Elections – voting continues. | Rohith’s army continues to win.
NSE scam(s) involving Ravi Narain, Chitra Ramakrishna, Anand Subramanian and a mysterious formless yogi is under SEBI and CBI scanner. Incredible. Let us wait and see what emerges.
Sadgati – Bappi Lahiri (271152/150222), Disco Music synthesizer. Sadgati to Hamara Bajaj fame, grandson of Jamnalal Bajaj, Rahul Bajaj (100638/120222). A very kind leader.
It is the Centenary of Shri Dharampal (190222/241006), Gandhian thinker, a Nishkaama karma practitioner. General Secretary, Association of Voluntary Agencies for Rural Development, AVARD. His seminal works include Indian Science and Technology in the 18th Century; Civil Disobedience and Indian Tradition; The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century; and Bharatiya Chitta, Manas va Kala.
Can we speak, read, write Mother Language, Mother Tongue? Can we have access to learning through mother language? Can we preserve them? Can we preserve linguistic and cultural diversity? Can we be multi-lingual?
Bi-annual Sammakka Saralamma Jatara (Medaram Jatara) attracts 10M+ people, largest number after Kumbh Mela. The tribal warriors (goddesses and gods) who fought against Kakatiya king, Prataparudra, include Sammakka, her husband Pagididda Raju, daughter Saralamma, son-in-law Govinda Raju, son Jampanna. This year, the Jatara has was between 16-19 Feb. Medaram is some 250 km from Hyderabad.
Let us have breakfast. Good breakfast, the main meal of the day. Let us not skip it or let us not make it light. It should be balanced nutritionally. With more fruits and fibre. To be taken within an hour of waking up.
Should we have more All India Services, like India Rural Development Service, Dairy, Agriculture, etc.? Can we have some public organizations outside the purview of RTI, etc.? Should there be retirement age in governance (boards, advisory boards, committees, etc.) – can it be 70 or 75? Who should be on the Boards of Public Organizations? Definitely, professionals that meet the diverse advisory needs in line with the purpose and vision of the organizations, is it not?
How does greatness and the great person operate? By living, articulating and transferring values, purpose/mission, vision et al to others to continue after one leaves. By using good leadership (a la genius, drive, extreme hard work, communication, tenacity et al) for public benefit and larger good. By practicing high integrity. By recognizing greatness in others. By sticking to the agenda till the ‘end’, maybe till thrown out. By living on in the people they have touched, may not be so much in the institutions.
Can we capture the ‘good news’ and share? Our media? Our groups? We hear breakthrough in nuclear fusion. We hear creation of new material, stronger than steel, but as light as plastic. We hear likely breakthrough in antibiotic resistance. We understand Natural farming can be an effective carbon sequester with very low cost. Spinal cord implant could take care of ‘paralysis’ fully. Animal heart could be fitted to human being. Biodegradable surgical tape can be a gamechanger in surgery. Auto Drones can escape traffic and save lives.
Abundance of options, choices in activities, products, ideas. Content, Data, Information, Knowledge. Entertainment. We do not know how to choose. This may not be good life. More is no longer better. We need algorithm(s) to choose. Our two core resources – time and attention – are limited. More will take us to asking ourselves what is the meaning of our life often. How do we simplify all aspects of our life. Despite internal and peer resistance. We need to learn to grow out of missing new opportunity, possibility, treasure, memory, new relationship, et al, losing out an item we may need in future, clinging to a sunk cost (however large or small it may be], and so on. Can we? Can we be ok with less? Let us be sure less gives joy. Can we be ok with simple life? Let us be sure simple is joy itself. Can we be ok with present? Can we move on from the past? Can we flow in the present towards the future, rather than worrying about it? Let us walk. Let us smile. Let us laugh with abandon. Let us laugh at ourselves. Let us give. Let us give away. Let us empty our storage spaces. Let us delete all that we are not using. Let us get more space to the ones we have with us. Can we get?
Yes, we can. If we practice 3-4 values, come what. If we accept our reason for our existence, the purpose. If we try and practice having ‘less’ and being humble and ‘simple’ as a matter of habit. In the flow of N. For 7L.
Join us in the world of joyous yoga of less for useful coexistence – muulyayoga for 7L.