Screen time.career time and Me time

Screen time Career time and Me time 

The lockdown has given abundant time free from work and targets,

service  and customers, Marketing and sales initiatives 

It’s time to dig deep into my own inner being that has been screaming for attention and showering upon me the guidance and knowledge that I am looking for 

Am I just a being of cravings, likes and dislikes ? Am I here just to eat sleep spend time on screen presence and observation, pause and repeat ?

The iPhone reminds me I have spent 5 hours or eight hours on screen time 

The TV screen time is extra on movies of romance violence and horror 

What exactly is the purpose of my life 

I had started with a career creating a world without hunger. The banking career had taken me across five states in India in 20’yrs when I have changed 8 houses and four major cities in India 

Working for society after a banking career gave me deep insights between the age 40 to 52 on life In India condition of children women in managing their daily needs and overcoming needs of hunger and livelihood.Ending hunger and communicating it was my focus.  

It’s been a journey of knowing life till I met Sri Sri who opened up a new dimension of life by linking me to my breath 

Breath holds the secret of life being living and happiness 

This new journey ran parallel to my banking career and journey through India working on providing livelihood ideas finance and marketing support for women and societies. The keys to living life with a sense of gratitude and being happy through thick thin and through pains and gains opened up my soul to celebration Making life a perpetual celebration has been a study in self and society around me

Many friends always remind me to journal the journey of my life and write on the experiences 

Screen time has bothered me and keeping aside the IPhone for few hours of my day has provided me more energy to think more creatively and productively 

This is just an attempt to bring experiences in life to a few pages on my notes in the phone and to my friends who are willing to read

Will keep adding quite a few thoughts on life and happiness as major factors in blending knowledge and wisdom with the breath 

Looking forward to freedom once the lockdown is over 

Now understand what freedom means , what a morning walk means ,what exercising , walking and health means 

Gratitude is key to the experiences and celebration is also the focus 

Looking forward to pen and key in thoughts on more topics of my interest 

Muralidharan R Nair 

Day3 of Lockdown 27:03:20 

Do comment like share your thoughts on my lines 

Shutdown LockDown slow down and cool down

Shutdown Lockdown promotes slowdown and cool down 

Life has brought many to a new revelation. The  lockdown has brought many face to face with a new situation of cool down and slow down

The slow down movement now brings meaning to many jet set operators who fly with laptops and don’t eat while keying in messages, emails and blogs 

Cool down occurs with slowing down your breath , slowing down your swallowing, eating ,biting ,brushing, bathing and soaping.

Everything just slowdown allows you to cool down

I experience that I have time to breathe slow “. That’s key to know the taste of food ,juices and fluids 

I have freedom to wake up later not run for the bus or Ola or the flight .

Thankfully a govt that listens and acts on time is now functioning in a war room situation to save millions of lives.

A committed  govt and a leader who is willing to walk his talk is a gift of the divine 

This commitment is visible in government in UP and also at the centre 

I am told Banks are working. Governance is working and has improved to make life safe for doctors and travel shutdown has added peace 

Corruption will be quickly called out and some fear to practise corruption in these difficult times. 

A govt that works adds value to quality of life . More work is done by the law enforcement agencies. Meanwhile many law enforcement officers find it easy with sticks, bamboos and aluminium rods not guns. This costs them pain of being stoned fisted and injured.

The air has cleared up without pollution. The sea in Mumbai is blue I am told for the first time in ages.

The cleanliness campaign has saved many lives i am sure. 

I see police practising random acts of kindness along with the bamboos.

Aid packages have reached the needy on time in most states. NGOs have also added to the support for the  needy.

Some states though are good in PR work and have caused immeasurable damage to the nation.  I won’t name any here. 

Migration and travel and doing it safely is a big challenge. 

I pray for this nation and to the people to support the govt in place to ensure minimum people suffer and let us pray things clear up by April, as  some astrologers say and some predict October  2020 

Hope happy days return soon

muralidharan r nair 

Bangalore 

murali04@gmail.com

Lock down day 5 

Ola rides Uber eats and other redundant apps

Cabs Ola Uber and eats 

Another new insight during this lockdown or shutdown and contemplation are few apps 

Now Ola is no more a part of my life The monster used to scare me before I go to office. Share began only at 6 am Now happily share a cab is  taboo with the CoVID19. This curse has left behind AIDS which never brought India into its knees Railways were not locked down for AIDS.

Ola had a small window in the morning before 6:15 as after that prices soared in geometric progression 

Gone or the days I cursed a horrible Ola and Uber driver who after a wait of 15 minutes near my doorstep cancelled my ride and the Condescending Apps said sorry our driver is unable to give you his vehicle for a ride 

I don’t need Uber eats as I don’t have to travel and don’t wish to eat from outside Many dread the thought of eating from outside Many dread buying through the big basket boys Some families would like to bathe and sanitize probably even sterilize the boy before sending him back 

The whole house we live with families will bathe as if we attended a funeral together 

Vegetables any way will be sanitized washed and soaped?

Another set of apps I don’t need now delete now are  Swiggy dunzo Ubereats Olatreats(?) 

Our lives have turned topsy turvy with the family willing to eat together,common kitchen hours and sleeping hours 

Families that  stay indoors together -now with Ramayana on TV I am willing to see same episode again will be alive after lock down

Believe me there was color television in its first transmission (1987) of Ramayana. Someone twitted Ramayana was on black and white TV .No way 1982 Asiad brought colour TV into our houses thanks to Rajiv Gandhi at least INC credits TV Invention to Rajiv Gandhi and computers too to him.

Many myths will be broken once we view the learnings from Ramayana .The DD website crashes at 9:00 am today And the morning 1 search on google was for Ramayana 

Surely the liberal gang would say CoVID19 is an Hindu creation or NaMO creation to bring in Ramayana on national TV let me see new ads on the transmissions soon

Another set of apps I have erased are the news and now downloaded TikTok as old songs are back 

Am sure with end of the lockdown and shutdown things will shine for India. Ram will surely become a new hero for the millennials not super man or spider man 3

Happy days are here again Mumbai seas will be blue soon

Muralidharan R. Nair 

Day4 is the lockdown 

28 March 2020 

it’s CoVID19 we are now digital

Funny messages of CoVID19 

All companies who are ashamed of telling customers that they won’t be serving efficiently due to insufficient staff 

Airtel Vodafone-Idea tell us that our services will be hit on account of CoVID19

Good reason to blame the virus and hide their inefficiency behind the lock down 

I can vouch for the abysmally painful shameful services rendered by airtel whose networks wake up once or twice a day. Vodafone-idea does not revert to you once you complain 

Banks have been piggy riding on the back of CoVID19 to tell your cards will stop working in the wave module and all cards will now be for national transactions 

Tata Sky also rides on the back of the CoVID19 to tell you they won’t be able to serve well their broadband services  

IDFCBank UTIMF ICICIPRU all apologize for their services which may be hit by CoVID19 absenteeism in their service centres airtel call Centre also be below par 

Shame on the use of digital to tell you that digital will go analogue or physical if you ever dare to visit their Counters

Bankers Telecom MFs and Insirance  won’t serve you for days GO digital check the painful apps when the telecom services providers say they won’t be doing well when bankers drive you to the apps platform 

For these painfully bad services I feel it’s time to ring a gong on their top

Management heads to wake them up to keep ATMS working and apps up and about 

Is digital all that digital if telcos and banks don’t buck up 

And I have over 100 messages asking me to go to the Apps that may run on poor telco services 

It’s a complicated I blame you for something that any way won’t work 

Pray the banks keep running for those who need money 

PAYTM GooglePay shut down literally virtually evenings 7-8 Pm

When all made transactions 

Hope good days come soon once CoVID19 goes away 

Muralidharan R Nair 

Bangalore 

Random act of kindness - personal kindness

An experience to share 

Recently I had just got out of the college after a session 

The cab apps showed a message -unable to reach the server I cannot requisition a taxi on Ola or on Uber 

I saw another young man also appeared lost near me . He said I am unable to get to the Ola servers 

I moved to the other side of the road and just thumbed a vacant taxi 

The young man inside asked me where do you wish to go ? I said -JP Nagar 7th phase

He said I have now started work with a company I can leave you at central silk board you may hop in .I used to work for Ola and uber .i think Ola cabs are being seized by the police and you may not be able to get one 

I asked what do I need to pay you 

He said just pay what you feel 

In the course of journey he introduced himself as Gajender from AP tirupati 

He said he always chose one act of kindness each day and wished that he give me a lift and not collect anything 

I had to force him his token amount of Rs100 he said Rs 20 is okay (bus fare)

I was taken aback he sought blessings and touched my feet as I alighted from his car and boarded a Rixa at the silk board 

I see this as some miracle in these times 

Jai gurudev 

Murali Nair

murali04@gmail.com

Demonitization

#istandwithdemonitisation 

Today morning I walked out of home and found the ATM at Axis Bank in JP Nagar 7th phase sparsely populated 

I was happy but you can't draw more than 2000 or less than 2000 as the Machine dispensed only 2000 denomination note one piece per person in the queue 

#ICICIbank ATM has been out of order it says since two days and when I met the manager he said we have no cash to pay as 1130 we finished cash in hand Deposits  have been of 1000s and 500s only 

Bank has no cash to pay I willingly Drew a check got 2000 note again and four packets of 10 Rs dirty and ink stained 

I visited the Patanjali shop who said if you buy 500 worth of goods will give you1500 

I gave another customer at Patanjali 200 of 10s 

GoLI  Vadapav centre happily accepted the 800 of 10s 

You can get people to accept 2000 or 10s too 

I am happy in my adventure I managed to get 1000 of 50s denomination and came home  happy on my adventure in search of cash 

HDFC I am sad to say bluffed its way through we don't issue withdrawal slips to draw money 

They also ask for ID to deposit in customers own account which is seeded with aadhar and also IT dept shame on #HDFC for ignoring Govt guidelines or is it branch interpretation 

For exchange of cash of 2000 they called after 4 pm

Different banks different stories 

I feel SBI has been more customer focused so far 

Muralidharan R Nair 

Mysterious ways of the GURU

His mysterious ways of helping us through life 

I remember from 1998 I had never visited chennai and had a train to take further to gorakhpur 

I had WL 154 AC chair car to chennai I got it confirmed and at chennai a young very young  child boy of may be 10 took my single strolley and I had to check if my gorakhpur ticket is confirmed it was in the next bldg out of the platform I landed in 

It was dark the boy kept chattering saying if the clerk lifts his pen be sure your ticket is confirmed and I know your train comes in 11 platform at 1120 pm

He took me to the counter my ticket was confirmed for gorakhpur and said lets walk back 

All the time he was having the bag on his head 

He kept chatting as I was also nervous of the darkness near the building he left me on the designated platform and said the first class coach will be here 

So lucky you have a confirmed ticket 

I asked him the dues for the head load to and fro He said give me something - 5 rs he said I was shocked he could have asked me 50 I would have gladly given

I paid the sum and gathering my baggage sat down and looked around the platform - the young kid was no where 

Unbelievable it was the Guru's (Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Ji) way of caring 

How amazing he cares for us in many ways 

Jai gurudev 

Murali