Piquant quote of the day

Somebody told it exactly to the dot what I always felt & believed strongly:

"Everything that comes into your life should either stay with you and become your strength or leave you and make you free. It should not stay with you and become your weakness."

Chronicles of homegoing

24th to 29th, i was away from all the din, pollution, office, ad nauseam shallow smiles and relationships.... Shiv Shiva (Jeez! equivalent) I desperately needed a break from this soul-tiring clamor.
Cool drizzle greeted me as i got down at 5 o clock in the morning. Drizzle was of the type, which evokes memories of special people in your life. But it was bit magical to get such a welcome in summer. That is how my holidays started in Bellary!

Every sunup on this holiday, i was a galloping wild horse, free and peaceful, in a pristine yet spruced ground. If not for my determined sprinting shoe and silent flirting of fresh sunlight with playful leaves of the verdant circumference, ground was tranquil. After an hour or so of exercise, horse go-eth casa and haveth long, lavish and aromatic bath. Rejuvenated me had a luxury to meditate and contemplate in nature-blooming backyard each day. Sense of harmony and contentment that dawned was simply ineffable.

Having royal breakfasts, lunches and dinner s with family is HEAVEN in itself!! It sounds cliché, but food prepared by my mom is so delicious that you feel as if u have attained NIRVANA while relishing them. No dish/cuisine was prepared twice in the entire week. I was literally spoiled for choice. I was forced by her Love to trash all my “calorie/balanced/ diet-bla bla” gyaan and become her “Chinna”. Sweets, snacks, desserts, juices, various other preparations indulged me day and night. I had talked and talked and talked without any worry: like wasting their time, or disturbing their schedule, expectations, or being judged or misunderstood or fear of affecting relationship!!! It was after long time I talked with absolute belief of being listened with Love, the way I do. I went for walk twice once with my mom and with my dad. (Talks on walks/jogs with your special ones are some of life’s beautiful moments, isn’t it?). Soumya was understandably busy with her MBA so had really less time to spend with and I visited Kavya and was consciously easy at her home. May she have a beautiful life!

I met my peddhama and peddhananna, had a friendly aggressive argument over some plan. I met my beloved uncle, who is my Godfather. I met my atthamma, pinnamma,chinanna, and had a nice time. I played with naughty tiny cousins and taught them some mischievous pranks!! Long live our Club (refer my woogly post). Not-so tiny ones (ssshful adolescents) had math and sport lessons.. Listened to their “stories” with lot of winks, mentally giggling at my past...hehehe.

Some noted events:
26th was KrisMo’s birthday, greeted him at Venki’s temple and met his parents; Lunch at Pearl brought all friends together, then in no time we were on the road Hampi-ward. Tyre went flat 5km before Hampi so decided to change the party destination. It’s been a tradition that on March 26th, things WILL go wrong. Krismo’s belief in this jinx reached zenith this time. Paeans to Believable Superstitions!!!

27th was Ugadi. Day obeyed traditional routines religiously. Lamps kept at sacred kiosk at home radiated serene glow all around transforming the place. Luck smiled at me, found Asha’s home. Her parents and Savitha gave me ample sweets and gifts. Asha’s sisterly advice, senior speak, her Marwari-Telugu, tips and yes Rakhi were part of my growing up before she got married.. She is a mom of 6 years kid now!! She was good friend of mine.

28th was my engineering college’s alumni meet. I spoke about making the alumni body functional and powerful. The board and lecturers received my ideas with nods and “ouches”, latter outnumbering the former. Dinner with maternal relatives added exclamation at the end of the day.

Drenching in unconditional love flowing out from 3 pairs of eyes, I realized and recalled all the events with them and a few other special people of my life. Strange pranks of Time! time was still; Time also galloped super fast! Don’t know why, didn’t feel like coming back but left on Sunday afternoon beaming a royal grin. It reminded me the toughest job my eyes and hands ever done: waving bye to the ONE in pink T with “Singapore” printed on it!!!

Don't you think so??

This thought has always frequented my mind, from childhood. I talked about this with my friend Raghu, for the first time 15years ago. It was something like this “Do you see that Red flag exactly the way I see it? I mean, does it appear exactly same to both of us??” I guess that was my first rendezvous with philosophy. It had intrigued me a lot for it was never understood by most of "askees" and Asker never got a convincing answer at that time!! Let me put it in a form that is edible to intellectual misers: Is what you see, same as what I see? Is "Reality" same to all of us? Are the mental imagery, sensation or experience same as yours when we see the "Red"? Is my redness same as your redness????. This question is a key that unlocks doors of our cognition, opening up a vista with great perspectives about Reality, Truth, Universe and Life.

Answer, is sometimes YES and sometimes NO. I think we all know that it is "NO" but we conduct life as if it is "YES". The reason for "YES" could be infinitesimally small n negligible differences in our perceptions. Hence, thumbs up for the collective compromise!! But "NO" unsettles my mind. It evokes questions like: Does it mean that are 6.5 billion "Realties" existing parallelly? Or does it mean there are 6.5 versions of "ONE" reality? I can rule out the possibility of the former because it is absurd (Richard Bach, please excuse me). And if latter is true, it implies that there is "ABSOLUTE" and "SINGLE" reality, which is perceived differently, i.e., individually. It means "Reality" is subjective experience of the "Objective" truth. This is the gamut of all noble and highest philosophies and sometimes religions, across the map. In the realm of adventures of consciousness, it is considered as realization to know that "Absolute" or "Single" or "One Reality"

It is as good as saying: my "Red" must have been "Blue" to you and absolute reality is that it is "White"!!! It sounds like an argument among color blinds, doesn’t it!!. So i do not agree with both of the views. For example, the world that we see is only a fraction of the world, i.e. our sense faculties perceive only a small segment of sound range, light range and smell range. We see the world only or IN THREE dimensions. If you and I were a BAT, entire world "appears" sorry just "sounds" as waves for a bat sees the world in terms of sound waves. World is an acoustical texture for it. It means, according to bat, colors don’t exist at all!! For dogs, 40,000 smells exist but for us only a small fragment of that, rest doesn’t exist. For, digitalized AI or robot, world is only numbers...nothing else exists. So for a woman, only shopping, gossiping and $%$&$& is reality..hehhe

So, "Reality" is individual experience of "NOTHING", through its sense faculties. Bats music is no sound for us at all. In this vast universe, there could be some Life, which "g7t&*()-ers" the world. This WORD could be some function like see-ing, smell-ing but very different whose experience cannot be grasped by us. Some other life, somewhere else, may see the world just as energy or just nothing...!!! No wonder we have Gods in human forms, so fish must have Gods is fish-form;)

Theory of Relativity, Advaita, Middle Path, Quantum consciousness shield us from attacks from
“Reality”. Options are still open: No Reality, Parallel Realities and Absolute Reality!!! But as of now, let us be happy as middle-dimensioned beings and take away the following:

• Walk in other persons shoe for a mile, benefits are lot: new perspective, a pair of shoe and some foot disease..hehe!!


• Enough of 360 degrees, think in 4Pi


• Go for people's motives, not their acts and words


• Don’t think much; Life is a beautifully journey, seek abundance through your travel, for it is real!!!
  

P.S: If hammer is the only tool you have, you perceive every problem as a nail!