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✍🏻 Post 18 | 2 October '26 💭 Topic— Polity and Administration ────────── 🏡 Who runs the village: the Pradhan, or the whole village? If in Phulera the road breaks, the drain clogs, or some work gets stuck, the first person everyone looks to is the Pradhan. But the real question is: Is every problem in the village and every decision solely the Pradhan’s responsibility? 🇮🇳 In India, government is not limited to just the Union and the States. The 73rd Constitutional Amendment gave constitutional status to Panchayati Raj and strengthened the system of taking governance down to the village level. 🏘️ Generally, it has three tiers: Village → Gram Panchayat Block → Panchayat Samiti District → Zila Parishad The 11th Schedule of the Constitution lists 29 subjects. These include areas like agriculture, drinking water, rural housing, roads, health and sanitation, and education. But here is an important point. Just having a list of these 29 subjects does not mean that every Panchayat in the country has equal powers over all of them. How much work, how much money, and how much decision-making power Panchayats actually get depends largely on how each State distributes these powers. 👥 And “Panchayat” does not mean only the Pradhan. The Gram Sabha consists of the registered voters of the village, whereas the Gram Panchayat is the elected local body. In other words, the Gram Sabha and the Gram Panchayat are not the same thing. 🪞 This is where the real challenge of decentralization appears. It is not enough to merely shift power from Delhi to the State, and from the State to the village. Along with power, resources and clearly defined responsibility must also reach downwards. Otherwise, when the road is in bad condition, the Pradhan can blame the State, the State can cite a lack of funds or powers, and in the end it remains unclear who, in fact, is accountable. Good governance is not identified only by how far power has been pushed down. We must also see whether the one who has been given responsibility actually has the authority to decide and the resources needed to act. But there is another layer. No matter how good a system you design, it is ultimately human beings who run it. If the same old priorities, personal interests, and narrow identities are driving decisions, then will merely changing the location of power really change the outcomes? ❓ If a Panchayat were to get all three, powers, funds, and accountability, would the village change just by changing the system, or would the priorities of those running it also need to change? 🔗 Source: https://panchayat.gov.in/en/about-department/introduction/

HIDP activities have started again in Delhi NCR. Participants reached the venue for the activities by 9:00 am. Everyone is having fun in all the activities, learning new things, and right now they’re preparing for a play. We’ll be sharing a new video with you all very soon. 👉🏻 Registration link for all sessions: https://acharyaprashant.org/en/upcoming-events?cmId=aplive-allevents

✍🏻 Post 8 | 1 October ‘26 💭 Topic — Environment and Climate ──────────── 🧊 Switzerland’s glaciers lost 5.5% of their ice in just one year! The year 2026 has been extremely bad for Switzerland’s glaciers. In the last 12 months, the country’s remaining glacier ice has shrunk by about 5.5%. According to scientists, even a 2% loss of ice in a single year used to be considered extreme. This year, the loss has been nearly three times that. ☀️ Snowfall in winter was lower than normal. Whatever snow did fall melted rapidly in the heat of May and June. When the white snow disappears, the darker ice underneath gets exposed. It absorbs more of the sun’s energy and melts even faster. 💧 This summer, about 2.2 trillion liters of water melted out of the Swiss glaciers. For the time being, this water felt like a blessing. It supported agriculture, hydropower, and other water needs during the hot and dry weather. But the question is: ❓ What will be left for tomorrow? The water stored in glaciers is not newly created water. It is water that has been stored as ice for decades and centuries. We are using it today because the heat has melted it. But if the glaciers keep shrinking, then next summer this extra water will no longer be available. 🏔️ What worries scientists most is that even in high-altitude regions, snow is no longer surviving. In some places, by the end of summer there was no snow left even at 3,500 meters, whereas under normal conditions, winter snow helps refill the glacier. So the problem is not only that the ice is melting. The problem is that the snow that should replenish the glacier is not lasting either. But this is not some isolated change happening out there in nature. Behind it lies the direction of our lifestyle and consumption. 🌱 The environmental crisis is not just a crisis of the outer system. Behind it is your inner incompleteness. To satisfy your unfulfilled desires and comforts, you constantly want more consumption. And for that, nature has to be exploited. The facts are telling us that in our indulgence, we have heated the Earth, and the consequences are now visible. Now a question for you: ❓ Make a list of such climate events that have occurred around the world in the past month, and explain what they have to do with you personally. Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6n9w0ypjwl9o

Fearlessly, I will sing of the qualities of the Nirgun ✨🍀 ➖➖➖ I will bind myself in a firm posture at the root-lotus, I will make the breath move in the reverse direction. I will steady the mind and all possessiveness, I will unite the five elements. Ida, Pingala, and Sushumna nāḍī— at their confluence, yes, I will bathe. I will summon the play of all twenty‑five, then string them onto a single thread. On the peak of emptiness, the soundless sound resounds, I will let all thirty‑six melodies be heard. Says Kabir, listen O seekers, I will hoist the flag of victory. --- निर्भय = अभय / courage / not merely the absence of fear निर्भय = beyond both fear and fearlessness निर्भय = knowing / understanding For the demolition of symbols that the Master is about to do ahead, being निर्भय is essential. --- The गुण of निर्गुण (the "qualities" of the attributeless) = sugar to a mute person. A mute person can only eat the sugar and smile; how is he to say anything about the sugar? "जे होउ जाना आखा नाही, कहना कथन न जाई" - Guru Nanak Ji ----- ☠️ Demolition of symbols: 1️⃣ Lotus = Sahasrār lotus = the ritualistic side of tantra / kundalini practices. Mool kamal = sit firmly with your root/source. The lotus can rise only from worldly mud. Mud = fear. To be able to see/know fear = mool kamal = knowing = consciousness. Dridh aasan = stay away from things that make you unconscious. Pavan = the usual, dull unconsciousness. Ulti pavan = exercising choice / consciousness. --- 2️⃣ Mind Where the entire chain/registry of names is stored = it breaks existence into separate pieces = creates the world. Mamata "Mine‑ness" = this is the part that is mine, and that part is not mine = it creates duality. One who has mastered this stops seeing things as different = he becomes steady = he understands that all variety is fake. "This is mine" = this must be protected. "That is not mine" = that must be acquired. The five elements are united = nothing remains as a separate element (all the colors mixed together = none left distinct). --- 3️⃣ Ida, Pingala, and Sushumna Yin–yang, feminine–masculine, and Sushumna = the middle path / witnessing. Kabir Sahib: I have known the truth of all three = I have bathed in the real Triveni. --- 4️⃣ Five senses × five elements Cross‑join = 5×5 = twenty‑five combinations. All five senses, interacting with all five elements in every way = all kinds of diverse experiences. Kabir Sahib: I know only the One = attention = Ram. I will string all those twenty‑five onto this single thread. --- 5️⃣ Anhad = the music of silence. From the zero‑peak, all melodies can surely arise, but even if you mix all melodies together, you cannot produce zero. --- Fearlessly, I will sing of the qualities of the Nirgun ✨🍀 ➖➖➖ I will bind myself in a firm posture at the root-lotus, I will make the breath move in the reverse direction. I will steady the mind and all possessiveness, I will unite the five elements. Ida-Pingala-Sushumna nāḍī— at their confluence, yes, I will bathe. I will summon the play of all twenty‑five, then string them onto a single thread. On the peak of emptiness, the soundless sound resounds, I will let all thirty‑six melodies be heard. Says Kabir, listen O seekers, I will hoist the flag of victory. --- निर्भय = अभय / courage / not merely the absence of fear निर्भय = beyond both fear and fearlessness निर्भय = knowing / understanding --- The गुण of निर्गुण (the "qualities" of the attributeless) = sugar to a mute person. A mute person can only eat the sugar and smile; how is he to say anything about the sugar? "जे होउ जाना आखा नाही, कहना कथन न जाई" --- ☠️ Demolition of symbols --- 1️⃣ Lotus = Sahasrār lotus = the ritualistic side of tantra / kundalini practices. Mool kamal = sit firmly with your root/source. The lotus can rise only from worldly mud. Mud = fear. To be able to see/know fear = mool kamal = knowing = consciousness. Dridh aasan = stay away from things that make you unconscious. Pavan = the usual, dull unconsciousness. Ulti pavan = exercising choice / consciousness. --- 2️⃣ Mind Where the entire chain/registry of names is stored = it breaks existence into separate pieces = creates the world. Mamata "Mine‑ness" = this is the part that is mine, and that part is not mine = it creates duality. One who has mastered this stops seeing things as different = he becomes steady = he understands that all variety is fake. "This is mine" = this must be protected. "That is not mine" = that must be acquired. The five elements are united = nothing remains as a separate element (all the colors mixed together = none left distinct). --- 3️⃣ Ida, Pingala, and Sushumna Yin–yang, feminine–masculine, all dualities, plus witnessing, or Sushumna (the middle path) as the third. Kabir Sahib: I have known the truth of all three = I have bathed in the real Triveni. --- 4️⃣ Five senses × five elements Cross‑join = 5×5 = twenty‑five combinations. All five senses, interacting with all five elements in every way = all kinds of diverse experiences. Kabir Sahib: I know only the One = attention = Ram. I will string all those twenty‑five onto this single thread. --- 5️⃣ Anhad = the music of silence. From the zero‑peak, all melodies can surely arise, but even if you mix all melodies together, you cannot produce zero. To win = to actualize your highest potential. --- Acharya Ji 🍀✨

Welcome Back To School Weekend With Master HIDP 11 #HIDP_11 #WeekendWithMaster

WWM | Day 1 ⚡ A very intuitive act. They started with funny act and this was the ending. 😳 Genuinely amazed by the range. Most of us realize our mistakes a little too late. #HIDP #WWM

60 kg bench press 🏋️‍♂️ I did the first 5–6 reps on my own. Then I completed the last 5 reps with slight support. Life is quite similar. You have to make the beginning yourself. No one else can do your share of hard work, struggle, and effort. But it’s not wise to keep fighting alone everywhere either. Where your grip starts to weaken, a little support from an expert, a guide, or a guru can give you the strength to move ahead. The guru doesn’t live your life for you; he just offers a bit of support at the point where you begin to stall—so that you can go ahead and do the next rep by yourself. It’s the same in life—effort is yours, direction is from the guru, and moving forward is up to you. 🙏 A reflection inspired by the teachings of Acharya Ji.

✍🏻 Post 9 | 1 October '26 💭 Topic — Movies/Songs/Books/Art ────────── 🎬 Udaan: Two lives under one roof The 2010 film Udaan, directed by Vikramaditya Motwane, is the story of Rohan. After being expelled from his boarding school, Rohan returns to Jamshedpur to live with his father, Bhairav. His father owns a factory. 🏠 The house is the same. 🏭 The work is the same. 📋 And his son’s future is already decided. Wake up in the morning. Go to the factory. Study. Become an engineer. But for Rohan, the meaning of life is something else. ✍🏻 He wants to write. 📖 He wants to write stories. 🕊️ He wants to live his life in his own way. But for his father, the son’s wishes do not fit into the fixed mold he has in mind. He wants Rohan to become exactly what he has decided for him. Slowly, the distance between the two keeps growing. On one side is the son, who feels that his whole life still lies ahead of him. On the other side is the father, who has already chosen his own path in life and now wants to push his son onto the same path. And that is where the film’s deepest contradiction comes to the surface. The man who built a house for himself, set up a factory, created a life, that very man is so bound within the four walls of that same house that he wants to cast his son in the same mold. Perhaps, for Bhairav, this has become the very meaning of life. 🏭 The same factory. 🏠 The same house. 📏 The same rules. 😐 The same expression. But something else is alive within Rohan. He does not want to accept that kind of life. He is afraid that if he stays there, slowly his life will also turn into the same thing. So a point comes when he has to choose. 🚪 Home or freedom. 🛡️ Security or his own path. And Rohan leaves home. But he doesn’t go alone. He decides to take his younger brother Arjun out of that house too. 🕊️ The son wanted to fly. And the father? He remained in the very cage he had built for himself. Both were faced with the same question. But both paid its price differently. One gave up his home for the sake of freedom. The other chose not to give up the world he had created for himself. ❓ Freedom demands a price. Are you paying that price every day, or have you also chosen to stay in the world you yourself have built? Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udaan_(2010_film)

✍🏻 Post 17 | 30 September '26 💭 Topic — Science ──────────── 🧠 How does the brain understand language? We hear language… but in the background, the brain is doing a lot more than we realize! 👂 When someone speaks, their voice first reaches the ear. The ear converts sound into neural signals, and these signals travel to the auditory areas of the brain. There, the brain starts recognizing patterns in the sound. 🔤 After that, the brain links these sounds to the smallest units of language, called phonemes (sound-units). Then it connects these phonemes to familiar words and their meanings. This is not the job of just one part, but of a whole network of interconnected regions in the brain. 🧩 For example, if someone says, “Close the door.” the brain doesn’t just recognize separate words like “door” and “close.” It puts the entire sentence together and understands its meaning. Understanding language involves the temporal, frontal, and other brain regions working together. ⚡ What’s even more interesting is that the brain doesn’t just create meaning after hearing something; it also predicts what might come next. Research shows that while we are understanding language, our brain can predict incoming information based on the context and our past linguistic experience. 🔬 So if someone begins a sentence with, “Today the weather is very…”, your brain has already started preparing possible next words. When the next word is different from what was expected, a change can be seen in the brain’s electrical activity. To study this, scientists look at signals such as the N400. 🧠 Two major pathways in the brain are also discussed in relation to language understanding. The ventral stream is crucial for linking sound to meaning, while the dorsal stream helps connect sound with the movements involved in speaking. 📖 In other words, we don’t understand a language just by memorizing words. Our brain combines sound, words, context, past linguistic experience, and prediction to construct meaning. 💭 And this is where a deeper question arises from within science itself. We hear what someone says—but do we really understand it exactly as it is? Or do our past experiences, our beliefs, and our expectations also take part in constructing that meaning? ❓ So next time someone says something, ask yourself: Did I truly listen to what they said, or did I interpret it according to my old understanding? 1️⃣ What did I hear? 2️⃣ What meaning did I give it? 3️⃣ Were the two really the same? Source: "Nature Reviews Psychology — Prediction in Language Comprehension" https://reference-url-citation.invalid/5

26–27 September | Goa Live Session 🌿 I had the opportunity to attend the live session held in Goa on 26th and 27th September. From the morning activities through the entire session, it felt as if, along with doing things on the outside, a lot was opening up within. The biggest thing was that we got a chance to really see our ego and catch it in action. Some experiences were such that it’s hard to put them fully into words; I can only say it felt as if many inner layers just kept unfolding. 🪞 In one of the activities on the second day, our group was the last one in the sequence. All other groups had already discussed different news items and topics from the newspapers, and practically every issue had been covered. Immediately a thought arose within us: “When everyone else has already said everything, what is the need for us to present now?” The mind had quickly found a way to possibly escape. 😄 Then it was announced that all remaining groups would have to give their presentations. Again we thought, “It’s already quite late now, maybe our turn won’t come… we might be spared.” But even here, another trick of the ego became very clear, it finds ways to protect itself in every situation. From the outside it looked like a very small matter, but when we looked within, we saw how subtly this desire to escape keeps operating. Throughout the session, the same realization kept recurring: the ego is not some distant thing; it appears right in our little thoughts, our attempts to avoid, our craving for comfort, and our ways of slipping out of situations. And perhaps this is the greatest beauty of a live session, you are not just there to listen; you are there to watch yourself unfold right in front of you. ❤️ I’ve learned a lot from online sessions, but the experience of a live session is of a completely different order. The collective energy of the people sitting together, your own responses during the activities, and your hidden tricks suddenly coming to the surface, you get to see all of this as it is actually happening. To those who haven’t yet attended a live session, I would only like to say this: do step forward at least once, come and sit in front of Acharya Ji in a live session. 🙏 What you hear there is important, but even more important is what you get to see within yourself. It is difficult to explain this in words; it can only be truly known by living it yourself. ❤️ For me, it wasn’t just a two-day event. It was an opportunity to see my own ego a little more clearly, to catch my own tricks, and to watch many inner layers opening up. What opened up and what was seen in the live session cannot really be contained in mere words. All I can say is: don’t just hear about this experience, live it once for yourself. 🌸🙏

✍🏻 Post 19 | 29 September ’26 💭 Topic — Geography ──────── ⚖️ Why does a person’s weight become a bit lighter at the equator? Suppose your weight is 70 kilos. But if you were picked up from the pole and made to stand on the equator, would your weight remain exactly the same? 🤔 No. There you would be about 350 grams lighter. Why does your weight change just by changing your location on Earth? 🌍 There are two reasons behind this. First: Earth’s rotation. The Earth is constantly rotating on its axis. At the equator, the surface of the Earth is moving at a speed of about 1,670 km/h. Because of this rotation, an outward effect is produced, which slightly reduces the effect of gravity. At the poles, the rotational speed is almost zero, so this effect is practically negligible there. Second: The Earth is not a perfect sphere. 🌍 The Earth bulges slightly at the equator and is slightly flattened at the poles. So a person standing at the equator is about 21 km farther from the center of the Earth than a person standing at the pole. And gravity decreases as distance increases. ⚖️ In other words, at the equator two effects work in the same direction: 🔄 The Earth’s rotation slightly reduces the effect of gravity. 📏 Being farther from the Earth’s center also makes gravity a bit weaker. 🚀 This rotational speed is also useful in rocket launches. When a rocket is launched from near the equator, it gets extra initial speed from the Earth’s rotation. 🪞 But there is one more subtle point here that is worth noticing. What we consider the most our own, what we hold with the strongest sense of “me,” is our body. And notice this: even the state of the body is not fixed. 🌍 The place changed, and the weight changed. That means the condition of what we call “mine” also depends on the condition of nature. Change your location on Earth, and the weight of the body changes. So then, where is the body separate from nature? 🌍 The Earth is not separate. The body is not separate. Nature is not separate. But what does the ego do? It draws a dividing line: “This is me.” “And this is nature.” It takes the body to be its own and then sees nature as something other than itself. But this small observation shows us something else. The very body we cling to the most as “I” is changing along with nature. When nature’s location changes, the body’s condition changes. Its weight changes. 🌍 Which means we are not some separate entity standing apart from nature. What is the deepest insight that emerges from this whole example? A. The body is an independent unit, separate from nature B. The state of the body is influenced by nature’s conditions C. The body depends only on Earth’s gravity D. Changing place brings no real change in the body E. The body and nature are not separate; the dividing line belongs to the ego. Source: https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/why-dont-we-weigh-more-at-the-poles-than-we-do-at-the-equator

✍🏻 Post 16 | 1 October '26 💭 Theme — Polity and Administration ──────────── 🏛️ 100 years of UPSC: Just an exam, or something far more? We usually know UPSC as an extremely difficult examination. But the Constitution did not create it merely to conduct an exam. 📜 Today UPSC completes 100 years. On 1 October 1926, India’s first Public Service Commission was established. Today, Article 315 of the Constitution provides for Public Service Commissions for the Union and the States. ⚖️ Along with conducting examinations for recruitment, UPSC also gives advice on appointments, promotions, and certain disciplinary matters. The Constitution also has special provisions about the tenure and removal of its members, so that the recruitment process for public services can remain at a sufficient distance from the direct control of the political executive. In other words, democracy does not run only on the hope of getting good officers. It also creates institutions that make the system less dependent on the wishes of any one individual or government. Every year, approximately 1 million (10 lakh) candidates apply for the UPSC Civil Services Examination, out of which around 1,000 candidates are finally selected. Consequently, the final success rate of the exam stands at about 0.1%. Due to such a low success rate, questions and doubts regarding the aspirants of this examination have surfaced from time to time. 🧑‍💼 After all, those who are selected into these services bear major responsibilities such as implementing policies on the ground, managing public resources, and making decisions in difficult situations. 🪞 But for a position for which selection is done with such care, why is it that we want that position? Is the attraction in that responsibility, where you must invest your time and abilities in public interest? Or in the power, prestige, and identity that come along with the post? Wanting the power of a position and wanting the responsibility of that position are not the same thing. The higher the post, the more necessary it becomes to ask whether we are drawn to its work itself, or to the elevated image of ourselves that it gives us. This question is not limited only to UPSC. We do want leadership and authority, but do we, with the same eagerness, want the accountability, tough decisions, and burden of service that come with them? ❓ If a responsibility came with no prestige at all, would you still choose it with the same enthusiasm? 🔗 Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/education/upsc-turns-100-commission-pushes-exam-reforms-to-assess-reasoning-spontaneous-thinking-10901853/

✍🏻 Post 1 | 1 October '26 💭 Topic — Indian Current Affairs ────────── 💍 Do Low Divorce Rates Really Mean Stronger Relationships? 🏛️ Recently, the Allahabad High Court granted protection to a couple who, after getting divorced by mutual consent, had married each other again. They now have two children as well. During the hearing of this case, the court remarked that marriage should not be taken lightly. ❓ But this raises another question: Do fewer divorces by themselves prove that marriages and families are stronger? 🇮🇳 In India, the low divorce rate is often linked to the supposed strength of the family. On the other hand, in England and Wales, 1,05,002 divorces were recorded in 2025, and among opposite-sex married people, the divorce rate was 8.4 per 1,000. However, direct comparison of statistics from different countries must be done cautiously, and the very basis of marriage is certainly open to doubt. 🔎 The real question is not just how many marriages broke, but also: on what basis have the marriages that survived actually continued? ⚠️ Violence within marriage is a harsh reality in India. According to the National Family Health Survey-5, among ever-married women aged 18–49, about 29% reported having experienced physical or sexual violence by their husbands at some point. Among rural women this was about 31%, and among urban women 25%. 🏠 Inequality within marriage is not limited to violence alone. According to the Time Use Survey 2024, 83.1% of women aged 15–59 participated in domestic services on a typical day, while among men this figure was 26.4%. 📚 A 2026 study examined gender discrimination, attitudes towards marriage, and perceived freedom in decision-making among 514 unmarried Indian women aged 18–30. It found that gender discrimination was negatively associated with better life conditions, whereas perceived freedom in decision-making and awareness were positively associated. 📌 So, fewer divorces do not mean that every marriage is successful. Divorce is a visible legal statistic; the pain, inequality, or pressure going on within a relationship cannot be measured simply by the number of divorces. 🪞 The question is not just whether the marriage stayed intact or broke. The question is: on what basis is the marriage being sustained? 🤝 If two people are together only because of society, children, economic dependence, social status, or fear, can the mere continuity of such a relationship really be called success? 🗣️ Wherever there is a problem, it should first be understood, discussed, and sincerely addressed. But if improvement is not possible, then hiding ongoing suffering under the blanket of the idea that “the marriage must not break” is not a solution. 🌱 The true measure of a woman’s freedom is not simply whether she is married or divorced. The real question is: Can she, without fear or pressure, make decisions about her life, education, work, marriage, and relationships? 📚 Sources: TOI https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/marriage-should-notbe-taken-lightly-hc/articleshow/134573515.cms https://www.mospi.gov.in/uploads/publications_reports/publications_reports1780040415321_0624fb13-fb47-40bc-b470-7c7e9635c3ef_PLFS_2025_F_REV_29052026.pdf

Today is a bit special for me, because since February, whatever I was trying to understand by listening to Acharya Ji is no longer limited to just hearing or thinking about it—I’ve started to actually feel it in my life. Acharya Ji, I’ve understood something very deeply: a woman’s empowerment is not just in outer achievements, but in being honest towards the truth, in understanding herself, and in continuously working on herself. Maybe that’s why going to the gym today didn’t feel like just a workout. It felt like a small part of that same journey of working not only on my body, but also on my mind and my life. Change doesn’t come all of a sudden, but when your way of thinking begins to shift and you start to see its effect within yourself, that feeling truly becomes very special.

✍🏻 Post 13 | 1 October '26 💭 Topic — Technology / AI ──────────── 🤖 America creates a new command for war... will machines fight the battles now? On 30 September 2026, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the creation of the Autonomous Warfare Command (AUTOWARCOM). This will be a four-star military command, with the authority to develop and deploy AI, drone, and robotic warfare systems on a large scale across different branches of the US military. The target is to have it established by 1 October 2027. 🛩️ Its focus will be: 🤖 AI-based military systems 🛩️ Drones and unmanned aircraft 🐝 Large numbers of low-cost drones and drone swarms 🚙 Autonomous ground and robotic systems 🎯 Systems that help in finding, tracking, and attacking targets ❓ Why did America feel the need to create such a separate command? The war in Ukraine has shown that relatively cheap drones can challenge expensive weapons and conventional military systems on the battlefield. That is why the US military is now moving away from relying only on a small number of extremely expensive weapons, and towards deploying large numbers of low-cost, autonomous systems along with high-capability weapons. Hegseth framed this as the need for both “quality and quantity.” Here the real question moves away from technology and comes back to war itself. ⚔️ Weapons of war change, ways of fighting change, but do we ever look at why war is “needed” in the first place? On one hand, human beings struggle to protect their existence, identity, and interests. On the other hand, that very struggle creates more destruction, fear, and insecurity. The basic tendency of the ego is self- preservation. When that ego grows beyond the individual and becomes the identity of a nation, an ideology, or a power structure, then its self-protection takes the shape of war. 🤖 Technology does not end this tendency. It only places new and more powerful tools in its hands. Today the question should not only be how autonomously machines can fight a war. The question must also be: why is the human being carrying within herself that inner conflict for which she has to keep inventing new weapons? Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/pentagon-creates-autowarcom-expand-ai-drone-capabilities-2026-09-30/

Earlier, my journey was confined; now Acharya Ji has given me a limitless journey. In this openness there is freedom, liberation, and an impartial vision, one that teaches me to see clearly, not through someone else’s eyes, but to see for myself. Now living itself is a meeting with my own Self. All this has happened because of Acharya Ji. It is Acharya Ji who has given us that vision which has opened up a vast sky before us. Acharya Ji, even though our journey with you is full of struggle, it is this very struggle that gives us something real, something that is truly our own, pure and authentic; not borrowed from anyone, not a second-hand vision given by someone else. This struggle too is full of joy. When there is struggle, it feels like there is life, that we are truly living. Otherwise, without struggle, we are dying every moment. Where there is struggle, there is life. Where there is no struggle, it is as if there is no life at all. It is this very struggle that keeps us alive from within. This very open journey is what leads us back to ourselves. 🙌🙌🪔🙌🙌

✍🏻 Post 14 | 30 September '26 💭 Topic — Human Excellence ────────── 📚 Toru Dutt: the young woman who created her literary world between two cultures We often let age, language, and circumstances define the limits of our abilities. But the life of a young Indian woman from the 19th century gives us a chance to look at these limits in a new way. 📖 Toru Dutt was born in 1856 in Calcutta, into an educated Bengali family. While being educated at home, she learned Bengali, English, and French, and later went on to study Sanskrit. At just 13, she went to Europe with her family. In France, she learned French, and in England she became acquainted with the world of English literature and academia. 🇫🇷 She translated French poems into English. In 1876, her book A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields was published, containing 165 poems. At first it did not receive much attention, but later it was noticed in literary circles and went through several editions. 🪶 Alongside this, she remained oriented toward Indian literature and Sanskrit narratives. In her book Hindustan Ki Prachin Gathayen Aur Kinvadantiyan, she presented Indian stories such as Savitri, Sita, Lakshman, Dhruv, and Prahlad through English poetry. This collection was published posthumously in 1882. 📚 She was not limited to being just a poet and translator. She wrote a novel in French titled Arvers Ki Yuvati Ki Diary and was working in English on Bianca Ya Yuva Spani Yuvati, which remained unfinished. 🕯️ She passed away on 30 August 1877 at only 21 years of age. During her lifetime, just one of her books was published; many of her important works came to light only after her death. 🌱 In such a short life, she brought French literature into English, rendered Indian narratives into English verse, and wrote in multiple languages herself. Her life was brief, but the direction of her literary journey was anything but narrow. ⚡ And this is where her story touches our own lives. We often say, “This isn’t my language,” “This field is not for me,” “I’m not old enough yet.” Gradually, these lines become our identity, and we begin to restrict our possibilities based on them. This is exactly where the ego, in defending the identity it has constructed, draws boundaries around us. 🌱 But Toru Dutt’s life shows that instead of turning identity into a boundary, we can turn it into a medium for learning. By embracing different languages and cultures, she expanded the scope of her own possibilities. ❓ In your life, which limits have truly been imposed by circumstances, and which limits have you accepted simply because of some fixed notion you hold about yourself? 🔗 Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toru_Dutt https://hindi.feminisminindia.com/2021/12/13/toru-dutt-translator-and-writer-profile-hindi/

✍🏻 Post 23 | 30 September '26 💭 Topic — Science ─────── 💊 Why do antibiotics start becoming ineffective again and again? 🦠 When there is a bacterial illness, we are given an antibiotic. The first time, it works. But after some time, the same medicine, or another similar one, doesn’t work as well. It’s as if the disease has “recognized” the medicine. Does this really happen? 🔬 In any large population of bacteria, even without any particular reason, there are already some bacteria on which a particular drug has very little effect. When that medicine is given, it kills the drug-sensitive bacteria (the ones that are affected by the medicine), but the resistant bacteria, now without any competition, begin to multiply rapidly. So, mainly, the drug does not make the bacteria resistant, it selects those which were already resistant. (Some bacteria can indeed become resistant under drug pressure, through new mutations or by exchanging genes with each other, but selection is still the primary mechanism.) ⚠️ This is called antimicrobial resistance (AMR). According to the World Health Organization (WHO), taking antibiotics when they are not needed, or taking the wrong kind of antibiotic, is a major cause of this. In other words, the problem lies not only in the bacteria, but also in the way we use medicines. 📊 According to WHO, in 2023, one in every six laboratory-confirmed bacterial infections worldwide was already resistant to commonly used antibiotics, and this figure is increasing every year. If this trend continues, by 2035 it is estimated that around 412 billion dollars a year will be spent just on treating resistant infections, and an additional 443 billion dollars a year will be lost in productivity. 🔎 That means the bacteria that are most widespread today have spread so much because we kept repeating the same situation taking medicines even when there was no real need, or taking the wrong medicine, which kept wiping out the drug-sensitive part of the population, while the resistant part kept growing unchecked. 🪞 You can see this same habit directly in your own life. We get a fever, a slight sore throat, or feel a bit weak in the body and very often we immediately take a pill, without even knowing what the real cause is. Sleep is incomplete, diet is disturbed, fatigue has piled up, or the body simply needs some rest, pausing to look at all this feels slow and uncomfortable. Medicine gives quick relief, so there seems to be no need to go into the cause. 🧩 The ego wants to remove discomfort immediately; it does not want to understand the cause. If any symptom shows up, quickly suppressing it is a relief for the ego, because for that duration it avoids both the discomfort and the need to look at why something keeps going wrong again and again in the body or in life. ❓ Whenever something goes wrong again and again in the body or the mind, do you want to go to the root cause, or do you just want to get rid of it as quickly as possible? 🔗 Source: Antimicrobial resistance https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/antimicrobial-resistance