead sparkle like a bright star, on top of a lighthouse, to enable you to grant Sakash & Drishti to wandering souls. With lots of effort become a searchlight to light the lamps of needy with your lamp and empower them in thought, word, deed, dreams & demeanor.
DYING ALIVE is definitely an art. You voluntarily walk away from your vices, attachments, friends, relatives, and even your own body. Now you step into a new birth of soul consciousness, freedom, fearlessness, and purity. Fly high and witness the disposal of your old stuff. Stay afloat with help the magnetic field of REMEMBRANCE ( mayaproof), falling down fast when you let go of it even for a second.

CREATOR TUTORS ONE ON ONE BASIS -HOW FORTUNATE WE ARE

Once the faith & feeling of all attainments is firm in the intellect then contentment is automatic & almost there. You the soul are in the celebration mode of confluence age, hence carefree, cheerful & sweet. There is no desire left inside you, even for a minor vision because now it is superfluous, since the knowledge of drama being fixed, is a wonder of the ONE. In addition there is the supersensesous joy of being tutored by ONE on one personally.

CREATOR LOVES BLIND DATES WITH HIS SOULS

Shiv Baba and Bapdada both love blind dates. They want to take us all on blind dates with them too. Time is limited and therefore we all have to make intense effort to be equal to them; that is become bodiless souls like them. Dates happen among similar species. The race is on to be the first one, bodiless, to go on a date.

BHOGI OR YOGI: The choice is definitely yours. Shiv Baba has come to take us all to our Home. The prerequisite is that each one of us has to become PURE AND SOUL CONSCIOUS before we can be admitted into the soul world. The choices are simple, be an easy yogi and become pure on your own effort in this last life before the destruction happens, or just wait for your death and then suffer through rewinding of your karmas, sanskars, which is pretty shameful and tough.   

CREATORS FUN GAME OF SNAKES & LADDERS

Maya is the snake to bring you down and Baba’s Remembrance is the ladder to take you up.  Cosmic game of snakes & ladders. Question ? How many snakes and how many ladders do you have on your Game board. It is up to us to decide their numbers. At 99 definitely you should not have a snake to bring you down for a long time. We keep assembling up long & tall ladders while the dangerous snakes keep popping up mysteriously from nowhere to ambush us and defeat us in our purpose to become soul conscious.

HAPPINESS RECIPE - Detachment, Acceptance, Compassion, Contentment.


MISERY RECIPE - Wanting, Desiring, Attached, Expectations, Disappointments, upset, conflict, Hurt, Pain, Resentment, Anger. 



Rohit Khanna - The most fortunate soul on the planet.





    
     

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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