Explore Our Worlds
Can we be butterflies? Can’t we live our lives with dignity regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, caste, class, colour, height, weight et al? Can’t we be true trustees of Next Gen on this planet, in this Universe? Can’t we nurture and celebrate biodiversity, wild, marine, et al? Can’t we have dignity in labour and equitable payments for our work, can’t we have some minimum and maximum wage fixed, can’t we fix maximum returns? Can’t we be more sensitive to our peers and help people to harness their strengths and cope with their challenges/weaknesses?
Let us be safe and deal with risks – accidents, physical ill-health, mental ill-health, emotional ill-health, disasters, crises, hurts, day-to-day problems. Can we ban, can we quit smoking, drinking and substance abuse in this world? Why not?
Women make all the difference in the world. Let us celebrate their achievements in various, all spheres. Let us accelerate parity. Let there be dignity and justice, hope and faith, equity, equality, equal future and purity. Free from stigma, stereotypes, violence. Sustainability, peace with equal rights and opportunities to all. No decision space about us, without us. Leadership of Life, Care and Enterprises.
Let us have better sleep life planet. Let us be number friendly. Language friendly. Let us be natural, be friendly to air, water, food and consume naturally friendly air, water, food. Let us be simple. Let us have our rights to be this. Let us acknowledge interdependence and be thankful, grateful to the universe for our existence. Let us give.
Kodigena Halli, near Hindupur, is the third in the Gurukulams came in Telugu States, courtesy PV. It took more than 35 years to enter Kodigenahalli, after entering Sarvail in 1976, Tadikonda in 1986. Traditional mould modern temples. A blessed visit when the students are in evening prayer. Students are back after CoVID break. Classes are ON. Tadikonda and Kodigenahalli will celebrate their Golden Jubilees next year.
Vaccinations roll-out to general public. 60+ (45+ with comorbidities) to begin with. Farmers continue in the Delhi borders. Elections in 4 states and 1 UT is like mini General Election, with everyone putting their best foot forward and trying harder. Let us get ready and wait for May 2 results to have a leisurely analysis of the voter think.
Pandemic, as it moved from a sprint to a marathon, has many jobless. Many with less incomes. Savings of many reached zero or negative. Many want to leave jobs. More women are leaving jobs. More poorer women are leaving jobs. More seniors are leaving. As we may start with 30-40% women in the entry level, only less than 20% graduating through management, leadership. This proportion is coming down further, with increased extra hours every day. In the work world, the HR work norms have to be re-written. To get Diversity and Inclusion back. To get health of the HR back in full shape. To invest in the existing talent. In a big way. To mentor and sponsor forward. To fight microaggressions. To fight the ‘only one’ feel and reality. To have ‘contract’ that includes work life and life outside of work that feed each other.
Stunning observation I came across. Only 2% conversations end when the both parties want to end. 30% conversations end when one of the party wanted to end. In 10% conversations end, although they want to continue. In 31% conversations, one of the parties want to continue. However, in more than 50% conversations, both parties dragged for double the time of their intent. Are we generally stuck in prolonging conversations although we do not want? It appears we can not figure out when to stop. Continued conversations, on the other hand, may offer new insights, novel perspectives or interesting facts of life.
What we think bad in the first instance may turn out to be a good thing in the hindsight later and vice-versa. We know very little about the incident and what it means to us in a short or a long while from now. Yet we project, imagine, guess and interpret and go through pain, emotions. May be, we are uncomfortable with uncertainty. We dismiss many possibilities and stick to 1-2 possibilities. If only we can be at ease with I do not know. Can we get into sleep, meditation, calming down through breathing, taking a pill? Can we brush aside all thoughts and rest fully? To get up freshly refreshed for another 24 hours or more?
Greg Anderson proposes that we always lived, live in a pluriverse, not universe, of many different real worlds. The world is ever changing depending on our psychology and understanding of the world(s). If only we are humble. If only we go to basics. Basics prior to unprecedented levels of damage upon minds, bodies, ecologies, environments, of ours, of our planet’s life forms. Where life rights coexist with human rights. This brings in full security – food-nutrition, health, clothing, shelter, education et al.
Is rights only way? Do we really want a homogenized world? Do not we let various ways of being human thrive? Including the indigenous ways. Do not we restrain the ‘modern’ ways of being human predating the other ways? By being expansive and emancipatory on one hand. On the other hand, by acknowledging and appreciating interdependence and facilitating ways of coexistence. Here, we need to explore the indigenous worlds. For Natural living, livelihoods, farming, food, coexistence, flow.
Let us. Co-exist better. In our various ways. Of Interdependence. Acknowledging and appreciating. Keep flowing. In nature. With N. For 7L.
Join us in the world of yoga of exploring ways of useful coexistence – anweshayoga for 7L.
G Muralidhar