A fruitful and desirable life is achievable only when we are ready to receive and seek it in our consciousness. It is a state where we have optimum health, abundant mental peace, absolute security, plenty of material sufficiency, spiraling spiritual enlightenment, total inclusiveness; without any extremes of purposes.
Realize and know that you
are born with a divine purpose. Each and every human being is unique, having infinite
potentials to grow. It is a self discovery, a journey to unfold. Life is
precious, yet short and we need to finish our mission, in a manner that is
fulfilling and in harmony with each element of our surrounding. It is to
achieve a completeness, which is satisfying till the next moment, with no
regrets; a life well lived and enjoyed to the core.
Self-Indulgence, craving,
greed, selfishness, jealousy, anger, fear, self-doubt, impulsiveness, self-pity,
etc. are antithetical to the transformations we desire to achieve for the enrichment
of our life and that of others. These actions are destructive and destabilizing
to our being. To be fully in charge of ourselves, and tread in the paths of
peace and tranquility, it is better to shun these negative emotions and control
the consequent actions that may arise due to our momentary ignorance. At times,
some individuals and situations in the environment may lead us to decay or
erode our resolves. Therefore, it is far better to avoid the overpowering
influences of negative people and provoking stimuli. Anything that harms another person is also equally
harmful to us. The more we are able to control our energies for positive actions,
the better. This will enable us to nourish and heal ourselves. Recognize the
black-holes, for they are only meant to suck in everything near them is
important.
Million years of our
accumulated knowledge created by mankind has not reached a stage and will never
be adequate in the near future, to guarantee us any of the final answers that
we have been searching for now. Knowledge alone is inadequate in our quest for unraveling
these mysteries. Part of the knowledge base is related to our survival as a
collective entity. It is utilitarian, without which our earthly needs will be
in extreme jeopardy. These are concerned with the discovery of workable laws of
the nature for our practical benefits. Such scientific knowledge, skills and
their technological applications are extremely limited. As yet, we hardly know
much about the principles of nature. The workable knowledge and information are
equally beneficial and harmful; depending upon their use. In a certain way, we
know; how and why they work, but do not know fully what consequences they give
rise to in the short and long term. The more we claim that we understand the laws
of nature and set out to control it, the more we appear naive. This is like
reaching the horizon—the next moment! This
quest has no finality about itself.
The scientific and
practical realm of knowledge is not to be discarded or we can say that it cannot
be completely abandoned, though. To grow, survive and also destroy; we have to
invest more into it. This is what we are required to do, as this is our
species’ propensity.
Apart from the discovery
of natural laws and their applicability, we too, have to create cultural knowledge
and their adaptability. This includes the philosophies and any other such things
called pure ideas, artifacts and civilizations. The pure ideas and other
derivatives can work in a social context with the conditions of their
acceptability by a people. They help us to adapt and continue. While some
scientific laws and their applications have universal applicability, the
cultural knowledge, do not exhibit any such qualities. They cannot act as our
final answers and therefore, are not the truths, being contextual and limited
by space and time. As we cannot discard science, technology and go on and on in
our efforts in discovering more and more to sustain mankind; similarly, we have
to ceaselessly create a makeshift domain of cultural knowledge in order to
effectively survive as groups. However, both the types of knowledge are
imperfect and limiting. They cannot provide us with freedom, as by their very
nature; they ought to be limiting, to which we all have to submit or relay upon.
This not something unusual but perfectly fits into the world into which we all
belong. We have to embed ourselves to a world of appropriation and machination.
There is nothing wrong with it, for very few can escape it, for very few
moments only. In us the concepts of logicality and morality arise only in these
situations of convenience.
But then; what about altruism,
what about oneness of mankind, what about the notion of goodness or what about
the higher purposes of our life or is there any cohesive body of universal
morals?
Answers to all these
questions are difficult as well as easy. We can pretend and choose to wear
masks that we are good, harmless, nice, peaceful, happy, altruistic,
beneficial, loving, bereft of negativity, saintly, non-aggressive, contended,
simple, non-manipulative, prudent, honest, compassionate, truthful, helpful,
sensible, mature, conscientious, non-partisan, etc. depending on the situations
and our cultural systems. In that case, we can successfully become it or
resemble to the partially. Yet, we still can decide to imbibe, profess and
practice in actuality any such qualities then we become that. Though, it is a
matter of choice with us, still we feel constrained and restrained to be what
we really want to be due to cultural incompatibilities. At other times, situations
and circumstances can force or even motivate us to be otherwise.
Additionally, we are
really not that free to fully proclaim ourselves to not resembling with people
in our own groups and cultures for a greater portion of our lives and living.
And if, everyone renounces the prescribed ordinary life and living, the reality
of society cannot exit; which in itself become the problem and not the
solution. We cannot expect that overnight, we throw away the basics of the
tricks of survival invented and tested over the generations. A utopian world
complete with very higher ideals is just a misnomer. The sages and saints, all
of them have failed so far to fully realize any such realms of reality; as
ideologies are incapable of practical transformation into livable arenas of
ours.
I am not a naysayer or a
cultist believing in the end of the world prophesies or exhorting you to be the
bad guys. Though, the world is not going on end tomorrow or day after, yet no
matter what; no matter can remain in a static state forever, in the cosmic
design. It is tied to the issues of the directions we are consciously and
non-consciously taking. Evolution is just not a brute or mechanical force. Its
courses are set by our minds, actions and unfolding of nature. Mind matters and
therefore, we can elevate our consciousness to the higher levels.
Evolution is ubiquitous
and all pervading. As a part of this universal change, and knowing that we and
our accumulated egos are short lived or transitory; as an individual or in
small groups, we can make conscious choice of being good for the greater parts
of our life. We cannot decide so, by means of our knowledge, both scientific
and cultural; but only when we are able to pull away ourselves from the accrued
mundane realities and enter the largely unexplored depths of our real being. We
can see the paths right for us when we look within us. Knowing the impermanence
and limitations of creation would only make us limitless, free good and moral. Search for the truths not in knowledge as it
will confuse you in its blinding labyrinths. Only when knowledge ends, the
self-realization can start. This is the preferred path of spiritualism that can
take you to the highest source of all powers. The Vedas and Gita allude to it
clearly.
For a start, let us try
to feel the vastness and tranquility radiating within us. Just close your eyes
in quietness end all your conflicts by allowing them to float away without
being a part of you, feel happy within and choose the paths right for you
emerging in that vast void fullness.
Take to meditation and
feel tranquil. Move away yourself from the pains and pleasures of your daily
existence till they no more affect you.
You are your own Guru. Experience
the bliss within and the beauty outside.