The influence.....

"Rules and prohibitions are transcended,nothing is right or wrong, He is above all"-----description of the "perfect" sage by Ashtavakra samhita......
There are certain lines which keep repeating in your head while doing mundane activities or while the mind is performing its routine mischief of jumping from thought to thought....

To some extent , this stage can be reached by the experiences to which the mind is subject to.
Experience and influence being so important in an aspirants life, I find it difficult to believe so many people reached this stage by divorcing themselves from society.

To prove my point ,there are a couple of influences which came from unexpected quarters.....

I met by career services advisor a week ago to talk about an internship. The initial phase of the interview was awkward, both of us acutely aware that behind the apparent goodwill, there was a reason why I came to meet her.....to get leads about the companies to follow....
I was disgusted with myself for using her only for that and not respecting her as an individual.I had fixed an appointment for 15 minutes and had come prepared. Something snapped within me(I call that God...:P) and I asked "when we first met you mentioned that you had gone to japan , just to get away from it all, If I may ask ,why did you go??"

for a moment she stared at me....I guess when you are really interested ,it shows in your demeanor, she talked about her conventional chinese parentage, the unwillingness to let her go to a foreign country.....
The trepidation of whether she will survive the new industry, and most importantly.....the exhilaration when she realized that she could do "anything".......

Its a thing with the human brain, when it encounters the expansion of its limitations in one aspect of existence.......it contemplates..... beautiful mind......realizes that it can beat down all barriers.....and she experienced the same thing.....

For a moment her eyes lit up and exclaimed that it was the best year of her life, the mind was realizing its extent to grow.....at that point we empathized , because I have been experiencing that for the last couple of months......the 15 min interview went upto an hour:P
I listened as I heard the mind of one who was more mature and contemplative than mine......information datamine........
As i mentioned earlier , when we go to a headhunter thats the least on our minds....to connect behind the polished exterior was so much fun.....and I have realised my ability to do that.......what a mindblowing thing to do.......to spark and connect......

The second influence came from watching random videos in youtube.......came across the video of a guy called Eckhart Tolle......physically unimposing......he spoke of the art of focussing on the surrounding so intensely that you are in the present , every second such that only the present exists, tried that for a couple of days and saw that my concentration skills have gone up considerably, I read people when they are trying to explain something and fill their conversations.....irritatingly so...:P.....but its again telling my mind not to argue for its own limitations...


The third influence came from my roommate who believes in class among people......he treats class as something expressed through someone's demeanour and in general dressing sense.....which is irritatingly immature if not downright stupid......

Class comes from taking up challenges, winning .....watching our own mindset as it changes , feeling the exhilaration of challenging and defeating ones own limited thinking.....and maintaning it as a way of life...
Even smaller things, like going up to a girl in a bar , though trivial may do wonders for the self-esteem/class...

I have a good friend who is appearing for a public exam and we had this conversation as to how to improvise on one's personality so that we could create an impact on peoples mind....
today after 8 months I think I am closer to the answer.......His answer would lie more in taking up radical ideas however silly they may be......he need not even tell anyone about it......and watch the decision change his life...the problem with us is that we have goals which take years to complete and we miss out on the smaller challenges....... which keep the drive to experiment alive and which eventually may transform us in unthinkable ways,....

the class which comes from such experiences would be mindblowing.......it would be from ones own
experience, forged in ones own mind.....courage from ones own gut...acceptance from ones own humility....who can beat such a guy......untouchable and irresistible....
I have half a mind to go blast guys who think they can judge people based on which designer company they buy from and which deodorant they use.....


If that is class...then I think its better if we don't have it......I would rather have "attitude" which comes from within myself by my efforts and not from wearing shades of "Ray-Ban"...
I still think that my friend who is maybe 5'6" and doesn't accesorize has far more guts and "Dil' than my other "friends" who believe that they have conquered their surrounding by wearing "D&G"....

Compare all the three influences.....independent but affecting the mind from all directions....pulling it apart .......enlarging it.....exhilarating it.....3 dimensions.....
"Basic need", "spiritual" and "practical"......Science says that there are in all 11 dimensions...we operate only in 3.....in some part of the universe there is a being who operates in the 4th dimension also.....time....that entity would traverse in time too.....

the important question is how Do I reach there....Maybe by challenging my own mind.......maybe the mind has all the dimensions in it.....when I expand it....I will be able to traverse in time too....:P...and maybe date aishwarya rai before she became Miss world......