Truth is always absolute that is the nature of truth it has to be one and it has to be absolute which means it has to be the same for everyone , every being and every living soul . But mankind lives with many truths , for different religion has a a different truth the truth of Hindu’s is different from the truth of Sikh’s the truth of Muslims is different from the truth of the Christians and that is different from the true of jews , which is different from the truth of Jains and the truth of the Buddhists. So in that regards the truth is different as perceived by different people .So what is that , that never changes and is the same for everyone , it is the absolute with on different or varied interpretations .What is that that is not transient and never changes it is for ever the same and absolute for everyone .The the soul the atman the ultimate truth that which is within us and thus within all .

That truth is the soul the atman that which resides within and never changes form it is atonal as the universe it came from no where and it is going no where , it was it is and will for ever be , it was before time and it will exist after and beyond time. That is which resides forever all it does is take different forms and dimensions but itself remains absolute .This is the truth that binds us all , we may be a humanity divided by faith , colour , beliefs , opinions , geographies , genders , sexuality and much more but beneath all this carp that differentiates us lies the ultimate truth that is the truth of humanity .This is what binds all we are made from the same mud and the same consciousness .

The seekers search is for the search of that eternal truth that resides with in , the joy of the inner journey is as wondrous and full of nectar as the joy of the outer .The outer journey atet wants to conquer and succeed in the world is made up on the principle of acquisition .The inner is full of bliss and peace , both the seeker of inner riches and the seeker of outer riches are in a race so to say looking for something that will complete them , they are both thirsty but looking for different things in different dimensions .Jeff Bezos’s and the search of Satguru is in different dimensions one seeking in the outer and the other seeking in the inner . As Krishna sad there are only two paths for the seeker  the inner and the outer antar mukhi and beher rmukhi .

Both seek the truth and both will never arrive the journey will go on till death comes and they take another form .The truth the soul will take another form and another body and the seeking will begin again .

I am happy to announce the launch of my audiobook Kumbh Travelogue 2019 on audible.com and I tunes . This is my sixth audiobook out on sale and talks about my Kumbh Travels in 2019 and my visits to the city of Bananas and Allahabad where I extensively cover the Mela , talking to saints and Aghodi’s alike . The book is narrated by Mel Konn a female voice artist who has also lent her voice to many of my other audiobooks like the Mehman . So click on the link below to hear a free trial copy of my new audiobook on the Kumbh ka Mela .

The government has come up with new guide lines to monitor and regulate OTT , Digital news based content , as of now there are 17 OTT platforms under these guidelines . One has to remember that these 17 were the same platforms that had signed the industry self regulation deal with the government . But now the government has made it clear that they need to have stringent complaint redressal mechanism , each platform or digital streaming entity should have a complaints redressal officer who responds to complaints with in 15 days and submits monthly reports for the same . The complaint redressal system is a three tier one . The second tier is a six member committee headed by a retired supreme court judge . If the complaint is not satisfied with the company response , he can take the issue to this second their committee . The committee has the power to fine , reprimand , ask for content removal or ask fro changes in the reported content , ask fro changes in classification and check for relevant parental locks for certain explicit content .

Then there is an inter ministry committee that can reprimand , admonish , ask for an apology for the platform . It can also censure and ask for blocking and removal of certain bytes or peaces of content . These in all form the three tiers of the complaint redressal mechanism the platform have been asked to put into place .

The classification and parental locks on explicit content as per rules and guidelines is paramount . These guidelines have come out after the government asked the supreme court permission through a public interest litigation to bring the OTT platforms and content streaming platforms under a central autonomous body as that they can be regulated . In post corona times the instances of cyber crime and usage of the internment for anti national activities has increased and the government under it’s regulations wants to remove hate related content content that instigates violence and touches on religious issue .This has lead to big budget web series like Tandav and Mirzapur getting into trouble with the courts where the makers and the platform CEO is running around looking for anticipatory bail .

New stories and content ideas are now being screened very carefully so as not to have content atet can insight the wrath of regulators now that the government has taken its first step and announced its guidelines . We cannot have un classified free for all content streaming with now control and screening , unlike movies OTT platform’s do not have a censorship body that regulates or has the authority to remove , block or ask fine a OTT Platform , but now it will have those powers under the three their complaint redress system .

The platforms are pushing back through their associations and body Internet and Mobile association of India and saying that they have not been consulted in the framing of rules and guidelines but will look at the guidelines and work with the government to uphold the law of the land , after all they need to do business here .Their are about 40 digital and OTT platforms beaming content 24 by 7 and it seems time has come for them to be answerable for propagating sex , violence , abusive , derogatory and anti religious content . Really OTT KI AB PHATI !

The third eye of the mystic had been shut and thus the only experience this sage got was that through the two yes , he could see the world only in one dimension that is to say through the five senses that are available to us as humans . Almost the entire humanity has a uni or two dimensional world view , that itself seems limiting and thus us humans have always had the need to expand beyond the limitations of the body and the the five senses . We have had a latent urge within us to explore areas and dimensions beyond the limited scope we currently have and enjoy . This urge and this need for expansion has lead some on the path of the monk or the yogi , even into a deep seeker . These brave mad monks are the ones searching for third dimension or hidden dimension . It is described as the third eye of shiva , the eye he uses to destroy the world . The eye of intuition the all knowing and all that can ever be known , that is the third eye of Shiva  the hidden dimension .

Yogic practice is to do it through meditation , chanting and doing simple affirmation . Some use yoga and kundalini chakra as well to try and get a glimpse of these states as they do not remain permanently in the mind and can vanish as winks of energy or just an odd image or a sound .You need to be still in your posture for long periods of time , some people go into silence for months just to get their third eye activated , some even fast for it .

So what does it feel to have your third eye opened what is the view from the third eye . I for one describe it as a feeling of bliss , poetry , song , vibrant dance of joy and fulfilment .Opening of the third eye can make you feel more expanded and more bathed in love in the bliss of nature itself . There is a feeling of  there is no where to go everything is just here right here within  me . Even premonition , Intuition and telepathy are the facets of the third dimension itself .

For a better understanding you need to see the universe as Waves , Energy and vibrations . The opening of the third eye by many different yogic practices can help the seeker to reach different realms and frequencies of vibration and dimensions that are available beyond the third eye . The idea is to be silent and still and go inwards , you will if lucky get a whisper of what it feels like being in expanded sates of consciousness .That itself is the third dimension .

Authors who emerge from initially doing personal diary writing and blog writing have a definite rawness about their writing and characters and a sense of naked realism about their writing . The more from the inner gut the words and the images come out the more hard hitting and raw the writings are .

I have seen that over the year of blog writing I have immersed into an author and at the same time used my writing as a personal therapy for my soul and mind . It is a way of cleaning left over emotions churning out the pent up emotion and negative thoughts and images from my mind .Feelings about myself and others in my life , dealing with mixed emotions , my writing had taken care of that and much more .Since I am alone and single my computer screen has been like a bouncing board .My pages are with whom I share my emotions and dealt with my thoughts . My writing is a reals of my emotions and suppressed feelings and helps as a great release for me . That was it acts as a inner shower our cleaning of rotten left over feelings some stored in the subconscious for year on end that I have not managed to deal with one way of the other .

In that way blog writing is like a personal shrink of sorts for me and I just let myself go , the idea is to be brutally honest to yourself and to others .   Truth in your words I paramount you don’t care who you hurt or not , one just writes to stay sane I guess .I loose myself in my writing bringing out the death of my emotions through words and sentences . The more I tap the greater the release of emotions and the garbage of the mind just gets a grand shower .

That way for me my laptop and my blog are my two best mates and act as my shrinks as well .Now having developed into a story writer that rawness adds freshness to what I write and a sense or realism in my work .

For me it is my meditation where I focus on something for a long period of time in a day with out getting distracted to any other task .I narrate as I see it , with no fluff my dialogues follow the same pattern the words are real and so are the situations .

So I would encourage all to get into blogging it is the next step from diary writing and you don’t need to spend money on shrinks or metal health doctors . Blogging is a self healing therapy for the mind and the soul , it will sort you out better than any shrink I tell you and I have seen a few in my life .One Shrink I went to all she wanted was to try and sell me her next self help book for Rs 250 , even before we started the session and then she just went on to talk as if she knew exactly what my problem was and how I should be counselled by her more often . The other Shrink went even further he did regression on me and even did an entire brain mapping of my brain , that made me even more insane along with the horrid medication that made me sleep for weeks on end and made me lethargic and drowsy , none could heal me . What I needed was writing and blogging my true emotions vented out as words as and when the feeling emerge  within me or in my mind .

Writing also aligns your thoughts and then become a kind or re affirmation . By writing down what you want , how you’re want to feel , what you want in your current life you are making affirmation to help manifest the very things into your life that your write or visualise about . In that ay blog writing is also about visualisation and affirmations . But it should be taken as a prayer and stuck to dedicatedly I can safely say not once did I need to seen shrinks in the last five years of doing blog writing .

On top of that  you can do it professionally it is an even greater boon .

My days in Varanasi are going slow as usual , I went out to see the Arti the other day , but the rest of my time was spent in my room just gazing as an old Vedic temple outside my window . There is an old ac on top of the window as the rusted grills bare testimony to its age . The Vedic temple is that of Shiva with its pointed dome and a large lifted grey cemented courtyard . There are short stairs made of black stone that take the religious worshipper to the central sanctum where the Shiva linga is established .A group of girls get together at the steps in the evening as bright street lights light up the temple courtyard . There are young teenage kids playing with bicycle wheel or fooling around with kites . My hotel window starts the temple bang on and I loose myself at times watching the people and the going’s on around the Shiva temple .

Old and middle aged men congregate in the near by scooter parking their are some scary chairs and even a bench or two where folks sit and enjoy the winter evening , some engrossed in their hobbies like playing games on Tehri mobile , the others read the newspapers and the erst just sit and talk politics or what Aditya Yoginath is going to do next and why BJP should come back to power in Maharashtra .

There is an old ragpicker who sells coal and wood for fire to the temple and to the small homes around the area . He sits on a broken stool covers with black sooth , disheveled his clothes torn and worn out . He grunts and groans at times in the evening , and also uses the nearby temple walls to take a pee , he does it all in the open , imagine taking a leak on the Shiva Temple walls . When saree dropped woman bring food , garlands and Prasad to please the lord . The temple has metal cages as gates and is closed most of the time , it is safe to say that it does not have a permanent pujari . But the love of the locals keeps the place going and has still kept its relevance in the area of Durga Kunda .

I manage to enjoy a lassi in the traditional way inside a Kullhadh , and decided to have tandoori chicken today for dinner . Roast chicken in Banaras now that’s a luxury and I will be feasting on it today itself .

Corona is almost invisible here , hardly anyone wears mask , I am told there are hardly any Corona Patients in the city . It is the metro cities you see that have international flights that’s where Corona is killing , but in Varanasi is there no signs of it and the evening Arti was a testimony of that , where thousands mingled with each other on the ghats and in the many bazaars and bylines of the city , no one was wearing masks . It’s as if the people of Kashi think that the holiness and blessedness of the place will not let the evil of Corona effect it . Kashi’s piousness and religiosity will keep the virus and its lethal impact at bay .

I for one feel free maybe a bit lethargic at times but the city is a welcome change during the winter days and I am happy that I am free of any illness . Till then it’s tandoori chicken with sweet Lassi in my room . We might be headed for Allahabad in a day our two , that is another town I have fond memories of , it will help we might record a few more audio books there .

Baskin Robbin’s is another major attraction for me , situated near my hotel I do enjoy the mango and tutti froth there , in the middle of Varanasi we have a touch of American ice cream that is itself a wonder . What more on my way from the airport I also spotted the Taj Samudra , luxury in the middle of Ghats of death this is indeed a city of dichotomies .

The new micro blogging app in India which is doing the rounds and has suddenly surged into popularity is KOO aap and has become a favourite with the politicians many of it praising it as it is the true indigenous app built to take on Twitter national and it operates in 133 distinct Indian languages .KOO was developed by Aprameya Radhakrishna it is an app available on IOS and Aneroid . The founder company just raised 4.1 million dollars from Kalahari Capital’s recently .

KOO has been the darling of the politicians who have been after Twitter and Facebook for some time and have been miffed with them for not closing accounts that attack their respective parties or do not delete posts that are anti national . KOO is a nationalistic microblogging site as that it is absolutely independent and is being promoted as an Indian twitter with more then one billion Indians not speaking English and conversing in more then 100 regional languages , the microblogging site has language options like Tamil , Telugu ,Kannada etc . It can be downloaded for free from google app stores as well . You cans end messages and voice your opinion through 400 character messages that are sent through this site .

KOO was launched in March last year as part of the Digital India Aatam Nirbhar Challenge  and has surged in popularity recently .You can share text , audio and video formats with KOO app and being in multiple languages it caters to India and Indians specifically .

Lets hope India goes KOO KOO on this app and for twitter it will really be one flew over the Loo Koo’s nest .Team for them to take on the Indian version of twitter .