The Conscious Engine

Define love, and regret defining it. The moment you define it, you confine it. Describe love, and regret describing it. The moment you describe it; words begin appearing thin. There are no scriptures for love. No charts. No dictionaries. No principles capable of containing it. Love is within man. Love is shut up inside man; it needs only to be released. The question is not how to produce it, but how to uncover it. Take the example of digging a well into the earth. All we do is dig, and after some depth, the water appears. Uncovering love is just as simple. But man has devoted more time to creating obstructions than to becoming a facilitator of love. Take our beloved Ganga. She flows from Gangotri, travelling through narrow strips, steep mountains, then meandering across the plains of North India before dividing herself into countless distributaries just before entering the sea. Just as slope is inherent to the ground, and the ability to flow is inherent to water, so is love...

Talking about Ram and Krishna without Sita and Radha is like aloo ke parathe without aloo.   Both men were shaped by very different journeys of life. One had to fight for his love, lose her, win her back, and eventually lose her again, only to remain within the restraints society expected him to uphold. The other stood above restraints, flowing through life as if existence itself was a play. Yet even Krishna was bound by karma. And when the moment came, he too left. Sita and Radha are not two different women. They are two different sides of love itself. What makes Sita unique? Or rather, what takes Ram away from Sita? The curse of identity. The burden of being “the wife of Ram.” Ram walked with restraint, and so did Sita. Her love, in the eyes of society, became something to be judged, measured, and questioned. That is the curse identity carries. From leaving behind a palace, comforts, luxuries, and walking barefoot into an unknown forest with her husband, to living in huts...

 The paradox about Krishna is that we cannot accept him as a whole. The one who accepts his childhood innocence cannot accept his actions as a teenager. The one who accepts his youth- killing Kansa, lifting Govardhan, standing fearless before kings -cannot digest the fact that every woman in Vrindavan stops when his flute begins to play. They all appear to be dancing with him, lost in Ras. The very women who fell in love with Krishna’s flute are also the subjects of his mischief. They go for a private bath in the lake, and what does this boy do? He steals their clothes, climbs a tree, and starts playing the flute. And yet, they end up loving him even more. The one who accepts his wisdom cannot accept his changing stance and seeming neutrality. The one who accepts his divinity cannot understand why a God chooses to live so deeply as a human - as a mischievous child, as a teenager, as a friend. Krishna is unique because he is whole. He lives life completely. He does what he d...

What is time? How can we define Time? The question should be that can we define time? Or is it the time that defines us. Is time a thing? Can we touch it or see it? Is it a resource? Is it a commodity? Is it a constraint on humans? Is it guide or coach or supporter or counsellor or preacher or speaker of truth? Or is time the only thing defined in this universe? Is it never ending? Does time defines everything that happens around us and in our universe. Is time a medicine or a healer? Is it an investment or is it everything? Or we don’t really know what time really is? For a clergyman, TIME stands for “Technical Instrument for the measurement of Existence.” The Greek thinker Aristotle defines time as “the calculable measure of motion with respect to before and after. Physicists define time as the progression of events from the past to the present into the future. Time is considered to be the fourth dimension of reality, used to describe events in three dimensional space. Stephen Hawk...

For the crimes of the eyes, the heart paid the price. For the crimes of the eyes, many wished they were blind. From the crimes of the eyes, life taught “living.” Whether the world outside is real or a simulation is uncertain. But the world inside the head is undeniably perception. An image received upside down by the retina, carried through rods and cones to the brain at unimaginable speed, might just be the root of every problem at hand. Eyes let us see. And that itself is the core problem. Because when one sees, one compares. When one does not see, one does not compare. Let us look through a few moments. Take the 2019 run-out of MS Dhoni.Or Rohit Sharma stepping out to Glenn Maxwell in the 9.5 over of 2023. Everyone who witnessed those tears cried too. Even today, memes roam around with the line: “Khada hoon aaj bhi wahi.” If only one could unsee certain moments, one would. When eyes see, eyes compare. Comparison creates relativity - either inferiority or superiori...

Humans evolved by living in collective shared memory and experience. It was because we were nomads for majority of our history and have settled only for past 12000 years. The evolution of our body was aimed at highest survival chances. The cells would have analyzed, stored and adapted to numerous patterns in order to achieve the most restrain less path. We evolved from nomads to settlements. We have traversed from collective security of tribe to individual good. Survival needed a construct. Construct ensured collective security and shared benefit. But it came with its drawbacks. The fear of the opinion of others and the fear of being left alone. We evolved, but we also degraded the construct we live. Humans learn by mimicking. Earlier life was pre dominantly controlled by this construct. Modern life is controlled by so called State, which is only 250 years old. Think about it, why is that you are only two brother or sister? Simple cause State wanted it that way. During Emergency (1...