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Spirituality through Horror

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What is really a Ghost?  I am talking about the concept of a Ghost. A Ghost is one whose consciousness remains, awareness remains but he loses his body and mind, so much so that he is caught in his desirous self, where he can desire but cannot fulfil his desires because he no longer has his body or mind.  Isn't this human condition? Just A human being still has his body and mind. For instance, An adult grows to be old. He craves for sexual pleasure, but he cannot do it now. His sexual drives has bodily limitations. His urges does not leave him. He keeps on lingering on women bodies, but all in vain. He has to console his self through Spirituality.  Spirituality is not a consolation prize. Anyone who practices it like that, is a ghost in human form.  A man always craved for material success. He could not. He turned into a pervert of material success. Now he practices Spirituality as a means to control himself. This pervert is psychologically ill. In any Wo...

MY FUTURE RESOLUTIONS OF YEAR 2025!: THIS YEAR TO HOPE

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THIS YEAR TO HOPE! AND ALL YEARS TO HOPE!  My future resolutions! Yes! In these three phrases might be numerous judgements, numerous smirks and numerous interests and fascinations I might get.  Whenever we talk about future goals, like this one time, I was with my lab mates and my then supervisor in research, Prof. Ashish Arora. And in some context, I do not remember, I just said, "I want to open a coffee shop after I retire, probably somewhere on the mountains, or may be near a beach, where some poets, some writers or some readers might come to read, to chat, to talk."  Ashish was surprised at my claim. He said, "Why are you deciding about 60 years down the line?" He was astonished by this dream that one can have for after retirement.  I mean, I don't know, I might be wrong, but what is wrong in having a dream? The problem with people who achieve their dreams in life is that they get so scared of the trauma of the path towards the dream that they no longer have...

FOR EVERY DROP EXISTS AN OCEAN!

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What is there in a drop that the ocean has not? And what is that in the ocean that drop craves? I think the security that the ocean has is something that the drop craves. Drop is in turn free. Ocean is bound in his own existence.  To quote Waseem Barelvi, Contemporary poet,  Kya dukh hai, samandar ko bata bhi nahi sakta Aansoo ki tarah aankh tak aa bhi nahi sakta It means, the sorrow of the ocean is immense and inexpressible. It cannot even come to the eyes of the sad as a drop of tear.  The Drop's existence is illusionary. Actually, that is complementary to the property of being free. Freedom in its nature is so free that the thing that is free is also free to not be, to not even exist. The Drop might decide to just one day not be, just vaporize or anything, change forms.  Standing there at the cliff of a mountain, comes a random thought, what if I just jump and let go. This is a free man's statement. Then he gets scared. Agency kicks back. Insecurity kicks back. Th...

TAO UPANISHAD: CHAPTER 3

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  If you over esteem great men, people become powerless.  If you overvalue possessions, people begin to steal.  The Master leads by emptying people’s minds and filling their cores, by weakening their ambition and toughening their resolve.  He helps people lose everything they know, everything they desire, and creates confusion in those who think that they know.  Practice not-doing, and everything will fall into place.  Ancient Texts were simple. Simple in the sense that they did not have any intricate counter-intuitive logic. The Thinker did not wish to surprise you with his wit, He, Buddha, Lao Tzu or anyone, never wished that he should leave an effect on your mind, they never wanted to impress you. Neither they wanted to express. Most of the times, they did not even want to speak about these things. They were forced, in a way, by other people to do that.  I write commentaries on them for a different reason. I really want to express myself through the...

WHAT DID I LEARN IN THIS WHOLE YEAR?

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Hey, how you guys doing?  Some of you, who are not guys, women, I mean, complain that why I ask only guys about doing? Why not us women? To which I have two answers, One flirtatious, and other genuine.  Flirtatious answer is, Because Only men have to try to do their work, you women are champions, you just flow, and the work is done. If you think this flirt has any merit, do give me a text on WhatsApp or anywhere you like, we can flirt some more. 😅😏 Coming to the genuine answer, it is just a catch phrase, for me guys is the gender-neutral term, which includes genders across the spectrum. So, yeah, that is the reason, it is my Carryminati analog of "Toh kaise hain aap log?"  So, coming to the issue at hand, how was my 2024? Given that we are at the end of this year, It is only suitable to write something, however brief about how was this year for me? What did I learn? How my worldview shifted? And what I think ultimately, I will try to achieve in next year?  First of...

LET'S TALK

Hey, how are you people?  Today I am going to share with you people something tragic that happened to me. So, Our family has some ignorant financial habits. Like they will buy some local land just through a broker and many other local investments. The problem of these investments is that they are riskier than even shares because of the added risks of non-trustable people.  Likewise, my grandfather and my aunt invested in some random ass cryptocurrency through some broker who contacted my grandfather through some contacts. I warned my grandfather that this is not the way to invest anything. When you invest anything, you either read about it or contact a CA, someone who is professionally trained, who will of course charge some money, but who is obliged to do a good job otherwise, you can sue the man. That is how professionalism works. But that is the thing a middle-class man fears a lot, professionalism. He will trust his peers who can be just as ignorant as him but will never c...

TAO UPANISHAD: THE EXISTENCE OF DUAL OPPOSITES

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  "When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad. Being and non-being create each other. Difficult and easy support each other. Long and short define each other. High and low depend on each other. Before and after following each other. Therefore, the Master acts without doing anything and teaches without saying anything. Things arise and she lets them come; things disappear, and she lets them go. She has but doesn’t possess, acts but doesn’t expect. When her work is done, she forgets it."                    ~ Chapter 2 Sutras "To be or not to be" asks Shakespeare. It is not a good question to ask, Lao Tzu would have said. When Lao Tzu wrote, Being and non-being create each other, it is apparent that choosing one over the other will inevitably draw us near the other.  He gives examples of all those dual opposites that create each other. The B...