BlissTarang

  In the vastness of inattention, there is a thread of attention In the ocean of forgetfullness, there is a drop of memory In the galaxy of vacuum, there are some grains of matter In the continuum of existence, there is figment of space In the moment called billion billion years, there is a tick of time For what we chose to attend, there is vastness of wilful or default ignorance. In Corporate Scenario, one hunts for statistics, analysis, etc to reduce the vast dimension of data. This in debate of sages vs scientist is refered to as “reductionist” approach where we reduce everything to mind-friendly patterns or equation or theories. And this precisely what is contradicted by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his book Black Swan where the affinity to the known makes us enemity or dislodger  to the infinity of unknown. In Corporate, One has to be mindful and awareful of wider gamut of data always to see if one is missing the assimilation of outlier in quest to pat...

“Why don’t employees in my company rise above the monetary gains to selves?” “What is the missing link between “professionalism” and “emotional being” that we are?” These and many questions haunt many a leaders nowadays. Since time immemorial, humans have existed in communities. These communities transformed depending on thrival-instincts and survival extincts. These communities took different shape, size, localizations and thrived on varied occupancy around basic food, shelter, clothing, social interactions. From ancient times of everyday food gathering to food preservation for long term to “subsistence” to barter systems to “mudra” systems to monetary systems, the skill levels kept changing and expanding. During each change, the social purpose also kept changing in terms of “time devoted for social interactions”, ” geographical reach of social interactions”, “physical presence during social interactions”, “physical space of social interactions”, “blending economic...

“How are you feeling?” started the conversation for Rajesh. Dilip replied, “Nothing good”. Their learned friend standing by the side switched the awareness… …nothing good …no thing is good …all things are not good …all things that matter are not good …all things that matter are not giving the matterless-the good …all matters are not giving the matterless …all forms failing the formless. For all the formless to exist, there is a form that delivers the emotion or experience. For example…redness which is a formless quality cannot exist without a matter or form which carries the redness. Redness waves need the form for the necessary qualia or subjective experience. It is said in wisdom scriptures that one should constantly carry feelings/formlessness of happiness, purity, bliss, peace, love, power of will, compassion. A deep inquiry sets a question as to -where do we carry this? And an integral question is, “ is this feeling the effect we look for or the ca...

Bandra Western Express Highway, Mumbai. Two trees in the background of the picture. One laden with blushing leaves, swinging branches, smiling bark. The other tree impoverished and famished. My vehicle pulled over to the side and  I walked a few curious steps towards the nearest residence and submitted by inquiry, “what’s the story with the two trees?”. The neighbor smiled and said that till a few months back, both of them completed a beautiful partnership like Sachin-Kambli school-cricketing historic partnership of 664 runs. Then somehow one of them lost its way and to the sway. Somehow this seemingly adjacent but contrasting outcomes to almost same inputs (as like above) remains the ever so mysterious enigma. It was this stroke of insight that even drove Deepak Chopra towards spirited Spiritual quest. He was unable to comprehend how two patients with almost same history, health,potential , treatment from same Dr…would give conflicting outcomes. One ancient acco...

“let’s quickly leave” quipped Chandi. Nandy smiled “why don’t we just stay a bit and help Kishan”. Chandi’s mind which had already left the office was annoyed at being called back. “Why should I bother? It’s not my job. Besides it doesn’t figure in my KPI”. “My job is different from your job and I would do my bit and move on”…is the common attitude at most workplaces. Many a times this very approach also leads to dismal understanding about the fact that while each department has to be named differently and having specific objectives, it is intricately, un-removably intertwined with other department. Some Ancient scriptures talk about a philosophy of non-dualism which means that …there is no distinction between the self (purusham) and the nature/universe (prakriti) or …in other words the subject-object experience that makes up all our experiences are one (this is even revealed in the latest scientific leap called qualia which means that ultimately all experie...