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Always perform your daily duties with a calm mind, without anxiety for the future.
Remember that God is the real Doer;
You are only an instrument.
Do not give up your family or work, but give up the illusion that you are separate from the Supreme.
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Most of the "5 star" hotels you see, like Radisson Blu, Conrad, Le Meridien and stuff like that, aren't actually owned by the brand.
They only operate it
The real owners are mostly local businessmen, politicians, benamis of bereaucrats, area strongmen and others like them.
So as glossy as it is on the outside, internal operations are all screwed up.
Penny pinching, delayed or non payments to vendors, absurd skimping on costs, compromising the quality of raw materials, the works.
If you know the internal running of some of these hotels, it is actually a wonder such bangalore like accidents don't happen more often.
If you don't believe me, next time when you have the chance, try visiting the service entry or the back office where the employees work
You will get your answer
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Benson plagiarized Transcendental Meditation in the 1970s from one of Maharishi’s earliest researchers. He replicated studies on TM practitioners and renamed it Relaxation Response. Towards his final years when in his 90s, I interviewed him at Harvard. I have a video of that. He acknowledges his debt to Maharishi - but too late and too little.
1. The study was run out of Harvard Medical School under Dr. Herbert Benson.
For three decades, Benson tracked monks who could lower their metabolism by 64% at will. Hands and feet would reach temperatures low enough to kill most people.
Heart rate dropped near zero.
And then they walked out of the room normally. The Pentagon didn't fund it for spirituality.
They funded it because what the monks
were doing shouldn't have been biologically possible.
2. The mechanism was named Relaxation Response. Benson documented that the monks weren't suppressing stress, they were triggering a specific nervous system state that civilians lose access to by age 30.
In this state, cellular inflammation plummets. Cortisol halves. Immune cells multiply. The body enters its own repair mode without any outside input.
3. What the Pentagon ultimately classified
was this: humans aren't wired for the chronic sympathetic activation of modern life demands.
The nervous system was designed to spend most of its hours in parasympathetic recovery.
We flipped the ratio. The monks were simply running the original factory settings.
4. Modern research has now confirmed what Benson first measured: 94% of adults in industrialized countries have lost the ability to enter deep parasympathetic states on their own.
Not because they can't.
Because they were never taught the specific nervous system switch that triggers it.
5. The woman who feels "wired but tired" at 3 PM isn't broken. The mother who can't fall asleep despite exhaustion isn't failing at rest.
Their systems have forgotten the switch.
The monks didn't have more willpower.
They had the method.
Here's what no one explains: this switch is physical, not mental. You can't think your way into it.
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Frankly no Hindu worth His salt believes that SitaMata cannot hold a sword. Then why the criticism? It is because the ideal Bhagavati came to preach was that of a Pativrata, whose objective was to aid Her Husband in His Dharmacarana. She doesn't pursue independence at all. 1/n
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Distortion of division of labour, thatswhat happens.
Complex systems work smoothly when we can hold people accountable to specifics tasks, not where everyone is supposed to do everything and thus fails to do anything properly.
When you want women to learn swordplay... 3/n
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Women don't hate fraternities because they are dangerous.
They hate them because fraternities produce MEN that women haven't DOMESTICATED.
They're not banning fraternities to protect women. They're banning them to make sure YOU never become a man they can't control.
Every single male only space has been systematically destroyed.
Military? Feminized.
Boy Scouts? Now has girls in it.
Men's clubs? Sued until they died.
Gym? You're a "toxic gym bro."
Gaming? "We need more female representation."
Even your own friend group? One girlfriend joins and suddenly you can't joke, you can't talk, you can't be real.
Everything becomes HR approved.
Women's biggest fear is men in a group with no women in it.
Because that's where masculinity is built. That's where men become ruthless, dangerous, uncontrollable, competitive, and share connections.
And it scares them to death because they have NO IDEA what happens in there, and they can't control what they can't see.
So when a Jane Doe case pops up? They don't want justice. They see an OPPORTUNITY.
A perfect excuse to shut the whole thing down. "See? We told you men are dangerous when left alone!"
And notice how they even stole our words.
"Boys will be boys" used to mean men doing dumb, funny, irresponsible shit. Breaking something, getting drunk, doing a stupid dare, laughing like idiots.
Now? They twisted it to mean "men getting away with rape and sexual assault."
You see what they did?
They took a phrase about innocent male stupidity and turned it into a phrase about PREDATORS.
Tattoo this on your brain:
Women don't want strong men. Strong men can't be controlled. They want weak men they can manage.
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Singeetam Srinivas Rao Garu passes away.
The last surviving member of the cast and crew of Mayabazaar.
Asst. director to legendary KV Reddy.
Made a movie combining sci-fi with history( Aditya 369)
Made a silent movie( Pushpak)
Made a Janapada movie( Bhairava Dweepam)
Made a biopic featuring the real life protagonist as heroine( Mayuri)
Made some of the most iconic comedies( Apoorva Sahadoragal, Micheal Madan Kama Raju, Brundavanam).
Great combo with Dr. Rajkumar in Kannada- Bhagyadalakshmi Baramma, Halu Jenu, Chalisuva Modagalu all time hits.
Great combo with Kamal Hassan in Tamil- Pushpa, Apoorva Sahadoragal, Raja Parvai, MMKR.
No sleaze, no cussing around, no gratititous violence, just clean entertainment.
At age of 94 once again made Sing Geetham with a different storyline.
In an age when every two bit movie maker imagines themselves to be another Kurosawa or Kubrick, this man has such a solid legacy, which will be hard for any one to replicate.
Deserves the Dadasaheb Phalke award more than some of the recent winners.
A true LEGEND.
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In the 1985 foreword to Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman wrote:
"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.
Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism.
Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.
Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture…"
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Kumkum Mohod and the 2 days Indian archery will never forget.
7x in a row. Since 1998, South Korea had won every women's team recurve gold at the Asian Games.
On 2 October 2026, they were shooting for an 8th.
Standing in the way was a 17 year old from Amravati, whose first bow had cost about ₹3,000.
Recurve is the Olympic style bow, the one whose limbs curve away from the archer at the tips. At the Games, archers shoot it at a target 70 metres away. The ten ring, dead centre, is about 12 cms wide.
Now imagine hitting that, with the whole country watching.
Kumkum Anil Mohod was born on 10 March 2009. In 2018, she was still a schoolgirl, not yet 10, when her mother, Rupali, saw a relative's daughter practising at an archery academy in Amravati, run by coach Prafull Dange. She thought Kumkum should try it.
The 1st bow was a wooden Indian bow. Her father calls it a bamboo bow. It was paid for with money her grandmother gave her.
6 months later, she won a silver medal at the sub-junior nationals.
Her father, Anil Manohar Mohod, makes cardboard boxes for sweet shops in Amravati. As the training costs grew, even the shared auto to the academy became too much. So he took her on his motorcycle.
A 2nd hand bow carried her for years. Later, the family bought a recurve bow from savings built up over time.
She made her international debut in 2025.
At the Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, India's women's recurve team of Kumkum, Ankita Bhakat and Kirti Sharma reached the gold medal match. India had never made that final before. Ankita had been on the team that won bronze at Hangzhou.
The last set went to the wire. Korea finished on 54. India had to match it. Kirti's arrow was first called an 8, and a review upgraded it to a 9.
Then came Kumkum's last arrow. It was a ten.
The set was tied. India beat South Korea 5-3, the first women's recurve team gold in the country's history.
The same day, she and Dhiraj Bommadevara took silver in the mixed team event.
The next morning
Today, she was back at the line. She beat Korea's Kang Chaeyoung, the reigning world champion, 6-4 in the quarterfinal. In the semifinal against China's Zhu Jingyi, the 2025 World Championships silver medallist, Zhu's last arrow was a 9. Kumkum needed a 10 to win.
She shot a 10, and won 6-2.
In the final, she faced another Korean, Oh Yejin. It went to 5-5, and to a shoot-off, one arrow each. Oh shot an 8.
Kumkum shot a 10.
She became the 1st Indian woman to win an individual recurve medal at an Asian Games, and it was gold. India's only earlier individual recurve medal at the Games was a silver, won by Tarundeep Rai in 2010. Her run to the final also earned India a country quota place for the 2028 Games in Los Angeles.
In two days, she had beaten Korea's team and two of Korea's archers.
Her father says her biggest dream is still ahead: the Olympics.
A man who makes boxes for other people's sweets. A grandmother's savings. A motorcycle that carried a little girl and her bow to practice. A bow made of bamboo.
And a girl who, when a semifinal needed a 10, shot one, and when gold came down to a single arrow, shot another.
Pic Courtesy: OlympicKhel
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Saniyede Dünya'nın etrafını 7.5 kez dönen ışık hızı, insanlığa "akılalmaz bir sürat" gibi pazarlanır; oysa kozmik ölçekte bu hız bir güç gösterisi değil, evrenin bizi içine kilitlediği aşılmaz bir tecrit hücresidir.
Kendi mikro gezegenimizin çevresinde baş döndürücü görünen o 300.000 km/s, 93 milyar ışık yılı genişliğindeki dipsiz karanlıkta adeta donmuş bir salyangoz hızından farksızdır. Güneş’in ışığı bize 8 dakika rötarlı ulaşır, en yakın komşu galaksiye baktığımızda onun 2.5 milyon yıl önceki hayaletini izleriz. Gökyüzü canlı bir gerçeklik değil; zaman gecikmesiyle gözümüze çarpan bir mezarlıktır.
Evrenin dokusuna kazınan bu mutlak hız limiti (c), türlerin birbirine asla ulaşamaması ve hiçbir medeniyetin kendi sisteminin dışına taşamaması için tasarlanmış kusursuz bir kozmik karantinadır. Mesafeleri aşamayalım, sistemin dışına çıkamayalım ve asla "şimdiki zamanı" aynı anda yaşayamayalım diye konulmuş mutlak bir render sınırı.
Bizler fizik kanunlarını keşfeden özgür gözlemciler miyiz, yoksa ışık hızı parmaklıklarıyla kendi küçücük sektörüne hapsedilmiş kozmik tutsaklar mı?
Işık bile bu sonsuz boşlukta bir yerden bir yere varamadan tükeniyorsa, insanoğlunun yıldızlara hükmetme kibri dev bir illüzyondan ibarettir.
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Asian games is still on, but to all our sportspersons who missed the podium at / had a chance to improve the height of their podium standium...
Let me tell you about one of my absolute favorite tennis players of all time: Goran Ivanišević.
By the summer of 2001, Goran was a forgotten story.
In the 1990s, he had been the ultimate tragic hero of grass court tennis, reaching 3 Wimbledon finals (1992, 1994, 1998) and losing all 3 in heartbreaking, soul-crushing fashion.
By 2001, his left shoulder was severely damaged, and his world ranking had collapsed to 125, far too low for direct entry into the tournament.
The organizers, out of sheer respect for a former star whose career looked virtually over, handed him a Wildcard just to let him play.
Nobody expected a run. But playing through a wrecked shoulder that was already slated for surgery, running on pure adrenaline and sheer stubborn refusal to bow out quietly, Goran started ripping aces like a man possessed.
He knocked out former World No. 1 Carlos Moyá, a young Andy Roddick, Greg Rusedski,, US Open champion Marat Safin, and then defeated home favorite Tim Henman in a chaotic, rain delayed three day semifinal.
On an electric "People’s Monday" final, the unseeded wildcard walked onto Centre Court to face Pat Rafter.
What followed was 3 hours and 2 minutes of absolute, raw human emotion. Serving for the title at 8-7 in the 5th set, the weight of three lost finals nearly crushed him.
The nerves were plain as day, he double faulted on his 1st two match points, and Rafter saved a 3rd with a brilliant lob. Goran stood on the court praying to the sky, fighting back tears before stepping up for a 4th attempt.
And then, Rafter’s return hit the net.
Goran collapsed onto the grass, sobbing. Ranked 125 in the world, he became the only wildcard in history to win the Men’s Singles title at Wimbledon. Aha here is the fun, in fact, the only wildcard to win a men’s singles major, not only Wimbledon.
Setbacks do not mean the story is over, they just set the stage for the comeback.
You all will be back. And when you all are, it is going to be glorious. 🙏🙏
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Early in life, instead of filling children with a hollow value system, teach them how to manage contradiction.
Life is not a theatre governed by some coherent moral universe. It is a field of unpredictable players, competing interests, accidents, and circumstances. Good intentions do not guarantee good outcomes, and virtue offers no immunity from betrayal, failure, or absurdity.
Teach children not merely what is “right” or “wrong,” but how to think when values collide, how to act when every choice has a cost, and how to remain lucid when reality refuses to fit their expectations.
The goal should not be moral purity or ideological consistency, but the ability to take the blows without losing the plot, face contradictions without losing one’s mind, and move through uncertainty without surrendering one’s agency.
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Someone asked me what true love is.
My simplest answer was this. Love always cares about the other. Kama cares only about itself.
In kama, the self comes first. In love, the other comes first.
