Sairam. Suprabath. 🙏🌹😌
Sun May 10, 2020
We are in the middle of Pandemic lockdown, the teeny weeny invisible enemy imposed on us. Those who still feel unsettled are those who don't know what to do with themselves. Then why blame the world.
So, the first step to Peace is to become endearing to ourselves. Left alone if we feel miserable, it only means still a long way to go. And implies that for our misery, no need for the outside world, which is shut off now. If being with ourselves alone could disturb us so much, it proves that the source of all our problems lies deep inside.
Thank Covid for this subtle Self revelation.
We can try n understand this at the elementary level without philosophising n sermonising with complex theories.
It's a question of getting efficient enough to use all the resources available to us to the full extent. We always try n get max out of everything that is accessible. Watch a villager eating the mango or sugarcane. Till nothing more left, the rind is squeezed out. In cities we call it max bang for the buck. Highest yield.
But when it comes to our own potential, we dither. Leaving huge untapped potential inside us. And keep cursing outside world for all the ills we encounter. Ignoring the arrows in our own quiver at the back that can destroy them in one go.
Yes. We lack that specific skill to get the max bang from the buck that we are.
Let's begin with simple, easy to understand tasks n get them right inside us. Like achieving simple goals - 'efficiency' n 'discipline'.
Must for anything worthwhile to be accomplished.
Haan 'Efficiency'. If deployed in a morally righteous way, it can uplift any individual to great heights.
Though there are various forms of efficiencies, the one that can set our life on better footing is a simple skill - to respond-to-the-first signal! Which many miss n suffer a lot later.
Life throws up so many subtle signals before a disaster strikes. Sensitise yourself to sense them in time. It's a Skill. Measure of Efficiency. Signals n signals. In life. In business. In the society.
First sighted Electrical sparks, smoke, gas smell and child crying differently are the first signals, the response to which help avert disasters.
Sir Visveswarayya felt the first signal of a crack in the middle of the night as he was travelling in a train and pulled the chain. To their surprise they found the big crack on the rails at a distance and that saved many lives.
Those investing in stock market observe the first Delta variation and respond immly. The rest follow later by which time it could be too late.
Suspecting something terribly wrong some rush to the specialists even for an innocuous fever, which could turn Covid positive.
They help avert a disaster just because they reached in time.
Yes. Responding to the first signal is a measure of efficiency.
And all disasters have a unique way of throwing up signals. During Tsunami, in a village near Tiruchendur near TN, all animals rushed to higher levels one day before, sensing the first signal of Tsunami yet to come. Animals that detect impending earthquakes and tsunamis don't necessarily have more senses than humans; they just have much higher sensitivity. ... Dogs have a remarkable sense of smell, birds can migrate using celestial cues, and bats can locate food with echoes.
Even as humans we are endowed with the skill to sense the first signals. But we dither over them. Wish it away n wait for some one else to take the lead. Lose out big time.
In the left over lockdown period, sit n brood over your past. The sad episodes where you were cornered n lost out. How you could have acted differently had you reacted to the first signal. Just go thru frame by frame in reverse. Now in hind sight, with all data inside you, easy to do Action analysis.
Not to re-live the tragedy. But to learn from past mistakes for better future. To hone our skills. To respond-to-the-first-signal. Before it's too late.
And that goes with another attribute - Discipline. All those endowed with the skill to respond first, invariably have certain Discipline. Uncompromising. Only such discipline can propel one to act swiftly on first signal. Otherwise even if the signal is sensed, it would be let go due to " Jaane-do type aalsi attitude.
At the end of your own analysis in this lockdown, discover, how you lost so much due to not sensing the first signal. And not responding in time though signal captured in certain cases, due to lack of self discipline.
Let bygones be bygones.
Use this Carona imposed self exile, to rediscover yourself.
Sharpen the skill to sense the first signal. Nurture the discipline to respond to it in time.
Spiritual Masters are endowed with both. It's part of the spiritual routine. There are no indisciplined spiritual Masters. Nor are there insensitive ones ignoring signals. At the first sight of Narendra, Ramakrishna sensed the Vivekananda in him. And rightly responded. At the first sight of the atheist Balakrishna menon, Ramana Maharishi sensed the Chinmayananda in him n energised thru His piercing looks. Responses to first signals.
From where to begin to acquire this skill. Did you ask?
Yes. You guessed it right.
Pray. Chant. Meditate
It shapes up the personality. Sharpens the skills. Ensures certain discipline. And prepares one to respond to the subtle signals of the spiritual domain. Till godliness is sensed everywhere. In everything.
Practice enough in lockdown.
This Covid will go. But this CoVid'ya learnt alongside, will stick.
For the rest of the life.
Aur kya chahiye?
Sairam 🙏😊🌺
R. Chandrashekar
# Blog
Sun May 10, 2020
We are in the middle of Pandemic lockdown, the teeny weeny invisible enemy imposed on us. Those who still feel unsettled are those who don't know what to do with themselves. Then why blame the world.
So, the first step to Peace is to become endearing to ourselves. Left alone if we feel miserable, it only means still a long way to go. And implies that for our misery, no need for the outside world, which is shut off now. If being with ourselves alone could disturb us so much, it proves that the source of all our problems lies deep inside.
Thank Covid for this subtle Self revelation.
We can try n understand this at the elementary level without philosophising n sermonising with complex theories.
It's a question of getting efficient enough to use all the resources available to us to the full extent. We always try n get max out of everything that is accessible. Watch a villager eating the mango or sugarcane. Till nothing more left, the rind is squeezed out. In cities we call it max bang for the buck. Highest yield.
But when it comes to our own potential, we dither. Leaving huge untapped potential inside us. And keep cursing outside world for all the ills we encounter. Ignoring the arrows in our own quiver at the back that can destroy them in one go.
Yes. We lack that specific skill to get the max bang from the buck that we are.
Let's begin with simple, easy to understand tasks n get them right inside us. Like achieving simple goals - 'efficiency' n 'discipline'.
Must for anything worthwhile to be accomplished.
Haan 'Efficiency'. If deployed in a morally righteous way, it can uplift any individual to great heights.
Though there are various forms of efficiencies, the one that can set our life on better footing is a simple skill - to respond-to-the-first signal! Which many miss n suffer a lot later.
Life throws up so many subtle signals before a disaster strikes. Sensitise yourself to sense them in time. It's a Skill. Measure of Efficiency. Signals n signals. In life. In business. In the society.
First sighted Electrical sparks, smoke, gas smell and child crying differently are the first signals, the response to which help avert disasters.
Sir Visveswarayya felt the first signal of a crack in the middle of the night as he was travelling in a train and pulled the chain. To their surprise they found the big crack on the rails at a distance and that saved many lives.
Those investing in stock market observe the first Delta variation and respond immly. The rest follow later by which time it could be too late.
Suspecting something terribly wrong some rush to the specialists even for an innocuous fever, which could turn Covid positive.
They help avert a disaster just because they reached in time.
Yes. Responding to the first signal is a measure of efficiency.
And all disasters have a unique way of throwing up signals. During Tsunami, in a village near Tiruchendur near TN, all animals rushed to higher levels one day before, sensing the first signal of Tsunami yet to come. Animals that detect impending earthquakes and tsunamis don't necessarily have more senses than humans; they just have much higher sensitivity. ... Dogs have a remarkable sense of smell, birds can migrate using celestial cues, and bats can locate food with echoes.
Even as humans we are endowed with the skill to sense the first signals. But we dither over them. Wish it away n wait for some one else to take the lead. Lose out big time.
In the left over lockdown period, sit n brood over your past. The sad episodes where you were cornered n lost out. How you could have acted differently had you reacted to the first signal. Just go thru frame by frame in reverse. Now in hind sight, with all data inside you, easy to do Action analysis.
Not to re-live the tragedy. But to learn from past mistakes for better future. To hone our skills. To respond-to-the-first-signal. Before it's too late.
And that goes with another attribute - Discipline. All those endowed with the skill to respond first, invariably have certain Discipline. Uncompromising. Only such discipline can propel one to act swiftly on first signal. Otherwise even if the signal is sensed, it would be let go due to " Jaane-do type aalsi attitude.
At the end of your own analysis in this lockdown, discover, how you lost so much due to not sensing the first signal. And not responding in time though signal captured in certain cases, due to lack of self discipline.
Let bygones be bygones.
Use this Carona imposed self exile, to rediscover yourself.
Sharpen the skill to sense the first signal. Nurture the discipline to respond to it in time.
Spiritual Masters are endowed with both. It's part of the spiritual routine. There are no indisciplined spiritual Masters. Nor are there insensitive ones ignoring signals. At the first sight of Narendra, Ramakrishna sensed the Vivekananda in him. And rightly responded. At the first sight of the atheist Balakrishna menon, Ramana Maharishi sensed the Chinmayananda in him n energised thru His piercing looks. Responses to first signals.
From where to begin to acquire this skill. Did you ask?
Yes. You guessed it right.
Pray. Chant. Meditate
It shapes up the personality. Sharpens the skills. Ensures certain discipline. And prepares one to respond to the subtle signals of the spiritual domain. Till godliness is sensed everywhere. In everything.
Practice enough in lockdown.
This Covid will go. But this CoVid'ya learnt alongside, will stick.
For the rest of the life.
Aur kya chahiye?
Sairam 🙏😊🌺
R. Chandrashekar
# Blog
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