Seek Happiness within
MLC Elections in AP went in favour of YSRCP. In Telangana, it is TRS. PV’s daughter Vani wins. Naveen (Teenmar Mallanna) gives a strong fight to Rajeshwar. Mini General Elections are ON. Polls say – Assam – BJP, WB – TMC, TN – DMK, Kerala – LDF, Puduchcherri – Congress-DMK; Nagarjuna Sagar – Congress.
More vaccines are being distributed. In more places. Now, vaccination for all 45+. We may need re-vaccinations in a year or two too. Mutants may need different vaccines. A vaccine economy is unfolding. Corona numbers on the rise. Lockdowns, curfews, restrictions are on their way. Can we continue to mask-up, distance-up, wash-up. ?
Does CoVID teach us the speed? The course correctional methods/tools? Does it bring Customization to the fore? Pandemic is a storm we are all in. Impacts are differential. Our boats are many, diverse and different. Can we democratize data, data analytics, data intelligence, each boat to use as it needs? Our different needs, different concerns, how do we respond appropriately?
Recently hit FCRA amendments are followed with CSR’s laissez-faire approaches.
Deepa Krishnan brings this out – Balancing has come to the fore – usefulness versus individual surpluses, greed vs giving, flexibility (time, location, space et al) vs efficiency-effectiveness, nurturing-caring vs fighting.
The hardest thing that hit during this period – Gendered world makes the gendered brain. Old leadership frameworks are getting extinct. Co-leaders take us on top. We need to be agile as a team. We need to converse more. Democratically, inclusively. We need to cultivate the biology and chemistry of collaboration and commitment.
Rangarajan and Mahendra Dev think Farmers’ Collectives – Producer Organizations can help small and marginal farmers. We cannot agree more. But, they take time to come, evolve and stay put, a la AMUL. The numbers of SMFs have increased to now beyond 85%. Their needs are small. They need to be ‘aggregated’ and serviced locally. We need them in large numbers. 150 million farmers would need 150,000 FPOs at the least. They need to get both women and men into them, working closely with their self-help architecture. They need handholding. They need leadership. They need executive leadership. They need professionals. They need custom capacity building and visioned road mapping and business planning and resources to service these plans. They need credit and interest subvention. They need to be local, yet on digital platforms. They need to link with consumers, consumer groups as directly as possible. Can we have producer-consumer coalitions?
Are we game with mentoring start-ups? Why not? There are many who have some ‘resources’ and willingness to have start-ups. They are looking for ideas. There are others who have the need(s) to do, but are not having the resources. Can we link these two? Can we help start the start-ups so that they get going, removing all the kinks, and demonstrate their efficacy so that some big sharks would like to take them over? It does not matter even if we succeed a decimal.
The subtlest insights that occur to us are to do with our inner thoughts, emotions and spirituality. Dr Ambedkar developed vows for ‘Deeksha’ include: following Buddha’s principles and eight-fold path; equality of human beings; loving kindness for all living beings.
There is an intimate connection between body, mind and spirit. Emotional, spiritual and physical heath are connected closely. The deepest satisfaction comes from our ability to live authentically, deeply and intimately with others. If we neglect our emotional development, we run the risk of isolation. Taking it lightly takes us slowly through natural joy and lightness of being. If we see the need, see it as a deliberate process and we start ‘action’.
We cannot force ourselves to think faster. Period. We also cannot slow our thinking. We can learn new methods for decision-making. We can develop mental models. We can develop our ability to focus. We may hurry up a bit. We may make others hurry up a bit. Speeding up, if it is not the ‘natural’ speed, results in future problems. We need to acquire our natural speed increases to a new normal. Making good decisions requires constant learning and verifying what we think we know. We need to think better. This we can do.
It is not easy to practice loving efforts and achieve meaningful results. Eating healthy. Meditating. Exercising. Changing ourselves. Cultivating a fulfilling relationship. Transforming ourselves, achieving meaningful results. Once we see them as such, we will not be suffering during the effort(s). We need to look for sensations, thoughts, emotions, feelings related to these efforts that we learn to enjoy. And relate with them.
Past is history. Let us not cling to it but rather learn from it. Rules are crafted under certain circumstances to a given context. With differing situations, and change of time, we need to interpret and implement them wisely, with changes if required. Then we can be more useful, than otherwise. Then we can be happy.
Happiness comes from within. We need to be in the present and mindful of the present moment. Let us not compare ourselves with others. Our stories and journeys are ours. No one else is responsible for our state of mind. We need to forgive forget and let go. We need to be grateful. We need to show gratitude for our wellbeing. We need to be thankful for the life we have now. We need to have this as a daily habit. We need to sleep with gratitude and wake up. We need to declutter our thoughts, words, actions and surroundings. Can we seek happiness within? Can we practice within.
Yes, we can. If we coexist with happy community. In our various interdependent ways. Keep flowing, in nature, with N. For 7L.
Join us in the world of yoga of intrinsic happy useful coexistence – raasyoga for 7L.
G Muralidhar