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Let me present to you my fine student I. Murali Mohan Sharma
“ALL THIS, WHATEVER MOVES IN THIS MOVING WORLD, IS ENVELOPED BY GOD” (Isavasyam idam sarvam yat kinya jagatyam jagatam ).

---ISAVASYA UPANISHAD

Materialism asserts that there are no Absolute Truths…there is no any kind of non physical agency….but the reality is that the very motion, which is seemingly an effect of a physical effort, it self is backed by a non physical agency and there is an Absolute truth about the motion of objects.

Yes, the very motion of any thing in the controlled direction is impossible without His presence. His involvement. The cause of motion is only seemingly physical (what we call MAYA)….But the reality is different.

Only His presence His grace is that what makes the things move in a controlled direction.

What I discovered in over 12 years of my painstaking research on the subject of AIMING is that very 'thing in it self' behind the human mind's control of the directional and spin motion of a ball and this could prove that directional control is not as is usually believed by most of the players. It is not the 'slight trick' of our sight (focus) or that of the muscles of our hands etc., but it the 'slight trick' of our mind (the mental chanting of a simple thought at the time of stroke delivery).

The controlled motion of a ball hit by a golf champion or a billiard master or the arrow shot made by an expert archer etc…are a few examples of the above fact about the cause of motion. This expertise of those masters is usually attributed to their individual talent or practice and this talent is usually regarded as an acquired skill.

In reality it is only a sort of betterment of their feel of His presence (OM energy) that is always made available in their minds through their act of invocation in the form of the act of concentration. That’s why the ability of getting the directional control of a ball is regarded as a thing of feel, or something instinctual.

His presence or grace is made available in the mind in the form of a ‘thought’. This ‘simple thought’ purely a non-material thing is what is the Absolute Reality behind the directional control of the motion of a ball of a golfer or cueist or an arrow - shot by an archer. In fact, it is a thing like ‘mental chanting’ that is affecting the direction! Without this ‘chant’ the motion of a ball or an arrow is impossible or at least the direction of it is out of our control.

Our visual focus or our knowledge of all the externals like aim points, angles etc. and has nothing to do with the shot making ability of these players. What matters is if the ‘mental chanting’ is done or not (consciously (as I can do now) or unconsciously (as a trained champion does).

For this non-physical agency the cueist has to depend on his concentration. This thing we call concentration is not, as we suppose, brain related. The very concentration is nothing but a mental process of invoking that divine non-physical agency. The subject is able to achieve the directional control of his shot as long as he is able to fix his mental focus on this non-physical divine thought that is made available on his mind through his invocation (concentration). This is what actually happens whenever the subject tries his concentration skill and concentration, as is usually supposed, is not ‘emptying’ the mind or fixing our visual focus on a fixed point as we usually do in the name of meditation.

My research results confirm all that what I said above with regard to the directional control of a ball. Any golfer, a pool player, archer, or rifle shooter could test the validity (divinity too) of my discovery.

Not just these sports persons alone. The rationalists like Mr. James Randi and all the interested skeptics could also test what I am talking about. I am sure my discovery would be a challenge to the modern science as to how a non-physical entity (mental chanting of a simple thought) could be vital and the Absolute Reality of the process.

”Yogo gnanam taha sankhyam vidyaah shilpadikarma cha Vedah shastrani vignanam yetatsarvam janardanath”----Gita

There really is no concrete aiming system because it is an act that centers around the instincts.

Remember if you give up thought and control, something has to push you into making the shot. Letting go is the key to success. I have a nice chapter on how we link up with the Universal Mind in my book “I Came to Win”.

This is a profound truth. If we are to become the players we are meant to be, we must be free when we perform. We must be able to let go of our preoccupation with results and simply turn in our performance. See the shot - know the stroke - shoot the shot.

When you reach this level, pool becomes a fun game. You are no longer stressed over what will happen. I like to say, there are two things that will happen when I shoot a tough money shot. One, I will miss it. Two, I will make it. One of these two things will happen. I am not sure if I will make it. I am not sure I will miss it. I don’t know which of the two will happen. But I do know one thing. I will look good shooting the shot.

Aiming comes from the senses. I cannot see very well at this time. Yet I can run a hundred balls. I have a friend who takes his contacts lenses out of his eyes when he plays pool. His vision is very poor, yet he plays this game at a high level. How do you explain a player able to make a thin, full table cut shot when he can barely see the ball? Aiming at a specific point is overrated. There really is no concrete aiming system because it is an act that centers around the instincts.

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