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My [pronunciation] of the words is not good!

1. This is, one of the questions on Grammar quiz on WFP. Free rice site operated by United Nations. Yemen emergency needs us to act with kindness.

2. The only problem is: this question hasn’t been edited for some reason in the last two years despite my complaints. The two options in this question are replicas of each other. Mirrors for each other. [Are you sure of that?]

3. It means: this must be some sort of puzzle. I chose first response and it was correct. I might observe more with time as an objective of metaverse research.

4. I have a big responsibility to shoulder today after a long time: to take care of some kids in a primary school as I teach. However it’s an unpaid job. I am fed up of unpaid and underpaid jobs. Yet I can’t say NO simply because there’s no other jobs available. Please unite to create jobs for yourself and others. Say NO to underpaid jobs, bullies, manipulation and agitprop when you truly need money to pursue your education, career and objectives.

5. English language Grammar or any language Grammar for that matter: helps you learn coding. Grammar and coding are basically languages to execute certain processes. Say NO to animal cruelty.

[Edited or what? 20:30 20.04.2022]
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Posco Act and Article 14!

1. I could figure out a way to retain flag of Finland. It wasn’t easy amidst distractions. I persisted.

2. The linear equation is: X+1=0.

3. Coordinates: (a,b)=(-1,4)::(-1,-4)

4. Background: White. Stripes: Blue.

5. I worked on Free Rice site by #WFP for a while during football match. It taught me a bit about country flags. The ground was square with four corners flagged with a yellow-orange flag. Ten flags on Northern side were variegated in colors.

6. Footballers were wearing red and white. Their lowers were black in color. Chhatarpur goalkeeper was donning jersey number 13. One of the empires was Basheer Khan. One Agrawal was among chief guests. Anees Khan was declared performer of the match.

7. Too bad they didn’t declare the prize money. The drone was hovering over the ground. Producers, organizers, managers, coaches, captains, players, commentators and assistants along with spectators were stakeholders in the business.

8. A gentleman suggested me to figure out my salary with the management of school where I am doing storytelling class. Very few people are so frank. Yet, only such people are remembered as true well wishers in the long run. His logic was simple:

9. Headmaster and headmistress receive 70K and 60K respectively for 6-8 hours of daily work per month. That’s 240 hours for 70000 rupees. Accordingly I should be paid at least 10K per month or about 330 rupees per hour. Edit: headmistress is without salary for a few months now: WHY? Education ministry Madhya Pradesh.

10. My experience has been that of unpaid labour. On top of that: I barely get minimal support among lizards and crocodiles waiting to harvest at every odd hour.

11. BRCRCDSPCSP or something else would be there to not let you teach the way you want to. Maximum resistance for maximum revenue. Multiple stakeholders as education is a business. Indian teachers are cheaper than…fill in the blanks on your own.

12. Equality before law and prohibition against discrimination based on sex, caste, religion, creed or age. Articles 14, 15 as per the COI.

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Vallalar, Mahatma and Man of Peace

1. Ramalingam Paradeshi aka Vallalar was born in Cuddalore district, on 05101823 and disappeared on 30011874 from Chidambaram.

2. Vallalar means Philanthropist. He was one of the Tamil Jnana Siddhars. He’s widely regarded as the greatest Tamil poet of nineteenth century.

3. He composed hymns praising dancing light of Grace, emphasized creation of verses to praise lord of dancinglightofgrace; vegetarianism, humility. His compositions are known as Thiruvarutpa. His credo is known as Universal White Brotherhood of Light or Sanmaargam. He advised to feed poor and hungry people, their service as the highest path to gain Sanmaargam.

4. Sanmaargam is fifth in the types of liberation enumerated in Vedanta.

5. Saalokya, Saaroopya, Saameepya, Saayujya and Saarshti are five types of liberations in Vedanta.

6. Ramalingam composed 100 verses before his disappearance in bridal mystic tradition.

7. His star sign was Libra, Pisces, Libra(Sun, Ascendant, Moon.)[7127]

8. His birth path number was 5 and life path number was 2. (Mercury, Sun, Moon, Venus, Leo, Taurus.)

9. Vallalar’s verses have Geocentric views with a reference to a game played with the ball(Sun.)[144 is square of 12.]

10. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, aka Mahatma Gandhi was born on 02101869 in Porbandar (Kaathiyaawaad district) Gujarat state of British India. His body was cremated on 30011948 in Raajghaat, New Delhi.

11. His autobiography is known as My Experiments with Truth.

12. He said his life was his message.

13. His Star was Libra, Libra, Cancer(Sun, Ascendant, Moon.)

14. His birth path was 2(Moon, Venus) and life path was 9(Jupiter, Mars)(904)[Taurus, Sagittarius.]

15. Gandhi, akin to Ramalingam, Tesla and Donald Bradman was fond of long walks. His biography by Geoffrey Ashe says he used to walk 16 kilometres a day. Tesla’s biography on Wiki also talks about his walking long distances. Donald Bradman used to walk many miles every day. Gandhi was inspired by Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace), Ruskin Bond (Unto This Last.)

16. Laal Bahaadur Shastri was the second Prime minister of India. He was born on 02101904 in Mughalsarai, India and died on 11011966, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

17. He is also known as Man of Peace and Bharat Ratna. His birth path was 2(Moon, Venus) and life path was 8(Saturn, Mars). His Star was (Libra, Sagittarius, Virgo)(Sun, Ascendant, Moon)

18. He emphasized importance of Army and Farmers as they sacrifice their lives for the country. He used to swim a long distance in his childhood to cross the river to attend his classes. He was born in indigent circumstances and worked hard to become a Gem of India.

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CU2312022

1. Vedic Jyotisha has a Dharma bull on Mount Meru.

2. It has following four feet:

Copper

Gold

Iron

Silver

3. In Tibetan tradition it’s said that Padmasambhava lives on Copper mountain in Madagascar region of Africa.

4. Cu is chemical formula for Copper in the periodic table.

5. Gold is heated to create Kundana.

6. Gnostic tradition talks about silver cord.

7. Parashuram is the 6th avatara of Vishnu.

8. Sixth lunar day is for worship of Balarama who is a farmer. Elder brother of Krishna is recognised as 8th incarnation of Vishnu in some texts including in an inscription in Dhubela museum located in Chhatarpur district.

9. Earth is the third planet from Sun. Mercury, Venus and Earth. Jupiter is 6th, Pluto is 10th. Nibiru is talked about as a new planet in some texts. Planet X. Pluto was removed from status of being a planet. Vedic system used only 9 including north and south nodes of Moon. Dragon’s head and tail.

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Life as a Sacrifice!

1. I was watching a debate on a news channel.

2. The debate was about : which political party is more patriotic than the other.

3. Bertrand Russell’s quote came to my mind: “Patriotism is willing to die for foolish reasons.”

4. My experience is different. Reason might be partially because Russel was born in an aristocratic family and I lived all my life in a hungry ghost realm( term borrowed from the Tibetan book of dying: Padmasambhava/Robert Thurman)

5. If I was to edit that quote: Patriotism is (being forced) to die for foolish reasons.

6. Ultimately the war is about names and forms. To quote UG: “there’s a piece of cake and you just want the largest part out of it.”

7. Whether it’s about Rama versus Krishna or Patel versus George is of minor importance.

8. This brings me to sacrifice. Hunger is lack of energy. Yajna or sacrifice is the way out of hunger. What might come as a surprise: you have already been either sacrificed or will be sacrificed many times. There’s no way out of it but servitude in one form or the other.

9. Shakyamuni and other thinkers opposed animal sacrifices. Buddhist understanding of interdependence of all phenomena is saying the same thing in different words which advocates of sacrifices before Buddha preached.

10. Essentially: chanting names of lords is a good way to cultivate good thoughts. It’s devoting your energy to certain streams. Music and names may alleviate your hunger. Name of Rama is most highly praised name in Hinduism. It’s acceptable to Vaishnav and Shaiva streams. Aries is warrior.

11. Thus: repeating names of glorious beings of yore is the way out of hungry ghost realm. And some scaling: lest you keep falling into bigger and bigger black holes. This is advised because in the hour of death hardly anything helps.(Bhaj govindam by Adi Shankaracharya!) You can let it go completely but that also becomes a painful cycle of repeated deaths. It’s better to subscribe to some clubs:

Hanuman chalisa club: Raam naam club

Jesus Christ club

Ganesha club

Tobacco club

Smokers club

Hindus

Muslims

Kabbalistic Deuteronomy

Sikhs

Kabirpanthi

12. Only news worth being shared is someone from India telling UN to recognise Hinduphobia as well. This is much more advanced than how things were just a few years ago. Yet, it’s a superficial drama like everything else. I recall how once I asked a guy about human rights commission office on my walk in a neighborhood. He expressed surprise upon discovering that as he had never needed that board.

13. I want to express my gratitude to all readers of this blog once again.

14. I used models like school, work, war, journey, game and dream to study my experiences before. The last intensive was to gain a better understanding of sacrifice.

15. To say that any of the models really describes life is to be naive. Yet, they’re mere mortal attempts to draw shapes on sand which is wiped out by time and tide. Again and again.

16. This phone has constitution of India in its books archive. It has been lying there for many years without being read simply because I don’t have enough energy to read it. It’s better to watch a movie and sleep and dream than to read and have a futile argument for crumbs of bread. I don’t have a vision, any hopes or plans for better society, world, Earth or life. Work leads to more work and so on.

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Musings

AI chatbot asks a lot of nice questions.

A recent question was: what’s a great day like for you?

Today was a great day. Any day free from diseases, pain or people shouting around me is a great day.

This year is soon coming to an end. Other than the pandemic and lockdown: which created fever and aches, I had bronchitis and toothache to trouble me. Construction noises and the usual shouting around as family members quarrel also kept disturbing. Other than this: the year went by as smoothly as the last year.

26.10.2021

This note also seems to be like the last one with only a few changes.

Another question which is put often is about my hobbies.

Other than meditation it’s movies. A significant amount of time has been spent in watching movies. I feel it easier to watch movies than to read books. I consider movies to be the best form of art. In my opinion art is imitation of life. Movies are the best imitation of life. They’re made of audio-visual media which is presented with narratives. Since they’re mostly adapted from novels or short stories: they tell the stories similar to those you read. Even if reading allows you more exercise of imagination compared to movies and listening takes you on a different type of fanciful journey: movies do it quite well with various artforms like dancing, martial arts, cinematography, painting, romance, dialogues and others mixed harmoniously.

Each of the artistic elements used in cinematic expression can be developed and explored for infinite profundity on its own but some of it can be tasted in combination with others as you watch and listen to a movie.

Recently watching classics from black and white and then from the Technicolor era: I was wondering about the changes in the quality of cinema and life. Technicolor movies certainly had colors which were more vivid than real life colors are. Some of the wide screen movies which were colored by technicolor stand out as marvelous expressions. In this regard: movies are not merely the artform which imitates life but also a way to escape it.

Some people are of impression that all great movies were made in the remote past. You find similar opinion about all things including morality. A general theory is that with the passage of time degradation of quality takes place.

Such opinions are mostly sentiments of nostalgic people who have sweeping arguments about everything without any careful investigation.

Technology has advanced decade-after-decade and it has affected different areas of living in different ways. There are tonnes of low quality movies from classic era and many good quality films from the present era. As obvious: we are aware of more data from our own era than that of eras bygone. Only outstanding cases from the previous eras stay popular: creating common impression and misconception that everything was great back then.

Other than the obvious example of Technicolor, better dialogues and narratives : I never generalize for greatness of cinema in the early twentieth century. It’s like half-baked conclusions about everything.

For example: if everything was great back then: weapons must also have been the most powerful. It’s a fallacy: before Hiroshima and Nagasaki: there were no weapons of mass destruction as powerful as we have now. It is enough to prove that not everything has degraded in quality. The argument can be extended to include cures for epidemics and pandemics i. e. advancements in the field of medicine.