Navaratri ends. Vijayadasami, Dussehra, and Dasara. Culmination of Durga Puja. Ramlila. Shamipuja. Palapitta, Blue bird, and Indian roller darshanam. Alai balai.
Gokarakonda Naga Saibaba, GN Saibaba, 57, rests.
Do we want more business conglomerates? Or do we need more large federal collectives? Or more small organizations, start-ups? If we are looking for equity, inclusion, don’t we require more ‘small’, idiosyncratic, and collective enterprises?
Can we make our work speak rather than ourselves, and our organizations speaking? Can we live our values? Can we do the right things, the right way? Even if we don’t benefit directly, even if the beneficiaries don’t influence us, nor do they have the ability to do so. For this world would be a better place.
What do we take forward into the next transition, probably the longest?
A sense of purpose, meaning, focus, realizing maximum potential, happiness et al. A deep gratitude to life so far, the people who made that, the experiences. An established identity, pehchaan, credibility, solidarity group-teams, and capacities harnessable. A freedom to embrace and work towards the deepest aspirations. No fear of failure, loss, or rejection. An ongoing practice of meditation, reflection. A detached attachment, an attached detachment to engage fully, playfully with a sense of freedom and amazement. An awareness of our mental, emotional patterns and impulses, by being curiously intimate. A bonus life with already a sense of abundance, enoughness, and contentness. An intention to learn missing skills, tools, beyond structure, logic, numbers, and analytics; or beyond sensitivities, heart, or intuition; or beyond practical or conceptual. A willingness to make sacrifices of smaller goals. A determination to the journey. Fully charged vehicle(s), team(s) to journey. Our authentic true self, true spaces, and our true opinions. An unwavering faith in ourselves, and possibilities.
Can we let be, let go? Can we hybridize emotions and thoughts? Can we see weaknesses as strengths, and vice-versa, and balance them? Can we tame the demons in us through awareness, will power? Can we choose peace, when we don’t know for sure what is right? Can we have stories that are shaping us, not so much the so-called facts? Can we persist and persevere? Can we keep going forward minute-by-minute, step-by-step? Can we embrace the physical, mental, emotional, social pain, and discomfort towards our higher ends? Can we imagine the future(s), repeatedly, recurrently – in terms of or behaviours, mindsets, emotions, and emerging realities?
Can we embrace essence, transcending complexity, Dunning Kruger effect? Can we embrace unlearning? Can we get rid of toxicity, toxic people, or at least, beware of them, in all their forms, and set boundaries? Can we simplify life, spend less and consume less – food, data-information? Can we admit our faults, weaknesses? Can we delay our impulses? Can we fast, 36 hours a week? Can we let others see our blind spots and tell us? Can we do the opposite of our usual reaction(s), when we are overwhelmed? Can we speak less, but when we speak can we do it more consciously, effectively, and powerfully? Can we junk ‘passing time’ for the heck of it? Can we hurry up slowly? Can we go 100% rather than 90%, 99%? Can we be less vague and specific in committing? Can we start with the most important first? Can we go with the processes, means? Can we have a mentor(s) to be with us in our efforts? Can we cry without feeling shy, or awkward, else can we smile, keep smiling? Can we be quiet, when we have an opportunity? Can we seek joy in watching life, community colonies in situ, in being in nature, nature’s various nuances – seas, streams, hills, forests, and so on and so forth?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, flow, journey. In N? varishtayoga for 7L.
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