Sun moved North. Uttarayan, Bhogi, Sankranti, Pongal, and Kanuma. It signals more increasing sunlight availability. It signals burning out the items that we do not need. It signals being there where you are required. The world needs to know that we would be there. The world has its ways to call us. Signal us. Rope us in. We only have to be there, ready, fully prepared physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. It conspires and takes us along. Gurus would appear before us. They need to confirm your vital details. Have them ready in verifiable forms. Get going.
Hyderabad Office for Natural Farming soon. N-ways.
Sharmila is the new PCC Chief, AP. An interesting election situation in AP. A play of four pillars.
Mental health status is deteriorating. More and more cases are surfacing. More and more people are coming out, seeking medical help. However, doctors available aren’t even a quarter of the requirement. In this context, Empower trust’s Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Comprehensive Mental Health, opens a new hospital. It drops ‘mental’ from its name.
Rama gets a temple at his ‘birthplace’. Pran Pratishta is on 22 January. A new ‘destination’ has come up. It appears to improve some lives and livelihoods, maybe to a million families. It appears to grant some vote swing. Soon, Siva will find his ‘temple’ and so will Krsna. Will ‘maryada’ – dignity, respect, and right to live – return to our society? Return to all of us? Will our state guarantee this to us? Will it be justiciable? Will our culture bring and keep it going?
Increased GDP – 5 trillion Indian economy – is it our necessity and a sufficient condition for our prosperity and well-being? Is widening inequality not a concern? Can we be happy with reduced numbers of absolute poverty, defined as living below almost at survival levels? Shouldn’t we look at minimum levels of dignified living, livelihoods, and well-being for all? Aren’t we led by ‘non-productive’, not-so-productive returns on investments? returns from ‘market’ beyond essentials? Will they matter when the crunch comes? Isn’t 10% telling us how 90% of us have to live, aspire, demand, supply, etc? Shouldn’t be the other way? State pooling up and redistributing as transfers for ‘welfare’ – is it fine? Why can’t we have more decentralized local ways? Why can’t we democratize? Why can’t we have small units of governance with maximum stretched flexibility, autonomy and freedom? A village level, and a subdistrict level? Why can’t we be local and small? Small-scale is less harmful to nature, and is recuperative. Smallness is less dehumanizing, less disconnected. Smallness keeps the body, heart, mind, and soul going. Can we be small? Can we have many of us coexisting? Can we be in small groups, teams, associations, societies, cooperatives, and maybe networked severally? Can we coexist in steel frames, bureaucratic regimes with millions of them together following a ‘ritual’, or ‘strand’? Isn’t it anti-nature?
How do we work and live, without taking remuneration? Can we have alternative ways? Can we try them? Is it a way in our third-fourth transitions? Can it be a way?
ASER study tells us about 14-18 years: about 90% of their houses have smartphones. Majority students are going for Arts and Humanities. Importantly, the majority cannot do class 3 maths, reading and writing. They may not understand the meaning of what they read, and write. They are not able to work with ‘time’, money, measurements, etc. No big difference here between the boys and girls. Can we do something here? Can we listen to the music and rhythm of the universe? Can we dance with this? Can we draw ourselves into our inner journeys? Can we work on our ways, flows on hope, faith, promise, love and coexistence? Can we build up ourselves participatorily, inclusively, collectively, and together severally?
Yes, we can. We are our strength. Life-skill-less us are our weakness. If we join in the movement of building ourselves, and our agency. If we coexist. In the flow of N. For 7L.
Join us in the yoga; in the habit of nudging ahead, readiness, in nature and people – udyamayayoga for 7L.
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