Gyan Bhandar - 9

As seen by others

I sometimes feel the world is going full retard,

I sometimes wonder how you could even think that way,

I sometimes like the way you think,

None of us can control the way we think,

The way I think depends on the way I see things,

We choose to see things from our own perceptions.

We see only a limited area of the circle, and blind towards the remaining area,

The way we judge, the way we believe, our truths, our morals, our righteousness all are based on how we see things feeding to how we think.

As seen by others - each subject, person, situation, crisis, politics, politicians, traffic, finances and the present day hot topic (Religion) will have people seeing and thinking from different lenses and thinking!

Let's become a Pluto!

Pluto was discovered in 1930,

They called it a Planet,

They downgraded Pluto from its 9th Planet status to a Dwarf Planet in 2006,

While all this discovery, naming, renaming was happening, Pluto always existed and irrespective of what few humans sat in a room and decided it's fate.

Infact Pluto didn't give a Fuck to what Humans thought about it Million KMs away.

It is what it is, no matter what few intelligent humans think what it is.

Irrespective of what People think, criticize, support, worship, hate, love Modi, RaGa, DBoss, Gurus, they are what they are, they do what they do.

Can we become a Pluto? Do what we do, if we think something is Right, it got to be right.

The difference between us and Pluto is, it doesn't even know we exist, it doesn't even know what we think!

Are you abusing me or giving Constructive Criticism?

The subtlety between abuse, criticism and highlighting issues, determines if it's a conflict or a scope for improvement.

When a client raises an issue on my application, when someone talks ill about my City, when the non biological lordship is criticized, when Pappu is made fun of, when my religion is ridiculed, when my belief system is questioned, we all tend to get aggressive.

In all the above scenarios, the other party always believes he is doing constructive criticism or pointing issues, but the other party always hears it as an abuse.

The problem is with our urge to attach sentiments, and get emotional over our Job, City, favourite Politician, Religion.

Looks like emotions and logic don't work together, and we go all out to justify, defend and get offended.

Afterall, we are wired that way, to attach emotions to everything, that helps us own it.

Abusing, criticizing is easy, it is in fact satisfying (though sadistically). And the shameless justifications always turn out to be aggressive.

It is my generic observation that each of us tend to lose it when we are belittled on any of the four topics: Profession/Job, Religion/Caste, Favourite Politician, City/Home Town!

The egoistic pride shields me

The urge for approval,

The yearning to be recognised and labelled the way I would like to be identified,

I am recognised and made relatable, based on what I do, to impress others,

My characterization is the impression I leave on others,

It's upto me if I want to loosen my poise and give away my weakness,

If different people have different opinions on me, then it's only because of my behaviour and mannerisms with each of them are different,

It's upto me how much I want to expose myself to each of them,

If someone sees me differently than how I want them to see, then I have failed to pursue my image,

I have this audacity to not care for what others think about me, nor does it matter,

The egoistic pride shields me, I always feel I am 2 feet above the ground, not sure if it's good or bad.

I keep telling Preeti to hide her emotions and not to show if she is upset or when we had a fight on the way or back at home.

I can act as if nothing has happened, hold hands and project the image of an ideal couple.

But she just can't do it, too naive to act normal, her emotions show up and gives up her state of mind.

Knowledge of exploitation

These views coming from the weakest and disinterested student during the entire academic learning stage, might look strange, but the Knowledge Systems always fascinated me.

Be it Science, Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Engineering, Medicine, Philosophy, Vedanta - everything focuses on understanding every resource available at our disposal, and making it work for us, to make it useful for us.

Putting it politically correct, people would say these Knowledge Systems would make our lives better.

Whether we like it or not, how much ever we debate, argue to make these Knowledge Systems a Hero, each one of them focuses on understanding nature and resources (Theory), proves their ways and characteristics (Proof) and finds ways to exploit (Technology).

Engineering is the biggest con artist, which finds ways to create things artificially that don't exist in nature, and make things work for us.

In that case, is Vedantha a Knowledge system that helps us study God as a resource, understand God, put him to our use and make him work for us, in the form of Karma, Moksha, Focus, Help and many cases business (Yogis, Gurus)?

Farts & Opinions

The ones who are highly opinionated like me, can't avoid, can't stop ourselves in giving opinions, advice on things happening around us.

It's like Farts. Though we like to avoid, hold it, eventually it has to come out. All we can do is control it for a while, and avoid when unknown people are around.

The moment the opinion comes out, no matter how subtle, how polite, with good intent you give your opinion, it always smells bad for others.

Probably that's why we don't hesitate near our loved ones and close ones, be it Farts or Opinions.

I have seen many oldies, especially one relative who gives his opinion, advice and sarcasm at the drop of the hat. Coincidentally, he farts in the open without any hesitation...hmm, both must really be related!