Our work and the Hindu Philosophy

STHITA PRAGYAN- This word has been reverberating in my mind since the past few days so much so that today first thing in the morning I had to look up as to what it means.
It turns out that SP (Sthita Pragyan) is a super conscious state of an enlightened mind , to be more precise I will quote this brilliant author who wrote a wonderful research article and made it free for use-

Yoga, its literal meaning is ‘to be connected or added or submersed etc.’, may be defined
as – ‘Yoga is the state of super-consciousness (Samadhi)4’, where Samadhi contains the
meaning of ‘connectedness’ with the self ‘being/existence’, and this state, i.e., Samadhi,
can be attained through a prolonged practice of meditation5. The individual who got the
state of super-conscious mind (sthit-pragna) has the characters like – one who thoroughly
dismisses all cravings of the mind; satisfied in the self through the self; whose mind
remains unperturbed amid sorrows; whose thirst for pleasures altogether disappeared;
who is free from passion, fear and anger; who is unattached to any thing, who neither
rejoices nor recoils while meeting with evil and good; who has withdrawn his senses from
sense-objects like a tortoise who draws limbs from all directions; the sense-objects turn
away from him who does not enjoy with his senses but the test for them persists , this
relish also disappears in the case of the sthit-pragna; those who have controlled and
mastered all the senses and for collecting his mind who sit for meditation devoting one
self to me-the super-conscious being because “The senses, which are turbulent by nature,
forcibly carry away the mind even of a wise man who is practicing self-control”

Also I have to say sorry because what I wrote about mathematics teaching, which I will promptly edit after I post this one, IS BLASPHEMOUS!!! If somebody says mathematics teaching is a perfunctory ritual or that Mathematics is a base science - DON'T BELIEVE!!!

Mathematics as I found in this discussion on the BG (Bhagvad Gita) is akin to Tapa...or preparation for it...Read On-

Mortification (Tapa) is the state of problem where one is expected to stay and to
watch the situation. Mortification is not to try to gain anything else to free from ‘the
sorrow’. ‘Be in sorrow and feel it’ is the mortification. For example, the whole
training in mathematics (mathematical notations are made to express the natural laws
in its simplistic way) is learning to make the mind to be in the problem and to solve it
by itself. It is the practice of mortification. Result is secondary but the aim of
‘mathematics teaching’ is to make the student to stay in the problematic state and to
watch how this mind solves the problem. Now, this very sharpened mind can be
utilized to understand the real form of self-psychoanalysis. Thus, if a student solve
one single problem without any external help, it is more important than to
learn/practice/memorize the way of solving problems. In fact, memorizing makes the
mind dull and dull each time. Again, this ‘mathematics learning’ is not important at
all to be real spiritual being but the sharpened mind, which is well equipped and
experienced as problem solver, is all important.

So now we know the ground realities, though, not all, but it gives a different dimension to what you are doing if you start viewing it from a different frame of ref.

Also on a parting note-

This brilliant author is Jitendra K Rai- I should thank him for the wonderful treatise published in the Universal Mind by the name -
‘The Yoga’ of Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita vis-à-vis Yoga-Sutra"

Chao!!

Free Will!!

Hi, am pretty regular now it seems, although not many people visit this blog, fewer still leave posts...but i have a firm belief that someday it will be useful to somebody atleast!!!
"What T S Eliott says about being useful is that It's really hard to be useful..and he has trodden the winepress alone...read Choruses from "The Rock"".
I have been hooked to this darn thing called poetry since childhood, It seemed to me then that poets are really intelligent beings and now I realize how correct it is!!
In that case I have tried to write a few stanzas, resulting in no more than a doggerel, but atleast tried out my hand at the art of Rhetoric...as the greeks say!!
Well that is one art that should have if you are a teacher or a leader or somebody who is a potential "Leader of the bandwagon" kind of a thing!!!
Well I took a mock cat today too, English was so simple...Again subjective, Have become an expert at flunking maths, DI was doable!!
Believe me DI is a loyal section...sometimes unlike anything else...because it INGRAINS what you have...unlike english and maths...concepts and vocab are actually from WITHOUT and not within...So decided to make it my SSS...no not the congruency condition, but the second strong section!! The decision comes in wake of repeated failures in the previous all Mocks!!!
Sometimes its a way of life, Learn...You will have all possible advisory councils but what you learn on your own ...STAYS!!
Look at this mail igot from justin...of the My Gmat fame...

"Danny wanted to do really well on the GMAT. Did'nt want to leave anything between him and a 99 percentile score.When he took the test, he was shocked to see a score of just 620. He tried everything, classroom training, pretty much all the guides on the web, even one to one coaching.When he took the test again, he got 640.He was really shattered.Was it that he was focusing too much on the end result, i.e. the marks, rather than the process of solving the questions? Anyways, one day while surfing the web, Danny came across a Special Program that looked very promising.He thought he would give it a try, and lo and behold, when he tried the GMAT for the third (and final) time, he actually got a 740!

Moral of the story: When you seek something with all your heart, you often find a way to get it.Cheers "
well I like only the moral of the story!!! And No advertising this is!! Do not wrack your brains to know what danny found...because the mail intends to sell a gimmick at the best!!! Okay I am being cynical...so okay , advertising or so...!!!
But you take heart from the moral...Cause that is what endures!!!
PS: The race is long and in the end it is only with yourself!!

TRUE TO DESTINY

Well, let me start it this way, I mean this post...Today I read a paper by John Dobson, who is an eminent physicist and what makes him most engaging to an Indian mind is that he has spent 27 Years in a vedanta monastry...CATHARSIS...Guaranteed!! That is Vedanta, the substance of the veda's , which are in all four of them.
I also read Einstein on socialism...Why is socialism better than capitalism. He introduces us to a concept which as a matter of human nature we have ...as a society not been able to overcome...and that is the "Predatory Phase ". But he also says that a human being's destiny is in effect controlled by NOT any "self-inflicted Fate" but we are the people who can mould our LIFE.
And now I want to tell you something , after some bit of reading and deliberation i idly involve myself in , believe that human priorities do not really conflict...just made to seem so...actually the never contradict, in essence it is an infinite universe and we are undivided, but just that apparitional causation thing of Dobson wreaks havoc...Or our inability to discriminate between the real and the make believe...in Dobson's language!!
Tomorrow have an aimcat scheduled. As always am not all set...but yes my syllabi is yet to be finished, and to me it makes no sense taking so many tests before you even complete the bare essentials. But somehow am trying to cope up...I take my percentile only indicatively, don't really let it stand for me as to who I am...
And as Babaji said...Banat banat Ban jai...we simply have to Labour and to wait...Right, Eliott!!
But as socrates said
"And as for me, only one thing I know and that is I know nothing", I can tell you I didn't even know THAT and that is my ignorance!! Proves his intelligence...
Recently we had our P & C class and we were talking bout Cards ...ace, king, queen...etc...the mot unique thing was that we did not discuss the Joker (in Athens)!!! Best thoughts are obliterated by education...all that it seems to me...!!! To you passerby, whence you come, where to, just follow the light with in !!!
PS: Treasure you faith more than anything
Watch Shawshank Redemption..it is a wonderful movie...Hint: Morgan Freemann!!!

Check out http://quanta-gaia.org/dobson/Complexifications.html#END by jOHN dOBSON FOR SOME SOUL SEARCHING.

The questions...

What is it that I am here for, What is it that I am searching here, Have I learnt form my mistakes or not as I still make several...hopefully new one's, Are mistakes more prized than correct solutions out of the RIGHT and preferable box that domineer poor original doubts, how aresome people so cocksure, what benefit do they derive, ofcourse they avoid that cardinal balme of not having sound opinions...but are we not better off not forming opinions at all...Atleast I seem to be having no opinion at all except for myself...Don't know how good that is, but there is a history behind it!! I have seen people outpacing people's opinions of them, I have seen people so mired in their opinions that they don't seem to take it the way it comes...It is sometimes disconcerting to change opinions and so I do not form them at all...Neither on United States Political Agenda nor on Increasing Inflation in India...I read ....ofcourusss!!But thats again an opinion ...a qualified one...I do not have an opinion of my friends ...even foes...somehow I have atoned myself from committing thias mistake that gets me in to lazy habits of thinking as Einstein says...So ...a lot of I I I ....here...ofcourse
Not having Opinions is not always rosy...difficulties and travails catch you unexpected...you get hurt as you seem to be guessing positively always...sometimes when in case of dependent events it causes disappointments...you mostly seem to be blaming yourself...But isn't all this WORTH IT ...i feel it is...we learn positively...leaving no time for idle speculation about others and their shortcoming...appreciating your's too...
Enough...an on my job...need to work very hard for the coming few months and with out opinions...just FLOW...!!!