Esoterics — which got memed.
It all started with Memes about Lenaa, which surfaced after her interview with Indian Express, the social media as usual was flooded with a lot of version of it. My curiosity was piqued and I looked for the original. So we as marketing professionals do good and bad is what it proved. We tend to bring curiosity to readers' minds by producing this content and putting some interesting topics to remain memes as well worthy of just sarcasm.
It's interesting to see how the world of Memes is, it takes a snippet of the whole conversation and to the creator's convenience used to convey something that speaker never meant in her hour-and-a-half-long conversation. It is deduced to something which is so meager when she talked of her journey which is very very esoteric. Not all of us would be able to appreciate it. This was being compared to babble which we have heard from gold-clad Nityananadas as well. Have had different brushes with spirituality in this tenure, some of them stuck and some were kept aside as they didn't suit me.
Growing up years I was temple trotting thrissurkari, whose day wasn't complete without a visit to the temple or rather multiples of them. Used to visit a couple of them before attending the marathon tuition classes. Those days gave me a sense of calm to go to these. This might include a thread on the forearm which was sanctified in the temple or vibhudi (the holy ashes) in the forehead or chanting of mantras. All of them were taken up some by the influence of the surroundings and some by inkling from within. These did get me to understand certain aspects of being religious and some inkling of spirituality. The school years were spent in mission institutions so it was normal to partake in holymasses and lean in front of an idol for a silent prayer. These came naturally to most of us, as I can remember they did influence me as a person to look up to a higher power to seek help, but were never forced. The values that I would have imbibed came from seeing my elderly in action and of course we did have some subjects like Moral science which were discussed.
I was introduced to demi-gods when I had the chance to learn engineering at Ashram College. There I was introduced to a lot more religious practices and thinking and as young adults are a lot more impressionable in these subjects. Here the agents who were interacting with us for these matters didn't have the finesse to convey these is what I would assume, some of the practices were forced. For instance, after late-night studies, we were forced to attend 5 AM yoga classes which were mostly slept through. But thanks to those classes, basics in yoga were learned to be picked up in the right way later in life. The chanting was mandatory in the evening, which didn't make sense to be made so. So here I did have a brush with it, with some of the folks in the class actually turning devotees and following that ascetic path. As they say, everything is part of the plan. These experiences also made me intrigued and more curious and seeking what is good for me. Yoga stuck with me from there is what I can see.
In the young professional life, these things fly off the window. The corporate life makes that your religion for some time, in a way to wrench you to really find your path. The familial duties of being a young family member too, such things in my case just got to a silent prayer or listening to chants during the day. In the later part of life, in my late 30s, I looked into my options to connect to god better. Then I knew it as the god from the conditioning, but later realized it was me whom I was connecting to. It did create a bit of turmoil I should say. Because I was clueless by then as to what it was all about being me.
Lenna's journey in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPym9Q1TTT0 and her book could bring light to some of the questions that I dabble with. After seeing the video I was quite drawn to the simplicity with which she explained certain concepts.
