Circumstance of life comes and goes on its own
Circumstance of life comes and goes on its own
Everyone has a story of their success and failure. Everyone is most
interested sharing their story of success and failure with others.
People think that their success story can be applied on others who are
less fortunate in their life to get success. Thus they try to impose
their idea of successes on others by propagating their success story.
But they themselves are failures in recognizing the truth, because they
are unaware of the fact that, their success story is based on the false
self within the false experience.
Not everyone
becomes Bill Gates if they adopt his life skills. Everyone’s life
circumstances are different. The circumstances whether they are good or
bad they come on their own and they disappear on their own. The
positive thinking only helps one to move ahead in time thinking and
hallucinating of the bright future, but the results may be favorable or
unfavorable. Circumstances arise not because individual conduct or
action.
Recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan
affected many successful people. Many a successful people lost their
dear ones and wealth. All these circumstance of life comes and goes on
its own. When the circumstances are favorable life goes on smoothly. But
in unfavorable circumstances life becomes very hard and miserable.
And there is also mixed circumstances which make us happy and also
miserable.
If successful person becomes failure in
his dream and a failure person becomes successful person in his dream,
their dream becomes unreal when waking takes place. Same way the waking
also becomes unreal when one becomes aware of the fact that, the self is
neither the waking entity nor the dream entity. Whatever one sees,
knows, believes and experiences within the waking or dream experience is
falsehood. Therefore, Self-Realization is necessary to realize “what
is truth” and “what is untruth”.
Favorable
circumstances do not arise because of one’s positivity. And because of
positive thinking the circumstances will not change. Painful experiences
of the past and fear of the future makes one think negatively. By
thinking positively it helps to keep away the future fear in the present
nothing more. Thus one has to understand and realize the fact that,
these positive and negative circumstances does not depend on his doer
ship because they arise on their own and they disappear on their own.
In life everything happens on its own. No one can plan it. We did not
plan our birth, it just happened. Same way our life is package of
unknown circumstances everything is happening on its own, whether they
are good or bad. In the past some sages introduced the concept of God
to cast the burden of worldly suffering, so that everyone can dive their
attention on the imaginary entity by indulging in prayers, worship and
orthodoxy, and cross the ocean of this worldly suffering.
Thus the mass followed it and passed it from one generation to the next.
So everyone inherited blind belief and they imposed on their children
and they themselves indulge in priest craft without verifying the
validity of their own inherited belief system. The truth is hidden by
the orthodoxy in the name of protecting their God and their religion is
meant for those who are incapable of thinking deeply of their own
existence and also it helps the people to adopt certain discipline,
moral and ethics in the society with its code of conduct. The love was
religious tool it helps the society in certain extent. Love and hate
co-exist. People talk of love because they are deprived of it. It is
impossible to love everyone. It is easy to say but difficult to practice
in worldly life, because everyone loves their own ego. Thus this
egoic love is temporary because ego is false self within the false
experience.
People have the notion that more
and more they gratify their senses for attaining worldly pleasures, the
happier they will be is not true at all, because they think the physical
self is real self, therefore they are unaware of the fact that, the
self not physical but self is formless consciousness. The consciousness
can stay with or without the waking or dream. Thus it is time to
realize their pleasure and suffering is limited to the waking
experience, which is falsehood.
It is the illusory
sense-pleasure that is responsible for the forgetfulness of the Self,
which is in the form of consciousness, which result in one’s sorrows and
sufferings.
Suffering is the reminder to search for
the remedy to overcome the suffering caused by the ignorance of the
true self. Pleasure is the cause of ignorance .But if the real self is
realized, and then, illusion will not prevails as reality.
Why do mortals then become attached to worldly pleasures in the first place?
It is the illusion that allures one to enjoy the mundane objects in a
futile effort of satisfying the unceasing demands of his senses within
the waking or dream. A person within the illusion becomes intoxicated of
lust, greed, anger, attachment, false ego, enviousness, stubborn
mindedness, and their numerous variations within the illusion.
Consequently, the individual self gets caught in the illusory cycle of
birth, old age, disease, and death within the illusion. This is
illusion, by which the consciousness is forgotten; emotional attachment
and love of duality is born.
The ignorance of the true self is
cause of duality. The duality is cause of illusion. The illusion is the
cause of experiencing unreality as reality. Because of this pluralistic
phenomena of illusory -vision, the material happiness appears to be
followed by sorrow. If there is laughter, there is a cry; if there is a
birth, there is a death; if there is a rich, there is a poor; so on and
so forth.
Everything in the waking or dream
experience is in the state of constant flux; there can be found no
everlasting happiness. The ego is in the control of evil passions, evil
intent, and duality.
Everyone wishes for happiness,
pleasures, joy, peace, etc. and none asks for suffering, misery, etc.
But in the wake of pleasure, there comes suffering. The pleasure and
pain co-exists within the illusion. People do not understand this.
Therefore, there is necessary to realize the fact that, mind, which
appears as waking or dream is mere illusion.
It is the
attachment to the form of separate objects which keeps one from
apprehending their unity, not the seeing of them. One has to think of
both form and essence, by practice he must get to the stage where he can
think of both simultaneously. This is done by knowing that the form is
made of consciousness, which the true self. This requires sharp
intelligence and constant repetition of practices of seeing both form
and essence at the same time.
False and true knowledge exists
only when one talk on the base of ‘ego’: when one knows the truth,
however, such classifications cannot arise because everything is then
known to be the consciousness and no questions of where and how or why
can arise.
One must make an effort to know the consciousness as
self. Consciousness is there always. One has got it, there is nothing
new to be acquired, only have the sharpness to grasp and understand it,
when told about it. But there is a difference between understanding and
realization.
Effort is required for this understanding only,
whereas once understood no special effort is needed to remember one
understands. Until then he only have an idea of soul, which is in the
form of consciousness he only partially understand it. But once he
thoroughly grasp what it is and that all these things are consciousness,
he will then constantly find it present everywhere without further
effort, because he will perceive consciousness by understanding, even
in the midst of waking experience.
When there is only one thing
(consciousness) known, there is nothing to change, nothing to appear or
disappear; when one speaks of remembering or forgetting Consciousness
that implies he believes in the existence of something else, i.e. a
second thing, which is to be remembered. That would show you have not
known that all is one. But knowing it, there is no second, consequently
no intermittent perception of consciousness, but a permanent effortless
understanding that it alone is.
When one gets a glimpse of
truth mentally try to repeat it a number of times in order to establish
it. The self must raise itself by the Self."
Beginners and
intermediates must indulge listening, reading, writing and discussing
and constant reflecting on the subject. Discussing other than the
formless “Self” is waste of time. Discussion of accumulated knowledge
and intellectual speculation satisfies only those who want to exhibit
their skills of plying with the words. Thus it is better to avoid such
discussion who is more interested in exhibiting their accumulated dross
and less interested in moving forward in their pursuit of truth. Only
through deeper self –search on his own, one becomes receptive to
self-knowledge.
Seeker has to realize the fact that, the
imagination is cannot transport him or her to the non-dual
destination. He has to attain to a state when he can negate all ideas
and imagination, which are part of the duality [waking/dream].
Therefore, he has to know and grasp mentally the Formless Witness of the
three states. When this new idea of formless witness is formed in sub
conscious, it will help to replace the old idea of the physical witness,
same way as --One thorn pulling out the other thorn and both thrown
away--that is the only way. and hence seeker of truth has to “think
deeply and discriminate between the base of ego and base of the soul to
get un- contradictable truth “as a tip against getting mislead by
others.
One has to differentiate between understanding
the spiritual truth and realizing the spiritual truth. The former
makes to know with certainty; the latter is ultimate realizing and final
with firm conviction.