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PK.
(Pradeep Maheshwari)
* Fly away
Trying to better the life of others is a trap based on our
sense of virtue, virtuousness. It can mask our own need for
approval as well as our need to be busy with externals and
avoid looking deeply into our own lives. Free yourself of a
big burden - to be in the right vis-a-vis others, to be seen as
impressive, to need approval from others.
It is sad; the amount of energy we spend trying to relate and
be seen as correct.
* A good reminder.
Time to be children again and revive our breath.
What are you so proud of? How long will you be?
Look at these structures and the sun.
The sun has been peeping through these temples since
hundreds of years.
Who is really worthy, greater, stronger? The Sun, the
Granite, or you?
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* Like yin and yang, in the realm of Gods too the opposite
exists. All are active in their own ways. In the final analysis
both are churning this existence. Evil intentions exist. I
dont think anyone can deny that. If the intentions exist then
they are real and must be coming from some domain. QED
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* What signals are you giving out? Our entire life can be
summed up in this one question. We are at any given time
giving out 1001 signals. Some unconsciously, some sub
consciously and some even consciously. The conscious
ones are often sent out under the erroneous impression that
we are making a certain impressive mark and more often
than not we may be making the opposite impression totally.
The art of successful living therefore, for me, means
learning to sift through these signals and send out focussed
and correct signals like a true-aimed arrow.
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experiences.
To navigate this river of life, a lot of preparation is required
and the learning process is unending. It becomes calamitous
for unprepared or unwilling souls not prepared to take the
trouble.
People with no skills jump unthinkingly into this river and
suffer.
The wise armed with understanding and self-discipline
derive a lot of happiness from this same river.
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* Who cares what they are directing towards me? Why even
be bothered? Their thoughts have weight only if I give them
weightage.
Let my experiences and Intuition guide me. I would live my
life by the Truth of my convictions. Of course I would also
listen to disinterested well-meaning advice from others
evidently superior to me.
Live your life by the truth of your convictions. But when a
sage comments, listen and take it as a signpost and better
your life.
I now see that too much of a yogic stance from the Indian
point of view is not really achieving anything either. It only
unbalances most people.
I welcome disagreement in approaches. I am a big boy and
can take correction.
Yoga, the subconscious and all that crap maybe what
sainthood needs but for the average house-holder simple
uplifting of spirits & positive advice is good and in greater
balance with actualities.
But I do like to also shake things up a little bit to provoke
new thinking; even If I have to take the opposite sides to
throw in a cracker. It helps to crack the shell to let he chick
out.
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* Many will show you maps and you can visualise and even
think that now that you have seen the map, you know the
way but that is very illusionary.
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* There are people and people. Ordinary people. Extraordinary people hiding and trying to be ordinary and
ordinary people trying to pose as extra-ordinary - and of
course the thousands of shades of grey in between. It is like
a maze. The right one, the right path - which where - good
question.
* It has been my contention from the last I can remember
that all this free knowledge, Advice and sermons is all a
waste to a non specific general public. Until the question is
"live" the answers have no meaning.
We need to address the immediate questions and issues
bothering us. We should be crossing bridges as they come.
But as I see it, people, prefer discussing the path rather than
following it. By expounding our knowledge of philosophy,
books and scriptures, I suppose we are just being virtuous
in our show-offing. In many ways it is a profession.
There is this argument that who knows who will be
benefitted - yes but I say what a colossal waste of energy
that could have been put into a more focussed activity.
* Do we
go up and down because a staircase is available?
Or
.eat because the fridge is full?
.travel because we have a car?
.then why are we conversing incessantly because
gadgets and companions are available?
.....instigating situations just because we can?
* Yes
I am telling this to all, all the time: observe, enjoy - dont
judge.
If you dont like something, ignore. Walk away.
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You are, after all not taking them back home with you?
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* You get the treatment you allow others to give you and
attract by the vibes you engender in and around you.
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* Any activity that does not teach or helps one to grow into
a better, bigger person, that does not bring a glow to your
inner self should be abandoned forthwith.
Do not waste time, make every second count.
Long discussions futile; leading nowhere and no one
learning anyway are the worst god given soul energy and
god given soul suckers.
The telephone that allows you to speak on an on is really a
devils gift.
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* From our own lives we can see how actions and words
can be misinterpreted and retranslated. In large families,
misunderstandings and great anger is common because of
hearsay and relating of words and messages with personal
versions of actuality being added all the time.
* SO it would be naive to think that what the Buddha spoke
and what we hear today are the same things. Not even near
it.
It would be safe to assume that Buddha replied to questions
of his few followers with no other intent to codify and lay a
path but what we have today are millions of words, an
organised religion and if you put together all the "sayings"
of the Buddha, you will see that it would have taken him 3
lives to say them all.
* Anyone who has not shed tears of pain and loss has no
idea of empathy and is not a complete human being yet.
egos would only note the words. The serious student would
see affection and regard in the same words.
* So full of life.
It is strange how life still bubbles on around us; even with
all our destructive energies at work.
* The messages may be very soul shaking - but humans are
so clever; they will explain it away with platitudes and go
back to their comfortable "superior" selves.
* What we know as "withdrawal": The need to stop pushing
and letting go so that Other forces can come into play.
My experiences reinforce that we are given predetermined
choices every moment. We are allowed only to say yes or
no. Nothing is really in our hands. We mar our lives with
wishful, forceful power plays.
But there is also the fact, that things get done in this world
because of this so it serves a purpose in the ordinary
everyday affairs.
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* All the beings I was in love with and lived for and wasted
my life for are not there anymore. They never were; is what
I now understand.
What a futile time it was to seek the entire earth in a
stepping stone.
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* On following a path
Whenever you come across words that resonate deeply
within, note them down separately. Read them everyday
and apply them in your every move. The path that is the
right one for you will start opening for you.
If your aim is intellectual study only, then anything is good
one way or another.
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Transferring the same into our own selves as part of our life
and use it for personal reformatting.
* Well some have to be what they are and remain that way
as they sustain the creation in their own way. We may not
always understand why but they serve. Like the rocks
sitting there since ages.
But the listening part is for us. Not them.
Are we good listeners? Then we shall learn and change and
we shall play our part like perhaps break the rock and shift
it into a new thing of beauty.
One thing is certain. When we listen with intent we permit
the others to work out their enigmas.
* It is the nature of things. Life and earth are what they are
and this is the situation. Take it or leave it. Better learn to
take it with a smile and pinch of salt.
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The old vibes are fighting back hard to maintain their hold
which is giving rise to the mayhem we see around us.
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* Why do I often get the feeling that life is Much ado about
nothing?
It is hardly a pleasure. It looks more like a chore that is
imposed on us and we have to go thru.
There is no escape from sickness and old age. Friends and
love are chimeras.
Then what exactly are we doing here?
* The soul is by its very nature illumined. It is our smoke
screens that hide it. When the smoke screens thin out, it
becomes obvious.
* This is a mysterious thing, you know, the mystery of life.
We have just enough problems, not too many or too few.
* All we can have is a yearning. The rest happens by itself.
They search for enlightenment but what exactly is it?
* Show me one person who considers himself lowly enough
and humble enough; incomplete enough to go searching.
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1) God only gifts the quotes
2) It is good marketing people who create the religion
3) I am sure if I could find a good, clever American
promoter, my quotes could easily be converted into a
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Its all in the moment.
Now its here.
Then its there.
The point is...
What did you do
When it was here.
-PK
* The most funny topics that I find are the analyses that you
get to see on what the saints of earlier eras may have said
and why. People analyze the sayings of these saints
assuming them to be true word for word as if they were on
the spot when they were uttered. Then the explanations they
give on the state of minds of the saints show how close
these analysts are to the saint and how well they understand
the reasons for the pronouncements made by the saints
hundreds/thousands of years ago.
I put these people squarely in the bracket of those who
know too much and understand too little although I also
give them full credit for an amazing intellectual ability.
I wonder how many of us pay attention to actual learning
than showing-off.
This is true for followers of any religion/train-of-organisedthought in any corner of the world. This is the charade of
the race called humans.
* Why torture the mind into going this way or that way? All
that is really needed is being with the trees.
* Why has it taken, is taking humanity to understand that
peace and quiet can only be demanded at home (Souls
home)- not when we are out foraging in the wilderness. The
21st century is seeing "living" outside of one self with more
and more vehemence.
The end-stress is only filling up the pockets of commercial
gurus and Ashrams + Spas (which I think is OK).
* The answer is difficult to give because the truth my
personal truth - is meaningless to others and the general
polite reply even more meaningless.
* What advantage is there in the presence of more realized
beings?
People are looking for answers and magic bullets to cure
their ills and fashion life to their desires. In the beginning it
is all a charade. They can see and feel others who live in
another dimension and hope that some of it will rub on
them by association.
I say let them be. They are at least absorbing some positive
vibrations. The understanding and change will also come. It
may take a few more lives, but at least the beginning is
made.
Why discount their efforts and bombard them with
views/lectures they are not ready for and will not grasp
anyway.
What is needed is to address "their" immediate concern and
question. More they cannot take.
BOOK TWO
Psychologistics
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* Posters saying "go for it", "be yourself", "leave and look
elsewhere if you are not happy" are everywhere. But are
they the solution?
Life puts us in places with a calculation that is way beyond
our understanding and control. There is no running away
and no point in delaying the inevitable. Make your stand
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and rip through the situation and come out glowing at the
other end of the fabric.
Sometimes we need to stay, without wanting to run; learn
our lesson thoroughly even though unpleasant and harsh &
we feel like chucking it all.
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* The very fact that they are criticising shows that they do
not "know". First they have no business to poke their nose
in anyones affairs and then on what grounds do they feel
that they know better or are better judges?!
forget that youre living for yourself. You dont owe anyone
an explanation for your choices or preferences."
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* Life is a message.
We come into life and there is only one predominant
thought ruling our lives give life to our wishes.
Life is in reality a message. The rumblings of life are the
messengers.
The sooner we pay attention to them and listen to the
message the sooner our wishes will come true.
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* This is life.
WE can relax but the sharks dont sleep.
You can rise above the storm but it is always swirling at
your feet to swallow you in.
* Can you say with certainty and humility that you are not
one from the crowd? That you are already an identifiable
entity with an individuality that is not swayed by the
weather, the TV adverts, of what your boss or wife says and
when every time you see gold, you dont desire any nor
envy those who have it? How often do you get irritated on
being denied or faulted? Or pleased with flattery etc etc
telling them that every word uttered can interfere with the
destiny of others.
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* Most humans find too much beauty on this large scale too
big for them so they prefer building small houses and
gardens to fit their smallness in.
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* On Beauty pageants:
What is so grand about a nice looking female? They are all
beautiful and form 50% of us. Why single out one as pretty
is what bothers me because I dont understand how they are
able to do it.
* The world will collapse due to too much wishful thinking
by basically stupid EQ people but with high IQ.
* We are far too busy noticing others to check if they are
noticing us.
So obviously nobody is noticing anybody.
* Remember death cannot be shared, will not be shared
they are happy to see you go...this thought can be a damper
to some and enlightening to others....just consider for once that all those you consider as "yours", will they come
forward to share their life-term?
Everyone, finally, lives for themselves and for their own
agendas.
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* Have you ever observed how your mind works and what
are the powers behind it?
It is an accepted fact that the mind works like a repetitive
unit going round and round on the data it has been fed.
It is designed to fight-off anything else. Everyone is
"positive" about the data they are living upon.
Everyone feels they know and understand and see things
correctly and know. All the world needs to do is to listen to
them.
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* In India, Cars are the rage because having one has been
associated in the Indian psyche with the feudal Rajah
mentality. Having one is part of the class warfare here. The
bigger the better, specially the price tag.
Secondly, earlier without locomotion these ruffian element
were localised and their immediate society kept them on a
leash.
Now there is nothing to stop them + their exposure to the
world's coming and going thru digital means has made them
acutely aware of their backwardness and the possibilities of
mischief the wide-open world now offers.
Worse; lastly, our policing system is afraid of them and
amenable to reason thru cash.
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I am a child of the wind,
Nurtured by the sun;
Fed by streams, rains
And the lolling plains.
Claiming boards announce
How by Man they are
By some laws acquired
Parcelled & barb-wired.
Ownership is from names
That will soon be seen
On granite over the plains
Washed by the same rains.
Sea shells change hands;
To sit in the sun today.
Breathe some fresh air
Or simply laze out there.
Wither shall I go
To pick these shells?
I never learnt the way,
Wholl teach me today?
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