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With Coffee for Company: Telling it as I saw it

Authored by Mr Pradeep Maheshwari
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8.5" x 11" (21.59 x 27.94 cm)
Black & White on White paper
212 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1540496881
ISBN-10: 1540496880
BISAC: Philosophy / Mind & Body

With
Coffee for
company
Telling it as I saw it.
We can't just hang on to the comfort zones and
then complain that life is going nowhere.

By Pradeep Maheshwari
(on facebook: Pradeep PK Maheshwari)
First published as notes on Facebook.
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Introduction.
The theme of this collection is mainly to get a
glimpse of the corners and shadows that we
may be missing. It is purely my subjective view
as I have seen and experienced.
The courage to change; look within;
But the courage required..... where is it going to
come from..... from getting disgusted with life as it
is.......and this state very few arrive at..... never by
intelligent analysis.
And then we pass it all to the next generation.
For intelligent analysis, a developed mind is
needed and this comes only after lifetimes of study,
search and experiences......... disenchantment with
the pleasures of physical life, stuck in the "desire
mode"
And anyway the human is a creature of habit (not
a good learner by any yardstick) and will repeat the
conditions anyway.
And then there are the virtuous ones who project
themselves as near-saints and refuse to look at
reality and see only good everywhere. And
effectively close all doors to further seeing and
seeking.

Open only for Appreciation

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARIFRIDAY, 18 NOVEMBER
2016
The heart and minds are closed. Something that I
see in a very pronounced manner in India. There is
no equal to us in playing the blame game and the
defense game by the rest of us. Impossible to discuss
a subject with Indians without their amour-propre
getting involved with every word. As if under a great
fear that we are being faulted, indirectly insulted or
misunderstood.

I see reality as a spiral. You see one point of it and

then see the next point alongside and then another
and so on till you find you are lost in the spiral going
up and down. Our intelligence & wisdom totally
snubbed by Reality's various aspects. Baffled and
stunned we shut up in enlightenment. But then most
us don't see the next point neighbor - rather don't
want to see. This is also reality.
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People love to be sad and miserable....quite a lot of

them. They need something to be seen as exclusive.
When nothing else of worth is in their world they
latch onto being miserable.
I find it strangely funny when people do not take
responsibility for their lives, then when they fall sick,
they leave it all in the hands of some stranger with
white coats and glittering churches called hospitals
who speak half the time in Latin and depend on
mechanical mumbo jumbo and then they are made
to lie down in a bed and messed over with murderous
intent..and all this is called a battle with
cancer.

Caste Creed based thinking, the uncultured mind,

conquest on their minds, wanting things to be as
"they" want it and are comfortable with....... these
are the things that we shall be seeing for a while. So I
suppose the next episode of renewal is on the cards
universally and this kind of change from the bottom
upwards is what we shall see all over the world for
some time to come. Let us enjoy the race. Winning is
not the goal. When there is talk of winning,
achieving, arriving and such......think also of all the
people who are NOT in the competition. Wining
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against a few select people, what does it make you?

Example: Beauty queen of the world etc........who
cares? And I find my maid more beautiful anytime

Once we accept diversity as the "normal", the

wonders never cease to enthrall
Why harp back to the past and rationalise or
explain the past and use it as an excuse to continue?
We can't at one end, use them and then wish them
away when done with, We should think of the
situation, not forget who created the situation and
now that it is a Fait Accompli, take things on a more
pragmatic route into the future. Like in polite society,
when we do not like someone we simply keep a civil
distance. The community that is prejudiced should
meditate on this point and try to show some
forbearance. I am sure forbearance is taught in all
languages and unfortunately practiced in none. What
have the Africans done to garner so much hate in
USA? The thing is that they were brought in. Now
they are citizens. It does not speak well for the
superior races at all. Things cannot be brushed under
the carpet by citing the past.
And if you look closely, the situation is the same in all
religions, societies. We categorise one set of people
as inferior and then go after them with hatchets and
make a virtue of it.
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Feeling sad.
PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARIFRIDAY, 4 NOVEMBER
2016
It is so sad. Vaccination:....... The concept as
introduced earlier more than century ago worked. It
got accepted universally. Every one now believes in it
without a doubt. "Vaccination" has become an
accepted word. The big pharma is capitalising on this
belief. People don't know any better so the first
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reaction is It must be fine" and "what a relief; now I

will never be sick!". Anything then that is promoted
as a vaccine has immediate and total acceptance.
It is another matter that most of the new vaccines
are now based more on wishful thinking and not
really very scientific. Secondly they are being forced
down the throats. Why are people including those
practicing medicine against them? This should be a
warning sign by itself. If these vaccines are good the
unsuspecting public would adopt it without a second
thought.
Now it is war. The public has realised they are
doing much harm and the numbers of rationale
thinkers who now understand that they are being
fooled is growing. Big pharma is perturbed that their
investment will go bad. There is an obvious show of
force and denigrating of those who believe in other
more natural systems of cure and prevention.
And the people? Are NOT prepared to think for
themselves nor even bothered for their health. Trust
in Hospitals is absolute. You go in from one door and
come out well and restored from the other!
NB: Whenever, I bring this subject up there is
violent reaction of opposition by a certain segment of
self-proclaimed "scientific" people (they go to the
extent of calling all those practitioners of other
systems special kind of stupid) which is another
symptom very similar to this "Belief" system anything that stems forth from the laboratories is like
a word from God to them and they are ready to burn
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others at the stake for not thinking as they would like

them to. They are not accepting anything beyond
what their microscopes and telescopes can see and
sensed by their bodily senses. To them feelings and
intuitively is a sham and illogical. The Spirit world
does not exist for them.
Then they forget totally that for money and
fulfillment of desires the human kind has always and
is designed to lie, cheat and fabricate information. It
is sad that the media being also in control with this
money makers group, they are able to spread any
info they want by playing on some words and
misusing the trust the people have put in these
people.
More than beliefs.... it is the first thought that
springs up in their minds. It is more a matter of "I"
than intelligent behavior. Their minds are serving the
universal forces at work at the animus level in
Mother Nature's world. There is no sign of a mature
independent mind at work that has learnt to correlate
research and scrutinise information/data before
speaking or acting on it.

Beware of slavery to
Convenience.
PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARIMONDAY, 31 OCTOBER
2016
From a picture of "Knowledgeable, Quality and
Great integrity" that we used to see all
products/knowledge coming from Europe 100 years
ago, we are now going the other way. Everything that
has come from Western European/American sources,
all great ideas and developments and products now
have become obvious to all, products that are
designed to weaken the spirit of men, trapped in the
sense of comfort and power from gadgets at their
fingertips, make them non-thinking, even
subservient. We now have fake food, misdirected
medical aid, poisoned environment and deliberately
poisoned food, a very high dependency on machines.
Batteries and Electricity now rule our world. I
personally see most of the wonderful things that
have been engulfing us have reduced life to a painful
joke, alienated us from people and other life forms
around us - although life has become
easier/convenient, better organised.....yet it has
leached into "LIFE" and is taking us on the way to
Robotism.

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People tell that they would do anything to change

their unhappy status and you believe them. Ever
tried to have a conversation with them? They will
respond with ...."Oh you don't understand". They are
not looking for solutions. They see themselves as
victims of fate and want the world to appreciate their
extreme and unique sadness.....for they see the rest
of the world enjoying their lives. The old saying is
true we are our worst enemies. We rarely see the
chain of events we unleash when we are coming out
with angry words, respond with murder on our
minds or act with certain desires as our focus. And
have accepted reality in a particular way and see no
reason to change our outlook we are so convinced
that we are right. WE make no effort to change in
anyway even when life shows us the error of our
ways. And it shows clearly in the way we obfuscate,
change subjects and avoid certain subjects in our
lives.

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So you are not going to listen!

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARISATURDAY, 29
OCTOBER 2016
For the sake of etiquette, Ill let that pass. You say
your thing and Ill show you without a seconds
thought how much in error you are. Being at the
centre of the earth I know and can fathom everything
and am rarely in error.
How do I manage to always find the faults so
easily? There is an art to it. All one needs to do is
look for a word association in our memory tied up
with a concept or phrase or something that
contradicts yet connected by a common word or
truth.
Blurt it out and there you are: you have properly
put the other guys sense of self importance in its
place. There is nothing left for the poor fellow but to
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explain and defend IF anyone is listening. It is very

essential to close listening immediately after you
have said your piece; after all as the GREAT one
you cannot be drawn into a long boring argument or
if you so prefer to call it - a discussion.
I have a few examples here to show you how it is
done.
Story 1.
There was a time when one big light in the room
was considered enough. Sp the bathroom was lighted
in the same way. It never seemed to occur to any
house maker that the bathroom mirror is also used
for looking at oneself rather closely to trim hair,
shave and look behind the ears and inside the mouth
etc. So a proper light around the mirror is really quite
essential. But the lack of lighting never bothers
anyone as far as I can see. The make-up table for the
wife one can understand but why in the bathroom.
After all it is a room just like any other. All you need
is a small tiny lamp to see your way around. What
are you going to do there? Paint a canvas?
Anyway, so this young man rents a house and the
first thing he does is place lights around the
bathroom mirror.
The house owner, 80 years old, who has to pay the
electricity bills, coming from an era when he spent
his life using an oil lantern, is aghast - why do you

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need so much light he asks. The answer from the

young man gets this response:
Young man: I need light to shave and trim my
mustache and check on my teeth/mouth health or
even clean my nails.
The house owner retorts without a seconds
thought But the light has to be in the back? (Do you
remember the instructions coming with box cameras
in which it was always repeated that light should be
always behind the photographer? I think this
sentence from his long forgotten past surfaced just
then to prove his point).
Story 2.
Lately there is a trend to use Styrofoam or throwaway plastic plates in gatherings. I find these picnic
plates rather low-middle class and difficult to hold on
to with one hand and try to eat with the other as
they tend to bend when weighted with food and as
we eat with our hands the act of pressing down on
the plates creates spills that dirties the entire area.
I relate here a conversation:
Lady Oh people are so dirty. They dirty the entire
place up. No sense of cleanliness.
(you see how she has shown herself as upper
class, denigrated everybody around her and done so
by stating an obvious truth). This got my goatee and

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I could not resist by pointing out the fact about picnic

plates as stated above.
Lady - then what can be done?
I said we need sturdier plates but light ones such
as the melamine ones would be better.
Lady: Melamine is rubbish. It is not good for health.
( I am sorry to say this lady is too high class for me).
Me: Ok . If you insist. But melamine products are
light, strong enough to hold and washable, reusable,
cost effective and unbreakable. The Styrofoam one
are not only not serving their purpose but also bad
for the ecology.
But by then she had focused her energies
elsewhere. I was talking to thin air!

Why should I forget?

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARISUNDAY, 23 OCTOBER
2016
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Why should I forget? Lessons are to be learnt and

remembered. I will not give you a chance again and if
you do try the same trick again I shall have prepared
myself to give a fitting and crushing reply. But yes I
shall not come after you because you are not worth
it. On the other hand this Forgive and Forget cult is
right in one way that we must not carry the past on
our shoulders for ever and ever. There is a time to let
go. Unfortunately it is practised as a forced virtue,
very superficial; nobody really forgets.
This is what our friend remarked on this subject:
Karine Van Waerebeek ..... Forgive and
forget..became an expression, a saying,.forced into
the average/mainstream consciousness. It is also
called: Kissing ass. Once recovered , the need to
'forgive and forget' is gone..because you understand
people's ignorance/stupidity. If you easily forget there
could be something wrong with your short term
memory..
The first lesson of life: no one is listening. Thereby
missing the point most of the time and missing most
opportunities. No one is here for you and your
welfare. A little moral support, a little walk together,
some pleasant exchanges, assistance and a shoulder
to cry on..is the most we should expect and this
too if we are profoundly lucky. Most people would
miss their frying-pan than they would miss you or
me. We look, hear and note only within a small arena
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which we "think" relates to our immediate welfare.

Otherwise we expressly shut off all engagements.
You may not notice it as people are good at charades
but no one is paying attention to what you have to
say: at least NOT your story! But we are great at
lamenting and want, hope and insist that everybody
listen to us.
I am rather opposed to this new fad of being so
positive that we refuse to look at the negative side of
us and advise everybody else to do the same to
achieve contentment in the name of becoming a
Positive Persona radiating with love and all that crap.
My attitude is that there are certain negative vibes
that cannot be allowed in my atmosphere whatever
the circumstances. This is non negotiable and I will
literally fight to maintain this state of affairs and
make it very clear if anything/anyone infringes. No
compromise on this.
We end up with knowing the dictionary definitions
of words and have built an image of it in our minds
depending on the place and the culture we have
been brought up in. Worse we react to words but
rarely go into the full sentence. The worst is that we
take sentences out of context and misunderstand
most of the messages that are trying to reach us
through the collection of words. The tragedy is that
there are millions of possibilities of how the same

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message will be understood and misunderstandings

are more the norm than the other way round.

The Unfortunates, Mother

Nature, Future
PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARITUESDAY, 18 OCTOBER
2016
WE, the more conscious, must realise that it is
Mother Nature at work. We must rise above
sentimentality and not promote the thought in any
way that everything is OK and in the name of Human
Rights people can do whatever they want without
considering the consequences for Mother Earth. The
other thing is that it is surprising that these so called
poor have no conscious sense of their
poverty/vulnerability and the misery that they will
make their children get into. They are yet animals in
human form going about instinctively. It is also true
that "suffering" is the only way to raise the conscious
awareness of individuals at the Natural level of
things. This cycle has to be stopped and it will
happen with the raise in consciousness which is not
being promoted in the world.(exceptions in small
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pockets are getting nowhere). How it will happen is

anybody's guess. But I feel that crowding will become
so intense eventually, life so unbearable that
humanity at large will then have to face and focus on
this truth and change its style and existence will be
possible at a more conscious level or not at all.
Remove
Whatever laws and concepts we may try to
enforce, the Universe is not bound by it. We cannot
claim equality by right nor offer it as a matter of
course. The separation by law is even more stupid.
Laws and possibilities should be the same for all
people. There are two sexes but that is for a
particular purpose and that is a minuscule part of our
lives. Let us not make it the bug bear of our lives.
Can a Rose and a Dandelion be equal? WE are all
special in our own ways. Look at us...five fingers, one
head, two arms, two legs etc. Same desires and
appetites...... but yet all distinctly separate people.
Not equality but uniqueness will win and give us all
be want to have and be. Our focus should be in
becoming better human beings, full of positivity
kindness, knowledgeable and master of the arts of
living. We need to see the Feminine and Masculine
and notice this in men and women which exist in
different ratios in all individuals who are 99% children
of the same universe.

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We may think of ourselves as individuals but if we

are able to put aside our vanities, we see that we are
permutations and combinations of the same
elements.
What people miss is that physically men are
stronger and become physical when angry and at
this level they always win and visibly hurt the
women. Most men are brought up wrong and are
psychologically defective in this sphere of empathy
and respect. But the vocal, narcissistic abuse that
women, specially wives unleash from which there is
no running away can be many many times more
psychologically murderous and finally most men go
under, lose control & situations get ugly. Egos get
bruised. Hate enters the equation and from there on
it can only get dirtier. Nothing is either black or white
and there are many shades of gray in between that
we quietly hide. It is only the extreme cases that
come out in the sunlight.

With Coffee for company

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARISATURDAY, 15
OCTOBER 2016

The Idea of life or the aim of life should be to

achieve without budging.....letting others do the
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bloody job. Be mentally alert and up-to-date and

physically lazy. The sun rises by itself. The moon
appears by itself. The river flows by itself. The flower
blooms by itself. Why get so turmoiled by personal
prejudices and insist and quarrel? Forget it all and
have a coffee.
I always ask myself: What is the point? Where can
or will it get me? Either do something about it or go
and have another cup of coffee. The point is good
government has to be above isms.
And life gives very little choice. We can all have
only one goal and that is being pro-life. When we
govern destinies of people and nations we need to
have a very high level of compassion and integrity to
be really good rulers. Before taking any decisions,
have a coffee.
As I see it, the turbulence of today is the same as it
was in Julius Caeser's time. One day thru experience
humans will realise that "unending wantings" or
living selfishly is unsustainable and then when the
chicken come home to roost, the change will happen.
At present it happens at the individual level to all of
us but eventually it will become global and then
bang, the change will have a chance or we all "GO"
pouff. But then in Juliuss time, here was no coffee.

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Yes.... what is ageing after all? The changing lines

of image of my face or my progressive change as a
person? With coffee I see nothing but youth.
Well, our job is to make the thought visible ( if we
are absolutely certain it has worth), repeat it as often
opportunity permits because we feel it so. But can
we really be absolutely certain? But our job never is
to change others. Let them live in their wells if they
are comfortable there. Do invite them in for a cup of
coffee.
When there is disagreement, I simply keep my
distance and let them enjoy their paradise. To each
his own brand of coffee.
With so much pesticide & antibiotics IN us, how do
we get sick? After all the western/modern medicine is
based on the germ theory and in this case the germs
should not survive in us at all! Then here is
additionally the stockpile of preservative that should
not allow ageing. I think my coffee is also affected.

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A little circumspection
PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARIWEDNESDAY, 12
OCTOBER 2016
When making comments on personal spiritual
experiences or transferring data from old texts and
practices from/into the occult world, we need to try
hard to keep comments at a pragmatic level that
would be nearer the basic understanding/experience
level of the uninitiated at ground level, specially to
the humans that have suddenly come into the wealth
of knowledge available in writing and are in awe of
their own knowledge but not having the experience
to go with it.
Today we have the option to let loose our words on
a very large scale, with great ease through
technology and there is just too much information of
every value around. This facility is being misused for
personal agrandissement to show off or to garner
attention to attract wealth as a teacher. Knowledge is
for giving away and spreading I admit but we must
also judge the receptivity level of the receiver. Our
efforts should be to assist in helping in people to
enlarge their view and exposure to the Universe, if
we can.
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A little circumspection would do a lot of good I

think. There is always the possibility that a little
knowledge can hurt the person who is not yet
spiritually ready to receive it. It can be very
destructive like a gun/knife in the hands of a child. As
it is, one small glimpse of the beyond and most
people tend to go and better the world as the first
impulse. And of course their vanity makes them not
very good students for learning purposes. Most
people at this level do not realise that they have
been given boiled eggs and they sit on it trying to
hatch it a lot of glorious activity with a lot of color,
noise, fervor and yet, at the CHANGE level within
humanity, nothing to show for it. NOTE: The tit-bits of
information is actually creating a havoc of its own
kind. Specially in the hand of quacks and parents
who are making the child adopt life styles that are
totally against their good, growth interests.

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Theory, Real Life & Practice

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARITHURSDAY, 6 OCTOBER
2016
Pradeep Pk Maheshwari: Of course it is the
woman's right all the way. She chooses to have sex.
The baby happens. You dont want it.....that is fine
too ( how does it matter to anyone?). The point is not
if the fetus should be kept or not. Legal or not is not
the concern at all. It is the act itself. The loss of
energy, a colossal level of Creative Energy that is
wasted for not much gain. Compare with: The
amount of food that is first grown with such effort
and then wasted away - it is something like that. In
the Indian occult philosophical tradition we believe
that for the emotional sensation of a few moments
we are using so much of the body's resources that
we are only shooting ourselves in the foot. The
approach should be - with discretion.

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Walter Myers: And what of the woman who

chooses not to have sex, but is obliged by force to
conceive? Pradeep Pk Maheshwari: MY answer to
this is a little simplified version of what I really think
because it would not make great sense to most. But
out of respect of your having raised a pertinent
question I give my view as points: 1) In the natural
habitat where the mind is not unnaturally titillated, it
rarely happens without mutual consent. We have to
study the lives of aborigines, Polynesian islands and
other Amazonian tribes not yet touched by the
constant titillation and exposure to instilled thoughts
and desires. 2) Mother Nature's ways of working are
clear to us now and violence as we see it is part of
the play. There are again some subtle energies at
play that are not conforming to our human laws and
morals so it is not easy to accept it all to our
conditioned minds. It is best not to try and
understand everything by our "Constitutional
rights"/Supreme Court edicts. 3) The human mind
has not evolved as much, there is a lack of selfdiscipline and discerning ability. The technology now
available is designed with an intent to sell ideas and
thoughts. Everyone is affected. A lot of things are
happening which would not have occurred had the
mind not been exposed to these pics and intentions.
The subliminal subconscious is acting and creating
havoc. Desires are being implanted by external
means and the conditions today offer great means to
satisfy them. 4) Humans are now easy tools for some
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other forces at play in the Universe and these are

having a field day as the humans don't even always
fully know or want to stop any action that takes birth
in their minds.... (it may gibberish to lot of you!)
If you would look at the subtle energies that are at
work in this world, you would not be so matter of
fact. The act of sex releases certain vibrations and
very powerful, very self consuming vibrations. This
energy can be very destructive when used primarily
for pleasure. Abortion if you want it, is fine like any
other self-destructive things human kind do. We raise
animals to slaughter them so why not this? As the
woman retaliated at me by saying that a fetus is not
a person. Ok by me. But my contention is that the
mother is more harmed than the fetus... in many
subtle ways. The stupidity of mankind to mask their
selfish propensity to live for pleasure and that too
mainly from the act of mating - without
consequences if possible.....is anything in life without
consequences?.
The concept of Brahmacharya was that the energy
be utilized in more constructive ways, deliberately
channelized in one particular direction.
Marriage as an institution is also based on this
principle. That the energy remains concentrated in a
core group. In marriage there is an energy exchange
and it is not wasted as it helps both to grow and

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maintain home and family. Wastage is when you

deliberately throw it all away.

Life cannot be without

Consequences
PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARIMONDAY, 3 OCTOBER
2016
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The stupidity of mankind to mask their selfish

propensity to live for pleasure and that too mainly
from the act of mating - without consequences if
possible.....is anything in life without consequences?.
Of course there is such a thing as moderation but
taking the path is each one's responsibility at the
personal level and humans as they are as yet are not
very responsible.....rather they cheat in and about
everything. Everything is planned. We are not in
control. Nostradamus is the proof. But yes there is
BUT and there are possibilities but then we run after
things instinctively and lose the options.
Nothing new here but a good reminder. I feel most
of us live with a secondary thought of "What are they
thinking about me? Looking for appreciation and
being accepted as somebody as "needed &
irreplaceable" ........feeling adored and important
becomes finally our basic life-support thought.
After having lived it all wrong, having learnt it all
the hard way, now somebody tells me. But it was
great fun. Anyway in my zeal to impress, I did better
myself and did manage to get some applause
too.....and learnt that all this means nothing as it is
all momentary and every sunrise brings in new
themes whole the old ones are forgotten. I wish my
teachers and parents had taught me all this before I
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wasted so much of my time and life. The sense of

camaraderie in the animal kingdom reverses all our
prejudices and makes me at least wish for a little
animalism in humans.
I am neither lonely nor lonesome. I love being
alone because I am pondering over some issues,
plans and projects that need total freedom from
distractions. And I feel mostly humans look for
entertainment and engagement for some needs of
theirs. I just don't happen to be available.
In the wars without clear objectives that are
happening around us , I am just not able to
comprehend how parents find it Honourable and
take great pride in sending their children to horrible
torturous conditions to die and if they ever come
back, then not take care of them. What a horrible
society we have created.

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The Buyers create the Sellers

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARISUNDAY, 25
SEPTEMBER 2016
So the pesticide manufacturer manufactures the
illness then sells the drugs for them at exorbitant
rates which he is manufacturing too. There is some
logic here but also stupidity. Why accept in the first
place that we have to eat their food. and second why
accept that their drugs are the only way towards
treatment? It is this idee-fixe thing that is enabling
them to conquer our lives.
What we need is customer resistance but the
human is a very lazy (and stupid) animal. It can see
good or harm only when it is immediately
perceivable by his senses. Long term effects/views
are as good as non-existent for humans. And
memories are the most unused faculties because this
means learning and reorientation.
People eat by habit, availability and cost factor +
the taste factor in which the synthetic food industry
excels at low cost so it is very tempting. All this has
led me to the thought that it is rather expensive to
live healthy. Today leave alone making choices, I am
forced to buy the cheapest, germ laden and pesticide
laden food; so all this information on food although
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great from the academic point of view is rather

useless.
In India 40% of families subsist on some bread
down with water and some green chillies or onions.
That is all they can afford.
In Europe which can be considered as the best of
what the world has to offer, I have seen people
eating by habit very cheap but tasty food. Talk of
food and told them to take some basic supplements
and they get bored and anyway would believe you
only when their doctor told them. They told me
frankly that they could not afford the kind of quality
eating I talked of which also meant change of habits
and with free medical assistance from the state they
were not very worried about it.
I may mention here that I have always wondered
why people go for families they know they cant
support which results in poor education and care and
terribly bad health and misery and this has been
going on since generation after generation.
Can the human be made to see further than his
nose?

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Life in the Pleasure Lane

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARITUESDAY, 20
SEPTEMBER 2016

Synthetically made and processed items. That

people still buy it and affectionately give it to their
children in tons is also true. Since the last century
science became the tool of the corporate world. It
has made money out of it. The idiot customers think
only in terms of taste, color and texture. The clever
ones running the world love this situation.
Had humans considered life as precious and
sacred, humans would not agree to bring in through
birth so many kids that they cannot nourish or clothe
even. Leaving them knowingly to be violated,
enslaved and worse. And this they do knowingly to
their so called "darlings". In the last few decades, the
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population has trebled, the misery quadrupled, and

the garbage is 100 folds. Yet no one ever stops and
thinks what misery they are responsible for.
Children as I see are accidents that happen on the
Pleasure Road. Do we really cherish them? I dont
think most parents on the average have the
necessary basic knowledge or education to bring up
a child properly as dictated by the necessities of
today.
I see that life only gets harder and we get older.
Well, let us say that was part of the plan, straighten
our shirt and get ready to cross the next bridge.
If we are to be superior then others have to be
inferior. Simple. Deep down everyone knows what
they are. But the charade has to go on and the front
maintained. Where is the place for a "why" in this
establishment?
It is easy to put concept into speech and words.
Words are independent of strings or attachments.
Every word is in itself true but does it really relate
with reality around us is another matter totally. What
our words may end up conveying is also a totally
another matter. It is in fact very true as facts of life
go. But this HATING pattern in our psyches is
connected with our amour-propre and the inferior
level of our soul on the evolutionary ladder which
translates itself as a Superiority Complex - this then
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requires intense hating as a corollary. All words that

follow from this source are suspect and designed to
hurt and often get translated into action too of the
same irrelevance.

Depleted, Deforested,
Defeated
PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARISUNDAY, 11
SEPTEMBER 2016
The Industrial revolution is finally taking over the
planet. Chemical spills, Oil spills, spreading
pesticides, voluntary seeding trouble through GMOs,
deforestation at speeds by machinery that mankind
could have no way achieved otherwise and lastly
concreting the land.
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The break with the Spirit is as good as complete.

When mankind can harbor thoughts like
- the fetus is not a child so abortion is ok
- the seed is not the forest or anyway the forest
does not matter either
- children are expendable commodities our
pleasure comes first.........sending them in wars to be
killed when the war is not even warranted
- knowingly profiting via medicine/foods that are
known to be harmful because it is the bottom line
that matters and corporations are morally bound only
to he share-holders.
The delinking to the spiritual cycle can be
considered complete. The Demons have won. It gives
us the perfect argument to start things that we
eventually will not bother about or take responsibility
of, killings in general. Today my heart is heavy. There
is too much Quarrelling in the homes. Attacks out
side. It is grab and run but to where. This nobody is
thinking of. The heart begs for sanity.
Time and place. There is a right time for
everything. Animals are so natural and understand
natural timing. Then there is the difference between
child and adult. Which we as humans do not
understand - I make this statement on the basis of
what I have seen in the attitude of humans toward
their children - we see them as mini adults, already
fully matured/educated and continuously berate
them and punish them accordingly.
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The Shadows that follow us

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARITUESDAY, 30 AUGUST
2016

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Looking back, I must say that we really spend more

of our life contemplating our sad moments. Even the
few happy moments eventually bring more sadness
than joy.
I have noticed within me a feeling of sadness when
some people give me the cold shoulder because this
is to be interpreted that I am not good or interesting
enough to be cultivated as a friend/relation! It is also
my observation that most people stoop down to a
dishonest level of continuously finding faults all
around them or side-step issues as if they are
keeping a protective curtain around them. Trying to
expose their fallacy will only give rise to long
discussions and a lot of warm air And even more new
points to argue about. You can expose them a million
times and they will come up with new issues. It is
never ending. You can prove it indisputably &
scientifically their errors, but they may shut up then
and yet start all over again when you meet them
again.
Why would anyone want to prove another wrong
anyway? It is the other side of the coin where you are
doing the same thing - Behaving insincerely or
correcting their thinking. It is at best an ego trip to
prove to oneself how great we are either way. So in
my view the Fault-creator and the Corrector are
spiritually at the same level. IN my relationships, I try
to observe a sincerity level - as a high a level in the
circumstances or as much I feel the other can take.
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The idea is to not hurt the feelings of others but also

to not accept nonsense from them. It should be
understood, that most people will crawl away on
their own when they feel that their bumming is not
being accepted. Just give them the cold shoulder and
let them be. Silence is a good answer. We should not
lie but then we are not required to be bluntly truthful
either. Let them play out their game while we play
out ours. We are ourselves in error when we are
being dishonest in trying to please others; BUT
reality sometimes forces us to - our existence may
depend on it. It is not our job to expose the faults of
others. Deep inside most of us already know where
we stand and our shows and dramas are conscious
props to maintain a facade.
I have always said that there is no enlightenment.
There is a disenchantment and the curtain suddenly
rots and falls.

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Cruelty Lurks not so deep

down.
PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARISUNDAY, 28 AUGUST
2016
Why are we seeing so much cruelty? Are we
basically cruel or what? There is so much anger
seething under the thin film of pretend niceness. We
want things to be as we have planned it out in great
detail. We have laid down ground rules of what is
good, correct and nice. When these are broken by
the hordes, we have justification for anger, violence
if possible and cruel behaviour as if humans are
basically sadists.
Anger is the passion of the loveless. --Thomas Light
I bring your attention to this picture and all the
bruhaha of what women should wear.
For it is in the final analysis just another Female
form. Who is she? NOBODY really! It is no one if you
don't identify it with a particular face and the face
too until you associate it with some interactive
memories. This is the deeply hidden truth of the
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Human animal. And this is the reason why people are

so heartless and cruel to the female person or any of
us to each other. Because we don't see sentient
beings; we see only a form to be used and discarded
at our pleasure.
............
ON finding cures and understanding our sickness.
When one calls for answers(prayer), concentrates
and starts looking, a chain and a cloud forms. Then
when the being is psychically ready and is in
alignment with the Universe, everything clicks into
place.
After my dip in the cold waters ( cold for me) in
Nice in June, I have not been well. I wasn't exactly
sure what the cause was either. I have been going
back in my mind as to all the indications the body
gave at different times in the form discomfort and
related them to each other. I have been studying
posts, data on my symptoms and trying out certain
products and combinations available in India. It
wasn't really working. I had not collapsed yet but I
was not wholly well, even slipping in some areas. Yet
a certain image was forming. IT meant also accepting
the fact that illness of a particular type was
brewing. .....Certain words were already popping up,
sent forth by my sub-conscious. Was I ready to
accept? I think I have always been ready to accept
but that is so difficult as it would now mean a further
change of lifestyle and reorganisation of habits.

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Then, suddenly a post pops out at me in my news

feed and the words catch my attention. So I read it
through. Then Google info on the med even more.
And sure enough the symptoms match with this
homeopathic/ayurvedic drugs. I adopt the new stuff
and I notice improvement right away.
But the question remains, how do I remove myself
from the conditions that are now killing me? One of
them is my beings reactions to all the cruelty around
me.

Nobody cares anyway.

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARIMONDAY, 22 AUGUST
2016
Exceptions: there are extra-human soul to soul
relations that are never broken and never fade. But
then these are way beyond human. There is
something spiritual in these relationships.
Here is a shot of reality. So you thought everyone
loved you? Most of our impressions are purely
subjective and only in our minds. And let us be
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pragmatic, as I have been contending that human

relations are based on (generally) some self-centered
elements. The interpersonal relations are heavily
suffused with recriminations.
Your individualism is a myth - a chimera. It is a
daemon wall we create around our Self to feel
outstanding and justify our superciliousness.
We look for some semblance of identity in the eyes
of others.
I saw through this charade very early in life. I knew
intuitively when somebody was not sincere and I
would then avoid the person/situation - with little
regard to social graces. I can safely say that I have
had a wonderful life with wonderful long standing
friends surrounding and taking care of me and I
attribute it to the fact that I did not waste my time in
appearances and social jockeying. Today I may be
nothing much to crow about but wait a few hundred
years and you will be awed by the fine fellow I am on
the way to becoming.

World needs a Wash

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARIWEDNESDAY, 17
AUGUST 2016

Dont pay attention to me. Just mumbling.......

truth is that things will be done or NOT done because
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they are in tune or not in tune with our own flowering

and development.

At the individual level, modern life with its

organised self-centeredness has permitted the
dormant sub conscious to take over.
It simply shows that the conscious mind is now
active at the lowest chakra level.
We are moving back to the graceful cultures of the
forest dwellers.

We can romanticize but the body starts to recover

when the doctors give up when interfering
medications are stopped proof that the drugs are
offending the body more than the illness.
And of course the more silent equilibrium of
positive vibes around the patient

Unfortunately the mass of humanity is still deeply

dormant and this cross mingling of people and
churning of thoughts and emotions is very essential
for waking up one of these days. These actions and
reactions make the world go round and people learn
from the unfortunate happenings although regrets
are mainly what we are left with but then despair and
revulsion are designed to shock us to our present
way of thinking and behavior and goad us to look for
answers for happier results.
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Live your little bubbles and plop.

New ones will pop up and it will continue.
We are not ready to learn. We shall not be taught.
Our constitutional rights protect us from NOT
being an ass

Orisol Brillanti....... At times it takes a lot of

consciousness to recognize mistakes. Given same
time and circumstances, I would repeat same
mistakes... Wouldn't you?
Pradeep Pk Maheshwari....... the chances are very
high.....
But in many relationships habits of behavior form
and that is not easy to break.
The subconscious is like a mountain and it has a
direct back-entry into our activity centre; before we
know we have reacted and acted.
Using our will and conscious mind to interrupt this
automatic activity requires a high level of awareness
and silence in the environment.

Did you think about me?

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARISATURDAY, 13 AUGUST
2016
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In understanding people and events we give them

motives. The motives of course, unfortunately are
based upon our own model of life - extremely
personal. Then we go all out to explain the motives.
What a chimera we weave and then get lost in the
net.
Dont be in a hurry to define and explain. Give
them the opportunity to discover you. Anyway why
would anyone want to explain so much about
oneself? Would you be trying to make sure that they
do not get any wrong ideas not in good light about
you?
Enjoy life to your hearts content the way you
know how. At least youll die without regret that is if
you die not just linger half dead in some hospice for
months and years. We have now so much in our lives
to kill us soon. So why are we living healthily just to
become old to be alone. Let us eat white bread, drink
Colas, cakes and ale and all that. Do everything that
will kill us early and go off singing.
The argument against marriage is that it permits
you to live more fully; unrestrained and comfortably.
If you want to live a self-centered life, and die
depressed this is the way. Anyway why lumber
another with your selfishness, stupidity and
arrogance!

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On the other hand, the small comforts of married

life may be tiresome but at least you have somebody
to make you "soup" when you are sick.
In anger the weaknesses of the angry person
shows along with their fears and deep guilt etc and
the attempted rationalisation. That is why it is
important. At the personal level it is just blowing off
extra steam but we need to not take it for granted.
Often anger is the only tool left to us to show to
the other person that we are very deeply displeased.
Yesterday I remarked to my wife that in India the
old arts, thoughts and designs are so prevalent even
today that we have no sense of the antique. We are,
as a whole, the country itself is ANTIQUE. It also
made me think how many weights we carry in the
form of outdated, out-of-the-frame thoughts
that are meaningless and disruptive but we stick to
them because that is how we have always been. We
make them an issue of vanity.

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Awareness Shocks
PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARIMONDAY, 8 AUGUST
2016
When we look at life from moment to moment on
the basis of cause and effect the cases can be made
out clearly and distinctly and blame squarely laid.
That is the human way of doing. It is the cause of
much pain but this pain is also a teacher and forces
us to look for the long chain that binds to every
second that has gone.
The past comes rolling by. We are what we are and
the children are what they have been taught and
made to live with.
Our parents did it to us. We do it to ours. It is the
human cycle and a lot of it is our Destiny that we had
no hand in writing and added to it is our karmic bank
balance.
We are stuck quite a bit in our thought patterns.
The only thing to do is to break them and fly away.
Everything seems rosy from FB. Our obnoxiousness
side does not show that easily here - this is why I
love FB and my friends here. Most of them I notice
can see through though - very perceptive people
here.
Some comments are terrific teachers and have
helped me keep my morale up.

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Get Going. Move!

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARISATURDAY, 6 AUGUST

Talking tantra, yoga, kundalini and other occult

subjects:
It's no laughing matter. This is reality. These
subjects are more than just simple magic tricks that
one can learn by buying a package on Amazon.
These practices have real potential to harm if
misused. But the money making thru them has gone
overboard. These so called gurus have encapsulated
and rendered meaningless these very difficult
practices - normally achieved with arduous practice. I
read in a post somewhere a ludicrous post on how
they can get your Kundalini active in a two days
workshop and this would then bring, health, wealth
and worldly success. Total baloney.

Just get going. Don't delay waiting for the right

time. When the Universe sends you an
idea/opportunity just move.As for problems, cross the
bridge when it comes. Yes. I have met many young
ones in my family who prepare themselves and the
execution of their ideas by focusing on what they
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cannot and should not do and the problems they will

face. They get so bogged down by other
considerations that they cloud their goal.

Not now; Ill call you......

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARIWEDNESDAY, 3 AUGUST

...and you know the call will never come!

Imagine a big, bright gorgeous sun flower growing
way high up in the air, attracting attention from all
and dwarfing the mustard field and the other flowers
amongst which the sun flower is standing.; very
proud and quite assured of its supreme importance in
the scheme of life as the only one who really
matters.
When it is there, can there be any need of any
other?
This is how some humans are. Well most of us are.
(And this tendency grows with the degree of
authority one has.)
Very intelligent and really great in many ways but
so stuck in their little fields that they have really no
vision - just a remarkable glow which is as you can
understand has to be limited - but they see only their
glow. What they dont see does not exist and what
they dont understand is not worth breaking heads
about. And worst come to the worst, if there is a
problem, leave it to them and they will know what to
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do about and they will take care of it if they have the

time. It is a kind of dramatic brightness that sucks all
the joy out of a room.
How does one communicate with these grand
masters? One doesnt. We are expected to follow
them, laugh at their jokes, let them run the show
while we sit back like the idiots we are supposed to
be and enjoy life. Any attempt at discussion quickly
reaches the point of becoming silly and
counterproductive.
The other field flowers are too small, too
inconsequential to matter. This is to be remembered.
To keep the charade of supremacy they will always
find your jokes bland or incomprehensible, deny your
valuable inputs and will spend all the energies in
proving you not worthy, rather than spend a moment
to see where new info may be leading to.
It is a small world and you are not really
invited.!!!!!

The mind is such a fantastic logician that it can

argue for or against the same fact with the same
splendour.
Even make contradictory statements without
batting an eye lid and - the best of all - not see the
contradiction.

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The only way to make someone see things

favourably on any issue is to involve them
emotionally; specially by making them see profit in it.

Happy with Less

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARISATURDAY, 30 JULY
2016
Arent we? Examine the values we talk of and the
excuses that we finally live with.
Makes me wonder if we are really not interested in
a better life?
I see people fritter away their lives in pretend
niceties, pretend elegance, great charades, blatant
lying, and creating facades. The comfort zone is the
goal if you ask me.
Health is the first on the list of destruction that we
bring about. WE spend time in activities we really
dont want to because making the right impression is
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so important and end up being unhappy as most of

the time is spent with people we dont like.
Our food is a great casualty in this war of life. The
body is the instrument of life but nourishing is not a
priority. Today we may be happy with full stomachs
but we are not eating well. Many vitamins have
disappeared from our foods along with very
important trace metals and minerals. The food is
denatured and many obnoxious elements added to it.
Water also carries harmful elements coming into it
from various sources. Nerves are drying up and
nerve ends are cracking or getting bruised resulting
in many illnesses that are usually thought of as
incurable creating comas and paralysis.
In most cases it is noted that the acidic conditions
of the body are what is creating the conducive
conditions for diseases and illness to thrive,
General advice: Improve your trace mineral intake
and diet. Avoid inflammation/acidity causing foods.

Weekend Observations
PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARITHURSDAY, 28 JULY
2016

It is so sad to see people running in the same tiny

circles, never looking up or down, never stopping to
wonder or question the tiny cell of a mental prison in
which they have locked themselves - YET EXPECTING
to win the world with every little wish granted - just
because they want it.

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We are as yet not independent thinkers - the

majority that is. Very few can be called individuals.
Most of us are 99.99% under the influence of our
subconscious patterns and mostly very proud of it all.
Humans are not designed for comfort. The more
comfort and ease provided the lazier they get although the law makers erroneously think that it will
increase productivity. Human nature and general
knowledge is still very under- developed for mature
decisions. Leaving it to Mother Nature is in our best
interests. For now.
One of these days the answers will come when
they are really interested in finding it out. Everything
in life does not have clear and straight line cause and
effect which is distinctly visible like the sun and the
moon. For the time being they choose to ignore. The
intuitive ones know.

My Coffee. Nothing else

matters.
PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARISUNDAY, 24 JULY 2016

Which way is the world going?

What is going to happen?
The world moves and is carried forward in time by
the mass mentality which is at the basest of human
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intelligence, peppered and garnished with the

highest possible human mentality here and there to
maintain a semblance of balance.
There is very little we can do about the masses.
All we can do and we should do with great fervour is
to act from the highest ideals and principles we can
think of in the larger good and leave the rest to The
Creator.
How can we forget that we are here only for a
short stint?
If we could take the attitude of prayer and in the
morning just ask HIM what is planned for the day and
let it all unroll patiently......we would really help the
world move forward by doing, taking action as the
situation presents itself.
Stressing oneself with conjectures, religion and
politics is not only a waste of time but actually
unproductive. Every individual is finally going to do
what is in his head, within the confines of data in his
head. Our telling and advising only creates
backlashes.
Let us meditate on this.

A little worry in my opinion is good. It makes us

focus on the situation at hand. But most people get
surrounded by fear and lose self-control. The thing to
do is to calm down and reflect upon the situation
from all angles and find an escape route.

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Everything that happens is a consequence of our

choices.
Then why complain?
Or is it just wishful-thinking, excuses, blaming
game etc to avoid looking at our own lacunae?
The question is is it a deliberate attempt to
obfuscate or we genuinely do not understand that
our choices play a major part in our lives.

Why do we all need to concentrate living in one

spot in a congested format of the cities.???
200 years ago we did not have fast transport so
cities mattered.
Now we are connected in more ways than one and
physical we can transport ourselves at alarming
speeds.
Let us spread out. Living in high rises in polluted
concentration camps shows how stupid humans
really are.

Blame God, Fate, Government

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PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARIWEDNESDAY, 20 JULY

2016
Humans like to see others, specially juniors,
children and the lesser privileged squirm and beg make them look up with bowed heads while we look
down. This creates situations where Magnamity
can be showered. We want them to think and act as
victims.
So soon in life, we learn to complain instead of
looking for solutions. It is such a freeing feeling to
not be responsible. We can then blame God, Fate and
the Government. That leaves us conveniently free to
mentally shut down and watch life flow in front of our
lives - as helpless victims.
It is uncanny how my parents and elders always
blamed me for defending and fighting back. And
immediately labeled me for the rest of my life as
somebody to stay away from.
It is surprising how easily they see my raising my
voice as violence and uncouth behavior against their
polished, quiet, soft spoken "run with the tail under
your legs" personas - such nice people if we listen to
them, obey them, do as we are told and do not talk
back if anyone does then their wrath is epic but so
awfully justified!
When we find something that offends us in others,
it gives a kind of macabre feeling of goodness and
superiority.
It is so satisfying to see that by our logic and
principles we are so far above certain good-fornothings.

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So instead of distancing ourselves from it, we pay

even greater attention on the activities of those who
we find distasteful - under excuse that we do it to
protect ourselves from their wrong doings and evil
intentions.
Certain faculties we are born with. The process of
life is to reduce the negative ones and strengthen
the positive ones. This is achieved by stressing on it
in our actions and thoughts and so influence the
subconscious that the change happens as a natural
in due course.
For some, the majority, who are living like
automatons, it is best they let out their feelings,
passions, desires, live naturally and let their destinies
take them wherever it does.
A lot of people take the path of self betterment and
for them rewiring of the subconscious becomes a
priority. Will power is then applied. The mind then
becomes an instrument of change and growth by
using knowledge to grow in stature instead of simply
existing upon excuses.
We call this Raja Yoga
1) We "LIVE" yoga to change the patterns.
Yoga can be lived. There is nothing to practice. It
cannot be practiced.
One can rarely recognize a Yogi by the way he
lives his life. Yes if you look carefully, his demeanor
will show differences from the majority of people.
When we say we practice yoga it is a misnomer.
2) Hatha yoga on the other hand is practiced with
or without change in the consciousness levels.
Normally the change is in increase in arrogance with
the increase in strength.
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3) It is so much easier to be indolent.

4) Life itself is yoga. The process is speeded up by
the use of the WILL and by leaning on the experience
of teachers who have known the path.
5) Nothing is true but your experience.

Destructive Patterns
PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARISATURDAY, 16 JULY
2016
The moneyed class with their cornering of funds,
using technology to create unemployment etc has
created a frustrated class who are truly as the adage
goes - an empty mind is the devil's workshop. What
we are seeing is not terrorism, the powers that be
called it so but it is not terror but a shriek for help.
Their lives whatever little there was of it is being
destroyed systematically. Give them back their lives
and they will live us alone. The need of the moment
is to spend/organise on giving these people a living,
something to aspire for. Our governments/kings are
the problem. It is in our hands to change them but
we are so busy quibbling.......we are not unified
enough to bring in change. We conveniently blame
the Terrorist for 2-3 short days and go back to sleep.

Looking for Bliss.

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There is this behaviour of looking for reaching a

higher state of bliss in and through another human is
something that I cant see happening. Momentary
glimpses have occurred when the selfish ego
centered sheath is pierced. Everything is possible if
the ingredients are right. But at this moment in
evolution of the human, a lot of ingredients are
missing that would make it possible. Many
ingredients that pull the other way are in action in
full force. The human mind is a plaything of certain
elements that humans are not even fully aware of.
Once locked in marriage, the pain actually begins. I
have yet to see a totally contented couple based on
the foundation of sexual gratification. Yet in the
millions of years of passing the humans are still
there. Looking for petty satisfactions, bearing heavy
emotional loads - most for practical reasons, rarely
for joyful ones. Although we are spiritually pushed to
look for answers to why and how the expected joys
did not materialise but I am deeply perturbed by the
fact that humanity is not learning and every new
born learns and dies with the knowledge gained.
Why is the knowledge not being passed on?
Depression and resignation to one's fate seems to be
rather the norm.
The influence of Words/Language:
The words become the pictures that become the
thoughts. Therefore the words on which we are
raised take a life of their own. Religions that are most
destructive also have teachings to match. No wonder
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the Buddhists are the calmest and the Hindu the

laziest.

We put more care in the care of our hair.

We show more concern in choosing footwear.
When we have outgrown these, we will
Begin paying attention to being humanitaire.

Safety is in Staying Put

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARITUESDAY, 12 JULY 2016
Maturing means renewal. This means old brain
cells have to go and make way for new ones backed
by the effort of going collecting new ones. Do you
think the old ones like it? No siree. They have grown
so comfortable there with so many relations and so
totally snug that they resent the very idea and resist
every attempt.
Usually the exact opposite is the norm. A little
push towards renewal and there is a hue and cry. The
owners immediately rush to buy high speed glue and
glue their cells together. This is their simple solution
to ensure that no change can take place and the
world will not change because obviously it does not
suit them.

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People would rather opt for their demise which

they really dont expect to happen. Why? Because
they deserve it, merit it, have earned this
consideration; have they not? Most of us are so
nave. We insist on helping them to change so that
they can be happy. It is we who are totally mistaken,
even a bit stupid when we should have been
worrying about our own changes.

A short story on habits and the lack of awareness

of the situation, inability to shift mental track and
lose customers.
Today I got a taste of the oriental approach to
selling in contrast to the western.
Most of the time the buyer in shops in Europe is
treated as a knowledgeable person who knows what
he wants. The sales people's job is to help find what
he really wants.
In the oriental culture the seller tries to sell him
what he wants and will try to gauge the stupidity,
naivet level of the buyer and then show the buyer
his best wares (or what he needs to dispose of).
Making the buyer feel stupid and poor indicating
that he first does not know a good thing and that he
cannot really afford the good thing.
And this ploy works.
This afternoon I went to my regular shop for ITTAR
(oil based perfumes as made all over the
Asian/Muslim lands).

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The daily sales person I deal was not there. I asked

for him indicating that I was an old customer. The
owner was.
First he made me wait for two minutes while he
made a show of being busy. As if telling me I wasn't
important enough and he was too big a guy to worry
about ordinary mortals like me.
Then when he raised his eyes, I asked for my
regular perfume made from Kewra flower (Screw
pine). His reply: There is nothing like a good perfume
from this flower.
So I said give me a small bottle of something from
any night flower in the range of Rs 100 or so. ( I have
been buying from this shop since many months)
His response: Where do you think anything good is
coming for this amount?
At this juncture I recognised the game he was
playing by veering me to something of his choice and
I said "I see" and walked out.

Life Beyond Comfort Zones

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARISUNDAY, 10 JULY 2016

Yes. This is the problem. In the span of 70 years

given to us, we are constantly evolving; some of us
more than others and some often not at all. It is
therefore certain partings will occur. New paths have
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to be taken. By sheer circumstances we have to then

evolve.
Better we do it consciously and stay ahead of
distress.
....we take so much for granted but still the
sense of power does release some of our violence.
And it is not limited to only the people who have the
license to use physical power like the police this is
the very obviously visible aspect of it. It is there
everywhere humans wish to dominate, need to
dominate to win their way. It can be seen later in
every single human relationship possible. Very
specially if we think we can get away with it and we
are sure we are being very clever.
There is also manifestation of it as a sadistic outlet
for our inherent violence which is always lurking in a
nearby corner of our spirit. Often there is good
reason for it. Humans can be very inconsiderate and
where they feel they have Rights they can be very
asinine and a sheer nuisance. The only way they can
be stopped is with some show of physical strength.
The Cruel streak in humans is very strong. Until
this fact is accepted by humans we are not getting
anywhere. We humans are not the kind loving beings
we would like to dream that we are. Additionally we
are all neither very intelligent nor thinking beings.
We are not all equal. I hear so much talk of love and
that love will solve everything. I ask: Where is this
commodity to be found? When is humanity going to
import it and spread it amongst us?

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Our natural state is "single" - togetherness is yoga;

a learning process and reconditioning process which
is painful. Good or bad, my lips are sealed.

A lot of "prayering" but no change. The WISHES

are constant, unchanging from generation to
generation, there is very little effort towards
betterment of the self and greater contact with the
UNIVERSE. Just a lazy prayer, seemingly virtuous and
the great HOPE that the Gods will take care of
everything.

A lot of our quarrels have roots in our private

perceptions. Mostly in the fact that we consider to
have been injured. And mostly our injured feeling
comes from not having our way in the form of not
being understood or taken for granted. In our
thoughts we see ourselves as givers and not
appreciated. So we go to war.

They may be lying. Think!

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARIFRIDAY, 8 JULY 2016
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Things sell on the perceptions and accepted

factor of the buyer - Not on veracity.
Marketing success is more on the factors deemed
important rather than essential. Information that has
been repeated often gets accepted and today
whatever is seen and heard in the media and on the
TV often enough gets accepted with ease.
Often good products that would have proven
beneficial end up not selling if they go against the
existing perceptions.
You must have noticed how easily the world in
entirety got fooled with the notion that butter and
milk are bad for you. Hydrogenated fats and
processed oils were advised. Nobody took a moment
to read about these things because even the medical
fraternity was easily fooled. If the entire specialist
community could be fooled, what can we say of the
poor everyday guys who get tired of reading after 10
lines at the most?! The joke is that data on the
Trans fats, the loss of vitamins in processing, the
chemical additives in food and the damage to the
human body by pesticides was well known even 70
years ago. I learnt about them from the books of
Adele Davis whose books were all based on research
reports then freely available. But do you think that
people have got any wiser?
Good marketing is when you adapt your
advertising to tell the client the minimum necessary
but enough to be IMPRESSIVE to him. We know
what is bad for us but we choose to ignore it. The
superficial and short term has become so "instant
solution" thing.
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Certain degrees like Doctor, Brands like Philips or

Coke are trusted to the point that whatever they say
is accepted as absolute truth and they misuse their
clout to dish out bad products and practices. Even
doctors never read research reports and go along
with the advertising.
The sugar-free term is now known by everybody
and no one questions it. How did it start? Why sugarfree is good for us or is it just our perception based
on the words SUGAR-FREE? Who cares!
This is one of biggest frauds being perpetrated by
the food industry/corporate pharma and we love it.
Sugar is a natural substance given to us by Mother
Nature, packaged in such a way that it does not harm
our system with minerals etc but then it gives it a
brownish color when isolated. So the marketing
dudes put their heads together and purified it,
concentrated it to become 6 times sweeter and made
it white by removing all the protective elements from
it. The purity took the world by storm and the extra
sweetness was very welcome. They played long
enough on the word PURE but then it became difficult
to hide the fact that it was the increased sugar intake
that was causing the epidemic of many illnesses.
So they come out with synthetic sweeteners that
are even sweeter and 60 times more harmful to your
health but they did not tell you that because they
have no research reports to prove in court that it is
wholly bad. Legally protected they dish it out now in
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almost all food items and sell it on the strength of the

words Sugar-free.
Please people think; you are being served pure
poison. The entire populace, hotel and food industry
is glibly playing out the game and with the increased
profits this brings, nobody is complaining. You see it
is all in the perception!
Worse, people like me are called fear-mongers
creating a fear complex without any scientific basis!
Examples would help in understanding:
Lights: Too much light at the brightest are now
desired. They eat up the Vitamin A in the body and
spoil the circadian rhythm. Anyone cares? No. And if
you talk about it they scoff at you.
Now the incessant blue lights of TV, Computer and
Smart-phones are eating away at the natural balance
and all the data on sickness from these products is
being happily ignored.
Diet cokes: This is one of the best examples of
cheating in marketing and lapped by the populace
without a second thought.
Cars: From 0 to 60 in 6 seconds has more value in
judging the car than the cruise, ease and factors
such as city driving, parking ease, comfortable
seating and gears among others. Big huge cars with
huge engines are bought to drive in cities at 25 kms
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per hour. But big is perceived as power and

impressive. These last two factors play a more crucial
role.
This same factor can be seen in most things
people buy like fridges etc.
Air conditioners: I remember when the power
supply was not very good and in most part of the
country it is still not very good, people installed Air
conditioners of the heaviest capacity for the simple
reason - it cools faster without paying attention to
the wiring load and the coming in voltages and end
up having either a fire or the AC burns out overnight.
I could never make people understand the simplicity
in having a low capacity AC that would work without
upsetting the electrical load and go on merrily
forever and ever. It is more important to study the
loss of cooling though badly sealed windows and
doors and insulate the heat coming in. No this is
too complicated. The easier and simpler thing is to
buy bigger capacity AC because the seller says so
and he is the expert naturally.

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Reflecting on the Reflection

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARIWEDNESDAY, 6 JULY
2016

Willfully the work is piled up and even when there

is enough and more than one could safely handle in a
span of the given 24 hours one does not stop.
Yet the need to go looking for more work
continues.
It is the same work, in the same field, in the same
style and manner; there is no real learning involved
and nothing much in experience to call it well worth
it.
Yet the piling up of work continues. One is lost
without it.
Is it the love for what one does or an escape
mechanism?
We impress everybody with our industry and
receive kudos and make money in the bargain.

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This is too much of a lure for someone who at

heart knows that there is naught much to his persona
or ability and approbation is what one is looking for.
And the excuse to run away from life.
Family, friends, children and so many others can
be so conveniently be missed out with the always
ready excuse of being inordinately busy.
It is a virtue and pursued ardently; an escape that
is wonderfully appreciated. Selfishness in a sheath of
gold. Health is lost, the persona eventually sucks,
the children move on and then one day when one is
not able to do much but reflect on the reflection in
the water, standing on the bridge one wonders where
did it all go!
One even forgets which way is it to get off the
bridge to go home if what remains can be called
home.

Lovingly Lonely
PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARISUNDAY, 3 JULY 2016
Why is having someone/partner so important?
Loners are seen with a very skeptical eye. I have
often given thought to this question as to why do
people think that happiness can come only when
linked up with another. Or the other way that people
who love being alone must be unhappy, lonely and
miserable.
I understand the need for coupling as a practical
necessity and no more. Affection, mutual respect and
habits may eventually develop when we see how
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couples and families complement lives. The opposite

is equally true: rife, strife and deep hatred also is
born of the same route. It started with mating; then
grew into families and soon into communities and
tribes and states and countries. But all this is based
basically on our basic and over-powering instinct to
mate and possessiveness my man, my woman, my
child, my family, my community and so forth
because it gives some entity to identify with.
But when intellectual emancipation comes, these
lose meaning. The persona grows out of these
borders of petty narrow lines of belonging.
Mating is still desired but it is not the beginning
and the end of existence and rather a burden due to
the constant emotional exchanges and wariness
required to adjust to others it is so much a waste of
good energy, pulling oneself inwards towards
pettiness while the mind insists on growing outwards
without borders.
Thinking can be so subjective. I remember my
uncle who loved women, so disturbed by the fact
that I was not ready to get married. He kept on
talking of the instinct to mate and the need to let it
out or it would consume the person with devastating
effect etc.... as if justifying his own needs. Which in
the final analysis all talk about this subject ...IS!

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Ordinary but extra

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARISATURDAY, 2 JULY 2016
Technically this is a universal truth. Every single
person who is a non-thinker thinks about himself as
somebody very understanding and having great
intellectual depth and perception although his
everyday behavior may not show it..
Why do people take pride in being ordinary?.... in
following the most mundane goals and then
defending their position by the most negative
excuses as if trying to explain their weakness,
laziness and comfort-zone thinking by sounding wise
and irreproachable.
Most people don't travel with an aim to see and
experience new things. They go to new lands and
return as they are with some photos and basically
the fact that they "have done" this place or that.
They interact little with foreigners and come back as
raw as they had gone.
You must have noticed we used the bus to go
around europe. Besides the destinations aimed for
we got a free visit to 6 more places and were awed
by the beauty and culture of the places we saw.
Our connections with the locals added to the
pleasure and our memories + we learnt so much
from their different attitudes, habits and manners.
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9 out of 10 of us are pickled by the time we are 30

and with continuous exposure to the elements start
rotting by the time we are 50

Rise of the Country Bumpkin

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARISATURDAY, 25 JUNE
2016
This is the real issue today. DISSATISFACTION.
They want it all. We are tempting and titillating them
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to no end with our digital reach - Like putting guns in

the reach of children. They can only end up into
illegal enrichment programmes and join radical
groups to brave their identities.
The lack of discernment and yet the freedom to
speak and that too anonymously has let loose a flood
of bigots, semi-literates. We give them the same
voting and expressing rights and they do it from their
hiding holes quite certain they cannot be touched.
These are the real terrors of modern life in the
digitalised world. If you will spread the food around
too freely and keep the kitchen dirty, the
cockroaches will come out in droves. The world is
not ready for too much knowledge.
All the knowledge and the freedom and
dissemination of it in great benevolence has resulted
only creating semi literates who are not only hurting
themselves but living an enhanced "enjoyment
focussed" life.
There is an endless list of products that have only
brought misery.
Want me to give you a few examples or will you
work it out yourself?
They dont see much because they dont want to
see much. I dont think any living being has seen
much more than their village surroundings but yet
they talk of the world and gods and what not. It is all

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in the perceptions and machinery required to see

some things.
What they did to Galileo is an example. Until the
atomic microscope came they hadn't seen much and
kept on saying that they dont see. They didn't see
flying happening, Radio happening or TV happening.
Just because they dont see means nothing in the
final analysis.
But the body feels and we do not wish give
credence to that.
If we are going to give credence only to machines
and what they can see then all we need to do is wait
till they come out with more sensitive machines..
ZEN thinking
I would say to put it mildly, zen is thinking without
letting the passions get the better of it and take you
on a boisterous adventure just for the fun of it.... out
of the reality which is rather calm in essence......

Worth of a CEO
PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARIFRIDAY, 20 MAY 2016

The secret is in: everyone contributes in

whatever capacity they can and avoid as much work
as possible at the same time.
There are CEOs and
there are Burger servers. They all serve and are
important in their own ways. The CEO we can and
may do without but not the servers. Do not presume
that long cars and air conditioning is the mark of a
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person and a standard to be appreciated or

considered of any worth. Only those with inferiority
complexes think that way.
I can see it coming.
We don't write any more.
We press buttons or touch screens.
Emojis is the expected extension of these
activities.
Already the process has begun by facebook by
giving us buttons.
In a way it is so sad.
In the last 2-3 centuries the mind has been in an
expansion mode and see what grand developments
took place in all the realms of human endeavour. But
It is now back into the contracting mode.
Perhaps it is time to get off this male female
divide aspect; the difference and the equality. This
thought process has roots in European thinking and
has done so much damage by bringing in an element
of separateness. This focus on individuality cant
bode well considering that we are so similar really
the same appetites and goals.
My wife loves to clean thank the Lord, I have to
shout at her to stop,
I personally am so allergic to dust that I get sick if
someone is sweeping even 20 feet away so I am glad
and thankful that she does it. Besides we have 2
helps too.
I have my department in which I am good and
take care of the home and make sure that everything
works, is safe and the establishment is so
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comfortable that she will not be comfortable

anywhere else.
When shopping for instance we divide the roles
like: she decides what to buy, pay for it and all, take
my advice on the quality and design etc and then I
hold the bag and drive. She is the boss and I am
happy to let her be. In return she allows me to scold
her now and then for being too stubborn.

Languages fashion us
PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARIWEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2016

I have been mulling over one fact..... How basically

nice people can be so curt in their behaviour which is
helpful in attitude but presumptive, curt and their
words convey "Lord-of-the-Manor" style that is so
down to earth that it makes you feel as if you don't
matter....that you are not worthy enough for your
feelings to matter to them. Languages play a big part
in fashioning our style of communicating. English
tends to be in the active voice and a little
commanding in style. Try to say the same in French
which is mainly in the passive voice it changes tone;,
becomes kinder. The same is in our languages Hindu
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compared to Urdu. People brought up in English

/Hindi tend to command and sound curt while the
French/Urdu people have gentleness in their words.
And I think this also affects their general attitude.
When a language and style has been associated with
since the very first day one does fashion one-selfs
attitude around it.
* Pics that nearly inspire a poem..... but then there
are so many, I went and had some coffee to
contemplate on its beauty.
* What is indifference? When we are an island, live
on an island and behave like the most important and
only coconut tree on the island
* WE ARE ANIMALS + AN IDIOT BRAIN The animal can
live without the brain but not the brain without the
animal. The human animal is a mere vessel of a
larger phenomenon, and unless this is realised in
general and understood by the masses the
conversations unending will continue in which
everybody is promoting their tiny circle of influence,
education, memories and petty lives and wishes;
everyone thinking of themselves as individuals and
exclusive and complete and all that would be needed
is that the masses follow them for peace and love to
reign.

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Things will change when the memory bank will NOT

be considered as knowledge any more. There is an
intuitive side to human nature but this is blocked by
the over active stupidities of the narrow/shallow
brain. Once the intuitive brain becomes aware, we
align ourselves with universal principles and then see
the commonness and the faults and strengths in
common and understanding comes as a result.

Wired to be unhappy
PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARIMONDAY, 16 MAY 2016
Asking, demanding, expecting, imposing carry a
negativity which in this world eventually hurt us. It is
in the very negativity of human nature to have these
traits. We all have it and so rub against each other in
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a continuous stream. And we all end up being

supremely unhappy; also wonder why!
Live wild if you have the courage. Without
demands and expectations. Contrary to all organised
living systems of societies.
Just don't complain how others should be to suit
your fancy.
The sooner we realise this, the more at peace will
we be. The each-other life is technically an
impossibility. All friendships, partnerships etc have
some contact points and mutually common
courtyards. That is all.
The time goes in pursuing our different activities.
Complementing each other. Neither a burden to the
other nor making any demands.
But at the end of the day, we go to sleep in our
rooms and private thoughts.
A wave of thought grew since the Victorian times
that emphasised a "Pay attention to me alone" kind
of philosophy. The need to make the marriage
partner the sole focus in life cannot be a healthy way
of thinking.
It is like trying keep in a narrow neck capped
bottle the oil and water mixed together by sheer
mechanical force.
We have mentally prepared ourselves so that we
insist on being ourselves, not wanting to give an
inch, considering compromise a weakness, expecting
too much reverence from partners with divorce
always on the mind. We have images floating in our
minds and compare our real lives with these images
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and suffer in silence because life is not rolling out as

we had foreseen. This is defeatist; it is a formula for
unhappiness as it does not take into account the
truth of the universe and its workings in which we are
but a speck of dust being blown hither thither.
1) Women for men are tools to satisfy certain
primordial needs.
2) The emotional exchange of vital forces is a
natural necessity, about this aspect most are not
fully aware but it is the base.
3) The company of women being possible only
under the passionate umbrella of LOVE is not a real
state. All relationships are based on something being
given and something being taken - some needs being
met without undue stress.
4) A wife makes things easier to live in the
preordained society we are all born into and pass on
one's heritage and maintain a semblance of
continuity.
5) Women have no idea the amount stress they
impose when they burden the men with their
expectations of "love".
6) Part of the stress in relationships is caused by
the importance women give to their importance to a
man.
The vice- versa will be equally true.

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An Alien Concept
PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARISUNDAY, 15 MAY 2016
Looking for safety and security and a life without
confrontations and mishaps?
You are on the wrong planet. Once you are on this
earth, safety is only an alien concept.
You can only improve your chances. This is done
by learning. Learning about how things and people
move and think and then train yourself to become
aware of the undercurrents around you. Then you will
attract and know how to row your boat in this one
way stream which is uncharted.
One way of safeguarding their little "selfie"
persona is to become available ONLY to love that
exists in their make-believe world in their imagined
world. There it is so perfect, so precisely laid out in
every detail that nothing in real life can match or
compare it, it is too far away from reality and leaves
all relationships totally inadequate, incomplete &
open to criticism. There is so much dislike finally that
they destroy whatever comes to them.
In their world, they want relationships but it is
always a very exclusive one way affair in which
others do not matter. All the world needs to do to
keep a smiling happy environment is to follow their
lead and praise them for their yeoman efforts. And
everything is like a perpetual spring garden.
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I had to bear the brunt of a volley of fireballs. I had

the temerity to speak out of turn. Bang, the
judgement was passed and I as the accused was
good game therefore for punishment.
I just laughed within and cursed the Lord for
having so much fun at my expense.
This is a general style of behaviour, I have seen,
with not very informed, not very talented, nor much
exposed to the world and having lived in a 9-5 safe
monochrome environment. They are acutely aware of
their limitations and but cannot allow any discussions
on their fallibility so use tactics like ignore, abuse,
reject, violence, threat etc to keep control or a
semblance of control & superiority.

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The New Era-ttic change

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARISATURDAY, 14 MAY
2016
When we take all the awareness points raised
thousands of years ago by the likes of Confucius,
Buddha, Spinoza, Plato, Socrates and others..... how
much of a change do we see in human behaviour and
understanding?They say the Gita was compliled at
least 5000 years ago...... and the relevance has only
grown. They argue that it now reaches more people
due to all the technology but it is reaching more
people because there ARE more people - think what
was the population 5000 years ago? If humans had
imbibed and inculcated in their children and
administration any of these basic values, we would
not have been so quarrelsome yet. Even the very
basic values given in the ten commandments could
not be instilled. Why? Because humans were not yet
aware then. Awareness has kicked in only in the last
century and so is the opposite side of the awareness
spectrum is also the violent side for personal gains.
And the world is at war with itself.

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* There is really no law of karma. Karma means

simply "doing". Everyone is "doing" within the nature
and instinct provided by the Universe. There are
results. Life goes on. Evolution is at work. The
concepts of Good, Bad, Retribution, Recompense are
mental constructions of a race only intelligent
enough to sow discord and mayhem for now. The
exceptions prove my point - that generally speaking
the human race is just beginning to evolve.

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* This is a world of takers. And they would not be

takers if they remembered. The shortness of human
memory is so obvious and yet so ignored in our
doings. You gave. The Universe remembers. New
people will come to stand by you. Finally when we
give without calculation, we give it to the Universe
and this is always credited into our account. Finally it
is all a long lesson. And we learn and get shaped into
a more real individual which then will be reabsorbed
into the whole.
* If we evolved consciously, death would not be
necessary. Even wars would not be needed and Earth
would not shatter us every now and then. So much
has to be ignored and belittled in others so that we
can maintain an image of superiority in any
entourage Let us explore other path ways. We can't
just hang on to the comfort zones and then complain
that life is going nowhere.
* The courage to change, look within; But the
courage required..... where is it going to come
from..... ? - From getting disgusted with life as it
is.......and this state very few arrive at.....and if they
do, it is only after a few lifetimes when they cannot
take it any more; never by intelligent analysis. And
then we pass it all to the next generation. For
intelligent analysis, a developed mind is needed and
this comes only after lifetimes of study, search and
experiences......... disenchantment with the pleasures
of physical life, stuck in the "desire mode"
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Forgiveness. In the human condition it never

happens. The subconscious never forgets. And
anyway the human is a creature of habit (not a good
learner by any yardstick) and will repeat the
conditions anyway.

For all else remember

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARITUESDAY, 3 MAY 2016
For all else remember
I thought I had a home. It disappeared.
I thought I had a family. It disappeared.
I thought I had strength. It gradually ebbed.
I thought I had "smartness". That world changed.
I thought my time has come. But time says no.
Will I ever have a say in my life?
Karma is not a court of law where you can juggle
the results.
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You are attached to your intentions and they unroll

of themselves.
Even at the moment when the words are entering
their minds, the garbling begins. What gets recorded
and what was told can be so diametrically opposite
that one often wonders at the great capacity humans
have to deceive their selves.
Very early in life I clearly did see the confusion in
the thinking and acting and speaking persona in the
same person. What I landed up in was a soup
where I would speak the truth when lying was the
norm I would accept responsibility when running
away, hiding or obfuscating was the norm. I would
take people at the words and confuse the entire issue
and create embarrassment for all. I have been
scolded by my wife often for not knowing what to
conceal and reveal. I think it is called Nave. In
short I was a child in an adult world and never did
really grow up and became a disappointment to my
parents and a liability to others.
But sometimes the past keeps on coming back like
a weed and then the wise thing is to take it by the
horns and complete its journey.
Who or what is a Fakir? A fakir is a person, a
searcher who lives within the human community but
without expectations and manipulation. He refuses to
get involved in the machinations of the human greed
machine and pleasure seekers. In any other way he is
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very human and trying to make his way in a world

that lives in a very contrary environment. How does
he do it? By faith in the positive attributes of
Providence and belief that the Universe is a friendly
entity that recompenses sincerity, goodwill, kindness
and unity in thought/actions.
The stance of the WARRIOR knight. He fought well
today and survived. Tomorrow is another day and
perhaps he may not see another night - so what! This
is what it is and this is what it will be.
Human relationships are based on "use & throw"
ususally understood as under expressions like fair
weather friends need based sharings etc. Once we
understand this, all the enchantments vanish and
peace descends because we then learn to relate with
our soul and connect to the world through flowers,
butterflies, the wind and the sun. We also finally
understand that nobody really wants to understand
others. This expectations and pull to understand are
all rather self-centric. How can relationships happen?
We all have strong likes and dislikes and almost all
are based on moral concepts or traditional religious
practices in families; rarely based on understanding
of psychology, history and geographical necessities.
We need to look at life as it is without judgement.
What we would like and what we consider as the

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right way is another matter and should be pursued

too but too much vehemence translates as violence.

Austin Cole Astonishing, and beautiful. Fakir, you

say. It is a pleasure to meet another, Dear Pradeep.
Thank you for finding me, my friend.

Growing up scientifically.
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PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARITUESDAY, 3 MAY 2016

From reading or observation, if you see anything
reflected in you, become aware and change it. If you
are wondering what to do about it in others, don't
worry. We can only work on ourselves. The Universe
will take care of its own.
I tend to think, that underlying laziness and wishful
thinking is more in evidence in our decisions than the
other way round.
We must dream with expectations and act but live
ready to be disappointed.
Most good parents, so called good and virtuous by
society tend to be rather arrogant and treat their
young with some form of violence in their attitudes.
Not being there for the child and not genuinely
listening to them is the most subtle form of abuse.
Finally I have matured enough to realise that we
are all perfect islands. Complete and irrevocable. We
are what we are. They are what they are. Observe,
note and make the best of it. There is nothing to be
taught and no one is teachable anyway and does
NOT NEED teaching. Get this into your head pronto.
This is the route to joy and happiness. Do what you
have to do and let them do what they have to do and
they will anyway. It is all simple chemistry. The
Creation has its own chemistry, you have yours and
they have theirs. Then when the ingredients mix often, more often than not, there is BOOM.
I can understand how the word manipulation may
be understood or misunderstood. If you will notice
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this confusion comes from analysing the possible

meaning. The word manipulation means much more
than the negative connotation people know about. It
also means the strategy needed to achieve an end.
You have heard of reverse psychology and have
definitely seen it in use. This is friendly manipulation.
Most humans use direct strength - using their
authority if they have or their position in the big
wheel which can be something like black-mail which
is also manipulation. So we use our understanding of
psychology and assist/influence the other person to
think on a given track of our choice. This is also
manipulation. AND everybody is doing it all the time it is the only way to live/interact that humans know.
Technically humans are not ready for technology.
Humans dont use their minds to live better. If they
want to kill, why not let them have cross bows? The
time needed to load them will give some time to
reflect perhaps. Even a karate chop can kill. So finally
it is the mind that needs to be controlled.
Life, it is said, is a process of learning wherein we
shed our sharp edges and mellow down. Yet, if you
ask me, it is not a willing effort. We find ourselves in
circumstances and situations that force us to batten
down the hatch and plain and simple age melts down
our ability to show off our arrogance. What if we did
this willingly and with full knowledge and the
cooperation of our will? This would be yoga. We may
even encapsulate a few extra lives into one and
come at the other end far greater as a Being than we
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things.
Whole lives are spent in searching for tenderness.
Quite contrary to this earthly life founded on thorns.
The permanence of sweet embraces dreamt of Is in
the final Great Experience of eternal Death... How
does it matter in which hospital we took birth. Or the
date or thru who? Are we alive today? Live for today
and the moment you are going through in the
present. Your past is concentrated here. Your future is
focussed in it.

The Displeased Tyrant

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARIMONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
Quite a lot of people are basically the Discontented
type. Being perennially sad is their base. Their
persona starts from that point. They cannot be
pleased. They don't want to be pleased. Their idea of
a good life is when everyone remains on tenter-hooks
and continually strives to make certain that they are
not displeased.
It is not like normal people who are basically happy
but a few things might anger them but when put
right, they soon come back to being their normal
smiling self.
The Displeased Tyrants are so made that they can
see only the "wrong". They even use exaggeration if
it suits their immediate needs. Accusations also
come easily on their lips. Like if they went in the
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notice the one plant that has not bloomed and then
of course, they have much to say on the upkeep of
the garden. And they love to point out all that is
wrong. This makes the near ones defend their
position in the hope that The Tyrant will understand.
But the tyrant is not placated so easily. This is the
perfect scenario that suits them. They bask in their
superiority but are good actors enough to put up a
humble front indicating that even with all going sour
around them, they are able to maintain a semblance
of not being affected by it all.
The great part is that most of these people are
attractive and quite smart and they know it. They
know exactly how to play their cards.
Most unassuming simpletons end up falling into
their well laid trap.
We all use this strategy, in milder doses, to keep
others grovelling or/and to manipulate in the form
called reverse psychology.
When these people trap others into marriages,
Shakespearean tragedies are written

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The DNA Dynamics

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARIMONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
We often make others feel awful. We may not
realise it. But in the game of egos, this is happening
all the time. For example a simple admonition like
this to a child Leave it. You wont be able to do it.
I have seen it being said even by bosses and often in
homes from wives to husband or vice versa. It is
happening to all of us and we are all involved in
some way or another. We are the source unknowingly
due to all the scheming, white lies and pretended

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arrive at a point that there is no mutual respect left.
This is what I have fought about in our families
always.... we speak out only in anger and to
criticise/humiliate. There is a tendency to avenge
each perceived insult with powered injury if we can
safely get away with it. Then we feel free to even
spread the gossip always a little made more potent,
amongst us. But never any praise or encouragement
or a nice word for us.. For this reason I have always
said we are one of the most tamasic, negative
people on earth. You end up with tags like: He is not
be trusted. He does not respect anyones wishes. He
is a wastrel. He is very selfish. Then they have this
explanation for everything they do: We are doing it
for your own good.
I have seen that manipulation becomes necessary
in certain relationships like child and overbearing
parents, nagging wife, employee and overbearing
boss. Where conversation based on mutual respect
and understanding does not exist and we have no
options to run away from it, then the art of
manipulation comes handy. It is a matter of whatever
you can get out of the situation for that particular
instance.
It is an uncomfortable truth of this life on earth
that the more beautiful things you wish to surround
yourself with, the more lies you have to live with.
None of the pretty establishments are possible
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without allying with insincerity at the core because

making money is strongly influenced by social
niceties, norms, give and take and the system
available to us.
So we end up having coffee with people we do not
like, praising things we do not like, creating publicity
materials which are dishonest, pushing products that
we know are below par. We are virtually living in a
dishonest environment and losing the love of our
children and the pleasure of association with them,
the family becomes foreign to us and we have never
time to smell the flowers in our garden in our estate
and the sunsets just aren't there for all practical
purposes. The control of the "dishonest" powers is
absolute
Improve your spiritual well-being via creative
pursuits, natural settings and sacred spaces. Let
yourself off the hook and relax, especially if life has
been stressful.
Not making oneself available to the stressful
factors around us is a trick that has to be learnt.
Then our DNAs play the fool in the drama of the
sexes. When you look at a woman and something
rumbles within, what are you reacting to? I would ask
every man to meditate on it. What makes the pom
pom go? Is it our DNA, programmed since million of
years to react and act? Is it the beauty that we are
conditioned to appreciate? Is it just our hormones

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in the eyes?

Awfulysing Life
PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARIFRIDAY, 29 APRIL 2016
* Today the problem is cutting out the useless. For
one, people do not know what is not of use. The
temptations of variety has muddled our cravings.
There is just no end to it. And we dont know where
to stop. There are very few emancipated individuals
who purposefully say no to anything that drags them
down into complexities.
* We often make others feel awful . We may not
realise it. But in the game of egos, this is happening
all the time. For example a simple admonition like
this to a child Leave it. You wont be able to do it.
I have seen it being said even by bosses and often in
homes from wives to husband or vice versa.
It is happening to all of us and we are all involved
in some way or another. We are the source
unknowingly due to all the scheming, white lies and
pretended niceness we often adopt.
Eventually relationships arrive at a point that there
is no mutual respect left.
* It is an uncomfortable truth of this life on earth
that the more beautiful things you wish to surround
yourself with, the more lies you have to live with.
None of the pretty establishments are possible
without allying with insincerity at the core because
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making money is strongly influenced by social

niceties, norms, give-and-take and the system
available to us.
So we end up having coffee with people we do not
like, praising things we do not like, creating publicity
materials which are dishonest, pushing products that
we know are below par. We are virtually living in a
dishonest environment and losing the love of our
children and the pleasure of association with them,
the family becomes foreign to us and we have never
time to smell the flowers in our garden in our estate
and the sunsets just aren't there for all practical
purposes. The control of "dishonesty" is absolute.
* In India we follow the adage: If your faults begin
to show, complicate things and make them murkier.
And find scapegoats.
* I saw the film Bajirao Mastan. All I gleamed from
it all was the cussedness and rigidity of the mother
who would rather lose her child than shift her
principles of absolute control and let life go on.
Prepared to even commit murder and let love be sent
to the guillotine. Her hate gave her an identity and
she let it spread into the next generations.
The worst thing that can happen to the children
are the parents - from the Tantric(occult) point of
view.

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Fleeting Thoughts this week

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARISATURDAY, 23 APRIL
2016
* Most often it is the wife or husband who does the
needful to bring pressure of change in our lives. How
many of us do anything spectacular enough to have
enemies? For once I do not agree whole heartedly
with Dalai lama although what he says is basically
true.
* The average person is called average because he
is average and that to by taking into account the
achievements of others to get an average figure. So
normally the people we call average are rather lowly
in real terms
* Do what you think is enjoyable. Get into trouble.
get punished. Sit and ponder. Evolve. Start again.
* Jojo Simons : I think some people are dead long
before they die.
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Pradeep Pk Maheshwari It happens around the age

of 24-30 to most. It is virtually impossible to revive
them. Therein they are doomed to roam the earth as
zombies.
* All wars are bloody finally so let us not get
embroiled in exceptions and deceptions. Focus on
the justification of wars and quarrels. People kill
others, bosses overwhelm their employees, wives
nag their husbands, elders hurt their children - all
because they feel justified. All have very good
reasons; at least they they say so and when in
authority and in a position to enforce it, they go
ahead - without exception! That is where the problem
is and until this is seen in proper perspective, it is all
a waste of time. All this history is best treated like
reading the newspaper - read and forgotten by the
next morning when a new edition arrives. And dont
forget Ashok and Duryodhan. No argument/ It is a
matter of perception. The seed is the same. It is like
an oak and blade of grass existing and birthing from
the same source
* Do not let the negative thoughts, judgemental
side, manipulative plans etc to under-cut the good
that is happening in our lives
The Vedas and Upanishads and the epics
Mahabharat/Ramayan are I think what remains of the
culture/stories that existed in the time at least 15000
- 35000 years ago spread all over the world. It got
lost in other places but in India survived and
flourished. I think most of what we associate with
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Hinduism happened in the Asia Minor area. In other

places it survived in a deformed form in the name of
other religions but commonness can be seen even
superficially in the stories they recount. The core of
these stories have happened but got embellished in
the telling and names changed mainly due to
alterations from sounds transmitted orally and
stories modified to suit the times, conditions and
areas where they travelled to.
* Oh kindness is in plenty only the media in its
money making and manipulation focusses on the
malodorous part of life filling our heads and
hearts/lives with distaste and then subconsciously
making us do distasteful things by instilling a
revengeful attitude. Clever bustards (referring to the
bird & pun intended) selling death and dreams to
want to be alone in total selfishness.
* If you dont create your niche and corner you will
be literally "nowhere". Especially at the end of ones
life when the platform group on which we grew starts
disappearing Humans have very short memories.
Remember.

Life cannot be taken for

granted
PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARIFRIDAY, 15 APRIL 2016
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* Oh kindness is in plenty only the media in its

money making and manipulation focusses on the
malodorous part of life filling our heads and
hearts/lives with distaste and then subconsciously
making us do distasteful things by instilling a
revengeful attitude. Clever bustards (referring to the
bird of death but pun intended) selling death and
dreams to want to be alone in total selfishness.
* For old age. If you dont create your niche and
corner you will be literally "nowhere" Dont be fooled
by the idea that your friends and family of today will
be there. Humans have very short memories.
Remember.
* You know every time a birth happens who
rejoices? Death! Every time a lamb is born, the wolf
rejoices more than the mother. I am stationed in
Uranus. And from here all I see is every creature
gobbling up others around it. The animals do it for
food. The Humans are doing for food as well for
entertainment and most are wiping out everything
around them to build estates to luxuriate in. Even the
healing groups are creating more suffering than
healing. It is a grand joke if you ask us from other
planets. The only guy who is laughing and having his
fill is Death. And at every birth he rejoices because it
means he has more lambs for his killing pleasure.
not that he has much to do with all the unscrupulous
thoughts and feelings humans have.
* This fire of hate is all engulfing if we are not
careful. Bad for the earth's consciousness and it is
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happening in nearly every corner of the world. The

intensity with which the hate is pouring out (for
whatever reason) is quite at the max level.
* On relationships in todays world of all kinds.
The impermanence nature of things. Everything is to
be without effort- it is either you fit in or you dont.
Too many choices have made men greedy and even
more self-centered than ever. Humanity could do
with less choices and possibilities but determined by
benevolent rulers. History is my proof. This is the
only system that has worked till now (unfortunately a
ruler of this caliber comes once only in a 1000
years).
* Death comes always. And always with a very
good excuse. Interpret it to suit your moral way of
seeing life but that is just a mind game. Neither
Karma nor Death can be understood by the human
mind
* The way LOVE is being interpreted today, the
only way we can be loving and kind is to find a
cave in the mountains and sit in the lotus pose and
fast unto death. Every other action is pejorative to
somebody else it seems.

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It is all of us
PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARISATURDAY, 9 APRIL
2016
Anita Menon: Every storm passes.....Every single
one...... PK: ...until the next one. The problem is not
the storms. It is the interval at which they come.
Occult knowledge says that people with
"possibilities" and propensities towards betterment of
their personas are the chosen ones, and the storms
are sent to them to keep them on their toes and
assist their Soul's aspirations. The truer the
aspiration, the more the troubles, peppered with
many storms in continuous waves. But these people
are also provided with intelligence and the means to
weather it all ( of course by the Universe).
Jojo Simons
Anti Israel people seem to be filled with such
hatred they make Nazi's seem reasonable.
PK.
hahaha what is happening today and the way it is
being done, is far cleverer, sinister and widespread.
The entire Earth has been affected. In 1940 we had
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one figurehead to blame. It is no more one guy here

and one guy there. Now the chain is so big and being
done with such finesse that no one person can be
blamed and the perpetrators have hidden their
agendas well and have managed to undermine the
very existence of 99% of the world.
The Devilishness is not only in the obvious violence
we see but also in the products unleashed over the
last 50-70 years. Every single one product has
enriched the perpetrators and the common guy has
willingly been a partner to it all. Excess in all things is
the "Word". The idiots in quest for personal glory (an
idiot basking in the pride of his colour TV, Smart
phone, Limo - sipping caffeinated drinks and eating
fake food are examples including services like
medical care, credit cards etc.) are the pillars on
which these Devils operate.
Look at the big picture and not on spots here and
there. There is deliberate provocation and then
reactions become excuses to hit back. The game
being played is not what is obviously being shown to
us. All that is happening between countries is
carefully choreographed towards war and control.

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Ruminations on my Birthday
PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARITHURSDAY, 7 APRIL
201625 reads
* The garden may not be Zen but Zen is in the
garden. Following hinduism/buddhism will not make
you vegetarians but meditation and growth of the
spirit into a more balanced Being will. It is a natural
happening.
* But we humans end up judging too much. Wait
and see which way the wind is blowing.... What paths
open up on the way.... When the heart is sincere, the
Universe puts in His shoulder to ours
* I know what I can get done. This is more
important than knowing exactly the nitty gritty of
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every action we take in life. (Do I need to be an

expert in medicine to go to a doctor? Do I have to be
an engineer to get a car repaired?) We have experts
in their fields that we rely on. So focus should be on
what we intend doing. The method is secondary. The
way will open up of itself.
* Finally when all is said and done, the Universe
will have His Say and that is what will happen. All our
wisdom notwithstanding
* The way the things are, it seems the dark ages
with a digital overtone are already here
Come on grow up. When the heart is made up, it is
made up and nobody really cares.
100 years ago food,water and air were not adding
to the chemical stress the body is having now.
Alcohol was not such a problem, But today the body
is overloaded beyond its capacity by at least 6 times
and collapses very fast into cancer due to the
disruptions it undergoes.
* Languages are likes seas. Terrifying when one
has not learnt navigation. You cannot expect the
common deckhand to understand the working of the
minds of the Captains. Too much power to the
deckhand without the education has resulted in the
mutinous situation of the world order that we see
today.
C Sadanandan Chelikkattil
Very well thoughtout and written article.
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The Soul of the Party

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARISUNDAY, 3 APRIL 2016
The 3 "INGs" that create this separatedness
between us and the Universe. The arrogance of Being
The arrogance of Doing The arrogance of Knowing.
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All this information is mental gymnastics at best.

Let us live in the present and think of what needs to
be done in the future. It is best to consider historical
connections as play but past.
When you want to do the right thing in a world
going the wrong way, things can be hard on the
spirit. I was thinking while waiting for my madam just
now in the market, that the basic thinking has really
gone all wonker. Christian thought of the medieval
ages, then the Victorian thought patterns that ruled a
great part of recent history and spread European
culture on 3/4th of the world, followed by WWs and
the technological age mixed up with Hippie thinking
and American adventurism now .. a total hotch
potch with Budhism and Yoga and what not. And to
top it all now the digital divide. The basic truth has
been lost in this pretend age of Niceness, Politically
correct behaviour and perceived Compassion.
And in the name of personal freedom we pride in
excessing our basest behavior.
God save this poor world. HE must be laughing HIS
head off.
In any religion or teachings of a saintly persona....
Yes even if all things said are literally true, the
meaning contained is of upliftment of the spirit is the
message. And focus is needed there rather than the
nuts and bolts of the personal historical dates & story
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of his life. We need to go beyond the importance of

dates and exact happenings. Focus should be on the
message and not the messenger.
The way I really follow:
Give the other person my focussed disdain and let
Karma do the rest.
Why should I waste my energy on revenge. It is so
petty.

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Pondering by the Pond

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARISATURDAY, 26 MARCH
2016
Intuition: All it needs is a little silencing of the
spirit, quietening of the din of desires and predecided goals so the voice from within can be heard.
People can, if they wanted, delve deep into their
own selves and know and feel the aura of others if
they would simply permit themselves the joy of living
in the intuitive world.

Often relationships last because an emotional

dependency is also established. Some people also do
not protect themselves or do not know how to and
these poor souls are often vampirised.
We all depend on words to communicate but we
rarely allow them to penetrate or register. The
spoken word is just a mosquito buzz around the ears
and the written word is just a blot on the landscape.
Very important to connect the nature in us with the
Nature out there. Walk in the grass, sing in the rain
and sleep on the sand. Mother Earth will cradle you,
sing you lullabies and hug you back into whole.
The human rogue element only can be coerced
and frightened but not made to understand or learn
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to control himself - he is too much in awe of his own

strength and intellectual ability + totally controlled
by his habits and subconscious patterns.

I must Fail. I insist.

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARITHURSDAY, 24 MARCH
2016
How subjective can we get? That we tend to take
decisions and act on what is convenient and
understandable to us and within our experience is
not just a theory. Practical experience has proven it
again and again. Positive thinking and curiosity go
together. Curiosity is the mother of learning. Learning
results in enhancement of our quality of life if we put
what has been learnt into practice.
In their need to prove their better judgement, most
people deny validity of inputs first and think later.
Once the mouth has said "NO" then it becomes a
matter of sustaining the stance. Then all mental,
physical energies are thrown in the gamble to deny
and fault-finding, studying the myriad ways it is sure
to fail. Thwarting ones own possible betterment and
growth in the future. This is what I call being one's
own best enemy.
I remember the HMT brand of watches. In our
younger days it was a highly respected brand and
then all of a sudden it started disappearing from the
buyers wish lists. What was the reason? I dont really
know for sure but what I heard was that the top
management was acting as the designer of the final
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models being launched in the market and of course

their tastes being the benchmark, their selections
were plagued by subjective choices. Their sales were
great to begin with but soon started falling. I suppose
it never occurred to the top bosses that they were
fine engineers, gradually promoted to top
management posts in a manufacturing unit and that
although very superior when compared to the
common man, their market savvy was incomplete.
And their character had been shaped by working in a
safe, secure organisation funded and founded by The
Govt of India where losses did not pinch their
pockets. The aspirations of the buyers were never
considered and neither was the feedback. No market
survey ever conducted. It was a monopoly and being
a government run organization, the focus was for
the poor whereas the money was with the richer
class. So evidently the actual buyers defected and
today the brand has shut shop.
This is a kind of reverse negative thinking; when
you do all the right things for the wrong reasons. This
is because all the decisions are taken while
remaining within the confines of ones own subjective
comfort zone. Is it so difficult to see that the first
principle of marketing is to find out what they want
and give it to them?
A little peep into our lives will show umpteen
instances where we did the right thing by our
perspective, never taking into consideration any
other factor. This always happens when subjective
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thinking is at work and our arrogance blinds us to

any other possibility as impractical and impossible.
Lately an advertisement is on the TV which shows a
young lady going to great effort and paying a good
price for a pair of jeans with the used & torn look.
She comes home and places the brand new jeans on
her bed. Her mother passes by, sees it and promptly
takes it and stitches it up to make it more
respectable, with absolute conviction that when the
young lady finds it out, she would certainly be
pleased.
It is surprising how many people plan to NOT fail
rather than Succeed.
Failures there will always be. They are part of the
learning process. And hopefully they can be kept in
the limits of what can be called affordable.
Negative thinking is the mother of procrastination.
Procrastination means that there is no urgent need to
reach a goal but rather seem to be doing; appear
busy and seriously involved; a very self-defeating
attitude. Considering that we have only a limited
number of years on this planet, whatever work can
be avoided is a goal in itself. Again the whole attitude
is very personal and if that is convenient to the
procrastinator, who are we to criticize?
My question is can we really run away from life?

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Wanna live like kings?

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARITUESDAY, 22 MARCH
2016
First begin by thinking like kings. Most of us think
like beggars; continuously hankering for alms and the
bowl never quite ever fills. WE are perpetually afraid
of losing the bowl but feel confident that we can
manage wealth.

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Who dares to contradict me?

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARISUNDAY, 20 MARCH
2016
The Threatening Attitude
We Indians are perceived as simple, nice people.
From far, the simplicity of our lives and therefore lack
of need to upset the boat does shows in our docile
attitudes. Then where does all this threatening
comes from?
A story comes to mind. I wanted a part-time typist.
So A retired gentleman, lame and in need because
he still had two daughters to provide for was
employed. I thought I was being charitable. Although
he was a branded typist by virtue of his earlier
employment under the President of India, it became
clear that he had never done an ounce of work and
had forgotten all about typewriters in his long life of
shirking work which was eminently possible & why
people chose employment with the government. So
by the third day I asked him to consider his
employment at an end. Immediately he asked for his
three days salary. I said yes certainly but please
come back on Monday morning as I would have to
clear it with accounts. This man took this as a denial
and abused me saying that we rich people make poor
work and then pocket the amounts due to them and
things in this tone. He finished by saying that if I tried
to play funny with him he would give me a slap that

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send me flying 5 meters,; what did I take him for.

( I had to get him escorted out).
The other day, a year ago, I told my neighbours
that their water problems are due to pipes being
clogged and valves needing change. I know because
I live in the same building. I even told the most
prominent one of them that they should stop
quarrelling and see to the supply from the technical
angle. But no; they were busy blaming each other for
the troubles. So I took the unheard of step to meet
the prominent one alone and asked him what is the
point of this quarrel? He came at me saying that
how dare I blame him for creating the trouble and I
should be wary of him and that he had enough power
to destroy me..
Things were getting difficult at home. I asked my
mother to forget what she had been and reconcile to
the life we had now and that at her age she should
consider withdrawing a bit from everyday irritants
that are only creating quarrels. She retorted by
threatening me with suicide!
Frankly all I see in the behaviour of most Indians is
brashness, arrogance and a show of nuisance value
to keep hiding from real issues and reality as a
whole; as long as a sense of superiority and
supremacy is maintained. Anyone here who dares to
contradict me?
It seems as if the strategy is when things are not
going to ones wishes, deliberately misunderstand,
accuse the other person in some way however
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farfetched, and then use the accusation to threaten

under the flag of self-defense as the injured party.
Jojo Simons Losing face, has to be defended it
seems!

What have we finally

achieved?
PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARISATURDAY, 19 MARCH
2016
People from foreign lands see the people of India,
out on the footpaths taking baths, being shaved,
having lunch or sleeping and their grandiose feelings
surge with pity and they put it into words such as oh
how unhappy these people are or must be! They
start wondering how to improve their lots and give
serious thought to the problem by making
suggestions and often even going the extra mile.
There is only one question.... People who have no
idea what a bathroom is, who have never seen a
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bathroom, can they visualise a bathroom and thereby

be unhappy? I dont think so. Similarly there are a
million of things that are not in our consciousness
and do not bother us. Longing and unhappiness
begins when we are exposed to pictures and ideas
from exterior sources. And this is what movies,
televisions, advertising and the printed media has
done in the last century.
Of course, I admit that it also opens our minds to
newer possibilities. But then that is another story.
Most people start wanting without understanding the
effort that goes into getting these extras in life. They
just end up being miserable or if there is a tinge of
unscrupulousness in their character, it surfaces.
There are always short cuts to snatch whatever we
can lay hands on. And this is precisely what is
happening.
The haves have not shown much scruplousness
either in acquiring much of heir wealth. So in a way
the have-nots feel justified in taking short cuts.
Now the ones who have it are not feeling safe and
are forever in an unsatisfied frame of mind as there
are always better models and design to crave for.
And those who do not have it now incline towards
cheating and thievery. The peace is gone. Both within
and without the mind. Finally I ask what have we
achieved?
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The Battle-Game with Lord

Vishnu
PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARIMONDAY, 14 MARCH
2016
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I am responding to your comment "You are often

still in the cycle of some or other attack/retreat too."
When we take a body on earth, human or
otherwise, we are subject to Mother Nature's norms.
I am definitely trapped as you say and I offer my
experiences and deductions on a platter so others
may reflect and perhaps shorten their own saga.
But all this is akin to a soldier being trained for
battle. He may feel trapped but is allowing himself to
be formed and not averse to it. Therefore not really
troubled.
I normally make very general statements outlining
a philosophical or psychological point. But you used
"YOU.
Perhaps if you did not treat my words as only
transcribing "ME" you would understand that I am
really under no pressure, there is really no pain. I
have manipulated myself out of all the stratagems
life has thrown at me. It is a game for me like Lord
Vishnu throwing curved balls and I hitting for a sixer.
You would have also read my stories where I credit
The Creator of much all that comes to me and
happens to me and how Lord Vishnu took care of
things for me. But with intense effort on my part to
rise to the occasion.
The point some see it as complaints, other see it
as sharings - some see thru it all and know a game is
on.
But in all this the learning, forming and preparation
for the next episode is the main agenda.
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You have missed this and this is where we

disagree.
There are beautiful people and ugly too; there are
more ugly and selfish people than otherwise and
then there are wimps or/and creative geniuses. When
I talk of humans, it is of the general tendencies. It is
not me.
Just because one lion becomes friendly, it does not
mean that the very nature of the lion breed has
become friendly.
Every story is me and not me at the same time as
it has always been with story tellers.
One of these when the learning cycle is complete
people will surely accept humanity/humans/earth as
it is and not as they want it to be.
Human relationships are based on "use & throw".
Once we understand this, all the enchantments
vanish and peace descends because we then learn to
relate with our soul and connect to the world through
flowers, butterflies, the wind and the sun.
We shall also finally understand that nobody really
wants to understand others. This expectation and
pull to understand are all rather self-centric. How can
relationships happen?

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The Adventures of the Barrel

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARITHURSDAY, 3 MARCH
2016
This barrel was being used to collect rain water
from the roof of the cottage in some place high in the
hills; it had nothing to do but to sit there and wait for
the water to drop into it. It felt so useless, sitting
there day in and days out doing nothing. A pity that it
never occurred to it that it had an important job to do
because the drinking water supply for the cottage
came from it. But then what do we really know about
what we are doing down on this earth and this life? In
the distance the barrel could see the stream going
for adventures to faraway places and being part of
the big wide world. The barrel could see very far from
its position high up in the hills. So it decided one day
to travel. One fine day it rolled down the hills it
seemed like good fun but then it started catching
speed and this getting scary. A stone on the way
down asked him if he could join him and they started
rolling down. It wasnt exactly a nice journey. The
ground was terribly uneven and rocks and shrubs
were everywhere. Yet they had no way to stop
themselves they found and kept on going down:
dhump, bang, shoosh boing, jhoosh! And then
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suddenly after a big dhump they both found

themselves hurtling into the air. For a moment it was
too new an experience and scared them both. Then
just as they were enjoying the feeling the stone and
the barrel parted ways and the barrel landed in the
river with a huge splash; totally shocked by the
newness of the whole thing and could feel a burning
sensation from the landing on the water. And then it
found itself stuck between two big rocks below some
trees. A mother crocodile and her son were sunning
not far away. The barrel was wondering what now?
But the fears were unfounded. The baby croc decided
to make the barrel its playhouse and from that day
would spend a lot of its time in it. Oh well, thought
the barrel, this isnt all bad at all. But the baby croc
soon out-grew the barrel and one day when trying to
get into the barrel a flick of its tail pushed it out of its
resting place, and the barrel started going down the
stream again. Sometime later it felt being grabbed
and taken out of the water. Another man had caught
it and took it home and put it to use to collect rainwater. The barrel was exactly where it had started
from. Ah destiny! But this time the barrel was happy
that at least these unpredictable adventures would
stop and decided to make the most of life by staying
there, as part of the establishment all that courage
and bravado now replaced by wisdom of its place in
the scheme of things.

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The desperation of being alive

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARISUNDAY, 28 FEBRUARY
2016
People talk of the poverty and desperate
conditions of the lower castes and the poor. Try and
also imagine the hardship of being born in an affluent
home, totally under the mercy of your peers. Peers
those are ready to garrote their children if they come
in the way of their advancement in
corporate/political/money affairs).
Where marriages are made as corporate/kingdom
mergers and the soul of the children is sold to the
devil.
It is the same at every level. The stories are not so
simple or easy but the forces at work are creating
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different sounding stories but really the same at the

roots.
The feeling of helplessness, claustrophobia, terror,
and repugnance are the same. Time passes. Changes
nothing.
We have to make the changes on our own
Avoid emotional train wrecks. Whether it's low
blood sugar or not enough shuteye is to blame,
doesn't matter to the people you're yelling at. Set a
happier tone to avoid unnecessary drama. Certain
things will be because the components are in place
and the power switch is "ON". A big BANG is as much
possible as anything else.
But I say - let it be. Don't let your apprehensions
block you. Allow yourself to be surprised one way or
another.
Jk Karrman Yes!

My First First-Aid Box

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARIWEDNESDAY, 24
FEBRUARY 2016
I must have been 11-12 and I simply had to have a
first-aid box of my own. The situation though was not
promising. I was a boarding school student in The Sri
Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry. A good dispensary
was available to us from 7 am to 7pm and we were
not allowed any money. So what!
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This did in my logic gave me more the reason to

have one first-aid box of my own. What if I scratched
myself in the period 7 pm to 7 am? If I were to ask
my teachers, or the dispensary, I was quite certain
that I would be rebuffed; even laughed at. No. This
was going to be more difficult than that. A stratagem
was required. So I planned a picnic into the Red Hills
area outside Pondicherry. This is a sandstone stony
area in which thousands of years of water flowing
has made canyon like structures. The picnic was
planned. A teacher was manipulated to supervise
and accompany. Permission was taken. And with this
grand excuse I went to the dispensary to ask for
some cotton, mercurochrome, antiseptic fluid to
clean wounds and of course some plaster and gauge.
Our great doctor, who could see through us, gave me
one look, understood and yet agreed to let me have
some! My reputation as a creative genius had done
me some good after all!! There all done!!! We had a
great picnic. And the first-aid kit worked its magic.
Nobody ever got hurt then or later. That could be
called disappointing a little as the kit never got to be
used really but I HAD ONE!
Now as an adult I am realizing that we collect so
much simply because we have to have one!!

Yogeshwari Yogeshwari..I am sure this relates to

most of us.

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Kathy Gloverof course, you returned the

supplies to the dispensary once the picnic was over Pradeep Pk Maheshwari.. eh?
Kathy Gloverhaha PK

Opportunities vs. Burden

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARITUESDAY, 23 FEBRUARY
2016
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When we are honored with a senior post,

recognition and added responsibilities, is it a burden
or honor?
When I was younger, there were many
opportunities offered to me like Start my travel
company, Start a school, Start a Boutique place,
Start a company for some other investors, Big
investors were behind me to do their business.
But all I could see was a trap to tie me to a post
like goat/cow and be milked for all I am worth. The
very thought that I would then be stuck to a seat of
their making with nothing on my mind other than the
bottom line for the company and being at the beck
and call of the investors gave me the shivers. It was
so claustrophobic that I would end up disturbed as
saying NO in the immediate family circle was simply
not an option Every time these offers came my way, I
was terrified of the burden they were placing on me.
It scared me to death. Not that I am afraid of taking
up a challenge; I rather thrive on them. But I insist to
be at the helm of it. Being available to others to do
their bidding was never my idea of life.
I wanted to be free to do my own thing, study,
travel, paint and what not.
I was obviously being foolish as I was told for I
would amount to nothing in my place in the world.
Without money there is no life I was told.
But said I - I need only a little to be what I am, I am
certain I can collect at least that much - and stuck to
my guns.
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My belief in the fact that The Universe will provide

is/was absolute + that if any ability of any worth,
money would come of its own accord. The effort
should go in improving ourselves to a point where we
become essentials. Anyway I was wowed by the
statement I read in Maugham's book that It is a
quirk of fate that those who do not settle for
anything but the best, normally get it.
And my idea of best was and still is to pursue my
calling whatever it is, to try and learn in the process.

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The Irony of it All

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARIFRIDAY, 12 FEBRUARY
2016
The irony of it all. Most women when deep into
their marriage complain that the men are selfcentered, arrogant Mommas darlings and never
really grow up. I agree. The irony is that when these
same women have sons they rear them to feel that
they are the star, the moon and the sun; that the
world exists due to them and for them! And this is
behind the sad story. The stories of mothers in law
not exactly being mothers to their daughter in laws
has some basis in reality. It is a very convoluted
relationship. A daughter in law is needed but not
wanted!!
Mothers, but first as wives, do not realise the harm
their ways to impose their wishes does on the
coming generations and this is being perpetuated ad
infinitum. Indians are that way. Their little world. You
are welcome into it only at their whim/desire
fulfillment. Everything else is summarily ignored.
On feeling sad for yourself: The problem is the
disengagement required from feeling sorry for
oneself, to expecting others to feel sorry for you and
support you - to dramatise and make the most out of
the situation. Consider where going after what you
wanted has hurt you and conversely where not
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asserting yourself has brought pain. Look to where

you may have avoided conflict at a cost to yourself.

Wilful deprivation
PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARIWEDNESDAY, 10
FEBRUARY 201613 reads
This is the first lesson of Zen. Sleep when sleepy.
Eat when hungry.
This is the reason why I have been able to
maintain a certain level of balance in the
biochemistry of my body's working. I attribute this to
the resilience and reserve the body was able to
create with good nutrition, timely support with
natural medication and careful organisation of the
environment around it.
In addition our sleeping time was appointed at
latest 9 pm and wake up at 5-5.30 am.
Our school time in the Ashram was organised to
give us an hour of rest in the afternoon. Our warden
would make sure that we lay down. This habit got so
deeply embedded in my body that it goes for a nap
at the appointed hour wherever I may be.
This I carried over into my life. It was the most
important consideration. I have compromised with
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most things but this - NO. I organised my life around

it. No joke in this world of 9 to 5 living.
These timings are very natural cycles in Nature.
Our bodies follow these times mostly. Known as the
circadian rhythm. It is in our interest of maintaining
good health to follow it. There others that follow a
little different rhythm. One should make a serious
attempt to understand this. For example I notice that
my time to sleep is very close to the time of my birth.
Now I am noticing the same thing in my wife and
daughter. I love to be up and about by 3.30 am in
summer and 5ish in winter. I am at my peak in the
silence of the morning and by midday I need a nap.
My wife likes to sleep by 11pm, get up by 8.30 and
starts getting ready to go out only by midday. This is
the biggest chasm between us.
Because the body is allowed to have its say and I
do not interfere with my mind, now it is so ingrained
that I cannot override the habits. I unfailingly fall
asleep in a yogic sleep at around 8.20 pm. Often a
short one but when tired it stretches up to 90-100
minutes. When in this sleep you can play a musical
band around me and it wont wake me. This
tendency makes it very difficult for me to accept
dinner outings. The time is always around 8 pm, food
is served long later and then I am expected to drive
back home. I simply an not able to return home until
I have napped and this I do. But then people are used
to by now of my cranky ways.

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You Telling Me?

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARIFRIDAY, 29 JANUARY
2016
Millions of words are being said but only some click
with us.
So called sayings of wisdom may even sound silly
out of context. All sayings encompass some direct
experience which is very personal in its nature. Then
every soul is not at the same level. Therefore to
many the experience recounted may sound odd or
even stupid. Then in reality, the oppositeis also
equally true it all depends on the context.
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And this problem is seen with all subjects. What is

beyond the knowledge or experience/exposure of an
individual will never be understood by that individual.
Sages normally speak from a very impersonal level
and so what they say is universal in nature but that
too can be disliked by people when it clashes with
their personal agendas or indoctrination.
It is always best to choose your audience more
carefully. When you pass on something, give it a
context like explaining it why you find it interesting
or how an experience of yours is explained by the
saying etc. This makes it easier for others to grasp
the message.
There should never be an element of wanting to
influence others. Nobody learns from others. We can
only share our experiences and this should be done
among people who are interested in it particularly.
Often teachings are resented because they may
prove another's attitudes wrong creating a direct
clash with their personas.
We all have strong likes and dislikes and almost all
are based on moral concepts or traditional religious
practices in families; rarely based on understanding
of psychology, history and geographical necessities.
We need to look at life as it is without judgment.
What we would like and what we consider as the
right way is another matter and should be pursued
too but too much vehemence translates as violence.

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Minds and Men

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARITUESDAY, 26 JANUARY
2016
One of the characteristics of an unexposed mind is
that it thinks the rest of the world is full of duffers
and it is its job to fill in the vacuum. So it will butt in
every conversation; dub things beyond its
understanding absurd; leave you no choices; and be
very adamant that its decision is to be taken as final
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and the best possible under the circumstances. It

follows the crowd and thinks of itself as an individual:
its motto Everybody is doing it! This is also the
reason why the TV, Social digital platforms, free
internet are helping spread attitudes & behavior
patterns. There are just too many cooks around.
Most of them are spreading negative vibes which is
quietly, unobtrusively spreading disastrous thought
patterns and behavior. Today from what I see and
know from the NEWS, every solution of young ones is
to kill the problem guy or commit suicide. Even the
slightest thwarting is reason enough. Just ask
yourself where these thoughts are coming from?

It needed to be said
PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARIMONDAY, 25 JANUARY
201613 reads
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There is a lot of kindness in accepting that humans

are an evolved species and all individuals are created
equal. But facts belie this. Most humans are already
paralyzed with indoctrination by the time they are
adults. Then life doesnt really require them to do
more than take care of their little patch. Their brains
are in a virginal state and open to brainwashing. In
the democratic system this is now obvious. The right
amount of money and oratory gets you a good
following. It is high time to focus on the awareness
levels of the voter and customer base. Recent
pronouncements, lecturing and posturing by many
leaders all over the world in countries like India,
England, France, USA have shown it clearly and
created a great awareness globally thru & due to
digital tech who & how runs the countries with so
called democratic systems.
Big pharma and industrial giants in food industry
have used this factor in their growth.
And a few words here and a few words there are
not going to change anything.

Even history and clear happenings like the French

Revolution, Rule of Cromwell and better examples of

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rule from Ashoka to Akbar have not made any impact

what so ever.
Everything they do is designed to sell and kill.
I have always felt that a certain amount of
ruthlessness is needed in management but where do
we find enlightened managers? Otherwise things
quickly become unruly with every idiot wanting to air
his piece of aria. And what is obvious to me is that
the human race and the individuals therein are not
yet ready for self-governance.
Yes - verbalising at great length is not a virtue. It is
my understanding that humans are at a level of
mental development where they need to externalise
themselves in every activity and in thoughts they
tend to then put into words/sounds to "see" what
they are thinking.
BUT there is another side to it which is that often
thoughts have to be "placed" in the "heads" of
others. Their wheels turn only when jump started
from an external source. (The entire science of
advertising/campaigning is based on it)
It has to be short and sweet on TV or Billboard any crap will do and it is lapped up. It becomes a
documented fact, through TV; the subconscious can
be reached or penetrated without passing through
the analysing mind.
It seems the human animal uses about only 10% of
its cerebral capacity.
And it all goes in our concern TO HAVE than TO BE.
Dolphins use 20%
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If you look around you, we see great achievements

as a whole which is the result of many trained
individuals working somehow together. But
individually they are minuscule in their abilities and
understanding. For argument's sake I ask you how
many people/individuals do you know who could be
called experts in 20 different professions ( 20
different professions in one person or even 8-10
profession). And I use the word profession - not
subjects.
And the other faculties that now even science
accepts like 6th sense, correct listening, memory,
observation etc
It is sad to see people taking great pride in owning
a mass produced product as if they had created
something exclusive. I think this is called making a
statement. The statement that I read is that there is
money available and you want the world to know it
so you get the most expensive products, the prices of
which are well advertised and the monetary value
cannot be underestimated.

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What you are aspiring for as regard and

understanding in humans will come when the
consciousness levels of earthlings evolve. Taking
human history till now you need to just gauge the
development in the last 10000 years. So I can safely
say given another 10000 years or so there should be
definite improvement. It is also a fact that humans
earlier moved in a very small world circle. Now travel
and media has opened minds to a greater amount of
triggers. The mind h is now coming into its own.
In the meanwhile you should focus on becoming so
needed, admired and appreciated so that no one
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would want to let go and should feel like squandering

ones life on you because appreciation comes of its
own accord when you have raised your level of
consciousness and you ooze gratefulness, beautiful
selfless attitudes. It is well known when you are kind
and compassionate in your attitudes to life, LIFE
responds by filling your bag with joy.
Talking of respect, how many of us know how to
gain it? Demanding wont get us anywhere.
Especially as a right. Anyway what is so special or
what have you done so special as to expect it at all?
All the women forced to wear hijab and burqua
must be wondering what is it all about.
I wanted to bring out the thought that with the
feminine physiognomy is not a secret, and available
to view openly in all Medias, what is there making
the men so secretive about?
Control is all it is always about. One thing I have
not understood: why this need to hide them so
menacingly. Most women live in families with a lot of
others around them all the time. Having a sexual
escapade is difficult. Is sex is all there is in
relationships?
Why are men so afraid! What is so precious about
"their" particular woman? Is he afraid that he is not
good enough and that SHE might be attracted to
another?

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Thee & Thine as a Bill Board

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARITHURSDAY, 21 JANUARY
201622 reads
It is sad to see people taking great pride in owning
a mass produced product as if they had created
something exclusive. I think this is called making a
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statement. The statement that I read is that there is

money available and you want the world to know it
so you get the most expensive products, the prices of
which are well advertised and the monetary value
cannot be underestimated.
I remember when my cousin went abroad and
came back as the proud owner of an Omega wrist
watch which unfortunately did not attract much
attention. His was lamenting how it was the most
useless thing he had bought as nobody ever
appreciated or looked at it.
Just imagine, permitting yourself to be a bill-board
and think that you are making an impression.
The only impression I get is that you need props
such as these to show the world that you have
arrived.
If a label on your shoe and shirt makes you feel
this, I wonder what kind of arrival is this to be
considered. Most high priced cars are bought for this
main reason and the car industry is surviving on it.
The Exception Lobby would immediately say that
it is not always so. I agree. Most of the expensive
products are also technically better products with
features that are way superior to the middle class
average products. But I raise this question: Do we
really need these awfully superior features?
Once I was in New York with a cousin and a Rolls
passed us. His exclamation was: is this guy crazy?
Bringing a Rolls into New York? Today I have the
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same reaction when I see convertibles in the worlds

most polluted city Delhi. Just imagine a Mercedes
Coupe in the unorganized, undisciplined traffic of
Delhi that barely crawls at 20 KMPH. Any way Indians
love flaunting. Making over-kill statements comes
easily to us.
I never buy anything where the brand name is
displayed so prominently that I become a walking
advert-billboard for them.
I would never agree to anyone putting a sticker on
my car for the same reason. Yes I agree I am a snob.
And this reminds me of a story: A guy came into
inheritance and he immediately went to buy himself
a better car and he bought a second hand Jaguar. His
close friend, surprised, asked him why a used one?
His reply: so that people would think he always had
one!

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The Hiding Syndrome

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARIWEDNESDAY, 20
JANUARY 2016
Do we really need these elaborate props to "BE"
somebody?
Are we somebody to begin with?
Do people have the talent needed to recognise
worth?
Is a kingly posture possible without these props?
So finally can we say that we put up this pomp &
show because it is expected!

Well Lord I think now you will have to let me go out

into fresh air. I refuse to fight or demand anymore. I
refuse to do anything, So there! What are you going
to do now? Just feed me and let me live in comfort
while I post these inanities on Facebook?

Often we start without knowing what the future will

bring. Our hopes are very encouraging.
Where does this optimism suddenly disappear to
when the going gets a little difficult?
I tend to think, that underlying laziness and wishful
thinking is more in evidence in our decisions than the
other way round.
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We must dream with expectations and act but live

ready to be disappointed.

I wonder what friends and relatives are afraid of in

letting each other know or give a first preference on
events, happenings, stories or when there is buying
or selling. I think we open up more and more easily
to strangers.
When a child I used to sit and watch my Mamaji
(Brother of mother) who practiced medicine in our
town of Hapur. Boy! Was it exasperating!?
Most of the patients were from out-lying villages
and would come to the town doctor - the most
famous one - only when their own "trials" had failed
and mostly too when the case would have reached a
critical stage.
The conversations that would ensue were fairly
comical.
I wondered if they had come for advice or what.
Quite the opposite. They would normally try to push
on the doctors their own diagnosis and quite often
they would hide many symptoms pretending them to
be unimportant because at heartthey knew that their
own self-medication had worsened them.
And now when I sit by some doctor friends, I see
nothing has changed. The "hiding" has become more
eloquent with education!

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Self-entitlements &
Disappointments
PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARITUESDAY, 19 JANUARY
2016
It is so obviously clear now that most of our pains
are self-inflicted based mainly on the positions we
take on the foundation of self-worth and presumed
entitlements. Our expectations from others are
fashioned accordingly.
Something that is totally in our mind, others not
being aware of it for the simple reason that they
have no way to learn how your secret thoughts are
forming.
We then obviously crib within and like sour-pusses,
make our life bitter and for others too we create a
stream of unpleasantness for which there can never
be any resolution. The bitterness keeps on spreading
and engulfing. Life becomes hell and few know how
to break out of this trap. Normally once we fall in the
well of self-pity and often to sound virtuous we put
up a show of self recriminating drama, the vortex
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keeps on pulling one down into the murky areas of

the self from which only distress can emanate.
Emotional blackmail always backfires and blows up
our life irreparably.
People tell me that the argument started because
the other party could not see my point of view in the
first place.
Often what I have seen that arguments happen
when there is a deeper need to "control". It is the
Ego-Vampire nexus at work. There was no intention
of trying to understand to begin with.
The words and reasons are couched in
reasonableness and very logical sounding. But in the
name of "helping", "being kind and virtuous",
"wanting the best for you and such, people are
insidiously trying to impose themselves.
This is where the discordant notes arise. When
they are found out, they hide by behaving as the
injured party. The proof is in the fact that they
immediately break-off relations because where there
is reasonableness nobody ever breaks off relations.
The stumble was destiny's way of telling you that
you are not paying attention.
The stones have done their assigned duty; now it is
up to you.
Well perhaps we may not see god but certainly we
see His hand everywhere. Where do you think came
the intelligence in humans and the raw materials on
this earth to make all the wonderful things that we
now enjoy?
Let us not get engulfed by the feeling of arrogance
of being the doers with no support from anywhere.
Think a little more kindly.

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We need to re-evaluate our

bearings
PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARITHURSDAY, 14 JANUARY
2016
* On the disturbing trends of todays personality
clashes: Most good parents, so called good and
virtuous by society tend to be rather arrogant and
treat their young with some form of violence in their
attitudes.
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Not being there for the child and not genuinely

listening to them is the most subtle form of abuse.
The children have to bear a lot of the brunt of their
parents mistakes because they are totally
unprotected and they can be blamed for a lot without
anyone getting the wiser.
There is also something like loving abuse in the
form of emotional black-mail.
It just doesn't happen in a day. Attitudes and coverups in society create this messed up personas we are
seeing more and more. There is disturbance right
from the core of the being. Another point that I would
factor in, is the complexity of doctrines now the
young ones have to face. It is confusing and
contradictory. The soul from within responds; the
world outside, the reality one is living in is
contradictory. Parents are simply not ready to take on
this new parenting load. Neither by education or by
training nor by willingness. They started with sex on
their minds and that is about all!
The simplistic style of thinking and acting are now
gone. Society has not as yet grown up to absorb this
effect.
* We are so at loggerheads about everything
Thatthe only point of contact is silence.
* All that effort - whatever for?
Not to please "them" certainly.
* Finally I have matured enough to realise that we
are all perfect islands. Complete and irrevocable.
We are what we are. They are what they are.
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Observe, note and make the best of it.

There is nothing to be taught and none is
teachable anyway and does NOT NEED teaching. Get
this into your head pronto.
This is the route to joy and happiness.
Do what you have to do and let them do what they
have to do and they will anyway.
It is all simple chemistry. The Creation has its own
chemistry, you have yours and they have theirs.
Then when the ingredients mix - often, more often
than not, there is BOOM.

Putting an end to it all

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PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARIWEDNESDAY, 6
JANUARY 2016
To end our suffering. The goal is to arrive at a clear
point where the mind learns to be objective to be
able to see as an outsider its own functioning, errors
and faults. To arrive at this point the mind has to
break its close association with the amour-propre
aspect of our being. It does help to start with
understanding and accepting the nature of the mind.
This is a time to reflect on how our mind works.
The sad truth is, we very rarely use our intelligence
to benefit our life. Usually we are just reactive, like a
programmed animal. We use our intelligence in a
cunning way, to get what we want - to tell ourselves
(our ego) what it wants to hear.
Often we do not know we are doing this. But now is
a good time to check in about this habit, and
introspect.
On giving ultimatums to oneself and others:
On the down-to-earth level, try to learn to
manipulate instead of confronting with ultimatums.
They tend to back-fire on the earthly plane for the
simple reason : one rigid mind against another rigid
mind is like clashing of stones.
And if has to be done then it has to be done and as
such just do it. But not through ultimatums that
warns the other and the other may manipulate the
situation to his advantage.
We have to accept that technology has made
things too easy. Everything is too easily available
without much effort. Technology has brought in lethal
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factors into our life which a person in 1700 could

have only have dreamt of. It started with the
motorised carriage. Technology permits over
producing and over consumption. The new digital
technology has made the use of the mind even less
important and so we see more mindlessness in
action.
Humans dont use their minds to live better. So
finally it is the mind that needs to be reprogrammed.
Humans come on this Earth for a short period. Not
long enough to make any deep change in the
evolutionary cycle of earth and humans.
Intelligent people who have a better understanding
of things see the problems and suggest corrective
measures with great goodwill and often vehemence.
The point intelligentsia misses is that the adaptation
and evolution is a natural process in which the
mental faculties of humans are not really at work.
Breaking our heads on it and stressing oneself out
on this subject or any other developments going on
in this creation is a waste of energy.
We can only watch and try to not permit what we
consider negative- influences in our existence and
whatever little influence we have on life to
overwhelm our lives.
Life, it is said, is a process of learning wherein we
shed our sharp edges and mellow down. Yet, if you
ask me, it is not a willing effort. We find ourselves in
circumstances and situations that force us to batten
down the hatch and plain and simple age melts down
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our ability to show off our arrogance. What if we did

this willingly and with full knowledge and the
cooperation of our will? This would be yoga. We may
even encapsulate a few extra lives into one and
come at the other end far greater as a Being than we
could have ever imagined in the natural course of
things.
PS:
I can understand how the word manipulation may
be understood or misunderstood. If you will notice
this confusion comes from analysing the possible
meaning.
The word manipulation means much more than the
negative connotation people know about. It also
means the strategy needed to achieve an end.
You have heard of reverse psychology and have
definitely seen in use. This is friendly manipulation.
Most humans use direct strength - using their
authority if they have or their position in the big
wheel which can be something like black-mail which
is also manipulation.
So we use our understanding of psychology and
assist/influence the other person to think on a given
track of our choice. This is also manipulation.
AND everybody is doing it all the time - it is the
only way to live/interact that humans know.

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New Year Sadness.

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARIMONDAY, 4 JANUARY
2016
Today for some reason there is a something that
has taken me back to the massacres & pillaging
this world has seen and continues to see. It must be
the messages of change that are being so talked of
in the beginning of a calendar new year. But what
change? Every time a person who wants to be king or
assert his authority, only one aspect of humanity
prevails and that is of destroy whatever is in front
of them so that they can fly their flag WITHOUT
OPPOSITION. The people are first in line so that they
will not breed more and the intelligentsia and the
libraries are the first to be targeted on some pretext
of the other destroying them as examples and show
of strength is always the first priority. Today we are
seeing another form of this violence so deeply
embedded in human affairs the destruction of
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natural habitat for personal profit. Another worsening

aspect in society that I am seeing happening is the
elevation of selfishness in the name of individualism
what people are not seeing because it is rather
hidden from general view is the spurt in personal
violence and barbarity behind doors. Something that
has now become possible due to the new way society
has organized itself where we can live without
showing ourselves to prying eyes. I dont think I need
to give examples or name names. Our news media
comes up with new stories every day. We have all
read history.
Sadness envelops me. How many more thousands
of years before wisdom will become the guiding
light? Enlightened individuals are born. They are
heard- Appreciated as saints and soon relegated to
history. They die leaving a few disciples and books
which more often than not become a source of
quarrels among believers and the virtuous who take
it upon themselves to propagate the words. Time
upon time hordes get together on the platform of
some principles go on massacring spree. And to all
this we proudly give the word CIVILISATION
Kathy Glover:.. I feel sad that you are feeling so
sad!
Chidambar Stef ..Excellently expressed.
I understand completely.

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Sadness is a natural, human response to the

knowledge of tragedies of ignorance and un-love the
media bring to our attention.
One hopes Humanity will survive through this
corrupt, disturbed and disturbing period of Kali Yuga.
One must remain an optimist and understand the
millions of un-reported acts of love and charity that
occur every moment all over this beautiful planet
that will never be seen in the media.
We need to understand our own societally
implanted prejudices and judgements.
Like a stubborn child, humanity is in its early
infancy learning that beyond the grabbing for
personal gain (I, me, mine) there lies a world of social
interaction, love, connectedness and relationship.
Like a child who realises that destroying the
playground is going to affect one's own delight and
possibilities for play, humanity is slowly
understanding that destroying our environment over
here will ultimately touch us all. What I do to another,
I do to me and my loved ones.
When our own disturbed false egotism is seen
through then every small act of kindness reminds us
who we all are.
Tough times indeed! Keep the light burning!
Pradeep Pk Maheshwari.. yes
Britta Edwards ..Will we ever learn??

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Hans Christian.. Sadly I believe that war is just

an excuse for people already having a desire to kill
and hurt other people in starting or participating in
war they are finding a so called legalised way of
fullfilling their disturbed desires.
Pradeep Pk Maheshwari I think so too

Here, Hear, Hier

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARISATURDAY, 2 JANUARY
2016
Whole lives are spent in searching for tenderness.
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Quite contrary to this earthly life founded on

thorns.
The permanence of sweet embraces dreamt of
Is in the final Great Experience of eternal Death...
How does it matter in which hospital we took birth.
Or the date or thru who?
Are we alive today?
Live for today and the moment you are going
through in the present.
Your past is concentrated here.
Your future is focussed in it.
For all else remember
I thought I had a home. It disappeared.
I thought I had a family. It disappeared.
I thought I had strength. It gradually ebbed.
I thought I had "smartness". That world changed.
I thought my time has come. But time says no.
Will I ever have a say in my life?

Looking for health?

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PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARIMONDAY, 28
DECEMBER 2015
Looking for good health?
You have to allow the body to find its natural
chemistry balance again.
Embrace natural food and natural conditions.
Herbs and homeopathy start working and the
immunity that develops is easily treated by normal
medicines. Antibiotics sometimes then prove to be
too strong and disturb the body instead of helping
and dont even need to be thought of.
When the illness has been allowed to grow beyond
a point then preventive measures are not enough.
One must first live in a such a way that illness does
not get a step-hold. But once it has been allowed to
fester, some drastic measure may be necessary
followed by back to nature methods.
When one is seriously sick, simply a change of diet
( going vegan etc) is not enough. The agitations, of
the spirit also need to be quietened. Replaced with
silence and music and laughter. And stress has to be
minimised which can be mental, emotional and
physical.
A beautiful passage from Lua Astrology:
Nature has no judgments. It doesn't punish, it
doesn't chastise. Nature just is. Let your thoughts
just be. Go for a walk in the wild if you can to clear
away mental cobwebs. Notice the trees and plants
that grow in your environment, even if you live in a
city. Imagine their roots, deep in the earth. You are
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supported too, by your history and by your

ancestors. You are part of the Earth, a child of nature.
Ground yourself in reality to access deep wisdom
directing you to the path ahead.
My experience with info sharing on cancer has had
the same negative, credulous results.
The trust in what the modern day doctors tell is
absolute.
Cancer patients should be informed that nutrition
is their first and best defense when starting down the
path of healing from cancer. Information should be
provided about how to switch to an alkaline diet,
composed of primarily vegetables, with a small
amount of fruit, grains and protein. This diet is
similar to the ketogenic diet, which is much
discussed in the oncology press, but with further
reduction in total protein consumption as well as
grains, processed fats and sugar, to help control
inflammation in the body.
Instead, the dietary information provided to cancer
patients is an afterthought, and amazingly, usually
includes foods and meal preparation techniques that
are known promoters of cancer progression.[iii]
Clearly, there is a disconnect between very well
documented information on diet and cancer
progression and those who communicate most
often with cancer patients the oncology teams.

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Suddenly the knowledge of last millions of years

has become garbage to all those exposed to today's
media and publicity campaigns.
Thousands of years of the same lessons but no
change.
Humanity is not going to change with a few words.
Most even refuse to learn from their experiences.
What chance words have?
And as for words,
Who is listening anyway?

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Philosophy for Christmas Eve

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARITHURSDAY, 24
DECEMBER 2015
* It is Christmas eve and all I can think of is how
much of our time we spend on picking on flaws of
others. Why? Perhaps we need to counter balance
the load of our own flaws that we are deeply
conscious of but not ready to acknowledge. So we
offset the balance by weighing the other pan with
flaws of others. Then we can feel justifiably normal.
* We talk of starting all over again. In the night we
are convinced that we have learnt the lesson. By
morning we are certain we shall be changed people.
So here comes another day with all its fresh
promises.
But as soon as warmth hits us, we feel relaxed, we
slip back into our old sheath and forget everything.
The Sun is not in the habit of asking questions.
The moon is another matter and great friends with
Karma. I think Karma put the moon there as his spy
and everything is being noted.
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* If you want to remain sane, dont take anything

seriously and have no expectations.
* Associate with the exquisite. Demand it. Expect
it.
The Universe, poor fellow will have no option but
grant it.
* Modern science has given us many products that
has definitely put more control of our lives in our
hands.
It is the excessive misuse that is the problem. Food
supplement vitamins/minerals in easy to take
capsule form is one and Aspirin is another.
Last three days I have been under the weather
with food poisoning and with more than just mild
fever. But I have been going to pick up my daughter
from school on the strength of an aspirin. Once done,
plop back into bed.
Since the last 30 years or so doctors in India
started taking the easy route by prescribing
terramycin for virtually everything including colds
and fevers. A wide spectrum antibiotic was so
convenient and it worked well enough.
The shrewd Indians picked this up super fast. Now
most of us are strongly resistant and when really
required like in surgery, we do not respond.
* I hear more and more this argument: - It is not
my language so mistakes are acceptable.
Sorry. You are in error sir.
Mistakes are not acceptable but tolerated.

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When you use a language it becomes yours, then it

is your responsibility to complete your
communication in a style that is understood by all.
You can't borrow a pen and then blame the
mistakes by saying it was not my pen! Can you?
Don't look for excuses to cover up your lack of
effort to not wanting to learn and improve yourself.
* Karma is not a court of law where you can juggle
the results.
Your plans and manipulations are on record, deep
down in your subconscious history, whatever the
images you may have painted for others to see.
You are attached to your intentions and they unroll
of themselves.
* 4 years ago we went rummaging for jackets for
the little one. The cloth markets are normally out in
the open, being handled by not so clean people and
dust is everywhere. The chances of picking up a few
bugs are very high. Then we had something to eat in
a joint - an Indian chain called Haldiram's. This was a
Saturday. By evening I was sick. Real sick.
SO I vowed I am not going to repeat this mistake.
But then by force of circumstances I had to go
looking for fabric for some job for Lars in Denmark.
This is a different market area but the character is
the same. The shopkeeper a friend offered me
something to eat and the food came again from
Haldiram's. And it was a Saturday.
And I was sick again. Lung infection and tummy
upset.
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I have got up today for a while after 3 days.

Shall we blame the stars? I am inclined to.
We are masters of our fate they say. What a joke.

Think, think, think.......

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARISATURDAY, 19
DECEMBER 201520 reads
This is what I mean when I say We are so busy
being clever, that we have no time to be intelligent
What has gone wrong with us? The attitude is now
part of our national character. The salesman in the
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shop, the cashier in the bank, the clerk in any office,

the cop at crossing..just about everywhere and
everyone is behaving as if they are doing us a favor.
Their salary is an acquired right, guaranteed by the
constitution. Even if cash gratification is not always
in order, there is always a lot of pleading and
flattering involved in every exchange. If by any
chance you allow yourself the pleasure of demanding
by right that you be served, the other guy will go into
a sulk and find millions of excuses to not do your job
and you cant do a thing about it. It is sadistic the
way every little authority becomes a reason for egogratification or worse; pocket-warming.
What have we done to ourselves? We are ourselves
to blame. Over the years through our long and
checkered history we have taught the public servant
that we are prepared to pay extra for everything as
along as our selfish interests are served first. So
much so that we have stopped keeping our papers or
ledgers in order and we break most minor laws with
impunity knowing or at least hoping that we shall pay
our way through and avoid any official action. The
bigger industrial houses with vested interests made
this a regular practice with payments under the table
on an acquired right basis. Then the democratic style
of government learnt the trade, so much so that
today everyone has rights except us, ourselves. We
have given ourselves up for ransom and are now
totally under threat of the system. So much so, that
it has even permeated into our personal
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relationships. We are so ever ready to get into the

groveling mode.
Can we reverse it? I wonder.

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A True Being
PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARISUNDAY, 13 DECEMBER
2015
( from my book Connect with the subconscious)
A true being who is in the process of identifying his
self with the Universe would never feel comfortable
in any of these regimented and structured mental
prisons. Those who are not afraid to get out and be
free are easily recognisable. For one they do things
rather unassumingly. They wear clothes for comfort
and according to weather or the job at hand. They
eat anything and everything that takes their fancy.
They take their own words seriously and always
deliver on promises which they make with great
consideration and rarely. It is a charmed life that they
lead. They are intelligent enough to known that they
may piss people off so they stay out of the
mainstream and enjoy the sunsets alone. But they
are not un-social. Simply, they do not run after
approbation and they may be good at what they do
so people come to them and they are always happy
to receive them. Are they afraid? Yes but of what?
They are deeply afraid of not being able to become
better people. Their sincerity of purpose opens doors
to their inner thoughts that they learn to see as
witnesses. They have learnt to separate their
logical mind from their mechanical, instinctive mind.
They are able to observe the process happening
within them such as how a word triggers anger or
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envy or joy. They are able to stop their instinctive

responses; for instance in anger they dont hit back
but go silent instead. They dont blurt out the first
reaction that bubbles up in them. They are able to
exercise restraint and when needed they can act
whether they like it or not.
They become acutely aware of the discordant
notes that they sometimes play even when knowing
to the contrary in spite of themselves. And this
scares them to no end as they remember the
consequences that they can associate with in their
past and see the past repeating itself. This is a great
pain to them but they realise that something
stronger than them is making things happen, and
they are responding rather automatically most of the
time.
At this juncture, they begin looking for answers
and often find them which they put into practice in
their life with will and determination. These are
people who are evolving, growing and bettering
themselves all the time, till their last breadth. One
thing they dont do get into worthless arguments.
There is no time to waste in this short life and with
something new occurring at every moment; who
would want to miss out on the fun?

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The Making of the New Breed of

Bums
PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARIFRIDAY, 4 DECEMBER
2015
Lack of proper education and training is creating
howlers. Most are not even aware that their
communication abilities are way under par. The focus
on children is to get marks but not excel.
There is no thoroughness in teaching or the
wanting to learn.
In India this is happening because people are using
words they have heard but have not learnt. They pick
up the wrong sounds with approximate
understanding of the meanings - but when it comes
to using them, they do so with supreme confidence.
The SMS culture is not helping either.
This has been a tendency in our character and it is
getting worse with higher & more sophisticated
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methods/skills of working that are now needed. Our

lackadaisical attitude to life and "maintenance" is
resulting in accidents more often and with more
horrific results. If we are not careful our children will
become unemployable semi-experts. Additionally we
need to realise that certain activities require special
skills and should not be indulged in without proper
training and supervision. It is not just a matter of
concern for getting employment. The quality of life
that we can lead with a mind that has been properly
trained and honed is always higher. It is a simple fact
that we need to ask more often this question: If we
dont understand what we hear and read, if we do
not understand the technicalities of an
affair/product/process, how are we going to succeed
in this world?
Life at its best:
But - although it is the life that is at its best, these
kids then become misfits in our age of technology
and cities where they eventually migrate to.

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The Terrifying State

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARISUNDAY, 29 NOVEMBER
2015
Most spiritual paths have one thing in common and
that is the path requires the quietening of the mind.
The mind is not a machine that can be stopped by
flicking a switch. It will be there and it has a purpose
to run the human machinery. But we can quieten the
din so that other intuitive, vaster impulses tuned into
the Great Silence can use it as an instrument.
Right now in the normal course, the mind is an
instrument of the human instinctive play based on
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two things: 1) The need to impress, 2) The need to

seek pleasure
1 makes us lie, falsify, exaggerate, hide, talk and
act continuously because we don't know when to
stop as if afraid if we stopped the facade will
collapse.
2 the the physical world offers many pleasures and
they cannot be reached without 1
So we come to the basic question where is the
need to quieten the mind in the first place?
Everything in life seems to point to the opposite. The
lack of control is terrifying.
The process that has clearly been most effective is
that of keeping the mind open but as far as possible
to train it to receive impulses from the Intuitive mind
and not the subconscious/physical world as happens
normally.

Smog and Sickness

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARISUNDAY, 29 NOVEMBER
201573 reads
Today's conditions will result in the illnesses of
tomorrow.
Take air pollution seriously.
The breeze is now disease laden. We are breathing
it in. Illnesses are taking longer to treat and heal. The
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air is infected with open air garbage and oily

exhausts from internal combustion engines and
chimneys from industry. The air is so foul that it is
shutting down the immune system. Older people and
children with not-so-strong constitutions are affected.
The growing incidences of sore throat, itching eyes,
sinusitis and fever prove it. It is reducing the quality
of life giving birth to serious disease and reducing
longevity.
You can help yourself by:
Cleaning the air in your sleeping/working area and
give yourself respite from the continuous onslaught
of foul air.
Not talking too much when in traffic and heavily
choked arterial roads. Keep your nose/mouth
covered.
Avoid the chilly mornings or walks outside and
workouts in open air. Keep the wind-pipe warm and
dont let the chill get to the lungs.
We are filtering water due its polluted properties.
The time has come for filtering air too.
A very huge number of poisons surround us that
we have allowed in our lives, not always knowing
how they are harming us which are insidious. Marring
our life drop by drop and making our old age more
painful eventually. To mention a few: pesticides.
additives, processing food with trans fats,
electromagnetic waves, wireless, too much light, too
many gadgets, noise, continuously engaged mentally
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and fatigue due to speech, crowding leading to

irritation.
In contrast our regenerative periods of sleep and
silence have virtually disappeared. Our regenerative
natural foods have disappeared and we look for
happiness in others and outside of ourselves; the
search adds to the fatigue and depresses.

Wish-lists & Whistling

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PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARISUNDAY, 22 NOVEMBER

2015
The world and our civilisations in every corner of
the earth are going through a metamorphosis and
there is change seeping in and resistance to it too.
It could be some thousands of years yet for the
instinctive nature of humans to grow into a more
thinking and kindly nature. But if we can conceive it,
it will be done one day. Want to be at peace, well
regarded and not taken for granted? I think we
should learn to behave so that people see us as a
threat. In this the body language, the words, the
delivery and throw of voice and arrogant behaviour
play a big major part. It is all in the power of
enforcement. People who are perceived as "No
Threat" normally get the "pushed around" treatment.
How times have changed. Earlier when the
plumber or electrician came, he came as a family
friend with he intention of helping us out to get
things moving again. His vast experience in this line
of work was used to make life easy for his clients who
were also his life-line and family-friends of sorts. By
manipulating and honestly using his technical
jugglery he would make things work by saving us
money as well. Getting it done cheaply was a great
factor. It was all done with great kindness and selfprofit was not the motive. A respectable income was
all he wanted. The same attitude was in the doctor,
the dentist, the grocer, the cobbler and baker and
everyone else in the neighborhood. It was all very
personal. Now the personal is nearly gone. We are
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now all fair game. They see money and people do

behave as if they have tons of it at their disposal.
They all use their knowledge to make our life
comfortable but with no consideration of expense to
us and with the least effort on their part. Replace
with new is the latest trend. Their time is so
expensive that one does not want to experiment
either and they cannot be called every now and then.
Quite often the problem is not even studied with
care. The most obvious and first that comes to their
minds is acted upon. They did the best is what they
will say when we complain. More experiments are
then made at our cost. It is quite a mess. But then I
have noticed that the clients are also getting dumber
by the day or just plain too complacent. Cash seems
to be available in plenty. What is not available is
time. The lack of understanding and curiosity in the
workings of the network in which we live is
astonishing. So the service industry is profiting. And
why should they not? They also dream of making
their million soonest. Then we have collectively
become kinder. And that has given rise to a
philosophy of life that is bonanza for the bums.
In the name of humanity they have inalienable
rights rightfully acquired or not. In the name of
humanity let them proliferate. In the name of
humanity provide them with everything. In the name
of humanity everyone should have cars, freedom to
move around, freedom to disturb and destroy. In the
name of humanity let all Orangutans be killed. In the
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name of humanity and sport all tigers, foxes, bears

etc are allowed targets. In the name humanity dump
your garbage in the sea. In the name of humanity
poison the food. In the name of humanity meddle
with it all so that industry may profit. In the name of
humanity give them all guns because killing is so
required to keep the economy moving.
Yes because they have a sword in hand and it has
been the answer to everything and always has been.
When you have a sword in hand(now guns) and
nobody to stop you, you have the rights and they
have the lefts - not only women, even men are not
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We could easily be kinder

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARITUESDAY, 17
NOVEMBER 2015
The first move we need to make is to get out of the
illusion that we are an enlightened species. We are
not even basically kind though at the core
somewhere we have this fount. We have all the
ingredients but we are not making use of any. The
human race at present is totally seeped in
selfishness. Even the most altruistic are basically
selfish. All our acts are based on some selfish aspect
of human nature or laced with it. Pretence and
egotism are the two most prominent aspects. This is
what separates us from the Divine.
Have you met people who never are able to do
what they say they will.
Oh eventually they will. They even mean it rather
seriously at the moment they say it. But do not
consider their words binding on themselves.
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Promises and excuses live side by side in their

mouths.
Yet they think they have managed the day well and
expect the future to glow for them and they really
expect to be liked and believed in!
They are so impressed by their own charm.
Have you noticed how some people can speak out
their hearts only in anger? When they feel cheated,
or being played with or being taken advantage of or
they feel they are surrounded with idiots, lazy
incompetent parasites or such?
This is a fact of life. (It may not be wholly true but
in their minds the view is made up)
This is the fount of intolerance. This is where you
feel justified to take action to smash the low life in
the face or better, crush it underfoot.
This is where it all begins.
And when religious coordinates enter the equation,
there is terror at the bottom of their hearts and their
wrath can take terrible forms.
Don't let anxiety at work trickle into your dreams.
Tirelessly searching for that file in your sleep will
leave you exhausted. Equip your mind with
windshield wipers -- learn to wipe away your
workaday thoughts.

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I was born with a magnanimous kind of personality.

Do the best, join others in their endeavors, help them
out in sickness and their efforts etc.
But then I found that it was not creating any
friendliness or close bonds. A friend in need is a
friend indeed. That opened my eyes to this world.
But I soon realised that Nobody was that really
interested. They wanted assistance but not help. I
was not supposed to be using my logic and
preference in helping or doing.
And soon wisdom came - wait for being asked for
help. Do not interfere. Let the destiny of others play
out as it best can.
And for goodness sake don't try to change
anything; specially not the person.
It is in all of us. We are all promoting war. The
chemist, the grocer, they are the first to horde, raise
prices and indulge in black marketing. Neighbors who
report on their erstwhile friends. Plunder was always
the motive when armies went to war. And today the
corporate armies are running the show and
manipulating incidents that will allow them to control
their need to go to war. The TV, internet smartphone
have just made it easy and that is why these are so
freely and easily available to all. In a way we are at
war in our general lives. Things like fighting for
control. Brothers and sisters not wanting to share
and playing manipulative games to cut each other
out. The games being played out among st ourselves
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to show off and rise the ladder in social/official

circles. etc etc etc

Parris Ja Young.. this is NOT to say that violence

is the TRUE HUMAN NATURE ... quite the opposite. It
is precisely because of this betrayal of human nature
that we are so beset with troubles.
Pradeep Pk Maheshwari The human nature, the
active part that is in prominence on the earth just
now is the violent type. Philosophying it under the
carpet won't serve any purpose.
Kathryn Knopf. Speak for yourself, p
Pradeep Pk Maheshwari.. I am speaking for
myself. Until humanity accepts this, change will not
come. We have to allow consciously to let the godly
part come to the fore.
Manjunath Sullolli.. because it is instinct, very
few evolve into mature, otherwise its usually true
that many wars keep happening in human mind.

Some thoughts on worldly

things
PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARISUNDAY, 15 NOVEMBER
2015
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* Our sense of doom is awfully relative.

All these cases of depression and suicides and
frightened violence is simply a lack of wide enough
consciousness to grasp it all in
* There is a world of humor in the world of
thoughts - how imagination plays the fool
* The Mind is but a tool. It all depends on what
entities we allow to use the instruments. We are
simply extensions of a greater whole and there are
many Forces at work around and in and through us.
The "separateness" was needed to give some solid
persona on the material plane, so the ego is a useful
Force that is also the Life Force. It has the capacity to
transform itself and join the play with other benign
(godly) forces if we bring them into play. And children
can help us do that.
* It is irresponsible, actually criminal, to think of
bringing children into this world to satisfy our
animalistic hunger, for our pleasures and then lead
them into slavery, debt and life-long pain.

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Personality type and bringing

up children accordingly.
PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARIFRIDAY, 13 NOVEMBER
2015
Our upbringing and education rarely takes into
account the personality types the children are
showing evidence of. Generally speaking there are
the selfish types, the more belligerent types, the
philosophical types, the introverts and the extroverts.
Whatever the reasons, it is absolutely essential for
parents to understand this and create the right
atmosphere of education and insight that the child
receives. Right from the beginning the tendencies
need to be understood by the parents and the
education of the child programmed accordingly. For
instance take the selfish ones; they need to be
curbed and taught how to understand their
selfishness and make them see how self-destructive
it is. Their demands cannot be met and those parents
that do to avoid tantrums are laying the foundation
for a hurtful existence.
In a similar vein the belligerent type will also invite
retribution. The world is not there to just take what
anyone dishes out. So they need to be taught and
explained the give and take of violent behaviour.
The introverts need to be left alone and allowed
with patience to find their footing in the world. Their
fears need to be assuaged and explained so that with
understanding they can move forward in this active
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and violent world. Exercises of self-confidence

building have to be added into their upbringing.
These three types normally trap themselves into
situations and then do not know what to do or to
whom to turn. They end up being depressed and
often end up destroying themselves. Suicide is one of
the acts they indulge in to attract attention, not
realising in this unforgiving world nobody really
cares.
When my child was born, I realised she had some
unfinished fear troubling her. So I cuddled her and
made her feel secure and encouraged her to explore
her world. It took about eight years but now she is
totally at ease with herself and the world and takes
everything in her stride confidently and fearlessly.
Depression; it all starts with acute selfcenteredness - it is a mental illness and not curable.

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Behaviour in a group
PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARIFRIDAY, 6 NOVEMBER
2015
In a group you have to maintain the group's
decorum
Too much individualism and focus on what one
wants can be detrimental for the whole. Dont expect
the group to accept your individuality. The group by
its very nature is characteristic of the common
lowest denominator and shuns individuality as a
dangerous element to its existence.
Of course individuals should live by their standards
and wishes. We all want to that.
But that is exactly what does not allow a group to
go forward together.
I think our juniors look up to us and we should live
by a standard we want them to follow for the greater
good. We need to teach them self-regulation and selfcontrol/discipline and help them grow into their
highest potential. By harping on individuality we are
only promoting the self0centredness in our midst
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This is as I see the greatness of India and also its

great weakness. We refuse to follow the group's,
society's needs and values and consider other
individuals and neighbours.
Too much individualism eventually becomes selfcenteredness, specially when you are in power to
enforce it. Look what it has done to our government.
It also then becomes an excuse to maintain one's
low standards.
If we study and look with a cool mind you will see
all the discordant notes in our life in India are due to
the fact everyone thinks on an individual capacity
and from the personal point of view alone to the
extent that they do not even consider their own
promises and the accepted duties one has under a
job one has taken.
When we are in a team, the team becomes more
important.
We need to distinguish between the personal and
the general. When we talk of our rights and
independence, we should not forget that it is this
group that is ensuring that we have it. But if you
insist in your individualism then dont expect
anything from the world at large.

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A few words on the Human

Mind
PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARIFRIDAY, 6 NOVEMBER
201532 reads
The mind when immature cannot wait, reflect nor
quieten and it jumps to speedy conclusions.
Superficiality is the hallmark.
Remaining silent has been so completely trampled
underfoot that even a few moments of quiet are a
surprise nowadays.
My observance is that we are basically lazy. There
is a lot of inertia in the basic nature (the inconscient)
and whatever psychologists may say, this has overall
control over our lives in general.
People not only do not think for themselves, they
would rather not do anything else if they can avoid it
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but they are very good at rationalising as it requires

little effort besides wagging the tongue.
There are some over clever ones who are very
appreciative of their own wit and are showing off all
the time. Dont get involved with them or try to
upstage them.
We create a screen, a foundation of our
"Virtuousness" of not needing/wanting/allowing
others to approach us until implored and then when
we do relent, it is as a "virtuous" gesture.

Our Karmic Footprints

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARIMONDAY, 2 NOVEMBER
201555 reads
The human mind can encompass only what it has
seen, read or heard. From this fount of great learning
it tries to understand the Universe which has been at
it for millions of years. The universe has a plan I am
told. Nothing is as unconnected as it seems. We and
the things that happen to us are part of the process

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and continuum that has been in the pipeline since

this Earth got active.
We have not been able to fathom as yet even the
past that has already happened but we feel we can
explain the now and the future which has not even
unfolded.
Do you care what happens to a grain of sand when
the huge wave washes over it?
Why and for what reason should the Universe care
when a child is hurt or man dies or a buck is shot. It
is part of the drama.
But yes coming to the immediate present, in my
immediate life, I have seen, when I keep my attitude
kindly compassionate, forgiving and pliable, more
pleasurable things happen.
Then I come from a large joint family and have
observed some uncles and aunts throwing their
weights around and lashing out in their powerful
strongholds. Everyone one them suffered acutely
eventually in some form or other from the decisions
that they had taken.
My personal experience of life from these
observations is that even death does not come until
the bill has been paid.
It is so merciful and such a blessing to die early
without suffering the consequences. It is a great
grace for those who die peacefully, suddenly and in
one shot.

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I hope I go out that way. I have been paying

heavily for my insincerities and desires but since the
last 15/16 years I have walked a different path in
which I try not to spoil my karmic footprints. This
activity includes not lashing back, not desiring
(wanting but not desiring), working for the greater
group of families and friends and all others who
permit it and first see value in me and then open up
to me. Never of my own volition..
And I see a change in the trend of my life taking a
more joyful existence. Circumstances seem to
arrange themselves for my benefit. The right
thoughts seem to come to me and it is as if
somebody is taking care of me with a benign smile.
And even products simply land up on a plate - but I
amy add only those things that I really need.

Now you all can make out whatever you wish from
all this "telling"

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Words need to become

Actions
PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARISUNDAY, 1 NOVEMBER
201546 reads
Talking of Hinduism and the hardliners. The ones
who are going to take us to Vaikunth, Good days and
Higher thinking and living. Let me relate about our
visit to Varanasi. It was a disastrous eye opener. Dirt
and resignation all around. No place to sit. The
cheapest on-the-road eateries cooking besides
garbage. No sense of beauty or comfort in their way
of living.
It is a crumbling town with very few places clean,
maintained. Nothing to show that it is a place of a
proud educated people living in a town famous for its
erudition and masters of music, arts.
Millions visit this town but most of them are from
the villages and not so exposed to modernity. The old
thought patterns, habits and tastes rule the market
place because no one demands better. Finally not a
place that I would advise anyone to go to if health is
matter of concern.
People may feel that they have propitiated the
Gods, but I ask to what end?
One short dip in the Ganges and we had a
vomiting fit and fever later. Once out of this, then we
had something to eat on the train and since 5 days
we are all three fighting food poisoning.
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When will Indian thinkers focus on these things?

And what do the locals say about it all? - Nobody
cares. The Prime Minister wants to focus and
promises another Kyoto but the locals clean up only
the corners he visits.
Besides being great and all that we are also terrific
in all departments of opportunism, cheating and
back-biting. The democratic method coupled with
oppressive empire legislation has been a boon to
these vote-bank politics.
The lowest of the low now have a say in running
the country.
Sri Aurobindo had predicted Goonda Raj.
Let us influence our children otherwise as best as
we can, this is how change will come eventually
The present obvious truth is that the reality people
can see and touch and feel and experience in
everyday life is connected only to the last 1200 years
or so. Take any department of life in India Architecture and architectural remains all around us,
our food habits and cuisine, our dresses and designs
and lastly our language.
Our life and living is a mish-mash of what the
Muslim and British brought us. And we had a
beautiful, wonderful and exclusive mix that was
unique and still is even with Coca Cola added to the
mix.

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The new generations of misguided unevolved

politicians started focussing on divisive policies. We
have only added confusion to the complex brew.
This is what they see and react to because their
ability is limited to view anything only as far as back
as 3 immediate generations - and coloured terribly
by the media..
This is our reality and we need to grapple with this
now

The Myth of Multitasking

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARITUESDAY, 20 OCTOBER
2015
Multi tasking is a myth. Making the mind do
gymnastics on the bars and the horse and the rings
at the same time.
Better doing one at a time and getting the most
out of it - thoroughness is my goal or should be. I find
it very annoying, distracting and error-some when I
am disturbed and forced to change my thought
tracks when my full attention is needed on a job. The
chain of thought breaks up and I normally end up
missing out something. Once a though chain-train is
broken, it takes 15-20 mts to get it back on track.
Multitasking salesmen, workshop engineers, business
associates all doing my work but also at the same
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attending phones or paying attention to some others

etc is one of my triggers to an explosion of my short
temper. It has invariably resulted in a waste of time
with instructions not followed, the opposite being
done, wrong deliveries made or some such
annoyance that needs to be redone and corrected.
Most often when the message has not been properly
registered, the other party ends up doing what it
thinks should be done. This is a double shot of
annoyance. Long explanations, defensive arguments
follow and the actual point of my requirement never
gets registered. Yet all these people think and
consider that they are super efficient and their ability
to handle many projects and subjects at a time is
without compare. I simply hate it when people come
to me to discuss plans/business and then keep on
allowing their phone to break the conversation, while
I sit there like an idiot in my own office waiting for
them to finish. Besides being detrimental to the work
on hand, it is such bad manners. What if then I get
up and go away and leave them to their phones?

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Loving oneself to be loving

others
PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARITUESDAY, 20 OCTOBER
2015
Why should we expect them to go about loving
others? I am fairly happy with myself, love with
gratitude the attributes granted to me by Mother
Nature and all the gifts by father Universe. Yet I see
no reason to go showering love unreservedly and
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show it to all like a bee on the task of pollinating. I do

concede that being comfortable with ones own self
is of prime importance and in this state we are
automatically kindly. This world will respond with
kindness to our vibes is a point but let us not fool
ourselves that there is ever going to be any reduction
in selfishness on the material plane just yet. I am not
trying to catch attention nor really bothered if
anyone is liking me or whatever. Living pragmatically
on this "material" earth is my focus. Don't go where
you are not wanted is my first policy. Don't speak
where no-one is listening is my second. Don't expend
energy in situations where it is not welcome is my
third.
The problem has been and will remain that all the
education and learning we acquire and wish to pass
on goes down with every death. The new ones start
all over again and the earth remains where it is. It
seems like the picture is changing but the basic
canvas, materials and colours remain the same.
A lot of mental energies are dissipated, unused or
wasted by people who do not know how to focus.
Quietening and focussing your energies is the first
step to better health and long life.
All this talk of "rights" is irrelevant. What to wear
and how to behave and the constitutional rights etc

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are just smoke-screens to vulgar selfishness and

display.
In my thinking it shows a level of stupidity worse
than that of the excitement seekers who are asked to
behave as we would be considered more educated,
and with more discernment.
The streets were never the place to show off. In no
culture; starting from Mohenjodaro.. When you move
in a crowd, the crowd matters unless you want to be
treated badly. You cannot neglect the crowd's low IQ
levels .

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The Health Alternative

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARIWEDNESDAY, 7
OCTOBER 2015
In my 40 years of studying and advising, I have not
been able to convince even one person about the
necessity of the balancing act that the body has to
do and the ingredients it needs. There is enough
information and warnings now in different medias
about everything but no one is bothered.
Convenience wins everytime. The living style, the
need to make a living and all that take precedence.
For the first 10-15-20 years of working life it seems to
be go very well. Only after the damage/deficiencies
becomes serious does it show on the surface. Then
alone people pay attention to the problem. As if the
carelessness was not a problem enough. The modern
pharmaceuticals offer symptomatic relief and assist
the patients in their bad habits. (example as in :
diabetes-insulin, asthma-inhalers, fever-paracetamol,
cough-syrups, skin/eczema-ointments, allergiesantihistamines) Finally when the collapse take place,
all their earnings end up into the hands of the
medical industry and your health in the dustbin for
ever until death doth release you from your trials. I
do understand that the only way is to create proper
health through correct lifestyle is based on your
ability to earn by your saleable talents and earn well
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to create your own little world. It requires great

wisdom, general knowledge, self mastery and a lot of
talent about the practicalities of this world to be able
to survive by Not Doing in this world of doers who
unfortunately pride themselves in working for others
these others who use their minds to get rich on the
labours.
So please study. Practice what you learn and
seems to apply to you. Don't follow any system
blindly with researching it and that does not show
improvement within a few days AND very
importantly: makes you FEEL healthier.
We have to learn to live in the new age in which we
are born. Learning to balance it will need intelligence
and serious application = education + self-discipline

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We isolate ourselves from

existence
PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARIFRIDAY, 2 OCTOBER
2015
like a "I-am-master-here"; the bull:
My friend you are starting your argument with the
basic mistake of defending a generalisation with an
exception. Is there really a need to contradict me? I
notice most of the discussions that transpire are
more in the nature of showing-off that I know
better. This is sad.
It is an accepted fact that the human race in
general, at the present state of evolution is still very
self-centered, not using its mental faculties and more
interested in the world to "Grab" than to give.
The entire feudal system which psychologically still
rules Indian thinking and behaviour is behind the
"Authoritarian" style of thinking prevalent in India.

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Older people do not listen do not even want to

listen. My wife does not listen. The teachers do not
listen. Bosses do not listen. Captains of industry do
not listen. Brothers do not listen. Not listening is the
norm. Exceptions exist so don't bring them up.
Nobody is listening. Minds are closed. The only
motive in every situation is: What can I get out of
this? And we follow the thought like a bull.
And this attitude of me and me alone shows so
well in everything we do. Take for instance Traffic
rules. They are more recognised in the breach. Very
few of the new comers even know them. We cut in,
zig-zag as if we are the only clever ones on the road.
I coined this phrase many years ago: We are so busy
being clever that we have no time to be intelligent.
This non-listening closes doors for the young and
progress is denied - not halted.
But yes, Friends may listen. Children are ready to
listen. This momentum needs to be kept up.
What we need to see is where these denials is
happening and try to open doors by first accepting
the fact that change is required.

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The Relationship Tangle

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARITUESDAY, 29
SEPTEMBER 2015
No relationship is without fault, so forgive and
forget the small stuff. Perfection is overrated.
You'll never get anywhere if you don't have an
independent thought in your head. Start being
original, today, instead of just tagging along after
others, no matter how comfortable that has become.
Humans in general have not learnt this lesson as
yet. It surprising that with all the saints, wise men
and Avatars who are helping us, nothing has reduced
the violence in humans as yet.
And by violence I mean the petty show of strength
that we are indulging in all the time in petty things in
our life besides the more violent manifestations.
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Old people can be so frustratingly inflexible

exceptionally if they have been in a position of
authority.
There is arrogance of knowing. There is arrogance
of being the owner - of having run things since last
many years and being certain that only they as head
of the family know anything about anything. They
can be terrible, rigid and intractable.
They have nothing to lose. They stop learning and
stop others from doing too.
Then there are those, who learn, who see further
than the young ones but decide it is not their affair
and go into retreat. There are those who forsake their
authority and do not speak up when they should.
Why can old people learn to withdraw and let the
newer generations experience it for themselves?
Whatever happened to the theory of Sanyas when
your work is done and let the younger ones take
over?
Let others be. India is a mess because this is one
thing that does not happen in our crowded living and
brain-washing.......for instance: that you have to obey
parents, elders, be nice, help others, husband is your
god, guest is god etc. Have people become kinder?
No and selfishness abounds taking advantage of the
kindness around.
We impose so much on the psyche of the young
that they never learn to think or care. I openly say
that our people are four year olds that have turned

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40. And unfortunately it is passed on from generation

to generation.

It is fantastic how billions of people together in

India can live as if they are alone and there is nobody
around them.
It is a vicious circle of crowded living in which very
early in life one learns to NOT LISTEN. This creates a
need for more shouting and noise to get heard
accompanied with expletives and irritation reaching
boiling point most of the time. This makes us even
more selfish in our attitudes so we protect ourselves
and our things with greater vigour making it
necessary for others to find creative means to enter
into our consciousness. This leads to cheating in
words and acts and makes us even more vary.
Everyone keeps on enclosing oneself in tighter and
more compact chambers. Keeping away from too
many people is required as vibrations from others,
direct or indirect if allowed to influence your life can
only mess up your life.
It is like information overload. No value in it.
Too much sticking to humans or depending on
others or being lazy in pursuing one's own life is
damaging to one's persona. It is like living in a
cauldron always on the boil
Let us never forget that it is not an ideal/perfect
world we are living in. Vampirical elements run wild

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in all of us. In some, a bit more than others. In many

they have managed to exercise full control.

This sentence of mine has not gone down well with

many of the Indian crowd.
India is a mess because this is one thing that
does not happen in our crowded living and brainwashing.......for instance: that you have to obey
parents, elders, be nice, help others, husband is your
god, guest is god etc. Have people become kinder?
No and selfishness abounds taking advantage of the
kindness around.
I am as usual being blamed for being a true Indian.
That I am trying to sow dissent and spoil the tradition
of India and that I am against Indian culture;
speaking against my own country. Well, keep your
eyes closed and bumble on. Let us stay tied to the
milling-stone, resist change and hang on to our
comfort zones. That is exactly what our parents
want. And if listening to them is the first law, then
there is nothing more to be said. But then I ask why
are you asking for jobs, better roads, toilets, internet,
better connectivity and all? Let the parents take care
of it all. And when you will also be a parent and on
your own, you will realise, that you did not take up
cudgels when you should have and then in all
probability you will hide your indolence behind
tradition and keep on. But still, shall we not consider
what other possibilities we have? Being aware is no
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crime. Helping others, ourselves and the country by

constructive change is what we want but then we
cannot do this without some dissent, by taking in the
new parameters in life and make the change we are
so volubly asking for. Yet why do I feel I am asking for
too much in a country where original thinking is
decried and effort is put in staying back stuck than
the other way round.

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Clever enough to baby along.

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARIFRIDAY, 11 SEPTEMBER
2015
Why the young are careless and do not care for the
older generation?
This carelessness attitude is the direct result of
their upbringing. This happens only when the young
have NOT been allowed to live joyfully. We are a very
"helicoptering kind of people in India. Our attitude
to our children is of total imposition in thought and
action. We know what is best for them and we are
going to do it whatever comes! It begins with
Mummy knows best, later it is Papa knows best and
as papa controls the purse strings he demands total
obedience. Then together it is What will they think?
Kids are clever enough to baby along. They
understand perfectly well which side the bread is
buttered. What parents never realise that they are
being taken for a ride. The child learns to behave and
act to please the parents and nothing more matters.
The rest he hides away and masters the art of lying.
This is the beginning of the rift which will show later
and come out in the open. It is no wonder that our
young people are never fully conscious of anything,
specially the responsibilities that go with living. They
are made to flow with the flow and they happily do it
later on all thru their lives because they are wired
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that way. As to parents, it never occurs to anyone

that parents will need help. Anyway by that time
parents ripe old age the rift between them and the
children is where the children wish to avoid them at
all cost. We impose so much on the psyche of the
young that they never learn to think or care. I openly
say that our people are four year olds that have
turned 40. And unfortunately it is passed on from
generation to generation. Education and exposure to
the world now through digital technology has raised
the age to about 12ish in a growing number but the
helicoptering remains a strong factor. Even when
the parents are old, they are unable to retire
mentally or withdraw and that makes the position
untenable; life is not easy anyway for the younger
ones who have to earn a living and have children of
their own to manage, having been burdened with a
family at an early age - most often under the
pressure of parents..
MY SAFETY IS "YOUR" CONCERN The problem of
India has been its multiplicity and naivete. Here we
see a bike, mechanised 2 wheeler and a lorry/truck
merrily going about. No safety or safeguards in mind.
Wishful thinking is at work for we know since the day
of birth that others will care for us. It never enters
our thinking mind that we are better off to be a little
more conscious of our actions and whereabouts.
Our safety is everybody's concern except ours.
There is a childish selfishness at work where we feel
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we have priority and we shall manage to go through

where others are stuck like idiots and squeezed into
corners where accidents of the rather hurtful kind
then happen. It is unending. I don't see anyone
learning from experience. The feeling I get is that
there is a resistance to learning, because learning
means being careful and vigilant.

Who cares?!
PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARIWEDNESDAY, 9
SEPTEMBER 2015
When people talk of the world from moralistic
standpoints like in absolutes:
Love will win all
Parents always do for your best
Mothers love their children
Brothers and sisters are closest and life-long
friends to each other
Bosses are impartial
Wives are loving
Medicine is practiced for the general good
People are honest and basically ethical
Kings think about the welfare of their people
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.......and so on so forth,
I put my head in my hands and despair of the
human race.
Why are they afraid to look at the truth of things?
Only Love & Sincerity & Gratitude & Affection &
Fairness is to be seen in this world, because it suits
our personal agendas? Or is it our inflated sense of
virtue pretending? Or are we fooling ourselves?
Most of these traits are more obvious by their
absence. People have not been able to rise above the
basic Ten Commandments as yet and yet we talk of
Brahman, Nirvana and what else.
We try to explain away and butter-coat and sugarcoat the truth that we all realise with philosophy and
deem the negative traits as an aberration and
logically try to prove that in their own self-interest no
one would be otherwise. The plain truth is absolutely
the opposite. Once we accept the fact that we are
liars, dishonest and tend to hide our deepest feelings
& thoughts, the entire system of justice and such
would cease to have value. We are good generally
speaking. Specially under duress of lifes demands
and our own needs. And our selfishness has taught
us that being good, kind and sharing is needed in our
self-interest. Had it not been so, and where
opportunities arise, our wolfish nature always raises
its head like a serpent.
Attraction, Distraction, Temptation, Seducing,
Selfishness, Empathy, Sympathy, Psychopathy,
Brutishness, Bullying, Blackmail, Human trafficking,
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Slavery, Chicanery, Charades, Cheating, Lying, Greed

just dont exist because it is inconvenient to our
plans and wishful thinking?

Are they good for you?

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARISATURDAY, 5
SEPTEMBER 2015
You can divide people in two broad categories. One
who revel in human contact and like submissive ones
around them to boss around. Second are the
submissive ones who prefer to give charge of their
lives to others.
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Both are parasites and no good in the end comes

of it on the material worldly plane although the
evolutionary cycle is dependent on this to create the
catastrophes that create the stresses that teach and
change.
Too much sticking to humans or depending on
others or being lazy in pursuing one's own life is
damaging to one's persona. It is like living in a
cauldron always on the boil.
Keeping away from too many people is required as
vibrations from others, direct or indirect if allowed to
influence your life can only mess up your life.
It is like information overload. No value in it. But it
can easily become an ingrained habit from day one.
One may have been impregnated with this attitude
and one may be so comfortable in it that it would
never occur otherwise.
The answer lies in surrounding oneself with a very
selected group of the most positive types if; that is if
first, one even recognises this as
reality/truth/necessity or whatever you may call it.

Say it & be done with it!

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARISUNDAY, 30 AUGUST
2015
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The most difficult people to team up with are the

honest, totally conscious-of-their-acts kind of liars.
Whatever they say they say for the moment. Their
intentions have neither past nor future. They say
what they feel is the best thing to say under the
circumstances of the moment with no real intent
behind the words. The second it is spoken, it is also
forgotten. It is like a play of making soap bubbles to
them. Words to these people mean nothing but a
means to reach wherever their bread is best
buttered, eat it and move on. Paying for the bread
and butter was never in their intentions. Worse, they
are buttering the slice on both sides. It is another
matter that these people usually did mean what they
said but it happened to be only in that moment.
Other priorities and possibilities, more alluring soon
take over. On mature thinking, they would have
realized that their promises cannot be fulfilled. Then
if you get the opportunity to confront them, you will
receive another set of beautiful lies. Until you stop
and drop them from your list of people and start
giving them your own set of lies in the future.
It seems such a waste of opportunity to do
something together and make the most of the
moment!

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There is a young lady who occasionally comes in

for dusting. She is charming, so naturally sincere and
enthusiastic jovial that we dont really want anyone
else to come in her place. She keeps on promising to
come and then never does always smiling and
happy to us and even come home once in a while to
tell us that she will come on the morrow but never
really does. Her diary of engagements is so full! I
think she would like to come but she calculates her
time badly and never really finds the time to fulfill
her promise but then perhaps she is just being clever
to keep the doors open so that she if she ever is in a
position to need us.
How will it hurt to say the truth to each others
faces? It will hurt for a second nut life we all know
goes on. Just imagine what this would do (and has
done and is always doing) in a marriage and
business.
Personally I think what bugs me most is the time
that is wasted and the arguments that ensue; the
heartburn and anger that is given birth to. The hopes
raised and dashed. This behavior is recipe to end
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relationships but why do it with bitterness? Are

niceties of the moment so important? Nobody can be
so stupid as to not see that irritation, bad-blood is
being given birth for no bloody reason! And it is so
simply irrational to think that we shall never need
others in our lives...!!

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What is not right and what

OTHERS should be doing
PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARITHURSDAY, 27 AUGUST
2015
It is fantastic how billions of people together in
India can live as if they are alone and there is nobody
around them.
It is a vicious circle of crowded living in which very
early in life one learns to NOT LISTEN. This creates a
need for more shouting and noise to get heard
accompanied with expletives and irritation reaching
boiling point most of the time. This makes us even
more selfish in our attitudes so we protect ourselves
and our things with greater vigour making it
necessary for others to find creative means to enter
into our consciousness. This leads to cheating in
words and acts and makes us even more vary.
Everyone keeps on enclosing oneself in tighter and
more compact chambers. To the point where they
even dont see moving cars or even more
astoundingly wives forgetting they are married and
there is perhaps a husband in the house!
I fail to see how India will ever grow and how to
break this logjam.
The more I see of India and Indians the more I am
convinced that we are great debaters. We know
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exactly what is not right and what OTHERS should

do. We on the other hand are perfect (our mothers
said so) and as we know exactly what needs to be
done we not only dont have to pay to attention to
dumb bums all around us, we are the only one who
can do anything.
It is another thing that all is the governments
duty and so we should not meddle in it in anyway.

Michael Omdevaji Perring. this is correct. You aim

for samadhi and leave out the Yamas and Niyamas
and how do I convince someone what a rubbish bin is
and how to use it when they have never used a
rubbish bin and would not know what one was?

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A Spoonful of Medicine
PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARISUNDAY, 23 AUGUST
2015
If you take a bird's eye of humanity, it is sadder to
see how much pain we inflict, losses we incur.....and
worse.... no amount of warning or experiences seems
to change or dent anything in their inconscience
levels. Like into a deep black bottomless hole,
everything goes and gets lost. - Wont learn from
experience. - Wont study on their own. - Wont learn
from others. - Insist on proving oneself right - Expend
all their energies in NOT doing. - Look for scapegoats
& adopt violence to prove a point.
People want to be appreciated and not really
loved. Human Loving is a little overwhelming.
Loving does not need to be told or cannot be
dramatised with superficial activity. That would be
like following the book of etiquette and being polite.
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oh it does need to be told - at the earth level we

are still required to tell. But in its essence it works
out to be appreciation
Be Kind.
If being kind is not in your nature, at least dont be
bitchy to prove a point.
In this ephemeral point of time in this pin-point of a
place, it is accepted that you are in control,
indispensable and you can create much damage if
your amour-propre is hurt.
But then all this exhortation is so worthless. It will
only aggravate and irritate the tendency when
proving a point is the thing to be done. When one
wants to deliberately hurt, where is the place for
kindness there?
We can trouble ourselves by reading too much into
everything and ignoring that is so clearly in front of
us.
My experience is that love has very little to do with
anything in this world as it is today
People are taking too much pride in their
stupidities and today's possibilities allow everyone to
be heard.
Too much of "rights" being exercised in being
sensational.
Societal niceties require that we pamper their egos
a bit; what else can we do?

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When we need their services and they will accept

no other payment.
All the wise men tell us: Live by the truth of your
being (whatever that means). Speak the truth.
Forsake pretence. But then you move out and meet
people and you realise either in Rome you do as the
Romans do or go and live elsewhere.
I get answers because I have questions.
People don't have questions but they do have a lot
of wishes.
No wonder they don't get answers.
They say they pray for answers but their prayers
are also wishes.
I don't see much happening there either.

Cutting edge living

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARISUNDAY, 23 AUGUST
2015
Why should anyone want to bring in change?
They went out in life to feather their nest. Not ours.
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People are so selfish, self-centred and myopic that

it belies our faith in human intelligence.
Why should they or anyone. Are we forgetting that
we are here for ourselves alone?!!!
It is a sad fact that those who care for society are
so scared of it that they normally stay away from
getting too involved because the chances of getting
bashed up are awfully high.
Wanting to be alone is the first wish of a person on
the path of "Individualisation".
Today technology gives us this possibility and
economic possibilities make it easy to create a
private reclusive corner even in bustling cities.
But in the long run, is this good?
Humans as a rule need the stress of contact of
other humans under duress to thrive and grow as a
strong, resilient, self-controlled, superior (as
Confucius would say) individual.
Things have been going in the wrong directions
since the Asuric forces have been trying hard for
domination in the last 1oo years. The human mind
lends itself to manipulation easily. It is a soft target
and mayhem has been brewing through it. The
western mind through its arrogance about its
knowledge and partial expertise in certain domains
has been a particularly easy fertile ground to sow
disruptive seeds. They are so continuously afraid of
the natural process.
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Freud and Jung although great personalities put the

"understanding" levels of humans on the wrong
track. Understanding of medicine and human
psychology got totally superficialised.
All these concepts that today have given us a
disrupted, disturbed and distressed humanity can be
seen in the discoveries received by mankind in the
first part of the last century and brought to
perfection in the last 70 years.
....and most of us try to change others - that is
recipe for disaster. In relationships the word tolerate
is more operative than love and understanding
It cannot be a this or that. There is some
corresponding mutual response of some kind in all
relationships.
Humans as a general rule are still at an
evolutionary level where everything happens at a
mutual benefit level - there is give and take.
There is nothing wrong or right. Technically
everything is in the right place.
But love although it exists freely in the earth's
consciousness it is not operative in a big way in the
human. Compassionate forgiving behaviour comes
with difficulty to most of the general populace. Our
instinct to thrash others be it verbally, physically or
other means comes more easily and naturally.
It is another matter that occult laws of tit for tat
are at work but for some reason humanity has learnt

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nothing from the past and that is what surprises me

most in this life.

Enhancing the Joy of Living

PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARISUNDAY, 23 AUGUST
2015
I have this certainty on which I base my thinking,
activity and relationships: That the human race now
needs to take the next step... which is learning to act
and think from the Intuitive plane. I see a lot of
energy being panned away in talking of great
philosophical or religious concepts and arguments
being bandied about with great gusto. The ills of the
normal mentalised life and its existence are not
going to be corrected by using the minds logistics. It
is like making a truck/lorry fly (although it happens
so easily in comic cartoons that my child sees on TV).
If we look within we have some character flaws and
some character plus points. The flaws need to be
corrected using the plus points like self-control,
intelligence and all the education we have had to see
where we are lying to ourselves and where we are
usually contradicting ourselves. Sincerity is the key.
This is the next step to be taken. The rest will unfold
of itself by The Grace.
We are all born great in some respects. But dont
get way-laid by many of the short positive advice
givers who say that you are already perfect. We do
have the potential of becoming perfect Beings but
not without effort and as the time is rather short on
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this earth and our subconscious extremely tenacious

and refusing to budge, the path to perfection
becomes a little complicated and arduous. In every
lifetime, there is a particular lesson to be learnt. This
is our destiny operative in this lifetime. And to
achieve this end we come, loaded with some positive
points and many negative traits that are usual to the
human race. But very particularly you will notice
everyone has one great particular attribute and one
equally negative one. Between these two our life
gets played out. The positive attribute is always the
instrument getting us out of trouble that the negative
one is getting us into. And certain patterns in life
keep on getting repeated until the lesson, whatever
is loaded in the program plan of Destiny has been
learnt properly. A guru if at all, is needed like the
teachers in school, to shorten the duration the
learning process.
There is a vast difference between theory and
application. The philosophical explanations may
sound grand, virtuous and full of wisdom but it does
not change the ground reality at the individual level.
We are all mixtures with the same elements but
operative at different ratios and mixed with different
agendas. Philosophy does not help much in day to
day interactions. What is needed here is Applied
Psychology.
For instance to make my point clear - Consider the
instance where you are being bullied. It is nearing 5
at the office, time to go home and the boss arrives
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from a meeting and asks you to stay and finish his

report. You may seethe inside but you do it. What can
you do? Philosophy may make you and help you
accept the situation but not help you to avoid the
situation. For that you need a pragmatic approach,
understanding of the factors involved, self-control to
act appropriate to the situation as would be done by
James Bond without reacting emotionally so that it
would hopefully "kill the snake and not break the
stick".
Now that we are on this subject, another thing that
has always taken me with giggling surprise is the fact
that everyone wants to explain to me what I am
saying.
Then given a chance they want to help. Totally and
completely selflessly of course.
Which translates itself into letting them control my
life.
I must say that without being aware I was also in
the same mode.
My stint in the Ashram atmosphere did not remove
it. It is later when I started working with Europeans
and made close friends there that I learnt about this
tendency.
It is from Danish friend that I learnt about the
constant complaining that we are into.
From My French friend I learnt to not try to control
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or explore and experience life.

Lost in my fortress
PRADEEP PK MAHESHWARITHURSDAY, 13 AUGUST
2015
Intellectual development has not made a more
humane humanity. Why?
Whenever and wherever humans have been given
the power of knowledge and information the first
movement that arises in their beings is of
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entitlements and selfish agrandissement. It is but

natural. Better education and training results in
sharpening of the mental tool and success among
ones class of society. Success is normally interpreted
as more wealth and power to execute projects to
ones wishes this includes getting humans around
us to do more to suit ones whims and fancies. This is
definitely a potion that goes to ones head and
makes one arrogant, selfish and underlying natural
bends that were under warp come out without fear. A
kind person becomes kinder and a generous person
becomes even more so. Conversely selfishness
becomes more acute and the motto of What is in it
for me takes over. The feeling of MINE
possessiveness gets coupled with ones vanity and
pride and the result is a very explosive short sighted
persona. When one is riding the wave, it is easy to
see one-self as the only one progressing and going
forward. Arrogance makes us little. The others
around us seem to be stationary, locked in their
small mental rooms, incapable of learning new tricks
and moving with the times. It is easy to see all the
incompetent people surrounding us with their flaws
showing critically. We see ourselves as giants among
pygmies. What is usually missed is that when with
better education and training one moves out of one
social circle, one enters a new circle that was earlier
a little above this existing station in life. In this new
circle it is easy to imagine ourselves fitting
seamlessly. But this is a fallacy. Nobody will point it
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out; this is the tragedy. The art of fitting into this new
circle has to be learnt and normally one does with
trial and error. This eventually teaches a lot of things
making one go through the same process of learning
that one had undergone earlier to change ones first
station. Some people do it gracefully. Others just
manage to hang on. Many fall flat on their faces and
depression becomes their lot.
Today digital technology has given a power and
independence along with motor power of a colossal
nature. Is it surprising that we are seeing the
arrogance side of human nature more in
prominence? People are becoming unapproachable
except thru monetary considerations. Mutual
existence is no more a dependency. When our item is
in demand; who needs the world?
But love although it exists freely in the earth's
consciousness it is not operative in a big way in the
human. Our instinct to thrash others be it verbally,
physically or other means comes more easily and
naturally. For some reason humanity has learnt
nothing from the past and that is what surprises me
most in this life.

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Racism and Caste, Creed &

Colour
29 June 2015
It is a specific problem created by humans,
maintained by the humans and cannot be solved
unless the humans so will it. They will have to raise
their level of consciousness to incorporate gratitude
and compassion which I do not see happening
anywhere in the world with the larger percentage of
humans. Until we learn to live in the intuitive
realms, our learning uses us thru the subconscious
and we are puppets.
Look at this photo. Similar to our Nandi.

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I believe most of our mythological history, stories

and scientific discoveries started in Crete or around
and Egyptian /Middle Eastern lands. Indian genius
may have refined and upgraded it all but it is not the
cradle of civilisation as we are apt to believe. The
origins of the snake, bull, many terms have imprints
from there long before our time.

Opportunities make possibilities. Humanity knows

it.

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The first fact to be recognised and accepted is that

we humans are designed to live like automatons.
Habits rule us. We are not this idea of ourselves that
we have of being thinking and consciously driven
exalted Beings. The Being that we think that we are
is mostly in our imagination. Try living one day with
your mind focussed on every act, action, word
spoken all done with great deliberation. You will
understand what I am trying to say. Most people
cant even cross the road consciously. Their mind is
somewhere else if not busy with their phone. It is
surprising when you consider that your life may
depend on it. Yet they are busy with concepts of
Krishna, God and what they have said, and the
condition of the Soul, stuff like Karma and Destiny
and they spout scriptures and know what is exactly
good for you.
Anyone can spout scriptures. Have you learnt to
live the daily grind?
We want answers to our daily enigmas.

Any odd object can be converted into a God. Our

Faith sees God easily.
Yet we fail to see God in everything (and
everyone). How is that?
The secret of joy is in gratitude. Light small lamps
in your heart while you thank the Provider for the
bounty. Kindness opens the door. The key to the door
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the doors open with a bang.

Find me true learners

26 May 2015 at 06:00
Let us focus on the insincerity of the seekers. It is
the charade they put up. Actually why we do not
change or put in efforts to change our circumstances
( forget about our nature).... because we settle easily
for OKAY.
Is it then surprising that everything now is a
superficial put-up job to "seem", a card board facade.
Fakes. In today's world the focus is on
"certificates". They are valued and easily duplicated.
That is why fakes abound. In an atmosphere where
fakes are given currency, even the Gurus and
Acharyas are not entirely genuine. There are true
ones around but how do we recognize them as they
blend into the scenery? The public in general is an
ignorant group that follows the herd mentality that is
easily influenced by the most glitzy presentation. We
have Cinema,TV, printed colorful journals, and now
digital devices.
Find me true learners but I see only the
profiteering types who wish to profit from association
with teachers, bask in the glory of studentship but
learning nothing. The question is can we reach them
to look deeper and otherwise?
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Then again why should we? Shall we interfere with

their destinies? Is that good? Life will teach them in
its own way. They are asking for it. Why should we
protect them from their learning process? The
unraveling is happening. The spiral is on the move.
We may not see the results in our short life-spans.
Our work, if we are absolutely certain that we
"KNOW", is to answer questions in the light of our
experience without quoting others and keep our
doors open to instruct without expecting any
pecuniary gifts.
Say it and do it with honesty. Sincerity shows. So
does insincerity even more so as humans are
conditioned to be on their back-foot and wary of
words. Fakes survive on play of lovely word images
with no intent in them. They promise and not deliver.
They always have excuses. As if anyone ever pays
attention to excuses & explanations. Jumping to
conclusions is the norm anyway.
This is the thinking process of humans. It rarely
occurs to them that they are the centre and the
reason for most of the storms they find themselves
in. We are continuously laughing and often jeering at
the world for what we consider is folly. It never
occurs to us that we may be in error and needing
shift and change in our perceptions of things/life.

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