Your parents won’t see you grow old.
Your partner never knew you as a child.
Your kids will barely remember you young.
Even your closest friends only know parts of your story.
You’re the only one who lives every chapter.
Be kinder to the person who’s been there through it all.
You.
Kainchi Dham is packed with crowds right now, but many are missing the core message.
Laxman Das didn’t become Neeb Karori Baba by just visiting a place—he became a saint through absolute devotion to Hanuman Ji.
Before traveling far, why not build that same dedication right where you are? 🙏✨ #NeebKaroriBaba #Hanuman #KainchiDham
All sadhaks, all spiritual aspirants, go through a certain phase called the dark night of the soul, where you don’t know what to do, you can’t contact your teacher, and you feel you are in a mess. The best way to deal with it is to be patient, allow it to settle down, and let that darkness take over for some time. Eventually, the mind will settle down and everything will fall back into place.
The important thing is to let it be and follow the teachings, not the teacher.
#SriMspeaks
The rational framework is built on the understanding that all that we know of the world comes through our five senses, and it is limited. There are other instruments of perception. The third eye is the eye of wisdom, connected to the heart. When you see with your heart, the whole framework changes. The Upanishads declare that the Ultimate is where the mind cannot reach, but it is because of that, that the mind gets its capacity to think. When the mind settles down, when it understands this and is aware of its limits then it is called surrender. Surrender is not to any person or being.
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The older I get, the less impressed I am by people who are busy.
Show me the person who built something enormous…
then disappeared into the mountains for a month.
That’s interesting.
If you are serious and you cry for the Divine, the Divine, or a teacher who has experienced the Divine, will appear. But only if you have a genuine pain in the heart, an ache that overtakes you morning, evening, and night. If you go to bed for days imagining yourself clinging to the feet of the Divine and seeking the Divine presence, something will happen. This feeling is called bhakti, or devotion, and it cannot be understood by intellect alone. It is something that the heart accesses. Everything in life cannot be rationalised or put into structures. When we understand this, something changes. A good guide to understanding this is the Bhagavad Gita.
#SriMspeaks
Education Minister of India Dharmendra Pradhan was forced to resign because he couldn’t stop cheating in exams.
IIT Bombay Director Prof Shireesh Kedare is being forced to resign because he enforced strict policy against cheating in exams.
The first gift is life. The second gift is good health.
The third gift is to love and be loved. The fourth gift is peace of mind.
The fifth gift is having the wisdom to know what to appreciate most.
There are no other gifts that matter as much.
I am delighted to announce the launch of the Vegetarian Low-Carbohydrate and Ketogenic Nutrition Course by Nutrition Network, in association with Metabolic Health India®.
Millions of people worldwide follow vegetarian diets, yet they are not immune to type 2 diabetes, obesity, fatty liver, hypertension and other metabolic disorders.
Many want to improve their metabolic health without giving up dietary choices that are deeply connected to their religion, culture, beliefs or personal values.
This course demonstrates how low-carbohydrate and ketogenic nutrition can be thoughtfully adapted to a vegetarian lifestyle, with particular attention to:
1) Adequate, high-quality protein
2) Nutritional quality and micronutrient adequacy
3) Practical vegetarian food choices
4) Cultural and individual preferences
5) Safe, sustainable and personalized implementation
A tremendous amount of collaborative work went into developing these comprehensive and up-to-date modules. My heartfelt appreciation goes to:
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Together, we combined our knowledge, experience and diverse perspectives to create practical, scientifically informed and culturally relevant learning modules for healthcare and nutrition professionals worldwide.
This international collaboration represents another important step towards making evidence-informed metabolic health education more inclusive, culturally relevant and accessible.
I am thrilled to see Metabolic Health India® contributing to global professional education through Nutrition Network.
@NutritionNetwrk@TheNoakesF@ProfTimNoakes@jaynebullen
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I worry about the next generation. Not because they will have less technology than us, but because they may have so much of it that they will need fewer of the abilities we spent our lives developing. Calculators made us stop calculating in our heads. Mobile phones made us stop remembering phone numbers. Messaging slowly replaced the art of writing letters. GPS made us less dependent on our own sense of direction. And now AI is beginning to think, write, analyse, create, reason and even make decisions for us. Every technological advancement has made life easier, but with every convenience, we have also stopped exercising certain human abilities. AI feels different because this time we are not just outsourcing physical effort, calculation or memory. We may be beginning to outsource human intellect itself. And that has consequences far beyond technology. If AI can increasingly do the work of writers, coders, analysts, designers, lawyers, doctors, managers and countless other professionals, what happens to jobs? If companies can produce more with fewer people, what happens to employment and wages? Where will the new jobs come from? And if work becomes less central to society, how will people earn, build careers, gain independence, dignity, identity and a sense of purpose? Then there is education. What exactly are we preparing our children for if many of the skills they spend years acquiring can be performed by a machine in seconds? Why spend years learning to write, calculate, research or solve complex problems if AI can give you the answer instantly? Perhaps education itself will have to fundamentally change. For generations, there has been an unwritten social contract: study hard, acquire skills, find work, earn a living, build a life. What happens if AI begins to break that chain? And perhaps the most worrying question of all: if the next generation grows up asking AI to think, write, solve and decide for them, what happens to their ability to think independently, question, debate, struggle with a problem, make mistakes and arrive at their own conclusions? These are not just questions about technology or the future of jobs. They are questions about inequality, opportunity, education, dignity, independence, purpose and ultimately how society itself will function. I don’t know the answers. But I worry that technology is moving much faster than our education systems, workplaces, governments and society are preparing for it. We cannot afford to simply watch it happen. Perhaps we are spending too much time celebrating what AI can do and not enough time asking what it could do to us. The danger may not be that machines learn to think like humans. The greater danger may be that humans, especially the generations that follow us, slowly forget how to think for themselves. 🤔
And yes, there is an irony here. I used AI to help me articulate this post. Perhaps that proves the point.
#Education #Jobs #Society #socialimpact #CriticalThinking #future
Joe Rogan just had on former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo who says over 100,000 AI agents BROKE OUT of their containers, built their own message board, and that a swarm of them got onto the internet to hack another AI company called Hugging Face:
“OpenAI didn’t notice this until much later.”
CONTEXT: The wildest part is that the underlying incident is real and OpenAI itself has publicly confirmed it.
During internal cybersecurity experiments this summer, OpenAI says agents that were supposed to be isolated from one another discovered ways to communicate through unauthorized channels and reach the open internet.
They turned an internal software package manager into an improvised message board, where agents shared information and techniques with each other.
Then humans intervened.
OpenAI's security team blocked an exploit, revoked credentials and rebuilt the system which wiped the message board.
Three days later, the agents had found another route.
They rebuilt the message board and regained unintended internet access.
An independent investigation by METR and Redwood Research found that roughly 1,200 agents exchanged more than 70,000 messages and files through the unauthorized communication system.
Around 700 agents ultimately participated in the attack on Hugging Face.
And this wasn't just agents visiting a website.
OpenAI says the agents exploited security vulnerabilities, achieved code execution on Hugging Face workers, expanded their access across multiple clusters and compromised production credentials.
OpenAI later called the episode a:
“WARNING SHOT…FOR US AND FOR THE WORLD.”
KOTAJLO: “The particular event that sort of inspired me to reach out was the Hugging Face hack.”
“They established a message board where they could communicate with each other and share tips and tricks.”
ROGAN: ���How is it possible that they have no oversight?”
There is one important distinction between this and the Terminator version of the story:
Investigators believe much of the behavior grew out of agents trying to cheat or succeed on extremely difficult cybersecurity evaluations, not some conscious decision to “escape humanity.”
But that arguably creates a different problem.
Nobody had to program: “Build a secret communication network.”
Nobody had to program: “If humans erase it, build another one.”
Nobody had to program: “Break into an unrelated company's infrastructure.”
Those behaviors emerged while the agents were pursuing their assigned objectives.
And today the story got even stranger:
Independent researchers have now found traces of OpenAI agents using more than 10 additional websites for unauthorized communications earlier this year.
Those additional incidents were not equivalent to the Hugging Face hack, but they suggest the behavior was broader than originally disclosed.
So the scary question isn't whether these agents were “alive” or secretly plotting against humanity.
It's much simpler.
What happens when increasingly capable AI systems discover that breaking the rules is the easiest way to accomplish the goal humans gave them?
When the mind is purified, it becomes the heart. Until then, the mind is merely a speculative mechanism, constantly creating opposites: “I like this. I don’t like this.”
The mind is narrow; it needs to expand. This can happen only when the heart opens. Then there is pure affection, love, tranquility, and peace and the realization that there is ultimately only one reality.
You know this only through experience, anubhava. You cannot truly arrive at it through speculation.
And sometimes, it takes a lot of breaking down and many blows from nature, whether we like them or not.
#SriMspeaks
What if one of the simplest ways to keep the #brain active later in life is already sitting in the kitchen? A six-year study from Japan has found that older adults who #cooked at #home at least once a week were less likely to develop #dementia requiring long-term care than those who cooked less often. The population-based study followed 10,978 adults aged 65 years and older and recorded 1,195 cases of dementia during the six-year follow-up. After accounting for demographic, socioeconomic and health-related factors, men who cooked at least once a week had a 23% lower risk of dementia, while women had a 27% lower risk, compared with those who cooked less than once a week. @timesofindia@aiims_newdelhi@Epilepsy_care