Summary:
More than a decade of experience individually in sales, software development and philosophical research.
Current status:
Author: Writing books in the philosophy, psychology and spirituality.
Career:
BTech (Chemical Engineering)
Experienced in sales (chemicals), software development (java and web), and authoring (philosophy).
Sales Professional (1990-2000)
In the first decade of my career after college I worked for couple of chemical companies in the sales department. During that period I learnt a lot about customer psychology and market trends.
Software Development (2003-2014)
During the dotcom boom of the late nineties and early 2000, I took career change from the chemical industry to explore the booming software industry. Since I was not trained in college for software programming, I had to put in extra efforts to cope up with the team. I am now proficient in Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL and Python. In the year 2013 due to family problems, I had to take a long break in my career.
Author (2015-present)
During the end of year 2014, I came across and read some philosophical books and actively started meditation and contemplation. This resulted in my getting transformed into a researcher in philosophy. During my research my main finding was to understand how our mind works based on the priorities of perception of the various aspects as per cumulative impressions. Based on the above concept I realized the nature of happiness and intelligence. Another thing that I achieved is, that I figured out the nature of our existence and answer to the question 'Who am I?'. The gist of my realizations are mentioned below.
The realizations in psychology and spirituality that I consider very important are as follows:
1. Mind is in better control if we start perceiving everything with lower intensity. Moreover, we will be more intelligent and mindful when we are able to perceive everything with lesser intensity. Only side effect to perceiving with lower intensity is we will not remember our memories after few hours. We should manage this aspect with keeping alarms and time tables.
2. We can perceive everything the way we want for example we can perceive hardships as better than luxury, poor as better than rich, diseased as better than healthy, stressful as better than calm. Only when we perceive some things as negative they affect us more. Our decisions every moment guide our life more than anything else. If we are able to decide to be calm, peaceful, happy, contended, grateful, accomplished, successful and enlightened every moment there is no room for negative aspects in our life.
3. Mind works based on relative priorities of various aspects of life. Therefore, we must spend efforts in maintaining right priorities for important aspects of life. For example if one gives more importance to the results than his own psychological status, there will be less peace and more anxiety. To relatively improve our psychological status we should downplay the results to such an extent that achieving it is like just drinking a glass of water.
4. Only Brahman exists and our body and mind are just illusions created by property changes at its different points. When the body moves, only the coding patterns for visual property moves and when the body feels something the coding pattern for feel property moves parallel to the movement of the body.
5. Anything exists for us individually only when we pay attention to it. We should take a cue from the fact that light behaves differently when it is observed compared to when it is not. Similarly our problems should be thought about only when we are trying to find a solution for them. Having known that all that exists is Brahman and coding patterns in it, why we should brood about anything unless it helps us. Our attention should be more on our daily routine and daily improvements in our psychological status.
To take advantages of the above realizations regular self affirmations are needed to be applied as patches. These patches should be tailor made to suit our individual requirements.
Thought Management:
Automatic regular thoughts come from thought priority queue. Our mental inputs and deep reasoning happens from the permanent memory and our cravings happen from habit maps.
Effective thought management involves the following:
1. We need to involve more with mental inputs and deep reasoning and just get the hints from priority queue and habit maps.
2. We need to learn to perceive things with less importance or priority so that the thoughts from thought priority queue do not overwhelm us.
3. To improve our intelligence we need to regularly provide inputs to our mind regarding correct priorities of various aspects of life.
Happiness or sadness is based on the priorities by which we perceive various aspects of life. We tend to be happy with something because we give importance to that thing. We become unhappy when we do not get or lose that thing. Therefore, by regular affirmations if we reduce the importance of those things we can not achieve to get and increase the relevance of those things which always happen (like passing of day) we can maximize our happy moments out of total moments.
Human intelligence can be called as a process of using our will to estimate, analyze and extrapolate the information perceived by the sense organs and the mind. It can also be called as the skill to use our will to enhance our knowledge, expertise, connections and other resources based on logic and the right allocation of time, effort, resources, and people. Our intelligence decides where our attention points to at the current moment and our knowledge and expertise depend on the time of attention spent in the respective area of knowledge and expertise. In other words intelligence is just processing of memories based on some criteria in another memory location. To improve our intelligence we need to train our minds to prioritize the information gathered correctly and explore into the depths and widths of the issue.
Nature of our existence:
This world is a single life entity which can change patterns in its memory space and through coding patterns and thereby create and maintain the world.
Who am I? I am just my will with my intelligence appended to it. The body, mind and intellect are non sentient and are the creations of god and hence are not me. My will always existed in the memory space of universal existence and was not created by anyone. Just because we presume that nothingness does not have a will and life, we reckon something has to be created for it to exist.
I have written nine books (published in Amazon KDP) and many articles on my research work in philosophy.
My perspective in life:
One of the main skills that one needs to acquire is to realize the relative and absolute priorities of various things in life. The other main skill is to point our attention at right areas at our waking times. I call these aspects priorities of perception and points of attention.
However, it is the distortion of the priorities, which causes defects and enables interesting stories in life. Therefore, there must be a balance of fun and perfection, which are enabled by finding defects and implementing their resolutions respectively. Needless to say that we are made imperfect so that we unintentionally generate defects and therefore have enough fun in rectifying them. This world is perfectly imperfect in the sense that there is perfect balance between stories generated from imperfections of the minds and the perfect learning opportunities to improve upon from the imperfections.
Usual Psychological questions answered:
What are your future problems?
At the end nothing matters.
What are your long term desires?
Not much, probably more freedom and respect for common citizens.
What are your long term fears?
Physical pain, that is the only problem one ultimately may have to face. Others are as we perceive.
What are your weaknesses?
I consider everyone equal and this aspect affect my relationship when someone wants special treatment from me.
I give more importance to peace than prosperity and therefore there is limitation to work more than my limit.
What are your strengths?
I am continually improving in all aspects. I continually reconsider all my decisions and look for improvements all along.
I have a balanced approach towards various aspects of life.
What are your present challenge?
Major challenge is managing conflict of interest with others and between conflicting resources like time, effort, money and materials. Another one is being engrossed without affecting others and not draining the energy.
What is your major responsibility?
Moral support to my daughter till she is 25 years old.
How do you view your life so far?
Nice story, seen ups and downs, can relate and empathize with most of the people.
What are your major regrets in life?
No regrets. But I reckon, if I had gotten into spirituality little earlier in life, my sufferings would have been much less.
What are your major failures in life?
Failures are part of life. Everything I did was failure in one way or another. Only success was a promotion and an award while working for a company. Was average in college, couldn't keep jobs, books written by me did not sell, couldn't create brand value for my contents. Off course most of the failures is due to my intent to not market my work aggressively due to lack of financial need to take high risks.
What are your major accomplishments in life?
Not giving up after misfortunes, mostly job losses. Became expert in metaphysics, philosophy, psychology and self development.
Everything that we achieve we achieve for our psychological elevation. I have achieved great psychological status, wherein I remain joyous through various types of ups and down in my life situation.
Any wish?
My children, wife, brother and his family being well socially, mentally, physically and financially.
What is the purpose of posting this?
I reckon both our failures and achievements, rights and wrongs, can help others if they perceive in the right way. I want to convey that one doesn't need to be successful only in the career, to be happy and content. Everyone can not get the lead role in life. One just need to try to do whatever is possible in the best possible way. Moreover, it is in our mindset to decide about what success is on individual basis.