milind kelkar

ONGCian for 32 years. AOLite for lifetimes. Pucca Gurubhakt. Happiness Programme anybody?!

[milind kelkar @mindak]

हे जग वेगळं आहे | Hey Jag Wegla Aahe https://t.co/2Q1cFxMABn via @YouTube

[milind kelkar @mindak]

Perfect reply.

[Yo Yo Funny Singh @moronhumor]

Somebody please send this video to Rahul Gandhi. Ask him to just replace Elon Musk with Ambani or Adani and replace Joy Behar with him and his family.

[milind kelkar @mindak]

@AxisBank harrassing me with unsolicited calls 4 more than 10 yrs now. All because I owned a telephone number since 2014 which earlier was with their (now absconding) customer. A million complaints later, they cannot update their customer record. Horrible @AxisBankSupport

[milind kelkar @mindak]

A @Uber driver tried to cheat me. I resisted his attempt. Now I am unable to cancel the trip and no help @Uber_Pune helpline sucks.
Either @uber should help or I will uninstall uber app and never use it again.

[milind kelkar @mindak]

@amazonnow
You are liars and incompetent. I have experienced this several times. I order something, your delivery boy is shown on map to reach our home and then you cancel the order saying nobody to receive order.
I will never again order from Amazon now.
@amazon

[milind kelkar @mindak]

@mngl_in @CMOMaharashtra @mohol_murlidhar My customer number is 50327946. Residence at Pune.
Issue is with incorrect billing where last two payments have not been considered. Details in my mail repeated today again.
Please confirm action.

[milind kelkar @mindak]

@mngl_in does not care about customers. Its customer care phone number does not respond.
It doesn't respond to mails written to it for weeks. It does not update billing.
I am sure they will not respond to emergency situation also!
@CMOMaharashtra @mohol_murlidhar

[milind kelkar @mindak]

Boarded flight to Pune.
IMO Guwahati has the best airport in india I have seen. Terminal 1 has only indigo flights, 40 in a day.
Absolutely no crowds, all happy faces around. Relaxed passengers and staff. All other flights from new terminal 2 which is a km away!
@GuwahatiAirport

[Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar @Gurudev]

Shiva is the Guru of Gurus.

Everything is Shiva.

The Divine appears as the Guru and is also present as your own Self.

Realizing this truth is the ultimate goal of spirituality.

[milind kelkar @mindak]

@amazonnow are liers and cheats. They get your order, cancel it on flimsy false reasons and then refund takes days or weeks. That is my experience today.
Will not use @amaxonnow again.

[milind kelkar @mindak]

I was surprised to see my taxi driver watching a video on his android smart tv installed above the dashboard, while Driving the Car in Pune City Traffic. Is this legal? @PunePolice @Punetraffic100 @RtoPune ?

[milind kelkar @mindak]

@ReSanskrit

[milind kelkar @mindak]

@ShiprocketCare @ShiprocketIndia
If a parcel has reached the destination hub on 30th Nov, why are you sleeping on it for 2 days?
The delivery address is just 5 kms from there.

[milind kelkar @mindak]

@ShiprocketCare @ShiprocketIndia
If a parcel has reached the destination hub on 30th Nov, why are you sleeping on it for 2 days?
The delivery address is just 5 kms from there.

[milind kelkar @mindak]

Vehicles parked on footpath. Pedestrians suffer the traffic.
#punenot4pededtrians
@Punetraffic100

[MANIKANDAN🇮🇳 @manijgd]

Thousands of Youth are attending #EduYouth with Meet with @Gurudev in #SriNagar #Kashmir
#DrugFreeKashmir

[Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar @Gurudev]

An unprecedented gathering of 20,000 youth taking an oath to create a drug-free Kashmir was heartwarming.

Meditation, music, and planning for future programs—all in Srinagar with enthusiastic students from all districts of Kashmir.

[milind kelkar @mindak]

These Airindia express people are such smart cheats. They cancel flights in abundance and when you ask for rightful compensation, they promise you to do so. And then, one day they just close the complaint without actually fulfilling their promise. No shame? @AirIndiaX @MoCA_India

[milind kelkar @mindak]

https://t.co/CegOMuNuMa

[milind kelkar @mindak]

@ThisIsAnantha The most wonderful tribute to Adi Shankaracharya that I ever read.

[Anantha Narayan @ThisIsAnantha]

THE MONK WHO HACKED REALITY

At 32, most people are settling into a job. Maybe they've made it to Vice President. Maybe they've started a company. Made a few crores if they're lucky. Got married, bought a flat, working on those EMIs.
And then there was this guy from Kerala.

Adi Shankara had walked across an entire subcontinent on foot, defeated every scholar he encountered in debate, unified a splintering religion, founded four monasteries that still stand today, written the definitive commentaries on Hinduism's holiest texts, and cracked the code to exit the simulation of reality itself.

All by 32. Then he died.

1,200 years later, we're still trying to process what this man accomplished in three decades....

The world he was born into was falling apart intellectually. Buddhism was crushing every debate. Hindu philosophy had splintered into a thousand contradictory schools. The Vedic tradition was fragmenting like a Wikipedia page with 50 editors all contradicting each other.

Then this kid from Kerala shows up. Age 8. Already fluent in Sanskrit. Already realized that everything people thought was real... wasn't.

What he saw was this: the phenomenal world is Maya. Not fake, but rendered. Like VR. It feels real, but it's code on top of something deeper. Underneath the simulation is Brahman, pure, formless, infinite Consciousness. The quantum field. The cosmic server. Existence-awareness-bliss.

And here's the kicker: Your true self (Atman) IS Brahman.

You're not a player logged into the game. You're not even the avatar. You're the CPU running everything. Your body? A skin. Your mind? A user interface. Your ego? A temporary account. But the core you, the "I AM" before thoughts, that's the source code itself. "Tat Tvam Asi" = You Are That.

Long before Elon Musk and Nick Bostrom, Shankara was telling us we're in the Matrix. And he had the exit strategy.

So he walked. Over 3000 kilometers just from Kerala to the Himalayas, then crisscrossed India multiple times. Town to town. Temple to temple. University to university. Challenging the top scholars to debate with one rule: loser converts to winner's philosophy. Your entire life's work on the line.

He went undefeated.

The most famous? Mandana Mishra, a legendary scholar who had spent his entire life mastering Vedic rituals. They debated for days. His own wife was the judge. Shankara won. Mandana became his disciple.
What made these men abandon everything? Shankara showed them that liberation (moksha) isn't going to heaven. It's realizing you were never trapped. You just forgot the root password. Avidyā. We forgot we're admins. We think we're just users.

He taught the "Neti Neti" method, the great elimination: not the body, not the mind, not the thoughts, not the emotions. Strip away every layer until only pure witnessing awareness remains.

But here's where Shankara separated himself from every other enlightened master in history. He didn't just achieve moksha and disappear into the Himalayas. He didn't just gather a few disciples and call it done. This man built a franchise for enlightenment that's still operational 12 centuries later.

While walking tens of thousands of kilometers and winning debates, he somehow found time to write the most authoritative commentaries ever produced on the Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, and Brahma Sutras. These weren't casual blog posts. These were surgical deconstructions of reality itself. Every scholar who came after him had to contend with Shankara's interpretations. He basically set the terms of the conversation for the next millennium.

Then he planted four monasteries at the four corners of India like spiritual anchors, assigned his best disciples to run them, and created the Dashanami Order to ensure the knowledge wouldn't die with him. It's still running. Same lineages. Same teachings. 1,200 years.

And because he apparently had time to spare, he wrote poetry that makes you weep and wake up simultaneously. Nirvana Shatakam strips your identity to nothing in six verses. Bhaja Govindam slaps you awake from your philosophical overthinking. Saundarya Lahari reveals that consciousness without energy is inert, that Shiva without Shakti can't even blink. Pure awareness needs the rendering engine. The CPU needs the GPU. He understood the architecture of existence and wrote hymns about it.

He spoke of parallel realities (lokas) centuries before multiverse theories. He described the universe as cyclically rebooting long before cosmologists proposed it. He taught that the observer and observed are entangled, that consciousness collapses reality into form, predating quantum mechanics by over a thousand years. He said OM is the primordial vibration, the command that boots up existence itself.

When Hinduism was tearing itself apart over whether Shiva or Vishnu or Shakti was supreme, Shankara said: they're all the same. He promoted Shanmata, six paths to the same truth, and ended centuries of sectarian violence with one elegant insight. He traveled everywhere, reactivated temples, reset rituals, and gave a fragmenting civilization its center back.

Today we're obsessed with simulation theory. We debate whether we're living in base reality. We wonder if consciousness creates the universe or the universe creates consciousness. We're trying to hack our way to happiness, productivity, enlightenment.

Shankara solved it 1,200 years ago while walking barefoot across an untamed subcontinent.

His answer? You're already what you're seeking. You just forgot. The game was always optional. The prison was always unlocked. You're not trapped in the simulation. You ARE the simulation experiencing itself.

Alexander conquered land and died at 32. His empire collapsed before his body was cold.

Shankara conquered minds and died at 32. His empire runs stronger today than it did in the 8th century.

One left behind crumbling monuments. The other left behind a manual for reality itself.

1,200 years later, we're still reading the instructions.

[Art of Living USA @artoflivingusa]

This is why you're a slow achiever!