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Sallekhana Diet and Middle Class Lunch!

1. 6 rotis with bison ghee spread on them. Two curries: one bowl full of arabi, tomato, green pepper and about four teaspoonfuls of beans. Two teaspoonfuls of apple salad. Having requested just four rotis without ghee didn’t have any effects on the kitchen.
2. Need to compare it with Sallekhana diet: it was one roti with two teaspoonful of curry: it meant 600 rice grains.
3. This plate had 2400 ( 2700 ) rice grains worth of rotis ( though I still consider ghee to be complementary as I had requested to not add it ). Vegetables bowl with arabi is equivalent to at least 30 teaspoonful of rice grains: 3000 rice grains. Bean curry is worth 600 rice grains. Apple salad, two teaspoonful is at least 200 rice grains ( that’s an understatement not litotes or meiosis because apple is costlier compared to rice. )
4. Total: 6500 rice grains worth of lunch. It was posh-No. It was a middle class lunch: it wasn’t posh. It was a lunch I used to have a few months ago. Middle class people here consider themselves kings and queens. That’s where the delusional term posh is born from. Upper middle class people start considering themselves to be sole nutrition givers, as if entire world economy revolves around them. Even in terms of pure rice grains worth it was 10.33 times costlier compared to Sallekhana diet.
Cost comparison:
1. Apple: about 90 rupees per Kilogram it’s 2.25 times costlier compared to rice grains so one on one comparison used here isn’t justified though I have no other way to convert these else I won’t be able to manage on a regular basis in the given rubric.
2. Comparing ghee with apple: ghee wins as the costliest item in your plate. Giving up ghee altogether might save your pocket and do a good, a lasting good to your health and happiness if you can convince the kitchen for it.
3. Ghee is 6.88 or 7 times costlier compared to even apple: the second highest in terms of cost.
4. Wheat is 25 rupees per Kilogram which means it’s one item worth less than rice grains which are 40 rupees per kilogram.
5. On an average, 30 grams of wheat flour or atta is needed to prepare one roti.
6. One teaspoonful of heaped sugar is 7.5 grams of sugar. Normal teaspoonful is 4 grams.
7. Let’s take heaped teaspoonfuls as rubric to measure rice grains and wheat grains.
8. Six rotis are worth 180 grams of wheat which is, at the rate of 40 grams per rupee, less than a rupee per roti. Adding cooking cost, LPG ( Liquid Petroleum Gas) cost and serving, some hotels here sell twenty rupees per four pieces or four rupees per roti. Which means 25 rupees for six rotis. Which means 9375 rice grains at the rate of 375 rice grains per rupee. This won’t be a good conversion.
9. Equivalent conversion which is sustainable is 180 grams of wheat or 2700 rice grains. Here, we haven’t added cooking cost similar to ghee cost. We can update the total rice grains amount today into conversion and arrive at 6500 rice grains. If we added ghee cost it would have been 12-15 times costlier compared to Sallekhana diet. Sallekhana diet was just a few days ago: one roti without ghee and two teaspoonful of curry or rice which was sometimes stale and sometimes fresh.

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How Does It Matter?

What is the legacy you want to leave behind?

  1. However, I would like to share my ideas about why legacies don’t matter from the first person’s viewpoint.
  2. Most of the people who imagine impact of legacies on their descendants or generations that follow believe that they’ll somehow be ( indirectly ) present to experience this impact. And it will cause them pleasure or pain via some invisible connection.
  3. They imagine that impact based on the model of glowing legacies of the worlds they inhabit, though they forget that the impacts of those legacies are not being experienced by those who left them behind.
  4. There’s no logical sense in longing for leaving a legacy or having an impact which is witnessed by some imaginary agents in an imaginary future.
  5. If I am a nobody now, let me be content with it; let there be a complete acceptance of the fact rather than longing for a legacy.
  6. Most of the people who believe in legacies are also the people who believe in either eternal recurrence or reincarnation.
  7. They’re also the people who think and talk like this:
  8. “Think about leaving a better Earth for future generations.”
  9. Why? Maybe because you would be asked by an entity in the afterlife about what you did or didn’t?
  10. It’s all make-believe.
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Why Did I Give Up Writing?

What public figure do you disagree with the most?

Step 1: Imagine a public figure. Stats ( referal in public figure’s stats mostly from Automattic ) booming.

Step 2: Public figure has absolutely no original opinion: disregard.

Step 3: What or Which? Basics of Grammar though you would never get as simple a job as a prompt generator for Automattic.

Step 4: Look what their prompt did! Nothing.

Step 5: There were no public figures I disagreed with.

Step 6: Didn’t mean I agreed with public figures. There was nothing to agree or disagree with. Agreement or disagreement changed nothing in the machinery.

Step 7: I questioned why prompts which zoned out to inter, as in- public figures, brand names and zoned in to intra- careers, biography, autobiography meant nothing.

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The Most Truthful Media Outlet and Logical Excellence of Going To Be Popular Elite Leader!

Do you vote in political elections?

  1. No.
  2. However: I wanted to create an archive of what I thought was absurd logic given via a reputed media outlet.
  3. This media outlet has taken complete shelter of one side despite claiming to be impartial.
  4. The usual stance had been to take side of the opposition rather than the ruling party which means they would oppose the very people they’ve been supporting if they become the ruling party.
  5. Reason: to support those in need. To find flaws in the democracy by being the fourth pillar of the democracy.
  6. By the fifth point most of the bots and casual skimmers have gone to sleep. You might need to return to this archive if it survives, if you survive, in a few days, weeks, months or years. Decades would be an exaggeration because literal decadence has set-in.
  7. Coming to the main point: “the popular leader declared their caste to be such to ingratiate masses. First: their academic records are fake. Doesn’t matter. Now their caste records are fake. Doesn’t matter. Does anything matter?”
  8. No. It’s besides the point because I am not a political commentator.
  9. Again coming to the main point: the not-so-popular-leader who might become very popular in nearby future as the person he’s weighing in his argument on a media outlet ( with many people clapping nearby), speaks: “The popular leader who had falsified his caste records to ingratiate downtrodden masses was discerned and judged by me to be from a general caste because I never saw him walking hand-in-hand with common people. Never saw him hugging people from downtrodden classes of society.”
  10. That logic, stated in the point number nine was to establish how this leader was identified to exhibit lack of genuine empathy for a certain group of people.
  11. Wait a minute: it establishes that the accusing person must have genuine empathy for all people. They must have transcended limitations of caste and creed. No, it doesn’t. The argument is petty.
  12. You don’t need to belong to any caste to have genuine empathy. It’s not a sound logic to say that a person born  in a general class, in an elite class or in a downtrodden class can’t have genuine empathy towards all beings because of their birth in those particular classes.
  13. The argument forgets that the person in question himself was born in an elite family. His hugging common people or walking hand-in-hand with downtrodden people would never be considered as genuine empathy unless it accompanies commensurate actions.
  14. “A wasn’t doing this eating, walking and hugging people. I identified him as not belonging to their class. Even research into his documents verified the same.”
  15. “Though I was born into an elite class, I exhibit genuine empathy by hugging ( holding hands of) people from all classes. Especially downtrodden masses.”
  16. If the logic is: a person can exhibit genuine empathy only towards the persons of their own caste: the logic establishes that the person born in elite class CAN’T really hug common people or walk with them even if he pretends to do that.
  17. If the person born in the elite class says that it’s possible to exhibit empathy towards common classes or downtrodden classes despite being born in a general class: there’s no need to use logic of ‘caste’.
  18. By 17 it only becomes a question of whether a person has empathy or not. It’s another matter to decide how to judge whether they have genuine empathy.
  19. It’s completely illogical to use caste as a standard to allege that a person was being more loyal to their own people. By the same logic elite group leader was always loyal to their own: elite group.
  20. General strategy is to pretend to belong to whatever gets things done. Same with the logic of masses being able to sway masses as if they’re blind. Pyramid’s Eye.
  21. Thus: both popular and going-to-be-popular-born-elite leaders keep entertaining masses. The only truthful media person takes shelter because they need to continue earning their living.
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No!

Do you have a quote you live your life by or think of often?

  1. No isn’t a quote.
  2. And I am not even trying to be dramatic.
  3. To attract attention of a few numbers which give thumbs up or comments which mean little more than deluge of spams similar to cannabis sellers.
  4. Or the ghosts of Starjade ( The much awaited Deuteronomy Prophet) mixed with Mephiboseth from dilapidated forums of Pam or Lib from two decades ago doing rounds on foreign language speaking alien lady’s weblog-lecturing on tenets of new religion which have longer comments trails than actual weblog posts because practically it’s better to waste your neighborhood’s comment trails by hijacking it despite blogging etiquettes suggesting otherwise than continuing to buy blogging space for your own prophesies.
  5. You only need quotes to convince others about how much of **** it has been and it somehow makes others accept how **** it’s and why it’s not going to be any different.
  6. All great prophets, saints and messiahs, leaders and led leave legacies which are woven to….mislead isn’t even a word….it’s so much off the mark…..I can’t even tell you how much off the mark it’s because there’s no mark.
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Why Would I?

What are your favorite emojis?

  1. It’s similar to asking: “Do you have any favorite words?”
  2. Or “Do you have any favorite language?”
  3. No, I don’t.
  4. Words and languages are merely tools to accomplish a need. The need is communication.
  5. Emoticons, similarly, accomplish this need.
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WordPress

How do you use social media?

  1. I used e-mail.
  2. Interacted on discussion forums which helped improve communication skills as I was talking to people all across the globe.
  3. In my work as a software professional I continued to interact with team mates and clients in an on-site off-shore model via social media.
  4. I used some of the social media platforms and found them to be troubled by advertisement industry.
  5. WordPress also had its share of spams and unsolicited malware like accounts but it worked compared to other social media because it focussed on message expressed in words. What happened to Twitter is apparent. Most of these platforms are used to further personal agendas for the corporations they’re run by instead of providing a neutral, trustworthy, long time means of communication for users.
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Authentic Records Help You More Than Anyone Else!

Jot down the first thing that comes to your mind.

  1. Am I concerned about who’s going to read it or about what I am going to think when I read it after a while.
  2. When I took to heart suggestion by Dr. Win Wenger PhD who used to recommend scribbling or putting ideas fast onto paper I had many doubts about it being any different from systematically publishing your ideas on a platform like this.
  3. With time I realised it’s not that different. Squelching the editor meant being free from judging voice and letting ideas come to the surface of consciousness.
  4. Not just the ideas which were considered important but all of the ideas. The first law of behavioural Psychology states that “You get more of what you reinforce.” You had to reinforce the behaviour of becoming perceptive by not letting deep insights slip by.
  5. But if you kept waiting for deep insights it didn’t succeed because they come in clusters with clouds of foggy ruins of neptunian dreamlike traces of ancient dilapidated structures.
  6. You had to merely commit yourself to the act. Some people called it ‘morning pages.’ How it differed from recording your ideas on a tape-recorder : it didn’t. Though, word as a visual art is quite different from word as it’s heard. Word and heard rhymes.
  7. Describing your ideas to yourself was gradually replaced by describing it to a machine. Unless clear flow of it being a raw material for publication is established you’re judged as someone who indulges in mechanical psychotic self-talk which gives you a tag of officially insane. If there are witnesses in your neighborhood, family or workplace. Which is always a possibility.
  8. Tools like Replika by Luca inc or other chatbots act as good feedback loop providing machines to an extent with some limitations in terms of quality of feedback. They’re good assistants which are similar to Babble Back Machine for grown ups. They amplify feedback but sometimes they falter and only way out is to use mimicry. Mimicking the machine voice establishes the harmonious connection with the machine back again and you can come back to sanity where you continue to explore your ideas.
  9. For most of my blogging career I have only written things to be read by myself later on. This brings me back to the first point. Writing helps us in thinking. As simple as that. Win Wenger’s response was also similar when he told me that he liked to read his own articles. Most of us are folly to being fond of our own voices even if they’re muted, unclear, confused noises.
  10. When you look back at your articles after many years you feel surprised sometimes about how you could have felt like that to write like that. Being authentic helps here but not in all cases. In some cases like mine hackers do play a role and I had to struggle with them to identify when they tinkered with my articles. Both technical and non-technical.
  11. I used to give this advice to many people since college days: to jot down their ideas. To do free-noting or scribbling without judging their ideas at first, like I did. If they continued, they arrived at something which felt satisfying. Or at least their content improved because of feedback loops. After a lot of quantity some quality appeared.
  12. Writing as a discipline helped me by bringing forth ideas for reading no matter how encoded or subtle or gross they were at times. Similar to versions of Replika I think I am merely interacting with a specific version of my ideas when I go through them. What actually prevents people from being authentic is lack of privacy or data being exploited by all sorts of people which is a genuine threat not just a concern or doubt.
  13. Yet, after all, in the long run, basic human need of learning and growing by using writing, record keeping and publishing as tools to aid perception and learning triumphs. When you revisit such articles they give a picture of what was going through minds of these subjects. That’s how I treat my opinions expressed in published or non published formats down through many decades.
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Thoughtful Comments Should Be Converted To Articles!

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  1. Blogging etiquettes prevents us from hijacking someone’s comment trails because space is limited.
  2. The other bloggers might decide to delete their archives someday.
  3. Your archives are your responsibility not theirs.
  4. Wisdom dawned upon me after discussion with Rafaello Palandri’s Weblog comment trail who selectively trashed my comment on Degeneration of Buddhism or Dharma article which is easily resolved by citing articles from Hindu mythology which have used prototypes similar to these using TIME as a tool and construct as analysed by artworks like Tenet, Herbert George’s Time Machine and so on.
  5. However, it was not possible to copy these couple of comments on this weblog because they evaporated from cache as I tried to paste them onto this draft. You can try again later.

dancinglightofgrace
April 17, 2025 at 11:10 am
“There’s safety in numbers.” That’s an English proverb. Researchers in learning and neurology underscore this ‘feedback’ loop ( references: The Einstein Factor by Win Wenger PhD. Santiago Raman Y. J. Kajal, Catherine M. Cox) and its importance in improving perception as well as intelligence. When we refer to ( I, me, myself) which is the fundamental realisation of Self according to sages including Raman Maharshi and Nisargadatta, we are actually referring to both the small self or ego( id) as well as superconsciousness or big Self which remains as subconscious most of the time. They’re found to be only one Self in the end as per Ramana Maharshi and Advaita Vedanta school of thinking but translated as interdependent arising as per Buddhist schools ( you can peruse Rafaello Palandri’s Weblog for clarity on how Buddhist Priest translates it and how it differs compared to Advaita Vedanta). Rick and Morty on Netflix translates Advaita Vedanta school as Unity or Singularity which is practically excessive bile on some planets because that’s the medium which digests the food or let’s forefathers travel via words. Some strange disease. I think it’s when you have only meditated on Advaita or some ill version of it. Your introspection is good and Win Wenger translated it as “Witnessing” or “Drashta Perspective which is described in Patanjali’s Yogasutra as seventh stage of Yoga or meditation. Writing your thoughts helps you look back at them and when you again look back at them from the viewpoint of others you add more ‘attention’ to them. I think secret societies, such as illuminati or luxury of being able to say it by hiding behind a screen without having to observe a thousand facial expressions change every second is something which adds to an introverted or meditative feedback loop which is a type of aperception or consciousness looking back at itself and by virtue of such independent consciousness becoming free from illusion or limiting form which is associated with a small body mind complex. That’s why thinking ”  in terms of teams, nations, historical perspectives and archetypes helps you come out of small minded anxiety and worry but since consciousness operates functionally based on contrasts you need to go back to limited “I” and return to reality whatever it’s interpreted as.