A lots happened in these 2 years, 3 months and 12 days

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Welcome back to my blog.

A lot happened during these 2+ years from my last post.

Started doing a lot of meditation everyday without missing a day. Started opening up myself for more miracles. Became more compassionate and enthusiastic about learning more and more things.

In this process, attended one of the Manifestation sessions with BuddhaCEO during 1st week of March conducted by Chandra Pulamarasetti. It gave me a lot of clarity on what I am supposed to do in my life. One of the sessions of this program is writing a vision board. I have mentioned 7 goals in that vision board.

The 1st one happened immediately after 3 months i.e, becoming a founder & CTO of my own organization. It happened miraculously as one of our GodSent friend who was observing my profession (as we used to discuss a lot of things together for many years) motivated me & initiated this task and started our own organization.

The 2nd one is in progress. Subscribed for a zoom account and started teaching meditation to my close circle of friends both in India and USA. Also, opportunities to teach meditation started coming across. Taught meditation as a part of their curriculum to our Engineering college students.

The 3rd one is of course is a divine gift in place from long time because of my two angels (Wife and Daughter) a joyful and coherent family with my parents staying with us.

The 4th one was a big surprise and my angels from 1st goal helped me to achieve. The universe has arranged a quick means to buy a  house with a huge back yard where I could build a pyramid. This all happened in a jiffy as if it was a perfectly planned & well executed script. All happened as per our budgets and plans. We have a beautiful and powerful pyramid built with an access for our friends to visit and meditate.

The 5th one is ongoing, satisfying my earthly desires of being abreast of new gadgets and technology.

The 6th one is a work in progress and on the way to be fulfilled very soon & add further joy.

7th one is an ongoing practice that will make me not to hesitate to donate for a good cause.

These experience completely changed my perspective about the life and the way we live our life within our own shackles and limitations. It also taught me how to lead a limitless life. I understood how the universe operates and always loves and helps us in fulfilling our life purpose. This provided me a knowledge of things that would have taken a long time to study and digest and practice and achieve.

During this period, we also witnessed Patriji vacating his body to continue his mission of Dhyana Jagath from different planes.

Thanks to Patriji for making the Ana-Apana-Sati meditation a defacto simple method of meditation. This made me to settle with Ana-Apana-Sati from more than 8 years. Simply sitting in a comfortable position, closing your eyes & observing the natural  in-breath and out-breath leads to a wonderful and miraculous life. It is simple to practice anytime and anywhere in a day and is very powerful. The regular practice of Ana-Apana-Sati meditation for 48 days will completely change our lives. We will start experiencing being with our ultimate source and draw the energy and information from it. This practice will train your mind in a subtle way to be in the present moment instead of whirling in the past or floating into a wild imagination of future.

When I learnt that I have enough knowledge about the meditation, started teaching to the others. It is almost 2 years now since I have been teaching meditation regularly to my friends.

Off late, I found that most of the human beings are suffering from similar issues: 1. they have formed their own limited beliefs 2. They are scared of leaving their comfort zone. 3. They are unknowingly used to being in the low frequency state of mind and are not able to come out of it. 4. The people who want to come out of these situations are exploited by many people.

I would attach all issues of health, relationships & prosperity are derived from the above said aspects.

I also found that many of the health issues arise from the imbalance of our energy body. The only tool that can correct our energy body is Meditation. Meditation works from inside out. The senior meditators observed that, any illness shows as an energy imbalance almost 6 months before it reflects on the physical body.

Regular meditation makes us understand the subtle fact that we are a part of the whole Supreme consciousness having individual human experiences. A deeper meditation provides us an opportunity to be with that Supreme consciousness. During this period there is a download of energy and information into our human body that helps us to live our lives to the full potential with eternal joy.

Spirituality is not a renunciation, it is living our life to the full potential without any limitations & sharing the fruits of it with others.

Once I realised this truth, life became much more enjoyable and fearless. I also found many of our co-meditators also started improving their health & prosperity and becoming more inclined to see divinity in everything and everyone.

Many more miraculous experiences to have in this continuous joyfull journey…..

What can I do now?

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Many of us who didn’t expect this prolonged pause that we thought would be for a month or quarter or 6 months. Now that this is continuing the status quo of not having the same income or less than what we expect as a minimum required for our survival, let us see what as an individual we can do.

This is a big shock as most of us would have prepared for worst case scenario of not having proper income for a 6 months period maximum. Most of us have commitments like EMIs for our homes, vehicles, credit/medical bills and education fees to be paid etc. Many of us will be really disturbed as we think more of it.

The first & foremost thing we need to do is “accept the present situation” that is in front of us. Yes the life is not the same as it was 3 or 6 or 9 months before. The way we lived and the spends that we use to do may not be possible for now and may be for few more months to come. If we don’t accept the reality that’s with us now, we will have continuous conflict going on in our mind  which leads to “why only me?” thoughts which will in-turn pushes into depression and deteriorate the health conditions. All this resulting us in making us more aggressive or more depressed.

However, once we accept the situation, our mind naturally starts working on the possible options in front of us that will make our present situation better.

This things we need to address are 1. Our mental condition, 2. Family, 3. Finance 4. Social

1.Our mental Condition: As stated above, acceptance of the current situation and living in the present (“NOW”) is most important. Let’s not live in the past or worry about the future. Let’s see what has to be done today and now. Take a month/week/day at a time and do what is appropriate to make this day/week/month to pass smoothly.

Never ever compare with others. Each ones life is destined to be different.

I strongly suggest to cultivate a habit of Meditation for at least 30 minutes a day and increase as required.

You may join for the free courses here:

www.Buddhaceo.org / www.brahmakumaris.com / www.dhamma.org  / www.heartfulness.org /

You can also join:

www.ishayoga.org / www.artofliving.org / www.mindvalley.com / www.vethathiri.edu.in / www.anandaindia.org  / www.masterco.org

Also get into some kind of physical activity (Yoga, Sports, Exercises etc) that suites to your body.

2. Family: We have to discuss the facts to the family and make them also understand the present situation and seek their support. Family members are the most supporting for any kind of situation. They may be worried a bit initially. However, if you can explain them with a calm mind and give them confidence that together you can overcome this peacefully, they will definitely support with full heart. This is the time you will see more family bonding than ever.

3. Finance: I am not a financial expert, but I am not shy of saying, do not hesitate to withdraw the possible savings/investments to make a smooth survival. This is better than barrowing more loans. This is not the time to analyse what could have been done in the past to have more money in hand now. This is the time to survive and let this period phase out and then make money in future. Of course this is a hard lesson to all of us that we must be prepared for worse scenarios like this in future. For now, let us focus on smooth sailing through these rough waters.

Use your credit card wisely. Minimize your monthly expenditure as this period teaches you what is absolutely necessary, what is good to have and what is luxury. Focus only on what is absolutely necessary. The whole and soul purpose for now should be how to sail smoothly until you have a stabilized income.

If you have lost the job, be flexible enough to grab the job that meets your absolute necessities. Do not think about the dent in your resume as everybody understands and appreciates you for coming out of this situation once you are back into normalcy. If you are confident about your skill sets, try negotiating to have a performance based income. This way both you and the employer will win.

If you have your own business, see how expenses can be reduced and you stock the supplies only based on the orders received. Innovate the business models so that you will have less risk and more stability.

4. Social: This is where more and more people get depressed as they will constantly be thinking of being prone to be compared. My sincere advice here is, when it comes to your own survival, you and your family matters the most and nothing else. All other things can be revived and rebuilt later. The true friends will understand the situation and extend their support if they can. The others can be revived later. Do not be guilty of the situations as you are fighting the pandemic situation and not doing a crime. Spend this time to learn new things and plan for your bright future than wasting time and energy into “what you have Vs what I have” or gossips.

Your energy flows where your attention goes. Don’t waste your energy in unnecessary things. Avoid negativity as much as possible. The main source in my opinion is television and social media that spreads full of negative views of the world dooming etc., Do not watch or spread the negativity. Read lot of good books.

Associate with groups that are of more positive vibes and who are into voluntary service (Social or Spiritual). Remember your whole and soul focus now is to sail smooth and take care of yourself and your family.

You are the master of your destiny. Your thoughts, emotions and feelings will create your reality. Be blessed.

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Business Dynamics Now

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After interacting with many organizations, I found that since April 2020 many organizations are struggling to justify their expenses on the real estate. With the occupancy levels less than 10-20%, it really doesn’t make sense. The big organizations that have deep pockets or the ones with most of their own buildings are able to sustain for a while hoping the magic vaccine will bring the normalcy back.

This has become a trillion dollar question that when will be the vaccine available? If available, will it be available to the general public at the costs that they can afford? Most important, how many people will opt for it before it is completely proven safe?

With the current situation, more and more people are opting to work from home and the organizations are also allowing/accepting and amending their business policies accordingly.

This is effecting the landscape of cities now. Most of the people are preferring their home towns to Work From Home instead of cities. More than 50% of rented houses in cities are vacated. Real estate is effected now. Technology Gaints announced that till July 2021 they don’t expect their employees to return to office. The others also have similar timelines. Some organizations are deciding to make permanent arrangements for people to work from home saving their CapEx costs.

There could be many hub spots that may come up in every corner of cities/towns with all saftey measures and technology to enable people to meet face to face without traveling much. The restuarant or business centers may change their seating designs & space management to accommodate this new requirement.

The entire Real Estate and Facilities Management business is also poised for a great shift. People who are working in these businesses have to think out of box to make their positions more relevant to the given situation. Technology, social dynamics, policies by politicians with far vision and economics will play a great role to make the new normalcy as a sustainable future.

Decentralised & distributable business will flourish. Fixed and centralized business may get effected. As per many experts, the expected time for normalcy from pandemic is next 2 years. The thing to note here is, meanwhile if organizations with growing technology & new business models find ways and means to continue the WFH (more economical) you may not see the same population coming back to cities.

On the other side, organization’s have to identify and invest on technology, infrastructure and innovative models that enable people to work from home without any hinderance. This may include a big shift in their IT policies. The government is also taking note of the situation and trying their best to amend the policies to align to the business dynamics.

So if you are in India, and you are planning to start a new business, you must align your vision and mission that focuses on the sustainable WFH models.

If you are planning to return to India, and if you have a good plan to reinvent your business model to accommodate this dynamic situation, this is the golden opportunity to be in India.

Jai Hind.

Next: What is that I can do as an individual?

New Passion – My Love

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After success of my first iPhone video (Heal the World by Joy of Music) and many encouraging words from all the audience, started exploring more on cinematic movies with handheld camera/mobile. Found Peter Lindgren B-Roll on “A Cinematic Poker”. I was fascinated with the possibilities of the techniques he has used in that video.

An urge/desire to do something in these lines grew much rapidly than I realised. Called Kiran Raj who recently got his hairstyle done similar to the one in Poker video. Sent him the video and asked him if he is interested if I shoot similar but not the same with him. He immediately agreed.

Now the creative part of the brain started functioning at high potential. Wanted to make some thing Indian, and should give a message of love and beautiful relationship. It should touch everyone’s heart and most importantly has to reflect my thought process. Discussed with Saritha, she gave brilliant suggestions & support.

Finalised the theme. A tired and tensed husband finds a solace & happiness with the love of his wife. Met Kiran and Shyla explained the script. Not sure at that moment if Kiran believed in what I was trying to tell him. However, our relationship and respect to each other has made us to work in synergy. Convinced Shyla, saying she is the key person in this video.

My actual purpose of meeting was to explain the script to both of them and start the shooting the next day. Surprisingly completed the whole shooting within 2 hours on the same day. The entire shooting was on iPhone 11 Pro Max utilising all three lenses.

Started editing the clips to make a smooth sequence. Sent the preview (without Sound) to Shyla, Kiran & Saritha. All of them are like “looks good, let’s see after sound mix”. It took another 2.30 hours to compile the whole video with sound. Sent the preview again to 3 of them. Took their feedback & fine tuned and made this.

The initial feed back from near and dear people is highly encouraging. Hope everyone who watches this would enjoy.

God bless All. Be blessed.

iPhone videography

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Recently our community decided to sing a song (Heal the World) dedicated to the situation across the Globe due to Covid 19. Somehow they decided to invite me to shoot the song.

Joy of Music group from Prestige Oasis

I didn’t have a clue on how I will do it as till then I was only doing casual videos with my smart phones. I was more on portrait photography than videography. I was really excited with this opportunity.

On little research on the Internet, found that if we have a gimbal, it will help us to make better videos. Then we decided, we will have them sing twice and record 2 sessions of the video so that we can edit them to make one beautiful video.

We could not find a gimbal in our community and due to lockdown none of the e-commerce sites were able to supply the gimbal. Found that Foto-Circle at Anandrao Circle is open and they have two gimbals from different brands. I found Zhiyun-Tech Smooth Q2 to be very good. Immediately bought it (INR 10,000). Practiced with my daughter on iPhone 11 Pro Max for an hour and I was ready for the shoot.

On the day of performance, we took all precautions with Social Distancing etc and started recording the video. By the time the song is over my hand started paining as I am not used to lift and hold 656 grams continuously for 5 minutes on my fingers. Did a bit of stretches and rotation of joints and started the 2nd session. Completed both the sessions, one with majority of wide angle and the other with bit of close-up pans and dollys.

After finishing both the sessions we found that because of social distancing and 8 mics, the sound wasn’t equally distributed among singers. We divided into group of few people per mic and recorded the audio only. Thanks to my wife for assisting in audio recording.

The total experience was amazing. Everybody felt so happy. The “Joy of Music” group of our community had a feel of accomplishment. Appreciate the patience and passion these people have towards this noble act, from a child to grown up adults. Everybody enjoyed every bit of it.

Now comes the editing part. Tried doing it with iMovies on mobile itself, but wasn’t comfortable. Then tried locating Windows Movie Maker on my windows laptop, found that they have discontinued it long back. Tried trial version of Filmora 9. It was easy learning curve. Could figure out what can be done in 1 hour and started editing.

It took little time to align 2 videos and an audio file to align for a proper lip sync. Then came the actual editing part. First thing to do is cut the video parts as per the beats so that it looks nice if the scene changes as per the beat. Then decide which clip looks good in that bit (small duration). Also see that it doesn’t look abrupt. Most important the lip sync has to be maintained. Made a slide for main Title and then end titles. It took almost 3 hours for editing. When I exported the video as mp4, was shocked to see a watermark by Filmora 9 across 1/3rd of the video at the bottom. Now there is a dilemma, shall I invest in Filmora or go for Adobe. Spent another 30min and decided to invest in Filmora 9 perpetual licence. Once the login is done after the payment (USD 63) the watermark banner disappeared.

Sent the video as a preview to few members of community. They were happy with the editing and gave few suggestions on titles. Implemented those suggestions and published the final version on YouTube. In the next one hour received an email from YouTube mentioning about copyright by SME Michael Jackson.

Here is the YouTube link https://youtu.be/OgEl744WUdU

After watching the video again and again. I found a lot of things that could have been done better while shooting, recording the audio and editing. However, I felt happy with my new passion and will continue shooting videos (in addition to my portraits). Will improve my skills. Who knows this may start paying to sustain my passion. 🙂

God bless all and be blessed.

Vipassana (10 days course)

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Successfully completed 10 days Vipassana course at Dhamma Bengaluru. Did a 10 hour per day meditation for 10 days (as they say deep mind surgery) without any connection with outer world – no mobiles, must maintain noble silence with no communication of any sort even with fellow participants.

A wonderful technique which everyone at least once in a life has to learn. This course has nothing to do with religion or spirituality but pure in-depth self introspection that helps to peal off all the layers of impurities and makes one liberated from all miseries. It basically teaches how the sensation of the four stages of the mind (cognition, recognition, sensation and reaction) is the main cause of all miseries and how one can break the habit pattern of the mind by using the sensations as a tool. The technique is very simple but needs a lot of practice. After the course, one must do a 2 hours meditation every day.

This technique is discovered and made popular 25 centuries ago by the great scientist of mind and matter – Gautama Buddha in India. Preserved by Burma and brought back to India by S N Goenka.

The course is offered free of cost worldwide. After completing the course, if one is satisfied with the course, they can donate any amount of money to enable the organization to teach to others.

The uniqueness of this technique is it works at the experiential level of mind i.e, one must experience every bit of it by the completion of the course. There is nothing much in theory.

Overall Vipassana opens our mind & sub-conscious mind to look at things as the way they are.

I know this is a baby step of me in the noble path of Dhamma. Let me see where my journey in this path ends.

 

You can also watch Video on Vipassana by Eilona Ariel at TEDxJaffa 2013.

How I got into Meditation?

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During my childhood (as far as I remember) I had an interest in other dimension (GOD). I use to believe that there is something beyond our understanding that is taking care of all of us. May be it started with few instances of intuition coming true.

Later on, I started reading spiritual books of Vivekananda, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Saibaba and Avadhutas in addition to Bhagavadgita, Bible & Quran. Attended discourses from eminent spiritual gurus. Did not understand fully, but my thinking of the other dimensions has strengthened.

During my college days I was staying next to Satya Sai Baba Ashram and had a chance to read a lot of books on spirituality and got in touch with a lot of spiritual persons. Had this strong desire to know how can we get in touch with other dimensions and get clarification to all my queries. I was staying in a temple complex with my classmate. During this period, had intuitions such as seeing the accidents before they happened and miraculously escaping one. Made my belief more stronger. Started reading more and more books which I could get hands on (books were costly for my status those days). Also kept spending more & more time with spiritually inclined people & even tried interacting with spirits (was cautioned and stopped by my spiritual friends).

After finishing college, for next few years’ worst things happened in my life. It was like pressing a reset button on your computer. Fortunately, GOD helped me to take this as an opportunity to upgrade my spiritual & computer knowledge. Thanks to a lot of friends and colleagues who helped me with their moral/knowledge support.

I started experimenting with Astrology thinking that there should be a way the astrologers get in touch with this Supreme Energy and find out what happens in future. But did not go far deeper after finding that it is more to do with the movement of planets. Read a lot of books on meditation and kundalini but was scared to experiment deeper without a guru (more on this soon…..). In the quest of  Supreme Energy went to Sabarimala after an intense mandala. Unknowingly my intuition was at its peak during this period. Had dreams about the accident at Sabarimala and how I was saved miraculously without a single scratch. Dreams about my would-be life partner (my wife) and a lot more things. Most of the things that I remember came true. The accident at Sabarimala (1999) had a greatest impact on the way I perceived life as I was coordinating to bring back the bodies of devotees to their homes (Andhra Pradesh). The dream about my wife was another surprise as the evidence physically on ground lasted only till we visited that place & witnessed it together after our marriage (where we use to spend a lot of time in my dreams) . And many more dreams and sense of negative energies in some places were regular experiences.

Attended spiritual courses of Isha at Delhi. Touched upon Maitribodh Parivar & Pyramid Meditaion (PSSM). This opened up few more angles of understanding about touching the other dimensions.  As Oogway in KungFu Panda movie says “There are no accidents”. I believe that GOD will keep arranging the things in such a way that we reach our intended goal like a parent who clears the obstacles on the way of a running infant.

All this accumulated over a period of time, made me believe strongly that there are other dimensions that we have not even touched upon and many of them we are not even aware of. It is like an ant thinking its world is the biggest and the best and nothing else exists.

Start Meditating. You will see & experience things changing in you and around you.

More …soon…..

Meditation

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Not sure if I am ready yet to say anything on Meditation subject. However started experiencing few things from past 12 months, which made me believe that there is this energy inside every one of us that is longing to connect with the supreme energy of the universe of higher dimension.

This supreme energy (you may call it GOD, Shakthi, Universal Energy, Prana etc) is abundant and has a limitless love to all beings. For easy reading let us call it the GOD (Great Other Dimension).

If you are not a believer of this other dimensional aspects of your life, then you may choose to ignore the further reading.

Remember a quote from Sai Baba “You have to tune your’self’ to catch the signals of the God”. Meditation is a process of tuning yourself to catch the signal of the God. I read & seen a lot of methods and processes that help to tune myself and experienced a few. GOD grants whatever you wish for provided you are perfectly tuned.

Will never debate on which method/process is the best because each one of them are unique. It is like choosing the device of your choice that perfectly suites you. Before choosing the method/process one has to believe that there is a higher dimension that has this abundant Supreme Energy and loves to help you to elevate to higher dimensions. My observation is at certain point all these methods/processes meet together and help you to reach the common goal of touching the GOD.

Once you experience this touch of GOD, it becomes an addiction. It completely changes the way one perceives the life and the way they live from then on. It reminds me of Ramdas Keerthana “Sreerama Nee Namam Entho Ruchi Ra”. The true translation is “Sreerama your name is very tasty”. My understanding is the touch of GOD is very ecstatic experience.

Start Meditating. You will see & experience things changing in you and around you.

More …soon…..

ARCHIBUS Inc. Wins The 2014 Tops in Technology Award for Facilities Management Software from Commercial Property Executive

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ARCHIBUS Inc., the #1 software developer in the world for real estate, infrastructure, and facilities management, has been awarded The 2014 Tops in Technology Award by Commercial Property Executive(CPE) magazine.

ARCHIBUS, according to the publication’s editors, was among the companies that stood out in the facilities management category for “their ability to provide flexible customization, competitive pricing and the most innovative solutions, all backed by superior customer service.”

Writing about the award winners, CPE editor Dan Waldman states that “the companies here are the ones that have been rated highest by our readers, so please keep this list as your reference.”

ARCHIBUS Research & Development efforts, by far the largest and most extensive in the industry, are guided by input from more than 7 million ARCHIBUS users at more than 44,000 customer sites. Organizations using ARCHIBUS continue to report real estate, infrastructure, and facilities-related cost savings as high as 34% and are subsequently encouraged to invest 5% of these savings into environmental sustainability initiatives making them remarkable global citizens.

ARCHIBUS addresses over 90 application areas and has seamless connectors to over 5,000 legacy systems and disruptive technologies. Some of the most rapid areas of growth within the ARCHIBUS portfolio of offerings include: the expansion of the ARCHIBUS Mobile Framework™; the ARCHIBUS Performance Metrics Framework™; and Enterprise Information Modeling with BIM 4.0™, which enable intelligent life-cycle asset management.

“We are immensely gratified at receiving The 2014 Tops in Technology Award because we were chosen by readers of Commercial Property Executive who may include users of ARCHIBUS products or those who have heard positive things about us,” says Bruce Kenneth Forbes, IFMA Fellow and Founder/President and CEO of ARCHIBUS.

“For over 34 years, the members of the ARCHIBUS Federated Eco-System have enabled ARCHIBUS to be the #1 real estate, infrastructure, and facilities management software and services offering in the world, dominating the industry with over 94% of the CAFM / CIFM/ IWMS / TIFM / UIFM global markets,” says Forbes. “ARCHIBUS products and services are a living testimony to the successes of our Community, which includes over 4,200 ARCHIBUS Professionals and over 1,700 ARCHIBUS Business Partners whose knowledgeable staffs provide local support in over 190 countries.  Today, ARCHIBUS users manage over 18 million ARCHIBUS-supported ‘smart’ and ‘intelligent’ buildings and properties. Our profession, citizens of the world, and I are indebted to these individuals who have been pioneers and visionaries and make the world a better and more environmentally-sensitive place.  I offer a special thank you to Mr. Waldman and his colleagues for acknowledging ARCHIBUS and the efforts of the professionals within the ARCHIBUS Federated Eco-System.”