Ankit Soni

Embracing the chaos on the path to serenity.

[Ankit Soni @ankitisinfi]

@AgnikulCosmos Kudos

[Amarnath @amrnth0]

Who all are going to to the YC Startup School India event tomorrow? Let's connect on X, and in person.

[Ankit Soni @ankitisinfi]

@amrnth0 😂

[Ankit Soni @ankitisinfi]

@thinkwithalma Is this a structured way of getting shit done?

[Ankit Soni @ankitisinfi]

@amrnth0 Impressed by the details and the depth in articulation

[Almanac @thinkwithalma]

We’ve been building Almanac - a unified knowledge workspace where humans and agents collaborate to read, organise, and create knowledge inside a single, continuous flow. 📝

Knowledge Work deserves better tools. But it is scattered across tabs and tools. Almanac keeps the context together.

To illustrate this, we used Almanac to map the key ideas running through @dwarkesh_sp's latest podcasts featuring some of the sharpest thinkers that outline a coherent picture:
> scaling is peaking,
> AGI is not imminent, and
> LLMs alone won’t get us there

Consider this as the first look of the product. Would love to hear your thoughts!

Link of the project below!

[Jayavīra @TheEarthBuddy]

Rain droplets and lighting conspire together to create a mystical spectacle at the Adiyogi statue near Bangalore, India.

Note - Not photoshopped.

[Arun Bhishokarma @ABhishokarma]

Time when Sadhguru visited the Mahakaleshwar temple in Ujjain,

Read out what Sadhguru has to say about the temple.

Sadhguru: This temple was built by a king named Chandrasena. Chandrasena was attacked. He’s a great devotee of Shiva. He was attacked by people who wanted to destroy this culture.

Ujjain had become a city of devotees and those who sought knowledge. It was almost like the second kashi of India, where knowledge, learning, transmission of spiritual knowledge was the main hub of the town.

That is what ruled the town, and people came to this town for that purpose. It is not on any trading route. So the town grew. It was called Avantika at that time. This town Avantika grew big only as a knowledge hub, as a spiritual hub.

So there were people who don’t like it. There are always people who don’t like it. So they wanted to destroy the city, and they attacked. I won’t go into the entire story.

So he prayed to Shiva. And Shiva appeared in the form of Mahakala and absolved the enemies in a certain way and relieved him of this trouble so that he could continue spreading what he was doing.

Kala. The word kala means 2 things.

Kala means time. Kala also means darkness.

How can one word mean time and darkness? When we say time, in your present experience, time means cycles. Cycles mean physical nature. From atomic to cosmic, from a single atom to the largest cosmos.

Everything is in cyclical motion. If there are no cycles, there is no possibility of physicality. A planet turns around once. We call this a day. The moon goes around the planet. We call it a month. The planet goes around the sun. We call it a year. Like this, it goes. Our understanding of time, our experience of time right now is in cycles. Cycles of sleep and wakefulness. Eating, digestion, hunger. Like this, there are many cycles.

It is only through the circular movement of things do you know time. If there was no circular motion, if there are no cycles in existence, if there is no physicality, you wouldn’t grasp time.

That is time manifesting through physical existence. This physical existence is happening in the lap of a larger non-existence which, in the English language, they may call it space.

Here we call it kala or darkness. Why we are calling space as darkness is if you want to see light, you need some opaque object, an opaque object that stops light. You can see my hand only because it is stopping light. You cannot see the air because it’s not stopping light. Nor can you see the light in the air because it is not stopping light.

Anything that does not stop light will not be seen by you. It will be darkness to you.

Either you must see the source of light, or you must see an object that stops light; otherwise, you will have no experience of light. So you see the sun and the moon. The sun is the source of light for us. The moon is reflecting the light.

In between, is all darkness but light is passing, isn’t it? You don’t see it. But it is definitely passing; otherwise, how would it fall on the moon? So the space is referred to as kala or darkness because space is dark. Only if there is something, it reflects light, and you experience light.

If there is something, then it is space. So space is referred to as darkness.

Between time and space, why are they mentioned with one word? Because they are one in the sense right now … Let’s say this is point A and this is point B. These 2 points are possible only because there is time.

It’s not because there is a distance; there is time. Because there is time, there is a possibility of distance or space. If there is no time, there can only be one point, and one point cannot happen in physical existence.

There can only be polarities. Things can exist only as polarities. So if there is no time, if there was no time, there would be no space. There would be no 2 different things. Nothing could exist. Even nothing could exist. Not just something.

Even nothing could exist, so the basis, the fundamental basis of existence is known as kala or the time. Only because there is time, there is room for space. Otherwise, there would be no space.

As right now, your experience of time is only in cyclical movements. Your experience of time is only an expression of physical nature because physicality exists only because of cyclical movements.

The entire aspiration, the spiritual aspiration is to attain liberation, means you want to transcend the ways of physical. Or, in other words, you want to transcend the cyclical nature of existence.

Transcending the cyclical nature of existence means transcending the repetitive process of life. Transcending repetitive processes of life means transcending the compulsiveness of who you are.

From compulsion to consciousness, from compulsiveness to consciousness. This is the journey. So if you want to move from compulsiveness to consciousness, the limited experience of time that you have right now, which is an expression of the cyclical movement of physical existence, if you experience time without the basis of physicality, or without the limitations of physicality, then we call that time as Mahakala.

Mahakala is the lamp upon which creation is a smattering of things. Huge galaxies, but still, they’re just small specks of creation. The rest is all empty space. 99% or 99 and more percent of an atom is emptiness. That is Mahakala. Though the atom is in cyclical movements, over 99% is emptiness. In the larger cosmos, over 99% is emptiness. Huge galaxies in cyclical movements, but over 99% is emptiness. So it is in the lap of Mahakala that creation happens. If you are involved with limited specks of creation, then you experience time as a cyclical movement.

This dimension is referred to as samsara, which means cyclical movements. If you transcend this, then we call this virargu. This means you have become transparent. If you are transparent, you don’t stop light. If you don’t stop light, this means you have become free from the compulsive nature of life, of the cyclical movement life. If you become free from the cyclical movement of life, then we say you are in mukti, or absolute liberation. Those who are aspiring for mukti, those who are seeking absolute liberation, for them, this dimension that we are referring to as Mahakala becomes of paramount importance.

The Mahakala Temple, the linga that is consecrated there, is a phenomenal nature. It will shake you from the root of your existence. It is really an incredible consecration. It is just done for this purpose, but in some way, it dissolves you. There is a dimension of Mahakala in the Dhyanalinga, but it is cloaked so that only those who seek, for them, it will be available. There it is a little more very certain fragrance to the way he finds expression. There is a certain forcefulness, raw forcefulness.

One must be ready to go into this temple properly because it’s of tremendous power, and it is not for the faint-hearted. It shakes you from inside. Because that is the nature of Mahakala that in the very presence of what this Mahakala rupa is, is when you go there, everything is gone. Everything is burned into ashes. That means you become free from the physical. That means it pushes you, it propels you towards your ultimate liberation.

You want to do the gently. We have everything here. You want to do it in a "boom" way. You really want to be pushed hard, and you are not faint-hearted, then the Mahakala Temple is a phenomenal process, and this April/May is very significant. We are planning to transport a few thousand people from Damalatu so that something is shaken. #Sadhguru #sadhguruwisdom

[Ankit Soni @ankitisinfi]

@gareebscientist @sdhrthmp True

[Shubh @kadaipaneeeer]

"abba paise kam honge, par pohoch uppar tak hogi"

[Ankit Soni @ankitisinfi]

Beauty carrying the cutie along with 1.4 billion plus dreams to the moon.
#Chandrayaan3 #ISRO #LVM3

[Mr Sinha @Mrsinha]

What a wonderful picture, full of emotions & patriotism!

This is our real India...🇮🇳

[Ankit Soni @ankitisinfi]

I hope people's voice reaches @PMOIndia @narendramodi about the need for #savesoil.
Hats off to @soilsahiljha for his unwavering and extraordinary efforts to raise awareness.

[Sahil Jha @soilsahiljha]

I now leave it to all of you for making me present everyone’s voices and support for #savesoil to the Prime Minister Of India.
Please like and quote tweet tagging @PMOIndia @narendramodi and share it with everyone who’s concerned about the future of our Earth

[SwatKat💃 @swatic12]

F*ck all bollywood romances, this is real love and happiness

[Nitish Rana @NitishRana_27]

Someone: Show me what a GOAT looks like
Me: 👇
@ShubmanGill 🫡

[Jayavīra @TheEarthBuddy]

Among others was present prof. @michiokaku, who spoke about AI and Consciousness from the point of view of modern science & proposed his theory of how consciousness can be replicated on a digital level through feedback loops.

Sadhguru had something very different to say.

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

Stare at the white dot for 10 seconds, then look at Van Gogh's Starry Night

[Puru Pal Singh @Puru_here]

Happy Mother's Day to all Isha meditators. 😄🙏💖

[Ankit Soni @ankitisinfi]

@eyrahul Yes

[Ankit Soni @ankitisinfi]

Yeeeee

[Sadhguru @SadhguruJV]

A much needed initiative to #SaveSoil of Bharat. This is one of the fundamental recommendations of the @RallyForRivers document to ensure our Rivers flow perennially, create a prosperous farming community and ensure food & water security. A grassroots opportunity for community involvement in Nation building. May #Vrikshmala become the catalyst for a prosperous & Abundant Bharat. Congratulations & Best Wishes. -Sg