u/unchainedcycle

For context :

Jainism can be studied by 4 main angle of approaches, they are called Anuyog.

1. Prathamanuyog - stories, biographies, examples and historical or legendary accounts
2. Karananuyog - cosmological / mathematical / karmic-process approach
3. Charananuyog - conduct / spiritual-practice approach**
4. Dravyanuyog - Metaphysics, absolute nature of reality, substances, etc.

(You can check out my attached digital wiki like interconnected notes on it to dig deeper.)

So my Question is do you find yourself leaning more onto one anuyog?

Ideally I feel all the anuyogs compliment and empower each other hence they all should be leveraged in a balanced way, but wanted to gauge how y'all are going about it!

Need help with a practical tax dilemma.

My father bought ITC shares before 31 Jan 2018 through a small broker. Those holdings were later transferred to Zerodha, and unfortunately neither we nor the old broker have the original purchase price records anymore.

After the ITC Hotels demerger, he received ITC Hotels shares and sold them in FY 2025-26.

The issue is that Section 49 requires the original ITC acquisition cost to be allocated (86.49% to ITC and 13.51% to ITC Hotels), but I don't have the original cost.

My thought was to use the 31 Jan 2018 FMV as the base instead, since grandfathering already deems that as the cost for pre-2018 ITC shares. For example:

• ITC FMV (31 Jan 2018): ₹276/share
• Allocate this using the official ratio:
  • ITC: 86.49%
  • ITC Hotels: 13.51%
• So if he had 10 ITC shares then cost as per FMV was 2760.
• After demerger, the 10 ITC shares would become 10 ITC and 1 Hotel,
• So the cost splits like:
  • 86.49% of 2760 = 2387.12 in ITC and
  • 13.51% of 2760 = 372.8in ITC hotel
  • Since he had 10 ITC shares, I would divide it by 10 to get per share value of 238.71 for itc and for hotels it will directly be 372.87.

However, ChatGPT argued that this is not legally correct, because the FMV is only a deemed cost for computing gains on ITC under the grandfathering provisions and does not replace the original acquisition cost for the purpose of demerger cost allocation.

So my question is:

If you held ITC before 2018 but don't know the original purchase price, how did you compute the cost of acquisition for ITC Hotels? Did your CA/broker use FMV, reconstruct the original cost, or follow some other method?

PS: I posted about it last year but had wrong FMV and also chatgpt highlighted it to be wrong hence posting again. - https://www.reddit.com/r/IndianStockMarket/s/M9tI4FALpL

I'm about to begin what will probably be a long journey studying hypnosis, NLP, suggestion, attention, and the psychology of the human mind. Before I start buying books and diving in, I'd love some guidance from people who have spent years studying this field.

I've already gone through this subreddit's wiki, but I couldn't figure out which books focus on the mechanics of hypnosis rather than just how to perform it or use it therapeutically.

To explain where I'm coming from:

I'm a Jain. One of the central ideas in Jain philosophy is that our perception and actions are constantly influenced by passions, attachments, delusions, and deeply ingrained conditioning. These are described through the concept of Mohaniya Karma, not something I expect everyone here to believe in literally, but you can think of it as the forces that bias, entice, or "pull" the mind away from clarity and conscious choice.

My interest is understanding whether the human mind has inherent vulnerabilities that make it susceptible to suggestion, persuasion, and conditioning, and whether those vulnerabilities can be consciously strengthened against.

There's also a Jain meditation tradition called Preksha Dhyan. My current hypothesis is that it may be training some of the same underlying cognitive or neurological processes that influence suggestibility. I don't know whether that's actually true, or whether I'm simply seeing patterns where none exist. That's one of the things I hope to find out through study rather than assumption.

My goal isn't performance, entertainment, or even therapeutic practice—at least not yet.

I want to understand the theory and mechanics first.

Questions I'm trying to answer include:

• What exactly makes the mind susceptible to hypnosis or suggestion?
• Which cognitive processes or neurological systems are involved?
• Is there any consensus on what changes during hypnosis?
• Can suggestibility be consciously reduced, trained, or regulated?
• Are there books that explain the science and mechanisms in depth rather than simply teaching induction techniques?

I do not want superficial answers and I am willing to do the grunt work of reading multiple books, through this post I do not need direct answers but guidance on how to go about it.

For now, I don't intend to practice hypnosis on anyone or even attempt self-hypnosis. I'd rather build a solid theoretical foundation first, then discuss my understanding and conclusions with experts and knowledgeable people in my own circle before experimenting with anything practical.

If you were starting from scratch with the goal of understanding the science and mechanics of hypnosis, not becoming a performer or therapist, which books, papers, or resources would you recommend?

Thanks in advance. I'm looking forward to learning, and I'm equally happy to discover that some of my assumptions are wrong if the evidence points elsewhere.

Okay I will start with my story, I am a Software developer based out of Pune.
I feel I am at that spot in my life for last couple of years where I have tried all the stuff that was labelled "cool" by my generation (well not everything, but a lot of it) and after going through em, I have realised that all these do not interest me that much.
All the club hopping, luxury maxxing, dating, gaming, parties, Social media influencing, blogging, Series/movie binging, cafe hopping, Hotel surfing, travelling, etc. are not enticing to me anymore. I find it all very transient and superficial.

I am a minimalist and I own very basic things, do not crave a lot of money or anything for that matter. I cook my own simple satvik food, at times repeating things for months, without getting bored. I hardly go out apart from office. I do play sports but I am minimising it now to an hour a day only (Used to play for 5-6 hours and at times 3-4 different sports in a day). And for anyone from outside observing me, they would probably feel pity towards my boring life.

But I have never been more passionate about learning things! I am studying jainism, Neuroscience, Biology, Mathematics, Physics, Music, and what not! I connect with any passionate person and I instantly make notes on what to explore next! I am building my second brain using obsidian's backlinking notes (you can checkout my profile for more deets) and I am loving this phase of my life where I am not chasing dopamine from transient things which do not add value in my life in the long term.

With this post I intend to attract more people like myself who are super passionate about something lately, so much so that they have cut down all sorts of external transient dopamine distractions. I have been guilty of using Social media, series, movies, gaming and dating to chase the dopamine highs, and all of them very repetitive traps that kept me hooked to em. I feel I am finally free from it for past year or so. And I want to be around more such folks so I learn and grow with em.

So if you are one. Hmu, share your (hopefully healthy) passion and we will propel each other!

Btw, this video summarises my intent very well -

Just stumbled on the sub, and thought to drop my current food schedule.

I tried different cooks and they all tend to make unhealthy food, pour in litres of oil in food within weeks, they don't wash hands and utensils properly if not monitored and the drama of food preferences just made it very difficult to continue.

So I had to take matters into my own hands.

I have been studying Jainism a lot lately, and I see food being a big part of how we think and act in life, infact food is if not the biggest, then surely one of the biggest strong kashay and karm bandhan source.

So I tried coming up with satvik food, I have given up my cravings for taste so I can very well survive on the same food. But I include variety out of need for nutrition.

I am an ectomorph, and I play sports too, so I need to take extra care else I turn into a skeleton very easily, I tend to do unodri as well, so number of meals are important.

In case you are curious about Jain food and diet and correlation of it with modern nutrition science hmu, I made a course on it(using AI and referring to actual human made references) and am studying using it.

Here's my list of dishes:

• Morning pre-breakfast - soaked dry fruits (munakka, apricot, peanuts, walnuts, almonds)

• Morning Breakfast - Dahi with soaked poha or Upma or suji Dhokla

• Lunch - Boiled chana, corn chaat with cucumber and tomato(if I am going to office) else besan or moong chilla, or khichdi

• Dinner (before sunset) - usually Khichdi or chilla or daliya

In between I sneak in fruits, protein shake, Sattu ka drink, and snacks like makhana, jowar or ragi murmura, roasted chana, peanuts, khakhra, etc.

I make sure I do not eat anything with sugar and oil, and root veges. I try not to make any virudh ahar as per ayurveda so things get tricky there as well.

Please share more of your meal ideas to enrich my list!

I meditate and I stay extra vigilant on observing my feelings and actions. I dig deep at micro thoughts and make sure I think right. Even if I think about something wrong, I willfully make sure that I do not do anything wrong. It can be in micro decisions of greed for getting a little extra food, making a small lie for convenience, acting out of lethargy, or preferring myself over others.

In the quest of being able to monitor and be on top of everything that I do, I realized dreams are a big gap. This is why I got introduced to lucid dreaming.

A part of being vigilant is knowing what does what before doing it. I am in that stage of lucid dreaming where I am figuring out what it does in terms of neuroscience. I have been studying "Why We Sleep" and some other courses connecting meditation with sleep neuroscience and Jainism.

>Here is what I understand so far, and I want to ask some practical questions based on this.

We have different brain regions responsible for different things.

• During normal sleep, a few parts hibernate and others continue to work, like the glymphatic system flushing out toxins or the hippocampus converting short term memory to long term memory.
• There is also a part of the brainstem that blocks motor commands, which induces temporary paralysis so we do not act out our dreams.
• During Rapid Eye Movement, or REM sleep, our brain experiences a dramatic shift. The emotional and sensory regions, like the amygdala and the visual cortex, become hyperactive.
• Meanwhile, the logical and self aware centers, specifically the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, go numb.
• This unique imbalance creates highly vivid dreams while stripping away our ability to control them or even realize they are bizarre.
• When we lucid dream, we essentially force that dorsolateral prefrontal cortex to wake up and fire high frequency gamma waves, which are usually reserved for intense, waking focus. We are keeping the logic and self awareness centers active while the rest of the REM brain functions normally.

Because the brain is running this extra machinery when it is supposed to be (or maybe not supposed to be but is usually) resting, I have a hunch that lucid dreaming might cause a notable energy loss and leads to inefficient sleep. It feels like we are forcing a processing unit to run overtime.

I want to know the practical implications of this from the community.

Questions:

1. As a practitioner, do you feel you do not wake up fresh after a lucid dream? Do you ever feel hazy during the day, sleepy, or notice any issues with memory consolidation?
2. Since mindfulness and meditation naturally increase our waking vigilance, do you find that high lucidity in dreams starts to disrupt your deep, non REM restorative sleep over time?
3. For those who lucid dream frequently, how do you balance the mental energy cost of directing your dreams with the brain's biological need for complete, unconscious rest?

Hey!

I am a software developer, but I am obsessed with physical, mental, emotional, financial, intellectual and spiritual health! And hence I easily get obsessed with learning all sorts of things.

Learning complex things, interconnected domain, finding common patterns across Jainism, Sciences, psychology, other philosophies, etc. Is something that I take as my life goal.

I've got endless topics to study, hence I have made different systems to organise it, build workflows to research and absorb them properly, ways to retain them and inculcate them in my life as well.

But this journey can feel lonely at times, so looking for other passionate folks who would like to just converse on things, be it our learning frameworks or just specofoc topics or domains that we are going gaga over at a particular time.

You can check out my last post to get a reference of what I am talking about when I say learning frameworks.

My intent is not to give unsolicited gyaan to someone else, the intent is to meet curious intellectuals and inculcate their good habits and mental models in my life, and in exchange share my experiments and processes.

Please help me with your hack to get to airport cheap.

Some groups for car/can pools, blah blah type apps, etc.

Or in case someone is going tomorrow for 8pm flight, lemme know, we can split.