What is the right mindset for Spiritual Practices?

Nowhere to go

Nowhere to reach

Nothing to achieve

Nothing to progress

No beginning, No ending

No source, No Destination

Just a process without result

Just be, do, observe, experiment without expectation but with curiosity.

Beware, not all efforts yield result, buy only few yields result. Enjoy the effort, effort itself is a joy.

யாருக்கு கடவுள் தேவையில்லை?

எவர் துன்பத்தையும், கஷ்டத்தையும், கவலையையும், நஷ்டத்தையும், நோயையும், மரணத்தையும், அவமானத்தையும், வறுமையையும், தோல்வியையும், பயத்தையும், ஏமாற்றத்தையும், நிலையாமையையும் ஏற்றுக்கொள்கிறாரோ, அவருக்கு கடவுள் தேவையில்லை.

எவர் மரணத்திற்கு பின் நரகத்தை ஏற்றுக்கொள்கிறாரோ, அவருக்கு கடவுள் தேவையில்லை.

எவர் துன்பத்தை ஏற்று கொள்கிறாரோ, அவருக்கு புத்தனும் தேவையில்லை… கடவுளும் தேவையில்லை.

வாழ்வின் பல பதிலற்ற கேள்விகளுக்கு விடை தேடாதவர்களுக்கு, ஆன்மீகமும் தேவையில்லை… தத்துவமும் தேவையில்லை.

ஆன்மீக பயிற்சிகளும் அதன் பயன்களும் அனைவருக்கும் கிட்டாதது ஏன்?

சிலருக்கு ஆன்மீக பயிற்சிகளால் பயன்கள் உண்டாகுவதாக கூறுகிறார்கள். பலருக்கு ஆன்மீக பயிற்சிகளால் எந்த பலனும் கிடைக்கவில்லை என்று கூறுகிறார்கள். எது சரி எது தவறு.

இரண்டுமே சரிதான், இரண்டுமே தவறுதான்.

குழந்தைகள் பொம்மைகளோடு விளையாடும்போது மகிழ்ச்சியுடன் இருக்கிறார்கள். பொம்மை மகிழ்ச்சியை தருகிறதா? பொம்மையுடன் விளையாடும் அனைவருக்கும் மகிழ்ச்சி உண்டககிறதா? பெரியோர்கள் பொம்மைகளிடமிருந்து மகிழ்ச்சி அடைவது இல்லை.

பொம்மையை பார்த்தவுடன் மகிழ்ச்சி குழந்தையின் மனதில் ஊற்றெடுக்கிறது… மனதில் ஊற்றெடுக்கிறது. பொம்மையில் எந்த உணர்வும் இல்லை. குழந்தையின் மனதில்தான் உணர்ச்சிகள் உள்ளன.

பெரியோர்களுக்கு பொம்மையை பார்த்தவுடன் எந்த உணர்வும் தோன்றுவதில்லை.

மகிழ்ச்சியை உண்டாகக்கூடிய புற உலக பொருட்கள் மனிதர்களின் வயதுக்கேற்ப மாறிக்கொண்டே உள்ளது. மூன்று வயதில் மகிழ்ச்சி உண்டாகக்கூடிய பொருட்கள் பத்து வயதில் மகிழ்ச்சி உண்டாக்குவதில்லை. பத்து வயதில் மகிழ்ச்சி உண்டாகக்கூடிய பொருட்கள் இருபது வயதில் எந்த உணர்வையும் தோற்றுவிப்பதில்லை. இருபது வயதில் மகிழ்ச்சி தந்த விஷயங்கள் நாற்பது வயதில் உணர்வற்று விடுகிறது. வயது மற்றும் அனுபவத்திற்கேற்ப மகிழ்ச்சி உண்டாக்கும் விஷயங்கள் மாறிக்கொண்டே உள்ளது.

ஆன்மீக பயிற்சிகள் “பலன்களை தருவதற்கு” நீங்கள் அதற்கேற்ற மனநிலையில் இருக்க வேண்டும். நீங்கள் அந்த மனநிலையில் இருந்தால் , ஆன்மீக பயிற்சியின் மூலம் உங்கள் மனது மகிழ்ச்சியை உருவாக்கும். இல்லையெனில் உங்கள் மனது மகிழ்ச்சியை/பலன்களை உருவாக்காது.

நீங்கள் குழந்தயாய் இருந்தால் மட்டுமே, பொம்மைகள் உங்களுக்கு மகிழ்ச்சியை உண்டாக்கும். வேறு எந்த நிலையில் இருந்தாலும் உங்களுக்கு பொம்மைகள் மகிழ்ச்சியை உண்டாக்காது.

ஆன்மீக பயிற்சியின் “பலன்களை” பெற, நீங்கள் அதற்குரிய மனநிலையில் இருக்க வேண்டும். இல்லை எனில் உங்களுக்கு எந்த பலனும் கிட்டாது.

ஆன்மீக பயிச்சிக்குரிய மனநிலை என்ன? அதைப்பற்றி பின்பு எழுதுகிறேன்.

Humans are not matured enough for Internet, social media

Humans are not matured enough for Internet and social media – youtube, facebook, instagram, X (twitter), whatsapp(chat apps) and any digital content sharing or digital communication platforms.

We share audio and video over Internet. As human we have six senses. See, hear, taste, smell, touch sensory, thinking. Out of these six senses, we transmit visual(see) and audio(hear) senses over internet. Other senses… we are not able to transmit as on date.

Visual sense is very important as brain uses more energy to process visual inputs.

Both audio and video combined, takes our 100% attention when watching.

A child is granted unlimited access to drugs. It does not aware it is wrong, it does not aware it is lethal to body and mind. It consumes and habituated to drugs and become addicted. Like a child exposed to drugs… humans are exposed to Internet and digital world. We do not realize, internet and social media a addictive and destructive to our life. We starts consuming it for our needs, slowly with or without our awareness we become addicted to it.

Our interest and passions are transformed to addiction by social media. Internet and social media drill a deep hole in our wallet, and we become financially infected to spend. Our hard earned money is sucked by internet and social media addiction.

We don’t know what is happy to us, instead social media infiltrate our mind and convince us to “believe” what is happy to us and we chase it.

Need of the hour is all over the world governments should ban internet and social media from public access. Internet and social media be restricted. Or increase the cost of internet astronomically so that majority of the population do not have access to internet or have limited access to internet.

We are harvesting a digital addicted new generation, who keeps the digital gadgets as part of the their physical body. Always touching the mobile phone. We do not know the future, no one can guess future, but the upcoming digital addicted next generation humans, will be different from the past.

We are psychologically forced to consume, spend… even borrow and spend… even get loan and spend by social media. Our moods are determined by the digital content we watch. Our delusions are driven by digital contents we consume.

The “I” or “I am” is constructed by digital media.

It is very very hard to get rid of this digital addition. Like rehabilitation for alcoholic addiction, we need rehabs for Digital addition.

Everyone who is connected are addicted.

Whole world is consuming Digital Drugs. Internet Service Providers are trafficking digital drugs.

It is very hard to control your kids/children/teenager/adult/people of all ages… from using internet. If their friends, relatives, co-workers are using internet then one person can not control himself. We will have the mind set of “whole world is using internet, what is wrong with me”

There are undeniable benefits of internet and digital platforms, no doubt about it. It’s harms are more serious than it’s benefits. Internet and social media platforms provide both honey and poison. We as humans are not able to distinguish between poison and honey, we consume both. Can you intake honey mixed with poison? That’s what we do regarding internet and digital platforms.

What I am saying is similar to ban sweets in India…but nothing wrong in banning sweets in diabetic infected country. Ban motorcycles in India… but nothing wrong in banning motorcycles in India where people in all ages don’t follow traffic rules. Restrict Internet… nothing wrong in restrict internet where people are not able to distinguish good and bad.

For sweets, in overall population few % percentage of people are suffering from diabetic. In overall population, lesser % people meet accidents, larger population have safe journey. If we compare the affected(diabetic, accident) people with overall population, the affected percentage is very small. It is a sort of probability. So sweets and motorcycles are allowed. But digital drugs… Whole humanity is affected… everybody from child to old age are addicted to digital drugs. Whole country is affected. No probability matrix here… entire population is consuming digital drugs,… not in percentage…. Whole population. So, digital drugs have to be banned or restricted.

There is good and bad in everything.

There are benefits from fossil fuels…. bad, they pollute environment and cause global warming. There are benefits in AC, fridge… bad, they provide old food and cause global warming. Automobiles are boon for human mobility, but people die in automobile accidents here and there. Aeroplanes… great benefits, but seldom people die in flight accidents… It happens.

The percentage of positive is more than percentage of negative to be used by people. So, people are availing flight travel, though there are flight accidents here and there. Accident percentage is negligible when compared with number successful flight travels.

But, more percentage of negative than positive in digital drugs. It has to be banned or restricted by government.

What is the difference between narcotics and digital drugs. There is a notion in society that narcotics are bad, but no such notion about using internet and interactive digital platforms. We have to create a taboo to use internet and social media platforms. People should afraid or hesitate to use internet and social media unless there is a pressing valid need.

This can not be a one man effort. It is the responsibility of government which has power and authority to frame policies and rules to restrict unlimited access to internet and social media.

As a parent we can not control our kids from using internet when we ourself as an adult addicted to internet. It is the social and governmental responsibility to eradicate digital drugs from society.

இன்பமும் துன்பமும் மரணம் வரை தான்.

இவ்வுலக வாழ்வின் இன்பமும் துன்பமும் மரணம் வரை தான். மரணம் வரும் வரை இன்பத்தை அனுபவிப்போம். மரணம் வரும் வரை துன்பத்தை பொறுத்துக்கொள்வோம்.

மரணத்துக்கு பின்னர் இவை எதுவும் இல்லை. சொர்கம் நரகம் உண்டென்று மனிதர்கள் நம்புகிறார்கள். எதுவாயினும் பூமி வாழ்கை முடிவுக்கு வந்துவிடும்.

எல்லா கஷ்டங்களும் மரணம் வரைதான், சற்று மரணத்திற்க்காக காத்திருப்போம். பூமியிலிருந்து விடைபெறுவோம். மரணத்தின் மூலமாவது
இன்ப துன்பங்களிலிருந்து விடுதலை பெறுவோம் என்று நம்பிக்கையோடு காத்திருப்போம்.

Something before this life, decides our current life.

I was sleeping in a train journey. I had a dream as follows… I was in a room, and there were few men trying to physically abuse me. I fought with them. I exited the room. I was in a high rise ship in middle of sea. With do Or die mindset, I jumped into the sea. I started swimming without knowing where the shore was, but hoped to reach a sea shore. I woke up from dream and sleep. Worst dream.

Why I had this bad dream? Is it by randomness? Many negative or bad things happened to me or many people in life. Are they by randomness? Is this life a random coincidence on planet earth? Is earth a randomness in solar system? Is solar system a random coincidence in universe? Is universe existing by cosmic coincidence or random activity from something else?

All these can not be by randomness. All looks like a well organised existence.

Somebody born into extreme poverty. Somebody born into richness. Somebody born to affectionate parents.

Sometimes situations are favorable to us. Sometimes situations are unfavorable to us.

Somebody lives as smuggler. Some people lives as paid killers. Some lives as prostitutes. Some lives as pimp. Some leads a professional career… Doctor or Engineer. Some lives as software engineers. Some lives as police officer. Some lives as soldiers. Like many water currents or drifts in ocean running in multiple directions and for various distance, people live in different lives… Short or long, happy or sad, pleasure or pain… etc.

How people get into their stream? Do they choose their life consciously? Or can they avoid their life consciously? Are they hurled into their respective life streams? People don’t have control over what life they are going to live. Your life, your career is not your choice, you may think it was your choice, but it is not true. It was decided and you are hurled into it.

Some kids are physically abused at tender age. Some kids lives without a blemish.

Somebody goes to a job and enjoy their work. Somebody goes to job, entangled in office politics, suffer like anything.

Not all couples enjoy marriage life. Some enjoy, some suffer, some both.

Some undergo chronical illness. Some die suddenly.

People born into different “born environments”. Can someone choose their born environment consciously? Can someone avoid a born-environment consciously? Our born-environment is not within our control. We are hurled into our born-environment fiercely.

Mostly our life is our reactions to our born-environment. What are the opportunities offered by our born-environment, we availed it.

How and who decides one’s born-environment?

Something before we born, this is all decided. Decided based on what?

How was we and where was we before we born into this life? We don’t know or we don’t remember. We have believes and assumptions about the past, but no facts.

But, pretty sure something before this life decides this current life.

Will this current life decide what is next after death? We have believes and assumptions, but no facts.

But, I am sure, something before this life decides current life. Current life decides what is after death.

Contradictions in Belief… Contradictions in Religions

No belief has 100% integrity. There is always contradictions here and there.

All religious believes are not having 100% integrity. They require you to believe something. But the belief is subjected to doubt. Sometimes we are driven to doubt the belief.

Religion does not like questions and doubts. It expects you to believe, have faith… an undoubtful faith. There are confusions here and there. We have to compromise and suppress our doubts and questions.

Religion requires unconditional faith. We can not question the miracles as why miracles are not happening in our current era. Why miracles are always part of the past era. Only in the past, miracles happened, not in present. We can not question and doubt it. We have to believe it.

What is the sin of rape victim? why it happened? What chooses a woman to be rape victim?

How people are chosen to die in accidents? Why people are awarded with fatal diseases? We can say accidents are human mistake, but diseases?. Why some people are financially trapped? What is the Divine logic behind selecting people for grievances?

On what logic the unequal distribution of wealth is distributed? Somebody born rich, somebody born poor. Somebody become rich, somebody become poor. What is the logic behind “pre-conditioned wealth”?.

Religions say, it is karma or past life deeds or will of God decides our present life. People say what is seeded, that’s is harvested. Who decides good and bad? If tiger stops doing bad karma of killing deer, it will die. To live, predators have to kill(bad karma) the prey.

Next religion says, our intention is our karma, not the action. Tiger has no vengeance or anger or jealous over deer. It kills because, it is hungry, so no karma, there is no bad intention behind tiger’s action.

Who let the human born with bad emotions and intentions? Does humans want to born as humans or are humans evolved in the life process? These bad emotions and intentions are part of survival instinct. Is survival a sin or bad intention? Human can not have any emotions not registered in his genes. He has bad/good emotions because, it is triggered from gene under appropriate circumstance.

Religions say, our present life is “pre-conditioned” even before we born. Like caste problem, those who are born into lower caste has to face aggression from upper caste. New born in lower caste has no idea why he has been targeted and oppressed. The vengeance of caste was continuing from many generations, so the new born is pre-conditioned to suffer because he is born in lower caste. Like caste, there are many pre-conditions following from many lives back, are controlling our present life.

Can you accept this “pre-conditioned” present life? There are pre-conditions to born as male or female. There are pre-conditions to be born in developed, developing, under developed countries. There are pre-conditions to be born in particular society or religion or caste. We may enjoy or suffer the “pre-conditions” because we born as “something” or born into “something”. Is this pre-conditions can be called as Karma or Will of God or Fate or past life deeds?

Many people migrate from developing country to developed country. They migrate to get rid off the pre-conditions, they have to experience in developing country. They will enjoy the new pre-conditions in developed country.

Many people migrate from villages to Cities for the same reason. Cities have different pre-conditions than villages.

Our body has pre-conditions.

Death is a “pre-condition” to those who all born.

The pre-conditions of earthly life is boring to me. Is there any way, we can escape from these earthly pre-conditions?

Back to contradictions…. Contradictions begin when religions declare bad and good. One philosophy can not be applicable to all without compromising contradictions.

Most religion says, we have to do charity, help others, do good things, speak good to reserve a better after life. After life is a belief only. No one living on earth at present have proof for their next life.

In belief, we do good things. In belief, we avoid “bad” things. Not everybody on earth respect “good and bad”, only few. Mostly people live by their biological/psychological impulse without minding good and bad of religions. People born to be “good”, and people born to be “bad”.

Every philosophy has contradictions to it’s many hypothesis. We have to “unquestion” them to believe it.

Animals don’t need money to live

Animals have lesser intelligence than humans. But they don’t spend money to live. They consume earth’s resources freely. But human with sixth sense, higher intelligence than animals need money to live. They have to spend money to consume earth’s resources.

So called, cultural, social, economic, scientific growth are compelling humans to need money to live. Whereas, animals live free of cost.
Animals life style is same forever, no socio-cultural-economic growth, but they live free of cost.

There is no cheating, scams, bribery among animals. There is no caste or religous conflicts among animals. But, humans with sixth sense invented all these.

Is there any good to mankind or earth by human’s sixth sense? Are humans leading a happy life with their sixth sense? Humans use their sixth sense to make their world complicated than animals.

Animals don’t have value system. But humans have values, both materialistic and intelectual. He values gold more than any other metal. But gold is not eatable or usable in day today life. Gold has value inside human mind.

Are humans leading a worry free life with the help of his sixth sense? Every human has his own list of worries irrespective of his health, wealth, gender, education, religion, caste, country.

Animals don’t have countries. So there is no war among countries in animal world. Whereas, human with his sixth sense wage war against another country. There is no passport and visa for birds to roam the earth.

The excess power (other than muscle power) human is generating from petrol, diesel, coal, natural gas, nuclear reactors are causing more harm to environment than it’s benefits. They are making the earth uninhabited.

Finally animals don’t have tools called weapons to cause destruction, whereas humans have weapons to destroy other humans

Humans’ sixth sense is no way useful to both humans and earth.

Sixth sense is a curse from Divine to mankind.

No Sin, No Crime… No sinner, No criminal…

There is no sin and There is no crime.

Have you ever noticed a person control himself from committing crime or sin after knowing law or spiritual rules? No one stops engaging in crime or sin by the influence of law or spirituality.

Law, Police, Government can punish a criminal, but they can not prevent a person from becoming criminal.

God can punish a sinner, but God does not prevent a person from committing a sin.

Criminal/sin activities or impulses are recorded in genes. When gene activates under perfect circumstance, no one can control himself. People become ignorant of good and bad when bad genes get activated.

Very few people learn from their mistakes and correct themselves. Rest are fall prey to their genetic impulses.

Law and God does not prevent genetic triggering, they let it happen, then punish, not proactive.

No Law or God are governing crime and sin among animals. No sin and crime in animals. They act/react by their genetic impulses. Only humans have law and God to govern sin and crime among humans.

Only way to prevent crime and law is with science. Science has to come out with a strategy to eradicate bad genes. Once bad genes are eradicated, sin and crime can be prevented. Till them, God and Law will continue to punish sinners and criminals. Looks like they don’t get bored by continuously giving punishments.

Why God let humans born with bad genes and committing sin when circumstance triggers? God can remove bad genes and let the human born without sinning traits. Looks like God deliberately let the humans born with bad genes and commit sins and then punish them. So God keeps himself busy… executing punishments by letting people born with bad genes. If God willed, human can born without bad genes. I don’t understand the logic of God behind letting the bad genes exists and expecting the humans to control himself against “bad genetic” impulse.

Human society or human’s technological advancement has not grown enough to alter genes. It means we can not do anything against bad genes and letting people born with defective genes. Then what is the logic in expecting a man to control himself against bad gene impulses.

There are three ways we can prevent crime and sin from society. 1) God has to remove bad genes before letting babies born. 2) Human science has to find a way to remove bad genes from babies. 3) Human has to learn to alter or rewrite his genes, so that he can remove bad genes.

Some people rewrite their bad gene after committing crime or sin for the first time. The realize the nemesis and bad consequences of their bad activity. Then they stop reacting to the bad gene impulse next time. They don’t commit crime or sin next/second time, they control themselves. Slowly the bad gene responsible, is subsidized and removed permanently. Not all the people decide to stop the bad activities after their first crime or sin. But few people realized and decide to stop the bad activities. So, let people have a chance…an opportunity to rewrite or remove their bad genes. That is learning from experience.

We can’t Predict… We can’t Prevent… We can’t control… Let us live happily

We can’t predict, we can’t prevent, we can’t control…life. Let us live happily without worrying about unpredictable, unpreventable, uncontrollable.

Humans are tiny cells in the body of earth. Earth is a tiny cell in the body of universe. Let be happy, every moment. Don’t worry about the money we wasted, don’t worry about the time we lost, don’t worry about the relationship we lost. Don’t worry about infinite fears, losses, failures, shames. No need to regret for anything. We could not predicted, prevented, controlled anything in life.

If you are good now, enjoy it, don’t remember the past, don’t predict the future. Don’t fear about negatives. Do what you like to do without expecting returns. No profit or loss, all just experience. Sometimes we may loose, sometimes we may gain, nothing is in our control.

Don’t try to find reason for anything happened. Because of that… this happened… avoid giving justification to happenings. We can’t know the Divine reason behind happenings or there may not be any reason too. Stop assuming the cause.

Live the life, experience the life… you can’t predict, prevent a loss.

Don’t try to be correct always. Just act . Don’t try to do correct actions always. Don’t try to take right decision always.

Be happy, do actions which make you happy, buy products which make you happy. Mingle with people who make you happy. Read what makes you happy. Speak what make you happy, listen what makes you happy, see what make you happy. Do what make you happy. Don’t calculate money, status, pride. Don’t follow your assumption, belief. Just experience and experience vary from individual to individual. You follow your experience to be happy.

Live experiment experience spend to be happy. We don’t have control over success or failure. God shuffle the days of success and failure. Let us enjoy the game.

Undergo experiences to disturb your beliefs, delusions, assumptions, hypothesis. Be unset frequently.