The Sacred Within the Ordinary

Premanand Ji Maharaj of Mathura tells a beautiful story. A story which, in its simplicity, tells you what real dharma means, what it means to stay rooted in dharma irrespective of whatever domain you are in.

And the story also proves that being a proponent of dharma is no copyright of just renunciates and ascetics.

The story goes like this.

There was a very strong-willed tapasvi who was doing his sadhana under a tree.

After a long session of meditation, suddenly he was jolted into the realisation that a bird sitting in the branches above had happened to drop its excrement on him.

Now, looking at the bird dropping on his saffron robe, he got very angry instinctively. He cursed the poor bird.

Since this tapasvi had built up a lot of energy because of his sadhanas, the curse materialised and the bird was turned to ashes instantly.

After some time, this tapasvi set out to ask for alms, as the ascetics used to do in older times.

Standing in front of a house, he spoke in a loud voice, asking for the attention of the household.

A young woman came out and, looking at the sannyasi with his bowl standing in front of their door, she very politely and courteously asked him to wait.

The sannyasi thought that she would straightaway go and fetch the alms.

But much to his surprise, she did not return for a few minutes.

In the meantime, the woman had gone to seek the permission of her husband, who was doing something in the inner courtyard.

When she informed him that there was a sannyasi standing in front of the door asking for alms, he smiled and said, "What was the use of coming back and seeking permission for this? You should have straightaway gone on to give him something to eat or drink."

She smiled politely and said, "I am just fulfilling my patni dharma, the moral dharma of a wife."

This interaction had taken about a couple of minutes.

In the meantime, the ascetic standing in front of the house lost his patience.

When the woman came out with some food after a couple of minutes, he got very angry, being impulsive and angry by nature.

He shouted, "This is not punya, this is sin! This is not virtue. You have made a sannyasi stand in front of your house for a long time, and you don't seem to be concerned about the virtue of serving the ascetic standing in front of your house."

Before he could go into a cursing spree, the young woman, confidently but with discipline, dignity and respect, and yet with firmness, said, "Stop. You being a sannyasi does not mean that you can go around cursing people like you cursed that poor bird this morning."

The sannyasi was very much taken aback.

How can this woman, this simple housewife who does not seem to have done any sadhana, know what happened this morning?

So, in surprise, he asked her, "How do you know what happened this morning?"

She said, "I know that I am not doing sadhana like you, but I am rooted in my dharma. That is the duty of my household affairs and my affection and faith in my husband as my partner. All along I keep God's name in my mind and heart. 

"That is my dharma. I am rooted in it, and it is as good as performing a sadhana like you are doing.

"Now, if you want further elaboration on this, go..."

She mentioned a place nearby and told him, "Go to that place, and there you will find a man, a butcher selling meat. Go and ask him. He will tell you something more about it. I know you are curious about how I know what happened with you this morning."

The ascetic was very much surprised, thinking, how can a person who is engaged in meat selling, who is a butcher by trade, elaborate on this?

He is not even in dharma!

At least this woman is rooted in dharma in her role as a housewife, in her duties to her house as well as in her trust and commitment to her husband.

But this butcher, I don't think he will have anything to elaborate on this.

Still, he was full of curiosity, and he walked in that direction.

He reached the place and saw that the butcher was not that old, just around forty, a very dignified, decent-looking fellow weighing meat, with customers standing around.

When there was no customer, the ascetic approached him and asked him, "What kind of task is this? You are trading in meat?"

So instead of asking him something, he started preaching to him about the dharma of killing, of eating meat and all this.

The meat seller laughed.

He said, "Now don't just vent out your anger on me just because you happen to have been reprimanded by a young housewife just now."

The ascetic was taken aback.

How come this meat seller knows what happened just a few minutes ago?

It's something very surprising.

So he asked him, "How do you know that there was some incident between me and a young housewife just a few minutes ago?"

The young man, the meat seller, laughed.

He said, "I am not doing sadhana like you, but I do my sadhana in a very small and simple way.

"I am busy. This is my trade as a butcher. I have inherited this occupation to fulfil my responsibility as a householder.

"I take part in this trading, but I am not attached to it.

"Even while weighing meat, I am still engaged in remembrance of God.

"Whenever I get time, I fulfil my rituals. I do my bhajan. I sing in praise of the Lord.

"And even while I am holding my weighing scale, I am just looking at it to give it perfect balance in full equanimity.

"So even though I am into this job, but I am not this job. I am just playing this role.

"My dharma is to stay in remembrance of God as much as possible.

"So that is my dharma."

Dear readers, the moral of the story is that it's not what you do, or the kind of job you are into, that alone decides your dharma.

Dharma is not just limited to those who go to the forest or perform rituals or are doing sadhanas.

It is for everybody, wherever you are, provided you are fulfilling your responsibilities and engaged in your activities that demand your attention and time because you are fulfilling a certain social role.

But alongside, if you are rooted in your full detachment from that activity, in remembrance of God, you are as good a tapasvi as any one of the sadhus meditating in remote caves.

The Whispering Forest: The Unseen Drama of Life

 2020

The World of Trees, Plants, Fungi and Small Insects

## The Hidden Communication and Relationships of Trees

1. All the time, chemical alarm signals are buzzing around within the trees, through the air. Fungal networks around roots also allow them to carry warning signals. Chemical compounds and electrical impulses travel at the rate of ⅓ inch per second.

2. Fungal intermediaries within the rooting complex intermix many plant species.

3. In this apparent silence, it is a talkative world, warning, competing, co-habiting.

4. Colour and fragrance are invitations to insects, bees and caterpillars to work, pollinate and get their reward in return.

5. Within the same species of trees, fungi around roots carry out nutrient redistribution work from stronger to the weaker, providing a form of social security.

6. “A tree can only be as strong as the forest that surrounds it.” — Peter Wohlleben.

7. “A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.”

8. In heavy blooms, even wind helps pollination.

9. On a massive scale, trees produce huge amounts of pollen to be carried by bees, insects and wind.

10. Pollen fertilises the female flowers.

11. Male and female blossoms: Some trees have male and female organs in the same blossom.

12. A pollen grain landing on a stigma activates its genes. Through a tube developing from it, it moves down towards the ovary, looking for an egg, leading to the development of fruit and seeds.

13. Male flowers give off alluring aromas and colours, attracting insects to them. Later, the bees move to more sober female flowers, transporting pollen to them. The male pollen has to move to the female for procreation.

14. Trees avoid reproducing their own gene pools by interbreeding and getting pollen from other trees.

## Survival, Fungal Networks and the Secret Life of Trees

1. Normally, trees defend themselves by making their leaves excessively bitter for insects.

2. Over its reproductive age, a tree produces millions of nuts and seeds, all in the hope of keeping its genes alive. At the end of it, after a lifetime of fruit-bearing, if a single son or daughter thrives to reach adult status, it is called successful reproduction.

3. Cambium is the life-giving layer under the bark.

4. Trees scream at the ultrasonic level through crackling roots and vibrating trunks.

5. Fungi lie somewhere between plants and animals. Their cell walls are made of chitin, which is not found in plants and makes them a bit like insects. Unlike plants, they cannot photosynthesise and take organic nutrients to feed on living beings. Their underground web, the mycelium, probes for edible tissues.

6. Some fungal masses cover hundreds of hectares and are hundreds of years old.

7. Trees cooperate with fungal networks to optimise their water and nutrition intake. These webs connect with the webs of other trees, serving as agents of nutrient exchange and even alarm communication, such as during insect attacks.

8. For their service, the fungi charge doses of sugars and carbohydrates from trees.

9. Diversity is a safe voucher for security.

10. Wood-boring beetles and bark beetles hack away at the trees' life-sustaining cambium.

11. The trunk consists of long tubes for transporting water through a suction mechanism fuelled by transpiration, osmosis and capillary action.

12. A majestic banyan ageing gracefully.

## The Tree as a Living World

1. A normal human sheds around 0.05 ounces of skin cells every day. Around 10 billion particles flake off us every day, making about 0.7 pounds in a year.

2. Algae, moss and fungi on the old bark are like the mirrors of an old, old tree's soul. Decomposition.

3. An old tree's bark giving way to fungal growth.

4. Oak — a symbol of longevity and fortitude.

5. A dwarf tree, almost a shrub, in the tundra may take a century to grow one foot.

6. Trees and plants are Mother Earth's clothes. We are ripping them apart, forcing her into nakedness.

7. Peter Wohlleben: “An organism that is too greedy and takes too much without giving anything in return destroys what it needs for life and dies out.” So there is an inherent tendency to avoid overexploitation.

8. A tree has sugars, lignin, cellulose, water, carbohydrates and minerals. These add up to millions of calories.

9. Aphids, also called plant lice or greenflies, suck tree fluids, filter protein for their growth and expel much of the sugars and carbohydrates as honeydew.

10. Sap-sucking pests, leaf-eaters and bark peelers feed on different parts of trees.

11. Ladybugs feast upon aphids, while ants eat honeydew.

12. Midges, wasps, bacteria, fungi and caterpillars are among the many small organisms associated with trees.

13. Butterflies, moths, flies, wasps and beetles are also part of this living world.

14. A growing plant's leading shoots are nibbled off, turning them prematurely aged, bent and bowed.

15. Fungus, mushrooms and tree stumps: Their rooting mycelium plunders nutrients and sugars from the tree's cambium, leaving mouldy wood.

## Photosynthesis, Defence and the Breathing Forest

1. Photosynthesis is the process of changing light and CO₂ into sugars.

2. Nesting cavities provide homes for creatures living in trees.

3. Pecking among wood to get beetle larvae.

4. Hermit beetles are not too eager to move around. They spend their time in a hole in a mouldy trunk.

5. Diversity ensures that one species does not take over.

6. Bracket fungus — possibly *HID* (fire).

7. Leaves are the solar panels of a tree.

8. Trees produce defensive compounds called phytoncides. These are antibiotic in character and keep their surroundings safe from threats by bacteria, viruses, fungi and insects.

9. Quaking aspens: Their leaves shake even in the gentlest breeze and expose both faces to the sun to photosynthesise at double the rate. In other species, photosynthesis takes place only on the upper surface, while the lower surface is normally used for breathing.

10. Flies feed on seeds, carrying the parent tree's genes to far-off places.

11. During drought conditions, the leaves get an extra waxy layer on the leaf surface. It slows down transpiration. Of course, with this cover, breathing becomes burdensome, but survival demands it.

12. Hoar frost: Plants covered under sugary frost.

13. Conifer forests contain germs in the air, so allergic people feel better in these forests.

14. In summer, trees release 29 tons of oxygen per square mile per day. A human breathes in 2 pounds of oxygen per day.

15. Marine air: Algae in salt water produce oxygen, which bubbles out of the water and compensates for oxygen deficits on landmass, especially during winters.

## Page 5 — Light, Colours and the Extraordinary Life of Leaves

1. Blue skies, bright sunshine: Trees convert sunlight, CO₂ and water into oxygen, sugars, cellulose and carbohydrates.

2. Why do we see different colours around us? Every object absorbs light differently and changes it into a different kind of radiation. The remaining wavelengths are reflected back and decide the colour we see.

3. The reflected light from leaves is, in fact, the unused spectrum of light which the chlorophyll cannot process. The uplift of our aesthetic sense is, in fact, the thrown-away portion of light.

4. Young leafy shoots are red. Why? Their soft tissue has a sunblock called anthocyanin. It blocks UV rays to protect the soft leaf sprouts. With the leaf's growth, anthocyanin is broken down by an enzyme.

5. “Tree blood” — water and nutrients move from roots to leaves at a rate of ⅓ inch per second.

6. Kichwa of Sarayaku, Ecuador: “Forests are the most exalted expression of life itself.”

7. The sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach your eyes. Photons, the packets of energy, carry light.

A Storm of Situations, a Stillness Within

October 13, 2026

October 13 happens to be my niece Saifiya's birthday. We call her Saifu with affection.

An introvert, silent girl.

She has seen very unbecoming circumstances right from childhood. Her father, a chronic drunkard, has not been able to fulfil any responsibility, and she, being the only girl child in a household stricken with her father's almost sinful carelessness, had to witness him just lying flat, fully drunk throughout the day, not going to the office for his small job for weeks altogether.

And we, her mamaji and mausi, right from the beginning, have been trying our level best to support them.

And after my mother's demise, things went so wrong that my sister's husband could no longer go to his office. He quit his small job as a factory supervisor, and there he would be throughout the day, lying drunk, senseless.

A horrible environment in the house, in that small two-room apartment that they had taken on rent.

We had been trying with our meagre resources to fill up the gaps in order to help them survive economically, but now even his little earning was gone, and it was a vicious, painful environment for a young girl.

Saifiya was 17 or 18 at that time, and that is when I realised this little flower needs a better environment. It will just wither away in such tension.

My sister has a temperament that would enable people to term her as one of the best girls in the entire village. So soft-spoken, honest, gentle, just staying on the course of domestic life on the basis of her faith, no anger, no bitching, no spreading rumours like women in neighbourhoods do.

I would say a quiet and silent sufferer.

So it was too much.

So I brought them back to our house. We had to abandon the idea of continuing with the earlier arrangement because her husband has absolutely nothing. There is no ancestral property, no savings, nothing. Even the apartment they stayed in was on rent.

And there was another consideration, the familiar question of what people would say. In conservative societies, people start passing judgements when you have your daughter sitting at your home.

But I thought if I just look at it that way, that would be like feeding this drunken leech just in order to save this so-called social objection that a woman, however hard life is for her, should stay at her husband's place.

So that is, I thought, instead of just supporting him, who does not deserve support in any way because he himself is not taking any responsibility, had he even just gone on with his small, petty job that was just sufficient for his own expenses, we would have still continued supporting our sister and niece.

But now it was impossible, and with a heavy heart I brought them to my place, and me, my brother, my sister, we have been taking care of them.

Absolutely, they are family.

In fact, to me they are the immediate family.

So the little girl, the little flower on the stage of drama of life, whom I had seen years back as a little pink-faced, tiny monkey in the hospital, just 15–20 minutes after her birth, is a young woman now and working hard to make a career.

All the best to her.

I wish her the best of life and living, and we are always there with our protective, blessing hands to nurture her, to help her realise her full potential.

And this is a sort of gift in the drama of life from her mamaji on her birthday: this article.

There is one simple thing I would like her to understand as she goes through the various situations of life.

Don't take things, people, situations personally.

Remember, we are merely playing different roles, various roles at home, in the office, in business and careers, in relationships.

Now what do I mean by taking things and situations as just roles played without taking them personally?

By merely playing a role, I mean being aware of the level of engagement involved in dealing with a situation.

The situation, of course, will have various operating elements involved in it, including people, relationships, duties, responsibilities, dos and don'ts.

So we will use the word situation, by which we mean any type of engagement a human being goes into on a routine day, involving both personal and professional domains.

So we can say, as a summary, one should not take situations personally.

There is a reasonably wide scope for our level of engagement with any type of situation. Enough to play the role of a problem solver, or being a part of it, or resolver of the issue, or facilitator of the process in some capacity.

There is a healthy level of engagement with a situation that saves the situation from turning personal.

By personal, I mean a situation that tampers with our ego and starts triggering our impulsive reactions, thus breeding hate, anger, argument, guilt, shame, etc.

I will give you certain examples to prove this point.

Suppose people are watching Ram Leela and they get involved and become something other than mere audience, take things personally, forgetting that the person playing Ravan is a chap like them acting in the epic story, and attack him.

Won't it create chaos?

Or take the example of a bureaucrat sitting on a file.

Now there can be two reasons for delay or denial: purely technical, that is, things not matching up at the legal, regulatory, policy or instructions level, or his own personal biases and judgements born of them.

If the delay is due to the latter, then it becomes problematic.

It will bring anger, which will further feed on his sense of balance and fair play.

It breeds injustice.

And all that just because he took things personally, forgetting he was playing a duty.

The only loss for him is that his ego gets more strengthened. He turns more arrogant and power-crazy.

We can also take the example of a stage play.

Suppose the actor playing the lover on stage takes things personally and starts assaulting the other actor who is playing the heroine's molester.

Won't it be crazy?

It will be, surely.

Or say two groups on the stage, standing against each other as per the plot, take things personally and cross the playwright's boundary of arguments and discussion to outright assault.

That is how it is in real life.

The role merely needs an argument, but we end up assaulting.

And assault, in its direct as well as indirect, subtle forms, is a massive nourishment for the ego.

Thus, we have to understand that there is a hierarchy of engagement with issues.

There is a threshold beyond which things turn personal, creating chaos.

It's a very simple spiritual practice if we try to be aware that we are merely playing roles meant for various situations in the drama of life.

We can one day become detached from all that we do. The wisdom of akarma -- learning to play our roles beyond our ego. 

A stillness within a storm of situations. We might be in a storm of situations, but without that personal bondage, we build akarma, even though so many things happen through us. That, according to me dear readers, is the wisdom of detachment -- playing our roles without becoming them. 

The Cosmic Restlessness: From Primordial Life to Infinite Possibilities

October 11, 2026

If your sense of identity, self-worth, and 'being just you deem yourself to be' gets inflated too much, O thou human being, then take a pause and look back.

Look at a monkey, or go into a zoo and watch out for, if you can, some orangutan, ape, baboon, chimpanzee, and look closely, and you will find there is a bit of you in that ape.

It's a long evolutionary chain. But to acknowledge it, you have to be aware of it, accept it, that you are part of a flow that started with some small amoeba in the original sea on Earth. And then that particular trail branched off in your direction, and now it manifests in you.

Look closely at a monkey; you will find most of the raw elements of you in it. Just its mind is a bit less organised, but fundamentally the structure is the same.

It's like you have a fully mechanised motor car, well controlled with all gears, levers, switches, steering, brakes, accelerator available to you so that you can control it.

The same is the difference between a human being and a monkey. A monkey is simply a rudimentary, unmechanised cart. But basically, it has the same purpose.

So you have to accept this fact that you are a monkey fast-forwarded.

And this is not merely about recognising our physical resemblance to other creatures. It is also about acknowledging the long evolutionary journey of which we are a part.

In the same way, if a snake had the awareness and consciousness just like we humans, it could see a bit of itself in an earthworm.

An earthworm, a slow, harmless, lethargic crawler, going around, stretching its body to reach its destination, exposed to the sun's factors, to being trampled and mowed to death, not able to strike back in any way, and always there to be struck by anything, ranging from determined ants to chance footfalls of a human being.

And that pain, that helplessness, that possibility of always being a victim at any moment by any type of situation, has given it a thirst.

And with evolution, propelled by that thirst, there you have a snake, fast, furious, able to take care of its survival in a better way, being scared and being scary for others, not just like an earthworm that is there to be mowed to death by accidental footfalls or curiously merciless plays of children or nibbling ants.

If a bird, if an eagle, the majestic hunter of the skies, with its claws and talons, strong feathers, hawk eye, ready to tear away at the prey, had the same capability of observing and looking back into its evolutionary chain, it would find that there is a bit of it in a small ladybird.

A beautiful speckled beetle taking tiny flights, spreading its small wings, hiding among the leaves, always at the risk of being hunted by sparrows.

And that urge to be something more than just a ladybird, a beautiful speckled creature. There it grows and evolves over a period of time, and you have a ferocious hunter of the skies, an eagle.

Or a vulture can look back and find a bit of itself in a butterfly fluttering beautifully with its colours, so fragile that even a gust of wind will change its course and destiny.

And that incapability, that being limited, that confinement of life expands to become a vulture, a strong scavenger ready to tear away at carcasses, making harsh sounds, the denizen of the stenching meat, carcasses, bones.

Of course, these are not necessarily direct lines of evolutionary descent. I am looking at them as illustrations of the larger tendency of life to acquire new capabilities, shapes and possibilities. The perpetual urge to 'become' something more than one is -- be it a stone or a human being. The eternal restlessness of existence, the cosmic churning from amoeba to artificial intelligence. Basically, it's a universe that can't remain still. We can see it from primordial life to cosmic frontier. In this ever-restless cosmos, there is this forever-unfinished journey of 'becoming' something more than one is (sentient or insentient). Even galaxies are mere drops in the cosmic sea, in this infinite drama of 'being'. 

So each and every species that has evolved, acquired a more sophisticated shape to have a bigger role in the arena of existence, in this game of life on Earth, will find a bit of itself in the smaller crawlers among insects, beetles, little birds.

So basically, it means there is an elemental force that is always acquiring different shapes, having more sophisticated roles, responsibilities, a very strange restructuring over the prevailing structures to have more and more complex roles and responsibilities in the domain of life, from raw playfulness to more and more shapes and sizes.

Things are going just from merely raw physicality into more sophistication in minds, so typically symbolised by Homo sapiens.

And this tendency does not seem to be confined to living species alone. It seems to me to be part of something much larger.

So when we look at the cosmos as such, I think there is an urge to manifest in something new.

And why does it want to manifest into something new instead of just resting with the established structure, be it in the form of a species or in the structure of matter?

I think there is some cosmic restlessness, the inherent cosmic discontentment, as if it just cannot stay paused.

It has to cascade out and storm into being something beyond what it already is.

There is something which is always trying to cross the boundaries and leap over into the uncharted zones and become something completely different, something new.

So that is the mystery, this mystery of not being restful and acquiring some new shape, size, structure, some new role, some new responsibility in this game, in this cosmic play.

And perhaps what we experience as our own dissatisfaction is just another expression of that same restlessness.

So when it comes to our being very restless, not feeling complete, always finding something missing, always trying to be something more than we are, not even being able to enjoy the present of our existing state, we inherited it fundamentally from that primordial restlessness that is driving more and more sophistication in different ways across species.

And since we carry the inherent core of that same restlessness, which gives rise to galaxies, black holes sucking mammoth stars, a million times bigger than the Sun, ghost particles, millions of which are crossing even our fingernails at this time, particles so small that they would cross over the entire thickness of Earth.

So what does it signify?

It signifies there is something ever running, perpetually restless, continuously riotous, forever running away from its present state to be something else.

And if that restlessness is inherent in the very nature of existence, how can we humans remain untouched by it?

So aren't we helpless in being restless, in not being satisfied with whatever we have achieved?

Go and ask anybody in any domain of life. You will find he or she is not satisfied with the state of being.

Go to poor people. Obviously, the natural concern there is making more money.

If somebody is staying in a hut, he is always thinking of staying in a big pucca house, a house of cement and mortar, not exposed to weather elements.

A person going on a bicycle is always thinking that life is only about acquiring a car someday.

A person who has been an aspirant at the grassroots political level and is just able to become a village administrator is thinking that life is only about becoming the Prime Minister or President of the country.

So on and so forth. I mean, it's only about becoming something more.

And even those whom people consider to be lucky.

The person who is staying in a wealthy, big palatial house, he has got his own ways of discontentment.

Either he is thinking about people who have got more money, or if he is at the top platform, the plateau where he sees the top position with a few hundred people of his level, there is a discontentment born of cutting each other's interests.

But those hundreds within a country or thousands on the entire Earth, the people on the peak, not the pointed peak but the plateaued peak, where there is no further possibility of going beyond that because the institution, the bearing capacity of Earth won't allow that.

So there is a plateau.

Now there the discontentment is not about achieving more than that. There the discontentment manifests in different other ways, like there are corporate wars they are fighting among themselves, and to manage that position itself is a source of very big restlessness, fear, discontentment.

At one level, the struggle is to rise. At another, it is to retain the position already acquired. But the restlessness remains.

So that perpetual element of restlessness, of not being sufficient, of being something more, is always there, be it the smallest of persons to the biggest of persons on Earth.

It just manifests in different ways.

Now if we look at the core principle here, that is a cosmic instability, always, always fighting against a stable state.

And if at all there is a stable state, obviously there is, that is just a very little pause, a kind of reflection before going full force with even more restlessness to become something completely different.

And I don't think there is any pause in nature anywhere around.

You will find there is a big flux going on around.

And this is not merely the visible restlessness of human ambitions or living organisms. Even apparently lifeless matter is subject to processes of change.

Even in a stone, the subatomic particles are in a flux, and they are maintaining that cloud, that molecular structure.

That structure of the stone is dependent upon a very forceful defence, forcefully defending its fort, the rocky fort, against the forces of decay, destruction, entropy, which are trying to make it into something else, that is, to break into smaller particles and then dust and then earth, and out of which the trees will grow, grass will sprout.

So where is pause and stability in all this?

It's a massive churning pot forever. Always, from each and every pore of existence, there is a tendency to become something more or maintain its status quo and then fight to become something bigger.

And how long has it been going on?

Infinity, they say, is something beyond the measures of space and time in the form that we have so far come to understand it.

But these are concepts, theoretical concepts.

Infinity, in the real sense, cannot be defined by limited sense perception-based models and theories.

But the beauty of infinity is that, being so open-ended, it will give certain bragging rights to a scientist to arrive at a theory which gets proven as well.

Even with the limited subset of elements, parameters considered, it gets proven because infinity is open-ended.

What I mean is that a theory may explain a particular range of reality within the parameters it considers, while the larger mystery remains open.

Had it been closed, only then a methodology which was not appropriate to define it would have failed if it had not fulfilled all the conditions.

But infinity, being something absolutely undefined, something absolutely without any established absolute value, leaves enough scope for mankind to set up a model or a theory with its assumption of a few absolute values even, and prove that yes, that's how infinity is possible.

So mankind's ability to prove infinity is a proof of infinity itself, that it can be defined in infinite ways.

Had it been a different kind of most established mind instead of Einstein, he would have defined it in some other way, which now, according to Einstein's law, seems like fundamentally it would have been totally different from what Einstein has established, and things would have served the same purpose.

Still the world would have run.

So what I want to say is this is a mysterious game, and it will always keep opening up more and more avenues, even for the artificial intelligence that we will have in future, artificial intelligence-driven, call them robots or half-human or half-artificial machines.

And if human intelligence itself is one manifestation of this expanding complexity, then artificial intelligence can be seen as another extension of it.

Artificial intelligence is not a crop that has arrived on the scene randomly or out of nowhere.

It is a symbol.

It's a representative entity of all that sophistication-driven force in nature.

Now it wants to expand even more.

Now, since we have just not been satisfied with doing things first with our mind and simple arithmetic calculations, then we had mathematical tools to arrive at more manual calculations, later on we had rudimentary computers.

Now we have artificial intelligence-driven models and agents which can do almost superlative calculations in a flash of a second or milliseconds.

So what does it mean?

It's just the extension of that willingness to grasp more, calculate more, marvel at things in different ways.

So let us see where it ends up, because things won't stop even with so-called superlative capabilities of artificial intelligence-driven ultra-modern systems.

They will keep diverging into different ways, and it's as good as there is a riot of energy in a supergalaxy.

So even here on this tiny bit of Earth that is our planet, it's always a replica of that riotous energy, randomly cascading around, a storm of energy, restless, trying to manifest in different ways.

And out of that are established temporary patterns fighting against each other, trying to overpower the supposed or apparently rival things.

And that competition is evident from the raw, naked game of survival at the level of organisms to more and more sophisticated artificial intelligence tools fighting against themselves to establish predominance over institutions, over Earth.

So it will go on and on and on.

So we just cannot freak out at the latest emergence of things as something negative.

We cannot just look at it from the binary of positive or negative.

It just is.

Just that we are wonderstruck at the moment, because now the rate of change is becoming shorter and shorter.

In future it will be even shorter, and then the domain of life will go into... the Earth will become very, very small for the manifestation of aspirations to contain that restlessness of all those emerging patterns of institutions, humans, machines.

That interface will be too big to contain life limited to Earth only.

And once the capabilities expand beyond what can be accommodated here, the geographical boundaries of human activity will also have to expand.

Then we will go for interplanetary things.

That is just expansion, like in older times we had people who were geographically segregated.

There were no means of communication, so people stayed in isolation.

And even crossing the seas was a big issue.

That is why we have the milestones of Columbus and Vasco da Gama discovering new lands.

So that was monumental.

Now similarly, the new rate, the new definition of being something very monumental in discovery will be just like Columbus discovering the new continents.

It will be like astronauts and scientists discovering ways and means of travelling to far-off planets and later on even galaxies, and making those places habitable with their scientific knowledge and equipment.

Just like the colonisers, they were able to cross over to different geographical lands and then they established their systems there.

So we will be space colonisers.

We will be spreading out in different directions.

We will have more efficient spacecraft.

We will have more scientific ways of putting bodies into a sort of hibernation across years, decades, so that when they land up at a distant planet many light-years away, they can resume their lives and begin establishing themselves there.

Just like colonisers have established their institutions, their economic models, their system of education in the new lands, similarly, the space colonisers will be taking up their versions of reality and institutions and setting them up there.

And it will continue expanding until it comes into interaction or collision with other forms of life doing the same from some other corners of the far-off cosmos.

And that will again give rise to more possibilities of happenings.

Like there will be clashes, just like here, between colonisers and the natives of the occupied lands.

There were clashes, there was strife, there were give-and-takes, there were even adjustments, accommodations, learning, relearning at both ends.

The same will be happening on a far bigger scale.

It is happening here on Earth.

It has happened in very, very small geographical locations.

Earlier little tribes would fight over dominance and territories and try to impose their version of reality over each other within a small forest.

Then the domain increased to involve bigger geographies.

We had little kingdoms within the present-day countries, and they fought each other.

Then countries are fighting against each other.

Continents are also sort of in a tussle against each other.

And then sophistication required more rivalries across different other fronts, in economies, in education, in politics, in religions, name anything, whatever defines modern life.

It's a kind of rivalry going on, pushing against each other, trying to overpower others, trying to impose their version of things, and then expanding like this.

So similar things will happen in exponentially larger, millions of times larger ways in far-off space, at different distant stars, galaxies, habitable planets.

So if we think that things will just, you know, end up with Earth not being habitable at all?

No, that's not possible because we are expanding the zone of churning, the interactive zone of all these fights among different elements competing for dominance, etc.

It will be taking place in a far bigger arena, covering even stars millions of kilometres away.

So there is restlessness.

Whatever we are witnessing now is just born of all that, and it has been going like this.

And it is going on at so many points in distant galaxies and far-off planets.

Because this is the same energy moving around everywhere.

And if this restlessness is a universal phenomenon, then why should its manifestation in the form of life remain confined to this one planet?

So if it is happening here, it cannot happen in isolation.

How can it happen?

Just like a drop in the ocean cannot exist in isolation and manifest something very, very different from the rest of the sea.

Is it possible?

Not at all.

Now to assume that we have life here on Earth only would be to assume that a drop can have an exclusive existence in an entire sea.

It just cannot.

So this is the same cosmic soup.

This is the same cosmic energy cascading around.

And if we have this type of life manifesting here, it's just like a drop in the cosmic sea.

So it must be happening somewhere else as well.

Yeah, that is possible that it might be happening in different ways, because we have this particular type of environment that has given rise to, incidentally, this form of life.

Some other planet in some other galaxy may be something similar, possibly, or very dissimilar, having completely different concepts of what it means to be aware of one's worth or one's life.

Maybe things are fundamentally different somewhere else.

And more sophistication would only mean that there will be zones of convergence between these distant manifestations of life.

And that itself will create more fronts for creating something completely different.

So perhaps this is the very nature of that cosmic restlessness I have been talking about. From the smallest organism struggling to survive to the most sophisticated intelligence reaching out into distant galaxies, it is the same mysterious tendency to go beyond what already exists.

The forms may change, the arenas may expand, but the churning continues.

And who knows what entirely new manifestations might emerge when these distant currents of the same cosmic sea finally meet?

The Cosmic Leela of Chance: Becoming Gardeners of Our Own Lives

October 10, 2026

Many people believe in the principle or law of predetermination. They say that everything that happens is supposed to happen. It has been fixed by external forces under the guidance of the ultimate cosmic force, call it God or the cosmic intelligence. They maintain that it could not have been otherwise.

According to me, it seems a very nice and practical way of dealing with circumstances and situations which have gone horribly wrong. Suppose there is a tragic incident in a family. Under such circumstances, it becomes a very practical consolation that one cannot avoid these things since it was destined to be. 

Possibly it saves the family members from the feelings of guilt or helplessness or even shame that they could have done something to avoid that tragedy. So this self-fault-finding, which is a source of big pain to those who are left after the demise of a near or dear one under unnatural circumstances, or even due to some disease or some other cause, it saves them from those pangs of guilt and repentance.

When many people tell them that one cannot do anything in the face of God's will, that hard reality becomes digestible.

So it's a beautiful social phenomenon, this law of predetermination. It has its relevance. We cannot just dissect it critically, because it's not about being scientifically valid or not. It's about what positive role it has played in mankind's evolution through the ages.

It has been a very nice consolatory companion always giving a solace that after a point things are no longer under our control, and it's not in our hands to change certain situations. Then we accept destiny. It becomes easier.

This aspect is more or less acceptable even from a scientific inquiry point of view.

But if we just analyse it without considering its social role and its relevance, we will find that possibly the law of predetermination is not one of the elemental laws that drive this creation around us.

For example, the people who are on bhakti marg, who have absolute faith in God managing each and everything, from the tiniest movement of a leaf in every nook and corner of the earth to the crawl of an insect or the movement of microorganisms. Is it possible as per the laws of science as we understand it at the moment? 

I think logically it seems impossible that there would be an external force which is managing all these happenings that unfold in trillions of ways at every instant as per a fixed plan.

It's not possible.

Infinity demands that there is an open-endedness, undefined potential and ever-spooling possibilities for things to happen, occur, evolve, grow in various ways.

We might consider them positive or negative; that is our subjective or objective discretion. But there is always the maximum potential for things to acquire a shape which can go in any way.

There is a great chance factor, but of course there are elemental, fundamental laws working behind it.

But again, the chance factor is always there. Chance is the shadow of cosmic laws. 

For example, consider the law of gravitation. Now the law of gravitation says that if you drop something, it will fall towards the ground at a particular rate of acceleration. So that is quite predetermined. But what happens when there are other circumstantial chance factors?

Suppose something falls. Suppose there is a stone in your hand and you are standing on the terrace of a multi-storey building and you decide to drop it.

Yes, the fundamental law of gravitation says that it will fall with a particular speed. And then there are other laws also, side by side -- that its rate of fall will be determined by other factors.

It's not that it will fall with the same speed and acceleration under all situations.

Suppose there is a speedy wind, a kind of storm that changes its trajectory. Now that change in its trajectory and the change in its rate of fall will also be decided by the fundamental forces of the horizontally or vertically cutting-across wind currents.

That also is objective in nature.

But at a particular time, how come those situations develop to create a situation where the fundamental laws come into play? That is quite incidental.

There might be wind, there might not be wind.

The stone may end up hitting somebody, it might fall harmlessly, it might hit a concrete surface, it might hit a grass patch, a lawn.

There are infinite possibilities where it can create a different pattern of reality.

So here I do not see the law of predetermination working, because it is open-ended—anything can happen.

By chance somebody can be there and end up getting hit by the stone. It might happen incidentally. It might end up hitting some cattle or a dog or the roof of a car.

Anything can happen.

And the objects that incidentally happen to come into the path of its fall, those also are propelled by so many chance factors.

For example, suppose somebody is joyfully reading and suddenly he gets this thought that, okay, let me go out for a stroll, and suddenly he comes out and ends up being hit by the stone.

Or his mother or a family member asks him to go on an errand, or go to the market to get something, and that person happens to be hit by that stone.

Or a dog is running after another dog and ends up getting hit.

Or a car just passes by and its windshield gets broken.

Or there is nobody around. It just falls on the ground and patters.

But after falling also, at what angle it hits, that also is defined, is also decided by the scientific forces: at what angle it hits, the edges, the momentum, torque, the inertia, the weight, recoil, in which direction it can go.

It can go in any direction.

And again there is a further possibility of another chain of events happening.

So even though there are elemental cosmic laws at play, still at that stage there is a possibility of things going in any direction.

It's just like a chain reaction in nuclear explosions.

At every point there are multiple probabilities opening up, but the spine of those probabilities again is decided by another fundamental law.

If that particular incidental point in space-time has to move ahead, it again will proceed as per a certain fundamental principle, almost a scientific law.

So all in all, I find it a divine combo between cosmic law and chance factor, as if Mother Existence is playing a grand leela to find out in how many ways it can express itself, from monumental galaxy-level blasts to little flowers smiling and a butterfly sitting on one of them.

A grand leela of existence among determination and chance, which carves our destiny. This world is the offspring of divine marriage of cosmic law and chance. Universe , or multi-verse, is open-ended, where sheer potential consumates manifestable possibility to sire destiny.  

All this churning falls within the infinite range of events and happenings at infinite places in existence.

So the topic is quite comprehensive, but if we look at it from the point of view of the fixation, for example the fixed number of years that a particular human being is going to live. Now, in many religious traditions they maintain that you are allotted your exact number of breaths, or one's lifetime is fixed.

It doesn't seem so.

Maybe it's a big consolation to accept death that it was destined to be at a particula time under specific circumstances.

But if we analyse it in the background of all the discussion that we have had so far, it's not possible that something can be so fixed as to work like clockwork to give such an organised, well-ordered and synchronised point of existence in the form of human life, having all this cosmic sea of uncertainties developing at numerous points as per certain fundamental laws.

It doesn't seem to be possible.

It would be just like expecting a drop of water in the sea to have a fixed pattern of its existence, which does not seem possible, because it is surrounded by a churning fluidity driven by chance winds.

I will give an example.

Suppose I have a few potted plants, and I have sown seeds of flowers there. I take care of them.

Now in the seeds there is a potential, potential for a plant to grow and give flowers after a time.

That is potential, nothing fixed about it.

The only fixity is that the little seeds carry the code of regeneration of that particular species.

That seems to be the fixity there, the surety.

But that is pure potential, because the growth, actualisation or manifestation of that potential is determined by so many factors.

Now when I am sowing seeds in pots and managing them, nurturing them, it's not that there is a law of predetermination there.

The only law working here is that these seeds have the potential to grow under favourable circumstances of nourishment, climate, weather elements, and the care taken by the gardener.

The role of the gardener here is of utmost importance, since they are not linked directly to Mother Earth.

There is a border in between. There is a boundary.

The material of the pot serves as a boundary.

It is just a little portion of earth which the boundaries of the pot have separated from overall Mother Earth.

And if I want the seeds to grow and acquire a shape as per the potential decided by the coded potentiality in the seed for a plant, a flowering plant of a particular species or genus, then I have to be there as a deciding factor.

If I take due care, if I keep watering them, sheltering them against winters, against harsh windstorms and stormy rains, if I take due care, providing fertilisers, they will bloom.

That is life.

That also is life, just like humans.

We are a different type of plants that have grown here. Our awareness of self identity is simply a potted plant in the cosmic garden. And with our will-power and volition we are the gardeners of our own self. 

So in my little group of potted plants, if I do maintain a certain discipline, the law of predetermination is almost inoperative.

As long as I am taking care of all the plants and everything, flowers will grow, bloom.

But still there are so many uncertainties, like the monkeys coming and spoiling everything, or a child breaking the plants out of curiosity, or cattle or a buffalo destroying them.

That uncertainty is always open-ended.

If we ignore that uncertainty, if we take the human element out of it, if I become careless about the plants and stop watering them, they will die.

So the same seems to be the case with human life.

We are potted plants. It's like the gardener, seeds and the cosmic dice engaged in a game beyond predermination -- exploring the infinite possibilities of existence. 

We don't have a direct touch with the infinite energy from which we are taking little portions to survive.

So if we manage our life in a disciplined way, as per all the dimensions of well-being—physical, mental, spiritual, emotional—it will grow in a better way.

Of course, just like a potted plant is always exposed to being destroyed by external factors like cattle or a kid or weather elements, the same is the possibility with a carefully nurtured human life, nurtured by herself or by the system or by the family, society.

There is always an infinite possibility of things going wrong, certain accidents happening, something just randomly happening, chaotically, disorderly, and undoing the entire management of human life.

But even if we ignore all these uncertainties and just come down to the management of a particular human life by herself, we will find that just like a better and more carefully nurtured potted plant will give more beautiful flowers, will look better; similarly, a better self-managed life covering all dimensions of one's existence—physical, mental, social, economic, spiritual—will manifest in a more ordered way.

There does not seem to be a law of predetermination driving the force here, just like the manifestation of life in a potted plant is inherently dependent upon better care and discipline at the hands of the gardener.

The same with the human potted plant: the gardener is conscious effort, willpower, discipline, and an acknowledgement that one has to be there with awareness to take care of the potted plant, that is, the life in this body.

So it will be better if we prove to be a good gardener in taking care of our potted being; if we ignore it, it will manifest in a different way. More open to random forces. Entropy finds a better probability there. 

Basically, Mother Existence is trying to explore the fundamental code of survival through one particular human, through one particular member of a species, be it in animals, plants, insects, or anything anywhere or everywhere.

So all in all, when I look at it in its entirety, I find that the law of predetermination is a very relevant consolation to accept things when faced with apparently unjustified happenings, accidents and tragedies.

But at the end of it, when we look at it objectively, we will see that we are almost like potted plants.

There the pot is made of clay, and there is a plant in it.

Here the pot is this body, and the plant is our soul, our awareness, our consciousness of being.

So it always serves the purpose of being better gardeners of our life.

The Churning Within: From Infinite Nothingness to the Creative Self

Infinity, in my humble opinion, is an absolute void, an absolute emptiness, an absolute state of non-being. But at the same time, it has potential for anything. It has infinite potential.

So it is nothing as well as everything at the same time.

And this, according to me, is the state that allows the concept of infinity to stand with our limited logical human understanding and reasoning.

Now, just like in the sea you have water all around, but there are individual atoms and molecules, and in other states of being as well, like in the solid state, you have subatomic particles getting defined by a particular atom, then atoms binding together to form molecules, and still bigger structures.

So there is a hierarchical arrangement, an inherently coded order.

Similarly, if we talk about the existence of humans in terms of our consciousness—the basic energy that drives our feeling of self or awareness of being a separate individual entity—then if we take that as the smaller constituent of our identity, it is logical that this particular little ounce of consciousness that drives my sense of being is structurally bound by a bigger arrangement, just like subatomic particles have atoms, and atoms are arranged in terms of molecules and other structures.

So similarly, at the level of energy and consciousness, our individual small consciousness, our bracketed awareness of identity, is also arranged in a hierarchy. There are bigger structures so that it fits into the overall cosmic entity, because nothing can stand in absolute isolation.

Now that also defines infinity: a state of being where each and everything cannot stand in absolute isolation. It has to stay in relation to something else.

So starting from my individual consciousness, where I am particularly, specifically aware of my unique identity, there are things which apparently separate me from others—in terms of primarily my body, then my mind, and body and mind coming together to give me other identities in terms of larger collectives like nationality, caste, race, religion, etc.

And then there are so many other individual, conceptual identities that we derive out of the collective pools of identity-making, in terms of institutions, education, cultural organisations, where I derive my own specific, smaller identity.

So this is what I mean by one's own unique, specific identity, where you are conscious:

'Yes, this is me.'

But beyond our conscious being, we have deeper layers. That is the subconscious.

Now subconsciousness is a transitory zone between consciousness and superconsciousness. Here, the overall unbound, undefined, unqualified pure potential of superconsciousness, of cosmic consciousness, mixes with the forces that drive your identity.

So this is the buffer zone.

And it gives glimpses, but it is not directly driving the cart of our life. It is indirectly, in fact, doing everything, because it is the base on which consciousness is directly supported, and immediately beyond that is superconsciousness.

So here you have your collective pool of karma, memories and inherent proclivities coded into your existence, as per your evolution, as per this particular stream of consciousness or energy that manifests you at this time.

It has a lot of coded software, you can call it.

It has a deep pool of memories, information, data, which defines this particular identity of yours at this phase of life.

And beyond that, of course, is the overall sustaining cosmic sea, the absolute voidness, the perfect nothingness, absolutely full of the fullest possible infinite potential that is churning out these manifestations in the form of everything—from galaxies to microorganisms here on Earth.

The beauty of looking within is that every spiritual tradition, every path that aims to take one closer to the real meaning of life or the real self, talks of going within, getting into a pose, looking within, recognising the higher self within oneself.

They mean becoming, first, more and more aware of the enveloping subconscious around your consciousness—the buffer zone between superconsciousness and your consciousness.

The more you consciously start going into the bigger zone of subconsciousness—which, they say, opens up when we are in deep sleep—the more that conscious grip begins to loosen. Because the practical requirements of our day-to-day life, and the consequent insecurities, fears, ambitions, everything, bracket us into too tight a corner. Because of which we feel the typical restlessness that we talk of, that we feel—all of us—that typical vague, throbbing restlessness that is always there like a shadow, irrespective of where you are placed, what you have created on Earth, whether you travel in chartered planes or you are walking on foot.

That shadow is more or less universal with human beings.

As we consciously release that narrow confine and enter the zone of subconsciousness, we may find that much of that vagueness, that vague restlessness, that inherent state of dissatisfaction and discontentment, irrespective of what we achieve, what we do, what we receive, is born of the jumblement of energies in the transitory zone.

Here lots of information that defines our conscious identity is going around randomly, and it is here that the cosmic void, the super-entity enveloping the superconsciousness, is trying to create a kind of energetic, informational churning which finally gives rise to your identity as an individual. Just like after churning milk, you have butter. But that churning goes on and on in our subconsciousness, which is the collective pool of so many of our experiences, memories, the entire coded information of our endless journey from the unknown to this point. Since it is going around so randomly, it is going around so forcefully, as if it is trying to actualise its full potential, as if it is not happy or satisfied with the butter that it has produced after the churning. 

So the more we go into it, the more we look into the bigger pool of subconsciousness beyond our consciousness, the clearer it becomes to us, because it is a broader platform. It is not a little prison anymore.

The moment you become aware of even those random thoughts, energies, which have been driving your impulses, instincts, making you behave and feel in so many ways that you later feel guilty about or simply don't like, and the more you go there and just stand there as a witness, those random thoughts, emotions and energies which are swirling around our consciousness start getting stabilised.

And the more they stabilise, the more they are in harmony with the surrounding layer at the still higher hierarchy—that is, cosmic consciousness.

So the more we go into our subconsciousness, the more stabilisation there is, the more it comes into synchronicity with the absolute potential of absolute nothingness.

And this, they say, is about becoming enlightened, about having a channel with superconsciousness. And they say it gives absolute bliss and joy.

And the possibility is like this.

Just imagine somebody walking out of the narrow confines of his six-by-six cell in a prison, in utmost isolation, his identity defined by the stone walls, narrow confines, and just the miserable me.

If that person is taken out and suddenly left alone in beautiful mountains, lush green forests, milky streams, cool breeze, birds chirping—it means he is allowed to enjoy life as part of a larger collective.

Obviously, he will feel liberated, let out of the torture of narrow confines.

Now the question arises: how do we stabilise our ever-churning subconsciousness, which keeps producing those vague shadows of discontentment, irrespective of what we do or what we achieve?

In my opinion, there can be a very beautiful technique of doing this.

It is about going into the zone of creation.

Because when you are creating something, be it writing—writing of any genre—or any type of art, be it painting, sculpture, pottery, anything, when you are 100% in the moment, in the present, only then are you in that creative phase as an artist.

It means that when you are thoroughly engrossed and absorbed in the beautiful, joyful spontaneity of that moment, which is not being pulled in two directions by the past and the future, you are on the platform of the subconscious. And it has a big amount of information, data, energy and potential which you can draw out.

So as you are working, when you are writing, or you are producing some piece of art, or you are making anything which drives your passion, you are giving a more specific shape to the random energy which is swirling to seek out a passage in your subconsciousness.

You are giving it an opportunity to acquire a specific, concrete shape, because this is what it has been seeking, and this is what each and every particle of this universe is looking for—expansion in more and more and more specific forms.

So the more we are giving channels and outlets and avenues to the random energies, the whirlpools and swirls and cascading waves of so many past experiences which we have gone through, the more these energies find expression.

When we are making, when we are allowing ourselves into the joyful throes of the Creator, we are little means and tools of Father Creator—call it God, the ultimate cause, in whatever form you want to recognise it.

Those random swirls of energy, those deep whirlpools of memories, those cascading waves of numerous thoughts, emotions, linked to this particular pathway of evolution that has manifested in you, get an avenue to spend their energy and acquire a specific shape.

And the moment it acquires a specific shape, there is relative stability—from a volatile state to a more stable form.

So as an artist, you are providing your boiling energies in the subconsciousness—energies of all types, just piling up to burst forth, just like lava bursts out from huge chambers of unspent thoughts, emotions, feelings, countless experiences related to this particular pathway of evolution.

They are boiling in a destabilised form to acquire a more stabilised shape.

So as an artist, you are giving them a platform to come out and acquire distinct and hence relatively stabler forms.

And when the enveloping entirety around our consciousness—that is, subconsciousness—becomes stabler, it is a more suitable platform for superconsciousness to have direct communication with it, because there is no big differentiating buffer zone between the overall cosmic entity and subconsciousness.

There is still a difference, but the contrast is not too hard.

The contrast is not too big.

And when there is not a big contrast between our foundation, that is our subconsciousness, and superconsciousness, it means we are in more harmony and synchronisation with the absolute state of non-being.

And being in harmony and peace with the absolute state of non-being, our 'being' also feels the utmost rest and peace that, they say, lies there in each and every ounce of this cosmic energy.

So that is why people feel so calm and joyful after meditation and following spiritual techniques.

So, as a humble seeker on the path, I would request you to try to give more specific shape to what lies in your subconscious.

Yes, this world requires practicalities.

You have to take care of your needs, of your family's needs. You have to aim for your dreams. You have to make careers. You have to go into business as well.

Do that.

But never, ever ignore doing and making and crafting your higher self in the zone of your subconsciousness.

If you are giving yourself a larger and bigger and stronger foundation, then the rest of it that you make on the worldly stage will be a logical product of that strength, that inherent inner strength in your subconsciousness.

When you are making the worldly life out of the stabler self it will be nice and joyful. Of course, it is the input-and-output rule.

And the manifestation will be still better.