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Am I evolving?

Working-out to get stronger, up-skilling, growing the investments, career promotions or seeking enlightenment; Its all the innate perennial urge to evolve.

why to evolve?
The reason we leave the comfort of our couch is to explore life. Exploration entails experiences. When the experiences becomes repetitive and the explorative path is monotonous, evolution is evidently curtailed.

We are born in this earth realm to explore, continuously evolve and exit once we attain the saturation point, where all experiences fall flat. They could neither excite nor disturb us anymore.

how to evolve?
Embracing discomfort is essential trait to evolve. Trying new things and heightening limits incite a great deal of discomfort. Those who willingly embrace these discomforts are the ones that evolve. People who curl-up back to their comforts accumulate blocks and leaks that makes it progressively harder from them to pursue any form of evolution.


Identifying the blocks and leaks containing us and authentic attempts in resolving them is essential kickstart to evolve.
Blocks forbid evolution
Three buckets of blockers; 
  • Regrets
  • Resentments
  • Revenge
Regrets sprout from unresolved guilt, shame & apathy. When you know what is the right thing to do and you cannot do it for whatsoever reason, a regret is seeded in your consciousness. Act on clearing the regret by accumulating the necessary knowledge, skills and resources and affirming to do the right thing the next time. If you allow yourself to be indolent about it, it’ll overflow into your apathy.

Resentments goop up from unsettled disappoitments, unable to punish, envious spite and general discontentment. Inability to absolve these defilements within is a karmic block that is preventing one’s evolution. Finding mentors who you allow to overpower your ego and seeking their advice on what to accept and what to revolt can be immensely beneficial in addressing the stack of resentments.

Revenge, the need to exert vengeance, is the worst of all the blocks, since it comes with a heavy cost. Either completely blocking all possibilities of evolution or reversing the path and devolving downward. It forces you to standstill or crawl down the path of evolution and make coalition with lower energies to exert that revenge.

The more you tolerate the accumulation of these blocks, it gets exponentially harder to resolve them. i.e, the effort required to resolve 10 blocks is 1000 times (210) more than the effort to resolve 1. So, act sooner and don’t let them pile-up.

Finding that absolution is the freedom from revenge. It is almost impossible to absolve in the heat of the moment. Spending time with innocent beings has always led the person towards absolution. 
Leaks detain evolution
Three categories of leaks that decelerate our evolution;
  • Loosh
  • Desperation
  • Dejection 
This is just a tad bid better than the blocks as there is some movement. Nevertheless, years of progress can be wiped out in a momentary leak.

Loosh is relatively a new term that represents the oozing life force and psychological drain through emotional fatigue. Fear, anger, agitation and excitement are all emotional leaks that drains blood from the thinking frontal lobe and redirects it all to the emotional limbic regions of the brain. Hence, hijacking you rational response and encouraging an impulsive reaction. I don’t have to tell you how many times you have wiped out, years of evolution in relationship, career and investment to square one in a single impulsive reaction. However small or big the stake is, practice pausing 6 seconds before reacting. Emotion is an uber powerful phenom and it can never be overpowered completely. Acquiring more knowledge, skills, expertise and wisdom in specific field, weakens the emotional outbursts in that field.

Recognizing one thing you are grateful for and deeply expanding that emotion and sustaining for several minutes is a easy hack to transform loosh to work in your favor.

Desperation is strong yearning for a favorable outcome. It is a pseudo-emotion that is trying to poorly cover-up the despair underneath. The despair has already tuned you to the frequency of loss and scarcity. In such state, it is impossible to attract victory or abundance. Learn to recognize the desperation building up and attack it with affirmations. Analyze, decide and act with a clear acceptance of all possible outcomes.

Dejection is sadness, worrying, self-loathing and being dispirited. It is typically a conditioned behavior from the environment they were raised in. Dejection seeds a deeper conviction that you do not deserve any form of success and keep you contained. Eventually, dissuading from making any new attempts.

Recognizing the blessings and paying gratitude paralyzes the dejection transiently. Visualizing and emoting gracious acceptance of the desired outcome several times before actually manifesting it can completely eliminate the dejection and its underlying causes.

Spectrum of Love

Purpose of an uttered word is: "to be comprehended". Comprehension triggers clarity or emotion. Deeper the cognitive grasp, stronger the emotion. 

Powerful words are driven to semantic satiation due to the daily wear and tear and sometimes intentional overloading by the media. The word Love tops that list, closely followed by ego, soul, gratitude and trust. This over usage and smearing with varied meaning leads to shallow comprehension resulting in dim emotion.

The word Love has suffered the maximum saturation due to its common usage, as superlative of like. 
"I love this coffee"
"I love you"
"I love my children"
"I love to travel"
"I love how it feels"
In all these statements, the word love has a very different meaning. It has mutated to a point that original essense is fully forgotten, neither triggering the emotion nor infecting the listener.

What is the opposite of Love? 
The robotic answer is “Hate”. But if you dig a little deeper, you’ll realize thats not true. We often hate certain aspects of the same things that we love. So, hate is just another independent expression, it can very well sit along with love. So is fear, desire, pride. They are all distinct emotions.
Love is when we acknowledge something is more important than ourself
Such anti-narcissistic tendencies bloom when we adore or admire what we cognized. Exploration and wide range of experiences help discover, stumble upon and cultivate love within.

Love is an emotion. Biology binds it with corresponding hormones. Not just infamous oxytocin and the lust related harmones, but several other haormones can be released when the emotion of love sets in. It depends on how the individual finds an expression. The purpose of educating self and social upliftment is to refine those expressions. 

Love has full access to the whole spectrum of expressions. Depending on the evolutionary stage of the lover, it finds its expression.
No Love
Vindictive, envious and cynical attitude is a barren land that cannot germinate Love.

Draining Love
At it’s lowest level, Love is expressed as apathy, guilt and shame. When you are yearning for that something important, facing a failure, unable to face that loved entity; these are all your conscience related. lack of self-love and undetermined self-value drives people into these human invented deterrents. These are the biggest energy drainers of human consciousness.

A little better, but still energy-draining expressions are fear, desire and pride. The energy drain can be contagious and may affect that loved entity as well.
- When you fear for the safety of that object of affection, there is love behind it.
- When you desire something and all your attempts to attract and gain attention, is backed by love. When you lust over someone, it is still an expression of love, but a crude energy-draining expression.
- Love is expressed as pride when trying to seek admiration from that object of affection.

Energy Neutral Love
Expression of Love attains energy neutrality, when it is expressed as; care , adore, and admiration. The expelled energy directly inflames the receiver. 
- When you care and go out of your way to comfort an entity (car, dog, person, phone, shoe, et al)
- Showing respect and praising others
is accompanied by briefly dropping your ego (self-importance). 
In such brief moments, an enormous burden of constantly carrying the ego and switching personas is suspended curtailing the corresponding dissipation of energy. A great sense of relief is experienced.

+EV love
Energy gain occurs when love is expressed as bond and trust. Subject doesn’t lose energy anymore, but the receiver briefly plugs into infinite source of energy. 

When you establish a bond with that loved one, it clinches that you are there. Your presence eases their agitation, enables to be their best version, enables them to fantasize freely and bends their time-space continuum.

Trust is yet another abraded word from overuse. Expecting someone to behave in a certain way in a random situation, is sheerly an expectation, profiling and stereo-typing. It has nothing to do with trust. Trust establishes and exists only between the two entitites involved. There is no room for a third variable in trust.
"I trusted you with my car!"
"How could you steal my money? i trusted you."
"I trust your gut feeling"
are all vague statements made without understanding the crux of the word “trust”. All these statements brings in a 3rd variable. A daughter taking that leep of faith and jumping in deep water, because the father is there, is trust. If the daughter eyes for life-jacket, the third variable, there is no room for trust.

People evolve in trusting environment. If you are not seeking evolution, trusting environment is not your essential need. For all others, trusting environment serves as a launchpad.

If you can trust a person, it is the most beneficial expression of love for the receiver. It enables them to take risks and attempt reach goals that they would typically dodge.

The higest form of expressing love is devotion. Subject directly plugs into the infinite source of energy.
Trust plugs that trusted other, into infinite source of energy. Devotion plugs self directly
Totally devoting to an object, so that, the subject (you) vanishes. This is totally egoless (self-identity) state. A deserving object of devotion and innate devoting tendency makes such a magical phenomenon possible. Don't fool yourself with uttering prayers and performing rituals as devotion. Unless your self-identity vanish, the devotion hasn't crystallized.

Again, What is opposite of love? 
It is pretend love. It is true for all emotions. All emotions fork from singularity. Courage is not opposite of fear. True courage vs pretended courage. True fear vs feigning fear. So, opposite of any emotion is the pretense of the same emotion. 

Every emotion is short-lived. harmone release cannot sustain more than few seconds. The uttered “i love you” has expired already. Hence, the innate urge to verbalize it again and again.

Beyond Love
Authenticity, in emotion is necessary to break the cycles of repeating life patterns. Decades of carefully orchestrated doctrine education and practicing learned manners has overtaken the authenticity in expression. Only fools are fooled by forged demeanors. Authentic beings can sense the lacking in spurious smile from yards away.

So it doesn't matter what your expression is, it could be the uncouth jealousy or selfless care; strive to express it as authentically as possible. That authenticity will level you up automatically.

Authenticity uplifts your vibrating frequency.
Authenticity stands above all emotions and their forms of expression. 
Authenticity compels you to respond spontaneously, not react from conditioned habits.

To level up within the matrix or to attempt exiting the matrix, authenticity is the neo.

Promotion

 

We have diverse perspectives, marching towards myriad goals. Despite that, one common phenomena ingrained in all of us is; our strive for evolution.
  • access to resources
  • societal stature
  • physical strength
  • freedom
We strive to continously improve upon these four aspects, irrespective of our diverse paths. How do we measure the progress? One reliable unit is: our influence.

Influence is the measure of impact exerted by our act/word/thought. When your gesture can mobilize an army, a word can disposition billions of dollars in the stock market and your sheer thought can transform the life of a person, consider youself highly influential.

In some way, every contibuting member of the society, continues to exert their influence on others and impacted by the influence of others. Influence is a tridirectional force, like a drone's flight path.

Reach - How far our influence can reach?
In the space-time continuum, how far your influence transcends, the distance in miles; and how long the impact amortizes, in the unit of time,  decides the length of your influence.

Spread - How wide does the influence sustain?
How many people does your decision affect? how much resources does it mobilize? how many times you can repeat the same without dissipating the intensity of your influence are all the measure of how wide you influence can disperse.

Depth - How deep our influence can penetrate?
How deep your actions affect someone, does your words trigger deeper emotions, if your penetrating eyes create a psychological shift in others, all these measure the depth of your influence.

By improving the influence in any one of these aspects, we already promoted ourselves. The designation (social stature), paycheck (financial disposition) and access to resources are bound to catch-up. This is perpetual growth, that cannot be shaken by seasonal storms.

If by chance, one gets promoted and the role doesn't reflect the responsibilites and the deemed influence is lacking, the botching and eventual dissatifaction is inevitable. If you seek promotion for a bigger paycheck, but your influence doesn't justify it, you'll be on top of the list, when the institution decides to downsize.

Instead of striving for the byproducts like designation, monetary benefits and societal endorsements, rechannel those energies into introspection; secluding yourself for few hours a week, uninfluenced by the cicumstances, trying to understanding what you actually need and focusing on developing either the reach, spread or depth of your influence. Thus, success, promotion, elevation in stature and the evolution naturally follows.

Evolution

உடம்பினை முன்னம் இழுக்கென் றிருந்தேன்
உடம்பினுக் குள்ளே உறுபொருள் கண்டேன்
- திருமூலர்

(Until I encountered the immortal kernel within this body, I presumed the body is a disgraceful object - Siddha Thirumoolar)

“All beings are divine”. Very hard to accept, isn’t it?

Like electricity passing through only conductive materials, the energy that powers the living beings, lets call it life-energy, does not light-up anything that is not divine. Hence, it is indisputable that there is at least a trace of divinity in all living beings. The conductivity of life-energy is divinity.

There are adulterants that builds up around our divine core in sedimentary layers that tarnish our divineness. Thus, making us human. Accumulation of these grout eventually grinds our conductivity to zero, ultimately leading to the death.

After enormous research and several miles of inner journey, the enlightened masters enlisted three such adulterants that clog around our divine core and dragging us down.

Karma (reaction debt) - curses, blessings, convictions, desires and yearnings accumulated since we were a single-cell organism. Every physical and mental movement, continously dissipate and accumulate an impending reaction debt, commonly termed as karmic debt. This debt has been growing continuously with subsequent lifetimes and lifeforms.

Maya (illusions) - custom made illusionary stages that we walk, characters that come and go and the circumstances that drag us along are all summed-up as maya (illusions).

Ego (identity) - the morphing identity that we partake to involve ourselves into this illusionary setup, so that we are well directed toward settling our karmic debts.

Each life-form is like waking up everyday, to embark on settling a set of karmic debts. To do so, a fully immersed experience that bubbles up our emotions like a roller-coster is needed. The circumstances, people, memories, curiosities and instincts lead us towards the stage (maya) that best suit us. And of course, we need an identity (ego) to partake and indulge thoroughly without even an iota of detachment.

All this is perfectly setup to resolve, appease or fulfill the needs of a being, including ourselves. The biggest caveat here is not to accumulate a reactive karma. Our ego entangles deeply and starts reacting in selfish and scornful ways accumulating more karma than that was settled.

Devoid of these adulterants, we’ll be formless (no ego), senseless (no maya) and purposeless (no karma). Thus, all the movement seizes. Along with it, our evolution also comes to a grinding halt. 

Hence, to evolve, one must succumb to at least one of the adulterants: karma, maya & ego

live: righteous & intense (karma shrinks) 
Until the karmic debt drops below a certain threshold, We don’t really have access to maneuver the other two ladders. The ladders of worship and meditation.
Thus, settling more karmic debt while containing the accumulation of the reactive debts is the first step of evolution. This is possible by treading the life situation with progressively heightened awareness.
  1. carefully stepping into situations, ensuring it doesn’t cause harm to self or others, now or later.
  2. after entering a situation, drop the guard and experiencing the experience thoroughly so that there is no traces left-behind that can cause any cravings in future.
  3. being immensely grateful for whatsoever that manifested such an opulent backlot to custom serve a specific experience to us.
Such lived life experience where a karmic debt is settled but none new accumulated is called Dharma.

measure of progress: the unexpected hinderances start evading, turbulence in emotional state diminish, outcomes turn favourable often. 

The pitfall is the indulgence and craving swooping as reaction karma through the backdoor and glorifying the self-image as the options of experience expand. When the circumstances and outcomes turn against, it is a reliable sign to introspect and recourse.

worship: dilating the maya (ego shrinks)
When the karmic debt drops below the threshold, most readily available option is to succumb to the ladder of maya (illusions).

This is the path of emotion as the hightened emotional states leading to enriched illusions. To make room for the rapidly evolving illusions, karma and ego starts shrinking rapidly. Fully ripened and ready to drop illusionary state is where the ego is shrunk to bare-minimum and ready to vaporize. This state is very comparable to being mentally impaired as the mind secretes intense psychedelic harmones. This state is termed as;
  • அனுபூதி (anuboodhi) by Indian sages
  • فناء (fanā) by sufi mystics
  • 悟り(satori) by zen monks
When a person's 'I' is negated from existence, then what remains? 
- Rumi (about fanā)

உரையவிழ உணர்வவிழ உளமவிழ உயிரவிழ
உளபடியை உணருமவர் அநுபூதி ஆனதுவும்
- அருணகிரிநாதர்

Translation:
dropping the sheaths of personalities, 
treading beyond the harmonal thirst, 
leaping over the psyche,
and beyond the lifeforce,
is the sense of anuboodhi experienced 
- by Aruna-giri-naadhar, an indian sage

Lukewarm devotion neither leads to such states nor any tranformation. Love, devotion, conviction and yearning mindlessly, so that the whole being is totally immersed in the emotion leads to such experience. Rare unexplored harmones are secreted that transform the DNA sequeunce of the emoter. This leads to the progressive evolution by opening up the wormholes to higher dimensions. When such evolved being's day-to-day activities entangle with any organized society, their compassion and love exhibit itself as miracles in the form of healing, manifesting animate substances from thin air and other super human abilities.

measure of progress: shrinking ego (identity) is the key measure, i.e., loss of interest in hoarding, disowning material things, foresaking entitlements, impervious to accolades and even neglecting the personal needs. 

The common pitfall is becoming delusional. If the object of devotion is not a qualified one, being mislead and engrossed in futile rituals is imminent. Along with shrinking self-image, if the person doesn't exhibit love, compassion, child-like nature; a divine intervention is needed to rectify the course.

meditation: inflating ego (illusions shrink)
This path of realization is successively debunking all the illusions that we come across. Hence, the practitioner succumbs to the ego to evolve.
Disenchantment cannot occur as long as the senses and thoughts are exploring the outward illusory world. Turning them inward and iteratively disconnecting from the illusions, successively peal the layers of realization. As a byproduct of this realization, the knowledge expands and wisdom sprouts. Along with it comes the expanse of ego, which grows and ripens. When it is fully ripe and ready for harvest, an attained master's grace is needed to harvest it and grant the enlightenment. Devoid of this grace, the evolution of this meditator hits a dead-end in a static self-glorified identity.

There are ample documentation from enlightened masters that can serve as a guide map, but none of them would make sense until one embarks this journey of disenchantment through meditation. This path is an egoistic path and hence it is no surprise to have witnessed a heightened sense of self-respect and self-esteem, often accompanied by self-sustenant living and the dignitary recognition of such yogis, monks, saints and sages.

measure of progress: disillusionment. The lure of all the drama of the world news, entertainement, societal changes and family situations loosens its grip. Either the meditator becomes progressively disinterested from these or can see through the absolute reasons and ultimate consequeunces, thus taking away all the excitement out of it.

The common pitfall is the bloated up ego. The sense of conceit, pride and arrogance accompanied by a total disdain for others. In such divergence, a guru intervention is needed to re-emphasis that the only purpose of all the wisdom is to eventually attain the ultimate devotion leading to liberation.
  • When we live righteously and experience entirely without leaving any traces, karma shrinks.
  • When the karma shrinks, possibilty of worship opens the door.
  • When the shell of ego prevents any form of external devotion, there is inner exploration, the way of meditation.
Evolution is gaining access to more dimensions. Our consciousness and perpective are entrapped within the three dimensions. Until we can behold a 3D object in its entirety, we havn't gained access to the 4th dimension yet.

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Mantra Sāstra - Science of Sacred Sounds

மந்திரமாவதும் மாமருந் தாவதுந்
தந்திர மாவதுந் தானங்க ளாவதுஞ்
சுந்தர மாவதுந் தூய்நெறி யாவதும்
எந்தை பிரான்தன் இணையடி தானே
- திருமூலர்

Nature listens, resonates, transcribes and responds in waves, vibrations and frequencies. English, Sanskrit, Tamil, Arabic, Lhasa or Mandarin are human languages that is meaningless beyond human mind.
Waves vibrations and frequencies - is the language universe understands. Easiest way for us to generate such vibrations is to use the built-in mechanism of emotion. Love, Fear, Joy, Anger, Devotion, Compassion are some of the pure emotions that unanimously generate similar vibrations amongst all the beings. The catch is; only pure emotions, unadulterated vibrations, gets the response back from universe. Emotion can easily be contaminated by the stream of thoughts.  If there is any thought that accompanies the emotion, the frequencies are distorted. So it takes an absolute innocent being to express that pure emotion.

There is also another way of generating waves of specific frequency; through explicit action. Sound and light are well known waves that humans can perceive and generate explicitly. Light in the form of colors and patterns. Sound in the form of tunes and words. Audible range of sound is identified as seven swaras, Sa-Ri-Ga-Ma-Pa-Da-Ni; just like the seven distinct colors of the visible spectrum V-I-B-G-Y-O-R. It takes deeper understanding to handle such abundantly accessible energies expertly.

The purpose of chanting or reciting a mantra is to generate a specific resonance in vibration, attempting to communicate with universe. If we decide to keep the emotion aside and plan to technically communicate with the universe, there are three things essential to establish such a channel.

Tantra: The tact. Basic knowledge of space and time along with the ability to sense the vibrations in a place or an object is necessary to even attempt tapping on the sound energies. A certain level of competence in their own mind control is also necessary. Devotee or a meditator are the only kind of people who can attain the necessary adeptness.

Yantra: The light. Geometric patterns and a ploy of colors that resonate with nature are called Yantras. A yantra is a visual perception of the same sound waves. The most famous yantra is unanimously the sri yantra. It is considered extremely powerful and capable of channeling infinite energies. Every single feminine deity in India is instilled upon a sri yantra. May it be Durga Ma in Calcutta, Chamundeshwari in Mysore or Kamakshi Amman in Kanchipuram - all these deities are placed on a sri yantra carved on a copper plate and consecrated by an attained master. A deeper study of such patterns in archeological artifacts and a natural curiosity in semiotics go a long way in mastering these yantras.
Mantra: The sound. Apparently, these yantras work on sound activation. For a sri yantra, the activation sound is clued as: Ka Ye Ee La Hreem Ha Sa Ka Ha La Hreem Sa Ka La Hreem. Just reciting it as-is is absolutely unwise. It is a riddle. The qualified gets to decipher and apply it, which can potentially activate a sri yantra.

When the Tantra, Yantra and Mantra are well understood and the qualified practitioner employs them to invoke and handle a specific energy; the result is instantaneous.

There are eight and only eight reasons these yantras and mantras (மாந்திரிகம்) are created and they operate on a deity, elements, situation, beings, property, mind, energies, earthly objects, celestial matter, et al.
  • to attract (வசியம்)
  • to impress (மோகனம்)
  • to halt (தம்பனம்)
  • to vacate (உச்சாடனம்)
  • to separate (வித்வேதனம்)
  • to disperse (பேதனம்)
  • to possess (ஆகர்ஷணம்)
  • to destroy (மாரணம்)
Any mantra, composition of such sacred sounds is created to accomplish one or a combination of these eight wants. Attained Sages, Lamas, Yogis, Zen Masters and any real sacred person knows the working of it. Without a mastery of this science, a person is not qualified to consecrate any stone,  metal statues or any such element with incantations.

Knowing this, any wise person would either go all the way to learn the peaks and valleys of Mantra Sāstra or drop all this quest and use the natural built-in mechanism of emotion to communicate with universe. The key is; to think less and feel more.

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Identity Management - அஹங்காரம்

"Tell me about yourself" is a most famous behavioral interview ice-breaker. Two-third of our life is spent consciously and every moment of this awake state, a dedicated background process is doing just identity management.

தன்னை அறியத் தனக்கொரு கேடில்லை
தன்னை அறியாமல் தானே கெடுகின்றான்
தன்னை அறியும் அறிவை அறிந்தபின்
தன்னையே அற்சிக்கத் தானிருந் தானே.
- திருமூலர்

 the clutches of the illusions are strong until one realizes their true self. Once realized, they'll exactly know everything they ever needed - Thirumoolar

I, self, ego are some of the nouns used to reference our identity. What is this identity? It is how we are identified, recognized and perceived by self and others. It is the role we play in a society. It is something that dissolves everyday at sleep and recrystallizes when awake. Identity only exists in the conscious memory and it is very fragile. Any form of disruption to our consciousness like sleep, intoxication, hypnosis, pain, art and even an emotion ruptures and remolds this identity. There is self-identity, how we perceive ourselves and there is personality, how others identify us.

personality is how we project ourselves and how we are perceived by others and hence it is something of a joint-custody. They have an image about us carved out of the judgement, memory, stereotype or hearsay and hence some expectations. We strive to align with such expectations that are consistent to our past behavior. When we meet an old friend after few decades, we immediately adapt to our then manners, language and even the state of mind. When the current colleague joins, we immediately shuffle back to a much neutral stance. All this happens autonomously.

How much of managing our personality is our responsibility? This personality management is both empowering and at the same time imprisoning. Nobody wants to befriend, support, employ or work for someone who is not consistent in their behavior. Hence establishing a personality and keeping it up, is essential to warrant a sense of security, comfort and support of our patronage. It is all roses and lilies as long as managing specific personality is fueled by corresponding ambition and needs. The imprisonment part kicks in when the fuel runs out and the person is tired of maintaining the persona and seeking out.

The past baggage and the uncertainty it might bring, makes it harder for someone to drop the personalities that they've nurtured for years. This eventually is the biggest hurdle in unearthing and embracing their core nature. Instead they end up spending the rest of the life in keeping up the personality and also take efforts to ensure their identity is untainted even after their demise.

self-identity, ego (அஹங்காரம்) is what we perceive as ourself. Most of us believe that it is our core-nature, but it is not even close. When one thinks about themself, it either fills them with a sense of pride or pity. Eitherways, it is just a projection of our past and comparison to others. True-nature is hidden deep inside the pile of such projections. It takes a very keen mind to analyze it separating itself from the identity. It is an arduous process of continuous dis-identification (vairāgya) with everything that mind can slice and dice and separate it as mere conditioning. When someone embarks on such pursuit and reaches the destination where no more conditioning exists, also know as no-mind and no-self, they are self-realized beings. This beautiful state is very similar to a new born child; with a key difference that the child is bound to lose the paradise soon; while the realized masters consciously wear an identity needed for that hour and drop it at will. Hence, they are bound to be unpredictable and not consistent.

There is abundant energy expelled in managing several such identities that we carry and mutate in the space-time-people continuum. As long are there is ambition and desires lurking in the corner, there is no way and no reason to even think about retracting. After all establishing an identity and managing it is essential in relating with other identities in the society. But, when the desire turns towards knowing our core nature, purpose of life, "who am I?" There are only two ways to get there;

1.) Divine intervention: the divine is always ready and yearning to intervene. But the clouds of identities that we expertly manage are preventing such a blatant trespass. Blessed are those with no strong ties to their identities, personalities and reputation. They are easily absorbed into the path of devotion and attain their liberation.

2.) Self-realization: For others with stronger ties to their established identities, in other words, thicker ego; self-realization is the only way. Enlightenment, wisdom, liberation and answers to all the relevant questions like the purpose of life, "who am I?", "why?", "how?" are all the fruits of self-realization.

Frequency Tuning: Crux of Communication


மனமது செம்மையானால் மந்திரம் செபிக்க வேண்டாம் - அகத்தியர்
(once the mind is tuned to right frequency, spiritual sounds need not be recited - Sage Agasthya)

Communication is an essential aspect of our lives. Things we perceive with our eyes and ears make up to majority of the human information exchange. In other words, light and sound are the most common means of our communication. This is also the most crudest and highest energy dissipating form of communication. Dolphin's echolocation, Owl's sonar, eel and platypus' electroreception, telepathic, intuition and several such advanced and obscure ways of communication in nature have been identified and researched on.

Irrespective of such numerous manifestations, all forms of communication happen as waves. May it be sound, light, electron, magnetic or etherial; the core characteristics is that of a wave and is defined and categorized by amplitude and frequency. The frequency is essential in tuning the entities communicating. Amplitude decides the intensity of the wave.

Light waves between 400THz to 800THz is just a small spectrum of light that is visible to naked eye. All the light waves below 400THz is classified as infrared and the light waves over 800THz are called ultraviolet. The process of creation and destruction happens in infrared  and ultraviolet zones while the nourishment in visible spectrum.
Sound waves of between 20Hz and 20KHz are audible. Sound below 20Hz is infrasonic and over 20KHz are ultrasonic. As in light, All the important processes and communication related to creation, like child forming tissues within the womb happens in Infrasonic sounds and destruction in ultrasonic ranges. Heard of tibetans moving multi-ton boulders with whistles?
Similarly, we can sense only a tiny spectrum of communication happening in and around us. hand to eye communication is through the neurons, people to people communication is with words, drawings & gestures. Remote communication is ever evolving at a drastic phase from pigeons, postal letters, radio waves, Infrared rays to enormous artificial satellites revolving around several planetary objects.

We can observe the impact of moon in our oceans and in our neural network; like the effect of solar energy and photosynthesis. Similarly, every other planet in solar system exerts influence on some aspect on every other celestial object, including earth. Beyond the solar system, the constellations have bigger significance on much more subtler aspects.
Humans and animals need gestures to communicate until a common language is established. From a common language, we can improvise secured communication with different way of cryptography. We have already broken the space and time constraint with the help of tele-communication and ability to record and telecast at-will. We've also tapped on the unseen (infra-red/ultra-violet) and unheard (infra/ultra-sonic) and experiment swift ways to communicate.

In all these cases, its just the mediums that kept evolving, but the principles are exactly same. Tune the transmitter and receiver to a specific frequency, calibrate the amplitude and transmit; receive & acknowledge.

Our endocrine glands, widely known as chakras (translates to "wheels") are much superior communicators. They are constantly vibrating in specific frequencies, exhibiting the light and sound for their corresponding frequency. Kirlian photography has captured several samples and shed light on this chakras. Visualizing specific shapes (yantras) and emulating certain sounds (mantras), the vibrating frequencies of these glands can be calibrated. Harmones are the byproduct or the result of the right tuning.

A long legacy of sages documented these visual patterns and sounds; practiced with total trust and attained mastery over managing a lot more unexplored channels of communication at both atomic and cosmic levels. The commoners were astonished witnessing their abilities and followed their advices and methods without any iota of doubt or disbelief. It is not the case anymore. We, people of current times are not as gullible and have our doubts about such methods.

Hence, we'll have to emulate what those sages did, tapas (தவம்), to experiment, realize and if possible to document in a way that current generation can infer. There are ample scriptures with all the possible information. We are not going to invent anything, but a mere rediscovery. Just translating what those sages said will not be of much use to others. We can use the scriptures as our guide, but what we document should be personal experience and realization.

If we attain the ability to tune our own endocrine glands at will, we would have the complete mastery over our bodily functions, harmone secretion, emotional state, growth, healing, hunger, thrist and sleep cycle. Which are all the traits of a divine sage as per our scriptures.

The key lies in the ability to communicate without any physical medium or leveraging what is referred as dark matter. Its not that its not happening within and around us. How else can one justify telepathy, premonition and intuition? albeit, it hasn't been established as a reliable form yet. It is just the matter of time before the reliable methods are established and people choosing at will like changing channels today.

After all, tele-communication was a fiction till 1800s and telecasting was considered a miracle till 1900s. 

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Natural state - இயற்கை நிலை

We grow up augmenting a long list of verbs and nouns re-classifying them as good and evil based on our experiences. Such list keeps getting compromised with even a small change in context, place, time and sometimes the result.

Is sugar really bad? Isn't it the source of energy and essential for the survival. How about television? Isn't it the biggest influencer of economy, innovation, globalization and the entertainment of our generation. Anger, jealousy, guilt, shame and fear serve good in several situations; Compassion, Love, trust, honesty and valor have all caused much harm at times. The common layman response for this is; everything is good in moderation. Not really. There are several things that are not good in any dose like potassium cyanide and there are things that are infinitely good like wild honey. So this whole outward approach of classification of right and wrong deeds is fallible and boundless.

Understanding the natural state of what we deem as ourselves is essential before trying to segregate the deeds as noble and stigma.

Body is naturally created to self-sustain with robust health. All the nutrition a human body needs is abundantly available in natural habitats where humans co-exist in harmony with nature. Basically the places that are not yet ravaged in the name of civilization. The distractions in the form of thoughts and emotions are hindering the body from ingesting the necessary nutrients from the environment and from the intake of naturally grown substances.
Everything that leads towards the preservation and betterment of health is a noble deed
Discipline (ஒழுக்கம்) is the essential trait. Every other health aspect like diet, herbs, disinfectant, workout, breathing techniques and service has to channel through this trait called "discipline" to drive the body to robust health. Neither the fitness level nor the medical report can vouch for how healthy a body is. Joy is the natural response. Body language exhibiting happiness, all the cells bouncing in joy and contagious jubilant attitude are the reliable symptoms of a healthy body.

Mind is the stream of thoughts. Ironically, it's sheer working disrupts its natural state, serenity. Our infinite stream of thoughts emerge from abundantly accumulated incomplete transactions. Every-time the emotion and action are in conflict, an incomplete transaction is logged in the mind. For example; we were angry, yet we suppressed and smiled. This one incomplete transaction was struck and keeps generating stream of thoughts throughout the lifetime, until it is identified and weeded out. Hence, digging in such incomplete transactions and closing the circuit is the best way to get the mind back to natural serene state. This circuit-closure is the deemed essential outcome of meditation, introspection, yogic practices, religious rituals.
Everything that leads towards the tranquility of the mind is a noble deed
Gratitude (நன்றியுணர்வு) and Absolution (மன்னிப்பு) are the two most effective devices in getting back the serene mind. Everyone of us were born with serene mind. If anybody doubt that, watch a sleeping infant. Bringing up all the pleasures and expressing the gratitude for it will relieve us from the any from of guilt that might have been linked to it. In the same way, total absolution and forgiving every single rub that caused any pain will empower the self and clear a major chunk of these incomplete transactions.

This may take several days, based on the accumulation and intensity of the pain/pleasure the individual has experienced so far. Once the cloud starts clearing, unanimously they'll exhibit abundant love towards existence and other beings. Love and care for others is the symptom of a serene mind.

Soul (புருடன்), though its existence is not experienced by a vast majority, the rare ones that experienced are trustworthy and their traits and virtues are absolutely conspicuous transcending the space and time constraints. Soul is said to be in a blissful state (ஆனந்தமயம்) and unlike mind and body, it is untouched by any of the humanly deeds.
Everything that leads towards experiencing the blissful state of soul is a noble deed
Mind serves as an abstraction and keep us from experiencing or realizing the blissful state of the soul. Absolute Devotion (சரணாகதி), irrespective of the object of devotion, is the way to bypass the mind's abstraction and experience the blissful nature of the soul. People who cracked this code have exhibited the highest degree of compassion. A compassionate person is one who goes through the same degree of pain in full empathy of an absolute stranger in agony. There are several references of such a person taking drastic actions to relieve the other, even at the cost of self.

Healthy body, tranquil mind, blissful soul are the natural states. These are the only three things worth pursuing with our thoughts and actions.
- preservation and betterment of health
- tranquility of the mind
- experiencing the blissful state of soul

Everything that lead us towards these three natural states are noble deeds and the things against are culpable stigmata.

Memory Management - Chitta Vritti

What is Memory? Collection of information? Storage media? Ability to recall the stored information? Or is it the speed of the recall?

It could be all of these, compositely known as Memory. When we say, memory, we are often referring to the encephalic aspect of it. But it is a far broader term that stretches beyond the brain. To give a structure to this write-up, I'm classifying it into Cranial, Genetic and Consciousness.

1.) Cranial Memory - Every individual gathers information with their own sense organs. All these are stored in their individual cranium. Most of it, stay the same way on the surface and doesn't get pushed down into the genes or consciousness.

"Bad memory", "Doesn't remember things", "memory-loss" are some of the most common complains of parents and teachers. These statements are absolutely meaningless as every individual has exact same memory mechanism. To understand why it is exhibited differently, we need to dig into the verb-aspect of the memory phenomenon. It is the orchestration of three independent acts; Reception, Retention and Retrieval.

Think how an efficient goods storage works? Their receiving team receives the good, stored it in a specific room, rack and shelf by the storage team. There is a common ledger that is updated about the whereabouts. To the retrieval team, the ledger gives the exact directions to retrieve it. In a similar way, there are these three aspects involved in better memory management.

Reception - Our senses are awake and receiving information while we are awake and conscious, known as Jagrat in Sanskrit. In the current times, we spend more time in pleasing our mind mostly using ears, eyes takes the second spot, then the skin, then the tongue and finally the nose. While the intensity of the impact it creates is in exact opposite order. This order is not a coincidence but how the corresponding endocrine glands (chakras) are aligned in the body.

A specific smell can bubble up a whole container of memories in an instant than an interviewer questioning about that exact specific childhood moment. Sense of smell in so innate (muladhara) and hence it has deeper reach which qualifies it to be the best possible ledger (in database terms, an index), a metadata store for the actual information. Taste, touch, vision and hearing follow in the exact same order. Sharpening these senses, practicing each of them, one by one and compositely, all the 31 combinations is the key to drastically improve the ability to receive information.

It is the concise teaching of several wisemen who walked this earth; living in the present, being conscious of everything around, absolute alertness.

"Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life." - Buddha

Retention - A good retention capacity involves initial caching, periodic rumination, linking and reorganizing the received information.

One can easily count the number of stairs they took, the names they just heard and the streets they just passed. But all those live in cache, the most superficial aspect of the memory. The way to retain that is, extract the data to be retained, chew on it, link to already existing data, whenever possible. Create a discipline and make it a second nature to ruminate on the just received information every-time the level of reception reduces.

There is a simple exercise, where you can ask a group to say our 20 distinct words. Then you can repeat them in the same order, in the reverse or by index, i.e., like the 7th word is _____. Trick here is; Have a static list of 20 words, memorize them. When the group gives the new list of words, link them to your static list and store. Then the recall becomes a walk in the park.

Retrieval - There were several situations where we feel the answer is struck in the throat. This is one of the common symptom of impaired retrieval ability. And suddenly out of the blue, while walking the dog, the struck information spurts out. Which gives us an insight into what is behind a good retrieval mechanism. A relaxed state of mind. When the reception and retention aspects naturally diminish, mind relaxes and all the horsepower is available for efficient retrieval.

Relaxed mind is directly proportional to reduced blood stream to the brain. Physical workout or a big meal can put strain on the body and redirect the blood away from the brain. It is the basic way, but very limited as one cannot keep working out that long or eating all the time. Yoga and eventually meditation is a sustainable way to consciously reduce the blood traffic to the brain.

All these three aspects Reception, Retention and Retrieval are to be individually assessed and diagnosed before planting any suggestions in their mind, feeding any herbs or medicines to their body and pinning any tags like memory-loss, ADD, ADHD to their personality.

Emotions are the bridges to carry the cranial memories into deeper regions like genes and consciousness. 

2.) Genetic memory - Body remembers way lot more that the brain can, mainly due to the enormous real-estate it has. From blood circulation, air recycling, temperature control, digestion, disposal to healing, the body is a self-sustaining phenom. It doesn't need the mind for its sustenance, but the mind needs body, even for its existence.

Knowledge catering to individual senses like language, comics, weaving, recipes and perfumes don't get into the genes. For a specific knowledge to enter the genetic pool, it needs to be connected to the whole species. Anything that helps the species survive and thrive qualifies to become a genetic memory.

The absolute base emotion linked to the survival; Fear has been the most reliable channel in carrying the cranial memory into genes.

3.) Memory of the consciousness (சித்தம்) - All the memory that we can successfully push into our consciousness is available to all other living beings to access. Hence, we have the innate ability to tap into the consciousness of any living being. Every new aspect of tennis that Roger Federer personally discovered and has pushed into his consciousness is available for everyone to access. The mechanism to do so is also in-built. All we have to do is to pull out the weeds, clear the hurdles and let it do its job.

All the mind-reading, hypnotism, prayers, wish fulfilling rocks and several other obscure things in the name of miracles, work on this principle. All the animate pulsating objects are linked by this layer of consciousness and communicate through the protocols of emotion.

Non-survival emotions like guilt, shame, pain, grief, joy, gratitude and love are well known carriers of cranial information to consciousness. The sheer purpose of the words, songs and chants are to simulate the necessary emotion. Hence the curses, blessings, wishes and prayers, not backed by the corresponding emotions, remain as empty words.

14 things we run behind

At any given time, everyone of us is driven by or running behind one of these 14 aspects of living. Each stair is climbed by every single individual. Some passthrough quickly and other camp in some of these stages for a longer time. But, eventually, everyone identifies the pattern and moves on.

(essential need)
1.) When the life is at risk, none of the other things matter. All living beings run towards self-preservation. Despite the need for sleep, thirst and hunger, they try with all their energy to preserve the life in the body.
2.) When one feels safe, the body wants to rejuvenate. sleep kicks in. When one feels sleepy, neither hunger not thirst matters.
3.) A well rested body seeks nourishment. Food and water.

(need to desire)
4.) Once the bodily needs are met, mind gets active. Senses become alive and seeks to be pleased. Still people can seek food, but this time it'll be for taste. Cuisines, entertainment, alcohol, sports, clubs, spas cater to this layer.

(desire to pride)
5.) Once the base desires are fulfilled satisfactorily, desire to be appreciated arises. Comparison with others, drive to acquire more knowledge and skills, enhance the looks, shop brands are all the outcome of this simple desire to be appreciated by the people around us.

(pride culminates)
6.) Once we are saturated with the accolades, some more superficial desires kick-in. To acquire more wealth just for the sake of wealth, though there is no desire to spend it. It also drives one to run behind fame, rationing the natural resources, spatial exploration, rearchitecting the social order and several such activities with global impact.

(aligning physique with the nature)
7.) The clutch of needs, desire and pride starts loosing its grip. The person is blessed and also driven to attain robust health. Gets more conscious about intake and activities. Driven to get more harmonious with nature, physically.

(turning inwards)
8.) When the physical health and strength reaches acceptable levels, we start gravitating towards superior psyche. Strengthening the mind. Mental strength of a person is hidden in plain-sight. Its their breath. A steady breath is the sign of a strong mind.

(seeking begins)
9.) Combination of physical and mental strength ultimately drives a person towards inertness. Such people don't give-in to the common vicissitudes of the masses and utterly bored with common excitements but are curious about mundane things which are commonly considered boring. They are often found doing such things for hours, like staring at the sky, watching sunset, sleeping in a seated posture or consciously practicing to meditate.

The above mentioned 9 stages are applicable to all the life forms. The next 5 stages are only applicable to the humans and higher forms of the species.

(meditation)
10.) Sitting still for extended span of time with erect spine eventually leads to dhyana(m), meditation setting in. It is an inner experience that should not be described. From outside, a person in this state will just look like sleeping, but internally, the whole universe opens up.

(yoga)
11.) After several such involuntary experiences of dhyana(m), yoga(m) is attained. For an outsider, this person will again look like just sitting and sleeping, but with one significant physical change. The breath would be so shallow and even no breath flowing in and out for several minutes. Breathless is a natural response of the body when the mind is standstill.

(gyan, ஞானம் - wisdom, exhibits clairvoyance)
12.) With ability to be in yoga(m), samadhi, breathless state at will, the person is directly connected to source of absolute truth, wisdom, intelligence and knowledge. There won't be any more questions in such a person's consciousness. All the unnecessary questions and curiosities are dissolved and the essential questions are answered instantaneously.  They roam amongst the masses just to fulfill the orders from the source.

(mukthi, முக்தி - liberation)
13.) This is literally liberation from the cycle of birth and death. The above mentioned 12 stages takes several lifetimes. Once the soul reaches this stage, there are not born again, in any form.

(divine, இறை நிலை)
14.) This is the ultimate goal. Every other driving force mentioned above keeps pushing everyone towards this. There will always be a sense of dissatisfaction and boredom, until this stage is attained. The soul has reached its source and is same as whatever is believed to be god with all the abilities and powers associates with the divine.

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