We live in a digital world where present is the tiny gap between the two bits and it plays no role in the progression of this grand illusion called the universe. Rather, realisation of present shatters the illusion instantaneously.
CARRY ON EARTH
We live in a finite world(.)
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Friday, May 05, 2017
Meditation Explained
Basically meditation is to withdraw from the outside world and have a
peek within self. A peek within means shutting down of the thought process and action center which
get their inputs from the worldly physical cheat senses. These sensory inputs are
processed by our brain to construct a personal or collective faith in the
illusion around us, which then prompts us to physically execute the scripted
commands of the supreme master. Its like non-co-operation movement which
ultimately leads to freedom. Aazadi of living the moment!
In advance stages, the meditation is to insulate the sensory inputs from the brain and at the same time shut down the proxy server which auto kick starts on the stored information. Its kinda reboot with all sensory ports disconnected and to stay connected with the pure consciousness. If successfully achieved, it will give you a feeling of timelessness or stillness.
To start with, it is not possible to isolate mind from senses. So we start by concentrating on breath alone while we are fully connected to the outside world through other senses. The idea is to spurn the overtures to enticement by the senses using brain power and remain in a passive state. The idea is to not to react to the outside temptations and noises. Push everything to the background. Initially you would be disturbed by the activity in your backyard. But slowly and gradually the background noises will disturb you less and less as you choose to be indifferent to them and get used to them as a passive observer. The result would be more peace inside irrespective of the noises outside.
So we finally arrive at : Meditation is awareness without indulgence.
In wider ambit, following physical activities can also be classified as meditation:
In advance stages, the meditation is to insulate the sensory inputs from the brain and at the same time shut down the proxy server which auto kick starts on the stored information. Its kinda reboot with all sensory ports disconnected and to stay connected with the pure consciousness. If successfully achieved, it will give you a feeling of timelessness or stillness.
To start with, it is not possible to isolate mind from senses. So we start by concentrating on breath alone while we are fully connected to the outside world through other senses. The idea is to spurn the overtures to enticement by the senses using brain power and remain in a passive state. The idea is to not to react to the outside temptations and noises. Push everything to the background. Initially you would be disturbed by the activity in your backyard. But slowly and gradually the background noises will disturb you less and less as you choose to be indifferent to them and get used to them as a passive observer. The result would be more peace inside irrespective of the noises outside.
So we finally arrive at : Meditation is awareness without indulgence.
In wider ambit, following physical activities can also be classified as meditation:
1. a student studying during festival season
2. a player practicing while his friends partying
3. a man quietly and calmly listening to his wife's rants
4. an audience calmly enduring a boring lecture
In broader sense, Meditation is willful ignorance of favourable or unfavourable sensual triggers which try to breach peaceful staus quo or thwart your tryst with consciousness. In any case it imparts you peace of mind and helps you to accomplish your goal.
Difference between Sleep and Meditation
In broader sense, Meditation is willful ignorance of favourable or unfavourable sensual triggers which try to breach peaceful staus quo or thwart your tryst with consciousness. In any case it imparts you peace of mind and helps you to accomplish your goal.
Difference between Sleep and Meditation
Sleep is purely a routine involuntary physical body maintenance process where mind rests in a subconscious state, while Meditation is controlled throttling of the streaming sense bytes in order to interact with the consciousness. Mind is in highly conscious state.
Friday, February 03, 2017
Consciousness – Have it Neat
PERFECTION IS GOD. CONSCIOUSNESS PROMPTS
LIFE TO ACHIEVE PERFECTION IN A RESTRICTED PLURAL SET UP.
Life is a journey from relativity to singularity or from imperfection to perfection. Life is change and the change is possible in relativity domain alone. The relativity domain is encompassed by Singularity or perfect consciousness.
The progression of life has been evolutionary i.e. from lower level of consciousness to the higher levels. Consciousness is singular descending from the singularity. All forms of life derive consciousness from this single source on time sharing basis. Each one of us possesses a different level of consciousness depending upon our genetic evolution, species, inheritance, environment, location, ability, company, upbringing & personal efforts.
There are different levels of manifestations of consciousness viz.
BASIC LEVELS – Sensory & Survival
Awareness - sensory consciousness
Lowers-Middle Level –Basic
instincts and Survival
Feeling & experience
Basic perception
Emotions
Pleasure and pain
Instinct,
Middle Levels – Competition
Knowledge,
Learning
Intelligence,
Will,
Attitude and behavior,
Happiness and sadness
Ego
ADVANCED LEVELS- Striving for Excellence
Intelligence,
Learning
Learning
Persistence
Foresight & intuition
Bliss,
Think of a Wi-Fi; mobile phones,
laptops, computer or TV sets, they all are receiving their signal from the air and
producing the output according to the data they lock on to as per their design
and wish of their operator. Without that signal of consciousness they are as good as dead.
Similarly, all the living
organisms are communicating with consciousness from a common source. The basic
objective information received and perceived thru senses is same in all
organisms. e.g. whosoever with eyes have X in their visible range will see X and
whosoever with ears have him within hearing range will hear him and
whosoever with nose within smelling range of him will be able to sniff his
presence in the vicinity. Those with only touch sensors will be able to feel
him upon touch and so on. The basic information transferred will be identical to
all in the form of basic awareness. However, retaining that information is
again a relative ability.
Awareness or observation would
then induce a feeling of pain or pleasure or indifference. The perception of
the observation then prompts a reaction within the observer, which primarily
would be in accordance to the basic instincts ingrained and propelled by the
genes of the species. The living being is very predictable and its interaction with the
consciousness is very limited to low levels till this hardware stage. e.g. a cow sees
grass and feels hungry and eats it and cuds on merrily. Not much of
consciousness is at play.
Then a Lion sees a cow herd. He
too feels hungry and wants to eat. Lion watches the herd carefully hiding
behind the grass and bushes. Selects a weak target and then slowly and
stealthily moves close to the target and then runs after it. The target runs
too to save self and there is a skillful chase after which the target escapes
leaving the lion hungry and dejected. A higher level of consciousness
manifested here though still a product of the basic instinct.
The fundamental rule of life is
to survive and reproduce. Each instance of life is designed to be selfish in
order to preserve the instance till its natural expiry; also, during the
currency of the instance it is expected to produce its own replicas (reproduction) to promote
its species and class at augmented level of consciousness. The instance receives the information to survive by the
way of genes from its parents then remains under their protection till its
ready to acquire its own, which in turn are passed on to its own offspring.
That is called Evolution of life.
Each instance of life comes
equipped with upto date hardware and further adds on new software using the
consciousness to deal with the new events. We call it learning. Life interacts
with consciousness only while learning. Normal routine life can be lived in
sub-conscious state. Thus learning is imperative for manifestation of consciousness, hence the Evolution.
Evolution means higher level of competition to
achieve greater functionality and give rise to an instance which is more
complex and better equipped to understand the nature and survive. Our universe
is limited by time and space and life comes packed in a minuscule size body with
very limited reach.
It’s the consciousness which
prompts life to seek and breach limits of the physical world through learning
as if consciousness is trying to discover itself through life or trying to
liberate a piece of it captured in the relative zone. It’s a bid to strive for perfection in an imperfect world.
Players and sport persons
practices for hour, honing skills to win and excel. Scientists & scholars work on their
projects day and night to discover unknown, artists passionately toil to
deliver master pieces. And sadhus & monks meditate to master their senses.
All of them constantly try to manifest consciousness in its highest form in our
limited world. The uphill journey to top requires one to come out of the
personal comfort zone and enslave the senses. One has to endure extreme
physical pain with undeterred persistence and will in order to achieve the top
spot.
In very high states of
consciousness, time dilates and space shrinks, making it possible for the
piddle fart living being to grow and become at par with the vast universe. e.g. at Roger
Federer’s consciousness level at tennis court, the court shrinks and the zipping ball
appears to be moving at snail pace.
However, the real limitations are not
posed by space and time but by our own senses and ego. The senses act like
gravity and Ego acts like mass in our flight to singularity. At low levels of
consciousness, senses exert maximum force like gravity on a stationary rocket.
Life is in full control of the senses. Life is at rest or in sub-conscious
state in such a condition. But as the life starts negating senses with sheer
will, the rocket takes off heading towards singularity. But as the life gathers
momentum into the consciousness, EGO, the mass, starts bloating. By the time
one reaches the relative top, it becomes hard for one to sustain any further
and only way then is down. For one to attain perfection and manifest top level consciousness, it is imperative that one must keep offloading ego on the way to top and finally merge with singularity jettisoning I in whole and uniting with pure
consciousness in a state of bliss... From being just a particle, to be in a whole wave harmony! Hey, you observer, buzz off.
References:
"He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in
all beings, and all being in his own self, and looks on everything with an
impartial eye." ~ Buddha
"I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of
consciousness." ~ Max Planck
“Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is
absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.”~ Erwin Schrödinger
"A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in
time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and his feelings as
something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness." ~ Albert Einstein
"The whole world is a cyclone. But once you have found the center, the cyclone
disappears. This nothingness is the ultimate peak of consciousness." ~ Rajneesh
“I don't believe that consciousness is generated by the brain. I believe that
the brain is more of a receiver of consciousness.” ~ Graham Hancock
Evolution - raised level of consciousness
“You are here to evolve and make your consciousness high.
You are here to dance, sing and celebrate life. You are here to help others to
make their life happy. We are here not to compete, but to learn, evolve and
excel. We are not here to make divisions in the name of prophets and religions.
We are here to encompass the world with love and light.” ~ Amit Ray,
Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
“We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by
which the universe understands itself.” ~ Brian Cox
“Control of consciousness determines the quality of life.” ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
“Consciousness is only possible through change; change is
only possible through movement.” ~ Aldous Huxley, the Art of Seeing
"The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal
aspects of consciousness with infinity of potential, and we have allowed
ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and
uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled
and directed by a tiny few. And we are." ~ David Icke
"Consciousness is a term that refers to the relationship between the mind and
the world with which it interacts. It has been defined as: subjectivity,
awareness, the ability to experience or to feel, wakefulness, having a sense of
selfhood, and the executive control system of the mind. Consciousness manifests
itself in several ways: intelligence, knowledge, intuition, bliss, perception,
emotions, will, attitude and behaviour, awareness of pleasure and pain. Life
and consciousness are coextensive. Wherever there is life, there is
consciousness and vice versa. But there are degrees of explicitness or
manifestation of consciousness in different organisms. In the lowest class of
organisms, it is very much latent, while in human beings, it is very much
manifest." ~ Jain World
Pain/ Efforts & consciousness
"There is no birth of consciousness without pain." ~ Carl Jung
"If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would
not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution." ~
M. Scott Peck
Friday, August 19, 2016
Act of Man
Scientists on earth plan to populate moon with machines and robots. It is planned that
the moon would be populated on similar lines as the life evolved on the planet
earth.
Over a period of 100 years, reproducing robots were evolved in to a very advance robotic civilization on Moon. Man controlled the robots from earth but the robots felt as if they were doing and controlling things themselves. However, robots were hinted and programmed to believe in a creator, a God. This was most important otherwise the toys would have gotten confused on their way to evolution by the imperfect simulation. God acted like a suspense account to them while we people debugged and conveyed logic through scientist robots.
Over a period of 100 years, reproducing robots were evolved in to a very advance robotic civilization on Moon. Man controlled the robots from earth but the robots felt as if they were doing and controlling things themselves. However, robots were hinted and programmed to believe in a creator, a God. This was most important otherwise the toys would have gotten confused on their way to evolution by the imperfect simulation. God acted like a suspense account to them while we people debugged and conveyed logic through scientist robots.
However, some were left atheists.
There was greed, emotions, sex & violence, family, religion, politics and all other ingredients of a blockbuster soap.
One day, a meditating stubborn believer robot was brought to earth and allowed to meet his creator. He was made to tour the godly planet earth. Seeing the plight of his God on planet earth, the robot, Ram, said, "Oh my God! Poor God."
Thursday, August 11, 2016
Jai Ho!
When I started learning painting at school, I would draw only the subject.
But then my art teacher would tell that my work was incomplete as there was no
background in that. I gradually started understanding the importance of
background in a painting. ...and with that came the respect for fellow Indians and my
Indianness.
Saturday, June 11, 2016
Unmanned Car
The other day during a discussion with my most learned friend, Deven Kalra
of Big 'G' Google, he told me the philosophy behind developing driverless car at
Google is, the man must do only those jobs where there is need to apply brain or
where it is imperative, rest all routine jobs must be handed over to
robots.
Hmmm... a great philosophy and logical too. Having come thus far and having
loads of information at hand, man's job should be to synthesis information and
work on technological solutions to take total control of our lives. Routine cut
copy paste jobs are waste of time and human resource when alternatives are
available.
Going back to history, man's obsession with tools has been integral to his
evolution. From hunting to going all the way spatial. Man has toyed with
machines. The basic instincts attached to this weird love are:
- Seeking comfort and ease of work
- Greed for more in the shortest possible time
- Identity crisis
Mechanization of human society has not been a smooth sailing. At various
levels it met with stiff resistance from the incumbent methods, practices, lobbies & religion. There was always a fear that the increasing use of machines would
render the human workforce unemployed. But on the contrary there were other
types of jobs created. And each time people embraced and settled to the
disruptive technology.
So far so good... But I have my own reservations now.
No doubt our hold on technology is stronger than ever before and it is
further growing manifolds at fast pace. But at the same time today the majority
of population is making living out of absolutely no skill petty cut&paste
data feeding jobs or simple machine operating and monitoring jobs. And that's a
great cause of concern. Technology in its stride is going to gobble up these
jobs someday very soon. That would leave a vast majority of this unskilled,
bum-ass (not used to mental or physical hardship) population
redundant.
Whenever I think of human society, I think of ants and bees and bacteria.
And that takes me into bit of biology. Some of the biological facts are:
- With in a generation, members of a species are born with various levels
of capabilities.
- Evolution of a species is direct function of the number of mutations and
population
Excessive consumption by the worker ants/bees will certainly change the ph
& temperature of the hive. The growing large population of bum-ass drones
will have to parish in order to preserve the resources, temperature and ph of
the hive. But these drones actually play a crucial role in evolution of the
hive. Thus any such eradication of the drones may hamper the evolution process
of human beings as whole.
Progression of human society has uncanny similarity to that of bacteria in
a culture. I guess, our growth is almost at the acme of the log phase now, which
would have to be followed by the stationary and death phases respectively.
...and that would leave the unmanned car without a passenger.
...and that would leave the unmanned car without a passenger.
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
A short but never ending story...
There is this rich owner of a skyrise. He is perturbed by the development
of a small property in the vicinity. He is unhappy because:
- the construction process is causing inconvenience and turning the surroundings dirty
- the upcoming property may grow bigger and become a potential threat to his superiority in the region.
Besides, there could be several other reasons for him to feel offended and
insecure.
Also, there is a beggar in the area near the developing site. He is happy as he foresees more alms falling in his kitty.
But the big schizophrenic fella has the other idea. He pays the beggar some money to throw stones at the small guy's property and create nuisance. The beggar willingly accepts the money and marshals the commands of his powerful boss. The small guy now considers the beggar as his biggest enemy and root of all his problems. The beggar is by now a full time servant to his rich employer.
...and the life goes on...
p.s. I have since short listed 3 candidates for casting in my film. The
candidates are USA, India & Pakistan. The problem is, Pakistan wants the
rich man's role.
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