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A cent received during adversity is worth millions received during prosperity
Anyway you will soon be forgotten. But let you not be remembered for bad reasons
Sex kills love. You can be madly in love with an ugly person as long as you do not enter into sex, while you will fall out even with the most beautiful person progressively after sex. Afterall no one is physically so beautiful; afterall all is made of flesh and blood and love hides that all, but not sex. That being the one reason why marriage kills love and fails and where it lasts, it's just a eyewash/ compromise
Do not fight the war with words, I have chances even to lose to fools. A dog can stop barking long after a man has stopped talking.
Instead fight the war with Action, I may still have some have chances to win against the best and the smartest since everyone may have their bad days.
Apply philosophy as well as science. Let philosophy be used to ask boundless questions and let science be used to prove them. Otherwise, on their own, philosophy gets too abstract while science gets too narrow
This world depends on and values money only. So always maintain my transactions proper and owe nothing to anyone. That way for sure I will not make enemies, but again these can never be my friends since those who are good only when I have money can't be my friend when I don't have money
When I am at my best, be careful. All that I say and do, right or wrong will not be countered as the beneficiaries will not want to offend me to safeguard their self-interest.
Words develop faster than mind. Even a child, parrot can pronounce well without getting the meaning of it. So words are the weakest faculty and it can never help me evolve enough since anybody and everybody can talk. Instead channelize that energy towards evolution of the mind and realization of the heart
Instead of being lonely in the crowd; realize the best in me, realize my SELF so that I am crowded with them even when alone
A lean, weak person but with no desire and detached is way stronger than a strong warrior but with some desire. The lean person die but never give in to desire but the strong warrior can be detracted and pushed to the mouth of death by luring him with his desire
Detachment is precious. While we feel sorry to give up something but actually we gain more by giving up. There is always new and better persons to be know and better places to be uncovered. Use detachment as a tool and not as a feeling of loss. Otherwise the true spirit of detachment cannot be realized
If I want to be different; know that anyone can eat and eat the best, talk great words endlessly, make new connects and friends. But rare is one and also free who escapes these all, or transcends them all or indifferent to all such indulgence. Live alone, talk not, detach completely so that nothing in the world can lure my senses.
On Silence: Practise silence. That will be envied upon by all
When I cannot win over someone is argument, reasoning and talks, win over him in Silence
A fool and unworthy person cannot stand in front of me till he talks. But when he talks, he can say anything and can take me towards his path of discussion and make me look a fool in front of him. This shows that Silence isn't weakness, but the wisdom of the rarest. This being the reason why it is so important when I must/ need to talk as much as when not to talk. To start with, I can never anticipate where can talks lead me to. So when the mouth talks, practise discrimination and get conscious of it so that I am aware if I am on or off track
Know when it is gainful by being silent than talking. It is a good way to escape the illusions and unnecessary things of life
When I have desire for something, once I get it, I get tired of it. So never go for anything out of desire. If it is based on Dharma, go for it just for the sake of it, but never out of desire. Same way do not try to hold someone by meeting his desire. They will get bored of it or want more and more. If that is the case, better have someone just for the sake of myself or let them go.
Have desire for one great thing that there remains desire for nothing else. This is the one practical way to root out trivial, tempting, illusory desires and indulgences
Not everything and everyone can be obtained in life. Obtain one thing, that lives with me forever and there remans no longing for anything else.
I cannot always win at least in everything. But win in one thing to the point of death that even if I win or lose in every other thing, it matters not to me
Know when to move out of flock of mediocres. Else they will kill all my aspirations and I will feel lost and will be left to blame only myself and all alone
When being the best or pursuit of it is my choice, then be alone. Else no one will tolerate me, even being best for different
When there is scope to be better, it is always better to always remain unsatisfied with myself
Be in someone's heart and mind than in the same house. Think of those who are in the same house but not in each other's heart and mind
I have to act on my mind else the mind will act on me and mostly it will make me do what I must not do.
You have to be away to be missed, dead to be loved, lost to be looked for. If I am missing all these in life, I am in a wrong position. That's why the construct about happiness is an illusion. By nature, we respect the dead more than the living ones, nostalgic even about the difficult past while undervaluing the relatively better present and unreasonably hopeful about future. Is this the reason why we get infatuated by the ugliest lady when she cannot be reached while get sick of the sweetest girl after a while when we unite or get related. Could this be one reason why the grass always appears green on the other side! And others happier than us....
When I leave a place and visit it again, I will visit there as if I have never been there. When I go away from someone and face or meet him again, I will as if I had never met him. The pursuit of my life is to live to this level of detachment
From present do not retrace to the past. But only through future meet the past if at all
Happiness is an illusion, at least beyond a certain point. But peace can be guaranteed, that too by transcending all dualities. So never chase anything in pursuit of happiness as that is a sham
Avoid those smarter, richer,... than me. They will exploit me when they see some value in me. Avoid those weaker, loser, poorer,... than me. They will pull me down to their level and laugh at my fall to their or below their level
If I am a fool, do not talk. People will soon come to know that I am one. And if I am smart, talk but not talk too long. People will little later come to know that I am a fool.
If I have to survive be in a crowd. If excel, be alone. Else be excellent in the crowd else my interest will depend on the survival of the group. Being alone and trying alone; make it cool so that I break all dependencies. What's the point of living only for living. Live like lion, at its peak and die fast. And better die than live only for eating or living
Never take any side, blame none. Men tortured women, now women reciprocating. So none to blame. What I/ we do, will return. Both has advantage and disadvantage. When men torture, I do not suffer, but my sister/ daughter do. When women torture, I suffer, but my sister/ daughter do not for the same earlier reason. Take no side when I am in chain
I will soon get disappointed if I go somewhere and get entangled again in cooking, nourishing. This shows that I am still trapped to desires or bodily needs. Break it all by constant watchfulness. Know how minimum can I do to get basic food needed. Never make eating, cooking food related stuffs as primary and see if it drains out all or most of my AET. I am not here only to eat and sustain myself
I am not happy yet, though I may say it:
- So long I yearn or seek for others affirmation or acknowledgement
- So long I have hatred, aversion, jealousy, envy which means that I am so deeply attached and it bothers me too much. Love none, hate none, be present while being oblivious of all the change wisely
Not all is to be spoken. This is an world of illusion and do not even reveal to my own mind. It will rush into words or actions. Live the art of having things secret even from the mind. When I have to do it, just do it, let not the mind be even aware of it or get a chance or time to react. Mind is subject to time, it needs time usually. So when the mind can be a disruptor, keep it dead secret from it. It will then never reveal out to the world. All struggle with the mind because once something is in the mind it is hard or impossible to fight the mind. So play up with the mind; my mind is different from me. Acting spontaneously is one way to make the mind obsolete. If controlling the mind is so hard, success rate is negligible then try out the above ways.
With the help of Mind/ intellect I can lose the war despite winning. With heart, I can win despite losing.
You are remembered when you are away. And not when near. This shows that I can be in someone's mind when away. Detachment can create a force or potential difference
Mind can think anything and everything. But to narrow it down; act. I can act only few; what is possible, what I can, what I should,... I can talk anything, everything but can do only something that is possible, that I can, that I should,...This shows the illusion create by mind/ talks/ words. I will work to come out of this fallacy
Tandava of Desire: A beggar remains attached to life, food, desire. He lives to eat anything. Even eats stale food and gets used to it. He eats to live more to suffer more. How difficult it is for him to give up his worn out body when he could have given it up while desire makes him upkeep it for facing more sufferings.
Realize when we are living to eat or eating to live; we are in a cycle and desire is holding us to this life when we so no purpose in it or unable to contribute to life or to ourselves
Some people kill themselves for lack of food. But lack of food will anyway kill me. So death is anyway inevitable. Instead have a control so that I can withdraw food to death. This gives me control over my death. While birth is not in my control, but death is, then why do I not die. It is because of desires and attachment. When they are getting fulfilled, I fear to die and when not I still stay alive attached to hope, attached to future that someday things may change and that clings me to this life, attached to sufferings. Transcend desires starting with food, sensual pleasures and so on. Food and sensual pleasures being primary in order. When a child is born it cries for food constantly. It is not yet aware of sensual/ carnal pleasures. But when it grows, it needs both and gets trapped to them. A man who is going to die, expects or is offered the best food and so on. This shows how strong desires are and we get so helpless that we even take it before death when it will not be even disgusted by the time we die. We are under such an illusion. Animals, men when eating the best food get lost in it. They gets most vulnerable in that state. When we are lying on the ground, we will be eaten by someone or the other. Does it mean that we are also merely food just the ways animals and plants are for us. We kill or get killed. When we can rise above all desires, that is different, when nothing can bind us. To be in that state, stay in intellectual activity, work, harmless work if not good work as much as possible. This is a way to not let the default flow of our Attention to food, sensual pleasures and so on. Do this to the point that I am dying without knowledge. Make this world oblivious in my consciousness
Play the game of and with heart. I may win even after losing. While playing the game of and with mind, I may lose even after winning
Everything in this phenomenal world is bound to cease. So give it up in a planned way before it gives you up unplanned
Be not so egoist that I stop asking needed help even for myself. And be not so humble that it turns into unnecessary dependence/ shamelessness
If you can't take the worst of me, you don't deserve the best of me.
When I am fallen, mistaken, unknown of my faults, you not giving me a chance, waiting for me to fail and you abandon me, not helping me to rise and when I do not deserve you. You too do not deserve me when I work through my mistakes, faults, keep trying to be sincere though it may not always work and finally rise. When you are there for me only in my good times and the good in me, and when I rise to good times and realize the good in me and you return only then; why do I need you at all.
I can take the best in others when I can also handle/ manage the worst in him
Do not fight like a dog or a hyena. A dog barks seeing anything and irritates the attacker, the hyena waits for the leftover. The tiger will better die than eat throwover. And live alone than mingling with anybody
Be some and such that someone wants to be and loves being your servant rather than constantly trying to please a King
Some are ready to give up their freedom for the sake of love.
But then again a point comes that that love becomes suffocating when freedom is deprived.
Why are we human so confused! What is powerful; love or freedom or they cannot be in isolation and instead it is that love that makes one free or that freedom that we love.
Selfless love or love that comes with the pre-req of freedom, fearlessness
Not always we need to be closer to be in love. Sometimes if love takes it toll, it's better to separate to save the love or just for the sake of love
Anyone who says is a disruptor, isn't one.
Anyone who says is smart, good, bad... isn't one. We cannot be conscious of what we really are; be it good or bad. Excellence and alike is beyond the realm of human consciousness
Be there for family when they need me. And also take myself away when they no longer need me. Applies with friends, society and so on. Afterall nothing can last forever
Work to the extreme extent that it gets fatal and I suffer but for short and die early.
Relax, live a balanced life and take care of this body and then wait long in a healthy condition waiting to die.
Keep doing to death rather than left to live only to keep talking
The reason to be alone is that when others will abandon me when I am not of any value then why not get used to it. But do not choose others based on the value they can offer.
A foolish robber is safer than a calculative monk
Judge my action, thoughts, speech based on these criteria; Reject it if it is triggered out of desire, seeking praise, selfish intent. Rejecting based on these criteria will take be towards the criteria based on which I must act except the one above. And if it is based on Dharma, go for it without thinking of its consequence on me
Either be truthful to speak when asked to respond or be quiet to avoid self-flattery or jugglery of words and speculation
Give myself respect without self-importance
Do not attend to desires, expectations, out going forces, to mind. That must push towards liberation
Rare are those who are blessed with wealth and all the good in life. And even rarer are those who though blessed with it all, but cannot hold it
If at all I have to lie, better lie for a good cause than speak the truth for a bad cause. And then be ready to face the outcome of the lie; whatever be it
Human and even animals cannot be lured for far too long thorough food, money, comfort and any physical or mental desires or pleasures. Need for freedom surpasses it all. Our real Self (Atman) can give up this body in hunger but in freedom rather than being bound while surrounded by all the comforts and pleasures
- Some people make more difference not when they are there; but when they aren't
- Tell others what the work is; but not what and how to do it, may be not even how it can be done. Seeking freedom is inherent in human
- When we do what matters as much as what we do when
- Irony! People do and enjoy calculation. But do not like to be treated as number or be calculated upon
- Do not force others to love me. But be such that others are forced to love me. This shows the difference between Being and doing(requiring effort/ force)
- Do not give up as it is not working. Do not give up till it starts working
- One reason that makes living life so exciting is that how much I try, nothing is after all going to last and stay
- Find & know the Laws that governs me. And then govern it
- When time and situation is all bad, no amount of talk can help. And when good, no talk would at all be needed
- Detach and fear not, if anyone or those close to me is leaving me. There can a day when even if they want to stick with me, they can't. If not anything, but for sure death will take us all away. We all have to leave each other behind and alone.
- Where this a will I will create many ways to do it, and where there isn't the will, I will create many reasons to avoid that.
- Attitude isn't not necessarily inherent in those with substance. But it gets bad to have attitude while lacking substance
- This remains unanswered for me! When this world is an illusion, then why can anything we do in this life have any bearing on our karma. How can anything we do in this illusory world get as real as the effect of our karma
- There is a good reason why life is full of problems and ever changing. This is to make us constantly realize that this is our temporary stay in this human life. We somehow seem to ignore the number of people fading away from our life as much as those who are coming new to it. But don't know why we still seem to ignore all this change and try to hold on to life and search for permanence in it when that is not its nature at all. So let me reflect on these changes too that’s part of our life so that we constantly keep reminding ourselves of the temporary nature of this human life. This is not a place where we must and can expect to settle down forever
- Be not a fool! Learn from the mistakes others have committed instead of repeating them again till I finally realize it.
- Neither be stupid and take everything for granted without trying just because others have failed at something, always or almost all the time.
- How to know that! That could or and would need to go beyond reason
- Evolve to a standard rather than the standard binding you
- While applying generalization, consider all possible exceptions to the extent that the exception could get generalized to the extent that the general becomes an exception
- Get to relook at it if it gets rather too complex while trying to make something simple enough
- It's getting rather too complex while trying to make it simple enough
- What about using intellect as a shield for my own protection rather than as a consequence of my ego!
- I just don't want to be a fool by creating ground for my own downfall and learn from the experiences of it. Rather I be a thief to learn from that of others!
- Note the fine line between someone trying to be foolishly egoless while another being divinely egoless. We must not have ego, but then the brain and heart must be in order. A foolish has no brain and acts without any ego. But that does not mean that he is in true sense egoless. This shows the subtle difference between the extremes. And it is best to detach from something when I have and can have it all and not of something that I can never have. So have no pain in misery because of attachment to objects of desire. Only if I can detach from them, renounce them, can I experience that advanced level of which we call bliss or sometimes joy
- When I am not sacred to die, why be scared to fail
>> If I do not remember something that means it is not important to me. And if I want to make something important, remember it or do all that that helps me to remember it
>> Discover the sophistication in simplicity and silence; existence in non-existence, activity in inactivity, inactivity in activity..........
>> Perfection has reached the level of mediocrity and mediocrity the height of perfection
>> It’s Realization and Results ONLY that matters!
I have to die while doing than left to live just for talking.
And this is what is expected of me, by all. Though harsh, but a sweet Truth, and quite obvious
>> Play this game: Detach completely when I am fully attached to something or someone
>> The best way to sell something is not to sell it. We love to have what is least available for sale
>> When I am trapped by desire, I am bound and lack character. And when I am desireless, even for things that are very indulging, I gain by breaking the chain of desire. This is liberating and is Real freedom indeed
>> Simply do complicated <Means: To accomplish complicated things, do it in a simple way>
>> I sometimes win by losing
>> If being pleasant is not an option; then better be harsh than being selfish
>> Why does it get so easy to be scared by the thought of ghost which is not proved to exist; while it gets enormously difficult to have faith in God That/ Who is known to exist even before the advent of the idea of and about ghosts?
>> Live on harsh truth than on illusive joy
>> Doubt God in good times and doubt my doubt in God in bad times.
>> I can even live without criticizing others for what I do not believe in. This can sometimes be the wiser option
>> He is a king who can rule his own mind. Rest all were and are mere puppets
18-Apr:
It becomes even more important to speak the Truth since the one who always lie hates it when they catch others lie
Better to fail as I keep trying while awake; than succeeding, but only in my dreams
2-Apr-2019:
1-Apr-2019:
11-Mar-19:
The dream castle built with the bricks of inaction is for sure to fall
26-Feb-2019:
There are times when it is better to be quiet and appear boring than to be talkative and sound irritating.
20-Feb:
Two persons, one moving northward and another southward, are asked to keep moving forward. While the forward for both of them is just the same, but they are moving in a direction different from each other.
Isn’t it true w.r.t attitude?
Not always doing the right thing is enough. It also depends on the attitude with which we do things.
19-Feb:
It took me so many years to finally realize that I can write with both hands.
Meaning that I am ambidextrous.
The reason being that my handwriting when I write with my right hand which is normal for me is as worse as my handwriting which I struggle to write with my left hand.
13-Feb:
Every acronym has a meaning linked with it and all that it stands for. We use acronym if the word or sentence is often used. But if it is then too often used in its acronymic form, we get into doing it mechanically without knowing its actual meaning and thus lose the spirit that it stands for. And lack of Spirit results in Death, be it anything. And if death is inevitable, let be it.
5-Feb:
Though some may be apparently untrue; but superstitions, ideas, philosophies, stories and fictions that elevates the mind is better than those facts and revelations of Truth that does more harm and downgrades the mind and intellect. After all it must all be done, but only ‘To its True Spirit’.
4-Feb-2019
If I run after my desires, they will move farther away from me. If I run away from my problems, they will chase me even more. Only if I remain established in my SELF; neither desires nor problems can move me
16-Jan-2019:
When you fall in love doing something; be sure to get brutally assaulted and thrashed. But let me tell you; you would then still love it.
The matter of fact is that the hate you get out of love is as good as the love you get out of hate.
You must not make a profession of what you love else it may die out during times of low return.
If only you are lucky, will your love overlap with your chosen profession
14-Jan-2019:
Mistakes could happen knowingly, but let not repeat it knowingly
9-Jan-2019:
- Sometimes it is better to believe in something good that do not exist than to than to believe in something bad that exists
- Forget work when I plan the work and forget planning when I am at work. Plan my work and work on my plan but do not make only planning my work
- Better to read Quantum Mechanics and understand nothing instead of listening to a moron and understanding everything
28-Dec-2018:
1. Ruled by the intellects vs rule the fools
2. The major part of our suffering is that we tend to conclude almost everything. Apart from Yes and No, there also exists I don’t know, I don’t want to know, I may never know
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25-Dec-2018:
2. Stop not just because I said you that you are doing something wrong that you are not very sure about. I may stop you even when you are doing something right that you are very sure about
3. Do not risk yourself by inflicting pain to a poet. He so much longs for that. And if you do so, he will make you a Star in all his musings. And it’s unstoppable thereafter. You cannot make him happy since he doesn’t want to be happy. He would say that he loses all his creative poise and depth when happy
- If you stopped doing something just because people said that you are doing something wrong, people will stop you even when you are doing something right
- Sometimes you need to be lost to be found
16-Dec-2018:
- Let all criticize me. I won’t stop, I will keep trying. The more I fail, the more I will try. Neither I will wait to hear only good about myself. If someone is doing so, it definitely means he is lying
- Don’t expect to be perfect. If someone is saying you so, he must definitely be lying. Well, if you think you have perfected in pulling your zipper, bungee jump without puking, grow the most amazing whisker, sipping vodka through the air and blah blah blah, something is definitely wrong with you and even harder to be fixed
- Be careful to not apply right methods with wrong things
- When I visit the Zoo, I prefer to see a new animal; meaning anything except the apes. There are so many apes all around me and in the mirror too. Everyone copying, and I too am one. Each one of us trying to be cheaply ubercool. Surprisingly the holocaust would have not materialized had we been just our true Own Self and not aped hatred
- Only if I know my limits, can I then Surrender to it, Live with it or Break it
- All pain heals, no matter how bad it now feels
I am on a mission. And the mission is to Live my Life
- Creativity demands that I be normally abnormal. But there is a very fine line between abnormality and insanity that I may mindlessly cross and be on the side of insanity
- Camera captures only what exists and is visible. But painting can capture even that does not exist. It can project the mind on to the canvas
- Creativity implies freedom of expression. And when we earn money thought that, we lose that freedom since we must create what the payer wants and not what I want
7-Nov-18:
As I read through “The Complete Works Of Swami Vivekananda” I feel that I am no less than a moron and all my so called education is all in vain if I do not change for good after reading it
Let the best in me be so loud that it silences all that's bad in me
Do not underestimate the mind. Do not wage a war with the mind that can never be won. A mind can fill libraries with thousand and thousand of books and it still can keep filling with more. Make my mind my buddy so that it does what I want to do. But if I want to do something against it, it is an impossible fight since fighting my own mind is as good as fighting with myself. And it is obvious if I fight with myself, I must die to live or live to die. And I should be stronger than my mind to defect it. And I am same as my mind. How can my mind go weak when I am getting stronger to face it? Aren’t both the same of me
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31-Nov-18:
Life can get as good as merciless it can get!
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Choose the best person and try to get better than him. And choose the worst person and practice not to be like him and be too too good to him. Everything and everyone in life can teach us a lesson
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