Habitual Hero: The Art Of Winning by Santosh Jha (top 10 best books of all time txt) 📕

It seems, in holistic value summation, that it is mysticism at its best and divinity at its most magnanimous manifestation! That is why, tough to understand through words. Still, if we are in total reception of words, accepting its utility and worth with an affectionate and compassionate heart, we can instill loads of fruition and meaning into them.

All those who understood and accepted the intricate and expansive mechanisms of mind and willingly, spontaneously and consciously gave it to its playful possibilities, they found it colossally self-fulfilling and rewarding.

They proclaimed, ‘every song, every dance, all poetry, all magic, divinity, revelation and almost all possibilities are within self; no need to search them and validate them in outside world; not even the need for an expression as it would only be misunderstood’.

Let us understand it with day-to-day life example. The food we eat is felt until it stays up to the throat. After that the body mechanism, which continues to work upon the food, is not felt. The mind has 100 billion neurons and billions of other supportive neurons are working incessantly. We can feel and understand only a fraction of its operative mechanism. Rest is mysticism for most.

This is our design. However, the real Hero is a person, who does not divert his or her attention and focus from the food, even when it is past the ‘felt-zone’ of throat. We all need to be aware of and receptive towards the journey of this vital food down the tracts till its last processing.

Doctors have been warning us. They say, “Own the onus of the food your mouth shoves to the body, as you are not just your tongue, but the entire body”. The idea is to convey the fact that usually, in our restrictive consciousness, we eat in loads what our mouth, especially tongue likes. It is true that the taste buds are restricted to tongue only and as the food goes down beyond it, we do not wish to remember and care about.

However, we are not only our mouth. Our body is an intricate and huge mechanism. There is a long food canal, liver, pancreas, kidneys, heart et al and together there are millions of functions that go on within our body, which we do not consciously register. However, they are crucial for our survival and general well-being. The mouth is our conscious mind but rest of the millions of complex functions are handled by our unconscious mind.

A true Hero, cannot restrict its responsibility and attention to just the miniscule conscious part. The unconscious is also our onus as it is the larger domain, which essentially handles our basic health and survival. The real Hero shall always know and respect the ‘details’ of the entirety of the ‘body-mechanism’ and shall own the responsibility of the wellness and success of all parts, not only one part.

The conscious-mind in we all, who is restrictively concerned and knowledgeable about only a ‘part’ of the entire complex mechanism, shall be only a ‘Random Warrior’. The all-weather and all-season true ‘Hero’ shall definitively be aware and responsible towards the ‘whole’. The holistic, assimilative and integrative perspective towards the ‘mechanism, it its entirety is the hallmark of a true Hero. It is where, many of us fail.

We cannot blame ourselves. It is our mechanism too! The conscious part, the mouth, gives us tangibles as instant utility and fruition. The mind consciousness is bound to register the immediate advantage of ‘taste-satisfaction’ and extend instant thumbs-up. We eat a huge and rich creamy cake and feel so happy. The tongue gives us a huge thumbs-up as it registers big bonus on satisfaction-scale. However, the burst of calamitous sugar, which goes inside the food tract and gets big disapproval and thumbs down from liver and pancreas are not registered on the satisfaction-scale. These organs are rather neutral. The mouth is a vocal and populist showman. The liver however is the silent worker.

The ‘Random Warrior’ has this tendency of giving in to populism. However, the real Hero shall always have the poise and perspective to see the picture in entirety as the Hero understands and accepts the ‘mechanism’ not in ‘parts’, but in holism and assimilation.

The ‘Hero’ shall never be swayed away or blown out by populism, as it has the holistic perspective to understand that ‘success’ is not in pampering the mouth with all it ‘wants’, it is rather in ensuring the larger health and wellness ‘need’ of the whole body. The Hero understands, “Success is not in having all that we want for instant joys, it is rather in the prudence of having what we actually need for persevered satisfaction”.

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The Mechanism And More

The mystical mechanism of neurotic interplay buoys up and down our ‘self’ between the vast oceans of consciousness and sub-consciousness. Only two percent or less of mind’s mechanisms we can control, like, we can control our food only until it is not past the throat. Still, we all think, we are genius of some kind, perfected for controlling the probabilistic ‘self’ and almost everything.

Of course, we are not only mechanism. We are surely more than our mechanism but we are for most times, a mystical mix of ‘mechanism’ and the ‘more’. However, many of us would be least concerned and interested in understanding and accepting the massive intricacies of the mechanism and would be engrossed primarily in the mysticism of the ‘more’. Neither mechanism, nor the more can be understood in isolation.

We cannot be concerned exclusively about the success of mouth and tongue. Similarly, we also cannot only be concerned about the success of below the throat mechanism. There always has to be a mix and poised amalgam of both. The segregation is calamitous.

All those, who understood and accepted the intricate and expansive ‘mechanisms’ and the ‘more’, they hit the road to ‘sat-chit-anand’. The word in old Indian language of Sanskrit means – the Absolute Existence, Absolute Consciousness and Absolute Bliss.

We now have the facility. Earlier, the facility to understand and unravel ‘mechanism’ and ‘more’ was purely psychic and philosophical, reserved for a few evolved minds. Even they erred, as wisdom was observance only, not verifiable objectively.

It is now amenable and available to all, with just the willingness and openness of mind. Still, majority are away and aloof from this modern facility. Unfortunately, most of us are egoistically happy in the comfort zone of inertia, blinded by the rigidity of our age-old hypotheses.

There is this dangerous and restrictive mindset to accept all knowledge and wisdom only as subjects for academics. Science also becomes a subject for school and college learning syllabus but never becomes a way of life. All knowledge remains ‘learning’ abilities for grades and jobs but they are seldom internalized and ingrained in our lives. Wisdom when internalized becomes common sense.

All wisdoms are now amenable for easy and quick internalization. Humanity needs a lot of change and new initiations in the learning and educational systems it has so far prescribed for new generations. Not only science, philosophy, psychology, spiritualism, mathematics, history, etc are meant for internalization so that these wisdoms could be an integral and assimilative part of the holistic culture across humanity. All wisdoms need to be internalized to become common sense for humanity at large.

For example, for centuries, we ascribed eclipse to divinity and put the question in the domain of religion. It is now in the rightful domain of secular and scientific knowledge. Similarly, for centuries, we have put ‘consciousness’ in the domain of psychic. New thinking puts it rightly in the domain of secular knowledge of mind mechanism.

For centuries, humanity has struggled with a causality of crucial questions of life and living based on psychic interpretation of realism. For the first time in human history, we are successfully attempting to build up secular and objective paradigms for a logical, measurable and replicable causality based on provable and singular logic and facts.

We now have a wisdom to understand the mechanisms of realisms around us in a completely new light, often against and in rejection of our fixated and wired cultural mind’s age-old iconic wisdom. Once we accept the knowledge of the mechanism, the mysticism around the ‘more’ of humanity, build over centuries by psychic and ingenious minds is cleared. Then, we all open up to a completely new realism.

As and when we assimilate this new thinking, objective wisdom becomes humanity’s common sense and soon, the psychosis of minds, the devil of humanity flees away for good.

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The James Bond In Us

Most of us love the character of James bond. He is somehow very close to the concept of our all-weather all season Hero. We also love the superman. However, our James Bond is purely human and more like us, but a ‘winner’ in all tough and almost ‘unwinnable’ situations.

When we see him coming out a winner in all tough situations, we know why he could. He always does it because he is the ‘master of mechanisms’. The best part of his glorious winning ways is the fact that they all seem so spontaneous and habitual. He does not have to move a mountain like our superman to save his beloved. He always knows about a secret pass or a crack opening in the mountain to sneak in beyond it.

We shower his performances with encore and applauds as he pulls out another of his masterly tricks with aplomb, to score over his detractors and conspirators. In all his troubles, he knows a diversion and bypass. Not surprisingly, they are mostly very believable as the winning tricks come out of the same mechanism, which brought about a problematic situation at the first place. This is his heroism – He is the master of mechanisms.

Can we all be James Bond? Why not, but being a James Bond means lots of homework and preparations. And what this homework is all about? It is painful, persevered and postured preparations to arrive at a state of ‘readiness’, where we have the ‘objective knowledge’ of all situations, life can put us in.

Present a latest high-tech car to the James Bond, with first-time features anywhere on the globe and James Bond already knows, how to successfully run it and fruitfully use every new feature in all tough and unwinnable situations, which his work may land him in. The reason he could do it is he has gone through the painful process of ‘preparedness’ of basics, well before he became James Bond, to be in ‘readiness’, which defines him as James Bond.

And, what is this process of preparedness? We have already talked about it. The process is to be aware and responsible towards the ‘whole’, not only the ‘part’. The holistic, assimilative and integrative perspective towards the ‘mechanism, it its entirety is the hallmark of a true Hero like James Bond.

Only a person, who is receptive enough to respectfully accept the utility and fruition of every little detail of the mechanism of anything he or she is learning, can be ultimately ‘ready’ to be in the position of an all-weather all-season winning Hero.

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Diagnosis Of Patterns

We have so many examples in our daily lives, where we see that if we have prepared ourselves well for multiple factors and have anticipated rightly the dynamic interplay of these factors, we are successful in having a smooth and safe go.

We are driving a car on the busy highway. Driving itself is a multi-tasking skill. Those, who have better coordination of their eyes, hands and legs, shall be driver with lesser chances of accidents. This is however only one part of successful driving. You also need to have intuitive anticipation towards possible mistakes of not only your own driving, but also of others, who shall be ahead and behind you on the highway. You