THE ART OF DOING NOTHING OR SITTING SILENTLY

1. This is the art of doing nothing.

2. Can be done very easily by everybody. It does not take up too much time. It is required to be done 3 times a day for 20 minutes at a time.

3. Benefits : Relaxes the body, the brain/intellect and helps to alleviate all kinds of Stresses. This sitting silently allows the body to get rid of stress producing hormones and proteins like Cortisol and DEOH. Plus it also helps in producing Serotonin which is the chemical which makes us feel happy and joyful. Most importantly it gives rest to the mind. Meaning it carries out maintenance of our thinking mind. Further you will find that over a time you will require less sleep at night. Importantly you will train your thinking mind to let go of thoughts ( let thoughts come and go), and not react every time. So in your day to day life you will not react to negative experiences, those are also finally thoughts. These thoughts will come again but now you will not react but respond logically.

4. While sitting silently for 20 minutes we will not focus on anything, or on any thoughts. It is simply an art of doing nothing.

5. Remove your belt so that you are comfortable. Remove your glasses. Sit in a straight backed chair your buttocks touching the back of the chair. You must have support for your back.  Ankles crossed. Sit straight. However your head should be slightly bent forward from the neck to attain a comfortable position. Keep your hands in your lap, palms facing upwards, the palm of your right hand sitting in the palm of your left. If the chair has arm rests you may rest your elbows on the rest if you feel comfortable otherwise need not. Now close your eyes. Please tell your family members or friends not to disturb you in any way for 20 minutes. If anything is urgent they must only tap you on the head. You may come out of silence as explained later.

6. Relax your feet and toes, then your ankles, then calf muscles, then your thigh muscles, then your stomach, chest, shoulders, neck, arms, wrists and hands. Sit silently in this state. Let your thoughts come and let them go. Do nothing, do not try to stop your thoughts importantly do not get involved in your thoughts, let them come and let them go. Even sounds or smells from outside are thoughts let them come and let them go. Example a thought comes to you that you have to ring up your boss at 8 o clock about an important client message, now don’t start thinking what will the boss say, can you keep the client happy etc. That is getting involved, let that thought come and let it go. Similarly you hear a motor cycle horn outside don’t get involved in the sound by thinking who must it be now in the morning etc. let it come and let it go. Just do nothing. 

7. In the beginning there will be hundreds of thoughts coming and going gradually they will reduce and you will have periods without any thoughts. Starting maybe 10-15 secs you will have no thought periods, slowly over the days , weeks, months, years these periods without thoughts will increase. We have to achieve nothing, nothing will happen, do not have expectations as to this will happen or that will happen. Just continue 3 times a day for 20 minutes. If your head bends forward more let it. No problems. But do not let it bend backwards and take support/rest against a wall or something, the moment your head gets support/rests against a wall you might fall asleep. You may fall asleep initially if you are too stressed. Do not worry when you wake up don’t get up suddenly you may feel groggy, continue sitting silently till your 20 minutes are up.

8.  Coming out of silence. Initially you can set your mobile or clock alarm for 20 minutes. After some practice you will automatically know that 20 minutes are up. For coming out of silence, do not open your eyes. Move your hands first, rub your palms against each other, wipe your face with your hands, then wipe your arms and wrists, stretch your hands to the front once or twice. Then slowly blink your eyes 3-4 times, close them again for a few seconds then again open them very slowly. If you feel like sitting sit there for 3-4 minutes before getting up do sit.

9. Conditions. There are’nt too many conditions. You must be a little bit hungry and a little bit tired that’s all. Therefore the right times are just before you have breakfast, before lunch and before dinner in the evening. You can practice this type of silence in a train, a bus or anywhere. There are no conditions except you must have some support/rest for your back. People at home or in office may make fun of you, do not worry. In the office you can easily spend 15- 20 minutes of your lunch time for meditating before lunch. It does not take more than 15 minutes to have lunch. This will be time well spent than just gossiping. 
Others will soon follow you.

You can use some music to initially help you with sitting silently. It is a 20 minute cut from Ganapati Sachidanand Swami's Celestial Message in his Music for meditation collection. You can down load from here

https://sites.google.com/site/ajayukidve/mp3

The Beauty of sedition : Modern India

Good Morning India......

Reading the transcript of a lecture/blog by Iftar Reheman a Begusarai student was like a breath of fresh air for me. Was

tired of the poop filled bilge being pumped out by wimps and

Prestitutes for the last month. 

All talking about freedom of thought and speech to the point of declaring that the Indian Constitution has granted an Indian National the liberty to vent  anti National rhetoric supporting Terrorists and the enemies of this nation.

If somebody responded to them, these SOB's called us as Facists.

An approximate translation from the Hindi.

Iftar Reheman a student from Begusarai in Bihar, replied to Kanhaiya Kumars rantings at the JNU rally. He said: Are you not free? Do you again want freedom? Along with some politicians, MP's and Ministers who seek to advance their own interests want freedom? Stop this bloody drama.

I think it is too much now, this drama of  Independence, independence, independence in every sentence you utter, you treacherous bastards, traitors, enemies of this country. If your sons and daughters had  been martyred to obtain independence for India, then I would have appreciated your words. But you bastard was not even worth sparing a drop of water for, when this country got its independence, you unworthy sod. 

To get independence from the  English brave hearts of this country gave their lives to run the English out. You do not consider that Independence which was obtained after such sacrifices as your very own Independence and freedom? You 2 bit worth disgraceful man and your peer politicians still see slavery in India? If this is not just a drama then what is it? You and your likes and supporters should be ashamed of yourselves who do not recognize the independence we have got and are asking for it again.

I as an Indian of an Independent India ask you, did freedom fighters like Shahid Bhagat Singh, Subhash Chandra Bose, Chandrashekhar Azad, Abul Kalam Azad, who fought for freedom for their country from the British and sacrificed their lives and obtain that freedom at great cost were they stupid fools? They must be turning in their graves hearing some people like you asking for freedom again and observing your drama. My blood boils when I see you performing this bloody drama and hear you speak.

The limits were crossed when on seeing this drama a bastard in his glee and happiness gave out a prize of  0.2 million rupees. Further some politicians, political leaders, Members of Parliament and Legislatures, those selfish to gain their own ends, called you Kanhaiya Kumar, their son. What a bloody shame. In fact one of the political Leaders called your JNU address, which was full of antinationalism and sedition as the best speech he has ever heard, what the bloody hell is happening?

Sons of this soil, after shedding their blood for our country had called themselves leaders of freedom. Yet today you and people like you call yourself leaders to divide and hack this country into pieces. I feel friends that you still consider yourselves as slaves in an Independent India, you and your likes are definitely a danger to this Nations well being.

Right now I do not want to say anything, but remember you traitors, the day I feel you and people like you to further their personal and political interests, put my Country in danger, make it weak and try to bring disgrace to its good name, on that day I shall wear a shroud on my head. Even if my own my very own try to endanger my country even they will not be spared by me and I shall behead them by chopping off their heads.

To defend the well being, Integrity and welfare of our Nation, is the first duty of all the youth of this country. I will not allow those Martyrs who have laid down their lives to obtain freedom for our country to be disappointed. I request the youth of this country not to pay attention to the drama creators and defend our country from such people. If these kind of traitors and anti nationals are given a free hand then the day is not far off, when an Independent India will soon really lose its independence.

Will you put India again into slavery? If not then get ready to join the movement of "Save India" from these traitors and anti Nationalists. My "save India movement has started today"

Iftar Reheman

Begusarai.

Bihar

Another Character some Mr. Tunku Vardarajan who is a Fellow of Virgin Hobbs Carpenter at Stanford University sorry Virginia, also hails Kanhaiya "if not for his politics, then certainly for the eloquence of his language." Hails his speech as "Pure protest poetry". He further clams that "Incurring the wrath of an obtuse Home Minister and a dopey but pernicious Police Commisioner of Delhi; and of a tinpot Nationalist news anchor who disregarded the truth in a peerless display of hysteria." A British citizen, Varadarajan lives in Brooklyn with his wife Amy Finnerty and their three children. He was born in India, attended Mayo College Ajmer, went to Oxford University UK, became a British Citizen and is now settled in the US. So what Nationalism can this gentleman understand?

I think such people who are far removed from the reality of what India is and stands for, should remain in the hallowed portals of the Hoover Institution of a hypocrite Country.This country forced exodus of Africans to the Americas during the brutal Middle Passage of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, and the voluntary migration of Black residents who moved from southern farms and towns to northern cities in the early 1900s in search of “the warmth of other suns.” A third African-American migration story–just as epic, just as grave–hovers outside the familiar frame of our historical consciousness. The iconic tragedy of Indian Removal: the Cherokee Trail of Tears that relocated thousands of Cherokees to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), was also a Black migration. Slaves of Cherokees walked this trail along with their Indian owners.

In 1838, the U.S. military and Georgia militia expelled Cherokees from their homeland with little regard for Cherokee dignity or life. Families were rousted out of their cabins and directed at gunpoint by soldiers. Forced to leave most of their possessions behind, they witnessed white Georgians taking ownership of their cabins, looting and burning once cherished objects. Cherokees were loaded into “stockades” until the appointed time of their departure, when they were divided into thirteen groups of nearly 1,000 people, each with two appointed leaders. The travelers set out on multiple routes to cross Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri and Arkansas at 10 miles a day with meager supplies.

At points along the way, the straggling bands were charged fees by white farmers to cross privately owned land. The few wagons available were used to carry the sick, infant, and elderly. Most walked through the fall and into the harsh winter months, suffering the continual deaths of loved ones to cold, disease, and accident. Among these sojourners were African Americans and Cherokees of African descent. They, like thousands of other Cherokees, arrived in Indian Country in 1839 broken, depleted, and destitute. After all this the US has the gumption to tell us about freedom of speech and thought? A country which is now going for "Haaz" to redeem the sins of its forefathers?

Let me see this gentleman holding a rally in Stanford University and shouting. ' Death to America, Long live Al Kaida, let us celebrate Osama bin Laden's martyrhood.'' I think the FBI will chop his head off or whisk him away to unknown destinations. Afzal Guru the enemy of India a criminal a terrorist got a fair trial in India. Whereas a hit team was used to kill Osama bin Laden. Now when I say this these hypocrites turn around and say" No that was different you don't understand". I don't understand indeed.....

What pride what nationalism? A pseudo political parade of Orators and their spoons under guise to dislodge a government voted into power by the people of this country.

You can walk out of jail, badmouth the PM and be hailed as a crusader: Kanhaiya, this is the glory of India

I share Bikram Vohras thoughts

On 8 February, 2016 I did not know who Kanhaiya Kumar was and what he was engaged in. He was not even an incoming blip on my radar.

On 4 March, 2016, I don’t particularly want to know. Let him go back into anonymity. Do whatever he wishes to without his face being plastered all over the media. I am up to here with that overused set of pictures slamming into my life if I pick up a paper, switch on a TV, go to a website. Enough already!

That’s the beauty of, the glory of India… You can come out of jail and badmouth the Prime Minister and rabble rouse hours later and go home for lunch to be garlanded as a crusader.

Not even in America. By now the FBI and Homeland Security would have begun tracking you. Not even United Kingdom where MI5 and 6 and 7 would have opened a file on the guy.
And we dare talk of freedom being in peril?

Not only does he get to slag of the Indian Prime Minister but also now is the guide, mentor and philosopher to the nation. His words are golden and he reaps in mountains of publicity… The media cannot get enough of that scrunched up expression of zeal.

Do we need this? An exhausting diet of shrill from a kid who should be in class?

Now he can go round the country giving his fiery speeches, appear on talk shows, become rich, for doing absolutely nothing.

He is not a celebrity or an icon or someone I particularly want my children or their children to emulate. That he has been thrust into a sort of absurd greatness and been given a major boost is more an exercise in media's morality (or lack of it) where hellions are made into heroes and nobodies are consecrated as symbols of the democratic endeavor.

He leaves me stone cold. And the only reason I am prattling upon about it is in the hope that there will be enough folks out there who will say, yes, stop already, bahuth ho gaya.
He did not change the world for the better. He did not find a cure for AIDS or cancer. He did not even save anyone from a stormy sea or a burning building, no act of even mini-heroism. He has not enhanced the arts, excelled in sport, made a breakthrough in science or engaged in any travail of value. Not even a commercial enterprise where he got people jobs and created an empire. Absolutely nothing of worth and yet he is the most famous face in the country.

Good luck to him if he can exploit the system to his advantage but I don’t want to know anything more about his thoughts or his leanings or his opinion on anything. He is just not that important and it is time we stopped anointing him as some sort of a messiah. I am not interested in his philosophy or his leftist leanings or whether or not he has signed a pledge to be a good boy. I don’t want to see that face every morning.

at JNU after his release on bail. PTI

He is just a student in a liberal university who has yet to start earning a living and paying his bills. A dependent. That his release on bail is being seen as some triumphant victory borders on the absurd and, frankly, I don’t even want to read about that or view it on TV. You want to dance in celebration, go ahead, so did the dervishes and the witches of Macbeth.

Our modern media is often slugged off for ignoring a story and down playing it. If ever there was a report worthy of being downplayed (or not played at all) this is it. Send it back to oblivion and let’s get on with life.

By that token I don’t give a damn whether he is poor or lives in a castle by the sea, what he ate for dinner or what his experiences in jail were. There are over 400,000 people in Indian jails and 68  percent of them are under trials so really it is a no-brainer.

I can almost visualize this poster child for the student power vote bank being lifted up on high and flung into the higher rungs of political power… More’s the pity.
Believe me, somewhere here in this judgement is a kernel of the future of this JNU issue. It has not gone away and there will be another chapter. The grant of bail is merely a breather.

Till the next round, the less profile Mr Kumar shows the better for him. No one is your friend, mate. They will use you and abuse you and walk away. Just be sure you do not do the same.

NOT MY HERO: