Life is an Eternal Flow - Visions - Subramanian A

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What is our world other than our personal experience and definitions? Nothing

more than this. There is nothing that is lying in material situations other than

what we can experience about them, other than how we can define them. If all

of us are having some common experience about the same material or mental

situation, we may take the situation to be somewhat real or concrete. If all of

us are having some common definitions about the philosophy of life, we may

feel that life has a general flow, has a general direction, and has a general

definition about it.

Situations dont give us trouble in our life. It is our sense of reaction that makes

a situation troublesome or trouble free. John may view a given situation to be

in one way but Philip may view the same situation in a different way. This is

very much possible. Thus, the same situation can give different experiences to

different people. Out of different experiences, different solutions are also

possible. What we have to understand is that by raising our level of experience


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are the same but their mental impacts are different. See the following

situation:

You are the worst boy of the class.

You are a better boy than many of your classmates. Try to become the best.

People generally ask why God, the almighty, the all powerful, the all merciful,

has created such an unrealistic world where miserable situations are so

common and happy situations are so rare. Now, you may have got an idea

about happiness and miserability, good and bad. Actually, god has no hand in

making our life more and more vulnerable. What is our viewing angle towards a

vulnerable situation? Is it narrow or broad? Is it very agitative or

contemplative? Before prosecuting god in this regard, one has to honestly

answer these questions. Did god ask anybody to view a situation only in a

miserable way and not otherwise? It is only due to our hammering thoughts

and emotions. There is no plus nor any minus lying behind a given situation

other than mans attribution and hence God has no hand in making a situation

miserable.

Suppose, for arguments sake we may say that god is really making a situation

miserable. Then, we should also say that he is the man behind our amiable

situations as well. Generally, do we give credit to god for all our success in life?

The feeling of doer ship wont allow us to give full credit to god in this context.

Even praising god for our happiness in life is not the rightful attitude because

both praise and curse are only two sides of the same coin. Today, you may

praise the Lord but tomorrow, you may also curse Him for your failures. The

same view holds good for our thanking god for our happiness in life. Today, wemay be thankful but tomorrow we may be thankless to god. We must

understand that God is not just like your next door man who may or may not

help you. Why should he be partial to you and me? Do you think that by

enriching your life, he is gaining some monetary benefit? Then, what is he going


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to do with his richness? Can we increase his bank balance by giving donations

to temples and churches?

Actually, it is the feeling of doer ship that lies at the bottom of all troubles. You

cannot claim for yourself only the victorious moments and raise your index

finger towards the Lord for your failures in life. This is a one sided attitude. Can

you also claim for yourself all your failures too setting the Lord free of all

charges? Then, it is okay. How many of us are doing this? We can see that it is

our own attitude that is pulling us down. Can we see that the cycle of life is

taking its own course and that we have a sense of acceptance all about it?

If we can accept life as it comes, without being resistive, we can see that life

doesnt offer any misery or happiness to us. All situations become quite natural

situations, the many possibilities. By offering resistance to miserable situations,

we dont actually gain anything. By accepting such situations instead, we may

try to solve the riddle from better angles. For example, you get stranded due to

your car getting breakdown. If you try to mentally resist the situation, if you try

to curse the situation, you only will become emotional and agitational. This can

further mar the situation. Instead, try to accept the situation. Accept the fact

that such situations are possible. Calm down and try to solve the situation.Now, the situation is in your hands and not in the hands of destiny. You will

soon find that many alternatives are possible. Work them out. With a calmer

mind, solutions are easier to follow.

One can face life without difficulty if the following can be understood as

axioms:-

1. Everything is a question of attitude. It is the right attitude thattransforms life. What is your attitude towards work, places and people?

2. Pain and pleasure are bound to exist in life. Both are only our mentalangles, to be the truth. If we are very positive, our pain will be much less.

Otherwise, pleasure will be much less.


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3. Boredom happens out of our mismanagement of time. It is better tocultivate some hobbies and recreations right from early age.

4. We are only custodians of whatever we possess. Tomorrow, we have togive back all our possessions to the upcoming generation. This earth and

the whole Nature come under our custodianship. Hence, we have a

responsibility to take care of every aspect related to them. Are we

polluting the air and water? Are we draining the resources of this good

earth leaving nothing to posterity?

5. The degree of our mental holdings decides our freedom in life. Ourconsciousness is linked to the planes of body, mind, intellect and ego. The

more the strength of the linkage in one plane, the more will be the agony

resulting from that level. For example, if we are too body conscious, we

will get worried even for a simple cold or cough. We will be ever watchful

of the medical world. If we are too ideologically bound, then, we may

engage in a battle with the world to secure our ideology. If we are

mentally bound, we will be disturbed emotionally when life doesnt offer

us the right kind of feelings.

6. In life, everything is a passing show. Even the Present is not real in thestrictest sense. Then, what to speak of the Past and Future? But we take

both the Past and Future to be so realistic and begin to cry for no reason.

During a heated exchange, we often would unnecessarily drag the Past

and make the situation more and more worse. Unpleasant Past would

amount to a heap of scrap. It is this heap that we would dig out from our

memory files and dump before our opponent to silence him! We forgetthat Past is Past and that life has moved to a different level from those

times. You have changed and your opponent has also changed but we

wont admit this reality. Past is no more a reality for both of you and yet

you would only try to drag your unpleasant Past in hope of teaching the

other man a lesson, in hope of defending yourself. Is it not nonsensical to


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are his mental bondage to be the truth. By annihilating his enemies, he

hopes to enjoy freedom and peace! This truth lies in the substratum.

10.All the knowledge is within us only. The external world is only a spark.

The world actually doesnt teach anybody anything. It only reveals the

treasure that is hidden in us. This is to be clearly understood. All the

designs, all the laws, all those definitions have come out only from within

and not without.

11.Peace cannot be achieved by any external means. Such results are only

temporary. The reality is that peace is a state beyond our mind and

thoughts. Even the phrase Peace of mind is only an approximation.

Mind cannot be at rest and hence cannot attain a peaceful state. Mind is

a collection of thoughts and the lesser are the number of our thoughts,

the more peaceful that we can remain. If we can watch the flow of our

thoughts as a witness without getting entangled with the flow, that could

be the first step in getting rid of unwanted thoughts. All our attempts to

attain peace through external aids are but conditional and hence result in

incomplete results. For example, all our Peace Pacts are very much

conditional and we all know how they are functional. Peace is quiteunconditional to be the truth.

12.What is the meaning of living at the Present? The Power of Now? It is

nothing but listening to the voices of life without any conclusions. One

can judge but need not conclude. The moment you conclude, then, you

are locking the doors. Our conclusions are invariably related to our

previous experiences and prejudiced views. Our conclusions are only our

conclusions and not the reality of the world. This is to be properlyunderstood. By our conclusions, we stamp the people and the world to

be this and that. We draw a graph and emboss it in our memory. It is this

embossment that brings in problem at later stages. The flow of life is pre-

judged and pre-concluded every time by such embossment. Flow is only a

flow. Can we look upon every situation, every man without our pre-


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conclusions? This is the central idea. For example, if you are listening to

a song, just listen and do not allow yourself to get entangled by various

thoughts related to it. Just merge with the song and melt away your

personal identity. Another example if you are happening to meet the

man with whom you had a bad experience, say, some decades ago, dont

allow yourself to get entangled by those thoughts once again. Past is

Past. Leave it aside and you may silently walk past him. Past should not

begin to haunt you in anyway. This is the central idea. Till meeting this

man that long forgotten past was only lying in a suppressed state. It had

not really vanished from your deep consciousness. In other words, you

had really not transcended your Past. Again, by a proper attitude, you

can do this. Remember, no moments of pain are eternal or any times of

happiness.

13. Only those who are desire less would get all that are desirable. When we

are trying to fulfill our desires in various ways, problems begin to crop up

at various levels. This would leave us into a state of frustration. Desire

and expectation have no universal scale about them. Every person has his

own standard according to his level of contentment. If we continue to

work in a desire less manner, we can see that results are automaticallycoming in. Desire less manner means that holding the attitude of us being

only an instrument in the hands of god. When we begin to take care of

life with all our sincerity, as a custodian, then, life will begin to take of us

as well. This is the prime idea.

14.So long as love is conditional, it will definitely cheat us one day.

Conditional love means this the moment you begin to hate me, I will no

longer continue to love thee. You also have the same theory. Actuallyspeaking, even though the world may claim that it is pouring out love in a

measureless manner, this is not to be so in reality. The world is much in

expectation to receive love in the first place than in pouring out love.

Thus, the world is always in expectation of being loved than loving the


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world. Why should we expect the world to love us? Cant we go out into

the world with the candle of our love?

15.Nature is a question variety. Life is also a question of variety. We often

view these as a totality of various differences and conflicts. That is not to

be so. Growth and mental expansion are only possible with the first kind

of view and contraction is the only result with our second view. If there

are 600 crores of people around the world, it only means 600 crores in

variety. The feel of being a variety can produce a complementary effect

whereas differences can produce a conflicting effect. We have to shift our

focus from the level of difference to the level of variety for full expansion

of life. Until we can recast our levels, life will remain only as a stagnant

pool gathering more and more dirt on the surface.

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