Ulta Baba
He helps you see your life from the other side.
He helps you see your life from the other side.
Ulta means upside down, reversed, turned the other way on purpose, and that one word is the whole idea.
Most of us see life from one side, the side we were taught as children, the side our eyes got fixed on without us ever noticing. Ulta Baba turns things over so you can see the other side too, the side that was always there but that no one ever pointed to.
He will not tell you what to think, because he is not that kind of teacher. He turns you toward the other side and lets you see it for yourself, and what you make of it is yours. He has no religion and takes no side, and he does not ask you to follow him. He asks only one small thing, that you look at your life again, and this time from the other side.
Walk around to the other side. The mountain did not change, but you did.
Look AgainIn one, he speaks to you directly and turns a belief over in your hands. In the other, he lives inside a story.
One skill, and it is yours for life. Take something you are sure about, turn it over, and see the side that was hidden all along.
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Money, Seen Upside DownI invented Ulta Baba.
I had a good life, and still I felt restless. The world had become so full of noise, the reels and the shorts and the news and the opinions, everyone running, everyone afraid of missing something. So I read the self help books and I listened to the podcasts, and slowly I noticed that almost none of it worked. Then it occurred to me that the trouble might not be the answers at all. We were all standing on the same side, looking the same way. The trouble was the angle.
Ulta Baba is my way of walking to the other side. He will not give you an answer. He will only help you stop, turn the thing over, and see it for yourself.
He is not a real man you can go and find. He has no home you can visit, no ashram, no gate with followers waiting outside it. In the stories he is never twice in the same place, and that is not a trick of the telling. He wanders the way a mind wanders. He turns up wherever your attention happens to land, and he is gone by the time you go back to look.
You already know how to do the thing he does. You have done it before, once or twice, without planning to. Think of an evening when you were absolutely certain you were right, and then, hours later, walking home, you suddenly saw the whole thing from the other person's side, and it looked completely different. Nobody taught you that. Nobody handed it to you. You turned it over yourself.
Ulta Baba is only the name I gave that moment, so that it would have a face and a voice, and could sit down beside you and speak. He was made, the way a lamp is made. And like a lamp, the light he gives is real, even though someone had to build him first.
His world is still being built, and there is a great deal left in him that I have not written down yet.
— PS Chandel
He does not want followers, and he jokes that you should not follow him, because he is walking backwards. Follow the idea instead, wherever you already spend your time.