Dear All
I sit and type this out at 7 AM on our Independence Day with a satisfied heart after a long ride of my cute new FIGO - for the first time - all alone. I drove just around 25 kilometers but what an experience it was !!! Is it a co-incidence that this happens on Aug 15th ?? Well, go on......!!
There were many FIRSTs in today's drive. It was a trial that took place after losing touch of driving a little bit - past three days I had not driven Him. In this limited 1 month period of possession, I have observed that there are always bit of teething problems and lack of coordinations happening to me when I dont drive for a full day. It was not very unusual for me to find that I was making basic mistakes like gear change, pressing of clutch, steering control, seeing the mirrors (yeah, I had teething problems in all departments like Indian Cricket).
It was good to have the car taken out of the gate of our flat at 5.30 AM with our security man helping me out. In fact this is the first of my firsts....taking Him out without much of nervousness and doing the right things in terms of wheel turning - both front and reverse. I heartily thanked him before I left for my outing.....(must be needing him at least half dozen times more...!! better to keep the relationship oiled, huh ???)
After getting used to the basic lessons (my Driving Guru was shouting at me in my mind for each of my flaws), I stopped Him at the entrance of GN chetty road and put on my seat belt to get ready for a simple target (dont laugh at me)....to apply FIFTH gear some how during today's drive. Aristocratically, I started off smoothly in the first gear and raised the tempo....and the grand big new bridge of GN chetty bridge swallowed me with warmth nudging me to try the simple goal right on himself. When I moved to 5th gear, was startled a bit...has the engine went down or WHAT ?? Enjoyed every moment of the stillness of the intensity of the engine before I came down to my safe third and fourth..... ("it is good not to in high intensity too long until you are sure of the technology of holding yourself on to it" - Sadhguru).
How am I going to put all my other firsts of today.....?? Its too awesome. To add more colour to my firsts, I have hundreds of policemen assembled near Marina Beach (I totally forgot that it was aug 15th and they should all meet up so that we have a peaceful independence, right ??). While my original idea was to take a U turn after Lattice Bridge and drive my little BOY until Besant Nagar, I did not want to take chance with rubbing shoulders with the huge population of police force all of them assembled in the other side....I took left turn towards Central station.
Zooming perfectly in the same lane thru' out, I was admirably handling the brakes at the signals (at least a dozen in total) and except one instance, was able to get started without engine going down....(yeah, it happened at Nandanam signal and an (as usual) impatient innova honked at me....and showed me his hand and went overtaking me....THANK YOU SIR....!! What else do I derseve), and managed the gear changes extremely well.
Does it mean, did I not do mistakes. Of course quite a number of times.. Noticing suddenly that my boy was screaming at the pitch of the voice after taking off from one of the signal, I realized I was driving him at the same FIRST GEAR; (I am sure he drank a litre of petrol for my little forgetfulness. I should not mind on it too much). At Anna Fly over, I made a mistake of chosing the wrong lane to go to cathedral road and had do one full circle (Happy that I was doing it in the right direction, east to west......) before getting it correctly......
There were few miscellaneous firsts too that I overtook few slow-yees (may be they are learning still, huh ??), honked and edged a fat lady to the end of the road as she was walking like LORD Labakkudas, switched off the head lights when it was not needed, used the right mirrors at the right time.....and so on.
Well, there were some moral confusions when I did not mind the signals as I had to go along with the flock (naturally, no policeman around) and I dutifully obliged signal when I was alone....BUT ok yaar...chalta hai.....!! lets not try to think too much objectivity around such aspects and it is better to take a call based on expediency of the moment.....!! Any way I carried a 500 Rs. note with me .... JUST IN CASE.....!!
I am forcing myself to close this musings as I have to do my breathing exercise now. The single biggest moment of today's ride was.....that intense stillness of the TOP Gear. A tiger which tastes blood is never the same again - people call it blood hound. I wish to be one...a nice smiling but cold blooded beast. If you are getting reminded of last shot of Anniyan, I dont want to trigger you about that !!
YES, The sweetness of freedom is always a sufficient motivation to break all the chains. My little boy would have been puzzled today what happened to his master all of a sudden ? He does not know today's experience with him and this posting is not actually about him and it was just a experiment on self assurance for the master....!!
Forgot to tell, Happy Independence DAY.....!!! Keeping rocking - all of you (too)
Lots of love
Suchoo
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
The "Ikki Pinki Ponki" Technology
Prelude : On a casual reading of my past two postings, I could sense that my "Followers" will stop following me and my postings if I go in the same direction !!
Encouraged by positive feedbacks on one of my earlier posting on multiplier effect, I am propounding another simple technique that you will bound to relish.....
Cheers // Suren
Dear All
All of us have situations when we are really unsure on course of action to be taken. It could be either too trivial or very big challenge - nevertheless, you will accept that it is always easy to come out with solutions to "others" problems while we find "our" problem are bit difficult to solve...!!
Counselling with well wishers of course helps most of the times but here there is a catch. First we should have well wishers in the most genuine sense and they should have the time and patience when we are stuck up on some thing desperately !! More over, we should be having enough time, patience and also ability to communicate the problemin 3 dimension so that we dont end up losing these friends in arguements !! (Doesn't it happen ? in order to make them understand, we use all our communication skill only to confuse them more....!!)
Lets understand some thing crystal clear. Life is too wonderful and complex and any given situation is too unique and needs a specialized attention to handle it. Though I dont deny that its technically possible to get a solution from our friends by making an attempt to put them the "situation" in black and white....most times, it could fail as life is after all GREY !!
That leads to my latest technology which is shared in the title above. When we are in any predicament, use this simple and easy tool to get a solution. Beware of the conditions that are required to be taken care to have this tool effective......!! (1) We should not have a tinge of bias against the possible course of actions....; OR we should be equally confused about both the options; (2) Once we apply the tool and arrive at the decision, go and implement it without bating the eye lid....!! You will see that it will work.
Well, is the tool too confusing or I appear to be too humourous ?? If you have trust in God, I suggest you to do it bit differently to suit your personality. Write down your possible options in small chits of papers, roll it over, throw it in front of your favourite God, Give him / her a polite namaskar, pick up a chit....and just do what the chit recommends you to do...PERIOD....!!
Well, it works for me wonderfully - there had been two instances in the past month when I applied this technique (Yeah, being a theist, I preferred God instead of "inki pinki ponki")....and found that its quite effective.
To understand the deeper science (if any !!) behind it, its all but a tinge of CHARANAAGATHI philosophy of Bhakthi Yoga !! We have become too complex these days processing so much of unnecessary thoughts in our minds and this is one simple (rather simplistic) tool that can help you to get a taste of surrendering ourselves to some thing which we consider bigger than ourselves.
For those who believe in God, I am sure they will agree to the logic of this tool (Gentle reminder :: Conditions apply !!) but for those hapless athiest, I feel they can take the IPP technology with a touch of humour....!! After all, though they dont believe in God, they too deserve solutions, right ??
If some one after reading this patiently meets me into my eyes and tells me " Can't I take my decisions on my own ??".....I have a humble namaskar back to him wishing him good luck on his endeavours.....You see, we need to have a need for any thing..including reading of this blog......!! I am here explaining this latest discovery with lot of excitement only because I have a strong urge to share !!
With Love
Suchoo / Suren
Encouraged by positive feedbacks on one of my earlier posting on multiplier effect, I am propounding another simple technique that you will bound to relish.....
Cheers // Suren
Dear All
All of us have situations when we are really unsure on course of action to be taken. It could be either too trivial or very big challenge - nevertheless, you will accept that it is always easy to come out with solutions to "others" problems while we find "our" problem are bit difficult to solve...!!
Counselling with well wishers of course helps most of the times but here there is a catch. First we should have well wishers in the most genuine sense and they should have the time and patience when we are stuck up on some thing desperately !! More over, we should be having enough time, patience and also ability to communicate the problemin 3 dimension so that we dont end up losing these friends in arguements !! (Doesn't it happen ? in order to make them understand, we use all our communication skill only to confuse them more....!!)
Lets understand some thing crystal clear. Life is too wonderful and complex and any given situation is too unique and needs a specialized attention to handle it. Though I dont deny that its technically possible to get a solution from our friends by making an attempt to put them the "situation" in black and white....most times, it could fail as life is after all GREY !!
That leads to my latest technology which is shared in the title above. When we are in any predicament, use this simple and easy tool to get a solution. Beware of the conditions that are required to be taken care to have this tool effective......!! (1) We should not have a tinge of bias against the possible course of actions....; OR we should be equally confused about both the options; (2) Once we apply the tool and arrive at the decision, go and implement it without bating the eye lid....!! You will see that it will work.
Well, is the tool too confusing or I appear to be too humourous ?? If you have trust in God, I suggest you to do it bit differently to suit your personality. Write down your possible options in small chits of papers, roll it over, throw it in front of your favourite God, Give him / her a polite namaskar, pick up a chit....and just do what the chit recommends you to do...PERIOD....!!
Well, it works for me wonderfully - there had been two instances in the past month when I applied this technique (Yeah, being a theist, I preferred God instead of "inki pinki ponki")....and found that its quite effective.
To understand the deeper science (if any !!) behind it, its all but a tinge of CHARANAAGATHI philosophy of Bhakthi Yoga !! We have become too complex these days processing so much of unnecessary thoughts in our minds and this is one simple (rather simplistic) tool that can help you to get a taste of surrendering ourselves to some thing which we consider bigger than ourselves.
For those who believe in God, I am sure they will agree to the logic of this tool (Gentle reminder :: Conditions apply !!) but for those hapless athiest, I feel they can take the IPP technology with a touch of humour....!! After all, though they dont believe in God, they too deserve solutions, right ??
If some one after reading this patiently meets me into my eyes and tells me " Can't I take my decisions on my own ??".....I have a humble namaskar back to him wishing him good luck on his endeavours.....You see, we need to have a need for any thing..including reading of this blog......!! I am here explaining this latest discovery with lot of excitement only because I have a strong urge to share !!
With Love
Suchoo / Suren
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Musings on Newton's Third Law
Prelude :: These days I am getting dangerously philosophical due to some personal reasons and current situations. No wonder it gets spilled around me once a while..including in AGANDAM too...Please go on.....!!
Dear Friends,
Let me put my thoughts on Cause and Effects theory. Rather, it is not a theory or just thought processes but all these words are backed by lots of personal observations, experiences, insights....and self realization of this grand truth.
KARMA literally means ACTION (Courtesy :: Sadhguru). People are so ignorant about their "current" actions that they identify this with past actions. Few smart people even push this to their past births and keep lamenting about their sins and birth stars being the reason for all the pains they undergo currently.
How wonderful just to observe the people around who do not see the connection (or connectivity ??) or nexus between their current actions and effects. Perhaps, most of the times, this gets established in easier manner and I am taking such easy discoveries out the scope of this musings (Example : Some one gets bit careless in road and ends up in an accident....does it need any great wisdom for a sane person to get the message clearly ?? Lets talk some thing more subtler please.....)
Normally when we are not able to identify the exact reason for things happening in a particular way, we don't invest too much to get into investigation mode as there is so much to be done to handle the current situation. Tragically human beings even develop a pride about their effective way of handling a crisis and console themselves that best had been done by them under the given situation. How tragic if we do not get a message from this ONE incident and get a hang on cause and effect theory...which can help us enormously in future.....??
Here comes the catch... there is such a blurred demarcation between the cause and effects. Essentially both are actions (even just a volition to do some thing) and they transcend the time factor. To complicate things further, their connection cannot be traced so easily and its not an one to one relationship between a particular cause and a specific effect. Imagine many balls getting thrown from a height on a flat floor and each one taking their own way of reflecting back after touching the floor. Even in the most simplistic example above, there are too many factors like the height from which the balls are thrown, the pressure applied while throwing, the material of the ball, collisions between the balls - if any, the wind speed, the nature of the floor, the angle of throw, perhaps even the time of the throw, and if the same person have thrown all of them at same time or not.......ALL these factors determine the effect or the bouncing back of the balls....!!
Life has much more factors to be comprehended and is full of eternal learning prospects....HOW on earth we will be able to unveil this connection between cause and effect for every single thing that happens in our lives ?? IN fact in my own observation, even the size or the shape of the cause and effect need not be identical and recognizable. Bi gs and Smalls are just compartments of our own imagination and thought process and the eternal truth which transcends time is capable of living much above the plane of big and small, good and bad...and so on.....!!
With me not getting realized about truth until now (yes yaar...believe me, its a long way to go !!), at least I have the sanity getting developed within me NOT to get to conclusions about life quickly based on few things that are too apparent. When we see the effect of some thing becomes a cause for some thing else, there is a continuum of transactions which are too complex and beautiful, I am bit bogged down some times and tell myself not to resolve myself about any "opinion" about any thing.....!! Even those things where I am tempted to draw the connection, I am keeping myself in a mental fitness level that I will not be getting surprised if my conclusion turns out to be totally wrong on the very next day...based on few other developments.....!! Ability to laugh at any thing at any point of time seems to be the best way to understand this grand truth of CAUSE AND EFFECT at least in glimpses....and I am sure it is not some thing that we can definitely be sure off... until our last breath.....!!
Title to be justified....at this stage, right ?? Gentle men and Ladies, Let me put on my record about my restlessness about Newton's adjectives when he describes the third law .... Every action has an EQUAL and OPPOSITE reaction... I don't buy it...really. Even the suffix "re" makes me think for a while.....!!
AM I getting into the mood of my next posting to distinguish between the words that we carelessly use.....Equal and Equivalent....., Same and similar.....to quote few examples ??
Let me snap off for the day.......Let Shambo prevail and make me a silent observer at least from now on. Think my speech can get more qualitative and effective from now on, at least....!!
Suren
Dear Friends,
Let me put my thoughts on Cause and Effects theory. Rather, it is not a theory or just thought processes but all these words are backed by lots of personal observations, experiences, insights....and self realization of this grand truth.
KARMA literally means ACTION (Courtesy :: Sadhguru). People are so ignorant about their "current" actions that they identify this with past actions. Few smart people even push this to their past births and keep lamenting about their sins and birth stars being the reason for all the pains they undergo currently.
How wonderful just to observe the people around who do not see the connection (or connectivity ??) or nexus between their current actions and effects. Perhaps, most of the times, this gets established in easier manner and I am taking such easy discoveries out the scope of this musings (Example : Some one gets bit careless in road and ends up in an accident....does it need any great wisdom for a sane person to get the message clearly ?? Lets talk some thing more subtler please.....)
Normally when we are not able to identify the exact reason for things happening in a particular way, we don't invest too much to get into investigation mode as there is so much to be done to handle the current situation. Tragically human beings even develop a pride about their effective way of handling a crisis and console themselves that best had been done by them under the given situation. How tragic if we do not get a message from this ONE incident and get a hang on cause and effect theory...which can help us enormously in future.....??
Here comes the catch... there is such a blurred demarcation between the cause and effects. Essentially both are actions (even just a volition to do some thing) and they transcend the time factor. To complicate things further, their connection cannot be traced so easily and its not an one to one relationship between a particular cause and a specific effect. Imagine many balls getting thrown from a height on a flat floor and each one taking their own way of reflecting back after touching the floor. Even in the most simplistic example above, there are too many factors like the height from which the balls are thrown, the pressure applied while throwing, the material of the ball, collisions between the balls - if any, the wind speed, the nature of the floor, the angle of throw, perhaps even the time of the throw, and if the same person have thrown all of them at same time or not.......ALL these factors determine the effect or the bouncing back of the balls....!!
Life has much more factors to be comprehended and is full of eternal learning prospects....HOW on earth we will be able to unveil this connection between cause and effect for every single thing that happens in our lives ?? IN fact in my own observation, even the size or the shape of the cause and effect need not be identical and recognizable. Bi gs and Smalls are just compartments of our own imagination and thought process and the eternal truth which transcends time is capable of living much above the plane of big and small, good and bad...and so on.....!!
With me not getting realized about truth until now (yes yaar...believe me, its a long way to go !!), at least I have the sanity getting developed within me NOT to get to conclusions about life quickly based on few things that are too apparent. When we see the effect of some thing becomes a cause for some thing else, there is a continuum of transactions which are too complex and beautiful, I am bit bogged down some times and tell myself not to resolve myself about any "opinion" about any thing.....!! Even those things where I am tempted to draw the connection, I am keeping myself in a mental fitness level that I will not be getting surprised if my conclusion turns out to be totally wrong on the very next day...based on few other developments.....!! Ability to laugh at any thing at any point of time seems to be the best way to understand this grand truth of CAUSE AND EFFECT at least in glimpses....and I am sure it is not some thing that we can definitely be sure off... until our last breath.....!!
Title to be justified....at this stage, right ?? Gentle men and Ladies, Let me put on my record about my restlessness about Newton's adjectives when he describes the third law .... Every action has an EQUAL and OPPOSITE reaction... I don't buy it...really. Even the suffix "re" makes me think for a while.....!!
AM I getting into the mood of my next posting to distinguish between the words that we carelessly use.....Equal and Equivalent....., Same and similar.....to quote few examples ??
Let me snap off for the day.......Let Shambo prevail and make me a silent observer at least from now on. Think my speech can get more qualitative and effective from now on, at least....!!
Suren
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