Shree: Imagination/ feelings

 010422: Shree: Imagination/ feelings

Thinking and resolving and putting things as patterns or philosophy is abstract and good in terms of getting clarity of things – as variables and as non motion. Something that is said to be perceived is visible for the senses and we ourselves become visible as mind-body (or the result of vibrations). Visibility or perception is a dimension of existence – perception being the grossest or the heaviest or the least subtle. We imagine motion and hence “see” things around us and think about ourselves. This reality can be changed to go to forces, then vibrations and then only consciousness. With each change in perception; reality (or visibility) changes. So we are currently witnessing a picture of consciousness as different forms. Then we will see something else and finally we become consciousness Itself. So mind projects reality or mind is equal to a state of reality.

Since everything changes, we know that worry and clinging to an idea is not required to define our worth or identity. Being anything and perceiving anything and responding does not define the ultimate existence of consciousness – which is also what we are. Hence, internal feelings in a way, need not be dependent on any situation. Rather, as motion, situation = feelings = forms (all interconnected). What I say as feelings gets expressed as some “form” out there and what form I “see” generates a “feeling” within me. Thus, any form is a container of feeling that gets generated in me and vice versa. People may make a mistake in assuming that objects or forms are distinct or they have an independent existence of their own. Well, this is not the case. As long as we create feelings, we see the forms. If we do not create anything (or if we go beyond vibrations or desires); then there are no forms or forces or manifestation of any kind. Thus, was there really anything present?!

Secondly this also means that what is to be resolved with respect to my or anybody’s past; or for that matter anybody’s future? I would not know the absolute authentic feeling of any person or any situation, since I would be seeing it from my own lens. My own lens too is variable and changing, so what kind of security or permanence am I expecting from it?! Even if I came to know the authentic situation, it still represents “incompleteness” and a “changing” dimension of reality, so why be worried about anything? In general, worry is unnecessary since the entire mechanism is of imagination.

Whatever we perceive or in whatever form we feel existence, is coming by the presence of consciousness. Thus consciousness is the ultimate reality to become. It is the primary Source of everything. Money or security or flat or property or relationships are only imaginations that we cling to – there is nothing contained in those imaginations in a sense that they do not help us to reveal our true nature. In other words, trust existence and know that things happen for good and whatever the situation that gets perceived – is always a message to transcend.

In all this analysis, one is required to remain calm, composed, focused and unconditional along the way.

Hari Om. 

Shree

 

Shree

The whole life as we construct it; is an imagination - or a reality that has been created by us. We too are changing constructs that perceive situations and hence there is not much point trying to resolve anything or to consider any problem with life. this means that the focus should shift from outside control to controlling vibrations and to concentrate on those aspects of existence that lead us to go beyond. this means that unnecessary talking or complain or worry or fear - none is expected to be imagined. All is imagination - including separations and fears and changes and forces and forms.  And then by ego, we define our identity based on these constructs. I do not own anything - not even any constructs and whatever I perceive or I have or is given or happens, is by the presence of God. Things happen and I accept those. There maybe fate or patterns or newness or now - there maybe a point or a fabric or a sequence or anything - but I must see God and become  the One. God makes and creates all constructs and I see only a part of the picture. So, start by remembering Him and doing everything for Him and becoming unconditional and non judgmental.  Situations are what they are; parents are what they are; wife is what she is; friends are what they are; boss is what he is; I am what I am; and so on - all imagination and all motion and all is a construct covering the Absolute or i seeing the Absolute in this manner. I am not the space or the time or the pace or the past or the future or anything.  I remember Him and I do not require any intent or a build up to see Him. He is and that is all. He is and there is no explanation or justification. He is and there is a world. He is absolute and there is motion or imagination.

I am.

Hari Om.

Shree: Existence - irrespective of anything

300322: Shree: Existence - irrespective of anything

Mind is a signal or an indicator of existence. Every moment is an indication of "existence" by default; by eternal meaning; beyond everything; divine. We have come to this world by concentrating on vibrations (which we treat it a real) leading to  forces and visible forms and their changes and interconnections. this will compel us to respond and will cause upheaval; make us feel painful; make us feel incomplete; or impermanent and so on. this feeling depends on nothing but on what and how we create signals (this "we" is also a construct out of the same phenomenon of existence). Despite whatever the outside manifestation appearing to us and however best we plan and choose to respond and take decisions, things will still appear incomplete and frightening and severely doubtful at times. All these are signals to be observed and to take us closer to God, I would like to believe. that does not absolve me from any pain whatever it is due for my part or any change that I should face or any fear i ought to address. My doing anything or not doing anything is immaterial for existence. And I do not ask for anything and my remembering God is not an answer to anything or coming from any purpose. God is.

in other words this means that how i ought to exist (as signals, forms, forces, vibrations, perceptions) is immaterial of anything but only exists as a state of mind. I vibrate, so I become motion and am born as human being and experience life as a human being is supposed to.  then i treat everything "real" and the engagement begins; the cycles are created and action continues and a momentum is set.  To think of it; there is nothing to be resolved, because the entire thing is an imagination (which is extremely abstract). In fact the whole life itself is abstract and full of imagination and hence what is there to be entangled with or attached with or to resolve or to be feared? What is mind or body or senses? Why should I worry or be bothered about such signals and respond to them? Why such compulsion? Why such expectation to evaluate regarding "survival"?

there is no question of perfection at all - All there is ; is only peace and bliss. And I exist irrespective of anything and I am beyond any motion or form or vibration or manifestation.

I am.

Hari Om.

290322: Shree: Trust Existence

 

290322: Shree: Trust Existence

Trust God. Taking a Name of God means to concentrate on the self – as a construct. By concentrating on the self, one concentrates on the entire world and the vibrations diminish to reveal consciousness. This means that everything is, in fact, only consciousness that appears as motion or manifestation or movement or particles or forms and forces that keep changing. This is an illusion that is to be accepted without any intent or purpose - but knowing that it is all a part of Nature and hence need not be disturbed or altered in any way. By becoming still, the vibrations dissolve. Dissolution is a state of being that is brought into focus and reality. What I am is also a reality of existence – what I see as forms is also out of constructed reality and what I can see as consciousness is also a reality or the Absolute Truth.

Secondly how things work or seem connected in certain ways is all mysterious and can be trusted. There are things that are connected even without our immediate existential knowledge and how one thing affects the other may be understood as something complex or as something inherent in the nature of existence. Connection means any kind of parameter of space connected with any parameter of time. Thus, it appears that past was in a particular way and future will be in particular way but that does not come in the way of us becoming unconditional, pure, simple and full of love irrespective of our position of existence. God is already there and within us. It only requires realization, which can happen from any “point”, since all points are different expressions of the One. Realization is a process particular to each situation (person) and hence all meanings of realization are required to be discovered by the person – it is bound to be a unique experience of challenge and revelations.

Hari Om.

280322: Shree: Gratitude

 

280322: Shree: Gratitude

this is about inspiration. everyday i remember God - that there is always an intent behind everything - a medium around which all manifested things happen. If we consider manifestation as a wheel then consciousness is an anchor or a lever around which the wheel spins. tis means that the wheel does not do anything on its own - but the lever makes it take on a form and starts the spin. So there is always a transcendental intent about our actions and the requirement from our stand point is of "trust" in thought, actions and manifestations.

this again introduces the concept of complimenting all "different" forces of manifestations.  All events in space and time (and their causes and effects) compliment each other and hence there is no isolation between any event  -all is interconnected. this means that things happen for a reason; we perceive it for a reason; people respond in a particular reason; actions and outputs and their perceptions again happen in particular reasons - which NEED not be complained or questioned. We see only a part of the picture, so whatever we perceive is only a part of the chain of events and hence our inferences are not absolute. At other levels, people will say things (intimate) to you when the time comes and you should be glad whenever they say it. You will be presented with an opportunity of again saying certain things to certain people and you should be glad about the same. Whatever moment of existence, it can be considered with gratitude for what it is allowing you to do; how it is showing you perception towards pain or sorrow or happiness or bliss and how it is letting you respond and in what ways.  We need not fight; need not struggle; need not worry unnecessarily. Silently, consistently a prayer to God should be conveyed to thank Him for the gift of life.

the point is of gratitude, revelation, letting, offer and non judgmental approach. Everything happens for good reason and one must thank God for Him and our role in it. This is fundamental. This means why things happen in particular ways and forms and what it means  - can be accepted with full awareness and gratitude to God.

Hari Om.

Shree: Compliementary

 

270322: Shree: Compliementary

For many things we need not have an answer to give us a feeling of permanence. In other words, permanence and bliss are independent of any situation or a position of existence and can be attained by all. Probably for anything this approach may also work, for we are only constructs that are formed or imagined as vibrations, thoughts and form. Each of this is real – whatever we imagine is real and hence it is important that all states are considered as valid forms of engagement to work with. No one is required to question why a particular person exhibits a particular tendency - of body or mind or of something else. Things just appear so and it is better to accept everything with neutral non judgmental attitude.

Perceiving things differently should not become a problem to us and we need not try to iron out the differences. Changes and differences and conditions and causes and effects are inevitable part of motion or manifestation and there is nothing personal about it. Since the picture itself is incomplete (as we imagine as being incomplete phenomenon ourselves), why should we worry about getting answers or demanding evaluations and judgments? Anything that expresses as manifestation or a movement is incomplete or moving or changing – all this movement takes place in a permanent and a non changing canvas called God. So God contains all movements and is the primary cause of everything. Whatever one imagines, or thinks or works or acts or perceives – is indicating God. Separation is an illusion and there is a cause for everything behind what we see or how we work is always for the good.

We are worried about defining a position and we construct egos and define actions and self validate them – whereas “we” is a construct in the first place. There is God; hence there is a construct of any kind. I may be worried about time spent well or productive or a correct pace or to think this or to think that or to be engaged in this manner or that manner or to give sufficient time to all; to convince all; to be loveable; to be cared for; to not appear something and to worry about what people say and why did they say certain things – meaning we look for self approval from outside. Whatever we are thinking and evaluating is incomplete and represents an unclear picture – something no one can vouch and hence there is no need to worry and spend time in explanation or fine tuning or refining.  I imagine some past (any event) or I imagine the future – all takes place as a thought and there is no reason to feel any negative feeling because of that. My position is complimentary to everything else as motion and non motion. This is a step in evolution.

All things are complimenting each other and the sum total of everything is constant or the same or non movement. For every tendency of a person; for every situation; for every thought; for every possible imagination – there is a place of existence and validity and it not for us to judge anything or evaluate anything, since the whole exercise itself is of sport. God is real and all else is an illusion that we have created. All comes from illusion of separation or tendency of vibration, which is also fine. But know it and accept it.

So become unconditional and fearless. I am not the manifestation but the eternal spirit. I am the One. I exist. I am.

Hari Om.

Shree: Construct

 

260322: Shree: Construct

Guilt (or any constructed feeling) can consume one and one starts to identify with that feeling. The issue is that a particular context based on space and time for considerable span of change constructs this mindscape or character or a personality that one clings to (which is a combination of ambiguousness and what is clear so far). This is the ego which compels one to keep expressing something.  Any given moment of manifestation in space and time does not offer one a clear picture of permanence and hence that leads to expectations and frustrations and desires. WE take on the form from vibrations or movement leading to forms of manifestation (mind and body). What we consider a situation that we perceive through our senses is only a manifestation in a visible form and nothing absolute. We think that our feelings can be expressed, communicated and acknowledged well by others if we use the correct words. However, words are also perceived and read differently by others since their mental constructs are unique to them. Hence we will most often be misunderstood or perceived only with reference to different frames unique to the individuals. This leads to arguments, discussions, debates and pain perhaps. You imagine any sort of action to rectify a situation and it leads to cycles of engagement eternally without any rest. Then one starts to think if we are doing anything wrong and we remain unsatisfied and keep running again after imaginations of perfect situations (or peaceful living). What we fear is actually death – or a loss and our entire effort is to restrict this inevitability. Things change and they are not in anyone’s hands. Change is fundamental and it represents an incomplete picture and it baffles us.   

The question is why should one even say something to evaluate oneself or subject to judgment? Is there any such need and is there any such self talk happening and if yes, then why it should happen? Yes there is a dilemma of separation and the need to connect beyond constructs and speaking the unwritten code of consciousness. This dilemma itself will make one realize the imagination at play and imagination itself is changing and conditional and gives an impression of separation. WE can come out of this and become the One. The need to think, then to express and then to judge or evaluate stems from fear or ego or attachment or separation. I think, so I tend to relate to manifestation and then I use words to reinforce that connection. Thus, either one need not think, so there would not be any relation with motion or one can think or vibrate to reveal God Himself.

Existence is by default. Concentration or construction of a reality is the nature of existence. What do you wish to concentrate on? My evaluation does not depend on anything, neither whatever I think or say or whatever situation compels me to think or do. I am independent of any manifestation and this independence is unconditional and beyond space and time. I only am and there is no description in this state. I do not need to do anything or think anything or say anything or act on anything to become blissful. The manifestation is the context that one should learn to transcend and become unconditional. There is manifestation that I have constructed and hence I should transcend it to realize that it was a dream.

Thus let go of everything and do not worry of space or time or effects or vibrations or incompleteness or change or response or anything. This is a reality and accept it as divine. There is nothing to be changed or complained about. Be still and only observe and accept with gratitude. God is the only One and the only Doer with unconditional love. Respond with pure love, trust, simplicity and calmness. These traits can be built by being unconditional.

Hari Om.

Shree: Concentration

 

250322: Shree: Concentration

the issue is of concentration - what does one choose to concentrate on? Mind is concentration or the capacity to concentrate on some issues over everything else. hence it is always about becoming. Mind exists eternally in some form - either as movement or as non motion. the fundamental reality is about becoming aware of this capacity to "create" something from non motion into vibrations + forces + forms. Forms are perceived and they consist of consciousness - except they do not appear so because we have created vibrations and we ourselves dwell into the same dimension of existence.  Is God different? Answer is "yes" with respect to the nature of perception where God lies beyond everything. Answer is "no" since the transformation has happened in imagination and NOT in consciousness as a medium of existence. A medium called God or consciousness can contain any vibrations leading to forms or perceptions or movement or manifestation. Hence all creation is essentially divine and this needs to be accepted with gratitude. This means that one stops asking "why" about the unfolding of events and one accepts things as they are.

thus what do we concentrate on? why can't we perceive God? Because we do not listen to His voice and we are consumed by self created demands of situations - as if our entire survival or sense of identity depends on this conditional existence. This equation has to be broken. God is unconditional and unless we become that state, we cannot perceive (or become) God.

what stops us from becoming a state of existence? Nothing but we ourselves. God's doors are always open - but we do not concentrate our attention there. First we need to realize that there is a door. Then we need to begin the search for finding the correct door, despite whatever compulsions of living may be stored for us. Then we need to request that the door should open. And then, we enter the door of God's abode.  This is a journey. unless all compulsions are surrendered, one cannot go near to the door of God. it is NOT compulsory to respond to anything in life (as a situation). The compulsion is felt because we are conditioned and we consider us separate from others or the situation itself.  If there is no separation of any kind, then there is no need to act in the hope of reciprocation and that is called as the unconditional state of being. This needs to be practiced every moment and hopefully we would definitely become God.

Hari Om.

Shree: Existence

 

240322: Shree: Existence

Existence is by default. In existence, one exists as non movement or movement – either as consciousness or as manifestation, but one exists in one of these ways eternally. This means that I will continue to do the same things, think in the same way, feel in the same way and again repeat the same cycles of engagement for million lives ahead unless I become consciousness. That brings a perspective to the actions that one initiates and from what intent. The situations, relationships and the entire nature of space and time fabric is changing forever and is impermanent hence why should actions be based catering to such changing perceptions or vibrations?

This will lead one to define what should be therefore the nature of engagement and why are we here in the first place? This will lead to further question of who we are and finally to realization that we are essentially divine and the making of situations is our own doing and the compulsion to stay connected by ego or attachment or identity or perception or imagination or vibration leading to mind-body phenomenon. No one is saying to do this or to go here and to listen to this or respect that or evaluate this or judge this or sit here or sing there. It is I alone who decides to do this and create this imagination. It is again I alone, who can become consciousness.

Existence is about becoming. Vibrations leading to forces and forms can be real if believed so. Consciousness or God can be real if believed so and concentrated on. God is not an idea or an object – it is a state of existence – the absolute, unconditional, blissful and not relying on any movement for its presence. It is complete in Itself. Hence it is Pure Knowledge – Pure Existence – Pure Bliss. Any knowledge which is understood (in the manifested world) is based on the object and subject binary. It is expected that the subject transforms by knowing he object. In case of God, the idea or the object is such, that it should transform the self to become God - meaning dissolving the knower as mind-body or dissolving the movement – dissolving the attachment – dissolving the conditions of any kind – dissolving binaries and cause and effect – dissolving space and time fabric – dissolving perceptions of any kind – dissolving manifestation.

Thus dissolving also means to renounce a limited outlook and expanding to infinity. Infinity means it is too small to grasp and too large to contain (so one cannot find any start point at all – it is everywhere). Infinity also means that it has no time beginning or time end – so it is eternal. Infinity means any vibration or force or form cannot contain It. No binary can describe It, no cause-effect can explain It. Therefore it becomes Infinite from all perspectives.

At a real position that we are existing, the most important ability we have is to “concentrate” and bring something to existence. At any moment we are focusing on something and forgetting something else. So what do we wish to concentrate on? Is it bread? Or situation? Or God?

Hari Om.

230322: Shree: Words

 230322: Shree: Words

It is not so easy to predict when a particular thought is to be expressed in what manner and where and to whom (which means that responses taking place in space and time fabric are variable and unpredictable). We may think that we know exactly what is supposed to be said and we have perceived the situation accurately and if we say it in this particular manner to this influential person, then we are assured of the result - may be practical or cultural or psychological.

the more subtle the dimension (psychological), more is the ambiguity or relativity and more is the unpredictability of what has been said and what was supposed to happen. how should one therefore view this phenomenon?

there are things to be accepted. firstly all visible manifestation (or perception) is variable, relative and changing and incidental. we are also manifested phenomenon coming from the potential of consciousness to take a particular "form" called as human being. in fact the word "human being" also is not absolute but only a construct! Construct by whom? Of course, the Almighty! The Almighty creates this illusion of manifestation - so all creation is vibration or movement or oscillation of some kind to perceive a tangible form that obviously changes. And as creation occurs, the memory of consciousness is forgotten since the perception becomes informed by illusion itself or by motion itself.  This forms the basis of separation, fear, expectation, attachment, ego and a feeling of incompleteness.

As this is being said, it may appear as an abstract equation but in reality, there is also no point in saying anything as an equation of cause and effect. That does not mean that things are hopelessly out of control. On the contrary, things happen by a thought and that is the magical property of consciousness - to keep becoming some form and to dissolve it eventually. This has to be accepted without any purpose or complaints - creation is without any intent - it just is as an aspect of existence, eternal, having no beginning and an end and regardless of "where" or "what" is our position of existence or the form of existence, it is possible to still become God by transcending or renouncing everything and becoming unconditional.

Thus be assured that God is. We are incidental. hence things happen for good. We may say anything with deepest regards for outcomes and to people in some chosen moments with known feeling of uneasiness and that is all ok. One need not worry about the impact and response and outcomes - in any case they happen and which are not to be in anyone's control since the primary cause of everything is God Himself so trust God for everything. He has a plan and there is manifestation that appears in bewildering ways. Say things with pure, unconditional heart remembering only God, so no worry will ever surface in your imagination.

Hari Om.

Shree: Nourishment

Shree: Nourishment

Every environment from personal (mindscape) to collective offers nourishment for the mind – what signals it perceives, how it decodes and what it decides to propose as action and finally how it engages. Reality in a nut shell may be seen as mindscape and nothing else more than that. So whatever one perceives as good or bad in any situation “out there” is actually within one self. Remove the dirt within and there will not be any measure of the same outside.

The other day at home, we were discussing issues of elders and what can be done to address their issues – socially, culturally perhaps and architecturally.

I was reminded of an experience of Vancouver. Situation of Vancouver has come to a point which can be stated as everyone is an island – routine is extremely individually driven; planning for numerous activities is different and unique for each individual; there are billion “tasks” that one is engaged with since there seems no one to rely on for “sharing” of any activities. Our personal activity or bucket list itself is overflowing to an extent that nothing can be said or offloaded or shared or contemplated with anyone else and this creates a permanent self absorption or occupation with tasks and the anxiety if something gets missed. There may be many people physically, but mentally each one is a closed bounded mindscape. The entry to this mindscape of the individual is tightly guarded and what goes within does not come out and what happens “out” (which is not of any collective concern anyway as the situation is) – is interpreted very individualistically by each person. This brings a fundamental equation that shared spaces “outside” (regarding values, environment, culture, society) also indicates shared spaces “inside”. If the spaces “inside” each person talks of individual world views, then there is no place left for any common shared collective space of any kind – the “outside” has permanently become fractured! This means what one is saying is continuously subjected to logic, discussion, debate, arguments, evaluations but NOT necessarily compassion or empathy (that goes beyond individual identity and encompasses the collective).

Any field - say architecture, archaeology, engineering is supposed to respond (also) to the collective and not just the individual. Irony is that this has to be explicit agenda nowadays, else the output is expressed in terms of some mundane desires or by some whims and fancies of people in positions of power and that itself does not say much of the society at large.

Coming back to nourishment, what are the values that the society is practicing? A few centuries ago, we had expressions of ideograms that took generations to form (YinYan or the Dharmachakra as examples) and this concept of collective ideogram would now appear too remote perhaps.

If a kid is subjected to mass of people who have created their own islands of aspirations throughout his/her life – what character will he/she grow up in? Is there anybody “available” emotionally or psychologically for his/her nourishment of mental health or is he/she left out to fend for himself/ herself and make numerous choices and be consumed by overflowing bucket lists for his/her entire lifetime? Is life only an unending rounds of bucket lists or “to-do” lists? Look at the environment around us. Signages, surveillance systems, AIs, sterilized environments, packed busy routines, hyper anxieties, mechanized envelopes or architectural volumes, environmental degradation – does not it say anything about our internal mindscape?

The Government promises its elderly population that they need not “worry” and stay in government managed and paid Old Age Homes (in any case taxes have already been recovered long time back by the government from the same person when he/she was in a position to work). Does this “solve” the problem of loneliness and empathy for the elders? By giving all facilities and having best maintenance facilities and descent architectural environments – does the problem of mindscape get addressed in such individualistic societies when the upbringing of people have been groomed in a certain way wherein the idea or the need of empathy has just been lost? Too tragic, to put it in one way.

Feelings and understanding and acceptance – these dimensions of the mind require a certain kind of interaction and environment to develop and these are very important aspects of human being of any gender and age. Certain societies offer this nourishment more than other societies, it seems. This also has relationship with density, climate/ weather and geographical location on the globe. Certain dimensions of the mind introspect, they dwell on one idea or a set of ideas, they contemplate, they laterally take inspiration from other sources and they too face dilemmas and they need time to “sort themselves” again. Certain thoughts expand to encompass the total environment and the rate of change when encompassing this scale of perception is slow. Are we conscious of what is being created as a mindscape in the environment in which we live and perceive? Are we conscious of the relationship of mindscape with the landscape?  

Busyness and multitasking and extremely packed routine isn’t something to be celebrated, if it ends up mistrusting and abusing the self and people and environment.

The question needs to be taken still deep down till we come face to face with what we are as phenomenon. First of all, I am a human being and I don’t have answers to everything. Then there is something called as doing a thing beyond a limited purpose without any apparent reason (to remain unconditional). There is something called as vibrations that make up our mind and body. What we consider as life, is an imagination that is brought into existence by being identified with movement or vibrations. Imagination itself is reality and this changes. There is no such thing as control or expectations or what can be done to arrive at a perfect situation and hence any system has constraints with a lot of dependence on changes. Despite this reality, the presence of divinity is real and which we too have a seed of this dimension. I am made of divine unconditional medium of eternal existence and hence I will eventually dissolve (and rightly so).

This understanding does not develop overnight and perhaps not in one lifetime. How it develops and when is a mystery. The idea is that external control of any kind (or any attachment and resistance of change and any perception) has no concrete answers in terms of routine or fulfillment of desires. What and why do we run and should we in fact be running at all? And by running what are we achieving and is that permanently attained? All these are questions to be dealt with and that also comfortably without any guilt or regret or fear.

There is no greater reality than that of divine presence in us and life. I may not be anybody and the world may not know me at all and my actions may appear extremely foolish to many, but I cannot forget God and accept the fact that HE is the One and the only reality – all else is only incidentally an effect of His presence. We do not know the entire story neither the trigger for this illusion, but He is real and He is to be trusted for everything that happens in our lives and to us.

Hari Om.

220322: Shree: Emptying the mind

 

220322: Shree: Emptying the mind

Let things happen. How they appear and what they mean and why they appear in particular ways may not disturb you. They appear in some ways and the appearance of the same and the compulsion to respond to them is our own making - our own imagination. We imagine, these cause vibrations and that leads to forms of existence. The start point in this process is NOT “we” but something else – the eternal existence and property of consciousness beyond manifestation which can contain all vibrations to create the universe (we being one component). Thus for a manifested being in the form of mind and body, the journey is to go back to the Source or to come out of manifestation (of any kind that appears as layers of forces and forms) and become the One. The One appears as many depending our own mindscape. Thus the mindscape creates reality for us OR the mind itself is the reality. Change the mind and the reality changes accordingly. Hence whatever we perceive is a reflection of our own internal self; our own fabric. If the mind becomes empty of all vibrations or becomes unconditional or concentrates – then it becomes consciousness. Here the mind is referred as the attractor and reflector of many signals. This property is forever. To become consciousness then, the mind should transform itself to attract and reflect consciousness. Simple?

Hari Om.

Shree: For a good reason

210322: Shree: For a good reason

We live in the world of visible or tangible or perceivable manifestation. The construct of “I” or the ego is dependent on perception caused by vibrations (mind and body being the states of vibrations). I perceive a changing state of existence, with many forces and forms - and all this based on what and how I perceive things. “I” – this is a subjective and a relative and incidental construct and one may say that I do this or feel that or think in this manner and need to plan this or do this or express any of dimensions of existence – but essentially it is all apparent and I am not the initiator or the cause or the effect but only a conduit. It is all noise in fact. And it is all imagination stemming from vibrations (or desires or incompleteness or separation or fear or the pull of motion and so on). There is I; there is vibration; there is a force; there is a form – all is “I”. Vibrations, forces, forms are taking place in the medium of consciousness and the moment there is any thought or desire  - there is a physical vibration that appears as force and then as form. Thus all of manifestation can be said as a thought or imagination in consciousness that appears as “many” and then we call that tendency or character or behavior or physical forms of change.

In this manifestation, we do not have all answers neither we can comprehend the entire picture. We then think whether it is all a matter of choice or is there some fate behind this and so on. This may be our attempt of understanding who we are and is also an urge to control existence or the feeling of impermanence. If impermanence scares you, then you will continue to vibrate and create situations. The point is to dissolve all vibrations so nothing erupts from within, so nothing is perceived outside.

A person who is silent for some time then chooses to “say” something in some words and then “we” perceive those words and respond. Several questions arise here – who is saying? What forced that person to say something? Where is this thought coming from and why? Who is hearing? Where do those words go and how are they heard? What gets perceived within? Why do we respond? So it seems to be a game of vibrations that we hold on to and we think our identity (so called) is dependent on the changes that take place in the world of motion. So we expect this, think in particular ways, do something, run there, read this, listen to that, marry someone, have kids, get a job, compete, and so on. Why the hell are we doing this over and over again?

This is the crux of the issue – what compels us to do something? And why? This is not easy to answer since the cause of such impulse is beyond the hold of the intellect. Yet, we can reach there – which means we have to transform to reach that state of impulse. And go beyond impulse to become the One. With each encounter of subtle state, a transformation occurs within. A process of “becoming” takes place and finally one becomes the One. Mind creates reality – either of world or of consciousness. Both are very real, except one says that consciousness is the primary cause of everything and has the highest potential – hence should always be remembered and concentrated on. In this, it is accepted that I have no answers to a lot of things and whatever I am imagining is also coming from God Himself and whatever I am imagining is only that – an imagination (and not absolute) and hence the cause of everything of existence is God; not me. So everything happens for a good reason, we may not know things for good reason; certain things come our way for a good reason; certain things happen easily and others don’t for a good reason; things happen when they have to for a good reason; we are misunderstood for a good reason; others may agree to what we say for a good reason; nothing may seem to materialize for a good reason and we may not know answers for a good reason and the future may not be worth contemplating on for a good reason. Whatever it is – is always for a good reason – it is just that we have to trust existence unconditionally and live unconditionally.

Hari Om.

                                                                                    

Shree: Doing “something”

 

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In gardens, nature is manicured to adhere to our image of what It should be! Similarly we train dogs and cats so they obey us (as per our expectations and not be spontaneous and create nuisance!). I see the same approach even for toddlers that they are supposed to ask, wait, seek, approve, and not to cry and whine when they “feel” like it! Everything has to be ordered (it sounds more like a command), sanitized, sterilized, and mute – only to respond when we ask something (and that too respond in terms of our definition!!).

How frighteningly insane! And that is what we actually do. We expect things to happen in certain ways; at certain frequencies; in certain order, in certain intensity; in certain manner! We expect vibrations to erupt in certain ways – how unrealistic is that assumption! And hence the annoyance and stress that follow!

The basis of this assumption lies in ego, to which we cling with all our might. This also means we think we are independent and we are the mind and body and we hold extremely hard to perception and resist any kind of change or deviation. Alas we are all fighting a lost battle!

Anyway, a battle is perceived if we consider separated from the rest. Our perceptions of mind and body (vibrations) and the constructs of “me” and “you” and past and future are all limitations that we need to outgrow. We perceive life, birth and death and again that itself is a limitation and behave as if something ought to be done to stop death, which again is impossible. Everyone knows this, but no one seems to admit it openly and no one also seems to realize what it means to perceive a given moment in such a case!

We were never born and we never die. We are spirits and can become unconditional if a presence of consciousness is realized that is not bounded by space and time. We are from the same Source and hence we can become divine and essentially everything in fact is divine. It is because we look at manifestation from the angle of perception that we cling to such imaginations! Imagination itself means the making of vibrations – forces – forms in the medium of consciousness. Hence if we desire something (which we always do based on our mind and body signals), we encounter birth and death – else there wasn’t supposed to be any movement.

So consciousness is independent of anything and exists immaterial to whatever happens in the world of illusions or imaginations. It is “we”, who require undoing imaginations and renouncing everything. We aren’t anything absolute and hence all imaginations are superficial to the grand truth of the One. If everything is One, then will you ever touch it or change it or modify it or expect anything from it or evaluate it or justify it? THIS means that the Thing is Sacred and beyond laws of motion.

Thus why is our engagement even required to create something or prove something or achieve something?

Hari Om.

Shree: Nothing personal

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Thoughts lead to a variety of realities. Thoughts are vibrations – a form of God or existence and essentially having a divine, unconditional, non judgmental quality. Body too is a form of vibration and visibility of any kind is also vibration of a different state. I perceive existence in some form of movement itself indicates a state of existence or a state of vibrations that remain interdependent on variables and which change with space and time. I am not the absolute reality, since I am only a construct defined by rounds of birth and death and since I am only apparent, so is everything else in this world of forces and forms. It is wrong to say that I ought to control events, whereas the situation is that I cannot even control my own self! We do not have any independent existence and the assumption of safeguarding independence causes a lot of stress and burden. To assume an independent stance creates friction and to become unconditional is the best antidote to this friction.

The main point, how much ever stressful it may seem as a form of resistance, is to know the mind. All knowledge is the mind itself and all absolute knowledge is transcending the mind. People call something of “fate” or of “choice” whereas the reality is not contained entirely by either and there might also be a ‘third’ in this binary. In other words, one never knows the complete picture of existence at any instant and to describe, evaluate or defend one’s position, we use such terms as “fate” or “choice”. Is my behavior an act of fate or by conscious choice?...one may be interested to dwell on this question for some time (nothing wrong in this) and one may even drop the question all together or transcend it all together (all a part of evolution I guess). The motive behind perception is either of defense or of transcendence. I set a routine, so I perceive order and I express my existence/ ego OR I have a routine, so I transcend all purposes. Therefore all relationships or situations or words (such as USA or India) may be used to defend one’s identity or to transcend one’s self.

What one says to whom and why and how and when may become an immaterial question and that is when freedom dawns. The freedom that there wasn’t really anything such as a situation and its intended or expected response and there was nobody out there to critique us and that incompleteness was a part of evolution itself and nothing absolutely true and all motions or manifestations and tendencies and voices and concerns and behaviors are signs of vibrations (a form of existence different from consciousness). So it was not personal at all.

Hari Om

Shree: Gap

 

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A gap in manifestation is consciousness. Gap means a space between any two units of vibrations. Vibrations are “felt” continuously because the gap is minimized hence the space of consciousness is not felt when we are living – what we express are only the changing vibrations that result in existence or creation of force and form. This means that the gap needs to be maximized – meaning that vibrations are required to be diluted or spaced apart or dissolved – they are not supposed to erupt. This would eventually dilute all forces and forms and then there is no manifestation but only the One.

Why does eruption happen? We have no answer for this. We only know the feeling of being in existence. But just as vibration is a state of reality that we have brought to existence, so also the state of consciousness can be brought to reality. Actually, motion is a shadow of the absolute truth of non motion – what is happening is only a movie played against the canvas of consciousness. Because we are separated from God, a motion is created and manifestation happens. We feel manifestation - this is an indication that we haven’t yet reached the state of consciousness.

Thus, there is nothing apart from consciousness – the One. The perception of “many” is an illusion; the perception of “movement” or “life” or perception itself is an illusion.

There is only One, infinite, eternal, unchanging, unconditional reality.

Hari Om.

Shree: I am

 

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The practice and approach and the perception intended is only to exist blissfully and unconditionally going beyond situations or demands of motion (space and time). Today, right now, I may feel why do I write and continue to write when something urgent (?) may be waiting to happen (?). This self talk is not required or is unnecessary.

In my profession, there are many things that I may think I should master and control – from climate to mind to landscape to feelings to thoughts to building to culture to history to intellect to academics to practice to materials to relationships to people to site to water to soil to other disciplines. This seems overwhelming and is a sure sign of inferiority complex if an expectation of control is continued. Either one goes into a shell or fights this inferiority feeling by being loud and egoistic. Thus the question is “why” and “how” does inferiority complex set in and that is related with construct of ego and attachment which in turn is all about vibrations and phenomenon of existence. This journey may start to make me see things as they appear and the making of our own constructs and to accept that all things happen for good; all things have a divine message and all things will happen rightfully when the time comes. There is no need to compare or run or hurry or be loud or suppress or to take a stand – it was never about survival or evaluation or justification or complaint or anything.

I exist irrespective of anything and I am consciousness irrespective of changes that one feels or perceives or undergoes in mind and body or anywhere at any time and at any rate. There may be some thought behind existence and maybe a formation of causes and effects and maybe an urge to control or perceive and then to renounce. There may be lot of things and there may be a motion. There may be a manifestation and there may be stillness too.

I see the setting Sun and any moment and ingredients in this equation of space and time (sun, evening, orange, sky, birds, me, silence) are there as witness and for which I only am.

All things are beautiful and are God whether one says as morning sun or the hot afternoon sun or the evening warm setting sun. All things of motion are beautiful – whether urgency or pause or huge or small or sophisticated or simple.

I am. There are things that get created, other things get dissolved, some of those get transformed and in any of this chain of events, I am. Things are things – happening. Let them. Let existence be.

Why should I feel lonely about anything and for what and whom? I am. All motion is just happening and I still am.

Hari Om.

Shree: Learning from family

180322: Shree: Learning from family

Many things in life need to be observed and accepted without any conditions or judgments – a kind of calmness and a quality of compassion may arise from this tendency. Compassion perhaps then means a perspective to remain non judgmental and to realize that human beings are subjected to tendencies of “vibrations” that surface as perceptions and responses and to which we expect certain control and thereby causing pain or pleasure. Are these tendencies right or wrong is a question that is supposed to be surpassed, since holding on to the question itself indicates an expectation from us to have situations in a certain way; in certain frequencies and in certain character. We aren’t the doer of anything and it is the presence of consciousness that generates this motion and dynamics of change. So there is no right or wrong in any manifestation – it is divine by its cause and effect.

My mother cannot talk clearly because of Parkinson and she requires assistance at all times by everyone at organic times and for anything. Why should I feel pain for this? At one end I know I am helpless to do anything or to even stop the condition – but it is a clear expectation on my part to make life comfortable for myself and at the same time an indication of attachment. This is selfish no doubt in one dimension, but it may also be a lesson to be learnt for me. But if I let her be as she is then I do not expect anything and I remain calm, since it is a phenomenon where nobody is responsible but a phenomenon in itself which keeps changing to some eventuality, within which also the journey is unique to her and me (as manifestations). So the greatest love will be to let things happen the way they do without any purposeful interference or any compulsions to change.

This is applicable to any situation. My father too because of age, convulsions, start of dementia responds in unpredictable, undependable ways. He will appear anxious, stressed and cling sharply to many things which may appear trivial to us. He is entering into a zone where the definition of logic itself will be changing – that of perception, responses, people and situations. What do you say for this? How is one supposed to respond to his condition? How is it supposed to improve? What is to be expected from us? There is no answer in simple terms or logical terms or clear terms. Again, being non judgmental for him seems to be a less stressful approach. The core of all things means that I need to be non judgmental about “myself” or the idea of what is me and why am I here and what does my existence mean?

Drop this background question or go beyond this question and a huge burden seems to be lifted. So we had created a burden ourselves and the burden is generated by considering us mortal beings having mind and body and being attached to this perception. We consider our perception as a default reality and that is a mistake – the human perception being treated as something absolute. Perception will change in our lives and it will also change in next zone of existence between two lives. And perception means mind, which means existence, which means “isness”. So we can alter or create reality in whatever manner is appropriate. Reality or existence is already there – shaping it in ways that seems correct is our duty.

Hari Om.

Shree

 

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What situations are, what people say, what motion is – is all incidental. I imagine that I am living, that I am doing something, I am required to respond and I expect and I keep planning. I am engrossed in myself or endorsing the imagination of “me” (the ego or attachment or vibrations and forms). Anyways, any start point is good enough to take one to God. God is in becoming and maintaining that state of mind. God is the generator of all phenomena; is the cause behind all creation; is the unconditional existence behind everything; is beyond laws of manifestation. What I say or do or think – is immaterial from the stand point of taking a position or basing my self worth on “something”. I need not evaluate or justify anything for anybody, else I am trapped in ego and identity.

As long as the idea of bliss remains conditional; as long as I evaluate my self worth based on manifestation or laws of motion – it will forever remain changing and will keep forming an incomplete picture. We are incomplete as motion (or changing as motion and I think there is nothing wrong about feeling incomplete or not capable of having answers to everything). And it is not mandatory to have answers to become blissful. Now this is the learning.

We are incidental forms that change and we respond and that is all there is to it. This will be realized if we become God – that is unconditional and go beyond vibrations or dissolve vibrations or transform our mind or perception of situations. Every instant tells us that we are born and we have mind and body but it is far from the absolute truth of bliss and completeness. This is God knowing Himself – remembering Himself and coming “out of manifestation or any form” - like a moth coming out of a cocoon. The process of evolution is of the cocoon being thrown open by the moth and who is to question any of the steps present herein? The illusion was a necessary step to go to freedom. Motion is necessary to realize consciousness for a human being. We are motion – we need to go to non motion. In fact, non motion is the higher form of motion (bare potential of everything). Renouncement is a higher form of attachment. Formlessness is a higher dimension of forms. Bliss is a higher form of conditional existence.

 We exist as motion at present, which is fine and acceptable and is sure to bring change and pain and attachments and dilemmas. Let not it distract us from knowing our absolute nature of God.

Hari Om.

Shree: Renounce

 

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If one asks what is the purpose of existence, then it is to know God or become God in thoughts, feelings, actions. The sole aim of living is of surrendering the ego at whatever cost it demands from us. To become manifested means to become separated and to feel fear or even become fear and egoistic. What use is of motion or security or money or family or anything if one operates from ego or vibrations? Vibrations lead to particles and that to a physical form. Existence is not personal – it need not be about you and me. It is only about God and when I see you or you see me, effectively we are seeing one another – God. When I think, or feel or do anything – I am doing for God. Manifestation involves perception and movement and change - and clinging or ego. It is an output of manifestation or constraint. If one does not want ego, then one as to renounce all dimensions and the need and purpose and compulsion of manifestation – only then can one become God. Renounce, become unconditional and become God.

Hari Om.

Shree: Meditation

 

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The power of the intellect is to “measure” the immeasurable. Immeasurable means vibrations leading to the construct of mind and body and what it means in terms of change, scale, space-time existence and attachments. To see it; to accept it; to articulate it is the strength of intellect. There may also be diagrams and geometries to explain this universe of inner mind and to show the path of God is also the intellect’s role. Indeed, all our talk would appear rubbish and all perceptions would become disorienting had it not been for the intellect to find order and transcendence in the world of motion. God cannot be measured or contained or conditioned – It is eternal and is situated beyond any laws, yet the intellect can help one renounce everything and become God. Concentration and meditation is not intellect although the intellect can grease the mind to attain this state of meditation.

Pain occurs when there is change and when one resists this change. Giving up may cause pain and a longing to hoard things or variables. Yet by persistently surrendering and concentrating, everything dissolves – including all vibrations. So concentration is renouncing all other things at the cost of one thing and meditation is also renouncing the thing that is being concentrated on. Having nothing to concentrate on what remains is perhaps consciousness or bliss. Concentration implies the subject and the object; whereas meditation dissolves this binary too. Once binary goes; there is no differentiation; there is no movement; there is only One and hence there are no conditions and there is consciousness. This according to me seems to be the case.

Hari Om.

Shree

 

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I think that a situation is “x”. My dear ones say that it means “y” and then there is an argument. “x” or “y” are positions of the same situation of existence that one creates for himself or herself. There is a lot of ambiguity of existence, history, known and unknown factors that make “x” for me – I can only say or justify the tangible factors. Other factors are even out of reach as far as I am concerned that inform my perception. The same is true for the person who is listening to me and concluding that it should be “y”. The point is that many factors make perception and that changes with space and time and is relative to person. Even if I say in absolute terms what is “x”, there is a high probability that it will still be received or heard as “y”! This is a fundamental nature of motion and hence our judgments or evaluations of self and others remain incomplete or ambiguous and leaves much to imagination. Not only that, in what way situations turn up and how do we plan or sort out things and what should that lead to – is again a matter of unending debate and discussion. I may say or do whatever I t think should be done – results are not upto me and nothing is required to be taken personally. So there is a cycle of entanglement that is generated because of ego/ attachment/ desire/ expectation and so on. We think we are separate and hence we perceive a unique situation on which our entire survival is believed to depend on.

Our survival depends on nothing. I am not the doer here and neither there is anything to take credit or dismiss discredit. I do not define any position and neither am I or others responsible for anything particular. If “many” is the apparent output of vibrations in consciousness, then there need not be any question of the “other” and hence competition.

Thought is attachment and it also means change. It also means vibrations. And that also means reality for us. What I see or perceive is nothing but vibrations that I mistake it to be real and expect it to remain constant. Well that’s ok. It is only when one realizes that vibrations come from God and they do not mean a threat to existence of bliss, then one becomes unconditional.

God is unconditional and is full of potential.  One drop of vibration is sufficient to create a universe. This universe is just One medium and is entirely unconditional since eternity. What difference does it make if I do work hurriedly or slowly; or come here or go there; or meet him; or be alone etc.? The movement is illusion and that means nothing. In any case movement is required to be done so one becomes transcendental.

Remembering God is fundamental.

Hari Om.

Shree: Door to God

 

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God is always with us – accessible to you in any situation, any form, any space and any time. All of us come from God, therefore we have a “seed” implanted in us. The seed grows to show branches and fruits – which is life for us. Whatever is tangible and in motion and which can be felt or expressed is the visible form of non motion or consciousness. Hence creation is apparent, is what is said. Yet, it is the only way to reach God – we have to find our way to it. To solve a situation means to become entangled. There is no end to worries or arguments or solutions or gaps or improvements or perceptions or evaluation – since existence is always changing and is impermanent and fluid – that is its fundamental nature. I will always feel something; think of something; do something; go at some place; project the past and the future and be engaged in creating a perfect situation (which is a vague term). We will always feel incomplete and I have a feeling that the more disconnected we get, the more this feeling of restlessness and increased momentum. If at all anyone is saying that a particular time that existed in the past was perfect or a particular time in the future will be perfect - then it is a mistaken idea. If perfection exists, it is “here and now” – within us and which is free from any baggage.

We are not something special – all things are essentially divine - originating from the consciousness into vibrations taking forms that change and again dissolve. Divinity is the ability to set things in motion eternally without any conditions or purpose and out of pure love or bliss. Thus anything or any situation or any character or space or time is a good start point to discover God. Good or bad are just relative terms but essentially one has the potential to know God since it is his/her constitutional basis.

I exist and whatever I think, I bring it to existence or that is what creates reality for me. Existence is a movement or a journey of thoughts. These (or vibrations) do not stop and whatever I do or not do takes the form of a journey. The journey is eternal and I am not responsible in particular sense to streamline things for me or others. This is not a personal equation to be solved to anyone, and to define a purpose itself has an ingrained assumption of ego or separation or fear or validity or proof or evaluation. But this is a step in evolution, that, one goes beyond a purpose by starting with a purpose (effectively it means to focus – leading to concentration – leading to meditation – leading to dissolution – leading to God). But first, one must be comfortable with the question that is deep rooted within oneself or which has created him or her. This means that I am NOT the question and I can choose to remain calm despite the ambiguity of the question itself. And I wish to explore the question despite any conditions or outcomes or complaints or any other issues. In other words, the question should take the form of Divinity.

In this entire journey, there will be conflicts, pain, dilemmas, attachments, arguments, loss, loneliness, connections and changes – we too. This is given and this is given to us by God. We experience this idea of life because of God and that itself is something to feel blessed. Things happen and they are to be accepted and our responses to be offered free of any baggage or attachments. We as independent souls are not the instigators of events, but only a channel.

God requires no conditions to exist or evaluate or validate or even be defined by any idea of change. Our definition of existence depends on our ability to perceive change or movement of any kind (or motion). Changes of all kinds mean existence of various scales. The rate of change may mean environment or culture or history or humanity or individual or AI. If I concentrate on one type of change I will “hear” or perceive that existence and nothing else. Hence I can become environment or culture or mankind or individual or AI.

In that case, no change is God. We are motion and we have baggage. By shedding everything and becoming unconditional, I become God. The existence of God then becomes Real.

God is always with us – regardless of where we go and the change that we encounter. In whatever change we experience; there is still one road that always reaches God. God is always there on that road and His doors are always open. The door to God is of concentration – meditation – renunciation – unconditional existence.

Hari Om.

Mind

 

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What is reality out there is an immaterial question or not as important as the reality which is the mind. Mind supersedes everything else and hence to know one’s mind and befriend it is the fundamental requirement of existence. Mind is vibrations and all senses mean the same thing. It is the creator and receiver of signals. Having understood this, perception can be  refined to make it concentrate on a single point and dissolve the impacts of vibrations or any of the forms it constructs. What remains or is revealed is consciousness. In other words, mind produces “forms” (of reality) – it is its nature coming from deep set vibrations which in turn come from consciousness. If vibrations change, forms change – this is the equation. So God is real and can take a “form” of existence for us if our vibrations become aligned to God. Events can keep happening; there maybe situations; there may a past or a future – but it is the mind that shapes everything and NOT the motion outside.

Hari Om.

Shree: Environment and mindscape

 

120322: Shree: Environment and mindscape

Environment (awareness of climate) is about the perception of existence. The climate and its effects on us depends on the mindscape (मनोधारण) and what climate means to us in terms of behavior and response in action, activities, built, physical is a product of this relationship. So we have the primordial forces (vibrations or consciousness if you will) which are beyond space and time or beyond context and find expressions throughout history of mankind – if there is a temple now, then there was a temple before and there will be an idea of sacred place in the future too – since the sacred or the mythic or consciousness manifests in us (and is forever present) regardless of anything. Forms change, technology changes and we have different climates and cultures, but the primordial forces which make us human are intact and are not affected by any external changes but they form the basis of perception and manifestation. So we have this encoded in ideograms, cultural ideas, and such works as Charles Correa or books such as Timeless Ways of Building or A Pattern Language and House, Form and Culture to name a few. Culture in its basic expression takes into account generations’ wisdom and it seems to have geographical, historical and philosophical dimensions. Architecture as a cultural product should mean this.

If one wishes to know or feel architecture, then space and form should be read and conceived by taking into account above dimensions – not just the physical, but the triggers of mind and primordial forces that generate it. The study of architecture is therefore in other terms, the study of mindscape and nothing less. Tragically in current times, this association seems to have been neglected at a terrible cost – not only to the outside physical and natural environment but to the mindscape as well. The wounds within reveal the wounds outside.

AI, surveillance, individualism and the cold climate that one witnesses in the “Developed Nations” is a potent combination for inflicting deep wounds on the soul. To not see a human being anywhere in outside public place for years and being cocooned in a climatically sealed box for years with a complete virtual experience is, simply put – grossly stupid and dangerous and insane. It fundamentally alters the mindscape to a point of total disconnect with the self and hence anything projected by the mindscape “outside”.

Conversely, with warm climate that encourages different patterns of human behavior, the attitude of responding to climate, ideas of self + family + neigbourhood extend out to shared spaces, multiuse spaces and transitional spaces and changes that are visible “in between” outside and inside climates. Time is also perceived in different manner and probably climate may assume a sacred dimension? Sacredness again, is not an isolated product (such as an apply), but is realized through geographical, historical or cultural and philosophical dimensions (apple also means the branch, which also means the tree, its roots, the soil, the climate and how “we” respond to its nourishment). Thus, any change in any of these links of existences effectively means a change in our mindscape. Does the presence of sacred expressions of architecture in the Indian subcontinent hold a lesson for us about the meaning of environment and intended responses in the future?

Hari Om.