Mind Matters

Shared Thoughts

                                                                        Resonator

Its all in the air
Answers flying in the wind.

News, Information, Analysis
Whence, where- to, what-for?
Resonating energy
Empathetic telepathy

Its yours to grab
You would if you intuit
Walk quietly, problems tucked in
Sleep calmly, issues brained in 

Meditate to focus
Pray to be serene
Concentrate efforts
Filter out distractions

Attune to be tuned in
Tap your creativity
Envision your plans
Dream your success

Watch out for pitfalls
Ignore placebo effect
Beware your associates
Most of all, know thyself

Yoga to stay fit
Diet to stay healthy
Friends to network
Family for fallbacks

Dwell on inklings
Caution on premonitions
Read minds, Smell future
You can, if you will

Organisms mutate afar
Solutions reverberate aclose
Thought processes synchronise
Transcend with morphic resonance

Interconnected memories of species
Thoughts are real, immutable
Watch out, thoughts become actions
Universe one in syzygy
                                                                                            Hypnotician

Great minds think alike. Most discoveries and inventions have been accidental.  Spiritualism & Religions with similar philosophies have developed globally without communication between continents. Science, Music, innovations and many such likewise. Hence the above, the lines in which convey the funda, truisms and evolutions.

MIND MATTERS  

Unifying Spirituality 

                                                                            Atheist Spiritualist

Seldom does a window of opportunity open at critical historical turning points, to usher in corrective measures, that too in spirituality. The onus is to convert it to a challenge and drive it to fruition, through committed efforts. Future generations will not forgive us -the better informed, for not trying with the best communications, networking across religious fault lines. It is easier now to counter false propaganda and inculcate the spirit of understanding in youth without leaving them as preys for the fundamentalists to exploit with false promises. 

For, religion is a derived off-shoot of spirituality in human endeavours through civilising generations to identify an external force to unburden ignorance, seek knowledge from and rest blames on. Despite karma principles of reap as you sow, Newton’s recoil, and cause & effect eventualities, we optimistically seek Almighty to guide/correct us when in trouble, turmoil and tears. Whether God exists is not the issue, the need is universal and the creation global.

From big bang, primordial soup, theology, spiritualism, science, them coming together and to the search of god particle, the omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent has been an undeniable creation of our imagination with its limitations of ignorance, knowledge and senses, regardless of our evolution and existence oceans apart in unconnected continents. Orphism to scientism, morphic resonance, telepathy or sign of times, devoid of contacts and communication, the truth that humans have established everywhere the need and practice of spiritual system based on belief and faith, leading to religions & Gods, underscores that it is as essential to living, as air and water. 

Can conflicts be resolved using laws? Laws crave for facts and when facts themselves are uncertain such that the certainty that can be expected from judiciary comprised of fallible men prone to vacillations of opinions based on systems, majority, appointment, philosophy, background, faiths and beliefs- won’t judgments based on laws be questionable? Laws when drawn up, written, codified etc are self-centred and would not reflect altruistic concerns, 

Not to forget that they do invoke spiritual powers to enact laws from the realms of utopia with wisdom and experience. Such Acts then are argued for and against by battalions of barristers, till they are amended or revised, with the show of legaldom set to go on for ever thereafter. The concept of title to property is alien as an old Red Indian chief had surmised, that it is futile to imagine that one owns what is given in trust to manage for common benefits. Do note that right to property is not fundamentally guaranteed in Indian Constitution.

Perhaps intuitive conclusions leading to decision making and judgments, as proven in very many other spheres of life, commerce, sports and medicine are called for. Hence recourse to beliefs and faiths –crystallised with the bends of minds- with the task of determining which comes first. Like body, mind and soul, philosophers and purists have been at it unsuccessfully for millenniums to dissect the three that precipitate as life. 

And in life how dare we assume that we are at the top of a pyramid above all living beings, closer to the almighty, using him to put fear in all and sundry? The class system that did so has not stood the test of times even with the backing of monarchies and democracies. As empty stomachs cannot comprehend logics, tenets, doctrines etc, of late, what is seen is god seeking during economic gains, but later the total erosion of spirituality and its linked values. 

Monopolising the earth for our whims and fancies, exploiting nature and its resources that have accumulated over millions of years, the destruction and trail left behind is so damning that God if there is one would have stopped us -evolved through intelligent creation- or put hurdles in the way of our philo-socio-economic efforts placing mother earth in peril.

Unlike elsewhere, Indian philosophy is spiritually oriented, science and the rest turning out as its corollaries. Samkhya philosophy is silent on God. The ithihasas, puranas, epics, lores etc are embedded with god-like uttama-purusha (ideal person) embellishments to convey mores and morals to the masses making metaphysics interesting and understandable through stories.

Cultures have been enriched by verses, poetry, songs and tapestry of gender unbiased murals, sculptures etc born of religions nourished in abodes of worship. Were it not, we would have been poorer, and as such soul searching efforts need be encouraged to fuse across barriers.

It is unlikely that God incarnate would have been human, but likely that the all pervading Force returns every once a while in yugas to set matters right when the automatic equations of law and fairness go awry. Messiahs that bring such messages needn’t be gods, but more likely his chosen messengers; Priest, Rabbi, Chaplain, Imam etc are their servants to serve the lay.

Apart from the implied and doubts sown with the preceding, let us pragmatically look ahead how to survive along with all His wonders and creatures created for common benevolence. To start with, let us live and let live burying religious animosities existing amongst ourselves.

Having come a long way from class and caste (Sanskrit `matham’ literally means opinion but unfortunately down the ages it had connoted and precipitated as religions & castes) systems –though it remains to be eradicated completely. In the end what separates us human beings and souls is belief, faith, religion et al emanating from spiritual seeking.

That mammon and his ilk are creating new divides is another matter that will ferment and brew trouble in the deep schisms between communism, all effacing socialism and capitalism. Schismatic divides and gulfs that have occurred, caused, exist and nurtured by dogmatic fundamentalists, need be bridged so that historical progress and gains are not negated.

Such responsibilities rest on the shoulders of the educated and well meaning practitioners capable of understanding and disseminating valuable information by simple methods. Hasn’t music cut across linguistic barriers? Haven’t the varying dresses and panoply of attires of India spread across the nation? Hasn’t smorgasbord of lip-smacking –sweets or not- dishes cut across mountains and rivers –the old natural borders- into gastronomic delights for mouth and stomachs? Hasn’t sports and games unified us as a nation of fit and fitness freaks seeking records? Haven’t inter-caste marriages spread across territorial and cultural divides?

Haven’t the very many dialects and languages got mixed up –despite sub-division based on linguistics divides-creating yet newer ones but not failing to convey the essence of expressions? Thanks to the British, we have been united under one geographical area self contained and self-sustainable with water, food and minerals. Haven’t education and communication transformed us, made us better understanding and capable of living in amity with different faiths? Are they so immiscible as to precipitate and alienate sentiments and cause conflicts? Are there still narrow-minded doubting types amongst us? If so, let us identify, isolate and work to eradicate misunderstandings.

It is not change that is threatening or challenging, but mind block to evolve vide trials and tribulations, when what we have been conditioned and programmed with -since birth, seems questionable in the wider context and its subtle variations through religious practices appear to be of same intent but at odds and in conflict. 

Only very few are enough to plant problems and instigate troubles. Be aware and beware; spot and correct for greater common good. Politics by its very nature is divisive, politicians are experts in creating, cultivating and exploiting vote banks out of hatred; but respect them for success in the art of management of the impossibles. 

Agreeing to a leader when one is driven to grab the chair is a compromise; though truculent, trucking with others of different views to run coalitions is pragmatism; bowing to count of ballot box is street-smartness and regardless of ideologies, accepting fate that the sensitive General Will churns up is worldly wisdom. Their kama, artha, karma, lobha and moksha are power, corruption, nepotism, greed and re-election!

After having voted for the vanquished, don’t we let ourselves be governed by the victors? Accepting a foreign origin widowed bahu of thyag fame with virtual power at the helm shows our capability to live with plausibilities.

Can’t we do so likewise in spiritual field of beliefs, faiths, religions, practices, rituals and all? It behoves on the sensibles to get to the root of lowest common denominator in spiritualistic endeavours. HE is one and the same, let all congregate and pray to the One, under one roof.

Why use history to complicate and confuse? How accurate is it in the long term of time-space dimension? Aren’t we of Pangea and Gondwanaland origins? Isn’t history recorded through coloured eyes and haven’t history capsules been found to be erroneous? Would truth have survived when most are in connivance to leave their marks? Haven’t the conquerors and colonists looted, imposed their systems and the conquered -especially in the Indian sub-continent- accepted better ideas and ideals, venerating the best? Haven’t we become richer culturally, technologically etc by assimilating such imported firangi systems. 

It is not about idolising or idol worship. Seeking the true self through self realisation with potential of transferring it to all for group realisation calls for places of mass worship where the empowered nirgunabrahman god in whatever form may be consecrated and depicted as sagunabrahman for the lesser mortals to connect with and pay obeisance to. Prayers and namaz in whichever language intonated properly with devotion undoubtedly have positive benefits beyond placebo effect. God certainly cannot be bought even through priests. Whilst giving alms may be helpful, enriching temples especially those run by governments would keep gods away and as such funds earmarked so, might as well be spent in charity.

Meantime, let us not permit politicians and their agenda, nor the executive, judiciary and religious fundamentalists to define, redefine and mis-define secularism which is the inherent ancient character of our civilisation, culture, nation and rights. Let belief, faith and practice co-exist amicably. We have to demonstrate to the rest of the world that this can be done to evolve and manifest still better in the best of cradle of civilisations. 

From Aristotle, Ptolemy, Aryabhatta, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler and Hawking, humans are still gathering and deriving information light years away such that what is incomprehensible seems delusive maya as we insist on understanding everything in our lifespan with our senses as superior creatures of the universe. Our journeys through galaxies will have to continue for very long times, before we might make sense of it all. In the interim pray for peace. 

In life and work one is bound to make mistakes intentionally or unknowingly. All religions preach atonement and forgiveness enabling self correction and group emancipation. Celebrations too on victory of good over evil, to impart positiveness, forget worries and recharge beliefs with the dictum that truth triumphs ultimately. City folks celebrating farmers’ festivals after harvest, mis-convey relevance of such occasions but. 

We have come a long way from sacrificial rituals, austerities, penance etc with prayer routines during holy months. These are common to all religions and are to discipline and rid body and mind periodically of accumulated sins and toxins, seasonally, so as to cleanse and start afresh. Like nature’s seasonal dropping of leaves and regeneration anew, we need such rejuvenation time and again as we tire and doubt ourselves about whence, where to, why, what, how etc. 

What saints, sages, savants and the like tried to convey and extolled is to live in harmony with nature and its elements. They may not have been literate but had been intuitively wise to understand and spread the message through the medium of expressions using languages that evolved; but, languages inherently are poor means of expressions and are invariably prone to misunderstandings. Hence the plethora of issues raked up compounding avoidable problems. 

The ones that have stood the test of times, subjugations notwithstanding, are the better ones to take forward. Often, it is not one or the other, but a disproportionate admixture of both. Such generalisations and tautologies aside, what is desirable is to bow to the almighty Force that links microcosm and macrocosm. And since most religions mention about rebirth, through karmic efforts, if one can avoid the same, that person is perhaps the ultimate practitioner.