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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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