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Absurdism begins with the clash between our need for meaning and a silent universe that offers none. Camus rejected both despair and false consolations. Instead, he called for revolt. Clear eyed acceptance of the absurd, lived with full awareness and passion. Meaning is not foun. It is created, moment by moment, in the act of continuing. One must imagine Sisyphus happy..

>The man says "I am from UP, I am earning in Mumbai, Maharashtra. But the people from Maharashtra should learn the language of UP, we won’t learn Marathi. "

The problem is not about the Language, its about this elites entitled attitude, which this man is showing, and its seen is all level from a panipuri seller to CEOs, which is rotting the core social & cultural structure of this county's diversity.

Cities like Mumbai & Bengaluru, and its people layed down foundations, build ecosystem for growth and show inclusivity towards others in the spirit of nation building and its grown, which a significant number people migrating, reciprocated with same spirit.

But, the problem starts with influx of migration of people - who has no sense of humility, no gratitude towards the city that put bread and butter on their table and the people who hosted and accommodated them (can confidently say about BLR) .

• Sitting in an authoritative position and driving away natives for not speaking Hindi.
• Showing dominance once comfortably settled, claiming Hindi as National Language and demanding it.
• Getting agitated and brawling with natives when they don't respond in Hindi.
• On top of it aggressive display of entitlement, condensing the regional culture, people, language.
• Now this dominance have transformed into such assault .

This is when the natives, that were once welcoming go resentful, and that turmoil begins destroying the ethos of these cities/state in this country. And all this is increasing day by day.

This is the main reason Hindi is not welcomed in southern states. Its because of this mindset, not the inability to learn the language !

It’s easy to display patriotism through symbolic acts like hoisting the flag or singing patriotic songs. The real test of patriotism is whether a person is willing to live by those values.

Source: https://x.com/MNSReportEng/status/2087165485829988452

We’ve all heard or sung lines like “Yeh Dil Tum Bin Kahin Lagta Nahin” at some point. It’s usually brushed off as just another classic romantic song about missing someone.

But if you pause and lookcloser, the lyrics actually capture a much deeper, almost tragic human confusion:

“Mohabbat kar toh lein lekin mohabbat raas aaye bhi,

Dilon ko bojh lagte hain kabhi zulfon ke saaye bhi.”

(We try to love, but does love ever truly suit us? Even the comforting shadows of hair start feeling like a heavy burden on the heart.)

What is this really about?

Think about how we live our lives. We constantly run after people, relationships, objects, and worldly attachments, hoping they will finally fix our inner emptiness. We think, "If only I find the right person, if only I am loved enough, my restlessness will vanish."

That is what the song calls mohabbat, our usual, transactional version of love. We cling to things and people not out of real care, but because we are lonely, scared, and looking for a crutch to prop up our false sense of self.

The Heavy Price of False Attachment

Soon enough, reality hits. The very things we held on to for comfort start turning into heavy chains. The relationships we thought would save us become suffocating. Why? Because you cannot cure an inner spiritual void by stuffing it with external objects or people.

When you seek validation or completeness outside yourself, every attachment becomes a burden (bojh). You are carrying the heavy baggage of expectations, insecurities, and constant fear of loss.

The Real Question

The song laments:

“Yeh dil tum bin kahin lagta nahin, hum kya karein?”

(This heart doesn't find peace anywhere without you, what should I do?)

In a worldly sense, "you" means a lover. But looking at it deeply, the missing "you" isn't another person, it is our own true nature. Because we are disconnected from our real self, the mind wanders restlessly from one distraction to another, never finding a home.

True love isn't about clinging to someone to escape your loneliness. It’s about letting go of the false self that feels lonely in the first place. When the illusion drops, the burden lifts.

Has a song ever made you look at your own patterns of attachment this way? Do share your insights or interpretations of these lines!

[PS: Sung By Akanksha]

𝘘𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘳: Is it possible to live alone?

𝘈𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘺𝘢 𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘵: Why does this question arise?

𝘘𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘳: Because I don’t want to get married.

𝘈𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘺𝘢 𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘵: Why don’t you want to get married?

𝘘𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘳: Because I want to go on the path of spirituality. And, dependency should not be there. I feel that if I marry someone, I will be dependent.

𝘈𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘺𝘢 𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘵: What if you are dependent on somebody or something else even if you don’t marry?

𝘘𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘳: I feel complete without marriage.

𝘈𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘺𝘢 𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘵: Then, why does this question arise?

𝘘𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘳: Because sometimes there is a loneliness in my mind, I want to get rid of that.

𝘈𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘺𝘢 𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘵: So, you are already, in a way, wedded to that loneliness. Right?

It is not the woman that troubles you, it is the feeling, the attachment, the loneliness, the dependency. They may be there even if the woman is not there.

>Had liberation been just about not having a woman in your life or not marrying, then it would have been so simplistic. Don’t marry and you are liberated.

It does not happen that way.

𝘘𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘳: Nobody can live alone.

𝘈𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘺𝘢 𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘵: Yes, we don’t live alone because we live with our despair, our desperation, with all our suppressed desires, we live with them. And because we live that way, so even when a man or a woman comes into our life, we color him or her with these things.

So, a woman or a man is not responsible if we feel bonded or suffocated. That suffocation has only been made manifest by the presence of another person, precipitated by the person. It is actually coming from something in your mind and that something in your mind is your basic sense of becoming.

"I want to become something else, what can help me become that? Without that, I am lonely, I want to become complete. A woman helps me, so, when a woman is not there, I feel lonely. I want to become spiritual, a woman hinders me, so, I want to keep the woman away." This desire to become, this desire to reach, to transform- that is what you need to divorce. The woman you can easily wed, it’s okay. Or you may not wed, that too is okay.

All of that is incidental, secondary.

We all are born married.

So, now it is not in your hands to not to marry.

First of all, your wife is this body and it’s a very obsessive wife. Try keeping her away! And a very demanding wife. Then, the mind, the tendencies, ten other things, you are wedded to all of that.

>So, where is the question of not marrying?

Get rid of these things, and then, even if a woman comes to your life, it is alright. You feel like, marry her. Don’t feel like, don’t marry her.

It’s okay.

🤩 Jamie has come all over from Australia and dancing

🤔 Where are you?

WWM 7.0 in Goa

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A person has a big house, several cars, a high-paying job, impressive degrees, awards, followers, or a growing business and we quickly call them “successful.”

But how do we actually know?

A new chapter from Excellence by Acharya Prashant, “The success stories of ambitious people: Be careful!”, questions something that has become almost normal today: choosing our role models and ambitions from what we see on a screen.

Social media gives us carefully selected pieces of people's lives. We see the achievement, the lifestyle, the celebration, the interview. We rarely see the whole person or know what is happening within.

So what exactly are we admiring?

And what happens when we start measuring our own lives against these images ?

A bigger salary. A better rank. More followers. Another car. Another house. Another promotion. Another milestone.

More and more.

But is “more” necessarily something new ?

Acharya Prashant raises an uncomfortable possibility: perhaps ambition is simply a larger form of desire, and much of what we call ambition comes from old biological and social conditioning. We may believe we are freely choosing our goals while simply repeating what the world has taught us to want.

That makes another question important:

Are our ambitions actually ours?

Before deciding what we want to achieve, perhaps we need to ask who taught us what is worth achieving in the first place.

Have you read Excellence yet, especially this chapter ?

If you have, what did you notice? And if you haven't, what do you think about this question:

How much of what we call “success” is actually our own understanding, and how much have we simply learned to desire from the world around us ?

A piece of wood has no idea

that there is fire hidden within it,

until it comes into the company of flames.

And when it turns into fire,

it is no longer just wood.

A human being is the same,

unaware of the blaze within,

until he comes close to someone

who himself is burning in the fire of love.

There are only two choices in life,

become fire before you turn to dust,

or else turning to dust is certain;

for the wood that does not burn

rots away,

and one day becomes dust.