Grammar of Life, Poetry of Living - Santosh Jha (ebook reader screen txt) 📗

too respond to music as it is aligned to brain waves and introduces the elements of harmony and rhythm in consciousness. Moreover, children must also be practically and theoretically exposed to dramatics and theatrical artistry. In Indian ancient dramatics traditions; there is mention of nine different rasas (shades of feelings) and all of them must be equitably present and expressed consciously in a person’s life-living. These different rasas actually correspond to different hormonal manifestations of emotions within body-brain plexuses. Usually, most people live out only two or three shades of feelings; mostly love (hate), anger and envy. A person with instable emotional registry may even color up love with shades of anger or envy upfront. The poetry of living is in living out all nine rasas and register with clarity, the varied experiences every rasa brings about. We must accept our consciousness as the canvas and emotions as colors. There is specific hormonal physicality assigned to core intentionality of emotions. They are the colors. Emotions paint the canvass and create beautiful and meaningful paintings of realities in life-living and enhance our wellness landscape’s richness. When we paint, care must be taken that we do not smudge the colors (of emotions) and create a bad portrait of reality. We need to accept, our primary purpose, utility and worth is in understanding, taking good care of and enhancing the endowments, our body-brain system is pre-loaded with. Nobody can paint anything if there is no canvas, no colors and understanding of the language of colors. A bad canvas and muddled up colors cannot paint anything beautiful and meaningful.

STEP 4 – My personal favorite artistry is my humble and stupid experiments with pain and grief. It requires loads of persevered practice to alter an innate cognition of reality and instead, install and infuse an alternative cognition, which not only takes much of the discomforting intensity out of pain and grief but also in some ways, allows a definitive dimension of blissfulness out of pain-grief registry. This process begins by aligning the consciousness to pain-grief in the same way, most people do with God or divinity. God, in a way, is also a cognitive acceptance, which is actualized not in matter or physicality but in cognitive or perceptional landscape of brain states. Therefore, pain and grief is also first accepted as some person. As registry of pain-grief is perceived and installed as a person, the talk begins. I begin to talk with the person of pain and grief. This talk can be silent and verbal, depending upon the situation and personal comfort. Usually, when pain and grief is less intense, there is verbal talk. Silent talks happen when there is intense pain-grief, making it tough for verbal talk to happen. I personally do not speak but sing. I address to my pain-grief with a suitable song and I do it with full flow and demonstrativeness of theatrics to amalgamate the emotions of complete surrender and compassionate exhortations. This unleashes two processes – first, as the pain-grief becomes a person, it is meaningfully externalized from the landscape of my body to someone sitting in front of me. This gives great relief in registry of intensity of pain-grief. Secondly, as the talk begins, the innate focus of brain states and neural plexuses is shifted from processes of painfulness and grieving to intent and content of the talk. This also facilitates emaciation of pain-grief. The process of complete and conscious recapitulation of entire being and self before the person, representing pain-grief is more important. This is what we do with God. We believe that source of all joys and pains is almighty God and whatever God ordains, is his will for my ultimate betterment. This surrender before God and perfect faith in God’s Will installs confidence and courage in most people. The same process happens when we surrender before pain-grief and accept with innocence and humility its ‘Will’. My personal process of surrender involves weeping like a child as I keep singing. The tears never fail me. All body-brain mechanisms have evolved in millions of years to optimize survival and wellness for us. We need to learn to utilize these mechanisms and processes in our life-living. Weeping and crying not only with eyes but with entire body and every speck of consciousness participating in weeping process creates a magic. Essentially; as we have talked repeatedly; we are Fields and Landscapes. If we consciously alter the attributes and properties of this Field or Landscape of Information, which our Consciousness feels and lives out as reality; we can change the cognition or perception of any reality. The spectrum of emotions has been designed to associate with specific motor action of muscles to optimize survival wellness. When we consciously assign a ‘Body’ to emotions and consciously try to alter the morphology of the body, the emotion has fruitful expression and it settles to a novel and alternative registry. This process is the same. It changes the Field and its properties by conscious alteration. This however takes loads of practice. It evolves within and the brain states take its time to create pathways for such processes. As the pathways are created and consolidated, the entire process becomes smooth and takes place in quick time. This sure is nothing new. We all know, it is said that women usually weep and express their grief more frequently and spontaneously than most men and that is why they are considered to have better maneuverability with grief situations than men, who take undue pride in denial of reality of grief. It is some artistry for men to have registry and internalization of feminine sensitivities and succeed in attainment of innocence and simplicity!

STEP 5 – There is a way of life-living experiencing, which I fear to share as it has the potential to be misunderstood and also create a misgiving about true intent. However, I am sharing it with you as I always believe in your magnanimity, even when I do not trust the efficacy of words to carry true intent. There is a famous couplet in Urdu poetry which says, ‘Dekhiye Meri Pajirayee Ko Ab Aata Hai Kaun, Lamha Bhar Ko Waqt Ki Dehleez Par Ayya Hoon Main.’ It means, let us see, who comes to welcome me as I have come to the doorstep of time just for a moment. The theme of the expression is to insist that life is too short and ephemeral and I have come to the world full of people, only for a very short time. I shall align and relate only with those, who welcome me and meet me with affection and compassion. As another Urdu couplet says, ‘Humsafar Chahiye, Huzoom Nahi; Ik Musafir Bhi Kafila Hai Mujhe (I need a companion, not a crowd; one co-traveler is like a convoy to me)’ This idea is somehow a life-living hypothesis, which may sound like a person is advocating to love only those who love him or her. However, the true idea behind this hypothesis is that life is too short to waste it on those, who are not in the consciousness of assimilation and fraternity. This does not say that I shall not show my compassion and altruistic emotions towards them. However, I shall not align with them in deep and lasting relationship because, they do not have the required consciousness to assimilate and integrate with me. This idea very compassionately and honestly wishes to install the pragmatism of life-living that essentially, relationships are alignment, assimilation and integration between two mutually respecting and harmonious Fields. Bodies aligning with another body are not relationships. Only consciousnesses can align and relate with each other. Those, who do not have the consciousness to respect and integrate with other Fields of consciousnesses, can never ever have the qualification and eligibility of getting ‘related’. If one consciously decides not to align with these people, it is not pride or animosity but basic self-preservation need. Every living being has the ultimate right to avoid all such circumstances, which may lead to its predation. There are people and situations, which actually predate you and your own sense of goodness and wellness. Self-preservation, as primary life-living need, seeks to distance away from such predatory entities. This hypothesis in turn means, first, we need to unlearn the populist perception of loneliness and instead, use this powerful situation as a tool to avoid predation. Secondly, we need to unlearn our old, archaic and populist cultural notions of relationships; like family, blood relationships et al. Only that person is my ‘Family’ and ‘Relative’, who has this eligibility of consciousness to respect others and be in innocence of willful assimilation and integration. This person can be anyone; even one, whom I have never known and may never meet and familiarize with.

STEP 6 – Human body and mind are huge marvels of nature. For that matter, all bodies and minds of all living being are. Since ages, whether it be philosophy or spiritualism; primary human inquisitiveness always hovered around dynamics of human body-mind and its relationships with realities in external milieus. Since thousands of years, aware and evolved people looked for understanding these basic issues. Contemporary science has unraveled so much now. It was realized since thousands of years and now science confirms it that human body and mind has huge potentials but average person does not use even a fraction of these potentials as they are not aware of them. Human body is marvelous; it needs so little to survive and remain in good shape. In fact, in contemporary cultures, we are over-feeding and over-investing on body. Self-sufficiency for human body to survive and thrive is so easy in contemporary milieus, yet, because of wrong lifestyle choices and bad personal habits, average person has jeopardized it. The body needs little amount of food but the right food. It is a tragedy that culturally, we have been very wrongly trained to accept what our needs are. As it is said, we don’t always need, what we seek. This entire mind training to accept the gamut of our ‘needs’, which we seek in life and invest our precious time, energy and resources to attain, has to be unlearnt. Science helps us in identifying our true needs. It helps by distinguishing between ‘My Need’ and ‘Body-Needs’. Vast majority of what we call and refer to as ‘My Needs’ is not what my body and mind requires for its golden homeostatic wellness, which keeps it fit and fine; bodily and mentally. Science clearly lists out the fact that most of us are actually killing the homeostatic wellness by listing and seeking those attainments and consumptions as ‘My Needs’, which are undesirable and even toxic. We need to dump the old, archaic and now obsolete populist perceptions about this ‘My Needs’ reality and create a novel and alternative list of needs, which our body and mind actually needs. We need to learn the ‘Homeostatic Needs’. These needs are very small and very easy to have self-sufficiency in. We do not need big moneys or other investments to attain them. We just need to reorient our perception about the very idea and scientific reality of homeostatic needs. As we do it, we can clearly see that to get what we actually need, we in fact don’t need to do much; instead, need to undo a lot. We need leisure, we need peace, we need harmony, we need emotional stability, we need deep sense of being self-sufficient, and we need the feel of security, more than the security itself. We need much little food than what we are consuming, we need much little complexities and conflicts than what we are having, we need more emotional bonding than we are having, etc. The basic idea is, as we have been discussing all along; there is a need to strip and denude age-old and populist cultural cognitions, which we have been living out and consider as essential and appropriate, from our subconscious landscape and consciously replace them