What gives us the illusion of authority over life and death?

The Forgotten Question

We rarely stop to ask why killing has become normalized. Whether it's in the name of justice, survival, religion, or nationalism — we kill. Not because we can create life, but because we’ve arrogantly assumed power over its ending.

“We don’t have the power to create. Still, we kill.”
This is one of the most jarring truths. We claim dominion without divine license — acting as if destruction is a form of creation.

The Love for Killing

“We love killing, we love destruction…”

This isn’t just physical killing. It’s the urge to silence, suppress, outcast, erase — anything that threatens the fragile “me”. The deeper truth is: our desire to be alone with our desire has turned us into mini dictators of our inner and outer worlds. When something doesn’t align — we metaphorically or literally kill it.

“Me is infinite and me will kill.”
— is the root of tyranny, of war, of exploitation, and of moral decay.

War Without Death

Historical moments — Toledo War, Pig War, Whisky War — where humanity almost remembered itself. These were tug-of-wars, not slaughters. Disputes, not massacres.

“Why we never thought of planning a war with just a thick and sturdy rope…”  Rope here represents tension, cooperation, strength, and playfulness — all things that can resolve conflict without extinguishing life.

Map-Wars and Ego-Kings

Kings, saints, rich and poor all making the same mistake — thinking they are infinite — is a sharp critique of ego’s universality. The need to possess land, to conquer, to gift death as if it’s a mark of legacy, has infected us all. History became a sequence of “map-wars” where borders were drawn in blood.

A New Art of War

“Despite being small and thin we aren’t grounded…”

This is the contradiction of modern humanity. We have evolved materially but regressed morally. We have intelligence, but lack wisdom. Our call to learn “the art of war” — not in the sense of Sun Tzu, but in the sense of a grounded, creative, rope-and-tug-of-love approach — is a reminder that conflict doesn’t have to be fatal. Disagreement doesn’t require destruction.

कहाँ से शुरुआत करनी है

 

🔍 प्रतीकात्मक अर्थ:

• "पूँछ पकड़ना" यहाँ किसी समस्या, स्थिति या जटिलता को पकड़ने या सुलझाने की शुरुआत को दर्शाता है।

• कई बार ज़िंदगी में या किसी समस्या में "कहाँ से शुरुआत करनी है", यह सबसे कठिन और महत्वपूर्ण सवाल होता है।

🧠 सीखने का इशारा:

यह वाक्य इस ओर इशारा करता है कि:

• हर समस्या की एक सही पकड़ होती है।

• अगर आप गलत सिरा पकड़ेंगे (जैसे साँप की पूँछ पकड़ना), तो नुकसान हो सकता है।

• सही जगह से शुरू करना ही आधा समाधान है।

📌 व्यवहारिक उदाहरण:

• जैसे गणित की किसी कठिन समस्या में, अगर आप सही मान से शुरुआत नहीं करते, तो पूरा हल भटक सकता है।

• किसी संबंध में, किसी योजना में, किसी करियर के चुनाव में — अगर आप शुरुआत ही भ्रम से करते हैं, तो दिशा खो जाएगी।

✨ दर्शन का भाव:

यह वाक्य आपको यह सिखाने आता है कि —
प्रश्न पूछना, और सही प्रश्न पूछना, आपको समाधान की ओर ले जाता है।
"कहाँ से पकड़ना है?" यही सवाल खुद में पहला शिक्षक बन जाता है।

The 80-20 Rule That Saved My JEE Prep—and Still Does.

During my JEE preparation, I stumbled upon a rule that wasn’t in any book or taught by any mentor. It just clicked—and it worked.

Call it coincidence or intuition, but this was my own 80-20. And it became my personal superpower.

Here’s how it looked:
I didn’t aim to study 100% of the syllabus. I accepted that 20% might remain untouched—and I planned accordingly.
I allowed 20% of my day to go unplanned. No guilt.
I ate till I was 80% full. Energy stayed, sluggishness didn’t.
I exercised 10 minutes physically (dynamic scissor sets) + 2 minutes mentally (inhale-exhale breathing). Nothing fancy—just consistent.
The results? Surprising. The chaos turned into rhythm. Small short-term plans evolved into long-term clarity.
What’s even more incredible: people around me adopted this approach without even knowing it had a name. For them, it felt natural. For me, it was survival, clarity, and peace—all in one.

Two things triggered this insight:
The nitrogen-oxygen ratio in the atmosphere. Nature itself follows 80-20.

The age-old wisdom of our बड़े बुजुर्ग to not fill our stomach to the brim.

Today, I wonder why such a simple, beautiful idea feels like a mountain to many
aspirants. Is it information overload? Or pressure overload?
In a world running behind everything, maybe learning what not to chase is the real prep.

This 80-20 isn't just a strategy—it's a mindset.

And perhaps, a quiet antidote to burnout, anxiety, and the loneliness epidemic among students today.

Gone With the Wind: A Reflection on Friendship

Over time, I’ve felt something unsettling:

There is no husband and wife.
No father and son.
No mother and daughter.
No labels that truly last.

There is only friendship.

And yet, I still don’t know where this friendship resides.
How can we be everything but not friends?

Are we just roles—landing here as “relations,” living as “relations,” and vanishing the same?
Then again, we return. Repeat. Roles again.

But I wonder—what if we are not roles, not relations?
What if we are simply bundles of friendship?

We aren’t here to stay.
We’re here to carry it forward—miles and miles ahead—
each step driven by our own creativity,
our own truth.
And there’s no coming back.

What we don’t find in relations, we often find in friendship:
A happy friendship.
A sad friendship.
But always, a fulfilling one.
Even when it hurts, it heals.
Even when it breaks, it teaches.

Friendship cannot be added—it just is.

Imagine a world built on friendships, not relations.
It would be brighter.
More colorful.
Each day, a new shade would appear.

But most of us were born into relations.
Rigid ones.
Defined before we even spoke.
And so we search—long and hard—for what’s missing.

That search will never end if we don’t pause and explore.
If we don’t ask ourselves what friendship truly means.

In some parts of the world, friendship is rare—
or almost absent.
Or maybe hidden.

If you are lucky enough to have friendship instead of just relations—
meet those friendships.
Speak to them.
Keep them close.

Friendship is the resonance of matching frequencies—
a quiet, beautiful constructive interference.
No bond can match that.

But to feel that, we must first recognize it.

Otherwise, we’ll keep living inside boxes—
tight boxes, rigid boxes—
with give and take, fake and break.

And somewhere in that mess,
a quiet friendship will try to push through.
We’ll ask:
Is this a friendship? Or just another role disguised?

And before we can answer—
Friendship. Gone with the wind.

And the search begins. Again.

The Desire for a Zero

For the past three days, I’ve been trying hard to write something—anything.

I wrote a few lines and stopped. Then tried again. And stopped.

This happened more times than I can count.

Restlessness crept in, but I didn’t stop. I couldn’t. Something inside me kept pushing.

Then, just a few hours ago, an odd idea came to me. It may sound silly, but for some reason, I’ve always wanted to say it out loud - I want to get a zero in an exam.

Yes, a zero. Not by accident, but deliberately.

Coming from an academic background, I’ve given countless exams—more than I care to remember. And although I’ve never been in favor of the exam culture, I’ve always played along.

Prepared. Performed. Passed.

But in all those years, one question has lingered in my mind - Have I ever tried to get a zero? Not out of incompetence. Not out of ignorance. But with full awareness—mind sharp, will strong—to walk into a test and give it nothing.

To resist the impulse to respond, to impress, to conform. To sit in silence while the world around you scribbles with urgency—that is a test of a different kind.

Getting a zero is not easy. In academics, it's a mountain.

Because to truly score zero, you have to resist everything you’ve been taught to value. Is it even possible?

In some ways, yes—especially if you're well-prepared. And maybe that’s the paradox: to get to zero, you must first know what it takes to get a hundred.

#OddIdea #Hundred #Zero #Paradox

Emoji world

फिर वही इमोजी की दुनिया फिर वही इमोजी का जांच पड़ताल। 

फिर  वही  उलझन का  जाल। फिर वही माया जाल।  

निकल  सके  तो  निकल  जा  कन्हैया ला। 

चाहे  कितना भी हो रहा हो पीला, हरा और लाल।   

ये  तेरी  है, या सामने वाले की चाल। 

जंजाल है,जंजाल, सब है जंजाल।   

जनों (complex network of people) का  जाल।  

जनों  के  भीड़  में  फसा  तू , एक  दिन  खुद  को  भी  भूल  जायेगा।  

मोटा  हो  जायेगा , छोटा  हो  जायेगा , फूल  जायेगा।   

चाहे  तो  फिर से  कर  इमोजी 😄😇😁🧐🥳🤩🥵🥶🥱😱🤤 पर  जांच  पड़ताल।   

चल  आज  तू   इमोजी  पर  ही  एक  दो  लेक्चर  देख  डाल। 

 

Consistency in anything

First of all, I am trying to understand this word (consistency). Somewhere in it lies a write answer, the good amount of matter and slight pinch of repetition. 

Will it help ?

Whatever problems arise, being consistent could help. Even problems follow a consistent pattern. When we observe problem consistently, it even goes away.

What have I felt many a times, we miss consistency in the most important things of our life like health, travel, wisdom, emotions and relationship. But if we redeem it, we will be back to normal.

But is it that difficult?

Yes, it could be difficult when we miss consistency for a very long period of time and build huge number of knots in our complicated pattern. Most of the time is invested in opening the knots. 

There might be a certain amount of learning while we untie those knots, but at the same a lot of energy is also consumed.

What have I learnt?

Whatever work I take, I try to do it for some substantial period of time and then move to some other work. Be it anything. If I am not able to follow a pattern, I feel somewhere I am missing the basic signals of every phenomenon around me. Substantial phenomena happening around me is purely connected to nature - planets, trees, animals. They are so rhythmic, so patterned and repetitive. 

Might be this is happiness, which we have forgotten for a small period of time.