Tharun's Blog

 "Truth is narrowed down and made a plaything for those who are weak and those who are only momentarily discontented. Truth cannot be brought down, rather the individual should make effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountain top to the valley, if you would attain to the mountain top you must pass through the valley, climb the steep, unafraid of the dangerous precipices"  ~ J Krishnamurti 91 years on nothing has changed, nothing seems to change. Maybe these are one of the best-ever lines. The most important thing to mention here, he strongly condemned that no one should become a  follower of him and also not consider him as a Guru, he stated that once one becomes a follower of anything, one confirms a pattern and starts having likes and dislikes towards others. And he also stated that he doesn't impose any authority, for which he mentioned in an interview that imposing authority over another is the greatest sin.  Interestingly in 1929, and years in the buil...

 That which is eternal, divine and blissful is not bound by the opposites of negatives and positives, it is beyond all dualities 

 No part in the body can be kept occupied for long, except the mind which is all the time occupied with something or the other and whose location is unknown.

 For some reason, most of us think that the life we are living on Earth is permanent and hence we are intended to accumulate more and more. Essentially we are seeking permanency from impermanence.  In actuality, we are living in a bridge that is a crossover for something vast and never-ending, all religions have insisted on that phenomenon through the phase of immorality. At least once in a while, we would have experienced certain indications from the everlasting truth, when we completely surrendered or completely given up psychological attachments even for a minute or sometime. But to understand it we can't comprehend with the boundaries drawn by the mind, when even a single thought ceases to exist and the mind is completely quiet it has the key to the vastness. For this religions have portrayed many ways, devotion (Bhakthi Yoga), surrender, Nama Japa, Karma Yoga, Jnana Yoga, in different names by different religions but all point to the same thing, the dissolution of the min...

 The mind and the RAM in many ways are the same. When the mind has too many thoughts at the same time it drains, similarly, when too many applications are run at the same time the system also hangs.   The browsers use cache to optimise the results and search by storing part of the runtime information, similarly, there is a silent recording that goes on within us when we see a person or a thing, so that the next time when we see them or see it, there is some automatic responses from the brain involuntarily.  Is it therefore possible to clear the cache of our minds and brains just like we clear the cache and see the things and people around us freshly ?!

 You can become a slave of what you hold.  When you flow with it you are totally free.  Remember we can't hold our urine also for long, why should we hold thoughts ?!

 Filling the mind doesn't bring happiness, emptying it does.  Meditation is the process of emptying the mind

 மாதா உடல் சலித்தாள் வல்வினையேன் கால்சலித்தேன் வேதாவும் கைசலித்து விட்டானே - நாதா இருப்பையூர் வாழ்சிவனே இன்னுமோர் அன்னை கருப்பையிலே வாராமற் கா’ பொருளுரை: அன்னை என்னைப் பெற்று பெற்று உடல் சலித்தாள் ! இந்த பாபியும் பிறந்து பிறந்து, தேவையில்லாதது பின் ஓடி கால் சலித்துவிட்டான் ! இவனைப் படைத்த பிரம்மனும் இவன் தலையெழுத்தை எழுதி எழுதி கை சலித்துவிட்டான் ! நாதா இருப்பையூரில் வாழும் சிவனே, இந்த பாபி இன்னும் ஒரு அன்னையின் கருப்பையில் பிறவாமல் இருக்கக் காப்பாற்று !

  அற்றைக்கு இரைதேடி ,  அத்தத் ...... திலும் ஆசை      பற்றித் தவியாத ,  பற்றைப் ...... பெறுவேனோ ? வெற்றிக் கதிர்வேலா! வெற்பைத் ...... தொளைசீலா!      கற்று உற்று உணர்போதா! கச்சிப் ...... பெருமாளே.

 First of all, wish everyone a Happy Ganesh Chathurthi, may Lord Ganesha remove all obstacles and fulfil the dreams of all _/\_  In this article, we are going to look at the description of truth in a holy verse Vinayagar Agaval sung by a woman saint and poet Avayar and feel it is being sung during her salvation and the encounter with truth by the grace of Lord Ganesha.  The verse begins by describing the name and form of Lord Ganesha, and slowly moves us into requesting salvation of the soul at the beginning part. And as the song goes on, the author feels the poet had the visions of the truth expressed. Here we are going to take in some key some snippets in the song on the expression of truth by beginning with the background. Please note, the author is not a scholar or a proper translator, but one tries to interpret this beauty and put in some language that he knows. Apologies for any improper translation. Again pointing to J Krishnamurti, 'The description is not the desc...

 When we are disconnected from nature and we think about ourselves, the illusion of one's own image grows and grows.  When we are connected with nature, certainly we can feel the magnanimity of it, the breeze, the leaves etc. The vastness of nature makes us look tiny or even invisible.

 Knowledge can be acquired by various means.  Wisdom comes into being only by the act of giving.

 When the seeking ceases, the sought arrives

 வீட்டில் ஒரு முகமூடி ! பணிபுரியும் இடத்தில் ஒரு முகமூடி ! உள்ளுக்குள் பல முகமூடிகள் ! உண்மையில் இந்த முகமூடிகள் தங்களை பிறரிடமிருந்து மறைக்கவா ? அல்லது இந்த முகமூடிகள் தங்களிடமிருந்தே தங்களை மறைத்துக்கொள்கிறதா ?! கவியரசரின் வரிகளில், "மனம் என்னும் தெருகூத்து பகல் வேசம்"

 நிலையற்றதில் மனம் நிலைப்பெற முயலும் போது மனம் சஞ்சலம் கொள்கிறது, உண்மையில் மனதை நிலைப்பெற செய்ய முடியுமா ? மனம் காலத்தால் கட்டுப்பட்டு இருக்கும் வரை நகர்தலிலேயே உள்ளது.  உதாரணமாக, ஒரு உணவகத்திற்கு செல்கிறோம், நாம் மசால் தோசை வாங்குகிறோம் ஆனால் எதிரிலிருப்பவர் இட்லி வாங்கினால் அதுவே உயர்ந்ததாக காட்சி தருகின்றது. அதே போல் துணி கடையில் இரண்டு மணி நேரம் பார்த்து எந்த துணி எடுத்தாலும் கடையில் இருந்து வெளியே வரும் போது இந்த துணியை எடுக்காமல் விட்டுவிட்டோமே என்று மனம் ஏங்குகிறது.   மனதை நிலைப்பெற செய்வதற்காகவே பல்வேறு யோகங்கள் குறிப்பிடப்பட்டுள்ளன.  யோகம் என்ற சொல்லுக்கு இரண்டற கலப்பது என்ற பொருள் உள்ளது. கர்ம யோகம் -> கர்மத்தோடு அதாவது செய்யும் செயலோடு இரண்டற கலப்பது, பக்தி யோகம் -> பக்தியோடு இரண்டற கலப்பது, தியான யோகம் -> தியானத்தோடு இரண்டற கலப்பது, ஞான யோகம் -> இவ்வனைத்து யோகங்களில் இறுதி நிலையே ஞான யோகமாக உள்ளது.  இதையே ஜிட்டு கிருஷ்ணமூர்த்தி, "The observer is the observed" -> "உற்று நோக்குபவனே உற்று நோக்கப்படுகிறான்", என்று குறிப்பிடவதாக உணர்க...

 The psychological distance between the actor and action or the thinker and the thought is inversely proportional to the conservation of energy. When we do something that we love, we are nearly one with that action, there is no two then, in that fusion there is no actor, but only the action.   For instance, if we can imagine the food and the taste of the food exists separately, how would it be ?! The beauty lies in the integration of the food and taste as one.  Human beings taste the food in that very instance, when the food comes is at fusion with the sensory perceptions of the tongue, be it sour or sweet etc.  அரிசி தனித்தனி பருக்கைகளாக இருந்தாலும் மாவாக அரைப்பட்டப் பின் ஒன்றாகிறது !

 Things associated with the mind is most likely calculative, where as things associated from the heart is priceless. 

     To develop a vaccine or to understand about the microorganism, the pathologists take one sample of millions and do a genome sequencing and create a vaccine based on it's DNA/RNA or as a whole inactivated copy of the single microorganism.     Similarly, we can understand the process of mind, when we decode and examine just one thought completely out of the 1000's thoughts that we get each day.

 Before an idly or a dosa or a poori is made as individual pieces, they were a part of the same batter.   Similarly, the human consciousness is also one single entity as a whole, but it's just that we exist as individuals physically.

 If one is lucky, one might go into these dialogues which are radically transforming. 18 episodes with 1 hour each.  J. Krishnamurti – San Diego 1974 – Conversations with Allan W. Anderson – A wholly different way of living: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1n30s-LKus7XDJA0eXbd5n3f9qDcQOWP