Alzheimer

Forgetfulness / Amnesia.

When he knew that past had nothing to give to him, his attention slowly began to withdraw from (his) past. Till yesterday he had believed the past is something that really existed in time. 

Yesterday only the past in terms of time and also in terms of memory, started fading away fast.

He had no idea.

This was quite unexpected.

Suddenly he could no more recognize the people around, and the things and the situations he was surrounded by.

His wife was utterly shocked.

Couldn't believe her eyes.

He became silent. Not dumb.  

He would try to say something but could say only in gestures.

The son and daughter were with him. 

They too were having their own spouses and families. And yet kept looking after him carefully.

When the past was gone and the memory was

blank,  he seemed to watch in vacuum.

Only he knew he could see in distant future. 

Not exactly the future, because like past, the future  was also made of if of so many parts, 

in terms of  time, and in terms of events as well. 

And as he failed to recognize the past,  the people, and the events of the past,  just in the same way he failed again in recognizing the people, and the events that he could watch but couldn't connect a common cord through them.

After a very long time that was much harder to go through for his family, he could finally come to senses. The future started fading away and he could relate the life in now, in the present, in this very moment. 

He needed to recuperate.

And he had the urge, the help and the love of, and for his family that he was again his normal self. But like a child he had to learn the new regime and discipline of life from the very beginning.

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How to flow / fly?

Mind, my mind, and me. 

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The Bermuda Triangle points out to an interesting analogy.

There is such a Classical and a practical approach as well.

This is about, how to do the "Self-Enquiry".

Though the word "enquiry" and "inquiry" may sound and give a bit different meaning to many, some may prefer the first while others may like to use the next.

Whatever, 

" Self-Enquiry" consists in investigating into the truth (Reality) of "The Self" or even "the self".

In comparison to the Bermuda Triangle, the Bermuda Triangle refers to a geographical place on Earth, where ships and aeroplanes etc. seem to have lost and couldn't be easily traced. 

This looks like the same, when the triangle in terms of  :

Mind, me (I), and  my mind,

is enquired into.

So,  "Self-Enquiry" turns into a proverbial 

"Wisdom of folly",

Or, 

"Folly of Wisdom", 

According to one's disposition  (wisdom).

Saying "my mind" itself is the very cause behind this apparent contradiction (Paradox) that one falls into most often.

When one carefully and attentively looks at this, is at once released from this trap.

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Let us see,  when one says "my mind", 

Could the mind really refer to itself by saying so?

Obviously, the one who says 

"my mind" 

is himself not the mind, which he refers to.

He is not the mind, he is pointing out to. 

There is this essential contradiction in what is said and what is intended.

The pointer is not the pointed out.

Neither what is the pointed out, is the pointer.

(I admit, this is a bit clumsy!).

But here ends the paradox and this apparent contradiction is thus eliminated. 

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The Koan / Conundrum.

The Rebel Physicist :

Angelo Bassi.

(New York Times 20-06-2020)

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I was not surprised while going through this piece.

At one end I was / am a student of Science (Physics / Chemistry), I also studied Veda and the Oriental texts of Dharma and Yoga (the six schools of Wisdom / Darshana).

I think these streams of knowledge have transcended the relative knowledge pertaining to the present-day Science, Mathematics, Psychology, Medicine and even Astronomy.

So, we can't hope to cross-over the limits of the present-day progress of Science unless and until we study and understand these sacred texts of the East.

I often relate those various 'ideas' in my many posts in many blogs (all on e-blogger only).

But now I do realize that everyone's role as assigned to him by the Providence is limited. There could be so many known and unknown causes and reasons how one performs his role

As I never worked for, nor worried about earning a livelihood, till date all my work took place accordingly. Initially, I had to work for some 12 years and then quit. 

I could say that was also the part of my destined role. 

But writing blogs is kind of hobby for me. 

Without thinking of reward or gain, profit or any worldly recognition in whatever way. 

I feel a bit happy when no one cares for what I write. I thank them all! 

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~Confessions~

राजनीति

कभी कभी सोचता हूँ कि जीवन में :

राजनीति में उतर जाना अधिक अच्छा है, 

या राजनीति पर उतर आना?

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प्रश्न और प्रश्न

प्रश्न-प्रतिप्रश्न 

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प्रश्न : 

..........

क्या सभ्य समाज में किसी अपराध के लिए 'मृत्यु-दंड' का स्थान होना सकता है?

प्रतिप्रश्न :

...........

क्या सभ्य समाज में किसी अपराध के होने की संभावना होती है? 

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भाषा-विधा / भाषा-विद्या

तअव्वुन, तअय्युन, तख़य्युल 
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मैं नहीं जानता कि ये तीन शब्द उर्दू, फारसी या अरबी तथा उनसे मिलती-जुलती भाषाओं में कहाँ तक और किस अर्थ में सार्थक हैं, लेकिन मुझे लगता है कि इनकी संस्कृत व्युत्पत्ति कुछ यूँ हो सकती है :
तर, तल, तम,
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त - ,
अव - ,
उन - ,
त - ,
अय - ,
उन - ,
त,
खयि,
उल् / उल,
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इसी तरह का एक शब्द है :
अव्वल ;
जिसकी संस्कृत व्युत्पत्ति
अव - अल/ अल्
की तरह की जा सकती है।
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भाषा-विधा  / भाषा-विद्या
   
      

Cliché & Kitsch (Who's Life -2).

Honestly!
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Sir... Sir, ... Please..., Could Honesty be basic or secondary? It is either there and is revealed in behavior or it is just absent. This does not mean you are dishonest. May be you have other priorities. Isn't Honesty clarity and sincerity? Isn't Honesty simplicity that spontaneously finds expression in actions? Isn't this the culture and the social ethics, imposed norms that we try to judge others and one's own actions? Is not this that makes the situation rather complicated and then confusion and misunderstanding follow?
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Good Morning!
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Cliché & Kitsch

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It has been a challenge for me to write a new blog-post without being accused of using a style / language that has not been redundant, outdated, and obsolete.
But I do feel  I should accept this challenge.
The window with that wasp-net in the upper top-left corner is crowded with wasps. Many trying to expand it, bringing the material needed to do so; -Mainly the mud. I see, some bring mud-balls like the mud-ball that is pushed by a beetle. Occasionally one or two bigger-ones bring shining-black balls that look like insects without limbs. They are placed in one of the cells in the hive. The mouth of the cell is sealed with the wax-like substance and after some time the insect in the cell breaks open and comes out in the form of a baby-wasp.
In this hot scorching heat, I tried to see if I could somehow chase away them.
I put a mirror in the window in such a way so that the reflected sun-light could shine over their nest.  And suddenly saw they were in a great fury. And in seconds, some of them were bringing water-drops in their tentacles. Shining oval crystals of water. I at once removed the mirror.
But I was happy to see they do have a collective-mind that works through them as if many organs of a system well-synchronized.
Next moment I could not stop myself from laughing aloud.
I was comparing man’s wisdom in comparison to their.
We, who think we bi-pads are the most evolved, evolutionary and revolutionary creatures seemed to be on a lower rung.
We have discovered wars and sophisticated war-systems that could easily destroy all / life on the earth. Yet we think in groups. In terms of ideologies, that varies from one another to a great extent. We call them ‘religion’. Like-wise we have political-ideologies too.
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