Monday 26 June 2023
Thursday 22 June 2023
Communication
Day by day, things are becoming
mechanical with an ever increasing nuisance value! Just look at what we have to
tolerate! Keep a cell phone and you are inundated with a million messages,
completely meaningless, from call Centre’s you can’t even block! Mindless
communication.
You have sales calls harassing
you anytime of the day… mercifully, not at night! As yet!
If you block one number, they
call you from another. Social media tells you what to watch, who to be friends
with and even gently questions you as to why you have not communicated on it
for a while.
Money / profits being the whole
game, humans are being dragged towards addiction and to losing their sense of
good and bad, besides being controlled.
Look at the games we play from the
app store. The same level is tough and then made easy when you are giving up,
so you can continue and not quit! To keep you on the app, just spiking the
challenge a little bit every now and then.
Worse, new inventions are going to create non thinking generations… robots more than humans, thanks to every answer being at their fingertips through just pressing a button. Brilliance will not be defined the way it is today. Artificial intelligence and progressive inventions will render the human being powerless before technology. A huge crutch! Total dependency on technology!
Today, even if our computers pack
up, we can do mental math, and much more, because we have been taught it
perfectly. We know how to think, feel, understand. We are not helpless. Our
thinking faculties still work very well.
Tomorrow, without aids, I wonder
what will be the lot of our kids and grandkids, with more ego and more crutches!
Where emotions are being programmed into robots, what will happen to the human
beings themselves?
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Speakingtree Blog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari
Wednesday 21 June 2023
External Mask
Why is it that we are unable to
be peaceful Consistently? It’s not as if we don’t know what constitutes peace.
We are very well aware. Yet, we allow it to be disturbed every now and then.
Other humans affect us whether we
like it or not, or want it or not. A super human control I have yet to see!
Except in my guru who is far more elevated.
Instead of perfecting our
external masks, ideally, we must master being our intrinsic selves. Our minds
are devious. We have learnt the art of hiding our turbulence as an ocean would
conceal its waves to create the illusion of appearing calm. But it takes
forever to actually BE what we are pretending to be.
Also, the fact is, the more you
try to BE the path, the more severe the obstacles that confront you to
challenge you further. And the stronger should be your courage, not only to
overcome these challenges to forge ahead but also to pay the price the universe
demands of you. By leaving much behind you, for, unless you learn to leave the
baggage behind, you will have to struggle more to BECOME the path.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Speakingtree Blog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari
Wednesday 14 June 2023
A Pinch of Wisdom
To get even a pinch of wisdom, we
go through a lot of struggle. Of experiencing desire, cravings, anger, envy
etc. and then finally, the acceptance that some things are not in our hands.
This is one pinch of wisdom but the struggle may be a very long one. We all
live on hope. And while there is hope, we often fail to see things as they are.
Hope is not a bad thing. However,
an acceptance of the current reality makes life easier, even if it is
unpalatable. And change can happen too. Anytime!
The whole world prays since there
is a basic realization that only that X factor called God can help. That is the
bottom line after realization dawns.
The pinch of wisdom! Surrender!
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Speakingtree Blog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari
Monday 12 June 2023
Wednesday 7 June 2023
Journey
If you lose sight of the winds, your journey on water can be turbulent. If you lose sight of the flow of a river, your journey can be rocky! And if you lose sight of your spirituality, you can become a rudderless ship with no guide.
The soul is the guide to your
physical being. It is the voice in the wilderness. It is the chirping of the birds,
the music in the valleys, the echo in the mountains.
Close your eyes and your mind and
the world disappears for you to hear these sounds of your inner being.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Monday 5 June 2023
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